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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 15 16
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 234 223 238
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.62% 10.01% 9.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.88% 10.85% 10.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 143 192
10th Percentile £363 £450 £450
25th Percentile £463 £506 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £585 £619
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% -5.45% +0.81%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £691
90th Percentile £776 £772 £788
London median daily rate £550 £593 £588
% change year-on-year -7.17% +0.85% -6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 - -
75th Percentile £28.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £56.25 £80.50 £63.75
% change year-on-year -30.12% +26.27% -15.00%

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 1,817 2,056 2,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.26% 92.28% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,265 1,284 1,680
10th Percentile £350 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £463 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -
75th Percentile £668 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 26 18
10th Percentile £20.18 £19.67 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £26.86 £19.82
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.66
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +26.56% -20.99%
75th Percentile £41.75 £43.38 £44.56
90th Percentile £42.65 £112.00 £67.63
London median hourly rate £32.45 £35.00 £32.60
% change year-on-year -7.29% +7.38% -13.08%

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 4 January 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 4 January 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 -4 204 £575 -1.71% 199
West End of London +16 7 £475 - 8
City of Westminster +7 6 £463 -15.91% 13
Kensington and Chelsea - 2 £600 - 1
Camden +7 1 £400 -27.27% 5
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 (4.70%) Confluence
2 6 (2.56%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.28%) Apache
3 3 (1.28%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.43%) CMS
5 1 (0.43%) Mattermost
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.85%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.85%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 109 (46.58%) Azure
2 72 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
3 64 (27.35%) AWS
4 50 (21.37%) GitHub
5 42 (17.95%) GCP
6 29 (12.39%) GitHub Actions
7 24 (10.26%) Power Platform
8 23 (9.83%) Serverless
9 18 (7.69%) Amazon S3
9 18 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 11 (4.70%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (4.27%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (3.85%) Power Automate
14 7 (2.99%) Apigee
14 7 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (2.99%) Azure AKS
14 7 (2.99%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.56%) Firewall
2 8 (3.42%) DNS
3 7 (2.99%) Network Security
3 7 (2.99%) SSL
4 3 (1.28%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.28%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.28%) VPN
5 2 (0.85%) BGP
5 2 (0.85%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.85%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.85%) Internet
5 2 (0.85%) MPLS
5 2 (0.85%) NX-OS
5 2 (0.85%) OSPF
5 2 (0.85%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.43%) DHCP
6 1 (0.43%) DKIM
6 1 (0.43%) Multicast
6 1 (0.43%) NGFW
6 1 (0.43%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.84%) Power BI
2 10 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (4.27%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.42%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (2.99%) DynamoDB
4 7 (2.99%) MySQL
5 6 (2.56%) BigQuery
6 5 (2.14%) Redis
6 5 (2.14%) Tableau
7 4 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.71%) Delta Lake
7 4 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.28%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.28%) Big Data
8 3 (1.28%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.28%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.28%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.28%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (15.81%) Jenkins
2 33 (14.10%) Git
3 30 (12.82%) JIRA
4 17 (7.26%) GitLab
5 9 (3.85%) Cypress.io
5 9 (3.85%) Selenium
5 9 (3.85%) SonarQube
6 8 (3.42%) Bitbucket
7 7 (2.99%) Gradle
7 7 (2.99%) Postman
8 6 (2.56%) Maven
9 5 (2.14%) JUnit
10 4 (1.71%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.28%) Mockito
11 3 (1.28%) Storybook
11 3 (1.28%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.85%) git-flow
12 2 (0.85%) Snyk
12 2 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 71 (30.34%) Finance
2 61 (26.07%) Social Skills
3 38 (16.24%) Banking
4 20 (8.55%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.70%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.99%) Front Office
6 7 (2.99%) Investment Banking
7 6 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.14%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.14%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.71%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.28%) Back Office
10 3 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.85%) Law
11 2 (0.85%) Legal
11 2 (0.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 51 (21.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 43 (18.38%) Developer
3 30 (12.82%) Senior
4 19 (8.12%) Lead
5 16 (6.84%) Architect
6 11 (4.70%) AWS Engineer
6 11 (4.70%) Data Engineer
7 10 (4.27%) Azure Engineer
7 10 (4.27%) GCP Engineer
7 10 (4.27%) Senior Developer
8 9 (3.85%) AWS DevOps
9 8 (3.42%) Analyst
9 8 (3.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 7 (2.99%) Consultant
11 6 (2.56%) Cloud Architect
11 6 (2.56%) Python Engineer
11 6 (2.56%) Senior DevOps
11 6 (2.56%) Test Engineer
12 5 (2.14%) Lead DevOps
12 5 (2.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.12%) .NET
2 18 (7.69%) Node.js
3 16 (6.84%) React
3 16 (6.84%) REST
4 15 (6.41%) HTML
5 13 (5.56%) OAuth
6 12 (5.13%) CSS
7 10 (4.27%) JSON
7 10 (4.27%) RESTful
8 9 (3.85%) AngularJS
9 8 (3.42%) JWT
9 8 (3.42%) SOAP
9 8 (3.42%) XML
10 7 (2.99%) FastAPI
10 7 (2.99%) GraphQL
10 7 (2.99%) Kafka
10 7 (2.99%) PySpark
10 7 (2.99%) Spring
11 6 (2.56%) HTML5
11 6 (2.56%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 35 (14.96%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.27%) Product Ownership
3 9 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.99%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.56%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.56%) Derivative
6 5 (2.14%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.14%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.71%) Equities
7 4 (1.71%) Life Science
7 4 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.28%) CMDB
8 3 (1.28%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (1.28%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.28%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.28%) Replication
9 2 (0.85%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.12%) Linux
2 10 (4.27%) Windows
3 5 (2.14%) Android
4 4 (1.71%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.71%) Unix
5 3 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (53.85%) CI/CD
2 88 (37.61%) Agile
3 58 (24.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 36 (15.38%) Containerisation
5 33 (14.10%) Test Automation
6 32 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (11.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 27 (11.54%) Migration
9 26 (11.11%) AI
10 24 (10.26%) Analytics
11 23 (9.83%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (9.83%) Stakeholder Management
12 21 (8.97%) Observability
12 21 (8.97%) Scrum
13 20 (8.55%) Roadmaps
14 19 (8.12%) Software Engineering
15 17 (7.26%) Business Intelligence
15 17 (7.26%) Microservices
16 16 (6.84%) Data Pipeline
16 16 (6.84%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 78 (33.33%) Python
2 45 (19.23%) SQL
3 36 (15.38%) Java
4 31 (13.25%) JavaScript
5 21 (8.97%) C#
6 17 (7.26%) TypeScript
7 16 (6.84%) PowerShell
8 10 (4.27%) Bash
9 7 (2.99%) C++
10 4 (1.71%) Bicep
11 3 (1.28%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.28%) Scala
12 2 (0.85%) C
12 2 (0.85%) Go
12 2 (0.85%) Korn
12 2 (0.85%) Perl
12 2 (0.85%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.85%) Rust
12 2 (0.85%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.43%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 66 (28.21%) Security Cleared
2 61 (26.07%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.69%) Degree
4 11 (4.70%) Azure Certification
5 9 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.56%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.56%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.28%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.28%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.28%) PhD
10 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.85%) CBAP
10 2 (0.85%) CCIE
10 2 (0.85%) CCNP
10 2 (0.85%) CESG Certified Professional
10 2 (0.85%) ISEB
11 1 (0.43%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.98%) QA
2 9 (3.85%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.85%) GDPR
3 8 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.56%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.71%) NIST
5 4 (1.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.28%) NCSC
6 3 (1.28%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.28%) WCAG
7 2 (0.85%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.85%) PMO
7 2 (0.85%) SLA
8 1 (0.43%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.43%) MiFID
8 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 52 (22.22%) Docker
2 3 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.43%) GridGain
4 1 (0.43%) HDFS
4 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 71 (30.34%) Terraform
2 52 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 28 (11.97%) Ansible
4 7 (2.99%) Grafana
5 6 (2.56%) Argo
6 5 (2.14%) ITRS Geneos
7 4 (1.71%) Istio
7 4 (1.71%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.71%) Puppet
8 3 (1.28%) Kibana
9 2 (0.85%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.85%) Karpenter
9 2 (0.85%) logstash
9 2 (0.85%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.85%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.43%) CASB
10 1 (0.43%) Icinga
10 1 (0.43%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.43%) Packer
Vendors
1 35 (14.96%) Microsoft
2 32 (13.68%) Google
3 18 (7.69%) Databricks
4 12 (5.13%) Oracle
5 10 (4.27%) Salesforce
5 10 (4.27%) ServiceNow
6 8 (3.42%) Splunk
7 6 (2.56%) Palo Alto
8 5 (2.14%) VMware
9 4 (1.71%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.71%) CyberArk
9 4 (1.71%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.71%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.28%) DocuSign
10 3 (1.28%) F5
10 3 (1.28%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.28%) Solace
11 2 (0.85%) Axway
11 2 (0.85%) Bloomberg
11 2 (0.85%) Remedy