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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 12 9
Rank change year-on-year -9 -3 +2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 240 237 280
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 9.81% 12.04% 11.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.50% 12.93% 12.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 159 189
10th Percentile £371 £424 £413
25th Percentile £463 £488 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £598
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.80% -3.98%
75th Percentile £650 £679 £683
90th Percentile £750 £756 £784
London median daily rate £550 £568 £573
% change year-on-year -3.08% -0.87% -4.58%
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% -31.25%

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 2,087 1,833 2,177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 85.32% 93.09% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,409 1,182 1,550
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% +0.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
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 32 25 23
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £20.22
25th Percentile £19.13 £22.75 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.56 £29.07 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.53% -20.54%
75th Percentile £45.03 £43.75 £30.41
90th Percentile £59.64 £50.75 £41.47
London median hourly rate £35.71 £34.50 £27.92
% change year-on-year +3.51% +23.57% -28.41%

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 14 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 14 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 -8 218 £550 -4.35% 147
West End of London +7 10 £575 +21.05% 4
City of Westminster +1 6 £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 8 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (3.33%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.50%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.25%) Confluence
3 3 (1.25%) Palantir Foundry
3 3 (1.25%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.83%) Apache
4 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.42%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.42%) nginx
5 1 (0.42%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.42%) Maya
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.42%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (2.50%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.83%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.42%) Magento
3 1 (0.42%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.42%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.42%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.42%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 139 (57.92%) Azure
2 81 (33.75%) AWS
3 73 (30.42%) Azure DevOps
4 53 (22.08%) GitHub
5 32 (13.33%) Serverless
6 31 (12.92%) GCP
7 29 (12.08%) GitHub Actions
7 29 (12.08%) Power Platform
8 17 (7.08%) Amazon S3
8 17 (7.08%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (6.25%) Azure AKS
9 15 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
10 14 (5.83%) Dynamics 365
11 12 (5.00%) Power Automate
12 10 (4.17%) Entra ID
13 9 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (3.75%) Azure Functions
13 9 (3.75%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (3.75%) Snowflake
14 8 (3.33%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.17%) Firewall
2 5 (2.08%) Network Security
3 3 (1.25%) DNS
4 2 (0.83%) FTP
5 1 (0.42%) DHCP
5 1 (0.42%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.42%) Internet
5 1 (0.42%) Multicast
5 1 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.42%) SSH
5 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.42%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.92%) Power BI
2 18 (7.50%) SQL Server
3 13 (5.42%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (3.75%) NoSQL
6 8 (3.33%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
7 6 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (2.50%) DynamoDB
7 6 (2.50%) Metadata
7 6 (2.50%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.50%) Snowflake Schema
7 6 (2.50%) Tableau
8 4 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.67%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.67%) MySQL
9 3 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (14.17%) Git
2 29 (12.08%) Jenkins
3 19 (7.92%) GitLab
4 17 (7.08%) JIRA
5 8 (3.33%) Postman
6 7 (2.92%) JUnit
7 6 (2.50%) Mockito
8 4 (1.67%) Gradle
8 4 (1.67%) JMeter
8 4 (1.67%) Maven
9 3 (1.25%) git-flow
9 3 (1.25%) Liquibase
9 3 (1.25%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.25%) Selenium
10 2 (0.83%) Ant
10 2 (0.83%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.83%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.83%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.83%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
General
1 63 (26.25%) Finance
2 37 (15.42%) Social Skills
3 23 (9.58%) Banking
4 21 (8.75%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.50%) Front Office
6 6 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.67%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.67%) Law
9 3 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.25%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.25%) Legal
9 3 (1.25%) Police
10 2 (0.83%) Military
10 2 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.83%) Publishing
11 1 (0.42%) Marketing
11 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (22.92%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (10.83%) Architect
2 26 (10.83%) Developer
3 23 (9.58%) Azure Engineer
4 22 (9.17%) Senior
5 15 (6.25%) Lead
6 13 (5.42%) Data Engineer
7 12 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (4.58%) Senior Developer
9 10 (4.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 10 (4.17%) Consultant
10 9 (3.75%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (3.75%) Cloud Architect
10 9 (3.75%) Software Engineer
10 9 (3.75%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.33%) AWS DevOps
11 8 (3.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.33%) Java Developer
11 8 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (3.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.17%) Kafka
2 21 (8.75%) Spring
3 20 (8.33%) REST
4 18 (7.50%) React
5 17 (7.08%) Spring Boot
6 13 (5.42%) Node.js
6 13 (5.42%) RESTful
7 10 (4.17%) .NET
7 10 (4.17%) PySpark
8 9 (3.75%) Playwright
9 6 (2.50%) AngularJS
9 6 (2.50%) Next.js
9 6 (2.50%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (2.50%) XML
10 5 (2.08%) HTML
10 5 (2.08%) JSON
10 5 (2.08%) SOAP
10 5 (2.08%) Swagger
11 4 (1.67%) CSS
11 4 (1.67%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 54 (22.50%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (2.92%) AI Agents
3 7 (2.92%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.50%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.08%) Derivative
5 5 (2.08%) Fixed Income
5 5 (2.08%) Private Cloud
5 5 (2.08%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.67%) Equities
7 3 (1.25%) Clustering
7 3 (1.25%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (1.25%) NHS
7 3 (1.25%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.83%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.83%) IoT
8 2 (0.83%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.58%) Linux
2 10 (4.17%) Windows
3 4 (1.67%) Unix
4 2 (0.83%) Android
4 2 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.83%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.42%) AIX
5 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.42%) VMS
5 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (57.50%) CI/CD
2 80 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 59 (24.58%) Agile
4 50 (20.83%) Containerisation
5 36 (15.00%) Test Automation
6 35 (14.58%) AI
7 34 (14.17%) Observability
8 33 (13.75%) Analytics
9 30 (12.50%) Microservices
9 30 (12.50%) Migration
10 28 (11.67%) Data Engineering
11 27 (11.25%) Platform Engineering
12 25 (10.42%) Roadmaps
12 25 (10.42%) Software Engineering
13 24 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
14 23 (9.58%) Event-Driven
15 21 (8.75%) Stakeholder Management
16 19 (7.92%) Business Intelligence
16 19 (7.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 64 (26.67%) Python
2 51 (21.25%) SQL
3 35 (14.58%) Java
4 21 (8.75%) JavaScript
5 19 (7.92%) TypeScript
6 18 (7.50%) C#
7 15 (6.25%) PowerShell
8 13 (5.42%) Bash
9 12 (5.00%) Bicep
10 4 (1.67%) C++
11 3 (1.25%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.25%) Scala
12 2 (0.83%) Korn
12 2 (0.83%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.83%) Perl
12 2 (0.83%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.83%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.42%) C
13 1 (0.42%) PHP
Qualifications
1 95 (39.58%) Security Cleared
2 94 (39.17%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.25%) Degree
4 11 (4.58%) Azure Certification
5 7 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.08%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.67%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.67%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.25%) PhD
9 2 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.83%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.83%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.83%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.83%) PMP
9 2 (0.83%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.42%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.42%) QA
2 10 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.33%) GDPR
4 6 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.67%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.25%) PMO
6 3 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.25%) SLA
7 2 (0.83%) EMIR
7 2 (0.83%) MiFID
7 2 (0.83%) NCSC
7 2 (0.83%) NIST
8 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.42%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.42%) P3O
System Software
1 53 (22.08%) Docker
2 8 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (2.92%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.42%) GridGain
5 1 (0.42%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 80 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 69 (28.75%) Terraform
3 20 (8.33%) Ansible
4 15 (6.25%) Grafana
4 15 (6.25%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.25%) Istio
5 3 (1.25%) Karpenter
6 2 (0.83%) Argo
6 2 (0.83%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.83%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (0.83%) Puppet
7 1 (0.42%) CA Wily
7 1 (0.42%) Consul
7 1 (0.42%) Icinga
7 1 (0.42%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.42%) linkerd
7 1 (0.42%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.42%) Packer
7 1 (0.42%) Salt
7 1 (0.42%) SCCM
Vendors
1 40 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.17%) Databricks
3 17 (7.08%) Google
4 13 (5.42%) Oracle
5 6 (2.50%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.08%) Dynatrace
6 5 (2.08%) OpenAI
6 5 (2.08%) Splunk
7 4 (1.67%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.67%) Foundry
7 4 (1.67%) SAP
7 4 (1.67%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.25%) Adobe
8 3 (1.25%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.25%) Palantir
8 3 (1.25%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.83%) Informatica
9 2 (0.83%) MarketAxess
9 2 (0.83%) Planview
9 2 (0.83%) Tradeweb