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 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -9 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 215 230 234
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 9.94% 13.31% 10.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.40% 14.45% 11.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 154 150
10th Percentile £363 £425 £419
25th Percentile £463 £494 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +0.81%
75th Percentile £676 £675 £687
90th Percentile £775 £750 £753
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 1,886 1,592 2,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.19% 92.13% 89.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,301 1,024 1,456
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £573
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.44% -4.58%
75th Percentile £673 £680 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £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% -45.65%
75th Percentile £48.67 £34.68 £40.92
90th Percentile £57.93 £51.75 £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 3 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 (2.79%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.86%) Apache
3 4 (1.86%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.40%) Palantir Foundry
4 3 (1.40%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.93%) Confluence
6 1 (0.47%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.47%) nginx
6 1 (0.47%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.93%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.47%) Maya
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.40%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.93%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.47%) Magento
3 1 (0.47%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.47%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.47%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 126 (58.60%) Azure
2 69 (32.09%) Azure DevOps
3 66 (30.70%) AWS
4 53 (24.65%) GitHub
5 36 (16.74%) GCP
6 30 (13.95%) Serverless
7 27 (12.56%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (9.77%) Power Platform
9 17 (7.91%) Amazon S3
10 14 (6.51%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (5.58%) Azure AKS
12 11 (5.12%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (4.65%) Azure Functions
14 9 (4.19%) Entra ID
15 8 (3.72%) Amazon Kinesis
15 8 (3.72%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (3.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 8 (3.72%) Azure Monitor
16 7 (3.26%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.79%) Network Security
2 5 (2.33%) Firewall
3 1 (0.47%) DHCP
3 1 (0.47%) DNS
3 1 (0.47%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.47%) Multicast
3 1 (0.47%) SSL
3 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.91%) SQL Server
2 13 (6.05%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (5.58%) Power BI
4 8 (3.72%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.26%) NoSQL
5 7 (3.26%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.79%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (2.33%) Metadata
7 5 (2.33%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.33%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.86%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.86%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.86%) Tableau
9 3 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.40%) Big Data
9 3 (1.40%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.40%) MySQL
9 3 (1.40%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 35 (16.28%) Git
2 19 (8.84%) Jenkins
3 15 (6.98%) JIRA
4 13 (6.05%) GitLab
5 5 (2.33%) JUnit
5 5 (2.33%) Maven
5 5 (2.33%) Postman
5 5 (2.33%) Selenium
6 4 (1.86%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.86%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.86%) Mockito
7 3 (1.40%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.40%) Gradle
7 3 (1.40%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.93%) Ant
8 2 (0.93%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.47%) Introscope
9 1 (0.47%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.47%) PowerBuilder
General
1 60 (27.91%) Finance
2 44 (20.47%) Social Skills
3 22 (10.23%) Banking
4 13 (6.05%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.72%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.79%) Front Office
7 6 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.33%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.33%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.86%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.93%) Back Office
10 2 (0.93%) Law
10 2 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.93%) Retail
11 1 (0.47%) Legal
11 1 (0.47%) Marketing
11 1 (0.47%) Military
Job Titles
1 51 (23.72%) DevOps Engineer
2 28 (13.02%) Developer
3 26 (12.09%) Senior
4 23 (10.70%) Architect
5 18 (8.37%) Azure Engineer
6 15 (6.98%) Lead
7 13 (6.05%) Senior Developer
8 11 (5.12%) Data Engineer
9 10 (4.65%) Cloud Architect
10 8 (3.72%) AWS DevOps
10 8 (3.72%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (3.72%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.72%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (3.72%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (3.72%) Python Engineer
11 7 (3.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 7 (3.26%) Azure Architect
11 7 (3.26%) Consultant
12 6 (2.79%) Software Engineer
12 6 (2.79%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.37%) REST
2 15 (6.98%) Node.js
2 15 (6.98%) React
3 14 (6.51%) Spring
4 13 (6.05%) Kafka
5 12 (5.58%) .NET
6 10 (4.65%) Playwright
6 10 (4.65%) Spring Boot
7 9 (4.19%) OAuth
8 8 (3.72%) RESTful
9 7 (3.26%) HTML
10 6 (2.79%) AngularJS
10 6 (2.79%) CSS
10 6 (2.79%) FastAPI
10 6 (2.79%) JWT
10 6 (2.79%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (2.79%) PySpark
10 6 (2.79%) XML
11 5 (2.33%) JSON
11 5 (2.33%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 46 (21.40%) Cloud Native
2 16 (7.44%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.19%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.79%) Fixed Income
4 6 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.33%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.33%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.86%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.86%) Life Science
6 4 (1.86%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.40%) Clustering
7 3 (1.40%) Derivative
7 3 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.40%) NHS
7 3 (1.40%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.40%) Replication
8 2 (0.93%) Equities
8 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.51%) Linux
2 10 (4.65%) Windows
3 4 (1.86%) Unix
4 3 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.40%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.93%) Android
6 1 (0.47%) AIX
6 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.47%) VMS
6 1 (0.47%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (53.95%) CI/CD
2 68 (31.63%) Infrastructure as Code
3 57 (26.51%) Agile
4 36 (16.74%) AI
4 36 (16.74%) Containerisation
5 33 (15.35%) Test Automation
6 29 (13.49%) Migration
7 28 (13.02%) Continuous Improvement
8 27 (12.56%) Analytics
9 26 (12.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 24 (11.16%) Microservices
11 22 (10.23%) Data Engineering
11 22 (10.23%) Observability
11 22 (10.23%) Performance Tuning
11 22 (10.23%) Software Engineering
12 21 (9.77%) Roadmaps
12 21 (9.77%) Stakeholder Management
13 19 (8.84%) Platform Engineering
14 18 (8.37%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (7.44%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 62 (28.84%) Python
2 49 (22.79%) SQL
3 33 (15.35%) Java
4 20 (9.30%) JavaScript
5 18 (8.37%) C#
6 14 (6.51%) TypeScript
7 11 (5.12%) PowerShell
8 10 (4.65%) Bash
9 7 (3.26%) Bicep
10 3 (1.40%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.93%) C++
11 2 (0.93%) Go
11 2 (0.93%) Korn
11 2 (0.93%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.93%) Perl
11 2 (0.93%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.93%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.93%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.47%) Jython
12 1 (0.47%) ProC
Qualifications
1 73 (33.95%) Security Cleared
2 70 (32.56%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.98%) Degree
4 9 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.72%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.86%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.40%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.40%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.93%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.93%) CESG Certified Professional
8 2 (0.93%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.93%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.47%) CCNA
9 1 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.47%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.47%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.47%) MBA
9 1 (0.47%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.51%) QA
2 9 (4.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.72%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.79%) GDPR
5 5 (2.33%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.40%) NCSC
6 3 (1.40%) NIST
6 3 (1.40%) PMO
6 3 (1.40%) SLA
7 2 (0.93%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.93%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.47%) MiFID
8 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (21.40%) Docker
2 6 (2.79%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.79%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.47%) GridGain
4 1 (0.47%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 68 (31.63%) Terraform
2 55 (25.58%) Kubernetes
3 17 (7.91%) Ansible
4 9 (4.19%) Grafana
5 7 (3.26%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.40%) Istio
6 3 (1.40%) Karpenter
7 2 (0.93%) Argo
7 2 (0.93%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.47%) CA Wily
8 1 (0.47%) CASB
8 1 (0.47%) Icinga
8 1 (0.47%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.47%) linkerd
8 1 (0.47%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.47%) Packer
8 1 (0.47%) Puppet
8 1 (0.47%) SCCM
Vendors
1 36 (16.74%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.70%) Google
3 19 (8.84%) Databricks
4 13 (6.05%) Oracle
5 10 (4.65%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.33%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.86%) Splunk
8 3 (1.40%) CyberArk
8 3 (1.40%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.40%) Foundry
8 3 (1.40%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.40%) Palantir
8 3 (1.40%) SAP
8 3 (1.40%) VMware
9 2 (0.93%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.93%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.93%) IBM
9 2 (0.93%) Informatica
9 2 (0.93%) OutSystems
9 2 (0.93%) UiPath