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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 12 11
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 1,455 2,001 3,168
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 11.87% 11.46% 12.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.87% 12.97% 13.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,056 1,423 2,318
10th Percentile £400 £408 £450
25th Percentile £463 £481 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £573 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.84% -4.58% -
75th Percentile £700 £675 £718
90th Percentile £813 £775 £806
England median daily rate £530 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -3.64% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 7
10th Percentile £38.25 £48.48 £51.20
25th Percentile £43.13 £51.06 £82.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -38.89% +55.47%
75th Percentile £53.75 £62.81 -
90th Percentile - £72.38 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year +3.05% - +0.77%

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 11,308 15,427 23,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.23% 88.39% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,584 11,065 16,744
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £431 £449 £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 £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 315 262
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £18.05
25th Percentile £23.99 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £32.00 £28.00 £39.63
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -29.34% +11.62%
75th Percentile £49.88 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.90 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.53 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.93% - +50.00%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -5 236 £575 -4.17% 185
South London -10 24 £531 +4.17% 18
West London -2 14 £512 +20.47% 36
East London +12 13 £585 +8.84% 38
North London - 1 £440 - 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 67 (4.60%) Apache Spark
2 65 (4.47%) Apache
3 53 (3.64%) Confluence
4 43 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
5 31 (2.13%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.89%) Oracle Coherence
7 12 (0.82%) nginx
8 11 (0.76%) CMS
9 9 (0.62%) SAS
10 8 (0.55%) GemFire
11 5 (0.34%) JBoss
11 5 (0.34%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.27%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.27%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.21%) Camunda
13 3 (0.21%) IIS
13 3 (0.21%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.21%) WordPress
14 2 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 19 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.55%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.27%) Trello
7 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.069%) InVision
8 1 (0.069%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 24 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.89%) Endur
3 12 (0.82%) FLEXCUBE
3 12 (0.82%) Oracle BPM
4 5 (0.34%) Shopify
4 5 (0.34%) Unit4 Business World
5 3 (0.21%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.14%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.14%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
6 2 (0.14%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.14%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.069%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.069%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.069%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.069%) SAP FSCM
7 1 (0.069%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.069%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 705 (48.45%) Azure
2 551 (37.87%) AWS
3 405 (27.84%) Azure DevOps
4 173 (11.89%) Serverless
5 162 (11.13%) GCP
6 143 (9.83%) GitHub
7 108 (7.42%) Power Platform
8 95 (6.53%) AWS Lambda
9 76 (5.22%) Amazon S3
10 72 (4.95%) AWS CloudFormation
11 66 (4.54%) PaaS
12 64 (4.40%) Azure AKS
13 63 (4.33%) GitHub Actions
14 60 (4.12%) OpenShift
15 56 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
15 56 (3.85%) Entra ID
16 55 (3.78%) Dynamics 365
17 54 (3.71%) IaaS
18 52 (3.57%) SaaS
19 51 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 71 (4.88%) Firewall
2 57 (3.92%) DNS
3 36 (2.47%) HTTP
4 34 (2.34%) TCP/IP
5 30 (2.06%) VPN
6 20 (1.37%) SSL
7 19 (1.31%) Network Security
8 13 (0.89%) DHCP
9 11 (0.76%) Internet
9 11 (0.76%) SMTP
10 10 (0.69%) HTTPS
11 8 (0.55%) Kerberos
12 7 (0.48%) BGP
12 7 (0.48%) FTP
12 7 (0.48%) WAN
13 6 (0.41%) LAN
14 4 (0.27%) SSH
15 3 (0.21%) OSPF
15 3 (0.21%) Reverse Proxy
16 2 (0.14%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (5.84%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (5.22%) SQL Server
3 72 (4.95%) Power BI
4 67 (4.60%) NoSQL
5 52 (3.57%) Relational Database
6 43 (2.96%) Amazon Athena
7 42 (2.89%) Amazon RDS
8 40 (2.75%) MongoDB
9 39 (2.68%) Big Data
10 35 (2.41%) Data Lake
11 28 (1.92%) Apache Iceberg
12 27 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
12 27 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
13 25 (1.72%) DynamoDB
14 24 (1.65%) Dremio
15 23 (1.58%) Redis
16 22 (1.51%) Apache Arrow
16 22 (1.51%) Apache Ignite
17 20 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
18 19 (1.31%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 239 (16.43%) Jenkins
2 155 (10.65%) Git
3 148 (10.17%) GitLab
4 122 (8.38%) JIRA
5 45 (3.09%) Bitbucket
6 37 (2.54%) TeamCity
7 36 (2.47%) SonarQube
8 30 (2.06%) Artifactory
9 29 (1.99%) Postman
10 26 (1.79%) JMeter
10 26 (1.79%) JUnit
11 25 (1.72%) Gradle
11 25 (1.72%) Selenium
12 24 (1.65%) Maven
13 18 (1.24%) Cypress.io
13 18 (1.24%) Sonatype Nexus
14 16 (1.10%) Liquibase
15 15 (1.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 15 (1.03%) Mockito
16 14 (0.96%) Subversion
General
1 425 (29.21%) Social Skills
2 402 (27.63%) Finance
3 205 (14.09%) Analytical Skills
4 188 (12.92%) Banking
5 130 (8.93%) Public Sector
6 82 (5.64%) Investment Banking
7 67 (4.60%) Front Office
8 41 (2.82%) Marketing
9 33 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
10 29 (1.99%) Retail
11 28 (1.92%) Telecoms
12 27 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
13 26 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
14 17 (1.17%) Law
14 17 (1.17%) Manufacturing
15 16 (1.10%) Electronics
15 16 (1.10%) Military
16 15 (1.03%) Financial Institution
17 13 (0.89%) Back Office
18 12 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 353 (24.26%) Developer
2 284 (19.52%) DevOps Engineer
3 185 (12.71%) Senior
4 144 (9.90%) Architect
5 121 (8.32%) Lead
6 109 (7.49%) AWS Engineer
7 96 (6.60%) Azure Engineer
8 88 (6.05%) AWS DevOps
9 81 (5.57%) Data Engineer
10 79 (5.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 69 (4.74%) Java Developer
12 64 (4.40%) Analyst
13 61 (4.19%) Cloud Engineer
14 58 (3.99%) Senior Developer
15 48 (3.30%) C# Developer
16 45 (3.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 42 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
18 41 (2.82%) Python Developer
19 40 (2.75%) Python Engineer
20 36 (2.47%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (12.03%) .NET
2 155 (10.65%) Kafka
3 125 (8.59%) React
4 93 (6.39%) REST
5 71 (4.88%) Spring
6 56 (3.85%) Node.js
6 56 (3.85%) RESTful
7 55 (3.78%) AngularJS
8 53 (3.64%) Spring Boot
9 52 (3.57%) ASP.NET
9 52 (3.57%) Web Services
10 51 (3.51%) HTML
11 50 (3.44%) CSS
12 44 (3.02%) .NET Core
13 41 (2.82%) PySpark
14 40 (2.75%) Elastic Stack
15 37 (2.54%) GraphQL
16 36 (2.47%) OAuth
17 32 (2.20%) JSON
17 32 (2.20%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 101 (6.94%) Cloud Native
2 50 (3.44%) Product Ownership
3 45 (3.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 42 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
5 36 (2.47%) Public Cloud
6 35 (2.41%) Onboarding
7 29 (1.99%) Legacy Applications
8 24 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
8 24 (1.65%) Management Information System
9 23 (1.58%) Derivative
9 23 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
10 22 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
11 21 (1.44%) Algorithms
12 20 (1.37%) Data Centre
13 18 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
13 18 (1.24%) Mobile App
14 17 (1.17%) Data Structures
15 15 (1.03%) Clustering
15 15 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
16 13 (0.89%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 177 (12.16%) Linux
2 83 (5.70%) Windows
3 36 (2.47%) Unix
4 32 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (1.72%) Windows Server
6 14 (0.96%) Android
6 14 (0.96%) CentOS
7 10 (0.69%) Solaris
8 9 (0.62%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.55%) VMS
10 6 (0.41%) Rocky
11 3 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.21%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.21%) SUSE
11 3 (0.21%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.14%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.14%) zOS
13 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 676 (46.46%) CI/CD
2 559 (38.42%) Agile
3 295 (20.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 292 (20.07%) Problem-Solving
5 227 (15.60%) Microservices
6 203 (13.95%) Containerisation
7 179 (12.30%) Software Engineering
8 171 (11.75%) Test Automation
9 139 (9.55%) Analytics
10 138 (9.48%) Migration
11 135 (9.28%) Scrum
12 115 (7.90%) Continuous Integration
13 108 (7.42%) Stakeholder Management
14 107 (7.35%) Full-Stack Development
14 107 (7.35%) Mentoring
15 104 (7.15%) Artificial Intelligence
16 98 (6.74%) Computer Science
17 97 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
17 97 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 94 (6.46%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 490 (33.68%) Python
2 315 (21.65%) Java
3 306 (21.03%) SQL
4 210 (14.43%) C#
5 168 (11.55%) JavaScript
6 150 (10.31%) PowerShell
7 120 (8.25%) Bash
8 114 (7.84%) TypeScript
9 74 (5.09%) Go
10 53 (3.64%) Bicep
11 41 (2.82%) C++
12 33 (2.27%) Scala
12 33 (2.27%) Shell Script
13 25 (1.72%) PL/SQL
14 24 (1.65%) Perl
15 15 (1.03%) Groovy
15 15 (1.03%) Ruby
16 11 (0.76%) PHP
16 11 (0.76%) T-SQL
17 10 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 294 (20.21%) Security Cleared
2 254 (17.46%) SC Cleared
3 126 (8.66%) Degree
4 47 (3.23%) AWS Certification
5 44 (3.02%) Azure Certification
6 43 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (2.34%) DV Cleared
8 24 (1.65%) Numerate Degree
9 20 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 19 (1.31%) AWS Certified Developer
11 17 (1.17%) Master's Degree
12 12 (0.82%) PMI Certification
12 12 (0.82%) PMP
13 10 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (0.55%) CISSP
15 8 (0.55%) SANS
16 7 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
16 7 (0.48%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (6.05%) QA
2 44 (3.02%) GDPR
3 32 (2.20%) Data Quality
4 26 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 20 (1.37%) NIST
6 15 (1.03%) Accessibility
7 13 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (0.69%) SOC 2
9 9 (0.62%) HIPAA
10 7 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 7 (0.48%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.41%) PMO
12 5 (0.34%) EMIR
13 4 (0.27%) MiFID
14 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.21%) Solvency II
15 2 (0.14%) NCSC
15 2 (0.14%) SLA
15 2 (0.14%) WCAG
16 1 (0.069%) 21 CFR Part 11
System Software
1 300 (20.62%) Docker
2 58 (3.99%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (0.55%) GridGain
7 3 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 3 (0.21%) Lustre
7 3 (0.21%) NFS
7 3 (0.21%) OpenAM
7 3 (0.21%) OpenDJ
7 3 (0.21%) OpenIDM
7 3 (0.21%) vCloud
7 3 (0.21%) Veritas File System
7 3 (0.21%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 3 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
7 3 (0.21%) vSphere
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.069%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 452 (31.07%) Terraform
2 441 (30.31%) Kubernetes
3 196 (13.47%) Ansible
4 73 (5.02%) Grafana
5 72 (4.95%) Prometheus
6 43 (2.96%) Puppet
7 23 (1.58%) Progress Chef
8 21 (1.44%) Argo
9 17 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
10 15 (1.03%) Kibana
11 13 (0.89%) Istio
12 12 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
12 12 (0.82%) Packer
13 10 (0.69%) ITRS Geneos
14 9 (0.62%) Podman
15 8 (0.55%) QRadar
15 8 (0.55%) Red Hat Satellite
16 7 (0.48%) HP ALM
16 7 (0.48%) Tivoli
17 6 (0.41%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 220 (15.12%) Microsoft
2 110 (7.56%) Oracle
3 67 (4.60%) Databricks
4 58 (3.99%) Google
5 54 (3.71%) Splunk
6 40 (2.75%) Red Hat
7 37 (2.54%) SAP
8 25 (1.72%) Salesforce
8 25 (1.72%) VMware
9 23 (1.58%) ServiceNow
10 15 (1.03%) Cisco
10 15 (1.03%) IBM
11 14 (0.96%) Dynatrace
12 12 (0.82%) Citrix
12 12 (0.82%) Workday
13 11 (0.76%) CheckPoint
14 10 (0.69%) Atlassian
14 10 (0.69%) Cloudera
14 10 (0.69%) Fortinet
14 10 (0.69%) Murex