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

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 2,030 3,133 5,810
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 11.56% 12.41% 14.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.10% 13.65% 16.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,429 2,281 4,356
10th Percentile £406 £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 £670 £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% +18.18%

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 15,493 22,950 35,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.26% 90.92% 92.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,091 16,613 26,332
10th Percentile £340 £375 £390
25th Percentile £445 £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 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 266 397
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.49 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +8.33% +5.29%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.94 £51.75
90th Percentile £68.30 £82.38 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +4 297 £600 -4.00% 69
South London +3 45 £510 +2.00% 6
West London -5 28 £425 -29.17% 17
East London +2 22 £538 -0.46% 11
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 80 (3.94%) Confluence
2 34 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (1.67%) Apache Spark
2 34 (1.67%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.33%) CMS
4 23 (1.13%) nginx
5 22 (1.08%) IIS
6 21 (1.03%) Apache
7 8 (0.39%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.39%) Site Server
8 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.30%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.25%) WebLogic
10 4 (0.20%) Appian
10 4 (0.20%) JBoss
10 4 (0.20%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.099%) ThingWorx
12 2 (0.099%) Tomcat
Applications
1 16 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.49%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.099%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.099%) Gliffy
4 2 (0.099%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.099%) Trello
5 1 (0.049%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.049%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 51 (2.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (1.03%) Dynamics AX
3 16 (0.79%) Endur
4 10 (0.49%) Shopify
5 9 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
6 7 (0.34%) Aladdin
6 7 (0.34%) SimCorp Dimension
7 6 (0.30%) NEC Housing
8 3 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.099%) Advent Geneva
9 2 (0.099%) BusinessWorks
9 2 (0.099%) Front Arena
10 1 (0.049%) Aareon QL
10 1 (0.049%) Dynamics NAV
10 1 (0.049%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 1 (0.049%) MIS ActiveH
10 1 (0.049%) OPENHousing
10 1 (0.049%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.049%) Teamcenter
10 1 (0.049%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,054 (51.92%) Azure
2 677 (33.35%) Azure DevOps
3 652 (32.12%) AWS
4 204 (10.05%) GCP
5 170 (8.37%) Serverless
6 158 (7.78%) GitHub
7 137 (6.75%) Power Platform
8 107 (5.27%) Azure Service Bus
9 104 (5.12%) Dynamics 365
10 100 (4.93%) Amazon S3
11 94 (4.63%) Entra ID
12 84 (4.14%) AWS Lambda
13 81 (3.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 72 (3.55%) AWS CloudFormation
15 69 (3.40%) Amazon EC2
15 69 (3.40%) PaaS
16 64 (3.15%) Azure Logic Apps
17 60 (2.96%) Azure Monitor
18 57 (2.81%) PowerApps
19 55 (2.71%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 71 (3.50%) Firewall
2 43 (2.12%) HTTP
3 35 (1.72%) DNS
4 20 (0.99%) MPLS
5 19 (0.94%) BGP
5 19 (0.94%) Network Security
6 18 (0.89%) Internet
6 18 (0.89%) VPN
7 15 (0.74%) IPv4
8 14 (0.69%) RSVP
8 14 (0.69%) TCP/IP
9 13 (0.64%) SNMP
10 12 (0.59%) DHCP
10 12 (0.59%) Ethernet VPN
10 12 (0.59%) Kerberos
10 12 (0.59%) VPLS
11 10 (0.49%) Cisco IOS
11 10 (0.49%) HSRP
11 10 (0.49%) IOS XR
11 10 (0.49%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 294 (14.48%) SQL Server
2 105 (5.17%) Power BI
3 98 (4.83%) Data Lake
4 84 (4.14%) NoSQL
5 72 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
6 64 (3.15%) Relational Database
7 62 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
8 52 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
9 50 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
10 48 (2.36%) MySQL
11 47 (2.32%) Big Data
12 45 (2.22%) MongoDB
13 37 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
14 31 (1.53%) Apache Cassandra
15 29 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
16 27 (1.33%) Tableau
17 24 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 23 (1.13%) Redis
19 21 (1.03%) Oracle Database
20 18 (0.89%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 264 (13.00%) Jenkins
2 252 (12.41%) Git
3 149 (7.34%) GitLab
4 122 (6.01%) JIRA
5 65 (3.20%) Selenium
6 52 (2.56%) SpecFlow
7 50 (2.46%) TeamCity
8 45 (2.22%) Visual Studio
9 36 (1.77%) Artifactory
10 33 (1.63%) JUnit
11 30 (1.48%) Postman
12 26 (1.28%) SonarQube
13 25 (1.23%) Bitbucket
14 24 (1.18%) Cypress.io
15 23 (1.13%) Cucumber
16 18 (0.89%) Maven
17 17 (0.84%) Mockito
18 16 (0.79%) JMeter
18 16 (0.79%) Visual Studio Team System
19 15 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 525 (25.86%) Finance
2 448 (22.07%) Social Skills
3 204 (10.05%) Public Sector
4 202 (9.95%) Banking
5 155 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
6 87 (4.29%) Front Office
7 70 (3.45%) Retail
8 59 (2.91%) Investment Banking
9 47 (2.32%) Back Office
10 41 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
11 30 (1.48%) Marketing
12 29 (1.43%) Telecoms
13 21 (1.03%) General Ledger
14 19 (0.94%) Legal
15 18 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 18 (0.89%) Law
16 16 (0.79%) Financial Institution
16 16 (0.79%) Manufacturing
17 15 (0.74%) Local Government
18 14 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 504 (24.83%) Developer
2 392 (19.31%) DevOps Engineer
3 356 (17.54%) Senior
4 180 (8.87%) Architect
5 168 (8.28%) Senior Developer
6 159 (7.83%) Lead
7 138 (6.80%) Azure Engineer
8 132 (6.50%) AWS Engineer
9 105 (5.17%) Analyst
10 97 (4.78%) AWS DevOps
11 88 (4.33%) .NET Developer
11 88 (4.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 81 (3.99%) Data Engineer
13 78 (3.84%) Consultant
14 77 (3.79%) Software Engineer
15 67 (3.30%) Solutions Architect
16 64 (3.15%) Software Developer
17 63 (3.10%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 63 (3.10%) C# Developer
17 63 (3.10%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 381 (18.77%) .NET
2 184 (9.06%) React
3 155 (7.64%) XML
4 143 (7.04%) Kafka
5 135 (6.65%) .NET Core
6 115 (5.67%) .NET Framework
7 111 (5.47%) HTML
8 102 (5.02%) AngularJS
9 98 (4.83%) RESTful
10 88 (4.33%) CSS
11 87 (4.29%) Node.js
12 85 (4.19%) REST
13 68 (3.35%) ASP.NET
14 65 (3.20%) Spring Boot
15 57 (2.81%) JSON
16 51 (2.51%) Spring
16 51 (2.51%) Web Services
17 48 (2.36%) YAML
18 45 (2.22%) ARM Templates
19 36 (1.77%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 144 (7.09%) Product Ownership
2 58 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (2.81%) Derivative
4 54 (2.66%) Hedge funds
5 48 (2.36%) Data Structures
6 45 (2.22%) Cloud Native
7 39 (1.92%) Mobile App
8 36 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
9 34 (1.67%) Fixed Income
10 32 (1.58%) Public Cloud
11 31 (1.53%) Clustering
12 30 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 29 (1.43%) Onboarding
14 27 (1.33%) Algorithms
14 27 (1.33%) Equities
14 27 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
15 20 (0.99%) Data Centre
16 19 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
17 18 (0.89%) Market Risk
18 17 (0.84%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 214 (10.54%) Linux
2 128 (6.31%) Windows
3 73 (3.60%) Unix
4 47 (2.32%) Windows Server
5 32 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.64%) Android
6 13 (0.64%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.30%) CentOS
7 6 (0.30%) Solaris
7 6 (0.30%) VMS
8 5 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
9 3 (0.15%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.15%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.099%) AIX
11 1 (0.049%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.049%) Debian
11 1 (0.049%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 864 (42.56%) Agile
2 759 (37.39%) CI/CD
3 286 (14.09%) Scrum
4 251 (12.36%) Microservices
5 241 (11.87%) Infrastructure as Code
6 240 (11.82%) Problem-Solving
7 225 (11.08%) TDD
8 221 (10.89%) Test Automation
9 219 (10.79%) Software Engineering
10 153 (7.54%) Containerisation
11 146 (7.19%) Migration
12 145 (7.14%) SDLC
13 133 (6.55%) Continuous Integration
14 122 (6.01%) Analytics
15 121 (5.96%) Business Intelligence
16 117 (5.76%) Roadmaps
17 115 (5.67%) Continuous Improvement
18 109 (5.37%) Computer Science
18 109 (5.37%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 104 (5.12%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 532 (26.21%) Python
2 433 (21.33%) C#
3 382 (18.82%) SQL
4 306 (15.07%) Java
4 306 (15.07%) PowerShell
5 270 (13.30%) JavaScript
6 174 (8.57%) TypeScript
7 119 (5.86%) Go
8 111 (5.47%) Bicep
9 110 (5.42%) Bash
10 52 (2.56%) Shell Script
11 50 (2.46%) C++
12 46 (2.27%) Scala
13 37 (1.82%) T-SQL
14 26 (1.28%) Ruby
15 19 (0.94%) VB.NET
16 18 (0.89%) Groovy
17 17 (0.84%) C
17 17 (0.84%) Kotlin
18 16 (0.79%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 291 (14.33%) Security Cleared
2 238 (11.72%) SC Cleared
3 165 (8.13%) Degree
4 71 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (2.17%) Azure Certification
6 37 (1.82%) AWS Certification
6 37 (1.82%) DV Cleared
7 34 (1.67%) Master's Degree
8 16 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 13 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (0.64%) PMI Certification
9 13 (0.64%) PMP
10 11 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (0.30%) CISM
11 6 (0.30%) CISSP
12 5 (0.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.25%) CCIE
12 5 (0.25%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (4.68%) QA
2 36 (1.77%) Accessibility
3 32 (1.58%) PCI DSS
4 31 (1.53%) Data Quality
5 28 (1.38%) GDPR
6 25 (1.23%) WCAG
7 20 (0.99%) SLA
8 19 (0.94%) NIST
9 14 (0.69%) 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 (0.099%) NCSC
13 2 (0.099%) SOC 2
System Software
1 322 (15.86%) Docker
2 162 (7.98%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.59%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 5 (0.25%) vSphere
7 4 (0.20%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.20%) NFS
8 2 (0.099%) Squid
8 2 (0.099%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.049%) Ceph
9 1 (0.049%) KVM
9 1 (0.049%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 489 (24.09%) Terraform
2 466 (22.96%) Kubernetes
3 202 (9.95%) Ansible
4 86 (4.24%) Prometheus
5 82 (4.04%) Grafana
6 43 (2.12%) Puppet
7 24 (1.18%) Packer
8 22 (1.08%) Consul
9 20 (0.99%) Progress Chef
10 19 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
11 18 (0.89%) ITRS Geneos
12 9 (0.44%) Argo
12 9 (0.44%) BladeLogic
13 8 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
13 8 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
13 8 (0.39%) Netcool
13 8 (0.39%) Opsgenie
14 7 (0.34%) Kibana
15 6 (0.30%) Tivoli
16 5 (0.25%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 433 (21.33%) Microsoft
2 121 (5.96%) Oracle
3 71 (3.50%) Databricks
4 53 (2.61%) Google
4 53 (2.61%) Splunk
5 47 (2.32%) Salesforce
6 36 (1.77%) ServiceNow
7 35 (1.72%) Dynatrace
8 33 (1.63%) Cisco
8 33 (1.63%) SAP
9 29 (1.43%) IBM
10 22 (1.08%) CyberArk
10 22 (1.08%) Fortinet
11 21 (1.03%) VMware
12 20 (0.99%) Typelevel
13 19 (0.94%) Informatica
13 19 (0.94%) Nokia
14 18 (0.89%) Adobe
15 16 (0.79%) Red Hat
16 15 (0.74%) F5