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 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 6 - 11
Rank change year-on-year - - -8
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3 0 8
As % of all contract jobs in West End of London 10.00% - 10.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.71% - 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile £406 - £628
25th Percentile £416 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - £688
Median % change year-on-year - - +27.41%
75th Percentile £466 - -
90th Percentile £479 - -
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £613
% change year-on-year -4.17% -2.04% +2.08%

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 28 72 66
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West End of London 93.33% 94.74% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 50 41
10th Percentile £430 £353 £405
25th Percentile £463 £449 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +13.92% -3.86% -2.78%
75th Percentile £750 £558 £688
90th Percentile £779 £641 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile £28.57 £29.24 -
25th Percentile £32.26 - -
Median hourly rate £38.78 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.79% +34.62% -
75th Percentile £45.65 £41.75 -
90th Percentile £49.56 £42.05 -
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 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 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
Westminster - 2 £475 - 1
Holborn - 1 £400 - 1
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 (33.33%) Mattermost
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Power Automate
3 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (33.33%) PowerApps
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) CRM Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) Loki
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) CRM
2 1 (33.33%) ERP
2 1 (33.33%) GitOps
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Open Source
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Argo
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft