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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 14 9
Rank change year-on-year -5 -5 +4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 222 215 278
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 9.50% 12.80% 12.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.20% 13.69% 14.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 142 184
10th Percentile £373 £426 £413
25th Percentile £464 £491 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £677
90th Percentile £763 £790 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
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 1,982 1,571 1,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.85% 93.51% 90.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,355 988 1,374
10th Percentile £363 £350 £352
25th Percentile £450 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 12 12
10th Percentile £17.69 £22.18 £19.95
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.43 £20.22
Median hourly rate £26.64 £29.58 £25.63
Median % change year-on-year -9.94% +15.41% -26.79%
75th Percentile £52.24 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £41.65
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £28.61 £27.81
% change year-on-year -8.74% +2.88% -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 May 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 11 (4.95%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (4.05%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.70%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.80%) Apache
4 4 (1.80%) Confluence
5 3 (1.35%) Palantir Foundry
5 3 (1.35%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.45%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.45%) nginx
6 1 (0.45%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.45%) Maya
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (2.70%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.90%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.45%) Magento
3 1 (0.45%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.45%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.45%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.45%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 123 (55.41%) Azure
2 70 (31.53%) AWS
3 63 (28.38%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (19.82%) GitHub
5 30 (13.51%) Power Platform
6 28 (12.61%) GCP
7 25 (11.26%) Serverless
8 24 (10.81%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (6.31%) Azure AKS
10 13 (5.86%) Amazon S3
11 12 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (4.50%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (4.50%) Dynamics 365
12 10 (4.50%) Power Automate
13 9 (4.05%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (4.05%) Entra ID
13 9 (4.05%) Snowflake
14 8 (3.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 8 (3.60%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (3.60%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.70%) Firewall
2 3 (1.35%) DNS
2 3 (1.35%) Network Security
3 2 (0.90%) FTP
4 1 (0.45%) DHCP
4 1 (0.45%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.45%) Internet
4 1 (0.45%) Multicast
4 1 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.45%) SSH
4 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (9.01%) Power BI
2 19 (8.56%) SQL Server
3 12 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (3.15%) Relational Database
5 6 (2.70%) Metadata
5 6 (2.70%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.25%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (2.25%) Snowflake Schema
7 4 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.80%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.80%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.80%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.80%) Tableau
8 3 (1.35%) Delta Lake
8 3 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.35%) Star Schema
9 2 (0.90%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.90%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 28 (12.61%) Git
2 21 (9.46%) GitLab
2 21 (9.46%) Jenkins
3 18 (8.11%) JIRA
4 7 (3.15%) Postman
5 4 (1.80%) Gradle
5 4 (1.80%) JMeter
5 4 (1.80%) Maven
6 3 (1.35%) Liquibase
6 3 (1.35%) REST Assured
6 3 (1.35%) Selenium
7 2 (0.90%) Ant
7 2 (0.90%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.90%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.90%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.90%) JUnit
7 2 (0.90%) Mockito
8 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.45%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.45%) SoapUI
General
1 62 (27.93%) Finance
2 35 (15.77%) Social Skills
3 20 (9.01%) Banking
4 17 (7.66%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.25%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.35%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.35%) Front Office
7 3 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.35%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.90%) Law
8 2 (0.90%) Legal
8 2 (0.90%) Military
8 2 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.45%) Advertising
9 1 (0.45%) Marketing
9 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (22.97%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (11.26%) Architect
3 23 (10.36%) Azure Engineer
4 19 (8.56%) Senior
5 18 (8.11%) Developer
5 18 (8.11%) Lead
6 14 (6.31%) Data Engineer
7 11 (4.95%) Senior Developer
8 10 (4.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 10 (4.50%) Cloud Engineer
8 10 (4.50%) Tester
9 9 (4.05%) Consultant
9 9 (4.05%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (3.60%) Cloud Architect
10 8 (3.60%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (3.60%) Python Engineer
11 7 (3.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 7 (3.15%) Software Engineer
12 6 (2.70%) Dynamics AX Consultant
12 6 (2.70%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.01%) Kafka
2 18 (8.11%) REST
3 16 (7.21%) React
3 16 (7.21%) Spring
4 12 (5.41%) .NET
4 12 (5.41%) Spring Boot
5 9 (4.05%) Node.js
5 9 (4.05%) Playwright
5 9 (4.05%) PySpark
6 7 (3.15%) RESTful
7 6 (2.70%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (2.25%) Next.js
8 5 (2.25%) SOAP
8 5 (2.25%) Swagger
9 4 (1.80%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.80%) Django
9 4 (1.80%) FastAPI
9 4 (1.80%) HTML
9 4 (1.80%) JSON
9 4 (1.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (22.52%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.86%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.60%) AI Agents
4 6 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.25%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.25%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.80%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.80%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.80%) Private Cloud
6 4 (1.80%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.35%) Clustering
7 3 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.35%) NHS
8 2 (0.90%) Equities
8 2 (0.90%) IoT
8 2 (0.90%) Life Science
8 2 (0.90%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.45%) CMDB
9 1 (0.45%) Freedom of Information Act
9 1 (0.45%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.95%) Linux
2 8 (3.60%) Windows
3 3 (1.35%) Unix
4 2 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.90%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.45%) AIX
5 1 (0.45%) VMS
5 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (52.70%) CI/CD
2 69 (31.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 47 (21.17%) Agile
4 45 (20.27%) Containerisation
5 37 (16.67%) AI
6 34 (15.32%) Platform Engineering
7 33 (14.86%) Analytics
8 32 (14.41%) Observability
9 31 (13.96%) Migration
9 31 (13.96%) Test Automation
10 28 (12.61%) Data Engineering
11 27 (12.16%) Roadmaps
12 25 (11.26%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (10.36%) Microservices
14 22 (9.91%) Software Engineering
14 22 (9.91%) Stakeholder Management
15 20 (9.01%) Business Intelligence
16 19 (8.56%) Event-Driven
16 19 (8.56%) Performance Tuning
17 18 (8.11%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 61 (27.48%) Python
2 47 (21.17%) SQL
3 30 (13.51%) Java
4 18 (8.11%) JavaScript
5 17 (7.66%) TypeScript
6 15 (6.76%) C#
6 15 (6.76%) PowerShell
7 13 (5.86%) Bash
8 11 (4.95%) Bicep
9 3 (1.35%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.90%) Korn
10 2 (0.90%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.90%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.45%) C
11 1 (0.45%) C++
11 1 (0.45%) Perl
11 1 (0.45%) PHP
11 1 (0.45%) ProC
11 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 86 (38.74%) Security Cleared
2 85 (38.29%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.95%) Degree
4 6 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.70%) DBS Check
5 5 (2.25%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.35%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.35%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.90%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.90%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.90%) PMP
8 2 (0.90%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.45%) CCNA
9 1 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.45%) MBA
9 1 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.41%) QA
2 8 (3.60%) GDPR
3 7 (3.15%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.80%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.35%) PMO
6 3 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.35%) SLA
7 2 (0.90%) EMIR
7 2 (0.90%) MiFID
8 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.45%) NCSC
8 1 (0.45%) NIST
8 1 (0.45%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.45%) P3O
System Software
1 42 (18.92%) Docker
2 7 (3.15%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.45%) GridGain
4 1 (0.45%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 68 (30.63%) Kubernetes
2 61 (27.48%) Terraform
3 18 (8.11%) Ansible
4 15 (6.76%) Grafana
5 14 (6.31%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.35%) Karpenter
7 2 (0.90%) Argo
7 2 (0.90%) Istio
7 2 (0.90%) Packer
7 2 (0.90%) Puppet
8 1 (0.45%) CA Wily
8 1 (0.45%) Consul
8 1 (0.45%) Icinga
8 1 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.45%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.45%) linkerd
8 1 (0.45%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.45%) Salt
8 1 (0.45%) SCCM
8 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.36%) Databricks
3 13 (5.86%) Google
4 12 (5.41%) Oracle
5 6 (2.70%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.25%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.80%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.80%) Foundry
7 4 (1.80%) SAP
7 4 (1.80%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.80%) Splunk
8 3 (1.35%) Palantir
9 2 (0.90%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.90%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.90%) IBM
9 2 (0.90%) Informatica
9 2 (0.90%) OutSystems
9 2 (0.90%) Planview
10 1 (0.45%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.45%) Workday