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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 13 11
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 +2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 236 241 266
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 9.75% 11.94% 10.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.33% 12.86% 11.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 166 180
10th Percentile £363 £425 £412
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.30% -4.17% -1.64%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £688
90th Percentile £750 £750 £788
London median daily rate £538 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
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 £67.50 £66.50 £56.25
% change year-on-year +1.50% +18.22% -25.00%

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 2,083 1,874 2,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 86.04% 92.82% 90.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,421 1,215 1,580
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £573 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £771 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 24 27
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £19.52
25th Percentile £19.95 £22.75 £22.25
Median hourly rate £26.56 £29.07 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.53% -20.54%
75th Percentile £43.86 £43.97 £36.50
90th Percentile £59.32 £50.75 £56.15
London median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £29.00
% change year-on-year +2.68% +19.22% -25.64%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 -9 213 £550 -4.35% 95
West End of London +11 8 £575 +27.78% 2
City of Westminster +2 4 £531 -3.41% 3
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 7 (2.97%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.54%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.27%) Apache
3 3 (1.27%) Confluence
3 3 (1.27%) Palantir Foundry
3 3 (1.27%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.42%) CMS
5 1 (0.42%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.42%) nginx
5 1 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.42%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.85%) 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 (2.12%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.85%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.42%) Magento
4 1 (0.42%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.42%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.42%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.42%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 139 (58.90%) Azure
2 79 (33.47%) AWS
3 76 (32.20%) Azure DevOps
4 55 (23.31%) GitHub
5 35 (14.83%) Serverless
6 33 (13.98%) GCP
7 29 (12.29%) GitHub Actions
8 26 (11.02%) Power Platform
9 22 (9.32%) Amazon S3
10 20 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (5.93%) Azure AKS
11 14 (5.93%) Azure Data Factory
11 14 (5.93%) Dynamics 365
12 11 (4.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (4.66%) Entra ID
13 10 (4.24%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (4.24%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (4.24%) Power Automate
14 9 (3.81%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (3.81%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.81%) Firewall
2 6 (2.54%) Network Security
3 2 (0.85%) FTP
4 1 (0.42%) DHCP
4 1 (0.42%) DNS
4 1 (0.42%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.42%) Internet
4 1 (0.42%) Multicast
4 1 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.63%) SQL Server
2 15 (6.36%) Power BI
3 14 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (3.81%) DynamoDB
5 8 (3.39%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.39%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.54%) Apache Cassandra
6 6 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (2.54%) Metadata
6 6 (2.54%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.54%) Tableau
7 5 (2.12%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (2.12%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.12%) MySQL
7 5 (2.12%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.27%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 35 (14.83%) Git
2 27 (11.44%) Jenkins
3 18 (7.63%) JIRA
4 15 (6.36%) GitLab
5 6 (2.54%) JUnit
5 6 (2.54%) Postman
6 5 (2.12%) Mockito
7 4 (1.69%) Gradle
7 4 (1.69%) Maven
7 4 (1.69%) Selenium
8 3 (1.27%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.27%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.27%) git-flow
8 3 (1.27%) Liquibase
8 3 (1.27%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.85%) Ant
9 2 (0.85%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.85%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.42%) PowerBuilder
General
1 61 (25.85%) Finance
2 42 (17.80%) Social Skills
3 23 (9.75%) Banking
4 18 (7.63%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.81%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.97%) Front Office
8 6 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.69%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.69%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.69%) Law
10 3 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.27%) Legal
10 3 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.85%) Military
11 2 (0.85%) Police
11 2 (0.85%) Publishing
11 2 (0.85%) Retail
12 1 (0.42%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 56 (23.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (11.02%) Developer
3 25 (10.59%) Architect
4 23 (9.75%) Senior
5 20 (8.47%) Azure Engineer
6 15 (6.36%) Lead
7 13 (5.51%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (5.08%) Data Engineer
9 10 (4.24%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (4.24%) Cloud Architect
9 10 (4.24%) Senior Developer
10 9 (3.81%) AWS DevOps
10 9 (3.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 9 (3.81%) Consultant
10 9 (3.81%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (3.39%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.39%) Software Engineer
12 7 (2.97%) Azure Architect
12 7 (2.97%) Java Developer
12 7 (2.97%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.63%) Kafka
1 18 (7.63%) REST
1 18 (7.63%) Spring
2 17 (7.20%) React
3 15 (6.36%) Node.js
4 14 (5.93%) Spring Boot
5 11 (4.66%) .NET
6 10 (4.24%) RESTful
7 9 (3.81%) Playwright
8 8 (3.39%) OAuth
8 8 (3.39%) PySpark
9 6 (2.54%) AngularJS
9 6 (2.54%) HTML
9 6 (2.54%) JWT
9 6 (2.54%) Next.js
9 6 (2.54%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (2.54%) XML
10 5 (2.12%) CSS
10 5 (2.12%) FastAPI
10 5 (2.12%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 52 (22.03%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.78%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.81%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.97%) AI Agents
4 7 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.54%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.12%) Derivative
6 5 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.12%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.12%) Private Cloud
6 5 (2.12%) 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%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.27%) Life Science
8 3 (1.27%) NHS
8 3 (1.27%) Replication
9 2 (0.85%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.08%) Linux
1 12 (5.08%) Windows
2 4 (1.69%) Unix
3 3 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.27%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.85%) Android
5 1 (0.42%) AIX
5 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.42%) VMS
5 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (58.90%) CI/CD
2 79 (33.47%) Infrastructure as Code
3 61 (25.85%) Agile
4 44 (18.64%) Containerisation
5 37 (15.68%) AI
6 33 (13.98%) Test Automation
7 32 (13.56%) Analytics
8 30 (12.71%) Migration
9 28 (11.86%) Microservices
9 28 (11.86%) Observability
10 27 (11.44%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (11.02%) Data Engineering
11 26 (11.02%) Software Engineering
12 24 (10.17%) Performance Tuning
12 24 (10.17%) Roadmaps
13 22 (9.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 22 (9.32%) Stakeholder Management
14 21 (8.90%) Platform Engineering
15 18 (7.63%) Data Pipeline
15 18 (7.63%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 63 (26.69%) Python
2 52 (22.03%) SQL
3 34 (14.41%) Java
4 19 (8.05%) C#
4 19 (8.05%) JavaScript
5 17 (7.20%) TypeScript
6 13 (5.51%) PowerShell
7 12 (5.08%) Bash
8 11 (4.66%) Bicep
9 4 (1.69%) C++
10 3 (1.27%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.27%) Scala
11 2 (0.85%) Korn
11 2 (0.85%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.85%) Perl
11 2 (0.85%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.85%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.42%) C
12 1 (0.42%) PHP
12 1 (0.42%) ProC
Qualifications
1 83 (35.17%) Security Cleared
2 81 (34.32%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.20%) Degree
4 14 (5.93%) Azure Certification
5 8 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.12%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.69%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.69%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.27%) PhD
9 2 (0.85%) CESG Certified Professional
9 2 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.85%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.85%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.85%) PMP
9 2 (0.85%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.42%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.51%) QA
2 10 (4.24%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.97%) GDPR
3 7 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.69%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.27%) NIST
5 3 (1.27%) PMO
5 3 (1.27%) SLA
6 2 (0.85%) NCSC
6 2 (0.85%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.42%) EMIR
7 1 (0.42%) MiFID
7 1 (0.42%) P3O
System Software
1 55 (23.31%) Docker
2 8 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (2.97%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.42%) GridGain
5 1 (0.42%) Varnish
5 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 77 (32.63%) Terraform
2 72 (30.51%) Kubernetes
3 19 (8.05%) Ansible
4 11 (4.66%) Grafana
4 11 (4.66%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.27%) Istio
5 3 (1.27%) Karpenter
6 2 (0.85%) Argo
6 2 (0.85%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.85%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (0.85%) 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 42 (17.80%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.47%) Databricks
2 20 (8.47%) Google
3 14 (5.93%) Oracle
4 7 (2.97%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.54%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.12%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.69%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.69%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.69%) Foundry
7 4 (1.69%) SAP
7 4 (1.69%) Splunk
8 3 (1.27%) Adobe
8 3 (1.27%) CyberArk
8 3 (1.27%) Palantir
8 3 (1.27%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.85%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.85%) Informatica
9 2 (0.85%) Planview
9 2 (0.85%) Tradeweb