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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 10 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 -3 +2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 1,944 3,428 5,820
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 10.98% 12.82% 14.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.39% 14.09% 16.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,382 2,501 4,383
10th Percentile £413 £450 £450
25th Percentile £485 £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% - +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 7
10th Percentile £49.05 £61.60 £43.92
25th Percentile £52.50 £75.00 £50.95
Median hourly rate £55.00 £80.00 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +1.59% +43.18%
75th Percentile £58.75 £90.00 £85.00
90th Percentile £65.50 £92.50 £87.36
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -0.76% +19.09% +4.76%

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 15,690 24,329 35,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.66% 90.98% 92.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,247 17,488 26,241
10th Percentile £338 £375 £389
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% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 276 422
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.50 £17.28
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.48 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +6.12% +12.47%
75th Percentile £47.34 £63.81 £50.94
90th Percentile £65.68 £80.00 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
% change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 5 May 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 +2 275 £600 -2.04% 80
South London +3 52 £510 -7.27% 9
West London -8 25 £375 -37.50% 22
East London +3 23 £538 +4.37% 14
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 78 (4.01%) Confluence
2 30 (1.54%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
4 27 (1.39%) Apache Spark
5 25 (1.29%) CMS
6 24 (1.23%) nginx
7 21 (1.08%) IIS
8 19 (0.98%) OpenStack
9 16 (0.82%) Apache
10 10 (0.51%) Site Server
11 6 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 6 (0.31%) Tornado
11 6 (0.31%) WebSphere
12 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.26%) WebLogic
13 4 (0.21%) Appian
13 4 (0.21%) JBoss
14 3 (0.15%) ArcGIS
15 2 (0.10%) Anypoint
15 2 (0.10%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 15 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.51%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.10%) Trello
6 1 (0.051%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.051%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.051%) Gliffy
6 1 (0.051%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 40 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (1.08%) Dynamics AX
3 13 (0.67%) Endur
4 9 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.41%) 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%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.051%) Aareon QL
9 1 (0.051%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.051%) OPENHousing
9 1 (0.051%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.051%) Primavera
9 1 (0.051%) SAP CX
9 1 (0.051%) Summit
9 1 (0.051%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,052 (54.12%) Azure
2 650 (33.44%) Azure DevOps
3 620 (31.89%) AWS
4 189 (9.72%) GCP
5 177 (9.10%) Serverless
6 146 (7.51%) GitHub
7 138 (7.10%) Power Platform
8 100 (5.14%) Azure Service Bus
9 98 (5.04%) Amazon S3
10 85 (4.37%) AWS Lambda
10 85 (4.37%) Dynamics 365
11 83 (4.27%) Entra ID
12 79 (4.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 69 (3.55%) AWS CloudFormation
13 69 (3.55%) PaaS
14 66 (3.40%) Amazon EC2
15 64 (3.29%) Azure Monitor
16 62 (3.19%) Azure Logic Apps
17 57 (2.93%) PowerApps
18 56 (2.88%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 69 (3.55%) Firewall
2 44 (2.26%) DNS
3 37 (1.90%) HTTP
4 33 (1.70%) MPLS
5 32 (1.65%) BGP
6 30 (1.54%) Network Security
7 23 (1.18%) RSVP
8 22 (1.13%) IPv4
8 22 (1.13%) TCP/IP
8 22 (1.13%) VPN
9 19 (0.98%) Ethernet VPN
9 19 (0.98%) SNMP
9 19 (0.98%) VPLS
10 18 (0.93%) Cisco IOS
11 17 (0.87%) DHCP
11 17 (0.87%) HSRP
11 17 (0.87%) VRRP
12 16 (0.82%) Internet
12 16 (0.82%) IOS XR
13 10 (0.51%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 288 (14.81%) SQL Server
2 103 (5.30%) Power BI
3 91 (4.68%) Data Lake
4 77 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
5 72 (3.70%) NoSQL
6 64 (3.29%) Relational Database
7 61 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
8 49 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
9 47 (2.42%) MySQL
10 46 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
11 40 (2.06%) Big Data
11 40 (2.06%) MongoDB
12 35 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
13 32 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
14 26 (1.34%) Apache Cassandra
14 26 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 21 (1.08%) Redis
16 20 (1.03%) Tableau
17 19 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
18 18 (0.93%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 252 (12.96%) Git
2 240 (12.35%) Jenkins
3 135 (6.94%) GitLab
4 133 (6.84%) JIRA
5 54 (2.78%) Selenium
6 53 (2.73%) TeamCity
7 52 (2.67%) SpecFlow
8 38 (1.95%) Visual Studio
9 32 (1.65%) JUnit
10 28 (1.44%) Artifactory
11 26 (1.34%) Cucumber
12 24 (1.23%) Bitbucket
12 24 (1.23%) Maven
13 23 (1.18%) Postman
14 21 (1.08%) Cypress.io
15 20 (1.03%) SonarQube
16 18 (0.93%) Mockito
17 14 (0.72%) WebDriver
18 12 (0.62%) Subversion
19 11 (0.57%) JMeter
General
1 476 (24.49%) Finance
2 449 (23.10%) Social Skills
3 211 (10.85%) Public Sector
4 171 (8.80%) Banking
5 142 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
6 88 (4.53%) Front Office
7 63 (3.24%) Retail
8 56 (2.88%) Investment Banking
9 54 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
10 47 (2.42%) Back Office
11 32 (1.65%) Marketing
12 28 (1.44%) Telecoms
13 23 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 23 (1.18%) Law
14 21 (1.08%) General Ledger
15 18 (0.93%) Legal
16 17 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
16 17 (0.87%) Manufacturing
17 15 (0.77%) Local Government
18 14 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 476 (24.49%) Developer
2 361 (18.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 323 (16.62%) Senior
4 176 (9.05%) Architect
5 158 (8.13%) Senior Developer
6 155 (7.97%) Lead
7 141 (7.25%) Azure Engineer
8 117 (6.02%) AWS Engineer
9 96 (4.94%) Analyst
10 90 (4.63%) .NET Developer
11 86 (4.42%) AWS DevOps
11 86 (4.42%) Consultant
12 77 (3.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 76 (3.91%) Software Engineer
14 73 (3.76%) Data Engineer
15 64 (3.29%) Java Developer
15 64 (3.29%) Software Developer
16 63 (3.24%) C# Developer
17 61 (3.14%) Cloud Engineer
17 61 (3.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 363 (18.67%) .NET
2 179 (9.21%) React
3 159 (8.18%) XML
4 137 (7.05%) .NET Core
5 114 (5.86%) Kafka
6 105 (5.40%) .NET Framework
7 104 (5.35%) AngularJS
8 92 (4.73%) Node.js
9 91 (4.68%) REST
10 85 (4.37%) HTML
10 85 (4.37%) RESTful
11 74 (3.81%) CSS
12 72 (3.70%) JSON
13 61 (3.14%) ASP.NET
14 54 (2.78%) Spring Boot
15 52 (2.67%) YAML
16 51 (2.62%) Web Services
17 49 (2.52%) Spring
18 44 (2.26%) Elastic Stack
19 41 (2.11%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 133 (6.84%) Product Ownership
2 61 (3.14%) Derivative
3 58 (2.98%) Distributed Systems
4 49 (2.52%) Cloud Native
4 49 (2.52%) Hedge funds
5 43 (2.21%) Data Structures
6 42 (2.16%) Fixed Income
7 41 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
8 37 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 33 (1.70%) Public Cloud
10 32 (1.65%) Equities
11 31 (1.59%) Mobile App
12 30 (1.54%) Onboarding
13 28 (1.44%) Distributed Architecture
14 27 (1.39%) Clustering
15 24 (1.23%) Data Centre
16 19 (0.98%) Algorithms
16 19 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
17 18 (0.93%) Market Risk
18 17 (0.87%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 208 (10.70%) Linux
2 134 (6.89%) Windows
3 58 (2.98%) Windows Server
4 55 (2.83%) Unix
5 30 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.57%) CentOS
6 11 (0.57%) Solaris
7 10 (0.51%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.46%) Android
9 8 (0.41%) Oracle Linux
9 8 (0.41%) VMS
10 7 (0.36%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.10%) AIX
12 1 (0.051%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.051%) Debian
12 1 (0.051%) Rocky
12 1 (0.051%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.051%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 834 (42.90%) Agile
2 712 (36.63%) CI/CD
3 291 (14.97%) Scrum
4 230 (11.83%) Problem-Solving
5 221 (11.37%) Infrastructure as Code
6 219 (11.27%) Microservices
7 218 (11.21%) Software Engineering
7 218 (11.21%) TDD
8 200 (10.29%) Test Automation
9 140 (7.20%) Migration
10 137 (7.05%) SDLC
11 130 (6.69%) Containerisation
12 122 (6.28%) Business Intelligence
13 118 (6.07%) Continuous Integration
14 113 (5.81%) Analytics
15 112 (5.76%) Continuous Improvement
16 100 (5.14%) Full Stack Development
17 98 (5.04%) Computer Science
18 97 (4.99%) Roadmaps
18 97 (4.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 523 (26.90%) Python
2 430 (22.12%) C#
3 371 (19.08%) SQL
4 302 (15.53%) PowerShell
5 269 (13.84%) Java
6 247 (12.71%) JavaScript
7 168 (8.64%) TypeScript
8 111 (5.71%) Bicep
9 100 (5.14%) Bash
10 89 (4.58%) Go
11 49 (2.52%) Shell Script
12 38 (1.95%) C++
13 37 (1.90%) Scala
14 27 (1.39%) T-SQL
15 24 (1.23%) Ruby
16 14 (0.72%) Kotlin
16 14 (0.72%) Rust
17 13 (0.67%) Korn
17 13 (0.67%) Perl
18 12 (0.62%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 280 (14.40%) Security Cleared
2 237 (12.19%) SC Cleared
3 154 (7.92%) Degree
4 66 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (1.90%) DV Cleared
6 31 (1.59%) AWS Certification
6 31 (1.59%) Azure Certification
7 24 (1.23%) Master's Degree
8 19 (0.98%) PMP
9 18 (0.93%) PMI Certification
10 17 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
11 15 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
12 13 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 9 (0.46%) CCIE
13 9 (0.46%) CCIE Service Provider
13 9 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.36%) CCNP
15 5 (0.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 4 (0.21%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (5.35%) QA
2 31 (1.59%) Accessibility
2 31 (1.59%) Data Quality
3 26 (1.34%) GDPR
4 23 (1.18%) PCI DSS
5 21 (1.08%) SLA
5 21 (1.08%) WCAG
6 20 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 19 (0.98%) NIST
8 8 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.26%) GRC
10 3 (0.15%) IFRS
10 3 (0.15%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.15%) ISO 22301
10 3 (0.15%) PMO
10 3 (0.15%) Solvency II
11 2 (0.10%) COBIT
11 2 (0.10%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.10%) NCSC
12 1 (0.051%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 290 (14.92%) Docker
2 157 (8.08%) Active Directory
3 30 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.82%) 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 2 (0.10%) Squid
8 2 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.10%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.051%) Ceph
9 1 (0.051%) KVM
9 1 (0.051%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.051%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 441 (22.69%) Terraform
2 408 (20.99%) Kubernetes
3 179 (9.21%) Ansible
4 78 (4.01%) Prometheus
5 74 (3.81%) Grafana
6 36 (1.85%) Puppet
7 24 (1.23%) Consul
8 19 (0.98%) Progress Chef
9 18 (0.93%) ITRS Geneos
9 18 (0.93%) Packer
9 18 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (0.67%) Kibana
11 11 (0.57%) Netcool
12 9 (0.46%) Argo
12 9 (0.46%) BladeLogic
12 9 (0.46%) logstash
12 9 (0.46%) Tivoli
13 8 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
13 8 (0.41%) EMC NetWorker
13 8 (0.41%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 425 (21.86%) Microsoft
2 121 (6.22%) Oracle
3 77 (3.96%) Databricks
4 49 (2.52%) Splunk
5 44 (2.26%) Google
5 44 (2.26%) Salesforce
6 42 (2.16%) SAP
7 39 (2.01%) ServiceNow
8 37 (1.90%) Cisco
9 36 (1.85%) Dynatrace
10 33 (1.70%) IBM
11 30 (1.54%) Nokia
12 25 (1.29%) CyberArk
12 25 (1.29%) VMware
13 22 (1.13%) Adobe
14 18 (0.93%) Fortinet
14 18 (0.93%) Red Hat
15 17 (0.87%) Typelevel
16 15 (0.77%) ESRI
16 15 (0.77%) F5