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 £523, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 January 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 87 85
Rank change year-on-year +20 -2 -13
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 60 41 50
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.97% 1.91% 1.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.16% 2.05% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 29 43
10th Percentile £356 £411 £410
25th Percentile £457 £493 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £601 £664 £663
90th Percentile £661 £740 £725
London median daily rate £525 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -16.00% +8.70% -7.63%

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 1,901 1,997 2,476
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 92.88% 94.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,312 1,254 1,775
10th Percentile £343 £363 £350
25th Percentile £431 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% +2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £774 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 20 27
10th Percentile £19.24 £17.69 £18.16
25th Percentile £25.47 £24.55 £21.88
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +34.62% -10.34%
75th Percentile £41.75 £36.31 £37.25
90th Percentile £45.56 £112.00 £65.00
London median hourly rate £32.45 £35.00 £31.61
% change year-on-year -7.29% +10.74% -7.04%

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 18 January 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 18 January 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 +5 52 £500 -13.04% 22
West End of London +9 2 £625 +38.89% 1
City of Westminster +2 1 - -
DevOps Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 18 January 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 60 (100.00%) DevOps
2 37 (61.67%) CI/CD
3 34 (56.67%) Security Cleared
4 33 (55.00%) SC Cleared
5 32 (53.33%) Terraform
6 30 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 25 (41.67%) AWS
8 21 (35.00%) Azure
9 19 (31.67%) Python
10 18 (30.00%) Kubernetes
11 16 (26.67%) GitHub
12 15 (25.00%) Docker
13 12 (20.00%) Ansible
13 12 (20.00%) Containerisation
14 10 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (15.00%) GitLab
15 9 (15.00%) Serverless
16 8 (13.33%) Jenkins
17 7 (11.67%) Amazon ECS
17 7 (11.67%) Amazon S3
17 7 (11.67%) Node.js
18 6 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 6 (10.00%) Apigee
18 6 (10.00%) GCP
18 6 (10.00%) Microsoft
18 6 (10.00%) Observability
18 6 (10.00%) Software Delivery
19 5 (8.33%) Agile

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 (1.67%) Mattermost
Cloud Services
1 25 (41.67%) AWS
2 21 (35.00%) Azure
3 16 (26.67%) GitHub
4 10 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (15.00%) Serverless
6 7 (11.67%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (11.67%) Amazon S3
7 6 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (10.00%) Apigee
7 6 (10.00%) GCP
8 5 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (6.67%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (5.00%) Power Platform
11 2 (3.33%) AWS CodePipeline
11 2 (3.33%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.33%) Firewall
2 1 (1.67%) SSH
2 1 (1.67%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.33%) DynamoDB
2 2 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.33%) Power BI
3 1 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.67%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.67%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.67%) Impala
3 1 (1.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.67%) MySQL
3 1 (1.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (15.00%) GitLab
2 8 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.00%) Git
3 3 (5.00%) TeamCity
4 2 (3.33%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.33%) Gradle
4 2 (3.33%) JIRA
4 2 (3.33%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (20.00%) Finance
2 9 (15.00%) Banking
3 3 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (5.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.33%) Retail Banking
5 1 (1.67%) Billing
5 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.67%) Node.js
2 4 (6.67%) JWT
2 4 (6.67%) OAuth
3 2 (3.33%) .NET
3 2 (3.33%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.67%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.67%) boto
4 1 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.67%) Kafka
4 1 (1.67%) Loki
4 1 (1.67%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.67%) React
4 1 (1.67%) REST
4 1 (1.67%) SOAP
4 1 (1.67%) Spring
4 1 (1.67%) Web Services
4 1 (1.67%) WebRTC
4 1 (1.67%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.00%) Private Cloud
4 2 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.33%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.67%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.67%) CMDB
5 1 (1.67%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.00%) Linux
1 3 (5.00%) Windows
2 1 (1.67%) Android
2 1 (1.67%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (100.00%) DevOps
2 37 (61.67%) CI/CD
3 30 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 6 (10.00%) Observability
5 6 (10.00%) Software Delivery
6 5 (8.33%) Agile
6 5 (8.33%) Analytics
6 5 (8.33%) Migration
6 5 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (8.33%) Workflow
7 4 (6.67%) Microservices
7 4 (6.67%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (5.00%) Business Continuity
8 3 (5.00%) Cloud Security
8 3 (5.00%) DevSecOps
8 3 (5.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (5.00%) Infrastructure Automation
8 3 (5.00%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 19 (31.67%) Python
2 4 (6.67%) Java
2 4 (6.67%) PowerShell
3 3 (5.00%) Bash
3 3 (5.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (5.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (3.33%) Rust
5 1 (1.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (56.67%) Security Cleared
2 33 (55.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.33%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.33%) QA
2 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (25.00%) Docker
2 4 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.67%) HDFS
3 1 (1.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (53.33%) Terraform
2 18 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 12 (20.00%) Ansible
4 4 (6.67%) Grafana
5 3 (5.00%) Karpenter
5 3 (5.00%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.33%) Argo
6 2 (3.33%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.67%) Istio
7 1 (1.67%) Kibana
7 1 (1.67%) Opsgenie
7 1 (1.67%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.33%) Google
3 3 (5.00%) Dynatrace
3 3 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.33%) Fortinet
4 2 (3.33%) Splunk
5 1 (1.67%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.67%) Ericsson
5 1 (1.67%) Tenable
5 1 (1.67%) VMware