DevOps Engineer Contracts in London

Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in London is £565, 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 108 116 62
Rank change year-on-year +8 -54 +4
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 330 353 1,066
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.63% 1.98% 3.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.81% 2.12% 4.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 278 819
10th Percentile £407 £413 £499
25th Percentile £480 £477 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £566 £625
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -9.44% +4.17%
75th Percentile £694 £638 £713
90th Percentile £838 £741 £800
England median daily rate £550 £545 £600
% change year-on-year +0.92% -9.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £56.25 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -33.82% -
England median hourly rate £82.48 £59.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year +38.04% +3.91% +91.67%

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 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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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 +14 44 £544 -1.14% 11
South London -10 8 £550 +6.28% 2
West London +14 3 £475 -
East London - 2 £250 - 2
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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.

1 330 (100.00%) DevOps
2 244 (73.94%) CI/CD
3 239 (72.42%) Terraform
4 230 (69.70%) Kubernetes
5 217 (65.76%) AWS
6 166 (50.30%) Python
7 145 (43.94%) Docker
8 119 (36.06%) Infrastructure as Code
9 104 (31.52%) Azure
10 95 (28.79%) Finance
11 90 (27.27%) GitLab
12 87 (26.36%) Agile
13 84 (25.45%) Security Cleared
14 83 (25.15%) Jenkins
15 81 (24.55%) SC Cleared
16 80 (24.24%) Java
17 76 (23.03%) Ansible
18 69 (20.91%) Containerisation
19 66 (20.00%) Serverless
19 66 (20.00%) Linux
20 63 (19.09%) AWS Lambda
21 62 (18.79%) Bash
22 60 (18.18%) Software Engineering
23 59 (17.88%) Go
24 58 (17.58%) Azure DevOps
25 56 (16.97%) Amazon ECS
25 56 (16.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
26 50 (15.15%) AWS CloudFormation
26 50 (15.15%) Kafka
27 49 (14.85%) OpenShift

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 45 (13.64%) Apache Spark
2 39 (11.82%) Apache
3 37 (11.21%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (4.24%) nginx
5 7 (2.12%) Confluence
6 4 (1.21%) Traefik
7 2 (0.61%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.61%) IIS
7 2 (0.61%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.30%) JBoss
8 1 (0.30%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 217 (65.76%) AWS
2 104 (31.52%) Azure
3 66 (20.00%) Serverless
4 63 (19.09%) AWS Lambda
5 58 (17.58%) Azure DevOps
6 56 (16.97%) Amazon ECS
7 50 (15.15%) AWS CloudFormation
8 49 (14.85%) OpenShift
9 46 (13.94%) Amazon EC2
10 44 (13.33%) Amazon S3
10 44 (13.33%) GCP
11 43 (13.03%) Amazon EKS
12 31 (9.39%) dbt
13 30 (9.09%) GitHub
14 25 (7.58%) Azure AKS
15 17 (5.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 16 (4.85%) Amazon SQS
16 16 (4.85%) Azure Data Factory
16 16 (4.85%) PaaS
16 16 (4.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.85%) TCP/IP
2 14 (4.24%) Firewall
2 14 (4.24%) HTTP
3 13 (3.94%) DNS
4 7 (2.12%) Internet
5 5 (1.52%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (0.91%) Network Security
7 2 (0.61%) VPN
8 1 (0.30%) DHCP
8 1 (0.30%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (0.30%) SMTP
8 1 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (10.61%) Apache Iceberg
2 34 (10.30%) Amazon RDS
3 31 (9.39%) Amazon Athena
4 30 (9.09%) Dremio
5 28 (8.48%) Apache Arrow
5 28 (8.48%) Apache Ignite
6 21 (6.36%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (2.73%) Big Data
10 8 (2.42%) Apache Hive
10 8 (2.42%) MongoDB
11 7 (2.12%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (1.82%) Hadoop
13 5 (1.52%) Parquet
13 5 (1.52%) Presto
14 4 (1.21%) Data Lake
14 4 (1.21%) NoSQL
15 3 (0.91%) MySQL
16 2 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 90 (27.27%) GitLab
2 83 (25.15%) Jenkins
3 37 (11.21%) Artifactory
3 37 (11.21%) Git
4 11 (3.33%) JIRA
5 8 (2.42%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (2.12%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.12%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.82%) TeamCity
8 5 (1.52%) Poetry
9 3 (0.91%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.91%) Maven
9 3 (0.91%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.61%) Gradle
10 2 (0.61%) Jaeger
10 2 (0.61%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.61%) Selenium
11 1 (0.30%) MSTest
11 1 (0.30%) NSubstitute
11 1 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 95 (28.79%) Finance
2 44 (13.33%) Front Office
3 37 (11.21%) Social Skills
4 35 (10.61%) Public Sector
5 29 (8.79%) Banking
6 12 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (1.82%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.52%) Law
9 4 (1.21%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.21%) Military
9 4 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.91%) Retail
11 2 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.30%) Legal
12 1 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (15.15%) Kafka
2 35 (10.61%) J2EE
3 29 (8.79%) PySpark
4 23 (6.97%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (2.73%) React
5 9 (2.73%) Spring
6 8 (2.42%) YAML
7 7 (2.12%) .NET
7 7 (2.12%) ARM Templates
8 6 (1.82%) Keycloak
9 5 (1.52%) AWS CDK
9 5 (1.52%) Dask
9 5 (1.52%) LAPP Stack
10 4 (1.21%) cloud-init
11 3 (0.91%) LDAP
11 3 (0.91%) Node.js
12 2 (0.61%) AngularJS
12 2 (0.61%) OAuth
12 2 (0.61%) OpenID
12 2 (0.61%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.06%) Cloud Native
2 12 (3.64%) Onboarding
2 12 (3.64%) Public Cloud
3 6 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (1.52%) PKI
4 5 (1.52%) Tandem
5 4 (1.21%) Mainframe
5 4 (1.21%) Product Ownership
6 3 (0.91%) Data Centre
6 3 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (0.91%) Replication
7 2 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.61%) DataPower
7 2 (0.61%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.61%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.61%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.61%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.61%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 66 (20.00%) Linux
2 15 (4.55%) Unix
2 15 (4.55%) Windows
3 14 (4.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.82%) CentOS
5 4 (1.21%) VMS
5 4 (1.21%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.91%) Android
6 3 (0.91%) SUSE
7 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.30%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (100.00%) DevOps
2 244 (73.94%) CI/CD
3 119 (36.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 87 (26.36%) Agile
5 69 (20.91%) Containerisation
6 60 (18.18%) Software Engineering
7 56 (16.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 45 (13.64%) Asset Management
8 45 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
9 42 (12.73%) Configuration Management
9 42 (12.73%) Infrastructure Automation
10 40 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
11 39 (11.82%) Data Engineering
12 35 (10.61%) Open Source
13 33 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
14 27 (8.18%) Microservices
14 27 (8.18%) Task Automation
15 26 (7.88%) High Availability
16 24 (7.27%) Observability
17 23 (6.97%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 166 (50.30%) Python
2 80 (24.24%) Java
3 62 (18.79%) Bash
4 59 (17.88%) Go
5 47 (14.24%) PowerShell
6 29 (8.79%) JavaScript
7 22 (6.67%) SQL
8 18 (5.45%) C#
9 12 (3.64%) Shell Script
10 11 (3.33%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.52%) Groovy
12 4 (1.21%) Bicep
13 2 (0.61%) PHP
13 2 (0.61%) Ruby
13 2 (0.61%) Rust
14 1 (0.30%) C
14 1 (0.30%) Perl
Qualifications
1 84 (25.45%) Security Cleared
2 81 (24.55%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.85%) AWS Certification
3 16 (4.85%) Degree
4 8 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.82%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (1.21%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.61%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.30%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.30%) OCP
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.30%) RHCA
10 1 (0.30%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.24%) QA
2 4 (1.21%) NCSC
3 3 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.30%) GDPR
4 1 (0.30%) NIST
4 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 145 (43.94%) Docker
2 5 (1.52%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.21%) Lustre
4 1 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.30%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 239 (72.42%) Terraform
2 230 (69.70%) Kubernetes
3 76 (23.03%) Ansible
4 42 (12.73%) Prometheus
5 41 (12.42%) Grafana
6 18 (5.45%) Puppet
7 12 (3.64%) Progress Chef
8 10 (3.03%) Packer
9 9 (2.73%) Argo
9 9 (2.73%) Istio
10 7 (2.12%) Podman
10 7 (2.12%) Rancher
11 6 (1.82%) ZABBIX
12 5 (1.52%) Consul
12 5 (1.52%) HAProxy
12 5 (1.52%) Kibana
13 4 (1.21%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (1.21%) Kustomize
13 4 (1.21%) linkerd
13 4 (1.21%) logstash
Vendors
1 22 (6.67%) Splunk
2 17 (5.15%) Red Hat
3 14 (4.24%) Google
4 13 (3.94%) Databricks
5 11 (3.33%) Microsoft
6 9 (2.73%) Cloudera
6 9 (2.73%) Dynatrace
6 9 (2.73%) Virgin Media
7 5 (1.52%) Oracle
8 4 (1.21%) Apple
8 4 (1.21%) ESET
8 4 (1.21%) Okta
8 4 (1.21%) VMware
9 3 (0.91%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.91%) Confluent
10 2 (0.61%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.61%) Broadcom
10 2 (0.61%) SAP
10 2 (0.61%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.61%) Zscaler