DevOps Contracts in West London

DevOps
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West London 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 12 18 11
Rank change year-on-year +6 -7 +5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 19 25 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 9.05% 7.04% 10.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.22% 8.01% 11.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 17 52
10th Percentile £341 £292 £463
25th Percentile £358 £330 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £375 £594
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% -36.84% +13.10%
75th Percentile £571 £525 £638
90th Percentile £723 £608 £650
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - £82.00
London median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -4.55% -26.67% -4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 186 312 529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 88.57% 87.89% 93.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 223 383
10th Percentile £231 £215 £350
25th Percentile £339 £316 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -13.64% +7.84%
75th Percentile £483 £575 £638
90th Percentile £628 £650 £700
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 23 49
10th Percentile £18.99 £16.25 £29.60
25th Percentile £20.24 £16.56 £52.00
Median hourly rate £22.27 £30.16 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.16% -52.88% +176.58%
75th Percentile £30.79 £50.13 £75.00
90th Percentile £53.10 £59.50 £85.00
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West London.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in West London

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in West London.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in West London

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in West London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in West London

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps in West London.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in West London

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in West 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 London 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
Hammersmith - 6 £341 -
Hillingdon +3 4 £475 -16.23% 1
Hounslow -3 3 £488 +43.38% 14
Wembley - 1 £600 - 2
DevOps
London

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) Azure
2 6 (31.58%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (26.32%) AWS
3 5 (26.32%) Serverless
4 4 (21.05%) BrowserStack
5 3 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (15.79%) GitHub
5 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon S3
6 2 (10.53%) AWS KMS
6 2 (10.53%) Azure AKS
6 2 (10.53%) Azure Functions
6 2 (10.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (10.53%) Snowflake
6 2 (10.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (5.26%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Power BI
2 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (10.53%) Redis
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (5.26%) Couchbase
3 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.26%) Metadata
3 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.26%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Appium
1 4 (21.05%) Cypress.io
1 4 (21.05%) Postman
1 4 (21.05%) SoapUI
2 2 (10.53%) JIRA
3 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.26%) Finance
2 1 (5.26%) Local Government
2 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Senior
2 4 (21.05%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Senior Tester
2 4 (21.05%) Tester
3 3 (15.79%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Backend Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Data Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Java Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Security Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) DBA
5 1 (5.26%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Release Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) Kafka
1 3 (15.79%) RESTful
2 2 (10.53%) GraphQL
2 2 (10.53%) Hystrix
2 2 (10.53%) Node.js
2 2 (10.53%) OpenAPI
2 2 (10.53%) Prisma
2 2 (10.53%) Swagger
2 2 (10.53%) Web Services
2 2 (10.53%) YAML
3 1 (5.26%) AWS CDK
3 1 (5.26%) JDBC
3 1 (5.26%) OAuth
3 1 (5.26%) OAuth2
3 1 (5.26%) ODBC
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (5.26%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
1 2 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Clustering
2 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Agile
2 6 (31.58%) Microservices
3 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
4 4 (21.05%) API Testing
4 4 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (21.05%) Cloud Security
4 4 (21.05%) Data Engineering
4 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (21.05%) Performance Testing
4 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (21.05%) Test Automation
5 3 (15.79%) Customer Experience
5 3 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (15.79%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (10.53%) Code Quality
6 2 (10.53%) Containerisation
6 2 (10.53%) Design Patterns
6 2 (10.53%) Event-Driven
6 2 (10.53%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) Python
2 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
3 4 (21.05%) Java
4 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
4 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.26%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.26%) Scala
5 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.26%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) GDPR
1 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (10.53%) NIST
2 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Docker
2 2 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) Kubernetes
2 5 (26.32%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.26%) Databricks
2 1 (5.26%) NEC
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle