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 £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 January 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 79 87
Rank change year-on-year +7 +8 -2
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 53 39 48
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.81% 2.07% 1.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.98% 2.23% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 27 39
10th Percentile £356 £418 £405
25th Percentile £410 £503 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £551
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.45% -15.31%
75th Percentile £575 £669 £663
90th Percentile £657 £743 £728
Central London median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -8.33%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 1,778 1,748 2,321
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.27% 92.98% 94.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,236 1,073 1,671
10th Percentile £341 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +0.88% -2.98%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £788
Central London median daily rate £535 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -6.96% +2.22% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 18
10th Percentile £20.02 £13.18 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.77 £20.00 £19.18
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.25 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.77% +13.54% -5.88%
75th Percentile £42.65 £58.19 £44.56
90th Percentile £52.80 £112.00 £57.30
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £26.91
% change year-on-year -25.40% +30.09% +6.55%

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 24 January 2026.

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 24 January 2026, 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 53 (100.00%) DevOps
2 31 (58.49%) Security Cleared
3 30 (56.60%) SC Cleared
4 29 (54.72%) CI/CD
5 26 (49.06%) Terraform
6 25 (47.17%) Infrastructure as Code
7 21 (39.62%) AWS
8 20 (37.74%) Azure
9 17 (32.08%) Python
10 15 (28.30%) GitHub
10 15 (28.30%) Kubernetes
11 14 (26.42%) Docker
12 12 (22.64%) Ansible
13 11 (20.75%) Containerisation
14 10 (18.87%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (18.87%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (16.98%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (16.98%) GitLab
15 9 (16.98%) Serverless
16 7 (13.21%) Amazon ECS
16 7 (13.21%) Amazon S3
16 7 (13.21%) Jenkins
17 6 (11.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 6 (11.32%) Apigee
17 6 (11.32%) Microsoft
17 6 (11.32%) Node.js
18 5 (9.43%) Agile
18 5 (9.43%) Analytics
18 5 (9.43%) AWS Fargate
18 5 (9.43%) 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 21 (39.62%) AWS
2 20 (37.74%) Azure
3 15 (28.30%) GitHub
4 10 (18.87%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (18.87%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (16.98%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (16.98%) Serverless
6 7 (13.21%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (13.21%) Amazon S3
7 6 (11.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (11.32%) Apigee
8 5 (9.43%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (7.55%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (7.55%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (7.55%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (7.55%) GCP
10 3 (5.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (3.77%) AWS CodePipeline
11 2 (3.77%) Azure AKS
11 2 (3.77%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) Firewall
1 1 (1.89%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.43%) DynamoDB
2 2 (3.77%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.89%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.89%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.89%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.89%) Impala
3 1 (1.89%) Metadata
3 1 (1.89%) MySQL
3 1 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (16.98%) GitLab
2 7 (13.21%) Jenkins
3 4 (7.55%) Git
4 3 (5.66%) TeamCity
5 2 (3.77%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.77%) Gradle
5 2 (3.77%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (20.75%) Finance
2 7 (13.21%) Banking
3 3 (5.66%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.77%) Retail Banking
4 2 (3.77%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.89%) Billing
5 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.32%) Node.js
2 4 (7.55%) JWT
2 4 (7.55%) OAuth
3 2 (3.77%) .NET
3 2 (3.77%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.89%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.89%) boto
4 1 (1.89%) Kafka
4 1 (1.89%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.89%) React
4 1 (1.89%) REST
4 1 (1.89%) SOAP
4 1 (1.89%) Spring
4 1 (1.89%) Web Services
4 1 (1.89%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.09%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.55%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (7.55%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.77%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.77%) Private Cloud
3 2 (3.77%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.89%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.89%) CMDB
4 1 (1.89%) Cyberattack
4 1 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.89%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.89%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.66%) Windows
2 2 (3.77%) Linux
3 1 (1.89%) Android
3 1 (1.89%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (100.00%) DevOps
2 29 (54.72%) CI/CD
3 25 (47.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (20.75%) Containerisation
5 5 (9.43%) Agile
5 5 (9.43%) Analytics
5 5 (9.43%) Migration
5 5 (9.43%) Observability
6 4 (7.55%) Microservices
6 4 (7.55%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (7.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (7.55%) Software Delivery
6 4 (7.55%) Test Automation
7 3 (5.66%) AI
7 3 (5.66%) Cloud Security
7 3 (5.66%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (5.66%) Software Engineering
7 3 (5.66%) Workflow
8 2 (3.77%) Configuration Management
8 2 (3.77%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 17 (32.08%) Python
2 4 (7.55%) Java
2 4 (7.55%) PowerShell
3 3 (5.66%) TypeScript
4 2 (3.77%) Bash
4 2 (3.77%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.77%) Rust
5 1 (1.89%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.89%) SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (58.49%) Security Cleared
2 30 (56.60%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.89%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.77%) QA
2 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.89%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (26.42%) Docker
2 3 (5.66%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.89%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 26 (49.06%) Terraform
2 15 (28.30%) Kubernetes
3 12 (22.64%) Ansible
4 3 (5.66%) Grafana
4 3 (5.66%) Karpenter
5 2 (3.77%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.89%) Argo
6 1 (1.89%) Istio
6 1 (1.89%) Kibana
6 1 (1.89%) Opsgenie
6 1 (1.89%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.89%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (11.32%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.55%) Google
3 2 (3.77%) Dynatrace
3 2 (3.77%) Splunk
4 1 (1.89%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.89%) Ericsson
4 1 (1.89%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.89%) Tenable