DevOps Contracts in the City of London

DevOps
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 -6
Contract jobs citing DevOps 223 262 423
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 12.80% 12.13% 12.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.68% 13.40% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 170 290
10th Percentile £431 £406 £438
25th Percentile £500 £478 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £599 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.15% -4.18% +4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £681 £738
90th Percentile £781 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £625
% change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £48.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £48.50 -

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 1,630 1,955 3,202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.57% 90.51% 91.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,024 1,375 2,163
10th Percentile £352 £350 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £563 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.27% -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.95 £15.33
25th Percentile £23.75 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £28.15 £25.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.85% -26.79% -13.58%
75th Percentile £43.75 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £41.65 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -13.58%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the City of London

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the City of London

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 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the City of London

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in the City of London

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (4.93%) Confluence
2 10 (4.48%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.14%) Apache
4 6 (2.69%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.45%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.45%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.45%) Camunda
6 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.45%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.14%) Endur
2 3 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.90%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.45%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.45%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 118 (52.91%) Azure
2 91 (40.81%) AWS
3 60 (26.91%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (11.21%) GitHub
5 24 (10.76%) GCP
6 23 (10.31%) Serverless
7 17 (7.62%) Power Platform
8 13 (5.83%) Amazon S3
9 11 (4.93%) Azure Monitor
9 11 (4.93%) PaaS
10 10 (4.48%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (4.48%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (4.48%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (3.59%) Azure AKS
11 8 (3.59%) Azure Sentinel
12 7 (3.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (3.14%) Power Automate
13 6 (2.69%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (2.69%) PowerApps
13 6 (2.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.38%) Firewall
2 8 (3.59%) DNS
3 6 (2.69%) VPN
4 5 (2.24%) HTTP
4 5 (2.24%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.79%) Network Security
6 3 (1.35%) DHCP
6 3 (1.35%) SMTP
6 3 (1.35%) SSL
7 2 (0.90%) FTP
7 2 (0.90%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.45%) BGP
8 1 (0.45%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.45%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.45%) LAN
8 1 (0.45%) VLAN
8 1 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.66%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (8.52%) NoSQL
3 18 (8.07%) MongoDB
4 17 (7.62%) SQL Server
5 11 (4.93%) Power BI
6 9 (4.04%) Relational Database
7 7 (3.14%) Big Data
8 6 (2.69%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (2.69%) Data Lake
8 6 (2.69%) DynamoDB
8 6 (2.69%) Tableau
9 5 (2.24%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.79%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.35%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.35%) DB2
11 3 (1.35%) MySQL
11 3 (1.35%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 25 (11.21%) Jenkins
2 24 (10.76%) JIRA
3 23 (10.31%) Git
4 21 (9.42%) GitLab
5 9 (4.04%) SonarQube
6 7 (3.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 7 (3.14%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.69%) JUnit
8 5 (2.24%) Gradle
8 5 (2.24%) Maven
8 5 (2.24%) Postman
9 4 (1.79%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (1.79%) IntelliJ
9 4 (1.79%) Selenium
10 3 (1.35%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.90%) JMeter
11 2 (0.90%) LoadRunner
11 2 (0.90%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.90%) Visual Studio Team System
12 1 (0.45%) Terragrunt
General
1 64 (28.70%) Social Skills
2 59 (26.46%) Finance
3 32 (14.35%) Public Sector
4 26 (11.66%) Banking
5 25 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.69%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.24%) Marketing
8 4 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.35%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.35%) Front Office
9 3 (1.35%) Retail
10 2 (0.90%) Back Office
10 2 (0.90%) Billing
10 2 (0.90%) Military
10 2 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Legal
11 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 68 (30.49%) Developer
2 36 (16.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 28 (12.56%) Architect
4 25 (11.21%) Senior
5 24 (10.76%) Java Developer
6 14 (6.28%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 13 (5.83%) Lead
8 12 (5.38%) Analyst
8 12 (5.38%) Data Engineer
9 11 (4.93%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (4.48%) Senior Developer
11 8 (3.59%) Azure Architect
12 7 (3.14%) .NET Developer
12 7 (3.14%) Angular Developer
12 7 (3.14%) Full-Stack Developer
13 6 (2.69%) AWS Engineer
13 6 (2.69%) Azure Engineer
13 6 (2.69%) Cloud Architect
13 6 (2.69%) Security Architect
13 6 (2.69%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (16.14%) .NET
2 34 (15.25%) Kafka
3 24 (10.76%) Spring
4 21 (9.42%) React
5 16 (7.17%) REST
6 15 (6.73%) Spring Boot
7 14 (6.28%) AngularJS
8 11 (4.93%) HTML
8 11 (4.93%) RESTful
9 10 (4.48%) CSS
10 9 (4.04%) Web Services
11 8 (3.59%) OAuth
12 7 (3.14%) Elastic Stack
12 7 (3.14%) GraphQL
13 6 (2.69%) Node.js
14 5 (2.24%) ASP.NET
14 5 (2.24%) SOAP
15 4 (1.79%) JMS
15 4 (1.79%) JPA
15 4 (1.79%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.97%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.04%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.59%) Public Cloud
4 7 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.24%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.79%) Equities
7 4 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.35%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.35%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.35%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.35%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.35%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.35%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.90%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.90%) DataPower
9 2 (0.90%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 31 (13.90%) Linux
2 12 (5.38%) Windows
3 11 (4.93%) Unix
4 3 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.35%) Rocky
4 3 (1.35%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.45%) CentOS
5 1 (0.45%) Solaris
5 1 (0.45%) SUSE
5 1 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (53.81%) CI/CD
2 78 (34.98%) Agile
3 50 (22.42%) Microservices
4 45 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (17.49%) Infrastructure as Code
6 36 (16.14%) Containerisation
7 26 (11.66%) Test Automation
8 25 (11.21%) Software Engineering
9 22 (9.87%) Continuous Integration
10 20 (8.97%) Clean Code
11 19 (8.52%) API Development
11 19 (8.52%) Migration
11 19 (8.52%) SOLID
12 17 (7.62%) Project Management
13 16 (7.17%) Analytics
13 16 (7.17%) Deployment Automation
13 16 (7.17%) Mentoring
13 16 (7.17%) Scrum
13 16 (7.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 15 (6.73%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 71 (31.84%) Python
2 51 (22.87%) Java
3 50 (22.42%) SQL
4 44 (19.73%) JavaScript
5 36 (16.14%) C#
6 17 (7.62%) PowerShell
7 14 (6.28%) Shell Script
8 11 (4.93%) Bash
9 10 (4.48%) Bicep
10 6 (2.69%) Perl
10 6 (2.69%) Scala
10 6 (2.69%) TypeScript
11 5 (2.24%) Go
12 4 (1.79%) C++
12 4 (1.79%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.35%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.90%) Groovy
14 2 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.90%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 49 (21.97%) Security Cleared
2 46 (20.63%) SC Cleared
3 20 (8.97%) Degree
4 16 (7.17%) AWS Certified Developer
5 11 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.59%) AWS Certification
7 7 (3.14%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (2.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.79%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.35%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.90%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.90%) OCP
12 2 (0.90%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.90%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.90%) PMP
12 2 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.28%) QA
2 9 (4.04%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.69%) GDPR
4 4 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.79%) PMO
4 4 (1.79%) SOC 2
5 3 (1.35%) NIST
6 2 (0.90%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.90%) EMIR
6 2 (0.90%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (0.90%) MiFID
6 2 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.45%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 40 (17.94%) Docker
2 5 (2.24%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.90%) Lustre
5 1 (0.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.45%) NFS
5 1 (0.45%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.45%) OpenDJ
5 1 (0.45%) OpenIDM
5 1 (0.45%) Veritas File System
5 1 (0.45%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 77 (34.53%) Kubernetes
2 67 (30.04%) Terraform
3 26 (11.66%) Ansible
4 10 (4.48%) Prometheus
5 9 (4.04%) Grafana
6 5 (2.24%) Puppet
7 4 (1.79%) ITRS Geneos
7 4 (1.79%) Podman
8 3 (1.35%) Consul
8 3 (1.35%) Istio
8 3 (1.35%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.90%) Argo
9 2 (0.90%) Cilium
9 2 (0.90%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.90%) Karpenter
9 2 (0.90%) Kibana
9 2 (0.90%) logstash
9 2 (0.90%) QRadar
10 1 (0.45%) Rancher
10 1 (0.45%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 43 (19.28%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.38%) Databricks
3 11 (4.93%) Oracle
4 10 (4.48%) Google
4 10 (4.48%) Splunk
5 6 (2.69%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.24%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.24%) SAP
7 4 (1.79%) OpenLink
7 4 (1.79%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.35%) Cisco
8 3 (1.35%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.35%) Sybase
9 2 (0.90%) CheckPoint
9 2 (0.90%) Confluent
9 2 (0.90%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.90%) HP
9 2 (0.90%) IBM
9 2 (0.90%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.90%) Workday