DevOps Engineer Contracts in the South East

Development Operations Engineer
England > South East

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the South East is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 June 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
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 145 88
Rank change year-on-year +45 -57 +32
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 54 62 142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.73% 1.09% 2.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.91% 1.18% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 53 125
10th Percentile £335 £403 £475
25th Percentile £413 £444 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £531 £625 £645
90th Percentile £603 £675 £745
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 2,832 5,245 5,467
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.68% 92.42% 94.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,837 3,086 3,772
10th Percentile £220 £250 £225
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% +1.60% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £605
90th Percentile £662 £691 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 538 245
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.88 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.52 £18.39 £21.05
Median hourly rate £31.00 £48.70 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.34% -2.60% +138.10%
75th Percentile £62.44 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.50 £39.55 £43.86
% change year-on-year -27.94% -9.83% +77.50%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the South East

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the South East

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the South East

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the South East

DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 30 June 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
Thames Valley +32 29 £463 -11.90% 74
Berkshire +33 27 £463 -11.90% 55
Hampshire +16 13 £513 -2.38% 29
East Sussex - 8 £475 - 8
Kent - 4 £569 - 3
Buckinghamshire +12 2 - - 16
West Sussex +2 1 £300 -32.58% 4
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 30 June 2025, 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 South East region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 54 (100.00%) DevOps
2 37 (68.52%) CI/CD
3 28 (51.85%) Infrastructure as Code
3 28 (51.85%) Azure
4 26 (48.15%) Terraform
5 24 (44.44%) Kubernetes
6 22 (40.74%) Python
7 20 (37.04%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (35.19%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (35.19%) AWS
8 19 (35.19%) Bash
9 18 (33.33%) PowerShell
10 16 (29.63%) SQL
11 15 (27.78%) Social Skills
12 14 (25.93%) Containerisation
12 14 (25.93%) Security Cleared
12 14 (25.93%) GitHub
13 13 (24.07%) Agile
14 12 (22.22%) IaaS
14 12 (22.22%) SC Cleared
14 12 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 11 (20.37%) Grafana
15 11 (20.37%) Test Automation
15 11 (20.37%) Azure SQL Database
16 10 (18.52%) ADO
16 10 (18.52%) Azure AKS
17 9 (16.67%) Azure Storage
17 9 (16.67%) Prometheus
17 9 (16.67%) Windows
17 9 (16.67%) Microsoft

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (3.70%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 28 (51.85%) Azure
2 19 (35.19%) AWS
2 19 (35.19%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (25.93%) GitHub
4 12 (22.22%) IaaS
5 10 (18.52%) Azure AKS
6 9 (16.67%) Azure Storage
6 9 (16.67%) PaaS
7 6 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (9.26%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (9.26%) OpenShift
9 4 (7.41%) GCP
10 3 (5.56%) Azure Table
10 3 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (5.56%) CloudFront
10 3 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (5.56%) Power Automate
10 3 (5.56%) Power Platform
11 2 (3.70%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.11%) Firewall
2 3 (5.56%) DHCP
2 3 (5.56%) DNS
2 3 (5.56%) SAN
3 1 (1.85%) HTTP
3 1 (1.85%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (20.37%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 6 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (9.26%) Redis
4 4 (7.41%) SQL Server
5 3 (5.56%) Power BI
6 2 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.85%) Metadata
7 1 (1.85%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.85%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 6 (11.11%) Git
1 6 (11.11%) JIRA
2 5 (9.26%) Jenkins
3 4 (7.41%) Selenium
4 3 (5.56%) GitLab
General
1 15 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 3 (5.56%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.70%) Electronics
4 2 (3.70%) Finance
4 2 (3.70%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.70%) Marketing
5 1 (1.85%) Legal
5 1 (1.85%) Police
5 1 (1.85%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.52%) ADO
2 6 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (11.11%) Kafka
2 6 (11.11%) YAML
3 5 (9.26%) .NET
3 5 (9.26%) Keycloak
4 4 (7.41%) ARM Templates
5 3 (5.56%) .NET Core
6 2 (3.70%) CSS
6 2 (3.70%) HTML
6 2 (3.70%) OAuth
6 2 (3.70%) Web Services
7 1 (1.85%) JSON
7 1 (1.85%) Node.js
7 1 (1.85%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (3.70%) Replication
3 1 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (16.67%) Windows
2 8 (14.81%) Linux
3 1 (1.85%) VMS
3 1 (1.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (100.00%) DevOps
2 37 (68.52%) CI/CD
3 28 (51.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (37.04%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (25.93%) Containerisation
6 13 (24.07%) Agile
7 12 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 11 (20.37%) Test Automation
9 7 (12.96%) High Availability
9 7 (12.96%) Observability
9 7 (12.96%) Validation
10 6 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
10 6 (11.11%) Migration
10 6 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (11.11%) Scrum
11 5 (9.26%) Identity Management
11 5 (9.26%) Load Testing
11 5 (9.26%) Performance Testing
11 5 (9.26%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 22 (40.74%) Python
2 19 (35.19%) Bash
3 18 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 16 (29.63%) SQL
5 6 (11.11%) Bicep
6 3 (5.56%) C#
7 2 (3.70%) Go
7 2 (3.70%) Java
7 2 (3.70%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.70%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.85%) C++
8 1 (1.85%) Korn
Qualifications
1 14 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 12 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.96%) AWS Certification
3 7 (12.96%) Azure Certification
4 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.70%) CCNA
5 2 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.70%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.70%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.26%) QA
2 3 (5.56%) SLA
3 1 (1.85%) GDPR
3 1 (1.85%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (11.11%) Docker
2 4 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.56%) DFS Replication
3 3 (5.56%) vSphere
4 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (48.15%) Terraform
2 24 (44.44%) Kubernetes
3 11 (20.37%) Grafana
4 9 (16.67%) Ansible
4 9 (16.67%) Prometheus
5 5 (9.26%) Packer
6 4 (7.41%) Puppet
7 1 (1.85%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.85%) Rancher
7 1 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.11%) Splunk
3 5 (9.26%) Red Hat
4 4 (7.41%) VMware
5 2 (3.70%) Oracle
5 2 (3.70%) SAP
5 2 (3.70%) UiPath
6 1 (1.85%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.85%) Google
6 1 (1.85%) ServiceNow