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 16 December 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 96 76
Rank change year-on-year +6 -20 -9
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 41 36 61
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.06% 1.54% 2.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.21% 1.66% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 25 55
10th Percentile £349 £414 £425
25th Percentile £449 £500 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year - -0.09% -4.26%
75th Percentile £613 £664 £688
90th Percentile £681 £708 £733
London median daily rate £525 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -16.00% +8.70% -8.00%

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 1,857 2,169 2,588
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.22% 92.61% 94.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,298 1,360 1,864
10th Percentile £331 £362 £340
25th Percentile £425 £463 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £775 £800
London median daily rate £535 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -2.73% -2.22% -3.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 25 20
10th Percentile £19.24 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £31.25 £20.67
Median hourly rate £26.57 £35.00 £24.99
Median % change year-on-year -24.09% +40.08% -25.97%
75th Percentile £36.00 £61.25 £47.25
90th Percentile £51.25 £112.00 £65.88
London median hourly rate £27.86 £35.75 £35.32
% change year-on-year -22.08% +1.23% +0.90%

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 16 December 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 16 December 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 36 £545 -0.91% 11
West End of London - 1 - - 2
City of Westminster - 1 - - 1
DevOps Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 16 December 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 41 (100.00%) DevOps
2 33 (80.49%) CI/CD
3 22 (53.66%) Terraform
4 19 (46.34%) AWS
4 19 (46.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (46.34%) Security Cleared
5 18 (43.90%) SC Cleared
6 17 (41.46%) Python
7 16 (39.02%) GitHub
8 13 (31.71%) Azure
8 13 (31.71%) Kubernetes
9 12 (29.27%) Docker
10 11 (26.83%) Ansible
10 11 (26.83%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (24.39%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (24.39%) Serverless
12 9 (21.95%) Containerisation
13 8 (19.51%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (19.51%) Jenkins
14 7 (17.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (17.07%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (17.07%) Amazon S3
15 6 (14.63%) Agile
15 6 (14.63%) Microsoft
15 6 (14.63%) Node.js
15 6 (14.63%) Software Delivery
16 5 (12.20%) Analytics
16 5 (12.20%) Apigee
16 5 (12.20%) DynamoDB
16 5 (12.20%) GitLab

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 (2.44%) Mattermost
Cloud Services
1 19 (46.34%) AWS
2 16 (39.02%) GitHub
3 13 (31.71%) Azure
4 11 (26.83%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (24.39%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (24.39%) Serverless
6 8 (19.51%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (17.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (17.07%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (17.07%) Amazon S3
8 5 (12.20%) Apigee
9 4 (9.76%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (9.76%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (9.76%) GCP
10 3 (7.32%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (7.32%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (7.32%) AWS CodePipeline
10 3 (7.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (7.32%) Power Platform
11 2 (4.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) Firewall
2 1 (2.44%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (2.44%) SSH
2 1 (2.44%) STUN
2 1 (2.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.20%) DynamoDB
2 3 (7.32%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (4.88%) Power BI
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.44%) Apache Hive
4 1 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.44%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.44%) Impala
4 1 (2.44%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.44%) MySQL
4 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (19.51%) Jenkins
2 5 (12.20%) GitLab
3 3 (7.32%) TeamCity
4 2 (4.88%) Bitbucket
4 2 (4.88%) Gradle
4 2 (4.88%) JIRA
4 2 (4.88%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.44%) Git
General
1 11 (26.83%) Finance
2 7 (17.07%) Banking
3 3 (7.32%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (7.32%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.88%) Retail Banking
5 1 (2.44%) Billing
5 1 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (14.63%) Node.js
2 4 (9.76%) JWT
2 4 (9.76%) OAuth
3 2 (4.88%) .NET
3 2 (4.88%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.44%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.44%) boto
4 1 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.44%) Loki
4 1 (2.44%) REST
4 1 (2.44%) SOAP
4 1 (2.44%) Web Services
4 1 (2.44%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.76%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (9.76%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.88%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.88%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.44%) CMDB
4 1 (2.44%) Cyberattack
4 1 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.44%) Market Risk
4 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.44%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.88%) Linux
1 2 (4.88%) Windows
2 1 (2.44%) Android
2 1 (2.44%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (100.00%) DevOps
2 33 (80.49%) CI/CD
3 19 (46.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (21.95%) Containerisation
5 6 (14.63%) Agile
5 6 (14.63%) Software Delivery
6 5 (12.20%) Analytics
6 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (12.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (12.20%) Workflow
7 4 (9.76%) Microservices
7 4 (9.76%) Observability
8 3 (7.32%) Business Continuity
8 3 (7.32%) DevSecOps
8 3 (7.32%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (7.32%) Migration
8 3 (7.32%) Open Source
8 3 (7.32%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (7.32%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (7.32%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (41.46%) Python
2 4 (9.76%) PowerShell
3 3 (7.32%) Bash
3 3 (7.32%) Java
4 2 (4.88%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.88%) Rust
4 2 (4.88%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (46.34%) Security Cleared
2 18 (43.90%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (4.88%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) QA
2 1 (2.44%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.44%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (29.27%) Docker
2 3 (7.32%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.44%) HDFS
3 1 (2.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (53.66%) Terraform
2 13 (31.71%) Kubernetes
3 11 (26.83%) Ansible
4 2 (4.88%) Grafana
4 2 (4.88%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.44%) Argo
5 1 (2.44%) Istio
5 1 (2.44%) Karpenter
5 1 (2.44%) Kibana
5 1 (2.44%) Opsgenie
5 1 (2.44%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (14.63%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.32%) Google
2 3 (7.32%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.88%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.44%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.44%) Ericsson
4 1 (2.44%) Splunk
4 1 (2.44%) Tenable
4 1 (2.44%) VMware