DevOps Contract Job Trends in Central London

DevOps
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 13 16
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 217 234 218
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 10.21% 11.34% 8.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.47% 12.32% 9.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 154 163
10th Percentile £371 £434 £440
25th Percentile £462 £501 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £583 £625
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% -6.80% +0.81%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £692
90th Percentile £781 £751 £788
London median daily rate £530 £600 £596
% change year-on-year -11.67% +0.70% -2.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.75
Median hourly rate - - £48.50
75th Percentile - - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £56.25 £80.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -30.12% +40.00% -23.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,892 1,899 2,306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 89.04% 92.05% 89.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,304 1,186 1,638
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £437 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -4.26%
75th Percentile £661 £675 £688
90th Percentile £773 £775 £811
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 19 27
10th Percentile £19.75 £21.85 £18.16
25th Percentile £24.85 £33.13 £21.36
Median hourly rate £26.34 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -24.74% +25.85% -20.54%
75th Percentile £42.65 £41.00 £40.92
90th Percentile £55.30 £61.40 £65.00
London median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £30.16
% change year-on-year -6.67% +24.34% -17.37%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

DevOps job vacancy trend in Central London

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing DevOps

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Central London over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Central London

DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing DevOps.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing DevOps

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Central London region over the 6 months to 18 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -9 185 £550 -5.98% 121
West End of London +14 8 £575 +27.78% 3
City of Westminster +4 3 £340 -30.26% 1
Kensington and Chelsea - 2 £600 -
Camden +10 1 £400 -27.27% 1
DevOps
London

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (2.76%) Apache Spark
1 6 (2.76%) Confluence
2 4 (1.84%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.38%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.92%) Apache
4 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.92%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.46%) CMS
5 1 (0.46%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.92%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.46%) Maya
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.46%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.46%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.46%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 108 (49.77%) Azure
2 68 (31.34%) Azure DevOps
3 60 (27.65%) AWS
4 49 (22.58%) GitHub
5 36 (16.59%) GCP
6 27 (12.44%) Serverless
7 26 (11.98%) GitHub Actions
8 24 (11.06%) Power Platform
9 17 (7.83%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (6.91%) Amazon S3
11 11 (5.07%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (4.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (4.61%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (3.69%) Azure Functions
13 8 (3.69%) Dynamics 365
14 7 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (3.23%) Azure AKS
14 7 (3.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 7 (3.23%) Power Automate
15 6 (2.76%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.69%) Network Security
2 7 (3.23%) Firewall
3 4 (1.84%) DNS
4 3 (1.38%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.38%) SSL
5 2 (0.92%) DHCP
5 2 (0.92%) Internet
5 2 (0.92%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.46%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.37%) Power BI
2 9 (4.15%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (4.15%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (2.76%) DynamoDB
3 6 (2.76%) MySQL
4 5 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.30%) BigQuery
4 5 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.84%) Tableau
6 3 (1.38%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.38%) Redis
6 3 (1.38%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.92%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.92%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.92%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.92%) Metadata
7 2 (0.92%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 35 (16.13%) Git
2 29 (13.36%) Jenkins
3 28 (12.90%) JIRA
4 15 (6.91%) GitLab
5 8 (3.69%) Postman
6 7 (3.23%) Selenium
7 5 (2.30%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.30%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.30%) JUnit
8 4 (1.84%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.38%) Ant
9 3 (1.38%) Mockito
9 3 (1.38%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.92%) git-flow
10 2 (0.92%) Gradle
10 2 (0.92%) Maven
10 2 (0.92%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.92%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.92%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 61 (28.11%) Finance
2 51 (23.50%) Social Skills
3 30 (13.82%) Banking
4 17 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.99%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (3.23%) Front Office
6 7 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.30%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.30%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.84%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.38%) Law
9 3 (1.38%) Legal
10 2 (0.92%) Back Office
10 2 (0.92%) Publishing
10 2 (0.92%) Retail
10 2 (0.92%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (28.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 34 (15.67%) Developer
3 25 (11.52%) Senior
4 18 (8.29%) Architect
5 17 (7.83%) Lead
6 12 (5.53%) AWS Engineer
7 11 (5.07%) AWS DevOps
8 10 (4.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 9 (4.15%) Analyst
9 9 (4.15%) Senior Developer
10 8 (3.69%) Cloud Architect
11 6 (2.76%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (2.76%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (2.76%) Consultant
11 6 (2.76%) Data Engineer
11 6 (2.76%) GCP Engineer
11 6 (2.76%) Senior DevOps
12 5 (2.30%) Business Analyst
12 5 (2.30%) Java Developer
12 5 (2.30%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.83%) .NET
2 15 (6.91%) Node.js
2 15 (6.91%) REST
3 14 (6.45%) React
4 10 (4.61%) HTML
4 10 (4.61%) OAuth
5 9 (4.15%) CSS
6 8 (3.69%) PySpark
6 8 (3.69%) Spring
6 8 (3.69%) XML
7 7 (3.23%) JSON
7 7 (3.23%) JWT
7 7 (3.23%) Kafka
7 7 (3.23%) Playwright
8 6 (2.76%) FastAPI
8 6 (2.76%) SOAP
9 5 (2.30%) AngularJS
9 5 (2.30%) Next.js
9 5 (2.30%) RESTful
9 5 (2.30%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 34 (15.67%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.07%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.69%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.76%) Derivative
4 6 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.76%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.30%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.30%) Private Cloud
5 5 (2.30%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.84%) Equities
6 4 (1.84%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.84%) Life Science
6 4 (1.84%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.38%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.38%) Replication
7 3 (1.38%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.92%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.37%) Linux
2 11 (5.07%) Windows
3 3 (1.38%) Android
3 3 (1.38%) Unix
3 3 (1.38%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.92%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.46%) VMS
5 1 (0.46%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (52.53%) CI/CD
2 69 (31.80%) Agile
3 60 (27.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (15.67%) Test Automation
5 30 (13.82%) Containerisation
6 29 (13.36%) AI
6 29 (13.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 27 (12.44%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (11.98%) Migration
9 24 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (9.68%) Scrum
11 20 (9.22%) Stakeholder Management
12 19 (8.76%) Analytics
13 18 (8.29%) Observability
13 18 (8.29%) Performance Tuning
14 17 (7.83%) Data Engineering
15 15 (6.91%) Software Engineering
16 14 (6.45%) Business Intelligence
16 14 (6.45%) DevSecOps
16 14 (6.45%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 63 (29.03%) Python
2 41 (18.89%) SQL
3 30 (13.82%) Java
4 24 (11.06%) JavaScript
5 21 (9.68%) C#
6 13 (5.99%) PowerShell
6 13 (5.99%) TypeScript
7 9 (4.15%) Bash
8 5 (2.30%) C++
9 4 (1.84%) Bicep
9 4 (1.84%) Scala
10 2 (0.92%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.92%) Go
10 2 (0.92%) Korn
10 2 (0.92%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.92%) Perl
10 2 (0.92%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.92%) Rust
10 2 (0.92%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.46%) PHP
Qualifications
1 73 (33.64%) Security Cleared
2 69 (31.80%) SC Cleared
3 21 (9.68%) Degree
4 12 (5.53%) Azure Certification
5 11 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.76%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.30%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.84%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.38%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.38%) PhD
10 2 (0.92%) CBAP
10 2 (0.92%) CESG Certified Professional
10 2 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.92%) ISEB
10 2 (0.92%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.92%) PMP
11 1 (0.46%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.07%) QA
2 8 (3.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.23%) GDPR
4 5 (2.30%) NIST
5 4 (1.84%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.38%) NCSC
6 3 (1.38%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.38%) PMO
7 2 (0.92%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.92%) SLA
7 2 (0.92%) WCAG
8 1 (0.46%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.46%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.46%) MiFID
System Software
1 44 (20.28%) Docker
2 8 (3.69%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.38%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.46%) GridGain
5 1 (0.46%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 69 (31.80%) Terraform
2 51 (23.50%) Kubernetes
3 22 (10.14%) Ansible
4 4 (1.84%) Grafana
4 4 (1.84%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.38%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (1.38%) Karpenter
6 2 (0.92%) Argo
6 2 (0.92%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.92%) Istio
7 1 (0.46%) CASB
7 1 (0.46%) Icinga
7 1 (0.46%) Kibana
7 1 (0.46%) logstash
7 1 (0.46%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.46%) Packer
7 1 (0.46%) SCCM
Vendors
1 30 (13.82%) Microsoft
2 26 (11.98%) Google
3 21 (9.68%) Databricks
4 12 (5.53%) Oracle
5 10 (4.61%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.69%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.30%) Splunk
7 5 (2.30%) VMware
8 4 (1.84%) CyberArk
8 4 (1.84%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.84%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.38%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.38%) Foundry
9 3 (1.38%) Palantir
9 3 (1.38%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.92%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.92%) Axway
10 2 (0.92%) MarketAxess
10 2 (0.92%) Planview
10 2 (0.92%) Tradeweb