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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 15 10
Rank change year-on-year -1 -5 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 296 228 287
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.86% 11.49% 12.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.30% 12.24% 13.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 170 208
10th Percentile £419 £382 £425
25th Percentile £488 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.12%
75th Percentile £643 £675 £708
90th Percentile £725 £730 £805
London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £38.00 £32.25 -
25th Percentile £42.50 £41.25 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 -
90th Percentile £71.00 £82.75 -
London median hourly rate £55.00 £54.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -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 2,225 1,863 2,109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 89.18% 93.85% 92.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,535 1,238 1,392
10th Percentile £363 £319 £375
25th Percentile £456 £419 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.77%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £787
London median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 33 25
10th Percentile £17.60 £19.05 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £25.07 £29.07 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.78% -11.91% +20.00%
75th Percentile £42.56 £50.75 £42.25
90th Percentile £63.88 £63.75 £119.50
London median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%

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 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in Central London over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

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 10 September 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 -3 260 £550 -8.33% 98
City of Westminster -5 9 £606 +27.63% 19
West End of London -3 8 £538 +10.26% 9
Southwark 0 4 £650 - 3
Lambeth - 1 - -
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 14 (4.73%) Apache Airflow
1 14 (4.73%) SharePoint
2 12 (4.05%) Apache Spark
3 11 (3.72%) Apache
3 11 (3.72%) Confluence
4 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.68%) IIS
5 2 (0.68%) nginx
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%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.01%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.34%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (2.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.35%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.34%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.34%) Magento
4 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.34%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.34%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.34%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.34%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 171 (57.77%) Azure
2 97 (32.77%) Azure DevOps
3 83 (28.04%) AWS
4 54 (18.24%) GitHub
5 46 (15.54%) Power Platform
6 35 (11.82%) GitHub Actions
7 33 (11.15%) Azure Data Factory
8 29 (9.80%) GCP
9 27 (9.12%) Serverless
10 20 (6.76%) Power Automate
11 16 (5.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 15 (5.07%) Azure AKS
12 15 (5.07%) PowerApps
13 14 (4.73%) Amazon S3
13 14 (4.73%) Azure Functions
13 14 (4.73%) Dynamics 365
14 13 (4.39%) Azure Logic Apps
15 12 (4.05%) GitHub Copilot
16 11 (3.72%) Azure Databricks
16 11 (3.72%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.74%) Internet
2 13 (4.39%) DNS
3 12 (4.05%) Firewall
4 9 (3.04%) VPN
5 5 (1.69%) DHCP
6 3 (1.01%) FTP
6 3 (1.01%) Network Security
6 3 (1.01%) SMTP
6 3 (1.01%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.68%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.68%) Intranet
7 2 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.68%) RTP
7 2 (0.68%) SSH
7 2 (0.68%) VLAN
7 2 (0.68%) VoIP
7 2 (0.68%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.34%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.34%) INAP
8 1 (0.34%) RTCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (11.15%) Power BI
2 28 (9.46%) SQL Server
3 22 (7.43%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (4.39%) Data Lake
4 13 (4.39%) Metadata
5 11 (3.72%) Star Schema
6 10 (3.38%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (3.04%) MongoDB
7 9 (3.04%) NoSQL
8 7 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (2.36%) Delta Lake
8 7 (2.36%) Relational Database
9 6 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (1.69%) Big Data
10 5 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.35%) Oracle Database
11 4 (1.35%) Redis
11 4 (1.35%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 32 (10.81%) Jenkins
2 27 (9.12%) GitLab
3 26 (8.78%) Git
4 24 (8.11%) JIRA
5 9 (3.04%) JMeter
5 9 (3.04%) JUnit
6 6 (2.03%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.03%) Postman
6 6 (2.03%) Selenium
7 5 (1.69%) Artifactory
7 5 (1.69%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.69%) Gradle
7 5 (1.69%) Maven
7 5 (1.69%) Mockito
7 5 (1.69%) Visual Studio Code
8 4 (1.35%) Gatling
8 4 (1.35%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.35%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.01%) LoadRunner
9 3 (1.01%) Visual Studio
General
1 89 (30.07%) Finance
2 64 (21.62%) Social Skills
3 38 (12.84%) Banking
4 28 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (8.11%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.70%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.36%) Front Office
7 7 (2.36%) Law
7 7 (2.36%) Retail
8 6 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.69%) Marketing
10 4 (1.35%) Police
11 3 (1.01%) Military
12 2 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.68%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.68%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.34%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 51 (17.23%) Senior
2 50 (16.89%) Developer
3 39 (13.18%) Architect
4 35 (11.82%) DevOps Engineer
5 27 (9.12%) Lead
6 25 (8.45%) Data Engineer
7 21 (7.09%) Azure Engineer
8 19 (6.42%) Senior Developer
9 17 (5.74%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 15 (5.07%) Platform Engineer
11 14 (4.73%) Data Architect
11 14 (4.73%) Tester
12 13 (4.39%) Java Developer
13 12 (4.05%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (3.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 10 (3.38%) Consultant
15 9 (3.04%) Cloud Engineer
16 8 (2.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 8 (2.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 8 (2.70%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (22.97%) Terraform
2 37 (12.50%) REST
3 29 (9.80%) .NET
4 28 (9.46%) Spring
5 27 (9.12%) Spring Boot
6 26 (8.78%) Kafka
7 23 (7.77%) PySpark
8 18 (6.08%) RESTful
9 17 (5.74%) pytest
10 14 (4.73%) SOAP
11 12 (4.05%) React
12 10 (3.38%) Playwright
13 9 (3.04%) AngularJS
14 8 (2.70%) XML
15 6 (2.03%) HTML
15 6 (2.03%) JSON
15 6 (2.03%) Middleware
15 6 (2.03%) Node.js
16 5 (1.69%) GraphQL
16 5 (1.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 64 (21.62%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.43%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.07%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (4.39%) AI Agents
4 13 (4.39%) Product Ownership
5 11 (3.72%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.36%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.69%) Clustering
9 5 (1.69%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.69%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.35%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.01%) Equities
11 3 (1.01%) IoT
11 3 (1.01%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.01%) PKI
11 3 (1.01%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.76%) Linux
2 13 (4.39%) Windows
3 9 (3.04%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.70%) 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
1 192 (64.86%) CI/CD
2 82 (27.70%) Agile
3 74 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 70 (23.65%) AI
5 57 (19.26%) Analytics
6 51 (17.23%) Software Engineering
6 51 (17.23%) Test Automation
7 48 (16.22%) Microservices
8 46 (15.54%) Containerisation
9 45 (15.20%) Platform Engineering
10 42 (14.19%) Problem-Solving
10 42 (14.19%) Stakeholder Management
11 41 (13.85%) Data Modelling
11 41 (13.85%) Event-Driven
11 41 (13.85%) Machine Learning
11 41 (13.85%) Observability
12 40 (13.51%) Business Intelligence
13 38 (12.84%) Data Engineering
14 37 (12.50%) Validation
15 36 (12.16%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 106 (35.81%) Python
2 76 (25.68%) SQL
3 50 (16.89%) Java
4 36 (12.16%) C#
5 28 (9.46%) PowerShell
6 23 (7.77%) JavaScript
6 23 (7.77%) TypeScript
7 17 (5.74%) Bicep
8 14 (4.73%) Bash
9 11 (3.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (1.35%) Apex Code
10 4 (1.35%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.01%) Korn
11 3 (1.01%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.01%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.68%) ActionScript
12 2 (0.68%) ActionScript 2.0
12 2 (0.68%) R
13 1 (0.34%) Go
13 1 (0.34%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 86 (29.05%) Security Cleared
2 76 (25.68%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.73%) Degree
4 10 (3.38%) DBS Check
5 8 (2.70%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.69%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.35%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.35%) PMP
8 2 (0.68%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.68%) CISM
8 2 (0.68%) CISSP
8 2 (0.68%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.34%) MOS
9 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (11.49%) QA
2 27 (9.12%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.36%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.36%) GDPR
4 3 (1.01%) NCSC
5 2 (0.68%) EMIR
5 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.68%) MiFID
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%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.34%) PMO
6 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 59 (19.93%) Docker
2 9 (3.04%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.35%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.01%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.01%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.01%) Terminal Services
4 3 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.34%) GridGain
5 1 (0.34%) Varnish
5 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 99 (33.45%) Kubernetes
2 23 (7.77%) Ansible
3 20 (6.76%) Grafana
4 18 (6.08%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.35%) Puppet
5 4 (1.35%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.01%) Nagios
6 3 (1.01%) vMotion
7 2 (0.68%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.68%) Packer
7 2 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.34%) Argo
8 1 (0.34%) Bosun
8 1 (0.34%) Consul
8 1 (0.34%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.34%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.34%) Salt
8 1 (0.34%) SCCM
8 1 (0.34%) SELinux
Vendors
1 86 (29.05%) Microsoft
2 38 (12.84%) Databricks
3 16 (5.41%) Google
3 16 (5.41%) Oracle
4 10 (3.38%) Dynatrace
5 7 (2.36%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.36%) Splunk
6 5 (1.69%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.69%) VMware
7 4 (1.35%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.35%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.35%) SAP
8 3 (1.01%) Citrix
8 3 (1.01%) Foundry
8 3 (1.01%) HP
8 3 (1.01%) IBM
8 3 (1.01%) Symantec
9 2 (0.68%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.68%) ION Trading
9 2 (0.68%) Remedy