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 £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 September 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
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 90 76
Rank change year-on-year -10 -14 +2
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 27 40 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.39% 1.74% 2.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.49% 1.85% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 31 64
10th Percentile £455 £425 £450
25th Percentile £482 £516 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.08% +2.08% -
75th Percentile £666 £675 £724
90th Percentile £706 £788 £762
London median daily rate £525 £569 £600
% change year-on-year -7.65% -5.25% -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 1,814 2,166 3,075
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.17% 94.17% 94.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,231 1,399 2,137
10th Percentile £315 £363 £340
25th Percentile £422 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% +2.65%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £781 £800
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 25 13
10th Percentile £18.51 £20.33 £16.69
25th Percentile £22.75 £23.80 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.15 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.57% - -15.66%
75th Percentile £43.75 £42.25 £42.32
90th Percentile £64.11 £119.50 £65.50
London median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -14.29% -6.27% +14.89%

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
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 17 September 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 17 September 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 25 £550 -9.28% 16
City of Westminster -1 1 - -
West End of London - 1 - -
DevOps Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 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 27 (100.00%) DevOps
2 25 (92.59%) CI/CD
3 21 (77.78%) Terraform
4 16 (59.26%) Kubernetes
4 16 (59.26%) AWS
5 12 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (40.74%) Python
7 9 (33.33%) Docker
7 9 (33.33%) Jenkins
8 8 (29.63%) GitHub
8 8 (29.63%) Finance
8 8 (29.63%) Infrastructure Automation
8 8 (29.63%) Containerisation
9 7 (25.93%) Bash
9 7 (25.93%) Azure
10 6 (22.22%) Ansible
10 6 (22.22%) GitLab
10 6 (22.22%) Grafana
10 6 (22.22%) SC Cleared
10 6 (22.22%) Security Cleared
10 6 (22.22%) Agile
10 6 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (22.22%) Prometheus
10 6 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 5 (18.52%) Observability
11 5 (18.52%) Banking
12 4 (14.81%) High Availability
12 4 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (14.81%) GCP
12 4 (14.81%) Linux

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 (3.70%) Mattermost
Cloud Services
1 16 (59.26%) AWS
2 8 (29.63%) GitHub
3 7 (25.93%) Azure
4 6 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (14.81%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (14.81%) GCP
6 3 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (11.11%) Azure AKS
6 3 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (11.11%) Serverless
7 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
7 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (7.41%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (3.70%) Datadog
8 1 (3.70%) IaaS
8 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) SSH
2 1 (3.70%) DNS
2 1 (3.70%) Firewall
2 1 (3.70%) Internet
2 1 (3.70%) NAS
2 1 (3.70%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (3.70%) SAN
2 1 (3.70%) STUN
2 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Hive
2 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.70%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.70%) Impala
2 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.70%) Power BI
2 1 (3.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 6 (22.22%) GitLab
3 3 (11.11%) Git
4 2 (7.41%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.70%) git-flow
5 1 (3.70%) Jaeger
5 1 (3.70%) TeamCity
5 1 (3.70%) Terragrunt
General
1 8 (29.63%) Finance
2 5 (18.52%) Banking
3 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Billing
5 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) ARM Templates
1 2 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (7.41%) Loki
2 1 (3.70%) .NET
2 1 (3.70%) .NET Core
2 1 (3.70%) ADO
2 1 (3.70%) Node.js
2 1 (3.70%) Web Services
2 1 (3.70%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.70%) Cyberattack
2 1 (3.70%) DataPower
2 1 (3.70%) Mainframe
2 1 (3.70%) Market Risk
2 1 (3.70%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Linux
2 2 (7.41%) Unix
2 2 (7.41%) Windows
3 1 (3.70%) Android
3 1 (3.70%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (100.00%) DevOps
2 25 (92.59%) CI/CD
3 12 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (29.63%) Containerisation
4 8 (29.63%) Infrastructure Automation
5 6 (22.22%) Agile
5 6 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (18.52%) Observability
7 4 (14.81%) High Availability
7 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (14.81%) RBAC
8 3 (11.11%) Cloud Security
8 3 (11.11%) Load Balancing
8 3 (11.11%) Open Source
9 2 (7.41%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (7.41%) GitOps
9 2 (7.41%) Platform Engineering
9 2 (7.41%) Roadmaps
9 2 (7.41%) Secrets Management
9 2 (7.41%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) Python
2 7 (25.93%) Bash
3 3 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 2 (7.41%) Shell Script
4 2 (7.41%) SQL
5 1 (3.70%) Bicep
5 1 (3.70%) C#
5 1 (3.70%) Groovy
5 1 (3.70%) Java
5 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 6 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) HDFS
2 1 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (77.78%) Terraform
2 16 (59.26%) Kubernetes
3 6 (22.22%) Ansible
3 6 (22.22%) Grafana
3 6 (22.22%) Prometheus
4 4 (14.81%) Istio
5 3 (11.11%) Argo
6 1 (3.70%) Cilium
6 1 (3.70%) Kibana
6 1 (3.70%) Packer
6 1 (3.70%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.70%) Puppet
6 1 (3.70%) yum
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) Google
2 2 (7.41%) Dynatrace
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.70%) Databricks
3 1 (3.70%) Ericsson
3 1 (3.70%) OpenAI
3 1 (3.70%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.70%) Splunk
3 1 (3.70%) Tenable