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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 14 9
Rank change year-on-year -6 -5 +2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 237 237 281
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 9.66% 11.89% 11.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.33% 12.77% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 159 190
10th Percentile £371 £425 £413
25th Percentile £463 £495 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £599
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.98% -4.18%
75th Percentile £650 £684 £681
90th Percentile £759 £756 £783
London median daily rate £540 £575 £573
% change year-on-year -6.09% +0.44% -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 £68.00 £52.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +29.52% -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 2,092 1,856 2,196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 85.25% 93.08% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,415 1,200 1,563
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £452 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -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 24 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 £43.97 £30.41
90th Percentile £59.64 £50.75 £41.47
London median hourly rate £35.71 £34.25 £28.00
% change year-on-year +4.26% +22.32% -28.21%

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 11 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 11 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 -8 216 £550 -5.98% 134
West End of London +9 9 £575 +21.05% 1
City of Westminster 0 5 £531 -3.41% 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 (3.38%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.95%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.53%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.27%) Confluence
4 3 (1.27%) Palantir Foundry
4 3 (1.27%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.84%) Apache
5 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.42%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.42%) nginx
6 1 (0.42%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.84%) 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 5 (2.11%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.84%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.84%) 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
1 136 (57.38%) Azure
2 80 (33.76%) AWS
3 72 (30.38%) Azure DevOps
4 52 (21.94%) GitHub
5 32 (13.50%) GCP
5 32 (13.50%) Serverless
6 28 (11.81%) GitHub Actions
7 27 (11.39%) Power Platform
8 17 (7.17%) Amazon S3
8 17 (7.17%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (6.33%) Azure Data Factory
10 14 (5.91%) Azure AKS
11 13 (5.49%) Dynamics 365
12 11 (4.64%) Entra ID
12 11 (4.64%) Power Automate
13 10 (4.22%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (3.80%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (3.80%) Azure Functions
14 9 (3.80%) Snowflake
15 8 (3.38%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.22%) Firewall
2 5 (2.11%) Network Security
3 3 (1.27%) DNS
4 2 (0.84%) 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 17 (7.17%) Power BI
1 17 (7.17%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (4.22%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (3.38%) NoSQL
4 8 (3.38%) Relational Database
5 6 (2.53%) Apache Cassandra
5 6 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (2.53%) DynamoDB
5 6 (2.53%) Metadata
5 6 (2.53%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.53%) Snowflake Schema
5 6 (2.53%) Tableau
6 4 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (1.69%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.69%) MySQL
7 3 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.27%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 33 (13.92%) Git
2 29 (12.24%) Jenkins
3 19 (8.02%) GitLab
4 17 (7.17%) JIRA
5 8 (3.38%) Postman
6 7 (2.95%) JUnit
7 6 (2.53%) Mockito
8 4 (1.69%) Gradle
8 4 (1.69%) JMeter
8 4 (1.69%) Maven
9 3 (1.27%) git-flow
9 3 (1.27%) Liquibase
9 3 (1.27%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.27%) Selenium
10 2 (0.84%) Ant
10 2 (0.84%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.84%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.84%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.84%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
General
1 64 (27.00%) Finance
2 39 (16.46%) Social Skills
3 23 (9.70%) Banking
4 20 (8.44%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.22%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.53%) Front Office
6 6 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.11%) Law
7 5 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.69%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.27%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.27%) Legal
9 3 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.27%) Police
10 2 (0.84%) Military
10 2 (0.84%) Publishing
10 2 (0.84%) Retail
11 1 (0.42%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 55 (23.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (11.39%) Developer
3 24 (10.13%) Architect
4 23 (9.70%) Azure Engineer
4 23 (9.70%) Senior
5 14 (5.91%) Lead
6 13 (5.49%) Data Engineer
7 12 (5.06%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (5.06%) Senior Developer
8 10 (4.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 9 (3.80%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (3.80%) Cloud Architect
9 9 (3.80%) Consultant
10 8 (3.38%) AWS DevOps
10 8 (3.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.38%) Java Developer
10 8 (3.38%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (3.38%) Python Engineer
10 8 (3.38%) Software Engineer
11 7 (2.95%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.28%) Kafka
2 20 (8.44%) REST
2 20 (8.44%) Spring
3 18 (7.59%) React
4 16 (6.75%) Spring Boot
5 12 (5.06%) Node.js
5 12 (5.06%) RESTful
6 10 (4.22%) .NET
6 10 (4.22%) PySpark
7 9 (3.80%) Playwright
8 6 (2.53%) AngularJS
8 6 (2.53%) Next.js
8 6 (2.53%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (2.53%) XML
9 5 (2.11%) FastAPI
9 5 (2.11%) HTML
9 5 (2.11%) JSON
9 5 (2.11%) OAuth
9 5 (2.11%) SOAP
9 5 (2.11%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 55 (23.21%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.75%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.38%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.95%) AI Agents
5 6 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.53%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.11%) Derivative
6 5 (2.11%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.11%) Private Cloud
6 5 (2.11%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.69%) Equities
7 4 (1.69%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.27%) Clustering
8 3 (1.27%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (1.27%) Life Science
8 3 (1.27%) NHS
9 2 (0.84%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.84%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.84%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.06%) Linux
2 11 (4.64%) Windows
3 4 (1.69%) Unix
4 3 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.84%) Android
6 1 (0.42%) AIX
6 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.42%) VMS
6 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (57.38%) CI/CD
2 78 (32.91%) Infrastructure as Code
3 59 (24.89%) Agile
4 51 (21.52%) Containerisation
5 37 (15.61%) Test Automation
6 36 (15.19%) AI
7 34 (14.35%) Observability
8 31 (13.08%) Analytics
9 29 (12.24%) Microservices
9 29 (12.24%) Migration
10 28 (11.81%) Data Engineering
11 25 (10.55%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (10.55%) Software Engineering
12 24 (10.13%) Performance Tuning
12 24 (10.13%) Platform Engineering
12 24 (10.13%) Roadmaps
13 22 (9.28%) Stakeholder Management
14 20 (8.44%) Event-Driven
15 19 (8.02%) Data Pipeline
16 18 (7.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 65 (27.43%) Python
2 52 (21.94%) SQL
3 34 (14.35%) Java
4 20 (8.44%) JavaScript
5 18 (7.59%) C#
5 18 (7.59%) TypeScript
6 16 (6.75%) PowerShell
7 13 (5.49%) Bash
8 12 (5.06%) Bicep
9 4 (1.69%) C++
10 3 (1.27%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.27%) Scala
11 2 (0.84%) Korn
11 2 (0.84%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.84%) Perl
11 2 (0.84%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.84%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.42%) Jython
12 1 (0.42%) XPath
Qualifications
1 89 (37.55%) Security Cleared
2 88 (37.13%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.33%) Degree
4 11 (4.64%) Azure Certification
5 7 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.11%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.69%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.27%) PhD
9 2 (0.84%) CESG Certified Professional
9 2 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.84%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.84%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.84%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.84%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.84%) PMP
9 2 (0.84%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.42%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.06%) QA
2 10 (4.22%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.38%) GDPR
4 7 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.69%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.27%) NIST
6 3 (1.27%) PMO
6 3 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.27%) SLA
7 2 (0.84%) EMIR
7 2 (0.84%) MiFID
7 2 (0.84%) NCSC
7 2 (0.84%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.42%) P3O
System Software
1 53 (22.36%) Docker
2 8 (3.38%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (2.95%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.42%) GridGain
5 1 (0.42%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 79 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 70 (29.54%) Terraform
3 20 (8.44%) Ansible
4 15 (6.33%) Grafana
4 15 (6.33%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.27%) Istio
5 3 (1.27%) Karpenter
6 2 (0.84%) Argo
6 2 (0.84%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.84%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (0.84%) Puppet
7 1 (0.42%) CA Wily
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
7 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (16.46%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.44%) Databricks
3 18 (7.59%) Google
4 14 (5.91%) Oracle
5 7 (2.95%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.11%) Dynatrace
6 5 (2.11%) OpenAI
6 5 (2.11%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.11%) Splunk
7 4 (1.69%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.69%) Foundry
7 4 (1.69%) SAP
8 3 (1.27%) Adobe
8 3 (1.27%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.27%) Palantir
8 3 (1.27%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.84%) CyberArk
9 2 (0.84%) Informatica
9 2 (0.84%) MarketAxess
9 2 (0.84%) Tradeweb