DevOps Contracts in the City of London

DevOps
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 9 11
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 243 296 416
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 13.37% 13.84% 11.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.25% 15.16% 12.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 198 287
10th Percentile £422 £415 £450
25th Percentile £485 £490 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £694 £730
90th Percentile £778 £788 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 £46.75 -
Median hourly rate £87.50 £48.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +80.41% - -
75th Percentile £88.75 £50.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £87.50 £48.50 -
% change year-on-year +80.41% - -

All Process and 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 1,705 1,952 3,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.84% 91.26% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,093 1,349 2,158
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £552 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -1.43% -6.67% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 24
10th Percentile £17.08 £19.21 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £16.33
Median hourly rate £31.00 £26.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.43% -23.93% -18.83%
75th Percentile £56.75 £40.46 £57.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -22.86% -18.13%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the City of London

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the City of London

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 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the City of London

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in the City of London

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 5 July 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
Moorgate - 1 £390 - 1
London Bridge - 1 - -
DevOps
Central London

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 11 (4.53%) Confluence
2 9 (3.70%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.70%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.88%) Apache
4 2 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.41%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.41%) Camunda
5 1 (0.41%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.06%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (4.12%) Endur
2 5 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.82%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.82%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.41%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.41%) Maximo
4 1 (0.41%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.41%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.41%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 130 (53.50%) Azure
2 88 (36.21%) AWS
3 70 (28.81%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (11.93%) GitHub
5 25 (10.29%) Serverless
6 24 (9.88%) GCP
7 19 (7.82%) Power Platform
8 15 (6.17%) Amazon S3
9 14 (5.76%) PaaS
10 12 (4.94%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (4.94%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (4.53%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (4.53%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (4.12%) Dynamics 365
12 10 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (3.70%) Azure AKS
13 9 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
14 8 (3.29%) Power Automate
14 8 (3.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.53%) DNS
1 11 (4.53%) Firewall
2 6 (2.47%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.47%) VPN
3 5 (2.06%) HTTP
3 5 (2.06%) Network Security
4 4 (1.65%) SSL
5 3 (1.23%) DHCP
5 3 (1.23%) SMTP
6 2 (0.82%) BGP
6 2 (0.82%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (0.82%) FTP
6 2 (0.82%) IGMP
6 2 (0.82%) Multicast
6 2 (0.82%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (0.82%) SSH
6 2 (0.82%) VXLAN
6 2 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.41%) IOS XR
7 1 (0.41%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.58%) MongoDB
2 15 (6.17%) NoSQL
2 15 (6.17%) SQL Server
3 14 (5.76%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (4.94%) Power BI
5 9 (3.70%) Relational Database
6 8 (3.29%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (3.29%) DynamoDB
7 7 (2.88%) Big Data
7 7 (2.88%) Data Lake
8 6 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (2.06%) BigQuery
9 5 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (1.65%) DB2
10 4 (1.65%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (1.65%) Tableau
11 3 (1.23%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 25 (10.29%) JIRA
2 23 (9.47%) GitLab
2 23 (9.47%) Jenkins
3 22 (9.05%) Git
4 8 (3.29%) Gradle
4 8 (3.29%) SonarQube
5 7 (2.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 7 (2.88%) Maven
6 6 (2.47%) JUnit
6 6 (2.47%) Selenium
7 5 (2.06%) Postman
8 4 (1.65%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.65%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (1.65%) IntelliJ
9 3 (1.23%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.82%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.82%) JMeter
10 2 (0.82%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.82%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.82%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 76 (31.28%) Social Skills
2 74 (30.45%) Finance
3 33 (13.58%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (12.76%) Banking
5 25 (10.29%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.53%) Investment Banking
7 8 (3.29%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.06%) Marketing
9 4 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.23%) Back Office
10 3 (1.23%) Billing
10 3 (1.23%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.23%) Front Office
10 3 (1.23%) Retail
11 2 (0.82%) Law
11 2 (0.82%) Military
11 2 (0.82%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.41%) Legal
12 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (24.69%) Developer
2 33 (13.58%) DevOps Engineer
3 29 (11.93%) Senior
4 26 (10.70%) Architect
5 22 (9.05%) Java Developer
6 20 (8.23%) Analyst
7 13 (5.35%) Business Analyst
8 12 (4.94%) Lead
9 11 (4.53%) Data Engineer
10 10 (4.12%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 10 (4.12%) Senior Developer
11 9 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (3.29%) Angular Developer
12 8 (3.29%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (3.29%) Azure Architect
13 7 (2.88%) .NET Developer
13 7 (2.88%) Cloud Architect
13 7 (2.88%) Security Architect
13 7 (2.88%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (12.76%) .NET
2 24 (9.88%) Kafka
3 21 (8.64%) Spring
4 20 (8.23%) AngularJS
5 18 (7.41%) REST
6 15 (6.17%) React
7 12 (4.94%) Spring Boot
8 9 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (2.88%) GraphQL
9 7 (2.88%) OpenTelemetry
9 7 (2.88%) RESTful
10 6 (2.47%) FIX Protocol
10 6 (2.47%) HTML
10 6 (2.47%) Node.js
10 6 (2.47%) OAuth
11 5 (2.06%) ADO
11 5 (2.06%) CSS
11 5 (2.06%) Django
11 5 (2.06%) Web Services
11 5 (2.06%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.35%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (3.29%) Fixed Income
4 8 (3.29%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.88%) Derivative
5 7 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.88%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.06%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.65%) Equities
7 4 (1.65%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.65%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.65%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.23%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.23%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.23%) PKI
8 3 (1.23%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 32 (13.17%) Linux
2 13 (5.35%) Unix
3 9 (3.70%) Windows
4 4 (1.65%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.23%) Rocky
6 1 (0.41%) Android
6 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.41%) Solaris
6 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (49.79%) CI/CD
2 83 (34.16%) Agile
3 52 (21.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 49 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (18.11%) Microservices
6 35 (14.40%) Containerisation
7 26 (10.70%) Software Engineering
8 24 (9.88%) Test Automation
9 21 (8.64%) Continuous Integration
9 21 (8.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 20 (8.23%) Analytics
10 20 (8.23%) Migration
10 20 (8.23%) Observability
10 20 (8.23%) Project Management
10 20 (8.23%) SDLC
11 19 (7.82%) Cloud Security
11 19 (7.82%) Scrum
11 19 (7.82%) Stakeholder Management
12 18 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (7.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 81 (33.33%) Python
2 56 (23.05%) SQL
3 48 (19.75%) Java
4 36 (14.81%) JavaScript
5 34 (13.99%) C#
6 19 (7.82%) PowerShell
7 14 (5.76%) Bash
8 12 (4.94%) Shell Script
9 9 (3.70%) Bicep
10 8 (3.29%) TypeScript
11 7 (2.88%) Go
12 6 (2.47%) Perl
12 6 (2.47%) Scala
13 2 (0.82%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.82%) C++
13 2 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.82%) Groovy
13 2 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.82%) Ruby
13 2 (0.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (13.99%) Security Cleared
2 31 (12.76%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.82%) Degree
4 11 (4.53%) AWS Certified Developer
5 10 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.70%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.47%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.23%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 3 (1.23%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.23%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.23%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.23%) PMP
11 2 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.82%) CISSP
11 2 (0.82%) OCP
11 2 (0.82%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.82%) QA
2 9 (3.70%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.47%) GDPR
4 6 (2.47%) NIST
5 4 (1.65%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.65%) SOC 2
6 3 (1.23%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.23%) PMO
7 2 (0.82%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.82%) MiFID
7 2 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.41%) EMIR
8 1 (0.41%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.41%) SEPA
System Software
1 37 (15.23%) Docker
2 6 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.41%) Lustre
4 1 (0.41%) NFS
4 1 (0.41%) OpenAM
4 1 (0.41%) OpenDJ
4 1 (0.41%) OpenIDM
4 1 (0.41%) Veritas File System
4 1 (0.41%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 73 (30.04%) Kubernetes
2 69 (28.40%) Terraform
3 29 (11.93%) Ansible
4 18 (7.41%) Prometheus
5 13 (5.35%) Grafana
6 10 (4.12%) ITRS Geneos
7 7 (2.88%) Puppet
8 6 (2.47%) Istio
9 5 (2.06%) Kibana
9 5 (2.06%) logstash
10 4 (1.65%) Argo
10 4 (1.65%) Progress Chef
11 3 (1.23%) Consul
11 3 (1.23%) HP ALM
11 3 (1.23%) Podman
12 2 (0.82%) Cilium
12 2 (0.82%) QRadar
13 1 (0.41%) Karpenter
13 1 (0.41%) Packer
13 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (23.46%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.76%) Databricks
2 14 (5.76%) Oracle
3 13 (5.35%) Google
4 12 (4.94%) Splunk
5 5 (2.06%) SAP
6 4 (1.65%) Cisco
6 4 (1.65%) OpenLink
6 4 (1.65%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.65%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.65%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.65%) Solace
7 3 (1.23%) HP
7 3 (1.23%) Sybase
7 3 (1.23%) UiPath
8 2 (0.82%) Arista
8 2 (0.82%) Confluent
8 2 (0.82%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.82%) IBM
8 2 (0.82%) VMware