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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 13 12
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 208 226 276
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.74% 10.56% 10.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.71% 11.54% 11.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 144 214
10th Percentile £363 £451 £429
25th Percentile £463 £509 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £585 £609
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -3.94% -1.77%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £766 £756 £831
Central London median daily rate £580 £585 £613
% change year-on-year -0.85% -4.49% +2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £32.25 - -
25th Percentile £41.25 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - -
75th Percentile £73.75 - -
90th Percentile £82.75 - -
Central London median hourly rate £57.50 - -

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 1,959 2,401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 92.33% 91.50% 89.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,141 1,202 1,701
10th Percentile £338 £372 £363
25th Percentile £419 £474 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £690
90th Percentile £750 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 18 13
10th Percentile £20.02 £17.15 -
25th Percentile £25.75 £22.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.05% +62.00% -51.92%
75th Percentile £47.50 £107.13 £46.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £69.60
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -20.00% +37.25% -50.00%

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 1 December 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in the City of London

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the City of London region over the 6 months to 1 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge - 1 - - 1
DevOps
Central London

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 12 (5.77%) Confluence
2 5 (2.40%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.44%) Apache
4 2 (0.96%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.96%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.48%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.44%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.96%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.48%) Endur
3 1 (0.48%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.48%) Maximo
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.48%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.48%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 91 (43.75%) Azure
2 61 (29.33%) Azure DevOps
3 53 (25.48%) AWS
4 39 (18.75%) GitHub
5 33 (15.87%) GCP
6 25 (12.02%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (8.17%) Power Platform
7 17 (8.17%) Serverless
8 14 (6.73%) Amazon S3
8 14 (6.73%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (5.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 12 (5.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 9 (4.33%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (4.33%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (3.85%) Power Automate
11 8 (3.85%) PowerApps
12 7 (3.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (2.88%) Apigee
13 6 (2.88%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (2.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.77%) Firewall
2 9 (4.33%) DNS
3 7 (3.37%) SSL
4 6 (2.88%) Network Security
5 4 (1.92%) VPN
6 3 (1.44%) BGP
6 3 (1.44%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (1.44%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (1.44%) HTTPS
6 3 (1.44%) OSPF
6 3 (1.44%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.44%) VXLAN
7 2 (0.96%) DHCP
7 2 (0.96%) MPLS
7 2 (0.96%) Multicast
7 2 (0.96%) NX-OS
7 2 (0.96%) SSH
8 1 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.48%) Internet
8 1 (0.48%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.29%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.81%) Power BI
3 7 (3.37%) BigQuery
3 7 (3.37%) DynamoDB
4 6 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (1.92%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.92%) Delta Lake
7 3 (1.44%) Big Data
7 3 (1.44%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.44%) MySQL
7 3 (1.44%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.44%) Redis
8 2 (0.96%) Couchbase
8 2 (0.96%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.96%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (14.90%) Jenkins
2 29 (13.94%) Git
3 27 (12.98%) JIRA
4 15 (7.21%) GitLab
5 10 (4.81%) Selenium
6 9 (4.33%) Gradle
6 9 (4.33%) SonarQube
7 8 (3.85%) Bitbucket
8 7 (3.37%) Cypress.io
8 7 (3.37%) Maven
9 5 (2.40%) JUnit
9 5 (2.40%) Postman
10 4 (1.92%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.44%) Mockito
11 3 (1.44%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (1.44%) Storybook
11 3 (1.44%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.96%) Snyk
12 2 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 74 (35.58%) Finance
2 64 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 35 (16.83%) Banking
4 23 (11.06%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (5.29%) Investment Banking
6 6 (2.88%) Financial Institution
6 6 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.40%) Back Office
7 5 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.40%) Front Office
7 5 (2.40%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.92%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.96%) Billing
10 2 (0.96%) Law
10 2 (0.96%) Legal
10 2 (0.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (19.71%) Developer
2 31 (14.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 30 (14.42%) Senior
4 16 (7.69%) Architect
5 12 (5.77%) Analyst
5 12 (5.77%) GCP Engineer
6 10 (4.81%) Lead
7 9 (4.33%) AWS Engineer
7 9 (4.33%) Business Analyst
7 9 (4.33%) Data Engineer
8 8 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (3.85%) Senior Developer
9 7 (3.37%) Java Developer
9 7 (3.37%) Test Engineer
10 6 (2.88%) .NET Developer
10 6 (2.88%) AWS DevOps
10 6 (2.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 5 (2.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 5 (2.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 5 (2.40%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (10.10%) .NET
2 16 (7.69%) REST
3 15 (7.21%) HTML
4 14 (6.73%) Node.js
5 13 (6.25%) AngularJS
5 13 (6.25%) React
6 12 (5.77%) CSS
7 11 (5.29%) OAuth
7 11 (5.29%) RESTful
8 7 (3.37%) GraphQL
8 7 (3.37%) JSON
8 7 (3.37%) JWT
8 7 (3.37%) SOAP
9 6 (2.88%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (2.88%) FIX Protocol
9 6 (2.88%) HTML5
9 6 (2.88%) Spring
9 6 (2.88%) XML
10 5 (2.40%) Spring Boot
11 4 (1.92%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 30 (14.42%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (5.29%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.33%) Fixed Income
5 8 (3.85%) Derivative
6 7 (3.37%) Data Centre
6 7 (3.37%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.88%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.44%) Life Science
10 3 (1.44%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.44%) Replication
11 2 (0.96%) CMDB
11 2 (0.96%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.96%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.96%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.13%) Linux
2 7 (3.37%) Windows
3 6 (2.88%) Android
3 6 (2.88%) Unix
4 5 (2.40%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (51.92%) CI/CD
2 87 (41.83%) Agile
3 48 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (13.94%) Containerisation
6 25 (12.02%) Continuous Improvement
6 25 (12.02%) Test Automation
7 24 (11.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 23 (11.06%) Analytics
8 23 (11.06%) Scrum
9 21 (10.10%) Stakeholder Management
10 20 (9.62%) Migration
10 20 (9.62%) Software Engineering
11 18 (8.65%) AI
11 18 (8.65%) Observability
12 17 (8.17%) Cloud Security
12 17 (8.17%) Machine Learning
12 17 (8.17%) SDLC
13 15 (7.21%) Data Pipeline
14 14 (6.73%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 67 (32.21%) Python
2 37 (17.79%) SQL
3 30 (14.42%) Java
4 25 (12.02%) JavaScript
5 22 (10.58%) C#
6 16 (7.69%) PowerShell
7 14 (6.73%) TypeScript
8 10 (4.81%) Bash
9 4 (1.92%) Go
10 3 (1.44%) C++
10 3 (1.44%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.44%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.96%) Bicep
11 2 (0.96%) Perl
11 2 (0.96%) PromQL
11 2 (0.96%) Rust
12 1 (0.48%) C
12 1 (0.48%) Fortran
12 1 (0.48%) PHP
12 1 (0.48%) VBA
Qualifications
1 43 (20.67%) Security Cleared
2 38 (18.27%) SC Cleared
3 18 (8.65%) Degree
4 9 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.40%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.92%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.44%) CCIE
7 3 (1.44%) CCNP
7 3 (1.44%) CISSP
7 3 (1.44%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.96%) CBAP
8 2 (0.96%) CCNA
8 2 (0.96%) ISEB
8 2 (0.96%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.48%) IIBA
9 1 (0.48%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.21%) QA
2 9 (4.33%) GDPR
2 9 (4.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.88%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.40%) NIST
4 5 (2.40%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.92%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.96%) MiFID
6 2 (0.96%) NCSC
6 2 (0.96%) PMO
6 2 (0.96%) WCAG
7 1 (0.48%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.48%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.48%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.48%) SEPA
7 1 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (17.31%) Docker
2 3 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.48%) GridGain
4 1 (0.48%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 61 (29.33%) Terraform
2 39 (18.75%) Kubernetes
3 30 (14.42%) Ansible
4 9 (4.33%) ITRS Geneos
5 6 (2.88%) Kibana
5 6 (2.88%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.40%) logstash
7 4 (1.92%) Argo
7 4 (1.92%) Grafana
7 4 (1.92%) Puppet
8 3 (1.44%) Istio
8 3 (1.44%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.96%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.48%) Ambari
10 1 (0.48%) CASB
10 1 (0.48%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.48%) Icinga
10 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.48%) Packer
Vendors
1 35 (16.83%) Microsoft
2 31 (14.90%) Google
3 11 (5.29%) Databricks
4 9 (4.33%) Salesforce
5 8 (3.85%) Oracle
5 8 (3.85%) Splunk
6 7 (3.37%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.88%) Solace
8 5 (2.40%) F5
8 5 (2.40%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.92%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.92%) Cisco
9 4 (1.92%) VMware
10 3 (1.44%) Arista
10 3 (1.44%) CyberArk
10 3 (1.44%) DocuSign
10 3 (1.44%) HP
10 3 (1.44%) UiPath
11 2 (0.96%) LogicMonitor
11 2 (0.96%) Rollbar