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 20 April 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 75 101
Rank change year-on-year -2 +26 -16
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 51 46 30
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.29% 2.61% 1.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.42% 2.81% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 27 19
10th Percentile £356 £410 £405
25th Percentile £411 £503 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £613 £664 £644
90th Percentile £671 £750 £695
Central London median daily rate £500 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -7.83% -1.36% -15.38%

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 2,106 1,639 2,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 92.86% 95.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,431 1,034 1,504
10th Percentile £353 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £678 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £789
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 17
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.27 £16.46
25th Percentile £18.90 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £36.28 £32.83 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +42.72% -34.29%
75th Percentile £52.41 £52.50 £27.50
90th Percentile £62.36 £96.38 £44.10
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £26.56
% change year-on-year -10.18% +9.45% -24.11%

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 20 April 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 20 April 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 51 (100.00%) DevOps
2 34 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 33 (64.71%) SC Cleared
4 29 (56.86%) CI/CD
5 28 (54.90%) Terraform
6 27 (52.94%) Infrastructure as Code
7 21 (41.18%) Azure
8 19 (37.25%) AWS
9 14 (27.45%) Docker
9 14 (27.45%) GitHub
10 13 (25.49%) Kubernetes
11 12 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (21.57%) Python
13 10 (19.61%) Containerisation
14 9 (17.65%) Ansible
14 9 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (13.73%) Amazon S3
15 7 (13.73%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (13.73%) Git
15 7 (13.73%) Node.js
15 7 (13.73%) Serverless
16 6 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 6 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
16 6 (11.76%) Apigee
16 6 (11.76%) GitLab
16 6 (11.76%) Migration
16 6 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
17 5 (9.80%) Analytics
17 5 (9.80%) AWS Fargate
17 5 (9.80%) Cloud Security

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.92%) Confluence
1 2 (3.92%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Maya
Cloud Services
1 21 (41.18%) Azure
2 19 (37.25%) AWS
3 14 (27.45%) GitHub
4 12 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (13.73%) Amazon S3
6 7 (13.73%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (13.73%) Serverless
7 6 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (11.76%) Apigee
8 5 (9.80%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (7.84%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (7.84%) GCP
10 2 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (3.92%) Azure AKS
10 2 (3.92%) Azure API Management
10 2 (3.92%) Datadog
10 2 (3.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.96%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.80%) DynamoDB
2 3 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.96%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.96%) Metadata
4 1 (1.96%) MySQL
4 1 (1.96%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (13.73%) Git
2 6 (11.76%) GitLab
3 3 (5.88%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.92%) Ant
4 2 (3.92%) JIRA
4 2 (3.92%) Liquibase
5 1 (1.96%) Bitbucket
General
1 5 (9.80%) Finance
2 3 (5.88%) Banking
2 3 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (3.92%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.92%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.73%) Node.js
2 4 (7.84%) JWT
2 4 (7.84%) OAuth
3 2 (3.92%) Kafka
3 2 (3.92%) React
3 2 (3.92%) REST
3 2 (3.92%) Spring
3 2 (3.92%) WebSphere MQ
3 2 (3.92%) WireMock
4 1 (1.96%) .NET
4 1 (1.96%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.96%) boto
4 1 (1.96%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.96%) Playwright
4 1 (1.96%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.61%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (7.84%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.88%) Private Cloud
4 2 (3.92%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.96%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.96%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.96%) CMDB
5 1 (1.96%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.96%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.92%) Linux
2 1 (1.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (100.00%) DevOps
2 29 (56.86%) CI/CD
3 27 (52.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (19.61%) Containerisation
5 6 (11.76%) Migration
5 6 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (9.80%) Analytics
6 5 (9.80%) Cloud Security
7 4 (7.84%) AI
7 4 (7.84%) Microservices
7 4 (7.84%) Observability
8 3 (5.88%) Agile
8 3 (5.88%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (5.88%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (5.88%) Scrum
8 3 (5.88%) Software Delivery
8 3 (5.88%) Test Automation
8 3 (5.88%) Workflow
9 2 (3.92%) Cloud Operations
9 2 (3.92%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 11 (21.57%) Python
2 4 (7.84%) Bash
3 3 (5.88%) JavaScript
3 3 (5.88%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.92%) Java
4 2 (3.92%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.96%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.96%) Bicep
5 1 (1.96%) C#
5 1 (1.96%) Go
Qualifications
1 34 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 33 (64.71%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.92%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.96%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.96%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.96%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 14 (27.45%) Docker
2 4 (7.84%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (54.90%) Terraform
2 13 (25.49%) Kubernetes
3 9 (17.65%) Ansible
4 3 (5.88%) Grafana
4 3 (5.88%) Karpenter
5 2 (3.92%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.96%) Argo
6 1 (1.96%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 5 (9.80%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.84%) Google
3 2 (3.92%) Databricks
3 2 (3.92%) Dynatrace
3 2 (3.92%) IBM
4 1 (1.96%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.96%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.96%) Splunk