Senior DevOps Engineer Contracts in London

Senior Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer daily rate in London is £635, 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 309 359 410
Rank change year-on-year +50 +51 +28
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 44 32 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.35% 0.18% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.19% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 21 72
10th Percentile £510 - £551
25th Percentile £575 £567 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £728 £760 £738
90th Percentile £788 £775 £775
England median daily rate £635 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -2.31% - +4.00%

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%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Central London 0 6 £575 -11.54% 4
South London +4 1 £550 -3.00%
Senior DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 44 (100.00%) DevOps
2 40 (90.91%) Kubernetes
2 40 (90.91%) AWS
3 39 (88.64%) Terraform
4 30 (68.18%) CI/CD
4 30 (68.18%) Python
5 23 (52.27%) Docker
5 23 (52.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (50.00%) Jenkins
6 22 (50.00%) SC Cleared
6 22 (50.00%) Security Cleared
7 20 (45.45%) Ansible
7 20 (45.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 17 (38.64%) Grafana
9 15 (34.09%) Containerisation
9 15 (34.09%) Linux
9 15 (34.09%) Configuration Management
10 13 (29.55%) Continuous Integration
10 13 (29.55%) Agile
10 13 (29.55%) Bash
10 13 (29.55%) Prometheus
11 12 (27.27%) GitLab
11 12 (27.27%) Go
11 12 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (25.00%) GCP
12 11 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (22.73%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (22.73%) Observability
13 10 (22.73%) Elastic Stack

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 4 (9.09%) nginx
1 4 (9.09%) Traefik
2 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.27%) Confluence
2 1 (2.27%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 40 (90.91%) AWS
2 20 (45.45%) AWS CloudFormation
3 11 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 11 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 11 (25.00%) GCP
4 10 (22.73%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (22.73%) Azure
5 9 (20.45%) Amazon S3
6 7 (15.91%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (15.91%) Entra ID
6 7 (15.91%) Serverless
7 6 (13.64%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (13.64%) AWS Fargate
8 5 (11.36%) GitHub
8 5 (11.36%) OpenShift
8 5 (11.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (9.09%) AWS KMS
10 3 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (4.55%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 10 (22.73%) DNS
2 9 (20.45%) TCP/IP
3 5 (11.36%) HTTP
3 5 (11.36%) Internet
4 3 (6.82%) Firewall
5 1 (2.27%) DHCP
5 1 (2.27%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (11.36%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (11.36%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (11.36%) MongoDB
3 3 (6.82%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 12 (27.27%) GitLab
3 3 (6.82%) CircleCI
3 3 (6.82%) Git
3 3 (6.82%) JIRA
4 2 (4.55%) Artifactory
4 2 (4.55%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.27%) Jaeger
5 1 (2.27%) Subversion
General
1 9 (20.45%) Banking
2 8 (18.18%) Finance
3 5 (11.36%) Front Office
4 3 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (6.82%) Investment Banking
4 3 (6.82%) Military
5 2 (4.55%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (22.73%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (15.91%) Kafka
3 4 (9.09%) cloud-init
3 4 (9.09%) Keycloak
4 2 (4.55%) AWS CDK
4 2 (4.55%) AWS SAM
4 2 (4.55%) Spring
5 1 (2.27%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.27%) Bazel
5 1 (2.27%) LDAP
5 1 (2.27%) OAuth
5 1 (2.27%) OpenID
5 1 (2.27%) RESTful
5 1 (2.27%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 4 (9.09%) PKI
2 3 (6.82%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.27%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (34.09%) Linux
2 6 (13.64%) Unix
3 5 (11.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (9.09%) CentOS
5 1 (2.27%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (100.00%) DevOps
2 30 (68.18%) CI/CD
3 23 (52.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (34.09%) Configuration Management
4 15 (34.09%) Containerisation
5 13 (29.55%) Agile
5 13 (29.55%) Continuous Integration
6 10 (22.73%) Observability
7 8 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
7 8 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 7 (15.91%) High Availability
8 7 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (15.91%) Task Automation
9 6 (13.64%) Cloud Security
9 6 (13.64%) Mentoring
9 6 (13.64%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (13.64%) Software Engineering
10 5 (11.36%) Cost Management
10 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure Automation
10 5 (11.36%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (68.18%) Python
2 13 (29.55%) Bash
3 12 (27.27%) Go
4 8 (18.18%) Java
5 7 (15.91%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.82%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.27%) Groovy
7 1 (2.27%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.27%) Ruby
7 1 (2.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 22 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.64%) AWS Certification
3 5 (11.36%) Degree
4 3 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) NCSC
2 1 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 23 (52.27%) Docker
2 2 (4.55%) Lustre
3 1 (2.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (90.91%) Kubernetes
2 39 (88.64%) Terraform
3 20 (45.45%) Ansible
4 17 (38.64%) Grafana
5 13 (29.55%) Prometheus
6 10 (22.73%) Puppet
7 8 (18.18%) Progress Chef
8 5 (11.36%) Rancher
9 4 (9.09%) Consul
9 4 (9.09%) HAProxy
9 4 (9.09%) Istio
9 4 (9.09%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (9.09%) linkerd
9 4 (9.09%) Packer
9 4 (9.09%) ZABBIX
10 2 (4.55%) Karpenter
10 2 (4.55%) Podman
11 1 (2.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (2.27%) Kibana
11 1 (2.27%) logstash
Vendors
1 9 (20.45%) Red Hat
2 7 (15.91%) Splunk
3 4 (9.09%) Apple
3 4 (9.09%) ESET
3 4 (9.09%) Okta
4 3 (6.82%) Google
4 3 (6.82%) Oracle
5 2 (4.55%) Confluent
6 1 (2.27%) AppDynamics
6 1 (2.27%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.27%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.27%) MKS