Senior DevOps Engineer Contracts in the South East

Senior Development Operations Engineer
England > South East

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the South East is £700, 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 157 201 214
Rank change year-on-year +44 +13 +38
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 2 4 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.066% 0.072% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.078% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 5
10th Percentile - - £560
25th Percentile - £625 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £663 £675
Median % change year-on-year +5.66% -1.85% +12.50%
75th Percentile - £697 £700
90th Percentile - £714 £722
England median daily rate £635 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -2.31% - +4.00%

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 2,767 5,141 5,491
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 92.50% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,821 3,084 3,829
10th Percentile £250 £213 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.42%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £606
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 481 240
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £18.04
25th Percentile £20.06 £18.32 £22.16
Median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.50 £65.16
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in the South East

Senior DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in the South East

Senior DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in the South East

Senior 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 Senior DevOps Engineer within the South East 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
Hampshire +25 1 £700 +5.66%
Thames Valley - 1 - - 4
Berkshire - 1 - - 2
Senior DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) VMS
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft