Lead DevOps Contract Job Trends in London

Lead Development Operations
England > London

The median Lead Development Operations daily rate in London is £594, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 367 419
Rank change year-on-year +25 +52 +74
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 20 21 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.15% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.14% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 17
10th Percentile £391 - £555
25th Percentile £510 £625 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.62% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £725
90th Percentile £763 £755 £845
England median daily rate £575 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -11.54% - -

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 12,450 15,190 20,706
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.06% 94.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,342 10,172 15,099
10th Percentile £331 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £690
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 181 231
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.50 £18.16
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £22.39
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -6.27% +14.89%
75th Percentile £50.75 £56.00 £63.13
90th Percentile £66.73 £71.88 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £44.75
% change year-on-year -45.54% +3.20% +71.00%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Lead DevOps in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +4 3 £601 -24.70% 4
South London - 1 £495 -
Lead DevOps
England

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 17 September 2025, Lead DevOps contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Lead DevOps in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) DevOps
2 15 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 12 (60.00%) AWS
4 9 (45.00%) Security Cleared
5 8 (40.00%) SC Cleared
6 7 (35.00%) Technical Leadership
6 7 (35.00%) Public Sector
6 7 (35.00%) Azure
6 7 (35.00%) Agile
6 7 (35.00%) Finance
7 6 (30.00%) Terraform
7 6 (30.00%) Accessibility
7 6 (30.00%) Roadmaps
7 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (25.00%) Kubernetes
9 4 (20.00%) Docker
9 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
9 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
9 4 (20.00%) SQL
9 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (20.00%) QA
9 4 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
9 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
9 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
10 3 (15.00%) Strategic Roadmap
10 3 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
10 3 (15.00%) Identity Access Management
10 3 (15.00%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (15.00%) Databricks

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) AWS
2 7 (35.00%) Azure
3 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) GitHub
5 2 (10.00%) Datadog
5 2 (10.00%) GCP
5 2 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (5.00%) BrowserStack
6 1 (5.00%) CloudFront
6 1 (5.00%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.00%) PowerApps
6 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.00%) Metadata
1 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.00%) Power BI
1 1 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (10.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) GitLab
2 2 (10.00%) JIRA
2 2 (10.00%) JMeter
3 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.00%) IntelliJ
3 1 (5.00%) Vagrant
3 1 (5.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
1 7 (35.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Electronics
3 3 (15.00%) Manufacturing
3 3 (15.00%) Marketing
3 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Front Office
5 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) SailPoint
2 2 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.00%) Kafka
3 1 (5.00%) Playwright
3 1 (5.00%) Serverless Framework
3 1 (5.00%) Spring
3 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.00%) TypeORM
3 1 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.00%) Cyberattack
3 1 (5.00%) Derivative
3 1 (5.00%) Equities
3 1 (5.00%) Fixed Income
3 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
1 2 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) DevOps
2 15 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (35.00%) Agile
3 7 (35.00%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (30.00%) Roadmaps
5 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
5 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 3 (15.00%) Configuration Management
6 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (15.00%) Digital Marketing
6 3 (15.00%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.00%) Programme Management
6 3 (15.00%) Strategic Roadmap
7 2 (10.00%) Cyber Resilience
7 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) SQL
2 3 (15.00%) Java
2 3 (15.00%) Python
3 2 (10.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.00%) Bash
4 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
3 1 (5.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (20.00%) QA
3 2 (10.00%) GDPR
4 1 (5.00%) Basel III
4 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
4 1 (5.00%) HIPAA
4 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (5.00%) MiFID
4 1 (5.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Terraform
2 5 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (15.00%) Ansible
4 2 (10.00%) Progress Chef
4 2 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (10.00%) Puppet
5 1 (5.00%) Argo
5 1 (5.00%) Cilium
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Databricks
1 3 (15.00%) SAP
2 1 (5.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Rollbar
2 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.00%) Splunk