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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 14 9
Rank change year-on-year -5 -5 +3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 257 253 312
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 9.75% 12.34% 13.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.20% 13.18% 14.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 177 214
10th Percentile £413 £406 £414
25th Percentile £489 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £699
90th Percentile £709 £755 £838
London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
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 2,294 1,920 2,190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 87.06% 93.61% 91.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,561 1,251 1,517
10th Percentile £359 £338 £363
25th Percentile £453 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £681
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 32 26
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.08 £20.07
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £22.28
Median hourly rate £23.16 £32.50 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -28.74% +16.86% -20.54%
75th Percentile £54.50 £50.75 £42.15
90th Percentile £64.25 £63.75 £85.63
London median hourly rate £36.25 £32.50 £30.16
% change year-on-year +11.54% +7.76% -27.33%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -7 224 £550 -4.35% 68
West End of London -1 9 £600 +26.32% 2
City of Westminster -4 9 £606 +18.29% 2
Southwark +2 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 12 (4.67%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.50%) Confluence
2 9 (3.50%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.95%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.56%) Apache
5 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.17%) Palantir Foundry
5 3 (1.17%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.78%) IIS
6 2 (0.78%) nginx
7 1 (0.39%) CMS
7 1 (0.39%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.39%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.39%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.39%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.78%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.39%) Maya
3 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.33%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.39%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.39%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.39%) Magento
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.39%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.39%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.39%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 138 (53.70%) Azure
2 73 (28.40%) AWS
3 70 (27.24%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (18.29%) GitHub
5 36 (14.01%) Power Platform
6 32 (12.45%) GitHub Actions
7 25 (9.73%) GCP
8 24 (9.34%) Serverless
9 13 (5.06%) Amazon S3
9 13 (5.06%) Azure AKS
9 13 (5.06%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (5.06%) Power Automate
10 11 (4.28%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (4.28%) Entra ID
11 10 (3.89%) Snowflake
12 9 (3.50%) Amazon Kinesis
12 9 (3.50%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (3.50%) Azure Functions
12 9 (3.50%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (3.50%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.45%) Internet
2 9 (3.50%) Firewall
3 8 (3.11%) DNS
4 7 (2.72%) VPN
5 4 (1.56%) DHCP
6 3 (1.17%) FTP
6 3 (1.17%) Network Security
6 3 (1.17%) SMTP
7 2 (0.78%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.78%) Intranet
7 2 (0.78%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.78%) SSH
7 2 (0.78%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.39%) Multicast
8 1 (0.39%) OpenVPN
8 1 (0.39%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (9.73%) Power BI
2 21 (8.17%) SQL Server
3 12 (4.67%) NoSQL
4 10 (3.89%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (3.50%) MongoDB
6 8 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (3.11%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (2.72%) Metadata
8 6 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (2.33%) Data Lake
8 6 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.56%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.56%) Big Data
9 4 (1.56%) Data Mart
9 4 (1.56%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.56%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (1.56%) Star Schema
9 4 (1.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (11.28%) Git
2 26 (10.12%) Jenkins
3 25 (9.73%) GitLab
4 22 (8.56%) JIRA
5 9 (3.50%) JUnit
6 7 (2.72%) Postman
7 6 (2.33%) Mockito
7 6 (2.33%) REST Assured
8 5 (1.95%) Gradle
8 5 (1.95%) JMeter
8 5 (1.95%) Maven
8 5 (1.95%) Selenium
9 4 (1.56%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.56%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.17%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.17%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.17%) Liquibase
10 3 (1.17%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.78%) Ant
11 2 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 72 (28.02%) Finance
2 40 (15.56%) Social Skills
3 25 (9.73%) Banking
4 19 (7.39%) Public Sector
5 14 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.11%) Law
7 5 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.56%) Police
9 3 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.17%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.17%) Military
9 3 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.78%) Front Office
10 2 (0.78%) Legal
10 2 (0.78%) Marketing
11 1 (0.39%) Advertising
11 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 41 (15.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 34 (13.23%) Senior
3 28 (10.89%) Developer
4 25 (9.73%) Architect
5 23 (8.95%) Lead
6 20 (7.78%) Azure Engineer
7 18 (7.00%) Data Engineer
8 14 (5.45%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 14 (5.45%) Platform Engineer
9 12 (4.67%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (4.67%) Tester
10 11 (4.28%) Java Developer
10 11 (4.28%) Senior Developer
11 10 (3.89%) Software Engineer
12 9 (3.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (3.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 8 (3.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 8 (3.11%) Consultant
14 7 (2.72%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 7 (2.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (10.89%) REST
1 28 (10.89%) Spring
2 25 (9.73%) Kafka
3 24 (9.34%) Spring Boot
4 17 (6.61%) .NET
5 15 (5.84%) RESTful
6 14 (5.45%) pytest
7 13 (5.06%) Playwright
7 13 (5.06%) React
8 11 (4.28%) PySpark
9 9 (3.50%) SOAP
10 8 (3.11%) AngularJS
11 7 (2.72%) Node.js
11 7 (2.72%) XML
12 6 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (1.95%) ADO
13 5 (1.95%) GraphQL
13 5 (1.95%) HTML
13 5 (1.95%) JSON
13 5 (1.95%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 56 (21.79%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.39%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.84%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.72%) Onboarding
4 7 (2.72%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.33%) Clustering
5 6 (2.33%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.33%) Private Cloud
6 5 (1.95%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.56%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.56%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.17%) Equities
8 3 (1.17%) PKI
8 3 (1.17%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.78%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.78%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.45%) Linux
2 8 (3.11%) Windows
3 7 (2.72%) Unix
4 4 (1.56%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.39%) AIX
5 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.39%) VMS
5 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (60.70%) CI/CD
2 71 (27.63%) Infrastructure as Code
3 61 (23.74%) Agile
4 49 (19.07%) AI
5 48 (18.68%) Containerisation
6 43 (16.73%) Platform Engineering
7 40 (15.56%) Analytics
7 40 (15.56%) Software Engineering
8 38 (14.79%) Observability
8 38 (14.79%) Test Automation
9 35 (13.62%) Microservices
10 33 (12.84%) Machine Learning
10 33 (12.84%) Migration
11 32 (12.45%) Data Engineering
12 31 (12.06%) Validation
13 28 (10.89%) Event-Driven
14 27 (10.51%) Stakeholder Management
15 26 (10.12%) Business Intelligence
15 26 (10.12%) Continuous Improvement
16 25 (9.73%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 82 (31.91%) Python
2 51 (19.84%) SQL
3 42 (16.34%) Java
4 23 (8.95%) C#
5 22 (8.56%) TypeScript
6 18 (7.00%) JavaScript
6 18 (7.00%) PowerShell
7 14 (5.45%) Bash
8 11 (4.28%) Bicep
9 4 (1.56%) Apex Code
9 4 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (1.56%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.78%) ActionScript
10 2 (0.78%) ActionScript 2.0
10 2 (0.78%) Go
10 2 (0.78%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.78%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.39%) DAML
11 1 (0.39%) Rust
11 1 (0.39%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 88 (34.24%) Security Cleared
2 83 (32.30%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.23%) Degree
4 9 (3.50%) DBS Check
5 8 (3.11%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.33%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.56%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.56%) PMP
10 3 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.78%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.78%) CISM
11 2 (0.78%) CISSP
11 2 (0.78%) SnowPro
12 1 (0.39%) CCSP
12 1 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.51%) QA
2 7 (2.72%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.33%) GDPR
4 4 (1.56%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.17%) NCSC
5 3 (1.17%) PMO
6 2 (0.78%) EMIR
6 2 (0.78%) MiFID
6 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.78%) SLA
7 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.39%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.39%) NIST
7 1 (0.39%) P3O
7 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 56 (21.79%) Docker
2 12 (4.67%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.17%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.17%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.17%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (1.17%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.39%) GridGain
6 1 (0.39%) Varnish
6 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 95 (36.96%) Kubernetes
2 61 (23.74%) Terraform
3 24 (9.34%) Ansible
4 18 (7.00%) Grafana
4 18 (7.00%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.95%) Puppet
6 4 (1.56%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.17%) Nagios
7 3 (1.17%) vMotion
8 2 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.39%) Argo
9 1 (0.39%) CA Wily
9 1 (0.39%) Consul
9 1 (0.39%) Istio
9 1 (0.39%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.39%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.39%) linkerd
9 1 (0.39%) Packer
9 1 (0.39%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.39%) SCCM
Vendors
1 53 (20.62%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.73%) Databricks
3 11 (4.28%) Oracle
4 10 (3.89%) Google
5 6 (2.33%) Dynatrace
5 6 (2.33%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.95%) Splunk
7 4 (1.56%) Foundry
7 4 (1.56%) IBM
7 4 (1.56%) VMware
8 3 (1.17%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.17%) Citrix
8 3 (1.17%) HP
8 3 (1.17%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.17%) Palantir
8 3 (1.17%) SAP
8 3 (1.17%) Symantec
9 2 (0.78%) Axway
9 2 (0.78%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.78%) webMethods