DevOps Contracts in the City of Westminster

DevOps
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of Westminster requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 9 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 +2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 9.09% 9.09% 13.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.53% 10.00% 15.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 5
10th Percentile £446 - £668
25th Percentile £497 £550 £750
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £800
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -18.75% +15.52%
75th Percentile £600 £844 £850
90th Percentile £645 £878 -
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £620
% change year-on-year -4.17% -3.23% +3.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of Westminster

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 38 40 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 86.36% 90.91% 91.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 28 24
10th Percentile £409 £435 £219
25th Percentile £425 £497 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £594 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.37% +7.95% -
75th Percentile £636 £806 £650
90th Percentile £691 £956 £850
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the City of Westminster

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the City of Westminster.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the City of Westminster

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of Westminster

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the City of Westminster over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the City of Westminster

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Mayfair +4 2 £600 -22.58%
Paddington -4 1 £550 -
Westminster - 1 £425 -
DevOps
Central London

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (25.00%) Datadog
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Snyk
1 1 (25.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) GCP DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Security Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) IT Security Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Security Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Transformation Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Transformation Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) gRPC
1 1 (25.00%) Next.js
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (25.00%) OpenID
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Hedge funds
1 1 (25.00%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) API Development
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Dependency Management
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Programme Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) CCNA
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) New Relic