DevOps Contracts in Central London

DevOps
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 12 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 -5 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 269 471 717
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 10.98% 12.20% 15.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.13% 13.32% 17.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 331 578
10th Percentile £417 £438 £463
25th Percentile £490 £515 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £613 £605
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +1.20% +10.05%
75th Percentile £683 £738 £725
90th Percentile £785 £800 £800
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.75 - -
Median hourly rate £48.50 - -
75th Percentile £50.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £56.25 £75.00 £78.75
% change year-on-year -25.00% -4.76% +43.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,217 3,537 4,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.53% 91.63% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,569 2,400 3,184
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 28 41
10th Percentile £19.52 £15.43 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.25 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £36.50 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £56.15 £88.30 £62.50
London median hourly rate £28.50 £38.13 £36.00
% change year-on-year -25.25% +5.90% +10.77%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Central London

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Central London.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Central London

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Central London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Central London

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Central London.

Hourly rate trend 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 28 April 2024. 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 +2 254 £600 -4.00% 67
City of Westminster -3 3 £750 -6.25% 1
West End of London -7 1 - - 4
DevOps
London

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (4.09%) Confluence
2 8 (2.97%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.60%) IIS
4 5 (1.86%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.86%) Site Server
5 3 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.12%) CMS
6 2 (0.74%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.74%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.37%) Apache
7 1 (0.37%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.37%) Tornado
Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (2.97%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.37%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.37%) BusinessWorks
3 1 (0.37%) Endur
3 1 (0.37%) Front Arena
3 1 (0.37%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.37%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.37%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 155 (57.62%) Azure
2 109 (40.52%) Azure DevOps
3 64 (23.79%) AWS
4 25 (9.29%) Power Platform
5 23 (8.55%) GitHub
6 20 (7.43%) Serverless
7 18 (6.69%) Amazon S3
7 18 (6.69%) Dynamics 365
8 14 (5.20%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (4.83%) Entra ID
10 12 (4.46%) Azure Service Bus
10 12 (4.46%) PowerApps
11 11 (4.09%) Power Automate
12 10 (3.72%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (3.72%) IaaS
13 9 (3.35%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (3.35%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (3.35%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (3.35%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (3.35%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.72%) Firewall
2 7 (2.60%) Internet
3 5 (1.86%) DNS
4 3 (1.12%) Network Security
4 3 (1.12%) WAN
5 2 (0.74%) MPLS
5 2 (0.74%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.74%) VPN
6 1 (0.37%) BGP
6 1 (0.37%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.37%) DHCP
6 1 (0.37%) IOS XR
6 1 (0.37%) LAN
6 1 (0.37%) Multicast
6 1 (0.37%) SSL
6 1 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (22.68%) SQL Server
2 16 (5.95%) Power BI
3 14 (5.20%) MySQL
4 13 (4.83%) MongoDB
5 11 (4.09%) Data Lake
5 11 (4.09%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (3.72%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (2.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (2.23%) GIS
9 4 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (1.49%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.49%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.49%) Tableau
10 3 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.12%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.12%) Metadata
10 3 (1.12%) Redis
11 2 (0.74%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 27 (10.04%) Git
2 19 (7.06%) GitLab
3 18 (6.69%) Jenkins
4 14 (5.20%) JIRA
5 12 (4.46%) TeamCity
6 11 (4.09%) Selenium
7 9 (3.35%) SpecFlow
8 8 (2.97%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.86%) Postman
9 5 (1.86%) Visual Studio
10 4 (1.49%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.12%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.12%) JMeter
11 3 (1.12%) Katalon Studio
11 3 (1.12%) Maven
12 2 (0.74%) HP UFT
12 2 (0.74%) Subversion
12 2 (0.74%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.74%) Visual Studio Team System
12 2 (0.74%) WebDriver
General
1 74 (27.51%) Social Skills
2 65 (24.16%) Finance
3 37 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (11.15%) Public Sector
5 24 (8.92%) Banking
6 11 (4.09%) Investment Banking
7 10 (3.72%) Retail
8 9 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.97%) General Ledger
9 8 (2.97%) Legal
10 7 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.86%) Back Office
12 4 (1.49%) Front Office
12 4 (1.49%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.74%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.37%) Music Industry
14 1 (0.37%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.37%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (22.30%) Developer
2 50 (18.59%) Senior
3 33 (12.27%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (6.69%) Architect
4 18 (6.69%) Senior Developer
5 17 (6.32%) Analyst
6 16 (5.95%) Lead
7 15 (5.58%) AWS Engineer
8 13 (4.83%) Senior DevOps
9 12 (4.46%) Consultant
9 12 (4.46%) Site Engineer
9 12 (4.46%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 10 (3.72%) Data Engineer
10 10 (3.72%) Full Stack Developer
10 10 (3.72%) Python Engineer
10 10 (3.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 10 (3.72%) Software Engineer
11 9 (3.35%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (2.97%) Azure Developer
12 8 (2.97%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (16.36%) .NET
2 25 (9.29%) Kafka
3 19 (7.06%) XML
4 16 (5.95%) .NET Framework
4 16 (5.95%) React
5 15 (5.58%) RabbitMQ
5 15 (5.58%) RESTful
6 13 (4.83%) .NET Core
6 13 (4.83%) AngularJS
6 13 (4.83%) ASP.NET
7 12 (4.46%) REST
8 11 (4.09%) Web Services
9 10 (3.72%) HTML
10 7 (2.60%) CSS
11 6 (2.23%) ARM Templates
11 6 (2.23%) JSON
11 6 (2.23%) Node.js
12 5 (1.86%) ASP.NET Core
12 5 (1.86%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (1.86%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.06%) Product Ownership
2 17 (6.32%) Data Structures
3 14 (5.20%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.72%) Cloud Native
5 8 (2.97%) Algorithms
6 6 (2.23%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.49%) Contactless
8 4 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.49%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.49%) Wiki
9 3 (1.12%) Derivative
9 3 (1.12%) Market Risk
10 2 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.74%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.74%) Life Science
10 2 (0.74%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.74%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 28 (10.41%) Linux
2 27 (10.04%) Windows
3 12 (4.46%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.12%) Unix
5 1 (0.37%) Android
5 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (41.64%) Agile
2 95 (35.32%) CI/CD
3 54 (20.07%) Problem-Solving
4 38 (14.13%) Scrum
5 33 (12.27%) SDLC
6 28 (10.41%) Microservices
6 28 (10.41%) Software Engineering
7 27 (10.04%) Infrastructure as Code
8 22 (8.18%) Test Automation
9 21 (7.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (7.43%) Migration
11 18 (6.69%) ETL
12 16 (5.95%) Business Intelligence
12 16 (5.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 16 (5.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 15 (5.58%) User Acceptance Testing
14 14 (5.20%) Full Stack Development
14 14 (5.20%) Mentoring
15 13 (4.83%) Requirements Gathering
15 13 (4.83%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 84 (31.23%) Python
2 65 (24.16%) C#
3 59 (21.93%) PowerShell
4 50 (18.59%) SQL
5 37 (13.75%) Java
6 13 (4.83%) Bicep
6 13 (4.83%) JavaScript
7 12 (4.46%) Shell Script
8 10 (3.72%) Bash
8 10 (3.72%) C++
9 9 (3.35%) Go
9 9 (3.35%) T-SQL
9 9 (3.35%) TypeScript
10 5 (1.86%) Korn
11 3 (1.12%) Perl
11 3 (1.12%) Ruby
12 2 (0.74%) R
12 2 (0.74%) Rust
12 2 (0.74%) Scala
13 1 (0.37%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 23 (8.55%) Degree
2 20 (7.43%) Security Cleared
3 18 (6.69%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.60%) AWS Certification
4 7 (2.60%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.12%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.37%) CCNP
8 1 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.37%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.58%) QA
2 6 (2.23%) SLA
3 5 (1.86%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.49%) WCAG
5 3 (1.12%) NIST
6 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (10.41%) Docker
2 22 (8.18%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.72%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.37%) Ceph
5 1 (0.37%) NFS
5 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 51 (18.96%) Kubernetes
2 50 (18.59%) Terraform
3 16 (5.95%) Ansible
4 14 (5.20%) Prometheus
5 13 (4.83%) Grafana
6 12 (4.46%) Consul
7 6 (2.23%) Puppet
8 4 (1.49%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.12%) Argo
10 2 (0.74%) Graylog
10 2 (0.74%) Nagios
10 2 (0.74%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.74%) SCCM
11 1 (0.37%) Hadoop YARN
11 1 (0.37%) Mesos
11 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.37%) Nessus
11 1 (0.37%) TIBCO Hawk
11 1 (0.37%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 78 (29.00%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.81%) Oracle
3 10 (3.72%) SaltStack
4 7 (2.60%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.23%) Cadence
5 6 (2.23%) ESRI
5 6 (2.23%) iManage
5 6 (2.23%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.23%) Splunk
6 4 (1.49%) Databricks
6 4 (1.49%) Freshdesk
7 3 (1.12%) Adobe
7 3 (1.12%) Cisco
7 3 (1.12%) IBM
7 3 (1.12%) New Relic
7 3 (1.12%) PagerDuty
7 3 (1.12%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.12%) SAP
8 2 (0.74%) CyberArk
8 2 (0.74%) Micro Focus