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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 13 11
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 +2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 222 250 300
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.59% 10.58% 10.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.44% 11.54% 11.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 169 234
10th Percentile £385 £446 £450
25th Percentile £463 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £613
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% - +2.08%
75th Percentile £670 £708 £713
90th Percentile £739 £780 £825
London median daily rate £550 £578 £600
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.75% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £32.25 - -
25th Percentile £41.25 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - -
75th Percentile £73.75 - -
90th Percentile £82.75 - -
London median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £90.00
% change year-on-year - -33.33% +36.80%

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 1,784 2,166 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.11% 91.70% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,241 1,359 1,883
10th Percentile £331 £375 £363
25th Percentile £421 £464 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £683 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £813
London median daily rate £538 £550 £573
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.06% -2.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 25 21
10th Percentile £17.97 £19.30 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.50 £31.25 £18.93
Median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -36.40%
75th Percentile £35.88 £78.75 £53.00
90th Percentile £60.25 £127.30 £68.75
London median hourly rate £29.50 £37.79 £37.17
% change year-on-year -21.93% +1.65% -0.88%

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 16 November 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in Central London over the 6 months to 16 November 2025.

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 16 November 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 -2 205 £578 -3.75% 451
City of Westminster +4 4 £475 - 2
West End of London - 3 £438 - 14
Camden - 1 £400 -
Southwark - 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 13 (5.86%) Confluence
2 6 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.80%) Apache
3 4 (1.80%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.45%) CMS
4 1 (0.45%) Mattermost
4 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.45%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 6 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.35%) Endur
3 2 (0.90%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.90%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.45%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.45%) Maximo
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.45%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.45%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 99 (44.59%) Azure
2 65 (29.28%) Azure DevOps
3 57 (25.68%) AWS
4 38 (17.12%) GitHub
5 33 (14.86%) GCP
6 24 (10.81%) GitHub Actions
7 23 (10.36%) Power Platform
8 16 (7.21%) Serverless
9 14 (6.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 14 (6.31%) Amazon S3
10 12 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (4.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 10 (4.50%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (3.60%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (3.60%) Power Automate
13 8 (3.60%) PowerApps
14 7 (3.15%) Dynamics 365
14 7 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
14 7 (3.15%) SaaS
14 7 (3.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.41%) DNS
2 9 (4.05%) Firewall
3 8 (3.60%) SSL
4 6 (2.70%) Network Security
5 4 (1.80%) BGP
5 4 (1.80%) Ethernet VPN
5 4 (1.80%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.80%) VPN
5 4 (1.80%) VXLAN
6 3 (1.35%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (1.35%) HTTPS
6 3 (1.35%) Multicast
6 3 (1.35%) OSPF
6 3 (1.35%) SSH
7 2 (0.90%) DHCP
7 2 (0.90%) IGMP
7 2 (0.90%) Internet
7 2 (0.90%) MPLS
7 2 (0.90%) NX-OS
8 1 (0.45%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.31%) Power BI
1 14 (6.31%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.60%) DynamoDB
3 7 (3.15%) BigQuery
4 6 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.25%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.25%) Delta Lake
5 5 (2.25%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.25%) MySQL
5 5 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.25%) Redis
6 4 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.80%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.80%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.35%) Big Data
7 3 (1.35%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (1.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (13.06%) Git
1 29 (13.06%) Jenkins
1 29 (13.06%) JIRA
2 18 (8.11%) GitLab
3 10 (4.50%) Gradle
3 10 (4.50%) Selenium
4 9 (4.05%) Cypress.io
4 9 (4.05%) SonarQube
5 8 (3.60%) Bitbucket
5 8 (3.60%) Maven
6 6 (2.70%) Postman
7 4 (1.80%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.35%) JUnit
8 3 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (1.35%) Storybook
8 3 (1.35%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.90%) Mockito
9 2 (0.90%) Snyk
9 2 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 73 (32.88%) Finance
2 65 (29.28%) Social Skills
3 35 (15.77%) Banking
4 24 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.95%) Investment Banking
6 9 (4.05%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.70%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.25%) Back Office
8 5 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.25%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.80%) Front Office
9 4 (1.80%) Law
9 4 (1.80%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.35%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.90%) Billing
11 2 (0.90%) Marketing
11 2 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (20.72%) Developer
2 33 (14.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (13.96%) Senior
4 16 (7.21%) Analyst
4 16 (7.21%) Architect
5 13 (5.86%) Business Analyst
5 13 (5.86%) Lead
6 10 (4.50%) GCP Engineer
7 9 (4.05%) Data Engineer
7 9 (4.05%) Senior Developer
8 8 (3.60%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (3.15%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (3.15%) Java Developer
10 6 (2.70%) .NET Developer
10 6 (2.70%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (2.70%) Network Engineer
10 6 (2.70%) Python Developer
10 6 (2.70%) Security Architect
10 6 (2.70%) Software Engineer
10 6 (2.70%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (12.16%) .NET
2 16 (7.21%) HTML
2 16 (7.21%) REST
3 14 (6.31%) AngularJS
4 13 (5.86%) CSS
4 13 (5.86%) Node.js
5 12 (5.41%) React
6 11 (4.95%) GraphQL
6 11 (4.95%) OAuth
6 11 (4.95%) RESTful
7 7 (3.15%) JSON
7 7 (3.15%) SOAP
8 6 (2.70%) ADO
8 6 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (2.70%) FIX Protocol
8 6 (2.70%) HTML5
8 6 (2.70%) JWT
8 6 (2.70%) Spring
9 5 (2.25%) .NET Core
9 5 (2.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.16%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (3.60%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.15%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.15%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.70%) Derivative
6 6 (2.70%) Fixed Income
7 5 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.25%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.35%) Life Science
9 3 (1.35%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.35%) PKI
10 2 (0.90%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.90%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.90%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.56%) Linux
2 6 (2.70%) Windows
3 5 (2.25%) Unix
4 4 (1.80%) Android
4 4 (1.80%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.35%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 88 (39.64%) Agile
3 49 (22.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (13.51%) Containerisation
6 26 (11.71%) Test Automation
7 25 (11.26%) Scrum
8 24 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
9 23 (10.36%) Observability
10 22 (9.91%) Analytics
10 22 (9.91%) Software Engineering
11 21 (9.46%) Migration
12 20 (9.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 19 (8.56%) AI
14 18 (8.11%) Machine Learning
14 18 (8.11%) SDLC
14 18 (8.11%) Stakeholder Management
15 16 (7.21%) Business Intelligence
15 16 (7.21%) Cloud Security
15 16 (7.21%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 73 (32.88%) Python
2 44 (19.82%) SQL
3 29 (13.06%) Java
3 29 (13.06%) JavaScript
4 27 (12.16%) C#
5 16 (7.21%) PowerShell
6 15 (6.76%) TypeScript
7 13 (5.86%) Bash
8 4 (1.80%) Bicep
8 4 (1.80%) Go
9 3 (1.35%) C++
9 3 (1.35%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.90%) PromQL
10 2 (0.90%) Rust
11 1 (0.45%) C
11 1 (0.45%) COBOL
11 1 (0.45%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.45%) SOQL
11 1 (0.45%) Swift
11 1 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 36 (16.22%) Security Cleared
2 32 (14.41%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.66%) Degree
4 9 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.60%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.25%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.35%) CCIE
8 3 (1.35%) CCNP
8 3 (1.35%) CISSP
9 2 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.90%) CBAP
9 2 (0.90%) ISEB
9 2 (0.90%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.90%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.45%) CESG Certified Professional
10 1 (0.45%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.45%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.56%) QA
2 9 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.60%) Accessibility
4 7 (3.15%) GDPR
5 6 (2.70%) NIST
6 5 (2.25%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.35%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.35%) WCAG
8 2 (0.90%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.90%) MiFID
8 2 (0.90%) NCSC
8 2 (0.90%) PMO
8 2 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.45%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.45%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.45%) SEPA
9 1 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 41 (18.47%) Docker
2 3 (1.35%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.45%) GridGain
4 1 (0.45%) HDFS
4 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 58 (26.13%) Terraform
2 42 (18.92%) Kubernetes
3 29 (13.06%) Ansible
4 10 (4.50%) Prometheus
5 9 (4.05%) ITRS Geneos
6 8 (3.60%) Grafana
7 6 (2.70%) Argo
7 6 (2.70%) Kibana
7 6 (2.70%) Puppet
8 5 (2.25%) Istio
8 5 (2.25%) logstash
9 3 (1.35%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.90%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.45%) Ambari
11 1 (0.45%) CASB
11 1 (0.45%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.45%) Packer
11 1 (0.45%) yum
Vendors
1 42 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 28 (12.61%) Google
3 15 (6.76%) Databricks
4 9 (4.05%) Oracle
4 9 (4.05%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.15%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.15%) Splunk
6 6 (2.70%) Solace
7 5 (2.25%) F5
7 5 (2.25%) Palo Alto
7 5 (2.25%) UiPath
8 4 (1.80%) Arista
8 4 (1.80%) CheckPoint
8 4 (1.80%) Cisco
8 4 (1.80%) VMware
9 3 (1.35%) CyberArk
9 3 (1.35%) DocuSign
9 3 (1.35%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.35%) HP
9 3 (1.35%) OpenAI