Senior DevOps Contracts in the City of London

Senior Development Operations
Central London > City of London

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in the City of London is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 158 153
Rank change year-on-year +42 -5 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 11 14 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.50% 0.38% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.40% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 36
10th Percentile - £579 £471
25th Percentile £625 £623 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £688 £713
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -3.51% +17.53%
75th Percentile £700 £775 £850
90th Percentile £745 - -
Central London median daily rate £650 £650 £713
% change year-on-year - -8.77% +9.62%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,102 3,480 3,996
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.98% 95.19% 94.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,492 2,360 3,018
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £792 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £580 £560
% change year-on-year -5.17% +3.57% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 25 50
10th Percentile £16.46 £15.50 £13.74
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -6.04% +107.23%
75th Percentile £27.50 £58.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £44.10 £86.98 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -26.34% -6.04% +107.23%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Senior DevOps in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps in the City of London

Senior DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior DevOps in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Senior DevOps in the City of London

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Senior DevOps contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (63.64%) Banking
2 7 (63.64%) TeamCity
3 6 (54.55%) Investment Banking
3 6 (54.55%) Configuration Management
4 5 (45.45%) Active Directory
4 5 (45.45%) SQL
4 5 (45.45%) .NET
4 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
4 5 (45.45%) C#
4 5 (45.45%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (45.45%) Migration
4 5 (45.45%) WinForms
4 5 (45.45%) WCF
4 5 (45.45%) PowerShell
4 5 (45.45%) SDLC
4 5 (45.45%) Terraform
4 5 (45.45%) Relational Database
5 3 (27.27%) Ansible
5 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
5 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
5 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
5 3 (27.27%) AWS
5 3 (27.27%) Python
6 2 (18.18%) Linux
6 2 (18.18%) Finance
6 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
6 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
6 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
6 2 (18.18%) Service Catalogue

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) GitHub
2 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (9.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Relational Database
1 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) TeamCity
2 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
3 2 (18.18%) Artifactory
3 2 (18.18%) Bitbucket
4 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 7 (63.64%) Banking
2 6 (54.55%) Investment Banking
3 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
4 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) .NET
1 5 (45.45%) RabbitMQ
1 5 (45.45%) WCF
1 5 (45.45%) WinForms
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Android
2 1 (9.09%) Apple iOS
2 1 (9.09%) Unix
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (54.55%) Configuration Management
3 5 (45.45%) Migration
3 5 (45.45%) SDLC
4 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) Service Catalogue
6 1 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (9.09%) Innovative Thinking
6 1 (9.09%) Load Balancing
6 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
6 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
6 1 (9.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) C#
1 5 (45.45%) PowerShell
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
4 1 (9.09%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Terraform
2 3 (27.27%) Ansible
2 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
3 1 (9.09%) Puppet