DevOps Contracts in the City of London

DevOps
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 13 7
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 +4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 265 428 650
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 12.12% 12.08% 15.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.40% 13.19% 16.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 293 512
10th Percentile £413 £438 £463
25th Percentile £488 £519 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £683 £738 £725
90th Percentile £775 £798 £800
Central London median daily rate £600 £623 £600
% change year-on-year -3.61% +3.75% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.75 - -
Median hourly rate £48.50 - -
75th Percentile £50.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,978 3,244 3,836
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.48% 91.59% 91.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,397 2,188 2,904
10th Percentile £354 £356 £388
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £726 £680
90th Percentile £813 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 25 42
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.10 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £16.61 £21.81
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -12.50% +122.53%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £54.38
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the City of London

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the City of London

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the City of London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the City of London

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in the City of London

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (4.91%) Confluence
2 8 (3.02%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.64%) IIS
4 5 (1.89%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.89%) Site Server
5 3 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.75%) CMS
6 2 (0.75%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.75%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.38%) Apache
7 1 (0.38%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.38%) nginx
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.38%) Tornado
Applications
1 3 (1.13%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (3.02%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.38%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.38%) BusinessWorks
3 1 (0.38%) Endur
3 1 (0.38%) Front Arena
3 1 (0.38%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.38%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.38%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.38%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 147 (55.47%) Azure
2 107 (40.38%) Azure DevOps
3 68 (25.66%) AWS
4 24 (9.06%) Power Platform
5 20 (7.55%) Amazon S3
5 20 (7.55%) GitHub
5 20 (7.55%) Serverless
6 17 (6.42%) Dynamics 365
7 14 (5.28%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (4.91%) Azure Service Bus
9 12 (4.53%) Entra ID
9 12 (4.53%) GCP
9 12 (4.53%) PowerApps
10 11 (4.15%) Azure Monitor
11 10 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (3.77%) Power Automate
12 9 (3.40%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (3.40%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (3.40%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.77%) Firewall
2 7 (2.64%) Internet
3 5 (1.89%) DNS
4 3 (1.13%) Network Security
4 3 (1.13%) WAN
5 2 (0.75%) CTI
5 2 (0.75%) Multicast
5 2 (0.75%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.75%) SSL
5 2 (0.75%) VoIP
5 2 (0.75%) VPN
6 1 (0.38%) DHCP
6 1 (0.38%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.38%) LAN
6 1 (0.38%) MPLS
6 1 (0.38%) SSH
6 1 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (22.26%) SQL Server
2 16 (6.04%) Power BI
3 15 (5.66%) MySQL
4 14 (5.28%) MongoDB
5 12 (4.53%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (3.77%) Relational Database
7 9 (3.40%) Data Lake
8 8 (3.02%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (2.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (2.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (2.26%) GIS
10 6 (2.26%) NoSQL
11 4 (1.51%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (1.51%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.51%) Tableau
12 3 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.13%) DynamoDB
12 3 (1.13%) Redis
13 2 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.75%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 25 (9.43%) Git
2 19 (7.17%) GitLab
2 19 (7.17%) Jenkins
3 14 (5.28%) JIRA
4 12 (4.53%) Selenium
4 12 (4.53%) TeamCity
5 9 (3.40%) SpecFlow
6 8 (3.02%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.26%) Visual Studio
8 5 (1.89%) Postman
8 5 (1.89%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.51%) JMeter
10 3 (1.13%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.13%) Katalon Studio
10 3 (1.13%) Maven
10 3 (1.13%) WebDriver
11 2 (0.75%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.75%) HP UFT
11 2 (0.75%) Subversion
11 2 (0.75%) Terragrunt
General
1 72 (27.17%) Social Skills
2 64 (24.15%) Finance
3 36 (13.58%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (10.94%) Public Sector
5 24 (9.06%) Banking
6 12 (4.53%) Retail
7 11 (4.15%) Investment Banking
8 10 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (3.02%) General Ledger
10 7 (2.64%) Legal
11 5 (1.89%) Back Office
11 5 (1.89%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.51%) Front Office
12 4 (1.51%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.75%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.38%) Music Industry
14 1 (0.38%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 54 (20.38%) Developer
2 47 (17.74%) Senior
3 38 (14.34%) DevOps Engineer
4 23 (8.68%) Architect
5 18 (6.79%) Analyst
6 17 (6.42%) Lead
7 15 (5.66%) AWS Engineer
8 14 (5.28%) Senior Developer
9 13 (4.91%) Site Engineer
9 13 (4.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 12 (4.53%) Consultant
11 11 (4.15%) Python Engineer
11 11 (4.15%) Senior DevOps
12 10 (3.77%) Senior Analyst
12 10 (3.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 10 (3.77%) Software Engineer
13 9 (3.40%) Full Stack Developer
14 8 (3.02%) Cloud Engineer
14 8 (3.02%) Microsoft Consultant
14 8 (3.02%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (15.09%) .NET
2 27 (10.19%) Kafka
3 17 (6.42%) React
4 16 (6.04%) RabbitMQ
5 15 (5.66%) .NET Framework
5 15 (5.66%) RESTful
5 15 (5.66%) XML
6 13 (4.91%) AngularJS
6 13 (4.91%) Web Services
7 12 (4.53%) ASP.NET
7 12 (4.53%) REST
8 11 (4.15%) .NET Core
9 10 (3.77%) HTML
10 7 (2.64%) CSS
11 6 (2.26%) ARM Templates
11 6 (2.26%) Node.js
12 5 (1.89%) ASP.NET Core
12 5 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (1.89%) WCF
12 5 (1.89%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.17%) Product Ownership
2 18 (6.79%) Data Structures
3 15 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.40%) Algorithms
5 8 (3.02%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.51%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.51%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.51%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.51%) Wiki
7 3 (1.13%) Derivative
7 3 (1.13%) IVR
7 3 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.13%) Market Risk
8 2 (0.75%) Contactless
8 2 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.75%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.75%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.75%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 32 (12.08%) Linux
2 27 (10.19%) Windows
3 11 (4.15%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.51%) Unix
5 1 (0.38%) Android
5 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (41.89%) Agile
2 89 (33.58%) CI/CD
3 55 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (13.21%) SDLC
5 34 (12.83%) Scrum
6 28 (10.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 28 (10.57%) Microservices
6 28 (10.57%) Software Engineering
7 22 (8.30%) Migration
7 22 (8.30%) Test Automation
8 21 (7.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (6.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 18 (6.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 16 (6.04%) Business Intelligence
10 16 (6.04%) ETL
11 14 (5.28%) Full Stack Development
11 14 (5.28%) User Acceptance Testing
12 13 (4.91%) Mentoring
12 13 (4.91%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 12 (4.53%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 80 (30.19%) Python
2 63 (23.77%) C#
3 54 (20.38%) PowerShell
4 48 (18.11%) SQL
5 38 (14.34%) Java
6 14 (5.28%) Shell Script
7 13 (4.91%) Bicep
7 13 (4.91%) JavaScript
8 11 (4.15%) C++
9 10 (3.77%) Bash
10 9 (3.40%) Go
10 9 (3.40%) TypeScript
11 7 (2.64%) T-SQL
12 5 (1.89%) Korn
13 3 (1.13%) Perl
13 3 (1.13%) Ruby
14 2 (0.75%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.75%) Rust
14 2 (0.75%) Scala
15 1 (0.38%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 26 (9.81%) Degree
2 20 (7.55%) Security Cleared
3 18 (6.79%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.77%) AWS Certification
5 8 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.64%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.89%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.38%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.28%) QA
2 6 (2.26%) SLA
3 4 (1.51%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.51%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.51%) WCAG
4 3 (1.13%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.13%) NIST
5 2 (0.75%) GDPR
5 2 (0.75%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 29 (10.94%) Docker
2 21 (7.92%) Active Directory
3 11 (4.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.38%) Ceph
5 1 (0.38%) NFS
5 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 53 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 50 (18.87%) Terraform
3 17 (6.42%) Prometheus
4 16 (6.04%) Ansible
5 15 (5.66%) Grafana
6 14 (5.28%) Consul
7 6 (2.26%) Puppet
8 5 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.51%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.13%) Argo
11 2 (0.75%) Graylog
11 2 (0.75%) Nagios
11 2 (0.75%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.75%) Packer
11 2 (0.75%) SCCM
12 1 (0.38%) Hadoop YARN
12 1 (0.38%) Mesos
12 1 (0.38%) Nessus
12 1 (0.38%) TIBCO Hawk
12 1 (0.38%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 74 (27.92%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.92%) Oracle
3 11 (4.15%) SaltStack
4 6 (2.26%) Cadence
4 6 (2.26%) ESRI
4 6 (2.26%) iManage
4 6 (2.26%) Salesforce
4 6 (2.26%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.26%) Splunk
5 5 (1.89%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.51%) Cisco
6 4 (1.51%) Freshdesk
6 4 (1.51%) Google
7 3 (1.13%) Adobe
7 3 (1.13%) Databricks
7 3 (1.13%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.13%) Genesys
7 3 (1.13%) IBM
7 3 (1.13%) New Relic
7 3 (1.13%) SAP