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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 13 11
Rank change year-on-year -9 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 213 225 251
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 9.42% 12.69% 11.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.01% 13.66% 12.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 152 166
10th Percentile £358 £425 £409
25th Percentile £457 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £653 £680 £687
90th Percentile £764 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.30% -4.17% -1.64%
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 1,935 1,647 2,003
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.54% 92.89% 90.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,323 1,047 1,417
10th Percentile £363 £363 £356
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 12 13
10th Percentile £18.29 £22.00 £19.13
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £30.03 £29.58 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.55% +18.30% -42.20%
75th Percentile £48.67 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -8.65% +4.53% -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 24 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 7 (3.29%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.88%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.41%) Apache
4 3 (1.41%) Confluence
4 3 (1.41%) Palantir Foundry
4 3 (1.41%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.47%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.47%) nginx
5 1 (0.47%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.47%) Maya
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.35%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.94%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.47%) Magento
3 1 (0.47%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.47%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.47%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.47%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 125 (58.69%) Azure
2 71 (33.33%) AWS
3 66 (30.99%) Azure DevOps
4 52 (24.41%) GitHub
5 31 (14.55%) GCP
5 31 (14.55%) Serverless
6 27 (12.68%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (10.33%) Power Platform
8 19 (8.92%) Amazon S3
9 16 (7.51%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (6.57%) Azure AKS
11 10 (4.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (4.69%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (4.69%) Entra ID
12 9 (4.23%) Amazon Kinesis
12 9 (4.23%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (4.23%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (4.23%) Power Automate
13 8 (3.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 8 (3.76%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.29%) Firewall
2 4 (1.88%) Network Security
3 2 (0.94%) FTP
4 1 (0.47%) DHCP
4 1 (0.47%) DNS
4 1 (0.47%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.47%) Multicast
4 1 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.98%) SQL Server
2 14 (6.57%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (5.63%) Power BI
4 8 (3.76%) DynamoDB
4 8 (3.76%) Relational Database
5 7 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.29%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.82%) Apache Cassandra
6 6 (2.82%) Metadata
7 5 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (2.35%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.35%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.35%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.88%) Tableau
9 3 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.41%) MySQL
9 3 (1.41%) Star Schema
10 2 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 30 (14.08%) Git
2 21 (9.86%) Jenkins
3 16 (7.51%) JIRA
4 14 (6.57%) GitLab
5 5 (2.35%) JUnit
5 5 (2.35%) Postman
6 4 (1.88%) Gradle
6 4 (1.88%) Maven
6 4 (1.88%) Mockito
6 4 (1.88%) Selenium
7 3 (1.41%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.41%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.41%) Liquibase
7 3 (1.41%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.94%) Ant
8 2 (0.94%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.94%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.47%) Introscope
9 1 (0.47%) JMeter
9 1 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
General
1 57 (26.76%) Finance
2 40 (18.78%) Social Skills
3 20 (9.39%) Banking
4 15 (7.04%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.76%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.88%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.88%) Front Office
7 4 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.88%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.41%) Law
8 3 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.94%) Legal
9 2 (0.94%) Military
9 2 (0.94%) Retail
10 1 (0.47%) Back Office
10 1 (0.47%) Marketing
10 1 (0.47%) Police
Job Titles
1 51 (23.94%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (11.27%) Architect
3 22 (10.33%) Senior
4 21 (9.86%) Developer
5 20 (9.39%) Azure Engineer
6 13 (6.10%) Lead
7 12 (5.63%) Data Engineer
8 10 (4.69%) Cloud Engineer
8 10 (4.69%) Senior Developer
9 9 (4.23%) Cloud Architect
9 9 (4.23%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (3.76%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (3.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.76%) Software Engineer
11 7 (3.29%) AWS DevOps
11 7 (3.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 7 (3.29%) Azure Architect
11 7 (3.29%) Consultant
11 7 (3.29%) Python Engineer
12 6 (2.82%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.45%) REST
2 16 (7.51%) React
2 16 (7.51%) Spring
3 15 (7.04%) Kafka
4 14 (6.57%) Node.js
5 12 (5.63%) Spring Boot
6 10 (4.69%) .NET
7 9 (4.23%) Playwright
8 8 (3.76%) OAuth
8 8 (3.76%) RESTful
9 6 (2.82%) JWT
9 6 (2.82%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (2.82%) PySpark
10 5 (2.35%) AngularJS
10 5 (2.35%) FastAPI
10 5 (2.35%) HTML
10 5 (2.35%) Next.js
10 5 (2.35%) SOAP
10 5 (2.35%) XML
11 4 (1.88%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 48 (22.54%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.04%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.23%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.29%) AI Agents
5 6 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.82%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.35%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.35%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.88%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.41%) Clustering
8 3 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.41%) Life Science
8 3 (1.41%) NHS
8 3 (1.41%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.41%) Replication
9 2 (0.94%) Derivative
9 2 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.94%) IoT
9 2 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.63%) Linux
2 10 (4.69%) Windows
3 4 (1.88%) Unix
4 3 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.41%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.94%) Android
6 1 (0.47%) AIX
6 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.47%) VMS
6 1 (0.47%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (56.81%) CI/CD
2 71 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 54 (25.35%) Agile
4 40 (18.78%) Containerisation
5 36 (16.90%) AI
6 30 (14.08%) Test Automation
7 29 (13.62%) Analytics
8 28 (13.15%) Migration
9 26 (12.21%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (12.21%) Microservices
9 26 (12.21%) Observability
10 24 (11.27%) Performance Tuning
10 24 (11.27%) Roadmaps
10 24 (11.27%) Software Engineering
11 23 (10.80%) Data Engineering
12 22 (10.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 21 (9.86%) Platform Engineering
13 21 (9.86%) Stakeholder Management
14 16 (7.51%) Data Pipeline
14 16 (7.51%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 60 (28.17%) Python
2 48 (22.54%) SQL
3 32 (15.02%) Java
4 17 (7.98%) JavaScript
5 15 (7.04%) C#
5 15 (7.04%) TypeScript
6 12 (5.63%) Bash
7 11 (5.16%) PowerShell
8 10 (4.69%) Bicep
9 3 (1.41%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.94%) Korn
10 2 (0.94%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.94%) Perl
10 2 (0.94%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.94%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.47%) C
11 1 (0.47%) Jython
11 1 (0.47%) PHP
11 1 (0.47%) ProC
11 1 (0.47%) XPath
Qualifications
1 77 (36.15%) Security Cleared
2 75 (35.21%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.10%) Degree
4 7 (3.29%) Azure Certification
4 7 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.41%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.94%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.94%) CESG Certified Professional
7 2 (0.94%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.94%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.94%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.47%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.47%) MBA
8 1 (0.47%) PMP
8 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.10%) QA
2 8 (3.76%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.29%) GDPR
4 6 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.88%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.41%) PMO
6 3 (1.41%) SLA
7 2 (0.94%) NIST
7 2 (0.94%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.47%) EMIR
8 1 (0.47%) MiFID
8 1 (0.47%) NCSC
8 1 (0.47%) P3O
System Software
1 48 (22.54%) Docker
2 7 (3.29%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.82%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.47%) GridGain
4 1 (0.47%) Varnish
4 1 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 71 (33.33%) Terraform
2 61 (28.64%) Kubernetes
3 18 (8.45%) Ansible
4 11 (5.16%) Grafana
5 10 (4.69%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.41%) Istio
6 3 (1.41%) Karpenter
7 2 (0.94%) Argo
7 2 (0.94%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.94%) Puppet
8 1 (0.47%) CA Wily
8 1 (0.47%) Consul
8 1 (0.47%) Icinga
8 1 (0.47%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.47%) linkerd
8 1 (0.47%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.47%) Packer
8 1 (0.47%) Salt
8 1 (0.47%) SCCM
8 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (17.37%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.92%) Google
3 18 (8.45%) Databricks
4 14 (6.57%) Oracle
5 7 (3.29%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.35%) OpenAI
6 5 (2.35%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.88%) Foundry
7 4 (1.88%) SAP
7 4 (1.88%) Splunk
8 3 (1.41%) CyberArk
8 3 (1.41%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.41%) Palantir
9 2 (0.94%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.94%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.94%) IBM
9 2 (0.94%) Informatica
9 2 (0.94%) MarketAxess
9 2 (0.94%) Tradeweb
9 2 (0.94%) VMware