Lead DevOps Contract Job Trends in London

Lead Development Operations
England > London

The median Lead Development Operations daily rate in London is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 344 366
Rank change year-on-year -40 +22 +101
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 45 22 31
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.23% 0.16% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.17% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 11 20
10th Percentile £435 £375 £559
25th Percentile £575 £400 £622
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +2.93%
75th Percentile £750 £675 £713
90th Percentile £783 £750 £765
England median daily rate £663 £588 £650
% change year-on-year +12.77% -9.62% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 18,343 12,617 16,363
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 93.26% 94.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,048 8,531 11,676
10th Percentile £359 £331 £330
25th Percentile £445 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £762 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 196 296
10th Percentile £17.60 £18.47 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.73 £22.98 £20.50
Median hourly rate £39.00 £32.00 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% +13.27% -24.51%
75th Percentile £60.25 £50.56 £48.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £63.75 £69.13
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.18 £40.00
% change year-on-year +66.78% -29.55% -6.98%

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 15 July 2026.

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 15 July 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 5 £600 - 2
West London - 5 £725 -
Lead DevOps
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 July 2026, 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 45 (100.00%) DevOps
2 30 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 28 (62.22%) Terraform
4 24 (53.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (48.89%) AWS
6 21 (46.67%) Platform Engineering
7 17 (37.78%) Python
8 16 (35.56%) Kubernetes
9 15 (33.33%) Security Cleared
10 14 (31.11%) SC Cleared
10 14 (31.11%) Technical Leadership
11 13 (28.89%) AI
12 12 (26.67%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (26.67%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (26.67%) Microservices
12 12 (26.67%) Observability
12 12 (26.67%) Serverless
13 11 (24.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (24.44%) Amazon S3
13 11 (24.44%) Ansible
13 11 (24.44%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (24.44%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (24.44%) Docker
13 11 (24.44%) Jenkins
14 10 (22.22%) Bash
14 10 (22.22%) Data Science
14 10 (22.22%) Software Engineering
15 9 (20.00%) Azure
15 9 (20.00%) GitHub
15 9 (20.00%) GitLab

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 3 (6.67%) Jupyter
2 2 (4.44%) CMS
2 2 (4.44%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 22 (48.89%) AWS
2 12 (26.67%) Amazon ECS
2 12 (26.67%) Amazon EKS
2 12 (26.67%) Serverless
3 11 (24.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 11 (24.44%) Amazon S3
3 11 (24.44%) AWS CloudFormation
3 11 (24.44%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (20.00%) Azure
4 9 (20.00%) GitHub
5 7 (15.56%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (15.56%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (8.89%) GCP
8 3 (6.67%) Datadog
8 3 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (4.44%) BrowserStack
10 1 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (2.22%) CloudFront
10 1 (2.22%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.44%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (4.44%) Data Lake
2 2 (4.44%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.22%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.22%) Neo4j
3 1 (2.22%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (24.44%) Jenkins
2 9 (20.00%) GitLab
3 5 (11.11%) Git
4 4 (8.89%) JIRA
5 2 (4.44%) Appium
6 1 (2.22%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.22%) git-flow
6 1 (2.22%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 7 (15.56%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.67%) Finance
3 3 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Banking
4 2 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.44%) Law
5 1 (2.22%) Legal
5 1 (2.22%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.11%) Kafka
2 4 (8.89%) .NET
2 4 (8.89%) Model Context Protocol
3 3 (6.67%) vLLM
4 2 (4.44%) React
5 1 (2.22%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.22%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.22%) FastAPI
5 1 (2.22%) Node.js
5 1 (2.22%) RESTful
5 1 (2.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (24.44%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.89%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.44%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (4.44%) Fixed Income
3 2 (4.44%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.56%) Linux
2 1 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (100.00%) DevOps
2 30 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 24 (53.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (46.67%) Platform Engineering
5 14 (31.11%) Technical Leadership
6 13 (28.89%) AI
7 12 (26.67%) Microservices
7 12 (26.67%) Observability
8 10 (22.22%) Data Science
8 10 (22.22%) Software Engineering
9 9 (20.00%) Mentoring
10 7 (15.56%) Agile
10 7 (15.56%) Machine Learning
10 7 (15.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 7 (15.56%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (13.33%) Cloud Security
11 6 (13.33%) Containerisation
11 6 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
11 6 (13.33%) People Management
11 6 (13.33%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 17 (37.78%) Python
2 10 (22.22%) Bash
3 7 (15.56%) TypeScript
4 5 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 3 (6.67%) C#
5 3 (6.67%) Java
6 1 (2.22%) Bicep
6 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.22%) PHP
6 1 (2.22%) Scala
6 1 (2.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 14 (31.11%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.67%) AWS Certification
3 3 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (6.67%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (4.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (4.44%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.44%) Degree
4 2 (4.44%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) QA
2 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (24.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (62.22%) Terraform
2 16 (35.56%) Kubernetes
3 11 (24.44%) Ansible
4 4 (8.89%) Prometheus
5 3 (6.67%) Kubeflow
6 2 (4.44%) Grafana
7 1 (2.22%) Argo
7 1 (2.22%) Istio
Vendors
1 4 (8.89%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.44%) Dynatrace
2 2 (4.44%) InterSystems
3 1 (2.22%) Google
3 1 (2.22%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.22%) Splunk