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

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 211 229 275
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.83% 10.71% 10.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.73% 11.68% 11.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 147 213
10th Percentile £367 £459 £440
25th Percentile £463 £511 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% -2.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £669 £701 £713
90th Percentile £736 £768 £847
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £613
% change year-on-year -4.13% -2.08% +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 1,658 1,960 2,431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 92.99% 91.67% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,162 1,199 1,718
10th Percentile £332 £376 £363
25th Percentile £418 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £690
90th Percentile £756 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 17 13
10th Percentile £17.02 £16.70 -
25th Percentile £20.18 £22.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.25 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.53% +54.55% -46.08%
75th Percentile £43.33 £112.00 £53.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £72.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.75 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -20.71% +30.84% -42.93%

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 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 24 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 24 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 - - 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 (5.69%) Confluence
2 5 (2.37%) 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 5 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.95%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.95%) Aladdin
1 2 (0.95%) Endur
1 2 (0.95%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.47%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.47%) Maximo
2 1 (0.47%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.47%) Orchestrade
2 1 (0.47%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 91 (43.13%) Azure
2 63 (29.86%) Azure DevOps
3 55 (26.07%) AWS
4 39 (18.48%) GitHub
5 32 (15.17%) GCP
6 25 (11.85%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (8.06%) Power Platform
7 17 (8.06%) Serverless
8 15 (7.11%) Amazon S3
9 14 (6.64%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (6.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (5.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 10 (4.74%) Azure Data Factory
13 9 (4.27%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (3.79%) Power Automate
14 8 (3.79%) PowerApps
15 7 (3.32%) Apigee
15 7 (3.32%) SaaS
15 7 (3.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 6 (2.84%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.74%) DNS
1 10 (4.74%) Firewall
2 7 (3.32%) SSL
3 6 (2.84%) Network Security
4 4 (1.90%) BGP
4 4 (1.90%) Ethernet VPN
4 4 (1.90%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.90%) VPN
4 4 (1.90%) VXLAN
5 3 (1.42%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (1.42%) HTTPS
5 3 (1.42%) Multicast
5 3 (1.42%) OSPF
5 3 (1.42%) SSH
6 2 (0.95%) DHCP
6 2 (0.95%) IGMP
6 2 (0.95%) Internet
6 2 (0.95%) MPLS
6 2 (0.95%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.47%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.64%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.74%) Power BI
3 8 (3.79%) DynamoDB
4 7 (3.32%) BigQuery
5 6 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.84%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.90%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.90%) Delta Lake
7 4 (1.90%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.42%) Big Data
8 3 (1.42%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.42%) MySQL
8 3 (1.42%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.42%) Redis
8 3 (1.42%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.95%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 29 (13.74%) Git
1 29 (13.74%) Jenkins
2 26 (12.32%) JIRA
3 16 (7.58%) GitLab
4 10 (4.74%) Gradle
4 10 (4.74%) Selenium
5 9 (4.27%) SonarQube
6 8 (3.79%) Bitbucket
6 8 (3.79%) Maven
7 7 (3.32%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.37%) JUnit
8 5 (2.37%) Postman
9 4 (1.90%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.42%) Mockito
10 3 (1.42%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (1.42%) Storybook
10 3 (1.42%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.95%) Snyk
11 2 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.95%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 71 (33.65%) Finance
2 61 (28.91%) Social Skills
3 33 (15.64%) Banking
4 25 (11.85%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (5.21%) Investment Banking
6 8 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.37%) Back Office
7 5 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.37%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.90%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.90%) Front Office
8 4 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.90%) Law
8 4 (1.90%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.42%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.95%) Billing
10 2 (0.95%) Legal
10 2 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (21.33%) Developer
2 32 (15.17%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (14.69%) Senior
4 15 (7.11%) Analyst
4 15 (7.11%) Architect
5 12 (5.69%) Business Analyst
6 11 (5.21%) GCP Engineer
7 9 (4.27%) AWS Engineer
7 9 (4.27%) Data Engineer
8 8 (3.79%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (3.79%) Senior Developer
9 7 (3.32%) Java Developer
9 7 (3.32%) Lead
9 7 (3.32%) Test Engineer
10 6 (2.84%) .NET Developer
10 6 (2.84%) AWS DevOps
10 6 (2.84%) Network Engineer
10 6 (2.84%) Python Developer
10 6 (2.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 6 (2.84%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (11.37%) .NET
2 16 (7.58%) REST
3 15 (7.11%) HTML
4 13 (6.16%) AngularJS
4 13 (6.16%) Node.js
5 12 (5.69%) CSS
5 12 (5.69%) React
6 11 (5.21%) OAuth
6 11 (5.21%) RESTful
7 9 (4.27%) GraphQL
8 7 (3.32%) JSON
8 7 (3.32%) JWT
8 7 (3.32%) SOAP
9 6 (2.84%) FIX Protocol
9 6 (2.84%) HTML5
9 6 (2.84%) Spring
9 6 (2.84%) XML
10 5 (2.37%) ADO
10 5 (2.37%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (2.37%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 29 (13.74%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.16%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (4.74%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.79%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.32%) Derivative
5 7 (3.32%) Fixed Income
5 7 (3.32%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.84%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.42%) Life Science
9 3 (1.42%) Replication
10 2 (0.95%) CMDB
10 2 (0.95%) IVR
10 2 (0.95%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.95%) Market Risk
10 2 (0.95%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.00%) Linux
2 6 (2.84%) Android
2 6 (2.84%) Unix
3 5 (2.37%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.37%) Windows
4 2 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.95%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (50.24%) CI/CD
2 85 (40.28%) Agile
3 49 (23.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (16.11%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (13.74%) Containerisation
6 26 (12.32%) Test Automation
7 25 (11.85%) Analytics
8 23 (10.90%) Continuous Improvement
8 23 (10.90%) Scrum
9 22 (10.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 20 (9.48%) Observability
10 20 (9.48%) Software Engineering
11 18 (8.53%) AI
11 18 (8.53%) Machine Learning
11 18 (8.53%) Migration
12 17 (8.06%) SDLC
13 16 (7.58%) Cloud Security
13 16 (7.58%) Stakeholder Management
14 15 (7.11%) Data Pipeline
14 15 (7.11%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 71 (33.65%) Python
2 41 (19.43%) SQL
3 30 (14.22%) Java
4 25 (11.85%) C#
5 24 (11.37%) JavaScript
6 15 (7.11%) PowerShell
7 14 (6.64%) TypeScript
8 11 (5.21%) Bash
9 4 (1.90%) Bicep
9 4 (1.90%) Go
10 3 (1.42%) C++
10 3 (1.42%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.42%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.95%) PromQL
11 2 (0.95%) Rust
12 1 (0.47%) C
12 1 (0.47%) Perl
12 1 (0.47%) PHP
12 1 (0.47%) Swift
12 1 (0.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 39 (18.48%) Security Cleared
2 35 (16.59%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.11%) Degree
4 8 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.84%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.90%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.42%) CCIE
7 3 (1.42%) CCNP
7 3 (1.42%) CISSP
7 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.95%) CBAP
8 2 (0.95%) ISEB
8 2 (0.95%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.95%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.47%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.47%) CESG Certified Professional
9 1 (0.47%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.47%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.06%) QA
2 8 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.32%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.84%) GDPR
5 5 (2.37%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.37%) NIST
6 3 (1.42%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.95%) MiFID
7 2 (0.95%) NCSC
7 2 (0.95%) PMO
7 2 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.95%) WCAG
8 1 (0.47%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.47%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.47%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.47%) SEPA
8 1 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 38 (18.01%) Docker
2 2 (0.95%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.47%) GridGain
3 1 (0.47%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 60 (28.44%) Terraform
2 41 (19.43%) Kubernetes
3 29 (13.74%) Ansible
4 9 (4.27%) ITRS Geneos
5 8 (3.79%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.84%) Istio
6 6 (2.84%) Kibana
7 5 (2.37%) Argo
7 5 (2.37%) Grafana
7 5 (2.37%) logstash
7 5 (2.37%) Puppet
8 3 (1.42%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.95%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.47%) Ambari
10 1 (0.47%) CASB
10 1 (0.47%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.47%) Packer
10 1 (0.47%) yum
Vendors
1 36 (17.06%) Microsoft
2 30 (14.22%) Google
3 12 (5.69%) Databricks
4 10 (4.74%) Oracle
5 9 (4.27%) Salesforce
6 7 (3.32%) Splunk
7 6 (2.84%) Solace
8 5 (2.37%) F5
8 5 (2.37%) Palo Alto
8 5 (2.37%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.37%) UiPath
9 4 (1.90%) Arista
9 4 (1.90%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.90%) Cisco
10 3 (1.42%) CyberArk
10 3 (1.42%) DocuSign
10 3 (1.42%) HP
10 3 (1.42%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.42%) VMware
11 2 (0.95%) New Relic