DevOps Engineer Contracts in the City of London

Development Operations Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 82 61
Rank change year-on-year -11 -21 +27
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 33 101 160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.50% 2.78% 3.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.58% 2.92% 4.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 70 132
10th Percentile £413 £511 £463
25th Percentile £471 £538 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £688
90th Percentile £675 £775 £761
Central London median daily rate £550 £644 £600
% change year-on-year -14.56% +7.29% +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 2,090 3,462 3,995
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.13% 95.21% 94.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,486 2,357 3,013
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £585 £560
% change year-on-year -5.98% +4.46% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 22 52
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -6.04% +110.01%
75th Percentile £27.25 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £40.00 £87.97 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -28.57% -6.04% +107.23%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the City of London

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the City of London

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the City of London

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 1 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 City of London region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 33 (100.00%) DevOps
2 23 (69.70%) Terraform
3 15 (45.45%) Kubernetes
3 15 (45.45%) AWS
3 15 (45.45%) CI/CD
4 11 (33.33%) Banking
4 11 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (27.27%) Azure
5 9 (27.27%) Python
6 8 (24.24%) SC Cleared
6 8 (24.24%) Security Cleared
6 8 (24.24%) Ansible
7 7 (21.21%) Docker
7 7 (21.21%) PowerShell
7 7 (21.21%) TeamCity
7 7 (21.21%) Configuration Management
7 7 (21.21%) Investment Banking
8 6 (18.18%) Finance
8 6 (18.18%) Migration
8 6 (18.18%) SQL
8 6 (18.18%) .NET
8 6 (18.18%) Linux
8 6 (18.18%) GitHub
8 6 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (15.15%) Jenkins
9 5 (15.15%) Relational Database
9 5 (15.15%) GitLab
9 5 (15.15%) SDLC
9 5 (15.15%) C#
9 5 (15.15%) Active Directory

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (3.03%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 15 (45.45%) AWS
2 9 (27.27%) Azure
3 6 (18.18%) GitHub
3 6 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (15.15%) Amazon S3
5 4 (12.12%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (12.12%) PaaS
5 4 (12.12%) Serverless
6 3 (9.09%) IaaS
7 2 (6.06%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (6.06%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (6.06%) Azure AKS
7 2 (6.06%) Azure Functions
7 2 (6.06%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (6.06%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (6.06%) SaaS
7 2 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) Firewall
2 1 (3.03%) DNS
2 1 (3.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) Relational Database
1 5 (15.15%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.06%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (3.03%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.03%) GIS
3 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (21.21%) TeamCity
2 5 (15.15%) GitLab
2 5 (15.15%) Jenkins
3 4 (12.12%) Bitbucket
3 4 (12.12%) Git
4 2 (6.06%) Artifactory
4 2 (6.06%) Cypress.io
4 2 (6.06%) JMeter
4 2 (6.06%) Maven
5 1 (3.03%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.03%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (33.33%) Banking
2 7 (21.21%) Investment Banking
3 6 (18.18%) Finance
4 4 (12.12%) Public Sector
4 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.18%) .NET
2 5 (15.15%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (15.15%) WCF
2 5 (15.15%) WinForms
3 3 (9.09%) Kafka
4 2 (6.06%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (6.06%) Node.js
4 2 (6.06%) React
4 2 (6.06%) YAML
5 1 (3.03%) ARM Templates
5 1 (3.03%) JSON
5 1 (3.03%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.03%) MPEG
2 1 (3.03%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.18%) Linux
2 2 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (6.06%) Windows
3 1 (3.03%) Android
3 1 (3.03%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (100.00%) DevOps
2 15 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 11 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (21.21%) Configuration Management
5 6 (18.18%) Migration
6 5 (15.15%) SDLC
7 4 (12.12%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (12.12%) Service Catalogue
8 3 (9.09%) Architectural Design
8 3 (9.09%) Cloud Security
9 2 (6.06%) Auto-Scaling
9 2 (6.06%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (6.06%) Microservices
9 2 (6.06%) Observability
9 2 (6.06%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (6.06%) Software Engineering
9 2 (6.06%) Technical Leadership
9 2 (6.06%) Test Automation
10 1 (3.03%) Artificial Intelligence
10 1 (3.03%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 9 (27.27%) Python
2 7 (21.21%) PowerShell
3 6 (18.18%) SQL
4 5 (15.15%) C#
5 3 (9.09%) Bash
6 2 (6.06%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.03%) Go
7 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (24.24%) SC Cleared
1 8 (24.24%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.09%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.03%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (21.21%) Docker
2 5 (15.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (69.70%) Terraform
2 15 (45.45%) Kubernetes
3 8 (24.24%) Ansible
4 3 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 2 (6.06%) Argo
5 2 (6.06%) Consul
5 2 (6.06%) Puppet
6 1 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (9.09%) Red Hat
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.06%) MKS
3 1 (3.03%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.03%) ESRI
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle
3 1 (3.03%) SAP