Lead DevOps Contract Job Trends in London

Lead Development Operations
England > London

The median Lead Development Operations daily rate in London is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 347 367
Rank change year-on-year -59 +20 +62
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 48 20 22
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.24% 0.15% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.16% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 10 15
10th Percentile £484 £369 -
25th Percentile £575 £423 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £588 £650
Median % change year-on-year +19.10% -9.58% +8.33%
75th Percentile £750 £675 £750
90th Percentile £788 £763 £755
England median daily rate £675 £569 £650
% change year-on-year +18.68% -12.50% -

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 18,969 12,439 15,125
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.29% 92.80% 94.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,240 8,323 10,236
10th Percentile £363 £325 £345
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 379 207 180
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.05 £17.48
25th Percentile £21.97 £23.00 £23.63
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.49 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year +27.02% -8.06% -8.67%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.38 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £66.34 £75.00
England median hourly rate £44.46 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +76.76% -47.05% +5.56%

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 9 September 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 9 September 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
West London - 6 £750 - 3
Central London -19 5 £600 -0.08% 2
Lead DevOps
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 September 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 48 (100.00%) DevOps
2 31 (64.58%) CI/CD
3 25 (52.08%) Terraform
4 24 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
5 22 (45.83%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (43.75%) Python
7 20 (41.67%) AWS
8 18 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
9 16 (33.33%) AI
10 15 (31.25%) Kubernetes
10 15 (31.25%) Software Engineering
11 14 (29.17%) Data Science
12 13 (27.08%) Microservices
12 13 (27.08%) Security Cleared
12 13 (27.08%) Serverless
13 12 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
13 12 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (25.00%) Azure
13 12 (25.00%) Observability
13 12 (25.00%) SC Cleared
14 11 (22.92%) Amazon S3
14 11 (22.92%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (22.92%) TypeScript
15 10 (20.83%) Ansible
15 10 (20.83%) AWS CloudFormation
15 10 (20.83%) Docker
15 10 (20.83%) Integration Patterns
16 9 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
16 9 (18.75%) Jenkins

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 3 (6.25%) Jupyter
2 2 (4.17%) CMS
3 1 (2.08%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (41.67%) AWS
2 13 (27.08%) Serverless
3 12 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 12 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 12 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 12 (25.00%) Azure
4 11 (22.92%) Amazon S3
4 11 (22.92%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (20.83%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (16.67%) GitHub
8 7 (14.58%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (14.58%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (6.25%) Datadog
9 3 (6.25%) GCP
10 2 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (4.17%) Power Platform
10 2 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (2.08%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.17%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.17%) Data Lake
2 2 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.17%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.08%) KDB
3 1 (2.08%) Kdb+
3 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.08%) Neo4j
3 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.08%) Power BI
3 1 (2.08%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (2.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 8 (16.67%) GitLab
3 3 (6.25%) Git
3 3 (6.25%) JIRA
4 1 (2.08%) Appium
4 1 (2.08%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 7 (14.58%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.25%) Banking
3 3 (6.25%) Finance
3 3 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.17%) Law
5 1 (2.08%) Back Office
5 1 (2.08%) Front Office
5 1 (2.08%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.08%) Legal
5 1 (2.08%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (52.08%) Terraform
2 7 (14.58%) Model Context Protocol
3 5 (10.42%) Kafka
4 3 (6.25%) .NET
4 3 (6.25%) React
4 3 (6.25%) vLLM
5 2 (4.17%) FastAPI
5 2 (4.17%) YAML
6 1 (2.08%) ADO
6 1 (2.08%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.08%) ARM Templates
6 1 (2.08%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (2.08%) Node.js
6 1 (2.08%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.83%) Cloud Native
2 7 (14.58%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.17%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (4.17%) Fixed Income
3 2 (4.17%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.08%) Equities
4 1 (2.08%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (100.00%) DevOps
2 31 (64.58%) CI/CD
3 24 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
4 22 (45.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
6 16 (33.33%) AI
7 15 (31.25%) Software Engineering
8 14 (29.17%) Data Science
9 13 (27.08%) Microservices
10 12 (25.00%) Observability
11 10 (20.83%) Integration Patterns
12 9 (18.75%) Mentoring
12 9 (18.75%) People Management
12 9 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
13 8 (16.67%) Clean Code
13 8 (16.67%) Machine Learning
13 8 (16.67%) Software Delivery
14 7 (14.58%) Deployment Automation
14 7 (14.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 6 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 21 (43.75%) Python
2 11 (22.92%) TypeScript
3 8 (16.67%) Bash
4 5 (10.42%) PowerShell
5 4 (8.33%) Java
6 2 (4.17%) C#
6 2 (4.17%) SQL
7 1 (2.08%) Bicep
7 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.08%) PHP
7 1 (2.08%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (27.08%) Security Cleared
2 12 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 3 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (4.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (4.17%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.17%) Degree
4 2 (4.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.17%) PMO
2 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 10 (20.83%) Docker
2 1 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (31.25%) Kubernetes
2 10 (20.83%) Ansible
3 3 (6.25%) Kubeflow
3 3 (6.25%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.08%) Argo
4 1 (2.08%) Grafana
4 1 (2.08%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.17%) Dynatrace
2 2 (4.17%) InterSystems
2 2 (4.17%) SAP
3 1 (2.08%) Databricks
3 1 (2.08%) Okta
3 1 (2.08%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.08%) Splunk