DevOps Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Development Operations Architect
England > London

The median Development Operations Architect daily rate in London is £763, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025.

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

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 377 413
Rank change year-on-year +22 +36 +134
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Architect 7 5 16
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.051% 0.032% 0.078%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.055% 0.034% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 9
10th Percentile £561 - £490
25th Percentile £634 £538 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £763 £650 £570
Median % change year-on-year +17.31% +14.04% -18.57%
75th Percentile £884 £688 £625
90th Percentile £954 £785 £655
England median daily rate £643 £600 £598
% change year-on-year +7.08% +0.42% -14.64%

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 12,649 14,745 19,245
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 94.00% 93.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,398 9,538 14,002
10th Percentile £331 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £798
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 164 211
10th Percentile £17.16 £17.25 £18.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.06 £22.00
Median hourly rate £27.40 £38.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.89% -6.17% +24.62%
75th Percentile £47.50 £59.06 £61.64
90th Percentile £67.11 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -39.40% -9.55% +55.53%

DevOps Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

DevOps Architect job vacancy trend in London

DevOps Architect
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Architect job vacancies in London

DevOps Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Architect in London over the 6 months to 31 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Architect in London

DevOps Architect
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 31 October 2025. 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
Central London - 1 - -
DevOps Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 2025, DevOps Architect 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 London region featuring DevOps Architect in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
2 5 (71.43%) Terraform
3 4 (57.14%) AWS
3 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
3 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
4 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) Open Source
4 3 (42.86%) Prometheus
5 2 (28.57%) Azure
5 2 (28.57%) Linux
5 2 (28.57%) OpenShift
6 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (14.29%) Ansible
6 1 (14.29%) Apache
6 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (14.29%) Bash
6 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 1 (14.29%) Customer Insight
6 1 (14.29%) Data Discovery
6 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
6 1 (14.29%) Data Management
6 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
6 1 (14.29%) Databricks
6 1 (14.29%) Document Management
6 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (14.29%) Git
6 1 (14.29%) GitHub

DevOps Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) OpenShift
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
1 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Open Source
3 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 1 (14.29%) Customer Insight
3 1 (14.29%) Data Discovery
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Data Management
3 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
3 1 (14.29%) Document Management
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) RBAC
3 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bash
1 1 (14.29%) Groovy
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Prometheus
3 1 (14.29%) Ansible
3 1 (14.29%) Podman
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Databricks
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce