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 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 15 9
Rank change year-on-year -1 -6 +2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 290 254 295
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.31% 12.32% 12.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.81% 13.13% 13.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 183 206
10th Percentile £415 £383 £425
25th Percentile £486 £475 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £708
90th Percentile £709 £736 £828
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 £62.75 £52.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +19.52% -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 2,264 1,934 2,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 88.27% 93.84% 91.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,557 1,279 1,436
10th Percentile £363 £325 £375
25th Percentile £456 £423 £475
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 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 34 20
10th Percentile £17.60 £19.14 £15.80
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.98 £20.43
Median hourly rate £24.65 £29.07 £26.78
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +8.55% -23.49%
75th Percentile £45.37 £49.22 £65.63
90th Percentile £64.88 £63.75 £137.50
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%

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 16 August 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 16 August 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 16 August 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 -5 255 £550 -8.33% 83
City of Westminster -4 9 £606 +18.29%
West End of London -2 8 £538 +10.26%
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 15 (5.17%) SharePoint
2 12 (4.14%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (3.79%) Apache Spark
4 9 (3.10%) Apache
5 7 (2.41%) Confluence
6 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.69%) IIS
7 2 (0.69%) nginx
8 1 (0.34%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.34%) CMS
8 1 (0.34%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.34%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.34%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.34%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.34%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 5 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.07%) Dynamics AX
2 5 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.34%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.34%) Magento
4 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.34%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.34%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.34%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.34%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 165 (56.90%) Azure
2 90 (31.03%) Azure DevOps
3 79 (27.24%) AWS
4 56 (19.31%) GitHub
5 41 (14.14%) Power Platform
6 35 (12.07%) GitHub Actions
7 29 (10.00%) GCP
8 28 (9.66%) Azure Data Factory
9 25 (8.62%) Serverless
10 20 (6.90%) Power Automate
11 17 (5.86%) Azure AKS
12 14 (4.83%) PowerApps
13 13 (4.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 12 (4.14%) Amazon S3
14 12 (4.14%) Azure Functions
14 12 (4.14%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (4.14%) Dynamics 365
15 11 (3.79%) Entra ID
15 11 (3.79%) GitHub Copilot
15 11 (3.79%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.86%) Internet
2 12 (4.14%) DNS
3 11 (3.79%) Firewall
4 9 (3.10%) VPN
5 4 (1.38%) DHCP
6 3 (1.03%) FTP
6 3 (1.03%) SMTP
6 3 (1.03%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.69%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.69%) Intranet
7 2 (0.69%) Network Security
7 2 (0.69%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.69%) SSH
7 2 (0.69%) VLAN
8 1 (0.34%) Multicast
8 1 (0.34%) OpenVPN
8 1 (0.34%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (10.00%) Power BI
1 29 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 18 (6.21%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (3.79%) NoSQL
4 10 (3.45%) Data Lake
4 10 (3.45%) MongoDB
5 9 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (3.10%) Star Schema
6 8 (2.76%) Metadata
7 7 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (2.41%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.72%) Big Data
9 5 (1.72%) Delta Lake
9 5 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.38%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (1.38%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.38%) Power Query
10 4 (1.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (11.03%) Jenkins
2 29 (10.00%) GitLab
3 27 (9.31%) Git
4 17 (5.86%) JIRA
5 10 (3.45%) JUnit
6 8 (2.76%) JMeter
7 7 (2.41%) Postman
8 6 (2.07%) Artifactory
8 6 (2.07%) Mockito
8 6 (2.07%) Selenium
9 5 (1.72%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.72%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.72%) Gradle
9 5 (1.72%) Maven
10 4 (1.38%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.38%) Gatling
10 4 (1.38%) REST Assured
10 4 (1.38%) TeamCity
10 4 (1.38%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (1.03%) NeoLoad
General
1 84 (28.97%) Finance
2 59 (20.34%) Social Skills
3 33 (11.38%) Banking
4 24 (8.28%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (7.24%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.41%) Investment Banking
6 7 (2.41%) Law
7 6 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.07%) Retail
8 5 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.38%) Marketing
9 4 (1.38%) Police
9 4 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.03%) Front Office
10 3 (1.03%) Military
11 2 (0.69%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.34%) Advertising
12 1 (0.34%) Legal
Job Titles
1 43 (14.83%) Senior
2 42 (14.48%) Developer
3 36 (12.41%) Architect
4 34 (11.72%) DevOps Engineer
5 28 (9.66%) Lead
6 23 (7.93%) Azure Engineer
7 22 (7.59%) Data Engineer
8 17 (5.86%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 16 (5.52%) Platform Engineer
10 15 (5.17%) Senior Developer
11 14 (4.83%) Tester
12 13 (4.48%) Java Developer
13 12 (4.14%) Data Architect
14 11 (3.79%) Cloud Engineer
14 11 (3.79%) Solutions Architect
15 10 (3.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 10 (3.45%) Consultant
15 10 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 10 (3.45%) Software Engineer
16 8 (2.76%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (12.07%) REST
2 28 (9.66%) Spring
3 27 (9.31%) Kafka
4 26 (8.97%) Spring Boot
5 23 (7.93%) .NET
6 19 (6.55%) RESTful
7 18 (6.21%) PySpark
8 17 (5.86%) pytest
9 13 (4.48%) Playwright
9 13 (4.48%) React
9 13 (4.48%) SOAP
10 11 (3.79%) AngularJS
11 9 (3.10%) XML
12 7 (2.41%) JSON
13 6 (2.07%) GraphQL
13 6 (2.07%) HTML
13 6 (2.07%) Middleware
13 6 (2.07%) Node.js
13 6 (2.07%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (2.07%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 62 (21.38%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.93%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.17%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (3.79%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.45%) Product Ownership
6 9 (3.10%) AI Agents
6 9 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.41%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.07%) Clustering
8 6 (2.07%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.72%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.72%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.03%) Equities
10 3 (1.03%) IoT
10 3 (1.03%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.03%) PKI
10 3 (1.03%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.55%) Linux
2 12 (4.14%) Windows
3 8 (2.76%) Unix
3 8 (2.76%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.34%) AIX
4 1 (0.34%) Android
4 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (62.76%) CI/CD
2 74 (25.52%) Infrastructure as Code
3 73 (25.17%) Agile
4 66 (22.76%) AI
5 53 (18.28%) Analytics
6 50 (17.24%) Software Engineering
7 48 (16.55%) Containerisation
7 48 (16.55%) Test Automation
8 47 (16.21%) Microservices
9 45 (15.52%) Platform Engineering
10 44 (15.17%) Observability
11 39 (13.45%) Data Modelling
11 39 (13.45%) Event-Driven
11 39 (13.45%) Machine Learning
12 36 (12.41%) Business Intelligence
12 36 (12.41%) Problem-Solving
12 36 (12.41%) Validation
13 34 (11.72%) Data Engineering
13 34 (11.72%) Migration
13 34 (11.72%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 101 (34.83%) Python
2 70 (24.14%) SQL
3 51 (17.59%) Java
4 30 (10.34%) C#
4 30 (10.34%) PowerShell
5 26 (8.97%) TypeScript
6 23 (7.93%) JavaScript
7 16 (5.52%) Bash
7 16 (5.52%) Bicep
8 9 (3.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (1.72%) Apex Code
10 4 (1.38%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.38%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.03%) Korn
11 3 (1.03%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.69%) ActionScript
12 2 (0.69%) ActionScript 2.0
12 2 (0.69%) R
13 1 (0.34%) Go
13 1 (0.34%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 91 (31.38%) Security Cleared
2 82 (28.28%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.83%) Degree
4 9 (3.10%) DBS Check
5 8 (2.76%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.41%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.03%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.69%) CISM
9 2 (0.69%) CISSP
9 2 (0.69%) PMP
9 2 (0.69%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (11.72%) QA
2 20 (6.90%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.76%) GDPR
4 7 (2.41%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.03%) NCSC
6 3 (1.03%) SLA
7 2 (0.69%) EMIR
7 2 (0.69%) MiFID
7 2 (0.69%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.34%) P3O
8 1 (0.34%) PMO
System Software
1 62 (21.38%) Docker
2 11 (3.79%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.38%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.03%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.03%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.03%) Terminal Services
4 3 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.34%) GridGain
5 1 (0.34%) Varnish
5 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 101 (34.83%) Kubernetes
2 66 (22.76%) Terraform
3 24 (8.28%) Ansible
4 21 (7.24%) Grafana
5 19 (6.55%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.72%) Puppet
7 4 (1.38%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.03%) Nagios
8 3 (1.03%) vMotion
9 2 (0.69%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.69%) Packer
9 2 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.34%) Argo
10 1 (0.34%) Bosun
10 1 (0.34%) Consul
10 1 (0.34%) Istio
10 1 (0.34%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.34%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.34%) linkerd
10 1 (0.34%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 79 (27.24%) Microsoft
2 32 (11.03%) Databricks
3 15 (5.17%) Google
3 15 (5.17%) Oracle
4 10 (3.45%) Dynatrace
5 7 (2.41%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.41%) Splunk
6 6 (2.07%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.72%) VMware
8 4 (1.38%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.38%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.38%) SAP
9 3 (1.03%) Citrix
9 3 (1.03%) HP
9 3 (1.03%) IBM
9 3 (1.03%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.03%) Symantec
10 2 (0.69%) BMC
10 2 (0.69%) Informatica
10 2 (0.69%) Software AG