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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 13 10
Rank change year-on-year -7 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 240 237 279
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 9.76% 11.96% 11.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.42% 12.85% 12.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 159 189
10th Percentile £371 £425 £413
25th Percentile £466 £495 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.04%
75th Percentile £650 £684 £688
90th Percentile £755 £756 £788
London median daily rate £541 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -5.93% - -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 £68.00 £52.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +29.52% -4.55% -31.25%

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 2,102 1,845 2,197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 85.48% 93.09% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,424 1,190 1,565
10th Percentile £357 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £454 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £564 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £773 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 24 23
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £20.22
25th Percentile £19.13 £22.75 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.56 £29.07 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.53% -20.54%
75th Percentile £45.03 £43.97 £30.41
90th Percentile £59.64 £50.75 £41.47
London median hourly rate £35.71 £34.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +3.51% +23.21% -28.21%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -8 219 £550 -5.98% 153
West End of London +9 9 £575 +21.05% 2
City of Westminster 0 5 £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 8 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.92%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.50%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.25%) Confluence
4 3 (1.25%) Palantir Foundry
4 3 (1.25%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.83%) Apache
5 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.42%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.42%) nginx
6 1 (0.42%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.83%) 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 (2.08%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.83%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.42%) Magento
3 1 (0.42%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.42%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.42%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.42%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 138 (57.50%) Azure
2 82 (34.17%) AWS
3 72 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
4 53 (22.08%) GitHub
5 33 (13.75%) GCP
6 32 (13.33%) Serverless
7 29 (12.08%) GitHub Actions
8 27 (11.25%) Power Platform
9 17 (7.08%) Amazon S3
9 17 (7.08%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
11 14 (5.83%) Azure AKS
12 13 (5.42%) Dynamics 365
13 11 (4.58%) Entra ID
13 11 (4.58%) Power Automate
14 10 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (3.75%) Azure Functions
15 9 (3.75%) Snowflake
16 8 (3.33%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.17%) Firewall
2 5 (2.08%) Network Security
3 3 (1.25%) DNS
4 2 (0.83%) FTP
5 1 (0.42%) DHCP
5 1 (0.42%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.42%) Internet
5 1 (0.42%) Multicast
5 1 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.42%) SSH
5 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.42%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.50%) SQL Server
2 17 (7.08%) Power BI
3 13 (5.42%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (3.33%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.33%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
6 6 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (2.50%) DynamoDB
6 6 (2.50%) Metadata
6 6 (2.50%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.50%) Snowflake Schema
6 6 (2.50%) Tableau
7 4 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.67%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.67%) MySQL
8 3 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (14.17%) Git
2 30 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 19 (7.92%) GitLab
4 17 (7.08%) JIRA
5 8 (3.33%) Postman
6 7 (2.92%) JUnit
7 6 (2.50%) Mockito
8 4 (1.67%) Gradle
8 4 (1.67%) JMeter
8 4 (1.67%) Maven
9 3 (1.25%) git-flow
9 3 (1.25%) Liquibase
9 3 (1.25%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.25%) Selenium
10 2 (0.83%) Ant
10 2 (0.83%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.83%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.83%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.83%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
General
1 66 (27.50%) Finance
2 41 (17.08%) Social Skills
3 24 (10.00%) Banking
4 20 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.50%) Front Office
6 6 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.08%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.08%) Law
7 5 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.25%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.25%) Legal
8 3 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.25%) Police
9 2 (0.83%) Military
9 2 (0.83%) Publishing
9 2 (0.83%) Retail
10 1 (0.42%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 55 (22.92%) DevOps Engineer
2 28 (11.67%) Developer
3 25 (10.42%) Architect
4 24 (10.00%) Senior
5 23 (9.58%) Azure Engineer
6 14 (5.83%) Lead
7 13 (5.42%) Data Engineer
8 12 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (5.00%) Senior Developer
9 10 (4.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 9 (3.75%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (3.75%) Cloud Architect
10 9 (3.75%) Consultant
11 8 (3.33%) AWS DevOps
11 8 (3.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.33%) Java Developer
11 8 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (3.33%) Python Engineer
11 8 (3.33%) Software Engineer
12 7 (2.92%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.17%) Kafka
2 20 (8.33%) REST
2 20 (8.33%) Spring
3 19 (7.92%) React
4 16 (6.67%) Spring Boot
5 13 (5.42%) RESTful
6 12 (5.00%) Node.js
7 11 (4.58%) .NET
8 10 (4.17%) PySpark
9 9 (3.75%) Playwright
10 6 (2.50%) AngularJS
10 6 (2.50%) Next.js
10 6 (2.50%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (2.50%) XML
11 5 (2.08%) FastAPI
11 5 (2.08%) HTML
11 5 (2.08%) JSON
11 5 (2.08%) OAuth
11 5 (2.08%) SOAP
11 5 (2.08%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 55 (22.92%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.33%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.92%) AI Agents
4 7 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.50%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.08%) Derivative
6 5 (2.08%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.08%) Private Cloud
6 5 (2.08%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.67%) Equities
7 4 (1.67%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.25%) Clustering
8 3 (1.25%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (1.25%) Life Science
8 3 (1.25%) NHS
9 2 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.83%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.83%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.00%) Linux
1 12 (5.00%) Windows
2 4 (1.67%) Unix
3 3 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.25%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.83%) 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
1 138 (57.50%) CI/CD
2 78 (32.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 59 (24.58%) Agile
4 51 (21.25%) Containerisation
5 37 (15.42%) Test Automation
6 36 (15.00%) AI
7 34 (14.17%) Observability
8 31 (12.92%) Analytics
9 30 (12.50%) Microservices
9 30 (12.50%) Migration
10 28 (11.67%) Data Engineering
11 26 (10.83%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (10.42%) Platform Engineering
12 25 (10.42%) Roadmaps
12 25 (10.42%) Software Engineering
13 24 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
14 22 (9.17%) Stakeholder Management
15 20 (8.33%) Event-Driven
16 19 (7.92%) Data Pipeline
16 19 (7.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 65 (27.08%) Python
2 53 (22.08%) SQL
3 35 (14.58%) Java
4 20 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 19 (7.92%) C#
6 18 (7.50%) TypeScript
7 16 (6.67%) PowerShell
8 13 (5.42%) Bash
9 12 (5.00%) Bicep
10 4 (1.67%) C++
11 3 (1.25%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.25%) Scala
12 2 (0.83%) Korn
12 2 (0.83%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.83%) Perl
12 2 (0.83%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.83%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.42%) Jython
13 1 (0.42%) XPath
Qualifications
1 89 (37.08%) Security Cleared
2 88 (36.67%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.25%) Degree
4 11 (4.58%) Azure Certification
5 7 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.08%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.67%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.25%) PhD
9 2 (0.83%) CESG Certified Professional
9 2 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.83%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.83%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.83%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.83%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.83%) PMP
9 2 (0.83%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.42%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.00%) QA
2 10 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.33%) GDPR
4 7 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.67%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.25%) NIST
6 3 (1.25%) PMO
6 3 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.25%) SLA
7 2 (0.83%) EMIR
7 2 (0.83%) MiFID
7 2 (0.83%) NCSC
7 2 (0.83%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.42%) P3O
System Software
1 53 (22.08%) Docker
2 8 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (2.92%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.42%) GridGain
5 1 (0.42%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 80 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 71 (29.58%) Terraform
3 20 (8.33%) Ansible
4 15 (6.25%) Grafana
4 15 (6.25%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.25%) Istio
5 3 (1.25%) Karpenter
6 2 (0.83%) Argo
6 2 (0.83%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.83%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (0.83%) Puppet
7 1 (0.42%) CA Wily
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
7 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.33%) Databricks
3 18 (7.50%) Google
4 14 (5.83%) Oracle
5 7 (2.92%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.08%) Dynatrace
6 5 (2.08%) OpenAI
6 5 (2.08%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.08%) Splunk
7 4 (1.67%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.67%) Foundry
7 4 (1.67%) SAP
8 3 (1.25%) Adobe
8 3 (1.25%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.25%) CyberArk
8 3 (1.25%) Palantir
8 3 (1.25%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.83%) Informatica
9 2 (0.83%) MarketAxess
9 2 (0.83%) Tradeweb