DevOps Engineer Contracts 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 14 August 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
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 89 81
Rank change year-on-year -14 -8 -3
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 29 44 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.41% 1.90% 2.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.52% 2.01% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 33 65
10th Percentile £407 £425 £472
25th Percentile £479 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £724
90th Percentile £712 £785 £756
London median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -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 1,914 2,191 3,325
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.09% 94.68% 94.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,277 1,478 2,295
10th Percentile £325 £363 £325
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% +4.46%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £710
90th Percentile £775 £787 £813
London median daily rate £545 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 20 13
10th Percentile £18.96 £19.60 £14.67
25th Percentile £23.50 £22.84 £21.25
Median hourly rate £28.79 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% -22.86% -15.66%
75th Percentile £45.85 £65.63 £52.50
90th Percentile £65.39 £137.50 £80.75
London median hourly rate £29.54 £34.25 £38.00
% change year-on-year -13.77% -9.87% +13.43%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -24 27 £550 -10.20% 12
City of Westminster -2 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 14 August 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 29 (100.00%) DevOps
2 26 (89.66%) CI/CD
3 22 (75.86%) Terraform
4 18 (62.07%) Kubernetes
5 16 (55.17%) AWS
6 14 (48.28%) Python
7 13 (44.83%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (41.38%) Docker
9 10 (34.48%) Ansible
9 10 (34.48%) Jenkins
9 10 (34.48%) Finance
9 10 (34.48%) Containerisation
10 9 (31.03%) Infrastructure Automation
10 9 (31.03%) Bash
11 8 (27.59%) Azure
11 8 (27.59%) GitHub
11 8 (27.59%) GitLab
12 7 (24.14%) Agile
12 7 (24.14%) Configuration Management
12 7 (24.14%) Prometheus
13 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
13 6 (20.69%) Linux
13 6 (20.69%) QA
13 6 (20.69%) Continuous Integration
13 6 (20.69%) Grafana
14 5 (17.24%) High Availability
14 5 (17.24%) Banking
14 5 (17.24%) SC Cleared
14 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
14 5 (17.24%) Site Reliability Engineering

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 (3.45%) Mattermost
Cloud Services
1 16 (55.17%) AWS
2 8 (27.59%) Azure
2 8 (27.59%) GitHub
3 5 (17.24%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (17.24%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (13.79%) GCP
5 3 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (10.34%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (10.34%) Azure AKS
5 3 (10.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (6.90%) Amazon S3
6 2 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.90%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (6.90%) Serverless
6 2 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (3.45%) Datadog
7 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) Firewall
1 2 (6.90%) SSH
2 1 (3.45%) DNS
2 1 (3.45%) Internet
2 1 (3.45%) NAS
2 1 (3.45%) Network Security
2 1 (3.45%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (3.45%) SAN
2 1 (3.45%) STUN
2 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Hive
2 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.45%) CockroachDB
2 1 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.45%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.45%) Impala
2 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.45%) MySQL
2 1 (3.45%) Power BI
2 1 (3.45%) Redis
2 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (34.48%) Jenkins
2 8 (27.59%) GitLab
3 3 (10.34%) Git
4 2 (6.90%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.45%) git-flow
5 1 (3.45%) Jaeger
5 1 (3.45%) JIRA
5 1 (3.45%) TeamCity
5 1 (3.45%) Terragrunt
General
1 10 (34.48%) Finance
2 5 (17.24%) Banking
3 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) ARM Templates
1 2 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (6.90%) Loki
1 2 (6.90%) Web Services
2 1 (3.45%) .NET
2 1 (3.45%) .NET Core
2 1 (3.45%) ADO
2 1 (3.45%) Node.js
2 1 (3.45%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
1 1 (3.45%) Cyberattack
1 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
1 1 (3.45%) DataPower
1 1 (3.45%) Mainframe
1 1 (3.45%) Market Risk
1 1 (3.45%) Private Cloud
1 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
1 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
1 1 (3.45%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.69%) Linux
2 3 (10.34%) Unix
2 3 (10.34%) Windows
3 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.45%) VMS
3 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) DevOps
2 26 (89.66%) CI/CD
3 13 (44.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (34.48%) Containerisation
5 9 (31.03%) Infrastructure Automation
6 7 (24.14%) Agile
6 7 (24.14%) Configuration Management
7 6 (20.69%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (17.24%) High Availability
8 5 (17.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 4 (13.79%) Observability
9 4 (13.79%) RBAC
10 3 (10.34%) Cloud Security
10 3 (10.34%) Load Balancing
10 3 (10.34%) Open Source
10 3 (10.34%) SDLC
10 3 (10.34%) Task Automation
11 2 (6.90%) Scrum
11 2 (6.90%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (48.28%) Python
2 9 (31.03%) Bash
3 4 (13.79%) PowerShell
4 3 (10.34%) Shell Script
4 3 (10.34%) SQL
5 2 (6.90%) Bicep
6 1 (3.45%) C#
6 1 (3.45%) Groovy
6 1 (3.45%) Java
6 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) SC Cleared
1 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) AWS Certification
2 2 (6.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (41.38%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) HDFS
2 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (75.86%) Terraform
2 18 (62.07%) Kubernetes
3 10 (34.48%) Ansible
4 7 (24.14%) Prometheus
5 6 (20.69%) Grafana
6 4 (13.79%) Istio
7 3 (10.34%) Argo
8 2 (6.90%) Puppet
9 1 (3.45%) Cilium
9 1 (3.45%) Kibana
9 1 (3.45%) Packer
9 1 (3.45%) Progress Chef
9 1 (3.45%) yum
Vendors
1 3 (10.34%) Google
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.90%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.45%) Databricks
3 1 (3.45%) OpenAI
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle
3 1 (3.45%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.45%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.45%) Splunk
3 1 (3.45%) Tenable