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 in the 6 months leading up to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 122 64
Rank change year-on-year +17 -58 +2
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 321 367 1,020
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.57% 2.08% 3.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.76% 2.22% 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 290 785
10th Percentile £405 £413 £496
25th Percentile £475 £475 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £636 £713
90th Percentile £838 £739 £800
England median daily rate £550 £538 £600
% change year-on-year +2.33% -10.42% -
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 £64.25
% change year-on-year +38.04% -7.00% +36.70%

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 11,646 16,502 25,012
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.37% 93.32% 95.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,985 11,934 18,143
10th Percentile £343 £325 £363
25th Percentile £428 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £676 £683 £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 145 328 281
10th Percentile £20.33 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.02 £22.75
Median hourly rate £34.65 £27.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -23.61% +2.86%
75th Percentile £50.75 £45.18 £62.68
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.01 £80.00
England median hourly rate £30.32 £37.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -18.45% -17.38% +99.60%

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 9 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 9 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 +7 41 £532 -6.62% 28
South London -13 10 £550 +7.74% 4
East London - 2 £250 - 3
West London +16 1 £800 +68.42% 3
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 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.

1 321 (100.00%) DevOps
2 234 (72.90%) CI/CD
3 229 (71.34%) Terraform
4 216 (67.29%) Kubernetes
5 210 (65.42%) AWS
6 154 (47.98%) Python
7 141 (43.93%) Docker
8 115 (35.83%) Infrastructure as Code
9 103 (32.09%) Azure
10 91 (28.35%) Finance
11 84 (26.17%) Security Cleared
12 83 (25.86%) GitLab
13 81 (25.23%) SC Cleared
14 79 (24.61%) Agile
15 77 (23.99%) Java
15 77 (23.99%) Jenkins
16 74 (23.05%) Ansible
17 68 (21.18%) Containerisation
18 64 (19.94%) Linux
19 62 (19.31%) Serverless
20 59 (18.38%) AWS Lambda
20 59 (18.38%) Bash
21 55 (17.13%) Software Engineering
21 55 (17.13%) Azure DevOps
22 53 (16.51%) Go
23 51 (15.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
24 49 (15.26%) Amazon ECS
25 48 (14.95%) Kafka
26 46 (14.33%) OpenShift
27 44 (13.71%) PowerShell

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 43 (13.40%) Apache Spark
2 39 (12.15%) Apache
3 37 (11.53%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (3.43%) nginx
5 6 (1.87%) Confluence
6 2 (0.62%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.62%) IIS
6 2 (0.62%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.62%) Traefik
7 1 (0.31%) JBoss
7 1 (0.31%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.31%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 210 (65.42%) AWS
2 103 (32.09%) Azure
3 62 (19.31%) Serverless
4 59 (18.38%) AWS Lambda
5 55 (17.13%) Azure DevOps
6 49 (15.26%) Amazon ECS
7 46 (14.33%) OpenShift
8 44 (13.71%) Amazon EKS
8 44 (13.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 41 (12.77%) Amazon EC2
9 41 (12.77%) GCP
10 38 (11.84%) Amazon S3
11 31 (9.66%) dbt
12 28 (8.72%) GitHub
13 24 (7.48%) Azure AKS
14 15 (4.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 15 (4.67%) Azure Data Factory
14 15 (4.67%) PaaS
15 14 (4.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 13 (4.05%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.98%) HTTP
2 15 (4.67%) TCP/IP
3 14 (4.36%) Firewall
4 12 (3.74%) DNS
5 8 (2.49%) Internet
6 5 (1.56%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (0.93%) Network Security
8 2 (0.62%) VPN
9 1 (0.31%) DHCP
9 1 (0.31%) SMTP
9 1 (0.31%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (10.90%) Apache Iceberg
2 31 (9.66%) Amazon Athena
3 30 (9.35%) Amazon RDS
3 30 (9.35%) Dremio
4 28 (8.72%) Apache Arrow
4 28 (8.72%) Apache Ignite
5 16 (4.98%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (3.12%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (2.80%) Big Data
9 8 (2.49%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (2.49%) Apache Hive
10 6 (1.87%) Hadoop
10 6 (1.87%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.56%) Parquet
11 5 (1.56%) Presto
12 4 (1.25%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.25%) NoSQL
13 3 (0.93%) MySQL
14 2 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 83 (25.86%) GitLab
2 77 (23.99%) Jenkins
3 37 (11.53%) Git
4 35 (10.90%) Artifactory
5 10 (3.12%) JIRA
6 8 (2.49%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (2.18%) Bitbucket
7 7 (2.18%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.87%) TeamCity
9 5 (1.56%) Poetry
10 3 (0.93%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.93%) Maven
10 3 (0.93%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.62%) Gradle
11 2 (0.62%) Jaeger
11 2 (0.62%) Liquibase
11 2 (0.62%) Selenium
12 1 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.31%) MSTest
12 1 (0.31%) Vagrant
General
1 91 (28.35%) Finance
2 39 (12.15%) Front Office
3 37 (11.53%) Public Sector
4 36 (11.21%) Social Skills
5 25 (7.79%) Banking
6 11 (3.43%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (1.87%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.56%) Law
9 4 (1.25%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.25%) Retail
10 3 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.93%) Military
11 2 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.31%) Legal
12 1 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (14.95%) Kafka
2 33 (10.28%) J2EE
3 29 (9.03%) PySpark
4 24 (7.48%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (3.12%) ARM Templates
5 10 (3.12%) React
5 10 (3.12%) Spring
6 7 (2.18%) .NET
7 6 (1.87%) YAML
8 5 (1.56%) AWS CDK
8 5 (1.56%) Dask
8 5 (1.56%) LAPP Stack
9 4 (1.25%) Node.js
10 3 (0.93%) Keycloak
11 2 (0.62%) AngularJS
11 2 (0.62%) AWS SAM
11 2 (0.62%) cloud-init
11 2 (0.62%) LDAP
11 2 (0.62%) RESTful
11 2 (0.62%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.30%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.05%) Onboarding
3 12 (3.74%) Public Cloud
4 6 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (1.25%) Mainframe
5 4 (1.25%) Product Ownership
6 3 (0.93%) Data Centre
6 3 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (0.93%) PKI
6 3 (0.93%) Replication
6 3 (0.93%) Tandem
7 2 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.62%) DataPower
7 2 (0.62%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.62%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.62%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.62%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.31%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 64 (19.94%) Linux
2 15 (4.67%) Windows
3 13 (4.05%) Unix
4 11 (3.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.25%) CentOS
5 4 (1.25%) VMS
5 4 (1.25%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.93%) Android
6 3 (0.93%) SUSE
7 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.31%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (100.00%) DevOps
2 234 (72.90%) CI/CD
3 115 (35.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 79 (24.61%) Agile
5 68 (21.18%) Containerisation
6 55 (17.13%) Software Engineering
7 51 (15.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 43 (13.40%) Continuous Integration
9 41 (12.77%) Configuration Management
9 41 (12.77%) Infrastructure Automation
10 40 (12.46%) Asset Management
10 40 (12.46%) Problem-Solving
11 37 (11.53%) Data Engineering
12 33 (10.28%) Open Source
13 32 (9.97%) Deployment Automation
14 27 (8.41%) Microservices
15 25 (7.79%) Task Automation
16 23 (7.17%) High Availability
16 23 (7.17%) Test Automation
17 22 (6.85%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 154 (47.98%) Python
2 77 (23.99%) Java
3 59 (18.38%) Bash
4 53 (16.51%) Go
5 44 (13.71%) PowerShell
6 25 (7.79%) JavaScript
7 22 (6.85%) SQL
8 17 (5.30%) C#
9 12 (3.74%) Shell Script
10 11 (3.43%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.56%) Groovy
12 4 (1.25%) Bicep
13 2 (0.62%) PHP
13 2 (0.62%) Ruby
14 1 (0.31%) C
14 1 (0.31%) Korn
14 1 (0.31%) Perl
14 1 (0.31%) Rust
Qualifications
1 84 (26.17%) Security Cleared
2 81 (25.23%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.98%) Degree
4 13 (4.05%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 5 (1.56%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.25%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.62%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.31%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.31%) OCP
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.36%) QA
2 3 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.62%) NCSC
4 1 (0.31%) GDPR
4 1 (0.31%) NIST
4 1 (0.31%) SOC 2
System Software
1 141 (43.93%) Docker
2 4 (1.25%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.25%) Lustre
3 3 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.31%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 229 (71.34%) Terraform
2 216 (67.29%) Kubernetes
3 74 (23.05%) Ansible
4 41 (12.77%) Prometheus
5 40 (12.46%) Grafana
6 19 (5.92%) Puppet
7 13 (4.05%) Progress Chef
8 9 (2.80%) Argo
9 7 (2.18%) Istio
9 7 (2.18%) Packer
9 7 (2.18%) Podman
10 5 (1.56%) Kibana
10 5 (1.56%) Rancher
11 4 (1.25%) Karpenter
11 4 (1.25%) Kustomize
11 4 (1.25%) logstash
11 4 (1.25%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.93%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.93%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 20 (6.23%) Splunk
2 17 (5.30%) Red Hat
3 14 (4.36%) Google
4 13 (4.05%) Databricks
5 11 (3.43%) Microsoft
6 9 (2.80%) Dynatrace
6 9 (2.80%) Virgin Media
7 8 (2.49%) Cloudera
8 5 (1.56%) Oracle
9 4 (1.25%) VMware
10 3 (0.93%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.93%) Confluent
11 2 (0.62%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.62%) Apple
11 2 (0.62%) Broadcom
11 2 (0.62%) ESET
11 2 (0.62%) Okta
11 2 (0.62%) SAP
11 2 (0.62%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.62%) Zscaler