DevOps Engineer Contracts in London

Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 15 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 65 65
Rank change year-on-year -47 0 +5
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 369 995 1,521
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.11% 3.84% 3.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.26% 4.03% 4.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 767 1,211
10th Percentile £413 £496 £475
25th Percentile £475 £538 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £631 £713 £700
90th Percentile £750 £800 £780
England median daily rate £538 £610 £600
% change year-on-year -11.89% +1.67% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £55.13 - -
25th Percentile £55.31 - -
Median hourly rate £56.25 £85.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% - -
75th Percentile £57.81 - -
90th Percentile £58.38 - -
England median hourly rate £59.75 £71.00 £39.00
% change year-on-year -15.85% +82.05% -25.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,303 24,682 36,740
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.37% 95.22% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,784 17,932 26,894
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 280 440
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.75 £22.83
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +9.38%
75th Percentile £44.75 £62.95 £49.38
90th Percentile £65.01 £80.23 £67.56
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +4.55%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in London

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in London

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in London over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in London

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in London.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in London

DevOps Engineer
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 Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 15 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 42 £565 -13.08% 9
South London +8 30 £511 +2.52% 4
West London +3 1 £475 -19.15% 1
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 London region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 369 (100.00%) DevOps
2 227 (61.52%) Terraform
3 222 (60.16%) AWS
4 204 (55.28%) CI/CD
5 166 (44.99%) Kubernetes
6 155 (42.01%) Security Cleared
7 141 (38.21%) Python
8 130 (35.23%) SC Cleared
9 124 (33.60%) Docker
10 119 (32.25%) Azure
11 106 (28.73%) Linux
12 89 (24.12%) Ansible
13 88 (23.85%) Infrastructure as Code
14 87 (23.58%) Jenkins
15 79 (21.41%) Agile
16 66 (17.89%) GitLab
17 65 (17.62%) Azure DevOps
18 64 (17.34%) Git
19 61 (16.53%) GitHub
20 60 (16.26%) Bash
21 52 (14.09%) Finance
22 51 (13.82%) Serverless
23 48 (13.01%) PowerShell
24 46 (12.47%) Public Sector
24 46 (12.47%) Containerisation
25 45 (12.20%) C#
26 44 (11.92%) AWS CloudFormation
26 44 (11.92%) Social Skills
27 43 (11.65%) Configuration Management
28 41 (11.11%) SQL

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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 21 (5.69%) nginx
2 19 (5.15%) Confluence
3 7 (1.90%) Apache
3 7 (1.90%) IIS
4 4 (1.08%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.81%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.81%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.54%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.27%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.27%) Drupal
7 1 (0.27%) JBoss
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 222 (60.16%) AWS
2 119 (32.25%) Azure
3 65 (17.62%) Azure DevOps
4 61 (16.53%) GitHub
5 51 (13.82%) Serverless
6 44 (11.92%) AWS CloudFormation
7 39 (10.57%) Amazon EC2
7 39 (10.57%) Amazon S3
8 37 (10.03%) AWS Lambda
9 29 (7.86%) GCP
10 28 (7.59%) GitHub Actions
11 27 (7.32%) Amazon EKS
12 25 (6.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 23 (6.23%) Route 53
14 22 (5.96%) PaaS
15 21 (5.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 21 (5.69%) Amazon ECS
16 20 (5.42%) OpenShift
17 14 (3.79%) Azure AKS
18 13 (3.52%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.42%) Firewall
2 14 (3.79%) DNS
3 10 (2.71%) HTTP
4 7 (1.90%) VPN
5 6 (1.63%) Internet
5 6 (1.63%) Network Security
5 6 (1.63%) SSH
5 6 (1.63%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.81%) DHCP
6 3 (0.81%) IPv4
6 3 (0.81%) LAN
6 3 (0.81%) WLAN
7 2 (0.54%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (0.54%) SSL
8 1 (0.27%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.27%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.86%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (5.42%) SQL Server
3 11 (2.98%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (2.44%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (1.63%) Amazon QuickSight
6 6 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (1.63%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.36%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.36%) Power BI
8 4 (1.08%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.08%) MySQL
8 4 (1.08%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (0.81%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (0.81%) GIS
10 2 (0.54%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.54%) Looker
10 2 (0.54%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 87 (23.58%) Jenkins
2 66 (17.89%) GitLab
3 64 (17.34%) Git
4 30 (8.13%) TeamCity
5 21 (5.69%) JIRA
6 19 (5.15%) Artifactory
7 11 (2.98%) Bitbucket
8 9 (2.44%) Maven
9 7 (1.90%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.90%) Gradle
9 7 (1.90%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (1.63%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (1.36%) Terragrunt
12 4 (1.08%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.08%) JMeter
12 4 (1.08%) Selenium
13 3 (0.81%) Jaeger
13 3 (0.81%) Robot Framework
13 3 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 52 (14.09%) Finance
2 46 (12.47%) Public Sector
3 44 (11.92%) Social Skills
4 29 (7.86%) Banking
5 18 (4.88%) Investment Banking
6 12 (3.25%) Law
7 7 (1.90%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.36%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.08%) Marketing
10 3 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.81%) Retail
11 2 (0.54%) Electronics
11 2 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.54%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.27%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.27%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.27%) Front Office
12 1 (0.27%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (9.49%) .NET
2 26 (7.05%) Kafka
3 18 (4.88%) WCF
3 18 (4.88%) WinForms
4 16 (4.34%) YAML
5 15 (4.07%) AWS CDK
5 15 (4.07%) Elastic Stack
5 15 (4.07%) JSON
6 14 (3.79%) Node.js
6 14 (3.79%) React
7 11 (2.98%) ARM Templates
8 9 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (1.90%) LDAP
9 7 (1.90%) REST
10 5 (1.36%) Spring
10 5 (1.36%) Spring Boot
10 5 (1.36%) Vue
11 4 (1.08%) CSS
11 4 (1.08%) Gherkin
11 4 (1.08%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.34%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (2.44%) Product Ownership
2 9 (2.44%) Public Cloud
3 6 (1.63%) Data Centre
3 6 (1.63%) PKI
4 5 (1.36%) Blockchain
4 5 (1.36%) Cloud Native
5 4 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (1.08%) Private Cloud
5 4 (1.08%) Security Posture
6 3 (0.81%) Media Streaming
6 3 (0.81%) Tandem
7 2 (0.54%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.54%) Machine to Machine
7 2 (0.54%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 106 (28.73%) Linux
2 30 (8.13%) Windows
3 21 (5.69%) Unix
4 13 (3.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.36%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.08%) Android
6 4 (1.08%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.08%) CentOS
7 3 (0.81%) VMS
8 2 (0.54%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.27%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.27%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (100.00%) DevOps
2 204 (55.28%) CI/CD
3 88 (23.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 79 (21.41%) Agile
5 46 (12.47%) Containerisation
6 43 (11.65%) Configuration Management
7 41 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (8.13%) Platform Engineering
9 29 (7.86%) Microservices
10 28 (7.59%) Test Automation
11 27 (7.32%) Computer Science
11 27 (7.32%) Migration
12 22 (5.96%) Continuous Integration
12 22 (5.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 21 (5.69%) Scrum
14 19 (5.15%) Cybersecurity
15 18 (4.88%) Mentoring
15 18 (4.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 17 (4.61%) Observability
16 17 (4.61%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 141 (38.21%) Python
2 60 (16.26%) Bash
3 48 (13.01%) PowerShell
4 45 (12.20%) C#
5 41 (11.11%) SQL
6 38 (10.30%) JavaScript
7 31 (8.40%) Go
8 28 (7.59%) Java
9 15 (4.07%) TypeScript
10 14 (3.79%) Shell Script
11 10 (2.71%) Groovy
11 10 (2.71%) Ruby
12 5 (1.36%) Bicep
13 4 (1.08%) C++
14 3 (0.81%) C
14 3 (0.81%) Perl
14 3 (0.81%) Rust
15 2 (0.54%) SPARQL
16 1 (0.27%) Korn
16 1 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 155 (42.01%) Security Cleared
2 130 (35.23%) SC Cleared
3 27 (7.32%) Degree
4 21 (5.69%) DV Cleared
5 19 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (4.07%) AWS Certification
7 10 (2.71%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (0.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.90%) QA
2 1 (0.27%) NCSC
2 1 (0.27%) NIST
2 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 124 (33.60%) Docker
2 18 (4.88%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.71%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.08%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.08%) NFS
5 2 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.27%) KVM
6 1 (0.27%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 227 (61.52%) Terraform
2 166 (44.99%) Kubernetes
3 89 (24.12%) Ansible
4 40 (10.84%) Prometheus
5 34 (9.21%) Grafana
6 16 (4.34%) Puppet
7 15 (4.07%) Packer
8 12 (3.25%) Consul
9 10 (2.71%) Progress Chef
10 7 (1.90%) Argo
11 5 (1.36%) Kibana
11 5 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (1.08%) Nagios
13 3 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.54%) logstash
14 2 (0.54%) Netcool
14 2 (0.54%) Rancher
14 2 (0.54%) Salt
14 2 (0.54%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 37 (10.03%) Microsoft
2 26 (7.05%) Oracle
3 15 (4.07%) Splunk
4 10 (2.71%) Google
5 8 (2.17%) Dynatrace
5 8 (2.17%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.17%) SAP
6 7 (1.90%) VMware
7 5 (1.36%) Databricks
8 4 (1.08%) AppDynamics
9 3 (0.81%) CyberArk
9 3 (0.81%) ESRI
9 3 (0.81%) IBM
9 3 (0.81%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.81%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.54%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.54%) Commvault
10 2 (0.54%) F5
10 2 (0.54%) MKS
10 2 (0.54%) Talend