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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 12 12
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 212 219 252
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.62% 10.60% 9.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.82% 11.51% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 137 198
10th Percentile £363 £452 £425
25th Percentile £463 £507 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £699
90th Percentile £775 £750 £791
Central London median daily rate £575 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -1.71% -2.50% -2.04%
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 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 1,654 1,902 2,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.68% 92.06% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,167 1,163 1,618
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £424 £466 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -1.71%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £758 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 11
10th Percentile £20.02 £15.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £28.00 £42.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.12% +70.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £41.94 £102.25 £42.38
90th Percentile £54.95 £127.30 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.54 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -24.19% +37.25% -37.04%

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 20 December 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
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 (4.72%) Confluence
2 4 (1.89%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.42%) Apache
4 2 (0.94%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.42%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.94%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.47%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.47%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.47%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.47%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 88 (41.51%) Azure
2 58 (27.36%) AWS
3 57 (26.89%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (21.70%) GitHub
5 38 (17.92%) GCP
6 29 (13.68%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (8.96%) Serverless
8 18 (8.49%) Power Platform
9 16 (7.55%) Amazon S3
9 16 (7.55%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (6.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 13 (6.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (4.72%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (4.25%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (4.25%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (3.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 7 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (3.30%) Apigee
15 7 (3.30%) Power Automate
15 7 (3.30%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.72%) Firewall
2 8 (3.77%) DNS
3 7 (3.30%) SSL
4 6 (2.83%) Network Security
5 4 (1.89%) VPN
6 3 (1.42%) BGP
6 3 (1.42%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (1.42%) HTTPS
6 3 (1.42%) OSPF
6 3 (1.42%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.42%) VXLAN
7 2 (0.94%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.94%) MPLS
7 2 (0.94%) Multicast
7 2 (0.94%) NX-OS
8 1 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.47%) DKIM
8 1 (0.47%) IGMP
8 1 (0.47%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.47%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.19%) Power BI
1 11 (5.19%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.77%) BigQuery
2 8 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.30%) DynamoDB
3 7 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.89%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.89%) Delta Lake
6 3 (1.42%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.42%) Big Data
6 3 (1.42%) MySQL
6 3 (1.42%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.42%) Redis
6 3 (1.42%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.94%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.94%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.94%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 33 (15.57%) Jenkins
2 31 (14.62%) Git
3 25 (11.79%) JIRA
4 16 (7.55%) GitLab
5 11 (5.19%) Selenium
6 10 (4.72%) SonarQube
7 9 (4.25%) Bitbucket
7 9 (4.25%) Gradle
8 7 (3.30%) Cypress.io
8 7 (3.30%) Maven
9 6 (2.83%) Postman
10 5 (2.36%) Cucumber
10 5 (2.36%) JUnit
11 3 (1.42%) Mockito
11 3 (1.42%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (1.42%) Storybook
11 3 (1.42%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.94%) Snyk
12 2 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.94%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 74 (34.91%) Finance
2 63 (29.72%) Social Skills
3 38 (17.92%) Banking
4 20 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.66%) Investment Banking
6 7 (3.30%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.83%) Financial Institution
7 6 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.36%) Front Office
9 4 (1.89%) Back Office
9 4 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.89%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.94%) Law
11 2 (0.94%) Retail
11 2 (0.94%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.47%) Legal
Job Titles
1 41 (19.34%) Developer
2 40 (18.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 32 (15.09%) Senior
4 17 (8.02%) Architect
5 13 (6.13%) GCP Engineer
6 11 (5.19%) Lead
7 10 (4.72%) Data Engineer
7 10 (4.72%) Senior Developer
8 8 (3.77%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (3.77%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (3.30%) Analyst
9 7 (3.30%) Test Engineer
10 6 (2.83%) AWS DevOps
10 6 (2.83%) Java Developer
10 6 (2.83%) Senior DevOps
10 6 (2.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 5 (2.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 5 (2.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 5 (2.36%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (2.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.91%) .NET
2 17 (8.02%) REST
3 16 (7.55%) Node.js
4 14 (6.60%) HTML
4 14 (6.60%) React
5 12 (5.66%) OAuth
6 11 (5.19%) CSS
7 10 (4.72%) AngularJS
7 10 (4.72%) RESTful
8 9 (4.25%) JSON
9 8 (3.77%) JWT
9 8 (3.77%) SOAP
9 8 (3.77%) Spring
10 7 (3.30%) XML
11 6 (2.83%) Elastic Stack
11 6 (2.83%) FIX Protocol
11 6 (2.83%) GraphQL
11 6 (2.83%) HTML5
11 6 (2.83%) Spring Boot
12 5 (2.36%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 33 (15.57%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.19%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.25%) Fixed Income
4 9 (4.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (3.77%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.30%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.83%) Derivative
8 5 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.36%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.89%) Life Science
9 4 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.42%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.42%) CMDB
10 3 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.42%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.42%) Replication
11 2 (0.94%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.94%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 22 (10.38%) Linux
2 8 (3.77%) Windows
3 5 (2.36%) Android
3 5 (2.36%) Unix
4 4 (1.89%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (53.77%) CI/CD
2 80 (37.74%) Agile
3 50 (23.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 35 (16.51%) Containerisation
5 31 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (13.68%) Test Automation
7 26 (12.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 24 (11.32%) Analytics
8 24 (11.32%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (10.38%) AI
9 22 (10.38%) Migration
10 21 (9.91%) Observability
10 21 (9.91%) Stakeholder Management
11 20 (9.43%) Scrum
12 19 (8.96%) Software Engineering
13 18 (8.49%) Roadmaps
14 17 (8.02%) Cloud Security
14 17 (8.02%) Machine Learning
14 17 (8.02%) Microservices
15 15 (7.08%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 73 (34.43%) Python
2 38 (17.92%) Java
3 37 (17.45%) SQL
4 27 (12.74%) JavaScript
5 21 (9.91%) C#
6 16 (7.55%) PowerShell
6 16 (7.55%) TypeScript
7 10 (4.72%) Bash
8 4 (1.89%) C++
8 4 (1.89%) Go
9 3 (1.42%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.42%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.94%) Bicep
10 2 (0.94%) C
10 2 (0.94%) Perl
10 2 (0.94%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.94%) PromQL
10 2 (0.94%) Rust
11 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.47%) VB
Qualifications
1 51 (24.06%) Security Cleared
2 46 (21.70%) SC Cleared
3 17 (8.02%) Degree
4 9 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.89%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.42%) CCIE
6 3 (1.42%) CCNP
6 3 (1.42%) CISSP
6 3 (1.42%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.42%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.94%) CBAP
7 2 (0.94%) CESG Certified Professional
7 2 (0.94%) ISEB
7 2 (0.94%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.47%) MBA
8 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.60%) QA
2 10 (4.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (4.25%) GDPR
4 6 (2.83%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.83%) NIST
5 5 (2.36%) Accessibility
5 5 (2.36%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.94%) MiFID
7 2 (0.94%) NCSC
7 2 (0.94%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.94%) PMO
7 2 (0.94%) WCAG
8 1 (0.47%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 47 (22.17%) Docker
2 3 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.47%) GridGain
4 1 (0.47%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 65 (30.66%) Terraform
2 47 (22.17%) Kubernetes
3 29 (13.68%) Ansible
4 8 (3.77%) ITRS Geneos
5 6 (2.83%) Argo
5 6 (2.83%) Grafana
5 6 (2.83%) Kibana
6 5 (2.36%) logstash
6 5 (2.36%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.89%) Istio
8 3 (1.42%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.42%) Puppet
9 2 (0.94%) Karpenter
9 2 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.94%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.47%) Ambari
10 1 (0.47%) CASB
10 1 (0.47%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.47%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.47%) Packer
Vendors
1 35 (16.51%) Microsoft
2 34 (16.04%) Google
3 12 (5.66%) Oracle
4 11 (5.19%) Databricks
5 10 (4.72%) Salesforce
6 9 (4.25%) Splunk
7 8 (3.77%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.83%) Solace
9 5 (2.36%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.89%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.89%) CyberArk
10 4 (1.89%) F5
10 4 (1.89%) VMware
11 3 (1.42%) Arista
11 3 (1.42%) Cisco
11 3 (1.42%) DocuSign
11 3 (1.42%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.42%) HP
11 3 (1.42%) UiPath
12 2 (0.94%) AppDynamics