Principal DevOps Engineer Contracts in London

Principal Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Principal Development Operations Engineer daily rate in London is £843, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 June 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
30 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 398 484 -
Rank change year-on-year +86 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Principal DevOps Engineer 2 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.011% 0.016% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.017% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £836 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £843 £750 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.33% - -
75th Percentile £849 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £843 £750 -
% change year-on-year +12.33% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 16,403 23,984 37,592
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.87% 94.83% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,758 17,510 27,622
10th Percentile £325 £363 £380
25th Percentile £445 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £788
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 316 271 398
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.95 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +9.38%
75th Percentile £45.18 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.55 £43.93 £25.00
% change year-on-year -9.97% +75.72% +19.05%

Principal DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal DevOps Engineer in London

Principal DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Principal DevOps Engineer in London

Principal DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 30 June 2024, Principal 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 Principal DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) R
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Electronics
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Management

Principal 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 1 (50.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Electronics
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) R
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) VMware