DevOps Consultant Contracts in London

Development Operations Consultant
England > London

The median Development Operations Consultant daily rate in London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 August 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
6 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 371 368 446
Rank change year-on-year -3 +78 +135
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Consultant 6 8 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.044% 0.049% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% 0.052% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 15
10th Percentile - £555 £518
25th Percentile £613 £661 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £843 £600
Median % change year-on-year -25.82% +40.42% -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £849 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £638 £590 £600
% change year-on-year +8.05% -1.67% -4.00%

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 12,646 15,317 22,892
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.02% 94.19% 94.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,555 10,844 16,760
10th Percentile £325 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 200 244
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.48 £18.56
25th Percentile £22.90 £22.00 £24.06
Median hourly rate £29.07 £33.04 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -11.91% +12.78%
75th Percentile £50.50 £54.06 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £71.88 £81.58
England median hourly rate £25.66 £45.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -42.98% +5.88% +66.67%

DevOps Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Consultant in London

DevOps Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Consultant in London

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

For the 6 months to 6 August 2025, DevOps Consultant 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 Consultant in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) GitHub
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
2 5 (83.33%) DevSecOps
2 5 (83.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) GitLab
2 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
3 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 4 (66.67%) SDLC
4 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
4 2 (33.33%) AWS
5 1 (16.67%) Bash
5 1 (16.67%) Datadog
5 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 1 (16.67%) Coaching
5 1 (16.67%) GCP
5 1 (16.67%) Fintech
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
5 1 (16.67%) Software Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Java

DevOps Consultant 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 6 (100.00%) GitHub
1 6 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
2 5 (83.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (83.33%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) AWS
4 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Datadog
4 1 (16.67%) GCP
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) GitLab
1 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Snyk
General
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Publishing
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (83.33%) DevSecOps
3 4 (66.67%) SDLC
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Coaching
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Fintech
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Software Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (16.67%) Sprint Review
4 1 (16.67%) TDD
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) Go
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Grafana
2 1 (16.67%) Istio
2 1 (16.67%) linkerd
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus