Lead DevOps Contract Job Trends in London

Lead Development Operations
England > London

The median Lead Development Operations daily rate in London is £570, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 347 365 411
Rank change year-on-year +18 +46 +68
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 26 16 25
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.19% 0.10% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.11% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 10 16
10th Percentile £415 £614 £519
25th Percentile £517 £625 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £698 £625
Median % change year-on-year -18.24% +11.60% -7.41%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £750
90th Percentile £725 £772 £850
England median daily rate £566 £635 £650
% change year-on-year -10.94% -2.31% -3.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 12,385 14,895 19,565
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 94.06% 94.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,246 9,671 14,260
10th Percentile £335 £348 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £665 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 166 213
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.25 £18.36
25th Percentile £22.00 £23.80 £22.29
Median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £39.83
Median % change year-on-year -29.33% -5.85% +21.62%
75th Percentile £48.00 £58.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.11 £79.75 £76.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.94 £45.88
% change year-on-year -41.43% -6.41% +60.98%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Lead DevOps' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Lead DevOps job vacancy trend in London

Lead DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead DevOps job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead DevOps job vacancies in London

Lead DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps in London over the 6 months to 21 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lead DevOps in London

Lead 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 Lead DevOps within the London region over the 6 months to 21 October 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 +13 6 £550 -31.03% 3
South London - 2 £530 - 4
Lead DevOps
England

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 21 October 2025, Lead DevOps contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Lead DevOps in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) DevOps
2 18 (69.23%) CI/CD
3 14 (53.85%) AWS
4 11 (42.31%) Security Cleared
5 10 (38.46%) SC Cleared
6 9 (34.62%) Azure
7 8 (30.77%) Agile
7 8 (30.77%) Technical Leadership
7 8 (30.77%) Terraform
8 6 (23.08%) Accessibility
8 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (23.08%) Roadmaps
8 6 (23.08%) SQL
9 5 (19.23%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (19.23%) Databricks
9 5 (19.23%) Kubernetes
10 4 (15.38%) Ansible
10 4 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
10 4 (15.38%) Java
10 4 (15.38%) Jenkins
10 4 (15.38%) Product Roadmap
10 4 (15.38%) QA
11 3 (11.54%) Configuration Management
11 3 (11.54%) Containerisation
11 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
11 3 (11.54%) Deployment Automation
11 3 (11.54%) DevSecOps
11 3 (11.54%) Digital Marketing
11 3 (11.54%) Docker

Lead DevOps Skill Set
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 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 14 (53.85%) AWS
2 9 (34.62%) Azure
3 4 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (11.54%) GitHub
4 3 (11.54%) Power Platform
5 2 (7.69%) GCP
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (3.85%) BrowserStack
6 1 (3.85%) Datadog
6 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.85%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.85%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Power BI
2 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.85%) Metadata
2 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 3 (11.54%) JIRA
3 2 (7.69%) Bitbucket
3 2 (7.69%) Git
3 2 (7.69%) GitLab
3 2 (7.69%) JMeter
4 1 (3.85%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.85%) IntelliJ
4 1 (3.85%) Vagrant
4 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (30.77%) Public Sector
2 7 (26.92%) Finance
3 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 3 (11.54%) Banking
4 3 (11.54%) Electronics
4 3 (11.54%) Manufacturing
4 3 (11.54%) Marketing
4 3 (11.54%) Telecoms
5 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Front Office
6 1 (3.85%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) SailPoint
2 2 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (7.69%) Kafka
3 1 (3.85%) Playwright
3 1 (3.85%) Spring
3 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.85%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (3.85%) Cyberattack
3 1 (3.85%) Derivative
3 1 (3.85%) Equities
3 1 (3.85%) Fixed Income
3 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Linux
2 2 (7.69%) Unix
3 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) DevOps
2 18 (69.23%) CI/CD
3 8 (30.77%) Agile
3 8 (30.77%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (23.08%) Roadmaps
5 5 (19.23%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
6 4 (15.38%) Product Roadmap
7 3 (11.54%) Configuration Management
7 3 (11.54%) Containerisation
7 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (11.54%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (11.54%) DevSecOps
7 3 (11.54%) Digital Marketing
7 3 (11.54%) Knowledge Transfer
7 3 (11.54%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (11.54%) Programme Management
7 3 (11.54%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) SQL
2 4 (15.38%) Java
3 2 (7.69%) Python
3 2 (7.69%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.85%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (42.31%) Security Cleared
2 10 (38.46%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.85%) Degree
3 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.85%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) Accessibility
2 4 (15.38%) QA
3 1 (3.85%) Basel III
3 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.85%) GDPR
3 1 (3.85%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.85%) MiFID
3 1 (3.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) Terraform
2 5 (19.23%) Kubernetes
3 4 (15.38%) Ansible
4 2 (7.69%) Progress Chef
4 2 (7.69%) Prometheus
4 2 (7.69%) Puppet
5 1 (3.85%) Argo
5 1 (3.85%) CASB
5 1 (3.85%) Cilium
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Databricks
2 3 (11.54%) SAP
3 2 (7.69%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.85%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.85%) Splunk
4 1 (3.85%) VMware