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 £544, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 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
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 77 82
Rank change year-on-year -5 +5 -11
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 33 48 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.84% 2.25% 2.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.96% 2.36% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 31 60
10th Percentile £448 £425 £500
25th Percentile £488 £513 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £600 £638
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £694 £675 £705
90th Percentile £753 £775 £751
Central London median daily rate £538 £613 £638
% change year-on-year -12.24% -3.92% +6.25%

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 1,682 2,038 3,272
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.60% 95.46% 94.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,069 1,403 2,209
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% +6.19%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £798 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 19
10th Percentile £17.57 £16.33 £15.24
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.98% -29.64% -18.60%
75th Percentile £62.00 £40.00 £76.25
90th Percentile £86.43 £64.50 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £30.04 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.24% -22.86% -16.67%

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 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the City of London

DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Moorgate - 1 £390 -
DevOps Engineer
Central London

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 3 July 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 33 (100.00%) DevOps
2 28 (84.85%) CI/CD
3 27 (81.82%) Terraform
4 18 (54.55%) Kubernetes
4 18 (54.55%) AWS
5 13 (39.39%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (36.36%) GitLab
6 12 (36.36%) Ansible
6 12 (36.36%) Python
7 11 (33.33%) Docker
8 10 (30.30%) Azure
9 9 (27.27%) GitHub
9 9 (27.27%) Bash
10 8 (24.24%) Containerisation
11 7 (21.21%) Infrastructure Automation
11 7 (21.21%) Jenkins
11 7 (21.21%) Configuration Management
11 7 (21.21%) Agile
11 7 (21.21%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (18.18%) Git
12 6 (18.18%) QA
12 6 (18.18%) Linux
12 6 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
13 5 (15.15%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (15.15%) Grafana
13 5 (15.15%) Deployment Automation
13 5 (15.15%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (15.15%) Finance
13 5 (15.15%) C#
13 5 (15.15%) SC Cleared

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 1 (3.03%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.03%) Confluence
1 1 (3.03%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 18 (54.55%) AWS
2 10 (30.30%) Azure
3 9 (27.27%) GitHub
4 5 (15.15%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (15.15%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 3 (9.09%) Azure AKS
5 3 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (9.09%) GCP
5 3 (9.09%) OpenShift
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (6.06%) PaaS
6 2 (6.06%) Serverless
6 2 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Storage
7 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.03%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) Network Security
2 1 (3.03%) DNS
2 1 (3.03%) Firewall
2 1 (3.03%) Internet
2 1 (3.03%) NAS
2 1 (3.03%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (3.03%) SAN
2 1 (3.03%) SSH
2 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (6.06%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.03%) Apache Hive
2 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.03%) Big Data
2 1 (3.03%) CockroachDB
2 1 (3.03%) MySQL
2 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.03%) Power BI
2 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (36.36%) GitLab
2 7 (21.21%) Jenkins
3 6 (18.18%) Git
4 3 (9.09%) JIRA
5 1 (3.03%) Artifactory
5 1 (3.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (3.03%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.03%) git-flow
5 1 (3.03%) Jaeger
5 1 (3.03%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.03%) TeamCity
5 1 (3.03%) Terragrunt
General
1 5 (15.15%) Finance
2 4 (12.12%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.09%) Banking
3 3 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Military
5 1 (3.03%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) .NET
1 2 (6.06%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.03%) .NET Core
2 1 (3.03%) ADO
2 1 (3.03%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.03%) Kafka
2 1 (3.03%) Loki
2 1 (3.03%) OAuth
2 1 (3.03%) OpenID
2 1 (3.03%) Spring
2 1 (3.03%) Web Services
2 1 (3.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
1 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
1 2 (6.06%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.03%) DataPower
2 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.03%) Mainframe
2 1 (3.03%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.18%) Linux
2 3 (9.09%) Unix
3 2 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (6.06%) Windows
4 1 (3.03%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (100.00%) DevOps
2 28 (84.85%) CI/CD
3 13 (39.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (24.24%) Containerisation
5 7 (21.21%) Agile
5 7 (21.21%) Configuration Management
5 7 (21.21%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (21.21%) Infrastructure Automation
6 6 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (15.15%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (12.12%) Cloud Security
8 4 (12.12%) Migration
8 4 (12.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 3 (9.09%) High Availability
9 3 (9.09%) Load Balancing
9 3 (9.09%) Microservices
9 3 (9.09%) Observability
9 3 (9.09%) Scrum
9 3 (9.09%) SDLC
9 3 (9.09%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (36.36%) Python
2 9 (27.27%) Bash
3 5 (15.15%) C#
3 5 (15.15%) PowerShell
4 4 (12.12%) Shell Script
5 3 (9.09%) Java
6 2 (6.06%) Bicep
6 2 (6.06%) SQL
7 1 (3.03%) Groovy
7 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (15.15%) SC Cleared
1 5 (15.15%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.03%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Lustre
2 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (81.82%) Terraform
2 18 (54.55%) Kubernetes
3 12 (36.36%) Ansible
4 5 (15.15%) Grafana
5 4 (12.12%) Istio
5 4 (12.12%) Prometheus
6 3 (9.09%) Argo
7 2 (6.06%) Cilium
7 2 (6.06%) Podman
8 1 (3.03%) FortiGate
8 1 (3.03%) Karpenter
8 1 (3.03%) Kibana
8 1 (3.03%) logstash
8 1 (3.03%) Packer
8 1 (3.03%) Puppet
8 1 (3.03%) yum
Vendors
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.09%) Databricks
3 2 (6.06%) Google
3 2 (6.06%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.03%) Cloudera
4 1 (3.03%) Confluent
4 1 (3.03%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.03%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.03%) Oracle
4 1 (3.03%) Pega
4 1 (3.03%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.03%) Splunk