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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 14 9
Rank change year-on-year -7 -5 +3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 249 245 301
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 9.53% 12.69% 12.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.03% 13.58% 13.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 170 207
10th Percentile £410 £413 £415
25th Percentile £475 £480 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £679 £688
90th Percentile £688 £762 £807
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 2,257 1,804 2,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 86.38% 93.47% 91.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 1,169 1,525
10th Percentile £358 £350 £356
25th Percentile £453 £449 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £671 £675 £684
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.18% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 29 23
10th Percentile £17.60 £21.85 £20.22
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £31.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +11.47% -20.54%
75th Percentile £54.50 £50.75 £31.19
90th Percentile £64.25 £63.75 £41.47
London median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.50
% change year-on-year +12.12% +17.35% -28.75%

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 25 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 25 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 -8 221 £550 -4.35% 48
West End of London +2 10 £600 +26.32% 2
City of Westminster -2 8 £606 +10.23% 1
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 (4.82%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.61%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.81%) Confluence
4 6 (2.41%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.61%) Apache
7 3 (1.20%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (1.20%) 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 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.40%) Maya
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.41%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.40%) Magento
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.40%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.40%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 135 (54.22%) Azure
2 77 (30.92%) AWS
3 70 (28.11%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (18.07%) GitHub
5 35 (14.06%) Power Platform
6 31 (12.45%) GitHub Actions
7 27 (10.84%) GCP
8 26 (10.44%) Serverless
9 14 (5.62%) Azure AKS
10 13 (5.22%) Amazon S3
10 13 (5.22%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (5.22%) Power Automate
11 12 (4.82%) Dynamics 365
12 11 (4.42%) Entra ID
13 10 (4.02%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (4.02%) Azure Functions
13 10 (4.02%) Snowflake
14 9 (3.61%) Azure Logic Apps
14 9 (3.61%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (3.61%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.42%) Firewall
2 10 (4.02%) Internet
3 8 (3.21%) DNS
4 7 (2.81%) VPN
5 5 (2.01%) Network Security
6 4 (1.61%) DHCP
7 3 (1.20%) FTP
7 3 (1.20%) SMTP
8 2 (0.80%) 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 25 (10.04%) Power BI
2 20 (8.03%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.02%) NoSQL
4 9 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (3.21%) MongoDB
6 7 (2.81%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (2.81%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (2.01%) Big Data
8 5 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (2.01%) Metadata
9 4 (1.61%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.61%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.61%) Data Mart
9 4 (1.61%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.61%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.61%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (1.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (10.84%) Git
2 26 (10.44%) GitLab
3 23 (9.24%) Jenkins
4 21 (8.43%) JIRA
5 7 (2.81%) JUnit
6 6 (2.41%) Mockito
6 6 (2.41%) Postman
7 5 (2.01%) Gradle
8 4 (1.61%) JMeter
8 4 (1.61%) Maven
8 4 (1.61%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.20%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.20%) git-flow
9 3 (1.20%) Liquibase
9 3 (1.20%) Selenium
10 2 (0.80%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.80%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.80%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.80%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 69 (27.71%) Finance
2 38 (15.26%) Social Skills
3 21 (8.43%) Banking
4 20 (8.03%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.21%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.41%) Law
7 5 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.61%) Police
8 4 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.80%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.80%) Front Office
9 2 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.80%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.80%) Legal
9 2 (0.80%) Marketing
9 2 (0.80%) Military
9 2 (0.80%) Publishing
10 1 (0.40%) Advertising
10 1 (0.40%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 46 (18.47%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (10.44%) Architect
2 26 (10.44%) Senior
3 25 (10.04%) Developer
4 24 (9.64%) Lead
5 21 (8.43%) Azure Engineer
6 18 (7.23%) Data Engineer
7 13 (5.22%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (4.42%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 11 (4.42%) Senior Developer
8 11 (4.42%) Tester
9 10 (4.02%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 10 (4.02%) Consultant
9 10 (4.02%) Java Developer
10 9 (3.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (3.61%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (3.61%) Software Engineer
11 8 (3.21%) Cloud Architect
11 8 (3.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 8 (3.21%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.24%) Kafka
1 23 (9.24%) REST
1 23 (9.24%) Spring
2 20 (8.03%) Spring Boot
3 15 (6.02%) React
4 14 (5.62%) .NET
4 14 (5.62%) RESTful
5 11 (4.42%) pytest
6 10 (4.02%) Playwright
7 9 (3.61%) PySpark
8 7 (2.81%) Node.js
8 7 (2.81%) SOAP
9 6 (2.41%) AngularJS
9 6 (2.41%) Next.js
9 6 (2.41%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (2.01%) Swagger
10 5 (2.01%) XML
11 4 (1.61%) ADO
11 4 (1.61%) HTML
11 4 (1.61%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 56 (22.49%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.83%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.82%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.41%) AI Agents
4 6 (2.41%) Clustering
4 6 (2.41%) Private Cloud
4 6 (2.41%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.01%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.61%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.61%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.20%) Equities
7 3 (1.20%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.20%) PKI
7 3 (1.20%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.80%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.80%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.80%) IoT
8 2 (0.80%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.82%) Linux
2 11 (4.42%) Windows
3 6 (2.41%) Unix
4 4 (1.61%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.40%) AIX
5 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.40%) VMS
5 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (59.84%) CI/CD
2 73 (29.32%) Infrastructure as Code
3 55 (22.09%) Agile
4 47 (18.88%) Containerisation
5 46 (18.47%) AI
6 40 (16.06%) Analytics
6 40 (16.06%) Platform Engineering
7 36 (14.46%) Observability
8 34 (13.65%) Data Engineering
8 34 (13.65%) Software Engineering
9 33 (13.25%) Test Automation
10 31 (12.45%) Migration
11 28 (11.24%) Microservices
11 28 (11.24%) Stakeholder Management
12 27 (10.84%) Machine Learning
13 26 (10.44%) Event-Driven
14 25 (10.04%) Business Intelligence
14 25 (10.04%) Continuous Improvement
14 25 (10.04%) Validation
15 23 (9.24%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 73 (29.32%) Python
2 50 (20.08%) SQL
3 32 (12.85%) Java
4 20 (8.03%) C#
4 20 (8.03%) PowerShell
4 20 (8.03%) TypeScript
5 15 (6.02%) JavaScript
6 14 (5.62%) Bash
7 12 (4.82%) Bicep
8 4 (1.61%) Apex Code
8 4 (1.61%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.20%) Korn
10 2 (0.80%) ActionScript
10 2 (0.80%) ActionScript 2.0
10 2 (0.80%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.40%) Jython
11 1 (0.40%) PHP
11 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.40%) RPG
Qualifications
1 90 (36.14%) Security Cleared
2 86 (34.54%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.22%) Degree
4 9 (3.61%) Azure Certification
4 9 (3.61%) DBS Check
5 6 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.61%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.61%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.61%) PMP
8 3 (1.20%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.80%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.40%) CCSP
10 1 (0.40%) CISM
10 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.63%) QA
2 6 (2.41%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.01%) GDPR
4 4 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.61%) SLA
5 3 (1.20%) PMO
6 2 (0.80%) EMIR
6 2 (0.80%) MiFID
6 2 (0.80%) 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 52 (20.88%) Docker
2 11 (4.42%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.20%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.20%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.20%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (1.20%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.80%) 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 88 (35.34%) Kubernetes
2 60 (24.10%) Terraform
3 23 (9.24%) Ansible
4 16 (6.43%) Prometheus
5 15 (6.02%) Grafana
6 5 (2.01%) Puppet
7 4 (1.61%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.20%) Nagios
8 3 (1.20%) vMotion
9 1 (0.40%) Argo
9 1 (0.40%) CA Wily
9 1 (0.40%) Consul
9 1 (0.40%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.40%) Istio
9 1 (0.40%) linkerd
9 1 (0.40%) Packer
9 1 (0.40%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.40%) Salt
9 1 (0.40%) SCCM
9 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (17.67%) Microsoft
2 27 (10.84%) Databricks
3 11 (4.42%) Google
4 10 (4.02%) Oracle
5 6 (2.41%) Dynatrace
5 6 (2.41%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.61%) Foundry
6 4 (1.61%) IBM
6 4 (1.61%) OpenAI
6 4 (1.61%) VMware
7 3 (1.20%) Adobe
7 3 (1.20%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.20%) Citrix
7 3 (1.20%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.20%) HP
7 3 (1.20%) Palantir
7 3 (1.20%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.20%) SAP
7 3 (1.20%) Splunk
7 3 (1.20%) Symantec