Senior DevOps Engineer Contracts in London

Senior Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer daily rate in London is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 366 432 457
Rank change year-on-year +66 +25 -71
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 35 63 155
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.20% 0.25% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.26% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 57 129
10th Percentile £567 £558 £500
25th Percentile £573 £600 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £760 £725 £725
90th Percentile £775 £768 £800
England median daily rate £650 £650 £625
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +13.64%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,262 24,406 36,823
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 95.15% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 17,762 27,009
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £441 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.43% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.27% +7.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 319 282 435
10th Percentile £16.02 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.53 £22.59
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% +2.86% +15.32%
75th Percentile £44.25 £62.64 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.23 £82.48 £66.30
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +6.98%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in London

Senior DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in London

Senior DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer in London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior DevOps Engineer in London

Senior DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 23 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
Central London +38 10 £650 -5.45% 2
South London - 4 £567 -
Senior DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, 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 London region featuring Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 35 (100.00%) DevOps
2 22 (62.86%) Terraform
3 21 (60.00%) Python
4 16 (45.71%) Kubernetes
4 16 (45.71%) CI/CD
5 14 (40.00%) AWS
6 13 (37.14%) Security Cleared
6 13 (37.14%) Ansible
6 13 (37.14%) Jenkins
7 12 (34.29%) SC Cleared
8 11 (31.43%) Banking
9 10 (28.57%) Investment Banking
10 9 (25.71%) TeamCity
10 9 (25.71%) Git
11 8 (22.86%) Bash
11 8 (22.86%) SDLC
12 7 (20.00%) GitHub
12 7 (20.00%) Docker
12 7 (20.00%) SQL Server
12 7 (20.00%) Unix
12 7 (20.00%) SQL
12 7 (20.00%) Configuration Management
12 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
12 7 (20.00%) Product Ownership
13 6 (17.14%) Roadmaps
13 6 (17.14%) Observability
13 6 (17.14%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (17.14%) Public Sector
13 6 (17.14%) .NET
13 6 (17.14%) C#

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (5.71%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.86%) ArcGIS
2 1 (2.86%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (40.00%) AWS
2 7 (20.00%) GitHub
3 6 (17.14%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (14.29%) Azure
5 4 (11.43%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (11.43%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (11.43%) OCI
5 4 (11.43%) Serverless
6 3 (8.57%) Amazon S3
6 3 (8.57%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (8.57%) PaaS
7 2 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (5.71%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (5.71%) GCP
7 2 (5.71%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.86%) Datadog
8 1 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) Firewall
2 1 (2.86%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 2 (5.71%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (5.71%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.86%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 13 (37.14%) Jenkins
2 9 (25.71%) Git
2 9 (25.71%) TeamCity
3 4 (11.43%) Artifactory
4 3 (8.57%) Bitbucket
5 2 (5.71%) GitLab
6 1 (2.86%) Jaeger
6 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 11 (31.43%) Banking
2 10 (28.57%) Investment Banking
3 6 (17.14%) Public Sector
4 5 (14.29%) Finance
5 4 (11.43%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.86%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.86%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.14%) .NET
2 5 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (14.29%) WCF
2 5 (14.29%) WinForms
3 2 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (5.71%) Kafka
3 2 (5.71%) Node.js
4 1 (2.86%) AWS SAM
4 1 (2.86%) LDAP
4 1 (2.86%) React
4 1 (2.86%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (14.29%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.86%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.00%) Unix
2 6 (17.14%) Linux
3 3 (8.57%) Windows
4 2 (5.71%) Android
4 2 (5.71%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.86%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (100.00%) DevOps
2 16 (45.71%) CI/CD
3 8 (22.86%) SDLC
4 7 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (17.14%) Observability
5 6 (17.14%) Roadmaps
6 5 (14.29%) Migration
6 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (14.29%) Service Catalogue
6 5 (14.29%) Test Automation
7 4 (11.43%) Agile
8 3 (8.57%) Asset Management
8 3 (8.57%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (8.57%) Load Balancing
8 3 (8.57%) Mentoring
8 3 (8.57%) Product Roadmap
8 3 (8.57%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 21 (60.00%) Python
2 8 (22.86%) Bash
3 7 (20.00%) SQL
4 6 (17.14%) C#
4 6 (17.14%) TypeScript
5 5 (14.29%) Go
5 5 (14.29%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.86%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 13 (37.14%) Security Cleared
2 12 (34.29%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.71%) Degree
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 7 (20.00%) Docker
2 5 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (62.86%) Terraform
2 16 (45.71%) Kubernetes
3 13 (37.14%) Ansible
4 6 (17.14%) Grafana
5 4 (11.43%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.86%) Argo
6 1 (2.86%) Kibana
6 1 (2.86%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (2.86%) AppDynamics
2 1 (2.86%) CyberArk
2 1 (2.86%) Google
2 1 (2.86%) Palo Alto
2 1 (2.86%) Splunk
2 1 (2.86%) VMware