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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 13 12
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 205 230 285
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.79% 10.93% 10.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.63% 11.94% 11.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 152 221
10th Percentile £384 £430 £450
25th Percentile £463 £510 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £600 £609
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% -1.48% -2.56%
75th Percentile £675 £708 £724
90th Percentile £741 £775 £834
Central London median daily rate £575 £606 £613
% change year-on-year -5.15% -1.02% +2.08%
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 1,623 1,927 2,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.33% 91.59% 89.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,137 1,180 1,746
10th Percentile £327 £375 £363
25th Percentile £417 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £690
90th Percentile £760 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 14
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.38 £17.48
Median hourly rate £27.75 £50.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -44.50% +52.67% -30.13%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £52.88
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £72.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -36.22%

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 17 November 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 17 November 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 17 November 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 12 (5.85%) Confluence
2 6 (2.93%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.95%) Apache
4 3 (1.46%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 6 (2.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.98%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.46%) Endur
2 2 (0.98%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.98%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.49%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.49%) Maximo
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.49%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.49%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 90 (43.90%) Azure
2 60 (29.27%) Azure DevOps
3 54 (26.34%) AWS
4 34 (16.59%) GitHub
5 31 (15.12%) GCP
6 23 (11.22%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (8.29%) Power Platform
8 15 (7.32%) Serverless
9 14 (6.83%) Amazon S3
10 13 (6.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (5.85%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (5.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 9 (4.39%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (3.90%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
15 7 (3.41%) Power Automate
15 7 (3.41%) PowerApps
15 7 (3.41%) SaaS
15 7 (3.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 6 (2.93%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.37%) DNS
2 8 (3.90%) Firewall
2 8 (3.90%) SSL
3 6 (2.93%) Network Security
4 4 (1.95%) BGP
4 4 (1.95%) Ethernet VPN
4 4 (1.95%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.95%) VPN
4 4 (1.95%) VXLAN
5 3 (1.46%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (1.46%) HTTPS
5 3 (1.46%) Multicast
5 3 (1.46%) OSPF
5 3 (1.46%) SSH
6 2 (0.98%) DHCP
6 2 (0.98%) IGMP
6 2 (0.98%) Internet
6 2 (0.98%) MPLS
6 2 (0.98%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.49%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.83%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.88%) Power BI
3 8 (3.90%) DynamoDB
4 7 (3.41%) BigQuery
5 6 (2.93%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (2.44%) Data Lake
6 5 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.44%) Delta Lake
7 4 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.95%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.46%) Big Data
8 3 (1.46%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.46%) MySQL
8 3 (1.46%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.46%) Redis
8 3 (1.46%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.98%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 28 (13.66%) Git
2 27 (13.17%) Jenkins
3 25 (12.20%) JIRA
4 16 (7.80%) GitLab
5 10 (4.88%) Gradle
5 10 (4.88%) Selenium
6 9 (4.39%) SonarQube
7 8 (3.90%) Bitbucket
7 8 (3.90%) Maven
8 7 (3.41%) Cypress.io
9 5 (2.44%) Postman
10 4 (1.95%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.46%) JUnit
11 3 (1.46%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (1.46%) Storybook
11 3 (1.46%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.98%) Mockito
12 2 (0.98%) Snyk
12 2 (0.98%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.98%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 70 (34.15%) Finance
2 63 (30.73%) Social Skills
3 33 (16.10%) Banking
4 23 (11.22%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (5.37%) Investment Banking
6 9 (4.39%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.44%) Back Office
7 5 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.44%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.95%) Front Office
8 4 (1.95%) Law
8 4 (1.95%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.46%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.46%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.98%) Billing
10 2 (0.98%) Legal
10 2 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (21.46%) Developer
2 30 (14.63%) Senior
3 28 (13.66%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (7.80%) Architect
5 15 (7.32%) Analyst
6 12 (5.85%) Business Analyst
7 10 (4.88%) GCP Engineer
8 8 (3.90%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (3.90%) Data Engineer
8 8 (3.90%) Lead
8 8 (3.90%) Senior Developer
9 7 (3.41%) Java Developer
10 6 (2.93%) .NET Developer
10 6 (2.93%) AWS Engineer
10 6 (2.93%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (2.93%) Network Engineer
10 6 (2.93%) Python Developer
10 6 (2.93%) Security Architect
10 6 (2.93%) Software Engineer
10 6 (2.93%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (12.20%) .NET
2 16 (7.80%) REST
3 15 (7.32%) HTML
4 14 (6.83%) AngularJS
5 12 (5.85%) CSS
5 12 (5.85%) React
6 11 (5.37%) Node.js
7 10 (4.88%) GraphQL
7 10 (4.88%) OAuth
7 10 (4.88%) RESTful
8 7 (3.41%) JSON
8 7 (3.41%) SOAP
9 6 (2.93%) FIX Protocol
9 6 (2.93%) HTML5
9 6 (2.93%) JWT
9 6 (2.93%) Spring
10 5 (2.44%) .NET Core
10 5 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (2.44%) Spring Boot
10 5 (2.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (12.20%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.85%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (3.90%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.41%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.41%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.93%) Derivative
6 6 (2.93%) Fixed Income
7 5 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.44%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.46%) Life Science
9 3 (1.46%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.46%) PKI
10 2 (0.98%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.98%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.98%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 18 (8.78%) Linux
2 6 (2.93%) Windows
3 5 (2.44%) Unix
4 4 (1.95%) Android
4 4 (1.95%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.46%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (48.29%) CI/CD
2 81 (39.51%) Agile
3 46 (22.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (13.66%) Containerisation
6 24 (11.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 24 (11.71%) Test Automation
7 22 (10.73%) Analytics
7 22 (10.73%) Scrum
8 21 (10.24%) Observability
8 21 (10.24%) Software Engineering
9 20 (9.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 18 (8.78%) AI
10 18 (8.78%) Machine Learning
10 18 (8.78%) Migration
10 18 (8.78%) SDLC
11 16 (7.80%) Cloud Security
11 16 (7.80%) Stakeholder Management
12 15 (7.32%) Data Pipeline
13 14 (6.83%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 67 (32.68%) Python
2 39 (19.02%) SQL
3 29 (14.15%) Java
4 25 (12.20%) C#
5 24 (11.71%) JavaScript
6 15 (7.32%) PowerShell
7 14 (6.83%) TypeScript
8 11 (5.37%) Bash
9 4 (1.95%) Bicep
9 4 (1.95%) Go
10 3 (1.46%) C++
10 3 (1.46%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.98%) PromQL
11 2 (0.98%) Rust
12 1 (0.49%) C
12 1 (0.49%) COBOL
12 1 (0.49%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.49%) SOQL
12 1 (0.49%) Swift
12 1 (0.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 33 (16.10%) Security Cleared
2 29 (14.15%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.80%) Degree
4 8 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.93%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.95%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.46%) CCIE
7 3 (1.46%) CCNP
7 3 (1.46%) CISSP
7 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.98%) CBAP
8 2 (0.98%) ISEB
8 2 (0.98%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.98%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.49%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.49%) CESG Certified Professional
9 1 (0.49%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.49%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.78%) QA
2 9 (4.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.41%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.41%) GDPR
4 6 (2.93%) NIST
5 4 (1.95%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.46%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.98%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.98%) MiFID
7 2 (0.98%) NCSC
7 2 (0.98%) PMO
7 2 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.98%) WCAG
8 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.49%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.49%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.49%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.49%) SEPA
8 1 (0.49%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (18.05%) Docker
2 3 (1.46%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.49%) GridGain
4 1 (0.49%) HDFS
4 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 54 (26.34%) Terraform
2 38 (18.54%) Kubernetes
3 28 (13.66%) Ansible
4 9 (4.39%) ITRS Geneos
4 9 (4.39%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.93%) Kibana
6 5 (2.44%) Argo
6 5 (2.44%) Grafana
6 5 (2.44%) Istio
6 5 (2.44%) logstash
6 5 (2.44%) Puppet
7 3 (1.46%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.98%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.49%) Ambari
9 1 (0.49%) CASB
9 1 (0.49%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.49%) Packer
9 1 (0.49%) yum
Vendors
1 40 (19.51%) Microsoft
2 27 (13.17%) Google
3 11 (5.37%) Databricks
4 9 (4.39%) Oracle
4 9 (4.39%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.93%) Solace
5 6 (2.93%) Splunk
6 5 (2.44%) F5
6 5 (2.44%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.44%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.44%) UiPath
7 4 (1.95%) Arista
7 4 (1.95%) CheckPoint
7 4 (1.95%) Cisco
8 3 (1.46%) CyberArk
8 3 (1.46%) DocuSign
8 3 (1.46%) HP
8 3 (1.46%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.46%) VMware
9 2 (0.98%) New Relic