Lead DevOps Engineer Contracts in London

Lead Development Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer daily rate in London is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 384 469 529
Rank change year-on-year +85 +60 -74
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 16 15 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.091% 0.060% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.097% 0.063% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 42
10th Percentile £573 - £528
25th Percentile £625 £625 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £738 £670
Median % change year-on-year -11.86% +10.07% +7.20%
75th Percentile £750 £778 £775
90th Percentile £915 £821 £825
England median daily rate £650 £725 £665
% change year-on-year -10.34% +9.02% +10.83%

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 16,438 23,913 36,894
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.64% 95.07% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,847 17,448 27,145
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 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.19% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 279 411
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.88 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.57 £23.24
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +6.54%
75th Percentile £46.68 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.40 £80.45 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -12.22% +88.21% +13.59%

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in London

Lead DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in London

Lead DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps Engineer in London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead DevOps Engineer in London

Lead 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 Lead DevOps Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 9 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 - 2 £750 -
South London - 1 £650 -
Lead DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, Lead 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 Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) DevOps
2 14 (87.50%) CI/CD
3 12 (75.00%) AWS
4 10 (62.50%) Kubernetes
5 9 (56.25%) Terraform
5 9 (56.25%) Linux
6 8 (50.00%) Python
6 8 (50.00%) Docker
6 8 (50.00%) Containerisation
7 6 (37.50%) Finance
7 6 (37.50%) Ansible
7 6 (37.50%) Bash
8 4 (25.00%) Azure
8 4 (25.00%) SaaS
8 4 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
8 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (25.00%) DevSecOps
8 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (18.75%) Serverless
9 3 (18.75%) Cloud Security
9 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
9 3 (18.75%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (18.75%) Configuration Management
9 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
9 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
9 3 (18.75%) Git
9 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
9 3 (18.75%) Kafka
10 2 (12.50%) GitHub
10 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement

Lead 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 (6.25%) Apache
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (6.25%) Confluence
1 1 (6.25%) JBoss
1 1 (6.25%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 12 (75.00%) AWS
2 4 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) SaaS
3 3 (18.75%) Serverless
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (12.50%) Azure AKS
4 2 (12.50%) GitHub
4 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (12.50%) OpenShift
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (6.25%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 1 (6.25%) AWS KMS
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) Kerberos
1 1 (6.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (6.25%) DataStax
1 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
1 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) GitLab
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (6.25%) Ant
3 1 (6.25%) Artifactory
3 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
3 1 (6.25%) CircleCI
3 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
3 1 (6.25%) JMeter
3 1 (6.25%) Maven
3 1 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Banking
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (18.75%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) AWS CDK
2 1 (6.25%) AWS SAM
2 1 (6.25%) Middleware
2 1 (6.25%) Node.js
2 1 (6.25%) React
2 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Blockchain
1 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
1 1 (6.25%) Derivative
1 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (6.25%) Machine to Machine
1 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
1 1 (6.25%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) DevOps
2 14 (87.50%) CI/CD
3 8 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (25.00%) DevSecOps
4 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (18.75%) Cloud Security
5 3 (18.75%) Configuration Management
5 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (12.50%) Agile
6 2 (12.50%) Architectural Design
6 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (12.50%) Microservices
6 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 1 (6.25%) Continuous Deployment
7 1 (6.25%) Deployment Automation
7 1 (6.25%) Observability
7 1 (6.25%) Storage Management
7 1 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Python
2 6 (37.50%) Bash
3 2 (12.50%) Go
3 2 (12.50%) Groovy
4 1 (6.25%) Java
4 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
4 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 9 (56.25%) Terraform
3 6 (37.50%) Ansible
4 2 (12.50%) Argo
4 2 (12.50%) Grafana
4 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 2 (12.50%) Puppet
5 1 (6.25%) Karpenter
5 1 (6.25%) Packer
5 1 (6.25%) Podman
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Confluent
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat