Lead DevOps Engineer Contracts in London

Lead Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer daily rate in London is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 464 554
Rank change year-on-year +89 +90 -105
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 20 19 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.072% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.076% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 38
10th Percentile £564 £516 £525
25th Percentile £613 £569 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £638
Median % change year-on-year - +1.96% -1.92%
75th Percentile £713 £756 £688
90th Percentile £885 £784 £736
England median daily rate £650 £650 £638
% change year-on-year - +1.96% +2.00%

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 16,398 25,035 36,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.30% 95.25% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,880 18,137 26,928
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £683
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 328 282 444
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.66 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.25 £35.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.78% +2.14% +8.63%
75th Percentile £44.75 £62.64 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £79.80 £67.94
England median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +100.00% +2.27%

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in London

Lead DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead DevOps Engineer in London.

Daily rate trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in London

Lead DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps Engineer in London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead DevOps Engineer in London

Lead 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 Lead DevOps Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 7 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 +39 2 £750 +40.85%
South London - 2 £609 -
Lead DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Lead 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 Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) DevOps
2 18 (90.00%) CI/CD
3 15 (75.00%) AWS
4 13 (65.00%) Kubernetes
5 12 (60.00%) Terraform
6 10 (50.00%) Docker
6 10 (50.00%) Python
6 10 (50.00%) Linux
7 9 (45.00%) Containerisation
8 7 (35.00%) Bash
9 6 (30.00%) Ansible
9 6 (30.00%) Finance
9 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (25.00%) Azure
10 5 (25.00%) Cloud Security
11 4 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
11 4 (20.00%) SaaS
11 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
11 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
11 4 (20.00%) Git
11 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (20.00%) Serverless
11 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 4 (20.00%) DevSecOps
11 4 (20.00%) Microservices
12 3 (15.00%) GitLab
12 3 (15.00%) Elastic Stack
12 3 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
12 3 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (15.00%) Argo

Lead 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 1 (5.00%) Apache
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.00%) Confluence
1 1 (5.00%) JBoss
1 1 (5.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 15 (75.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) Azure
3 4 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
3 4 (20.00%) SaaS
3 4 (20.00%) Serverless
4 3 (15.00%) GitHub
4 3 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (10.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 2 (10.00%) Azure AKS
5 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (10.00%) OpenShift
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Functions
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Service Fabric
6 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
1 1 (5.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (5.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (5.00%) DataStax
1 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Git
2 3 (15.00%) GitLab
2 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (10.00%) CircleCI
3 2 (10.00%) JIRA
4 1 (5.00%) Ant
4 1 (5.00%) Artifactory
4 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (5.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (5.00%) JMeter
4 1 (5.00%) Maven
4 1 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (30.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (15.00%) Kafka
2 2 (10.00%) AWS CDK
2 2 (10.00%) YAML
3 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (5.00%) AWS SAM
3 1 (5.00%) Entity Framework
3 1 (5.00%) Middleware
3 1 (5.00%) Node.js
3 1 (5.00%) React
3 1 (5.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Blockchain
1 2 (10.00%) Sports Betting
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Derivative
2 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Machine to Machine
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) DevOps
2 18 (90.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (45.00%) Containerisation
4 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (25.00%) Cloud Security
6 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (20.00%) DevSecOps
6 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (20.00%) Microservices
7 3 (15.00%) Agile
7 3 (15.00%) Configuration Management
7 3 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
8 2 (10.00%) Architectural Design
8 2 (10.00%) Continuous Deployment
8 2 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (10.00%) Mentoring
8 2 (10.00%) Migration
8 2 (10.00%) Observability
8 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) Python
2 7 (35.00%) Bash
3 2 (10.00%) Go
3 2 (10.00%) Groovy
3 2 (10.00%) SQL
4 1 (5.00%) Java
4 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (65.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (60.00%) Terraform
3 6 (30.00%) Ansible
4 3 (15.00%) Argo
5 2 (10.00%) Grafana
5 2 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 2 (10.00%) Puppet
6 1 (5.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (5.00%) Packer
6 1 (5.00%) Podman
6 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Confluent
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) Red Hat