Junior DevOps Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Junior Development Operations
Central London > City of London

The median Junior Development Operations daily rate in the City of London is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Junior DevOps 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.042% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £375 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 2,258 1,744 2,015
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.81% 93.36% 95.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,508 1,119 1,369
10th Percentile £356 £348 £350
25th Percentile £455 £442 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £790
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £555
% change year-on-year - -0.81% -6.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 22 17
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.57 £20.22
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £19.50 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% -18.75% +0.43%
75th Percentile £40.88 £62.00 £78.75
90th Percentile £59.72 £86.43 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.08 £30.04 £30.41
% change year-on-year -23.16% -1.22% -13.13%

Junior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Junior DevOps' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Junior DevOps job vacancy trend in the City of London

Junior DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Junior DevOps job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Junior DevOps job vacancies in the City of London

Junior DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 21 July 2026, Junior DevOps contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Junior DevOps in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Information Assurance
1 1 (100.00%) Information Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Release Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation

Junior DevOps Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Information Assurance
1 1 (100.00%) Information Governance
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Release Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft