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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 15 12
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 294 224 264
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 12.34% 11.78% 11.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.57% 12.52% 12.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 173 183
10th Percentile £419 £377 £425
25th Percentile £480 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £710
90th Percentile £738 £736 £800
London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.31% -6.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -39.13% - -
London median hourly rate £52.50 £56.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -6.25% -2.61% -36.11%

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 2,167 1,789 2,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.97% 94.06% 92.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,504 1,217 1,382
10th Percentile £360 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £424 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.28%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £774 £787
London median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 25 29
10th Percentile £15.92 £17.79 £18.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £22.00 £25.40
Median hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -21.43% +27.27%
75th Percentile £43.00 £36.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £64.15 £60.95 £117.10
London median hourly rate £33.60 £30.00 £36.65
% change year-on-year +12.00% -18.14% -8.18%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -3 254 £550 -8.33% 173
West End of London -2 9 £528 +8.21% 10
City of Westminster -5 8 £600 +26.32% 33
Southwark +1 4 £650 - 1
Lambeth - 2 - -
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 £750 -
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 (4.42%) SharePoint
2 12 (4.08%) Apache Spark
2 12 (4.08%) Confluence
3 11 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (3.06%) Apache
5 3 (1.02%) IIS
5 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.34%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.34%) CMS
6 1 (0.34%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.34%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.34%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.34%) nginx
6 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.70%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.34%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (2.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.02%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.34%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.34%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.34%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.34%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.34%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 163 (55.44%) Azure
2 104 (35.37%) Azure DevOps
3 77 (26.19%) AWS
4 53 (18.03%) GitHub
5 48 (16.33%) Power Platform
6 31 (10.54%) GCP
6 31 (10.54%) GitHub Actions
7 30 (10.20%) Azure Data Factory
8 28 (9.52%) Serverless
9 19 (6.46%) Power Automate
10 16 (5.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 16 (5.44%) PowerApps
11 15 (5.10%) Azure Functions
12 13 (4.42%) Azure AKS
12 13 (4.42%) Azure Logic Apps
12 13 (4.42%) Dynamics 365
13 11 (3.74%) Azure Databricks
14 10 (3.40%) Azure Service Bus
14 10 (3.40%) OpenShift
15 9 (3.06%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.78%) Internet
2 15 (5.10%) DNS
3 10 (3.40%) VPN
4 9 (3.06%) Firewall
5 6 (2.04%) DHCP
6 4 (1.36%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.02%) FTP
7 3 (1.02%) Network Security
7 3 (1.02%) SMTP
7 3 (1.02%) VLAN
8 2 (0.68%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.68%) Intranet
8 2 (0.68%) RTP
8 2 (0.68%) SSH
8 2 (0.68%) VoIP
8 2 (0.68%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.34%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.34%) INAP
9 1 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.34%) RTCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (11.90%) Power BI
2 26 (8.84%) SQL Server
3 19 (6.46%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (4.76%) Data Lake
5 12 (4.08%) Metadata
6 10 (3.40%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (3.06%) Star Schema
8 7 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (2.38%) Delta Lake
9 6 (2.04%) Big Data
9 6 (2.04%) MongoDB
9 6 (2.04%) NoSQL
10 5 (1.70%) Semantic Layer
11 4 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.36%) Data Hub
11 4 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.36%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.36%) Oracle Database
11 4 (1.36%) Power Query
11 4 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 31 (10.54%) Jenkins
2 30 (10.20%) JIRA
3 28 (9.52%) Git
4 27 (9.18%) GitLab
5 9 (3.06%) JMeter
5 9 (3.06%) Postman
5 9 (3.06%) Selenium
6 8 (2.72%) Bitbucket
7 7 (2.38%) Artifactory
7 7 (2.38%) Cypress.io
7 7 (2.38%) JUnit
8 5 (1.70%) TeamCity
8 5 (1.70%) Visual Studio Code
9 4 (1.36%) Gatling
9 4 (1.36%) REST Assured
9 4 (1.36%) Visual Studio
10 3 (1.02%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.02%) LoadRunner
10 3 (1.02%) Mockito
10 3 (1.02%) NeoLoad
General
1 93 (31.63%) Finance
2 64 (21.77%) Social Skills
3 46 (15.65%) Banking
4 29 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (7.48%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.72%) Front Office
6 8 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (2.72%) Retail
7 7 (2.38%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.70%) Law
9 5 (1.70%) Marketing
10 3 (1.02%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.02%) Military
11 2 (0.68%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.68%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (17.01%) Senior
2 46 (15.65%) Developer
3 40 (13.61%) Architect
4 36 (12.24%) DevOps Engineer
5 33 (11.22%) Lead
6 25 (8.50%) Data Engineer
7 16 (5.44%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 14 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
8 14 (4.76%) Tester
9 13 (4.42%) Data Architect
9 13 (4.42%) Senior Developer
10 12 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
11 11 (3.74%) Consultant
12 9 (3.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 9 (3.06%) AWS Engineer
13 8 (2.72%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 7 (2.38%) Automation Engineer
14 7 (2.38%) Senior Data Engineer
14 7 (2.38%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (22.79%) Terraform
2 39 (13.27%) REST
3 35 (11.90%) .NET
4 26 (8.84%) PySpark
5 22 (7.48%) Kafka
6 20 (6.80%) Spring
7 19 (6.46%) Spring Boot
8 17 (5.78%) pytest
9 15 (5.10%) RESTful
9 15 (5.10%) SOAP
10 10 (3.40%) Playwright
11 9 (3.06%) AngularJS
11 9 (3.06%) JSON
11 9 (3.06%) Middleware
11 9 (3.06%) React
11 9 (3.06%) XML
12 7 (2.38%) Node.js
13 6 (2.04%) .NET Framework
13 6 (2.04%) YAML
14 5 (1.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 64 (21.77%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.78%) Product Ownership
3 16 (5.44%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (5.44%) Onboarding
4 15 (5.10%) AI Agents
4 15 (5.10%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.72%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.70%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.70%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.36%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.02%) Clustering
9 3 (1.02%) PKI
9 3 (1.02%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.68%) CMDB
10 2 (0.68%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.82%) Linux
2 18 (6.12%) Windows
3 12 (4.08%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.72%) Unix
5 1 (0.34%) Android
5 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.34%) CentOS
5 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (63.95%) CI/CD
2 90 (30.61%) Agile
3 68 (23.13%) AI
3 68 (23.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 60 (20.41%) Test Automation
5 54 (18.37%) Stakeholder Management
6 51 (17.35%) Analytics
7 46 (15.65%) Microservices
7 46 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
8 45 (15.31%) Software Engineering
9 41 (13.95%) Business Intelligence
9 41 (13.95%) Data Modelling
9 41 (13.95%) Migration
10 40 (13.61%) Platform Engineering
11 39 (13.27%) Continuous Improvement
12 38 (12.93%) Machine Learning
12 38 (12.93%) Observability
12 38 (12.93%) Validation
13 37 (12.59%) Event-Driven
14 35 (11.90%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 106 (36.05%) Python
2 72 (24.49%) SQL
3 42 (14.29%) Java
4 38 (12.93%) C#
5 33 (11.22%) PowerShell
6 21 (7.14%) JavaScript
7 19 (6.46%) TypeScript
8 14 (4.76%) Bash
8 14 (4.76%) Bicep
9 12 (4.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (1.36%) Apex Code
10 4 (1.36%) Korn
10 4 (1.36%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.02%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.02%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.02%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.68%) ActionScript
12 2 (0.68%) ActionScript 2.0
12 2 (0.68%) R
13 1 (0.34%) Go
Qualifications
1 81 (27.55%) Security Cleared
2 69 (23.47%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.76%) Degree
4 10 (3.40%) DBS Check
5 8 (2.72%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.04%) PMI Certification
6 6 (2.04%) PMP
7 5 (1.70%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.36%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.02%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.68%) CISM
10 2 (0.68%) CISSP
10 2 (0.68%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.34%) MOS
11 1 (0.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (11.90%) QA
2 26 (8.84%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.38%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.38%) GDPR
4 3 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.68%) EMIR
5 2 (0.68%) MiFID
5 2 (0.68%) NCSC
5 2 (0.68%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.68%) SLA
6 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.34%) P3O
6 1 (0.34%) PMO
6 1 (0.34%) PSD2
6 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.34%) SEPA
6 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (17.35%) Docker
2 7 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.36%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.02%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.02%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (1.02%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.68%) vSphere
7 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 87 (29.59%) Kubernetes
2 24 (8.16%) Ansible
3 17 (5.78%) Grafana
4 14 (4.76%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.36%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.02%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (1.02%) Nagios
6 3 (1.02%) Puppet
6 3 (1.02%) vMotion
7 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.68%) Packer
7 2 (0.68%) SCCM
7 2 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.34%) Argo
8 1 (0.34%) Bosun
8 1 (0.34%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.34%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.34%) SELinux
Vendors
1 88 (29.93%) Microsoft
2 40 (13.61%) Databricks
3 18 (6.12%) Google
3 18 (6.12%) Oracle
4 10 (3.40%) Dynatrace
4 10 (3.40%) ServiceNow
5 9 (3.06%) Splunk
6 7 (2.38%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.04%) Foundry
7 6 (2.04%) VMware
8 5 (1.70%) IBM
8 5 (1.70%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.70%) SAP
9 4 (1.36%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.36%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.36%) Workday
10 3 (1.02%) Citrix
10 3 (1.02%) HP
10 3 (1.02%) ION Trading
10 3 (1.02%) Symantec