DevOps Contracts in London

DevOps
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 1,922 3,503 5,802
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 10.85% 12.94% 14.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.26% 14.20% 16.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,363 2,555 4,355
10th Percentile £413 £450 £450
25th Percentile £488 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £713
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +15.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 7
10th Percentile £49.23 £48.20 £43.92
25th Percentile £52.94 - £50.95
Median hourly rate £56.25 £75.00 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -4.76% +44.50%
75th Percentile £61.56 £82.50 £85.00
90th Percentile £66.63 £92.00 £87.36
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £54.00
% change year-on-year -0.76% +21.30% +16.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,674 24,676 35,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.50% 91.13% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,226 17,739 26,174
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 281 423
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +8.33% +10.77%
75th Percentile £46.86 £63.75 £50.68
90th Percentile £66.30 £78.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 +1 269 £600 -1.84% 81
South London +3 46 £510 -15.00% 8
West London -7 25 £375 -36.84% 17
East London +3 21 £540 +4.85% 17
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 73 (3.80%) Confluence
2 30 (1.56%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (1.30%) Apache Spark
4 25 (1.30%) CMS
5 21 (1.09%) IIS
6 19 (0.99%) OpenStack
7 16 (0.83%) Apache
7 16 (0.83%) nginx
8 10 (0.52%) Site Server
9 6 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.31%) Tornado
10 5 (0.26%) WebLogic
10 5 (0.26%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.21%) Appian
12 3 (0.16%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.16%) JBoss
12 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.10%) EPiServer
Applications
1 15 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.57%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.10%) Trello
6 1 (0.052%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.052%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.052%) Gliffy
6 1 (0.052%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 39 (2.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (1.25%) Dynamics AX
3 13 (0.68%) Endur
4 10 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.42%) Shopify
6 6 (0.31%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.31%) NEC Housing
7 5 (0.26%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.10%) Advent Geneva
8 2 (0.10%) BusinessWorks
8 2 (0.10%) Front Arena
8 2 (0.10%) SAP Hybris
8 2 (0.10%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.052%) Aareon QL
9 1 (0.052%) Infor SunSystems
9 1 (0.052%) MIS ActiveH
9 1 (0.052%) OPENHousing
9 1 (0.052%) Primavera
9 1 (0.052%) SAP CX
9 1 (0.052%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,048 (54.53%) Azure
2 641 (33.35%) Azure DevOps
3 616 (32.05%) AWS
4 193 (10.04%) GCP
5 181 (9.42%) Serverless
6 151 (7.86%) GitHub
7 135 (7.02%) Power Platform
8 97 (5.05%) Amazon S3
9 95 (4.94%) Azure Service Bus
10 89 (4.63%) Dynamics 365
11 85 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
12 76 (3.95%) Entra ID
13 74 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 69 (3.59%) PaaS
15 67 (3.49%) Amazon EC2
16 64 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
17 62 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
18 60 (3.12%) Azure Logic Apps
19 58 (3.02%) Power Automate
20 57 (2.97%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 66 (3.43%) Firewall
2 45 (2.34%) DNS
3 37 (1.93%) HTTP
4 32 (1.66%) MPLS
5 31 (1.61%) BGP
6 29 (1.51%) Network Security
7 23 (1.20%) VPN
8 22 (1.14%) IPv4
8 22 (1.14%) RSVP
8 22 (1.14%) TCP/IP
9 19 (0.99%) Ethernet VPN
9 19 (0.99%) SNMP
9 19 (0.99%) VPLS
10 18 (0.94%) Cisco IOS
10 18 (0.94%) DHCP
11 17 (0.88%) HSRP
11 17 (0.88%) VRRP
12 16 (0.83%) Internet
12 16 (0.83%) IOS XR
13 10 (0.52%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 283 (14.72%) SQL Server
2 101 (5.25%) Power BI
3 87 (4.53%) Data Lake
4 82 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
5 73 (3.80%) NoSQL
6 62 (3.23%) Relational Database
7 60 (3.12%) Data Warehouse
8 49 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
8 49 (2.55%) MySQL
9 47 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
10 42 (2.19%) MongoDB
11 37 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
12 35 (1.82%) Big Data
13 31 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 30 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
15 27 (1.40%) Apache Cassandra
16 20 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
17 19 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 18 (0.94%) DynamoDB
19 17 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 248 (12.90%) Git
2 244 (12.70%) Jenkins
3 135 (7.02%) GitLab
4 133 (6.92%) JIRA
5 54 (2.81%) Selenium
5 54 (2.81%) TeamCity
6 48 (2.50%) SpecFlow
7 38 (1.98%) Visual Studio
8 33 (1.72%) JUnit
9 28 (1.46%) Maven
10 27 (1.40%) Artifactory
10 27 (1.40%) Postman
11 25 (1.30%) Cucumber
12 22 (1.14%) Bitbucket
13 20 (1.04%) Cypress.io
14 18 (0.94%) Mockito
14 18 (0.94%) SonarQube
15 16 (0.83%) SoapUI
16 13 (0.68%) WebDriver
17 12 (0.62%) Subversion
General
1 470 (24.45%) Finance
2 442 (23.00%) Social Skills
3 213 (11.08%) Public Sector
4 170 (8.84%) Banking
5 140 (7.28%) Analytical Skills
6 87 (4.53%) Front Office
7 63 (3.28%) Retail
8 57 (2.97%) Investment Banking
9 54 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
10 46 (2.39%) Back Office
11 31 (1.61%) Marketing
12 28 (1.46%) Telecoms
13 22 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 22 (1.14%) Law
14 21 (1.09%) General Ledger
15 18 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
16 17 (0.88%) Legal
16 17 (0.88%) Manufacturing
17 16 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
18 14 (0.73%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 474 (24.66%) Developer
2 350 (18.21%) DevOps Engineer
3 307 (15.97%) Senior
4 180 (9.37%) Architect
5 151 (7.86%) Lead
6 148 (7.70%) Senior Developer
7 144 (7.49%) Azure Engineer
8 114 (5.93%) AWS Engineer
9 91 (4.73%) Analyst
10 88 (4.58%) .NET Developer
11 85 (4.42%) Consultant
12 84 (4.37%) AWS DevOps
13 75 (3.90%) Software Engineer
14 74 (3.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 69 (3.59%) Data Engineer
16 67 (3.49%) Java Developer
17 65 (3.38%) Solutions Architect
18 62 (3.23%) Software Developer
19 60 (3.12%) Cloud Engineer
20 59 (3.07%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 353 (18.37%) .NET
2 172 (8.95%) React
3 150 (7.80%) XML
4 129 (6.71%) .NET Core
5 115 (5.98%) Kafka
6 105 (5.46%) AngularJS
7 101 (5.25%) .NET Framework
8 98 (5.10%) Node.js
9 96 (4.99%) REST
10 85 (4.42%) RESTful
11 80 (4.16%) HTML
12 74 (3.85%) JSON
13 68 (3.54%) CSS
14 55 (2.86%) ASP.NET
14 55 (2.86%) Spring Boot
15 52 (2.71%) Web Services
15 52 (2.71%) YAML
16 50 (2.60%) Spring
17 43 (2.24%) Elastic Stack
18 42 (2.19%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 129 (6.71%) Product Ownership
2 61 (3.17%) Derivative
3 57 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
4 49 (2.55%) Cloud Native
5 47 (2.45%) Hedge funds
6 43 (2.24%) Data Structures
6 43 (2.24%) Fixed Income
7 40 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
8 38 (1.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 33 (1.72%) Public Cloud
10 32 (1.66%) Equities
11 31 (1.61%) Onboarding
12 30 (1.56%) Mobile App
13 27 (1.40%) Distributed Architecture
14 25 (1.30%) Clustering
14 25 (1.30%) Data Centre
15 19 (0.99%) Algorithms
16 18 (0.94%) Market Risk
16 18 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
17 17 (0.88%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 206 (10.72%) Linux
2 138 (7.18%) Windows
3 62 (3.23%) Windows Server
4 52 (2.71%) Unix
5 29 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.57%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.57%) CentOS
6 11 (0.57%) Solaris
7 9 (0.47%) Android
8 8 (0.42%) Oracle Linux
8 8 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.42%) VMS
9 2 (0.10%) AIX
10 1 (0.052%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.052%) Debian
10 1 (0.052%) Rocky
10 1 (0.052%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.052%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 815 (42.40%) Agile
2 713 (37.10%) CI/CD
3 286 (14.88%) Scrum
4 231 (12.02%) Problem-Solving
5 218 (11.34%) Infrastructure as Code
5 218 (11.34%) Software Engineering
6 217 (11.29%) TDD
7 216 (11.24%) Microservices
8 194 (10.09%) Test Automation
9 140 (7.28%) Containerisation
9 140 (7.28%) SDLC
10 136 (7.08%) Migration
11 119 (6.19%) Business Intelligence
12 114 (5.93%) Continuous Improvement
13 111 (5.78%) Continuous Integration
14 108 (5.62%) Analytics
15 102 (5.31%) Full Stack Development
16 99 (5.15%) Computer Science
16 99 (5.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 95 (4.94%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 517 (26.90%) Python
2 419 (21.80%) C#
3 380 (19.77%) SQL
4 294 (15.30%) PowerShell
5 268 (13.94%) Java
6 239 (12.43%) JavaScript
7 161 (8.38%) TypeScript
8 100 (5.20%) Bicep
9 99 (5.15%) Bash
10 84 (4.37%) Go
11 49 (2.55%) Shell Script
12 38 (1.98%) C++
13 36 (1.87%) Scala
14 29 (1.51%) T-SQL
15 26 (1.35%) Ruby
16 15 (0.78%) Kotlin
17 14 (0.73%) Korn
17 14 (0.73%) Rust
18 13 (0.68%) Perl
19 11 (0.57%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 278 (14.46%) Security Cleared
2 234 (12.17%) SC Cleared
3 155 (8.06%) Degree
4 67 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (1.98%) DV Cleared
6 33 (1.72%) Azure Certification
7 32 (1.66%) AWS Certification
8 23 (1.20%) Master's Degree
9 19 (0.99%) PMP
10 18 (0.94%) PMI Certification
11 17 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 15 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
13 11 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (0.47%) CCIE
14 9 (0.47%) CCIE Service Provider
14 9 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (0.36%) CCNP
16 5 (0.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 4 (0.21%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (5.57%) QA
2 32 (1.66%) Accessibility
3 29 (1.51%) Data Quality
4 25 (1.30%) GDPR
5 21 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (1.09%) SLA
5 21 (1.09%) WCAG
6 20 (1.04%) PCI DSS
7 18 (0.94%) NIST
8 8 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.26%) GRC
10 4 (0.21%) PMO
11 3 (0.16%) COBIT
11 3 (0.16%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.16%) IFRS
11 3 (0.16%) IFRS 17
11 3 (0.16%) ISO 22301
11 3 (0.16%) NCSC
11 3 (0.16%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.052%) GxP
System Software
1 287 (14.93%) Docker
2 147 (7.65%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.57%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 6 (0.31%) vSphere
7 5 (0.26%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.26%) NFS
8 3 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.10%) Squid
9 2 (0.10%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.052%) Ceph
10 1 (0.052%) KVM
10 1 (0.052%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.052%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 429 (22.32%) Terraform
2 396 (20.60%) Kubernetes
3 179 (9.31%) Ansible
4 78 (4.06%) Grafana
5 76 (3.95%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.87%) Puppet
7 20 (1.04%) Progress Chef
8 19 (0.99%) ITRS Geneos
9 17 (0.88%) Consul
10 14 (0.73%) Kibana
10 14 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
11 11 (0.57%) Netcool
12 10 (0.52%) Packer
13 9 (0.47%) Argo
13 9 (0.47%) BladeLogic
13 9 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
13 9 (0.47%) logstash
13 9 (0.47%) Tivoli
14 8 (0.42%) EMC NetWorker
14 8 (0.42%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 420 (21.85%) Microsoft
2 121 (6.30%) Oracle
3 74 (3.85%) Databricks
4 49 (2.55%) Splunk
5 44 (2.29%) Google
5 44 (2.29%) Salesforce
6 43 (2.24%) SAP
7 41 (2.13%) ServiceNow
8 35 (1.82%) Cisco
9 34 (1.77%) Dynatrace
9 34 (1.77%) IBM
10 29 (1.51%) Nokia
11 28 (1.46%) VMware
12 27 (1.40%) CyberArk
13 22 (1.14%) Adobe
14 18 (0.94%) Red Hat
15 17 (0.88%) Typelevel
16 16 (0.83%) Fortinet
17 15 (0.78%) ESRI
17 15 (0.78%) HP