Senior DevOps Contracts in London

Senior Development Operations
England > London

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in London is £619 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 346 410 406
Rank change year-on-year +64 -4 -51
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 45 88 198
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.25% 0.33% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.34% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 76 170
10th Percentile £509 £550 £500
25th Percentile £559 £600 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £619 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.81% - +18.18%
75th Percentile £675 £728 £750
90th Percentile £760 £775 £850
England median daily rate £600 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +18.18%

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 16,628 25,761 37,096
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 95.30% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,029 18,663 27,061
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £798 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 289 451
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.06
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +12.27%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.05 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.09% +100.00% +0.36%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps in London

Senior DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior DevOps in London

Senior DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps in London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior DevOps in London

Senior 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 Senior DevOps within the London region over the 6 months to 29 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 +36 13 £650 - 2
South London - 5 £567 -
Senior DevOps
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 45 (100.00%) DevOps
2 23 (51.11%) Terraform
3 22 (48.89%) Python
4 21 (46.67%) CI/CD
5 19 (42.22%) Kubernetes
6 18 (40.00%) AWS
7 15 (33.33%) Security Cleared
7 15 (33.33%) Azure
7 15 (33.33%) Jenkins
8 14 (31.11%) Ansible
8 14 (31.11%) SC Cleared
9 11 (24.44%) C#
9 11 (24.44%) .NET
9 11 (24.44%) SQL Server
9 11 (24.44%) Banking
10 10 (22.22%) Investment Banking
10 10 (22.22%) Agile
10 10 (22.22%) PowerShell
10 10 (22.22%) TeamCity
10 10 (22.22%) Git
11 9 (20.00%) Docker
11 9 (20.00%) Unix
11 9 (20.00%) Active Directory
11 9 (20.00%) Configuration Management
12 8 (17.78%) SQL
12 8 (17.78%) Bash
12 8 (17.78%) Product Ownership
13 7 (15.56%) Roadmaps
13 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure as Code
13 7 (15.56%) Public Sector

Senior 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 (4.44%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.22%) ArcGIS
2 1 (2.22%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 18 (40.00%) AWS
2 15 (33.33%) Azure
3 7 (15.56%) GitHub
4 6 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (13.33%) Serverless
5 5 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (8.89%) Amazon S3
6 4 (8.89%) Entra ID
6 4 (8.89%) OCI
6 4 (8.89%) PaaS
7 3 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (6.67%) GCP
8 2 (4.44%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (4.44%) AWS Control Tower
8 2 (4.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (4.44%) OpenShift
8 2 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.33%) Firewall
2 1 (2.22%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (24.44%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 4 (8.89%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (4.44%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.44%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.22%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 15 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 10 (22.22%) Git
2 10 (22.22%) TeamCity
3 6 (13.33%) Artifactory
4 4 (8.89%) Bitbucket
5 3 (6.67%) GitLab
6 2 (4.44%) JIRA
7 1 (2.22%) Jaeger
7 1 (2.22%) Subversion
General
1 11 (24.44%) Banking
2 10 (22.22%) Investment Banking
3 7 (15.56%) Finance
3 7 (15.56%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.44%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.22%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.22%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (24.44%) .NET
2 5 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (11.11%) WCF
2 5 (11.11%) WinForms
3 4 (8.89%) XML
4 3 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (4.44%) .NET Core
5 2 (4.44%) .NET Framework
5 2 (4.44%) AngularJS
5 2 (4.44%) AWS SAM
5 2 (4.44%) Kafka
5 2 (4.44%) Node.js
6 1 (2.22%) LDAP
6 1 (2.22%) Middleware
6 1 (2.22%) React
6 1 (2.22%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.78%) Product Ownership
2 5 (11.11%) Public Cloud
3 3 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.44%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.22%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.00%) Unix
2 7 (15.56%) Linux
3 4 (8.89%) Windows
4 3 (6.67%) Android
4 3 (6.67%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.22%) VMS
5 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (100.00%) DevOps
2 21 (46.67%) CI/CD
3 10 (22.22%) Agile
4 9 (20.00%) Configuration Management
5 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (15.56%) Roadmaps
6 6 (13.33%) SDLC
6 6 (13.33%) Test Automation
7 5 (11.11%) Migration
7 5 (11.11%) Observability
7 5 (11.11%) Service Catalogue
8 4 (8.89%) B2C
8 4 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (8.89%) Load Balancing
8 4 (8.89%) Scrum
9 3 (6.67%) Analytics
9 3 (6.67%) High Availability
9 3 (6.67%) Mentoring
9 3 (6.67%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 22 (48.89%) Python
2 11 (24.44%) C#
3 10 (22.22%) PowerShell
4 8 (17.78%) Bash
4 8 (17.78%) SQL
5 6 (13.33%) Go
5 6 (13.33%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.67%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.44%) Bicep
7 2 (4.44%) Java
8 1 (2.22%) C++
8 1 (2.22%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 15 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 14 (31.11%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.67%) Degree
4 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.22%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (2.22%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 9 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 9 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (51.11%) Terraform
2 19 (42.22%) Kubernetes
3 14 (31.11%) Ansible
4 7 (15.56%) Grafana
5 4 (8.89%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.22%) Argo
6 1 (2.22%) BladeLogic
6 1 (2.22%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (2.22%) Kibana
6 1 (2.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (11.11%) Oracle
2 4 (8.89%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.67%) Virgin Media
4 1 (2.22%) Altiris
4 1 (2.22%) AppDynamics
4 1 (2.22%) Citrix
4 1 (2.22%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.22%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.22%) Google
4 1 (2.22%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.22%) Splunk
4 1 (2.22%) VMware