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 9 December 2025.

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

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 370 377
Rank change year-on-year +17 +7 +98
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 28 7 32
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.20% 0.045% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.048% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 2 22
10th Percentile £491 £532 £478
25th Percentile £538 £566 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £633 £591
Median % change year-on-year -5.14% +6.98% -10.75%
75th Percentile £719 £701 £668
90th Percentile £805 £735 £724
England median daily rate £588 £565 £625
% change year-on-year +3.98% -9.60% -7.41%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 13,179 14,595 18,242
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.19% 93.55% 93.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,760 9,478 13,182
10th Percentile £338 £338 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £799 £788
England median daily rate £507 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 152 214
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.05
25th Percentile £21.12 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £27.61 £36.65 £36.14
Median % change year-on-year -24.68% +1.41% +3.26%
75th Percentile £53.59 £54.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.16 £80.75 £73.31
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +36.36%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 +11 5 £550 -26.17% 2
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 9 December 2025, 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 28 (100.00%) DevOps
2 20 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 14 (50.00%) AWS
4 11 (39.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (39.29%) Security Cleared
4 11 (39.29%) Terraform
5 10 (35.71%) SC Cleared
6 8 (28.57%) Agile
6 8 (28.57%) Azure
6 8 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (25.00%) Jenkins
8 6 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (21.43%) Containerisation
8 6 (21.43%) Kubernetes
8 6 (21.43%) Linux
8 6 (21.43%) Observability
8 6 (21.43%) Python
9 5 (17.86%) Accessibility
9 5 (17.86%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (17.86%) Databricks
9 5 (17.86%) Deployment Automation
9 5 (17.86%) Docker
9 5 (17.86%) GitHub
9 5 (17.86%) Java
9 5 (17.86%) Platform Engineering
9 5 (17.86%) Roadmaps
10 4 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (14.29%) Configuration Management
10 4 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (14.29%) DevSecOps

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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (50.00%) AWS
2 8 (28.57%) Azure
3 5 (17.86%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (17.86%) GitHub
4 4 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (10.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (10.71%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (10.71%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (10.71%) Datadog
5 3 (10.71%) Power Platform
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
6 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (7.14%) GCP
6 2 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (7.14%) Serverless
6 2 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (3.57%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.57%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) Power BI
2 2 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.57%) Flink
3 1 (3.57%) Metadata
3 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (14.29%) GitLab
3 3 (10.71%) JIRA
4 2 (7.14%) Git
5 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.57%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.57%) JMeter
5 1 (3.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (32.14%) Finance
2 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 4 (14.29%) Banking
4 3 (10.71%) Electronics
4 3 (10.71%) Manufacturing
4 3 (10.71%) Marketing
4 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
4 3 (10.71%) Telecoms
5 2 (7.14%) Front Office
6 1 (3.57%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) SailPoint
2 2 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (7.14%) Kafka
3 1 (3.57%) Playwright
3 1 (3.57%) React
3 1 (3.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (3.57%) Cyberattack
3 1 (3.57%) Derivative
3 1 (3.57%) Equities
3 1 (3.57%) Fixed Income
3 1 (3.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (21.43%) Linux
2 2 (7.14%) Unix
3 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) DevOps
2 20 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 11 (39.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (28.57%) Agile
4 8 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (21.43%) Containerisation
5 6 (21.43%) Observability
6 5 (17.86%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (17.86%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (17.86%) Roadmaps
7 4 (14.29%) Configuration Management
7 4 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (14.29%) DevSecOps
7 4 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
7 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (14.29%) Product Roadmap
7 4 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 3 (10.71%) ITIL
8 3 (10.71%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (21.43%) Python
2 5 (17.86%) Java
3 4 (14.29%) SQL
4 2 (7.14%) Bash
4 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.57%) Bicep
5 1 (3.57%) Go
5 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.57%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (39.29%) Security Cleared
2 10 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 2 (7.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.57%) Degree
4 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.57%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) Accessibility
2 4 (14.29%) QA
3 1 (3.57%) Basel III
3 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.57%) GDPR
3 1 (3.57%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.57%) MiFID
3 1 (3.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (39.29%) Terraform
2 6 (21.43%) Kubernetes
3 3 (10.71%) Ansible
4 2 (7.14%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (7.14%) Progress Chef
4 2 (7.14%) Prometheus
4 2 (7.14%) Puppet
5 1 (3.57%) Argo
5 1 (3.57%) CASB
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Databricks
2 3 (10.71%) SAP
3 2 (7.14%) Dynatrace
3 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.57%) Splunk
4 1 (3.57%) VMware