DevOps Contract Job Trends in West End of London

DevOps
Central London > West End of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West End of London requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 - 9
Rank change year-on-year - - -5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 5 0 8
As % of all contract jobs in West End of London 18.52% - 11.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.23% - 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile £405 - £628
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £688
Median % change year-on-year - - +27.41%
75th Percentile £481 - -
90th Percentile £485 - -
Central London median daily rate £580 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -0.85% -2.50% -2.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West End of London

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 West End of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26 76 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West End of London 96.30% 92.68% 81.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 54 42
10th Percentile £438 £359 £367
25th Percentile £459 £450 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £524 £508
Median % change year-on-year +7.40% +3.20% -6.02%
75th Percentile £750 £581 £675
90th Percentile £779 £675 £744
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +34.62% -
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% +37.25% -40.70%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in West End of London

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

DevOps job vacancy trend in West End of London

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in West End of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West End of London citing DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West End of London citing DevOps

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in West End of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the West End of London region over the 6 months to 15 December 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
Westminster - 4 £463 - 1
Holborn - 1 £400 - 4
DevOps
Central London

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West End of London 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 (20.00%) Mattermost
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) Power Automate
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (20.00%) PowerApps
4 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Internet
1 1 (20.00%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) Postman
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (20.00%) CRM Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
1 1 (20.00%) GCP Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) Loki
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
1 1 (20.00%) WebRTC
1 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) API Integration
3 1 (20.00%) API Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (20.00%) Edge Computing
3 1 (20.00%) GitOps
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (20.00%) Sprint Review
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bash
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Grafana
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) Argo
3 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Google