Lead DevOps Contract Job Trends in London

Lead Development Operations
England > London

The median Lead Development Operations daily rate in London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2026.

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

 6 months to
19 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 333 355
Rank change year-on-year -47 +22 +104
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 31 18 41
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.17% 0.14% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.16% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 10 28
10th Percentile £425 £398 £521
25th Percentile £575 £423 £557
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £604 £650
Median % change year-on-year +3.52% -7.12% -
75th Percentile £705 £675 £700
90th Percentile £783 - £750
England median daily rate £638 £570 £650
% change year-on-year +11.84% -12.31% -

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 16,702 11,587 16,334
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.85% 93.28% 93.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,075 7,923 11,812
10th Percentile £354 £349 £325
25th Percentile £430 £428 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £688
90th Percentile £756 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -2.03% -0.36% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 143 318
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.24 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.09 £20.07
Median hourly rate £37.54 £34.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.41% +23.64% -21.43%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.75 £46.05
90th Percentile £76.58 £65.00 £65.32
England median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £36.92
% change year-on-year +50.00% -18.73% -17.54%

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 19 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 19 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
Central London -11 3 £600 -
West London - 2 £725 -
Lead DevOps
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 31 (100.00%) DevOps
2 21 (67.74%) CI/CD
3 20 (64.52%) Terraform
4 15 (48.39%) AWS
5 14 (45.16%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (41.94%) Security Cleared
7 12 (38.71%) Python
7 12 (38.71%) SC Cleared
8 11 (35.48%) Platform Engineering
9 10 (32.26%) Kubernetes
9 10 (32.26%) Observability
10 9 (29.03%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (29.03%) Azure
10 9 (29.03%) Docker
10 9 (29.03%) GitHub
11 8 (25.81%) Ansible
12 7 (22.58%) Agile
12 7 (22.58%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (22.58%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (22.58%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (19.35%) Serverless
13 6 (19.35%) Technical Leadership
14 5 (16.13%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (16.13%) Amazon S3
14 5 (16.13%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (16.13%) Bash
14 5 (16.13%) Jenkins
14 5 (16.13%) Linux
14 5 (16.13%) Microservices
15 4 (12.90%) .NET

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 (6.45%) Confluence
2 1 (3.23%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 15 (48.39%) AWS
2 9 (29.03%) AWS CloudFormation
2 9 (29.03%) Azure
2 9 (29.03%) GitHub
3 7 (22.58%) Amazon EKS
3 7 (22.58%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (22.58%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (19.35%) Serverless
5 5 (16.13%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (16.13%) Amazon S3
5 5 (16.13%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (12.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (9.68%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (6.45%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (6.45%) BrowserStack
8 2 (6.45%) GCP
9 1 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (3.23%) Datadog
9 1 (3.23%) OpenShift
9 1 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (6.45%) Flink
1 2 (6.45%) MongoDB
1 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.23%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.23%) Neo4j
2 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.90%) Git
2 4 (12.90%) GitLab
2 4 (12.90%) JIRA
3 2 (6.45%) Appium
4 1 (3.23%) Artifactory
4 1 (3.23%) git-flow
4 1 (3.23%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (22.58%) Public Sector
2 4 (12.90%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Finance
4 2 (6.45%) Banking
4 2 (6.45%) Front Office
4 2 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Legal
5 1 (3.23%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.90%) .NET
1 4 (12.90%) Kafka
2 3 (9.68%) React
3 2 (6.45%) Model Context Protocol
4 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.23%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.23%) JSON
4 1 (3.23%) JSON Schema
4 1 (3.23%) Node.js
4 1 (3.23%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.13%) Linux
2 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (100.00%) DevOps
2 21 (67.74%) CI/CD
3 14 (45.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (35.48%) Platform Engineering
5 10 (32.26%) Observability
6 7 (22.58%) Agile
7 6 (19.35%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (16.13%) Microservices
9 4 (12.90%) AI
9 4 (12.90%) Containerisation
9 4 (12.90%) Incident Management
9 4 (12.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 4 (12.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 3 (9.68%) Deployment Automation
10 3 (9.68%) ITIL
10 3 (9.68%) Mentoring
10 3 (9.68%) Migration
10 3 (9.68%) Scrum
10 3 (9.68%) Software Delivery
10 3 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (38.71%) Python
2 5 (16.13%) Bash
3 3 (9.68%) C#
3 3 (9.68%) Java
3 3 (9.68%) PowerShell
3 3 (9.68%) TypeScript
4 2 (6.45%) Go
5 1 (3.23%) Bicep
5 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.23%) PHP
5 1 (3.23%) Ruby
5 1 (3.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (41.94%) Security Cleared
2 12 (38.71%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.68%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (6.45%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (29.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (64.52%) Terraform
2 10 (32.26%) Kubernetes
3 8 (25.81%) Ansible
4 3 (9.68%) Grafana
4 3 (9.68%) Prometheus
5 2 (6.45%) Argo
Vendors
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.45%) Dynatrace
2 2 (6.45%) InterSystems
3 1 (3.23%) Google
3 1 (3.23%) OpenAI
3 1 (3.23%) Splunk
3 1 (3.23%) UiPath
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