Operations Engineer Contracts in Central London

Operations Engineer
London > Central London

The median Operations Engineer daily rate in Central London is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 July 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
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 122 161
Rank change year-on-year -8 +39 +43
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 3 14 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.15% 0.59% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.62% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 3
10th Percentile £633 £341 £415
25th Percentile £644 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +58.82% -5.56% -24.43%
75th Percentile £694 £469 £506
90th Percentile £698 £565 £525
London median daily rate £700 £425 £625
% change year-on-year +64.71% -32.00% +11.11%

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 1,895 2,243 3,475
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 95.12% 94.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,231 1,542 2,381
10th Percentile £331 £350 £313
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £554 £594
Median % change year-on-year -0.63% -6.82% +7.90%
75th Percentile £675 £683 £713
90th Percentile £775 £788 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 24 20
10th Percentile £21.51 £20.31 £15.37
25th Percentile £24.66 £23.63 £20.56
Median hourly rate £30.04 £30.41 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.22% -13.13% -15.66%
75th Percentile £51.31 £53.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £67.89 £124.00 £88.30
London median hourly rate £30.81 £31.71 £39.00
% change year-on-year -2.85% -18.69% +11.43%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings that featured Operations Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in Central London

Operations Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Operations Engineer in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Operations Engineer in Central London

Operations Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Operations Engineer in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Operations Engineer in Central London

Operations 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 Operations Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 22 July 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 -5 3 £675 +58.82% 2
Operations Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 22 July 2025, Operations 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 Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Slack
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Istio
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector

Operations 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 (33.33%) Confluence
1 1 (33.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Military
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) MLOps
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Istio
2 1 (33.33%) Podman
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Pega