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 £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 92 90
Rank change year-on-year -24 -2 -18
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 32 25 38
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.42% 1.43% 1.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.51% 1.52% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 19 29
10th Percentile £463 £447 £425
25th Percentile £506 £479 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.20% +2.08%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £675
90th Percentile £725 £712 £764
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £619
% change year-on-year -0.04% -7.03% +3.13%

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 2,115 1,645 1,982
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 93.84% 94.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,432 1,105 1,246
10th Percentile £363 £325 £363
25th Percentile £456 £421 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £783
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 21 14
10th Percentile - £17.08 £15.95
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.75 £22.28
Median hourly rate £22.50 £28.15 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -20.07% -14.05% -7.75%
75th Percentile £35.92 £56.75 £89.06
90th Percentile £62.50 £65.57 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £31.03 £27.83 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.53% -20.50% -

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 32 (100.00%) DevOps
2 22 (68.75%) Kubernetes
3 19 (59.38%) Terraform
4 18 (56.25%) CI/CD
5 16 (50.00%) Azure
6 15 (46.88%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (43.75%) SC Cleared
7 14 (43.75%) Security Cleared
8 12 (37.50%) Containerisation
9 11 (34.38%) Platform Engineering
10 10 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (25.00%) GitLab
12 7 (21.88%) Observability
13 6 (18.75%) AWS
13 6 (18.75%) Python
14 5 (15.63%) Agile
14 5 (15.63%) AI
14 5 (15.63%) Ansible
14 5 (15.63%) Azure AKS
14 5 (15.63%) Databricks
14 5 (15.63%) GitHub
14 5 (15.63%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (15.63%) Java
14 5 (15.63%) PowerShell
15 4 (12.50%) Bicep
15 4 (12.50%) C#
15 4 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
15 4 (12.50%) Grafana
15 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
15 4 (12.50%) ITIL

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 1 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.13%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 16 (50.00%) Azure
2 10 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (18.75%) AWS
4 5 (15.63%) Azure AKS
4 5 (15.63%) GitHub
4 5 (15.63%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (9.38%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (9.38%) Power Automate
5 3 (9.38%) Power Platform
5 3 (9.38%) PowerApps
6 2 (6.25%) Azure AI
6 2 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.13%) Cloud Run
7 1 (3.13%) GCP
7 1 (3.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (3.13%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) DNS
1 3 (9.38%) Firewall
1 3 (9.38%) VPN
2 1 (3.13%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) Power BI
2 1 (3.13%) Apache Hive
2 1 (3.13%) Big Data
2 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (25.00%) GitLab
2 3 (9.38%) Git
2 3 (9.38%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.25%) TeamCity
4 1 (3.13%) Maven
General
1 15 (46.88%) Finance
2 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Banking
4 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.13%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.13%) Front Office
5 1 (3.13%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.13%) Marketing
5 1 (3.13%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (59.38%) Terraform
2 2 (6.25%) YAML
3 1 (3.13%) ADO
3 1 (3.13%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.13%) Spring
3 1 (3.13%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.13%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (3.13%) Unix
2 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (100.00%) DevOps
2 18 (56.25%) CI/CD
3 15 (46.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (37.50%) Containerisation
5 11 (34.38%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (21.88%) Observability
7 5 (15.63%) Agile
7 5 (15.63%) AI
8 4 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (12.50%) ITIL
9 3 (9.38%) AIOps
9 3 (9.38%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (9.38%) Cloud Security
9 3 (9.38%) High Availability
9 3 (9.38%) Load Balancing
9 3 (9.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 3 (9.38%) Software Engineering
9 3 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (9.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.75%) Python
2 5 (15.63%) Java
2 5 (15.63%) PowerShell
3 4 (12.50%) Bicep
3 4 (12.50%) C#
4 3 (9.38%) SQL
5 2 (6.25%) Bash
6 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.13%) Korn
6 1 (3.13%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 14 (43.75%) SC Cleared
1 14 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 3 (9.38%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (68.75%) Kubernetes
2 5 (15.63%) Ansible
3 4 (12.50%) Grafana
3 4 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 2 (6.25%) Packer
5 1 (3.13%) Argo
5 1 (3.13%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Databricks
2 4 (12.50%) Splunk
3 3 (9.38%) AppDynamics
3 3 (9.38%) Dynatrace
4 2 (6.25%) Foundry
5 1 (3.13%) Cloudera
5 1 (3.13%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (3.13%) Google
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.13%) Salesforce