DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Central London

Development Operations Engineer
London > Central London

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Central London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 93 77
Rank change year-on-year -4 -16 -1
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 28 41 76
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.49% 1.75% 2.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.60% 1.87% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 31 62
10th Percentile £463 £493 £428
25th Percentile £502 £516 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £588
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £627 £675 £710
90th Percentile £673 £758 £758
London median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -4.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 1,751 2,187 2,901
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.34% 93.58% 94.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,204 1,383 2,025
10th Percentile £325 £363 £340
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +0.44%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 24 15
10th Percentile £17.25 £21.29 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.63 £30.19 £19.13
Median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.76% -2.78% -11.11%
75th Percentile £35.88 £82.19 £47.75
90th Percentile £63.05 £129.85 £62.25
London median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £39.83
% change year-on-year -29.33% -5.85% +21.62%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Central London

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Central London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Central London

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 21 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in Central London

DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 21 October 2025. 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
City of London -6 24 £550 -11.11% 29
City of Westminster +1 1 - -
West End of London - 1 - -
DevOps Engineer
London

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 21 October 2025, DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Central London region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) DevOps
2 23 (82.14%) CI/CD
3 17 (60.71%) Terraform
4 14 (50.00%) Kubernetes
5 13 (46.43%) AWS
6 11 (39.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (32.14%) Python
8 8 (28.57%) Jenkins
9 7 (25.00%) Ansible
9 7 (25.00%) Azure
9 7 (25.00%) Containerisation
9 7 (25.00%) Docker
9 7 (25.00%) GitHub
9 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
10 6 (21.43%) Agile
10 6 (21.43%) SC Cleared
10 6 (21.43%) Security Cleared
11 5 (17.86%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (17.86%) GitLab
11 5 (17.86%) Observability
11 5 (17.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 4 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (14.29%) Bash
12 4 (14.29%) PowerShell
13 3 (10.71%) .NET
13 3 (10.71%) Argo
13 3 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (10.71%) Azure AKS
13 3 (10.71%) Cloud Security
13 3 (10.71%) Dynatrace

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.57%) Mattermost
Cloud Services
1 13 (46.43%) AWS
2 7 (25.00%) Azure
2 7 (25.00%) GitHub
3 5 (17.86%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (10.71%) Azure AKS
5 3 (10.71%) GCP
5 3 (10.71%) Serverless
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.57%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.57%) Kong
7 1 (3.57%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) SSH
2 1 (3.57%) DNS
2 1 (3.57%) Firewall
2 1 (3.57%) Internet
2 1 (3.57%) NAS
2 1 (3.57%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (3.57%) SAN
2 1 (3.57%) STUN
2 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (7.14%) Power BI
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Hive
2 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.57%) Impala
2 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 5 (17.86%) GitLab
3 3 (10.71%) TeamCity
4 2 (7.14%) Git
4 2 (7.14%) Gradle
4 2 (7.14%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.57%) git-flow
5 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 9 (32.14%) Finance
2 6 (21.43%) Banking
3 2 (7.14%) Retail Banking
3 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Billing
4 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) .NET
2 2 (7.14%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.57%) .NET Core
3 1 (3.57%) ADO
3 1 (3.57%) AWS CDK
3 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.57%) Loki
3 1 (3.57%) Node.js
3 1 (3.57%) Web Services
3 1 (3.57%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.57%) Cyberattack
2 1 (3.57%) Market Risk
2 1 (3.57%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Linux
1 3 (10.71%) Windows
2 2 (7.14%) Unix
3 1 (3.57%) Android
3 1 (3.57%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) DevOps
2 23 (82.14%) CI/CD
3 11 (39.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 6 (21.43%) Agile
6 5 (17.86%) Observability
6 5 (17.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (10.71%) Cloud Security
7 3 (10.71%) High Availability
7 3 (10.71%) Open Source
7 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (10.71%) RBAC
7 3 (10.71%) Software Delivery
7 3 (10.71%) Test Automation
8 2 (7.14%) Load Balancing
8 2 (7.14%) Microservices
8 2 (7.14%) Performance Monitoring
8 2 (7.14%) Scrum
8 2 (7.14%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) Python
2 4 (14.29%) Bash
2 4 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 3 (10.71%) Java
4 2 (7.14%) Rust
4 2 (7.14%) SQL
4 2 (7.14%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.57%) Bicep
5 1 (3.57%) C#
5 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 6 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) QA
2 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) HDFS
2 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (3.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (60.71%) Terraform
2 14 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (25.00%) Ansible
4 3 (10.71%) Argo
4 3 (10.71%) Grafana
4 3 (10.71%) Istio
4 3 (10.71%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.57%) Cilium
5 1 (3.57%) Kibana
5 1 (3.57%) Packer
5 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.57%) Puppet
5 1 (3.57%) yum
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Dynatrace
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (3.57%) CyberArk
3 1 (3.57%) Databricks
3 1 (3.57%) Ericsson
3 1 (3.57%) OpenAI
3 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.57%) Splunk
3 1 (3.57%) Tenable
3 1 (3.57%) VMware