DevOps Contracts in London

DevOps
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 12 11
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 1,481 1,950 3,494
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 11.80% 10.94% 12.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.81% 12.35% 14.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,100 1,384 2,549
10th Percentile £405 £413 £450
25th Percentile £475 £488 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £703 £675 £713
90th Percentile £825 £775 £800
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 7
10th Percentile £41.50 £49.05 £48.20
25th Percentile £51.25 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -26.67% -4.76%
75th Percentile £80.75 £58.75 £82.50
90th Percentile £89.30 £65.50 £92.00
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.76% +19.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in London

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in London

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in London

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in London

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in London

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London -3 235 £575 -4.17% 153
West London +6 19 £465 +24.00% 43
South London -11 19 £523 +2.45% 12
East London +8 15 £579 +7.42% 26
North London - 2 £422 - 1
DevOps
England

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 77 (5.20%) Apache Spark
2 66 (4.46%) Apache
3 58 (3.92%) Confluence
4 45 (3.04%) Apache Airflow
5 27 (1.82%) nginx
6 25 (1.69%) SharePoint
7 15 (1.01%) SAS
8 13 (0.88%) Oracle Coherence
9 10 (0.68%) CMS
10 8 (0.54%) GemFire
11 7 (0.47%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.34%) Jupyter
12 5 (0.34%) Traefik
13 4 (0.27%) IIS
13 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
13 4 (0.27%) Tomcat
14 3 (0.20%) ArcGIS
14 3 (0.20%) JBoss
14 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.61%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.34%) Sketch
6 4 (0.27%) Adobe XD
6 4 (0.27%) Trello
7 1 (0.068%) InVision
Business Applications
1 17 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.41%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (0.41%) Oracle BPM
3 5 (0.34%) Endur
3 5 (0.34%) Shopify
3 5 (0.34%) Unit4 Business World
4 4 (0.27%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.20%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.20%) Unica
6 2 (0.14%) Kondor
6 2 (0.14%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
6 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.14%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.068%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.068%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.068%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.068%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.068%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 665 (44.90%) Azure
2 570 (38.49%) AWS
3 390 (26.33%) Azure DevOps
4 187 (12.63%) Serverless
5 161 (10.87%) GCP
6 137 (9.25%) GitHub
7 118 (7.97%) AWS Lambda
8 96 (6.48%) Amazon S3
9 87 (5.87%) AWS CloudFormation
10 84 (5.67%) Power Platform
11 74 (5.00%) OpenShift
12 68 (4.59%) Azure AKS
13 64 (4.32%) Amazon ECS
14 63 (4.25%) Amazon EC2
15 62 (4.19%) PaaS
16 59 (3.98%) GitHub Actions
17 53 (3.58%) Amazon EKS
18 51 (3.44%) Azure Data Factory
19 49 (3.31%) IaaS
19 49 (3.31%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 68 (4.59%) Firewall
2 59 (3.98%) DNS
3 38 (2.57%) HTTP
3 38 (2.57%) TCP/IP
4 29 (1.96%) VPN
5 20 (1.35%) Network Security
6 13 (0.88%) SSL
7 12 (0.81%) 4G
7 12 (0.81%) 5G
7 12 (0.81%) DHCP
7 12 (0.81%) Radio Access Network
8 11 (0.74%) SMTP
9 10 (0.68%) 5G NR
9 10 (0.68%) LTE
10 9 (0.61%) Internet
11 8 (0.54%) Kerberos
12 7 (0.47%) FTP
12 7 (0.47%) WAN
13 6 (0.41%) LAN
14 5 (0.34%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (6.21%) PostgreSQL
2 78 (5.27%) SQL Server
3 68 (4.59%) NoSQL
4 57 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
5 56 (3.78%) MongoDB
5 56 (3.78%) Power BI
6 55 (3.71%) Relational Database
7 54 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
8 42 (2.84%) Big Data
9 36 (2.43%) Apache Iceberg
10 34 (2.30%) Data Lake
11 30 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
11 30 (2.03%) Dremio
12 28 (1.89%) Apache Arrow
12 28 (1.89%) Apache Ignite
13 27 (1.82%) Oracle Database
14 26 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
15 25 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
16 24 (1.62%) DynamoDB
17 23 (1.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 248 (16.75%) Jenkins
2 161 (10.87%) GitLab
3 142 (9.59%) Git
4 118 (7.97%) JIRA
5 42 (2.84%) Bitbucket
6 40 (2.70%) Artifactory
7 36 (2.43%) SonarQube
8 34 (2.30%) TeamCity
9 30 (2.03%) Postman
10 25 (1.69%) JMeter
11 22 (1.49%) Selenium
12 21 (1.42%) Gradle
13 20 (1.35%) Cypress.io
13 20 (1.35%) JUnit
14 15 (1.01%) Maven
15 13 (0.88%) Appium
15 13 (0.88%) Liquibase
15 13 (0.88%) Subversion
16 12 (0.81%) Mockito
16 12 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 410 (27.68%) Finance
2 388 (26.20%) Social Skills
3 199 (13.44%) Analytical Skills
4 187 (12.63%) Banking
5 149 (10.06%) Public Sector
6 88 (5.94%) Front Office
7 85 (5.74%) Investment Banking
8 45 (3.04%) Marketing
9 40 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
10 39 (2.63%) Telecoms
11 31 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
12 28 (1.89%) Retail
13 24 (1.62%) Back Office
14 20 (1.35%) Financial Institution
15 18 (1.22%) Law
16 16 (1.08%) Manufacturing
17 15 (1.01%) Electronics
17 15 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 14 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
19 11 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 347 (23.43%) Developer
2 330 (22.28%) DevOps Engineer
3 195 (13.17%) Senior
4 136 (9.18%) Architect
5 135 (9.12%) Lead
6 133 (8.98%) AWS Engineer
7 109 (7.36%) AWS DevOps
8 104 (7.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 92 (6.21%) Azure Engineer
10 90 (6.08%) Data Engineer
11 67 (4.52%) Java Developer
12 58 (3.92%) Analyst
12 58 (3.92%) Python Engineer
13 57 (3.85%) Senior Developer
14 51 (3.44%) Cloud Engineer
15 48 (3.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 48 (3.24%) C# Developer
16 47 (3.17%) Senior DevOps
16 47 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
17 44 (2.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (13.03%) .NET
2 179 (12.09%) Kafka
3 136 (9.18%) React
4 75 (5.06%) Spring
5 70 (4.73%) REST
6 56 (3.78%) Spring Boot
7 52 (3.51%) AngularJS
7 52 (3.51%) ASP.NET
8 50 (3.38%) Web Services
9 48 (3.24%) RESTful
10 47 (3.17%) CSS
10 47 (3.17%) Node.js
11 46 (3.11%) HTML
11 46 (3.11%) PySpark
12 45 (3.04%) .NET Core
13 40 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
14 38 (2.57%) FastAPI
14 38 (2.57%) J2EE
15 31 (2.09%) OAuth
16 29 (1.96%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 100 (6.75%) Cloud Native
2 53 (3.58%) Product Ownership
3 41 (2.77%) Distributed Systems
4 38 (2.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 37 (2.50%) Public Cloud
6 36 (2.43%) Onboarding
7 31 (2.09%) Legacy Applications
8 28 (1.89%) Derivative
9 23 (1.55%) Management Information System
10 22 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
11 20 (1.35%) Data Centre
12 19 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
13 18 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
14 16 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
15 15 (1.01%) Algorithms
15 15 (1.01%) Private Cloud
15 15 (1.01%) Replication
16 14 (0.95%) Low-Code
16 14 (0.95%) Mobile App
17 13 (0.88%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 179 (12.09%) Linux
2 80 (5.40%) Windows
3 43 (2.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 43 (2.90%) Unix
4 23 (1.55%) Windows Server
5 20 (1.35%) CentOS
6 9 (0.61%) Solaris
7 8 (0.54%) Android
7 8 (0.54%) VMS
8 7 (0.47%) Rocky
9 3 (0.20%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.20%) SUSE
9 3 (0.20%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.14%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.14%) zOS
11 1 (0.068%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.068%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 722 (48.75%) CI/CD
2 559 (37.74%) Agile
3 305 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
4 295 (19.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 232 (15.67%) Microservices
6 203 (13.71%) Containerisation
7 200 (13.50%) Software Engineering
8 170 (11.48%) Test Automation
9 137 (9.25%) Analytics
10 127 (8.58%) Migration
11 120 (8.10%) Scrum
12 116 (7.83%) Continuous Integration
13 114 (7.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 113 (7.63%) Full-Stack Development
15 105 (7.09%) Mentoring
16 103 (6.95%) Stakeholder Management
17 98 (6.62%) Artificial Intelligence
17 98 (6.62%) Continuous Improvement
18 97 (6.55%) SDLC
19 96 (6.48%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 520 (35.11%) Python
2 345 (23.30%) Java
3 302 (20.39%) SQL
4 225 (15.19%) C#
5 195 (13.17%) JavaScript
6 158 (10.67%) PowerShell
7 118 (7.97%) Bash
8 107 (7.22%) TypeScript
9 89 (6.01%) Go
10 49 (3.31%) Bicep
11 41 (2.77%) C++
12 35 (2.36%) Shell Script
13 32 (2.16%) Scala
14 21 (1.42%) PL/SQL
15 20 (1.35%) Perl
16 15 (1.01%) Groovy
16 15 (1.01%) Ruby
17 13 (0.88%) T-SQL
18 11 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
18 11 (0.74%) PHP
Qualifications
1 308 (20.80%) Security Cleared
2 270 (18.23%) SC Cleared
3 132 (8.91%) Degree
4 56 (3.78%) AWS Certification
5 45 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 44 (2.97%) DV Cleared
7 32 (2.16%) Azure Certification
8 25 (1.69%) AWS Certified Developer
9 22 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 22 (1.49%) Numerate Degree
10 12 (0.81%) Master's Degree
11 11 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 9 (0.61%) CISSP
13 8 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (0.54%) PMI Certification
13 8 (0.54%) PMP
14 7 (0.47%) SANS
15 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (0.41%) OCP
15 6 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (5.40%) QA
2 39 (2.63%) GDPR
3 28 (1.89%) Data Quality
4 23 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (1.15%) Accessibility
5 17 (1.15%) NIST
6 15 (1.01%) PCI DSS
6 15 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.61%) HIPAA
8 8 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 7 (0.47%) PMO
9 7 (0.47%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.41%) EMIR
10 6 (0.41%) MiFID
11 5 (0.34%) NCSC
12 3 (0.20%) WCAG
13 2 (0.14%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.14%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.068%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.068%) IFRS
System Software
1 348 (23.50%) Docker
2 47 (3.17%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (0.54%) GridGain
7 4 (0.27%) Lustre
8 3 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 3 (0.20%) NFS
8 3 (0.20%) vCloud
8 3 (0.20%) Veritas File System
8 3 (0.20%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 3 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
8 3 (0.20%) vSphere
9 2 (0.14%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.14%) OpenDJ
9 2 (0.14%) OpenIDM
10 1 (0.068%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.068%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.068%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 495 (33.42%) Kubernetes
2 479 (32.34%) Terraform
3 216 (14.58%) Ansible
4 68 (4.59%) Grafana
5 67 (4.52%) Prometheus
6 39 (2.63%) Puppet
7 22 (1.49%) Progress Chef
8 16 (1.08%) Istio
8 16 (1.08%) Packer
9 15 (1.01%) Argo
10 13 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.61%) Consul
11 9 (0.61%) Kibana
11 9 (0.61%) Nagios
11 9 (0.61%) QRadar
11 9 (0.61%) Red Hat Satellite
12 8 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
12 8 (0.54%) Podman
12 8 (0.54%) Rancher
12 8 (0.54%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 201 (13.57%) Microsoft
2 119 (8.04%) Oracle
3 65 (4.39%) Databricks
4 57 (3.85%) Google
4 57 (3.85%) Splunk
5 47 (3.17%) Red Hat
6 34 (2.30%) SAP
7 31 (2.09%) VMware
8 27 (1.82%) Salesforce
9 24 (1.62%) ServiceNow
10 19 (1.28%) Dynatrace
11 18 (1.22%) IBM
12 17 (1.15%) Cisco
13 14 (0.95%) Cloudera
14 13 (0.88%) Murex
15 12 (0.81%) CheckPoint
16 11 (0.74%) Adobe
16 11 (0.74%) Citrix
16 11 (0.74%) Fortinet
16 11 (0.74%) Qualys