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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 13 12
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 232 250 291
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.79% 10.30% 10.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.73% 11.25% 11.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 165 227
10th Percentile £363 £460 £445
25th Percentile £463 £513 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £588 £613
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% -4.08% +2.08%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £713
90th Percentile £755 £775 £840
London median daily rate £550 £585 £590
% change year-on-year -5.98% -0.85% -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 1,822 2,223 2,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.63% 91.59% 89.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,272 1,385 1,818
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £423 £474 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £668 £688 £693
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 25 28 18
10th Percentile £19.94 £19.90 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £30.19 £18.93
Median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +30.84% -47.55%
75th Percentile £41.94 £65.63 £62.00
90th Percentile £60.95 £119.65 £70.25
London median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £35.44
% change year-on-year -21.33% +5.81% -9.13%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -4 213 £580 -0.85% 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 (5.60%) Confluence
2 5 (2.16%) 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 4 (1.72%) 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 (43.97%) Azure
2 69 (29.74%) Azure DevOps
3 59 (25.43%) AWS
4 44 (18.97%) GitHub
5 36 (15.52%) GCP
6 26 (11.21%) GitHub Actions
7 23 (9.91%) Power Platform
8 20 (8.62%) Serverless
9 16 (6.90%) Amazon S3
9 16 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (6.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (6.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 10 (4.31%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (4.31%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (3.88%) Power Automate
12 9 (3.88%) PowerApps
13 7 (3.02%) Apigee
13 7 (3.02%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (3.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (2.59%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.60%) Firewall
2 10 (4.31%) DNS
3 7 (3.02%) Network Security
3 7 (3.02%) SSL
4 4 (1.72%) VPN
5 3 (1.29%) BGP
5 3 (1.29%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (1.29%) Ethernet VPN
5 3 (1.29%) HTTPS
5 3 (1.29%) OSPF
5 3 (1.29%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.29%) VXLAN
6 2 (0.86%) DHCP
6 2 (0.86%) Internet
6 2 (0.86%) MPLS
6 2 (0.86%) Multicast
6 2 (0.86%) NX-OS
6 2 (0.86%) SSH
7 1 (0.43%) IOS XR
7 1 (0.43%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.03%) Power BI
2 13 (5.60%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.45%) DynamoDB
4 7 (3.02%) BigQuery
5 6 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.16%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (2.16%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.16%) MySQL
6 5 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.16%) Redis
7 4 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.72%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.72%) Delta Lake
7 4 (1.72%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.29%) Big Data
8 3 (1.29%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.29%) Tableau
9 2 (0.86%) Couchbase
9 2 (0.86%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 33 (14.22%) Jenkins
2 31 (13.36%) Git
3 30 (12.93%) JIRA
4 19 (8.19%) GitLab
5 10 (4.31%) Gradle
5 10 (4.31%) Selenium
6 9 (3.88%) Cypress.io
6 9 (3.88%) SonarQube
7 8 (3.45%) Bitbucket
7 8 (3.45%) Maven
8 6 (2.59%) Postman
9 5 (2.16%) JUnit
10 4 (1.72%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.29%) Mockito
11 3 (1.29%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (1.29%) Storybook
11 3 (1.29%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.86%) Snyk
12 2 (0.86%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 77 (33.19%) Finance
2 65 (28.02%) Social Skills
3 38 (16.38%) Banking
4 26 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.74%) Investment Banking
6 6 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.59%) Financial Institution
6 6 (2.59%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.59%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.16%) Back Office
7 5 (2.16%) Front Office
7 5 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.72%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.29%) Law
9 3 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.86%) Billing
10 2 (0.86%) Legal
10 2 (0.86%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 47 (20.26%) Developer
2 38 (16.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 33 (14.22%) Senior
4 16 (6.90%) Architect
5 14 (6.03%) Analyst
6 13 (5.60%) Lead
7 12 (5.17%) GCP Engineer
8 11 (4.74%) Business Analyst
9 10 (4.31%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (4.31%) Data Engineer
10 9 (3.88%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (3.88%) Senior Developer
11 7 (3.02%) AWS DevOps
11 7 (3.02%) Java Developer
11 7 (3.02%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 7 (3.02%) Test Engineer
12 6 (2.59%) .NET Developer
12 6 (2.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 6 (2.59%) Senior DevOps
12 6 (2.59%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.34%) .NET
2 17 (7.33%) Node.js
3 16 (6.90%) HTML
3 16 (6.90%) REST
4 13 (5.60%) AngularJS
4 13 (5.60%) CSS
5 12 (5.17%) OAuth
5 12 (5.17%) React
5 12 (5.17%) RESTful
6 10 (4.31%) GraphQL
7 7 (3.02%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (3.02%) JSON
7 7 (3.02%) JWT
7 7 (3.02%) SOAP
8 6 (2.59%) FIX Protocol
8 6 (2.59%) HTML5
8 6 (2.59%) Spring
8 6 (2.59%) XML
9 5 (2.16%) ADO
9 5 (2.16%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 32 (13.79%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.60%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (4.74%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.88%) Derivative
5 8 (3.45%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.45%) Fixed Income
6 7 (3.02%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.59%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.16%) 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%) Credit Risk
11 2 (0.86%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.86%) Market Risk
11 2 (0.86%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.62%) Linux
2 6 (2.59%) Android
2 6 (2.59%) Unix
3 5 (2.16%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.16%) Windows
4 2 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (53.45%) CI/CD
2 94 (40.52%) Agile
3 54 (23.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (14.66%) Containerisation
6 27 (11.64%) Scrum
6 27 (11.64%) Test Automation
7 25 (10.78%) Analytics
8 24 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
9 23 (9.91%) Migration
10 22 (9.48%) Software Engineering
10 22 (9.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 21 (9.05%) AI
11 21 (9.05%) Observability
11 21 (9.05%) Stakeholder Management
12 18 (7.76%) Cloud Security
12 18 (7.76%) Machine Learning
13 17 (7.33%) SDLC
14 16 (6.90%) High Availability
14 16 (6.90%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 77 (33.19%) Python
2 44 (18.97%) SQL
3 30 (12.93%) Java
3 30 (12.93%) JavaScript
4 26 (11.21%) C#
5 16 (6.90%) PowerShell
6 15 (6.47%) TypeScript
7 12 (5.17%) Bash
8 4 (1.72%) C++
8 4 (1.72%) Go
9 3 (1.29%) Bicep
9 3 (1.29%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.29%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.86%) Perl
10 2 (0.86%) PromQL
10 2 (0.86%) Rust
11 1 (0.43%) C
11 1 (0.43%) Fortran
11 1 (0.43%) PHP
11 1 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 47 (20.26%) Security Cleared
2 42 (18.10%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.76%) Degree
4 9 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.02%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.59%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.72%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.29%) CCIE
8 3 (1.29%) CCNP
8 3 (1.29%) CISSP
8 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
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%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.43%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.43%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.33%) QA
2 9 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.45%) GDPR
4 5 (2.16%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.16%) NIST
5 4 (1.72%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.29%) NCSC
6 3 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.29%) WCAG
7 2 (0.86%) MiFID
7 2 (0.86%) PMO
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 20022
8 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.43%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.43%) SEPA
8 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 44 (18.97%) 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 (29.31%) Terraform
2 48 (20.69%) Kubernetes
3 31 (13.36%) Ansible
4 10 (4.31%) ITRS Geneos
5 8 (3.45%) Prometheus
6 7 (3.02%) Grafana
7 6 (2.59%) Argo
7 6 (2.59%) Kibana
7 6 (2.59%) Puppet
8 5 (2.16%) Istio
8 5 (2.16%) logstash
9 3 (1.29%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.86%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.43%) Ambari
11 1 (0.43%) CASB
11 1 (0.43%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.43%) Icinga
11 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 38 (16.38%) Microsoft
2 33 (14.22%) Google
3 16 (6.90%) Databricks
4 10 (4.31%) Splunk
5 9 (3.88%) Oracle
5 9 (3.88%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.45%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.59%) Solace
8 5 (2.16%) F5
8 5 (2.16%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.72%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.72%) Cisco
9 4 (1.72%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.72%) UiPath
9 4 (1.72%) VMware
10 3 (1.29%) Arista
10 3 (1.29%) CyberArk
10 3 (1.29%) DocuSign
10 3 (1.29%) HP
10 3 (1.29%) OpenAI