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 £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 83 100
Rank change year-on-year +6 +17 -25
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 57 42 46
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.78% 1.97% 1.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.95% 2.13% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 29 35
10th Percentile £356 £411 £403
25th Percentile £411 £493 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £664 £650
90th Percentile £650 £740 £733
London median daily rate £525 £625 £573
% change year-on-year -16.00% +9.17% -7.62%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 1,933 1,971 2,503
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.15% 92.67% 94.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,326 1,231 1,797
10th Percentile £350 £358 £338
25th Percentile £436 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £684
90th Percentile £775 £765 £797
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 18 36
10th Percentile £19.24 £20.83 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £26.86 £20.99
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £26.91
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +30.09% +6.55%
75th Percentile £41.94 - £38.50
90th Percentile £50.30 £62.83 £57.63
London median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £29.72
% change year-on-year -7.14% +17.77% -15.09%

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 1 February 2026.

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 1 February 2026. 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 +3 50 £500 -13.04% 23
West End of London +11 1 £625 +38.89% 1
DevOps Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 1 February 2026, 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 57 (100.00%) DevOps
2 34 (59.65%) Security Cleared
3 33 (57.89%) CI/CD
3 33 (57.89%) SC Cleared
4 29 (50.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (50.88%) Terraform
5 22 (38.60%) AWS
6 18 (31.58%) Azure
7 17 (29.82%) Python
8 16 (28.07%) GitHub
9 14 (24.56%) Kubernetes
10 13 (22.81%) Docker
11 11 (19.30%) Ansible
11 11 (19.30%) Containerisation
12 9 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (15.79%) Serverless
13 8 (14.04%) GitLab
14 7 (12.28%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (12.28%) Amazon S3
15 6 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (10.53%) Apigee
15 6 (10.53%) Microsoft
15 6 (10.53%) Node.js
16 5 (8.77%) Analytics
16 5 (8.77%) AWS Fargate
16 5 (8.77%) DynamoDB
16 5 (8.77%) Migration
16 5 (8.77%) Observability

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:

Cloud Services
1 22 (38.60%) AWS
2 18 (31.58%) Azure
3 16 (28.07%) GitHub
4 9 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
4 9 (15.79%) Serverless
5 7 (12.28%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (12.28%) Amazon S3
6 6 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (10.53%) Apigee
7 5 (8.77%) AWS Fargate
8 4 (7.02%) Amazon ECR
9 3 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (5.26%) GCP
9 3 (5.26%) Power Platform
10 2 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (3.51%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (3.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.75%) Firewall
1 1 (1.75%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.77%) DynamoDB
2 2 (3.51%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.51%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.51%) Power BI
3 1 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.75%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.75%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.75%) Impala
3 1 (1.75%) Metadata
3 1 (1.75%) MySQL
3 1 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (14.04%) GitLab
2 4 (7.02%) Git
2 4 (7.02%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.26%) TeamCity
4 2 (3.51%) Gradle
4 2 (3.51%) JIRA
5 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.75%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (17.54%) Finance
2 6 (10.53%) Banking
3 3 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.51%) Retail Banking
4 2 (3.51%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.75%) Billing
5 1 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.75%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.53%) Node.js
2 4 (7.02%) JWT
2 4 (7.02%) OAuth
3 2 (3.51%) .NET
3 2 (3.51%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.75%) boto
4 1 (1.75%) Kafka
4 1 (1.75%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.75%) React
4 1 (1.75%) REST
4 1 (1.75%) SOAP
4 1 (1.75%) Spring
4 1 (1.75%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.54%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.02%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (7.02%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.26%) Private Cloud
4 2 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.51%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.51%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.75%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.75%) CMDB
5 1 (1.75%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.75%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.26%) Windows
2 2 (3.51%) Linux
3 1 (1.75%) Android
3 1 (1.75%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (100.00%) DevOps
2 33 (57.89%) CI/CD
3 29 (50.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (19.30%) Containerisation
5 5 (8.77%) Analytics
5 5 (8.77%) Migration
5 5 (8.77%) Observability
5 5 (8.77%) Software Delivery
5 5 (8.77%) Workflow
6 4 (7.02%) Agile
6 4 (7.02%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (7.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (7.02%) Test Automation
7 3 (5.26%) AI
7 3 (5.26%) Business Continuity
7 3 (5.26%) Cloud Security
7 3 (5.26%) DevSecOps
7 3 (5.26%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (5.26%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (29.82%) Python
2 4 (7.02%) PowerShell
3 3 (5.26%) Java
3 3 (5.26%) TypeScript
4 2 (3.51%) Bash
4 2 (3.51%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.51%) Rust
5 1 (1.75%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (59.65%) Security Cleared
2 33 (57.89%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.26%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.75%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.75%) QA
System Software
1 13 (22.81%) Docker
2 4 (7.02%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.75%) HDFS
3 1 (1.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (50.88%) Terraform
2 14 (24.56%) Kubernetes
3 11 (19.30%) Ansible
4 3 (5.26%) Karpenter
5 2 (3.51%) FortiGate
5 2 (3.51%) Grafana
6 1 (1.75%) Argo
6 1 (1.75%) Kibana
6 1 (1.75%) Opsgenie
6 1 (1.75%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.75%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.26%) Google
2 3 (5.26%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.51%) Dynatrace
3 2 (3.51%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.75%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.75%) Ericsson
4 1 (1.75%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.75%) Splunk
4 1 (1.75%) VMware