DevOps Specialist Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Development Operations Specialist
South London > Croydon

The median Development Operations Specialist daily rate in Croydon is £644, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Specialist 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 3.30% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £617 - -
25th Percentile £627 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £644 - -
75th Percentile £684 - -
90th Percentile £708 - -
South London median daily rate £644 - -

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 88 110 167
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.70% 97.35% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 71 119
10th Percentile £320 £380 £231
25th Percentile £467 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £539
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +0.19% -3.41%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £625
90th Percentile £638 £650 £673
South London median daily rate £503 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.55% +2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £17.25 £21.75
Median hourly rate - £19.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year - -17.02% -
75th Percentile - £21.75 £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £66.00 £19.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year +238.46% -55.51% -0.62%

DevOps Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Specialist' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

DevOps Specialist job vacancy trend in Croydon

DevOps Specialist
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Specialist job vacancies in Croydon.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Specialist job vacancies in Croydon

DevOps Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, DevOps Specialist 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 Croydon region featuring DevOps Specialist in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) Confluence
2 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) API Integration
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) boto
3 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Consul
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation

DevOps Specialist Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 2 (66.67%) Confluence
2 1 (33.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) boto
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
1 1 (33.33%) pytest
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) API Integration
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) Consul
3 1 (33.33%) Packer