Lead DevOps Contracts in the City of London

Lead Development Operations
Central London > City of London

The median Lead Development Operations daily rate in the City of London is £725 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 166 181
Rank change year-on-year +46 +15 -27
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 4 5 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.18% 0.14% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.15% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 7
10th Percentile £643 - £663
25th Percentile £669 £516 £669
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £533 £750
Median % change year-on-year +36.15% -29.00% +114.29%
75th Percentile £819 £624 £825
90th Percentile £868 £670 £885
Central London median daily rate £725 £533 £688
% change year-on-year +36.15% -22.57% +96.50%

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 2,066 3,434 4,005
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.08% 95.10% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,469 2,338 3,022
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 £590 £560
% change year-on-year -6.78% +5.36% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 23 51
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -5.41% +108.60%
75th Percentile £27.25 £58.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £40.00 £87.64 £65.75
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -28.57% -6.04% +107.23%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps in the City of London

Lead DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead DevOps in the City of London

Lead DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps in the City of London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead DevOps in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Lead DevOps 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 Lead DevOps in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Finance
3 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) Docker
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (25.00%) Packer
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
4 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (25.00%) Grafana
4 1 (25.00%) GoCD
4 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) CircleCI

Lead DevOps 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 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) AWS KMS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) CircleCI
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) GoCD
2 1 (25.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Resource Management
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Ceph
2 1 (25.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Ansible
3 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (25.00%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (25.00%) Grafana
4 1 (25.00%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (25.00%) Mesos
4 1 (25.00%) Packer
4 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
4 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Confluent
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat