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 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 11 13
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 234 238 266
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.67% 10.18% 9.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.89% 11.05% 10.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 154 211
10th Percentile £363 £451 £425
25th Percentile £463 £508 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% -2.50% -2.83%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £550 £593 £588
% change year-on-year -7.17% +0.85% -6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 - -
75th Percentile £28.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £56.00 £80.50 £63.75
% change year-on-year -30.43% +26.27% -15.00%

All Process and 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 1,816 2,154 2,423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.57% 92.09% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,269 1,350 1,739
10th Percentile £343 £363 £359
25th Percentile £425 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £670 £679 £688
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% -4.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 27 16
10th Percentile £19.90 £18.34 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.31 £28.32 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.31 £35.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.84% +37.25% -37.04%
75th Percentile £37.44 £52.50 £51.31
90th Percentile £51.88 £112.00 £69.38
London median hourly rate £30.00 £36.50 £32.69
% change year-on-year -17.81% +11.65% -15.91%

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 21 December 2025.

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 21 December 2025. 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 -3 210 £580 -0.85% 78
City of Westminster +7 6 £463 -
West End of London - 5 £450 - 4
Camden +7 1 £400 -27.27% 4
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 (4.70%) Confluence
2 5 (2.14%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.71%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.28%) Apache
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.43%) CMS
5 1 (0.43%) Mattermost
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.28%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.85%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.43%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.43%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.43%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 99 (42.31%) Azure
2 65 (27.78%) Azure DevOps
3 64 (27.35%) AWS
4 50 (21.37%) GitHub
5 40 (17.09%) GCP
6 30 (12.82%) GitHub Actions
7 25 (10.68%) Power Platform
8 23 (9.83%) Serverless
9 19 (8.12%) Amazon S3
9 19 (8.12%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (5.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (5.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 13 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (4.70%) Azure Data Factory
13 9 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (3.85%) Power Automate
14 8 (3.42%) PowerApps
14 8 (3.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 7 (2.99%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.70%) Firewall
2 9 (3.85%) DNS
3 7 (2.99%) SSL
4 6 (2.56%) Network Security
5 4 (1.71%) VPN
6 3 (1.28%) BGP
6 3 (1.28%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (1.28%) HTTPS
6 3 (1.28%) OSPF
6 3 (1.28%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.28%) VXLAN
7 2 (0.85%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.85%) Internet
7 2 (0.85%) MPLS
7 2 (0.85%) Multicast
7 2 (0.85%) NX-OS
8 1 (0.43%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.43%) DHCP
8 1 (0.43%) IGMP
8 1 (0.43%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.84%) Power BI
2 11 (4.70%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (3.42%) BigQuery
4 8 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (2.99%) DynamoDB
5 7 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (2.99%) MySQL
6 6 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (2.14%) Redis
7 5 (2.14%) Tableau
8 4 (1.71%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.28%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (1.28%) Big Data
9 3 (1.28%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.28%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.28%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.28%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 40 (17.09%) Jenkins
2 37 (15.81%) Git
3 29 (12.39%) JIRA
4 17 (7.26%) GitLab
5 10 (4.27%) Selenium
6 9 (3.85%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.85%) Cypress.io
6 9 (3.85%) SonarQube
7 8 (3.42%) Gradle
7 8 (3.42%) Postman
8 6 (2.56%) Maven
9 5 (2.14%) Cucumber
9 5 (2.14%) JUnit
10 3 (1.28%) Mockito
10 3 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (1.28%) Storybook
10 3 (1.28%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.85%) Snyk
11 2 (0.85%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 80 (34.19%) Finance
2 65 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 43 (18.38%) Banking
4 24 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.13%) Investment Banking
6 8 (3.42%) Front Office
6 8 (3.42%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.56%) Financial Institution
7 6 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.14%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.71%) Back Office
9 4 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.71%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.85%) Law
11 2 (0.85%) Legal
11 2 (0.85%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 46 (19.66%) Developer
2 45 (19.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 33 (14.10%) Senior
4 17 (7.26%) Architect
5 16 (6.84%) Lead
6 12 (5.13%) GCP Engineer
7 11 (4.70%) Data Engineer
7 11 (4.70%) Senior Developer
8 9 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (3.42%) Analyst
9 8 (3.42%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (2.99%) AWS DevOps
10 7 (2.99%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 7 (2.99%) Test Engineer
11 6 (2.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 6 (2.56%) Cloud Architect
11 6 (2.56%) Java Developer
11 6 (2.56%) Senior DevOps
12 5 (2.14%) Platform Engineer
12 5 (2.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.83%) .NET
2 18 (7.69%) Node.js
3 17 (7.26%) REST
4 15 (6.41%) HTML
5 14 (5.98%) React
6 13 (5.56%) OAuth
7 12 (5.13%) CSS
7 12 (5.13%) RESTful
8 10 (4.27%) AngularJS
8 10 (4.27%) JSON
9 8 (3.42%) JWT
9 8 (3.42%) SOAP
9 8 (3.42%) Spring
9 8 (3.42%) XML
10 7 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (2.99%) GraphQL
10 7 (2.99%) Kafka
10 7 (2.99%) PySpark
11 6 (2.56%) HTML5
11 6 (2.56%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 34 (14.53%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.70%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.85%) Derivative
4 9 (3.85%) Fixed Income
4 9 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (3.42%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.99%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.14%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.71%) Equities
8 4 (1.71%) Life Science
8 4 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.28%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.28%) CMDB
9 3 (1.28%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.28%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.28%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 23 (9.83%) Linux
2 8 (3.42%) Windows
3 5 (2.14%) Android
3 5 (2.14%) Unix
4 4 (1.71%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (55.13%) CI/CD
2 90 (38.46%) Agile
3 53 (22.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (15.81%) Containerisation
5 36 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (13.68%) Test Automation
7 27 (11.54%) Analytics
8 26 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 24 (10.26%) AI
9 24 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 24 (10.26%) Migration
10 23 (9.83%) Observability
10 23 (9.83%) Scrum
11 21 (8.97%) Stakeholder Management
12 20 (8.55%) Software Engineering
13 18 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
13 18 (7.69%) DevSecOps
13 18 (7.69%) Microservices
13 18 (7.69%) Roadmaps
14 17 (7.26%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 82 (35.04%) Python
2 44 (18.80%) SQL
3 37 (15.81%) Java
4 32 (13.68%) JavaScript
5 26 (11.11%) C#
6 17 (7.26%) PowerShell
6 17 (7.26%) TypeScript
7 12 (5.13%) Bash
8 7 (2.99%) C++
9 4 (1.71%) Go
10 3 (1.28%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.28%) Scala
10 3 (1.28%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.85%) Bicep
11 2 (0.85%) C
11 2 (0.85%) Perl
11 2 (0.85%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.85%) PromQL
11 2 (0.85%) Rust
12 1 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 57 (24.36%) Security Cleared
2 52 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 21 (8.97%) Degree
4 10 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.99%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.56%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.14%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.28%) CCIE
9 3 (1.28%) CCNP
9 3 (1.28%) CISSP
9 3 (1.28%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.28%) PhD
10 2 (0.85%) CBAP
10 2 (0.85%) CESG Certified Professional
10 2 (0.85%) ISEB
11 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.41%) QA
2 10 (4.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.85%) GDPR
4 6 (2.56%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.56%) NIST
5 5 (2.14%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (1.28%) NCSC
7 3 (1.28%) WCAG
8 2 (0.85%) MiFID
8 2 (0.85%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.85%) PMO
9 1 (0.43%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 55 (23.50%) Docker
2 3 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.43%) GridGain
4 1 (0.43%) HDFS
4 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 69 (29.49%) Terraform
2 56 (23.93%) Kubernetes
3 30 (12.82%) Ansible
4 9 (3.85%) Grafana
5 8 (3.42%) ITRS Geneos
6 6 (2.56%) Argo
6 6 (2.56%) Kibana
6 6 (2.56%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.14%) logstash
8 4 (1.71%) Istio
8 4 (1.71%) Puppet
9 3 (1.28%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.85%) Karpenter
10 2 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.85%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.43%) CASB
11 1 (0.43%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.43%) Icinga
11 1 (0.43%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.43%) Packer
Vendors
1 37 (15.81%) Microsoft
2 35 (14.96%) Google
3 17 (7.26%) Databricks
4 12 (5.13%) Oracle
5 10 (4.27%) Salesforce
5 10 (4.27%) ServiceNow
5 10 (4.27%) Splunk
6 6 (2.56%) Solace
7 5 (2.14%) Palo Alto
7 5 (2.14%) VMware
8 4 (1.71%) CheckPoint
8 4 (1.71%) CyberArk
8 4 (1.71%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.71%) F5
9 3 (1.28%) Arista
9 3 (1.28%) Cisco
9 3 (1.28%) DocuSign
9 3 (1.28%) HP
9 3 (1.28%) UiPath
10 2 (0.85%) BMC