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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 14 9
Rank change year-on-year -5 -5 +3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 251 243 300
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 9.72% 12.73% 12.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.24% 13.62% 13.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 168 203
10th Percentile £410 £413 £413
25th Percentile £475 £479 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £685
90th Percentile £701 £793 £788
London median daily rate £550 £550 £567
% change year-on-year - -3.00% -5.50%
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 2,233 1,784 2,195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 86.45% 93.45% 90.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,506 1,158 1,540
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 £669 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 26 23
10th Percentile £17.60 £19.67 £20.22
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.25 £28.79 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +3.51% -20.54%
75th Percentile £55.56 £47.72 £31.19
90th Percentile £64.38 £63.75 £41.47
London median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +10.29% +13.33% -24.68%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -4 223 £550 -4.35% 98
West End of London +3 10 £600 +26.32% 8
City of Westminster -2 8 £606 +10.23%
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 (4.38%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.59%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.79%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.99%) Confluence
5 4 (1.59%) Apache
5 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.20%) Palantir Foundry
6 3 (1.20%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.40%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.40%) IIS
7 1 (0.40%) nginx
7 1 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.40%) Maya
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.39%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.40%) Magento
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.40%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.40%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 137 (54.58%) Azure
2 80 (31.87%) AWS
3 71 (28.29%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (18.73%) GitHub
5 34 (13.55%) Power Platform
6 30 (11.95%) GitHub Actions
7 28 (11.16%) GCP
8 27 (10.76%) Serverless
9 15 (5.98%) Azure AKS
10 14 (5.58%) Amazon S3
10 14 (5.58%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (4.38%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (4.38%) Dynamics 365
12 10 (3.98%) Azure Functions
12 10 (3.98%) Entra ID
12 10 (3.98%) Power Automate
12 10 (3.98%) Snowflake
13 9 (3.59%) Amazon Kinesis
13 9 (3.59%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (3.59%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.59%) Firewall
2 8 (3.19%) Internet
3 6 (2.39%) DNS
4 4 (1.59%) Network Security
4 4 (1.59%) VPN
5 3 (1.20%) DHCP
5 3 (1.20%) FTP
6 2 (0.80%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.80%) SMTP
7 1 (0.40%) Intranet
7 1 (0.40%) Multicast
7 1 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.40%) SSH
7 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.40%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (9.56%) Power BI
2 22 (8.76%) SQL Server
3 10 (3.98%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (3.59%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (3.59%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.19%) MongoDB
5 8 (3.19%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.99%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (1.99%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (1.99%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (1.99%) Metadata
7 5 (1.99%) Tableau
8 4 (1.59%) Big Data
8 4 (1.59%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.59%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.59%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (1.20%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (11.16%) Git
2 26 (10.36%) GitLab
3 24 (9.56%) Jenkins
4 19 (7.57%) JIRA
5 6 (2.39%) Postman
6 5 (1.99%) Gradle
6 5 (1.99%) JUnit
6 5 (1.99%) Mockito
7 4 (1.59%) JMeter
7 4 (1.59%) Maven
8 3 (1.20%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.20%) git-flow
8 3 (1.20%) Liquibase
8 3 (1.20%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.80%) Ant
9 2 (0.80%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.80%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.80%) Selenium
9 2 (0.80%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 64 (25.50%) Finance
2 36 (14.34%) Social Skills
3 21 (8.37%) Public Sector
4 19 (7.57%) Banking
5 7 (2.79%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.39%) Law
7 5 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.59%) Police
8 4 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.20%) Military
10 2 (0.80%) Front Office
10 2 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.80%) Legal
10 2 (0.80%) Publishing
10 2 (0.80%) Retail
11 1 (0.40%) Advertising
11 1 (0.40%) Aviation
11 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 53 (21.12%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (9.96%) Architect
3 24 (9.56%) Senior
4 23 (9.16%) Developer
4 23 (9.16%) Lead
5 20 (7.97%) Azure Engineer
6 16 (6.37%) Data Engineer
7 14 (5.58%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (4.38%) Senior Developer
8 11 (4.38%) Tester
9 10 (3.98%) Consultant
10 9 (3.59%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 9 (3.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 9 (3.59%) Java Developer
10 9 (3.59%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 9 (3.59%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (3.59%) Software Engineer
11 8 (3.19%) Cloud Architect
11 8 (3.19%) Python Engineer
11 8 (3.19%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (9.56%) Kafka
1 24 (9.56%) REST
1 24 (9.56%) Spring
2 20 (7.97%) Spring Boot
3 19 (7.57%) React
4 14 (5.58%) .NET
5 12 (4.78%) RESTful
6 10 (3.98%) PySpark
7 9 (3.59%) Node.js
7 9 (3.59%) Playwright
7 9 (3.59%) pytest
8 7 (2.79%) AngularJS
8 7 (2.79%) Next.js
8 7 (2.79%) SOAP
9 6 (2.39%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (1.99%) JSON
10 5 (1.99%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (1.99%) Swagger
10 5 (1.99%) XML
11 4 (1.59%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 59 (23.51%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.37%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.38%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.79%) AI Agents
5 6 (2.39%) Private Cloud
5 6 (2.39%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.99%) Clustering
6 5 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.99%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.20%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.20%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.20%) NHS
7 3 (1.20%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.20%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.80%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.80%) IoT
8 2 (0.80%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.78%) Linux
2 10 (3.98%) Windows
3 4 (1.59%) Unix
4 3 (1.20%) 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
1 145 (57.77%) CI/CD
2 78 (31.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 50 (19.92%) Agile
4 49 (19.52%) Containerisation
5 45 (17.93%) AI
6 39 (15.54%) Observability
7 38 (15.14%) Platform Engineering
8 37 (14.74%) Analytics
9 33 (13.15%) Data Engineering
9 33 (13.15%) Migration
9 33 (13.15%) Software Engineering
10 32 (12.75%) Test Automation
11 28 (11.16%) Microservices
12 26 (10.36%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (9.96%) Event-Driven
13 25 (9.96%) Stakeholder Management
14 24 (9.56%) Business Intelligence
14 24 (9.56%) Machine Learning
14 24 (9.56%) Roadmaps
15 23 (9.16%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 71 (28.29%) Python
2 50 (19.92%) SQL
3 34 (13.55%) Java
4 21 (8.37%) TypeScript
5 18 (7.17%) PowerShell
6 17 (6.77%) C#
6 17 (6.77%) JavaScript
7 14 (5.58%) Bash
8 13 (5.18%) Bicep
9 4 (1.59%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.20%) Korn
10 3 (1.20%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.80%) ActionScript
11 2 (0.80%) ActionScript 2.0
11 2 (0.80%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.80%) Scala
11 2 (0.80%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.40%) Go
12 1 (0.40%) Jython
Qualifications
1 98 (39.04%) Security Cleared
2 95 (37.85%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.38%) Degree
4 10 (3.98%) Azure Certification
5 9 (3.59%) DBS Check
6 5 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.59%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.59%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.20%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.20%) PMP
9 2 (0.80%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.40%) CCSP
10 1 (0.40%) CISM
10 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.37%) QA
2 6 (2.39%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.99%) GDPR
4 4 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.20%) PMO
5 3 (1.20%) SLA
6 2 (0.80%) EMIR
6 2 (0.80%) MiFID
6 2 (0.80%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.40%) NCSC
7 1 (0.40%) NIST
7 1 (0.40%) P3O
7 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 54 (21.51%) Docker
2 9 (3.59%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.39%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.80%) BitLocker
5 2 (0.80%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.80%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.80%) Terminal Services
5 2 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.40%) GridGain
6 1 (0.40%) Varnish
6 1 (0.40%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 88 (35.06%) Kubernetes
2 63 (25.10%) Terraform
3 21 (8.37%) Ansible
4 16 (6.37%) Grafana
4 16 (6.37%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.59%) Puppet
6 3 (1.20%) Argo
6 3 (1.20%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.80%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.80%) Istio
7 2 (0.80%) Karpenter
7 2 (0.80%) Nagios
7 2 (0.80%) vMotion
8 1 (0.40%) CA Wily
8 1 (0.40%) Consul
8 1 (0.40%) linkerd
8 1 (0.40%) Packer
8 1 (0.40%) Salt
8 1 (0.40%) SCCM
8 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (15.14%) Microsoft
2 27 (10.76%) Databricks
3 12 (4.78%) Google
4 11 (4.38%) Oracle
5 6 (2.39%) Dynatrace
5 6 (2.39%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.99%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.59%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.59%) Foundry
8 3 (1.20%) Adobe
8 3 (1.20%) IBM
8 3 (1.20%) Palantir
8 3 (1.20%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.20%) SAP
8 3 (1.20%) Splunk
8 3 (1.20%) VMware
9 2 (0.80%) Citrix
9 2 (0.80%) HP
9 2 (0.80%) Software AG
9 2 (0.80%) Sybase