DevOps Engineer Contracts in Croydon

Development Operations Engineer
South London > Croydon

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Croydon is £548, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 13 13
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 -4
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 7 24 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 7.87% 16.55% 17.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 8.05% 16.78% 20.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 22 29
10th Percentile £503 £363 £474
25th Percentile £519 £385 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.35% +2.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £574 £543 £638
90th Percentile £590 £567 £649
South London median daily rate £550 £518 £500
% change year-on-year +6.28% +3.50% -16.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Croydon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Croydon. 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 Croydon with a recognized job title 87 143 158
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.75% 98.62% 87.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 89 127
10th Percentile £380 £360 £436
25th Percentile £463 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -1.82%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £668 £630 £678
South London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 0
Median hourly rate - £23.50 -
South London median hourly rate £27.61 £23.50 £22.98
% change year-on-year +17.47% +2.26% -51.55%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Croydon

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Croydon.

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in Croydon

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Croydon over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in Croydon

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, DevOps Engineer 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 Croydon region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) Containerisation
2 6 (85.71%) Microservices
2 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 6 (85.71%) Docker
2 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
2 6 (85.71%) AWS
3 5 (71.43%) PaaS
3 5 (71.43%) Ansible
3 5 (71.43%) Terraform
3 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (57.14%) Cloud Security
4 4 (57.14%) Prometheus
4 4 (57.14%) Task Automation
4 4 (57.14%) Serverless
4 4 (57.14%) Grafana
4 4 (57.14%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (57.14%) AWS Certification
4 4 (57.14%) GitLab
4 4 (57.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (57.14%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (57.14%) IaaS
4 4 (57.14%) Bash
4 4 (57.14%) Degree
4 4 (57.14%) Refactoring
4 4 (57.14%) Git
4 4 (57.14%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (57.14%) Amazon S3

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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 (14.29%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) PaaS
3 4 (57.14%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (57.14%) Amazon S3
3 4 (57.14%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (57.14%) IaaS
3 4 (57.14%) Serverless
3 4 (57.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (14.29%) Azure
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Service Fabric
4 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
1 4 (57.14%) GitLab
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
2 1 (14.29%) Entity Framework
2 1 (14.29%) Keycloak
2 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) PKI
2 1 (14.29%) Private Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) Containerisation
2 6 (85.71%) Microservices
3 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (57.14%) Cloud Security
4 4 (57.14%) Refactoring
4 4 (57.14%) Task Automation
5 3 (42.86%) Load Balancing
6 1 (14.29%) B2C
6 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
6 1 (14.29%) High Availability
6 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
6 1 (14.29%) ITIL
6 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (14.29%) Software Delivery
6 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
6 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Bash
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
3 4 (57.14%) AWS Certification
3 4 (57.14%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 5 (71.43%) Ansible
2 5 (71.43%) Terraform
3 4 (57.14%) Grafana
3 4 (57.14%) Prometheus
4 1 (14.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (14.29%) HAProxy
4 1 (14.29%) Puppet
4 1 (14.29%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Confluent
1 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace