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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 13 15
Rank change year-on-year -5 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 200 208 223
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.10% 10.88% 9.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.41% 11.82% 10.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 129 180
10th Percentile £363 £456 £425
25th Percentile £459 £510 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £557 £585 £612
Median % change year-on-year -4.87% -4.45% -2.04%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £784 £761 £775
Central London median daily rate £575 £585 £625
% change year-on-year -1.71% -6.40% +1.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 - -
75th Percentile £28.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 - -

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 1,612 1,759 2,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.51% 92.00% 89.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,131 1,071 1,563
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £765 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -6.09% +0.88% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 10
10th Percentile £19.94 £15.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £28.00 £42.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.12% +61.90% -30.46%
75th Percentile £42.30 £112.00 £44.56
90th Percentile £45.56 £132.40 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -21.43%

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 11 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 9 (4.50%) Confluence
2 3 (1.50%) Apache
2 3 (1.50%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.50%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Aladdin
1 2 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.50%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 91 (45.50%) Azure
2 58 (29.00%) Azure DevOps
3 56 (28.00%) AWS
4 45 (22.50%) GitHub
5 37 (18.50%) GCP
6 27 (13.50%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (9.50%) Serverless
8 15 (7.50%) Amazon S3
8 15 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (7.50%) Power Platform
9 12 (6.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 11 (5.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 10 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (3.50%) Apigee
12 7 (3.50%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (3.50%) Azure AKS
12 7 (3.50%) Power Automate
13 6 (3.00%) AWS Fargate
13 6 (3.00%) Cloud Run
13 6 (3.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.50%) Firewall
2 7 (3.50%) DNS
2 7 (3.50%) SSL
3 5 (2.50%) Network Security
4 3 (1.50%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.50%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.50%) VPN
5 2 (1.00%) BGP
5 2 (1.00%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (1.00%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (1.00%) MPLS
5 2 (1.00%) NX-OS
5 2 (1.00%) OSPF
5 2 (1.00%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.50%) DHCP
6 1 (0.50%) DKIM
6 1 (0.50%) Internet
6 1 (0.50%) Multicast
6 1 (0.50%) NGFW
6 1 (0.50%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.50%) Power BI
1 9 (4.50%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.50%) DynamoDB
2 7 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.00%) BigQuery
4 5 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.50%) Big Data
6 3 (1.50%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.50%) Delta Lake
6 3 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.50%) MySQL
6 3 (1.50%) Redis
6 3 (1.50%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.00%) Couchbase
7 2 (1.00%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 27 (13.50%) Jenkins
2 25 (12.50%) Git
2 25 (12.50%) JIRA
3 16 (8.00%) GitLab
4 8 (4.00%) Selenium
4 8 (4.00%) SonarQube
5 7 (3.50%) Cypress.io
6 6 (3.00%) Bitbucket
6 6 (3.00%) Gradle
7 5 (2.50%) JUnit
7 5 (2.50%) Maven
7 5 (2.50%) Postman
8 4 (2.00%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.50%) Mockito
9 3 (1.50%) Storybook
9 3 (1.50%) TeamCity
10 2 (1.00%) Snyk
10 2 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.00%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (1.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 62 (31.00%) Finance
2 55 (27.50%) Social Skills
3 30 (15.00%) Banking
4 16 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (3.00%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.50%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.00%) Front Office
8 4 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.00%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.50%) Back Office
9 3 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.00%) Law
10 2 (1.00%) Retail
10 2 (1.00%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.50%) Billing
Job Titles
1 48 (24.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (19.00%) Developer
3 29 (14.50%) Senior
4 14 (7.00%) Lead
5 13 (6.50%) Architect
6 10 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
7 9 (4.50%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (4.50%) GCP Engineer
7 9 (4.50%) Senior Developer
8 8 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
8 8 (4.00%) Data Engineer
9 7 (3.50%) Analyst
9 7 (3.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 6 (3.00%) Python Engineer
10 6 (3.00%) Senior DevOps
10 6 (3.00%) Test Engineer
11 5 (2.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 5 (2.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 5 (2.50%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (2.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.50%) .NET
2 16 (8.00%) Node.js
2 16 (8.00%) React
2 16 (8.00%) REST
3 14 (7.00%) HTML
4 11 (5.50%) CSS
4 11 (5.50%) OAuth
5 9 (4.50%) AngularJS
5 9 (4.50%) JSON
6 8 (4.00%) SOAP
7 7 (3.50%) FastAPI
7 7 (3.50%) JWT
7 7 (3.50%) RESTful
7 7 (3.50%) XML
8 6 (3.00%) HTML5
8 6 (3.00%) Spring
9 5 (2.50%) GraphQL
9 5 (2.50%) SAML
9 5 (2.50%) Spring Boot
10 4 (2.00%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 29 (14.50%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.50%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.00%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.50%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.00%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.00%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (2.00%) Life Science
6 4 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.50%) CMDB
7 3 (1.50%) Derivative
7 3 (1.50%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.50%) Replication
8 2 (1.00%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.00%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.50%) Linux
2 8 (4.00%) Windows
3 4 (2.00%) Android
4 3 (1.50%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.50%) Unix
4 3 (1.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 74 (37.00%) Agile
3 52 (26.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (15.50%) Containerisation
5 30 (15.00%) Test Automation
6 28 (14.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 25 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (11.50%) AI
8 23 (11.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 23 (11.50%) Migration
9 19 (9.50%) Roadmaps
9 19 (9.50%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (9.00%) Observability
10 18 (9.00%) Scrum
10 18 (9.00%) Software Engineering
11 17 (8.50%) Analytics
12 16 (8.00%) Performance Tuning
13 15 (7.50%) Microservices
13 15 (7.50%) SDLC
14 12 (6.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 67 (33.50%) Python
2 34 (17.00%) Java
2 34 (17.00%) SQL
3 26 (13.00%) JavaScript
4 16 (8.00%) C#
5 15 (7.50%) TypeScript
6 12 (6.00%) PowerShell
7 8 (4.00%) Bash
8 4 (2.00%) C++
9 3 (1.50%) Bicep
10 2 (1.00%) C
10 2 (1.00%) Go
10 2 (1.00%) Korn
10 2 (1.00%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.00%) Perl
10 2 (1.00%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.00%) Rust
10 2 (1.00%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.50%) PHP
11 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 55 (27.50%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.00%) Degree
4 8 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.00%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.50%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.50%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.00%) CBAP
7 2 (1.00%) CCIE
7 2 (1.00%) CCNP
7 2 (1.00%) CESG Certified Professional
7 2 (1.00%) ISEB
7 2 (1.00%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.50%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.50%) IIBA
8 1 (0.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.50%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.50%) QA
2 9 (4.50%) GDPR
3 8 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.50%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.50%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.00%) NIST
5 4 (2.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.50%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.00%) NCSC
7 2 (1.00%) NIST 800
7 2 (1.00%) SLA
7 2 (1.00%) WCAG
8 1 (0.50%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.50%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.50%) MiFID
8 1 (0.50%) PMO
8 1 (0.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 41 (20.50%) Docker
2 3 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.50%) GridGain
4 1 (0.50%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 64 (32.00%) Terraform
2 40 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 27 (13.50%) Ansible
4 4 (2.00%) Argo
4 4 (2.00%) Grafana
4 4 (2.00%) Istio
4 4 (2.00%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (1.50%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.00%) Karpenter
6 2 (1.00%) Kibana
6 2 (1.00%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.00%) Puppet
6 2 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.50%) CASB
7 1 (0.50%) Icinga
7 1 (0.50%) logstash
7 1 (0.50%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.50%) Packer
7 1 (0.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 30 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 29 (14.50%) Google
3 11 (5.50%) Databricks
3 11 (5.50%) Oracle
4 9 (4.50%) Salesforce
5 8 (4.00%) ServiceNow
6 7 (3.50%) Splunk
7 4 (2.00%) CheckPoint
7 4 (2.00%) CyberArk
7 4 (2.00%) OpenAI
7 4 (2.00%) Palo Alto
7 4 (2.00%) VMware
8 3 (1.50%) DocuSign
8 3 (1.50%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.50%) F5
9 2 (1.00%) Infoblox
9 2 (1.00%) Ivanti
9 2 (1.00%) MarketAxess
9 2 (1.00%) New Relic
9 2 (1.00%) Tradeweb