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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 14 10
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 299 235 288
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.98% 11.83% 12.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.49% 12.59% 13.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 174 208
10th Percentile £425 £383 £425
25th Percentile £488 £475 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -6.05%
75th Percentile £649 £675 £708
90th Percentile £725 £728 £805
London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £38.00 £32.25 -
25th Percentile £42.50 £41.25 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 -
90th Percentile £71.00 £82.75 -
London median hourly rate £55.00 £54.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -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 2,216 1,867 2,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 88.78% 93.96% 91.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,530 1,245 1,409
10th Percentile £367 £318 £375
25th Percentile £460 £418 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
London median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 33 22
10th Percentile £17.60 £19.05 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £20.88
Median hourly rate £24.00 £29.07 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.44% +7.67% -13.60%
75th Percentile £43.00 £50.75 £56.50
90th Percentile £64.00 £63.75 £133.00
London median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year +10.94% -11.11% -10.00%

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 1 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in Central London over the 6 months to 1 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in Central London

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 1 September 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 -3 264 £550 -8.33% 127
City of Westminster -5 9 £606 +18.29% 12
West End of London -3 8 £538 +10.26% 7
Southwark -1 4 £650 -
Lambeth - 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 15 (5.02%) SharePoint
2 13 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (4.01%) Apache Spark
4 10 (3.34%) Apache
4 10 (3.34%) Confluence
5 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.67%) IIS
6 2 (0.67%) nginx
7 1 (0.33%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.33%) CMS
7 1 (0.33%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.33%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.33%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.33%) SAS
7 1 (0.33%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 6 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.00%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.33%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.67%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.33%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.33%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.33%) Magento
4 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.33%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.33%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.33%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.33%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 171 (57.19%) Azure
2 97 (32.44%) Azure DevOps
3 83 (27.76%) AWS
4 53 (17.73%) GitHub
5 43 (14.38%) Power Platform
6 34 (11.37%) GitHub Actions
7 31 (10.37%) Azure Data Factory
8 28 (9.36%) GCP
9 26 (8.70%) Serverless
10 21 (7.02%) Power Automate
11 16 (5.35%) Azure AKS
12 15 (5.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 15 (5.02%) PowerApps
13 14 (4.68%) Dynamics 365
14 13 (4.35%) Amazon S3
14 13 (4.35%) Azure Functions
14 13 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
15 11 (3.68%) dbt
15 11 (3.68%) GitHub Copilot
15 11 (3.68%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.69%) Internet
2 12 (4.01%) DNS
2 12 (4.01%) Firewall
3 9 (3.01%) VPN
4 4 (1.34%) DHCP
5 3 (1.00%) FTP
5 3 (1.00%) Network Security
5 3 (1.00%) SMTP
5 3 (1.00%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.67%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.67%) Intranet
6 2 (0.67%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.67%) SSH
6 2 (0.67%) VLAN
7 1 (0.33%) Multicast
7 1 (0.33%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (10.70%) Power BI
2 30 (10.03%) SQL Server
3 21 (7.02%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (3.68%) Data Lake
5 10 (3.34%) Metadata
5 10 (3.34%) NoSQL
5 10 (3.34%) Star Schema
6 9 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (3.01%) MongoDB
7 7 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (2.34%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (2.01%) Delta Lake
9 5 (1.67%) Big Data
9 5 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.34%) Data Mart
10 4 (1.34%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.34%) Redis
10 4 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 32 (10.70%) Jenkins
2 29 (9.70%) Git
3 27 (9.03%) GitLab
4 22 (7.36%) JIRA
5 9 (3.01%) JUnit
6 8 (2.68%) JMeter
7 6 (2.01%) Artifactory
7 6 (2.01%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.01%) Postman
7 6 (2.01%) Selenium
8 5 (1.67%) Cypress.io
8 5 (1.67%) Gradle
8 5 (1.67%) Maven
8 5 (1.67%) Mockito
8 5 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
9 4 (1.34%) Gatling
9 4 (1.34%) REST Assured
9 4 (1.34%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.00%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.00%) NeoLoad
General
1 90 (30.10%) Finance
2 62 (20.74%) Social Skills
3 35 (11.71%) Banking
4 27 (9.03%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (8.03%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.68%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.34%) Law
7 7 (2.34%) Retail
8 5 (1.67%) Front Office
8 5 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.67%) Marketing
9 4 (1.34%) Police
10 3 (1.00%) Military
10 3 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.67%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.33%) Aviation
12 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (16.39%) Developer
2 48 (16.05%) Senior
3 39 (13.04%) Architect
4 35 (11.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 29 (9.70%) Lead
6 24 (8.03%) Data Engineer
7 22 (7.36%) Azure Engineer
8 18 (6.02%) Senior Developer
9 17 (5.69%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 15 (5.02%) Platform Engineer
11 14 (4.68%) Tester
12 13 (4.35%) Data Architect
12 13 (4.35%) Java Developer
13 11 (3.68%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 11 (3.68%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (3.34%) Cloud Engineer
15 9 (3.01%) Consultant
15 9 (3.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 8 (2.68%) Azure Architect
16 8 (2.68%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (23.08%) Terraform
2 37 (12.37%) REST
3 28 (9.36%) .NET
3 28 (9.36%) Spring
4 26 (8.70%) Kafka
4 26 (8.70%) Spring Boot
5 21 (7.02%) PySpark
6 18 (6.02%) RESTful
7 17 (5.69%) pytest
8 14 (4.68%) SOAP
9 12 (4.01%) React
10 10 (3.34%) Playwright
11 9 (3.01%) AngularJS
12 8 (2.68%) XML
13 7 (2.34%) Middleware
14 6 (2.01%) HTML
14 6 (2.01%) JSON
14 6 (2.01%) Node.js
14 6 (2.01%) RabbitMQ
15 5 (1.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (21.07%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (5.69%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (4.01%) AI Agents
4 12 (4.01%) Product Ownership
5 11 (3.68%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.34%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.01%) Clustering
8 6 (2.01%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.67%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.34%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.00%) Equities
11 3 (1.00%) IoT
11 3 (1.00%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.00%) PKI
11 3 (1.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.69%) Linux
2 13 (4.35%) Windows
3 9 (3.01%) Unix
4 8 (2.68%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.33%) AIX
5 1 (0.33%) Android
5 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (64.21%) CI/CD
2 82 (27.42%) Agile
3 77 (25.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 68 (22.74%) AI
5 56 (18.73%) Analytics
6 51 (17.06%) Software Engineering
7 49 (16.39%) Microservices
8 48 (16.05%) Test Automation
9 46 (15.38%) Containerisation
10 45 (15.05%) Platform Engineering
11 43 (14.38%) Observability
12 42 (14.05%) Stakeholder Management
13 41 (13.71%) Data Modelling
13 41 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
14 40 (13.38%) Event-Driven
14 40 (13.38%) Machine Learning
15 39 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
16 38 (12.71%) Migration
17 37 (12.37%) Data Engineering
18 36 (12.04%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 104 (34.78%) Python
2 76 (25.42%) SQL
3 51 (17.06%) Java
4 35 (11.71%) C#
5 30 (10.03%) PowerShell
6 24 (8.03%) TypeScript
7 23 (7.69%) JavaScript
8 17 (5.69%) Bicep
9 16 (5.35%) Bash
10 10 (3.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (1.67%) Apex Code
12 4 (1.34%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.34%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.00%) Korn
13 3 (1.00%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.67%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.67%) ActionScript 2.0
14 2 (0.67%) R
15 1 (0.33%) Go
15 1 (0.33%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 88 (29.43%) Security Cleared
2 78 (26.09%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.02%) Degree
4 10 (3.34%) DBS Check
4 10 (3.34%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (2.68%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.34%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.34%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.00%) PMP
10 2 (0.67%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.67%) CISM
10 2 (0.67%) CISSP
10 2 (0.67%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.33%) IIBA
11 1 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (10.70%) QA
2 23 (7.69%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.68%) GDPR
4 7 (2.34%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.00%) NCSC
6 2 (0.67%) EMIR
6 2 (0.67%) MiFID
6 2 (0.67%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.67%) SLA
7 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.33%) P3O
7 1 (0.33%) PMO
7 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 59 (19.73%) Docker
2 11 (3.68%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.34%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.34%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.00%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.00%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.00%) Terminal Services
4 3 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.33%) GridGain
5 1 (0.33%) Varnish
5 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 101 (33.78%) Kubernetes
2 24 (8.03%) Ansible
3 20 (6.69%) Grafana
4 18 (6.02%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.67%) Puppet
6 4 (1.34%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.00%) Nagios
7 3 (1.00%) vMotion
8 2 (0.67%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.67%) Packer
8 2 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.33%) Argo
9 1 (0.33%) Bosun
9 1 (0.33%) Consul
9 1 (0.33%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.33%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.33%) Salt
9 1 (0.33%) SCCM
9 1 (0.33%) SELinux
Vendors
1 87 (29.10%) Microsoft
2 36 (12.04%) Databricks
3 16 (5.35%) Oracle
4 15 (5.02%) Google
5 10 (3.34%) Dynatrace
6 7 (2.34%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.34%) Splunk
7 6 (2.01%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.67%) VMware
9 4 (1.34%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.34%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.34%) SAP
10 3 (1.00%) Citrix
10 3 (1.00%) Foundry
10 3 (1.00%) HP
10 3 (1.00%) IBM
10 3 (1.00%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.00%) Symantec
11 2 (0.67%) Remedy
11 2 (0.67%) Software AG