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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 12 11
Rank change year-on-year -10 -1 +2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 206 228 250
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 9.26% 12.95% 11.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.76% 13.95% 12.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 155 164
10th Percentile £363 £425 £414
25th Percentile £457 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £619
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -7.07% -1.00%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £768 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £613
% change year-on-year -4.30% -6.12% -
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 1,914 1,634 2,007
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.06% 92.79% 90.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,316 1,043 1,421
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £574 £550
% change year-on-year -4.14% +4.32% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 11 13
10th Percentile - £22.00 £19.13
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £32.07 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.44% +24.00% -33.77%
75th Percentile £52.16 £46.25 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £63.75 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £30.04 £27.81
% change year-on-year -11.59% +8.00% -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 19 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 (2.91%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.46%) Apache
3 3 (1.46%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.46%) Confluence
3 3 (1.46%) Palantir Foundry
3 3 (1.46%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.49%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.49%) nginx
4 1 (0.49%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Maya
1 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.94%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.97%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.49%) Magento
3 1 (0.49%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.49%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.49%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.49%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 118 (57.28%) Azure
2 69 (33.50%) AWS
3 61 (29.61%) Azure DevOps
4 50 (24.27%) GitHub
5 31 (15.05%) GCP
6 30 (14.56%) Serverless
7 25 (12.14%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (9.71%) Power Platform
9 19 (9.22%) Amazon S3
10 16 (7.77%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (5.83%) Azure AKS
12 10 (4.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (4.85%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (4.85%) Entra ID
13 9 (4.37%) Amazon Kinesis
14 8 (3.88%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (3.88%) Azure Functions
14 8 (3.88%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (3.88%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (3.88%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.40%) Firewall
2 4 (1.94%) Network Security
3 1 (0.49%) DHCP
3 1 (0.49%) DNS
3 1 (0.49%) FTP
3 1 (0.49%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.49%) Multicast
3 1 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.77%) SQL Server
2 14 (6.80%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (5.34%) Power BI
4 8 (3.88%) DynamoDB
4 8 (3.88%) Relational Database
5 7 (3.40%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.40%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.91%) Apache Cassandra
6 6 (2.91%) Metadata
7 5 (2.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (2.43%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.43%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.43%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.46%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.46%) MySQL
9 3 (1.46%) Star Schema
9 3 (1.46%) Tableau
10 2 (0.97%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 31 (15.05%) Git
2 20 (9.71%) Jenkins
3 15 (7.28%) JIRA
4 14 (6.80%) GitLab
5 5 (2.43%) JUnit
6 4 (1.94%) Gradle
6 4 (1.94%) Maven
6 4 (1.94%) Mockito
6 4 (1.94%) Postman
6 4 (1.94%) Selenium
7 3 (1.46%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.46%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.46%) Liquibase
7 3 (1.46%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.97%) Ant
8 2 (0.97%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.97%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.49%) Introscope
9 1 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.49%) PowerBuilder
General
1 54 (26.21%) Finance
2 39 (18.93%) Social Skills
3 20 (9.71%) Banking
4 15 (7.28%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.91%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.94%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.94%) Front Office
7 4 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.94%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.46%) Law
9 2 (0.97%) Military
9 2 (0.97%) Retail
10 1 (0.49%) Back Office
10 1 (0.49%) Legal
10 1 (0.49%) Marketing
10 1 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (24.76%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (11.65%) Senior
3 22 (10.68%) Developer
4 20 (9.71%) Architect
5 19 (9.22%) Azure Engineer
6 14 (6.80%) Lead
7 11 (5.34%) Data Engineer
7 11 (5.34%) Senior Developer
8 10 (4.85%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (4.37%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (3.88%) AWS DevOps
10 8 (3.88%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (3.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.88%) Cloud Architect
10 8 (3.88%) Software Engineer
11 7 (3.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 7 (3.40%) Python Engineer
12 6 (2.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 6 (2.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 6 (2.91%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.25%) REST
2 16 (7.77%) React
3 15 (7.28%) Spring
4 14 (6.80%) Kafka
4 14 (6.80%) Node.js
5 11 (5.34%) Spring Boot
6 10 (4.85%) .NET
7 9 (4.37%) Playwright
8 8 (3.88%) OAuth
8 8 (3.88%) RESTful
9 6 (2.91%) FastAPI
9 6 (2.91%) JWT
9 6 (2.91%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (2.91%) PySpark
10 5 (2.43%) AngularJS
10 5 (2.43%) HTML
10 5 (2.43%) Next.js
10 5 (2.43%) XML
11 4 (1.94%) CSS
11 4 (1.94%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 46 (22.33%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.28%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.37%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.91%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.43%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.43%) Fixed Income
5 5 (2.43%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.94%) Life Science
6 4 (1.94%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.46%) Clustering
7 3 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.46%) NHS
7 3 (1.46%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.46%) Replication
8 2 (0.97%) Derivative
8 2 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.97%) IoT
8 2 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.83%) Linux
2 10 (4.85%) Windows
3 4 (1.94%) Unix
4 3 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.46%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.97%) Android
6 1 (0.49%) AIX
6 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.49%) VMS
6 1 (0.49%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (55.83%) CI/CD
2 68 (33.01%) Infrastructure as Code
3 52 (25.24%) Agile
4 38 (18.45%) Containerisation
5 34 (16.50%) AI
6 29 (14.08%) Test Automation
7 27 (13.11%) Migration
8 26 (12.62%) Analytics
8 26 (12.62%) Microservices
9 25 (12.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 24 (11.65%) Software Engineering
11 23 (11.17%) Observability
11 23 (11.17%) Performance Tuning
12 22 (10.68%) Data Engineering
12 22 (10.68%) Roadmaps
12 22 (10.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 21 (10.19%) Stakeholder Management
14 20 (9.71%) Platform Engineering
15 16 (7.77%) Data Pipeline
16 15 (7.28%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 58 (28.16%) Python
2 47 (22.82%) SQL
3 31 (15.05%) Java
4 17 (8.25%) JavaScript
5 15 (7.28%) C#
5 15 (7.28%) TypeScript
6 11 (5.34%) Bash
7 10 (4.85%) PowerShell
8 8 (3.88%) Bicep
9 3 (1.46%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.97%) Korn
10 2 (0.97%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.97%) Perl
10 2 (0.97%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.97%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.49%) C
11 1 (0.49%) C++
11 1 (0.49%) PHP
11 1 (0.49%) ProC
11 1 (0.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 74 (35.92%) Security Cleared
2 72 (34.95%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.83%) Degree
4 7 (3.40%) Azure Certification
4 7 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.46%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.97%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.97%) CESG Certified Professional
7 2 (0.97%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.97%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.97%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.49%) CCNA
8 1 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.49%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.49%) PMP
8 1 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.31%) QA
2 8 (3.88%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.43%) GDPR
5 4 (1.94%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.46%) SLA
7 2 (0.97%) NIST
7 2 (0.97%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.97%) PMO
8 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.49%) NCSC
System Software
1 46 (22.33%) Docker
2 7 (3.40%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.49%) GridGain
4 1 (0.49%) Varnish
4 1 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 68 (33.01%) Terraform
2 57 (27.67%) Kubernetes
3 16 (7.77%) Ansible
4 10 (4.85%) Grafana
5 9 (4.37%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.46%) Istio
6 3 (1.46%) Karpenter
7 2 (0.97%) Argo
7 2 (0.97%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.97%) Puppet
8 1 (0.49%) CA Wily
8 1 (0.49%) CASB
8 1 (0.49%) Consul
8 1 (0.49%) Icinga
8 1 (0.49%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.49%) linkerd
8 1 (0.49%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.49%) Packer
8 1 (0.49%) Salt
8 1 (0.49%) SCCM
Vendors
1 33 (16.02%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.71%) Google
3 18 (8.74%) Databricks
4 13 (6.31%) Oracle
5 7 (3.40%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.43%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.94%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.94%) SAP
7 4 (1.94%) Splunk
8 3 (1.46%) CyberArk
8 3 (1.46%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.46%) Foundry
8 3 (1.46%) Palantir
9 2 (0.97%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.97%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.97%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.97%) IBM
9 2 (0.97%) Informatica
9 2 (0.97%) MarketAxess
9 2 (0.97%) VMware