Senior DevOps Contract Job Trends in South London

Senior Development Operations
London > South London

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in South London is £546, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 5 0 10
As % of all contract jobs in South London 1.60% - 5.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.69% - 5.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 8
10th Percentile £518 - -
25th Percentile £527 - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 - £562
75th Percentile £557 - £567
90th Percentile £562 - -
London median daily rate £600 £600 £650
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -3.70%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 295 156 172
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.25% 90.70% 97.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 98 122
10th Percentile £403 £213 £363
25th Percentile £456 £386 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% -5.30%
75th Percentile £572 £632 £558
90th Percentile £725 £706 £724
London median daily rate £550 £545 £550
% change year-on-year +0.93% -0.92% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 2 5
10th Percentile £16.70 - -
25th Percentile £27.47 - £17.25
Median hourly rate £58.74 £17.98 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +226.67% -7.79% -61.32%
75th Percentile £65.20 - £71.88
90th Percentile £65.90 - £73.75
London median hourly rate £38.25 £29.54 £33.07
% change year-on-year +29.51% -10.69% -11.81%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Senior DevOps job vacancy trend in South London

Senior DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

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

Senior DevOps
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 Senior DevOps within the South London region over the 6 months to 3 August 2026. 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 £550 - 3
Bromley - 1 £543 -
Senior DevOps
London

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

For the 6 months to 3 August 2026, Senior DevOps 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 Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco
3 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Docker
3 2 (40.00%) Firewall
3 2 (40.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (40.00%) Karpenter
3 2 (40.00%) Keycloak
3 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering

Senior DevOps 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Karpenter
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft