Lead DevOps Contract Job Trends in London

Lead Development Operations
England > London

The median Lead Development Operations daily rate in London is £581, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025.

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

 6 months to
14 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 379 402
Rank change year-on-year +30 +23 +85
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 24 12 27
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.17% 0.076% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.081% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 18
10th Percentile £468 £579 £501
25th Percentile £525 £625 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £745 £613
Median % change year-on-year -21.98% +21.63% -10.42%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £709
90th Percentile £725 £753 £825
England median daily rate £575 £635 £650
% change year-on-year -9.45% -2.31% -7.14%

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 13,009 14,774 18,821
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 93.95% 93.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,634 9,571 13,667
10th Percentile £334 £338 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £567
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -3.00% -1.39%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £792 £794
England median daily rate £510 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 158 222
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.18
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.56
Median hourly rate £26.78 £37.15 £38.08
Median % change year-on-year -27.91% -2.44% +19.93%
75th Percentile £48.00 £56.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.80 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.11
% change year-on-year -37.13% -11.32% +50.35%

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 14 November 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 14 November 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 +11 5 £550 -26.17% 4
South London - 1 £566 -
Lead DevOps
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 November 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 24 (100.00%) DevOps
2 16 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 10 (41.67%) AWS
3 10 (41.67%) Security Cleared
4 9 (37.50%) Azure
4 9 (37.50%) SC Cleared
5 8 (33.33%) Agile
6 7 (29.17%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (29.17%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (25.00%) Accessibility
7 6 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (25.00%) Roadmaps
7 6 (25.00%) Terraform
8 5 (20.83%) Databricks
8 5 (20.83%) SQL
9 4 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (16.67%) DevSecOps
9 4 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
9 4 (16.67%) Jenkins
9 4 (16.67%) Power Platform
9 4 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
9 4 (16.67%) QA
10 3 (12.50%) Ansible
10 3 (12.50%) Configuration Management
10 3 (12.50%) Containerisation
10 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
10 3 (12.50%) Digital Marketing
10 3 (12.50%) GitHub
10 3 (12.50%) Java

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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) AWS
2 9 (37.50%) Azure
3 4 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 3 (12.50%) GitHub
5 2 (8.33%) GCP
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (4.17%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (4.17%) BrowserStack
6 1 (4.17%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Power BI
2 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.17%) Metadata
2 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (12.50%) JIRA
3 2 (8.33%) Git
3 2 (8.33%) GitLab
4 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
4 1 (4.17%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.17%) JMeter
4 1 (4.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (29.17%) Finance
1 7 (29.17%) Public Sector
2 3 (12.50%) Banking
2 3 (12.50%) Electronics
2 3 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 3 (12.50%) Marketing
2 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Front Office
3 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) SailPoint
2 2 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.17%) Kafka
3 1 (4.17%) Playwright
3 1 (4.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (4.17%) Cyberattack
3 1 (4.17%) Derivative
3 1 (4.17%) Equities
3 1 (4.17%) Fixed Income
3 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Unix
3 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) DevOps
2 16 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 8 (33.33%) Agile
4 7 (29.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (29.17%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (25.00%) Roadmaps
6 4 (16.67%) DevSecOps
6 4 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
6 4 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
7 3 (12.50%) Configuration Management
7 3 (12.50%) Containerisation
7 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (12.50%) Digital Marketing
7 3 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
7 3 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (12.50%) Programme Management
7 3 (12.50%) Strategic Roadmap
8 2 (8.33%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) SQL
2 3 (12.50%) Java
3 2 (8.33%) Python
3 2 (8.33%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.17%) Bicep
4 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 9 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.17%) Degree
3 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (16.67%) QA
3 1 (4.17%) Basel III
3 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.17%) GDPR
3 1 (4.17%) HIPAA
3 1 (4.17%) MiFID
3 1 (4.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Terraform
2 3 (12.50%) Ansible
2 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.33%) Progress Chef
3 2 (8.33%) Prometheus
3 2 (8.33%) Puppet
4 1 (4.17%) CASB
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Databricks
2 3 (12.50%) SAP
3 2 (8.33%) Dynatrace
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.17%) Splunk
4 1 (4.17%) VMware
12 Lead DevOps jobs in London