Senior DevOps Contracts in London

Senior Development Operations
England > London

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in London is £638 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 349 405 416
Rank change year-on-year +56 +11 -46
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 46 78 198
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.26% 0.30% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.31% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 69 171
10th Percentile £509 £548 £500
25th Percentile £563 £600 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% - +18.18%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £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 16,398 25,035 36,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.30% 95.25% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,880 18,137 26,928
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £683
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 328 282 444
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.66 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.25 £35.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.78% +2.14% +8.63%
75th Percentile £44.75 £62.64 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £79.80 £67.94
England median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +100.00% +2.27%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 +40 13 £650 - 4
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 7 May 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 46 (100.00%) DevOps
2 24 (52.17%) Terraform
3 23 (50.00%) Python
4 22 (47.83%) CI/CD
5 20 (43.48%) Kubernetes
6 18 (39.13%) AWS
7 16 (34.78%) Jenkins
8 15 (32.61%) Ansible
8 15 (32.61%) Security Cleared
8 15 (32.61%) Azure
9 14 (30.43%) SC Cleared
10 11 (23.91%) TeamCity
10 11 (23.91%) Git
10 11 (23.91%) C#
10 11 (23.91%) .NET
10 11 (23.91%) SQL Server
10 11 (23.91%) Banking
11 10 (21.74%) Investment Banking
11 10 (21.74%) Agile
11 10 (21.74%) Unix
11 10 (21.74%) PowerShell
12 9 (19.57%) Docker
12 9 (19.57%) Active Directory
12 9 (19.57%) Configuration Management
12 9 (19.57%) Product Ownership
13 8 (17.39%) Roadmaps
13 8 (17.39%) SQL
13 8 (17.39%) Linux
13 8 (17.39%) Finance
13 8 (17.39%) Bash

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 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.17%) ArcGIS
2 1 (2.17%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 18 (39.13%) AWS
2 15 (32.61%) Azure
3 7 (15.22%) GitHub
4 6 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (13.04%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (13.04%) Serverless
5 5 (10.87%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (10.87%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (10.87%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (10.87%) PaaS
6 4 (8.70%) Amazon S3
6 4 (8.70%) Entra ID
6 4 (8.70%) OCI
7 3 (6.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (6.52%) GCP
8 2 (4.35%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (4.35%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (4.35%) AWS Control Tower
8 2 (4.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.22%) Firewall
2 1 (2.17%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (23.91%) SQL Server
2 5 (10.87%) Relational Database
3 4 (8.70%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (6.52%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.17%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 16 (34.78%) Jenkins
2 11 (23.91%) Git
2 11 (23.91%) TeamCity
3 7 (15.22%) Artifactory
4 5 (10.87%) Bitbucket
5 3 (6.52%) GitLab
6 2 (4.35%) JIRA
7 1 (2.17%) Jaeger
7 1 (2.17%) Subversion
General
1 11 (23.91%) Banking
2 10 (21.74%) Investment Banking
3 8 (17.39%) Finance
4 7 (15.22%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.35%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.17%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.17%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (23.91%) .NET
2 5 (10.87%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (10.87%) WCF
2 5 (10.87%) WinForms
3 4 (8.70%) XML
4 3 (6.52%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (4.35%) .NET Core
5 2 (4.35%) .NET Framework
5 2 (4.35%) AngularJS
5 2 (4.35%) AWS SAM
5 2 (4.35%) Kafka
5 2 (4.35%) Node.js
6 1 (2.17%) LDAP
6 1 (2.17%) Middleware
6 1 (2.17%) React
6 1 (2.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.57%) Product Ownership
2 5 (10.87%) Public Cloud
3 3 (6.52%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.35%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.17%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.17%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 10 (21.74%) Unix
2 8 (17.39%) Linux
3 5 (10.87%) Windows
4 4 (8.70%) Android
4 4 (8.70%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.17%) VMS
5 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (100.00%) DevOps
2 22 (47.83%) CI/CD
3 10 (21.74%) Agile
4 9 (19.57%) Configuration Management
5 8 (17.39%) Roadmaps
6 7 (15.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (15.22%) Test Automation
7 6 (13.04%) SDLC
8 5 (10.87%) Load Balancing
8 5 (10.87%) Migration
8 5 (10.87%) Observability
8 5 (10.87%) Service Catalogue
9 4 (8.70%) B2C
9 4 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (8.70%) Scrum
10 3 (6.52%) Analytics
10 3 (6.52%) Asset Management
10 3 (6.52%) Continuous Integration
10 3 (6.52%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 23 (50.00%) Python
2 11 (23.91%) C#
3 10 (21.74%) PowerShell
4 8 (17.39%) Bash
4 8 (17.39%) SQL
5 6 (13.04%) Go
5 6 (13.04%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.52%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.35%) Bicep
7 2 (4.35%) Java
8 1 (2.17%) C++
8 1 (2.17%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 15 (32.61%) Security Cleared
2 14 (30.43%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.52%) Degree
4 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.17%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (2.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 9 (19.57%) Active Directory
1 9 (19.57%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (52.17%) Terraform
2 20 (43.48%) Kubernetes
3 15 (32.61%) Ansible
4 7 (15.22%) Grafana
5 4 (8.70%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.17%) Argo
6 1 (2.17%) BladeLogic
6 1 (2.17%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (2.17%) Kibana
6 1 (2.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (10.87%) Oracle
2 4 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.52%) Virgin Media
4 1 (2.17%) Altiris
4 1 (2.17%) AppDynamics
4 1 (2.17%) Citrix
4 1 (2.17%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.17%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.17%) Google
4 1 (2.17%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.17%) Splunk
4 1 (2.17%) VMware