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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 13 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 235 238 258
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.57% 10.29% 9.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.80% 11.16% 10.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 155 203
10th Percentile £363 £451 £428
25th Percentile £463 £508 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £585 £612
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% -4.41% -1.29%
75th Percentile £673 £700 £700
90th Percentile £776 £768 £800
London median daily rate £550 £594 £588
% change year-on-year -7.37% +1.06% -6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 - -
75th Percentile £28.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £56.00 £80.50 £63.75
% change year-on-year -30.43% +26.27% -15.00%

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 1,836 2,133 2,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.40% 92.22% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,280 1,337 1,720
10th Percentile £343 £363 £359
25th Percentile £425 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £777 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 27 17
10th Percentile £20.18 £18.34 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £28.32 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.50 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.29% +27.27% -34.13%
75th Percentile £38.88 £52.50 £46.75
90th Percentile £46.53 £112.00 £68.50
London median hourly rate £31.49 £36.65 £32.69
% change year-on-year -14.08% +12.11% -14.80%

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 27 December 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
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 27 December 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 -5 208 £575 -1.71% 430
West End of London +14 6 £463 -2.63% 13
City of Westminster +7 6 £463 -15.91%
Camden +7 1 £400 -27.27% 4
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 £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 11 (4.68%) Confluence
2 5 (2.13%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.28%) Apache
3 3 (1.28%) SharePoint
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 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Aladdin
1 3 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.85%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.43%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.43%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.43%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 104 (44.26%) Azure
2 67 (28.51%) Azure DevOps
3 66 (28.09%) AWS
4 51 (21.70%) GitHub
5 41 (17.45%) GCP
6 30 (12.77%) GitHub Actions
7 24 (10.21%) Power Platform
7 24 (10.21%) Serverless
8 19 (8.09%) Amazon S3
8 19 (8.09%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (5.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 14 (5.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 13 (5.53%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (4.68%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (3.83%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (3.83%) Power Automate
13 8 (3.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (2.98%) Apigee
14 7 (2.98%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (2.98%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.11%) Firewall
2 9 (3.83%) DNS
3 7 (2.98%) SSL
4 6 (2.55%) Network Security
5 4 (1.70%) VPN
6 3 (1.28%) HTTPS
6 3 (1.28%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.85%) BGP
7 2 (0.85%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.85%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (0.85%) Internet
7 2 (0.85%) MPLS
7 2 (0.85%) NX-OS
7 2 (0.85%) OSPF
7 2 (0.85%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.43%) DKIM
8 1 (0.43%) Multicast
8 1 (0.43%) NGFW
8 1 (0.43%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.43%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.81%) Power BI
2 11 (4.68%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (3.40%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (2.98%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (2.98%) BigQuery
5 7 (2.98%) DynamoDB
5 7 (2.98%) MySQL
6 5 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.13%) Redis
6 5 (2.13%) Tableau
7 4 (1.70%) Delta Lake
8 3 (1.28%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.28%) Big Data
8 3 (1.28%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.28%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.28%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.28%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 38 (16.17%) Jenkins
2 33 (14.04%) Git
3 30 (12.77%) JIRA
4 17 (7.23%) GitLab
5 9 (3.83%) Cypress.io
5 9 (3.83%) Selenium
5 9 (3.83%) SonarQube
6 8 (3.40%) Bitbucket
7 7 (2.98%) Gradle
7 7 (2.98%) Postman
8 6 (2.55%) Maven
9 5 (2.13%) JUnit
10 4 (1.70%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.28%) Mockito
11 3 (1.28%) Storybook
11 3 (1.28%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.85%) Snyk
12 2 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.85%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 76 (32.34%) Finance
2 62 (26.38%) Social Skills
3 40 (17.02%) Banking
4 20 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.26%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.83%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.98%) Front Office
8 6 (2.55%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.13%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.70%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.28%) Back Office
11 3 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.85%) Law
12 2 (0.85%) Legal
12 2 (0.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 48 (20.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 45 (19.15%) Developer
3 31 (13.19%) Senior
4 18 (7.66%) Architect
5 17 (7.23%) Lead
6 11 (4.68%) Data Engineer
6 11 (4.68%) GCP Engineer
6 11 (4.68%) Senior Developer
7 10 (4.26%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (3.40%) Analyst
8 8 (3.40%) AWS DevOps
8 8 (3.40%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (2.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 7 (2.98%) Cloud Architect
10 6 (2.55%) Consultant
10 6 (2.55%) Senior DevOps
10 6 (2.55%) Test Engineer
11 5 (2.13%) .NET Developer
11 5 (2.13%) Business Analyst
11 5 (2.13%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.36%) .NET
2 18 (7.66%) Node.js
3 17 (7.23%) REST
4 15 (6.38%) HTML
4 15 (6.38%) React
5 13 (5.53%) OAuth
6 12 (5.11%) CSS
6 12 (5.11%) RESTful
7 10 (4.26%) AngularJS
7 10 (4.26%) JSON
8 8 (3.40%) JWT
8 8 (3.40%) SOAP
8 8 (3.40%) XML
9 7 (2.98%) GraphQL
9 7 (2.98%) Kafka
9 7 (2.98%) PySpark
9 7 (2.98%) Spring
10 6 (2.55%) FastAPI
10 6 (2.55%) OAuth2
10 6 (2.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 35 (14.89%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.68%) Product Ownership
3 10 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.40%) Derivative
4 8 (3.40%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.98%) Fixed Income
5 7 (2.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (2.55%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.13%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.70%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.70%) Equities
8 4 (1.70%) Life Science
8 4 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.28%) CMDB
9 3 (1.28%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (1.28%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.28%) Replication
10 2 (0.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.51%) Linux
2 9 (3.83%) Windows
3 5 (2.13%) Android
4 4 (1.70%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.70%) Unix
5 3 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (54.04%) CI/CD
2 91 (38.72%) Agile
3 56 (23.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 35 (14.89%) Containerisation
5 32 (13.62%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (13.19%) Test Automation
7 28 (11.91%) Analytics
8 27 (11.49%) Migration
8 27 (11.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 25 (10.64%) AI
10 23 (9.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (9.79%) Stakeholder Management
11 22 (9.36%) Scrum
12 20 (8.51%) Observability
13 19 (8.09%) Roadmaps
13 19 (8.09%) Software Engineering
14 18 (7.66%) Microservices
15 17 (7.23%) Business Intelligence
15 17 (7.23%) Data Pipeline
15 17 (7.23%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 78 (33.19%) Python
2 43 (18.30%) SQL
3 35 (14.89%) Java
4 32 (13.62%) JavaScript
5 24 (10.21%) C#
6 18 (7.66%) TypeScript
7 16 (6.81%) PowerShell
8 10 (4.26%) Bash
9 7 (2.98%) C++
10 3 (1.28%) Bicep
10 3 (1.28%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.28%) Scala
11 2 (0.85%) C
11 2 (0.85%) Go
11 2 (0.85%) Perl
11 2 (0.85%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.85%) Rust
11 2 (0.85%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.43%) VB
Qualifications
1 62 (26.38%) Security Cleared
2 57 (24.26%) SC Cleared
3 19 (8.09%) Degree
4 9 (3.83%) Azure Certification
4 9 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.55%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.55%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.28%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.28%) PhD
8 2 (0.85%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.85%) CBAP
8 2 (0.85%) CCIE
8 2 (0.85%) CCNP
8 2 (0.85%) CESG Certified Professional
8 2 (0.85%) CISSP
8 2 (0.85%) ISEB
9 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.96%) QA
2 10 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (3.83%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.83%) GDPR
4 6 (2.55%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.55%) NIST
5 5 (2.13%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (1.28%) NCSC
7 3 (1.28%) WCAG
8 2 (0.85%) MiFID
8 2 (0.85%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.85%) PMO
9 1 (0.43%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.43%) SLA
9 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 53 (22.55%) Docker
2 3 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.43%) GridGain
4 1 (0.43%) HDFS
4 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 71 (30.21%) Terraform
2 52 (22.13%) Kubernetes
3 29 (12.34%) Ansible
4 7 (2.98%) Grafana
5 6 (2.55%) Argo
5 6 (2.55%) ITRS Geneos
6 4 (1.70%) Istio
6 4 (1.70%) Kibana
6 4 (1.70%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.70%) Puppet
7 3 (1.28%) logstash
7 3 (1.28%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.85%) Karpenter
8 2 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.85%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.43%) Ambari
9 1 (0.43%) CASB
9 1 (0.43%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.43%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.43%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 36 (15.32%) Microsoft
2 34 (14.47%) Google
3 18 (7.66%) Databricks
4 12 (5.11%) Oracle
5 10 (4.26%) Salesforce
5 10 (4.26%) ServiceNow
6 8 (3.40%) Splunk
7 5 (2.13%) Palo Alto
7 5 (2.13%) VMware
8 4 (1.70%) CheckPoint
8 4 (1.70%) CyberArk
8 4 (1.70%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.70%) Solace
9 3 (1.28%) DocuSign
9 3 (1.28%) F5
9 3 (1.28%) HP
9 3 (1.28%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.85%) Infoblox
10 2 (0.85%) Ivanti
10 2 (0.85%) MarketAxess