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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 11 10
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 +2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 214 258 350
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 12.15% 12.41% 11.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.88% 13.49% 12.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 179 255
10th Percentile £385 £425 £450
25th Percentile £480 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £610
Median % change year-on-year +0.08% -1.72% +1.67%
75th Percentile £675 £706 £725
90th Percentile £742 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £600 £575 £625
% change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
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 1,661 1,913 2,719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.27% 92.02% 90.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,107 1,212 1,878
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £419 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £705
90th Percentile £763 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 16
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% +8.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £53.50 £78.75 £44.87
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% +34.62% -38.82%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 17 September 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
Moorgate - 1 £390 -
London Bridge - 1 - -
DevOps
Central London

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (6.07%) Confluence
2 7 (3.27%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.40%) Apache
3 3 (1.40%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 7 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.87%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.93%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (4.67%) Endur
2 2 (0.93%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.47%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.47%) Maximo
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.47%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.47%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 98 (45.79%) Azure
2 67 (31.31%) AWS
3 60 (28.04%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (13.08%) GitHub
5 23 (10.75%) GCP
6 21 (9.81%) Power Platform
7 18 (8.41%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (7.01%) Serverless
9 12 (5.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 11 (5.14%) Amazon S3
10 11 (5.14%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (4.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (4.21%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (4.21%) Power Automate
12 9 (4.21%) PowerApps
13 8 (3.74%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (3.74%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (3.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (3.27%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.61%) DNS
2 11 (5.14%) Firewall
3 7 (3.27%) SSL
4 6 (2.80%) VPN
5 4 (1.87%) BGP
5 4 (1.87%) Ethernet VPN
5 4 (1.87%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.87%) VXLAN
6 3 (1.40%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (1.40%) Multicast
6 3 (1.40%) Network Security
6 3 (1.40%) OSPF
6 3 (1.40%) SSH
7 2 (0.93%) HTTP
7 2 (0.93%) IGMP
7 2 (0.93%) MPLS
7 2 (0.93%) NX-OS
7 2 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.47%) IOS XR
8 1 (0.47%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.54%) Power BI
1 14 (6.54%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.67%) NoSQL
3 9 (4.21%) MongoDB
4 7 (3.27%) Data Lake
4 7 (3.27%) DynamoDB
4 7 (3.27%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (2.34%) BigQuery
6 5 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.87%) Big Data
7 4 (1.87%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.40%) Delta Lake
8 3 (1.40%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.40%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.40%) Parquet
8 3 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.93%) DB2
Development Applications
1 27 (12.62%) Jenkins
2 25 (11.68%) Git
2 25 (11.68%) JIRA
3 17 (7.94%) GitLab
4 9 (4.21%) Gradle
4 9 (4.21%) Selenium
4 9 (4.21%) SonarQube
5 8 (3.74%) Maven
6 5 (2.34%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.34%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.87%) Postman
8 3 (1.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (1.40%) Storybook
9 2 (0.93%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.93%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.93%) Snyk
9 2 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.93%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.47%) Gatling
10 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 68 (31.78%) Finance
2 65 (30.37%) Social Skills
3 31 (14.49%) Banking
4 25 (11.68%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.61%) Investment Banking
6 11 (5.14%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.87%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.40%) Back Office
11 2 (0.93%) Billing
11 2 (0.93%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.93%) Law
11 2 (0.93%) Marketing
11 2 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.93%) Retail
11 2 (0.93%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.47%) Front Office
12 1 (0.47%) Legal
12 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (23.83%) Developer
2 25 (11.68%) DevOps Engineer
3 24 (11.21%) Senior
4 17 (7.94%) Analyst
5 16 (7.48%) Architect
6 14 (6.54%) Java Developer
7 12 (5.61%) Business Analyst
8 10 (4.67%) Azure Engineer
8 10 (4.67%) GCP Engineer
9 9 (4.21%) Data Engineer
10 7 (3.27%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (3.27%) Lead
10 7 (3.27%) Software Engineer
11 6 (2.80%) Applications Engineer
11 6 (2.80%) AWS DevOps
11 6 (2.80%) Endur Support
11 6 (2.80%) OpenLink Support
11 6 (2.80%) Python Developer
11 6 (2.80%) Senior Developer
11 6 (2.80%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.81%) .NET
2 15 (7.01%) AngularJS
3 14 (6.54%) React
3 14 (6.54%) REST
4 13 (6.07%) GraphQL
5 12 (5.61%) Kafka
6 11 (5.14%) HTML
6 11 (5.14%) Spring
7 10 (4.67%) RESTful
8 9 (4.21%) CSS
8 9 (4.21%) Node.js
8 9 (4.21%) Spring Boot
9 8 (3.74%) FIX Protocol
10 7 (3.27%) Elastic Stack
11 6 (2.80%) ADO
11 6 (2.80%) OAuth
11 6 (2.80%) WebSockets
12 5 (2.34%) Django
12 5 (2.34%) JSON
12 5 (2.34%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 26 (12.15%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.07%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (4.21%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.80%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.34%) Derivative
6 5 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.34%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.34%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.40%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.40%) IVR
7 3 (1.40%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.93%) Equities
8 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.93%) Mobile Banking
8 2 (0.93%) PKI
8 2 (0.93%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 23 (10.75%) Linux
2 9 (4.21%) Unix
3 5 (2.34%) Windows
4 4 (1.87%) Android
4 4 (1.87%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.93%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (48.60%) CI/CD
2 89 (41.59%) Agile
3 46 (21.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 35 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (13.55%) Containerisation
6 26 (12.15%) Microservices
7 24 (11.21%) Observability
8 23 (10.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (9.35%) Test Automation
10 19 (8.88%) Analytics
10 19 (8.88%) Scrum
10 19 (8.88%) Software Engineering
11 17 (7.94%) Data Pipeline
11 17 (7.94%) Project Management
11 17 (7.94%) Stakeholder Management
12 16 (7.48%) Business Intelligence
12 16 (7.48%) ETL
12 16 (7.48%) High Availability
12 16 (7.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 15 (7.01%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 73 (34.11%) Python
2 46 (21.50%) SQL
3 39 (18.22%) Java
4 29 (13.55%) JavaScript
5 25 (11.68%) C#
6 13 (6.07%) PowerShell
7 12 (5.61%) TypeScript
8 10 (4.67%) Bash
9 7 (3.27%) Go
10 6 (2.80%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.87%) Bicep
12 3 (1.40%) Scala
13 2 (0.93%) C++
13 2 (0.93%) DAML
13 2 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.93%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.93%) PromQL
14 1 (0.47%) COBOL
14 1 (0.47%) Perl
14 1 (0.47%) Swift
Qualifications
1 28 (13.08%) Security Cleared
2 25 (11.68%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.61%) Degree
4 8 (3.74%) AWS Certified Developer
5 4 (1.87%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.87%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.40%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.40%) CCIE
6 3 (1.40%) CCNP
6 3 (1.40%) CISSP
6 3 (1.40%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.93%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.93%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.93%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.93%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.94%) QA
2 7 (3.27%) GDPR
2 7 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.80%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.80%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.34%) NIST
5 3 (1.40%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.40%) PMO
6 2 (0.93%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.47%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.47%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.47%) MiFID
7 1 (0.47%) SEPA
7 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (17.29%) Docker
2 3 (1.40%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.47%) GridGain
3 1 (0.47%) HDFS
3 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.47%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 60 (28.04%) Terraform
2 55 (25.70%) Kubernetes
3 20 (9.35%) Ansible
4 15 (7.01%) Prometheus
5 13 (6.07%) ITRS Geneos
6 10 (4.67%) Grafana
7 8 (3.74%) Puppet
8 7 (3.27%) Istio
8 7 (3.27%) Kibana
9 6 (2.80%) Argo
9 6 (2.80%) logstash
10 5 (2.34%) Progress Chef
11 3 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.93%) HP ALM
12 2 (0.93%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.47%) Ambari
13 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.47%) Packer
13 1 (0.47%) QRadar
13 1 (0.47%) yum
Vendors
1 44 (20.56%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.35%) Google
3 11 (5.14%) Databricks
4 8 (3.74%) Splunk
5 7 (3.27%) Oracle
5 7 (3.27%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.27%) Solace
6 6 (2.80%) Cisco
7 5 (2.34%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.87%) Arista
8 4 (1.87%) CheckPoint
8 4 (1.87%) F5
8 4 (1.87%) HP
8 4 (1.87%) OpenLink
9 3 (1.40%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.40%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.40%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.40%) UiPath
10 2 (0.93%) DocuSign
10 2 (0.93%) Dynatrace