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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 13 17
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 204 205 223
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.15% 10.43% 9.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.36% 11.34% 10.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 126 178
10th Percentile £363 £439 £434
25th Percentile £459 £506 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £585 £612
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% -4.45% -2.04%
75th Percentile £675 £687 £689
90th Percentile £788 £755 £788
Central London median daily rate £575 £585 £619
% change year-on-year -1.71% -5.45% +0.81%
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 1,650 1,808 2,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.21% 92.01% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,100 1,558
10th Percentile £348 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.39% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 10
10th Percentile £20.18 £15.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.18 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £31.00 £42.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -27.06% +61.90% -30.46%
75th Percentile £42.47 £112.00 £44.56
90th Percentile £46.05 £132.40 £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 4 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 10 (4.90%) Confluence
2 3 (1.47%) Apache
2 3 (1.47%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.47%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Aladdin
1 2 (0.98%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.49%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.49%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 93 (45.59%) Azure
2 60 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
3 56 (27.45%) AWS
4 46 (22.55%) GitHub
5 39 (19.12%) GCP
6 28 (13.73%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (9.31%) Serverless
8 16 (7.84%) Power Platform
9 15 (7.35%) Amazon S3
9 15 (7.35%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 12 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 10 (4.90%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (3.43%) Apigee
12 7 (3.43%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (3.43%) Azure AKS
12 7 (3.43%) Power Automate
13 6 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (2.94%) Azure Key Vault
13 6 (2.94%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.90%) Firewall
2 7 (3.43%) DNS
2 7 (3.43%) SSL
3 5 (2.45%) Network Security
4 3 (1.47%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.47%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.47%) VPN
5 2 (0.98%) BGP
5 2 (0.98%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.98%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.98%) MPLS
5 2 (0.98%) NX-OS
5 2 (0.98%) OSPF
5 2 (0.98%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.49%) DHCP
6 1 (0.49%) DKIM
6 1 (0.49%) Internet
6 1 (0.49%) Multicast
6 1 (0.49%) NGFW
6 1 (0.49%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.90%) Power BI
1 10 (4.90%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.43%) DynamoDB
4 6 (2.94%) BigQuery
5 5 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.96%) Delta Lake
6 4 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.47%) Big Data
7 3 (1.47%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.47%) MySQL
7 3 (1.47%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.47%) Redis
7 3 (1.47%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.98%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.98%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.98%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (14.71%) Jenkins
2 27 (13.24%) Git
3 26 (12.75%) JIRA
4 15 (7.35%) GitLab
5 9 (4.41%) Selenium
5 9 (4.41%) SonarQube
6 8 (3.92%) Bitbucket
7 7 (3.43%) Cypress.io
7 7 (3.43%) Gradle
8 6 (2.94%) Maven
9 5 (2.45%) JUnit
9 5 (2.45%) Postman
10 4 (1.96%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.47%) Mockito
11 3 (1.47%) Storybook
11 3 (1.47%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.98%) Snyk
12 2 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.98%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.98%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 65 (31.86%) Finance
2 58 (28.43%) Social Skills
3 33 (16.18%) Banking
4 16 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.90%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.43%) Investment Banking
7 6 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.45%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.96%) Front Office
9 4 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.96%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.47%) Back Office
10 3 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.98%) Law
11 2 (0.98%) Retail
11 2 (0.98%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.49%) Legal
Job Titles
1 44 (21.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (18.63%) Developer
3 29 (14.22%) Senior
4 15 (7.35%) Architect
5 14 (6.86%) Lead
6 10 (4.90%) Azure Engineer
6 10 (4.90%) Data Engineer
6 10 (4.90%) GCP Engineer
7 9 (4.41%) Senior Developer
8 8 (3.92%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (3.43%) Analyst
10 6 (2.94%) AWS DevOps
10 6 (2.94%) Python Engineer
10 6 (2.94%) Senior DevOps
10 6 (2.94%) Test Engineer
11 5 (2.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 5 (2.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 5 (2.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 5 (2.45%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (2.45%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.33%) .NET
2 16 (7.84%) Node.js
2 16 (7.84%) React
2 16 (7.84%) REST
3 14 (6.86%) HTML
4 12 (5.88%) OAuth
5 11 (5.39%) CSS
6 9 (4.41%) AngularJS
6 9 (4.41%) JSON
7 8 (3.92%) JWT
7 8 (3.92%) RESTful
7 8 (3.92%) SOAP
8 7 (3.43%) FastAPI
8 7 (3.43%) Spring
8 7 (3.43%) XML
9 6 (2.94%) GraphQL
9 6 (2.94%) HTML5
9 6 (2.94%) Spring Boot
10 5 (2.45%) OAuth2
10 5 (2.45%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (15.20%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.90%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.43%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.45%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.45%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.45%) Fixed Income
5 5 (2.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.96%) Life Science
6 4 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.47%) CMDB
7 3 (1.47%) Derivative
7 3 (1.47%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.47%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.47%) Replication
8 2 (0.98%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.98%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.98%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 18 (8.82%) Linux
2 8 (3.92%) Windows
3 5 (2.45%) Android
4 4 (1.96%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.96%) Unix
5 3 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (50.98%) CI/CD
2 78 (38.24%) Agile
3 52 (25.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (16.18%) Containerisation
5 30 (14.71%) Test Automation
6 28 (13.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 25 (12.25%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (11.76%) AI
8 24 (11.76%) Migration
9 23 (11.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (10.29%) Analytics
10 21 (10.29%) Stakeholder Management
11 20 (9.80%) Roadmaps
12 19 (9.31%) Observability
13 18 (8.82%) Scrum
13 18 (8.82%) Software Engineering
14 16 (7.84%) Microservices
14 16 (7.84%) Performance Tuning
15 15 (7.35%) SDLC
16 13 (6.37%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 69 (33.82%) Python
2 36 (17.65%) Java
2 36 (17.65%) SQL
3 26 (12.75%) JavaScript
4 16 (7.84%) C#
4 16 (7.84%) TypeScript
5 13 (6.37%) PowerShell
6 8 (3.92%) Bash
7 4 (1.96%) Bicep
7 4 (1.96%) C++
8 3 (1.47%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.98%) C
9 2 (0.98%) Go
9 2 (0.98%) Korn
9 2 (0.98%) Perl
9 2 (0.98%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.98%) Rust
9 2 (0.98%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.49%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 58 (28.43%) Security Cleared
2 53 (25.98%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.86%) Degree
4 8 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.96%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.47%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.47%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.98%) CBAP
7 2 (0.98%) CCIE
7 2 (0.98%) CCNP
7 2 (0.98%) CESG Certified Professional
7 2 (0.98%) ISEB
7 2 (0.98%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.49%) IIBA
8 1 (0.49%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.49%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.37%) QA
2 9 (4.41%) GDPR
3 8 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.94%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.45%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.96%) NIST
6 4 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (1.47%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.98%) NCSC
8 2 (0.98%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.98%) PMO
8 2 (0.98%) SLA
8 2 (0.98%) WCAG
9 1 (0.49%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.49%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.49%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.49%) MiFID
9 1 (0.49%) SOC 2
System Software
1 43 (21.08%) Docker
2 3 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.49%) GridGain
4 1 (0.49%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 64 (31.37%) Terraform
2 42 (20.59%) Kubernetes
3 27 (13.24%) Ansible
4 5 (2.45%) Argo
4 5 (2.45%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (1.96%) Grafana
5 4 (1.96%) Istio
6 3 (1.47%) Kibana
6 3 (1.47%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.47%) Puppet
7 2 (0.98%) Karpenter
7 2 (0.98%) logstash
7 2 (0.98%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.98%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.49%) Ambari
8 1 (0.49%) CASB
8 1 (0.49%) Icinga
8 1 (0.49%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.49%) Packer
Vendors
1 30 (14.71%) Google
1 30 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.88%) Databricks
2 12 (5.88%) Oracle
3 10 (4.90%) Salesforce
4 8 (3.92%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.43%) Splunk
6 4 (1.96%) CheckPoint
6 4 (1.96%) CyberArk
6 4 (1.96%) OpenAI
6 4 (1.96%) Palo Alto
6 4 (1.96%) VMware
7 3 (1.47%) DocuSign
7 3 (1.47%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.47%) F5
7 3 (1.47%) Solace
8 2 (0.98%) Infoblox
8 2 (0.98%) MarketAxess
8 2 (0.98%) New Relic
8 2 (0.98%) Tradeweb