Lead DevOps Contracts in London

Lead Development Operations
England > London

The median Lead Development Operations daily rate in London is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 353 461 459
Rank change year-on-year +108 -2 -49
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 40 32 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.23% 0.13% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.13% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 28 109
10th Percentile £543 £550 £515
25th Percentile £603 £600 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £693
Median % change year-on-year - -6.14% +10.80%
75th Percentile £741 £756 £775
90th Percentile £750 £799 £850
England median daily rate £650 £650 £663
% change year-on-year - -1.89% +10.42%

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 16,399 24,342 36,962
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.15% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,837 17,773 27,187
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £473
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% +11.47%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps in London

Lead DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead DevOps in London

Lead DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps in London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead DevOps in London

Lead DevOps
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 Lead DevOps within the London region over the 6 months to 2 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 +36 4 £725 +17.65%
South London - 1 £650 -
Lead DevOps
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Lead DevOps 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 Lead DevOps in the job title.

1 40 (100.00%) DevOps
2 33 (82.50%) CI/CD
3 20 (50.00%) Python
4 19 (47.50%) Finance
4 19 (47.50%) AWS
4 19 (47.50%) Kubernetes
5 18 (45.00%) Terraform
6 17 (42.50%) Ansible
6 17 (42.50%) Linux
7 13 (32.50%) Docker
7 13 (32.50%) Jenkins
7 13 (32.50%) Agile
8 12 (30.00%) Azure
9 10 (25.00%) Bash
9 10 (25.00%) Test Automation
10 9 (22.50%) Bitbucket
10 9 (22.50%) Serverless
10 9 (22.50%) Containerisation
11 8 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (20.00%) Git
12 7 (17.50%) Microservices
12 7 (17.50%) Unix
12 7 (17.50%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (17.50%) DevSecOps
12 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure as Code
13 6 (15.00%) Java
13 6 (15.00%) Banking
13 6 (15.00%) Firewall
13 6 (15.00%) SC Cleared

Lead DevOps 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 4 (10.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) Apache
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.50%) JBoss
2 1 (2.50%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.50%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 19 (47.50%) AWS
2 12 (30.00%) Azure
3 9 (22.50%) Serverless
4 7 (17.50%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (12.50%) OpenShift
5 5 (12.50%) PaaS
6 4 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (10.00%) Amazon EventBridge
6 4 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (10.00%) GitHub
6 4 (10.00%) SaaS
7 3 (7.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (7.50%) Amazon S3
7 3 (7.50%) AWS Step Functions
7 3 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (5.00%) AWS Control Tower
8 2 (5.00%) Azure AKS
9 1 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.00%) Firewall
2 2 (5.00%) SSL
3 1 (2.50%) DNS
3 1 (2.50%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 4 (10.00%) DataStax
3 1 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.50%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (32.50%) Jenkins
2 9 (22.50%) Bitbucket
3 8 (20.00%) Git
4 6 (15.00%) Artifactory
5 5 (12.50%) JIRA
5 5 (12.50%) TeamCity
6 4 (10.00%) GitLab
7 2 (5.00%) CircleCI
7 2 (5.00%) Terragrunt
8 1 (2.50%) Ant
8 1 (2.50%) Cypress.io
8 1 (2.50%) GoCD
8 1 (2.50%) JMeter
8 1 (2.50%) Maven
8 1 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (47.50%) Finance
2 6 (15.00%) Banking
3 5 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Investment Banking
4 2 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (15.00%) Kafka
3 4 (10.00%) Node.js
4 2 (5.00%) AWS SAM
5 1 (2.50%) ADO
5 1 (2.50%) AWS CDK
5 1 (2.50%) Middleware
5 1 (2.50%) Next.js
5 1 (2.50%) React
5 1 (2.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.50%) Derivative
2 3 (7.50%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.50%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.50%) Machine to Machine
4 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 17 (42.50%) Linux
2 7 (17.50%) Unix
3 4 (10.00%) Android
3 4 (10.00%) Apple iOS
3 4 (10.00%) Windows
4 3 (7.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.50%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (100.00%) DevOps
2 33 (82.50%) CI/CD
3 13 (32.50%) Agile
4 10 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 9 (22.50%) Containerisation
6 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (17.50%) DevSecOps
7 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (17.50%) Microservices
8 5 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (12.50%) Load Balancing
8 5 (12.50%) Roadmaps
8 5 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 4 (10.00%) Configuration Management
9 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
10 3 (7.50%) Continuous Deployment
10 3 (7.50%) Continuous Integration
10 3 (7.50%) Customer-Centricity
10 3 (7.50%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (50.00%) Python
2 10 (25.00%) Bash
3 6 (15.00%) Go
3 6 (15.00%) Java
4 5 (12.50%) Groovy
4 5 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.50%) Shell Script
5 3 (7.50%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.50%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (32.50%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.50%) Ceph
2 1 (2.50%) NFS
2 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (47.50%) Kubernetes
2 18 (45.00%) Terraform
3 17 (42.50%) Ansible
4 6 (15.00%) Puppet
5 4 (10.00%) Grafana
6 3 (7.50%) Prometheus
7 2 (5.00%) Argo
8 1 (2.50%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (2.50%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (2.50%) Karpenter
8 1 (2.50%) Kibana
8 1 (2.50%) logstash
8 1 (2.50%) Mesos
8 1 (2.50%) Packer
8 1 (2.50%) Podman
8 1 (2.50%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (12.50%) Confluent
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.50%) Amdocs
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle
3 1 (2.50%) Virgin Media