DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Development Operations Engineer
South East > Surrey

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Surrey is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 47 43
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 +20
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 9 2 22
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 2.07% 0.55% 3.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.30% 0.58% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 15
10th Percentile - - £450
25th Percentile £663 £625 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £545
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +19.27% -12.80%
75th Percentile £711 £675 £574
90th Percentile £719 - £600
South East median daily rate £525 £588 £525
% change year-on-year -10.64% +11.90% -12.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.63
Median hourly rate - - £67.27
75th Percentile - - £71.90
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £47.50 - £67.27
% change year-on-year - - +25.73%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Surrey

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Surrey. 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 Surrey with a recognized job title 392 344 612
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.32% 93.99% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 209 474
10th Percentile £204 £202 £184
25th Percentile £316 £263 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.00%
75th Percentile £580 £538 £575
90th Percentile £688 £657 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 16 54
10th Percentile £42.32 £16.63 £12.58
25th Percentile £52.50 £20.22 £13.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £47.70
Median % change year-on-year +127.46% -49.31% +5.99%
75th Percentile £82.63 £25.75 £70.80
90th Percentile £88.21 £31.50 £76.53
South East median hourly rate £25.46 £42.69 £45.11
% change year-on-year -40.36% -5.35% +0.23%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Surrey

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Surrey.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Surrey

DevOps Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Surrey.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Surrey

DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 5 February 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
Camberley - 6 £675 - 5
Staines - 2 - -
DevOps Engineer
South East

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey

For the 6 months to 5 February 2026, 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 Surrey region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (77.78%) SC Cleared
2 7 (77.78%) Security Cleared
3 6 (66.67%) Azure
3 6 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (33.33%) AWS
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (22.22%) Ansible
5 2 (22.22%) Argo
5 2 (22.22%) Bash
5 2 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
5 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
5 2 (22.22%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (22.22%) GitHub
5 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (22.22%) GitOps
5 2 (22.22%) Grafana
5 2 (22.22%) High Availability
5 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
5 2 (22.22%) Linux
5 2 (22.22%) Loki
5 2 (22.22%) Observability
5 2 (22.22%) Prometheus
5 2 (22.22%) Puppet

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 6 (66.67%) Azure
1 6 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (22.22%) GitHub
3 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Loki
2 1 (11.11%) Kafka
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
2 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
2 2 (22.22%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (22.22%) GitOps
2 2 (22.22%) High Availability
2 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (22.22%) Observability
2 2 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Bash
1 2 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) SC Cleared
1 7 (77.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Ansible
1 2 (22.22%) Argo
1 2 (22.22%) Grafana
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 2 (22.22%) Prometheus
1 2 (22.22%) Puppet
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform