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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 15 9
Rank change year-on-year -3 -6 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 276 252 299
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 10.62% 12.29% 13.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.08% 13.12% 14.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 179 208
10th Percentile £424 £391 £415
25th Percentile £488 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% -8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £710
90th Percentile £707 £766 £841
London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £41.00 £32.25 -
25th Percentile £50.00 £41.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% - -
75th Percentile £75.88 £73.75 -
90th Percentile £76.40 £82.75 -
London median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +27.62% -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 2,285 1,921 2,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 87.88% 93.66% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,550 1,263 1,452
10th Percentile £357 £329 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
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 £545 £550
% change year-on-year +0.95% -0.94% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 33 18
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.15 £19.71
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £22.28
Median hourly rate £23.16 £31.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.29% +3.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £54.50 £50.75 £74.38
90th Percentile £64.25 £63.75 £137.50
London median hourly rate £35.50 £30.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year +18.33% -11.76% -18.07%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -5 240 £550 -5.98% 104
West End of London -1 9 £600 +23.08%
City of Westminster -3 9 £606 +18.29% 7
Southwark +1 4 £650 -
Lambeth - 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 (5.07%) SharePoint
2 11 (3.99%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.62%) Apache Spark
4 9 (3.26%) Confluence
5 8 (2.90%) Apache
6 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.09%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.72%) IIS
7 2 (0.72%) nginx
8 1 (0.36%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.36%) CMS
8 1 (0.36%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.36%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.36%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.36%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Maya
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.17%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.36%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.36%) Magento
3 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.36%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.36%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.36%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 151 (54.71%) Azure
2 81 (29.35%) Azure DevOps
3 76 (27.54%) AWS
4 52 (18.84%) GitHub
5 39 (14.13%) Power Platform
6 33 (11.96%) GitHub Actions
7 27 (9.78%) GCP
8 24 (8.70%) Serverless
9 23 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
10 19 (6.88%) Power Automate
11 15 (5.43%) Azure AKS
12 13 (4.71%) PowerApps
13 12 (4.35%) Amazon S3
14 11 (3.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 11 (3.99%) Dynamics 365
14 11 (3.99%) Entra ID
15 10 (3.62%) Azure Functions
15 10 (3.62%) Snowflake
16 9 (3.26%) Amazon Kinesis
16 9 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.80%) Internet
2 11 (3.99%) DNS
2 11 (3.99%) Firewall
3 8 (2.90%) VPN
4 4 (1.45%) DHCP
5 3 (1.09%) FTP
5 3 (1.09%) Network Security
5 3 (1.09%) SMTP
6 2 (0.72%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.72%) Intranet
6 2 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.72%) SSH
6 2 (0.72%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.36%) Multicast
7 1 (0.36%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.36%) VLAN
7 1 (0.36%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.14%) Power BI
1 28 (10.14%) SQL Server
2 15 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (4.35%) NoSQL
4 10 (3.62%) MongoDB
5 9 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (2.90%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (2.90%) Relational Database
6 8 (2.90%) Star Schema
7 7 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (2.17%) Data Lake
8 6 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (2.17%) Metadata
9 5 (1.81%) Big Data
10 4 (1.45%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (1.45%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.45%) Power Query
10 4 (1.45%) Redis
10 4 (1.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (11.23%) Jenkins
2 27 (9.78%) Git
2 27 (9.78%) GitLab
3 19 (6.88%) JIRA
4 9 (3.26%) JUnit
5 7 (2.54%) JMeter
6 6 (2.17%) Mockito
6 6 (2.17%) Postman
6 6 (2.17%) Selenium
7 5 (1.81%) Artifactory
7 5 (1.81%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.81%) Gradle
7 5 (1.81%) Maven
7 5 (1.81%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.45%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.45%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.45%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.09%) Gatling
9 3 (1.09%) Liquibase
9 3 (1.09%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 79 (28.62%) Finance
2 53 (19.20%) Social Skills
3 30 (10.87%) Banking
4 21 (7.61%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (7.25%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.54%) Law
7 6 (2.17%) Retail
8 5 (1.81%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.45%) Marketing
9 4 (1.45%) Police
9 4 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.09%) Front Office
10 3 (1.09%) Military
11 2 (0.72%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.36%) Advertising
12 1 (0.36%) Legal
12 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 41 (14.86%) Senior
2 38 (13.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 37 (13.41%) Developer
4 33 (11.96%) Architect
5 26 (9.42%) Lead
6 21 (7.61%) Azure Engineer
7 19 (6.88%) Data Engineer
8 16 (5.80%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 15 (5.43%) Platform Engineer
9 15 (5.43%) Senior Developer
10 13 (4.71%) Tester
11 12 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (4.35%) Java Developer
12 11 (3.99%) Data Architect
13 10 (3.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (3.62%) Software Engineer
13 10 (3.62%) Solutions Architect
14 8 (2.90%) Azure Architect
14 8 (2.90%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 8 (2.90%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (11.96%) REST
2 29 (10.51%) Spring
3 26 (9.42%) Kafka
4 25 (9.06%) Spring Boot
5 22 (7.97%) .NET
6 16 (5.80%) pytest
6 16 (5.80%) RESTful
7 14 (5.07%) Playwright
7 14 (5.07%) PySpark
8 13 (4.71%) React
8 13 (4.71%) SOAP
9 10 (3.62%) AngularJS
10 8 (2.90%) XML
11 7 (2.54%) Node.js
12 6 (2.17%) GraphQL
12 6 (2.17%) JSON
12 6 (2.17%) Middleware
12 6 (2.17%) OpenTelemetry
12 6 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (1.81%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 61 (22.10%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.43%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (3.62%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.26%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.90%) AI Agents
6 8 (2.90%) Data Structures
7 7 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.17%) Clustering
8 6 (2.17%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.17%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.81%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.81%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.09%) Equities
11 3 (1.09%) IoT
11 3 (1.09%) PKI
12 2 (0.72%) Fixed Income
12 2 (0.72%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.16%) Linux
2 11 (3.99%) Windows
3 7 (2.54%) Unix
3 7 (2.54%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.36%) AIX
4 1 (0.36%) Android
4 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.36%) VMS
4 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (63.04%) CI/CD
2 72 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 69 (25.00%) Agile
4 59 (21.38%) AI
5 49 (17.75%) Containerisation
6 47 (17.03%) Analytics
7 45 (16.30%) Software Engineering
8 44 (15.94%) Observability
8 44 (15.94%) Platform Engineering
9 43 (15.58%) Microservices
10 40 (14.49%) Test Automation
11 36 (13.04%) Event-Driven
12 35 (12.68%) Business Intelligence
12 35 (12.68%) Data Modelling
13 34 (12.32%) Machine Learning
13 34 (12.32%) Migration
14 33 (11.96%) Stakeholder Management
14 33 (11.96%) Validation
15 32 (11.59%) Data Engineering
16 31 (11.23%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 88 (31.88%) Python
2 61 (22.10%) SQL
3 46 (16.67%) Java
4 28 (10.14%) C#
5 23 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 23 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 20 (7.25%) JavaScript
7 17 (6.16%) Bash
8 12 (4.35%) Bicep
9 8 (2.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (1.81%) Apex Code
11 4 (1.45%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.45%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.09%) Korn
13 2 (0.72%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.72%) ActionScript 2.0
13 2 (0.72%) Go
13 2 (0.72%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.36%) PHP
14 1 (0.36%) RPG
Qualifications
1 90 (32.61%) Security Cleared
2 83 (30.07%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.43%) Degree
4 9 (3.26%) DBS Check
5 8 (2.90%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.54%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.09%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.72%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.72%) CISM
8 2 (0.72%) CISSP
8 2 (0.72%) PMP
8 2 (0.72%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (11.23%) QA
2 14 (5.07%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.17%) GDPR
4 5 (1.81%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.09%) NCSC
7 2 (0.72%) EMIR
7 2 (0.72%) MiFID
7 2 (0.72%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.72%) SLA
8 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.36%) NIST
8 1 (0.36%) P3O
8 1 (0.36%) PMO
8 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 61 (22.10%) Docker
2 12 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.45%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.09%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.09%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (1.09%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.36%) GridGain
6 1 (0.36%) Varnish
6 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 99 (35.87%) Kubernetes
2 63 (22.83%) Terraform
3 26 (9.42%) Ansible
4 20 (7.25%) Grafana
5 19 (6.88%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.81%) Puppet
7 4 (1.45%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.09%) Nagios
8 3 (1.09%) vMotion
9 2 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.36%) Argo
10 1 (0.36%) Bosun
10 1 (0.36%) Consul
10 1 (0.36%) Istio
10 1 (0.36%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.36%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.36%) linkerd
10 1 (0.36%) Packer
10 1 (0.36%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.36%) SCCM
Vendors
1 72 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 28 (10.14%) Databricks
3 13 (4.71%) Google
3 13 (4.71%) Oracle
4 10 (3.62%) Dynatrace
5 6 (2.17%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.17%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.17%) Splunk
6 5 (1.81%) VMware
7 4 (1.45%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.45%) IBM
7 4 (1.45%) SAP
8 3 (1.09%) Citrix
8 3 (1.09%) HP
8 3 (1.09%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.09%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.09%) Symantec
9 2 (0.72%) Axway
9 2 (0.72%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.72%) webMethods