DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Development Operations Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £540, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025.

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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 84 83
Rank change year-on-year +7 -1 -2
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 42 35 52
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.29% 1.70% 2.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.44% 1.83% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 25 46
10th Percentile £351 £414 £416
25th Percentile £457 £500 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +4.50% -11.96%
75th Percentile £601 £664 £684
90th Percentile £678 £708 £731
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,719 1,915 2,345
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 92.96% 94.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,204 1,176 1,684
10th Percentile £328 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -
75th Percentile £675 £680 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £546 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.77% -1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 13
10th Percentile £19.94 £15.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.96 £22.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £28.00 £57.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.30% +130.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £41.85 £112.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £51.25 £132.40 £68.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -25.40% +37.25% -24.44%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of 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 the City of London.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the City of London

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the City of London

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the City of London

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 25 December 2025, 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 City of London region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 42 (100.00%) DevOps
2 29 (69.05%) CI/CD
3 23 (54.76%) Terraform
4 22 (52.38%) Security Cleared
5 21 (50.00%) SC Cleared
6 20 (47.62%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (42.86%) AWS
8 16 (38.10%) GitHub
8 16 (38.10%) Python
9 14 (33.33%) Azure
9 14 (33.33%) Kubernetes
10 13 (30.95%) Docker
11 11 (26.19%) Ansible
11 11 (26.19%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (23.81%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (23.81%) Containerisation
12 10 (23.81%) Serverless
13 8 (19.05%) Amazon S3
13 8 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (19.05%) Jenkins
14 7 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (14.29%) Agile
15 6 (14.29%) Apigee
15 6 (14.29%) GitLab
15 6 (14.29%) Microsoft
15 6 (14.29%) Node.js
16 5 (11.90%) Analytics
16 5 (11.90%) AWS Fargate
16 5 (11.90%) DynamoDB

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 18 (42.86%) AWS
2 16 (38.10%) GitHub
3 14 (33.33%) Azure
4 11 (26.19%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (23.81%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (23.81%) Serverless
6 8 (19.05%) Amazon S3
6 8 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (14.29%) Apigee
9 5 (11.90%) AWS Fargate
10 4 (9.52%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (9.52%) GCP
11 3 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (7.14%) AWS CodePipeline
11 3 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) Firewall
1 1 (2.38%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (2.38%) SSH
1 1 (2.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.90%) DynamoDB
2 3 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.38%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.38%) Apache Hive
4 1 (2.38%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.38%) Impala
4 1 (2.38%) MySQL
4 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (19.05%) Jenkins
2 6 (14.29%) GitLab
3 3 (7.14%) TeamCity
4 2 (4.76%) Bitbucket
4 2 (4.76%) Git
4 2 (4.76%) Gradle
4 2 (4.76%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (26.19%) Finance
2 7 (16.67%) Banking
3 3 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Retail Banking
4 2 (4.76%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Billing
5 1 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (14.29%) Node.js
2 4 (9.52%) JWT
2 4 (9.52%) OAuth
3 2 (4.76%) .NET
3 2 (4.76%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.38%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.38%) boto
4 1 (2.38%) Kafka
4 1 (2.38%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (2.38%) React
4 1 (2.38%) REST
4 1 (2.38%) SOAP
4 1 (2.38%) Spring
4 1 (2.38%) Web Services
4 1 (2.38%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.76%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.38%) CMDB
4 1 (2.38%) Cyberattack
4 1 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.38%) Market Risk
4 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.38%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Windows
2 1 (2.38%) Android
2 1 (2.38%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.38%) Linux
2 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (100.00%) DevOps
2 29 (69.05%) CI/CD
3 20 (47.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (23.81%) Containerisation
5 6 (14.29%) Agile
6 5 (11.90%) Analytics
6 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (11.90%) Migration
7 4 (9.52%) Microservices
7 4 (9.52%) Observability
7 4 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (9.52%) Software Delivery
8 3 (7.14%) Cloud Security
8 3 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (7.14%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (7.14%) Software Engineering
8 3 (7.14%) Workflow
9 2 (4.76%) API Management
9 2 (4.76%) Design Patterns
9 2 (4.76%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 16 (38.10%) Python
2 4 (9.52%) Java
2 4 (9.52%) PowerShell
3 3 (7.14%) TypeScript
4 2 (4.76%) Bash
4 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.76%) Rust
5 1 (2.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (52.38%) Security Cleared
2 21 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.38%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.38%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) QA
2 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (30.95%) Docker
2 3 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.38%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (54.76%) Terraform
2 14 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 11 (26.19%) Ansible
4 3 (7.14%) Grafana
5 2 (4.76%) Karpenter
5 2 (4.76%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.38%) Argo
6 1 (2.38%) Istio
6 1 (2.38%) Kibana
6 1 (2.38%) Opsgenie
6 1 (2.38%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.52%) Google
3 2 (4.76%) Dynatrace
3 2 (4.76%) Splunk
4 1 (2.38%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.38%) Ericsson
4 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.38%) Tenable