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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 14 9
Rank change year-on-year -7 -5 +3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 247 244 299
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 9.46% 12.71% 12.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.97% 13.61% 13.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 170 204
10th Percentile £413 £413 £414
25th Percentile £475 £480 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £641 £688 £688
90th Percentile £688 £788 £796
London median daily rate £550 £550 £565
% change year-on-year - -2.65% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £65.73 - -
25th Percentile £66.81 £86.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £72.25 £87.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.43% +80.41% -
75th Percentile £76.31 £88.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £76.58 - -
London median hourly rate £68.50 £52.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +30.48% -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 2,252 1,793 2,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 86.25% 93.39% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,513 1,165 1,534
10th Percentile £356 £350 £352
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £796
London median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 26 24
10th Percentile £17.60 £21.63 £20.22
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.98 £22.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £29.07 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -5.40% +4.53% -20.54%
75th Percentile £54.50 £50.25 £30.28
90th Percentile £64.25 £63.75 £41.29
London median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £30.00
% change year-on-year +12.12% +11.48% -24.84%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 -7 219 £550 -4.35% 66
West End of London +3 10 £600 +26.32% 1
City of Westminster -1 8 £606 +10.23% 4
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 12 (4.86%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.64%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.83%) Confluence
4 6 (2.43%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.62%) Apache
7 3 (1.21%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (1.21%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.40%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.40%) IIS
8 1 (0.40%) nginx
8 1 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.40%) Maya
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.43%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.40%) Magento
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.40%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.40%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 133 (53.85%) Azure
2 79 (31.98%) AWS
3 68 (27.53%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (18.22%) GitHub
5 32 (12.96%) Power Platform
6 30 (12.15%) GitHub Actions
7 28 (11.34%) GCP
8 27 (10.93%) Serverless
9 15 (6.07%) Azure AKS
10 14 (5.67%) Amazon S3
11 13 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (4.45%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (4.45%) Dynamics 365
13 10 (4.05%) Azure Functions
13 10 (4.05%) Entra ID
13 10 (4.05%) Power Automate
13 10 (4.05%) Snowflake
14 9 (3.64%) Amazon Kinesis
14 9 (3.64%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (3.64%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.05%) Firewall
2 9 (3.64%) Internet
3 7 (2.83%) DNS
4 6 (2.43%) VPN
5 5 (2.02%) Network Security
6 4 (1.62%) DHCP
7 3 (1.21%) FTP
7 3 (1.21%) SMTP
8 2 (0.81%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.40%) Intranet
9 1 (0.40%) Multicast
9 1 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.40%) SSH
9 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.40%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.31%) Power BI
2 20 (8.10%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.05%) NoSQL
4 9 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (3.24%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (3.24%) MongoDB
6 7 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (2.83%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.43%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (2.02%) Big Data
8 5 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (2.02%) Metadata
9 4 (1.62%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.62%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.62%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.62%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (1.62%) Tableau
10 3 (1.21%) Data Mart
10 3 (1.21%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 26 (10.53%) Git
1 26 (10.53%) GitLab
2 22 (8.91%) Jenkins
3 21 (8.50%) JIRA
4 6 (2.43%) JUnit
4 6 (2.43%) Mockito
4 6 (2.43%) Postman
5 5 (2.02%) Gradle
6 4 (1.62%) JMeter
6 4 (1.62%) Maven
7 3 (1.21%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.21%) git-flow
7 3 (1.21%) Liquibase
7 3 (1.21%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.81%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.81%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.81%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.81%) Selenium
8 2 (0.81%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 64 (25.91%) Finance
2 37 (14.98%) Social Skills
3 21 (8.50%) Public Sector
4 18 (7.29%) Banking
5 8 (3.24%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.43%) Law
7 5 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.62%) Police
8 4 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.21%) Military
10 2 (0.81%) Front Office
10 2 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.81%) Legal
10 2 (0.81%) Publishing
11 1 (0.40%) Advertising
11 1 (0.40%) Aviation
11 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.40%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (19.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (10.53%) Architect
3 24 (9.72%) Senior
4 23 (9.31%) Lead
5 22 (8.91%) Developer
6 20 (8.10%) Azure Engineer
7 17 (6.88%) Data Engineer
8 13 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
9 11 (4.45%) Tester
10 10 (4.05%) Consultant
10 10 (4.05%) Java Developer
10 10 (4.05%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 10 (4.05%) Senior Developer
11 9 (3.64%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 9 (3.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 9 (3.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (3.64%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (3.64%) Software Engineer
12 8 (3.24%) Cloud Architect
12 8 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (9.72%) REST
2 23 (9.31%) Kafka
2 23 (9.31%) Spring
3 20 (8.10%) Spring Boot
4 17 (6.88%) React
5 13 (5.26%) RESTful
6 12 (4.86%) .NET
7 10 (4.05%) pytest
8 9 (3.64%) Playwright
8 9 (3.64%) PySpark
9 7 (2.83%) Next.js
9 7 (2.83%) Node.js
9 7 (2.83%) SOAP
10 6 (2.43%) AngularJS
10 6 (2.43%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (2.02%) JSON
11 5 (2.02%) Swagger
11 5 (2.02%) XML
12 4 (1.62%) ADO
12 4 (1.62%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 57 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.48%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.45%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.83%) AI Agents
5 6 (2.43%) Clustering
5 6 (2.43%) Private Cloud
5 6 (2.43%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.02%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.62%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.62%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.21%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.21%) PKI
8 3 (1.21%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.81%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.81%) Equities
9 2 (0.81%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.81%) IoT
9 2 (0.81%) NHS
9 2 (0.81%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.45%) Linux
1 11 (4.45%) Windows
2 5 (2.02%) Unix
3 4 (1.62%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.40%) AIX
4 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.40%) VMS
4 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (57.89%) CI/CD
2 76 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
3 51 (20.65%) Agile
4 47 (19.03%) Containerisation
5 45 (18.22%) AI
6 39 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
7 38 (15.38%) Analytics
8 36 (14.57%) Observability
9 33 (13.36%) Data Engineering
9 33 (13.36%) Migration
9 33 (13.36%) Software Engineering
10 32 (12.96%) Test Automation
11 28 (11.34%) Microservices
12 26 (10.53%) Event-Driven
12 26 (10.53%) Machine Learning
12 26 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
13 25 (10.12%) Continuous Improvement
14 24 (9.72%) Validation
15 23 (9.31%) Business Intelligence
15 23 (9.31%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 71 (28.74%) Python
2 49 (19.84%) SQL
3 32 (12.96%) Java
4 20 (8.10%) PowerShell
4 20 (8.10%) TypeScript
5 17 (6.88%) C#
6 15 (6.07%) JavaScript
7 14 (5.67%) Bash
8 13 (5.26%) Bicep
9 4 (1.62%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.21%) Korn
10 3 (1.21%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.81%) ActionScript
11 2 (0.81%) ActionScript 2.0
11 2 (0.81%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.40%) Go
12 1 (0.40%) PHP
12 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 94 (38.06%) Security Cleared
2 90 (36.44%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.86%) Degree
4 9 (3.64%) Azure Certification
4 9 (3.64%) DBS Check
5 5 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.02%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.62%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.21%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.21%) PMP
8 2 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.81%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.40%) CCSP
9 1 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.40%) CISM
9 1 (0.40%) CISSP
9 1 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.88%) QA
2 6 (2.43%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.02%) GDPR
4 4 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.21%) PMO
5 3 (1.21%) SLA
6 2 (0.81%) EMIR
6 2 (0.81%) MiFID
6 2 (0.81%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.40%) NCSC
7 1 (0.40%) NIST
7 1 (0.40%) P3O
7 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 51 (20.65%) Docker
2 10 (4.05%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.43%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.62%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.21%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.21%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.21%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (1.21%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.40%) GridGain
7 1 (0.40%) Varnish
7 1 (0.40%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 85 (34.41%) Kubernetes
2 63 (25.51%) Terraform
3 23 (9.31%) Ansible
4 15 (6.07%) Prometheus
5 14 (5.67%) Grafana
6 5 (2.02%) Puppet
7 4 (1.62%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.21%) Nagios
8 3 (1.21%) vMotion
9 2 (0.81%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.40%) Argo
10 1 (0.40%) CA Wily
10 1 (0.40%) Consul
10 1 (0.40%) Istio
10 1 (0.40%) linkerd
10 1 (0.40%) Packer
10 1 (0.40%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.40%) Salt
10 1 (0.40%) SCCM
10 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (16.19%) Microsoft
2 26 (10.53%) Databricks
3 11 (4.45%) Google
4 9 (3.64%) Oracle
5 6 (2.43%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.02%) Dynatrace
6 5 (2.02%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.62%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.62%) Foundry
7 4 (1.62%) VMware
8 3 (1.21%) Adobe
8 3 (1.21%) Citrix
8 3 (1.21%) HP
8 3 (1.21%) IBM
8 3 (1.21%) Palantir
8 3 (1.21%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.21%) SAP
8 3 (1.21%) Symantec
9 2 (0.81%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.81%) Splunk