Head of DevOps Contracts in London

Head of Development Operations
England > London

The median Head of Development Operations daily rate in London is £900 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 386 495 596
Rank change year-on-year +109 +101 -139
Contract jobs requiring a Head of DevOps 3 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.017% 0.018% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.019% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 5
10th Percentile £840 £708 £640
25th Percentile £863 £719 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 £750 £850
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -11.76% -26.09%
75th Percentile £919 £788 £900
90th Percentile £930 £810 £945
England median daily rate £900 £750 £850
% change year-on-year +20.00% -11.76% +13.33%

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 16,601 25,897 37,041
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.32% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,001 18,738 27,022
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £442 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 299 448
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.57 £22.02
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.10% +1.43% +12.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.60 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%

Head of DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Head of DevOps in London

Head of DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Head of DevOps in London

Head of 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 Head of DevOps within the London region over the 6 months to 26 April 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 - 1 £925 -
Head of DevOps
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Head of 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 London region featuring Head of DevOps in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) Docker
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) People Management
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) Fintech
3 1 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless

Head of DevOps 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) Pulumi
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Fintech
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) People Management
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Argo
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft