DevOps Contract Job Trends in South London

DevOps
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 12 7
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 50 30 50
As % of all contract jobs in South London 24.63% 12.82% 19.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 28.74% 14.42% 22.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 21 37
10th Percentile £478 £380 £448
25th Percentile £500 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £568
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -5.20% -5.42%
75th Percentile £566 £565 £638
90th Percentile £697 £738 £673
London median daily rate £550 £588 £588
% change year-on-year -6.38% - -6.00%

All Process & 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 174 208 223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 85.71% 88.89% 85.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 141 156
10th Percentile £297 £238 £188
25th Percentile £447 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.29% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £566 £600 £600
90th Percentile £641 £769 £675
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 17
10th Percentile £51.03 - £18.20
25th Percentile £54.55 £17.25 £21.75
Median hourly rate £61.22 £73.60 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.82% +145.33% -31.99%
75th Percentile £66.50 £78.40 £49.88
90th Percentile £66.62 £81.28 £69.50
London median hourly rate £31.49 £35.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -11.30% +9.23% -13.33%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South London.

DevOps job vacancy trend in South London

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing DevOps

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in South London over the 6 months to 29 December 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 29 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
Croydon +3 38 £533 -1.02% 12
Bromley -5 2 £750 +15.38% 1
Merton - 2 £300 -
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £500 - 1
DevOps
London

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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 16 (32.00%) Confluence
2 12 (24.00%) nginx
3 1 (2.00%) Apache
3 1 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.00%) IIS
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (20.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 33 (66.00%) Azure
2 29 (58.00%) AWS
3 16 (32.00%) Amazon S3
4 13 (26.00%) Amazon EC2
5 12 (24.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 12 (24.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 11 (22.00%) AWS KMS
6 11 (22.00%) Entra ID
6 11 (22.00%) Serverless
7 10 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
7 10 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
7 10 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (20.00%) Route 53
8 9 (18.00%) GitHub
9 8 (16.00%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (16.00%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (14.00%) Azure Event Grid
10 7 (14.00%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 10 (20.00%) DNS
1 10 (20.00%) Firewall
1 10 (20.00%) FTP
1 10 (20.00%) HTTP
1 10 (20.00%) IMAP
1 10 (20.00%) OpenLDAP
1 10 (20.00%) SMTP
1 10 (20.00%) SSH
2 5 (10.00%) Network Security
3 1 (2.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (24.00%) Amazon RDS
1 12 (24.00%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (6.00%) Oracle Database
4 2 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (4.00%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.00%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.00%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (36.00%) JIRA
2 16 (32.00%) Git
3 15 (30.00%) Jenkins
4 10 (20.00%) Vagrant
5 5 (10.00%) GitLab
6 2 (4.00%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (2.00%) JUnit
7 1 (2.00%) Zephyr
General
1 20 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (32.00%) Public Sector
3 10 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.00%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.00%) Banking
5 2 (4.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 28 (56.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (24.00%) AWS Engineer
3 10 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
3 10 (20.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 10 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 10 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
4 9 (18.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 8 (16.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 7 (14.00%) Developer
7 4 (8.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 4 (8.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Azure Developer
8 3 (6.00%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Backend Developer
8 3 (6.00%) Senior
9 2 (4.00%) Architect
9 2 (4.00%) Data Engineer
9 2 (4.00%) DBA
9 2 (4.00%) DevOps Specialist
9 2 (4.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (22.00%) LDAP
2 8 (16.00%) .NET
2 8 (16.00%) AngularJS
2 8 (16.00%) React
3 7 (14.00%) .NET Core
3 7 (14.00%) Node.js
3 7 (14.00%) PyTorch
3 7 (14.00%) TensorFlow
4 5 (10.00%) Entity Framework
4 5 (10.00%) Spring
5 4 (8.00%) ARM Templates
5 4 (8.00%) SailPoint
5 4 (8.00%) YAML
6 3 (6.00%) pytest
7 2 (4.00%) .NET Framework
7 2 (4.00%) boto
7 2 (4.00%) Playwright
8 1 (2.00%) ActiveMQ
8 1 (2.00%) OAuth
8 1 (2.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.00%) Replication
2 7 (14.00%) AI Agents
3 4 (8.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.00%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.00%) PKI
5 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (28.00%) Linux
2 10 (20.00%) Amazon Linux
2 10 (20.00%) Ubuntu
2 10 (20.00%) VMS
2 10 (20.00%) Windows
3 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (66.00%) CI/CD
2 18 (36.00%) Agile
2 18 (36.00%) Microservices
3 13 (26.00%) Containerisation
4 12 (24.00%) Performance Tuning
5 11 (22.00%) Patch Management
5 11 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (20.00%) Change Management
6 10 (20.00%) Cloud Security
6 10 (20.00%) Configuration Management
6 10 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
7 9 (18.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (16.00%) AI
8 8 (16.00%) RBAC
9 7 (14.00%) Machine Learning
9 7 (14.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 6 (12.00%) Analytics
10 6 (12.00%) Test Automation
11 5 (10.00%) API Management
11 5 (10.00%) Compliance Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (54.00%) Python
2 24 (48.00%) SQL
3 15 (30.00%) PowerShell
4 11 (22.00%) C#
5 10 (20.00%) Groovy
6 9 (18.00%) JavaScript
7 8 (16.00%) Bicep
8 6 (12.00%) Java
9 3 (6.00%) Bash
10 2 (4.00%) PL/SQL
10 2 (4.00%) TypeScript
11 1 (2.00%) Go
11 1 (2.00%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (2.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 33 (66.00%) SC Cleared
1 33 (66.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (26.00%) Azure Certification
3 12 (24.00%) AWS Certification
3 12 (24.00%) Degree
4 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.00%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) QA
2 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (64.00%) Docker
2 11 (22.00%) Squid
3 10 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 10 (20.00%) DFS Replication
3 10 (20.00%) Dovecot
3 10 (20.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 26 (52.00%) Terraform
2 18 (36.00%) Kubernetes
3 13 (26.00%) Grafana
4 12 (24.00%) Prometheus
5 10 (20.00%) Nessus
5 10 (20.00%) Proxmox
6 5 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (8.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (4.00%) Ansible
9 1 (2.00%) Ambari
9 1 (2.00%) Consul
9 1 (2.00%) Packer
9 1 (2.00%) Puppet
9 1 (2.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (22.00%) ServiceNow
3 10 (20.00%) Jaspersoft
4 7 (14.00%) Databricks
4 7 (14.00%) OpenAI
5 3 (6.00%) Oracle
6 1 (2.00%) Atlassian