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 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 14 9
Rank change year-on-year -6 -5 +4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 244 241 297
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 9.54% 12.62% 12.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.07% 13.49% 13.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 167 200
10th Percentile £409 £417 £416
25th Percentile £475 £480 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £677
90th Percentile £709 £794 £788
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £65.73 - -
25th Percentile £66.81 £86.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £72.25 £87.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.43% +80.41% -
75th Percentile £76.31 £88.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £76.58 - -
London median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +27.62% -4.55% -38.89%

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 2,205 1,786 2,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 86.20% 93.56% 90.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,495 1,152 1,535
10th Percentile £356 £355 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £669 £676 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £791
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 25 23
10th Percentile £17.60 £19.36 £20.22
25th Percentile £18.75 £22.75 £22.50
Median hourly rate £26.56 £28.50 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +2.48% -20.54%
75th Percentile £52.41 £44.61 £31.19
90th Percentile £59.72 £58.55 £41.47
London median hourly rate £37.00 £32.70 £28.50
% change year-on-year +13.17% +14.72% -27.31%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -6 219 £550 -4.35% 119
West End of London +4 10 £588 +23.68% 1
City of Westminster 0 7 £600 +9.09%
Kensington and Chelsea - 2 £600 -
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 11 (4.51%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.69%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.87%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.64%) Apache
4 4 (1.64%) Confluence
4 4 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.23%) Palantir Foundry
5 3 (1.23%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.41%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.41%) IIS
6 1 (0.41%) nginx
6 1 (0.41%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.41%) Maya
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.46%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.41%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.41%) Magento
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.41%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.41%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.41%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 134 (54.92%) Azure
2 76 (31.15%) AWS
3 69 (28.28%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (18.85%) GitHub
5 33 (13.52%) Power Platform
6 29 (11.89%) GitHub Actions
7 28 (11.48%) GCP
8 26 (10.66%) Serverless
9 15 (6.15%) Azure AKS
10 14 (5.74%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (5.33%) Amazon S3
12 12 (4.92%) Dynamics 365
13 11 (4.51%) Entra ID
13 11 (4.51%) Power Automate
14 10 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (4.10%) Azure Functions
14 10 (4.10%) Snowflake
15 9 (3.69%) Amazon Kinesis
15 9 (3.69%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (3.69%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.69%) Firewall
2 6 (2.46%) DNS
2 6 (2.46%) Internet
3 4 (1.64%) Network Security
3 4 (1.64%) VPN
4 3 (1.23%) DHCP
5 2 (0.82%) FTP
5 2 (0.82%) SMTP
6 1 (0.41%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.41%) Intranet
6 1 (0.41%) Multicast
6 1 (0.41%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.41%) SSH
6 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.41%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.43%) Power BI
2 22 (9.02%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (3.69%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (3.28%) Relational Database
6 7 (2.87%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.05%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (2.05%) Apache Cassandra
8 5 (2.05%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (2.05%) Metadata
8 5 (2.05%) Tableau
9 4 (1.64%) Big Data
9 4 (1.64%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.64%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.64%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (1.23%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.23%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (11.48%) Git
2 23 (9.43%) GitLab
3 22 (9.02%) Jenkins
4 17 (6.97%) JIRA
5 7 (2.87%) Postman
6 5 (2.05%) Gradle
7 4 (1.64%) JMeter
7 4 (1.64%) JUnit
7 4 (1.64%) Maven
7 4 (1.64%) Mockito
8 3 (1.23%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.23%) git-flow
8 3 (1.23%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.82%) Ant
9 2 (0.82%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.82%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.82%) Selenium
9 2 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.41%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.41%) TeamCity
General
1 62 (25.41%) Finance
2 36 (14.75%) Social Skills
3 21 (8.61%) Public Sector
4 18 (7.38%) Banking
5 6 (2.46%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.05%) Law
7 4 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.23%) Legal
8 3 (1.23%) Police
9 2 (0.82%) Front Office
9 2 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.82%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.82%) Military
9 2 (0.82%) Publishing
10 1 (0.41%) Advertising
10 1 (0.41%) Aviation
10 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 51 (20.90%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (9.84%) Architect
3 21 (8.61%) Developer
3 21 (8.61%) Lead
3 21 (8.61%) Senior
4 20 (8.20%) Azure Engineer
5 14 (5.74%) Data Engineer
6 13 (5.33%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (4.51%) Senior Developer
8 10 (4.10%) Consultant
8 10 (4.10%) Tester
9 9 (3.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 9 (3.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 9 (3.69%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (3.69%) Software Engineer
10 8 (3.28%) Cloud Architect
10 8 (3.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (3.28%) Java Developer
10 8 (3.28%) Python Engineer
10 8 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.43%) Kafka
1 23 (9.43%) Spring
2 22 (9.02%) REST
3 19 (7.79%) React
3 19 (7.79%) Spring Boot
4 14 (5.74%) .NET
5 12 (4.92%) RESTful
6 10 (4.10%) Node.js
7 9 (3.69%) PySpark
8 8 (3.28%) Playwright
9 7 (2.87%) AngularJS
9 7 (2.87%) Next.js
9 7 (2.87%) pytest
10 6 (2.46%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (2.05%) SOAP
11 5 (2.05%) Swagger
11 5 (2.05%) XML
12 4 (1.64%) ADO
12 4 (1.64%) JSON
12 4 (1.64%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 57 (23.36%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.69%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.28%) AI Agents
5 6 (2.46%) Private Cloud
5 6 (2.46%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.05%) Clustering
6 5 (2.05%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.64%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.23%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.23%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.23%) NHS
8 3 (1.23%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.82%) Equities
9 2 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.82%) IoT
9 2 (0.82%) PKI
9 2 (0.82%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.33%) Linux
2 11 (4.51%) Windows
3 4 (1.64%) Unix
3 4 (1.64%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.41%) AIX
5 1 (0.41%) VMS
5 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (54.92%) CI/CD
2 78 (31.97%) Infrastructure as Code
3 47 (19.26%) Agile
3 47 (19.26%) Containerisation
4 42 (17.21%) AI
5 38 (15.57%) Observability
5 38 (15.57%) Platform Engineering
6 34 (13.93%) Analytics
7 32 (13.11%) Migration
8 31 (12.70%) Data Engineering
8 31 (12.70%) Test Automation
9 30 (12.30%) Software Engineering
10 26 (10.66%) Microservices
11 24 (9.84%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (9.84%) Event-Driven
11 24 (9.84%) Roadmaps
12 23 (9.43%) Business Intelligence
12 23 (9.43%) Machine Learning
12 23 (9.43%) Stakeholder Management
13 21 (8.61%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 66 (27.05%) Python
2 49 (20.08%) SQL
3 34 (13.93%) Java
4 21 (8.61%) TypeScript
5 18 (7.38%) C#
5 18 (7.38%) JavaScript
5 18 (7.38%) PowerShell
6 13 (5.33%) Bash
6 13 (5.33%) Bicep
7 3 (1.23%) Apex Code
7 3 (1.23%) Korn
7 3 (1.23%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.82%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.82%) Scala
9 1 (0.41%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.41%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (0.41%) Go
9 1 (0.41%) Jython
9 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 95 (38.93%) Security Cleared
2 93 (38.11%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.92%) Degree
4 10 (4.10%) Azure Certification
5 9 (3.69%) DBS Check
6 6 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.64%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.64%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.23%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.23%) PMP
10 2 (0.82%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.41%) CISM
11 1 (0.41%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.15%) QA
2 6 (2.46%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.05%) GDPR
3 5 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.23%) PMO
4 3 (1.23%) SLA
5 2 (0.82%) EMIR
5 2 (0.82%) MiFID
5 2 (0.82%) NIST
5 2 (0.82%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.41%) NCSC
6 1 (0.41%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.41%) P3O
6 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 51 (20.90%) Docker
2 9 (3.69%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.82%) BitLocker
5 2 (0.82%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.82%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.82%) Terminal Services
5 2 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.41%) GridGain
6 1 (0.41%) Varnish
6 1 (0.41%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 84 (34.43%) Kubernetes
2 63 (25.82%) Terraform
3 19 (7.79%) Ansible
4 16 (6.56%) Grafana
4 16 (6.56%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.64%) Puppet
6 3 (1.23%) Karpenter
6 3 (1.23%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.82%) Argo
7 2 (0.82%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.82%) Istio
7 2 (0.82%) Nagios
7 2 (0.82%) vMotion
8 1 (0.41%) CA Wily
8 1 (0.41%) Consul
8 1 (0.41%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.41%) linkerd
8 1 (0.41%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.41%) Salt
8 1 (0.41%) SCCM
Vendors
1 38 (15.57%) Microsoft
2 26 (10.66%) Databricks
3 12 (4.92%) Google
4 11 (4.51%) Oracle
5 6 (2.46%) Dynatrace
6 5 (2.05%) OpenAI
6 5 (2.05%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.64%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.64%) Foundry
8 3 (1.23%) Adobe
8 3 (1.23%) IBM
8 3 (1.23%) Palantir
8 3 (1.23%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.23%) SAP
8 3 (1.23%) Splunk
8 3 (1.23%) VMware
9 2 (0.82%) Citrix
9 2 (0.82%) HP
9 2 (0.82%) Informatica
9 2 (0.82%) Sybase