Senior DevOps Contracts in London

Senior Development Operations
England > London

The median Senior Development Operations 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 306 346 405
Rank change year-on-year +40 +59 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 47 45 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.37% 0.25% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.27% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 32 76
10th Percentile £512 £509 £550
25th Percentile £571 £559 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £619 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -4.81% -
75th Percentile £738 £675 £728
90th Percentile £788 £760 £775
England median daily rate £635 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +5.83% -7.69% -

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
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 1 May 2025.

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 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 -3 6 £575 -11.54% 4
South London +3 1 £550 -3.00%
Senior DevOps
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 47 (100.00%) DevOps
2 43 (91.49%) AWS
3 41 (87.23%) Kubernetes
3 41 (87.23%) Terraform
4 33 (70.21%) Python
5 32 (68.09%) CI/CD
6 25 (53.19%) Infrastructure as Code
7 24 (51.06%) SC Cleared
7 24 (51.06%) Security Cleared
7 24 (51.06%) Docker
7 24 (51.06%) Jenkins
8 21 (44.68%) AWS CloudFormation
9 20 (42.55%) Ansible
10 19 (40.43%) Grafana
11 17 (36.17%) Linux
12 16 (34.04%) Containerisation
13 15 (31.91%) Prometheus
13 15 (31.91%) Configuration Management
13 15 (31.91%) Bash
14 14 (29.79%) Continuous Integration
14 14 (29.79%) GitLab
15 13 (27.66%) Amazon ECS
15 13 (27.66%) Agile
15 13 (27.66%) Amazon EC2
15 13 (27.66%) Amazon RDS
15 13 (27.66%) Go
16 11 (23.40%) Elastic Stack
16 11 (23.40%) GCP
16 11 (23.40%) Observability
16 11 (23.40%) Amazon S3

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 5 (10.64%) nginx
1 5 (10.64%) Traefik
2 1 (2.13%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.13%) Confluence
2 1 (2.13%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 43 (91.49%) AWS
2 21 (44.68%) AWS CloudFormation
3 13 (27.66%) Amazon EC2
3 13 (27.66%) Amazon ECS
4 11 (23.40%) Amazon S3
4 11 (23.40%) GCP
5 10 (21.28%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (21.28%) Azure
6 8 (17.02%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (17.02%) Entra ID
6 8 (17.02%) Serverless
7 7 (14.89%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (14.89%) AWS Fargate
7 7 (14.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (12.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (12.77%) GitHub
9 5 (10.64%) AWS KMS
9 5 (10.64%) OpenShift
10 4 (8.51%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (4.26%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 11 (23.40%) DNS
2 10 (21.28%) TCP/IP
3 6 (12.77%) HTTP
4 5 (10.64%) Internet
5 3 (6.38%) Firewall
6 1 (2.13%) DHCP
6 1 (2.13%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (27.66%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (14.89%) MongoDB
3 5 (10.64%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (10.64%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (6.38%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.13%) MySQL
5 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (51.06%) Jenkins
2 14 (29.79%) GitLab
3 3 (6.38%) CircleCI
3 3 (6.38%) Git
3 3 (6.38%) JIRA
4 2 (4.26%) Artifactory
4 2 (4.26%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.13%) Jaeger
5 1 (2.13%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.13%) Subversion
General
1 9 (19.15%) Banking
1 9 (19.15%) Finance
2 5 (10.64%) Front Office
3 3 (6.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (6.38%) Investment Banking
3 3 (6.38%) Military
4 2 (4.26%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.13%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (23.40%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (17.02%) Kafka
3 5 (10.64%) cloud-init
3 5 (10.64%) Keycloak
4 2 (4.26%) AWS CDK
4 2 (4.26%) AWS SAM
4 2 (4.26%) Spring
5 1 (2.13%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.13%) Bazel
5 1 (2.13%) LDAP
5 1 (2.13%) OAuth
5 1 (2.13%) OpenID
5 1 (2.13%) RESTful
5 1 (2.13%) Serverless Framework
5 1 (2.13%) Swagger
5 1 (2.13%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) PKI
2 4 (8.51%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.38%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.26%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.13%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (36.17%) Linux
2 7 (14.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (14.89%) Unix
3 6 (12.77%) CentOS
4 1 (2.13%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (100.00%) DevOps
2 32 (68.09%) CI/CD
3 25 (53.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (34.04%) Containerisation
5 15 (31.91%) Configuration Management
6 14 (29.79%) Continuous Integration
7 13 (27.66%) Agile
8 11 (23.40%) Observability
9 8 (17.02%) Deployment Automation
9 8 (17.02%) High Availability
9 8 (17.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 7 (14.89%) Cloud Security
10 7 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (14.89%) Secrets Management
10 7 (14.89%) Task Automation
11 6 (12.77%) Mentoring
11 6 (12.77%) Platform Engineering
11 6 (12.77%) Software Engineering
12 5 (10.64%) Asset Management
12 5 (10.64%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (70.21%) Python
2 15 (31.91%) Bash
3 13 (27.66%) Go
4 8 (17.02%) Java
5 7 (14.89%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.38%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.13%) Groovy
7 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.13%) Ruby
7 1 (2.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (51.06%) SC Cleared
1 24 (51.06%) Security Cleared
2 8 (17.02%) AWS Certification
3 5 (10.64%) Degree
4 3 (6.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.64%) NCSC
2 1 (2.13%) GDPR
2 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 24 (51.06%) Docker
2 2 (4.26%) Lustre
3 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 41 (87.23%) Kubernetes
1 41 (87.23%) Terraform
2 20 (42.55%) Ansible
3 19 (40.43%) Grafana
4 15 (31.91%) Prometheus
5 11 (23.40%) Puppet
6 8 (17.02%) Progress Chef
7 6 (12.77%) Packer
7 6 (12.77%) Rancher
8 5 (10.64%) Consul
8 5 (10.64%) HAProxy
8 5 (10.64%) Istio
8 5 (10.64%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (10.64%) linkerd
8 5 (10.64%) ZABBIX
9 2 (4.26%) Karpenter
9 2 (4.26%) Podman
10 1 (2.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (2.13%) Kibana
10 1 (2.13%) logstash
Vendors
1 9 (19.15%) Red Hat
2 8 (17.02%) Splunk
3 5 (10.64%) Apple
3 5 (10.64%) ESET
3 5 (10.64%) Okta
4 3 (6.38%) Google
4 3 (6.38%) Oracle
5 2 (4.26%) Confluent
6 1 (2.13%) AppDynamics
6 1 (2.13%) Black Duck
6 1 (2.13%) Checkmarx
6 1 (2.13%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.13%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.13%) MKS
6 1 (2.13%) Rollbar
6 1 (2.13%) Tenable