Lead DevOps Contract Job Trends in West London

Lead Development Operations
London > West London

The median Lead Development Operations daily rate in West London is £725, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West London 0.34% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £713 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - -
75th Percentile £738 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £594 £745 £625
% change year-on-year -20.30% +19.20% -7.41%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in West London with a recognized job title 242 212 454
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 81.76% 95.07% 95.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 158 355
10th Percentile £204 £240 £190
25th Percentile £350 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £613
90th Percentile £604 £625 £700
London median daily rate £538 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -2.27% -2.25% -2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 12 23
10th Percentile £19.54 £20.75 £19.26
25th Percentile £21.46 £22.88 £31.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £24.90 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% -57.07% +93.33%
75th Percentile £34.27 £32.63 £72.00
90th Percentile £44.50 £54.28 £89.00
London median hourly rate £26.57 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -29.15% - +7.14%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Lead DevOps' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West London.

Lead DevOps job vacancy trend in West London

Lead DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in West London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead DevOps job vacancies in West London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead DevOps job vacancies in West London

Lead 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 Lead DevOps within the West London region over the 6 months to 21 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
Hounslow - 1 £725 - 1
Lead DevOps
London

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Top 17 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London

For the 6 months to 21 November 2025, Lead DevOps contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West London region featuring Lead DevOps in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Maintenance
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Maintenance
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform