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 £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 98 82
Rank change year-on-year -2 -16 0
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 35 29 45
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.44% 1.55% 2.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.54% 1.66% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 17 30
10th Percentile £465 £443 £424
25th Percentile £494 £484 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -10.42% -4.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £710 £754 £776
Central London median daily rate £560 £538 £600
% change year-on-year +4.19% -10.42% -4.00%

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 2,279 1,751 2,037
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.71% 93.39% 95.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,522 1,127 1,384
10th Percentile £356 £348 £350
25th Percentile £455 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £789
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £553
% change year-on-year - -0.45% -7.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 22 18
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.57 £17.77
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.29
Median hourly rate £19.50 £32.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +20.37% -27.84%
75th Percentile £40.88 £62.00 £58.50
90th Percentile £59.72 £86.43 £106.00
Central London median hourly rate £23.08 £30.04 £27.81
% change year-on-year -23.16% +8.00% -20.54%

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 19 July 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 19 July 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 35 (100.00%) DevOps
2 22 (62.86%) Kubernetes
3 20 (57.14%) CI/CD
4 19 (54.29%) Terraform
5 17 (48.57%) SC Cleared
5 17 (48.57%) Security Cleared
6 15 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (40.00%) Containerisation
8 10 (28.57%) Azure
9 9 (25.71%) AWS
9 9 (25.71%) Platform Engineering
10 7 (20.00%) Ansible
10 7 (20.00%) GitLab
11 6 (17.14%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (17.14%) Git
11 6 (17.14%) Observability
11 6 (17.14%) Python
12 5 (14.29%) Agile
12 5 (14.29%) Docker
12 5 (14.29%) GitHub
12 5 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (14.29%) Grafana
12 5 (14.29%) Prometheus
13 4 (11.43%) Bash
13 4 (11.43%) Cloud Security
13 4 (11.43%) Dynatrace
13 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Automation
13 4 (11.43%) Jenkins
13 4 (11.43%) Linux
13 4 (11.43%) Splunk

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 (5.71%) Confluence
1 2 (5.71%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.86%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Maya
Cloud Services
1 10 (28.57%) Azure
2 9 (25.71%) AWS
3 6 (17.14%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (14.29%) GitHub
4 5 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (8.57%) Power Automate
5 3 (8.57%) Power Platform
5 3 (8.57%) PowerApps
6 2 (5.71%) Azure AKS
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.86%) Datadog
7 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.86%) GCP
7 1 (2.86%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) DNS
1 3 (8.57%) Firewall
1 3 (8.57%) VPN
2 1 (2.86%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) Power BI
2 2 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.86%) Metadata
3 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (20.00%) GitLab
2 6 (17.14%) Git
3 4 (11.43%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.71%) Ant
4 2 (5.71%) JIRA
4 2 (5.71%) Liquibase
5 1 (2.86%) Maven
5 1 (2.86%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (37.14%) Finance
2 4 (11.43%) Banking
2 4 (11.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.86%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.86%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.86%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) Spring
1 2 (5.71%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (2.86%) .NET
2 1 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.86%) Kafka
2 1 (2.86%) Node.js
2 1 (2.86%) Playwright
2 1 (2.86%) React
2 1 (2.86%) REST
2 1 (2.86%) vLLM
2 1 (2.86%) WireMock
2 1 (2.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.71%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.43%) Linux
2 1 (2.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (100.00%) DevOps
2 20 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 15 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (40.00%) Containerisation
5 9 (25.71%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (17.14%) Observability
7 5 (14.29%) Agile
8 4 (11.43%) Cloud Security
8 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (8.57%) AI
9 3 (8.57%) AIOps
9 3 (8.57%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (8.57%) ITIL
9 3 (8.57%) Load Balancing
9 3 (8.57%) Scrum
9 3 (8.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 3 (8.57%) Test Automation
10 2 (5.71%) High Availability
10 2 (5.71%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (17.14%) Python
2 4 (11.43%) Bash
3 3 (8.57%) Java
3 3 (8.57%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.86%) Apex Code
4 1 (2.86%) Bicep
4 1 (2.86%) C#
4 1 (2.86%) Go
4 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.86%) SQL
4 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (48.57%) SC Cleared
1 17 (48.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) QA
System Software
1 5 (14.29%) Docker
2 2 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (62.86%) Kubernetes
2 19 (54.29%) Terraform
3 7 (20.00%) Ansible
4 5 (14.29%) Grafana
4 5 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.86%) Argo
5 1 (2.86%) Kubeflow
5 1 (2.86%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (11.43%) Dynatrace
1 4 (11.43%) Splunk
2 3 (8.57%) AppDynamics
2 3 (8.57%) Databricks
3 2 (5.71%) IBM
4 1 (2.86%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (2.86%) Google
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.86%) Salesforce