DevOps Engineer Contracts in Central London

Development Operations Engineer
London > Central London

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Central London is £565 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 83 70
Rank change year-on-year -5 -13 +23
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 42 101 161
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.75% 2.68% 3.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.84% 2.82% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 70 130
10th Percentile £413 £511 £462
25th Percentile £500 £538 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.08% +8.33% +14.39%
75th Percentile £656 £725 £684
90th Percentile £778 £763 £764
London median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Central London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Central London with a recognized job title 2,283 3,584 4,313
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.32% 95.17% 94.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,618 2,460 3,289
10th Percentile £340 £325 £362
25th Percentile £438 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £560
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +7.14% +6.67%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £798 £813 £763
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 24 55
10th Percentile £20.19 £15.83 £13.88
25th Percentile £22.13 £19.79 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.63 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.79% -5.41% +108.60%
75th Percentile £27.81 £58.75 £50.88
90th Percentile £40.00 £87.31 £64.45
London median hourly rate £27.00 £35.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.94% +1.43% +8.63%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Central London

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in Central London

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in Central London

DevOps Engineer
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 Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 14 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 -8 40 £565 -13.08% 8
City of Westminster - 1 £725 - 2
DevOps Engineer
London

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Central London region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 42 (100.00%) DevOps
2 27 (64.29%) Terraform
3 23 (54.76%) AWS
4 21 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 19 (45.24%) Kubernetes
6 13 (30.95%) Azure
7 12 (28.57%) Docker
7 12 (28.57%) Python
7 12 (28.57%) Linux
7 12 (28.57%) SC Cleared
7 12 (28.57%) Security Cleared
7 12 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (26.19%) Banking
8 11 (26.19%) Ansible
9 9 (21.43%) Finance
10 8 (19.05%) PowerShell
10 8 (19.05%) SQL Server
10 8 (19.05%) TeamCity
10 8 (19.05%) GitHub
10 8 (19.05%) Social Skills
11 7 (16.67%) GitLab
11 7 (16.67%) Jenkins
11 7 (16.67%) SQL
11 7 (16.67%) .NET
11 7 (16.67%) Active Directory
11 7 (16.67%) Configuration Management
11 7 (16.67%) Investment Banking
12 6 (14.29%) Migration
12 6 (14.29%) Kafka
12 6 (14.29%) Amazon S3

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (2.38%) Apache
1 1 (2.38%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.38%) Confluence
1 1 (2.38%) IIS
1 1 (2.38%) nginx
1 1 (2.38%) Oracle Self-Service HR
1 1 (2.38%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 23 (54.76%) AWS
2 13 (30.95%) Azure
3 8 (19.05%) GitHub
4 6 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 6 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (11.90%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (9.52%) PaaS
6 4 (9.52%) Serverless
7 3 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (7.14%) IaaS
8 2 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (4.76%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (4.76%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (4.76%) Azure Functions
8 2 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (4.76%) SaaS
8 2 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) Firewall
2 1 (2.38%) DNS
2 1 (2.38%) HTTP
2 1 (2.38%) Internet
2 1 (2.38%) Kerberos
2 1 (2.38%) SSH
2 1 (2.38%) SSL
2 1 (2.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (19.05%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.90%) Relational Database
3 3 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.38%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.38%) GIS
5 1 (2.38%) MySQL
5 1 (2.38%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 8 (19.05%) TeamCity
2 7 (16.67%) GitLab
2 7 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 5 (11.90%) Git
4 4 (9.52%) Bitbucket
5 3 (7.14%) Artifactory
6 2 (4.76%) Cypress.io
6 2 (4.76%) JMeter
6 2 (4.76%) Maven
7 1 (2.38%) JIRA
7 1 (2.38%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (2.38%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.38%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (26.19%) Banking
2 9 (21.43%) Finance
3 8 (19.05%) Social Skills
4 7 (16.67%) Investment Banking
5 4 (9.52%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.38%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.38%) Front Office
6 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.67%) .NET
2 6 (14.29%) Kafka
3 5 (11.90%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (11.90%) WCF
3 5 (11.90%) WinForms
4 2 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (4.76%) Node.js
4 2 (4.76%) React
4 2 (4.76%) YAML
5 1 (2.38%) Apache Jena
5 1 (2.38%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (2.38%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.38%) CSS
5 1 (2.38%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.38%) HTML
5 1 (2.38%) JSON
5 1 (2.38%) Laravel
5 1 (2.38%) PostGIS
5 1 (2.38%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.38%) Blockchain
2 1 (2.38%) Clustering
2 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.38%) Hedge funds
2 1 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.38%) MPEG
2 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.38%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 12 (28.57%) Linux
2 4 (9.52%) Windows
3 3 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.76%) Unix
5 1 (2.38%) Android
5 1 (2.38%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (100.00%) DevOps
2 21 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 12 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (16.67%) Configuration Management
5 6 (14.29%) Migration
5 6 (14.29%) SDLC
6 5 (11.90%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (9.52%) Agile
7 4 (9.52%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (9.52%) Service Catalogue
8 3 (7.14%) Architectural Design
8 3 (7.14%) Cloud Security
8 3 (7.14%) Containerisation
8 3 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 3 (7.14%) Test Automation
9 2 (4.76%) Auto-Scaling
9 2 (4.76%) Microservices
9 2 (4.76%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (4.76%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 2 (4.76%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (28.57%) Python
2 8 (19.05%) PowerShell
3 7 (16.67%) SQL
4 5 (11.90%) C#
5 3 (7.14%) Bash
6 2 (4.76%) Shell Script
6 2 (4.76%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.38%) Go
7 1 (2.38%) Java
7 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.38%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.38%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 12 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 12 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.52%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.76%) Degree
4 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) PCI DSS
1 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 12 (28.57%) Docker
2 7 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (64.29%) Terraform
2 19 (45.24%) Kubernetes
3 11 (26.19%) Ansible
4 5 (11.90%) Prometheus
5 3 (7.14%) Consul
5 3 (7.14%) Puppet
6 2 (4.76%) Argo
6 2 (4.76%) Grafana
6 2 (4.76%) Packer
7 1 (2.38%) Nagios
7 1 (2.38%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.38%) Rancher
7 1 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (9.52%) Microsoft
1 4 (9.52%) Red Hat
2 2 (4.76%) Guidewire
2 2 (4.76%) MKS
2 2 (4.76%) Oracle
3 1 (2.38%) Confluent
3 1 (2.38%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.38%) ESRI
3 1 (2.38%) SAP
3 1 (2.38%) Splunk
3 1 (2.38%) VMware