Senior DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Senior Development Operations Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026.

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

 6 months to
5 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 117 116
Rank change year-on-year -19 -1 +27
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 6 4 9
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.28% 0.23% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.25% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 5
10th Percentile - - £566
25th Percentile £613 £525 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £588 £650
Median % change year-on-year +14.89% -9.62% -1.89%
75th Percentile £738 £666 £730
90th Percentile - £671 £735
Central London median daily rate £675 £588 £650
% change year-on-year +14.89% -9.62% -1.89%

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 2,033 1,628 1,984
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 94.21% 93.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,378 1,100 1,231
10th Percentile £363 £325 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.36%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 19 17
10th Percentile - £16.96 £17.90
25th Percentile £17.60 £21.09 £23.13
Median hourly rate £21.75 £27.50 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.91% -28.57% +4.05%
75th Percentile £36.81 £39.88 £112.00
90th Percentile £64.65 £64.11 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £28.07 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +2.05% -21.43% -2.78%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the City of London

Senior DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the City of London

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 5 October 2026, Senior 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 Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
3 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (33.33%) AI
5 2 (33.33%) Ansible
5 2 (33.33%) AWS
5 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (33.33%) GitLab
5 2 (33.33%) Linux
5 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
5 2 (33.33%) MLOps
5 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (33.33%) Python
5 2 (33.33%) SQL
6 1 (16.67%) Agile
6 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
6 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (16.67%) Azure
6 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
6 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (16.67%) Bash
6 1 (16.67%) C#
6 1 (16.67%) Change Control
6 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
6 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working

Senior 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 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Military
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
1 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) AI
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
4 2 (33.33%) MLOps
4 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Agile
5 1 (16.67%) Change Control
5 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 1 (16.67%) High Availability
5 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
5 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 1 (16.67%) Observability
5 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) Grafana
3 1 (16.67%) Packer
3 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Splunk
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