DevOps Engineer Contracts in London

Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in London is £567 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 62 66
Rank change year-on-year -57 +4 +2
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 350 1,073 1,516
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.98% 3.96% 3.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.12% 4.16% 4.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 826 1,215
10th Percentile £413 £496 £475
25th Percentile £478 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £567 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £644 £713 £700
90th Percentile £745 £800 £775
England median daily rate £545 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -9.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £55.13 - -
25th Percentile £55.31 - -
Median hourly rate £56.25 £85.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% - -
75th Percentile £57.81 - -
90th Percentile £58.38 - -
England median hourly rate £59.75 £57.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +3.91% +173.81% -56.92%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,503 25,805 37,110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.30% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,929 18,697 27,064
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 292 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £17.98 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +11.13%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.83 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in London

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in London

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in London

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in London.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in London

DevOps Engineer
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 Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 -26 33 £550 -13.73% 4
South London +6 25 £525 +5.00% 4
West London -2 1 £475 -19.15%
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, DevOps Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 350 (100.00%) DevOps
2 211 (60.29%) Terraform
3 203 (58.00%) AWS
4 196 (56.00%) CI/CD
5 153 (43.71%) Kubernetes
6 146 (41.71%) Security Cleared
7 135 (38.57%) Python
8 121 (34.57%) SC Cleared
9 113 (32.29%) Azure
10 112 (32.00%) Docker
11 89 (25.43%) Linux
12 85 (24.29%) Infrastructure as Code
13 84 (24.00%) Jenkins
14 83 (23.71%) Ansible
15 70 (20.00%) Agile
16 66 (18.86%) Azure DevOps
16 66 (18.86%) GitLab
17 58 (16.57%) GitHub
18 56 (16.00%) Bash
19 51 (14.57%) Serverless
20 50 (14.29%) Git
21 48 (13.71%) Finance
22 47 (13.43%) PowerShell
23 45 (12.86%) C#
23 45 (12.86%) Public Sector
24 42 (12.00%) Containerisation
25 41 (11.71%) Problem-Solving
25 41 (11.71%) Configuration Management
26 39 (11.14%) SQL
26 39 (11.14%) Amazon EC2

DevOps Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (3.71%) nginx
2 12 (3.43%) Confluence
3 7 (2.00%) IIS
4 4 (1.14%) Apache
4 4 (1.14%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.86%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.57%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.29%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.29%) Drupal
7 1 (0.29%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.29%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 203 (58.00%) AWS
2 113 (32.29%) Azure
3 66 (18.86%) Azure DevOps
4 58 (16.57%) GitHub
5 51 (14.57%) Serverless
6 39 (11.14%) Amazon EC2
7 38 (10.86%) Amazon S3
8 37 (10.57%) AWS Lambda
9 36 (10.29%) AWS CloudFormation
10 29 (8.29%) GitHub Actions
11 26 (7.43%) GCP
11 26 (7.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 25 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
13 23 (6.57%) Amazon ECS
14 22 (6.29%) Route 53
15 21 (6.00%) PaaS
16 20 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 18 (5.14%) OpenShift
18 13 (3.71%) Azure AKS
19 11 (3.14%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.43%) Firewall
2 15 (4.29%) DNS
3 8 (2.29%) HTTP
4 7 (2.00%) VPN
5 6 (1.71%) Network Security
5 6 (1.71%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.43%) Internet
6 5 (1.43%) SSH
7 3 (0.86%) DHCP
7 3 (0.86%) IPv4
7 3 (0.86%) LAN
7 3 (0.86%) WLAN
8 2 (0.57%) OpenLDAP
9 1 (0.29%) SNMP
9 1 (0.29%) SSL
9 1 (0.29%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (5.14%) SQL Server
3 10 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (2.57%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (2.57%) Relational Database
5 6 (1.71%) Amazon QuickSight
5 6 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (1.71%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.43%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.86%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.86%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (0.86%) GIS
7 3 (0.86%) MySQL
7 3 (0.86%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.86%) Power BI
8 2 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.57%) Couchbase
8 2 (0.57%) Looker
Development Applications
1 84 (24.00%) Jenkins
2 66 (18.86%) GitLab
3 50 (14.29%) Git
4 32 (9.14%) TeamCity
5 17 (4.86%) Artifactory
6 13 (3.71%) JIRA
7 10 (2.86%) Bitbucket
8 9 (2.57%) Maven
9 8 (2.29%) Gradle
10 7 (2.00%) Cucumber
11 6 (1.71%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (1.43%) SonarQube
12 5 (1.43%) Terragrunt
13 4 (1.14%) Cypress.io
13 4 (1.14%) JMeter
13 4 (1.14%) Selenium
14 3 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 3 (0.86%) Jaeger
14 3 (0.86%) Robot Framework
14 3 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 48 (13.71%) Finance
2 45 (12.86%) Public Sector
3 39 (11.14%) Social Skills
4 31 (8.86%) Banking
5 20 (5.71%) Investment Banking
6 12 (3.43%) Law
7 7 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.43%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.14%) Marketing
9 4 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.14%) Retail
10 3 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.57%) Electronics
11 2 (0.57%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.29%) Advertising
12 1 (0.29%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.29%) Front Office
12 1 (0.29%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (10.00%) .NET
2 18 (5.14%) Kafka
2 18 (5.14%) WCF
2 18 (5.14%) WinForms
3 16 (4.57%) YAML
4 15 (4.29%) AWS CDK
4 15 (4.29%) JSON
5 14 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
5 14 (4.00%) Node.js
5 14 (4.00%) React
6 11 (3.14%) ARM Templates
7 8 (2.29%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (2.00%) LDAP
9 6 (1.71%) REST
10 5 (1.43%) Spring
10 5 (1.43%) Spring Boot
10 5 (1.43%) Vue
11 4 (1.14%) Gherkin
12 3 (0.86%) AWS SAM
12 3 (0.86%) LAPP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.57%) Greenfield Project
2 12 (3.43%) Product Ownership
3 8 (2.29%) Public Cloud
4 7 (2.00%) Data Centre
5 6 (1.71%) PKI
6 5 (1.43%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.14%) Blockchain
7 4 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.14%) Private Cloud
7 4 (1.14%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.14%) Tandem
8 3 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (0.86%) Media Streaming
9 2 (0.57%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.57%) Life Science
9 2 (0.57%) Machine to Machine
Operating Systems
1 89 (25.43%) Linux
2 27 (7.71%) Windows
3 18 (5.14%) Unix
4 12 (3.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.00%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.71%) Android
6 6 (1.71%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.14%) CentOS
8 3 (0.86%) VMS
9 2 (0.57%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.29%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.29%) Debian
10 1 (0.29%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (100.00%) DevOps
2 196 (56.00%) CI/CD
3 85 (24.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 70 (20.00%) Agile
5 42 (12.00%) Containerisation
6 41 (11.71%) Configuration Management
6 41 (11.71%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (8.29%) Test Automation
8 27 (7.71%) Microservices
8 27 (7.71%) Platform Engineering
9 26 (7.43%) Migration
10 23 (6.57%) Computer Science
11 22 (6.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 19 (5.43%) Cybersecurity
12 19 (5.43%) Mentoring
13 18 (5.14%) Continuous Integration
13 18 (5.14%) Scrum
14 17 (4.86%) Software Engineering
15 16 (4.57%) Continuous Improvement
15 16 (4.57%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 135 (38.57%) Python
2 56 (16.00%) Bash
3 47 (13.43%) PowerShell
4 45 (12.86%) C#
5 39 (11.14%) SQL
6 34 (9.71%) JavaScript
7 28 (8.00%) Go
7 28 (8.00%) Java
8 15 (4.29%) TypeScript
9 13 (3.71%) Shell Script
10 10 (2.86%) Groovy
11 8 (2.29%) Ruby
12 4 (1.14%) Bicep
12 4 (1.14%) C++
13 3 (0.86%) C
13 3 (0.86%) Rust
14 2 (0.57%) Perl
15 1 (0.29%) PHP
15 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 146 (41.71%) Security Cleared
2 121 (34.57%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.86%) Degree
4 22 (6.29%) DV Cleared
5 17 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (4.00%) AWS Certification
7 10 (2.86%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.71%) QA
2 1 (0.29%) NCSC
2 1 (0.29%) NIST
2 1 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 112 (32.00%) Docker
2 17 (4.86%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.14%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.14%) NFS
5 3 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.29%) KVM
6 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.29%) vSphere
6 1 (0.29%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 211 (60.29%) Terraform
2 153 (43.71%) Kubernetes
3 83 (23.71%) Ansible
4 37 (10.57%) Prometheus
5 32 (9.14%) Grafana
6 14 (4.00%) Puppet
7 9 (2.57%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.00%) Argo
9 6 (1.71%) Kibana
9 6 (1.71%) Packer
10 5 (1.43%) Consul
11 4 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (1.14%) Nagios
12 3 (0.86%) Rancher
12 3 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.57%) logstash
13 2 (0.57%) Netcool
13 2 (0.57%) SCCM
13 2 (0.57%) SCOM
Vendors
1 35 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.86%) Oracle
3 13 (3.71%) Splunk
4 10 (2.86%) Google
5 9 (2.57%) VMware
6 8 (2.29%) SAP
7 6 (1.71%) Dynatrace
7 6 (1.71%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.43%) Databricks
9 4 (1.14%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.86%) Commvault
10 3 (0.86%) ESRI
10 3 (0.86%) F5
10 3 (0.86%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.86%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.57%) CyberArk
11 2 (0.57%) MKS
11 2 (0.57%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.57%) Talend
12 1 (0.29%) Virgin Media