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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 14 10
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 297 228 278
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 12.04% 11.78% 11.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.38% 12.56% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 173 195
10th Percentile £419 £383 £425
25th Percentile £481 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £711
90th Percentile £725 £736 £811
London median daily rate £550 £550 £565
% change year-on-year - -2.65% -5.83%
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 £56.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% -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 2,220 1,816 2,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 89.99% 93.80% 91.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,536 1,224 1,388
10th Percentile £361 £320 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.28%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
London median daily rate £550 £543 £550
% change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 28 29
10th Percentile £17.60 £18.33 £18.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £22.75 £25.40
Median hourly rate £25.00 £28.33 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.74% -19.07% +30.84%
75th Percentile £43.00 £50.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £64.15 £63.75 £117.10
London median hourly rate £33.60 £30.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year +10.16% -16.44% -1.19%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -3 258 £550 -8.33% 188
West End of London -1 9 £528 +8.21% 11
City of Westminster -5 9 £600 +26.32% 26
Southwark +1 4 £650 - 3
Lambeth - 1 - - 1
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 £750 -
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 14 (4.71%) SharePoint
2 13 (4.38%) Apache Spark
2 13 (4.38%) Confluence
3 12 (4.04%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (3.70%) Apache
5 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.67%) IIS
6 2 (0.67%) nginx
7 1 (0.34%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.34%) CMS
7 1 (0.34%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.34%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.34%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.68%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.34%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (2.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.35%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.34%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.34%) Magento
4 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.34%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.34%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.34%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.34%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.34%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.34%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 168 (56.57%) Azure
2 102 (34.34%) Azure DevOps
3 82 (27.61%) AWS
4 55 (18.52%) GitHub
5 47 (15.82%) Power Platform
6 32 (10.77%) GitHub Actions
7 30 (10.10%) Azure Data Factory
7 30 (10.10%) Serverless
8 28 (9.43%) GCP
9 20 (6.73%) Power Automate
10 16 (5.39%) Azure Functions
10 16 (5.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 16 (5.39%) PowerApps
11 14 (4.71%) Azure AKS
12 13 (4.38%) Azure Logic Apps
12 13 (4.38%) Dynamics 365
13 12 (4.04%) Amazon S3
13 12 (4.04%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (4.04%) Azure Databricks
14 11 (3.70%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.72%) Internet
2 13 (4.38%) DNS
3 12 (4.04%) Firewall
4 9 (3.03%) VPN
5 5 (1.68%) DHCP
6 3 (1.01%) FTP
6 3 (1.01%) Network Security
6 3 (1.01%) SMTP
6 3 (1.01%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.67%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.67%) Intranet
7 2 (0.67%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.67%) RTP
7 2 (0.67%) SSH
7 2 (0.67%) VLAN
7 2 (0.67%) VoIP
7 2 (0.67%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.34%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.34%) INAP
8 1 (0.34%) RTCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (11.45%) Power BI
2 26 (8.75%) SQL Server
3 19 (6.40%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (5.05%) Data Lake
5 13 (4.38%) Metadata
6 9 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (3.03%) NoSQL
6 9 (3.03%) Star Schema
7 8 (2.69%) Delta Lake
7 8 (2.69%) MongoDB
8 7 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (2.02%) Big Data
10 5 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.68%) Semantic Layer
11 4 (1.35%) Data Hub
11 4 (1.35%) Oracle Database
11 4 (1.35%) Power Query
11 4 (1.35%) Redis
11 4 (1.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (10.44%) Jenkins
2 29 (9.76%) Git
2 29 (9.76%) JIRA
3 26 (8.75%) GitLab
4 9 (3.03%) JMeter
5 8 (2.69%) JUnit
6 7 (2.36%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.36%) Postman
7 6 (2.02%) Artifactory
7 6 (2.02%) Selenium
8 5 (1.68%) Cypress.io
8 5 (1.68%) Visual Studio Code
9 4 (1.35%) Gatling
9 4 (1.35%) Gradle
9 4 (1.35%) Mockito
9 4 (1.35%) REST Assured
9 4 (1.35%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.01%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.01%) LoadRunner
10 3 (1.01%) Maven
General
1 87 (29.29%) Finance
2 65 (21.89%) Social Skills
3 41 (13.80%) Banking
4 29 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (7.74%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.36%) Investment Banking
6 7 (2.36%) Retail
7 6 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.02%) Law
8 5 (1.68%) Front Office
8 5 (1.68%) Marketing
9 3 (1.01%) Military
9 3 (1.01%) Police
10 2 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.67%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.67%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (16.84%) Senior
2 48 (16.16%) Developer
3 42 (14.14%) Architect
4 33 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 29 (9.76%) Lead
6 26 (8.75%) Data Engineer
7 18 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
8 16 (5.39%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 15 (5.05%) Senior Developer
10 14 (4.71%) Data Architect
10 14 (4.71%) Platform Engineer
10 14 (4.71%) Solutions Architect
10 14 (4.71%) Tester
11 10 (3.37%) Consultant
11 10 (3.37%) Java Developer
12 9 (3.03%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
13 8 (2.69%) Analyst
13 8 (2.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 7 (2.36%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (22.56%) Terraform
2 38 (12.79%) REST
3 30 (10.10%) .NET
4 26 (8.75%) Spring
5 25 (8.42%) PySpark
5 25 (8.42%) Spring Boot
6 23 (7.74%) Kafka
7 17 (5.72%) pytest
7 17 (5.72%) RESTful
8 15 (5.05%) SOAP
9 13 (4.38%) React
10 9 (3.03%) AngularJS
10 9 (3.03%) Middleware
10 9 (3.03%) XML
11 8 (2.69%) JSON
11 8 (2.69%) Node.js
11 8 (2.69%) Playwright
12 7 (2.36%) GraphQL
13 6 (2.02%) HTML
13 6 (2.02%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 63 (21.21%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (5.39%) Product Ownership
4 15 (5.05%) Legacy Systems
4 15 (5.05%) Onboarding
5 14 (4.71%) AI Agents
6 11 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.69%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.68%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.68%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.35%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.35%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.01%) Clustering
11 3 (1.01%) PKI
11 3 (1.01%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.67%) Equities
12 2 (0.67%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.73%) Linux
2 14 (4.71%) Windows
3 9 (3.03%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.36%) Unix
5 1 (0.34%) Android
5 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.34%) CentOS
5 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (63.97%) CI/CD
2 88 (29.63%) Agile
3 72 (24.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 69 (23.23%) AI
5 55 (18.52%) Analytics
6 54 (18.18%) Test Automation
7 49 (16.50%) Microservices
7 49 (16.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 48 (16.16%) Software Engineering
9 44 (14.81%) Observability
9 44 (14.81%) Platform Engineering
10 43 (14.48%) Problem-Solving
11 42 (14.14%) Containerisation
12 41 (13.80%) Business Intelligence
13 40 (13.47%) Data Modelling
13 40 (13.47%) Migration
14 39 (13.13%) Machine Learning
15 37 (12.46%) Event-Driven
15 37 (12.46%) Validation
16 36 (12.12%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 104 (35.02%) Python
2 72 (24.24%) SQL
3 47 (15.82%) Java
4 35 (11.78%) C#
5 29 (9.76%) PowerShell
6 23 (7.74%) JavaScript
7 21 (7.07%) TypeScript
8 16 (5.39%) Bicep
9 15 (5.05%) Bash
10 12 (4.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (1.35%) Apex Code
11 4 (1.35%) Korn
11 4 (1.35%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.01%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.67%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.67%) ActionScript 2.0
13 2 (0.67%) R
13 2 (0.67%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.34%) Go
14 1 (0.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 86 (28.96%) Security Cleared
2 75 (25.25%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.71%) Degree
4 10 (3.37%) DBS Check
5 8 (2.69%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.02%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.68%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.68%) PMP
8 4 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.67%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.67%) CISM
9 2 (0.67%) CISSP
9 2 (0.67%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.67%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.34%) MOS
10 1 (0.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (11.78%) QA
2 26 (8.75%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.36%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.36%) GDPR
4 3 (1.01%) NCSC
5 2 (0.67%) EMIR
5 2 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.67%) MiFID
5 2 (0.67%) SLA
6 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.34%) P3O
6 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.34%) PMO
6 1 (0.34%) PSD2
6 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.34%) SEPA
6 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 56 (18.86%) Docker
2 8 (2.69%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.35%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.01%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.01%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.01%) Terminal Services
5 2 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.34%) Varnish
6 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 96 (32.32%) Kubernetes
2 25 (8.42%) Ansible
3 19 (6.40%) Grafana
4 17 (5.72%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.35%) Puppet
5 4 (1.35%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.01%) Nagios
6 3 (1.01%) vMotion
7 2 (0.67%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.67%) Packer
7 2 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.34%) Argo
8 1 (0.34%) Bosun
8 1 (0.34%) Consul
8 1 (0.34%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.34%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.34%) Salt
8 1 (0.34%) SCCM
8 1 (0.34%) SELinux
Vendors
1 86 (28.96%) Microsoft
2 41 (13.80%) Databricks
3 17 (5.72%) Oracle
4 16 (5.39%) Google
5 10 (3.37%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.69%) ServiceNow
6 8 (2.69%) Splunk
7 7 (2.36%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.02%) SAP
9 5 (1.68%) IBM
9 5 (1.68%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.68%) VMware
10 4 (1.35%) AppDynamics
10 4 (1.35%) Foundry
10 4 (1.35%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.01%) Citrix
11 3 (1.01%) HP
11 3 (1.01%) Symantec
11 3 (1.01%) Workday
12 2 (0.67%) Software AG