DevOps Engineer Contracts in London

Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 64 66
Rank change year-on-year -55 +2 +3
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 361 1,056 1,531
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.04% 3.94% 3.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.19% 4.14% 4.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 813 1,224
10th Percentile £416 £496 £475
25th Percentile £480 £531 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £630 £713 £692
90th Percentile £718 £800 £775
England median daily rate £538 £610 £600
% change year-on-year -11.89% +1.67% +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 £39.00
% change year-on-year +3.91% +47.44% -20.00%

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 16,498 25,529 37,134
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 95.28% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,929 18,487 27,116
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £680
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 291 449
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.45
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.57 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.54% +1.43% +9.38%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.25 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.80 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -20 36 £550 -14.56% 8
South London +9 30 £511 +2.10% 4
West London +4 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 4 May 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.

1 361 (100.00%) DevOps
2 222 (61.50%) Terraform
3 215 (59.56%) AWS
4 195 (54.02%) CI/CD
5 163 (45.15%) Kubernetes
6 153 (42.38%) Security Cleared
7 137 (37.95%) Python
8 128 (35.46%) SC Cleared
9 118 (32.69%) Docker
10 113 (31.30%) Azure
11 99 (27.42%) Linux
12 86 (23.82%) Infrastructure as Code
13 85 (23.55%) Jenkins
13 85 (23.55%) Ansible
14 77 (21.33%) Agile
15 66 (18.28%) GitLab
16 63 (17.45%) Azure DevOps
17 60 (16.62%) Git
18 58 (16.07%) Bash
18 58 (16.07%) GitHub
19 53 (14.68%) Serverless
20 51 (14.13%) Finance
21 47 (13.02%) PowerShell
21 47 (13.02%) Public Sector
22 45 (12.47%) C#
23 44 (12.19%) AWS CloudFormation
24 42 (11.63%) Configuration Management
24 42 (11.63%) Containerisation
25 41 (11.36%) SQL
26 40 (11.08%) 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 21 (5.82%) nginx
2 20 (5.54%) Confluence
3 7 (1.94%) IIS
4 5 (1.39%) Apache
5 4 (1.11%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.83%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.55%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.55%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.28%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.28%) Drupal
8 1 (0.28%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.28%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 215 (59.56%) AWS
2 113 (31.30%) Azure
3 63 (17.45%) Azure DevOps
4 58 (16.07%) GitHub
5 53 (14.68%) Serverless
6 44 (12.19%) AWS CloudFormation
7 40 (11.08%) Amazon EC2
7 40 (11.08%) Amazon S3
8 38 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
9 29 (8.03%) GitHub Actions
10 27 (7.48%) Amazon EKS
10 27 (7.48%) GCP
11 26 (7.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 24 (6.65%) Route 53
13 23 (6.37%) Amazon ECS
14 22 (6.09%) PaaS
15 21 (5.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 19 (5.26%) OpenShift
17 13 (3.60%) Azure AKS
17 13 (3.60%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.26%) Firewall
2 15 (4.16%) DNS
3 8 (2.22%) HTTP
4 7 (1.94%) VPN
5 6 (1.66%) Network Security
5 6 (1.66%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.39%) Internet
6 5 (1.39%) SSH
7 3 (0.83%) DHCP
7 3 (0.83%) IPv4
7 3 (0.83%) LAN
7 3 (0.83%) WLAN
8 2 (0.55%) OpenLDAP
8 2 (0.55%) SSL
9 1 (0.28%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.28%) SNMP
9 1 (0.28%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (8.03%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (4.99%) SQL Server
3 10 (2.77%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (2.49%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (1.66%) Amazon QuickSight
6 6 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (1.66%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.39%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.11%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.11%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.11%) Power BI
9 3 (0.83%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (0.83%) GIS
9 3 (0.83%) MySQL
10 2 (0.55%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.55%) Couchbase
10 2 (0.55%) KDB
10 2 (0.55%) Looker
Development Applications
1 85 (23.55%) Jenkins
2 66 (18.28%) GitLab
3 60 (16.62%) Git
4 31 (8.59%) TeamCity
5 22 (6.09%) JIRA
6 17 (4.71%) Artifactory
7 11 (3.05%) Bitbucket
8 10 (2.77%) Maven
9 8 (2.22%) Gradle
10 7 (1.94%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.94%) SonarQube
10 7 (1.94%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (1.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (1.39%) Terragrunt
12 4 (1.11%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.11%) JMeter
12 4 (1.11%) Selenium
13 3 (0.83%) Jaeger
13 3 (0.83%) Robot Framework
13 3 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 51 (14.13%) Finance
2 47 (13.02%) Public Sector
3 40 (11.08%) Social Skills
4 31 (8.59%) Banking
5 19 (5.26%) Investment Banking
6 13 (3.60%) Law
7 8 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.94%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.39%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.11%) Marketing
10 4 (1.11%) Retail
11 3 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.55%) Electronics
12 2 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.55%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.28%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.28%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.28%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (9.42%) .NET
2 20 (5.54%) Kafka
3 18 (4.99%) WCF
3 18 (4.99%) WinForms
4 16 (4.43%) AWS CDK
4 16 (4.43%) YAML
5 15 (4.16%) Elastic Stack
5 15 (4.16%) JSON
6 14 (3.88%) Node.js
6 14 (3.88%) React
7 11 (3.05%) ARM Templates
8 8 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (1.94%) LDAP
10 6 (1.66%) REST
11 5 (1.39%) Spring
11 5 (1.39%) Spring Boot
11 5 (1.39%) Vue
12 4 (1.11%) Gherkin
13 3 (0.83%) LAPP Stack
13 3 (0.83%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.43%) Greenfield Project
2 10 (2.77%) Product Ownership
3 9 (2.49%) Public Cloud
4 6 (1.66%) Data Centre
4 6 (1.66%) PKI
5 5 (1.39%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.11%) Blockchain
6 4 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.11%) Private Cloud
6 4 (1.11%) Security Posture
7 3 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (0.83%) Media Streaming
7 3 (0.83%) Tandem
8 2 (0.55%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.55%) Life Science
8 2 (0.55%) Machine to Machine
Operating Systems
1 99 (27.42%) Linux
2 27 (7.48%) Windows
3 20 (5.54%) Unix
4 14 (3.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.66%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.39%) Android
6 5 (1.39%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.11%) CentOS
8 3 (0.83%) VMS
9 2 (0.55%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.28%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.28%) Debian
10 1 (0.28%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 361 (100.00%) DevOps
2 195 (54.02%) CI/CD
3 86 (23.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 77 (21.33%) Agile
5 42 (11.63%) Configuration Management
5 42 (11.63%) Containerisation
6 39 (10.80%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (7.76%) Microservices
7 28 (7.76%) Migration
7 28 (7.76%) Platform Engineering
7 28 (7.76%) Test Automation
8 23 (6.37%) Computer Science
9 22 (6.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 19 (5.26%) Continuous Integration
10 19 (5.26%) Cybersecurity
10 19 (5.26%) Mentoring
11 18 (4.99%) Observability
11 18 (4.99%) Scrum
12 16 (4.43%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (4.43%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 137 (37.95%) Python
2 58 (16.07%) Bash
3 47 (13.02%) PowerShell
4 45 (12.47%) C#
5 41 (11.36%) SQL
6 34 (9.42%) JavaScript
7 28 (7.76%) Go
7 28 (7.76%) Java
8 15 (4.16%) TypeScript
9 14 (3.88%) Shell Script
10 11 (3.05%) Groovy
11 8 (2.22%) Ruby
12 4 (1.11%) Bicep
12 4 (1.11%) C++
13 3 (0.83%) C
13 3 (0.83%) Perl
13 3 (0.83%) Rust
14 1 (0.28%) PHP
14 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 153 (42.38%) Security Cleared
2 128 (35.46%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.65%) Degree
4 21 (5.82%) DV Cleared
5 17 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (3.88%) AWS Certification
7 10 (2.77%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.66%) QA
2 1 (0.28%) NCSC
2 1 (0.28%) NIST
2 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 118 (32.69%) Docker
2 18 (4.99%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.77%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.11%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.11%) NFS
5 3 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.28%) KVM
6 1 (0.28%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.28%) vSphere
6 1 (0.28%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 222 (61.50%) Terraform
2 163 (45.15%) Kubernetes
3 85 (23.55%) Ansible
4 39 (10.80%) Prometheus
5 33 (9.14%) Grafana
6 15 (4.16%) Packer
6 15 (4.16%) Puppet
7 12 (3.32%) Consul
8 9 (2.49%) Progress Chef
9 7 (1.94%) Argo
10 5 (1.39%) Kibana
10 5 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.83%) Nagios
12 2 (0.55%) logstash
12 2 (0.55%) Netcool
12 2 (0.55%) Rancher
12 2 (0.55%) SCCM
12 2 (0.55%) SCOM
12 2 (0.55%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 34 (9.42%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.93%) Oracle
3 12 (3.32%) Splunk
4 10 (2.77%) Google
5 9 (2.49%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.22%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.22%) SAP
6 8 (2.22%) VMware
7 5 (1.39%) Databricks
8 4 (1.11%) AppDynamics
9 3 (0.83%) ESRI
9 3 (0.83%) F5
9 3 (0.83%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.83%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.55%) Commvault
10 2 (0.55%) Confluent
10 2 (0.55%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.55%) MKS
10 2 (0.55%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.55%) Talend