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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 14 9
Rank change year-on-year -6 -5 +4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 246 228 294
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 9.84% 12.01% 12.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.52% 12.87% 13.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 152 200
10th Percentile £387 £425 £413
25th Percentile £475 £480 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £677
90th Percentile £750 £790 £776
London median daily rate £550 £560 £575
% change year-on-year -1.79% -2.61% -4.17%
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% -38.89%

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 2,136 1,772 2,183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 85.47% 93.31% 90.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,458 1,143 1,546
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £679
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 22 22
10th Percentile £18.45 £22.00 £20.22
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.00 £22.63
Median hourly rate £26.11 £28.61 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -8.74% +2.88% -20.54%
75th Percentile £52.16 £44.40 £28.98
90th Percentile £59.72 £50.75 £40.00
London median hourly rate £37.25 £31.67 £27.83
% change year-on-year +17.61% +13.83% -29.04%

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 24 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 24 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 -5 222 £550 -5.98% 123
West End of London +6 11 £588 +23.68% 2
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 11 (4.47%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.66%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.25%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.63%) Apache
4 4 (1.63%) Confluence
5 3 (1.22%) Palantir Foundry
5 3 (1.22%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.41%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.41%) nginx
7 1 (0.41%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.81%) 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 (2.44%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.81%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.81%) 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
1 138 (56.10%) Azure
2 78 (31.71%) AWS
3 74 (30.08%) Azure DevOps
4 49 (19.92%) GitHub
5 32 (13.01%) Power Platform
6 31 (12.60%) GCP
7 29 (11.79%) GitHub Actions
8 28 (11.38%) Serverless
9 16 (6.50%) Azure AKS
9 16 (6.50%) Azure Data Factory
10 15 (6.10%) Amazon S3
11 14 (5.69%) Dynamics 365
12 13 (5.28%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (4.47%) Power Automate
14 10 (4.07%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (4.07%) Entra ID
15 9 (3.66%) Azure Functions
15 9 (3.66%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (3.66%) Snowflake
16 8 (3.25%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.25%) Firewall
2 5 (2.03%) Network Security
3 3 (1.22%) DNS
4 2 (0.81%) FTP
4 2 (0.81%) Internet
5 1 (0.41%) DHCP
5 1 (0.41%) HTTPS
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 22 (8.94%) Power BI
2 20 (8.13%) SQL Server
3 12 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (3.66%) NoSQL
5 7 (2.85%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (2.44%) Metadata
6 6 (2.44%) Tableau
7 5 (2.03%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (2.03%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.03%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.03%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.63%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.22%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.22%) MySQL
9 3 (1.22%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (13.82%) Git
2 27 (10.98%) Jenkins
3 23 (9.35%) GitLab
4 19 (7.72%) JIRA
5 8 (3.25%) Postman
6 4 (1.63%) Gradle
6 4 (1.63%) JMeter
6 4 (1.63%) JUnit
6 4 (1.63%) Maven
6 4 (1.63%) Mockito
7 3 (1.22%) git-flow
7 3 (1.22%) Liquibase
7 3 (1.22%) REST Assured
7 3 (1.22%) Selenium
8 2 (0.81%) Ant
8 2 (0.81%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.81%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.81%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
General
1 65 (26.42%) Finance
2 37 (15.04%) Social Skills
3 22 (8.94%) Banking
4 21 (8.54%) Public Sector
5 7 (2.85%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.03%) Front Office
6 5 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.63%) Law
8 3 (1.22%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.22%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.22%) Legal
8 3 (1.22%) Police
9 2 (0.81%) Military
9 2 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.81%) Publishing
10 1 (0.41%) Advertising
10 1 (0.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 55 (22.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (10.57%) Architect
3 23 (9.35%) Azure Engineer
4 22 (8.94%) Developer
5 21 (8.54%) Senior
6 19 (7.72%) Lead
7 14 (5.69%) Data Engineer
8 13 (5.28%) Cloud Engineer
9 11 (4.47%) Consultant
9 11 (4.47%) Senior Developer
10 10 (4.07%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 10 (4.07%) Tester
11 9 (3.66%) Cloud Architect
11 9 (3.66%) Software Engineer
11 9 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (3.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 8 (3.25%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (3.25%) Python Engineer
13 7 (2.85%) AWS DevOps
13 7 (2.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (9.76%) Kafka
2 21 (8.54%) Spring
3 20 (8.13%) REST
4 18 (7.32%) React
5 17 (6.91%) Spring Boot
6 13 (5.28%) .NET
7 12 (4.88%) Node.js
7 12 (4.88%) RESTful
8 11 (4.47%) PySpark
9 9 (3.66%) Playwright
10 6 (2.44%) Next.js
10 6 (2.44%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (2.03%) AngularJS
11 5 (2.03%) JSON
11 5 (2.03%) SOAP
11 5 (2.03%) Swagger
11 5 (2.03%) XML
12 4 (1.63%) Django
12 4 (1.63%) HTML
12 4 (1.63%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 54 (21.95%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.10%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.25%) AI Agents
4 7 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.44%) Private Cloud
6 5 (2.03%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.03%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.63%) Equities
7 4 (1.63%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.63%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.63%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.22%) Clustering
8 3 (1.22%) Derivative
8 3 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.22%) NHS
9 2 (0.81%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.81%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (0.81%) IoT
9 2 (0.81%) Life Science
9 2 (0.81%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.47%) Linux
2 10 (4.07%) Windows
3 3 (1.22%) Unix
4 2 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.81%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.41%) AIX
5 1 (0.41%) VMS
5 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (55.69%) CI/CD
2 78 (31.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 53 (21.54%) Agile
4 50 (20.33%) Containerisation
5 40 (16.26%) AI
6 35 (14.23%) Analytics
7 34 (13.82%) Observability
7 34 (13.82%) Platform Engineering
8 33 (13.41%) Test Automation
9 32 (13.01%) Migration
10 31 (12.60%) Data Engineering
11 28 (11.38%) Microservices
12 27 (10.98%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (10.98%) Roadmaps
12 27 (10.98%) Software Engineering
13 24 (9.76%) Event-Driven
14 23 (9.35%) Stakeholder Management
15 22 (8.94%) Business Intelligence
16 20 (8.13%) Data Pipeline
17 19 (7.72%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 65 (26.42%) Python
2 51 (20.73%) SQL
3 35 (14.23%) Java
4 20 (8.13%) JavaScript
4 20 (8.13%) TypeScript
5 18 (7.32%) C#
6 17 (6.91%) PowerShell
7 13 (5.28%) Bash
8 12 (4.88%) Bicep
9 3 (1.22%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.22%) C++
9 3 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.22%) Scala
10 2 (0.81%) Korn
10 2 (0.81%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.81%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.41%) C
11 1 (0.41%) Jython
11 1 (0.41%) ProC
11 1 (0.41%) XPath
Qualifications
1 95 (38.62%) Security Cleared
2 94 (38.21%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.69%) Degree
4 11 (4.47%) Azure Certification
5 7 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.44%) DBS Check
7 5 (2.03%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.63%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.22%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.22%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.22%) PMP
10 2 (0.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.81%) PhD
10 2 (0.81%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.69%) QA
2 9 (3.66%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.25%) GDPR
4 6 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.63%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.22%) PMO
6 3 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.22%) SLA
7 2 (0.81%) EMIR
7 2 (0.81%) MiFID
7 2 (0.81%) NCSC
7 2 (0.81%) NIST
8 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.41%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.41%) P3O
System Software
1 53 (21.54%) Docker
2 7 (2.85%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.85%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.41%) GridGain
4 1 (0.41%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 83 (33.74%) Kubernetes
2 68 (27.64%) Terraform
3 20 (8.13%) Ansible
4 15 (6.10%) Grafana
4 15 (6.10%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.22%) Karpenter
6 2 (0.81%) Argo
6 2 (0.81%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.81%) Istio
6 2 (0.81%) Packer
6 2 (0.81%) Puppet
7 1 (0.41%) CA Wily
7 1 (0.41%) Icinga
7 1 (0.41%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.41%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.41%) linkerd
7 1 (0.41%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.41%) Salt
7 1 (0.41%) SCCM
7 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (16.26%) Microsoft
2 25 (10.16%) Databricks
3 14 (5.69%) Google
4 12 (4.88%) Oracle
5 6 (2.44%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.03%) Dynatrace
6 5 (2.03%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.63%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.63%) Foundry
7 4 (1.63%) SAP
7 4 (1.63%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.63%) Splunk
8 3 (1.22%) Adobe
8 3 (1.22%) Palantir
8 3 (1.22%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.81%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.81%) IBM
9 2 (0.81%) Informatica
9 2 (0.81%) OutSystems
9 2 (0.81%) Planview