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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 15 10
Rank change year-on-year -1 -5 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 293 227 286
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.80% 11.64% 12.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.26% 12.40% 13.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 169 208
10th Percentile £419 £381 £425
25th Percentile £488 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.12%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £708
90th Percentile £725 £731 £805
London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £38.00 £32.25 -
25th Percentile £42.50 £41.25 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 -
90th Percentile £71.00 £82.75 -
London median hourly rate £55.00 £54.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -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 2,210 1,830 2,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 88.97% 93.85% 91.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,528 1,219 1,388
10th Percentile £363 £315 £375
25th Percentile £456 £419 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
London median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 33 22
10th Percentile £17.60 £19.05 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £20.88
Median hourly rate £25.07 £29.07 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.78% +7.67% -1.82%
75th Percentile £42.56 £50.75 £56.50
90th Percentile £63.88 £63.75 £133.00
London median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%

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 4 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in Central London over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in Central London

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 4 September 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 -3 258 £550 -8.33% 91
City of Westminster -4 9 £606 +27.63% 16
West End of London -3 8 £538 +10.26% 9
Southwark 0 4 £650 -
Lambeth - 1 - - 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 14 (4.78%) Apache Airflow
1 14 (4.78%) SharePoint
2 12 (4.10%) Apache Spark
3 11 (3.75%) Apache
4 10 (3.41%) Confluence
5 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.68%) IIS
6 2 (0.68%) nginx
7 1 (0.34%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.34%) CMS
7 1 (0.34%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.34%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.02%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.34%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.37%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.34%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.34%) Magento
4 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.34%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.34%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.34%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.34%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 169 (57.68%) Azure
2 96 (32.76%) Azure DevOps
3 82 (27.99%) AWS
4 53 (18.09%) GitHub
5 43 (14.68%) Power Platform
6 35 (11.95%) GitHub Actions
7 32 (10.92%) Azure Data Factory
8 29 (9.90%) GCP
9 26 (8.87%) Serverless
10 20 (6.83%) Power Automate
11 15 (5.12%) Azure AKS
11 15 (5.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 15 (5.12%) PowerApps
12 14 (4.78%) Amazon S3
13 13 (4.44%) Azure Functions
13 13 (4.44%) Azure Logic Apps
13 13 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
14 11 (3.75%) dbt
14 11 (3.75%) GitHub Copilot
15 10 (3.41%) Azure Databricks
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.80%) Internet
2 13 (4.44%) DNS
3 12 (4.10%) Firewall
4 9 (3.07%) VPN
5 5 (1.71%) DHCP
6 3 (1.02%) FTP
6 3 (1.02%) Network Security
6 3 (1.02%) SMTP
6 3 (1.02%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.68%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.68%) Intranet
7 2 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.68%) RTP
7 2 (0.68%) SSH
7 2 (0.68%) VLAN
7 2 (0.68%) VoIP
7 2 (0.68%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.34%) INAP
8 1 (0.34%) RTCP
8 1 (0.34%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (10.92%) Power BI
2 28 (9.56%) SQL Server
3 21 (7.17%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (4.10%) Data Lake
4 12 (4.10%) Metadata
5 10 (3.41%) Star Schema
6 9 (3.07%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (3.07%) MongoDB
6 9 (3.07%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (2.39%) Delta Lake
7 7 (2.39%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.05%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (1.71%) Big Data
9 5 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.37%) Data Mart
10 4 (1.37%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.37%) Redis
10 4 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 32 (10.92%) Jenkins
2 27 (9.22%) GitLab
3 26 (8.87%) Git
4 23 (7.85%) JIRA
5 9 (3.07%) JMeter
5 9 (3.07%) JUnit
6 6 (2.05%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.05%) Postman
6 6 (2.05%) Selenium
7 5 (1.71%) Artifactory
7 5 (1.71%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.71%) Gradle
7 5 (1.71%) Maven
7 5 (1.71%) Mockito
7 5 (1.71%) Visual Studio Code
8 4 (1.37%) Gatling
8 4 (1.37%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.37%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.02%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.02%) NeoLoad
General
1 86 (29.35%) Finance
2 62 (21.16%) Social Skills
3 36 (12.29%) Banking
4 28 (9.56%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (7.85%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.73%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.39%) Law
7 7 (2.39%) Retail
8 6 (2.05%) Front Office
8 6 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.71%) Marketing
10 4 (1.37%) Police
11 3 (1.02%) Military
12 2 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.68%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.68%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (16.72%) Developer
2 48 (16.38%) Senior
3 37 (12.63%) Architect
4 36 (12.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 27 (9.22%) Lead
6 24 (8.19%) Data Engineer
7 22 (7.51%) Azure Engineer
8 18 (6.14%) Senior Developer
9 17 (5.80%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 15 (5.12%) Platform Engineer
11 14 (4.78%) Tester
12 13 (4.44%) Data Architect
12 13 (4.44%) Java Developer
13 11 (3.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 11 (3.75%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (3.41%) Cloud Engineer
15 8 (2.73%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 8 (2.73%) Consultant
15 8 (2.73%) Software Engineer
16 7 (2.39%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (23.89%) Terraform
2 36 (12.29%) REST
3 28 (9.56%) .NET
4 27 (9.22%) Spring
5 26 (8.87%) Spring Boot
6 25 (8.53%) Kafka
7 22 (7.51%) PySpark
8 18 (6.14%) RESTful
9 17 (5.80%) pytest
10 14 (4.78%) SOAP
11 12 (4.10%) React
12 10 (3.41%) Playwright
13 9 (3.07%) AngularJS
14 8 (2.73%) XML
15 6 (2.05%) HTML
15 6 (2.05%) JSON
15 6 (2.05%) Middleware
15 6 (2.05%) Node.js
16 5 (1.71%) RabbitMQ
16 5 (1.71%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (21.16%) Cloud Native
2 21 (7.17%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.12%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (4.44%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.10%) AI Agents
6 11 (3.75%) Onboarding
7 9 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.39%) Data Structures
9 6 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.71%) Clustering
10 5 (1.71%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.71%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.37%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.02%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (1.02%) Equities
12 3 (1.02%) IoT
12 3 (1.02%) Low-Code
12 3 (1.02%) PKI
12 3 (1.02%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.83%) Linux
2 13 (4.44%) Windows
3 9 (3.07%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.73%) Unix
5 1 (0.34%) Android
5 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.34%) CentOS
5 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (64.85%) CI/CD
2 81 (27.65%) Agile
3 76 (25.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 68 (23.21%) AI
5 56 (19.11%) Analytics
6 50 (17.06%) Software Engineering
7 49 (16.72%) Test Automation
8 47 (16.04%) Microservices
9 45 (15.36%) Containerisation
9 45 (15.36%) Platform Engineering
10 41 (13.99%) Observability
10 41 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
10 41 (13.99%) Stakeholder Management
11 40 (13.65%) Data Modelling
11 40 (13.65%) Event-Driven
11 40 (13.65%) Machine Learning
12 39 (13.31%) Business Intelligence
13 37 (12.63%) Data Engineering
13 37 (12.63%) Migration
13 37 (12.63%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 103 (35.15%) Python
2 74 (25.26%) SQL
3 49 (16.72%) Java
4 35 (11.95%) C#
5 30 (10.24%) PowerShell
6 23 (7.85%) JavaScript
6 23 (7.85%) TypeScript
7 17 (5.80%) Bicep
8 16 (5.46%) Bash
9 10 (3.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (1.37%) Apex Code
10 4 (1.37%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.02%) Korn
11 3 (1.02%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.02%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.68%) ActionScript
12 2 (0.68%) ActionScript 2.0
12 2 (0.68%) R
13 1 (0.34%) Go
13 1 (0.34%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 86 (29.35%) Security Cleared
2 76 (25.94%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.78%) Degree
4 10 (3.41%) DBS Check
4 10 (3.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (2.73%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.39%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.02%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.02%) PMP
9 2 (0.68%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.68%) CISM
9 2 (0.68%) CISSP
9 2 (0.68%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.34%) IIBA
10 1 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (11.26%) QA
2 25 (8.53%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.39%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.39%) GDPR
4 3 (1.02%) NCSC
5 2 (0.68%) EMIR
5 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.68%) MiFID
5 2 (0.68%) SLA
6 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.34%) P3O
6 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.34%) PMO
6 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 58 (19.80%) Docker
2 11 (3.75%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.37%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.02%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.02%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.02%) Terminal Services
4 3 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.34%) GridGain
5 1 (0.34%) Varnish
5 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 98 (33.45%) Kubernetes
2 23 (7.85%) Ansible
3 20 (6.83%) Grafana
4 18 (6.14%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.37%) Puppet
5 4 (1.37%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.02%) Nagios
6 3 (1.02%) vMotion
7 2 (0.68%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.68%) Packer
7 2 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.34%) Argo
8 1 (0.34%) Bosun
8 1 (0.34%) Consul
8 1 (0.34%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.34%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.34%) Salt
8 1 (0.34%) SCCM
8 1 (0.34%) SELinux
Vendors
1 86 (29.35%) Microsoft
2 37 (12.63%) Databricks
3 16 (5.46%) Google
3 16 (5.46%) Oracle
4 10 (3.41%) Dynatrace
5 7 (2.39%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.39%) Splunk
6 5 (1.71%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.71%) VMware
7 4 (1.37%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.37%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.37%) SAP
8 3 (1.02%) Citrix
8 3 (1.02%) Foundry
8 3 (1.02%) HP
8 3 (1.02%) IBM
8 3 (1.02%) Symantec
9 2 (0.68%) BMC
9 2 (0.68%) Informatica
9 2 (0.68%) Software AG