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 8 April 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 332 352
Rank change year-on-year -55 +20 +107
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 29 14 37
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.17% 0.11% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.12% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 7 26
10th Percentile £427 £390 £506
25th Percentile £525 £488 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £608 £613
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% -0.86% -12.46%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £694
90th Percentile £788 - £744
England median daily rate £600 £575 £613
% change year-on-year +4.35% -6.16% -12.46%

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 16,037 11,847 16,714
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 93.56% 93.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,725 8,116 12,060
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £430 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £756 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 147 337
10th Percentile £18.14 £21.23 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.11 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.71 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +2.03% +25.85% -22.75%
75th Percentile £59.99 £51.59 £46.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £65.00 £64.06
England median hourly rate £42.59 £32.66 £33.07
% change year-on-year +30.43% -1.24% -24.42%

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 8 April 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 8 April 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 -9 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 8 April 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 20 (68.97%) CI/CD
3 19 (65.52%) Terraform
4 15 (51.72%) AWS
5 13 (44.83%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (34.48%) Observability
7 9 (31.03%) Azure
7 9 (31.03%) GitHub
7 9 (31.03%) Kubernetes
7 9 (31.03%) Python
7 9 (31.03%) Security Cleared
8 8 (27.59%) Agile
8 8 (27.59%) Docker
8 8 (27.59%) SC Cleared
9 7 (24.14%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (20.69%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (20.69%) Ansible
10 6 (20.69%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (20.69%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (20.69%) Jenkins
10 6 (20.69%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (20.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 5 (17.24%) Bash
11 5 (17.24%) Containerisation
11 5 (17.24%) Incident Response
11 5 (17.24%) Java
11 5 (17.24%) JIRA
11 5 (17.24%) Linux
11 5 (17.24%) Microservices
12 4 (13.79%) Amazon EC2

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 15 (51.72%) AWS
2 9 (31.03%) Azure
2 9 (31.03%) GitHub
3 7 (24.14%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (20.69%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (20.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (20.69%) GitHub Actions
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%) GCP
7 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
8 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
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 5 (17.24%) JIRA
3 4 (13.79%) Git
3 4 (13.79%) GitLab
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 4 (13.79%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.34%) Banking
4 2 (6.90%) Front Office
4 2 (6.90%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) .NET
1 3 (10.34%) Kafka
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 20 (68.97%) CI/CD
3 13 (44.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (34.48%) Observability
5 8 (27.59%) Agile
6 6 (20.69%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (20.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (17.24%) Containerisation
7 5 (17.24%) Incident Response
7 5 (17.24%) Microservices
8 4 (13.79%) DevSecOps
8 4 (13.79%) ITIL
8 4 (13.79%) Software Delivery
9 3 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (10.34%) Collaborative Working
9 3 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (10.34%) Deployment Automation
9 3 (10.34%) Migration
9 3 (10.34%) Scrum
9 3 (10.34%) Technical Leadership
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
4 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (31.03%) Security Cleared
2 8 (27.59%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) AWS Certification
3 2 (6.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) QA
System Software
1 8 (27.59%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (65.52%) Terraform
2 9 (31.03%) Kubernetes
3 6 (20.69%) 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%) Dynatrace
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
1 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow
2 1 (3.45%) Google
2 1 (3.45%) InterSystems
2 1 (3.45%) Splunk
2 1 (3.45%) UiPath
2 1 (3.45%) VMware