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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 12 12
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 211 238 309
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 12.44% 11.30% 10.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.16% 12.29% 12.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 156 229
10th Percentile £385 £439 £450
25th Percentile £465 £505 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year - -2.04% +2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £705 £725
90th Percentile £763 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £600 £600 £625
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £32.25 - -
25th Percentile £41.25 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - -
75th Percentile £73.75 - -
90th Percentile £82.75 - -
Central London median hourly rate £57.50 - -

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 1,603 1,936 2,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.52% 91.88% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,194 1,786
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £421 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £598
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.77% +3.91%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £763 £786 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 17 17
10th Percentile £16.85 £16.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £26.57 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.48% +54.55% -36.05%
75th Percentile £36.00 £112.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £59.30
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -22.76% +30.84% -37.06%

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 21 October 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in the City of London over the 6 months to 21 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in the City of London

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the City of London region over the 6 months to 21 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Moorgate - 1 £390 -
London Bridge - 1 - -
DevOps
Central London

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 13 (6.16%) Confluence
2 6 (2.84%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.42%) Apache
4 2 (0.95%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 7 (3.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.95%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (4.74%) Endur
2 2 (0.95%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.95%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.47%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.47%) Maximo
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.47%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.47%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 95 (45.02%) Azure
2 61 (28.91%) Azure DevOps
3 56 (26.54%) AWS
4 30 (14.22%) GitHub
5 27 (12.80%) GCP
6 19 (9.00%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (8.06%) Power Platform
8 13 (6.16%) Serverless
9 11 (5.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 10 (4.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (4.74%) Amazon S3
10 10 (4.74%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (4.27%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (3.79%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (3.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (3.32%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (3.32%) Power Automate
13 7 (3.32%) PowerApps
14 6 (2.84%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (2.84%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.16%) DNS
2 10 (4.74%) Firewall
3 8 (3.79%) SSL
4 6 (2.84%) VPN
5 5 (2.37%) Network Security
6 4 (1.90%) BGP
6 4 (1.90%) Ethernet VPN
6 4 (1.90%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.90%) VXLAN
7 3 (1.42%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (1.42%) HTTPS
7 3 (1.42%) Multicast
7 3 (1.42%) OSPF
7 3 (1.42%) SSH
8 2 (0.95%) DHCP
8 2 (0.95%) IGMP
8 2 (0.95%) Internet
8 2 (0.95%) MPLS
8 2 (0.95%) NX-OS
9 1 (0.47%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.64%) SQL Server
2 11 (5.21%) Power BI
3 7 (3.32%) BigQuery
3 7 (3.32%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (2.84%) DynamoDB
5 5 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.90%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.90%) Delta Lake
7 3 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.42%) Big Data
7 3 (1.42%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.42%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.42%) Redis
7 3 (1.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.95%) Couchbase
8 2 (0.95%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.95%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.95%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.95%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (13.27%) Git
1 28 (13.27%) Jenkins
2 26 (12.32%) JIRA
3 17 (8.06%) GitLab
4 11 (5.21%) Gradle
5 9 (4.27%) Maven
5 9 (4.27%) Selenium
5 9 (4.27%) SonarQube
6 7 (3.32%) Cypress.io
7 6 (2.84%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.90%) Postman
9 3 (1.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (1.42%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.42%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.42%) Storybook
9 3 (1.42%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.95%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.95%) JUnit
10 2 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.95%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 70 (33.18%) Finance
2 66 (31.28%) Social Skills
3 31 (14.69%) Banking
4 23 (10.90%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (5.21%) Investment Banking
6 7 (3.32%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.84%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.90%) Back Office
8 4 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.90%) Retail Banking
8 4 (1.90%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.42%) Front Office
9 3 (1.42%) Law
9 3 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.95%) Billing
10 2 (0.95%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.95%) Legal
10 2 (0.95%) Marketing
11 1 (0.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (23.22%) Developer
2 28 (13.27%) Senior
3 24 (11.37%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (8.06%) Analyst
4 17 (8.06%) Architect
5 13 (6.16%) Business Analyst
6 9 (4.27%) Azure Engineer
6 9 (4.27%) GCP Engineer
6 9 (4.27%) Lead
7 7 (3.32%) Data Engineer
7 7 (3.32%) Senior Developer
7 7 (3.32%) Software Engineer
8 6 (2.84%) .NET Developer
8 6 (2.84%) Applications Engineer
8 6 (2.84%) Endur Support
8 6 (2.84%) Java Developer
8 6 (2.84%) Network Engineer
8 6 (2.84%) Project Manager
8 6 (2.84%) Python Developer
8 6 (2.84%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (13.27%) .NET
2 15 (7.11%) AngularJS
2 15 (7.11%) HTML
3 14 (6.64%) REST
4 12 (5.69%) CSS
4 12 (5.69%) GraphQL
5 10 (4.74%) Node.js
5 10 (4.74%) React
6 9 (4.27%) RESTful
7 7 (3.32%) FIX Protocol
7 7 (3.32%) JSON
7 7 (3.32%) SOAP
8 6 (2.84%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (2.84%) HTML5
8 6 (2.84%) OAuth
9 5 (2.37%) ADO
9 5 (2.37%) Django
9 5 (2.37%) Spring
9 5 (2.37%) WebSockets
9 5 (2.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.85%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.69%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (3.79%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.32%) Fixed Income
6 6 (2.84%) Derivative
6 6 (2.84%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.37%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.37%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.42%) IVR
9 3 (1.42%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.42%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.95%) CMDB
10 2 (0.95%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.95%) PKI
10 2 (0.95%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (9.95%) Linux
2 8 (3.79%) Unix
3 5 (2.37%) Windows
4 4 (1.90%) Android
4 4 (1.90%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.95%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (48.34%) CI/CD
2 87 (41.23%) Agile
3 44 (20.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (16.11%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (14.22%) Containerisation
6 28 (13.27%) Continuous Improvement
7 23 (10.90%) Observability
7 23 (10.90%) Test Automation
8 22 (10.43%) Scrum
9 18 (8.53%) Analytics
9 18 (8.53%) Microservices
9 18 (8.53%) Software Engineering
10 17 (8.06%) Machine Learning
10 17 (8.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 16 (7.58%) AI
11 16 (7.58%) High Availability
11 16 (7.58%) Project Management
11 16 (7.58%) Roadmaps
11 16 (7.58%) SDLC
12 15 (7.11%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 70 (33.18%) Python
2 42 (19.91%) SQL
3 33 (15.64%) Java
4 28 (13.27%) C#
5 24 (11.37%) JavaScript
6 15 (7.11%) TypeScript
7 14 (6.64%) PowerShell
8 9 (4.27%) Bash
9 5 (2.37%) Go
10 4 (1.90%) Bicep
11 3 (1.42%) C++
11 3 (1.42%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.95%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.95%) PromQL
12 2 (0.95%) Rust
12 2 (0.95%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.47%) C
13 1 (0.47%) SOQL
13 1 (0.47%) Swift
13 1 (0.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 27 (12.80%) Security Cleared
2 24 (11.37%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.11%) Degree
4 7 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.90%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.42%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.42%) CCIE
6 3 (1.42%) CCNP
6 3 (1.42%) CISSP
6 3 (1.42%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.95%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.95%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.95%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.95%) ISEB
7 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.95%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.53%) QA
2 8 (3.79%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.32%) GDPR
4 5 (2.37%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.37%) NIST
5 3 (1.42%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.95%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.95%) MiFID
6 2 (0.95%) NCSC
6 2 (0.95%) PMO
6 2 (0.95%) WCAG
7 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.47%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.47%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.47%) SEPA
7 1 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (17.54%) Docker
2 3 (1.42%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.47%) GridGain
3 1 (0.47%) HDFS
3 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 54 (25.59%) Terraform
2 44 (20.85%) Kubernetes
3 25 (11.85%) Ansible
4 13 (6.16%) ITRS Geneos
5 11 (5.21%) Prometheus
6 8 (3.79%) Puppet
7 7 (3.32%) Kibana
8 6 (2.84%) Argo
8 6 (2.84%) Grafana
8 6 (2.84%) Istio
8 6 (2.84%) logstash
9 5 (2.37%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.95%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.47%) Ambari
12 1 (0.47%) CASB
12 1 (0.47%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.47%) Packer
12 1 (0.47%) yum
Vendors
1 42 (19.91%) Microsoft
2 24 (11.37%) Google
3 12 (5.69%) Databricks
4 10 (4.74%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.32%) Oracle
5 7 (3.32%) Solace
5 7 (3.32%) Splunk
6 5 (2.37%) F5
6 5 (2.37%) Palo Alto
7 4 (1.90%) Arista
7 4 (1.90%) CheckPoint
7 4 (1.90%) Cisco
7 4 (1.90%) OpenLink
7 4 (1.90%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.90%) UiPath
8 3 (1.42%) HP
8 3 (1.42%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.42%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.95%) BMC
9 2 (0.95%) Remedy