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 £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 83 84
Rank change year-on-year -12 +1 0
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 44 35 45
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.82% 2.02% 2.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.93% 2.16% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 22 28
10th Percentile £405 £464 £421
25th Percentile £473 £501 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -10.20% -5.77%
75th Percentile £600 £694 £675
90th Percentile £650 £750 £779
Central London median daily rate £525 £544 £625
% change year-on-year -3.45% -13.00% -3.85%

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 2,280 1,623 2,088
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.10% 93.76% 95.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,514 1,027 1,438
10th Percentile £356 £353 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% -5.83%
75th Percentile £668 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 18 16
10th Percentile £17.60 £20.35 £16.33
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £23.16 £32.83 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -29.44% +44.29% -35.00%
75th Percentile £42.83 £63.75 £32.03
90th Percentile £59.72 £92.13 £45.13
Central London median hourly rate £27.25 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -6.26% +7.67% -22.86%

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 June 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 June 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 44 (100.00%) DevOps
2 26 (59.09%) SC Cleared
2 26 (59.09%) Security Cleared
3 22 (50.00%) Terraform
4 19 (43.18%) CI/CD
4 19 (43.18%) Kubernetes
5 18 (40.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (38.64%) Azure
7 14 (31.82%) Containerisation
8 13 (29.55%) AWS
9 10 (22.73%) GitLab
10 8 (18.18%) Ansible
10 8 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
11 7 (15.91%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (15.91%) Git
12 6 (13.64%) Docker
12 6 (13.64%) GitHub
12 6 (13.64%) Python
13 5 (11.36%) Cloud Security
13 5 (11.36%) Observability
14 4 (9.09%) Bash
14 4 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (9.09%) Linux
14 4 (9.09%) Test Automation
15 3 (6.82%) Agile
15 3 (6.82%) AI
15 3 (6.82%) Databricks
15 3 (6.82%) Deployment Automation
15 3 (6.82%) Dynatrace
15 3 (6.82%) Grafana

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 (4.55%) Confluence
1 2 (4.55%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Maya
Cloud Services
1 17 (38.64%) Azure
2 13 (29.55%) AWS
3 7 (15.91%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (13.64%) GitHub
5 4 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.55%) Azure AKS
6 2 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (4.55%) GCP
6 2 (4.55%) Power Automate
6 2 (4.55%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.55%) PowerApps
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.27%) Datadog
7 1 (2.27%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (2.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.55%) DNS
1 2 (4.55%) Firewall
1 2 (4.55%) VPN
2 1 (2.27%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (4.55%) Power BI
2 1 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.27%) Metadata
2 1 (2.27%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.27%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (22.73%) GitLab
2 7 (15.91%) Git
3 3 (6.82%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.55%) Ant
4 2 (4.55%) JIRA
4 2 (4.55%) Liquibase
5 1 (2.27%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (25.00%) Finance
2 3 (6.82%) Banking
2 3 (6.82%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.27%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.55%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (2.27%) .NET
2 1 (2.27%) Kafka
2 1 (2.27%) Node.js
2 1 (2.27%) Playwright
2 1 (2.27%) React
2 1 (2.27%) REST
2 1 (2.27%) Spring
2 1 (2.27%) WireMock
2 1 (2.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.36%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.55%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.27%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.27%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.27%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.27%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (2.27%) Unix
2 1 (2.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (100.00%) DevOps
2 19 (43.18%) CI/CD
3 18 (40.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (31.82%) Containerisation
5 8 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (11.36%) Cloud Security
6 5 (11.36%) Observability
7 4 (9.09%) Test Automation
8 3 (6.82%) Agile
8 3 (6.82%) AI
8 3 (6.82%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure Automation
8 3 (6.82%) Migration
8 3 (6.82%) Scrum
8 3 (6.82%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (4.55%) Business Intelligence
9 2 (4.55%) Continuous Delivery
9 2 (4.55%) Cybersecurity
9 2 (4.55%) ITIL
9 2 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.64%) Python
2 4 (9.09%) Bash
3 3 (6.82%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.55%) Java
5 1 (2.27%) Apex Code
5 1 (2.27%) Bicep
5 1 (2.27%) C#
5 1 (2.27%) Go
5 1 (2.27%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.27%) SQL
5 1 (2.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (59.09%) SC Cleared
1 26 (59.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 6 (13.64%) Docker
2 2 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (50.00%) Terraform
2 19 (43.18%) Kubernetes
3 8 (18.18%) Ansible
4 3 (6.82%) Grafana
4 3 (6.82%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.27%) Argo
5 1 (2.27%) Karpenter
5 1 (2.27%) Packer
Vendors
1 3 (6.82%) Databricks
1 3 (6.82%) Dynatrace
2 2 (4.55%) AppDynamics
2 2 (4.55%) Google
2 2 (4.55%) IBM
2 2 (4.55%) Splunk
3 1 (2.27%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (2.27%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.27%) Salesforce