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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 11 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -6
Contract jobs citing DevOps 220 256 439
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 12.53% 11.65% 12.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.45% 12.88% 13.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 172 306
10th Percentile £425 £417 £438
25th Percentile £500 £490 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £681 £683 £738
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £620
% change year-on-year -4.17% -3.23% +3.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £48.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £48.50 -

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 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

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 1 May 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
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 (5.00%) Apache Spark
1 11 (5.00%) Confluence
2 7 (3.18%) Apache
3 6 (2.73%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.45%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.45%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.45%) Camunda
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.45%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.91%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.91%) Endur
2 2 (0.91%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.45%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.45%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 112 (50.91%) Azure
2 87 (39.55%) AWS
3 57 (25.91%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (10.91%) Serverless
5 22 (10.00%) GCP
6 21 (9.55%) GitHub
7 16 (7.27%) Power Platform
8 13 (5.91%) Amazon S3
9 12 (5.45%) Azure Monitor
10 10 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (4.55%) Azure AKS
10 10 (4.55%) PaaS
11 9 (4.09%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (4.09%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (3.64%) Azure Sentinel
13 7 (3.18%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (3.18%) OpenShift
13 7 (3.18%) Power Automate
14 6 (2.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (2.73%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.45%) Firewall
2 7 (3.18%) DNS
3 5 (2.27%) HTTP
3 5 (2.27%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.27%) VPN
4 4 (1.82%) Network Security
5 3 (1.36%) DHCP
5 3 (1.36%) SMTP
5 3 (1.36%) SSL
6 2 (0.91%) FTP
6 2 (0.91%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.45%) 4G
7 1 (0.45%) BGP
7 1 (0.45%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.45%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.45%) LAN
7 1 (0.45%) LTE
7 1 (0.45%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.45%) VLAN
7 1 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (13.18%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (9.55%) MongoDB
2 21 (9.55%) NoSQL
3 17 (7.73%) SQL Server
4 10 (4.55%) Power BI
5 9 (4.09%) Relational Database
6 7 (3.18%) Big Data
7 6 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (2.73%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.73%) Tableau
8 5 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.27%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.82%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.36%) DB2
10 3 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.36%) MySQL
11 2 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.91%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 25 (11.36%) Jenkins
2 24 (10.91%) JIRA
3 22 (10.00%) Git
3 22 (10.00%) GitLab
4 9 (4.09%) SonarQube
5 7 (3.18%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (2.73%) JUnit
7 5 (2.27%) Postman
8 4 (1.82%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (1.82%) Gradle
8 4 (1.82%) IntelliJ
8 4 (1.82%) Maven
8 4 (1.82%) Selenium
9 3 (1.36%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.91%) JMeter
10 2 (0.91%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.91%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.91%) Visual Studio Team System
11 1 (0.45%) Serenity BDD
General
1 56 (25.45%) Finance
1 56 (25.45%) Social Skills
2 37 (16.82%) Public Sector
3 26 (11.82%) Banking
4 24 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.73%) Investment Banking
6 5 (2.27%) Marketing
7 4 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.36%) Back Office
8 3 (1.36%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.36%) Front Office
9 2 (0.91%) Billing
9 2 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.91%) Retail
10 1 (0.45%) Legal
10 1 (0.45%) Military
10 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 67 (30.45%) Developer
2 41 (18.64%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (12.27%) Architect
3 27 (12.27%) Java Developer
4 26 (11.82%) Senior
5 17 (7.73%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 12 (5.45%) Analyst
6 12 (5.45%) Data Engineer
6 12 (5.45%) Lead
6 12 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (4.55%) Senior Developer
8 9 (4.09%) Azure Engineer
9 8 (3.64%) .NET Developer
9 8 (3.64%) Azure Architect
10 7 (3.18%) Angular Developer
10 7 (3.18%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (2.73%) Cloud Architect
11 6 (2.73%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (2.73%) Senior DevOps
11 6 (2.73%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (17.27%) Kafka
2 37 (16.82%) .NET
3 27 (12.27%) Spring
4 24 (10.91%) React
5 18 (8.18%) Spring Boot
6 16 (7.27%) REST
7 13 (5.91%) AngularJS
8 10 (4.55%) HTML
8 10 (4.55%) RESTful
9 9 (4.09%) CSS
9 9 (4.09%) Web Services
10 8 (3.64%) OAuth
11 6 (2.73%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (2.27%) ASP.NET
12 5 (2.27%) GraphQL
12 5 (2.27%) SOAP
13 4 (1.82%) ADO
13 4 (1.82%) JMS
13 4 (1.82%) JSON
13 4 (1.82%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.73%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.09%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.18%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.82%) Equities
5 4 (1.82%) Fixed Income
5 4 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.82%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.36%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.36%) Hedge funds
6 3 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.36%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.36%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.36%) Reinsurance
6 3 (1.36%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.91%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.91%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.91%) Multi-touch
Operating Systems
1 29 (13.18%) Linux
2 12 (5.45%) Windows
3 10 (4.55%) Unix
4 3 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.36%) Rocky
4 3 (1.36%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.45%) CentOS
5 1 (0.45%) Solaris
5 1 (0.45%) SUSE
5 1 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (53.18%) CI/CD
2 79 (35.91%) Agile
3 49 (22.27%) Microservices
4 44 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 38 (17.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 35 (15.91%) Containerisation
7 25 (11.36%) Test Automation
8 24 (10.91%) Software Engineering
9 22 (10.00%) Clean Code
9 22 (10.00%) SOLID
10 21 (9.55%) API Development
11 20 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
12 19 (8.64%) Migration
13 17 (7.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 16 (7.27%) Analytics
14 16 (7.27%) Configuration Management
14 16 (7.27%) Scrum
14 16 (7.27%) SDLC
15 15 (6.82%) Computer Science
15 15 (6.82%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 67 (30.45%) Python
2 51 (23.18%) Java
3 49 (22.27%) SQL
4 46 (20.91%) JavaScript
5 36 (16.36%) C#
6 20 (9.09%) PowerShell
7 13 (5.91%) Bash
7 13 (5.91%) Shell Script
8 12 (5.45%) Bicep
9 6 (2.73%) Perl
9 6 (2.73%) Scala
10 5 (2.27%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.82%) C++
11 4 (1.82%) Go
11 4 (1.82%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.36%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.91%) DAML
13 2 (0.91%) Groovy
13 2 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.91%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 55 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 50 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 21 (9.55%) Degree
4 18 (8.18%) AWS Certified Developer
5 12 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.18%) AWS Certification
6 7 (3.18%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.36%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 3 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.91%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.91%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.91%) OCP
10 2 (0.91%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.91%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.91%) PMP
10 2 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.91%) QA
2 8 (3.64%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.18%) GDPR
4 4 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.82%) PMO
4 4 (1.82%) SOC 2
5 3 (1.36%) EMIR
5 3 (1.36%) MiFID
5 3 (1.36%) NIST
6 2 (0.91%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.45%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 40 (18.18%) Docker
2 6 (2.73%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.91%) Lustre
5 1 (0.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.45%) NFS
5 1 (0.45%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.45%) OpenDJ
5 1 (0.45%) OpenIDM
5 1 (0.45%) Veritas File System
5 1 (0.45%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 79 (35.91%) Kubernetes
2 63 (28.64%) Terraform
3 30 (13.64%) Ansible
4 8 (3.64%) Grafana
4 8 (3.64%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.82%) Podman
5 4 (1.82%) Puppet
6 3 (1.36%) Consul
6 3 (1.36%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.91%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.91%) Istio
7 2 (0.91%) Karpenter
7 2 (0.91%) MOM
7 2 (0.91%) QRadar
8 1 (0.45%) Control-M
8 1 (0.45%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.45%) logstash
8 1 (0.45%) Netcool
8 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.45%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 40 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.45%) Databricks
3 11 (5.00%) Oracle
4 9 (4.09%) Splunk
5 8 (3.64%) Google
6 6 (2.73%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.73%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.27%) SAP
8 3 (1.36%) Cisco
8 3 (1.36%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.36%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.36%) Sybase
9 2 (0.91%) CheckPoint
9 2 (0.91%) Confluent
9 2 (0.91%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.91%) HP
9 2 (0.91%) IBM
9 2 (0.91%) OpenLink
9 2 (0.91%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.91%) Workday