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 £545, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 86 85
Rank change year-on-year -7 -1 -6
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 33 38 63
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.84% 1.75% 2.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.97% 1.87% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 26 53
10th Percentile £343 £456 £425
25th Percentile £388 £508 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £615 £672 £688
90th Percentile £678 £734 £735
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £551
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.45% -4.26%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 1,673 2,031 2,523
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.29% 94.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,171 1,246 1,791
10th Percentile £328 £363 £350
25th Percentile £416 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £768 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £546 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 14
10th Percentile £20.02 £16.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.75 £24.50 £19.51
Median hourly rate £34.00 £57.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.87% +91.67% -29.82%
75th Percentile £47.50 £112.00 £48.25
90th Percentile £64.48 £137.50 £72.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.75 £35.00 £25.49
% change year-on-year -20.71% +37.34% -39.68%

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025, 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 33 (100.00%) DevOps
2 27 (81.82%) CI/CD
3 20 (60.61%) Terraform
4 15 (45.45%) AWS
4 15 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (45.45%) Security Cleared
5 14 (42.42%) SC Cleared
6 13 (39.39%) GitHub
7 12 (36.36%) Azure
7 12 (36.36%) Kubernetes
7 12 (36.36%) Python
8 11 (33.33%) Ansible
8 11 (33.33%) Docker
9 10 (30.30%) Containerisation
9 10 (30.30%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (24.24%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (24.24%) Jenkins
11 8 (24.24%) Serverless
12 7 (21.21%) Agile
13 6 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (18.18%) Amazon S3
13 6 (18.18%) Analytics
13 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
14 5 (15.15%) Apigee
14 5 (15.15%) GitLab
14 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
14 5 (15.15%) Node.js
15 4 (12.12%) Amazon ECR

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 15 (45.45%) AWS
2 13 (39.39%) GitHub
3 12 (36.36%) Azure
4 10 (30.30%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (24.24%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (24.24%) Serverless
7 6 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (18.18%) Amazon S3
8 5 (15.15%) Apigee
9 4 (12.12%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (12.12%) AWS Fargate
10 3 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (9.09%) Azure AKS
10 3 (9.09%) GCP
10 3 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (6.06%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) Firewall
1 1 (3.03%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (3.03%) SSH
1 1 (3.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) DynamoDB
2 3 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.03%) Apache Hive
3 1 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.03%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.03%) Impala
3 1 (3.03%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (24.24%) Jenkins
2 5 (15.15%) GitLab
3 3 (9.09%) TeamCity
4 2 (6.06%) Gradle
4 2 (6.06%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.03%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.03%) Git
5 1 (3.03%) git-flow
General
1 8 (24.24%) Finance
2 5 (15.15%) Banking
3 3 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Retail Banking
4 2 (6.06%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Billing
5 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) Node.js
2 4 (12.12%) JWT
2 4 (12.12%) OAuth
3 2 (6.06%) .NET
4 1 (3.03%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.03%) AWS CDK
4 1 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 4 (12.12%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (12.12%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.06%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Cyberattack
4 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Market Risk
4 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Windows
2 1 (3.03%) Android
2 1 (3.03%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (100.00%) DevOps
2 27 (81.82%) CI/CD
3 15 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (30.30%) Containerisation
5 7 (21.21%) Agile
6 6 (18.18%) Analytics
6 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (12.12%) Cloud Security
7 4 (12.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (12.12%) Software Delivery
8 3 (9.09%) Microservices
8 3 (9.09%) Observability
8 3 (9.09%) RBAC
8 3 (9.09%) Software Engineering
8 3 (9.09%) Workflow
9 2 (6.06%) AI
9 2 (6.06%) Business Continuity
9 2 (6.06%) Disaster Recovery
9 2 (6.06%) Load Balancing
9 2 (6.06%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 12 (36.36%) Python
2 4 (12.12%) PowerShell
3 3 (9.09%) Java
4 2 (6.06%) Bash
4 2 (6.06%) Rust
4 2 (6.06%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 14 (42.42%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (33.33%) Docker
2 3 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.03%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 20 (60.61%) Terraform
2 12 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 11 (33.33%) Ansible
4 2 (6.06%) Istio
5 1 (3.03%) Argo
5 1 (3.03%) Grafana
5 1 (3.03%) Kibana
5 1 (3.03%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.03%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.09%) Google
3 2 (6.06%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.03%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.03%) Ericsson
4 1 (3.03%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.03%) Splunk
4 1 (3.03%) Tenable