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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 10 11
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 225 282 373
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 11.59% 12.13% 11.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.36% 13.19% 12.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 200 273
10th Percentile £380 £425 £450
25th Percentile £470 £500 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £708 £725
90th Percentile £733 £800 £837
London median daily rate £550 £557 £600
% change year-on-year -1.17% -7.25% -2.44%
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 £54.25 £55.00 £90.00
% change year-on-year -1.36% -38.89% +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 1,820 2,138 2,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.72% 91.96% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,220 1,377 2,014
10th Percentile £316 £363 £357
25th Percentile £418 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £787 £813
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 26 17
10th Percentile £18.87 £17.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.25 £23.69 £16.61
Median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% +34.62% -38.82%
75th Percentile £50.75 £42.13 £42.32
90th Percentile £63.75 £115.00 £59.30
London median hourly rate £31.75 £35.00 £37.75
% change year-on-year -9.29% -7.28% +4.86%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -2 212 £600 +0.08% 127
City of Westminster +1 6 £475 -13.64%
West End of London - 3 £488 - 2
Southwark - 1 - -
DevOps
London

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (6.22%) Confluence
2 7 (3.11%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.33%) Apache
3 3 (1.33%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.44%) Mattermost
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 7 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.78%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (4.44%) Endur
2 2 (0.89%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.89%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.44%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.44%) Maximo
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.44%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.44%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 100 (44.44%) Azure
2 71 (31.56%) AWS
3 61 (27.11%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (13.78%) GitHub
5 25 (11.11%) GCP
6 21 (9.33%) Power Platform
7 20 (8.89%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (6.67%) Serverless
9 12 (5.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 11 (4.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 11 (4.89%) Amazon S3
10 11 (4.89%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (4.00%) Power Automate
11 9 (4.00%) PowerApps
12 8 (3.56%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (3.56%) Datadog
12 8 (3.56%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (3.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (3.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.78%) DNS
1 13 (5.78%) Firewall
2 7 (3.11%) SSL
2 7 (3.11%) VPN
3 4 (1.78%) BGP
3 4 (1.78%) Ethernet VPN
3 4 (1.78%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.78%) VXLAN
4 3 (1.33%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (1.33%) Multicast
4 3 (1.33%) Network Security
4 3 (1.33%) OSPF
4 3 (1.33%) SSH
5 2 (0.89%) HTTP
5 2 (0.89%) IGMP
5 2 (0.89%) MPLS
5 2 (0.89%) NX-OS
5 2 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.44%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.44%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.22%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.78%) Power BI
3 11 (4.89%) MongoDB
3 11 (4.89%) NoSQL
4 9 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (3.11%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.11%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (2.22%) BigQuery
6 5 (2.22%) Data Lake
6 5 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.78%) Big Data
7 4 (1.78%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.33%) Delta Lake
8 3 (1.33%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.33%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.33%) Parquet
8 3 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.89%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 29 (12.89%) Jenkins
2 26 (11.56%) JIRA
3 25 (11.11%) Git
4 20 (8.89%) GitLab
5 10 (4.44%) Selenium
6 9 (4.00%) Gradle
6 9 (4.00%) SonarQube
7 8 (3.56%) Cypress.io
7 8 (3.56%) Maven
8 6 (2.67%) Bitbucket
8 6 (2.67%) Postman
9 3 (1.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (1.33%) Storybook
10 2 (0.89%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.89%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.89%) Snyk
10 2 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.89%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.89%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.89%) TestNG
General
1 71 (31.56%) Finance
2 67 (29.78%) Social Skills
3 31 (13.78%) Banking
4 27 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.33%) Investment Banking
5 12 (5.33%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.67%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.33%) Back Office
9 3 (1.33%) Law
9 3 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.89%) Billing
10 2 (0.89%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.89%) Legal
10 2 (0.89%) Marketing
10 2 (0.89%) Retail
10 2 (0.89%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.44%) Local Government
11 1 (0.44%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 52 (23.11%) Developer
2 27 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 24 (10.67%) Senior
4 17 (7.56%) Analyst
5 16 (7.11%) Architect
6 14 (6.22%) Java Developer
7 11 (4.89%) Business Analyst
8 10 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
8 10 (4.44%) GCP Engineer
9 9 (4.00%) Data Engineer
10 8 (3.56%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (3.56%) Lead
11 7 (3.11%) AWS DevOps
11 7 (3.11%) Python Developer
11 7 (3.11%) Software Engineer
12 6 (2.67%) Applications Engineer
12 6 (2.67%) Endur Support
12 6 (2.67%) OpenLink Support
12 6 (2.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 6 (2.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.33%) .NET
2 16 (7.11%) React
2 16 (7.11%) REST
3 15 (6.67%) AngularJS
4 14 (6.22%) GraphQL
5 12 (5.33%) HTML
5 12 (5.33%) Kafka
6 11 (4.89%) Node.js
6 11 (4.89%) RESTful
6 11 (4.89%) Spring
7 10 (4.44%) CSS
8 9 (4.00%) OAuth
8 9 (4.00%) Spring Boot
9 8 (3.56%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (3.56%) FIX Protocol
10 7 (3.11%) WebSockets
11 6 (2.67%) ADO
11 6 (2.67%) OAuth2
12 5 (2.22%) Django
12 5 (2.22%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.44%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.78%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (4.00%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.67%) Fixed Income
7 5 (2.22%) Derivative
7 5 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.22%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.22%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.33%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.33%) IVR
8 3 (1.33%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.33%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.89%) Blockchain
9 2 (0.89%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (0.89%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.89%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 25 (11.11%) Linux
2 9 (4.00%) Unix
3 6 (2.67%) Windows
4 4 (1.78%) Android
4 4 (1.78%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.89%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (50.67%) CI/CD
2 92 (40.89%) Agile
3 47 (20.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 39 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (13.78%) Containerisation
6 27 (12.00%) Microservices
7 25 (11.11%) Observability
8 23 (10.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (9.78%) Test Automation
10 21 (9.33%) Scrum
11 19 (8.44%) High Availability
12 18 (8.00%) Analytics
12 18 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 18 (8.00%) Software Engineering
13 17 (7.56%) Project Management
13 17 (7.56%) Stakeholder Management
14 16 (7.11%) Data Pipeline
14 16 (7.11%) Mentoring
15 15 (6.67%) Roadmaps
15 15 (6.67%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 81 (36.00%) Python
2 47 (20.89%) SQL
3 39 (17.33%) Java
4 33 (14.67%) JavaScript
5 27 (12.00%) C#
6 15 (6.67%) PowerShell
7 13 (5.78%) TypeScript
8 12 (5.33%) Bash
9 6 (2.67%) Go
9 6 (2.67%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.78%) Bicep
11 3 (1.33%) Scala
12 2 (0.89%) C++
12 2 (0.89%) DAML
12 2 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.89%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.89%) PromQL
13 1 (0.44%) COBOL
13 1 (0.44%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 29 (12.89%) Security Cleared
2 27 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.67%) Degree
4 8 (3.56%) AWS Certified Developer
5 5 (2.22%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.78%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.33%) CCIE
7 3 (1.33%) CCNP
7 3 (1.33%) CISSP
7 3 (1.33%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.89%) CCNA
8 2 (0.89%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.89%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.89%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.44%) QA
2 7 (3.11%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.67%) GDPR
4 5 (2.22%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.22%) NIST
5 3 (1.33%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.33%) PMO
6 2 (0.89%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.89%) WCAG
7 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.44%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.44%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.44%) MiFID
7 1 (0.44%) SEPA
System Software
1 41 (18.22%) Docker
2 4 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.44%) GridGain
3 1 (0.44%) HDFS
3 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.44%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 66 (29.33%) Terraform
2 57 (25.33%) Kubernetes
3 22 (9.78%) Ansible
4 16 (7.11%) Prometheus
5 13 (5.78%) Grafana
5 13 (5.78%) ITRS Geneos
6 9 (4.00%) Puppet
7 7 (3.11%) Argo
7 7 (3.11%) Istio
7 7 (3.11%) Kibana
8 6 (2.67%) logstash
9 5 (2.22%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.89%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.89%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.44%) Ambari
12 1 (0.44%) Cilium
12 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.44%) Podman
12 1 (0.44%) yum
Vendors
1 44 (19.56%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.78%) Google
3 12 (5.33%) Databricks
4 9 (4.00%) Splunk
5 7 (3.11%) Oracle
5 7 (3.11%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.11%) Solace
6 6 (2.67%) Cisco
7 5 (2.22%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.78%) Arista
8 4 (1.78%) CheckPoint
8 4 (1.78%) F5
8 4 (1.78%) HP
8 4 (1.78%) OpenLink
9 3 (1.33%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.33%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.33%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.33%) UiPath
10 2 (0.89%) DocuSign
10 2 (0.89%) Dynatrace