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 15 February 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 348 359
Rank change year-on-year -5 +11 +83
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 26 12 31
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.17% 0.088% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.094% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 5 27
10th Percentile £510 £548 £508
25th Percentile £556 £604 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £583
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +11.59% -15.27%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £788 - £743
England median daily rate £600 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -14.29%

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 14,143 12,712 17,275
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.66% 93.62% 93.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,424 8,189 12,471
10th Percentile £350 £331 £325
25th Percentile £425 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £780
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 140 336
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.98 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.03 £24.66 £19.05
Median hourly rate £34.14 £36.75 £28.88
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +27.27% -16.91%
75th Percentile £59.72 £53.75 £49.28
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.95 £65.88
England median hourly rate £31.49 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.03% - -9.09%

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 15 February 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 15 February 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 -6 4 £550 -
South London - 1 £566 -
West London - 1 £725 - 1
Lead DevOps
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 February 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 26 (100.00%) DevOps
2 18 (69.23%) CI/CD
3 13 (50.00%) Terraform
4 11 (42.31%) AWS
5 10 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (30.77%) Azure
6 8 (30.77%) GitHub
6 8 (30.77%) SC Cleared
6 8 (30.77%) Security Cleared
7 7 (26.92%) Agile
7 7 (26.92%) Observability
7 7 (26.92%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (23.08%) Deployment Automation
8 6 (23.08%) Kubernetes
8 6 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
8 6 (23.08%) Python
9 5 (19.23%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (19.23%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (19.23%) Containerisation
9 5 (19.23%) Docker
9 5 (19.23%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (19.23%) Java
9 5 (19.23%) Linux
9 5 (19.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 4 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (15.38%) Datadog
10 4 (15.38%) Incident Response
10 4 (15.38%) QA
11 3 (11.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (11.54%) 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 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (42.31%) AWS
2 8 (30.77%) Azure
2 8 (30.77%) GitHub
3 5 (19.23%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (19.23%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (15.38%) Datadog
5 3 (11.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (11.54%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (11.54%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 2 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 2 (7.69%) Serverless
6 2 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.85%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (7.69%) Flink
2 2 (7.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
1 3 (11.54%) JIRA
2 2 (7.69%) GitLab
3 1 (3.85%) Appium
3 1 (3.85%) git-flow
3 1 (3.85%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 7 (26.92%) Finance
2 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 3 (11.54%) Banking
4 2 (7.69%) Electronics
4 2 (7.69%) Front Office
4 2 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 2 (7.69%) Marketing
4 2 (7.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) Kafka
2 2 (7.69%) React
2 2 (7.69%) SailPoint
3 1 (3.85%) .NET
3 1 (3.85%) JSON
3 1 (3.85%) JSON Schema
3 1 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Cyber Defence
1 2 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.85%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (3.85%) Low-Code
2 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) DevOps
2 18 (69.23%) CI/CD
3 10 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (26.92%) Agile
4 7 (26.92%) Observability
4 7 (26.92%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (23.08%) Deployment Automation
5 6 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (19.23%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (19.23%) Containerisation
6 5 (19.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (15.38%) Incident Response
8 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (11.54%) DevSecOps
8 3 (11.54%) High Availability
8 3 (11.54%) ITIL
8 3 (11.54%) Knowledge Transfer
8 3 (11.54%) Microservices
8 3 (11.54%) Roadmaps
8 3 (11.54%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) Python
2 5 (19.23%) Java
3 3 (11.54%) SQL
4 2 (7.69%) Bash
4 2 (7.69%) Bicep
4 2 (7.69%) Go
5 1 (3.85%) C#
5 1 (3.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 8 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 2 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) QA
2 2 (7.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (50.00%) Terraform
2 6 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 2 (7.69%) Ansible
3 2 (7.69%) Argo
3 2 (7.69%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (3.85%) CASB
4 1 (3.85%) Grafana
4 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Databricks
2 2 (7.69%) SAP
2 2 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.85%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) UiPath
3 1 (3.85%) VMware