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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 14 9
Rank change year-on-year -6 -5 +3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 252 249 311
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 9.59% 12.52% 13.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.09% 13.37% 14.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 172 214
10th Percentile £403 £413 £419
25th Percentile £475 £480 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £676 £689
90th Percentile £688 £774 £812
London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £65.73 - -
25th Percentile £66.81 £86.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £72.25 £87.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.43% +80.41% -
75th Percentile £76.31 £88.75 £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 2,273 1,862 2,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 86.49% 93.61% 91.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,543 1,206 1,511
10th Percentile £356 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -1.79% -6.67%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 31 23
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.00 £20.22
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £22.50
Median hourly rate £24.47 £31.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -21.08% +11.47% -20.54%
75th Percentile £54.00 £49.75 £36.50
90th Percentile £64.13 £63.75 £48.57
London median hourly rate £37.25 £32.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +14.62% +8.33% -26.90%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -8 225 £550 -4.35% 141
West End of London +3 9 £600 +29.73% 10
City of Westminster 0 8 £606 +10.23% 9
Lambeth - 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 12 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.57%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.17%) Confluence
4 5 (1.98%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.59%) Apache
6 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.19%) Palantir Foundry
6 3 (1.19%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.79%) IIS
8 1 (0.40%) CMS
8 1 (0.40%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.40%) nginx
8 1 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.79%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.40%) Maya
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.38%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.40%) Magento
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.40%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.40%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 135 (53.57%) Azure
2 74 (29.37%) AWS
3 69 (27.38%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (18.25%) GitHub
5 37 (14.68%) Power Platform
6 31 (12.30%) GitHub Actions
7 26 (10.32%) Serverless
8 25 (9.92%) GCP
9 13 (5.16%) Amazon S3
9 13 (5.16%) Azure AKS
9 13 (5.16%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (5.16%) Power Automate
10 12 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
11 11 (4.37%) Entra ID
12 10 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (3.97%) Azure Functions
12 10 (3.97%) Snowflake
13 9 (3.57%) Amazon Kinesis
13 9 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (3.57%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.76%) Internet
2 9 (3.57%) Firewall
3 8 (3.17%) DNS
4 7 (2.78%) VPN
5 4 (1.59%) DHCP
6 3 (1.19%) FTP
6 3 (1.19%) Network Security
6 3 (1.19%) SMTP
7 2 (0.79%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.79%) Intranet
8 1 (0.40%) Multicast
8 1 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.40%) SSH
8 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.40%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (10.32%) Power BI
2 21 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 12 (4.76%) NoSQL
4 10 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (3.57%) MongoDB
6 8 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (3.17%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (2.38%) Metadata
9 5 (1.98%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.59%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.59%) Big Data
10 4 (1.59%) Data Mart
10 4 (1.59%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.59%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.59%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (11.11%) Git
2 27 (10.71%) GitLab
3 25 (9.92%) Jenkins
4 22 (8.73%) JIRA
5 9 (3.57%) JUnit
6 6 (2.38%) Mockito
6 6 (2.38%) Postman
7 5 (1.98%) Gradle
7 5 (1.98%) Maven
7 5 (1.98%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.59%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.59%) JMeter
8 4 (1.59%) Selenium
9 3 (1.19%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.19%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.19%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.19%) Liquibase
9 3 (1.19%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.79%) Ant
10 2 (0.79%) git-flow
General
1 70 (27.78%) Finance
2 39 (15.48%) Social Skills
3 24 (9.52%) Banking
4 19 (7.54%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.38%) Law
7 4 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.59%) Police
7 4 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.19%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.79%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.79%) Front Office
9 2 (0.79%) Legal
9 2 (0.79%) Marketing
9 2 (0.79%) Military
10 1 (0.40%) Advertising
10 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 44 (17.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (11.51%) Senior
3 28 (11.11%) Developer
4 25 (9.92%) Architect
5 22 (8.73%) Lead
6 19 (7.54%) Azure Engineer
7 18 (7.14%) Data Engineer
8 12 (4.76%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 12 (4.76%) Tester
9 11 (4.37%) Cloud Engineer
9 11 (4.37%) Java Developer
9 11 (4.37%) Senior Developer
10 10 (3.97%) Software Engineer
11 9 (3.57%) Consultant
11 9 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (3.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 7 (2.78%) Azure Architect
13 7 (2.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 6 (2.38%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (10.71%) REST
1 27 (10.71%) Spring
2 23 (9.13%) Kafka
2 23 (9.13%) Spring Boot
3 16 (6.35%) .NET
4 15 (5.95%) RESTful
5 13 (5.16%) React
6 12 (4.76%) Playwright
6 12 (4.76%) pytest
7 10 (3.97%) PySpark
8 9 (3.57%) SOAP
9 8 (3.17%) AngularJS
10 7 (2.78%) Node.js
10 7 (2.78%) XML
11 6 (2.38%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (1.98%) ADO
12 5 (1.98%) HTML
12 5 (1.98%) JSON
12 5 (1.98%) Next.js
12 5 (1.98%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 53 (21.03%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.75%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.78%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.38%) Clustering
5 6 (2.38%) Private Cloud
6 5 (1.98%) AI Agents
6 5 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.98%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.59%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.59%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.19%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.19%) Equities
8 3 (1.19%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.19%) PKI
8 3 (1.19%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.79%) NHS
9 2 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.56%) Linux
2 10 (3.97%) Windows
3 7 (2.78%) Unix
4 4 (1.59%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.40%) AIX
5 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.40%) VMS
5 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (60.32%) CI/CD
2 72 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 59 (23.41%) Agile
4 47 (18.65%) Containerisation
5 46 (18.25%) AI
6 40 (15.87%) Analytics
7 38 (15.08%) Platform Engineering
8 36 (14.29%) Observability
8 36 (14.29%) Software Engineering
8 36 (14.29%) Test Automation
9 32 (12.70%) Data Engineering
9 32 (12.70%) Migration
10 31 (12.30%) Microservices
11 29 (11.51%) Validation
12 28 (11.11%) Machine Learning
12 28 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
13 27 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
13 27 (10.71%) Event-Driven
14 26 (10.32%) Continuous Improvement
15 23 (9.13%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 76 (30.16%) Python
2 50 (19.84%) SQL
3 36 (14.29%) Java
4 22 (8.73%) C#
4 22 (8.73%) TypeScript
5 18 (7.14%) PowerShell
6 17 (6.75%) JavaScript
7 14 (5.56%) Bash
8 11 (4.37%) Bicep
9 4 (1.59%) Apex Code
9 4 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (1.59%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.79%) ActionScript
10 2 (0.79%) ActionScript 2.0
10 2 (0.79%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.79%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.40%) Go
11 1 (0.40%) R
11 1 (0.40%) RPG
11 1 (0.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 89 (35.32%) Security Cleared
2 85 (33.73%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.35%) Degree
4 9 (3.57%) DBS Check
5 7 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.38%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.59%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.59%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.59%) PMP
8 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.79%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.79%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.40%) CCSP
10 1 (0.40%) IIBA
10 1 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.92%) QA
2 7 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.98%) GDPR
4 4 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.19%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.19%) PMO
5 3 (1.19%) SLA
6 2 (0.79%) EMIR
6 2 (0.79%) MiFID
6 2 (0.79%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.40%) NCSC
7 1 (0.40%) NIST
7 1 (0.40%) P3O
7 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 55 (21.83%) Docker
2 11 (4.37%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.19%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.19%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.19%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (1.19%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.40%) GridGain
6 1 (0.40%) Varnish
6 1 (0.40%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 92 (36.51%) Kubernetes
2 61 (24.21%) Terraform
3 24 (9.52%) Ansible
4 17 (6.75%) Prometheus
5 16 (6.35%) Grafana
6 5 (1.98%) Puppet
7 4 (1.59%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.19%) Nagios
8 3 (1.19%) vMotion
9 1 (0.40%) Argo
9 1 (0.40%) CA Wily
9 1 (0.40%) Consul
9 1 (0.40%) Istio
9 1 (0.40%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.40%) linkerd
9 1 (0.40%) Packer
9 1 (0.40%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.40%) Salt
9 1 (0.40%) SCCM
9 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (18.65%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.92%) Databricks
3 11 (4.37%) Oracle
4 10 (3.97%) Google
5 6 (2.38%) Dynatrace
5 6 (2.38%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.59%) Foundry
6 4 (1.59%) IBM
6 4 (1.59%) Splunk
6 4 (1.59%) VMware
7 3 (1.19%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.19%) Citrix
7 3 (1.19%) HP
7 3 (1.19%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.19%) Palantir
7 3 (1.19%) SAP
7 3 (1.19%) Symantec
8 2 (0.79%) Adobe
8 2 (0.79%) Sitecore
8 2 (0.79%) Solace