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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 13 12
Rank change year-on-year -9 -1 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 211 232 238
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 9.56% 13.30% 10.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.01% 14.38% 11.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 158 151
10th Percentile £363 £425 £419
25th Percentile £458 £500 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +0.81%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £686
90th Percentile £775 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £555 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -3.43% -8.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £65.73 - -
25th Percentile £66.81 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £72.25 - £48.50
75th Percentile £76.31 - £50.25
90th Percentile £76.58 - -
Central London median hourly rate £72.25 - £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 1,917 1,613 2,033
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.82% 92.49% 89.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,316 1,037 1,435
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.32% -5.42%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 9 11
10th Percentile - £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £32.07 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.44% +24.00% -38.27%
75th Percentile £52.16 £48.75 £40.92
90th Percentile £59.72 £71.00 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £31.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -14.34% +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 10 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 (2.84%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.42%) Apache
3 3 (1.42%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.42%) Confluence
3 3 (1.42%) Palantir Foundry
3 3 (1.42%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.47%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.47%) nginx
4 1 (0.47%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Maya
1 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.42%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.95%) 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
1 120 (56.87%) Azure
2 68 (32.23%) AWS
3 63 (29.86%) Azure DevOps
4 51 (24.17%) GitHub
5 34 (16.11%) GCP
6 29 (13.74%) Serverless
7 26 (12.32%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (9.00%) Power Platform
9 18 (8.53%) Amazon S3
10 15 (7.11%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (5.69%) Azure AKS
12 10 (4.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (4.74%) Entra ID
13 9 (4.27%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (3.79%) Amazon Kinesis
14 8 (3.79%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (3.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 8 (3.79%) Azure Functions
14 8 (3.79%) Azure Monitor
15 7 (3.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.32%) Firewall
2 6 (2.84%) Network Security
3 1 (0.47%) DHCP
3 1 (0.47%) DNS
3 1 (0.47%) Multicast
3 1 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.58%) SQL Server
2 14 (6.64%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (5.21%) Power BI
4 8 (3.79%) DynamoDB
4 8 (3.79%) Relational Database
5 7 (3.32%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.32%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.84%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (2.37%) Metadata
7 5 (2.37%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.37%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.90%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.90%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.42%) Big Data
9 3 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.42%) MySQL
9 3 (1.42%) Star Schema
9 3 (1.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (16.11%) Git
2 20 (9.48%) Jenkins
3 15 (7.11%) JIRA
4 14 (6.64%) GitLab
5 6 (2.84%) JUnit
6 5 (2.37%) Maven
6 5 (2.37%) Mockito
7 4 (1.90%) Gradle
7 4 (1.90%) Postman
7 4 (1.90%) Selenium
8 3 (1.42%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.42%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.42%) Liquibase
8 3 (1.42%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.95%) Ant
9 2 (0.95%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.95%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.47%) Introscope
10 1 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.47%) PowerBuilder
General
1 58 (27.49%) Finance
2 41 (19.43%) Social Skills
3 21 (9.95%) Banking
4 14 (6.64%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.27%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.37%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.37%) Front Office
8 5 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.90%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.42%) Law
10 3 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.95%) Military
11 2 (0.95%) Retail
12 1 (0.47%) Legal
12 1 (0.47%) Marketing
12 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.47%) Police
Job Titles
1 51 (24.17%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (12.32%) Senior
3 25 (11.85%) Developer
4 23 (10.90%) Architect
5 19 (9.00%) Azure Engineer
6 14 (6.64%) Lead
7 12 (5.69%) Senior Developer
8 11 (5.21%) Data Engineer
9 10 (4.74%) Cloud Architect
9 10 (4.74%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (4.27%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (3.79%) AWS DevOps
11 8 (3.79%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (3.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.79%) Python Engineer
12 7 (3.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 7 (3.32%) Azure Architect
12 7 (3.32%) Java Developer
12 7 (3.32%) Software Engineer
13 6 (2.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.53%) REST
2 16 (7.58%) React
2 16 (7.58%) Spring
3 15 (7.11%) Node.js
4 14 (6.64%) Kafka
5 12 (5.69%) Spring Boot
6 9 (4.27%) .NET
6 9 (4.27%) Playwright
7 8 (3.79%) OAuth
7 8 (3.79%) RESTful
8 7 (3.32%) HTML
9 6 (2.84%) CSS
9 6 (2.84%) JWT
9 6 (2.84%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (2.84%) PySpark
10 5 (2.37%) AngularJS
10 5 (2.37%) FastAPI
10 5 (2.37%) Next.js
10 5 (2.37%) XML
11 4 (1.90%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 46 (21.80%) Cloud Native
2 16 (7.58%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.27%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.84%) Fixed Income
4 6 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.84%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.37%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.90%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.90%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.42%) Clustering
7 3 (1.42%) Derivative
7 3 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.42%) Life Science
7 3 (1.42%) NHS
7 3 (1.42%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.42%) Replication
8 2 (0.95%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.95%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.16%) Linux
2 10 (4.74%) Windows
3 4 (1.90%) Unix
4 3 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.42%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.95%) 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
1 117 (55.45%) CI/CD
2 69 (32.70%) Infrastructure as Code
3 53 (25.12%) Agile
4 37 (17.54%) Containerisation
5 33 (15.64%) AI
6 30 (14.22%) Migration
7 29 (13.74%) Test Automation
8 27 (12.80%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (12.32%) Analytics
10 25 (11.85%) Microservices
11 23 (10.90%) Observability
11 23 (10.90%) Software Engineering
11 23 (10.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 22 (10.43%) Performance Tuning
13 21 (9.95%) Data Engineering
13 21 (9.95%) Roadmaps
14 20 (9.48%) Platform Engineering
14 20 (9.48%) Stakeholder Management
15 16 (7.58%) Data Pipeline
15 16 (7.58%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 60 (28.44%) Python
2 47 (22.27%) SQL
3 33 (15.64%) Java
4 18 (8.53%) JavaScript
5 15 (7.11%) TypeScript
6 14 (6.64%) C#
7 12 (5.69%) Bash
8 11 (5.21%) PowerShell
9 7 (3.32%) Bicep
10 3 (1.42%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.95%) C++
11 2 (0.95%) Korn
11 2 (0.95%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.95%) Perl
11 2 (0.95%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.95%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.47%) C
12 1 (0.47%) Jython
12 1 (0.47%) PHP
12 1 (0.47%) ProC
Qualifications
1 74 (35.07%) Security Cleared
2 72 (34.12%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.69%) Degree
4 8 (3.79%) Azure Certification
4 8 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.42%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.42%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.95%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.95%) CESG Certified Professional
7 2 (0.95%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.95%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.47%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.47%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.47%) MBA
8 1 (0.47%) PMP
8 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.16%) QA
2 9 (4.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.79%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.84%) GDPR
5 5 (2.37%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.42%) NCSC
6 3 (1.42%) NIST
6 3 (1.42%) SLA
7 2 (0.95%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.95%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.95%) PMO
8 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (22.27%) Docker
2 7 (3.32%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.47%) GridGain
5 1 (0.47%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 69 (32.70%) Terraform
2 58 (27.49%) Kubernetes
3 18 (8.53%) Ansible
4 10 (4.74%) Grafana
5 9 (4.27%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.42%) Istio
6 3 (1.42%) Karpenter
7 2 (0.95%) Argo
7 2 (0.95%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.95%) Puppet
8 1 (0.47%) CA Wily
8 1 (0.47%) CASB
8 1 (0.47%) Consul
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%) Salt
8 1 (0.47%) SCCM
Vendors
1 36 (17.06%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.43%) Google
3 17 (8.06%) Databricks
4 13 (6.16%) Oracle
5 9 (4.27%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.37%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.90%) Splunk
8 3 (1.42%) CyberArk
8 3 (1.42%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.42%) Foundry
8 3 (1.42%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.42%) Palantir
8 3 (1.42%) SAP
8 3 (1.42%) VMware
9 2 (0.95%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.95%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.95%) IBM
9 2 (0.95%) Informatica
9 2 (0.95%) Planview
9 2 (0.95%) Tradeweb