Senior DevOps Engineer Contracts in South London

Senior Development Operations Engineer
London > South London

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer daily rate in South London is £550, 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 34 38 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 1 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 0.54% 1.65% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 1.69% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £567 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - -
London median daily rate £635 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -2.31% - +4.00%

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 171 236 355
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 97.52% 92.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 157 278
10th Percentile £224 £202 £213
25th Percentile £425 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £638
90th Percentile £749 £638 £775
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 17 14
10th Percentile £22.49 £17.00 £16.13
25th Percentile £24.41 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.61 £23.50 £22.98
Median % change year-on-year +17.47% +2.26% -51.55%
75th Percentile £30.80 £75.00 £50.42
90th Percentile £32.72 £83.75 £52.21
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in South London

Senior DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in South London

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 20 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London

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 London region featuring Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS KMS
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform