DevOps Contract Job Trends in East London

DevOps
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East London requiring DevOps skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 11 18
Rank change year-on-year +5 +7 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 18 21 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 16.07% 13.13% 7.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.98% 13.38% 8.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 20 16
10th Percentile £368 £358 £475
25th Percentile £450 £409 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £443 £540
Median % change year-on-year +22.03% -18.06% -13.60%
75th Percentile £585 £540 £578
90th Percentile £675 £590 £680
London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -2.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 106 157 237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 94.64% 98.13% 91.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 139 201
10th Percentile £190 £300 £200
25th Percentile £313 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £585 £591 £645
90th Percentile £690 £652 £750
London median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -0.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 4
10th Percentile £23.33 £21.11 £14.98
25th Percentile £23.79 £21.13 £16.18
Median hourly rate £28.58 £21.80 £17.89
Median % change year-on-year +31.11% +21.83% -33.69%
75th Percentile £54.88 £23.09 £23.20
90th Percentile £84.82 £23.48 £30.88
London median hourly rate £31.75 £35.75 £39.92
% change year-on-year -11.19% -10.43% +6.44%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in East London

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in East London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing DevOps

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in East London over the 6 months to 3 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in East London

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in East 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 East London region over the 6 months to 3 September 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
Tower Hamlets +11 16 £540 - 1
DevOps
London

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East 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 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (22.22%) AWS
4 3 (16.67%) OpenShift
5 2 (11.11%) Azure AI
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Functions
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 2 (11.11%) Serverless
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (5.56%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (5.56%) BGP
2 1 (5.56%) Ethernet
2 1 (5.56%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (5.56%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) Junos
2 1 (5.56%) LAN
2 1 (5.56%) MPLS
2 1 (5.56%) SNMP
2 1 (5.56%) VXLAN
2 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.11%) MemSQL
2 2 (11.11%) Power BI
2 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.56%) MySQL
3 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) Cucumber
2 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.11%) JMeter
2 2 (11.11%) Maven
2 2 (11.11%) Postman
3 1 (5.56%) Cypress.io
3 1 (5.56%) Eclipse
3 1 (5.56%) eggPlant
3 1 (5.56%) Git
3 1 (5.56%) Gradle
3 1 (5.56%) IntelliJ
3 1 (5.56%) JIRA Agile
3 1 (5.56%) NeoLoad
3 1 (5.56%) REST Assured
3 1 (5.56%) Selenium
3 1 (5.56%) SoapUI
3 1 (5.56%) SpecFlow
General
1 9 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (27.78%) Automotive
2 5 (27.78%) Back Office
2 5 (27.78%) Telecoms
3 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Banking
6 1 (5.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Architect
1 5 (27.78%) Developer
1 5 (27.78%) Technical Architect
2 4 (22.22%) Java Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Endur Architect
3 3 (16.67%) OpenLink Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Back Office Business Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Backend Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Endur Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Endur Business Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Technical Architect
4 2 (11.11%) OpenLink Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) OpenLink Business Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Principal Business Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) JSON
2 3 (16.67%) React
2 3 (16.67%) Swagger
2 3 (16.67%) XML
3 2 (11.11%) CSS
3 2 (11.11%) Hibernate
3 2 (11.11%) HTML
3 2 (11.11%) JPA
3 2 (11.11%) Kafka
3 2 (11.11%) Middleware
3 2 (11.11%) REST
3 2 (11.11%) Sass
3 2 (11.11%) Spring
3 2 (11.11%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.56%) .NET
4 1 (5.56%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (5.56%) RESTful
4 1 (5.56%) Spring Batch
4 1 (5.56%) Web Services
4 1 (5.56%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (22.22%) Product Ownership
3 3 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (16.67%) Grid Computing
4 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
4 2 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (11.11%) PKI
4 2 (11.11%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (11.11%) Replication
5 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
5 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) Agile
2 10 (55.56%) Artificial Intelligence
3 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
4 6 (33.33%) Microservices
4 6 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 5 (27.78%) Data Architecture
5 5 (27.78%) Data Modelling
5 5 (27.78%) Digital Engineering
6 4 (22.22%) ETRM
6 4 (22.22%) Risk Management
6 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (16.67%) BDD
7 3 (16.67%) Configuration Management
7 3 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (16.67%) Data Migration
7 3 (16.67%) ETL
7 3 (16.67%) Migration
7 3 (16.67%) Portfolio Management
7 3 (16.67%) TDD
7 3 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) Java
2 7 (38.89%) Python
2 7 (38.89%) SQL
3 6 (33.33%) C#
4 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 2 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (11.11%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (11.11%) PL/SQL
5 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 2 (11.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
1 2 (11.11%) Master's Degree
1 2 (11.11%) MBA
2 1 (5.56%) CCIE
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.56%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) QA
2 2 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (11.11%) NIST
2 2 (11.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 4 (22.22%) Ansible
2 4 (22.22%) Terraform
3 2 (11.11%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.56%) Kibana
4 1 (5.56%) logstash
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Hitachi
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.11%) ION Trading
3 2 (11.11%) OpenLink
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle
3 2 (11.11%) SAP
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco
4 1 (5.56%) Citrix
4 1 (5.56%) Juniper
4 1 (5.56%) Mellanox
4 1 (5.56%) NVIDIA
4 1 (5.56%) UiPath