Principal DevOps Engineer Contracts in London

Principal Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Principal Development Operations Engineer daily rate in London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 347 - 491
Rank change year-on-year - - +106
Contract jobs requiring a Principal DevOps Engineer 6 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.048% - 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% - 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £464 - -
25th Percentile £521 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £750
75th Percentile £619 - -
90th Percentile £625 - -
England median daily rate £600 - £750

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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Principal DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal DevOps Engineer in London

Principal DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Principal DevOps Engineer in London

Principal DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Principal DevOps Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Principal DevOps Engineer in London

Principal 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 Principal DevOps Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South London - 1 £600 - 1
Principal DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Principal 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 Principal DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) AWS
3 3 (50.00%) Ansible
3 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (50.00%) Software Delivery
3 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (50.00%) Terraform
4 2 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (33.33%) SolarWinds
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
4 2 (33.33%) Azure
4 2 (33.33%) Windows
4 2 (33.33%) Linux
4 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (33.33%) GCP
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (33.33%) ZABBIX
5 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 1 (16.67%) High Availability
5 1 (16.67%) Splunk
5 1 (16.67%) Kafka
5 1 (16.67%) GitHub

Principal 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon MSK
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Replication
1 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Software Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (16.67%) High Availability
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) ITSM
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Observability
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (16.67%) Project Management
4 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) C
2 1 (16.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) SolarWinds
2 1 (16.67%) Confluent
2 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk