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 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 13 15
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 197 217 217
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 10.58% 11.64% 8.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.89% 12.67% 9.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 135 171
10th Percentile £371 £454 £425
25th Percentile £457 £506 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £613
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -4.49% -2.00%
75th Percentile £663 £682 £681
90th Percentile £786 £750 £745
Central London median daily rate £550 £585 £613
% change year-on-year -5.98% -4.49% -1.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.75
Median hourly rate - - £48.50
75th Percentile - - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £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 1,657 1,713 2,195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.99% 91.90% 89.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,163 1,043 1,572
10th Percentile £350 £364 £355
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £574
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +0.22% -3.57%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -6.09% +1.77% -3.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 13
10th Percentile £19.98 £13.45 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.66 £22.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £31.00 £32.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +18.18% -18.52%
75th Percentile £42.65 £43.75 £46.75
90th Percentile £49.83 £112.00 £69.05
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -14.43%

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 26 January 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 5 (2.54%) Confluence
2 4 (2.03%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.52%) Apache
3 3 (1.52%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.02%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.51%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.51%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 92 (46.70%) Azure
2 59 (29.95%) Azure DevOps
3 57 (28.93%) AWS
4 46 (23.35%) GitHub
5 36 (18.27%) GCP
6 26 (13.20%) GitHub Actions
7 23 (11.68%) Serverless
8 17 (8.63%) Power Platform
9 16 (8.12%) Amazon S3
10 15 (7.61%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (6.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (5.08%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (4.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 7 (3.55%) Apigee
14 7 (3.55%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (3.55%) Azure AKS
15 6 (3.05%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (3.05%) Azure Functions
15 6 (3.05%) Cloud Run
15 6 (3.05%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.55%) Firewall
2 6 (3.05%) DNS
3 5 (2.54%) Network Security
3 5 (2.54%) SSL
4 4 (2.03%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.52%) HTTPS
6 2 (1.02%) DHCP
6 2 (1.02%) VPN
7 1 (0.51%) BGP
7 1 (0.51%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.51%) DKIM
7 1 (0.51%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.51%) Internet
7 1 (0.51%) MPLS
7 1 (0.51%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.51%) OSPF
7 1 (0.51%) SSH
7 1 (0.51%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.58%) Power BI
2 8 (4.06%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.55%) DynamoDB
3 7 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.54%) BigQuery
5 4 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (1.52%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.52%) Delta Lake
6 3 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.52%) MySQL
6 3 (1.52%) Redis
6 3 (1.52%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.02%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.02%) Big Data
7 2 (1.02%) Couchbase
7 2 (1.02%) Metadata
7 2 (1.02%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 28 (14.21%) Git
2 26 (13.20%) Jenkins
3 24 (12.18%) JIRA
4 16 (8.12%) GitLab
5 8 (4.06%) Selenium
6 7 (3.55%) SonarQube
7 6 (3.05%) Bitbucket
7 6 (3.05%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.54%) Gradle
8 5 (2.54%) JUnit
8 5 (2.54%) Postman
9 4 (2.03%) Cucumber
9 4 (2.03%) Maven
10 3 (1.52%) Mockito
10 3 (1.52%) Storybook
10 3 (1.52%) TeamCity
11 2 (1.02%) REST Assured
11 2 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (1.02%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 60 (30.46%) Finance
2 55 (27.92%) Social Skills
3 30 (15.23%) Banking
4 14 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (5.58%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.55%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.05%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.54%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.03%) Front Office
9 4 (2.03%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (2.03%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.02%) Back Office
10 2 (1.02%) Law
10 2 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.02%) Retail
11 1 (0.51%) Legal
11 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (26.90%) DevOps Engineer
2 33 (16.75%) Developer
3 28 (14.21%) Senior
4 14 (7.11%) Architect
4 14 (7.11%) Lead
5 10 (5.08%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (4.06%) Analyst
6 8 (4.06%) AWS DevOps
6 8 (4.06%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (4.06%) Data Engineer
6 8 (4.06%) Senior Developer
7 7 (3.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 7 (3.55%) Cloud Architect
7 7 (3.55%) GCP Engineer
8 6 (3.05%) Senior DevOps
9 5 (2.54%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 5 (2.54%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 5 (2.54%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (2.54%) Python Engineer
9 5 (2.54%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.12%) .NET
1 16 (8.12%) Node.js
1 16 (8.12%) React
2 14 (7.11%) REST
3 11 (5.58%) HTML
3 11 (5.58%) OAuth
4 10 (5.08%) CSS
5 7 (3.55%) AngularJS
5 7 (3.55%) FastAPI
5 7 (3.55%) JSON
5 7 (3.55%) JWT
5 7 (3.55%) RESTful
5 7 (3.55%) XML
6 6 (3.05%) SOAP
6 6 (3.05%) Spring
7 5 (2.54%) PySpark
7 5 (2.54%) Spring Boot
8 4 (2.03%) GraphQL
8 4 (2.03%) Next.js
8 4 (2.03%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 29 (14.72%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.58%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.06%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.05%) AI Agents
4 6 (3.05%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.03%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.03%) Life Science
6 4 (2.03%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.52%) CMDB
7 3 (1.52%) Derivative
7 3 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.52%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.52%) Replication
7 3 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.02%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.02%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.02%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.12%) Linux
2 9 (4.57%) Windows
3 4 (2.03%) Android
3 4 (2.03%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.52%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.52%) Unix
5 2 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.51%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (48.73%) CI/CD
2 70 (35.53%) Agile
3 49 (24.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (15.74%) Test Automation
5 29 (14.72%) Containerisation
6 28 (14.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 25 (12.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (12.18%) AI
9 23 (11.68%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (11.17%) Migration
11 18 (9.14%) Observability
11 18 (9.14%) Roadmaps
12 17 (8.63%) Analytics
12 17 (8.63%) Performance Tuning
12 17 (8.63%) Stakeholder Management
13 16 (8.12%) Software Engineering
14 15 (7.61%) Scrum
15 13 (6.60%) Microservices
15 13 (6.60%) SDLC
16 12 (6.09%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 61 (30.96%) Python
2 33 (16.75%) SQL
3 32 (16.24%) Java
4 23 (11.68%) JavaScript
5 15 (7.61%) TypeScript
6 13 (6.60%) C#
6 13 (6.60%) PowerShell
7 8 (4.06%) Bash
8 3 (1.52%) Bicep
9 2 (1.02%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.02%) C++
9 2 (1.02%) Korn
9 2 (1.02%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.02%) Perl
9 2 (1.02%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.02%) Rust
9 2 (1.02%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.51%) VBA
10 1 (0.51%) XPath
Qualifications
1 63 (31.98%) Security Cleared
2 58 (29.44%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.61%) Degree
4 8 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.03%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.52%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.52%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.02%) CBAP
7 2 (1.02%) CESG Certified Professional
7 2 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.02%) ISEB
7 2 (1.02%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.02%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.51%) CCIE
8 1 (0.51%) CCNA
8 1 (0.51%) CCNP
8 1 (0.51%) MBA
8 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.60%) QA
2 8 (4.06%) GDPR
3 7 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.03%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.03%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.03%) NIST
4 4 (2.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.52%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.02%) NCSC
6 2 (1.02%) NIST 800
6 2 (1.02%) PMO
6 2 (1.02%) SLA
7 1 (0.51%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.51%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.51%) MiFID
7 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (19.80%) Docker
2 4 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.02%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.51%) GridGain
4 1 (0.51%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 62 (31.47%) Terraform
2 40 (20.30%) Kubernetes
3 27 (13.71%) Ansible
4 4 (2.03%) Grafana
4 4 (2.03%) Istio
5 3 (1.52%) Argo
5 3 (1.52%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (1.52%) Karpenter
5 3 (1.52%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.02%) Kibana
6 2 (1.02%) Puppet
7 1 (0.51%) CASB
7 1 (0.51%) Icinga
7 1 (0.51%) logstash
7 1 (0.51%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.51%) Packer
7 1 (0.51%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.51%) SCCM
Vendors
1 27 (13.71%) Google
2 26 (13.20%) Microsoft
3 14 (7.11%) Databricks
4 11 (5.58%) Oracle
4 11 (5.58%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.55%) Splunk
6 6 (3.05%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.03%) CyberArk
7 4 (2.03%) OpenAI
7 4 (2.03%) VMware
8 3 (1.52%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.52%) DocuSign
8 3 (1.52%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.52%) F5
8 3 (1.52%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.02%) Foundry
9 2 (1.02%) MarketAxess
9 2 (1.02%) New Relic
9 2 (1.02%) Palantir
9 2 (1.02%) Tradeweb