Lead DevOps Contracts in London

Lead Development Operations
England > London

The median Lead Development Operations daily rate in London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 July 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
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 364 457
Rank change year-on-year +26 +93 +34
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 22 32 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.17% 0.18% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.19% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 21 23
10th Percentile £375 £563 -
25th Percentile £400 £625 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £766
90th Percentile £750 £750 £818
England median daily rate £575 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -11.54% - -3.70%

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 12,405 16,530 24,369
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.36% 93.95% 94.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,370 11,825 17,806
10th Percentile £331 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 305 278
10th Percentile £18.87 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.45 £20.22 £22.79
Median hourly rate £32.00 £27.81 £38.25
Median % change year-on-year +15.07% -27.29% +9.29%
75th Percentile £50.50 £46.86 £65.00
90th Percentile £64.00 £68.45 £82.33
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £44.06
% change year-on-year -30.00% -9.20% +79.82%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps in London

Lead DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead DevOps in London

Lead DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps in London over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lead DevOps in London

Lead DevOps
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 6 July 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 3 - - 3
South London - 1 £495 -
Lead DevOps
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 July 2025, Lead DevOps 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 in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) DevOps
2 18 (81.82%) AWS
3 15 (68.18%) CI/CD
4 11 (50.00%) Kubernetes
5 10 (45.45%) Azure
5 10 (45.45%) Terraform
6 8 (36.36%) Test Automation
7 7 (31.82%) Ansible
8 6 (27.27%) Jenkins
8 6 (27.27%) Git
8 6 (27.27%) Agile
8 6 (27.27%) Finance
9 5 (22.73%) Python
9 5 (22.73%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
9 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
10 4 (18.18%) Configuration Management
10 4 (18.18%) Linux
10 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
10 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
10 4 (18.18%) Docker
10 4 (18.18%) Datadog
11 3 (13.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
11 3 (13.64%) GitHub
11 3 (13.64%) Bash
11 3 (13.64%) Puppet
11 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement

Lead DevOps 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 (4.55%) Apache
1 1 (4.55%) Confluence
1 1 (4.55%) JBoss
1 1 (4.55%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 18 (81.82%) AWS
2 10 (45.45%) Azure
3 5 (22.73%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (18.18%) Datadog
5 3 (13.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (13.64%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (13.64%) GitHub
6 2 (9.09%) Akamai
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon S3
6 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (9.09%) GCP
6 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
6 2 (9.09%) Serverless
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (4.55%) BrowserStack
7 1 (4.55%) CloudFront
7 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.55%) Metadata
1 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
1 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.55%) Power BI
1 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Git
1 6 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 3 (13.64%) GitLab
2 3 (13.64%) JIRA
3 2 (9.09%) JMeter
4 1 (4.55%) Ant
4 1 (4.55%) Artifactory
4 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
4 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.55%) IntelliJ
4 1 (4.55%) Maven
4 1 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (4.55%) Vagrant
4 1 (4.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (27.27%) Finance
2 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (9.09%) Banking
6 1 (4.55%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.55%) Front Office
6 1 (4.55%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (9.09%) Kafka
3 1 (4.55%) Middleware
3 1 (4.55%) Playwright
3 1 (4.55%) Serverless Framework
3 1 (4.55%) Spring
3 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.55%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
1 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (4.55%) Derivative
1 1 (4.55%) Equities
1 1 (4.55%) Fixed Income
1 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
1 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Linux
2 2 (9.09%) Unix
3 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) DevOps
2 15 (68.18%) CI/CD
3 8 (36.36%) Test Automation
4 6 (27.27%) Agile
5 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (18.18%) Configuration Management
6 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (13.64%) Containerisation
7 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (13.64%) Sprint Planning
7 3 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (9.09%) Cloud Security
8 2 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (9.09%) DevSecOps
8 2 (9.09%) Project Management
8 2 (9.09%) Roadmaps
8 2 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 2 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 2 (9.09%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) Python
2 3 (13.64%) Bash
2 3 (13.64%) SQL
3 2 (9.09%) Java
3 2 (9.09%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.55%) Groovy
4 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.55%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.55%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) QA
2 2 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 2 (9.09%) GDPR
3 1 (4.55%) Basel III
3 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.55%) HIPAA
3 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.55%) MiFID
3 1 (4.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (45.45%) Terraform
3 7 (31.82%) Ansible
4 3 (13.64%) Kustomize
4 3 (13.64%) Packer
4 3 (13.64%) Prometheus
4 3 (13.64%) Puppet
5 2 (9.09%) Argo
5 2 (9.09%) Cilium
5 2 (9.09%) Progress Chef
6 1 (4.55%) Grafana
6 1 (4.55%) Podman
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) Splunk
2 1 (4.55%) Atlassian
2 1 (4.55%) Databricks
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle
2 1 (4.55%) Rollbar
2 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.55%) VMware