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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 13 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 229 225 239
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.57% 10.37% 9.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.92% 11.23% 10.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 145 195
10th Percentile £363 £457 £443
25th Percentile £463 £510 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £585 £625
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% -6.40% +1.83%
75th Percentile £655 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £784
London median daily rate £548 £600 £594
% change year-on-year -8.75% +1.01% -4.96%
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 £56.25 £80.50 £63.75
% change year-on-year -30.12% +26.27% -15.00%

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 1,773 2,003 2,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 89.59% 92.35% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,232 1,255 1,689
10th Percentile £350 £363 £352
25th Percentile £426 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +0.88% -0.87%
75th Percentile £669 £676 £688
90th Percentile £750 £778 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -5.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 25 19
10th Percentile £19.82 £19.36 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.98 £25.40 £20.72
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -21.43%
75th Percentile £40.19 £43.75 £42.38
90th Percentile £42.65 £112.00 £66.75
London median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 -5 200 £557 -4.87% 104
West End of London +16 6 £513 +7.89% 2
City of Westminster +6 5 £450 -18.18%
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 10 (4.37%) Confluence
2 6 (2.62%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.31%) Apache
3 3 (1.31%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.44%) CMS
5 1 (0.44%) Mattermost
5 1 (0.44%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.44%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.87%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.87%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.44%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 106 (46.29%) Azure
2 69 (30.13%) Azure DevOps
3 63 (27.51%) AWS
4 48 (20.96%) GitHub
5 40 (17.47%) GCP
6 27 (11.79%) GitHub Actions
7 23 (10.04%) Power Platform
7 23 (10.04%) Serverless
8 18 (7.86%) Amazon S3
8 18 (7.86%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (5.68%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (5.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 12 (5.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 10 (4.37%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (4.37%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (3.93%) Power Automate
13 7 (3.06%) Apigee
13 7 (3.06%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (3.06%) Azure AKS
13 7 (3.06%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.24%) Firewall
2 7 (3.06%) DNS
2 7 (3.06%) Network Security
2 7 (3.06%) SSL
3 3 (1.31%) HTTPS
3 3 (1.31%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.31%) VPN
4 2 (0.87%) BGP
4 2 (0.87%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (0.87%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (0.87%) Internet
4 2 (0.87%) MPLS
4 2 (0.87%) NX-OS
4 2 (0.87%) OSPF
4 2 (0.87%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.44%) DHCP
5 1 (0.44%) DKIM
5 1 (0.44%) Multicast
5 1 (0.44%) NGFW
5 1 (0.44%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.55%) Power BI
2 9 (3.93%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (3.93%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.49%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (3.49%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (3.06%) DynamoDB
4 7 (3.06%) MySQL
5 6 (2.62%) BigQuery
6 5 (2.18%) Redis
7 4 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.75%) Tableau
8 3 (1.31%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.31%) Big Data
8 3 (1.31%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.31%) Delta Lake
8 3 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.31%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.31%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.31%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.87%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 33 (14.41%) Jenkins
2 31 (13.54%) Git
3 29 (12.66%) JIRA
4 18 (7.86%) GitLab
5 9 (3.93%) Cypress.io
6 8 (3.49%) Selenium
6 8 (3.49%) SonarQube
7 7 (3.06%) Postman
8 6 (2.62%) Bitbucket
8 6 (2.62%) Gradle
9 5 (2.18%) JUnit
9 5 (2.18%) Maven
10 4 (1.75%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.31%) Mockito
11 3 (1.31%) Storybook
11 3 (1.31%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.87%) git-flow
12 2 (0.87%) Snyk
12 2 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 68 (29.69%) Finance
2 58 (25.33%) Social Skills
3 35 (15.28%) Banking
4 20 (8.73%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.80%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.06%) Front Office
7 6 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.62%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.18%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.18%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.75%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.31%) Back Office
10 3 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.87%) Law
11 2 (0.87%) Legal
11 2 (0.87%) Retail
Job Titles
1 55 (24.02%) DevOps Engineer
2 43 (18.78%) Developer
3 30 (13.10%) Senior
4 19 (8.30%) Lead
5 14 (6.11%) Architect
6 13 (5.68%) AWS Engineer
7 11 (4.80%) AWS DevOps
8 10 (4.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 10 (4.37%) Senior Developer
9 9 (3.93%) Azure Engineer
9 9 (3.93%) Data Engineer
9 9 (3.93%) GCP Engineer
10 8 (3.49%) Analyst
11 7 (3.06%) Consultant
12 6 (2.62%) Cloud Architect
12 6 (2.62%) Python Engineer
12 6 (2.62%) Senior DevOps
12 6 (2.62%) Test Engineer
13 5 (2.18%) Cloud Engineer
13 5 (2.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.30%) .NET
2 18 (7.86%) Node.js
3 16 (6.99%) React
3 16 (6.99%) REST
4 15 (6.55%) HTML
5 12 (5.24%) CSS
5 12 (5.24%) OAuth
6 10 (4.37%) JSON
7 9 (3.93%) AngularJS
7 9 (3.93%) RESTful
8 8 (3.49%) SOAP
8 8 (3.49%) XML
9 7 (3.06%) FastAPI
9 7 (3.06%) JWT
9 7 (3.06%) Kafka
10 6 (2.62%) GraphQL
10 6 (2.62%) HTML5
10 6 (2.62%) PySpark
10 6 (2.62%) Spring
11 5 (2.18%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (13.97%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.93%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.62%) Derivative
4 6 (2.62%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.18%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.18%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.75%) Equities
6 4 (1.75%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.75%) Life Science
6 4 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.31%) CMDB
7 3 (1.31%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (1.31%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.31%) Replication
8 2 (0.87%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.87%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.86%) Linux
2 10 (4.37%) Windows
3 4 (1.75%) Android
4 3 (1.31%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.31%) Unix
4 3 (1.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (52.84%) CI/CD
2 84 (36.68%) Agile
3 57 (24.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (14.41%) Containerisation
4 33 (14.41%) Test Automation
5 32 (13.97%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (12.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 26 (11.35%) Migration
8 25 (10.92%) AI
9 23 (10.04%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (9.17%) Scrum
10 21 (9.17%) Stakeholder Management
11 20 (8.73%) Analytics
12 19 (8.30%) Observability
12 19 (8.30%) Roadmaps
12 19 (8.30%) Software Engineering
13 16 (6.99%) DevSecOps
13 16 (6.99%) Microservices
13 16 (6.99%) Performance Tuning
14 15 (6.55%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 75 (32.75%) Python
2 43 (18.78%) SQL
3 34 (14.85%) Java
4 31 (13.54%) JavaScript
5 21 (9.17%) C#
6 16 (6.99%) TypeScript
7 14 (6.11%) PowerShell
8 9 (3.93%) Bash
9 7 (3.06%) C++
10 3 (1.31%) Bicep
10 3 (1.31%) Scala
11 2 (0.87%) C
11 2 (0.87%) Go
11 2 (0.87%) Korn
11 2 (0.87%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.87%) Perl
11 2 (0.87%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.87%) Rust
11 2 (0.87%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.44%) XPath
Qualifications
1 68 (29.69%) Security Cleared
2 63 (27.51%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.86%) Degree
4 11 (4.80%) Azure Certification
5 9 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.62%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.62%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.31%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.31%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.31%) PhD
9 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.87%) CBAP
9 2 (0.87%) CCIE
9 2 (0.87%) CCNP
9 2 (0.87%) CESG Certified Professional
9 2 (0.87%) ISEB
10 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.11%) QA
2 9 (3.93%) GDPR
3 8 (3.49%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.62%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.75%) NIST
5 4 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.31%) NCSC
6 3 (1.31%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.31%) WCAG
7 2 (0.87%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.87%) SLA
8 1 (0.44%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.44%) MiFID
8 1 (0.44%) PMO
8 1 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 49 (21.40%) Docker
2 3 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.44%) GridGain
4 1 (0.44%) HDFS
4 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 70 (30.57%) Terraform
2 49 (21.40%) Kubernetes
3 28 (12.23%) Ansible
4 6 (2.62%) Grafana
5 5 (2.18%) Argo
6 4 (1.75%) Istio
6 4 (1.75%) ITRS Geneos
6 4 (1.75%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.31%) Puppet
8 2 (0.87%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.87%) Karpenter
8 2 (0.87%) Kibana
8 2 (0.87%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.44%) CASB
9 1 (0.44%) Icinga
9 1 (0.44%) logstash
9 1 (0.44%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.44%) Packer
9 1 (0.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 35 (15.28%) Microsoft
2 31 (13.54%) Google
3 17 (7.42%) Databricks
4 11 (4.80%) Oracle
5 10 (4.37%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.93%) Salesforce
7 8 (3.49%) Splunk
8 6 (2.62%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.18%) VMware
10 4 (1.75%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.75%) CyberArk
10 4 (1.75%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.75%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.31%) DocuSign
11 3 (1.31%) F5
11 3 (1.31%) Fortinet
12 2 (0.87%) Infoblox
12 2 (0.87%) Ivanti
12 2 (0.87%) MarketAxess
12 2 (0.87%) Tradeweb