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 14 February 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 74 94
Rank change year-on-year +2 +20 -18
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 53 45 40
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.75% 2.47% 1.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.93% 2.65% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 29 31
10th Percentile £356 £421 £400
25th Percentile £413 £505 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £575 £664 £650
90th Percentile £651 £740 £738
Central London median daily rate £500 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -7.83% -1.36% -12.00%

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 1,809 1,695 2,279
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.97% 92.98% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,241 1,024 1,637
10th Percentile £350 £351 £347
25th Percentile £433 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £675 £676 £688
90th Percentile £775 £779 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 21
10th Percentile £20.18 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £26.52 £26.63 £18.93
Median hourly rate £40.64 £38.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +60.42% -28.89%
75th Percentile £51.00 £80.38 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £112.00 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -22.76% +34.62% -10.34%

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 14 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 14 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 53 (100.00%) DevOps
2 34 (64.15%) Security Cleared
3 33 (62.26%) SC Cleared
4 29 (54.72%) CI/CD
5 28 (52.83%) Terraform
6 26 (49.06%) Infrastructure as Code
7 22 (41.51%) AWS
8 17 (32.08%) Azure
9 16 (30.19%) Docker
9 16 (30.19%) Kubernetes
10 15 (28.30%) GitHub
10 15 (28.30%) Python
11 12 (22.64%) Ansible
12 11 (20.75%) Containerisation
13 10 (18.87%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (16.98%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (16.98%) Serverless
15 8 (15.09%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (15.09%) GitLab
16 7 (13.21%) Amazon ECS
16 7 (13.21%) Amazon S3
16 7 (13.21%) Git
16 7 (13.21%) Node.js
17 6 (11.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 6 (11.32%) Apigee
18 5 (9.43%) Analytics
18 5 (9.43%) AWS Fargate
18 5 (9.43%) DynamoDB
18 5 (9.43%) Jenkins
18 5 (9.43%) Microsoft

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 (3.77%) Confluence
1 2 (3.77%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Maya
Cloud Services
1 22 (41.51%) AWS
2 17 (32.08%) Azure
3 15 (28.30%) GitHub
4 10 (18.87%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (16.98%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (16.98%) Serverless
6 8 (15.09%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (13.21%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (13.21%) Amazon S3
8 6 (11.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (11.32%) Apigee
9 5 (9.43%) AWS Fargate
10 4 (7.55%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (7.55%) GCP
11 3 (5.66%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (5.66%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (3.77%) AWS CodePipeline
12 2 (3.77%) Azure API Management
12 2 (3.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (3.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.43%) DynamoDB
2 3 (5.66%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.89%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.89%) Metadata
4 1 (1.89%) MySQL
4 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (15.09%) GitLab
2 7 (13.21%) Git
3 5 (9.43%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.77%) Ant
4 2 (3.77%) Gradle
4 2 (3.77%) JIRA
4 2 (3.77%) Liquibase
4 2 (3.77%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.89%) Bitbucket
General
1 7 (13.21%) Finance
2 5 (9.43%) Banking
3 3 (5.66%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.77%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.77%) Retail Banking
4 2 (3.77%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.89%) Billing
5 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.21%) Node.js
2 4 (7.55%) JWT
2 4 (7.55%) OAuth
3 3 (5.66%) .NET
4 2 (3.77%) AWS CDK
4 2 (3.77%) Kafka
4 2 (3.77%) React
4 2 (3.77%) REST
4 2 (3.77%) Spring
4 2 (3.77%) WebSphere MQ
4 2 (3.77%) WireMock
5 1 (1.89%) boto
5 1 (1.89%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.89%) Playwright
5 1 (1.89%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.75%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.55%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (7.55%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.66%) Private Cloud
4 2 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.77%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.77%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.89%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.89%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.89%) CMDB
5 1 (1.89%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.89%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.77%) Linux
1 2 (3.77%) Windows
2 1 (1.89%) Android
2 1 (1.89%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (100.00%) DevOps
2 29 (54.72%) CI/CD
3 26 (49.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (20.75%) Containerisation
5 5 (9.43%) Analytics
5 5 (9.43%) Migration
5 5 (9.43%) Observability
5 5 (9.43%) Test Automation
6 4 (7.55%) Cloud Security
6 4 (7.55%) Microservices
6 4 (7.55%) Software Engineering
7 3 (5.66%) Agile
7 3 (5.66%) AI
7 3 (5.66%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (5.66%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (5.66%) Scrum
7 3 (5.66%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (5.66%) Software Delivery
7 3 (5.66%) Workflow
8 2 (3.77%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (28.30%) Python
2 4 (7.55%) Java
2 4 (7.55%) TypeScript
3 3 (5.66%) Bash
3 3 (5.66%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.77%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.77%) Rust
5 1 (1.89%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.89%) C#
5 1 (1.89%) Go
Qualifications
1 34 (64.15%) Security Cleared
2 33 (62.26%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (1.89%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.89%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (30.19%) Docker
2 4 (7.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (52.83%) Terraform
2 16 (30.19%) 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%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 5 (9.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.55%) Google
3 2 (3.77%) Dynatrace
3 2 (3.77%) IBM
4 1 (1.89%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.89%) Ericsson
4 1 (1.89%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.89%) Splunk