Senior DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in the South East

Senior Development Operations Engineer
England > South East

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the South East is £413, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 175 188
Rank change year-on-year +6 +13 +63
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 4 4 26
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.11% 0.097% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.10% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 23
10th Percentile - £499 £513
25th Percentile £406 £580 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £625 £725
Median % change year-on-year -34.00% -13.79% +16.00%
75th Percentile £419 £675 £744
90th Percentile - £765 £788
England median daily rate £600 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -7.41%

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 3,406 3,820 5,114
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.73% 92.38% 94.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,202 2,289 3,390
10th Percentile £204 £246 £210
25th Percentile £375 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £501
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.30% +0.20%
75th Percentile £597 £625 £613
90th Percentile £663 £685 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 334 216 250
10th Percentile £13.33 £16.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.97 £26.81 £21.25
Median hourly rate £20.79 £57.52 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.86% +15.04% +42.86%
75th Percentile £50.00 £72.36 £67.05
90th Percentile £72.70 £75.16 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -38.66% -10.64% +52.93%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the South East

Senior DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the South East

Senior DevOps Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancies 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 3 November 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 +8 4 £413 -34.00% 3
Berkshire - 3 £413 - 3
Buckinghamshire +8 1 - -
Senior DevOps Engineer
England

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 3 November 2025, Senior DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of 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 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) B2C
2 3 (75.00%) CRM
2 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (75.00%) GitHub
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Serverless
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
3 2 (50.00%) .NET
3 2 (50.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (50.00%) AI
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) API Management
3 2 (50.00%) ARM Templates
3 2 (50.00%) Azure API Management
3 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Functions
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (50.00%) Bash
3 2 (50.00%) C#
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (50.00%) GraphQL
3 2 (50.00%) Identity Management
3 2 (50.00%) JavaScript

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub
1 3 (75.00%) Serverless
2 2 (50.00%) Azure API Management
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (25.00%) SaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Billing
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Retail
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (50.00%) ARM Templates
1 2 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 2 (50.00%) OAuth
1 2 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (50.00%) OpenID
1 2 (50.00%) REST
1 2 (50.00%) SAML
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) B2C
2 3 (75.00%) CRM
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) AI
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) API Management
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (50.00%) Identity Management
3 2 (50.00%) Log Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) MLOps
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) RBAC
3 2 (50.00%) User Experience
3 2 (50.00%) Validation
4 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (25.00%) OCR
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) PHP
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) UiPath