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 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 230 239 233
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 10.41% 11.80% 9.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.73% 12.86% 10.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 159 155
10th Percentile £366 £425 £421
25th Percentile £463 £496 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +0.81%
75th Percentile £650 £678 £681
90th Percentile £775 £750 £748
London median daily rate £548 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -6.41% +1.74% -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.25 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £74.50 - £48.50
75th Percentile £76.75 - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £68.00 £80.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -15.53% +40.00% -23.33%

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 1,961 1,859 2,306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 88.77% 91.80% 89.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,347 1,208 1,638
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £446 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 17 25
10th Percentile £18.75 £21.70 £17.77
25th Percentile £21.37 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -20.54%
75th Percentile £42.65 £41.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.00 £74.05 £59.10
London median hourly rate £35.50 £35.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year - +18.33% -16.67%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 -8 200 £550 -4.35% 161
West End of London +16 8 £575 +27.78% 3
City of Westminster +3 2 £450 -7.69% 2
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 6 (2.61%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.17%) Confluence
2 5 (2.17%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.30%) Palantir Foundry
3 3 (1.30%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.87%) Apache
4 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.43%) CMS
5 1 (0.43%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.43%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.87%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.43%) Maya
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.87%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.87%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 121 (52.61%) Azure
2 74 (32.17%) Azure DevOps
3 66 (28.70%) AWS
4 51 (22.17%) GitHub
5 38 (16.52%) GCP
6 30 (13.04%) Serverless
7 26 (11.30%) GitHub Actions
7 26 (11.30%) Power Platform
8 17 (7.39%) Amazon S3
8 17 (7.39%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (5.22%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (3.91%) Azure AKS
11 9 (3.91%) Azure Functions
12 8 (3.48%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (3.48%) Entra ID
12 8 (3.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 7 (3.04%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.48%) Network Security
2 7 (3.04%) Firewall
3 3 (1.30%) DNS
4 2 (0.87%) DHCP
4 2 (0.87%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.87%) Internet
4 2 (0.87%) SSL
4 2 (0.87%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.39%) Power BI
2 12 (5.22%) SQL Server
3 11 (4.78%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.04%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.61%) DynamoDB
5 6 (2.61%) MySQL
5 6 (2.61%) Tableau
6 5 (2.17%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.74%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.74%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.30%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.30%) Data Vault
8 3 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.30%) Metadata
8 3 (1.30%) Redis
8 3 (1.30%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (16.09%) Git
2 29 (12.61%) Jenkins
3 25 (10.87%) JIRA
4 17 (7.39%) GitLab
5 7 (3.04%) Postman
5 7 (3.04%) Selenium
6 6 (2.61%) JUnit
7 5 (2.17%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.17%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.74%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.74%) Mockito
9 3 (1.30%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.87%) Ant
10 2 (0.87%) git-flow
10 2 (0.87%) Gradle
10 2 (0.87%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.87%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.87%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.43%) jMock
General
1 64 (27.83%) Finance
2 49 (21.30%) Social Skills
3 29 (12.61%) Banking
4 15 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (6.09%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.04%) Front Office
7 7 (3.04%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.17%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.74%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.30%) Law
10 3 (1.30%) Legal
11 2 (0.87%) Back Office
11 2 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.87%) Publishing
11 2 (0.87%) Retail
11 2 (0.87%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 58 (25.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (13.04%) Developer
3 26 (11.30%) Senior
4 21 (9.13%) Architect
5 19 (8.26%) Lead
6 11 (4.78%) AWS Engineer
6 11 (4.78%) Cloud Architect
7 10 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
7 10 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
7 10 (4.35%) Data Engineer
8 9 (3.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 9 (3.91%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (3.91%) Senior Developer
9 8 (3.48%) Analyst
9 8 (3.48%) Consultant
10 6 (2.61%) Azure Architect
10 6 (2.61%) GCP Engineer
10 6 (2.61%) Python Engineer
10 6 (2.61%) Senior DevOps
10 6 (2.61%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.26%) .NET
2 16 (6.96%) REST
3 15 (6.52%) Node.js
3 15 (6.52%) React
4 11 (4.78%) Kafka
5 9 (3.91%) HTML
5 9 (3.91%) OAuth
5 9 (3.91%) Playwright
5 9 (3.91%) PySpark
5 9 (3.91%) Spring
6 7 (3.04%) AngularJS
6 7 (3.04%) CSS
6 7 (3.04%) XML
7 6 (2.61%) FastAPI
7 6 (2.61%) JSON
7 6 (2.61%) JWT
7 6 (2.61%) RESTful
8 5 (2.17%) Next.js
8 5 (2.17%) SOAP
8 5 (2.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 41 (17.83%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.78%) Product Ownership
3 10 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.04%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.61%) Derivative
7 5 (2.17%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.74%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.74%) Equities
8 4 (1.74%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.74%) Life Science
8 4 (1.74%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.30%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.30%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.30%) Replication
10 2 (0.87%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.87%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.52%) Linux
2 13 (5.65%) Windows
3 3 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.30%) Unix
3 3 (1.30%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.87%) Android
5 1 (0.43%) AIX
5 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.43%) VMS
5 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (53.04%) CI/CD
2 68 (29.57%) Agile
3 67 (29.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (14.78%) Containerisation
4 34 (14.78%) Test Automation
5 32 (13.91%) Migration
6 29 (12.61%) AI
7 28 (12.17%) Continuous Improvement
7 28 (12.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 25 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (10.43%) Stakeholder Management
10 22 (9.57%) Observability
11 21 (9.13%) Analytics
11 21 (9.13%) Data Engineering
12 20 (8.70%) Roadmaps
12 20 (8.70%) Software Engineering
13 19 (8.26%) Scrum
14 18 (7.83%) Performance Tuning
15 16 (6.96%) Microservices
16 15 (6.52%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 67 (29.13%) Python
2 50 (21.74%) SQL
3 32 (13.91%) Java
4 23 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 22 (9.57%) C#
6 16 (6.96%) TypeScript
7 13 (5.65%) PowerShell
8 9 (3.91%) Bash
9 5 (2.17%) C++
10 4 (1.74%) Bicep
10 4 (1.74%) Scala
11 2 (0.87%) Apex Code
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 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 76 (33.04%) Security Cleared
2 73 (31.74%) SC Cleared
3 22 (9.57%) Degree
4 14 (6.09%) Azure Certification
5 12 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.61%) Master's Degree
6 6 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.17%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.74%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.30%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.30%) PhD
9 3 (1.30%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.87%) CBAP
10 2 (0.87%) CESG Certified Professional
10 2 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.87%) ISEB
10 2 (0.87%) PMP
11 1 (0.43%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.78%) QA
2 10 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (3.91%) Data Quality
4 7 (3.04%) GDPR
5 5 (2.17%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.74%) NIST
7 3 (1.30%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.30%) NCSC
7 3 (1.30%) PMO
7 3 (1.30%) SLA
8 2 (0.87%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.43%) MiFID
9 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 49 (21.30%) Docker
2 7 (3.04%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.74%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 69 (30.00%) Terraform
2 54 (23.48%) Kubernetes
3 23 (10.00%) Ansible
4 5 (2.17%) Grafana
4 5 (2.17%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.30%) Istio
5 3 (1.30%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (1.30%) Karpenter
6 2 (0.87%) Argo
6 2 (0.87%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.43%) CA Wily
7 1 (0.43%) CASB
7 1 (0.43%) Kibana
7 1 (0.43%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.43%) linkerd
7 1 (0.43%) logstash
7 1 (0.43%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.43%) Packer
7 1 (0.43%) Puppet
7 1 (0.43%) SCCM
Vendors
1 37 (16.09%) Microsoft
2 26 (11.30%) Google
3 21 (9.13%) Databricks
4 12 (5.22%) Oracle
5 10 (4.35%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.48%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.17%) Splunk
7 5 (2.17%) VMware
8 4 (1.74%) CyberArk
8 4 (1.74%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.30%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.30%) Foundry
9 3 (1.30%) Palantir
9 3 (1.30%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.87%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.87%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.87%) IBM
10 2 (0.87%) MarketAxess
10 2 (0.87%) Planview
10 2 (0.87%) Tradeweb