DevOps Contract Job Trends in London

DevOps
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 14 12
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 2,193 1,497 1,966
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.31% 11.90% 11.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.94% 12.91% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,539 1,105 1,393
10th Percentile £390 £400 £413
25th Percentile £455 £473 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £573
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +0.44% -4.58%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 5
10th Percentile £41.25 £41.50 £49.05
25th Percentile £54.00 £51.25 £52.50
Median hourly rate £68.00 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.52% -4.55% -31.25%
75th Percentile £74.38 £80.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.75 £89.30 £70.75
England median hourly rate £67.50 £67.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -0.76%

All Process & 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 15,734 11,596 15,659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.34% 92.21% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,510 7,857 11,214
10th Percentile £356 £350 £341
25th Percentile £430 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £680
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £511 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 178 313
10th Percentile £18.61 £16.50 £15.96
25th Percentile £24.65 £22.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £34.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% +22.32% -28.21%
75th Percentile £57.86 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.40
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

DevOps job vacancy trend in London

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing DevOps

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in London over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in London

DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing DevOps.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing DevOps

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in London over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

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 11 May 2026. 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 -6 237 £550 -4.35% 153
South London +9 85 £525 -1.18% 5
West London +6 55 £603 +17.68% 15
East London -9 8 £450 -16.28% 23
DevOps
England

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 84 (3.83%) Apache Spark
2 78 (3.56%) Confluence
3 56 (2.55%) SharePoint
4 54 (2.46%) Apache
5 40 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
6 22 (1.00%) nginx
7 19 (0.87%) CMS
7 19 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.46%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.46%) Mendix
9 9 (0.41%) IIS
10 8 (0.36%) Camunda
11 7 (0.32%) SAS
12 5 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.23%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
14 3 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
14 3 (0.14%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 28 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
2 23 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.091%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.046%) Maya
6 1 (0.046%) Trello
Business Applications
1 43 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.41%) Aladdin
2 9 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
3 8 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.18%) Endur
5 4 (0.18%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.14%) Findur
6 3 (0.14%) Magento
6 3 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 2 (0.091%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.091%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.091%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.091%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.091%) Summit
8 1 (0.046%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.046%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.046%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.046%) SDL Web 8
8 1 (0.046%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,278 (58.28%) Azure
2 734 (33.47%) AWS
3 704 (32.10%) Azure DevOps
4 413 (18.83%) GitHub
5 253 (11.54%) GCP
6 235 (10.72%) GitHub Actions
7 232 (10.58%) Serverless
8 224 (10.21%) Power Platform
9 155 (7.07%) Amazon S3
10 131 (5.97%) AWS CloudFormation
10 131 (5.97%) Azure Data Factory
11 128 (5.84%) AWS Lambda
12 116 (5.29%) Entra ID
13 103 (4.70%) Azure AKS
14 96 (4.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 88 (4.01%) Power Automate
16 87 (3.97%) Dynamics 365
17 83 (3.78%) Amazon EKS
17 83 (3.78%) Azure Monitor
18 75 (3.42%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 89 (4.06%) Firewall
2 46 (2.10%) Network Security
3 41 (1.87%) DNS
4 34 (1.55%) VPN
5 16 (0.73%) TCP/IP
6 15 (0.68%) WAN
7 14 (0.64%) SD-WAN
8 13 (0.59%) HTTP
9 10 (0.46%) BGP
9 10 (0.46%) MPLS
9 10 (0.46%) OpenVPN
10 9 (0.41%) SSL
11 8 (0.36%) OSPF
12 7 (0.32%) FTP
12 7 (0.32%) SMS
13 5 (0.23%) 5G
13 5 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
14 4 (0.18%) IOS XR
14 4 (0.18%) NX-OS
14 4 (0.18%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (6.34%) Power BI
2 133 (6.06%) SQL Server
3 117 (5.34%) Data Lake
4 93 (4.24%) PostgreSQL
5 78 (3.56%) NoSQL
6 77 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
7 65 (2.96%) Relational Database
8 61 (2.78%) Delta Lake
9 57 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
10 48 (2.19%) Metadata
11 45 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
11 45 (2.05%) MongoDB
12 42 (1.92%) Big Data
13 40 (1.82%) Oracle Database
14 39 (1.78%) Amazon Athena
15 37 (1.69%) BigQuery
16 30 (1.37%) DynamoDB
16 30 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
17 29 (1.32%) Redis
18 28 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 282 (12.86%) Jenkins
2 268 (12.22%) Git
3 211 (9.62%) JIRA
4 195 (8.89%) GitLab
5 50 (2.28%) Postman
6 37 (1.69%) Selenium
7 32 (1.46%) Bitbucket
8 30 (1.37%) SonarQube
9 28 (1.28%) JUnit
10 26 (1.19%) Artifactory
11 23 (1.05%) Cypress.io
12 20 (0.91%) Cucumber
12 20 (0.91%) MLflow
13 18 (0.82%) Maven
13 18 (0.82%) Mockito
13 18 (0.82%) REST Assured
14 17 (0.78%) JMeter
15 13 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
16 12 (0.55%) SpecFlow
17 10 (0.46%) Gradle
General
1 549 (25.03%) Social Skills
2 537 (24.49%) Finance
3 251 (11.45%) Public Sector
4 201 (9.17%) Banking
5 182 (8.30%) Analytical Skills
6 62 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
7 42 (1.92%) Front Office
8 38 (1.73%) Marketing
9 37 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 37 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
9 37 (1.69%) Investment Banking
10 33 (1.50%) Retail
11 32 (1.46%) Financial Institution
12 31 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
13 25 (1.14%) Legal
14 20 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
15 15 (0.68%) Telecoms
16 11 (0.50%) Military
17 10 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.36%) Law
Job Titles
1 414 (18.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 337 (15.37%) Senior
3 336 (15.32%) Developer
4 274 (12.49%) Architect
5 181 (8.25%) Data Engineer
6 180 (8.21%) Lead
7 168 (7.66%) Azure Engineer
8 119 (5.43%) Analyst
9 111 (5.06%) AWS Engineer
10 97 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
11 82 (3.74%) AWS DevOps
12 79 (3.60%) Cloud Engineer
13 76 (3.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 74 (3.37%) Platform Engineer
15 66 (3.01%) Senior DevOps
16 63 (2.87%) Business Analyst
17 62 (2.83%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 57 (2.60%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 53 (2.42%) Senior Developer
20 52 (2.37%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 208 (9.48%) .NET
2 188 (8.57%) REST
3 147 (6.70%) Kafka
4 131 (5.97%) React
5 122 (5.56%) Spring
6 114 (5.20%) Node.js
7 111 (5.06%) RESTful
8 104 (4.74%) Spring Boot
9 97 (4.42%) AngularJS
10 93 (4.24%) PySpark
11 68 (3.10%) JSON
11 68 (3.10%) OAuth
12 67 (3.06%) Playwright
13 66 (3.01%) HTML
14 63 (2.87%) Middleware
15 60 (2.74%) YAML
16 53 (2.42%) OpenID
17 51 (2.33%) CSS
17 51 (2.33%) SOAP
18 50 (2.28%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 384 (17.51%) Cloud Native
2 115 (5.24%) Product Ownership
3 86 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
4 75 (3.42%) Onboarding
5 61 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
6 43 (1.96%) Public Cloud
7 34 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
8 29 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
8 29 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
9 28 (1.28%) AI Agents
9 28 (1.28%) Replication
10 26 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
10 26 (1.19%) Low-Code
11 25 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
12 23 (1.05%) Derivative
12 23 (1.05%) Reinsurance
13 22 (1.00%) Mainframe
14 21 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
14 21 (0.96%) Management Information System
15 20 (0.91%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 139 (6.34%) Linux
2 94 (4.29%) Windows
3 33 (1.50%) Unix
4 21 (0.96%) VMS
5 16 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 13 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.27%) Android
7 6 (0.27%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (0.23%) Solaris
8 5 (0.23%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.091%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.091%) zOS
11 1 (0.046%) AIX
11 1 (0.046%) Debian
11 1 (0.046%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.046%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,223 (55.77%) CI/CD
2 779 (35.52%) Agile
3 606 (27.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 336 (15.32%) Containerisation
5 332 (15.14%) Microservices
6 316 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
7 304 (13.86%) AI
8 293 (13.36%) Test Automation
9 292 (13.32%) Migration
10 283 (12.90%) Analytics
11 276 (12.59%) Observability
12 268 (12.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 244 (11.13%) Data Modelling
14 235 (10.72%) Stakeholder Management
15 223 (10.17%) Scrum
16 210 (9.58%) Data Pipeline
17 209 (9.53%) Software Engineering
18 204 (9.30%) Data Engineering
19 199 (9.07%) Platform Engineering
20 192 (8.76%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 592 (26.99%) Python
2 521 (23.76%) SQL
3 280 (12.77%) Java
4 263 (11.99%) C#
5 171 (7.80%) JavaScript
6 150 (6.84%) TypeScript
7 127 (5.79%) PowerShell
8 116 (5.29%) Bash
9 76 (3.47%) Bicep
10 46 (2.10%) Scala
11 39 (1.78%) Go
12 32 (1.46%) PL/SQL
13 29 (1.32%) T-SQL
14 28 (1.28%) Shell Script
15 24 (1.09%) Apex Code
16 16 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 16 (0.73%) Groovy
17 13 (0.59%) R
18 12 (0.55%) Ruby
19 11 (0.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 708 (32.28%) Security Cleared
2 635 (28.96%) SC Cleared
3 142 (6.48%) Degree
4 122 (5.56%) Azure Certification
5 68 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 58 (2.64%) AWS Certification
7 41 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 38 (1.73%) DV Cleared
9 36 (1.64%) Master's Degree
10 25 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
11 22 (1.00%) ISTQB
11 22 (1.00%) PMI Certification
12 21 (0.96%) PMP
13 20 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 20 (0.91%) CISSP
14 19 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
15 16 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
16 12 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 11 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 11 (0.50%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 211 (9.62%) QA
2 124 (5.65%) Data Quality
3 89 (4.06%) GDPR
4 49 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 48 (2.19%) NIST
6 32 (1.46%) Accessibility
7 28 (1.28%) NCSC
8 25 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 23 (1.05%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.59%) PMO
11 11 (0.50%) SLA
11 11 (0.50%) WCAG
12 7 (0.32%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.27%) GRC
13 6 (0.27%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.27%) PSD2
14 5 (0.23%) MiFID
14 5 (0.23%) NIST 800
14 5 (0.23%) SEPA
15 4 (0.18%) COBIT
System Software
1 423 (19.29%) Docker
2 75 (3.42%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.59%) Squid
5 12 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.23%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.23%) vSphere
8 4 (0.18%) Postfix
8 4 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.14%) GridGain
9 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.14%) Varnish
10 2 (0.091%) Ceph
10 2 (0.091%) HDFS
10 2 (0.091%) Lustre
10 2 (0.091%) OpenAM
10 2 (0.091%) OpenDJ
10 2 (0.091%) OpenIDM
10 2 (0.091%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 642 (29.27%) Terraform
2 544 (24.81%) Kubernetes
3 144 (6.57%) Ansible
4 124 (5.65%) Grafana
5 114 (5.20%) Prometheus
6 43 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (1.37%) Argo
8 18 (0.82%) Istio
9 16 (0.73%) Puppet
10 14 (0.64%) FortiGate
11 11 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 11 (0.50%) Consul
11 11 (0.50%) Packer
12 9 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (0.41%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.32%) HP ALM
13 7 (0.32%) Kibana
13 7 (0.32%) Oracle RMAN
13 7 (0.32%) Rancher
14 5 (0.23%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 439 (20.02%) Microsoft
2 172 (7.84%) Databricks
3 125 (5.70%) Oracle
4 99 (4.51%) Salesforce
5 87 (3.97%) Google
6 76 (3.47%) ServiceNow
7 58 (2.64%) Splunk
8 51 (2.33%) SAP
9 40 (1.82%) Dynatrace
10 35 (1.60%) OpenAI
11 29 (1.32%) VMware
12 26 (1.19%) Red Hat
13 24 (1.09%) Informatica
14 23 (1.05%) CyberArk
15 21 (0.96%) Foundry
16 18 (0.82%) IBM
17 15 (0.68%) Atlassian
17 15 (0.68%) Bloomberg
17 15 (0.68%) Cisco
17 15 (0.68%) ForgeRock