Lead DevOps Contract Job Trends in London

Lead Development Operations
England > London

The median Lead Development Operations daily rate in London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 338 363
Rank change year-on-year -28 +25 +97
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 29 16 32
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.18% 0.12% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.13% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 8 24
10th Percentile £438 £393 £504
25th Percentile £525 £483 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £604 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.62% +5.00% -17.86%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £700
90th Percentile £788 - £746
England median daily rate £600 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +4.35% - -17.86%

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 15,206 12,012 16,987
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 93.71% 93.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,176 8,111 12,274
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £431 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 143 336
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.04 £15.97
25th Percentile £22.05 £24.66 £19.45
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year - +23.89% -19.29%
75th Percentile £61.00 £53.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.22 £64.77
England median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -23.53%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -2 4 £550 -
South London - 1 £566 -
West London - 1 £725 -
Lead DevOps
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 March 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 29 (100.00%) DevOps
2 21 (72.41%) CI/CD
3 17 (58.62%) Terraform
4 14 (48.28%) AWS
5 13 (44.83%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (31.03%) Azure
6 9 (31.03%) GitHub
6 9 (31.03%) Kubernetes
6 9 (31.03%) Observability
6 9 (31.03%) Python
7 8 (27.59%) Docker
8 7 (24.14%) Agile
8 7 (24.14%) SC Cleared
8 7 (24.14%) Security Cleared
9 6 (20.69%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (20.69%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (20.69%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (20.69%) Jenkins
9 6 (20.69%) Platform Engineering
10 5 (17.24%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (17.24%) Bash
10 5 (17.24%) Containerisation
10 5 (17.24%) Deployment Automation
10 5 (17.24%) Java
10 5 (17.24%) Linux
10 5 (17.24%) Microservices
10 5 (17.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 4 (13.79%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (13.79%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (13.79%) Ansible

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 (6.90%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (48.28%) AWS
2 9 (31.03%) Azure
2 9 (31.03%) GitHub
3 6 (20.69%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (20.69%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (20.69%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (17.24%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (13.79%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (13.79%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (13.79%) Datadog
6 3 (10.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (10.34%) Amazon S3
6 3 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (10.34%) Serverless
6 3 (10.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (6.90%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (6.90%) BrowserStack
7 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
8 1 (3.45%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (3.45%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.90%) Flink
2 2 (6.90%) Power BI
3 1 (3.45%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Jenkins
2 4 (13.79%) GitLab
2 4 (13.79%) JIRA
3 3 (10.34%) Git
4 2 (6.90%) Appium
5 1 (3.45%) Artifactory
5 1 (3.45%) git-flow
5 1 (3.45%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (20.69%) Finance
2 3 (10.34%) Banking
2 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.90%) Front Office
4 1 (3.45%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) Kafka
2 2 (6.90%) .NET
2 2 (6.90%) React
3 1 (3.45%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.45%) JSON
3 1 (3.45%) JSON Schema
3 1 (3.45%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Cloud Native
1 3 (10.34%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (3.45%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.24%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) DevOps
2 21 (72.41%) CI/CD
3 13 (44.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (31.03%) Observability
5 7 (24.14%) Agile
6 6 (20.69%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (17.24%) Containerisation
7 5 (17.24%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (17.24%) Microservices
7 5 (17.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (13.79%) Incident Response
8 4 (13.79%) Software Delivery
8 4 (13.79%) Technical Leadership
9 3 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (10.34%) Collaborative Working
9 3 (10.34%) DevSecOps
9 3 (10.34%) High Availability
9 3 (10.34%) ITIL
9 3 (10.34%) Migration
9 3 (10.34%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 9 (31.03%) Python
2 5 (17.24%) Bash
2 5 (17.24%) Java
3 2 (6.90%) Bicep
3 2 (6.90%) C#
3 2 (6.90%) Go
3 2 (6.90%) SQL
4 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) SC Cleared
1 7 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) AWS Certification
2 2 (6.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (6.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) QA
System Software
1 8 (27.59%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (58.62%) Terraform
2 9 (31.03%) Kubernetes
3 4 (13.79%) Ansible
4 3 (10.34%) Grafana
4 3 (10.34%) Prometheus
5 2 (6.90%) Argo
5 2 (6.90%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (3.45%) CASB
Vendors
1 2 (6.90%) Databricks
1 2 (6.90%) Dynatrace
1 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow
2 1 (3.45%) Google
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.45%) Splunk
2 1 (3.45%) UiPath
2 1 (3.45%) VMware