DevOps Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

DevOps
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of Westminster requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 13 15
Rank change year-on-year +5 +2 -7
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster 9.09% 1.72% 4.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.26% 1.82% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £277 - £705
25th Percentile £346 - £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £800
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.52%
75th Percentile £481 - £888
90th Percentile £485 - £895
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £613
% change year-on-year -4.17% -2.04% +2.08%

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 39 55 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 88.64% 94.83% 77.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 29 36
10th Percentile £350 £403 £309
25th Percentile £450 £440 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £725
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -27.59% +38.10%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £909
90th Percentile £708 £788 £1,044
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £19.59 - -
25th Percentile £20.68 - -
Median hourly rate £22.49 - £26.00
75th Percentile £24.30 - -
90th Percentile £25.39 - -
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -36.22%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster.

DevOps job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing DevOps

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 18 November 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 18 November 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
Paddington 0 2 £353 -
Westminster - 2 £475 - 1
DevOps
Central London

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
1 1 (25.00%) Mattermost
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (25.00%) BrowserStack
2 1 (25.00%) Datadog
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) Redis
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Mocha
2 1 (25.00%) Postman
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (25.00%) Fastify
2 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (25.00%) Jest
2 1 (25.00%) Loki
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (25.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (25.00%) OpenID
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) Swagger
2 1 (25.00%) WebRTC
2 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Asynchronous Programming
3 1 (25.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (25.00%) Functional Testing
3 1 (25.00%) GitOps
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Secure Coding
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) QA
1 1 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Grafana
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Terraform
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Argo
3 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk