DevOps Engineer Contracts 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 during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 76 67
Rank change year-on-year -26 -9 +7
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 33 109 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.35% 2.83% 3.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.42% 2.97% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 77 138
10th Percentile £413 £500 £463
25th Percentile £462 £525 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £638 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% +6.25% +9.59%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £688
90th Percentile £675 £775 £763
London median daily rate £567 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -9.28% +4.17% +9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,332 3,675 4,281
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.22% 95.33% 94.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,657 2,520 3,256
10th Percentile £343 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £586 £560
Median % change year-on-year -6.18% +4.69% +6.67%
75th Percentile £683 £725 £675
90th Percentile £789 £813 £763
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 27 51
10th Percentile £19.23 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £21.44 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.34% -5.41% +105.84%
75th Percentile £27.81 £58.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £48.30 £86.32 £62.50
London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +11.13%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 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
City of London -12 32 £550 -15.38% 2
DevOps Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 Central London region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 33 (100.00%) DevOps
2 23 (69.70%) Terraform
3 16 (48.48%) CI/CD
4 15 (45.45%) AWS
5 14 (42.42%) Kubernetes
6 11 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (33.33%) Banking
7 9 (27.27%) Azure
7 9 (27.27%) Python
8 8 (24.24%) SC Cleared
8 8 (24.24%) Security Cleared
8 8 (24.24%) Ansible
9 7 (21.21%) Docker
9 7 (21.21%) PowerShell
9 7 (21.21%) TeamCity
9 7 (21.21%) Configuration Management
9 7 (21.21%) Investment Banking
10 6 (18.18%) Finance
10 6 (18.18%) Migration
10 6 (18.18%) SQL
10 6 (18.18%) .NET
10 6 (18.18%) Linux
10 6 (18.18%) GitHub
10 6 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
11 5 (15.15%) Jenkins
11 5 (15.15%) Relational Database
11 5 (15.15%) GitLab
11 5 (15.15%) SDLC
11 5 (15.15%) C#

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 (3.03%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 15 (45.45%) AWS
2 9 (27.27%) Azure
3 6 (18.18%) GitHub
3 6 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (12.12%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (12.12%) Amazon S3
4 4 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (12.12%) PaaS
4 4 (12.12%) Serverless
5 3 (9.09%) IaaS
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon ELB
6 2 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (6.06%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.06%) Azure AKS
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Functions
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (6.06%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (6.06%) SaaS
6 2 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) Firewall
2 1 (3.03%) DNS
2 1 (3.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) Relational Database
1 5 (15.15%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.06%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (3.03%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.03%) GIS
3 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (21.21%) TeamCity
2 5 (15.15%) GitLab
2 5 (15.15%) Jenkins
3 4 (12.12%) Bitbucket
3 4 (12.12%) Git
4 2 (6.06%) Artifactory
4 2 (6.06%) Cypress.io
4 2 (6.06%) JMeter
4 2 (6.06%) Maven
5 1 (3.03%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (33.33%) Banking
2 7 (21.21%) Investment Banking
3 6 (18.18%) Finance
4 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
5 4 (12.12%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.18%) .NET
2 5 (15.15%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (15.15%) WCF
2 5 (15.15%) WinForms
3 3 (9.09%) Kafka
4 2 (6.06%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (6.06%) Node.js
4 2 (6.06%) React
4 2 (6.06%) YAML
5 1 (3.03%) ARM Templates
5 1 (3.03%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.03%) MPEG
2 1 (3.03%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.18%) Linux
2 2 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (6.06%) Windows
3 1 (3.03%) Android
3 1 (3.03%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (100.00%) DevOps
2 16 (48.48%) CI/CD
3 11 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (21.21%) Configuration Management
5 6 (18.18%) Migration
6 5 (15.15%) SDLC
7 4 (12.12%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (12.12%) Service Catalogue
8 3 (9.09%) Architectural Design
8 3 (9.09%) Cloud Security
9 2 (6.06%) Auto-Scaling
9 2 (6.06%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (6.06%) Microservices
9 2 (6.06%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (6.06%) Software Engineering
9 2 (6.06%) Technical Leadership
9 2 (6.06%) Test Automation
10 1 (3.03%) Artificial Intelligence
10 1 (3.03%) Open Source
10 1 (3.03%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (27.27%) Python
2 7 (21.21%) PowerShell
3 6 (18.18%) SQL
4 5 (15.15%) C#
5 3 (9.09%) Bash
6 2 (6.06%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.03%) Go
7 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (24.24%) SC Cleared
1 8 (24.24%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.09%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.03%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (21.21%) Docker
2 5 (15.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (69.70%) Terraform
2 14 (42.42%) Kubernetes
3 8 (24.24%) Ansible
4 2 (6.06%) Argo
4 2 (6.06%) Consul
4 2 (6.06%) Prometheus
4 2 (6.06%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
1 2 (6.06%) MKS
1 2 (6.06%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.03%) ESRI
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle
2 1 (3.03%) SAP