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 in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 80 78
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 +22
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 43 72 157
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.84% 2.38% 3.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.98% 2.53% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 59 104
10th Percentile £500 £425 £475
25th Percentile £520 £506 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £708 £675
90th Percentile £758 £742 £738
London median daily rate £600 £600 £625
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +8.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 2,175 2,847 4,613
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.07% 94.24% 95.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,366 1,999 3,161
10th Percentile £361 £340 £350
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £687 £690 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £788
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 18 60
10th Percentile £21.29 £17.00 £16.20
25th Percentile £30.19 £19.51 £19.69
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -9.76% +28.13%
75th Percentile £82.19 £51.56 £57.50
90th Percentile £129.85 £70.25 £78.75
London median hourly rate £39.00 £40.50 £32.25
% change year-on-year -3.70% +25.58% +7.50%

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 October 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 October 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 42 £619 +3.13% 5
City of Westminster - 1 £725 -
DevOps Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 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 43 (100.00%) DevOps
2 27 (62.79%) Kubernetes
3 25 (58.14%) Terraform
3 25 (58.14%) Docker
4 23 (53.49%) AWS
5 21 (48.84%) CI/CD
6 16 (37.21%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (37.21%) Azure
7 15 (34.88%) Python
8 14 (32.56%) SC Cleared
8 14 (32.56%) Security Cleared
9 12 (27.91%) Linux
10 11 (25.58%) Ansible
10 11 (25.58%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (23.26%) Jenkins
12 9 (20.93%) Finance
12 9 (20.93%) Containerisation
13 8 (18.60%) Banking
13 8 (18.60%) GitLab
13 8 (18.60%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (16.28%) PowerShell
14 7 (16.28%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (16.28%) GitHub
14 7 (16.28%) Investment Banking
14 7 (16.28%) Agile
14 7 (16.28%) Java
14 7 (16.28%) Prometheus
14 7 (16.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 7 (16.28%) Grafana
15 6 (13.95%) Social Skills

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 2 (4.65%) Confluence
1 2 (4.65%) nginx
2 1 (2.33%) Apache
2 1 (2.33%) IIS
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (2.33%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 23 (53.49%) AWS
2 16 (37.21%) Azure
3 11 (25.58%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (16.28%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (16.28%) GitHub
5 6 (13.95%) Amazon S3
5 6 (13.95%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (9.30%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (9.30%) GCP
6 4 (9.30%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (9.30%) Serverless
7 3 (6.98%) AWS Control Tower
7 3 (6.98%) Azure AKS
7 3 (6.98%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (6.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (4.65%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (4.65%) OpenShift
8 2 (4.65%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) DNS
2 2 (4.65%) HTTP
2 2 (4.65%) Internet
2 2 (4.65%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.33%) AMQP
3 1 (2.33%) Firewall
3 1 (2.33%) Kerberos
3 1 (2.33%) Network Security
3 1 (2.33%) SSH
3 1 (2.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.60%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (11.63%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.65%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.33%) Couchbase
4 1 (2.33%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.33%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.33%) MySQL
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.33%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 10 (23.26%) Jenkins
2 8 (18.60%) GitLab
3 4 (9.30%) Git
4 2 (4.65%) JIRA
5 1 (2.33%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.33%) CircleCI
5 1 (2.33%) Gerrit
5 1 (2.33%) Gradle
5 1 (2.33%) Maven
5 1 (2.33%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (2.33%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (20.93%) Finance
2 8 (18.60%) Banking
3 7 (16.28%) Investment Banking
4 6 (13.95%) Social Skills
5 5 (11.63%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.33%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.33%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.63%) Kafka
2 3 (6.98%) YAML
3 2 (4.65%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (4.65%) JMS
4 1 (2.33%) .NET
4 1 (2.33%) Apache Jena
4 1 (2.33%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (2.33%) CSS
4 1 (2.33%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.33%) HTML
4 1 (2.33%) JDBC
4 1 (2.33%) Middleware
4 1 (2.33%) Node.js
4 1 (2.33%) PostGIS
4 1 (2.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.98%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.33%) Blockchain
2 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.33%) Clustering
2 1 (2.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.33%) Hedge funds
2 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 12 (27.91%) Linux
2 5 (11.63%) Windows
3 3 (6.98%) Unix
4 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (100.00%) DevOps
2 21 (48.84%) CI/CD
3 16 (37.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (20.93%) Containerisation
5 7 (16.28%) Agile
5 7 (16.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (13.95%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (13.95%) High Availability
7 4 (9.30%) Configuration Management
7 4 (9.30%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (9.30%) Secrets Management
8 3 (6.98%) Continuous Delivery
8 3 (6.98%) GitOps
8 3 (6.98%) Infrastructure Automation
8 3 (6.98%) Kanban
8 3 (6.98%) Scrum
8 3 (6.98%) Service Catalogue
8 3 (6.98%) Task Automation
9 2 (4.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 2 (4.65%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (34.88%) Python
2 7 (16.28%) Java
2 7 (16.28%) PowerShell
3 4 (9.30%) Bash
3 4 (9.30%) SQL
3 4 (9.30%) TypeScript
4 3 (6.98%) Shell Script
5 2 (4.65%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.33%) Bicep
6 1 (2.33%) Go
6 1 (2.33%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.33%) Perl
6 1 (2.33%) Ruby
6 1 (2.33%) SPARQL
6 1 (2.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (32.56%) SC Cleared
1 14 (32.56%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.65%) Degree
3 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) PCI DSS
1 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 25 (58.14%) Docker
2 2 (4.65%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.33%) Lustre
3 1 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (62.79%) Kubernetes
2 25 (58.14%) Terraform
3 11 (25.58%) Ansible
4 7 (16.28%) Grafana
4 7 (16.28%) Prometheus
5 4 (9.30%) Progress Chef
5 4 (9.30%) Puppet
6 3 (6.98%) Packer
7 2 (4.65%) Consul
8 1 (2.33%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (2.33%) Karpenter
8 1 (2.33%) Nagios
8 1 (2.33%) Podman
8 1 (2.33%) Rancher
Vendors
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft
1 3 (6.98%) Red Hat
2 2 (4.65%) Guidewire
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle
2 2 (4.65%) VMware
3 1 (2.33%) Brio
3 1 (2.33%) Confluent
3 1 (2.33%) Google
3 1 (2.33%) Splunk