DevOps Contracts in the City of London

DevOps
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 13 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 -6 +4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 258 440 650
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 11.82% 12.09% 15.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.06% 13.21% 16.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 303 512
10th Percentile £413 £438 £463
25th Percentile £488 £519 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £683 £738 £725
90th Percentile £775 £788 £808
Central London median daily rate £600 £623 £605
% change year-on-year -3.61% +2.85% +10.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.75 - -
Median hourly rate £48.50 - -
75th Percentile £50.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,975 3,332 3,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.51% 91.54% 91.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,399 2,240 2,946
10th Percentile £361 £356 £388
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £813 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.44% +9.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 25 41
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.35 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -13.58% +113.30%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £55.25
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £65.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

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 3 May 2024.

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 12 (4.65%) Confluence
2 8 (3.10%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.71%) IIS
4 5 (1.94%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.94%) Site Server
5 3 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.78%) CMS
6 2 (0.78%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.78%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.39%) Apache
7 1 (0.39%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.39%) nginx
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.39%) Tornado
Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (3.10%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.39%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.39%) BusinessWorks
3 1 (0.39%) Endur
3 1 (0.39%) Front Arena
3 1 (0.39%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.39%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.39%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 146 (56.59%) Azure
2 107 (41.47%) Azure DevOps
3 65 (25.19%) AWS
4 25 (9.69%) Power Platform
5 21 (8.14%) GitHub
6 20 (7.75%) Amazon S3
6 20 (7.75%) Serverless
7 17 (6.59%) Dynamics 365
8 14 (5.43%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (4.65%) Azure Service Bus
9 12 (4.65%) PowerApps
10 11 (4.26%) Power Automate
11 10 (3.88%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (3.88%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (3.88%) Azure Monitor
11 10 (3.88%) Entra ID
11 10 (3.88%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (3.49%) GCP
12 9 (3.49%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.88%) Firewall
2 7 (2.71%) Internet
3 5 (1.94%) DNS
4 3 (1.16%) Network Security
4 3 (1.16%) WAN
5 2 (0.78%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.78%) SSL
5 2 (0.78%) VPN
6 1 (0.39%) DHCP
6 1 (0.39%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.39%) LAN
6 1 (0.39%) MPLS
6 1 (0.39%) Multicast
6 1 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (22.09%) SQL Server
2 17 (6.59%) Power BI
3 14 (5.43%) MySQL
4 13 (5.04%) MongoDB
5 11 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (3.88%) Data Lake
6 10 (3.88%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.71%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (2.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (2.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (2.33%) GIS
9 5 (1.94%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (1.55%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.55%) Tableau
11 3 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.16%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.16%) Redis
12 2 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 24 (9.30%) Git
2 19 (7.36%) GitLab
2 19 (7.36%) Jenkins
3 14 (5.43%) JIRA
4 12 (4.65%) Selenium
4 12 (4.65%) TeamCity
5 9 (3.49%) SpecFlow
6 8 (3.10%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.33%) Visual Studio
8 5 (1.94%) Postman
8 5 (1.94%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.55%) JMeter
10 3 (1.16%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.16%) Katalon Studio
10 3 (1.16%) Maven
10 3 (1.16%) WebDriver
11 2 (0.78%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.78%) HP UFT
11 2 (0.78%) Subversion
11 2 (0.78%) Terragrunt
General
1 72 (27.91%) Social Skills
2 63 (24.42%) Finance
3 36 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (11.24%) Public Sector
5 24 (9.30%) Banking
6 11 (4.26%) Investment Banking
7 10 (3.88%) Retail
8 9 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (3.10%) General Ledger
9 8 (3.10%) Legal
10 5 (1.94%) Back Office
11 4 (1.55%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.16%) Front Office
13 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.39%) Automotive
14 1 (0.39%) Law
14 1 (0.39%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 53 (20.54%) Developer
2 45 (17.44%) Senior
3 35 (13.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (7.36%) Architect
5 17 (6.59%) Analyst
5 17 (6.59%) Lead
6 14 (5.43%) AWS Engineer
7 13 (5.04%) Senior Developer
8 12 (4.65%) Consultant
8 12 (4.65%) Site Engineer
8 12 (4.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 11 (4.26%) Senior DevOps
10 10 (3.88%) Python Engineer
10 10 (3.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 10 (3.88%) Software Engineer
11 9 (3.49%) Data Engineer
11 9 (3.49%) Full Stack Developer
11 9 (3.49%) Senior Analyst
12 8 (3.10%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (3.10%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (15.12%) .NET
2 26 (10.08%) Kafka
3 16 (6.20%) React
4 15 (5.81%) .NET Framework
4 15 (5.81%) RabbitMQ
4 15 (5.81%) RESTful
5 14 (5.43%) XML
6 13 (5.04%) AngularJS
7 12 (4.65%) ASP.NET
7 12 (4.65%) REST
8 11 (4.26%) Web Services
9 10 (3.88%) .NET Core
10 9 (3.49%) HTML
11 6 (2.33%) ARM Templates
11 6 (2.33%) CSS
11 6 (2.33%) Node.js
12 5 (1.94%) ASP.NET Core
12 5 (1.94%) SOAP
12 5 (1.94%) WCF
12 5 (1.94%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.59%) Data Structures
2 16 (6.20%) Product Ownership
3 14 (5.43%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.88%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.10%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.55%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.55%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.55%) Wiki
7 3 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.16%) Market Risk
8 2 (0.78%) Contactless
8 2 (0.78%) Derivative
8 2 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.78%) Life Science
8 2 (0.78%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.78%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.78%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 28 (10.85%) Linux
2 26 (10.08%) Windows
3 11 (4.26%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.55%) Unix
5 3 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.39%) Android
6 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (41.86%) Agile
2 84 (32.56%) CI/CD
3 54 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (13.57%) Scrum
5 32 (12.40%) SDLC
6 28 (10.85%) Software Engineering
7 27 (10.47%) Infrastructure as Code
7 27 (10.47%) Microservices
8 22 (8.53%) Test Automation
9 21 (8.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (8.14%) Migration
10 17 (6.59%) Business Intelligence
10 17 (6.59%) ETL
10 17 (6.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 16 (6.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 14 (5.43%) Full Stack Development
12 14 (5.43%) User Acceptance Testing
13 13 (5.04%) Mentoring
13 13 (5.04%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 12 (4.65%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 81 (31.40%) Python
2 62 (24.03%) C#
3 55 (21.32%) PowerShell
4 48 (18.60%) SQL
5 36 (13.95%) Java
6 13 (5.04%) Shell Script
7 12 (4.65%) Bicep
7 12 (4.65%) JavaScript
8 10 (3.88%) Bash
8 10 (3.88%) C++
9 9 (3.49%) Go
10 8 (3.10%) T-SQL
10 8 (3.10%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.94%) Korn
12 3 (1.16%) Perl
12 3 (1.16%) Ruby
12 3 (1.16%) Scala
13 2 (0.78%) R
13 2 (0.78%) Rust
14 1 (0.39%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 23 (8.91%) Degree
2 19 (7.36%) Security Cleared
3 17 (6.59%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.71%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.94%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.16%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.39%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.43%) QA
2 6 (2.33%) SLA
3 4 (1.55%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.16%) NIST
4 3 (1.16%) WCAG
5 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.39%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
System Software
1 28 (10.85%) Docker
2 19 (7.36%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.88%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.39%) Ceph
5 1 (0.39%) NFS
5 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 51 (19.77%) Kubernetes
2 50 (19.38%) Terraform
3 16 (6.20%) Prometheus
4 15 (5.81%) Ansible
5 14 (5.43%) Grafana
6 13 (5.04%) Consul
7 6 (2.33%) Puppet
8 5 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.55%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.16%) Argo
11 2 (0.78%) Graylog
11 2 (0.78%) Nagios
11 2 (0.78%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.78%) Packer
11 2 (0.78%) SCCM
12 1 (0.39%) Mesos
12 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.39%) Nessus
12 1 (0.39%) TIBCO Hawk
12 1 (0.39%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 71 (27.52%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.75%) Oracle
3 10 (3.88%) SaltStack
4 6 (2.33%) Cadence
4 6 (2.33%) ESRI
4 6 (2.33%) iManage
4 6 (2.33%) Salesforce
4 6 (2.33%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.33%) Splunk
5 4 (1.55%) Databricks
5 4 (1.55%) Freshdesk
5 4 (1.55%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.16%) Adobe
6 3 (1.16%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.16%) IBM
6 3 (1.16%) New Relic
6 3 (1.16%) PagerDuty
6 3 (1.16%) SAP
7 2 (0.78%) Cisco
7 2 (0.78%) Google