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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 14 9
Rank change year-on-year -6 -5 +4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 241 239 282
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 9.80% 12.10% 11.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.50% 12.98% 12.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 159 189
10th Percentile £371 £425 £411
25th Percentile £471 £493 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £598
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.80% -4.37%
75th Percentile £650 £682 £675
90th Percentile £750 £778 £777
London median daily rate £550 £568 £573
% change year-on-year -3.08% -0.87% -4.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £65.73 - -
25th Percentile £66.81 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £72.25 - £48.50
75th Percentile £76.31 - £50.25
90th Percentile £76.58 - -
London median hourly rate £68.50 £52.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +30.48% -4.55% -31.25%

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 2,096 1,842 2,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 85.20% 93.22% 90.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,424 1,184 1,542
10th Percentile £357 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £564 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 25 22
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £20.22
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.75 £22.63
Median hourly rate £27.00 £29.07 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +4.53% -20.54%
75th Percentile £47.41 £43.75 £28.98
90th Percentile £59.72 £50.75 £40.00
London median hourly rate £36.50 £34.00 £27.84
% change year-on-year +7.35% +22.13% -27.22%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -7 218 £550 -5.17% 141
West End of London +7 11 £588 +23.68% 1
City of Westminster +1 7 £600 +9.09% 2
Kensington and Chelsea - 2 £600 -
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 8 (3.32%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (3.32%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.49%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.24%) Confluence
3 3 (1.24%) Palantir Foundry
3 3 (1.24%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.83%) Apache
4 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.41%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.41%) nginx
5 1 (0.41%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.41%) Maya
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (2.49%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.83%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.41%) Magento
3 1 (0.41%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.41%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.41%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.41%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 137 (56.85%) Azure
2 80 (33.20%) AWS
3 72 (29.88%) Azure DevOps
4 53 (21.99%) GitHub
5 31 (12.86%) GitHub Actions
5 31 (12.86%) Serverless
6 30 (12.45%) GCP
7 29 (12.03%) Power Platform
8 17 (7.05%) Amazon S3
9 16 (6.64%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (6.64%) Azure AKS
10 14 (5.81%) Azure Data Factory
10 14 (5.81%) Dynamics 365
11 12 (4.98%) Power Automate
12 10 (4.15%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (4.15%) Entra ID
13 9 (3.73%) Azure Functions
13 9 (3.73%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (3.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 8 (3.32%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.15%) Firewall
2 5 (2.07%) Network Security
3 3 (1.24%) DNS
4 2 (0.83%) FTP
5 1 (0.41%) DHCP
5 1 (0.41%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.41%) Internet
5 1 (0.41%) Multicast
5 1 (0.41%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.41%) SSH
5 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.88%) Power BI
2 18 (7.47%) SQL Server
3 12 (4.98%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (3.73%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (3.73%) NoSQL
5 7 (2.90%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.49%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (2.49%) Metadata
6 6 (2.49%) Tableau
7 5 (2.07%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (2.07%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.07%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.07%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.66%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.24%) MySQL
9 3 (1.24%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (14.11%) Git
2 30 (12.45%) Jenkins
3 20 (8.30%) GitLab
4 18 (7.47%) JIRA
5 8 (3.32%) Postman
6 6 (2.49%) JUnit
7 5 (2.07%) Mockito
8 4 (1.66%) Gradle
8 4 (1.66%) JMeter
8 4 (1.66%) Maven
9 3 (1.24%) git-flow
9 3 (1.24%) Liquibase
9 3 (1.24%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.24%) Selenium
10 2 (0.83%) Ant
10 2 (0.83%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.83%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.83%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
General
1 62 (25.73%) Finance
2 38 (15.77%) Social Skills
3 23 (9.54%) Banking
4 22 (9.13%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.73%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.49%) Front Office
7 5 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.66%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.66%) Law
9 3 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.24%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.24%) Legal
9 3 (1.24%) Police
10 2 (0.83%) Military
10 2 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.83%) Publishing
11 1 (0.41%) Marketing
11 1 (0.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 54 (22.41%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (10.79%) Architect
3 25 (10.37%) Developer
4 23 (9.54%) Azure Engineer
5 22 (9.13%) Senior
6 16 (6.64%) Lead
7 12 (4.98%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (4.98%) Data Engineer
8 11 (4.56%) Senior Developer
9 10 (4.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 10 (4.15%) Consultant
9 10 (4.15%) Software Engineer
10 9 (3.73%) Cloud Architect
10 9 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (3.73%) Tester
11 8 (3.32%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (3.32%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (3.32%) Python Engineer
12 7 (2.90%) AWS DevOps
12 7 (2.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.13%) Kafka
2 21 (8.71%) Spring
3 20 (8.30%) REST
4 18 (7.47%) React
5 17 (7.05%) Spring Boot
6 13 (5.39%) Node.js
6 13 (5.39%) RESTful
7 11 (4.56%) .NET
8 9 (3.73%) Playwright
8 9 (3.73%) PySpark
9 6 (2.49%) Next.js
9 6 (2.49%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (2.49%) XML
10 5 (2.07%) AngularJS
10 5 (2.07%) JSON
10 5 (2.07%) SOAP
10 5 (2.07%) Swagger
11 4 (1.66%) Django
11 4 (1.66%) HTML
11 4 (1.66%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 53 (21.99%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.22%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (2.90%) AI Agents
3 7 (2.90%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.49%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.07%) Derivative
5 5 (2.07%) Fixed Income
5 5 (2.07%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.66%) Equities
6 4 (1.66%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.24%) Clustering
7 3 (1.24%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (1.24%) NHS
7 3 (1.24%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.83%) IoT
8 2 (0.83%) Life Science
8 2 (0.83%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.56%) Linux
2 10 (4.15%) Windows
3 4 (1.66%) Unix
4 2 (0.83%) Android
4 2 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.83%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.41%) AIX
5 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.41%) VMS
5 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (56.43%) CI/CD
2 80 (33.20%) Infrastructure as Code
3 58 (24.07%) Agile
4 49 (20.33%) Containerisation
5 35 (14.52%) AI
5 35 (14.52%) Test Automation
6 34 (14.11%) Observability
7 31 (12.86%) Analytics
8 30 (12.45%) Migration
9 29 (12.03%) Microservices
9 29 (12.03%) Platform Engineering
10 27 (11.20%) Data Engineering
11 26 (10.79%) Roadmaps
12 25 (10.37%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (10.37%) Software Engineering
13 24 (9.96%) Event-Driven
14 22 (9.13%) Performance Tuning
14 22 (9.13%) Stakeholder Management
15 19 (7.88%) Business Intelligence
15 19 (7.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 62 (25.73%) Python
2 50 (20.75%) SQL
3 35 (14.52%) Java
4 20 (8.30%) JavaScript
4 20 (8.30%) TypeScript
5 19 (7.88%) C#
6 15 (6.22%) PowerShell
7 13 (5.39%) Bash
8 12 (4.98%) Bicep
9 4 (1.66%) C++
10 3 (1.24%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.24%) Scala
11 2 (0.83%) Korn
11 2 (0.83%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.83%) Perl
11 2 (0.83%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.83%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.41%) C
12 1 (0.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 97 (40.25%) Security Cleared
2 96 (39.83%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.22%) Degree
4 11 (4.56%) Azure Certification
5 7 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.07%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.07%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.24%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.24%) PhD
8 3 (1.24%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.24%) PMP
9 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.83%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.83%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.83%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.41%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.81%) QA
2 9 (3.73%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.32%) GDPR
4 6 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.66%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.24%) PMO
6 3 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.24%) SLA
7 2 (0.83%) EMIR
7 2 (0.83%) MiFID
7 2 (0.83%) NCSC
7 2 (0.83%) NIST
8 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.41%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.41%) P3O
System Software
1 52 (21.58%) Docker
2 7 (2.90%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.90%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.41%) GridGain
4 1 (0.41%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 79 (32.78%) Kubernetes
2 69 (28.63%) Terraform
3 20 (8.30%) Ansible
4 15 (6.22%) Grafana
4 15 (6.22%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.24%) Istio
5 3 (1.24%) Karpenter
6 2 (0.83%) Argo
6 2 (0.83%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.83%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (0.83%) Puppet
7 1 (0.41%) CA Wily
7 1 (0.41%) Icinga
7 1 (0.41%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.41%) linkerd
7 1 (0.41%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.41%) Packer
7 1 (0.41%) Salt
7 1 (0.41%) SCCM
7 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (16.60%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.71%) Databricks
3 16 (6.64%) Google
4 12 (4.98%) Oracle
5 6 (2.49%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.07%) Dynatrace
6 5 (2.07%) OpenAI
6 5 (2.07%) Splunk
7 4 (1.66%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.66%) Foundry
7 4 (1.66%) SAP
7 4 (1.66%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.24%) Adobe
8 3 (1.24%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.24%) Palantir
8 3 (1.24%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.83%) Informatica
9 2 (0.83%) MarketAxess
9 2 (0.83%) Planview
9 2 (0.83%) Tradeweb