DevOps Contracts in Central London

DevOps
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 13 7
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 +3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 294 424 692
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 12.29% 11.49% 15.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.52% 12.59% 16.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 292 550
10th Percentile £416 £450 £463
25th Percentile £492 £525 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £679 £730 £738
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.75 - -
Median hourly rate £48.50 - -
75th Percentile £50.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £55.00 £90.00 £57.89
% change year-on-year -38.89% +55.47% +5.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,175 3,368 4,131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.89% 91.27% 92.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,537 2,272 3,148
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.57% +7.24%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £681
90th Percentile £799 £813 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 26 44
10th Percentile £20.22 £14.75 £18.50
25th Percentile £23.03 £17.08 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%
75th Percentile £32.09 £53.50 £52.63
90th Percentile £41.65 £88.30 £62.28
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.21 £35.08
% change year-on-year -28.59% +11.79% +7.35%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Central London

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Central London

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Central London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Central London

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in Central London

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. 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
City of London +3 279 £600 -4.00% 72
City of Westminster 0 4 £638 -20.31% 3
DevOps
London

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 13 (4.42%) Confluence
2 8 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.38%) IIS
4 5 (1.70%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.36%) CMS
5 4 (1.36%) Site Server
6 2 (0.68%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.68%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.34%) Apache
7 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.34%) nginx
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (1.02%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.72%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.68%) Endur
3 1 (0.34%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.34%) BusinessWorks
3 1 (0.34%) Front Arena
3 1 (0.34%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.34%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.34%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.34%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 164 (55.78%) Azure
2 121 (41.16%) Azure DevOps
3 70 (23.81%) AWS
4 25 (8.50%) GitHub
4 25 (8.50%) Power Platform
5 19 (6.46%) GCP
6 18 (6.12%) Serverless
7 17 (5.78%) Amazon S3
7 17 (5.78%) Dynamics 365
8 14 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
8 14 (4.76%) Entra ID
8 14 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (4.08%) PowerApps
10 11 (3.74%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (3.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 11 (3.74%) Azure Monitor
10 11 (3.74%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (3.40%) Power Automate
12 8 (2.72%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.06%) Firewall
2 7 (2.38%) Internet
3 4 (1.36%) DNS
4 2 (0.68%) CTI
4 2 (0.68%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.68%) Multicast
4 2 (0.68%) Network Security
4 2 (0.68%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.68%) SSL
4 2 (0.68%) VoIP
4 2 (0.68%) VPN
4 2 (0.68%) WAN
5 1 (0.34%) HTTP
5 1 (0.34%) LAN
5 1 (0.34%) MPLS
5 1 (0.34%) SSH
5 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (23.13%) SQL Server
2 17 (5.78%) Power BI
3 14 (4.76%) MongoDB
4 12 (4.08%) MySQL
5 11 (3.74%) Data Lake
5 11 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (3.74%) Relational Database
6 9 (3.06%) NoSQL
6 9 (3.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (1.70%) GIS
9 4 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (1.36%) Redis
9 4 (1.36%) Tableau
10 3 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.02%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.68%) KDB
11 2 (0.68%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (8.84%) Git
1 26 (8.84%) GitLab
2 25 (8.50%) Jenkins
3 14 (4.76%) JIRA
3 14 (4.76%) Selenium
4 13 (4.42%) TeamCity
5 12 (4.08%) SpecFlow
6 6 (2.04%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.04%) Visual Studio
7 5 (1.70%) Postman
7 5 (1.70%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.36%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.36%) JMeter
9 3 (1.02%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.02%) Katalon Studio
9 3 (1.02%) WebDriver
10 2 (0.68%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.68%) HP UFT
10 2 (0.68%) Subversion
10 2 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 83 (28.23%) Social Skills
2 75 (25.51%) Finance
3 42 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (10.88%) Banking
5 31 (10.54%) Public Sector
6 16 (5.44%) Investment Banking
7 12 (4.08%) Retail
8 11 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.72%) General Ledger
10 7 (2.38%) Back Office
10 7 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.38%) Legal
10 7 (2.38%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.70%) Front Office
12 4 (1.36%) Retail Banking
13 3 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.68%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 1 (0.34%) Tech for Good
15 1 (0.34%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 65 (22.11%) Developer
2 56 (19.05%) Senior
3 45 (15.31%) DevOps Engineer
4 23 (7.82%) Architect
5 21 (7.14%) Senior Developer
6 20 (6.80%) Lead
7 18 (6.12%) Analyst
8 16 (5.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 15 (5.10%) AWS Engineer
10 14 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
10 14 (4.76%) Site Engineer
11 12 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
11 12 (4.08%) Data Engineer
12 11 (3.74%) Consultant
12 11 (3.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 10 (3.40%) Azure Developer
13 10 (3.40%) Cloud Engineer
13 10 (3.40%) Full Stack Developer
13 10 (3.40%) Senior Analyst
14 9 (3.06%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (16.33%) .NET
2 27 (9.18%) Kafka
3 22 (7.48%) React
4 19 (6.46%) XML
5 17 (5.78%) .NET Framework
5 17 (5.78%) RESTful
6 16 (5.44%) .NET Core
6 16 (5.44%) HTML
6 16 (5.44%) RabbitMQ
7 15 (5.10%) AngularJS
8 14 (4.76%) ASP.NET
9 13 (4.42%) CSS
9 13 (4.42%) REST
9 13 (4.42%) Web Services
10 6 (2.04%) ASP.NET Core
10 6 (2.04%) Node.js
10 6 (2.04%) YAML
11 5 (1.70%) ARM Templates
11 5 (1.70%) Spring Boot
11 5 (1.70%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.16%) Product Ownership
2 20 (6.80%) Data Structures
3 14 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.74%) Algorithms
5 6 (2.04%) Mobile App
5 6 (2.04%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.70%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.36%) Contactless
7 4 (1.36%) Derivative
7 4 (1.36%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.36%) Wiki
8 3 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.02%) IVR
8 3 (1.02%) Life Science
8 3 (1.02%) Market Risk
8 3 (1.02%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.68%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.68%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 37 (12.59%) Linux
2 29 (9.86%) Windows
3 12 (4.08%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.70%) Unix
5 1 (0.34%) Android
5 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (42.52%) Agile
2 107 (36.39%) CI/CD
3 57 (19.39%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (14.63%) Scrum
5 37 (12.59%) SDLC
6 33 (11.22%) Infrastructure as Code
7 29 (9.86%) Microservices
8 25 (8.50%) Software Engineering
9 24 (8.16%) Test Automation
10 21 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 20 (6.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 19 (6.46%) Containerisation
12 19 (6.46%) Migration
13 17 (5.78%) Business Intelligence
13 17 (5.78%) Full Stack Development
14 16 (5.44%) TDD
15 15 (5.10%) Analytics
15 15 (5.10%) Continuous Integration
15 15 (5.10%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 87 (29.59%) Python
2 70 (23.81%) C#
3 63 (21.43%) PowerShell
4 52 (17.69%) SQL
5 42 (14.29%) Java
6 18 (6.12%) Bicep
6 18 (6.12%) Shell Script
7 16 (5.44%) JavaScript
8 13 (4.42%) Bash
8 13 (4.42%) TypeScript
9 12 (4.08%) C++
10 10 (3.40%) Go
10 10 (3.40%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.36%) Korn
11 4 (1.36%) Perl
12 2 (0.68%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.68%) Rust
12 2 (0.68%) Scala
13 1 (0.34%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.34%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 30 (10.20%) Degree
2 21 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 18 (6.12%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.06%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.38%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.70%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.68%) OCP
9 2 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.34%) PMP
10 1 (0.34%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.42%) QA
2 6 (2.04%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.04%) SLA
2 6 (2.04%) WCAG
3 5 (1.70%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.02%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.68%) GDPR
5 2 (0.68%) NIST
5 2 (0.68%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.34%) COBIT
6 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
System Software
1 38 (12.93%) Docker
2 25 (8.50%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.74%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.34%) Ceph
6 1 (0.34%) NFS
Systems Management
1 58 (19.73%) Kubernetes
2 56 (19.05%) Terraform
3 20 (6.80%) Prometheus
4 19 (6.46%) Grafana
5 17 (5.78%) Ansible
6 12 (4.08%) Consul
7 7 (2.38%) Puppet
8 5 (1.70%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.02%) Nagios
9 3 (1.02%) Packer
10 2 (0.68%) Argo
10 2 (0.68%) Graylog
10 2 (0.68%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.34%) CASB
11 1 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.34%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.34%) Rancher
Vendors
1 83 (28.23%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.14%) Oracle
3 11 (3.74%) SaltStack
4 9 (3.06%) Google
5 7 (2.38%) Splunk
6 6 (2.04%) Cadence
6 6 (2.04%) iManage
6 6 (2.04%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.04%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.70%) ESRI
7 5 (1.70%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.36%) Freshdesk
8 4 (1.36%) IBM
8 4 (1.36%) VMware
9 3 (1.02%) Cisco
9 3 (1.02%) Databricks
9 3 (1.02%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.02%) Genesys
9 3 (1.02%) Guidewire
10 2 (0.68%) New Relic