Linux DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Linux Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Linux Development Operations Engineer daily rate in London is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 March 2026.

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

 6 months to
27 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 337 376
Rank change year-on-year -66 +39 +124
Contract jobs requiring a Linux DevOps Engineer 3 3 8
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.018% 0.024% 0.044%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.019% 0.025% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile £654 - £469
25th Percentile £662 £613 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +4.17% +26.32%
75th Percentile £743 £638 £625
90th Percentile £753 - £638
England median daily rate £686 £625 £530
% change year-on-year +9.68% +17.92% +11.58%

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 15,474 11,829 16,845
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.54% 93.61% 93.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,350 8,097 12,160
10th Percentile £350 £340 £325
25th Percentile £425 £430 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 150 335
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.19 £15.97
25th Percentile £22.05 £24.66 £19.52
Median hourly rate £35.71 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +2.03% +25.85% -20.54%
75th Percentile £61.00 £53.31 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £67.63 £65.00
England median hourly rate £40.54 £34.11 £32.50
% change year-on-year +18.85% +4.95% -24.42%

Linux DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Linux DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Linux DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Linux DevOps Engineer job vacancies in London

Linux DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 21 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 27 March 2026, Linux DevOps Engineer 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 Linux DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (66.67%) Confluence
2 2 (66.67%) Consul
2 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) nginx
2 2 (66.67%) Packer
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) Bloomberg
3 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
3 1 (33.33%) SFIA

Linux DevOps Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Confluence
1 2 (66.67%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
3 1 (33.33%) SFIA
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Consul
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Packer
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Bloomberg
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