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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 13 11
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 +2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 233 249 286
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.74% 10.30% 10.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.68% 11.24% 11.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 164 223
10th Percentile £363 £459 £450
25th Percentile £463 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £594 £613
Median % change year-on-year -3.12% -3.10% +2.08%
75th Percentile £668 £701 £713
90th Percentile £740 £775 £847
London median daily rate £550 £580 £590
% change year-on-year -5.17% -1.69% -5.60%
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 £60.00 £80.50 £63.75
% change year-on-year -25.47% +26.27% -3.10%

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 1,838 2,215 2,545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.64% 91.64% 89.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,282 1,377 1,805
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £423 £472 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £668 £688 £694
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
London median daily rate £527 £550 £568
% change year-on-year -4.14% -3.08% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 28 18
10th Percentile £19.33 £19.90 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £30.19 £18.93
Median hourly rate £27.75 £35.00 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +30.84% -48.06%
75th Percentile £41.89 £65.63 £62.00
90th Percentile £60.25 £119.65 £70.25
London median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £35.44
% change year-on-year -21.33% +5.81% -10.28%

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 27 November 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 27 November 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 27 November 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 -2 214 £575 -1.71% 94
City of Westminster +5 5 £475 - 6
West End of London - 4 £438 - 4
Camden +6 1 £400 -27.27% 1
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 (5.58%) Confluence
2 5 (2.15%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.29%) Apache
3 3 (1.29%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.43%) CMS
4 1 (0.43%) Mattermost
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 5 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.86%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.86%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.86%) Endur
2 2 (0.86%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.43%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.43%) Maximo
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.43%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.43%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 102 (43.78%) Azure
2 69 (29.61%) Azure DevOps
3 59 (25.32%) AWS
4 45 (19.31%) GitHub
5 36 (15.45%) GCP
6 27 (11.59%) GitHub Actions
7 24 (10.30%) Power Platform
8 20 (8.58%) Serverless
9 16 (6.87%) Amazon S3
9 16 (6.87%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (6.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (6.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 11 (4.72%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (4.29%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (4.29%) Power Automate
13 9 (3.86%) PowerApps
14 7 (3.00%) Apigee
14 7 (3.00%) Azure AKS
14 7 (3.00%) Dynamics 365
14 7 (3.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.58%) Firewall
2 10 (4.29%) DNS
3 7 (3.00%) Network Security
3 7 (3.00%) SSL
4 4 (1.72%) BGP
4 4 (1.72%) Ethernet VPN
4 4 (1.72%) VPN
4 4 (1.72%) VXLAN
5 3 (1.29%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (1.29%) HTTPS
5 3 (1.29%) Multicast
5 3 (1.29%) OSPF
5 3 (1.29%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.86%) DHCP
6 2 (0.86%) IGMP
6 2 (0.86%) Internet
6 2 (0.86%) MPLS
6 2 (0.86%) NX-OS
6 2 (0.86%) SSH
7 1 (0.43%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.44%) Power BI
2 14 (6.01%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.43%) DynamoDB
4 7 (3.00%) BigQuery
5 6 (2.58%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.15%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.15%) MySQL
6 5 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.15%) Redis
7 4 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.72%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.72%) Delta Lake
7 4 (1.72%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.72%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.29%) Big Data
8 3 (1.29%) Tableau
9 2 (0.86%) Couchbase
9 2 (0.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (13.30%) Jenkins
2 30 (12.88%) Git
2 30 (12.88%) JIRA
3 18 (7.73%) GitLab
4 10 (4.29%) Gradle
4 10 (4.29%) Selenium
5 9 (3.86%) Cypress.io
5 9 (3.86%) SonarQube
6 8 (3.43%) Bitbucket
6 8 (3.43%) Maven
7 6 (2.58%) Postman
8 5 (2.15%) JUnit
9 4 (1.72%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.29%) Mockito
10 3 (1.29%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (1.29%) Storybook
10 3 (1.29%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.86%) Snyk
11 2 (0.86%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 76 (32.62%) Finance
2 64 (27.47%) Social Skills
3 36 (15.45%) Banking
4 27 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.72%) Investment Banking
6 8 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.58%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.58%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.15%) Back Office
8 5 (2.15%) Front Office
8 5 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.72%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.72%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.29%) Law
10 3 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.86%) Legal
11 2 (0.86%) Marketing
11 2 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (20.60%) Developer
2 39 (16.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 33 (14.16%) Senior
4 16 (6.87%) Architect
5 14 (6.01%) Analyst
6 12 (5.15%) GCP Engineer
6 12 (5.15%) Lead
7 11 (4.72%) Business Analyst
8 10 (4.29%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (4.29%) Azure Engineer
8 10 (4.29%) Data Engineer
9 9 (3.86%) Senior Developer
10 8 (3.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 7 (3.00%) AWS DevOps
11 7 (3.00%) Java Developer
11 7 (3.00%) Test Engineer
12 6 (2.58%) .NET Developer
12 6 (2.58%) Network Engineer
12 6 (2.58%) Python Developer
12 6 (2.58%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (11.16%) .NET
2 17 (7.30%) Node.js
3 16 (6.87%) HTML
3 16 (6.87%) REST
4 13 (5.58%) AngularJS
4 13 (5.58%) CSS
5 12 (5.15%) OAuth
5 12 (5.15%) React
5 12 (5.15%) RESTful
6 10 (4.29%) GraphQL
7 7 (3.00%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (3.00%) JSON
7 7 (3.00%) JWT
7 7 (3.00%) SOAP
8 6 (2.58%) ADO
8 6 (2.58%) FIX Protocol
8 6 (2.58%) HTML5
8 6 (2.58%) Spring
8 6 (2.58%) XML
9 5 (2.15%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 32 (13.73%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.58%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (4.29%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.86%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.43%) Derivative
6 7 (3.00%) Fixed Income
6 7 (3.00%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.58%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.29%) Life Science
10 3 (1.29%) Replication
11 2 (0.86%) CMDB
11 2 (0.86%) Equities
11 2 (0.86%) IVR
11 2 (0.86%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.86%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.15%) Linux
2 6 (2.58%) Android
3 5 (2.15%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.15%) Unix
3 5 (2.15%) Windows
4 2 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (52.79%) CI/CD
2 93 (39.91%) Agile
3 55 (23.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (16.31%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (14.16%) Containerisation
6 28 (12.02%) Test Automation
7 27 (11.59%) Scrum
8 25 (10.73%) Analytics
9 23 (9.87%) Continuous Improvement
9 23 (9.87%) Migration
10 22 (9.44%) Observability
10 22 (9.44%) Software Engineering
10 22 (9.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 20 (8.58%) AI
12 19 (8.15%) Stakeholder Management
13 18 (7.73%) Cloud Security
13 18 (7.73%) Machine Learning
14 16 (6.87%) Data Pipeline
14 16 (6.87%) DevSecOps
14 16 (6.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 78 (33.48%) Python
2 45 (19.31%) SQL
3 30 (12.88%) Java
3 30 (12.88%) JavaScript
4 28 (12.02%) C#
5 17 (7.30%) PowerShell
6 15 (6.44%) TypeScript
7 13 (5.58%) Bash
8 4 (1.72%) Bicep
8 4 (1.72%) C++
8 4 (1.72%) Go
9 3 (1.29%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.29%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.86%) PromQL
10 2 (0.86%) Rust
11 1 (0.43%) Perl
11 1 (0.43%) PHP
11 1 (0.43%) SOQL
11 1 (0.43%) Swift
11 1 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 47 (20.17%) Security Cleared
2 42 (18.03%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.73%) Degree
4 9 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.43%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.58%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.72%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.29%) CCIE
8 3 (1.29%) CCNP
8 3 (1.29%) CISSP
9 2 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.86%) CBAP
9 2 (0.86%) ISEB
9 2 (0.86%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.43%) CESG Certified Professional
10 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.43%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.30%) QA
2 8 (3.43%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.58%) GDPR
4 5 (2.15%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.15%) NIST
5 3 (1.29%) NCSC
5 3 (1.29%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.29%) WCAG
6 2 (0.86%) MiFID
6 2 (0.86%) PMO
6 2 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.43%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.43%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.43%) SEPA
7 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 44 (18.88%) Docker
2 3 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.86%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.43%) GridGain
4 1 (0.43%) HDFS
4 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 68 (29.18%) Terraform
2 48 (20.60%) Kubernetes
3 30 (12.88%) Ansible
4 9 (3.86%) ITRS Geneos
4 9 (3.86%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.43%) Grafana
6 6 (2.58%) Argo
6 6 (2.58%) Istio
6 6 (2.58%) Kibana
6 6 (2.58%) Puppet
7 5 (2.15%) logstash
8 3 (1.29%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.86%) 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
Vendors
1 40 (17.17%) Microsoft
2 33 (14.16%) Google
3 16 (6.87%) Databricks
4 10 (4.29%) Oracle
5 9 (3.86%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.43%) Splunk
7 7 (3.00%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.58%) Solace
9 5 (2.15%) F5
9 5 (2.15%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.15%) UiPath
10 4 (1.72%) Arista
10 4 (1.72%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.72%) Cisco
10 4 (1.72%) VMware
11 3 (1.29%) CyberArk
11 3 (1.29%) DocuSign
11 3 (1.29%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.29%) HP
11 3 (1.29%) OpenAI