Senior DevOps Contracts in London

Senior Development Operations
England > London

The median Senior 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 336 423 417
Rank change year-on-year +87 -6 -30
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 57 70 184
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.33% 0.27% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.29% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 63 158
10th Percentile £513 £525 £500
25th Percentile £550 £600 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.18%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £763
90th Percentile £760 £760 £850
England median daily rate £600 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +18.18%

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%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps in London

Senior DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior DevOps in London

Senior DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior DevOps in London

Senior 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 Senior 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 +37 14 £650 - 4
South London - 5 £567 - 1
Senior DevOps
England

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

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

1 57 (100.00%) DevOps
2 35 (61.40%) Terraform
3 29 (50.88%) CI/CD
4 28 (49.12%) Python
5 26 (45.61%) Kubernetes
6 24 (42.11%) Security Cleared
6 24 (42.11%) AWS
7 22 (38.60%) SC Cleared
8 20 (35.09%) Ansible
9 19 (33.33%) Jenkins
10 16 (28.07%) Azure
11 14 (24.56%) Git
12 13 (22.81%) TeamCity
13 12 (21.05%) PowerShell
13 12 (21.05%) Bash
13 12 (21.05%) Docker
13 12 (21.05%) Unix
13 12 (21.05%) Agile
13 12 (21.05%) Roadmaps
13 12 (21.05%) Product Ownership
14 11 (19.30%) Infrastructure as Code
14 11 (19.30%) Banking
14 11 (19.30%) Linux
14 11 (19.30%) C#
14 11 (19.30%) .NET
14 11 (19.30%) SQL Server
14 11 (19.30%) Continuous Improvement
15 10 (17.54%) GitHub
15 10 (17.54%) Investment Banking
15 10 (17.54%) Finance

Senior 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 2 (3.51%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.75%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.75%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 24 (42.11%) AWS
2 16 (28.07%) Azure
3 10 (17.54%) GitHub
4 9 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (14.04%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (14.04%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (10.53%) PaaS
6 6 (10.53%) Serverless
7 5 (8.77%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (7.02%) Amazon S3
8 4 (7.02%) Entra ID
8 4 (7.02%) OCI
9 3 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (5.26%) AWS Control Tower
9 3 (5.26%) GCP
10 2 (3.51%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 2 (3.51%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (3.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (3.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.79%) Firewall
2 1 (1.75%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (19.30%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.77%) Relational Database
3 4 (7.02%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.51%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.51%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.75%) Big Data
6 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.75%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 19 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 14 (24.56%) Git
3 13 (22.81%) TeamCity
4 9 (15.79%) Artifactory
5 7 (12.28%) Bitbucket
6 3 (5.26%) GitLab
7 2 (3.51%) JIRA
8 1 (1.75%) Apache Continuum
8 1 (1.75%) Jaeger
8 1 (1.75%) Subversion
General
1 11 (19.30%) Banking
2 10 (17.54%) Finance
2 10 (17.54%) Investment Banking
3 8 (14.04%) Public Sector
4 7 (12.28%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.75%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.75%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.75%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (19.30%) .NET
2 5 (8.77%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (8.77%) WCF
2 5 (8.77%) WinForms
3 4 (7.02%) XML
4 3 (5.26%) ARM Templates
4 3 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (3.51%) .NET Core
5 2 (3.51%) .NET Framework
5 2 (3.51%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.51%) AWS SAM
5 2 (3.51%) Kafka
5 2 (3.51%) Node.js
6 1 (1.75%) LDAP
6 1 (1.75%) Middleware
6 1 (1.75%) React
6 1 (1.75%) RESTful
6 1 (1.75%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.05%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.77%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.51%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.51%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.75%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.75%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 12 (21.05%) Unix
2 11 (19.30%) Linux
3 8 (14.04%) Windows
4 6 (10.53%) Android
4 6 (10.53%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.75%) VMS
5 1 (1.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (100.00%) DevOps
2 29 (50.88%) CI/CD
3 12 (21.05%) Agile
3 12 (21.05%) Roadmaps
4 11 (19.30%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (19.30%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (15.79%) Configuration Management
6 9 (15.79%) Observability
6 9 (15.79%) Test Automation
7 8 (14.04%) SDLC
7 8 (14.04%) Service Catalogue
8 7 (12.28%) Load Balancing
9 6 (10.53%) Containerisation
10 5 (8.77%) Mentoring
10 5 (8.77%) Migration
10 5 (8.77%) Product Roadmap
11 4 (7.02%) B2C
11 4 (7.02%) Runbook
11 4 (7.02%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 28 (49.12%) Python
2 12 (21.05%) Bash
2 12 (21.05%) PowerShell
3 11 (19.30%) C#
4 9 (15.79%) TypeScript
5 8 (14.04%) SQL
6 6 (10.53%) Go
7 3 (5.26%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.51%) Bicep
8 2 (3.51%) Java
9 1 (1.75%) C++
9 1 (1.75%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 24 (42.11%) Security Cleared
2 22 (38.60%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.26%) Azure Certification
3 3 (5.26%) Degree
4 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.75%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.75%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.75%) QA
System Software
1 12 (21.05%) Docker
2 9 (15.79%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (61.40%) Terraform
2 26 (45.61%) Kubernetes
3 20 (35.09%) Ansible
4 7 (12.28%) Grafana
5 4 (7.02%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.75%) Argo
6 1 (1.75%) BladeLogic
6 1 (1.75%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (1.75%) Kibana
6 1 (1.75%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (8.77%) Oracle
2 4 (7.02%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.51%) Virgin Media
4 1 (1.75%) Altiris
4 1 (1.75%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.75%) Citrix
4 1 (1.75%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.75%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.75%) Google
4 1 (1.75%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.75%) Splunk
4 1 (1.75%) Sun
4 1 (1.75%) VMware