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 £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 86 89
Rank change year-on-year -11 +3 -1
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 48 38 46
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.84% 1.98% 1.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.95% 2.12% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 24 29
10th Percentile £408 £428 £423
25th Percentile £475 £482 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -13.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £638 £681 £675
90th Percentile £650 £750 £788
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%

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 2,461 1,796 2,315
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.26% 93.44% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,643 1,163 1,604
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £449 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £681
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
London median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 24 28
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.23 £20.13
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.43 £21.25
Median hourly rate £27.25 £29.07 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.26% +7.67% -22.86%
75th Percentile £54.00 £55.06 £28.20
90th Percentile £64.13 £81.80 £41.13
London median hourly rate £39.00 £33.45 £27.81
% change year-on-year +16.61% +20.26% -24.37%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -12 44 £513 -6.82% 3
West End of London -5 2 £625 +38.89%
DevOps Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 19 June 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 48 (100.00%) DevOps
2 28 (58.33%) SC Cleared
2 28 (58.33%) Security Cleared
3 26 (54.17%) Terraform
4 23 (47.92%) CI/CD
5 22 (45.83%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (43.75%) Kubernetes
7 17 (35.42%) Azure
8 16 (33.33%) Containerisation
9 15 (31.25%) AWS
10 10 (20.83%) GitLab
11 8 (16.67%) Ansible
11 8 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
12 7 (14.58%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (14.58%) Git
13 6 (12.50%) Docker
13 6 (12.50%) GitHub
13 6 (12.50%) Python
14 5 (10.42%) Cloud Security
14 5 (10.42%) Observability
15 4 (8.33%) Bash
15 4 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (8.33%) Linux
15 4 (8.33%) Test Automation
15 4 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
16 3 (6.25%) Agile
16 3 (6.25%) AI
16 3 (6.25%) Databricks
16 3 (6.25%) Deployment Automation
16 3 (6.25%) Dynatrace

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 2 (4.17%) Confluence
1 2 (4.17%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Maya
Cloud Services
1 17 (35.42%) Azure
2 15 (31.25%) AWS
3 7 (14.58%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (12.50%) GitHub
5 4 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.17%) Azure AKS
6 2 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (4.17%) GCP
6 2 (4.17%) Power Automate
6 2 (4.17%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.17%) PowerApps
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.08%) Datadog
7 1 (2.08%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (2.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) DNS
1 2 (4.17%) Firewall
1 2 (4.17%) VPN
2 1 (2.08%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (4.17%) Power BI
2 1 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.08%) Metadata
2 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (20.83%) GitLab
2 7 (14.58%) Git
3 3 (6.25%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.17%) Ant
4 2 (4.17%) JIRA
4 2 (4.17%) Liquibase
5 1 (2.08%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (22.92%) Finance
2 3 (6.25%) Banking
2 3 (6.25%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.08%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.08%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.17%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (2.08%) .NET
2 1 (2.08%) Kafka
2 1 (2.08%) Node.js
2 1 (2.08%) Playwright
2 1 (2.08%) React
2 1 (2.08%) REST
2 1 (2.08%) Spring
2 1 (2.08%) WireMock
2 1 (2.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.58%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.33%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.08%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.08%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.08%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (2.08%) Unix
2 1 (2.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (100.00%) DevOps
2 23 (47.92%) CI/CD
3 22 (45.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 8 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (10.42%) Cloud Security
6 5 (10.42%) Observability
7 4 (8.33%) Test Automation
8 3 (6.25%) Agile
8 3 (6.25%) AI
8 3 (6.25%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (6.25%) Infrastructure Automation
8 3 (6.25%) Migration
8 3 (6.25%) Scrum
8 3 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (4.17%) Continuous Delivery
9 2 (4.17%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (4.17%) GitOps
9 2 (4.17%) Load Balancing
9 2 (4.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.50%) Python
2 4 (8.33%) Bash
3 3 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.17%) Java
5 1 (2.08%) Apex Code
5 1 (2.08%) Bicep
5 1 (2.08%) C#
5 1 (2.08%) Go
5 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.08%) SQL
5 1 (2.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (58.33%) SC Cleared
1 28 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.17%) AWS Certification
2 2 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 6 (12.50%) Docker
2 4 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (54.17%) Terraform
2 21 (43.75%) Kubernetes
3 8 (16.67%) Ansible
4 3 (6.25%) Grafana
4 3 (6.25%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.17%) FortiGate
6 1 (2.08%) Argo
6 1 (2.08%) Karpenter
6 1 (2.08%) Packer
Vendors
1 3 (6.25%) Databricks
1 3 (6.25%) Dynatrace
2 2 (4.17%) AppDynamics
2 2 (4.17%) Fortinet
2 2 (4.17%) Google
2 2 (4.17%) IBM
2 2 (4.17%) Splunk
3 1 (2.08%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.08%) Salesforce