Senior DevOps Engineer Contracts in London

Senior Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer daily rate in London is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 362 418 442
Rank change year-on-year +56 +24 -92
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 32 83 164
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.18% 0.31% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.32% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 72 137
10th Percentile - £551 £500
25th Percentile £567 £600 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £640
Median % change year-on-year - +1.56% +16.36%
75th Percentile £760 £738 £725
90th Percentile £775 £775 £780
England median daily rate £650 £650 £625
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +13.64%

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 16,505 25,769 37,084
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.17% 95.30% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,930 18,667 27,033
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 289 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +11.13%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.05 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.38% +100.00% +0.29%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in London

Senior DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in London

Senior DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer in London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior DevOps Engineer in London

Senior 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 Senior DevOps Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 28 April 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 +35 10 £650 -5.45%
South London - 4 £567 -
Senior DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 32 (100.00%) DevOps
2 19 (59.38%) Terraform
3 18 (56.25%) Python
4 16 (50.00%) Kubernetes
5 13 (40.63%) Security Cleared
5 13 (40.63%) AWS
5 13 (40.63%) CI/CD
6 12 (37.50%) SC Cleared
6 12 (37.50%) Jenkins
7 11 (34.38%) Banking
8 10 (31.25%) Investment Banking
8 10 (31.25%) Ansible
9 9 (28.13%) TeamCity
10 8 (25.00%) Git
11 7 (21.88%) SQL Server
11 7 (21.88%) Unix
11 7 (21.88%) SQL
11 7 (21.88%) Configuration Management
11 7 (21.88%) Docker
11 7 (21.88%) GitHub
12 6 (18.75%) TypeScript
12 6 (18.75%) SDLC
12 6 (18.75%) Grafana
12 6 (18.75%) .NET
12 6 (18.75%) C#
12 6 (18.75%) Bash
12 6 (18.75%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (18.75%) Public Sector
12 6 (18.75%) Roadmaps
13 5 (15.63%) Product Ownership

Senior 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 2 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.13%) ArcGIS
2 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (40.63%) AWS
2 7 (21.88%) GitHub
3 6 (18.75%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (15.63%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (15.63%) Azure
5 4 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (12.50%) OCI
5 4 (12.50%) Serverless
6 3 (9.38%) Amazon S3
6 3 (9.38%) PaaS
7 2 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (6.25%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (6.25%) GCP
7 2 (6.25%) OpenShift
8 1 (3.13%) Amazon ECR
8 1 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (3.13%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (3.13%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (3.13%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (3.13%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) SQL Server
2 5 (15.63%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.13%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 12 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 9 (28.13%) TeamCity
3 8 (25.00%) Git
4 4 (12.50%) Artifactory
5 3 (9.38%) Bitbucket
6 2 (6.25%) GitLab
7 1 (3.13%) Jaeger
7 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 11 (34.38%) Banking
2 10 (31.25%) Investment Banking
3 6 (18.75%) Public Sector
4 5 (15.63%) Finance
5 2 (6.25%) Social Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.13%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.13%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) .NET
2 5 (15.63%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (15.63%) WCF
2 5 (15.63%) WinForms
3 2 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (6.25%) Kafka
3 2 (6.25%) Node.js
4 1 (3.13%) AWS SAM
4 1 (3.13%) LDAP
4 1 (3.13%) React
4 1 (3.13%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Product Ownership
1 5 (15.63%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (3.13%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.13%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.88%) Unix
2 5 (15.63%) Linux
3 2 (6.25%) Android
3 2 (6.25%) Apple iOS
3 2 (6.25%) Windows
4 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (100.00%) DevOps
2 13 (40.63%) CI/CD
3 7 (21.88%) Configuration Management
4 6 (18.75%) Roadmaps
4 6 (18.75%) SDLC
5 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (15.63%) Migration
5 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (15.63%) Service Catalogue
5 5 (15.63%) Test Automation
6 4 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (12.50%) Observability
7 3 (9.38%) Agile
7 3 (9.38%) Asset Management
7 3 (9.38%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (9.38%) Load Balancing
7 3 (9.38%) Mentoring
7 3 (9.38%) Product Roadmap
7 3 (9.38%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 18 (56.25%) Python
2 7 (21.88%) SQL
3 6 (18.75%) Bash
3 6 (18.75%) C#
3 6 (18.75%) TypeScript
4 5 (15.63%) Go
4 5 (15.63%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.13%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 13 (40.63%) Security Cleared
2 12 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) Degree
4 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) Docker
2 5 (15.63%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (59.38%) Terraform
2 16 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 10 (31.25%) Ansible
4 6 (18.75%) Grafana
5 4 (12.50%) Prometheus
6 1 (3.13%) Argo
6 1 (3.13%) Kibana
6 1 (3.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Oracle
2 1 (3.13%) AppDynamics
2 1 (3.13%) CyberArk
2 1 (3.13%) Google
2 1 (3.13%) Palo Alto
2 1 (3.13%) Splunk
2 1 (3.13%) VMware