DevOps Specialist Contract Job Trends in South London

Development Operations Specialist
London > South London

The median Development Operations Specialist daily rate in South London is £644, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025.

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

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Specialist 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South London 1.67% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.73% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £617 - -
25th Percentile £627 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £644 - -
75th Percentile £684 - -
90th Percentile £708 - -
London median daily rate £671 £581 -
% change year-on-year +15.44% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South 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 South London with a recognized job title 173 197 262
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.11% 96.57% 95.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 123 200
10th Percentile £255 £205 £178
25th Percentile £413 £400 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £600
90th Percentile £714 £725 £673
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 19
10th Percentile - - £15.94
25th Percentile £17.98 £17.25 £20.50
Median hourly rate £38.36 £19.50 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year +96.71% -55.52% -0.61%
75th Percentile £66.47 £35.91 £55.00
90th Percentile £72.54 £61.41 £68.50
London median hourly rate £26.89 £38.00 £39.83
% change year-on-year -29.24% -4.59% +21.62%

DevOps Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

DevOps Specialist job vacancy trend in South London

DevOps Specialist
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Specialist job vacancies in South London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Specialist job vacancies in South London

DevOps Specialist
Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Specialist within the South London region over the 6 months to 4 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
Croydon - 3 £644 - 1
DevOps Specialist
London

DevOps Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London

For the 6 months to 4 November 2025, DevOps Specialist 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 London region featuring DevOps Specialist in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) Confluence
2 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) API Integration
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) boto
3 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Consul
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation

DevOps Specialist Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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 2 (66.67%) Confluence
2 1 (33.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) boto
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
1 1 (33.33%) pytest
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) API Integration
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) Consul
3 1 (33.33%) Packer