DevOps Contract Job Trends in Hillingdon

DevOps
West London > Hillingdon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hillingdon requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 7 17
Rank change year-on-year -2 +10 -14
Contract jobs citing DevOps 9 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in Hillingdon 12.33% 10.64% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.68% 13.16% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 1
10th Percentile £363 - -
25th Percentile £366 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% -5.00% -14.89%
75th Percentile £397 - -
90th Percentile £425 - -
West London median daily rate £603 £409 £525
% change year-on-year +47.31% -22.10% -10.64%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hillingdon

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 Hillingdon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 71 38 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hillingdon 97.26% 80.85% 81.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 23 43
10th Percentile £363 £172 £207
25th Percentile £394 £285 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -6.25% -16.52%
75th Percentile £704 £475 £588
90th Percentile £725 £555 £635
West London median daily rate £525 £409 £500
% change year-on-year +28.36% -18.20% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 10
10th Percentile £16.69 - £15.80
25th Percentile £19.42 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £20.18 £19.20 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.10% +6.67% -34.55%
75th Percentile £21.30 - £30.16
90th Percentile £21.46 - £31.79
West London median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £32.50
% change year-on-year +12.93% -31.48% -49.22%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Hillingdon

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

DevOps job vacancy trend in Hillingdon

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Hillingdon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hillingdon citing DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hillingdon citing DevOps

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Hillingdon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Hillingdon region over the 6 months to 28 February 2026. 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
Heathrow +6 7 £388 -18.42%
Uxbridge - 2 £375 - 1
DevOps
West London

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hillingdon 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 2 (22.22%) Apache
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (22.22%) Tomcat
1 2 (22.22%) WebLogic
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Datadog
4 2 (22.22%) GCP
4 2 (22.22%) GitHub
4 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (11.11%) Dagster
5 1 (11.11%) Serverless
5 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) DNS
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
1 2 (22.22%) HTTP
1 2 (22.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Cypress.io
1 2 (22.22%) Postman
1 2 (22.22%) REST Assured
1 2 (22.22%) Selenium
1 2 (22.22%) WebDriver
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) MLflow
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Automation Tester
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Tester
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Data Scientist
2 1 (11.11%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Lead Data Scientist
2 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Scientist
2 1 (11.11%) Site Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Middleware
1 2 (22.22%) Playwright
1 2 (22.22%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) NumPy
2 1 (11.11%) Pandas
2 1 (11.11%) scikit-learn
2 1 (11.11%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
1 2 (22.22%) Mobile App
1 2 (22.22%) Virtual Team
2 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) CentOS
2 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Ubuntu
2 2 (22.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 5 (55.56%) Agile
3 5 (55.56%) High Availability
3 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (55.56%) Test Automation
4 4 (44.44%) Incident Response
4 4 (44.44%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (33.33%) AI
5 3 (33.33%) Analytics
5 3 (33.33%) Observability
5 3 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (22.22%) DevSecOps
6 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (22.22%) E-Commerce
6 2 (22.22%) Load Balancing
6 2 (22.22%) Scrum
6 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Sprint Planning
6 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) Bash
3 2 (22.22%) C#
3 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
4 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (22.22%) RHCE
3 1 (11.11%) CEH
3 1 (11.11%) CISSP
3 1 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 6 (66.67%) Terraform
2 3 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 2 (22.22%) Ansible
3 2 (22.22%) Nagios
4 1 (11.11%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Splunk
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) New Relic
3 1 (11.11%) Qualys
3 1 (11.11%) Rapid7
3 1 (11.11%) Tenable