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 during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 61 66
Rank change year-on-year -63 +5 +1
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 356 1,093 1,524
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.99% 4.01% 3.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.14% 4.21% 4.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 842 1,225
10th Percentile £413 £500 £475
25th Percentile £475 £531 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.60% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £700
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
England median daily rate £545 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -9.17% - +15.38%
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 16,628 25,954 37,220
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.14% 95.32% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,036 18,763 27,151
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £442 £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 342 294 454
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.53 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.55% +0.71% +12.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £64.45 £77.48 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -21.11% +100.00% +0.36%

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 24 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 24 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% 5
South London +5 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 24 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.

1 356 (100.00%) DevOps
2 214 (60.11%) Terraform
3 209 (58.71%) AWS
4 200 (56.18%) CI/CD
5 157 (44.10%) Kubernetes
6 148 (41.57%) Security Cleared
7 138 (38.76%) Python
8 122 (34.27%) SC Cleared
9 115 (32.30%) Azure
9 115 (32.30%) Docker
10 90 (25.28%) Linux
11 88 (24.72%) Jenkins
11 88 (24.72%) Infrastructure as Code
12 83 (23.31%) Ansible
13 71 (19.94%) Agile
14 66 (18.54%) Azure DevOps
15 65 (18.26%) GitLab
16 57 (16.01%) GitHub
17 56 (15.73%) Bash
18 53 (14.89%) Git
19 51 (14.33%) Serverless
20 48 (13.48%) PowerShell
20 48 (13.48%) Finance
21 46 (12.92%) C#
22 45 (12.64%) Public Sector
22 45 (12.64%) Containerisation
23 44 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
24 42 (11.80%) Configuration Management
25 41 (11.52%) Social Skills
26 39 (10.96%) SQL

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 14 (3.93%) nginx
2 11 (3.09%) Confluence
3 8 (2.25%) IIS
4 4 (1.12%) Apache
4 4 (1.12%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.84%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.56%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.28%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.28%) Drupal
7 1 (0.28%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.28%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 209 (58.71%) AWS
2 115 (32.30%) Azure
3 66 (18.54%) Azure DevOps
4 57 (16.01%) GitHub
5 51 (14.33%) Serverless
6 39 (10.96%) Amazon EC2
7 38 (10.67%) Amazon S3
7 38 (10.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 37 (10.39%) AWS Lambda
9 28 (7.87%) GCP
9 28 (7.87%) GitHub Actions
10 26 (7.30%) Amazon EKS
10 26 (7.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 24 (6.74%) Amazon ECS
12 22 (6.18%) Route 53
13 21 (5.90%) PaaS
14 20 (5.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 20 (5.62%) OpenShift
15 13 (3.65%) Azure AKS
16 11 (3.09%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.34%) Firewall
2 15 (4.21%) DNS
3 8 (2.25%) HTTP
4 7 (1.97%) VPN
5 6 (1.69%) Internet
5 6 (1.69%) Network Security
5 6 (1.69%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.40%) SSH
7 3 (0.84%) DHCP
7 3 (0.84%) IPv4
7 3 (0.84%) LAN
7 3 (0.84%) WLAN
8 2 (0.56%) OpenLDAP
9 1 (0.28%) SSL
9 1 (0.28%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.87%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (5.06%) SQL Server
3 10 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (2.81%) Relational Database
4 9 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (1.69%) Amazon QuickSight
5 6 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (1.69%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.40%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.84%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.84%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (0.84%) GIS
7 3 (0.84%) MySQL
7 3 (0.84%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.84%) Power BI
8 2 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.56%) Couchbase
8 2 (0.56%) KDB
8 2 (0.56%) Looker
Development Applications
1 88 (24.72%) Jenkins
2 65 (18.26%) GitLab
3 53 (14.89%) Git
4 32 (8.99%) TeamCity
5 19 (5.34%) Artifactory
6 13 (3.65%) JIRA
7 10 (2.81%) Bitbucket
8 9 (2.53%) Maven
9 8 (2.25%) Gradle
10 7 (1.97%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.97%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (1.40%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.40%) Terragrunt
12 4 (1.12%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.12%) JMeter
12 4 (1.12%) Selenium
13 3 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.84%) Jaeger
13 3 (0.84%) Robot Framework
13 3 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 48 (13.48%) Finance
2 45 (12.64%) Public Sector
3 41 (11.52%) Social Skills
4 31 (8.71%) Banking
5 20 (5.62%) Investment Banking
6 12 (3.37%) Law
7 7 (1.97%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.40%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.12%) Marketing
9 4 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.12%) Retail
10 2 (0.56%) Electronics
10 2 (0.56%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.28%) Advertising
11 1 (0.28%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.28%) Military
11 1 (0.28%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (9.83%) .NET
2 18 (5.06%) Kafka
2 18 (5.06%) WCF
2 18 (5.06%) WinForms
3 16 (4.49%) JSON
3 16 (4.49%) YAML
4 15 (4.21%) AWS CDK
4 15 (4.21%) Node.js
5 14 (3.93%) Elastic Stack
5 14 (3.93%) React
6 11 (3.09%) ARM Templates
7 8 (2.25%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (1.97%) LDAP
8 7 (1.97%) REST
9 5 (1.40%) Spring
9 5 (1.40%) Spring Boot
9 5 (1.40%) Vue
10 4 (1.12%) Gherkin
11 3 (0.84%) LAPP Stack
11 3 (0.84%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.49%) Greenfield Project
2 12 (3.37%) Product Ownership
3 8 (2.25%) Public Cloud
4 7 (1.97%) Data Centre
4 7 (1.97%) PKI
5 5 (1.40%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (1.40%) Private Cloud
6 4 (1.12%) Blockchain
6 4 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.12%) Security Posture
6 4 (1.12%) Tandem
7 3 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (0.84%) Media Streaming
8 2 (0.56%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.56%) Machine to Machine
8 2 (0.56%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 90 (25.28%) Linux
2 27 (7.58%) Windows
3 17 (4.78%) Unix
4 12 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.97%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.69%) Android
6 6 (1.69%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.12%) CentOS
8 3 (0.84%) VMS
9 2 (0.56%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.28%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.28%) Debian
10 1 (0.28%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (100.00%) DevOps
2 200 (56.18%) CI/CD
3 88 (24.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 71 (19.94%) Agile
5 45 (12.64%) Containerisation
6 44 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
7 42 (11.80%) Configuration Management
8 30 (8.43%) Test Automation
9 27 (7.58%) Microservices
9 27 (7.58%) Platform Engineering
10 26 (7.30%) Migration
11 24 (6.74%) Computer Science
12 22 (6.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 20 (5.62%) Cybersecurity
14 19 (5.34%) Continuous Integration
14 19 (5.34%) Mentoring
15 18 (5.06%) Scrum
16 17 (4.78%) Software Engineering
17 16 (4.49%) Continuous Improvement
17 16 (4.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 138 (38.76%) Python
2 56 (15.73%) Bash
3 48 (13.48%) PowerShell
4 46 (12.92%) C#
5 39 (10.96%) SQL
6 35 (9.83%) JavaScript
7 30 (8.43%) Java
8 28 (7.87%) Go
9 14 (3.93%) TypeScript
10 13 (3.65%) Shell Script
11 11 (3.09%) Groovy
12 8 (2.25%) Ruby
13 4 (1.12%) Bicep
13 4 (1.12%) C++
14 3 (0.84%) C
14 3 (0.84%) Rust
15 2 (0.56%) Perl
16 1 (0.28%) PHP
16 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.28%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 148 (41.57%) Security Cleared
2 122 (34.27%) SC Cleared
3 26 (7.30%) Degree
4 23 (6.46%) DV Cleared
5 18 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (4.78%) AWS Certification
7 10 (2.81%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.97%) QA
2 1 (0.28%) NCSC
2 1 (0.28%) NIST
2 1 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 115 (32.30%) Docker
2 18 (5.06%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.81%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.12%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.12%) NFS
5 3 (0.84%) 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
1 214 (60.11%) Terraform
2 157 (44.10%) Kubernetes
3 83 (23.31%) Ansible
4 36 (10.11%) Prometheus
5 31 (8.71%) Grafana
6 14 (3.93%) Puppet
7 9 (2.53%) Progress Chef
8 7 (1.97%) Argo
9 6 (1.69%) Consul
9 6 (1.69%) Kibana
9 6 (1.69%) Packer
10 4 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (1.12%) Nagios
11 3 (0.84%) Rancher
11 3 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.56%) Netcool
12 2 (0.56%) SCCM
12 2 (0.56%) SCOM
12 2 (0.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 35 (9.83%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.74%) Oracle
3 13 (3.65%) Splunk
4 12 (3.37%) Google
5 9 (2.53%) VMware
6 8 (2.25%) SAP
7 7 (1.97%) Dynatrace
8 6 (1.69%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.40%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.40%) Databricks
10 3 (0.84%) Commvault
10 3 (0.84%) ESRI
10 3 (0.84%) F5
10 3 (0.84%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.84%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.56%) CyberArk
11 2 (0.56%) MKS
11 2 (0.56%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.56%) Talend
12 1 (0.28%) Virgin Media