DevOps Manager Contract Job Trends in London

Development Operations Manager
England > London

The median Development Operations Manager daily rate in London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 376 368
Rank change year-on-year -49 -8 +99
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Manager 7 4 14
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.035% 0.029% 0.086%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.032% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 6
10th Percentile £508 - -
25th Percentile £519 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £454 £650
Median % change year-on-year +26.65% -30.15% +20.93%
75th Percentile £647 - £675
90th Percentile £731 - £725
England median daily rate £625 £477 £650
% change year-on-year +31.03% -26.62% +20.93%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 18,742 12,668 15,338
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.10% 93.00% 94.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,243 8,582 10,875
10th Percentile £363 £326 £348
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £774 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 202 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.48
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.93 £22.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £29.54 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +32.05% -10.69% -11.81%
75th Percentile £59.18 £50.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.32 £45.00
% change year-on-year +77.73% -43.73% +5.88%

DevOps Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

DevOps Manager job vacancy trend in London

DevOps Manager
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

DevOps Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Manager in London over the 6 months to 5 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Manager in London

DevOps Manager
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 Manager within the London region over the 6 months to 5 August 2026. 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
South London - 1 - -
DevOps Manager
England

DevOps Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 5 August 2026, DevOps Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring DevOps Manager in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (71.43%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (57.14%) Terraform
4 3 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (42.86%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (42.86%) AWS
4 3 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (42.86%) Change Management
4 3 (42.86%) CRM
4 3 (42.86%) Defect Management
4 3 (42.86%) Docker
4 3 (42.86%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (42.86%) GitHub
4 3 (42.86%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
4 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
4 3 (42.86%) Python
4 3 (42.86%) Test Management
4 3 (42.86%) Test Strategy
5 2 (28.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (28.57%) Bash
5 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 2 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (28.57%) Grafana
5 2 (28.57%) ITRS Geneos

DevOps Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (42.86%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (42.86%) GitHub
2 3 (42.86%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (14.29%) Serverless
4 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (28.57%) Law
3 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) ADO
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (71.43%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (42.86%) Change Management
4 3 (42.86%) CRM
4 3 (42.86%) Defect Management
4 3 (42.86%) Test Management
4 3 (42.86%) Test Strategy
5 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
5 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
5 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Technical Debt
5 2 (28.57%) Validation
5 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
2 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 2 (28.57%) Grafana
3 2 (28.57%) ITRS Geneos
3 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
4 1 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
1 2 (28.57%) Sybase