DevOps Contracts in London

DevOps
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 1,952 3,313 5,769
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 11.18% 12.80% 14.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.61% 14.08% 16.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,385 2,411 4,342
10th Percentile £412 £450 £450
25th Percentile £481 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £713
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 7
10th Percentile £49.05 £61.60 £43.92
25th Percentile £52.50 £75.00 £50.95
Median hourly rate £55.00 £80.00 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +1.59% +43.18%
75th Percentile £58.75 £90.00 £85.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £92.50 £87.36
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £60.02
% change year-on-year -0.76% +9.13% +14.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,475 23,527 35,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.65% 90.92% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,094 16,975 26,024
10th Percentile £343 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 269 415
10th Percentile £15.77 £18.40 £17.55
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.49 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.84 £37.34 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.44% -0.43% +14.77%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.25 £51.61
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.30 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in London

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in London

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in London

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in London

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in London

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 DevOps within the London region over the 6 months to 16 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
Central London +4 282 £598 -4.37% 95
South London +3 49 £510 +2.00% 6
West London -7 26 £375 -37.50% 18
East London +3 22 £538 +4.37% 18
DevOps
England

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 79 (4.05%) Confluence
2 32 (1.64%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
4 30 (1.54%) Apache Spark
5 27 (1.38%) CMS
6 25 (1.28%) nginx
7 21 (1.08%) IIS
8 19 (0.97%) Apache
9 14 (0.72%) OpenStack
10 8 (0.41%) Site Server
11 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.31%) Tornado
11 6 (0.31%) WebSphere
12 5 (0.26%) WebLogic
13 4 (0.20%) Appian
13 4 (0.20%) JBoss
14 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.15%) ArcGIS
14 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
15 2 (0.10%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 15 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.51%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.15%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.10%) Trello
6 1 (0.051%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.051%) Gliffy
6 1 (0.051%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 41 (2.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (1.08%) Dynamics AX
3 14 (0.72%) Endur
4 9 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.41%) Shopify
6 6 (0.31%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.31%) NEC Housing
6 6 (0.31%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.10%) Advent Geneva
7 2 (0.10%) BusinessWorks
7 2 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.10%) Front Arena
8 1 (0.051%) Aareon QL
8 1 (0.051%) Infor SunSystems
8 1 (0.051%) OPENHousing
8 1 (0.051%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.051%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.051%) SAP Hybris
8 1 (0.051%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.051%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,034 (52.97%) Azure
2 645 (33.04%) Azure DevOps
3 627 (32.12%) AWS
4 193 (9.89%) GCP
5 171 (8.76%) Serverless
6 148 (7.58%) GitHub
7 138 (7.07%) Power Platform
8 106 (5.43%) Azure Service Bus
9 92 (4.71%) Amazon S3
10 89 (4.56%) Dynamics 365
11 86 (4.41%) Entra ID
12 82 (4.20%) AWS Lambda
12 82 (4.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 68 (3.48%) AWS CloudFormation
13 68 (3.48%) PaaS
14 64 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
14 64 (3.28%) Azure Logic Apps
15 63 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
16 56 (2.87%) PowerApps
17 54 (2.77%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 71 (3.64%) Firewall
2 42 (2.15%) HTTP
3 41 (2.10%) DNS
4 25 (1.28%) Network Security
5 24 (1.23%) MPLS
6 23 (1.18%) BGP
6 23 (1.18%) VPN
7 20 (1.02%) Internet
7 20 (1.02%) TCP/IP
8 19 (0.97%) IPv4
9 18 (0.92%) RSVP
10 17 (0.87%) SNMP
11 16 (0.82%) Ethernet VPN
11 16 (0.82%) VPLS
12 15 (0.77%) DHCP
13 14 (0.72%) HSRP
13 14 (0.72%) VRRP
14 13 (0.67%) Cisco IOS
15 12 (0.61%) IOS XR
16 9 (0.46%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 290 (14.86%) SQL Server
2 104 (5.33%) Power BI
3 95 (4.87%) Data Lake
4 75 (3.84%) NoSQL
5 69 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
6 63 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
7 62 (3.18%) Relational Database
8 49 (2.51%) Amazon RDS
8 49 (2.51%) MySQL
9 48 (2.46%) Azure SQL Database
10 45 (2.31%) Big Data
11 41 (2.10%) MongoDB
12 35 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
13 33 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
14 28 (1.43%) Apache Cassandra
15 24 (1.23%) Redis
16 23 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 22 (1.13%) Tableau
18 19 (0.97%) Oracle Database
19 17 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 248 (12.70%) Git
2 238 (12.19%) Jenkins
3 136 (6.97%) GitLab
4 123 (6.30%) JIRA
5 55 (2.82%) Selenium
6 51 (2.61%) SpecFlow
6 51 (2.61%) TeamCity
7 38 (1.95%) Visual Studio
8 32 (1.64%) Artifactory
9 30 (1.54%) JUnit
10 27 (1.38%) Bitbucket
11 24 (1.23%) Cucumber
12 22 (1.13%) SonarQube
13 21 (1.08%) Cypress.io
13 21 (1.08%) Postman
14 19 (0.97%) Maven
15 17 (0.87%) Mockito
16 13 (0.67%) WebDriver
17 12 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
17 12 (0.61%) Subversion
General
1 496 (25.41%) Finance
2 443 (22.69%) Social Skills
3 206 (10.55%) Public Sector
4 179 (9.17%) Banking
5 144 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
6 89 (4.56%) Front Office
7 67 (3.43%) Retail
8 56 (2.87%) Investment Banking
9 50 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
10 47 (2.41%) Back Office
11 31 (1.59%) Marketing
12 30 (1.54%) Telecoms
13 21 (1.08%) General Ledger
14 20 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 19 (0.97%) Law
16 18 (0.92%) Legal
17 16 (0.82%) Manufacturing
18 15 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
18 15 (0.77%) Local Government
19 14 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 467 (23.92%) Developer
2 369 (18.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 331 (16.96%) Senior
4 185 (9.48%) Architect
5 159 (8.15%) Lead
6 156 (7.99%) Senior Developer
7 141 (7.22%) Azure Engineer
8 124 (6.35%) AWS Engineer
9 102 (5.23%) Analyst
10 89 (4.56%) AWS DevOps
11 86 (4.41%) .NET Developer
12 84 (4.30%) Consultant
13 80 (4.10%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 76 (3.89%) Software Engineer
15 75 (3.84%) Data Engineer
16 66 (3.38%) Solutions Architect
17 64 (3.28%) Software Developer
18 61 (3.13%) C# Developer
19 59 (3.02%) Java Developer
20 58 (2.97%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 369 (18.90%) .NET
2 182 (9.32%) React
3 156 (7.99%) XML
4 138 (7.07%) .NET Core
5 125 (6.40%) Kafka
6 106 (5.43%) .NET Framework
7 101 (5.17%) AngularJS
8 95 (4.87%) HTML
9 88 (4.51%) Node.js
10 84 (4.30%) REST
11 83 (4.25%) RESTful
12 81 (4.15%) CSS
13 65 (3.33%) JSON
14 61 (3.13%) ASP.NET
15 56 (2.87%) Spring Boot
16 51 (2.61%) Web Services
17 50 (2.56%) YAML
18 46 (2.36%) Spring
19 40 (2.05%) ARM Templates
20 39 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 138 (7.07%) Product Ownership
2 60 (3.07%) Derivative
3 56 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
4 54 (2.77%) Hedge funds
5 45 (2.31%) Cloud Native
6 44 (2.25%) Data Structures
7 38 (1.95%) Fixed Income
8 37 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
9 34 (1.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 33 (1.69%) Mobile App
11 32 (1.64%) Public Cloud
12 31 (1.59%) Equities
12 31 (1.59%) Onboarding
13 30 (1.54%) Clustering
14 23 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
15 22 (1.13%) Data Centre
16 21 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
17 20 (1.02%) Algorithms
18 19 (0.97%) Market Risk
19 17 (0.87%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 213 (10.91%) Linux
2 134 (6.86%) Windows
3 60 (3.07%) Unix
4 54 (2.77%) Windows Server
5 25 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.61%) Apple iOS
7 10 (0.51%) Android
8 9 (0.46%) CentOS
9 7 (0.36%) Solaris
9 7 (0.36%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.36%) VMS
10 6 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (0.15%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.10%) AIX
13 1 (0.051%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.051%) Debian
13 1 (0.051%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 844 (43.24%) Agile
2 725 (37.14%) CI/CD
3 285 (14.60%) Scrum
4 236 (12.09%) Problem-Solving
5 224 (11.48%) Microservices
6 222 (11.37%) TDD
7 218 (11.17%) Infrastructure as Code
8 216 (11.07%) Software Engineering
9 205 (10.50%) Test Automation
10 141 (7.22%) Migration
11 136 (6.97%) SDLC
12 133 (6.81%) Containerisation
13 125 (6.40%) Continuous Integration
14 120 (6.15%) Business Intelligence
15 115 (5.89%) Analytics
16 107 (5.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 105 (5.38%) Continuous Improvement
18 103 (5.28%) Computer Science
18 103 (5.28%) Roadmaps
19 98 (5.02%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 522 (26.74%) Python
2 428 (21.93%) C#
3 369 (18.90%) SQL
4 299 (15.32%) PowerShell
5 282 (14.45%) Java
6 258 (13.22%) JavaScript
7 170 (8.71%) TypeScript
8 113 (5.79%) Bicep
9 102 (5.23%) Go
10 101 (5.17%) Bash
11 47 (2.41%) Shell Script
12 45 (2.31%) C++
13 39 (2.00%) Scala
14 26 (1.33%) T-SQL
15 25 (1.28%) Ruby
16 14 (0.72%) C
16 14 (0.72%) Kotlin
16 14 (0.72%) Rust
17 13 (0.67%) PL/SQL
18 12 (0.61%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 273 (13.99%) Security Cleared
2 229 (11.73%) SC Cleared
3 157 (8.04%) Degree
4 70 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (1.90%) DV Cleared
6 35 (1.79%) AWS Certification
7 34 (1.74%) Azure Certification
8 27 (1.38%) Master's Degree
9 15 (0.77%) PMI Certification
9 15 (0.77%) PMP
10 14 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 7 (0.36%) CCIE
14 7 (0.36%) CCIE Service Provider
15 5 (0.26%) CCNP
15 5 (0.26%) CISSP
16 4 (0.20%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (5.23%) QA
2 32 (1.64%) Accessibility
3 28 (1.43%) Data Quality
3 28 (1.43%) GDPR
4 27 (1.38%) PCI DSS
5 24 (1.23%) WCAG
6 21 (1.08%) SLA
7 20 (1.02%) NIST
8 18 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.26%) GRC
11 4 (0.20%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.15%) IFRS
12 3 (0.15%) IFRS 17
12 3 (0.15%) ISO 22301
12 3 (0.15%) PMO
12 3 (0.15%) Solvency II
13 2 (0.10%) COBIT
13 2 (0.10%) NCSC
13 2 (0.10%) SOC 2
System Software
1 296 (15.16%) Docker
2 160 (8.20%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.61%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 5 (0.26%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.26%) NFS
6 5 (0.26%) vSphere
7 2 (0.10%) Squid
7 2 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.051%) Ceph
8 1 (0.051%) KVM
8 1 (0.051%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 450 (23.05%) Terraform
2 424 (21.72%) Kubernetes
3 180 (9.22%) Ansible
4 83 (4.25%) Prometheus
5 79 (4.05%) Grafana
6 39 (2.00%) Puppet
7 25 (1.28%) Consul
8 20 (1.02%) Progress Chef
9 19 (0.97%) ITRS Geneos
10 18 (0.92%) Packer
10 18 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
11 11 (0.56%) Kibana
12 9 (0.46%) BladeLogic
12 9 (0.46%) Netcool
13 8 (0.41%) Argo
13 8 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
13 8 (0.41%) Opsgenie
14 7 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (0.36%) logstash
14 7 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 428 (21.93%) Microsoft
2 118 (6.05%) Oracle
3 75 (3.84%) Databricks
4 54 (2.77%) Splunk
5 46 (2.36%) Google
6 44 (2.25%) Salesforce
7 37 (1.90%) SAP
7 37 (1.90%) ServiceNow
8 36 (1.84%) Dynatrace
9 33 (1.69%) Cisco
10 31 (1.59%) IBM
11 24 (1.23%) CyberArk
12 23 (1.18%) Nokia
13 21 (1.08%) VMware
14 19 (0.97%) Fortinet
15 18 (0.92%) Adobe
15 18 (0.92%) Typelevel
16 15 (0.77%) Citrix
16 15 (0.77%) Informatica
16 15 (0.77%) Red Hat