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 £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 August 2026.

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

 6 months to
9 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 126 117
Rank change year-on-year -6 -9 +39
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 6 3 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.25% 0.16% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.17% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 6
10th Percentile £573 £518 £576
25th Percentile £588 £544 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £688
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% +1.85%
75th Percentile £706 £669 £736
90th Percentile £725 £673 £756
Central London median daily rate £650 £625 £688
% change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% +1.85%

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 2,263 1,763 1,958
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.10% 93.73% 94.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,518 1,161 1,311
10th Percentile £363 £333 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £688
90th Percentile £770 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 22 14
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.57 £15.87
25th Percentile £18.46 £24.66 £20.88
Median hourly rate £19.50 £29.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.45% +10.19% -27.84%
75th Percentile £34.51 £62.00 £89.06
90th Percentile £61.31 £86.43 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £22.83 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -21.47% +7.67% -22.86%

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 9 August 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%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (50.00%) AWS
4 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (33.33%) Agile
5 2 (33.33%) Ansible
5 2 (33.33%) C#
5 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (33.33%) Docker
5 2 (33.33%) GitHub
5 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (33.33%) GitLab
5 2 (33.33%) Linux
5 2 (33.33%) Observability
5 2 (33.33%) Python
5 2 (33.33%) SQL
5 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
5 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 1 (16.67%) .NET
6 1 (16.67%) AI
6 1 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
6 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda

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 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (16.67%) Datadog
3 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
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 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (16.67%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
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%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Observability
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) AI
4 1 (16.67%) Change Control
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (16.67%) High Availability
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 1 (16.67%) Kanban
4 1 (16.67%) Log Aggregation
4 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 1 (16.67%) MLOps
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C#
1 2 (33.33%) Python
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) Go
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 2 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (33.33%) Ansible
4 1 (16.67%) Grafana
4 1 (16.67%) Packer
4 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Splunk
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