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 1 July 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 333 368
Rank change year-on-year -52 +35 +88
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 39 21 32
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.20% 0.16% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.17% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 11 21
10th Percentile £425 £375 £563
25th Percentile £575 £400 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £705 £675 £700
90th Percentile £775 - £750
England median daily rate £650 £575 £650
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% -

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 17,901 12,043 16,408
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 93.41% 93.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,784 8,139 11,760
10th Percentile £358 £335 £325
25th Percentile £438 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 306 183 316
10th Percentile £18.07 £18.87 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.23 £20.17
Median hourly rate £39.75 £32.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.31% +18.18% -26.67%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.50 £45.18
90th Percentile £80.63 £63.75 £67.50
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £39.55
% change year-on-year +59.69% -28.75% -9.97%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -10 4 £600 - 3
West London - 4 £725 -
Lead DevOps
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 July 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 39 (100.00%) DevOps
2 29 (74.36%) CI/CD
3 25 (64.10%) Terraform
4 22 (56.41%) AWS
4 22 (56.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (43.59%) Python
6 15 (38.46%) Kubernetes
6 15 (38.46%) Platform Engineering
6 15 (38.46%) Security Cleared
7 14 (35.90%) SC Cleared
8 12 (30.77%) Docker
8 12 (30.77%) Observability
8 12 (30.77%) Serverless
9 11 (28.21%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (28.21%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (28.21%) Amazon S3
9 11 (28.21%) Ansible
9 11 (28.21%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (28.21%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (28.21%) Technical Leadership
10 10 (25.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (25.64%) Azure
10 10 (25.64%) Bash
10 10 (25.64%) Jenkins
10 10 (25.64%) Microservices
11 9 (23.08%) AI
11 9 (23.08%) GitHub
11 9 (23.08%) GitLab
11 9 (23.08%) Mentoring
12 7 (17.95%) Agile

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 (5.13%) CMS
1 2 (5.13%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 22 (56.41%) AWS
2 12 (30.77%) Serverless
3 11 (28.21%) Amazon ECS
3 11 (28.21%) Amazon EKS
3 11 (28.21%) Amazon S3
3 11 (28.21%) AWS CloudFormation
3 11 (28.21%) AWS Lambda
4 10 (25.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (25.64%) Azure
5 9 (23.08%) GitHub
6 7 (17.95%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (17.95%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (17.95%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (10.26%) GCP
8 3 (7.69%) Datadog
8 3 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (5.13%) BrowserStack
10 1 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (2.56%) Power Automate
10 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.13%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (5.13%) Data Lake
2 2 (5.13%) MongoDB
2 2 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.56%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.56%) Neo4j
3 1 (2.56%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (25.64%) Jenkins
2 9 (23.08%) GitLab
3 5 (12.82%) Git
4 4 (10.26%) JIRA
5 2 (5.13%) Appium
6 1 (2.56%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.56%) git-flow
6 1 (2.56%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (25.64%) Public Sector
2 6 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.69%) Finance
3 3 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Banking
4 2 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.13%) Law
5 1 (2.56%) Legal
5 1 (2.56%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.82%) Kafka
2 4 (10.26%) .NET
2 4 (10.26%) Model Context Protocol
3 2 (5.13%) React
4 1 (2.56%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.56%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.56%) FastAPI
4 1 (2.56%) Node.js
4 1 (2.56%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (2.56%) RESTful
4 1 (2.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (30.77%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.26%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.13%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (5.13%) Fixed Income
3 2 (5.13%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.95%) Linux
2 1 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (100.00%) DevOps
2 29 (74.36%) CI/CD
3 22 (56.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (38.46%) Platform Engineering
5 12 (30.77%) Observability
6 11 (28.21%) Technical Leadership
7 10 (25.64%) Microservices
8 9 (23.08%) AI
8 9 (23.08%) Mentoring
9 7 (17.95%) Agile
9 7 (17.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 6 (15.38%) Cloud Security
10 6 (15.38%) Containerisation
10 6 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
10 6 (15.38%) People Management
10 6 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (12.82%) Integration Patterns
11 5 (12.82%) Software Delivery
12 4 (10.26%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 17 (43.59%) Python
2 10 (25.64%) Bash
3 6 (15.38%) TypeScript
4 5 (12.82%) PowerShell
5 3 (7.69%) C#
5 3 (7.69%) Java
6 1 (2.56%) Bicep
6 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.56%) PHP
6 1 (2.56%) Scala
6 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 14 (35.90%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 3 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (7.69%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (5.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.13%) Azure Certification
4 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.13%) Degree
4 2 (5.13%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) QA
2 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (30.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (64.10%) Terraform
2 15 (38.46%) Kubernetes
3 11 (28.21%) Ansible
4 5 (12.82%) Prometheus
5 3 (7.69%) Grafana
6 1 (2.56%) Argo
6 1 (2.56%) Istio
Vendors
1 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.13%) Dynatrace
2 2 (5.13%) InterSystems
3 1 (2.56%) Google
3 1 (2.56%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.56%) Splunk
3 1 (2.56%) UiPath