DevOps Contract Job Trends in the City of London

DevOps
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 13 12
Rank change year-on-year -9 -1 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 217 233 237
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 9.89% 13.40% 10.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.34% 14.52% 11.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 158 152
10th Percentile £363 £425 £419
25th Percentile £463 £494 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +0.81%
75th Percentile £676 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £750 £773
Central London median daily rate £569 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -1.09% -8.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.25 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £74.50 - £48.50
75th Percentile £76.75 - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £74.50 - £48.50

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,913 1,605 2,049
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.19% 92.29% 89.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,321 1,035 1,449
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £670 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £771 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 9 11
10th Percentile - £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £30.03 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.12% +24.00% -38.27%
75th Percentile £48.67 £48.75 £40.92
90th Percentile £57.93 £71.00 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £31.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -15.77% +11.47% -20.54%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

DevOps job vacancy trend in the City of London

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing DevOps

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the City of London over the 6 months to 5 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the City of London

DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing DevOps.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing DevOps

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 6 (2.76%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.84%) Apache
3 4 (1.84%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.38%) Palantir Foundry
4 3 (1.38%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.92%) Confluence
6 1 (0.46%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.46%) nginx
6 1 (0.46%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.92%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.46%) Maya
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.46%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.38%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.92%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.46%) Magento
3 1 (0.46%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.46%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.46%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 126 (58.06%) Azure
2 69 (31.80%) Azure DevOps
3 66 (30.41%) AWS
4 53 (24.42%) GitHub
5 36 (16.59%) GCP
6 30 (13.82%) Serverless
7 27 (12.44%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (9.68%) Power Platform
9 17 (7.83%) Amazon S3
10 14 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (5.53%) Azure AKS
12 11 (5.07%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (4.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (4.61%) Azure Functions
14 9 (4.15%) Entra ID
15 8 (3.69%) Amazon Kinesis
15 8 (3.69%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (3.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 8 (3.69%) Azure Monitor
16 7 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.76%) Network Security
2 5 (2.30%) Firewall
3 1 (0.46%) DHCP
3 1 (0.46%) DNS
3 1 (0.46%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.46%) Multicast
3 1 (0.46%) SSL
3 1 (0.46%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.83%) SQL Server
2 14 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (5.53%) Power BI
4 8 (3.69%) DynamoDB
4 8 (3.69%) Relational Database
5 7 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.23%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.76%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (2.30%) Metadata
7 5 (2.30%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.30%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.84%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.84%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.84%) Tableau
9 3 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.38%) Big Data
9 3 (1.38%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.38%) MySQL
9 3 (1.38%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 35 (16.13%) Git
2 20 (9.22%) Jenkins
3 15 (6.91%) JIRA
4 13 (5.99%) GitLab
5 6 (2.76%) JUnit
6 5 (2.30%) Maven
6 5 (2.30%) Mockito
6 5 (2.30%) Postman
6 5 (2.30%) Selenium
7 4 (1.84%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.84%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.84%) Gradle
8 3 (1.38%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.38%) Liquibase
8 3 (1.38%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.92%) Ant
10 1 (0.46%) Introscope
10 1 (0.46%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.46%) PowerBuilder
General
1 60 (27.65%) Finance
2 44 (20.28%) Social Skills
3 22 (10.14%) Banking
4 13 (5.99%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.61%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.69%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.76%) Front Office
7 6 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.30%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.30%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.84%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.92%) Back Office
10 2 (0.92%) Law
10 2 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.92%) Retail
11 1 (0.46%) Legal
11 1 (0.46%) Marketing
11 1 (0.46%) Military
Job Titles
1 51 (23.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (13.36%) Developer
3 26 (11.98%) Senior
4 23 (10.60%) Architect
5 18 (8.29%) Azure Engineer
6 15 (6.91%) Lead
7 13 (5.99%) Senior Developer
8 11 (5.07%) Data Engineer
9 10 (4.61%) Cloud Architect
10 9 (4.15%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (3.69%) AWS DevOps
11 8 (3.69%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (3.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.69%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (3.69%) Python Engineer
12 7 (3.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 7 (3.23%) Azure Architect
12 7 (3.23%) Consultant
12 7 (3.23%) Java Developer
13 6 (2.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.29%) REST
2 16 (7.37%) React
3 15 (6.91%) Node.js
3 15 (6.91%) Spring
4 14 (6.45%) Kafka
5 12 (5.53%) .NET
6 11 (5.07%) Spring Boot
7 10 (4.61%) Playwright
8 9 (4.15%) OAuth
9 8 (3.69%) RESTful
10 7 (3.23%) HTML
11 6 (2.76%) AngularJS
11 6 (2.76%) CSS
11 6 (2.76%) FastAPI
11 6 (2.76%) JWT
11 6 (2.76%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (2.76%) PySpark
11 6 (2.76%) XML
12 5 (2.30%) JSON
12 5 (2.30%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 46 (21.20%) Cloud Native
2 16 (7.37%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.15%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.76%) Fixed Income
4 6 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.30%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.30%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.84%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.84%) Life Science
6 4 (1.84%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.38%) Clustering
7 3 (1.38%) Derivative
7 3 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.38%) NHS
7 3 (1.38%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.38%) Replication
8 2 (0.92%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.92%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.45%) Linux
2 10 (4.61%) Windows
3 4 (1.84%) Unix
4 3 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.38%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.92%) Android
6 1 (0.46%) AIX
6 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.46%) VMS
6 1 (0.46%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (53.92%) CI/CD
2 69 (31.80%) Infrastructure as Code
3 58 (26.73%) Agile
4 37 (17.05%) Containerisation
5 36 (16.59%) AI
6 33 (15.21%) Test Automation
7 30 (13.82%) Migration
8 28 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 27 (12.44%) Analytics
10 26 (11.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 25 (11.52%) Microservices
12 23 (10.60%) Software Engineering
13 22 (10.14%) Data Engineering
13 22 (10.14%) Observability
13 22 (10.14%) Performance Tuning
14 21 (9.68%) Roadmaps
14 21 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
15 19 (8.76%) Platform Engineering
16 18 (8.29%) Problem-Solving
17 16 (7.37%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 62 (28.57%) Python
2 50 (23.04%) SQL
3 34 (15.67%) Java
4 20 (9.22%) JavaScript
5 18 (8.29%) C#
6 15 (6.91%) TypeScript
7 11 (5.07%) PowerShell
8 10 (4.61%) Bash
9 7 (3.23%) Bicep
10 3 (1.38%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.92%) C++
11 2 (0.92%) Go
11 2 (0.92%) Korn
11 2 (0.92%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.92%) Perl
11 2 (0.92%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.92%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.92%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.46%) C
12 1 (0.46%) PHP
Qualifications
1 74 (34.10%) Security Cleared
2 71 (32.72%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.91%) Degree
4 9 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.69%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.84%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.38%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.38%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.92%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.92%) CESG Certified Professional
8 2 (0.92%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.92%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.46%) CCNA
9 1 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.46%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.46%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.46%) MBA
9 1 (0.46%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.45%) QA
2 9 (4.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.69%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.76%) GDPR
5 5 (2.30%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.38%) NCSC
6 3 (1.38%) NIST
6 3 (1.38%) PMO
6 3 (1.38%) SLA
7 2 (0.92%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.92%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.46%) MiFID
8 1 (0.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (21.66%) Docker
2 6 (2.76%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.46%) GridGain
4 1 (0.46%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 69 (31.80%) Terraform
2 55 (25.35%) Kubernetes
3 17 (7.83%) Ansible
4 9 (4.15%) Grafana
5 7 (3.23%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.38%) Istio
6 3 (1.38%) Karpenter
7 2 (0.92%) Argo
7 2 (0.92%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.46%) CA Wily
8 1 (0.46%) CASB
8 1 (0.46%) Icinga
8 1 (0.46%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.46%) linkerd
8 1 (0.46%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.46%) Packer
8 1 (0.46%) Puppet
8 1 (0.46%) SCCM
Vendors
1 36 (16.59%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.60%) Google
3 19 (8.76%) Databricks
4 13 (5.99%) Oracle
5 10 (4.61%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.30%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.84%) Splunk
8 3 (1.38%) CyberArk
8 3 (1.38%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.38%) Foundry
8 3 (1.38%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.38%) Palantir
8 3 (1.38%) SAP
8 3 (1.38%) VMware
9 2 (0.92%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.92%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.92%) IBM
9 2 (0.92%) Informatica
9 2 (0.92%) OutSystems
9 2 (0.92%) UiPath