DevOps Architect Contracts in London

Development Operations Architect
England > London

The median Development Operations Architect daily rate in London is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 368 451
Rank change year-on-year +20 +83 +104
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Architect 5 23 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.040% 0.13% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.14% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 21 37
10th Percentile £500 £463 -
25th Percentile £575 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +30.00% -31.03%
75th Percentile £725 £700 £675
90th Percentile £733 £710 £730
England median daily rate £700 £625 £500
% change year-on-year +12.00% +25.00% -29.82%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

DevOps Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Architect in London

DevOps Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps Architect in London.

Daily rate trend for DevOps Architect in London

DevOps Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Architect in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Architect in London

DevOps Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, DevOps Architect 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 London region featuring DevOps Architect in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Software Delivery
4 2 (40.00%) Terraform
4 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Privileged Identity Management
5 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
5 1 (20.00%) Network Security
5 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
5 1 (20.00%) AWS
5 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
5 1 (20.00%) Workflow
5 1 (20.00%) Finance
5 1 (20.00%) Java
5 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (20.00%) WAN
5 1 (20.00%) VPN
5 1 (20.00%) DNS
5 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native

DevOps Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (60.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Software Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (20.00%) Fintech
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Privileged Identity Management
3 1 (20.00%) RBAC
3 1 (20.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bicep
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft