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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 12 12
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 232 243 258
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 9.77% 12.22% 10.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.27% 13.21% 11.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 168 170
10th Percentile £363 £429 £416
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.30% -8.00% +2.25%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £688
90th Percentile £761 £750 £788
London median daily rate £543 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -5.58% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £65.73 - -
25th Percentile £66.81 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £72.25 - £48.50
75th Percentile £76.31 - £50.25
90th Percentile £76.58 - -
London median hourly rate £67.50 £80.50 £56.25
% change year-on-year -16.15% +43.11% -25.00%

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 2,059 1,839 2,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 86.73% 92.46% 90.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,407 1,193 1,581
10th Percentile £361 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £461 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -7.56%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £763 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 21 28
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £21.37 £24.66 £21.56
Median hourly rate £26.56 £31.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -14.34% +11.47% -20.54%
75th Percentile £46.29 £44.61 £34.75
90th Percentile £59.48 £50.75 £54.68
London median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £30.00
% change year-on-year +2.68% +15.25% -22.58%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -7 206 £550 -4.35% 138
West End of London +11 8 £575 +27.78% 3
City of Westminster +1 4 £531 -3.41% 2
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 6 (2.59%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.16%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.29%) Apache
3 3 (1.29%) Confluence
3 3 (1.29%) Palantir Foundry
3 3 (1.29%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.43%) CMS
5 1 (0.43%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.43%) nginx
5 1 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.43%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.43%) Maya
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.29%) Dynamics AX
1 3 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.86%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.43%) Magento
3 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.43%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.43%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.43%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 132 (56.90%) Azure
2 76 (32.76%) AWS
3 72 (31.03%) Azure DevOps
4 54 (23.28%) GitHub
5 33 (14.22%) GCP
5 33 (14.22%) Serverless
6 27 (11.64%) GitHub Actions
7 26 (11.21%) Power Platform
8 21 (9.05%) Amazon S3
9 19 (8.19%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (6.03%) Azure Data Factory
11 12 (5.17%) Azure AKS
11 12 (5.17%) Dynamics 365
12 11 (4.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (4.74%) Entra ID
13 10 (4.31%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (3.88%) Azure Functions
14 9 (3.88%) Azure Monitor
15 8 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 8 (3.45%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.88%) Firewall
2 7 (3.02%) Network Security
3 1 (0.43%) DHCP
3 1 (0.43%) DNS
3 1 (0.43%) FTP
3 1 (0.43%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.43%) Internet
3 1 (0.43%) Multicast
3 1 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.90%) Power BI
1 16 (6.90%) SQL Server
2 14 (6.03%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (3.88%) DynamoDB
5 8 (3.45%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.45%) Relational Database
6 7 (3.02%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (2.59%) Apache Cassandra
7 6 (2.59%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.59%) MySQL
7 6 (2.59%) Tableau
8 5 (2.16%) Metadata
8 5 (2.16%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (1.72%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.29%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.29%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 37 (15.95%) Git
2 27 (11.64%) Jenkins
3 18 (7.76%) JIRA
4 15 (6.47%) GitLab
5 6 (2.59%) JUnit
6 5 (2.16%) Mockito
6 5 (2.16%) Postman
7 4 (1.72%) Gradle
7 4 (1.72%) Maven
7 4 (1.72%) Selenium
8 3 (1.29%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.29%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.29%) git-flow
8 3 (1.29%) Liquibase
8 3 (1.29%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.86%) Ant
9 2 (0.86%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.86%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.43%) PowerBuilder
General
1 59 (25.43%) Finance
2 41 (17.67%) Social Skills
3 24 (10.34%) Banking
4 17 (7.33%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.31%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.02%) Front Office
8 6 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.72%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.72%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.72%) Law
9 4 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.86%) Legal
10 2 (0.86%) Military
10 2 (0.86%) Police
10 2 (0.86%) Publishing
10 2 (0.86%) Retail
11 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 58 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 28 (12.07%) Developer
3 25 (10.78%) Senior
4 21 (9.05%) Architect
5 19 (8.19%) Azure Engineer
6 18 (7.76%) Lead
7 13 (5.60%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (4.74%) Data Engineer
8 11 (4.74%) Senior Developer
9 10 (4.31%) AWS DevOps
9 10 (4.31%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (4.31%) Cloud Architect
10 9 (3.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 9 (3.88%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (3.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.45%) Software Engineer
12 7 (3.02%) Consultant
12 7 (3.02%) Java Developer
12 7 (3.02%) Python Engineer
13 6 (2.59%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.76%) Kafka
2 17 (7.33%) React
2 17 (7.33%) REST
2 17 (7.33%) Spring
3 15 (6.47%) Node.js
4 13 (5.60%) Spring Boot
5 11 (4.74%) .NET
6 10 (4.31%) RESTful
7 9 (3.88%) Playwright
7 9 (3.88%) PySpark
8 8 (3.45%) OAuth
9 6 (2.59%) AngularJS
9 6 (2.59%) FastAPI
9 6 (2.59%) HTML
9 6 (2.59%) JWT
9 6 (2.59%) Next.js
9 6 (2.59%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (2.59%) XML
10 5 (2.16%) CSS
10 5 (2.16%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 50 (21.55%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.88%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.59%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.16%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.16%) Derivative
6 5 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.16%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.16%) Private Cloud
6 5 (2.16%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.72%) Equities
7 4 (1.72%) Life Science
7 4 (1.72%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.29%) Clustering
8 3 (1.29%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.29%) NHS
8 3 (1.29%) Replication
9 2 (0.86%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.17%) Linux
1 12 (5.17%) Windows
2 4 (1.72%) Unix
3 3 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.29%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.86%) Android
5 1 (0.43%) AIX
5 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.43%) VMS
5 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (57.76%) CI/CD
2 77 (33.19%) Infrastructure as Code
3 61 (26.29%) Agile
4 41 (17.67%) Containerisation
5 34 (14.66%) AI
6 32 (13.79%) Test Automation
7 30 (12.93%) Migration
8 28 (12.07%) Analytics
8 28 (12.07%) Microservices
9 27 (11.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (11.21%) Observability
10 26 (11.21%) Software Engineering
11 25 (10.78%) Data Engineering
12 23 (9.91%) Performance Tuning
13 22 (9.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 22 (9.48%) Stakeholder Management
14 21 (9.05%) Roadmaps
15 20 (8.62%) Platform Engineering
16 19 (8.19%) Data Pipeline
16 19 (8.19%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 61 (26.29%) Python
2 52 (22.41%) SQL
3 33 (14.22%) Java
4 19 (8.19%) C#
4 19 (8.19%) JavaScript
5 17 (7.33%) TypeScript
6 12 (5.17%) PowerShell
7 11 (4.74%) Bash
8 8 (3.45%) Bicep
9 4 (1.72%) C++
9 4 (1.72%) Scala
10 3 (1.29%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.86%) Korn
11 2 (0.86%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.86%) Perl
11 2 (0.86%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.86%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.43%) Jython
12 1 (0.43%) ProC
12 1 (0.43%) XPath
Qualifications
1 81 (34.91%) Security Cleared
2 79 (34.05%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.90%) Azure Certification
3 16 (6.90%) Degree
4 8 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.16%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.72%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.72%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.29%) PhD
8 2 (0.86%) CESG Certified Professional
8 2 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.86%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.86%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.86%) PMP
8 2 (0.86%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.43%) CISM
9 1 (0.43%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.60%) QA
2 11 (4.74%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.16%) GDPR
4 5 (2.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (1.72%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.29%) NIST
6 3 (1.29%) SLA
7 2 (0.86%) NCSC
7 2 (0.86%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.86%) PMO
8 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
System Software
1 54 (23.28%) Docker
2 8 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (3.02%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.43%) GridGain
5 1 (0.43%) Varnish
5 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 75 (32.33%) Terraform
2 69 (29.74%) Kubernetes
3 17 (7.33%) Ansible
4 10 (4.31%) Grafana
4 10 (4.31%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.29%) Istio
5 3 (1.29%) Karpenter
6 2 (0.86%) Argo
6 2 (0.86%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.86%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (0.86%) Puppet
7 1 (0.43%) CA Wily
7 1 (0.43%) CASB
7 1 (0.43%) Icinga
7 1 (0.43%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.43%) linkerd
7 1 (0.43%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.43%) Packer
7 1 (0.43%) Salt
7 1 (0.43%) SCCM
Vendors
1 39 (16.81%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.05%) Google
3 20 (8.62%) Databricks
4 13 (5.60%) Oracle
5 8 (3.45%) Salesforce
6 7 (3.02%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.16%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.72%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.72%) SAP
8 4 (1.72%) Splunk
8 4 (1.72%) VMware
9 3 (1.29%) Adobe
9 3 (1.29%) CyberArk
9 3 (1.29%) Foundry
9 3 (1.29%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.29%) Palantir
9 3 (1.29%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.86%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.86%) OutSystems
10 2 (0.86%) Tradeweb