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 11 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 13 12
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 230 241 287
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.62% 10.05% 10.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.71% 10.95% 11.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 159 227
10th Percentile £363 £452 £433
25th Percentile £463 £511 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £585 £612
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% -4.41% -0.08%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £713
90th Percentile £760 £775 £829
London median daily rate £550 £585 £585
% change year-on-year -5.98% - -6.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £32.25 - -
25th Percentile £41.25 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - -
75th Percentile £73.75 - -
90th Percentile £82.75 - -
London median hourly rate £58.00 £80.50 £63.75
% change year-on-year -27.95% +26.27% -15.00%

All Process and 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 1,809 2,201 2,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 91.36% 91.82% 89.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,261 1,383 1,795
10th Percentile £338 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £473 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £670 £686 £692
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
London median daily rate £530 £550 £568
% change year-on-year -3.64% -3.08% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 27 16
10th Percentile £19.98 £20.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £29.13 £18.93
Median hourly rate £31.00 £35.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% +37.25% -49.50%
75th Percentile £46.11 £52.50 £51.31
90th Percentile £60.25 £112.00 £69.38
London median hourly rate £29.25 £37.50 £35.32
% change year-on-year -22.00% +6.19% -11.16%

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 11 December 2025.

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 11 December 2025.

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 11 December 2025. 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 -3 208 £600 +2.56% 103
City of Westminster +5 5 £475 - 4
West End of London - 4 £438 - 7
Camden +7 1 £400 -27.27% 4
Southwark - 1 - - 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 13 (5.65%) Confluence
2 5 (2.17%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.74%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.30%) Apache
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.43%) CMS
5 1 (0.43%) Mattermost
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.87%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.30%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.87%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.43%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.43%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.43%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 100 (43.48%) Azure
2 66 (28.70%) Azure DevOps
3 58 (25.22%) AWS
4 44 (19.13%) GitHub
5 36 (15.65%) GCP
6 27 (11.74%) GitHub Actions
7 25 (10.87%) Power Platform
8 22 (9.57%) Serverless
9 18 (7.83%) Amazon S3
9 18 (7.83%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (6.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (5.65%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (5.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 12 (5.22%) Azure Data Factory
13 9 (3.91%) Power Automate
13 9 (3.91%) PowerApps
14 8 (3.48%) Dynamics 365
15 7 (3.04%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (3.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 6 (2.61%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.65%) Firewall
2 10 (4.35%) DNS
3 7 (3.04%) SSL
4 6 (2.61%) Network Security
5 4 (1.74%) VPN
6 3 (1.30%) BGP
6 3 (1.30%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (1.30%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (1.30%) HTTPS
6 3 (1.30%) OSPF
6 3 (1.30%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.30%) VXLAN
7 2 (0.87%) DHCP
7 2 (0.87%) Internet
7 2 (0.87%) MPLS
7 2 (0.87%) Multicast
7 2 (0.87%) NX-OS
7 2 (0.87%) SSH
8 1 (0.43%) IGMP
8 1 (0.43%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.96%) Power BI
2 8 (3.48%) DynamoDB
2 8 (3.48%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.04%) BigQuery
3 7 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (2.61%) MySQL
5 5 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (2.17%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.17%) Redis
6 4 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.74%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.74%) Delta Lake
6 4 (1.74%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.74%) Tableau
7 3 (1.30%) Big Data
8 2 (0.87%) Couchbase
8 2 (0.87%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.87%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 38 (16.52%) Jenkins
2 35 (15.22%) Git
3 32 (13.91%) JIRA
4 17 (7.39%) GitLab
5 11 (4.78%) Selenium
6 9 (3.91%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.91%) Cypress.io
6 9 (3.91%) Gradle
6 9 (3.91%) SonarQube
7 7 (3.04%) Maven
7 7 (3.04%) Postman
8 5 (2.17%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.17%) JUnit
9 3 (1.30%) Mockito
9 3 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.30%) Storybook
9 3 (1.30%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.87%) Snyk
10 2 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 82 (35.65%) Finance
2 65 (28.26%) Social Skills
3 40 (17.39%) Banking
4 27 (11.74%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.78%) Investment Banking
6 8 (3.48%) Front Office
7 6 (2.61%) Financial Institution
7 6 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.17%) Back Office
8 5 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.17%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.17%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.74%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.87%) Billing
11 2 (0.87%) Law
11 2 (0.87%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 44 (19.13%) Developer
2 38 (16.52%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (13.48%) Senior
4 17 (7.39%) Architect
5 15 (6.52%) Lead
6 13 (5.65%) Analyst
7 12 (5.22%) GCP Engineer
8 11 (4.78%) Data Engineer
9 10 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (4.35%) Business Analyst
10 9 (3.91%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (3.91%) Senior Developer
11 7 (3.04%) AWS DevOps
11 7 (3.04%) Java Developer
11 7 (3.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 7 (3.04%) Test Engineer
12 6 (2.61%) .NET Developer
12 6 (2.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 6 (2.61%) Cloud Architect
13 5 (2.17%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.13%) .NET
2 16 (6.96%) Node.js
3 15 (6.52%) REST
4 14 (6.09%) HTML
5 12 (5.22%) AngularJS
5 12 (5.22%) OAuth
5 12 (5.22%) React
6 11 (4.78%) CSS
6 11 (4.78%) RESTful
7 8 (3.48%) GraphQL
7 8 (3.48%) JSON
7 8 (3.48%) SOAP
8 7 (3.04%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (3.04%) JWT
8 7 (3.04%) XML
9 6 (2.61%) FIX Protocol
9 6 (2.61%) HTML5
9 6 (2.61%) PySpark
9 6 (2.61%) Spring
10 5 (2.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 32 (13.91%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.65%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.78%) Derivative
3 11 (4.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (4.78%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.91%) Fixed Income
5 8 (3.48%) Data Centre
6 7 (3.04%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.17%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.74%) Equities
8 4 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.30%) CMDB
9 3 (1.30%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.30%) Life Science
9 3 (1.30%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.30%) Replication
10 2 (0.87%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.70%) Linux
2 7 (3.04%) Windows
3 6 (2.61%) Android
3 6 (2.61%) Unix
4 5 (2.17%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.87%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (54.78%) CI/CD
2 93 (40.43%) Agile
3 52 (22.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (16.52%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (13.91%) Containerisation
6 27 (11.74%) Analytics
6 27 (11.74%) Test Automation
7 25 (10.87%) Scrum
8 24 (10.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (10.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 23 (10.00%) Migration
9 23 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 21 (9.13%) AI
10 21 (9.13%) Software Engineering
11 20 (8.70%) Observability
12 18 (7.83%) Data Pipeline
13 17 (7.39%) Business Intelligence
13 17 (7.39%) Cloud Security
13 17 (7.39%) Machine Learning
14 16 (6.96%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 78 (33.91%) Python
2 41 (17.83%) SQL
3 31 (13.48%) Java
4 28 (12.17%) JavaScript
5 26 (11.30%) C#
6 17 (7.39%) PowerShell
7 15 (6.52%) TypeScript
8 12 (5.22%) Bash
9 6 (2.61%) C++
10 4 (1.74%) Go
11 3 (1.30%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.30%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.87%) Bicep
12 2 (0.87%) Perl
12 2 (0.87%) PromQL
12 2 (0.87%) Rust
12 2 (0.87%) Scala
13 1 (0.43%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.43%) R
Qualifications
1 48 (20.87%) Security Cleared
2 43 (18.70%) SC Cleared
3 22 (9.57%) Degree
4 10 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.48%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.61%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.61%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.30%) CCIE
8 3 (1.30%) CCNP
8 3 (1.30%) CISSP
8 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.30%) PhD
9 2 (0.87%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.87%) CBAP
9 2 (0.87%) CCNA
9 2 (0.87%) ISEB
9 2 (0.87%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.43%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.52%) QA
2 9 (3.91%) GDPR
2 9 (3.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.48%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.61%) Accessibility
5 5 (2.17%) NIST
5 5 (2.17%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (1.30%) NCSC
7 3 (1.30%) WCAG
8 2 (0.87%) MiFID
8 2 (0.87%) PMO
9 1 (0.43%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.43%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.43%) SEPA
9 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 44 (19.13%) Docker
2 3 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.87%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.43%) GridGain
4 1 (0.43%) HDFS
4 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 66 (28.70%) Terraform
2 48 (20.87%) Kubernetes
3 31 (13.48%) Ansible
4 8 (3.48%) ITRS Geneos
5 7 (3.04%) Grafana
5 7 (3.04%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.61%) Kibana
7 5 (2.17%) Argo
7 5 (2.17%) logstash
7 5 (2.17%) Puppet
8 3 (1.30%) Istio
8 3 (1.30%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.87%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.43%) Ambari
10 1 (0.43%) CASB
10 1 (0.43%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.43%) Icinga
10 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.43%) Packer
Vendors
1 38 (16.52%) Microsoft
2 33 (14.35%) Google
3 17 (7.39%) Databricks
4 10 (4.35%) ServiceNow
5 9 (3.91%) Salesforce
5 9 (3.91%) Splunk
6 8 (3.48%) Oracle
7 6 (2.61%) Solace
8 5 (2.17%) F5
8 5 (2.17%) Palo Alto
8 5 (2.17%) VMware
9 4 (1.74%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.74%) Cisco
10 3 (1.30%) Arista
10 3 (1.30%) CyberArk
10 3 (1.30%) DocuSign
10 3 (1.30%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.30%) HP
10 3 (1.30%) UiPath
11 2 (0.87%) Rollbar