DevOps Engineer Contracts in Central London

Development Operations Engineer
London > Central London

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Central London is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 87 69
Rank change year-on-year -5 -18 +23
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 45 92 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.88% 2.49% 3.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.97% 2.62% 3.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 60 124
10th Percentile £423 £515 £463
25th Percentile £513 £547 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £675
90th Percentile £788 £763 £759
London median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,284 3,510 4,244
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.45% 95.12% 94.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,605 2,388 3,219
10th Percentile £340 £325 £356
25th Percentile £438 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £675
90th Percentile £788 £804 £775
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 23 49
10th Percentile £20.07 £15.50 £15.38
25th Percentile £21.44 £18.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £27.41 £35.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.70% -11.39% +122.69%
75th Percentile £28.98 £61.25 £51.75
90th Percentile £41.88 £87.64 £62.50
London median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +8.63%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Central London

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in Central London

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in Central London

DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. 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
City of London -2 44 £613 -5.77% 9
City of Westminster - 1 £725 - 2
DevOps Engineer
London

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, 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 Central London region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 45 (100.00%) DevOps
2 27 (60.00%) Terraform
3 23 (51.11%) AWS
4 21 (46.67%) Kubernetes
4 21 (46.67%) CI/CD
5 17 (37.78%) Azure
6 15 (33.33%) Docker
6 15 (33.33%) Python
7 14 (31.11%) Linux
8 13 (28.89%) Banking
8 13 (28.89%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (26.67%) Ansible
10 11 (24.44%) Finance
10 11 (24.44%) PowerShell
11 10 (22.22%) SC Cleared
11 10 (22.22%) Security Cleared
12 9 (20.00%) GitHub
12 9 (20.00%) Investment Banking
12 9 (20.00%) SQL Server
12 9 (20.00%) GitLab
13 8 (17.78%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (17.78%) Social Skills
13 8 (17.78%) SQL
13 8 (17.78%) Configuration Management
13 8 (17.78%) TeamCity
14 7 (15.56%) Jenkins
14 7 (15.56%) .NET
14 7 (15.56%) Active Directory
14 7 (15.56%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (13.33%) Containerisation

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.22%) Apache
1 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.22%) Confluence
1 1 (2.22%) IIS
1 1 (2.22%) nginx
1 1 (2.22%) Oracle Self-Service HR
1 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 23 (51.11%) AWS
2 17 (37.78%) Azure
3 9 (20.00%) GitHub
4 8 (17.78%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (15.56%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (8.89%) Amazon S3
6 4 (8.89%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (8.89%) PaaS
6 4 (8.89%) Serverless
7 3 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (6.67%) Azure AKS
7 3 (6.67%) GCP
7 3 (6.67%) IaaS
8 2 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (4.44%) Azure Functions
8 2 (4.44%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (4.44%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (4.44%) SaaS
8 2 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) Firewall
2 2 (4.44%) DNS
3 1 (2.22%) HTTP
3 1 (2.22%) Internet
3 1 (2.22%) Kerberos
3 1 (2.22%) SSH
3 1 (2.22%) SSL
3 1 (2.22%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 3 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.22%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.22%) GIS
5 1 (2.22%) MySQL
5 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.22%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 9 (20.00%) GitLab
2 8 (17.78%) TeamCity
3 7 (15.56%) Jenkins
4 5 (11.11%) Git
5 3 (6.67%) Artifactory
6 2 (4.44%) Bitbucket
6 2 (4.44%) Cypress.io
6 2 (4.44%) JMeter
7 1 (2.22%) CircleCI
7 1 (2.22%) JIRA
7 1 (2.22%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (2.22%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 13 (28.89%) Banking
2 11 (24.44%) Finance
3 9 (20.00%) Investment Banking
4 8 (17.78%) Social Skills
5 6 (13.33%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.22%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.22%) Front Office
6 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.56%) .NET
2 6 (13.33%) Kafka
3 5 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (11.11%) WCF
3 5 (11.11%) WinForms
4 3 (6.67%) YAML
5 2 (4.44%) Node.js
5 2 (4.44%) React
6 1 (2.22%) Apache Jena
6 1 (2.22%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (2.22%) ARM Templates
6 1 (2.22%) CSS
6 1 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.22%) GraphQL
6 1 (2.22%) HTML
6 1 (2.22%) JSON
6 1 (2.22%) Laravel
6 1 (2.22%) PostGIS
6 1 (2.22%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.44%) Data Centre
1 2 (4.44%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.22%) Blockchain
2 1 (2.22%) Clustering
2 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.22%) Hedge funds
2 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.22%) MPEG
2 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.22%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 14 (31.11%) Linux
2 5 (11.11%) Windows
3 3 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.44%) Unix
5 1 (2.22%) Android
5 1 (2.22%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (100.00%) DevOps
2 21 (46.67%) CI/CD
3 13 (28.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (17.78%) Configuration Management
5 6 (13.33%) Containerisation
5 6 (13.33%) Migration
5 6 (13.33%) SDLC
6 5 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (8.89%) Agile
7 4 (8.89%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (6.67%) Architectural Design
8 3 (6.67%) Cloud Security
8 3 (6.67%) Secrets Management
8 3 (6.67%) Service Catalogue
8 3 (6.67%) Test Automation
9 2 (4.44%) Incident Response
9 2 (4.44%) Observability
9 2 (4.44%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 2 (4.44%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 15 (33.33%) Python
2 11 (24.44%) PowerShell
3 8 (17.78%) SQL
4 5 (11.11%) Bash
4 5 (11.11%) C#
5 4 (8.89%) Shell Script
6 3 (6.67%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.22%) Go
7 1 (2.22%) Java
7 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.22%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.22%) Perl
7 1 (2.22%) SPARQL
7 1 (2.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 10 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.89%) AWS Certification
3 3 (6.67%) Degree
4 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
1 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 15 (33.33%) Docker
2 7 (15.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (60.00%) Terraform
2 21 (46.67%) Kubernetes
3 12 (26.67%) Ansible
4 5 (11.11%) Prometheus
5 4 (8.89%) Grafana
5 4 (8.89%) Puppet
6 2 (4.44%) Argo
6 2 (4.44%) Packer
6 2 (4.44%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.22%) Consul
7 1 (2.22%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (2.22%) Nagios
7 1 (2.22%) Rancher
7 1 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (8.89%) Microsoft
1 4 (8.89%) Red Hat
2 2 (4.44%) Guidewire
2 2 (4.44%) Oracle
2 2 (4.44%) VMware
3 1 (2.22%) Brio
3 1 (2.22%) Confluent
3 1 (2.22%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.22%) ESRI
3 1 (2.22%) SAP
3 1 (2.22%) Splunk