DevOps Developer Contract Job Trends in London

Development Operations Developer
England > London

The median Development Operations Developer daily rate in London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 September 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
10 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 386 421
Rank change year-on-year +19 +35 +96
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Developer 7 11 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.052% 0.068% 0.094%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.056% 0.072% 0.100%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 11
10th Percentile £389 £437 £468
25th Percentile £510 £500 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -11.54% -8.77%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £775
90th Percentile £705 £700 £800
England median daily rate £518 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +3.50% -20.00% -10.71%

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 12,523 15,194 21,071
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.07% 94.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,380 10,285 15,409
10th Percentile £325 £346 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £680 £694
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.62% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 183 231
10th Percentile £17.05 £17.58 £18.16
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £22.50
Median hourly rate £31.49 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.03% -6.67% +15.21%
75th Percentile £50.38 £55.50 £63.88
90th Percentile £66.34 £71.88 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £44.00
% change year-on-year -47.05% +7.95% +67.05%

DevOps Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Developer in London

DevOps Developer
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

DevOps Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Developer in London over the 6 months to 10 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Developer in London

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

For the 6 months to 10 September 2025, DevOps Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 3 (42.86%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
3 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Banking
4 2 (28.57%) Finance
4 2 (28.57%) C#
4 2 (28.57%) Web Services
4 2 (28.57%) ETL
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 2 (28.57%) GitHub
4 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 2 (28.57%) Ansible
4 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (28.57%) Terraform
4 2 (28.57%) RBAC
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 2 (28.57%) Serverless
4 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
4 2 (28.57%) PowerApps
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
5 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
5 1 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention

DevOps Developer 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub
2 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 2 (28.57%) PowerApps
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
3 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
3 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Web Services
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (14.29%) JSON
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) ETL
4 2 (28.57%) RBAC
5 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 1 (14.29%) CRM
5 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
5 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
5 1 (14.29%) Digital Strategy
5 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
5 1 (14.29%) ITIL
5 1 (14.29%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
5 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (14.29%) TDD
5 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) Podman
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk