DevOps Engineer Contracts in South London

Development Operations Engineer
London > South London

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in South London is £510 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 22 20
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 +7
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 29 28 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 13.06% 7.55% 10.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.43% 8.09% 11.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 25 34
10th Percentile £363 £471 £428
25th Percentile £409 £475 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £496 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.85% -17.36% +18.81%
75th Percentile £542 £506 £638
90th Percentile £567 £644 £700
London median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in South 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 South London with a recognized job title 216 346 361
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.30% 93.26% 97.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 270 281
10th Percentile £235 £212 £275
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £567 £600 £638
90th Percentile £630 £751 £700
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 12
10th Percentile £17.10 £15.75 £16.70
25th Percentile £21.50 £18.75 £39.07
Median hourly rate £23.50 £50.42 £45.48
Median % change year-on-year -53.39% +10.86% -3.23%
75th Percentile £79.38 - £48.90
90th Percentile £83.75 £55.22 £51.31
London median hourly rate £27.50 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.61% +2.86% +13.45%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in South London

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in South London

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in South London over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in South London

DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 24 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
Croydon +4 28 £510 +2.85% 3
Bromley - 1 £650 -
DevOps Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 South London region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) DevOps
2 26 (89.66%) Security Cleared
3 24 (82.76%) SC Cleared
3 24 (82.76%) Terraform
4 22 (75.86%) AWS
5 20 (68.97%) Kubernetes
6 18 (62.07%) Git
7 17 (58.62%) Python
8 16 (55.17%) Docker
9 14 (48.28%) Agile
10 12 (41.38%) CI/CD
11 10 (34.48%) Amazon S3
12 9 (31.03%) Jenkins
12 9 (31.03%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (31.03%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (31.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 9 (31.03%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (31.03%) Grafana
12 9 (31.03%) Prometheus
13 8 (27.59%) Infrastructure as Code
13 8 (27.59%) Route 53
14 7 (24.14%) Bash
14 7 (24.14%) Confluence
14 7 (24.14%) JIRA
14 7 (24.14%) Oracle
14 7 (24.14%) Java
14 7 (24.14%) OCI
15 6 (20.69%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (20.69%) Linux
15 6 (20.69%) nginx

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 7 (24.14%) Confluence
2 6 (20.69%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 22 (75.86%) AWS
2 10 (34.48%) Amazon S3
3 9 (31.03%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (31.03%) AWS CloudFormation
3 9 (31.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 8 (27.59%) Route 53
5 7 (24.14%) OCI
6 6 (20.69%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (17.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (3.45%) Amazon MSK
8 1 (3.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (3.45%) Azure
8 1 (3.45%) GCP
8 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) Network Security
2 1 (3.45%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (31.03%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 18 (62.07%) Git
2 9 (31.03%) Jenkins
3 7 (24.14%) JIRA
4 1 (3.45%) GitLab
General
1 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
2 2 (6.90%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) JSON
1 4 (13.79%) YAML
2 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.45%) Hibernate
2 1 (3.45%) JPA
2 1 (3.45%) Kafka
2 1 (3.45%) REST
2 1 (3.45%) Spring
2 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.45%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.69%) Linux
2 4 (13.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) DevOps
2 14 (48.28%) Agile
3 12 (41.38%) CI/CD
4 8 (27.59%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (17.24%) Requirements Gathering
5 5 (17.24%) Service Design
6 3 (10.34%) Containerisation
6 3 (10.34%) GitOps
6 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (6.90%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (6.90%) Scrum
8 1 (3.45%) Computer Science
8 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Management
8 1 (3.45%) Kanban
8 1 (3.45%) Mentoring
8 1 (3.45%) Microservices
8 1 (3.45%) Refactoring
8 1 (3.45%) Software Engineering
8 1 (3.45%) Software Testing
8 1 (3.45%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (58.62%) Python
2 7 (24.14%) Bash
2 7 (24.14%) Java
3 6 (20.69%) Go
4 1 (3.45%) C
4 1 (3.45%) C++
4 1 (3.45%) Perl
4 1 (3.45%) Rust
Qualifications
1 26 (89.66%) Security Cleared
2 24 (82.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.45%) Degree
3 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 16 (55.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (82.76%) Terraform
2 20 (68.97%) Kubernetes
3 9 (31.03%) Grafana
3 9 (31.03%) Prometheus
4 6 (20.69%) Packer
5 5 (17.24%) Consul
6 1 (3.45%) Ansible
6 1 (3.45%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Oracle
2 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace