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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 13 12
Rank change year-on-year -7 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 206 228 244
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 9.29% 13.04% 10.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.75% 14.08% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 155 157
10th Percentile £363 £428 £415
25th Percentile £457 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £768 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -4.30% -8.00% +2.25%
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 1,916 1,619 2,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.38% 92.57% 90.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,315 1,032 1,428
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £674 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £774 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 10 14
10th Percentile - £22.00 £17.58
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.07 £32.83 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% +36.77% -36.42%
75th Percentile £52.16 £47.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £67.38 £47.73
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £31.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -14.34% +11.47% -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 16 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 5 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (2.43%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.46%) Apache
2 3 (1.46%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.46%) Confluence
2 3 (1.46%) Palantir Foundry
2 3 (1.46%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.49%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (0.49%) nginx
3 1 (0.49%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Maya
1 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.46%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.97%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.49%) Magento
3 1 (0.49%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.49%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.49%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.49%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 117 (56.80%) Azure
2 68 (33.01%) AWS
3 61 (29.61%) Azure DevOps
4 50 (24.27%) GitHub
5 31 (15.05%) GCP
6 29 (14.08%) Serverless
7 25 (12.14%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (9.71%) Power Platform
9 18 (8.74%) Amazon S3
10 15 (7.28%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (5.83%) Azure AKS
12 10 (4.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (4.85%) Entra ID
13 9 (4.37%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (3.88%) Amazon Kinesis
14 8 (3.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 8 (3.88%) Azure Functions
14 8 (3.88%) Azure Monitor
15 7 (3.40%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (3.40%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.40%) Firewall
2 5 (2.43%) Network Security
3 1 (0.49%) DHCP
3 1 (0.49%) DNS
3 1 (0.49%) FTP
3 1 (0.49%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.49%) Multicast
3 1 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.28%) SQL Server
2 14 (6.80%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (5.34%) Power BI
4 8 (3.88%) DynamoDB
4 8 (3.88%) Relational Database
5 7 (3.40%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.40%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.91%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (2.43%) Metadata
7 5 (2.43%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.43%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.94%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.46%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.46%) MySQL
9 3 (1.46%) Star Schema
9 3 (1.46%) Tableau
10 2 (0.97%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 31 (15.05%) Git
2 20 (9.71%) Jenkins
3 15 (7.28%) JIRA
4 14 (6.80%) GitLab
5 5 (2.43%) JUnit
6 4 (1.94%) Gradle
6 4 (1.94%) Maven
6 4 (1.94%) Mockito
6 4 (1.94%) Postman
6 4 (1.94%) Selenium
7 3 (1.46%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.46%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.46%) Liquibase
7 3 (1.46%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.97%) Ant
8 2 (0.97%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.97%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.49%) Introscope
9 1 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.49%) PowerBuilder
General
1 54 (26.21%) Finance
2 39 (18.93%) Social Skills
3 20 (9.71%) Banking
4 14 (6.80%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (3.40%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.94%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.94%) Front Office
8 4 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.94%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.46%) Law
10 2 (0.97%) Military
10 2 (0.97%) Retail
11 1 (0.49%) Back Office
11 1 (0.49%) Legal
11 1 (0.49%) Marketing
11 1 (0.49%) Police
Job Titles
1 51 (24.76%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (11.65%) Senior
3 23 (11.17%) Developer
4 20 (9.71%) Architect
5 19 (9.22%) Azure Engineer
6 14 (6.80%) Lead
7 11 (5.34%) Data Engineer
7 11 (5.34%) Senior Developer
8 10 (4.85%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (4.37%) Cloud Architect
9 9 (4.37%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (3.88%) AWS DevOps
10 8 (3.88%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (3.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.88%) Software Engineer
11 7 (3.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 7 (3.40%) Python Engineer
12 6 (2.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 6 (2.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 6 (2.91%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.25%) REST
2 16 (7.77%) React
3 15 (7.28%) Spring
4 14 (6.80%) Kafka
4 14 (6.80%) Node.js
5 11 (5.34%) Spring Boot
6 10 (4.85%) .NET
7 9 (4.37%) Playwright
8 8 (3.88%) OAuth
8 8 (3.88%) RESTful
9 6 (2.91%) FastAPI
9 6 (2.91%) JWT
9 6 (2.91%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (2.91%) PySpark
10 5 (2.43%) AngularJS
10 5 (2.43%) HTML
10 5 (2.43%) Next.js
10 5 (2.43%) XML
11 4 (1.94%) CSS
11 4 (1.94%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 46 (22.33%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.28%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.37%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.91%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.43%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.43%) Fixed Income
5 5 (2.43%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.94%) Life Science
6 4 (1.94%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.46%) Clustering
7 3 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.46%) NHS
7 3 (1.46%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.46%) Replication
8 2 (0.97%) Derivative
8 2 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.97%) IoT
8 2 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.83%) Linux
2 10 (4.85%) Windows
3 4 (1.94%) Unix
4 3 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.46%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.97%) Android
6 1 (0.49%) AIX
6 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.49%) VMS
6 1 (0.49%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (55.34%) CI/CD
2 68 (33.01%) Infrastructure as Code
3 53 (25.73%) Agile
4 37 (17.96%) Containerisation
5 33 (16.02%) AI
6 29 (14.08%) Test Automation
7 28 (13.59%) Migration
8 26 (12.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 26 (12.62%) Microservices
9 25 (12.14%) Analytics
10 24 (11.65%) Software Engineering
11 23 (11.17%) Observability
11 23 (11.17%) Performance Tuning
12 22 (10.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 21 (10.19%) Data Engineering
13 21 (10.19%) Roadmaps
13 21 (10.19%) Stakeholder Management
14 20 (9.71%) Platform Engineering
15 16 (7.77%) Data Pipeline
16 15 (7.28%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 58 (28.16%) Python
2 47 (22.82%) SQL
3 31 (15.05%) Java
4 17 (8.25%) JavaScript
5 15 (7.28%) C#
5 15 (7.28%) TypeScript
6 11 (5.34%) Bash
7 10 (4.85%) PowerShell
8 7 (3.40%) Bicep
9 3 (1.46%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.97%) Korn
10 2 (0.97%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.97%) Perl
10 2 (0.97%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.97%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.49%) C
11 1 (0.49%) C++
11 1 (0.49%) PHP
11 1 (0.49%) ProC
11 1 (0.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 74 (35.92%) Security Cleared
2 72 (34.95%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.83%) Degree
4 8 (3.88%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.46%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.97%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.97%) CESG Certified Professional
8 2 (0.97%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.97%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.97%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.49%) CCNA
9 1 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.49%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.49%) PMP
9 1 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.31%) QA
2 8 (3.88%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.43%) GDPR
4 5 (2.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (1.94%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.46%) SLA
7 2 (0.97%) NIST
7 2 (0.97%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.97%) PMO
8 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.49%) NCSC
System Software
1 46 (22.33%) Docker
2 7 (3.40%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.49%) GridGain
5 1 (0.49%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 68 (33.01%) Terraform
2 57 (27.67%) Kubernetes
3 16 (7.77%) Ansible
4 10 (4.85%) Grafana
5 9 (4.37%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.46%) Istio
6 3 (1.46%) Karpenter
7 2 (0.97%) Argo
7 2 (0.97%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.97%) Puppet
8 1 (0.49%) CA Wily
8 1 (0.49%) CASB
8 1 (0.49%) Consul
8 1 (0.49%) Icinga
8 1 (0.49%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.49%) linkerd
8 1 (0.49%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.49%) Packer
8 1 (0.49%) Salt
8 1 (0.49%) SCCM
Vendors
1 34 (16.50%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.71%) Google
3 17 (8.25%) Databricks
4 13 (6.31%) Oracle
5 8 (3.88%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.43%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.94%) SAP
7 4 (1.94%) Splunk
8 3 (1.46%) CyberArk
8 3 (1.46%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.46%) Foundry
8 3 (1.46%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.46%) Palantir
8 3 (1.46%) VMware
9 2 (0.97%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.97%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.97%) MarketAxess
9 2 (0.97%) OutSystems
9 2 (0.97%) Planview
9 2 (0.97%) Tradeweb