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 7 February 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 78 87
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 -5
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 50 41 42
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.66% 2.21% 1.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.83% 2.38% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 26 32
10th Percentile £356 £416 £401
25th Percentile £403 £501 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £575 £664 £650
90th Percentile £653 £744 £736
Central London median daily rate £500 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% -10.20%

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 1,769 1,723 2,272
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 92.88% 94.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,216 1,032 1,632
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £431 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.32% -2.99%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £535 £575 £551
% change year-on-year -6.96% +4.45% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 22
10th Percentile £20.06 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.95 £26.63 £19.18
Median hourly rate £37.25 £38.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.25% +60.42% -5.88%
75th Percentile £46.29 £80.38 £40.00
90th Percentile £55.54 £112.00 £50.10
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £26.91
% change year-on-year -25.40% +30.09% +7.62%

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 7 February 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 7 February 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 50 (100.00%) DevOps
2 31 (62.00%) Security Cleared
3 30 (60.00%) SC Cleared
4 26 (52.00%) CI/CD
5 24 (48.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (48.00%) Terraform
6 19 (38.00%) AWS
7 18 (36.00%) Azure
8 16 (32.00%) Python
9 14 (28.00%) GitHub
10 13 (26.00%) Docker
10 13 (26.00%) Kubernetes
11 11 (22.00%) Ansible
12 10 (20.00%) Containerisation
13 9 (18.00%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (18.00%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (18.00%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (18.00%) Serverless
14 8 (16.00%) GitLab
15 7 (14.00%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (14.00%) Amazon S3
16 6 (12.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 6 (12.00%) Apigee
16 6 (12.00%) Microsoft
16 6 (12.00%) Node.js
17 5 (10.00%) Analytics
17 5 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
17 5 (10.00%) DynamoDB
17 5 (10.00%) Migration
18 4 (8.00%) Agile

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 19 (38.00%) AWS
2 18 (36.00%) Azure
3 14 (28.00%) GitHub
4 9 (18.00%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (18.00%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (18.00%) GitHub Actions
4 9 (18.00%) Serverless
5 7 (14.00%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (14.00%) Amazon S3
6 6 (12.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (12.00%) Apigee
7 5 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
8 4 (8.00%) Amazon ECR
9 3 (6.00%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (6.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (6.00%) GCP
10 2 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (4.00%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (4.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) Firewall
1 1 (2.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.00%) Apache Hive
3 1 (2.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.00%) Impala
3 1 (2.00%) Metadata
3 1 (2.00%) MySQL
3 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (16.00%) GitLab
2 4 (8.00%) Git
2 4 (8.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.00%) TeamCity
4 2 (4.00%) Gradle
5 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.00%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (18.00%) Finance
2 5 (10.00%) Banking
3 3 (6.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.00%) Retail Banking
4 2 (4.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Billing
5 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.00%) Node.js
2 4 (8.00%) JWT
2 4 (8.00%) OAuth
3 2 (4.00%) .NET
3 2 (4.00%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.00%) boto
4 1 (2.00%) Kafka
4 1 (2.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (2.00%) React
4 1 (2.00%) REST
4 1 (2.00%) SOAP
4 1 (2.00%) Spring
4 1 (2.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (8.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.00%) Private Cloud
3 2 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.00%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.00%) CMDB
4 1 (2.00%) Cyberattack
4 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) Market Risk
4 1 (2.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.00%) Windows
2 2 (4.00%) Linux
3 1 (2.00%) Android
3 1 (2.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (100.00%) DevOps
2 26 (52.00%) CI/CD
3 24 (48.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 5 (10.00%) Analytics
5 5 (10.00%) Migration
6 4 (8.00%) Agile
6 4 (8.00%) Observability
6 4 (8.00%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (8.00%) Test Automation
7 3 (6.00%) AI
7 3 (6.00%) Cloud Security
7 3 (6.00%) Microservices
7 3 (6.00%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (6.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (6.00%) Software Delivery
7 3 (6.00%) Software Engineering
7 3 (6.00%) Workflow
8 2 (4.00%) Configuration Management
8 2 (4.00%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 16 (32.00%) Python
2 4 (8.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (6.00%) Java
3 3 (6.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (4.00%) Bash
4 2 (4.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.00%) Rust
5 1 (2.00%) Apex Code
5 1 (2.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (62.00%) Security Cleared
2 30 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 13 (26.00%) Docker
2 3 (6.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 24 (48.00%) Terraform
2 13 (26.00%) Kubernetes
3 11 (22.00%) Ansible
4 3 (6.00%) Karpenter
5 2 (4.00%) Grafana
6 1 (2.00%) Argo
6 1 (2.00%) Kibana
6 1 (2.00%) Opsgenie
6 1 (2.00%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.00%) Google
3 1 (2.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (2.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.00%) Ericsson
3 1 (2.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.00%) Splunk