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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 14 9
Rank change year-on-year -7 -5 +2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 256 249 306
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 9.81% 12.15% 12.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.23% 12.96% 14.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 175 211
10th Percentile £415 £406 £416
25th Percentile £492 £475 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £710
90th Percentile £708 £756 £838
London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £65.73 - -
25th Percentile £66.81 £86.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £72.25 £87.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.43% +80.41% -
75th Percentile £76.31 £88.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £76.58 - -
London median hourly rate £68.50 £52.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +30.48% -4.55% -38.89%

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 2,280 1,921 2,157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 87.36% 93.71% 91.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,545 1,250 1,493
10th Percentile £358 £337 £361
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £681
90th Percentile £775 £775 £796
London median daily rate £542 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.48% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 32 24
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.08 £20.22
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £22.84
Median hourly rate £23.16 £32.50 £30.41
Median % change year-on-year -28.74% +6.89% -13.13%
75th Percentile £54.50 £50.75 £53.00
90th Percentile £64.25 £63.75 £124.00
London median hourly rate £36.00 £30.40 £33.55
% change year-on-year +18.41% -9.38% -19.16%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -6 225 £550 -4.35% 107
City of Westminster -3 9 £606 +10.23% 14
West End of London -2 7 £600 +23.08% 2
Southwark +2 4 £650 -
Lambeth - 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 11 (4.30%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.52%) Confluence
2 9 (3.52%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.95%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.56%) Apache
5 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.17%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.78%) IIS
6 2 (0.78%) nginx
7 1 (0.39%) CMS
7 1 (0.39%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.39%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.39%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.39%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (0.78%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.39%) Maya
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.34%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.39%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.39%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.39%) Magento
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.39%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.39%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.39%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 134 (52.34%) Azure
2 71 (27.73%) AWS
3 69 (26.95%) Azure DevOps
4 49 (19.14%) GitHub
5 34 (13.28%) GitHub Actions
5 34 (13.28%) Power Platform
6 23 (8.98%) GCP
7 21 (8.20%) Serverless
8 13 (5.08%) Azure AKS
8 13 (5.08%) Power Automate
9 12 (4.69%) Amazon S3
9 12 (4.69%) Azure Data Factory
10 11 (4.30%) Entra ID
11 10 (3.91%) Dynamics 365
11 10 (3.91%) Snowflake
12 9 (3.52%) Amazon Kinesis
12 9 (3.52%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (3.52%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (3.52%) dbt
12 9 (3.52%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.47%) Internet
2 9 (3.52%) DNS
2 9 (3.52%) Firewall
3 8 (3.13%) VPN
4 4 (1.56%) DHCP
5 3 (1.17%) FTP
5 3 (1.17%) Network Security
5 3 (1.17%) SMTP
5 3 (1.17%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.78%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.78%) Intranet
6 2 (0.78%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.78%) SSH
7 1 (0.39%) Multicast
7 1 (0.39%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.39%) VLAN
7 1 (0.39%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (8.98%) Power BI
1 23 (8.98%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.69%) NoSQL
3 10 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (3.52%) MongoDB
5 8 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (3.13%) Relational Database
6 7 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (2.73%) Metadata
7 6 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.95%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.56%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.56%) Big Data
9 4 (1.56%) Data Mart
9 4 (1.56%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.56%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (1.56%) Star Schema
9 4 (1.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (10.94%) Jenkins
2 27 (10.55%) Git
3 24 (9.38%) GitLab
4 21 (8.20%) JIRA
5 9 (3.52%) JUnit
6 6 (2.34%) Mockito
6 6 (2.34%) Postman
6 6 (2.34%) Selenium
7 5 (1.95%) Artifactory
7 5 (1.95%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.95%) Gradle
7 5 (1.95%) JMeter
7 5 (1.95%) Maven
7 5 (1.95%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.56%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.56%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.17%) Liquibase
9 3 (1.17%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.78%) Ant
10 2 (0.78%) Appium
General
1 73 (28.52%) Finance
2 43 (16.80%) Social Skills
3 26 (10.16%) Banking
4 19 (7.42%) Public Sector
5 14 (5.47%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.13%) Law
7 5 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.56%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.56%) Police
9 3 (1.17%) Front Office
9 3 (1.17%) Military
9 3 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.78%) Legal
10 2 (0.78%) Marketing
11 1 (0.39%) Advertising
11 1 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (15.23%) DevOps Engineer
2 35 (13.67%) Senior
3 29 (11.33%) Developer
4 25 (9.77%) Architect
5 24 (9.38%) Lead
6 20 (7.81%) Azure Engineer
7 18 (7.03%) Data Engineer
8 14 (5.47%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 14 (5.47%) Platform Engineer
9 12 (4.69%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (4.69%) Senior Developer
9 12 (4.69%) Tester
10 11 (4.30%) Java Developer
11 10 (3.91%) Software Engineer
12 9 (3.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (3.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 8 (3.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 8 (3.13%) Consultant
14 7 (2.73%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 7 (2.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (10.94%) REST
1 28 (10.94%) Spring
2 25 (9.77%) Kafka
3 24 (9.38%) Spring Boot
4 21 (8.20%) .NET
5 15 (5.86%) RESTful
6 14 (5.47%) Playwright
6 14 (5.47%) pytest
7 13 (5.08%) React
8 10 (3.91%) AngularJS
8 10 (3.91%) SOAP
9 9 (3.52%) PySpark
10 7 (2.73%) Node.js
10 7 (2.73%) XML
11 6 (2.34%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (1.95%) GraphQL
12 5 (1.95%) HTML
12 5 (1.95%) JSON
12 5 (1.95%) Next.js
12 5 (1.95%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 57 (22.27%) Cloud Native
2 22 (8.59%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.86%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.13%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.34%) Clustering
5 6 (2.34%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.95%) AI Agents
6 5 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.95%) Mobile App
6 5 (1.95%) Private Cloud
7 4 (1.56%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.17%) Equities
8 3 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.17%) PKI
9 2 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.78%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.78%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.78%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.86%) Linux
2 9 (3.52%) Windows
3 7 (2.73%) Unix
4 5 (1.95%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.39%) AIX
5 1 (0.39%) Android
5 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.39%) VMS
5 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (61.72%) CI/CD
2 69 (26.95%) Infrastructure as Code
3 62 (24.22%) Agile
4 54 (21.09%) AI
5 47 (18.36%) Containerisation
6 43 (16.80%) Platform Engineering
6 43 (16.80%) Software Engineering
7 40 (15.63%) Observability
7 40 (15.63%) Test Automation
8 39 (15.23%) Microservices
9 38 (14.84%) Analytics
10 32 (12.50%) Machine Learning
10 32 (12.50%) Migration
11 31 (12.11%) Validation
12 30 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
12 30 (11.72%) Data Engineering
12 30 (11.72%) Event-Driven
13 29 (11.33%) Stakeholder Management
14 28 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
15 26 (10.16%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 80 (31.25%) Python
2 52 (20.31%) SQL
3 44 (17.19%) Java
4 26 (10.16%) C#
5 22 (8.59%) TypeScript
6 19 (7.42%) PowerShell
7 18 (7.03%) JavaScript
8 15 (5.86%) Bash
9 12 (4.69%) Bicep
10 5 (1.95%) Apex Code
11 4 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (1.56%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.78%) ActionScript
12 2 (0.78%) ActionScript 2.0
12 2 (0.78%) Go
12 2 (0.78%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.78%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.39%) R
13 1 (0.39%) Rust
13 1 (0.39%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 85 (33.20%) Security Cleared
2 79 (30.86%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.25%) Degree
4 9 (3.52%) DBS Check
5 8 (3.13%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.73%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.56%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.17%) PMP
10 2 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.78%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.78%) CISM
10 2 (0.78%) CISSP
10 2 (0.78%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.94%) QA
2 7 (2.73%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.34%) GDPR
4 4 (1.56%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.17%) NCSC
5 3 (1.17%) PMO
6 2 (0.78%) EMIR
6 2 (0.78%) MiFID
6 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.78%) SLA
7 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.39%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.39%) NIST
7 1 (0.39%) P3O
7 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 56 (21.88%) Docker
2 12 (4.69%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.17%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.17%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.17%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.17%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.39%) GridGain
5 1 (0.39%) Varnish
5 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 92 (35.94%) Kubernetes
2 58 (22.66%) Terraform
3 23 (8.98%) Ansible
4 19 (7.42%) Grafana
5 18 (7.03%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.95%) Puppet
7 4 (1.56%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.17%) Nagios
8 3 (1.17%) vMotion
9 2 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.39%) Argo
10 1 (0.39%) Consul
10 1 (0.39%) Istio
10 1 (0.39%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.39%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.39%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.39%) linkerd
10 1 (0.39%) Packer
10 1 (0.39%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.39%) Salt
Vendors
1 55 (21.48%) Microsoft
2 22 (8.59%) Databricks
3 12 (4.69%) Oracle
4 9 (3.52%) Google
5 7 (2.73%) Dynatrace
6 6 (2.34%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.34%) Splunk
7 4 (1.56%) IBM
7 4 (1.56%) VMware
8 3 (1.17%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.17%) Citrix
8 3 (1.17%) HP
8 3 (1.17%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.17%) SAP
8 3 (1.17%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.17%) Symantec
9 2 (0.78%) Foundry
9 2 (0.78%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.78%) Sitecore
9 2 (0.78%) Solace