DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in East London

Development Operations Engineer
London > East London

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in East London is £604, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 18 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in East London 1.98% 1.85% -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.17% 2.20% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £465 - -
25th Percentile £515 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £604 £250 -
Median % change year-on-year +141.40% - -
75th Percentile £699 - -
90th Percentile £752 - -
London median daily rate £525 £525 £551
% change year-on-year - -4.63% -8.25%

All Contract IT Job Roles
East London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in East 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 East London with a recognized job title 92 91 143
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.09% 84.26% 87.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 74 127
10th Percentile £217 £202 £280
25th Percentile £405 £357 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £506 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.15% +6.58% -12.04%
75th Percentile £715 £587 £586
90th Percentile £780 £684 £647
London median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 4
10th Percentile £17.55 - £21.14
25th Percentile £19.49 £23.33 £21.21
Median hourly rate £23.47 £32.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +45.45% -19.90%
75th Percentile £26.62 £40.00 £22.44
90th Percentile £28.07 £53.50 £23.23
London median hourly rate £37.50 £29.07 £33.29
% change year-on-year +29.00% -12.66% -11.24%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in East London

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in East London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in East London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in East London

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in East London over the 6 months to 16 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in East London

DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the East London region over the 6 months to 16 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tower Hamlets +3 2 £604 +141.40%
DevOps Engineer
London

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East London

For the 6 months to 16 August 2026, 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 East London region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) ADO
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) API Management
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) BrowserStack
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) BrowserStack
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (50.00%) SonarCloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ADO
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (50.00%) SaltStack