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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 13 16
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 193 220 215
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 10.29% 11.70% 8.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.55% 12.73% 9.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 138 167
10th Percentile £369 £455 £433
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 £672 £679 £683
90th Percentile £788 £750 £747
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 1,671 1,728 2,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.12% 91.87% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,165 1,049 1,555
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £429 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £569
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +1.05% -4.37%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £543 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -5.65% +2.22% -3.85%
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% -21.43%
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% -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 30 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 (2.59%) Confluence
2 4 (2.07%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.55%) Apache
3 3 (1.55%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.04%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.04%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.52%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.52%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 92 (47.67%) Azure
2 60 (31.09%) Azure DevOps
3 55 (28.50%) AWS
4 45 (23.32%) GitHub
5 34 (17.62%) GCP
6 26 (13.47%) GitHub Actions
7 23 (11.92%) Serverless
8 17 (8.81%) Power Platform
9 16 (8.29%) Amazon S3
10 15 (7.77%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (6.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (5.18%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (3.63%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (3.63%) Azure AKS
13 7 (3.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 6 (3.11%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (3.11%) Apigee
14 6 (3.11%) AWS Fargate
14 6 (3.11%) Azure Data Factory
14 6 (3.11%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.63%) Firewall
2 6 (3.11%) DNS
3 5 (2.59%) Network Security
3 5 (2.59%) SSL
4 4 (2.07%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.55%) HTTPS
6 2 (1.04%) DHCP
6 2 (1.04%) VPN
7 1 (0.52%) BGP
7 1 (0.52%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.52%) DKIM
7 1 (0.52%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.52%) Internet
7 1 (0.52%) MPLS
7 1 (0.52%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.52%) OSPF
7 1 (0.52%) SSH
7 1 (0.52%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.70%) Power BI
2 8 (4.15%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.63%) DynamoDB
3 7 (3.63%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.59%) BigQuery
5 4 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (1.55%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.55%) Delta Lake
6 3 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.55%) MySQL
6 3 (1.55%) Redis
6 3 (1.55%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.04%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.04%) Big Data
7 2 (1.04%) Couchbase
7 2 (1.04%) Metadata
7 2 (1.04%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.04%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 28 (14.51%) Git
2 24 (12.44%) Jenkins
2 24 (12.44%) JIRA
3 15 (7.77%) GitLab
4 7 (3.63%) Selenium
4 7 (3.63%) SonarQube
5 5 (2.59%) Bitbucket
5 5 (2.59%) JUnit
5 5 (2.59%) Postman
6 4 (2.07%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.07%) Cypress.io
6 4 (2.07%) Gradle
7 3 (1.55%) Maven
7 3 (1.55%) Mockito
7 3 (1.55%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.04%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.04%) Storybook
8 2 (1.04%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (1.04%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 58 (30.05%) Finance
2 54 (27.98%) Social Skills
3 26 (13.47%) Banking
4 14 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (5.70%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.63%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.11%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.59%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.07%) Front Office
9 4 (2.07%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (2.07%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.55%) Law
11 2 (1.04%) Back Office
11 2 (1.04%) Legal
11 2 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.04%) Retail
12 1 (0.52%) Billing
Job Titles
1 51 (26.42%) DevOps Engineer
2 32 (16.58%) Developer
3 26 (13.47%) Senior
4 14 (7.25%) Architect
4 14 (7.25%) Lead
5 10 (5.18%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (4.15%) Analyst
6 8 (4.15%) AWS DevOps
6 8 (4.15%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (4.15%) Data Engineer
6 8 (4.15%) Senior Developer
7 7 (3.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 7 (3.63%) Cloud Architect
8 6 (3.11%) GCP Engineer
9 5 (2.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 5 (2.59%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 5 (2.59%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (2.59%) Java Developer
9 5 (2.59%) Python Engineer
9 5 (2.59%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.29%) .NET
2 15 (7.77%) Node.js
2 15 (7.77%) React
3 14 (7.25%) REST
4 11 (5.70%) OAuth
5 10 (5.18%) HTML
6 9 (4.66%) CSS
7 7 (3.63%) FastAPI
7 7 (3.63%) JSON
7 7 (3.63%) JWT
7 7 (3.63%) XML
8 6 (3.11%) AngularJS
8 6 (3.11%) RESTful
8 6 (3.11%) SOAP
8 6 (3.11%) Spring
9 5 (2.59%) PySpark
9 5 (2.59%) Spring Boot
10 4 (2.07%) Next.js
10 4 (2.07%) OAuth2
10 4 (2.07%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 28 (14.51%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.70%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.63%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.11%) AI Agents
4 6 (3.11%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.07%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.07%) Life Science
6 4 (2.07%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.55%) CMDB
7 3 (1.55%) Derivative
7 3 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.55%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.55%) Replication
7 3 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.04%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.04%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.04%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.29%) Linux
2 9 (4.66%) Windows
3 4 (2.07%) Android
3 4 (2.07%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.55%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.55%) Unix
5 2 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.52%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (47.67%) CI/CD
2 67 (34.72%) Agile
3 49 (25.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (15.54%) Test Automation
5 28 (14.51%) Containerisation
5 28 (14.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 24 (12.44%) AI
6 24 (12.44%) Continuous Improvement
7 23 (11.92%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (11.40%) Migration
9 18 (9.33%) Roadmaps
10 17 (8.81%) Analytics
10 17 (8.81%) Performance Tuning
10 17 (8.81%) Stakeholder Management
11 16 (8.29%) Observability
11 16 (8.29%) Software Engineering
12 15 (7.77%) Scrum
13 13 (6.74%) SDLC
14 12 (6.22%) Machine Learning
15 11 (5.70%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 60 (31.09%) Python
2 34 (17.62%) SQL
3 30 (15.54%) Java
4 21 (10.88%) JavaScript
5 14 (7.25%) TypeScript
6 13 (6.74%) C#
6 13 (6.74%) PowerShell
7 8 (4.15%) Bash
8 3 (1.55%) Bicep
9 2 (1.04%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.04%) C++
9 2 (1.04%) Korn
9 2 (1.04%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.04%) Perl
9 2 (1.04%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.04%) Rust
9 2 (1.04%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.52%) C
10 1 (0.52%) PHP
10 1 (0.52%) XPath
Qualifications
1 63 (32.64%) Security Cleared
2 58 (30.05%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.77%) Degree
4 8 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.07%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.55%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.55%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.04%) CBAP
7 2 (1.04%) CESG Certified Professional
7 2 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.04%) ISEB
7 2 (1.04%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.04%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.52%) CCIE
8 1 (0.52%) IIBA
8 1 (0.52%) MBA
8 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.52%) PMP
8 1 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.70%) QA
2 8 (4.15%) GDPR
3 7 (3.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.07%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.07%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.07%) NIST
4 4 (2.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.55%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.55%) PMO
6 2 (1.04%) NCSC
6 2 (1.04%) NIST 800
6 2 (1.04%) SLA
7 1 (0.52%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.52%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.52%) MiFID
7 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (19.69%) Docker
2 4 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.52%) GridGain
4 1 (0.52%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 60 (31.09%) Terraform
2 38 (19.69%) Kubernetes
3 26 (13.47%) Ansible
4 4 (2.07%) Grafana
5 3 (1.55%) Argo
5 3 (1.55%) Istio
5 3 (1.55%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (1.55%) Karpenter
5 3 (1.55%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.04%) Kibana
7 1 (0.52%) CASB
7 1 (0.52%) Icinga
7 1 (0.52%) logstash
7 1 (0.52%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.52%) Packer
7 1 (0.52%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.52%) Puppet
7 1 (0.52%) SCCM
Vendors
1 26 (13.47%) Microsoft
2 25 (12.95%) Google
3 15 (7.77%) Databricks
4 11 (5.70%) Oracle
4 11 (5.70%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.11%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.59%) Splunk
7 4 (2.07%) CyberArk
7 4 (2.07%) OpenAI
7 4 (2.07%) VMware
8 3 (1.55%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.55%) DocuSign
8 3 (1.55%) F5
8 3 (1.55%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.04%) Axway
9 2 (1.04%) Bloomberg
9 2 (1.04%) Foundry
9 2 (1.04%) MarketAxess
9 2 (1.04%) Planview
9 2 (1.04%) Tradeweb