DevOps Contracts in Central London

DevOps
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 13 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 -6 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 275 470 716
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 11.39% 12.22% 15.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.56% 13.38% 17.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 325 574
10th Percentile £413 £438 £463
25th Percentile £488 £518 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +2.08% +9.09%
75th Percentile £683 £738 £725
90th Percentile £778 £800 £800
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.75 - -
Median hourly rate £48.50 - -
75th Percentile £50.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £55.00 £80.00 £78.75
% change year-on-year -31.25% +1.59% +43.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,189 3,514 4,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.64% 91.39% 91.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,561 2,377 3,194
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.39% +9.48%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 29 41
10th Percentile £20.01 £15.45 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.38 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £29.11 £58.75 £55.25
90th Percentile £41.29 £88.30 £65.75
London median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.41
% change year-on-year -26.92% +7.11% +10.84%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Central London

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Central London.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Central London

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Central London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Central London

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Central London.

Hourly rate trend 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 4 May 2024. 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 +3 258 £600 -4.00% 65
City of Westminster -1 4 £650 -18.75% 3
DevOps
London

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (4.36%) Confluence
2 8 (2.91%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.55%) IIS
4 5 (1.82%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.82%) Site Server
5 3 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.09%) CMS
6 2 (0.73%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.73%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.36%) Apache
7 1 (0.36%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.36%) nginx
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.36%) Tornado
Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (2.91%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.36%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.36%) BusinessWorks
3 1 (0.36%) Endur
3 1 (0.36%) Front Arena
3 1 (0.36%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.36%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.36%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 158 (57.45%) Azure
2 114 (41.45%) Azure DevOps
3 67 (24.36%) AWS
4 25 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 23 (8.36%) GitHub
6 20 (7.27%) Amazon S3
6 20 (7.27%) Serverless
7 17 (6.18%) Dynamics 365
8 14 (5.09%) Azure Service Bus
8 14 (5.09%) Entra ID
8 14 (5.09%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (4.36%) PowerApps
10 11 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
10 11 (4.00%) Power Automate
11 10 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (3.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 10 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (3.27%) GCP
12 9 (3.27%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.64%) Firewall
2 7 (2.55%) Internet
3 5 (1.82%) DNS
4 3 (1.09%) Network Security
4 3 (1.09%) WAN
5 2 (0.73%) MPLS
5 2 (0.73%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.73%) SSL
5 2 (0.73%) VPN
6 1 (0.36%) BGP
6 1 (0.36%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.36%) DHCP
6 1 (0.36%) IOS XR
6 1 (0.36%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.36%) LAN
6 1 (0.36%) Multicast
6 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (23.27%) SQL Server
2 17 (6.18%) Power BI
3 14 (5.09%) MySQL
4 13 (4.73%) MongoDB
5 11 (4.00%) Data Lake
5 11 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (3.64%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (2.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (2.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (2.18%) GIS
9 5 (1.82%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.45%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (1.45%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.45%) Redis
10 4 (1.45%) Tableau
11 3 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.09%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.73%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (9.45%) Git
2 19 (6.91%) GitLab
2 19 (6.91%) Jenkins
3 14 (5.09%) JIRA
4 12 (4.36%) Selenium
4 12 (4.36%) TeamCity
5 10 (3.64%) SpecFlow
6 8 (2.91%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.18%) Visual Studio
8 5 (1.82%) Postman
8 5 (1.82%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.45%) JMeter
10 3 (1.09%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.09%) Katalon Studio
10 3 (1.09%) Maven
10 3 (1.09%) WebDriver
11 2 (0.73%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.73%) HP UFT
11 2 (0.73%) Subversion
11 2 (0.73%) Terragrunt
General
1 75 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 65 (23.64%) Finance
3 36 (13.09%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (10.55%) Public Sector
5 24 (8.73%) Banking
6 11 (4.00%) Investment Banking
7 10 (3.64%) Retail
8 9 (3.27%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.91%) General Ledger
9 8 (2.91%) Legal
10 6 (2.18%) Back Office
11 4 (1.45%) Front Office
11 4 (1.45%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.73%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.36%) Music Industry
13 1 (0.36%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.36%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (22.55%) Developer
2 52 (18.91%) Senior
3 36 (13.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (7.27%) Senior Developer
5 19 (6.91%) Architect
6 18 (6.55%) Analyst
6 18 (6.55%) Lead
7 15 (5.45%) AWS Engineer
8 13 (4.73%) Senior DevOps
9 12 (4.36%) Consultant
9 12 (4.36%) Site Engineer
9 12 (4.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 10 (3.64%) Azure Developer
10 10 (3.64%) Data Engineer
10 10 (3.64%) Python Engineer
10 10 (3.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 10 (3.64%) Software Engineer
11 9 (3.27%) Full Stack Developer
11 9 (3.27%) Senior Analyst
12 8 (2.91%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (16.73%) .NET
2 26 (9.45%) Kafka
3 20 (7.27%) XML
4 18 (6.55%) React
5 17 (6.18%) .NET Framework
6 15 (5.45%) .NET Core
6 15 (5.45%) RabbitMQ
6 15 (5.45%) RESTful
7 14 (5.09%) AngularJS
7 14 (5.09%) ASP.NET
8 12 (4.36%) REST
9 11 (4.00%) HTML
9 11 (4.00%) Web Services
10 8 (2.91%) CSS
11 6 (2.18%) ARM Templates
11 6 (2.18%) ASP.NET Core
11 6 (2.18%) Node.js
12 5 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (1.82%) JSON
12 5 (1.82%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.91%) Product Ownership
2 17 (6.18%) Data Structures
3 14 (5.09%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.64%) Cloud Native
5 8 (2.91%) Algorithms
6 6 (2.18%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.45%) Contactless
7 4 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.45%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.45%) Wiki
8 3 (1.09%) Derivative
8 3 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.09%) Market Risk
9 2 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.73%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.73%) Life Science
9 2 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.73%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.73%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 28 (10.18%) Linux
2 26 (9.45%) Windows
3 11 (4.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.45%) Unix
5 3 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.36%) Android
6 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (42.18%) Agile
2 94 (34.18%) CI/CD
3 54 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
4 40 (14.55%) Scrum
5 32 (11.64%) SDLC
6 29 (10.55%) Infrastructure as Code
7 28 (10.18%) Software Engineering
8 27 (9.82%) Microservices
9 22 (8.00%) Test Automation
10 21 (7.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (7.64%) Migration
11 17 (6.18%) Business Intelligence
11 17 (6.18%) ETL
11 17 (6.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 16 (5.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 15 (5.45%) User Acceptance Testing
14 14 (5.09%) Full Stack Development
15 13 (4.73%) Mentoring
15 13 (4.73%) Requirements Gathering
15 13 (4.73%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 85 (30.91%) Python
2 69 (25.09%) C#
3 60 (21.82%) PowerShell
4 49 (17.82%) SQL
5 38 (13.82%) Java
6 17 (6.18%) Bicep
7 14 (5.09%) JavaScript
8 13 (4.73%) Shell Script
9 10 (3.64%) Bash
9 10 (3.64%) C++
9 10 (3.64%) TypeScript
10 9 (3.27%) Go
11 8 (2.91%) T-SQL
12 5 (1.82%) Korn
13 3 (1.09%) Perl
13 3 (1.09%) Ruby
13 3 (1.09%) Scala
14 2 (0.73%) R
14 2 (0.73%) Rust
15 1 (0.36%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 23 (8.36%) Degree
2 21 (7.64%) Security Cleared
3 19 (6.91%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.55%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.82%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.09%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.36%) CCNP
9 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.36%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.09%) QA
2 6 (2.18%) SLA
3 5 (1.82%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.45%) WCAG
5 3 (1.09%) NIST
6 2 (0.73%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
System Software
1 29 (10.55%) Docker
2 24 (8.73%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.64%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.36%) Ceph
5 1 (0.36%) NFS
5 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 53 (19.27%) Terraform
2 52 (18.91%) Kubernetes
3 16 (5.82%) Ansible
3 16 (5.82%) Prometheus
4 14 (5.09%) Grafana
5 13 (4.73%) Consul
6 6 (2.18%) Puppet
7 5 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.45%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.09%) Argo
10 2 (0.73%) Graylog
10 2 (0.73%) Nagios
10 2 (0.73%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.73%) Packer
10 2 (0.73%) SCCM
11 1 (0.36%) Hadoop YARN
11 1 (0.36%) Mesos
11 1 (0.36%) Nessus
11 1 (0.36%) TIBCO Hawk
11 1 (0.36%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 78 (28.36%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.27%) Oracle
3 10 (3.64%) SaltStack
4 6 (2.18%) Cadence
4 6 (2.18%) ESRI
4 6 (2.18%) iManage
4 6 (2.18%) Salesforce
4 6 (2.18%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.18%) Splunk
5 4 (1.45%) Databricks
5 4 (1.45%) Freshdesk
5 4 (1.45%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.09%) Adobe
6 3 (1.09%) Cisco
6 3 (1.09%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.09%) IBM
6 3 (1.09%) New Relic
6 3 (1.09%) PagerDuty
6 3 (1.09%) SAP
7 2 (0.73%) Confluent