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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 11 17
Rank change year-on-year -6 +6 -6
Contract jobs citing DevOps 226 233 222
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 10.97% 10.90% 8.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.32% 11.82% 9.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 150 173
10th Percentile £371 £452 £440
25th Percentile £461 £505 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £613
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -4.49% -0.81%
75th Percentile £650 £684 £688
90th Percentile £775 £750 £778
London median daily rate £540 £600 £591
% change year-on-year -10.00% +1.57% -5.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.75
Median hourly rate - - £48.50
75th Percentile - - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £56.25 £80.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -30.12% +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 1,834 1,972 2,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 89.03% 92.28% 89.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,274 1,233 1,660
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £436 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% +2.22% -3.05%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 21 26
10th Percentile £19.86 £18.10 £17.97
25th Percentile £23.15 £22.00 £22.63
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -20.54%
75th Percentile £41.85 - £39.50
90th Percentile £46.53 £43.75 £65.00
London median hourly rate £34.50 £35.00 £30.08
% change year-on-year -1.44% +16.36% -19.79%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 -4 195 £550 -5.98% 109
West End of London +16 8 £563 +25.00% 3
City of Westminster +5 4 £340 -30.26%
Kensington and Chelsea - 2 £600 -
Camden +6 1 £400 -27.27% 3
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 (2.65%) Apache Spark
1 6 (2.65%) Confluence
2 4 (1.77%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.33%) Apache
4 2 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.44%) CMS
5 1 (0.44%) Mattermost
5 1 (0.44%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.88%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.88%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.44%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 110 (48.67%) Azure
2 73 (32.30%) Azure DevOps
3 65 (28.76%) AWS
4 48 (21.24%) GitHub
5 36 (15.93%) GCP
6 28 (12.39%) Serverless
7 27 (11.95%) GitHub Actions
8 25 (11.06%) Power Platform
9 19 (8.41%) Amazon S3
9 19 (8.41%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (5.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (5.75%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (4.87%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (4.87%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (3.54%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (3.54%) Azure Functions
12 8 (3.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 8 (3.54%) Power Automate
13 7 (3.10%) Azure AKS
14 6 (2.65%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.42%) Firewall
2 7 (3.10%) Network Security
3 6 (2.65%) DNS
4 5 (2.21%) SSL
5 4 (1.77%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.33%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.88%) DHCP
7 2 (0.88%) Internet
7 2 (0.88%) VPN
8 1 (0.44%) BGP
8 1 (0.44%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.44%) DKIM
8 1 (0.44%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.44%) MPLS
8 1 (0.44%) NX-OS
8 1 (0.44%) OSPF
8 1 (0.44%) SSH
8 1 (0.44%) STUN
8 1 (0.44%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.52%) Power BI
2 8 (3.54%) DynamoDB
2 8 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (3.54%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.65%) MySQL
5 5 (2.21%) BigQuery
6 4 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.77%) Redis
6 4 (1.77%) Tableau
7 3 (1.33%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.33%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.33%) Delta Lake
7 3 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.33%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.88%) Big Data
8 2 (0.88%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.88%) Metadata
8 2 (0.88%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 34 (15.04%) Git
2 31 (13.72%) Jenkins
3 29 (12.83%) JIRA
4 16 (7.08%) GitLab
5 8 (3.54%) Selenium
6 7 (3.10%) Postman
6 7 (3.10%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.65%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.65%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.21%) JUnit
9 4 (1.77%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.77%) Gradle
10 3 (1.33%) Maven
10 3 (1.33%) Mockito
10 3 (1.33%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.88%) git-flow
11 2 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.88%) Storybook
11 2 (0.88%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 67 (29.65%) Finance
2 58 (25.66%) Social Skills
3 33 (14.60%) Banking
4 18 (7.96%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.75%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.10%) Front Office
6 7 (3.10%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.65%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.21%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.77%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.33%) Law
10 3 (1.33%) Legal
11 2 (0.88%) Back Office
11 2 (0.88%) Publishing
11 2 (0.88%) Retail
11 2 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (26.55%) DevOps Engineer
2 37 (16.37%) Developer
3 29 (12.83%) Senior
4 19 (8.41%) Lead
5 15 (6.64%) Architect
6 13 (5.75%) AWS Engineer
7 11 (4.87%) AWS DevOps
8 10 (4.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 9 (3.98%) Analyst
9 9 (3.98%) Data Engineer
9 9 (3.98%) Senior Developer
10 8 (3.54%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (3.54%) Cloud Architect
11 7 (3.10%) Consultant
12 6 (2.65%) Business Analyst
12 6 (2.65%) GCP Engineer
12 6 (2.65%) Senior DevOps
13 5 (2.21%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 5 (2.21%) Lead DevOps
13 5 (2.21%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.96%) .NET
2 17 (7.52%) Node.js
3 15 (6.64%) React
4 14 (6.19%) REST
5 11 (4.87%) HTML
5 11 (4.87%) OAuth
6 10 (4.42%) CSS
7 8 (3.54%) JSON
7 8 (3.54%) PySpark
7 8 (3.54%) XML
8 7 (3.10%) FastAPI
8 7 (3.10%) JWT
8 7 (3.10%) Kafka
8 7 (3.10%) RESTful
9 6 (2.65%) AngularJS
9 6 (2.65%) SOAP
9 6 (2.65%) Spring
10 5 (2.21%) Spring Boot
11 4 (1.77%) Next.js
11 4 (1.77%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 32 (14.16%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.87%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.65%) AI Agents
4 6 (2.65%) Derivative
4 6 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.65%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.77%) Equities
5 4 (1.77%) Fixed Income
5 4 (1.77%) Life Science
5 4 (1.77%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.33%) CMDB
6 3 (1.33%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.33%) Equity Derivative
6 3 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.33%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.33%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.52%) Linux
2 11 (4.87%) Windows
3 4 (1.77%) Android
3 4 (1.77%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.33%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.33%) Unix
5 2 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (51.33%) CI/CD
2 79 (34.96%) Agile
3 55 (24.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (15.04%) Test Automation
5 30 (13.27%) Containerisation
6 29 (12.83%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (12.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 26 (11.50%) AI
8 26 (11.50%) Migration
9 25 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (8.85%) Analytics
10 20 (8.85%) Stakeholder Management
11 19 (8.41%) Observability
12 18 (7.96%) Roadmaps
12 18 (7.96%) Scrum
13 17 (7.52%) Performance Tuning
13 17 (7.52%) Software Engineering
14 15 (6.64%) Business Intelligence
15 14 (6.19%) Data Engineering
16 13 (5.75%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 68 (30.09%) Python
2 42 (18.58%) SQL
3 32 (14.16%) Java
4 26 (11.50%) JavaScript
5 18 (7.96%) C#
6 15 (6.64%) PowerShell
6 15 (6.64%) TypeScript
7 9 (3.98%) Bash
8 5 (2.21%) C++
9 4 (1.77%) Bicep
9 4 (1.77%) Scala
10 2 (0.88%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.88%) Korn
10 2 (0.88%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.88%) Perl
10 2 (0.88%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.88%) Rust
10 2 (0.88%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 71 (31.42%) Security Cleared
2 66 (29.20%) SC Cleared
3 19 (8.41%) Degree
4 11 (4.87%) Azure Certification
5 9 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.65%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.65%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.33%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.33%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.33%) PhD
10 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.88%) CBAP
10 2 (0.88%) CESG Certified Professional
10 2 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.88%) ISEB
10 2 (0.88%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.88%) PMP
11 1 (0.44%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.75%) QA
2 8 (3.54%) GDPR
3 7 (3.10%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.21%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.77%) NIST
5 4 (1.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.33%) NCSC
6 3 (1.33%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.33%) PMO
7 2 (0.88%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.88%) SLA
7 2 (0.88%) WCAG
8 1 (0.44%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.44%) MiFID
System Software
1 46 (20.35%) Docker
2 5 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.88%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.44%) GridGain
4 1 (0.44%) HDFS
4 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 67 (29.65%) Terraform
2 48 (21.24%) Kubernetes
3 26 (11.50%) Ansible
4 5 (2.21%) Grafana
4 5 (2.21%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.77%) Argo
6 3 (1.33%) Istio
6 3 (1.33%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (1.33%) Karpenter
7 2 (0.88%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.88%) Kibana
8 1 (0.44%) CASB
8 1 (0.44%) Icinga
8 1 (0.44%) logstash
8 1 (0.44%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.44%) Packer
8 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.44%) Puppet
8 1 (0.44%) SCCM
Vendors
1 32 (14.16%) Microsoft
2 26 (11.50%) Google
3 21 (9.29%) Databricks
4 11 (4.87%) Oracle
4 11 (4.87%) Salesforce
5 8 (3.54%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.65%) Splunk
7 5 (2.21%) Palo Alto
7 5 (2.21%) VMware
8 4 (1.77%) CyberArk
8 4 (1.77%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.77%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.33%) CheckPoint
9 3 (1.33%) DocuSign
9 3 (1.33%) F5
9 3 (1.33%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.88%) Axway
10 2 (0.88%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.88%) Planview
10 2 (0.88%) Tradeweb