DevOps Engineer Contracts in London

Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 65 64
Rank change year-on-year -47 -1 +6
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 384 960 1,530
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.19% 3.77% 3.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.34% 3.97% 4.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 744 1,204
10th Percentile £413 £482 £475
25th Percentile £478 £531 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £601
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.08% +9.18%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £700
90th Percentile £750 £810 £800
England median daily rate £538 £610 £600
% change year-on-year -11.89% +1.67% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 £85.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% - -
England median hourly rate £66.00 £73.00 -
% change year-on-year -9.59% - -

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 16,385 24,202 36,842
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.15% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,830 17,663 27,089
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 278 414
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.53 £23.24
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £47.18 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.40 £82.33 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in London

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in London

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in London

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in London.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in London

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 DevOps Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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 -3 45 £625 -3.85% 7
South London +7 30 £510 +2.85% 3
West London -1 1 £475 -20.83% 1
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 London region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 384 (100.00%) DevOps
2 235 (61.20%) Terraform
3 224 (58.33%) AWS
4 204 (53.13%) CI/CD
5 171 (44.53%) Kubernetes
6 159 (41.41%) Security Cleared
7 145 (37.76%) Python
8 134 (34.90%) SC Cleared
9 129 (33.59%) Docker
10 128 (33.33%) Azure
11 102 (26.56%) Linux
12 97 (25.26%) Infrastructure as Code
13 92 (23.96%) Ansible
14 89 (23.18%) Jenkins
15 76 (19.79%) Agile
16 74 (19.27%) Azure DevOps
17 67 (17.45%) Bash
18 65 (16.93%) GitLab
19 63 (16.41%) Git
20 58 (15.10%) GitHub
21 56 (14.58%) PowerShell
22 54 (14.06%) Finance
23 53 (13.80%) Containerisation
24 51 (13.28%) Serverless
25 49 (12.76%) Public Sector
26 46 (11.98%) AWS CloudFormation
27 43 (11.20%) Social Skills
28 42 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
28 42 (10.94%) C#
29 41 (10.68%) SQL

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 19 (4.95%) Confluence
1 19 (4.95%) nginx
2 9 (2.34%) IIS
3 5 (1.30%) Apache
4 4 (1.04%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.04%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.26%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.26%) JBoss
5 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 224 (58.33%) AWS
2 128 (33.33%) Azure
3 74 (19.27%) Azure DevOps
4 58 (15.10%) GitHub
5 51 (13.28%) Serverless
6 46 (11.98%) AWS CloudFormation
7 40 (10.42%) Amazon S3
8 37 (9.64%) Amazon EC2
8 37 (9.64%) AWS Lambda
9 32 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
10 30 (7.81%) GCP
11 27 (7.03%) Amazon EKS
12 25 (6.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 23 (5.99%) Amazon ECS
14 22 (5.73%) Route 53
15 20 (5.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 20 (5.21%) OpenShift
16 17 (4.43%) Azure AKS
16 17 (4.43%) PaaS
17 13 (3.39%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.47%) Firewall
2 12 (3.13%) DNS
3 6 (1.56%) HTTP
3 6 (1.56%) Network Security
4 5 (1.30%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.04%) Internet
5 4 (1.04%) SSH
5 4 (1.04%) VPN
6 3 (0.78%) DHCP
6 3 (0.78%) IPv4
6 3 (0.78%) LAN
6 3 (0.78%) WLAN
7 2 (0.52%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.52%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (0.52%) SSL
8 1 (0.26%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.81%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (5.99%) SQL Server
3 9 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (2.34%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.30%) MongoDB
4 5 (1.30%) Power BI
5 4 (1.04%) BigQuery
5 4 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (1.04%) MySQL
5 4 (1.04%) Oracle Database
6 3 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.78%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (0.78%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (0.78%) GIS
6 3 (0.78%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.52%) KDB
7 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 89 (23.18%) Jenkins
2 65 (16.93%) GitLab
3 63 (16.41%) Git
4 27 (7.03%) TeamCity
5 22 (5.73%) JIRA
6 18 (4.69%) Artifactory
7 8 (2.08%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.82%) Cucumber
8 7 (1.82%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (1.56%) Maven
10 5 (1.30%) Gradle
10 5 (1.30%) Selenium
11 4 (1.04%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.04%) JMeter
11 4 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (1.04%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.78%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.78%) Robot Framework
12 3 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 54 (14.06%) Finance
2 49 (12.76%) Public Sector
3 43 (11.20%) Social Skills
4 36 (9.38%) Banking
5 22 (5.73%) Investment Banking
6 10 (2.60%) Law
7 7 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.04%) Retail
10 3 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.78%) Marketing
11 2 (0.52%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.52%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.26%) Advertising
12 1 (0.26%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.26%) Billing
12 1 (0.26%) Electronics
12 1 (0.26%) Front Office
12 1 (0.26%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.26%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (8.59%) .NET
2 28 (7.29%) Kafka
3 18 (4.69%) WCF
3 18 (4.69%) WinForms
3 18 (4.69%) YAML
4 14 (3.65%) AWS CDK
4 14 (3.65%) Node.js
4 14 (3.65%) React
5 13 (3.39%) Elastic Stack
5 13 (3.39%) JSON
6 12 (3.13%) ARM Templates
7 10 (2.60%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (1.82%) LDAP
9 5 (1.30%) REST
9 5 (1.30%) Spring
9 5 (1.30%) Spring Boot
9 5 (1.30%) Vue
10 4 (1.04%) CSS
10 4 (1.04%) Gherkin
10 4 (1.04%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.43%) Greenfield Project
2 11 (2.86%) Product Ownership
3 8 (2.08%) Public Cloud
4 6 (1.56%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.30%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.30%) PKI
5 5 (1.30%) Private Cloud
6 4 (1.04%) Blockchain
6 4 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.04%) Security Posture
7 3 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (0.78%) Media Streaming
7 3 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (0.78%) Tandem
8 2 (0.52%) Derivative
8 2 (0.52%) Life Science
8 2 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 102 (26.56%) Linux
2 30 (7.81%) Windows
3 22 (5.73%) Unix
4 13 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.04%) Android
5 4 (1.04%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.78%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.52%) CentOS
8 1 (0.26%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.26%) Debian
8 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (100.00%) DevOps
2 204 (53.13%) CI/CD
3 97 (25.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 76 (19.79%) Agile
5 53 (13.80%) Containerisation
6 42 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (10.42%) Configuration Management
8 31 (8.07%) Platform Engineering
9 28 (7.29%) Microservices
9 28 (7.29%) Migration
10 27 (7.03%) Test Automation
11 26 (6.77%) Computer Science
12 23 (5.99%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (5.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 21 (5.47%) Observability
13 21 (5.47%) Scrum
14 20 (5.21%) Continuous Integration
14 20 (5.21%) SDLC
15 19 (4.95%) Cybersecurity
16 18 (4.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 145 (37.76%) Python
2 67 (17.45%) Bash
3 56 (14.58%) PowerShell
4 42 (10.94%) C#
5 41 (10.68%) SQL
6 37 (9.64%) JavaScript
7 33 (8.59%) Go
8 28 (7.29%) Java
9 18 (4.69%) TypeScript
10 15 (3.91%) Shell Script
11 14 (3.65%) Ruby
12 10 (2.60%) Groovy
13 6 (1.56%) Bicep
14 4 (1.04%) C++
14 4 (1.04%) Perl
14 4 (1.04%) Rust
15 3 (0.78%) C
16 2 (0.52%) SPARQL
16 2 (0.52%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 159 (41.41%) Security Cleared
2 134 (34.90%) SC Cleared
3 27 (7.03%) Degree
4 17 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (4.43%) DV Cleared
5 15 (3.91%) AWS Certification
6 13 (3.39%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.30%) QA
2 2 (0.52%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.26%) NCSC
3 1 (0.26%) NIST
System Software
1 129 (33.59%) Docker
2 21 (5.47%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.78%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.78%) NFS
4 3 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.26%) KVM
Systems Management
1 235 (61.20%) Terraform
2 171 (44.53%) Kubernetes
3 92 (23.96%) Ansible
4 39 (10.16%) Prometheus
5 37 (9.64%) Grafana
6 19 (4.95%) Puppet
7 16 (4.17%) Packer
8 13 (3.39%) Progress Chef
9 10 (2.60%) Consul
10 6 (1.56%) Argo
11 4 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.78%) Kibana
12 3 (0.78%) Salt
13 2 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.52%) logstash
13 2 (0.52%) Nagios
13 2 (0.52%) Netcool
13 2 (0.52%) Rancher
14 1 (0.26%) Control-M
14 1 (0.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 34 (8.85%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.51%) Oracle
3 13 (3.39%) Splunk
4 11 (2.86%) Google
5 10 (2.60%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.08%) Dynatrace
7 7 (1.82%) Databricks
8 6 (1.56%) SAP
8 6 (1.56%) VMware
9 4 (1.04%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.78%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.78%) Confluent
10 3 (0.78%) CyberArk
10 3 (0.78%) ESRI
10 3 (0.78%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.78%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.52%) Brio
11 2 (0.52%) F5
11 2 (0.52%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.52%) Talend