Lead DevOps Contracts in London

Lead Development Operations
England > London

The median Lead Development Operations daily rate in London is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 358 442 468
Rank change year-on-year +84 +26 -63
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 41 41 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.23% 0.16% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.16% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 31 105
10th Percentile £521 £550 £519
25th Percentile £557 £600 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £665
Median % change year-on-year - -2.26% +6.40%
75th Percentile £700 £730 £738
90th Percentile £750 £775 £850
England median daily rate £650 £650 £650
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

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 16,343 24,896 37,051
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.38% 95.22% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,808 18,088 27,120
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
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 323 281 447
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.75 £22.59
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.94% +1.43% +8.63%
75th Percentile £44.25 £62.68 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £80.00 £67.75
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +4.03%

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 14 May 2024.

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 14 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 +45 4 £725 +17.65% 1
South London +11 2 £609 -9.81%
Lead DevOps
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, 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 41 (100.00%) DevOps
2 32 (78.05%) CI/CD
3 20 (48.78%) AWS
4 18 (43.90%) Terraform
5 17 (41.46%) Kubernetes
5 17 (41.46%) Python
6 16 (39.02%) Linux
6 16 (39.02%) Finance
7 14 (34.15%) Ansible
7 14 (34.15%) Azure
8 12 (29.27%) Docker
8 12 (29.27%) Jenkins
8 12 (29.27%) Agile
9 9 (21.95%) Microservices
9 9 (21.95%) Serverless
9 9 (21.95%) Containerisation
10 8 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (19.51%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (19.51%) Git
10 8 (19.51%) Bash
11 7 (17.07%) Test Automation
11 7 (17.07%) SC Cleared
11 7 (17.07%) Security Cleared
11 7 (17.07%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (17.07%) DevSecOps
12 6 (14.63%) Social Skills
12 6 (14.63%) Elastic Stack
12 6 (14.63%) Unix
12 6 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (14.63%) Bitbucket

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 2 (4.88%) Confluence
2 1 (2.44%) Apache
2 1 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.44%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.44%) JBoss
2 1 (2.44%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.44%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 20 (48.78%) AWS
2 14 (34.15%) Azure
3 9 (21.95%) Serverless
4 7 (17.07%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (12.20%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (12.20%) PaaS
5 5 (12.20%) SaaS
6 4 (9.76%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (9.76%) Amazon EventBridge
6 4 (9.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (9.76%) GitHub
7 3 (7.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (7.32%) Amazon S3
7 3 (7.32%) AWS Step Functions
7 3 (7.32%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (7.32%) OpenShift
8 2 (4.88%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (4.88%) AWS Control Tower
8 2 (4.88%) Azure AKS
9 1 (2.44%) AWS CodeDeploy
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.20%) Firewall
2 2 (4.88%) SSL
3 1 (2.44%) DNS
3 1 (2.44%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.76%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (7.32%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.88%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (4.88%) DataStax
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.44%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (29.27%) Jenkins
2 8 (19.51%) Git
3 6 (14.63%) Bitbucket
4 5 (12.20%) Artifactory
5 4 (9.76%) GitLab
5 4 (9.76%) TeamCity
6 3 (7.32%) JIRA
7 2 (4.88%) CircleCI
7 2 (4.88%) Terragrunt
8 1 (2.44%) Ant
8 1 (2.44%) Cypress.io
8 1 (2.44%) GoCD
8 1 (2.44%) JMeter
8 1 (2.44%) Maven
8 1 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (39.02%) Finance
2 6 (14.63%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.76%) Banking
4 3 (7.32%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.88%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (14.63%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (9.76%) Kafka
2 4 (9.76%) Node.js
3 2 (4.88%) AWS SAM
3 2 (4.88%) YAML
4 1 (2.44%) ADO
4 1 (2.44%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.44%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.44%) Entity Framework
4 1 (2.44%) Middleware
4 1 (2.44%) Next.js
4 1 (2.44%) React
4 1 (2.44%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.76%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.32%) Derivative
2 3 (7.32%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.88%) Blockchain
3 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.88%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.88%) Sports Betting
4 1 (2.44%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.44%) Machine to Machine
4 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.44%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (39.02%) Linux
2 6 (14.63%) Unix
3 3 (7.32%) Android
3 3 (7.32%) Apple iOS
3 3 (7.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (7.32%) Windows
4 1 (2.44%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (100.00%) DevOps
2 32 (78.05%) CI/CD
3 12 (29.27%) Agile
4 9 (21.95%) Containerisation
4 9 (21.95%) Microservices
5 8 (19.51%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (17.07%) DevSecOps
6 7 (17.07%) Test Automation
7 6 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (9.76%) Cloud Security
8 4 (9.76%) Configuration Management
8 4 (9.76%) Continuous Deployment
8 4 (9.76%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (9.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (9.76%) Load Balancing
8 4 (9.76%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (9.76%) Roadmaps
9 3 (7.32%) Customer-Centricity
9 3 (7.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (41.46%) Python
2 8 (19.51%) Bash
3 5 (12.20%) JavaScript
4 4 (9.76%) Go
4 4 (9.76%) Java
5 3 (7.32%) Groovy
5 3 (7.32%) Shell Script
5 3 (7.32%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.88%) SQL
7 1 (2.44%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (17.07%) SC Cleared
1 7 (17.07%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.44%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) QA
2 1 (2.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (29.27%) Docker
2 2 (4.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.44%) Ceph
3 1 (2.44%) NFS
3 1 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (43.90%) Terraform
2 17 (41.46%) Kubernetes
3 14 (34.15%) Ansible
4 4 (9.76%) Grafana
4 4 (9.76%) Puppet
5 3 (7.32%) Argo
5 3 (7.32%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (2.44%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (2.44%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (2.44%) Kibana
6 1 (2.44%) logstash
6 1 (2.44%) Mesos
6 1 (2.44%) Packer
6 1 (2.44%) Podman
6 1 (2.44%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (7.32%) Confluent
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.88%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.44%) Amdocs
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle
3 1 (2.44%) Virgin Media