DevOps Engineer Contracts in Central London

Development Operations Engineer
London > Central London

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Central London is £544, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 99 75
Rank change year-on-year +14 -24 -10
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 44 34 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.20% 1.39% 2.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.38% 1.46% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 23 74
10th Percentile £410 £413 £504
25th Percentile £466 £462 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £550 £644
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% -14.56% +7.29%
75th Percentile £664 £650 £725
90th Percentile £750 £675 £772
London median daily rate £565 £566 £625
% change year-on-year -0.18% -9.44% +4.17%

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 1,852 2,329 3,676
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 95.22% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,658 2,523
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £454 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
75th Percentile £675 £682 £725
90th Percentile £775 £794 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 32 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.95 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £21.81 £18.93
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%
75th Percentile £35.00 £27.81 £58.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £43.38 £86.65
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +16 41 £550 - 9
West End of London - 2 £450 -
City of Westminster - 1 £425 -
DevOps Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 44 (100.00%) DevOps
2 35 (79.55%) CI/CD
3 31 (70.45%) Terraform
4 27 (61.36%) Kubernetes
5 22 (50.00%) AWS
6 18 (40.91%) Docker
7 17 (38.64%) Python
7 17 (38.64%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (34.09%) Containerisation
8 15 (34.09%) Ansible
9 14 (31.82%) GitLab
10 13 (29.55%) Azure
11 11 (25.00%) Bash
11 11 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
12 10 (22.73%) Agile
12 10 (22.73%) Social Skills
13 9 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (20.45%) Security Cleared
13 9 (20.45%) PowerShell
13 9 (20.45%) Linux
14 8 (18.18%) SC Cleared
14 8 (18.18%) Jenkins
15 7 (15.91%) Configuration Management
15 7 (15.91%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (15.91%) Infrastructure Automation
16 6 (13.64%) Deployment Automation
16 6 (13.64%) Banking
16 6 (13.64%) QA
16 6 (13.64%) Shell Script
16 6 (13.64%) 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 2 (4.55%) Confluence
2 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.27%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 22 (50.00%) AWS
2 13 (29.55%) Azure
3 7 (15.91%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (13.64%) GitHub
5 5 (11.36%) GCP
5 5 (11.36%) OpenShift
6 3 (6.82%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (6.82%) Amazon S3
6 3 (6.82%) Azure AKS
6 3 (6.82%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.55%) Datadog
7 2 (4.55%) Serverless
7 2 (4.55%) WhatsApp
8 1 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.27%) PaaS
8 1 (2.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.82%) Network Security
2 1 (2.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.82%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.27%) Apache Hive
3 1 (2.27%) Big Data
3 1 (2.27%) CockroachDB
3 1 (2.27%) MySQL
3 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (31.82%) GitLab
2 8 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 6 (13.64%) Git
4 4 (9.09%) JIRA
5 2 (4.55%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.27%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.27%) Jaeger
6 1 (2.27%) Liquibase
6 1 (2.27%) Snyk
6 1 (2.27%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.27%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.27%) Terragrunt
General
1 10 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.64%) Banking
2 6 (13.64%) Finance
3 5 (11.36%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.82%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.27%) Military
5 1 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.09%) .NET
2 3 (6.82%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (6.82%) YAML
3 2 (4.55%) Kafka
3 2 (4.55%) Spring
4 1 (2.27%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.27%) Bootstrap
4 1 (2.27%) Loki
4 1 (2.27%) Node.js
4 1 (2.27%) OAuth
4 1 (2.27%) OpenID
4 1 (2.27%) React
4 1 (2.27%) RESTful
4 1 (2.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.82%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.82%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (4.55%) DataPower
3 2 (4.55%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.27%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.27%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.45%) Linux
2 4 (9.09%) Windows
3 3 (6.82%) Unix
4 2 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.27%) CentOS
5 1 (2.27%) SUSE
5 1 (2.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (100.00%) DevOps
2 35 (79.55%) CI/CD
3 17 (38.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (34.09%) Containerisation
5 11 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
6 10 (22.73%) Agile
7 9 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (15.91%) Configuration Management
8 7 (15.91%) Infrastructure Automation
9 6 (13.64%) Deployment Automation
9 6 (13.64%) Migration
10 5 (11.36%) High Availability
10 5 (11.36%) Task Automation
11 4 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (9.09%) Mentoring
11 4 (9.09%) Scrum
11 4 (9.09%) SDLC
11 4 (9.09%) Software Delivery
11 4 (9.09%) Software Engineering
11 4 (9.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (38.64%) Python
2 11 (25.00%) Bash
3 9 (20.45%) PowerShell
4 6 (13.64%) C#
4 6 (13.64%) Java
4 6 (13.64%) Shell Script
5 2 (4.55%) Bicep
5 2 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.55%) SQL
6 1 (2.27%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 9 (20.45%) Security Cleared
2 8 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.55%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.27%) Degree
4 1 (2.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.64%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (40.91%) Docker
2 2 (4.55%) Lustre
3 1 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (70.45%) Terraform
2 27 (61.36%) Kubernetes
3 15 (34.09%) Ansible
4 4 (9.09%) Grafana
4 4 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 3 (6.82%) Podman
6 2 (4.55%) Istio
6 2 (4.55%) Karpenter
7 1 (2.27%) Argo
7 1 (2.27%) Cilium
7 1 (2.27%) FortiGate
7 1 (2.27%) Kibana
7 1 (2.27%) logstash
7 1 (2.27%) Puppet
7 1 (2.27%) Rancher
Vendors
1 4 (9.09%) Google
1 4 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 4 (9.09%) Red Hat
2 3 (6.82%) Databricks
3 1 (2.27%) Cloudera
3 1 (2.27%) Confluent
3 1 (2.27%) New Relic
3 1 (2.27%) Oracle
3 1 (2.27%) Pega
3 1 (2.27%) Splunk