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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 13 14
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 202 212 219
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 10.96% 11.16% 9.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.26% 12.13% 10.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 131 174
10th Percentile £363 £453 £425
25th Percentile £463 £508 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £557 £585 £612
Median % change year-on-year -4.87% -4.45% -2.04%
75th Percentile £673 £688 £688
90th Percentile £781 £753 £785
Central London median daily rate £575 £585 £625
% change year-on-year -1.71% -6.40% +1.21%
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 1,648 1,748 2,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.42% 92.00% 89.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,067 1,542
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% - -2.54%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £770 £789 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £573
% change year-on-year -6.09% +0.44% -0.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 10 10
10th Percentile £19.98 £13.73 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.66 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £27.75 £35.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.83% +35.24% -30.46%
75th Percentile £42.12 £94.94 £44.56
90th Percentile £45.08 £114.55 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.66
% change year-on-year -25.40% +26.56% -20.99%

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 16 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 8 (3.96%) Confluence
2 4 (1.98%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.49%) Apache
3 3 (1.49%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.50%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.50%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 92 (45.54%) Azure
2 60 (29.70%) AWS
3 57 (28.22%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (22.28%) GitHub
5 39 (19.31%) GCP
6 27 (13.37%) GitHub Actions
7 21 (10.40%) Serverless
8 16 (7.92%) Power Platform
9 15 (7.43%) Amazon S3
9 15 (7.43%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (5.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (5.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 10 (4.95%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (3.47%) Apigee
13 7 (3.47%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (3.47%) Azure AKS
13 7 (3.47%) Power Automate
14 6 (2.97%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (2.97%) Cloud Run
14 6 (2.97%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.47%) Firewall
2 6 (2.97%) SSL
3 5 (2.48%) DNS
3 5 (2.48%) Network Security
4 3 (1.49%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.49%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.99%) BGP
5 2 (0.99%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.99%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.99%) MPLS
5 2 (0.99%) NX-OS
5 2 (0.99%) OSPF
5 2 (0.99%) VPN
5 2 (0.99%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.50%) DHCP
6 1 (0.50%) DKIM
6 1 (0.50%) Internet
6 1 (0.50%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.95%) Power BI
2 9 (4.46%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.47%) DynamoDB
3 7 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.48%) BigQuery
4 5 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.49%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.49%) Delta Lake
6 3 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.49%) MySQL
6 3 (1.49%) Redis
6 3 (1.49%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.99%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.99%) Couchbase
7 2 (0.99%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.99%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.99%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 26 (12.87%) Git
1 26 (12.87%) Jenkins
2 24 (11.88%) JIRA
3 17 (8.42%) GitLab
4 8 (3.96%) Selenium
4 8 (3.96%) SonarQube
5 7 (3.47%) Cypress.io
6 6 (2.97%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.97%) Gradle
7 5 (2.48%) JUnit
7 5 (2.48%) Maven
7 5 (2.48%) Postman
8 4 (1.98%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.49%) Mockito
9 3 (1.49%) Storybook
9 3 (1.49%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.99%) Snyk
10 2 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.99%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.99%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 63 (31.19%) Finance
2 54 (26.73%) Social Skills
3 31 (15.35%) Banking
4 15 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (5.45%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (2.97%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.48%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.98%) Front Office
8 4 (1.98%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (1.98%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.49%) Back Office
9 3 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.99%) Law
10 2 (0.99%) Retail
10 2 (0.99%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.50%) Billing
Job Titles
1 51 (25.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (18.81%) Developer
3 29 (14.36%) Senior
4 14 (6.93%) Architect
4 14 (6.93%) Lead
5 10 (4.95%) AWS Engineer
6 9 (4.46%) Data Engineer
6 9 (4.46%) GCP Engineer
6 9 (4.46%) Senior Developer
7 8 (3.96%) AWS DevOps
7 8 (3.96%) Azure Engineer
8 7 (3.47%) Analyst
8 7 (3.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 7 (3.47%) Cloud Architect
9 6 (2.97%) Python Engineer
9 6 (2.97%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (2.97%) Test Engineer
10 5 (2.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 5 (2.48%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 5 (2.48%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.42%) .NET
2 16 (7.92%) Node.js
2 16 (7.92%) React
3 15 (7.43%) REST
4 13 (6.44%) HTML
5 11 (5.45%) CSS
5 11 (5.45%) OAuth
6 8 (3.96%) AngularJS
6 8 (3.96%) JSON
7 7 (3.47%) FastAPI
7 7 (3.47%) JWT
7 7 (3.47%) RESTful
7 7 (3.47%) SOAP
7 7 (3.47%) XML
8 6 (2.97%) Spring
9 5 (2.48%) GraphQL
9 5 (2.48%) HTML5
9 5 (2.48%) Spring Boot
10 4 (1.98%) Next.js
10 4 (1.98%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 31 (15.35%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.95%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.97%) AI Agents
4 6 (2.97%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.98%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.98%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.98%) Life Science
7 3 (1.49%) CMDB
7 3 (1.49%) Derivative
7 3 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.49%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.49%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.49%) Replication
7 3 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.99%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.99%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.42%) Linux
2 8 (3.96%) Windows
3 4 (1.98%) Android
4 3 (1.49%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.49%) Unix
4 3 (1.49%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (50.50%) CI/CD
2 74 (36.63%) Agile
3 54 (26.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (15.35%) Containerisation
5 30 (14.85%) Test Automation
6 27 (13.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 24 (11.88%) AI
7 24 (11.88%) Migration
7 24 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (11.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (9.41%) Roadmaps
9 19 (9.41%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (8.91%) Observability
10 18 (8.91%) Software Engineering
11 17 (8.42%) Scrum
12 16 (7.92%) Analytics
12 16 (7.92%) Performance Tuning
13 14 (6.93%) Microservices
13 14 (6.93%) SDLC
14 11 (5.45%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 66 (32.67%) Python
2 34 (16.83%) Java
3 32 (15.84%) SQL
4 25 (12.38%) JavaScript
5 16 (7.92%) C#
6 15 (7.43%) TypeScript
7 12 (5.94%) PowerShell
8 8 (3.96%) Bash
9 4 (1.98%) C++
10 3 (1.49%) Bicep
11 2 (0.99%) C
11 2 (0.99%) Go
11 2 (0.99%) Korn
11 2 (0.99%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.99%) Perl
11 2 (0.99%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.99%) Rust
11 2 (0.99%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.50%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 62 (30.69%) Security Cleared
2 57 (28.22%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.93%) Degree
4 8 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.98%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.49%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.49%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.99%) CBAP
7 2 (0.99%) CCIE
7 2 (0.99%) CCNP
7 2 (0.99%) CESG Certified Professional
7 2 (0.99%) ISEB
7 2 (0.99%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.50%) IIBA
8 1 (0.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.50%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.44%) QA
2 9 (4.46%) GDPR
3 8 (3.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.48%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.48%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.98%) NIST
5 4 (1.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.49%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.99%) NCSC
7 2 (0.99%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.99%) SLA
7 2 (0.99%) 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 42 (20.79%) Docker
2 3 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.50%) GridGain
4 1 (0.50%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 65 (32.18%) Terraform
2 44 (21.78%) Kubernetes
3 28 (13.86%) Ansible
4 4 (1.98%) Argo
4 4 (1.98%) Grafana
4 4 (1.98%) Istio
5 3 (1.49%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (1.49%) Karpenter
5 3 (1.49%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.99%) Kibana
6 2 (0.99%) Puppet
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%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (14.85%) Microsoft
2 29 (14.36%) Google
3 12 (5.94%) Databricks
4 11 (5.45%) Oracle
5 9 (4.46%) Salesforce
6 7 (3.47%) ServiceNow
6 7 (3.47%) Splunk
7 4 (1.98%) CyberArk
7 4 (1.98%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.98%) VMware
8 3 (1.49%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.49%) DocuSign
8 3 (1.49%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.49%) F5
8 3 (1.49%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.99%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.99%) MarketAxess
9 2 (0.99%) New Relic
9 2 (0.99%) Solace
9 2 (0.99%) Tradeweb