Senior DevOps Contracts in London

Senior Development Operations
England > London

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 July 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
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 327 403
Rank change year-on-year -4 +76 +47
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 34 71 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.25% 0.41% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.44% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 53 64
10th Percentile £500 £513 £519
25th Percentile £513 £550 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £653 £730 £725
90th Percentile £668 £775 £757
England median daily rate £575 £638 £650
% change year-on-year -9.80% -1.92% -1.89%

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 12,646 16,186 24,044
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.23% 94.08% 94.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,558 11,551 17,581
10th Percentile £331 £331 £360
25th Percentile £425 £448 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £680 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 275 272
10th Percentile £17.98 £16.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.86 £20.98 £23.27
Median hourly rate £31.25 £30.16 £37.42
Median % change year-on-year +3.61% -19.40% +6.91%
75th Percentile £50.50 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £70.55 £82.50
England median hourly rate £27.64 £40.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -30.90% -6.98% +70.01%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -16 4 £600 -7.69% 1
Senior DevOps
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 July 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 34 (100.00%) DevOps
2 29 (85.29%) AWS
3 25 (73.53%) Terraform
3 25 (73.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (64.71%) Kubernetes
5 21 (61.76%) CI/CD
6 16 (47.06%) Ansible
6 16 (47.06%) Docker
6 16 (47.06%) Jenkins
7 15 (44.12%) GCP
7 15 (44.12%) Grafana
8 14 (41.18%) Containerisation
8 14 (41.18%) Azure
9 13 (38.24%) Configuration Management
9 13 (38.24%) SC Cleared
9 13 (38.24%) Security Cleared
9 13 (38.24%) Prometheus
10 12 (35.29%) Elastic Stack
10 12 (35.29%) Python
11 11 (32.35%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (32.35%) Puppet
11 11 (32.35%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (32.35%) Progress Chef
11 11 (32.35%) Deployment Automation
12 10 (29.41%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (29.41%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (29.41%) GitHub
12 10 (29.41%) Red Hat
12 10 (29.41%) Linux
13 9 (26.47%) Continuous Integration

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:

Cloud Services
1 29 (85.29%) AWS
2 15 (44.12%) GCP
3 14 (41.18%) Azure
4 11 (32.35%) Amazon EC2
4 11 (32.35%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (29.41%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (29.41%) GitHub
6 6 (17.65%) Amazon S3
6 6 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (8.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (8.82%) AWS KMS
7 3 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (8.82%) Entra ID
7 3 (8.82%) OpenShift
7 3 (8.82%) Serverless
8 2 (5.88%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (5.88%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (5.88%) SaaS
9 1 (2.94%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 8 (23.53%) DNS
1 8 (23.53%) HTTP
2 7 (20.59%) Internet
2 7 (20.59%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.88%) Firewall
4 1 (2.94%) DNSSEC
4 1 (2.94%) HTTPS
4 1 (2.94%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (29.41%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (20.59%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (8.82%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.94%) MySQL
4 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (47.06%) Jenkins
2 9 (26.47%) GitLab
3 3 (8.82%) CircleCI
3 3 (8.82%) JIRA
3 3 (8.82%) TeamCity
4 2 (5.88%) Artifactory
4 2 (5.88%) Bitbucket
4 2 (5.88%) Git
5 1 (2.94%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (20.59%) Banking
2 5 (14.71%) Finance
3 4 (11.76%) Investment Banking
4 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.94%) Legal
5 1 (2.94%) Retail
5 1 (2.94%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (35.29%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (5.88%) OAuth
2 2 (5.88%) Spring
3 1 (2.94%) .NET
3 1 (2.94%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.94%) Django
3 1 (2.94%) Flutter
3 1 (2.94%) Kafka
3 1 (2.94%) OpenID
3 1 (2.94%) Playwright
3 1 (2.94%) RESTful
3 1 (2.94%) Serverless Framework
3 1 (2.94%) Swagger
3 1 (2.94%) TypeORM
3 1 (2.94%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 10 (29.41%) Linux
2 1 (2.94%) CentOS
2 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (100.00%) DevOps
2 25 (73.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (61.76%) CI/CD
4 14 (41.18%) Containerisation
5 13 (38.24%) Configuration Management
6 11 (32.35%) Deployment Automation
7 9 (26.47%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (20.59%) Cost Management
8 7 (20.59%) Observability
9 6 (17.65%) Agile
9 6 (17.65%) Mentoring
9 6 (17.65%) Test Automation
10 5 (14.71%) High Availability
10 5 (14.71%) Platform Engineering
11 4 (11.76%) Cloud Security
11 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure Management
11 4 (11.76%) Microservices
11 4 (11.76%) Roadmaps
11 4 (11.76%) Task Automation
12 3 (8.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (35.29%) Python
2 7 (20.59%) Bash
3 3 (8.82%) Java
3 3 (8.82%) SQL
4 2 (5.88%) Go
4 2 (5.88%) Ruby
5 1 (2.94%) C#
5 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (38.24%) SC Cleared
1 13 (38.24%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.76%) Degree
3 3 (8.82%) AWS Certification
3 3 (8.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.94%) GDPR
1 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 16 (47.06%) Docker
2 2 (5.88%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 25 (73.53%) Terraform
2 22 (64.71%) Kubernetes
3 16 (47.06%) Ansible
4 15 (44.12%) Grafana
5 13 (38.24%) Prometheus
6 11 (32.35%) Progress Chef
6 11 (32.35%) Puppet
7 2 (5.88%) Argo
7 2 (5.88%) Karpenter
7 2 (5.88%) Podman
8 1 (2.94%) Kibana
8 1 (2.94%) logstash
8 1 (2.94%) Packer
8 1 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (29.41%) Red Hat
2 6 (17.65%) Google
3 4 (11.76%) Splunk
4 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.88%) Oracle
6 1 (2.94%) Black Duck
6 1 (2.94%) Checkmarx
6 1 (2.94%) Confluent
6 1 (2.94%) Okta
6 1 (2.94%) OneLogin
6 1 (2.94%) Rollbar
6 1 (2.94%) Tenable