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 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 14 14
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 -1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 235 242 234
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 10.44% 12.07% 9.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.79% 13.11% 10.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 162 157
10th Percentile £363 £425 £423
25th Percentile £463 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -8.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £651 £677 £688
90th Percentile £775 £750 £782
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.25 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £74.50 - £48.50
75th Percentile £76.75 - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £68.00 £80.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -15.53% +40.00% -23.33%

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 1,993 1,846 2,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 88.50% 92.07% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,373 1,201 1,647
10th Percentile £359 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £664 £675 £683
90th Percentile £775 £763 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 17 25
10th Percentile £18.75 £21.70 £19.33
25th Percentile £20.50 £24.66 £22.50
Median hourly rate £26.11 £32.50 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -19.66% +16.86% -20.54%
75th Percentile £42.65 £43.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £58.92 £74.05 £59.10
London median hourly rate £35.50 £36.20 £30.50
% change year-on-year -1.92% +18.67% -16.44%

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 -7 208 £550 -4.35% 136
West End of London +15 8 £575 +27.78% 3
City of Westminster +3 2 £450 -7.69% 1
Kensington and Chelsea - 2 £600 -
Camden +7 1 £400 -27.27% 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 6 (2.55%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.70%) Confluence
4 3 (1.28%) Palantir Foundry
4 3 (1.28%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.85%) Apache
5 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.43%) CMS
6 1 (0.43%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.43%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.85%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.43%) Maya
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.85%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.85%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 130 (55.32%) Azure
2 76 (32.34%) Azure DevOps
3 69 (29.36%) AWS
4 51 (21.70%) GitHub
5 39 (16.60%) GCP
6 32 (13.62%) Serverless
7 28 (11.91%) Power Platform
8 26 (11.06%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (7.66%) Amazon S3
10 17 (7.23%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (5.53%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (4.26%) Azure AKS
12 10 (4.26%) Azure Functions
12 10 (4.26%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (3.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (3.83%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (3.40%) Entra ID
14 8 (3.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 7 (2.98%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.40%) Network Security
2 7 (2.98%) Firewall
3 3 (1.28%) DNS
4 2 (0.85%) DHCP
4 2 (0.85%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.85%) Internet
4 2 (0.85%) SSL
4 2 (0.85%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.43%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.66%) Power BI
2 15 (6.38%) SQL Server
3 13 (5.53%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (3.40%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (2.98%) Tableau
7 6 (2.55%) DynamoDB
7 6 (2.55%) MySQL
7 6 (2.55%) Relational Database
8 5 (2.13%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.70%) BigQuery
9 4 (1.70%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.28%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (1.28%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.28%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.28%) Metadata
10 3 (1.28%) Redis
10 3 (1.28%) Star Schema
11 2 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 37 (15.74%) Git
2 29 (12.34%) Jenkins
3 24 (10.21%) JIRA
4 16 (6.81%) GitLab
5 6 (2.55%) Postman
6 5 (2.13%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.13%) JUnit
6 5 (2.13%) Selenium
7 4 (1.70%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.70%) Mockito
8 3 (1.28%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.28%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.85%) Ant
9 2 (0.85%) git-flow
9 2 (0.85%) Gradle
9 2 (0.85%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.85%) Maven
9 2 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.85%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.85%) TeamCity
General
1 66 (28.09%) Finance
2 48 (20.43%) Social Skills
3 30 (12.77%) Banking
4 15 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.96%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.83%) Front Office
7 8 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.13%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.13%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.85%) Back Office
11 2 (0.85%) Law
11 2 (0.85%) Legal
11 2 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.85%) Publishing
11 2 (0.85%) Retail
11 2 (0.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (25.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 32 (13.62%) Developer
3 29 (12.34%) Senior
4 21 (8.94%) Architect
5 19 (8.09%) Lead
6 12 (5.11%) Senior Developer
7 11 (4.68%) AWS Engineer
7 11 (4.68%) Azure Engineer
7 11 (4.68%) Cloud Architect
8 10 (4.26%) AWS DevOps
8 10 (4.26%) Data Engineer
9 9 (3.83%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 9 (3.83%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (3.40%) Analyst
10 8 (3.40%) Consultant
10 8 (3.40%) Python Engineer
11 6 (2.55%) Azure Architect
11 6 (2.55%) GCP Engineer
11 6 (2.55%) Senior DevOps
11 6 (2.55%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.51%) .NET
2 18 (7.66%) REST
3 15 (6.38%) Node.js
3 15 (6.38%) React
4 13 (5.53%) Kafka
5 11 (4.68%) Playwright
6 10 (4.26%) Spring
7 9 (3.83%) HTML
7 9 (3.83%) OAuth
7 9 (3.83%) PySpark
8 7 (2.98%) AngularJS
8 7 (2.98%) CSS
8 7 (2.98%) XML
9 6 (2.55%) FastAPI
9 6 (2.55%) JSON
9 6 (2.55%) JWT
9 6 (2.55%) RESTful
9 6 (2.55%) Spring Boot
10 5 (2.13%) Next.js
10 5 (2.13%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 43 (18.30%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.11%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.68%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.83%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.55%) Derivative
5 6 (2.55%) Fixed Income
5 6 (2.55%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.13%) Equities
6 5 (2.13%) Private Cloud
6 5 (2.13%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.70%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.70%) Life Science
7 4 (1.70%) Replication
8 3 (1.28%) Clustering
8 3 (1.28%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.28%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.28%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.96%) Linux
2 13 (5.53%) Windows
3 4 (1.70%) Unix
4 3 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.28%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.85%) Android
6 1 (0.43%) AIX
6 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.43%) VMS
6 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (53.62%) CI/CD
2 70 (29.79%) Infrastructure as Code
3 67 (28.51%) Agile
4 35 (14.89%) Containerisation
5 34 (14.47%) Test Automation
6 33 (14.04%) AI
7 30 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
7 30 (12.77%) Migration
8 27 (11.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 26 (11.06%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (10.64%) Analytics
11 24 (10.21%) Data Engineering
12 23 (9.79%) Software Engineering
12 23 (9.79%) Stakeholder Management
13 21 (8.94%) Observability
14 20 (8.51%) Roadmaps
15 19 (8.09%) Microservices
15 19 (8.09%) Scrum
16 18 (7.66%) Performance Tuning
17 16 (6.81%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 69 (29.36%) Python
2 55 (23.40%) SQL
3 33 (14.04%) Java
4 24 (10.21%) C#
4 24 (10.21%) JavaScript
5 18 (7.66%) TypeScript
6 12 (5.11%) PowerShell
7 9 (3.83%) Bash
8 5 (2.13%) C++
9 4 (1.70%) Bicep
9 4 (1.70%) Scala
10 2 (0.85%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.85%) Go
10 2 (0.85%) Korn
10 2 (0.85%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.85%) Perl
10 2 (0.85%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.85%) Rust
10 2 (0.85%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.85%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 75 (31.91%) Security Cleared
2 72 (30.64%) SC Cleared
3 23 (9.79%) Degree
4 14 (5.96%) Azure Certification
4 14 (5.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.55%) Master's Degree
5 6 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.13%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.70%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.28%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.28%) PhD
8 3 (1.28%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.85%) CBAP
9 2 (0.85%) CESG Certified Professional
9 2 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.85%) ISEB
9 2 (0.85%) PMP
9 2 (0.85%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.26%) Data Quality
1 10 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (4.26%) QA
2 6 (2.55%) GDPR
3 5 (2.13%) PCI DSS
3 5 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (1.70%) NIST
5 3 (1.28%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.28%) NCSC
5 3 (1.28%) PMO
5 3 (1.28%) SLA
6 2 (0.85%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.43%) MiFID
7 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (21.28%) Docker
2 8 (3.40%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.70%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.43%) GridGain
5 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 71 (30.21%) Terraform
2 57 (24.26%) Kubernetes
3 23 (9.79%) Ansible
4 5 (2.13%) Grafana
4 5 (2.13%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.28%) Istio
5 3 (1.28%) Karpenter
6 2 (0.85%) Argo
6 2 (0.85%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.85%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.43%) CA Wily
7 1 (0.43%) CASB
7 1 (0.43%) Icinga
7 1 (0.43%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.43%) linkerd
7 1 (0.43%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.43%) Packer
7 1 (0.43%) Puppet
7 1 (0.43%) SCCM
Vendors
1 40 (17.02%) Microsoft
2 26 (11.06%) Google
3 19 (8.09%) Databricks
4 13 (5.53%) Oracle
5 9 (3.83%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.40%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.13%) VMware
8 4 (1.70%) CyberArk
8 4 (1.70%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.70%) Splunk
9 3 (1.28%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.28%) Foundry
9 3 (1.28%) Palantir
9 3 (1.28%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.85%) Adobe
10 2 (0.85%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.85%) IBM
10 2 (0.85%) Informatica
10 2 (0.85%) New Relic
10 2 (0.85%) Planview