DevOps Engineer Contracts in Central London

Development Operations Engineer
London > Central London

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Central London is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 87 84
Rank change year-on-year -7 -3 -19
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 35 49 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.76% 2.07% 2.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.89% 2.16% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 32 62
10th Percentile £413 £425 £500
25th Percentile £479 £513 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £613 £638
Median % change year-on-year -12.24% -3.92% +6.25%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £702
90th Percentile £752 £786 £749
London median daily rate £525 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -4.55% -12.00% +0.40%

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 1,853 2,264 3,511
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.16% 95.61% 94.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,199 1,572 2,383
10th Percentile £348 £350 £320
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £679 £688 £714
90th Percentile £775 £788 £820
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 26 22
10th Percentile £21.51 £20.07 £15.61
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.44 £18.93
Median hourly rate £30.04 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.24% -22.86% -16.67%
75th Percentile £51.31 £32.09 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.89 £47.00 £87.97
London median hourly rate £32.50 £27.81 £37.50
% change year-on-year +16.86% -25.84% +7.14%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Central London

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer 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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -5 33 £544 -9.38% 55
City of Westminster +1 1 £425 -41.38% 2
West End of London - 1 £425 - 7
DevOps Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 3 July 2025, 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 Central London region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 35 (100.00%) DevOps
2 30 (85.71%) CI/CD
3 29 (82.86%) Terraform
4 20 (57.14%) Kubernetes
5 19 (54.29%) AWS
6 15 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (37.14%) Python
8 12 (34.29%) GitLab
8 12 (34.29%) Ansible
8 12 (34.29%) Docker
9 10 (28.57%) GitHub
9 10 (28.57%) Bash
9 10 (28.57%) Azure
10 9 (25.71%) Infrastructure Automation
10 9 (25.71%) Containerisation
11 8 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (22.86%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (22.86%) Agile
12 7 (20.00%) Configuration Management
12 7 (20.00%) QA
12 7 (20.00%) Jenkins
13 6 (17.14%) Git
13 6 (17.14%) Finance
13 6 (17.14%) Linux
13 6 (17.14%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (14.29%) Prometheus
14 5 (14.29%) Grafana
14 5 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
14 5 (14.29%) Social Skills

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 (2.86%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.86%) Confluence
1 1 (2.86%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 19 (54.29%) AWS
2 10 (28.57%) Azure
2 10 (28.57%) GitHub
3 6 (17.14%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (11.43%) GCP
6 3 (8.57%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (8.57%) Amazon S3
6 3 (8.57%) Azure AKS
6 3 (8.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (8.57%) OpenShift
7 2 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (5.71%) Datadog
7 2 (5.71%) PaaS
7 2 (5.71%) Serverless
7 2 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) Network Security
2 1 (2.86%) DNS
2 1 (2.86%) Firewall
2 1 (2.86%) Internet
2 1 (2.86%) NAS
2 1 (2.86%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (2.86%) SAN
2 1 (2.86%) SSH
2 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Hive
2 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.86%) Big Data
2 1 (2.86%) CockroachDB
2 1 (2.86%) MySQL
2 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.86%) Power BI
2 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (34.29%) GitLab
2 7 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 6 (17.14%) Git
4 3 (8.57%) JIRA
5 1 (2.86%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.86%) git-flow
5 1 (2.86%) Jaeger
5 1 (2.86%) Snyk
5 1 (2.86%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.86%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.86%) Terragrunt
General
1 6 (17.14%) Finance
2 5 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.57%) Banking
5 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.86%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.86%) Military
6 1 (2.86%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) .NET
1 2 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.86%) .NET Core
2 1 (2.86%) ADO
2 1 (2.86%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.86%) Kafka
2 1 (2.86%) Loki
2 1 (2.86%) OAuth
2 1 (2.86%) OpenID
2 1 (2.86%) Spring
2 1 (2.86%) Web Services
2 1 (2.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
1 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
1 2 (5.71%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.86%) DataPower
2 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.86%) Mainframe
2 1 (2.86%) Private Cloud
2 1 (2.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.14%) Linux
2 3 (8.57%) Unix
3 2 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.71%) Windows
4 1 (2.86%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (100.00%) DevOps
2 30 (85.71%) CI/CD
3 15 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (25.71%) Containerisation
4 9 (25.71%) Infrastructure Automation
5 8 (22.86%) Agile
5 8 (22.86%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (20.00%) Configuration Management
7 5 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (11.43%) Cloud Security
8 4 (11.43%) High Availability
8 4 (11.43%) Migration
8 4 (11.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 3 (8.57%) Load Balancing
9 3 (8.57%) Microservices
9 3 (8.57%) Observability
9 3 (8.57%) Scrum
9 3 (8.57%) Software Delivery
9 3 (8.57%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (37.14%) Python
2 10 (28.57%) Bash
3 5 (14.29%) C#
3 5 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 4 (11.43%) Shell Script
5 3 (8.57%) Java
6 2 (5.71%) Bicep
6 2 (5.71%) SQL
7 1 (2.86%) Groovy
7 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 5 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.71%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.86%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (34.29%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) Lustre
2 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (82.86%) Terraform
2 20 (57.14%) Kubernetes
3 12 (34.29%) Ansible
4 5 (14.29%) Grafana
4 5 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 4 (11.43%) Istio
6 3 (8.57%) Argo
7 2 (5.71%) Cilium
7 2 (5.71%) Podman
8 1 (2.86%) FortiGate
8 1 (2.86%) Karpenter
8 1 (2.86%) Kibana
8 1 (2.86%) logstash
8 1 (2.86%) Packer
8 1 (2.86%) Puppet
8 1 (2.86%) yum
Vendors
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.57%) Databricks
2 3 (8.57%) Google
3 2 (5.71%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.86%) Cloudera
4 1 (2.86%) Confluent
4 1 (2.86%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.86%) New Relic
4 1 (2.86%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle
4 1 (2.86%) Pega
4 1 (2.86%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.86%) Splunk