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 6 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 11 11
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 219 264 354
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.51% 11.34% 11.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.26% 12.31% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 185 261
10th Percentile £370 £425 £463
25th Percentile £463 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -4.08% +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £710 £725
90th Percentile £733 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% -2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £32.25 - -
25th Percentile £41.25 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - -
75th Percentile £73.75 - -
90th Percentile £82.75 - -
London median hourly rate £56.00 £57.50 £90.00
% change year-on-year -2.61% -36.11% +36.80%

All Process and 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 1,787 2,144 2,832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.90% 92.10% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,207 1,368 1,966
10th Percentile £325 £363 £358
25th Percentile £424 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £589
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.34% +2.39%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £774 £788 £813
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 29 17
10th Percentile £17.79 £18.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.00 £25.40 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +27.27% -34.52%
75th Percentile £36.00 £61.25 £46.75
90th Percentile £60.95 £117.10 £59.30
London median hourly rate £30.00 £36.65 £38.71
% change year-on-year -18.14% -5.32% +7.53%

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 6 October 2025.

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 6 October 2025.

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 6 October 2025. 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 -2 206 £600 - 66
City of Westminster 0 4 £475 -13.64% 5
West End of London - 3 £488 - 7
Southwark - 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 (6.85%) Confluence
2 7 (3.20%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.91%) Apache
4 1 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.46%) Mattermost
4 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 7 (3.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.46%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (4.57%) Endur
2 2 (0.91%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.46%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.46%) Maximo
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.46%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.46%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 97 (44.29%) Azure
2 63 (28.77%) AWS
3 61 (27.85%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (14.16%) GitHub
5 24 (10.96%) GCP
6 21 (9.59%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (8.22%) Power Platform
8 13 (5.94%) Serverless
9 12 (5.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 11 (5.02%) Amazon S3
10 11 (5.02%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (5.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 9 (4.11%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (3.65%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (3.65%) Datadog
12 8 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (3.65%) Power Automate
12 8 (3.65%) PowerApps
12 8 (3.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (3.20%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.39%) DNS
2 11 (5.02%) Firewall
3 7 (3.20%) SSL
4 6 (2.74%) VPN
5 4 (1.83%) BGP
5 4 (1.83%) Ethernet VPN
5 4 (1.83%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.83%) VXLAN
6 3 (1.37%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (1.37%) Multicast
6 3 (1.37%) OSPF
6 3 (1.37%) SSH
7 2 (0.91%) DHCP
7 2 (0.91%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.91%) IGMP
7 2 (0.91%) Internet
7 2 (0.91%) MPLS
7 2 (0.91%) Network Security
7 2 (0.91%) NX-OS
7 2 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.48%) SQL Server
2 11 (5.02%) Power BI
3 7 (3.20%) DynamoDB
3 7 (3.20%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (2.74%) MongoDB
4 6 (2.74%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.28%) BigQuery
5 5 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.28%) Redis
6 4 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (1.83%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.37%) Big Data
7 3 (1.37%) Delta Lake
7 3 (1.37%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.91%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.91%) MySQL
8 2 (0.91%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (14.16%) Jenkins
1 31 (14.16%) JIRA
2 23 (10.50%) Git
3 22 (10.05%) GitLab
4 11 (5.02%) Gradle
5 10 (4.57%) Selenium
6 9 (4.11%) SonarQube
7 8 (3.65%) Cypress.io
7 8 (3.65%) Maven
8 7 (3.20%) Bitbucket
9 6 (2.74%) Postman
10 4 (1.83%) TeamCity
11 3 (1.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (1.37%) Storybook
12 2 (0.91%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.91%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.91%) Snyk
12 2 (0.91%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.91%) TestNG
General
1 72 (32.88%) Finance
2 70 (31.96%) Social Skills
3 33 (15.07%) Banking
4 23 (10.50%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (5.02%) Investment Banking
6 9 (4.11%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.20%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.83%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.37%) Back Office
9 3 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.37%) Law
10 2 (0.91%) Billing
10 2 (0.91%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.91%) Legal
10 2 (0.91%) Marketing
10 2 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.91%) Retail
11 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (21.00%) Developer
2 28 (12.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 26 (11.87%) Senior
4 20 (9.13%) Analyst
5 14 (6.39%) Architect
6 13 (5.94%) Business Analyst
7 10 (4.57%) Azure Engineer
7 10 (4.57%) Lead
8 9 (4.11%) GCP Engineer
9 8 (3.65%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (3.65%) Data Engineer
9 8 (3.65%) Java Developer
10 7 (3.20%) Software Engineer
11 6 (2.74%) Applications Engineer
11 6 (2.74%) Endur Support
11 6 (2.74%) Network Engineer
11 6 (2.74%) OpenLink Support
11 6 (2.74%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (2.74%) Python Developer
11 6 (2.74%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (11.42%) .NET
2 15 (6.85%) AngularJS
2 15 (6.85%) REST
3 14 (6.39%) GraphQL
3 14 (6.39%) HTML
4 11 (5.02%) CSS
4 11 (5.02%) Node.js
4 11 (5.02%) React
5 10 (4.57%) RESTful
6 8 (3.65%) FIX Protocol
6 8 (3.65%) OAuth
7 7 (3.20%) ADO
7 7 (3.20%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (2.74%) Kafka
8 6 (2.74%) Spring
8 6 (2.74%) WebSockets
9 5 (2.28%) Django
9 5 (2.28%) JSON
9 5 (2.28%) OAuth2
9 5 (2.28%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.79%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.48%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (3.65%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.65%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.20%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.74%) Fixed Income
7 5 (2.28%) Derivative
7 5 (2.28%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.28%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.37%) IVR
8 3 (1.37%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.91%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.91%) Mobile Banking
9 2 (0.91%) PKI
9 2 (0.91%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 21 (9.59%) Linux
2 8 (3.65%) Unix
3 6 (2.74%) Windows
4 4 (1.83%) Android
4 4 (1.83%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.91%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (50.23%) CI/CD
2 92 (42.01%) Agile
3 47 (21.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 39 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (15.07%) Containerisation
6 26 (11.87%) Observability
7 25 (11.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (10.96%) Scrum
8 24 (10.96%) Test Automation
9 22 (10.05%) Microservices
10 19 (8.68%) Software Engineering
10 19 (8.68%) Stakeholder Management
11 18 (8.22%) High Availability
12 17 (7.76%) Analytics
12 17 (7.76%) Project Management
12 17 (7.76%) Roadmaps
13 16 (7.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 15 (6.85%) Data Pipeline
14 15 (6.85%) SDLC
15 14 (6.39%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 78 (35.62%) Python
2 44 (20.09%) SQL
3 35 (15.98%) Java
4 30 (13.70%) JavaScript
5 27 (12.33%) C#
6 15 (6.85%) TypeScript
7 14 (6.39%) PowerShell
8 11 (5.02%) Bash
9 5 (2.28%) Go
10 4 (1.83%) Bicep
11 3 (1.37%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.91%) C++
12 2 (0.91%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.91%) PromQL
12 2 (0.91%) Rust
13 1 (0.46%) COBOL
13 1 (0.46%) DAML
13 1 (0.46%) PHP
13 1 (0.46%) SOQL
13 1 (0.46%) Swift
Qualifications
1 27 (12.33%) Security Cleared
2 25 (11.42%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.85%) Degree
4 6 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.83%) AWS Certified Developer
5 4 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.37%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.37%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.37%) CCIE
6 3 (1.37%) CCNP
6 3 (1.37%) CISSP
6 3 (1.37%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.91%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.91%) ISEB
7 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.91%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.91%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.13%) QA
2 8 (3.65%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.74%) GDPR
3 6 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.28%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.83%) NIST
6 3 (1.37%) PMO
7 2 (0.91%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.91%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.91%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.91%) WCAG
8 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.46%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.46%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.46%) MiFID
8 1 (0.46%) SEPA
System Software
1 40 (18.26%) Docker
2 4 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.46%) GridGain
3 1 (0.46%) HDFS
3 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 59 (26.94%) Terraform
2 51 (23.29%) Kubernetes
3 23 (10.50%) Ansible
4 14 (6.39%) Prometheus
5 13 (5.94%) ITRS Geneos
6 10 (4.57%) Grafana
7 9 (4.11%) Puppet
8 7 (3.20%) Argo
8 7 (3.20%) Kibana
9 6 (2.74%) Istio
9 6 (2.74%) logstash
10 5 (2.28%) Progress Chef
11 3 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.91%) HP ALM
12 2 (0.91%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.46%) Ambari
13 1 (0.46%) Cilium
13 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.46%) Packer
13 1 (0.46%) yum
Vendors
1 42 (19.18%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.59%) Google
3 12 (5.48%) Databricks
4 8 (3.65%) Splunk
5 7 (3.20%) Oracle
5 7 (3.20%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.20%) Solace
6 5 (2.28%) Cisco
6 5 (2.28%) F5
6 5 (2.28%) Palo Alto
7 4 (1.83%) Arista
7 4 (1.83%) CheckPoint
7 4 (1.83%) HP
7 4 (1.83%) OpenLink
7 4 (1.83%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.37%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.37%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.37%) UiPath
9 2 (0.91%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.91%) Rollbar