DevOps Contracts in South London

DevOps
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 5 8
Rank change year-on-year -11 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 19 48 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 10.27% 19.83% 17.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.73% 21.24% 19.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 37 60
10th Percentile £449 £363 £469
25th Percentile £465 £430 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £510 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.45% -15.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £634 £538 £691
90th Percentile £741 £567 £725
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 162 226 346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 87.57% 93.39% 90.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 152 277
10th Percentile £380 £216 £300
25th Percentile £463 £422 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £675
90th Percentile £876 £638 £775
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 13
10th Percentile - £17.00 £18.75
25th Percentile - £21.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £15.84 £23.50 £23.46
Median % change year-on-year -32.60% +0.17% -50.54%
75th Percentile £20.38 £75.00 £50.42
90th Percentile £73.96 £83.75 £52.46
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South London.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in South London

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in South London.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in South London

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in South London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in South London

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the South London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Croydon -7 15 £475 -6.86% 5
Bromley -4 3 £738 +13.46% 4
DevOps
London

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (15.79%) Apache
2 2 (10.53%) Camunda
2 2 (10.53%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) AWS
2 5 (26.32%) PaaS
3 4 (21.05%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (21.05%) Amazon S3
3 4 (21.05%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (21.05%) IaaS
3 4 (21.05%) Serverless
3 4 (21.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.26%) AWS KMS
4 1 (5.26%) Azure
4 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Service Fabric
4 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) MongoDB
2 5 (26.32%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (26.32%) Relational Database
3 4 (21.05%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (21.05%) Redis
4 3 (15.79%) MySQL
5 2 (10.53%) GIS
5 2 (10.53%) Impala
5 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
6 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (42.11%) Jenkins
2 7 (36.84%) Git
3 5 (26.32%) Gradle
3 5 (26.32%) JUnit
3 5 (26.32%) Liquibase
3 5 (26.32%) Mockito
4 4 (21.05%) GitLab
5 3 (15.79%) Artifactory
5 3 (15.79%) JIRA
6 2 (10.53%) Bitbucket
6 2 (10.53%) SonarQube
6 2 (10.53%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 10 (52.63%) Public Sector
2 8 (42.11%) Finance
3 5 (26.32%) Electronics
3 5 (26.32%) Manufacturing
3 5 (26.32%) Marketing
3 5 (26.32%) Telecoms
4 2 (10.53%) Banking
4 2 (10.53%) Financial Institution
4 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) DevOps Engineer
1 8 (42.11%) Software Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) AWS DevOps
2 5 (26.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Java Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Java Software Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Python Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Python Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Python Software Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (47.37%) Kafka
2 7 (36.84%) React
2 7 (36.84%) Spring
2 7 (36.84%) Spring Boot
3 5 (26.32%) OpenAPI
3 5 (26.32%) Swagger
4 3 (15.79%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (15.79%) Keycloak
5 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
5 2 (10.53%) FastAPI
5 2 (10.53%) HTML
5 2 (10.53%) pytest
5 2 (10.53%) XML
6 1 (5.26%) ARM Templates
6 1 (5.26%) AWS CDK
6 1 (5.26%) Entity Framework
6 1 (5.26%) LDAP
6 1 (5.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Onboarding
1 3 (15.79%) PKI
2 1 (5.26%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (84.21%) CI/CD
1 16 (84.21%) Containerisation
2 13 (68.42%) Microservices
3 8 (42.11%) Software Engineering
4 7 (36.84%) Agile
4 7 (36.84%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (26.32%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (26.32%) Digital Marketing
6 5 (26.32%) Migration
6 5 (26.32%) Programme Management
6 5 (26.32%) TDD
7 4 (21.05%) Cloud Security
7 4 (21.05%) Code Quality
7 4 (21.05%) Refactoring
7 4 (21.05%) Task Automation
8 3 (15.79%) High Availability
8 3 (15.79%) Load Balancing
8 3 (15.79%) Mentoring
8 3 (15.79%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) Python
2 7 (36.84%) Java
2 7 (36.84%) SQL
3 5 (26.32%) TypeScript
4 4 (21.05%) Bash
5 1 (5.26%) Go
5 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (78.95%) Security Cleared
2 14 (73.68%) SC Cleared
3 4 (21.05%) AWS Certification
3 4 (21.05%) Degree
System Software
1 14 (73.68%) Docker
2 2 (10.53%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 10 (52.63%) Kubernetes
2 9 (47.37%) Ansible
3 6 (31.58%) Terraform
4 5 (26.32%) Grafana
5 4 (21.05%) Prometheus
6 2 (10.53%) Istio
7 1 (5.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (5.26%) HAProxy
7 1 (5.26%) Puppet
7 1 (5.26%) Rancher
7 1 (5.26%) SELinux
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) SAP
2 1 (5.26%) Confluent
2 1 (5.26%) Dynatrace
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle