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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 13 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 -6 +2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 254 439 657
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 11.48% 12.01% 15.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.68% 13.08% 16.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 305 516
10th Percentile £416 £438 £463
25th Percentile £490 £516 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £605
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +3.26% +10.05%
75th Percentile £683 £738 £738
90th Percentile £775 £785 £813
Central London median daily rate £600 £613 £613
% change year-on-year -2.04% - +11.36%
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 2,003 3,357 3,878
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.51% 91.82% 91.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,413 2,258 2,945
10th Percentile £358 £350 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 25 40
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.50 £18.30
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £23.44
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -14.63% +115.93%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.00
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

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 26 April 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 11 (4.33%) Confluence
2 8 (3.15%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.76%) IIS
4 5 (1.97%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.97%) Site Server
5 3 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.79%) CMS
6 2 (0.79%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.79%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.39%) Apache
7 1 (0.39%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.39%) Tornado
Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (3.15%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.79%) 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
1 145 (57.09%) Azure
2 104 (40.94%) Azure DevOps
3 62 (24.41%) AWS
4 25 (9.84%) Power Platform
5 22 (8.66%) GitHub
6 20 (7.87%) Serverless
7 18 (7.09%) Amazon S3
7 18 (7.09%) Dynamics 365
8 14 (5.51%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (4.72%) PowerApps
10 11 (4.33%) Azure Service Bus
10 11 (4.33%) Power Automate
11 10 (3.94%) Entra ID
11 10 (3.94%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (3.94%) IaaS
12 9 (3.54%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (3.54%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (3.54%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (3.54%) GCP
13 8 (3.15%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.94%) Firewall
2 7 (2.76%) Internet
3 5 (1.97%) DNS
4 3 (1.18%) Network Security
4 3 (1.18%) WAN
5 2 (0.79%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.79%) VPN
6 1 (0.39%) DHCP
6 1 (0.39%) LAN
6 1 (0.39%) MPLS
6 1 (0.39%) Multicast
6 1 (0.39%) SSL
6 1 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (21.65%) SQL Server
2 16 (6.30%) Power BI
3 14 (5.51%) MySQL
4 13 (5.12%) MongoDB
5 11 (4.33%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (3.94%) Data Lake
6 10 (3.94%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (2.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (2.36%) GIS
9 4 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (1.57%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.57%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.57%) Tableau
10 3 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.18%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.18%) Redis
11 2 (0.79%) KDB
11 2 (0.79%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 24 (9.45%) Git
2 19 (7.48%) GitLab
3 18 (7.09%) Jenkins
4 14 (5.51%) JIRA
5 12 (4.72%) TeamCity
6 11 (4.33%) Selenium
7 9 (3.54%) SpecFlow
8 8 (3.15%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.97%) Postman
9 5 (1.97%) Visual Studio
10 4 (1.57%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.18%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.18%) JMeter
11 3 (1.18%) Katalon Studio
11 3 (1.18%) Maven
12 2 (0.79%) HP UFT
12 2 (0.79%) Subversion
12 2 (0.79%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.79%) Visual Studio Team System
12 2 (0.79%) WebDriver
General
1 70 (27.56%) Social Skills
2 63 (24.80%) Finance
3 36 (14.17%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (11.81%) Public Sector
5 24 (9.45%) Banking
6 11 (4.33%) Investment Banking
7 10 (3.94%) Retail
8 9 (3.54%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (3.15%) General Ledger
9 8 (3.15%) Legal
10 7 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.57%) Back Office
11 4 (1.57%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.18%) Front Office
13 2 (0.79%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.39%) Arabic Language
14 1 (0.39%) French Language
14 1 (0.39%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 52 (20.47%) Developer
2 45 (17.72%) Senior
3 32 (12.60%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (7.09%) Architect
5 16 (6.30%) Analyst
6 14 (5.51%) AWS Engineer
6 14 (5.51%) Lead
7 13 (5.12%) Senior Developer
8 12 (4.72%) Consultant
8 12 (4.72%) Site Engineer
8 12 (4.72%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 11 (4.33%) Senior DevOps
10 10 (3.94%) Python Engineer
10 10 (3.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 10 (3.94%) Software Engineer
11 9 (3.54%) Data Engineer
11 9 (3.54%) Full Stack Developer
12 8 (3.15%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (3.15%) Microsoft Consultant
12 8 (3.15%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (14.96%) .NET
2 25 (9.84%) Kafka
3 15 (5.91%) .NET Framework
3 15 (5.91%) RabbitMQ
3 15 (5.91%) React
3 15 (5.91%) RESTful
3 15 (5.91%) XML
4 12 (4.72%) AngularJS
4 12 (4.72%) ASP.NET
4 12 (4.72%) REST
5 11 (4.33%) Web Services
6 9 (3.54%) .NET Core
6 9 (3.54%) HTML
7 6 (2.36%) ARM Templates
7 6 (2.36%) CSS
7 6 (2.36%) Node.js
8 5 (1.97%) JSON
8 5 (1.97%) SOAP
8 5 (1.97%) WCF
8 5 (1.97%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.69%) Data Structures
2 16 (6.30%) Product Ownership
3 14 (5.51%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.94%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.15%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.57%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.57%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.57%) Wiki
7 3 (1.18%) Market Risk
8 2 (0.79%) BYOD
8 2 (0.79%) Derivative
8 2 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.79%) Life Science
8 2 (0.79%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.79%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.79%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 28 (11.02%) Linux
2 27 (10.63%) Windows
3 12 (4.72%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.18%) Unix
5 1 (0.39%) Android
5 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (41.34%) Agile
2 87 (34.25%) CI/CD
3 54 (21.26%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (13.78%) Scrum
5 33 (12.99%) SDLC
6 28 (11.02%) Microservices
6 28 (11.02%) Software Engineering
7 26 (10.24%) Infrastructure as Code
8 22 (8.66%) Test Automation
9 21 (8.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (7.87%) Migration
11 17 (6.69%) ETL
12 16 (6.30%) Business Intelligence
12 16 (6.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 16 (6.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 14 (5.51%) User Acceptance Testing
14 13 (5.12%) Containerisation
14 13 (5.12%) Full Stack Development
14 13 (5.12%) Mentoring
14 13 (5.12%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 80 (31.50%) Python
2 60 (23.62%) C#
3 55 (21.65%) PowerShell
4 48 (18.90%) SQL
5 35 (13.78%) Java
6 12 (4.72%) JavaScript
6 12 (4.72%) Shell Script
7 10 (3.94%) Bash
7 10 (3.94%) C++
8 9 (3.54%) Bicep
8 9 (3.54%) Go
9 8 (3.15%) T-SQL
9 8 (3.15%) TypeScript
10 5 (1.97%) Korn
11 3 (1.18%) Perl
11 3 (1.18%) Ruby
12 2 (0.79%) R
12 2 (0.79%) Rust
12 2 (0.79%) Scala
13 1 (0.39%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 23 (9.06%) Degree
2 18 (7.09%) Security Cleared
3 16 (6.30%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.76%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.36%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.18%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.39%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.91%) QA
2 6 (2.36%) SLA
3 4 (1.57%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.18%) NIST
4 3 (1.18%) WCAG
5 1 (0.39%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (10.63%) Docker
2 18 (7.09%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.94%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.39%) Ceph
5 1 (0.39%) NFS
5 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 50 (19.69%) Kubernetes
2 48 (18.90%) Terraform
3 15 (5.91%) Ansible
4 14 (5.51%) Prometheus
5 13 (5.12%) Grafana
6 12 (4.72%) Consul
7 6 (2.36%) Puppet
8 4 (1.57%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.18%) Argo
10 2 (0.79%) Graylog
10 2 (0.79%) Nagios
10 2 (0.79%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.79%) SCCM
11 1 (0.39%) Hadoop YARN
11 1 (0.39%) Mesos
11 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.39%) Nessus
11 1 (0.39%) TIBCO Hawk
11 1 (0.39%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 72 (28.35%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.87%) Oracle
3 10 (3.94%) SaltStack
4 7 (2.76%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.36%) Cadence
5 6 (2.36%) ESRI
5 6 (2.36%) iManage
5 6 (2.36%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.36%) Splunk
6 4 (1.57%) Freshdesk
7 3 (1.18%) Adobe
7 3 (1.18%) Databricks
7 3 (1.18%) IBM
7 3 (1.18%) New Relic
7 3 (1.18%) PagerDuty
7 3 (1.18%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.18%) SAP
8 2 (0.79%) CyberArk
8 2 (0.79%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.79%) Google