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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 14 9
Rank change year-on-year -7 -5 +3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 249 241 300
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 9.63% 12.65% 12.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.15% 13.53% 13.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 166 203
10th Percentile £410 £413 £413
25th Percentile £475 £480 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £685
90th Percentile £701 £795 £788
London median daily rate £545 £550 £573
% change year-on-year -0.91% -3.93% -4.58%
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 £68.50 £52.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +30.48% -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 2,234 1,781 2,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 86.39% 93.49% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,507 1,153 1,541
10th Percentile £356 £351 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £669 £678 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £792
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 25 23
10th Percentile £17.60 £19.36 £20.22
25th Percentile £18.75 £22.75 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.25 £28.50 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -4.39% +2.48% -20.54%
75th Percentile £55.56 £44.61 £31.19
90th Percentile £64.38 £58.55 £41.47
London median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.00
% change year-on-year +12.12% +19.45% -28.97%

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 12 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 12 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 -5 222 £550 -4.35% 77
West End of London +2 10 £600 +26.32% 6
City of Westminster -3 7 £606 +10.23%
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 (4.42%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.61%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.81%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.01%) Confluence
5 4 (1.61%) Apache
5 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.20%) Palantir Foundry
6 3 (1.20%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.40%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.40%) IIS
7 1 (0.40%) nginx
7 1 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.40%) Maya
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.41%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.40%) Magento
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.40%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.40%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 136 (54.62%) Azure
2 78 (31.33%) AWS
3 71 (28.51%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (18.88%) GitHub
5 34 (13.65%) Power Platform
6 30 (12.05%) GitHub Actions
7 28 (11.24%) GCP
8 27 (10.84%) Serverless
9 15 (6.02%) Azure AKS
10 14 (5.62%) Amazon S3
10 14 (5.62%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (4.42%) Dynamics 365
12 10 (4.02%) Azure Functions
12 10 (4.02%) Entra ID
12 10 (4.02%) Power Automate
12 10 (4.02%) Snowflake
13 9 (3.61%) Amazon Kinesis
13 9 (3.61%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (3.61%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.61%) Firewall
2 8 (3.21%) Internet
3 6 (2.41%) DNS
4 4 (1.61%) Network Security
4 4 (1.61%) VPN
5 3 (1.20%) DHCP
5 3 (1.20%) FTP
6 2 (0.80%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.80%) SMTP
7 1 (0.40%) Intranet
7 1 (0.40%) Multicast
7 1 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.40%) SSH
7 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.40%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (9.64%) Power BI
2 22 (8.84%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (3.61%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.21%) Relational Database
6 7 (2.81%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (2.01%) Apache Cassandra
8 5 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (2.01%) Metadata
8 5 (2.01%) Tableau
9 4 (1.61%) Big Data
9 4 (1.61%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.61%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.61%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (1.20%) Data Mart
10 3 (1.20%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (11.24%) Git
2 25 (10.04%) GitLab
3 23 (9.24%) Jenkins
4 19 (7.63%) JIRA
5 6 (2.41%) Postman
6 5 (2.01%) Gradle
6 5 (2.01%) JUnit
6 5 (2.01%) Mockito
7 4 (1.61%) JMeter
7 4 (1.61%) Maven
8 3 (1.20%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.20%) git-flow
8 3 (1.20%) Liquibase
8 3 (1.20%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.80%) Ant
9 2 (0.80%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.80%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.80%) Selenium
9 2 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.40%) IntelliJ
General
1 63 (25.30%) Finance
2 35 (14.06%) Social Skills
3 21 (8.43%) Public Sector
4 18 (7.23%) Banking
5 7 (2.81%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.41%) Law
7 5 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.61%) Police
8 4 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.20%) Military
10 2 (0.80%) Front Office
10 2 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.80%) Legal
10 2 (0.80%) Publishing
11 1 (0.40%) Advertising
11 1 (0.40%) Aviation
11 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.40%) Retail
Job Titles
1 52 (20.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (9.64%) Architect
2 24 (9.64%) Senior
3 23 (9.24%) Developer
3 23 (9.24%) Lead
4 20 (8.03%) Azure Engineer
5 16 (6.43%) Data Engineer
6 14 (5.62%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (4.42%) Senior Developer
7 11 (4.42%) Tester
8 10 (4.02%) Consultant
9 9 (3.61%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 9 (3.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 9 (3.61%) Java Developer
9 9 (3.61%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 9 (3.61%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (3.61%) Software Engineer
10 8 (3.21%) Cloud Architect
10 8 (3.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (3.21%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (9.64%) Kafka
1 24 (9.64%) Spring
2 23 (9.24%) REST
3 20 (8.03%) Spring Boot
4 19 (7.63%) React
5 14 (5.62%) .NET
6 12 (4.82%) RESTful
7 10 (4.02%) PySpark
8 9 (3.61%) Node.js
8 9 (3.61%) Playwright
8 9 (3.61%) pytest
9 7 (2.81%) AngularJS
9 7 (2.81%) Next.js
9 7 (2.81%) SOAP
10 6 (2.41%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (2.01%) JSON
11 5 (2.01%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (2.01%) Swagger
11 5 (2.01%) XML
12 4 (1.61%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 59 (23.69%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.43%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.42%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.81%) AI Agents
5 6 (2.41%) Private Cloud
5 6 (2.41%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.01%) Clustering
6 5 (2.01%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.20%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.20%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.20%) NHS
8 3 (1.20%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.20%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.80%) Equities
9 2 (0.80%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.80%) PKI
9 2 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.82%) Linux
2 10 (4.02%) Windows
3 4 (1.61%) Unix
4 3 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.40%) AIX
5 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.40%) VMS
5 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (57.43%) CI/CD
2 78 (31.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 49 (19.68%) Agile
4 48 (19.28%) Containerisation
5 44 (17.67%) AI
6 39 (15.66%) Observability
7 38 (15.26%) Platform Engineering
8 36 (14.46%) Analytics
9 33 (13.25%) Data Engineering
9 33 (13.25%) Migration
9 33 (13.25%) Software Engineering
10 31 (12.45%) Test Automation
11 28 (11.24%) Microservices
12 26 (10.44%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (10.04%) Event-Driven
14 24 (9.64%) Business Intelligence
14 24 (9.64%) Machine Learning
14 24 (9.64%) Roadmaps
14 24 (9.64%) Stakeholder Management
15 23 (9.24%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 70 (28.11%) Python
2 50 (20.08%) SQL
3 34 (13.65%) Java
4 21 (8.43%) TypeScript
5 17 (6.83%) C#
5 17 (6.83%) JavaScript
5 17 (6.83%) PowerShell
6 14 (5.62%) Bash
7 13 (5.22%) Bicep
8 4 (1.61%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.20%) Korn
9 3 (1.20%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.80%) ActionScript
10 2 (0.80%) ActionScript 2.0
10 2 (0.80%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.80%) Scala
10 2 (0.80%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.40%) Go
11 1 (0.40%) PHP
Qualifications
1 98 (39.36%) Security Cleared
2 95 (38.15%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.42%) Degree
4 10 (4.02%) Azure Certification
5 9 (3.61%) DBS Check
6 5 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.61%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.61%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.20%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.20%) PMP
9 2 (0.80%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.40%) CCSP
10 1 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.40%) CISM
10 1 (0.40%) CISSP
10 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.43%) QA
2 6 (2.41%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.01%) GDPR
4 4 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.20%) PMO
5 3 (1.20%) SLA
6 2 (0.80%) EMIR
6 2 (0.80%) MiFID
6 2 (0.80%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.40%) NCSC
7 1 (0.40%) NIST
7 1 (0.40%) P3O
7 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 54 (21.69%) Docker
2 9 (3.61%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.80%) BitLocker
5 2 (0.80%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.80%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.80%) Terminal Services
5 2 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.40%) GridGain
6 1 (0.40%) Varnish
6 1 (0.40%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 87 (34.94%) Kubernetes
2 63 (25.30%) Terraform
3 21 (8.43%) Ansible
4 16 (6.43%) Grafana
4 16 (6.43%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.61%) Puppet
6 3 (1.20%) Argo
6 3 (1.20%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.80%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.80%) Istio
7 2 (0.80%) Karpenter
7 2 (0.80%) Nagios
7 2 (0.80%) vMotion
8 1 (0.40%) CA Wily
8 1 (0.40%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.40%) linkerd
8 1 (0.40%) Packer
8 1 (0.40%) Salt
8 1 (0.40%) SCCM
8 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (15.26%) Microsoft
2 27 (10.84%) Databricks
3 12 (4.82%) Google
4 11 (4.42%) Oracle
5 6 (2.41%) Dynatrace
5 6 (2.41%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.01%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.61%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.61%) Foundry
8 3 (1.20%) Adobe
8 3 (1.20%) IBM
8 3 (1.20%) Palantir
8 3 (1.20%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.20%) SAP
8 3 (1.20%) Splunk
8 3 (1.20%) VMware
9 2 (0.80%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.80%) Sybase
9 2 (0.80%) Symantec
9 2 (0.80%) webMethods