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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 14 10
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 263 233 269
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.23% 12.75% 13.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.79% 13.54% 14.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 171 186
10th Percentile £418 £385 £425
25th Percentile £482 £480 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -5.58%
75th Percentile £651 £675 £706
90th Percentile £725 £738 £779
Central London median daily rate £550 £593 £575
% change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £65.73 £32.25 -
25th Percentile £66.81 £41.25 -
Median hourly rate £72.25 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.65% - -
75th Percentile £76.31 £73.75 -
90th Percentile £76.58 £82.75 -
Central London median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 -
% change year-on-year +21.74% - -

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 2,056 1,721 1,895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.79% 94.20% 91.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,410 1,130 1,260
10th Percentile £380 £325 £375
25th Percentile £456 £424 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 23 16
10th Percentile - £17.62 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £24.21 £19.79
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.15 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -30.73% +5.73% +6.50%
75th Percentile £33.10 £50.25 £82.19
90th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £28.79 £26.78
% change year-on-year -19.54% +7.49% -14.30%

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 22 August 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 14 (5.32%) SharePoint
2 13 (4.94%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (4.18%) Apache Spark
4 9 (3.42%) Apache
5 8 (3.04%) Confluence
6 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.76%) IIS
7 2 (0.76%) nginx
8 1 (0.38%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.38%) CMS
8 1 (0.38%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.38%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.38%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.38%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.38%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 5 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.38%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (2.28%) Dynamics AX
2 5 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.38%) Magento
3 1 (0.38%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.38%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.38%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.38%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 153 (58.17%) Azure
2 89 (33.84%) Azure DevOps
3 76 (28.90%) AWS
4 49 (18.63%) GitHub
5 40 (15.21%) Power Platform
6 30 (11.41%) GitHub Actions
7 28 (10.65%) Azure Data Factory
8 27 (10.27%) GCP
8 27 (10.27%) Serverless
9 19 (7.22%) Power Automate
10 14 (5.32%) Azure AKS
11 13 (4.94%) Amazon S3
11 13 (4.94%) Dynamics 365
11 13 (4.94%) PowerApps
12 12 (4.56%) Azure Functions
12 12 (4.56%) Azure Logic Apps
12 12 (4.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 11 (4.18%) dbt
13 11 (4.18%) GitHub Copilot
13 11 (4.18%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.56%) DNS
2 11 (4.18%) Firewall
3 9 (3.42%) VPN
4 4 (1.52%) DHCP
5 3 (1.14%) FTP
5 3 (1.14%) Internet
5 3 (1.14%) SMTP
5 3 (1.14%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.76%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.76%) Intranet
6 2 (0.76%) Network Security
6 2 (0.76%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.76%) SSH
6 2 (0.76%) VLAN
7 1 (0.38%) Multicast
7 1 (0.38%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.38%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (11.41%) Power BI
2 27 (10.27%) SQL Server
3 18 (6.84%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (4.18%) Data Lake
5 10 (3.80%) Metadata
6 8 (3.04%) MongoDB
6 8 (3.04%) NoSQL
6 8 (3.04%) Star Schema
7 7 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (2.66%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (2.66%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (2.66%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (2.66%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.90%) Big Data
8 5 (1.90%) Delta Lake
8 5 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.52%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (1.52%) Data Mart
9 4 (1.52%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (10.65%) Jenkins
2 27 (10.27%) Git
3 23 (8.75%) GitLab
4 19 (7.22%) JIRA
5 7 (2.66%) JMeter
5 7 (2.66%) JUnit
6 6 (2.28%) Artifactory
6 6 (2.28%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.90%) Gradle
7 5 (1.90%) Maven
7 5 (1.90%) Postman
8 4 (1.52%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.52%) Selenium
8 4 (1.52%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.14%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.14%) LoadRunner
9 3 (1.14%) Mockito
9 3 (1.14%) NeoLoad
9 3 (1.14%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 86 (32.70%) Finance
2 55 (20.91%) Social Skills
3 34 (12.93%) Banking
4 24 (9.13%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (7.60%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.04%) Investment Banking
7 5 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (1.90%) Marketing
8 4 (1.52%) Front Office
8 4 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.52%) Retail
9 3 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.14%) Law
9 3 (1.14%) Military
10 2 (0.76%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.38%) Advertising
11 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.38%) Legal
Job Titles
1 40 (15.21%) Developer
2 37 (14.07%) Architect
3 32 (12.17%) DevOps Engineer
3 32 (12.17%) Senior
4 23 (8.75%) Data Engineer
5 21 (7.98%) Azure Engineer
6 20 (7.60%) Lead
7 16 (6.08%) Senior Developer
8 15 (5.70%) Platform Engineer
9 14 (5.32%) Tester
10 13 (4.94%) Data Architect
11 10 (3.80%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 10 (3.80%) Cloud Engineer
11 10 (3.80%) Consultant
11 10 (3.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (3.80%) Java Developer
11 10 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (3.04%) Software Engineer
13 7 (2.66%) Administrator
13 7 (2.66%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (23.95%) Terraform
2 33 (12.55%) REST
3 24 (9.13%) .NET
4 23 (8.75%) Kafka
5 21 (7.98%) PySpark
6 20 (7.60%) Spring
7 18 (6.84%) Spring Boot
8 14 (5.32%) RESTful
8 14 (5.32%) SOAP
9 10 (3.80%) Playwright
9 10 (3.80%) React
10 9 (3.42%) AngularJS
11 8 (3.04%) XML
12 7 (2.66%) Middleware
13 6 (2.28%) GraphQL
13 6 (2.28%) HTML
13 6 (2.28%) JSON
13 6 (2.28%) OpenTelemetry
14 5 (1.90%) .NET Framework
14 5 (1.90%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 56 (21.29%) Cloud Native
2 20 (7.60%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.32%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (4.56%) AI Agents
5 11 (4.18%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.80%) Onboarding
7 9 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.66%) Data Structures
9 6 (2.28%) Clustering
9 6 (2.28%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.90%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.90%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.14%) Equities
11 3 (1.14%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.14%) PKI
11 3 (1.14%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.76%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.22%) Linux
2 13 (4.94%) Windows
3 9 (3.42%) Unix
4 8 (3.04%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.38%) AIX
5 1 (0.38%) Android
5 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (60.46%) CI/CD
2 73 (27.76%) Agile
3 71 (27.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 55 (20.91%) Analytics
5 50 (19.01%) AI
6 46 (17.49%) Containerisation
7 44 (16.73%) Test Automation
8 43 (16.35%) Platform Engineering
9 40 (15.21%) Microservices
10 39 (14.83%) Data Modelling
11 38 (14.45%) Observability
12 37 (14.07%) Business Intelligence
12 37 (14.07%) Data Engineering
12 37 (14.07%) Problem-Solving
13 35 (13.31%) Migration
14 33 (12.55%) Event-Driven
14 33 (12.55%) Stakeholder Management
15 32 (12.17%) Software Engineering
16 29 (11.03%) Continuous Improvement
17 28 (10.65%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 85 (32.32%) Python
2 74 (28.14%) SQL
3 40 (15.21%) Java
4 30 (11.41%) C#
5 29 (11.03%) PowerShell
6 22 (8.37%) TypeScript
7 20 (7.60%) JavaScript
8 16 (6.08%) Bash
9 15 (5.70%) Bicep
10 8 (3.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (1.90%) Apex Code
12 4 (1.52%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.14%) Korn
13 3 (1.14%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.76%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.76%) ActionScript 2.0
14 2 (0.76%) R
14 2 (0.76%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.38%) Go
15 1 (0.38%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 83 (31.56%) Security Cleared
2 73 (27.76%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.32%) Degree
4 10 (3.80%) DBS Check
5 7 (2.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.28%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.52%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.14%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.76%) PMP
9 2 (0.76%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.38%) CISM
10 1 (0.38%) CISSP
10 1 (0.38%) IIBA
10 1 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.65%) QA
2 22 (8.37%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.04%) GDPR
4 5 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.52%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.14%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.14%) SLA
7 2 (0.76%) EMIR
7 2 (0.76%) MiFID
7 2 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.38%) NCSC
8 1 (0.38%) P3O
8 1 (0.38%) PMO
System Software
1 41 (15.59%) Docker
2 10 (3.80%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.52%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.14%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.14%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.14%) Terminal Services
5 2 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.38%) GridGain
6 1 (0.38%) Varnish
6 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 76 (28.90%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.98%) Ansible
3 20 (7.60%) Grafana
4 18 (6.84%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.90%) Puppet
6 4 (1.52%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.14%) Nagios
7 3 (1.14%) vMotion
8 2 (0.76%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.76%) Packer
8 2 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.38%) Argo
9 1 (0.38%) Bosun
9 1 (0.38%) Consul
9 1 (0.38%) Istio
9 1 (0.38%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.38%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.38%) linkerd
9 1 (0.38%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.38%) SELinux
Vendors
1 78 (29.66%) Microsoft
2 32 (12.17%) Databricks
3 15 (5.70%) Google
3 15 (5.70%) Oracle
4 8 (3.04%) Dynatrace
5 7 (2.66%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.66%) Splunk
6 6 (2.28%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.90%) VMware
8 4 (1.52%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.52%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.52%) SAP
9 3 (1.14%) Citrix
9 3 (1.14%) HP
9 3 (1.14%) IBM
9 3 (1.14%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.14%) Symantec
10 2 (0.76%) Informatica
10 2 (0.76%) Software AG
10 2 (0.76%) webMethods