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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 2,005 3,167 5,788
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 11.45% 12.45% 14.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.96% 13.70% 16.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,426 2,319 4,339
10th Percentile £408 £450 £450
25th Percentile £481 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £725
90th Percentile £775 £806 £800
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 5
10th Percentile £48.48 £51.20 £43.88
25th Percentile £51.06 £82.50 £44.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £90.00 £57.89
Median % change year-on-year -38.89% +55.47% +5.25%
75th Percentile £62.81 - £78.75
90th Percentile £72.38 - £86.04
England median hourly rate £65.50 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year - +0.77% +19.27%

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 15,465 23,124 35,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.32% 90.91% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,089 16,746 26,132
10th Percentile £340 £375 £390
25th Percentile £449 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 264 402
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.21 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.59% +10.45% +8.07%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.08 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +4 294 £600 -4.00% 75
South London +2 45 £510 +2.00% 5
West London -4 28 £425 -29.17% 16
East London -1 22 £538 -0.46% 7
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 77 (3.84%) Confluence
2 34 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (1.70%) SharePoint
3 33 (1.65%) Apache Spark
4 27 (1.35%) CMS
5 23 (1.15%) nginx
6 22 (1.10%) IIS
7 21 (1.05%) Apache
8 9 (0.45%) OpenStack
9 8 (0.40%) Site Server
10 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.25%) WebLogic
11 5 (0.25%) WebSphere
12 4 (0.20%) Appian
12 4 (0.20%) JBoss
12 4 (0.20%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.15%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.100%) Anypoint
14 2 (0.100%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 15 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.50%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.15%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.100%) Gliffy
5 2 (0.100%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.100%) Trello
6 1 (0.050%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.050%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 43 (2.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (1.05%) Dynamics AX
3 15 (0.75%) Endur
4 9 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.45%) Shopify
5 7 (0.35%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.35%) SimCorp Dimension
6 6 (0.30%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.100%) Advent Geneva
7 2 (0.100%) BusinessWorks
7 2 (0.100%) Front Arena
8 1 (0.050%) Aareon QL
8 1 (0.050%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.050%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 1 (0.050%) MIS ActiveH
8 1 (0.050%) OPENHousing
8 1 (0.050%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.050%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.050%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.050%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,052 (52.47%) Azure
2 673 (33.57%) Azure DevOps
3 640 (31.92%) AWS
4 197 (9.83%) GCP
5 169 (8.43%) Serverless
6 155 (7.73%) GitHub
7 141 (7.03%) Power Platform
8 107 (5.34%) Azure Service Bus
9 96 (4.79%) Amazon S3
9 96 (4.79%) Dynamics 365
10 91 (4.54%) Entra ID
11 83 (4.14%) AWS Lambda
12 82 (4.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 69 (3.44%) AWS CloudFormation
14 67 (3.34%) Amazon EC2
15 65 (3.24%) Azure Logic Apps
16 64 (3.19%) PaaS
17 61 (3.04%) Azure Monitor
18 56 (2.79%) PowerApps
19 55 (2.74%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 72 (3.59%) Firewall
2 42 (2.09%) HTTP
3 33 (1.65%) DNS
4 21 (1.05%) Network Security
5 20 (1.00%) MPLS
6 19 (0.95%) BGP
6 19 (0.95%) Internet
6 19 (0.95%) VPN
7 15 (0.75%) IPv4
7 15 (0.75%) TCP/IP
8 14 (0.70%) RSVP
9 13 (0.65%) DHCP
9 13 (0.65%) SNMP
10 12 (0.60%) Ethernet VPN
10 12 (0.60%) VPLS
11 11 (0.55%) Cisco IOS
11 11 (0.55%) Kerberos
12 10 (0.50%) HSRP
12 10 (0.50%) IOS XR
12 10 (0.50%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 287 (14.31%) SQL Server
2 108 (5.39%) Power BI
3 98 (4.89%) Data Lake
4 82 (4.09%) NoSQL
5 70 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
6 64 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
7 63 (3.14%) Relational Database
8 53 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
9 50 (2.49%) Amazon RDS
10 49 (2.44%) MySQL
11 47 (2.34%) Big Data
12 40 (2.00%) MongoDB
13 36 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
14 31 (1.55%) Apache Cassandra
15 29 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
16 26 (1.30%) Tableau
17 24 (1.20%) Redis
17 24 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 20 (1.00%) Oracle Database
19 18 (0.90%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 262 (13.07%) Jenkins
2 250 (12.47%) Git
3 149 (7.43%) GitLab
4 121 (6.03%) JIRA
5 65 (3.24%) Selenium
6 53 (2.64%) SpecFlow
7 51 (2.54%) TeamCity
8 39 (1.95%) Visual Studio
9 34 (1.70%) Artifactory
10 32 (1.60%) JUnit
11 30 (1.50%) Postman
12 25 (1.25%) Bitbucket
12 25 (1.25%) SonarQube
13 24 (1.20%) Cucumber
13 24 (1.20%) Cypress.io
14 17 (0.85%) Maven
14 17 (0.85%) Mockito
15 15 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
16 14 (0.70%) JMeter
17 13 (0.65%) WebDriver
General
1 517 (25.79%) Finance
2 444 (22.14%) Social Skills
3 203 (10.12%) Public Sector
4 196 (9.78%) Banking
5 154 (7.68%) Analytical Skills
6 88 (4.39%) Front Office
7 68 (3.39%) Retail
8 59 (2.94%) Investment Banking
9 47 (2.34%) Back Office
10 42 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
11 30 (1.50%) Marketing
12 29 (1.45%) Telecoms
13 21 (1.05%) General Ledger
14 18 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 18 (0.90%) Law
14 18 (0.90%) Legal
15 15 (0.75%) Financial Institution
15 15 (0.75%) Local Government
15 15 (0.75%) Manufacturing
16 14 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 490 (24.44%) Developer
2 384 (19.15%) DevOps Engineer
3 346 (17.26%) Senior
4 182 (9.08%) Architect
5 159 (7.93%) Senior Developer
6 153 (7.63%) Lead
7 141 (7.03%) Azure Engineer
8 130 (6.48%) AWS Engineer
9 105 (5.24%) Analyst
10 95 (4.74%) AWS DevOps
11 87 (4.34%) .NET Developer
12 85 (4.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 82 (4.09%) Data Engineer
14 79 (3.94%) Consultant
15 76 (3.79%) Software Engineer
16 68 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
17 65 (3.24%) Software Developer
18 63 (3.14%) C# Developer
19 62 (3.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 61 (3.04%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 372 (18.55%) .NET
2 184 (9.18%) React
3 153 (7.63%) XML
4 137 (6.83%) .NET Core
5 135 (6.73%) Kafka
6 109 (5.44%) .NET Framework
7 105 (5.24%) AngularJS
8 101 (5.04%) HTML
9 94 (4.69%) RESTful
10 87 (4.34%) Node.js
11 85 (4.24%) CSS
11 85 (4.24%) REST
12 63 (3.14%) Spring Boot
13 60 (2.99%) ASP.NET
14 56 (2.79%) JSON
15 50 (2.49%) Spring
15 50 (2.49%) Web Services
15 50 (2.49%) YAML
16 44 (2.19%) ARM Templates
17 36 (1.80%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 147 (7.33%) Product Ownership
2 60 (2.99%) Derivative
3 56 (2.79%) Hedge funds
4 54 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
5 45 (2.24%) Data Structures
6 44 (2.19%) Cloud Native
7 39 (1.95%) Mobile App
8 36 (1.80%) Fixed Income
8 36 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
9 31 (1.55%) Clustering
9 31 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 31 (1.55%) Public Cloud
10 29 (1.45%) Onboarding
11 28 (1.40%) Equities
12 25 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
13 24 (1.20%) Algorithms
14 19 (0.95%) Data Centre
14 19 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
15 18 (0.90%) Market Risk
16 17 (0.85%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 214 (10.67%) Linux
2 126 (6.28%) Windows
3 69 (3.44%) Unix
4 47 (2.34%) Windows Server
5 30 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (0.70%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.60%) Android
8 6 (0.30%) CentOS
8 6 (0.30%) Solaris
8 6 (0.30%) VMS
9 5 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
10 4 (0.20%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.15%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.100%) AIX
13 1 (0.050%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.050%) Debian
13 1 (0.050%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 863 (43.04%) Agile
2 747 (37.26%) CI/CD
3 289 (14.41%) Scrum
4 244 (12.17%) Microservices
5 238 (11.87%) Infrastructure as Code
5 238 (11.87%) Problem-Solving
6 228 (11.37%) TDD
7 217 (10.82%) Test Automation
8 213 (10.62%) Software Engineering
9 152 (7.58%) Containerisation
10 145 (7.23%) SDLC
11 142 (7.08%) Migration
12 128 (6.38%) Continuous Integration
13 124 (6.18%) Analytics
14 123 (6.13%) Business Intelligence
15 118 (5.89%) Continuous Improvement
16 112 (5.59%) Roadmaps
17 110 (5.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 109 (5.44%) Computer Science
19 100 (4.99%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 530 (26.43%) Python
2 426 (21.25%) C#
3 376 (18.75%) SQL
4 304 (15.16%) PowerShell
5 300 (14.96%) Java
6 264 (13.17%) JavaScript
7 171 (8.53%) TypeScript
8 115 (5.74%) Go
9 113 (5.64%) Bicep
10 109 (5.44%) Bash
11 52 (2.59%) Shell Script
12 49 (2.44%) C++
13 45 (2.24%) Scala
14 29 (1.45%) T-SQL
15 25 (1.25%) Ruby
16 17 (0.85%) Groovy
17 16 (0.80%) C
17 16 (0.80%) Kotlin
18 15 (0.75%) Rust
19 14 (0.70%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 287 (14.31%) Security Cleared
2 235 (11.72%) SC Cleared
3 165 (8.23%) Degree
4 71 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (2.19%) Azure Certification
6 37 (1.85%) DV Cleared
7 36 (1.80%) AWS Certification
8 33 (1.65%) Master's Degree
9 14 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (0.65%) PMI Certification
10 13 (0.65%) PMP
11 9 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 6 (0.30%) CISM
12 6 (0.30%) CISSP
13 5 (0.25%) CCIE
13 5 (0.25%) CCIE Service Provider
13 5 (0.25%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (4.69%) QA
2 35 (1.75%) Accessibility
3 31 (1.55%) PCI DSS
4 30 (1.50%) Data Quality
5 28 (1.40%) GDPR
6 25 (1.25%) WCAG
7 20 (1.00%) SLA
8 19 (0.95%) NIST
9 14 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.25%) GRC
10 5 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.20%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.15%) COBIT
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 (0.100%) NCSC
13 2 (0.100%) SOC 2
System Software
1 319 (15.91%) Docker
2 164 (8.18%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.60%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 5 (0.25%) vSphere
7 4 (0.20%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.20%) NFS
8 2 (0.100%) Squid
8 2 (0.100%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.050%) Ceph
9 1 (0.050%) KVM
Systems Management
1 480 (23.94%) Terraform
2 457 (22.79%) Kubernetes
3 199 (9.93%) Ansible
4 85 (4.24%) Prometheus
5 82 (4.09%) Grafana
6 45 (2.24%) Puppet
7 23 (1.15%) Packer
8 22 (1.10%) Consul
9 21 (1.05%) Progress Chef
10 18 (0.90%) ITRS Geneos
10 18 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.45%) BladeLogic
12 8 (0.40%) Argo
12 8 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
12 8 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
12 8 (0.40%) Netcool
12 8 (0.40%) Opsgenie
13 7 (0.35%) Kibana
14 6 (0.30%) Tivoli
15 5 (0.25%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 429 (21.40%) Microsoft
2 118 (5.89%) Oracle
3 73 (3.64%) Databricks
4 54 (2.69%) Splunk
5 52 (2.59%) Google
6 46 (2.29%) Salesforce
7 36 (1.80%) ServiceNow
8 35 (1.75%) Dynatrace
9 34 (1.70%) Cisco
10 33 (1.65%) SAP
11 30 (1.50%) IBM
12 22 (1.10%) CyberArk
12 22 (1.10%) Fortinet
13 20 (1.00%) VMware
14 19 (0.95%) Nokia
14 19 (0.95%) Typelevel
15 18 (0.90%) Adobe
15 18 (0.90%) Informatica
16 16 (0.80%) F5
17 15 (0.75%) Red Hat