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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 1,958 3,311 5,840
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 11.20% 12.73% 15.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.65% 14.00% 16.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,392 2,414 4,391
10th Percentile £413 £450 £450
25th Percentile £475 £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 7 5
10th Percentile £49.05 £48.20 £43.88
25th Percentile £52.50 £77.50 £44.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £85.00 £57.89
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +46.83% +5.25%
75th Percentile £58.75 £90.00 £78.75
90th Percentile £70.75 £95.00 £86.04
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £57.89
% change year-on-year -0.76% +13.15% +10.27%

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 15,484 23,644 35,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.60% 90.88% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,107 17,068 26,253
10th Percentile £340 £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 £681 £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 308 267 420
10th Percentile £15.81 £18.30 £17.24
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.45 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.92 £37.34 £36.41
Median % change year-on-year -25.23% +2.55% +13.78%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.88 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.83 £82.50 £67.56
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +4 286 £575 -8.00% 94
South London +3 49 £510 +2.00% 7
West London -6 26 £375 -37.50% 17
East London +5 22 £538 +4.37% 164
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 (4.03%) Confluence
2 33 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (1.69%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.58%) Apache Spark
4 27 (1.38%) CMS
5 25 (1.28%) nginx
6 21 (1.07%) IIS
7 19 (0.97%) Apache
8 14 (0.72%) OpenStack
9 9 (0.46%) Site Server
10 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.26%) WebLogic
11 5 (0.26%) WebSphere
12 4 (0.20%) Appian
12 4 (0.20%) JBoss
13 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.15%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.15%) Tornado
14 2 (0.10%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 14 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.66%) 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 42 (2.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (1.07%) Dynamics AX
3 15 (0.77%) Endur
4 9 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.46%) Shopify
5 7 (0.36%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.36%) SimCorp Dimension
6 6 (0.31%) NEC Housing
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%) Infor SunSystems
8 1 (0.051%) MIS ActiveH
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 (52.81%) Azure
2 651 (33.25%) Azure DevOps
3 629 (32.12%) AWS
4 193 (9.86%) GCP
5 172 (8.78%) Serverless
6 149 (7.61%) GitHub
7 143 (7.30%) Power Platform
8 107 (5.46%) Azure Service Bus
9 94 (4.80%) Amazon S3
10 90 (4.60%) Dynamics 365
11 87 (4.44%) Entra ID
12 83 (4.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 82 (4.19%) AWS Lambda
14 69 (3.52%) PaaS
15 68 (3.47%) AWS CloudFormation
16 65 (3.32%) Amazon EC2
16 65 (3.32%) Azure Logic Apps
17 64 (3.27%) Azure Monitor
18 56 (2.86%) PowerApps
19 55 (2.81%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 71 (3.63%) Firewall
2 42 (2.15%) HTTP
3 41 (2.09%) DNS
4 25 (1.28%) Network Security
5 23 (1.17%) VPN
6 22 (1.12%) MPLS
7 21 (1.07%) BGP
8 20 (1.02%) Internet
8 20 (1.02%) TCP/IP
9 17 (0.87%) IPv4
10 16 (0.82%) RSVP
11 15 (0.77%) DHCP
11 15 (0.77%) SNMP
12 14 (0.72%) Ethernet VPN
12 14 (0.72%) VPLS
13 12 (0.61%) Cisco IOS
13 12 (0.61%) HSRP
13 12 (0.61%) VRRP
14 11 (0.56%) IOS XR
15 9 (0.46%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 289 (14.76%) SQL Server
2 109 (5.57%) Power BI
3 97 (4.95%) Data Lake
4 76 (3.88%) NoSQL
5 70 (3.58%) PostgreSQL
6 64 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
7 62 (3.17%) Relational Database
8 49 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
8 49 (2.50%) MySQL
9 48 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
10 46 (2.35%) Big Data
11 41 (2.09%) MongoDB
12 37 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
13 33 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
14 28 (1.43%) Apache Cassandra
15 25 (1.28%) Tableau
16 24 (1.23%) Redis
17 23 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 20 (1.02%) Oracle Database
19 18 (0.92%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 249 (12.72%) Git
2 243 (12.41%) Jenkins
3 137 (7.00%) GitLab
4 124 (6.33%) JIRA
5 55 (2.81%) Selenium
6 51 (2.60%) SpecFlow
6 51 (2.60%) TeamCity
7 38 (1.94%) Visual Studio
8 33 (1.69%) Artifactory
9 30 (1.53%) JUnit
10 27 (1.38%) Bitbucket
11 24 (1.23%) Cucumber
12 22 (1.12%) Postman
12 22 (1.12%) SonarQube
13 21 (1.07%) Cypress.io
14 19 (0.97%) Maven
15 17 (0.87%) Mockito
16 13 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
16 13 (0.66%) WebDriver
17 12 (0.61%) Subversion
General
1 501 (25.59%) Finance
2 447 (22.83%) Social Skills
3 205 (10.47%) Public Sector
4 176 (8.99%) Banking
5 148 (7.56%) Analytical Skills
6 89 (4.55%) Front Office
7 67 (3.42%) Retail
8 54 (2.76%) Investment Banking
9 48 (2.45%) Back Office
9 48 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
10 32 (1.63%) Marketing
11 30 (1.53%) Telecoms
12 21 (1.07%) General Ledger
13 20 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 19 (0.97%) Law
15 18 (0.92%) Legal
16 16 (0.82%) Manufacturing
17 15 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
18 14 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
18 14 (0.72%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 469 (23.95%) Developer
2 369 (18.85%) DevOps Engineer
3 336 (17.16%) Senior
4 184 (9.40%) Architect
5 158 (8.07%) Lead
5 158 (8.07%) Senior Developer
6 140 (7.15%) Azure Engineer
7 128 (6.54%) AWS Engineer
8 105 (5.36%) Analyst
9 91 (4.65%) AWS DevOps
10 85 (4.34%) .NET Developer
11 83 (4.24%) Consultant
12 82 (4.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 76 (3.88%) Data Engineer
13 76 (3.88%) Software Engineer
14 65 (3.32%) Solutions Architect
15 64 (3.27%) Software Developer
16 62 (3.17%) C# Developer
17 60 (3.06%) Java Developer
18 58 (2.96%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 370 (18.90%) .NET
2 179 (9.14%) React
3 154 (7.87%) XML
4 139 (7.10%) .NET Core
5 122 (6.23%) Kafka
6 106 (5.41%) .NET Framework
7 100 (5.11%) AngularJS
8 96 (4.90%) HTML
9 86 (4.39%) REST
10 85 (4.34%) Node.js
11 83 (4.24%) RESTful
12 82 (4.19%) CSS
13 63 (3.22%) JSON
14 60 (3.06%) ASP.NET
15 57 (2.91%) Spring Boot
16 52 (2.66%) Web Services
17 51 (2.60%) YAML
18 47 (2.40%) Spring
19 40 (2.04%) ARM Templates
20 39 (1.99%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 140 (7.15%) Product Ownership
2 60 (3.06%) Derivative
3 56 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
4 55 (2.81%) Hedge funds
5 45 (2.30%) Cloud Native
6 44 (2.25%) Data Structures
7 36 (1.84%) Fixed Income
8 35 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
9 34 (1.74%) Mobile App
9 34 (1.74%) Public Cloud
10 33 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 32 (1.63%) Clustering
12 31 (1.58%) Onboarding
13 30 (1.53%) Equities
14 22 (1.12%) Data Centre
15 21 (1.07%) Distributed Architecture
15 21 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
16 20 (1.02%) Algorithms
17 19 (0.97%) Market Risk
18 17 (0.87%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 212 (10.83%) Linux
2 131 (6.69%) Windows
3 61 (3.12%) Unix
4 53 (2.71%) 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 8 (0.41%) VMS
10 7 (0.36%) Solaris
10 7 (0.36%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.15%) Windows 10
13 2 (0.10%) AIX
14 1 (0.051%) Alpine Linux
14 1 (0.051%) Debian
14 1 (0.051%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 848 (43.31%) Agile
2 727 (37.13%) CI/CD
3 288 (14.71%) Scrum
4 236 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
5 225 (11.49%) Microservices
6 224 (11.44%) Infrastructure as Code
7 220 (11.24%) TDD
8 214 (10.93%) Software Engineering
9 205 (10.47%) Test Automation
10 144 (7.35%) Migration
11 140 (7.15%) Containerisation
12 138 (7.05%) SDLC
13 126 (6.44%) Continuous Integration
14 125 (6.38%) Business Intelligence
15 119 (6.08%) Analytics
16 110 (5.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 108 (5.52%) Continuous Improvement
18 106 (5.41%) Computer Science
19 105 (5.36%) Roadmaps
20 98 (5.01%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 528 (26.97%) Python
2 429 (21.91%) C#
3 372 (19.00%) SQL
4 301 (15.37%) PowerShell
5 284 (14.50%) Java
6 257 (13.13%) JavaScript
7 166 (8.48%) TypeScript
8 114 (5.82%) Bicep
9 104 (5.31%) Go
10 101 (5.16%) Bash
11 48 (2.45%) Shell Script
12 45 (2.30%) C++
13 39 (1.99%) Scala
14 27 (1.38%) T-SQL
15 24 (1.23%) Ruby
16 14 (0.72%) C
16 14 (0.72%) Kotlin
16 14 (0.72%) PL/SQL
16 14 (0.72%) Rust
17 12 (0.61%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 273 (13.94%) Security Cleared
2 227 (11.59%) SC Cleared
3 161 (8.22%) Degree
4 73 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (1.94%) DV Cleared
6 35 (1.79%) Azure Certification
7 34 (1.74%) AWS Certification
8 29 (1.48%) 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 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 6 (0.31%) CCIE
14 6 (0.31%) CCIE Service Provider
14 6 (0.31%) CISSP
15 5 (0.26%) CCNP
15 5 (0.26%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (5.11%) QA
2 32 (1.63%) Accessibility
3 28 (1.43%) Data Quality
3 28 (1.43%) GDPR
3 28 (1.43%) PCI DSS
4 25 (1.28%) WCAG
5 21 (1.07%) SLA
6 20 (1.02%) NIST
7 18 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.26%) GRC
10 4 (0.20%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.15%) IFRS
11 3 (0.15%) IFRS 17
11 3 (0.15%) ISO 22301
11 3 (0.15%) PMO
11 3 (0.15%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.10%) COBIT
12 2 (0.10%) NCSC
12 2 (0.10%) SOC 2
System Software
1 300 (15.32%) Docker
2 162 (8.27%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.63%) 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
Systems Management
1 456 (23.29%) Terraform
2 426 (21.76%) Kubernetes
3 181 (9.24%) Ansible
4 88 (4.49%) Prometheus
5 82 (4.19%) Grafana
6 39 (1.99%) Puppet
7 25 (1.28%) Consul
8 20 (1.02%) Progress Chef
9 19 (0.97%) ITRS Geneos
9 19 (0.97%) 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%) Microsoft Intune
13 8 (0.41%) Opsgenie
14 7 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (0.36%) logstash
Vendors
1 429 (21.91%) Microsoft
2 122 (6.23%) Oracle
3 73 (3.73%) Databricks
4 54 (2.76%) Splunk
5 46 (2.35%) Google
5 46 (2.35%) Salesforce
6 38 (1.94%) SAP
6 38 (1.94%) ServiceNow
7 36 (1.84%) Dynatrace
8 32 (1.63%) Cisco
9 30 (1.53%) IBM
10 24 (1.23%) CyberArk
11 21 (1.07%) Nokia
11 21 (1.07%) VMware
12 19 (0.97%) Adobe
13 18 (0.92%) Fortinet
13 18 (0.92%) Typelevel
14 15 (0.77%) Informatica
14 15 (0.77%) Red Hat
15 14 (0.72%) Citrix