DevOps Engineer Contracts 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 £550, 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 78 94 86
Rank change year-on-year +16 -8 -22
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 41 33 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.33% 1.50% 2.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.51% 1.58% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 22 69
10th Percentile £409 £413 £510
25th Percentile £494 £471 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £666 £650 £725
90th Percentile £750 £675 £775
Central London median daily rate £544 £550 £644
% change year-on-year -1.14% -14.56% +7.29%

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 1,632 2,086 3,469
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 94.95% 95.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,021 1,483 2,364
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.19%
75th Percentile £681 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £798 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 22
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -6.04%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.97
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the City of London

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer 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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the City of London

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 City of London region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 41 (100.00%) DevOps
2 33 (80.49%) CI/CD
3 28 (68.29%) Terraform
4 25 (60.98%) Kubernetes
5 20 (48.78%) AWS
6 17 (41.46%) Docker
7 15 (36.59%) Ansible
7 15 (36.59%) Python
7 15 (36.59%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (34.15%) Containerisation
8 14 (34.15%) GitLab
9 12 (29.27%) Azure
10 10 (24.39%) Bash
10 10 (24.39%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (21.95%) Security Cleared
11 9 (21.95%) PowerShell
11 9 (21.95%) Agile
11 9 (21.95%) Linux
12 8 (19.51%) SC Cleared
12 8 (19.51%) Jenkins
13 7 (17.07%) Configuration Management
13 7 (17.07%) Social Skills
13 7 (17.07%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
14 6 (14.63%) Deployment Automation
14 6 (14.63%) Migration
14 6 (14.63%) Shell Script
14 6 (14.63%) C#
14 6 (14.63%) Java
14 6 (14.63%) Banking

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (4.88%) Confluence
2 1 (2.44%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.44%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 20 (48.78%) AWS
2 12 (29.27%) Azure
3 7 (17.07%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (12.20%) GitHub
4 5 (12.20%) OpenShift
5 4 (9.76%) GCP
6 3 (7.32%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (7.32%) Amazon S3
6 3 (7.32%) Azure AKS
6 3 (7.32%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (4.88%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.88%) Serverless
7 2 (4.88%) WhatsApp
8 1 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.44%) Datadog
8 1 (2.44%) PaaS
8 1 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.32%) Network Security
2 1 (2.44%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.32%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.44%) Apache Hive
3 1 (2.44%) Big Data
3 1 (2.44%) CockroachDB
3 1 (2.44%) MySQL
3 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (34.15%) GitLab
2 8 (19.51%) Jenkins
3 6 (14.63%) Git
4 4 (9.76%) JIRA
5 2 (4.88%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.44%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.44%) Jaeger
6 1 (2.44%) Liquibase
6 1 (2.44%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.44%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.44%) Terragrunt
General
1 7 (17.07%) Social Skills
2 6 (14.63%) Banking
3 5 (12.20%) Finance
3 5 (12.20%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.32%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Military
6 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.76%) .NET
2 3 (7.32%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (7.32%) YAML
3 2 (4.88%) Kafka
3 2 (4.88%) Spring
4 1 (2.44%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.44%) Bootstrap
4 1 (2.44%) Loki
4 1 (2.44%) Node.js
4 1 (2.44%) OAuth
4 1 (2.44%) OpenID
4 1 (2.44%) React
4 1 (2.44%) RESTful
4 1 (2.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.76%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.32%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.32%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (4.88%) DataPower
3 2 (4.88%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.44%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.44%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.44%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (21.95%) Linux
2 4 (9.76%) Windows
3 3 (7.32%) Unix
4 2 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.44%) CentOS
5 1 (2.44%) SUSE
5 1 (2.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (100.00%) DevOps
2 33 (80.49%) CI/CD
3 15 (36.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (34.15%) Containerisation
5 10 (24.39%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (21.95%) Agile
7 7 (17.07%) Configuration Management
7 7 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (14.63%) Deployment Automation
8 6 (14.63%) Migration
9 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure Automation
9 5 (12.20%) Task Automation
10 4 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (9.76%) GitOps
10 4 (9.76%) High Availability
10 4 (9.76%) Mentoring
10 4 (9.76%) Scrum
10 4 (9.76%) SDLC
10 4 (9.76%) Software Delivery
10 4 (9.76%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (36.59%) Python
2 10 (24.39%) Bash
3 9 (21.95%) PowerShell
4 6 (14.63%) C#
4 6 (14.63%) Java
4 6 (14.63%) Shell Script
5 2 (4.88%) Bicep
5 2 (4.88%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.88%) SQL
6 1 (2.44%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 9 (21.95%) Security Cleared
2 8 (19.51%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.44%) Degree
3 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.20%) QA
2 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (41.46%) Docker
2 2 (4.88%) Lustre
3 1 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (68.29%) Terraform
2 25 (60.98%) Kubernetes
3 15 (36.59%) Ansible
4 4 (9.76%) Grafana
5 3 (7.32%) Podman
5 3 (7.32%) Prometheus
6 2 (4.88%) Istio
6 2 (4.88%) Karpenter
7 1 (2.44%) Argo
7 1 (2.44%) Cilium
7 1 (2.44%) FortiGate
7 1 (2.44%) Kibana
7 1 (2.44%) logstash
7 1 (2.44%) Puppet
7 1 (2.44%) Rancher
Vendors
1 4 (9.76%) Microsoft
1 4 (9.76%) Red Hat
2 3 (7.32%) Databricks
2 3 (7.32%) Google
3 1 (2.44%) Cloudera
3 1 (2.44%) Confluent
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle
3 1 (2.44%) Pega
3 1 (2.44%) Splunk