Lead DevOps Contract Job Trends in London

Lead Development Operations
England > London

The median Lead Development Operations daily rate in London is £638, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026.

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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 332 356
Rank change year-on-year -49 +24 +91
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 33 17 41
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.18% 0.14% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.15% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 9 28
10th Percentile £425 £395 £521
25th Percentile £575 £400 £557
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £738 £675 £700
90th Percentile £788 - £750
England median daily rate £650 £565 £650
% change year-on-year +15.04% -13.08% -

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 16,586 11,567 16,351
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 93.33% 93.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,005 7,920 11,814
10th Percentile £350 £344 £325
25th Percentile £429 £426 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £679 £688
90th Percentile £754 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 143 323
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.24 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.42 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +25.93% -23.94%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.75 £44.25
90th Percentile £76.58 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £46.14 £30.20 £37.18
% change year-on-year +52.78% -18.77% -17.38%

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 May 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 May 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
West London - 3 £725 -
Central London -9 2 £600 -
Lead DevOps
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 May 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 33 (100.00%) DevOps
2 24 (72.73%) CI/CD
3 23 (69.70%) Terraform
4 18 (54.55%) AWS
5 17 (51.52%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (42.42%) Python
7 12 (36.36%) Kubernetes
7 12 (36.36%) Observability
7 12 (36.36%) Security Cleared
8 11 (33.33%) Docker
8 11 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
8 11 (33.33%) SC Cleared
9 10 (30.30%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (30.30%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (30.30%) GitHub
10 9 (27.27%) Azure
11 8 (24.24%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (24.24%) Ansible
11 8 (24.24%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (24.24%) Jenkins
11 8 (24.24%) Serverless
12 7 (21.21%) Agile
12 7 (21.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (21.21%) Amazon S3
12 7 (21.21%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (21.21%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (21.21%) Bash
12 7 (21.21%) Linux
12 7 (21.21%) Microservices
12 7 (21.21%) Technical Leadership

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 2 (6.06%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 18 (54.55%) AWS
2 10 (30.30%) Amazon EKS
2 10 (30.30%) AWS CloudFormation
2 10 (30.30%) GitHub
3 9 (27.27%) Azure
4 8 (24.24%) Amazon ECS
4 8 (24.24%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (24.24%) Serverless
5 7 (21.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (21.21%) Amazon S3
5 7 (21.21%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (21.21%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (15.15%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (12.12%) Datadog
8 3 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (6.06%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (6.06%) BrowserStack
9 2 (6.06%) GCP
10 1 (3.03%) CloudFront
10 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.06%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (6.06%) Flink
2 2 (6.06%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.03%) Neo4j
3 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (24.24%) Jenkins
2 6 (18.18%) GitLab
3 4 (12.12%) Git
3 4 (12.12%) JIRA
4 2 (6.06%) Appium
5 1 (3.03%) Artifactory
5 1 (3.03%) git-flow
5 1 (3.03%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 5 (15.15%) Finance
3 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Banking
4 2 (6.06%) Front Office
4 2 (6.06%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Legal
5 1 (3.03%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) .NET
1 4 (12.12%) Kafka
2 3 (9.09%) React
3 2 (6.06%) Model Context Protocol
4 1 (3.03%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.03%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.03%) JSON
4 1 (3.03%) JSON Schema
4 1 (3.03%) Node.js
4 1 (3.03%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 3 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.21%) Linux
2 1 (3.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (100.00%) DevOps
2 24 (72.73%) CI/CD
3 17 (51.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (36.36%) Observability
5 11 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (21.21%) Agile
6 7 (21.21%) Microservices
6 7 (21.21%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (18.18%) Containerisation
7 6 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (15.15%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (15.15%) ITIL
9 4 (12.12%) AI
9 4 (12.12%) Incident Management
9 4 (12.12%) Incident Response
9 4 (12.12%) Software Delivery
9 4 (12.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 3 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
10 3 (9.09%) High Availability
10 3 (9.09%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 14 (42.42%) Python
2 7 (21.21%) Bash
3 5 (15.15%) Java
4 3 (9.09%) C#
4 3 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 3 (9.09%) TypeScript
5 2 (6.06%) Go
6 1 (3.03%) Bicep
6 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.03%) PHP
6 1 (3.03%) Ruby
6 1 (3.03%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 11 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.09%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (6.06%) AWS Certification
4 2 (6.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (69.70%) Terraform
2 12 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 8 (24.24%) Ansible
4 3 (9.09%) Grafana
4 3 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 2 (6.06%) Argo
5 2 (6.06%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.06%) Dynatrace
2 2 (6.06%) InterSystems
3 1 (3.03%) Google
3 1 (3.03%) OpenAI
3 1 (3.03%) Splunk
3 1 (3.03%) UiPath