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DevOps Engineer

Stott & May Professional Search Limited • London, UK

Salary

£156k – £169k

Posted

14 October 2026

Sponsor match

high

Skilled WorkerWorker (A rating)

Role overview

Stott & May Professional Search Limited is hiring a DevOps Engineer in London, a it role advertised as contract. The advertised salary is £156k – £169k. Stott & May Professional Search Limited holds an active licence on the UK Home Office register of sponsors for the Skilled Worker route, which means it can sponsor a visa for this hire if it chooses to.

DevOps Engineer Start: ASAP Duration: 6 months Location: Canary Wharf (2-3 days on site per week) Rate: Up to £650 /day Inside IR35 Key Responsibilities - Lead production incident management, major incident response, root-cause analysis, and blameless postmortems. - Embed reliability practices across the software development lifecycle and define KPIs, SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, and error budgets. - Drive AI-assisted incident, problem, change, and risk management. - Automate operational processes, recove…

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Visa sponsorship snapshot

Employer: Stott & May Professional Search Limited — confirmed licensed sponsor
Visa route: Skilled Worker
Advertised salary: £156k – £169k
How this salary compares: about 193% above the £57,632 median across 995 it roles with published salaries on FindSponsorJobs
Location: London, UK
Similar roles nearby: 223 other live it roles in London — browse them
Posted: 14 October 2026
How we verify sponsors: employers are matched against the UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors — read our methodology.

About this sector

IT and technology roles are one of the most consistently sponsored categories in the UK. Software engineers, data scientists, cloud architects, DevOps specialists, and cybersecurity professionals are in demand across finance, retail, the public sector, and specialist tech firms. Many large IT employers maintain established sponsorship processes through their HR and talent teams.