DevOps Engineer Contracts in Birmingham

Development Operations Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Birmingham is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 53 56
Rank change year-on-year -9 +3 -7
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 2 24 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.26% 2.71% 2.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 2.82% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 15 22
10th Percentile £337 £563 £421
25th Percentile £339 £660 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £700 £525
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +33.33% +18.31%
75th Percentile £361 - £614
90th Percentile £364 - £625
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £625 £563
% change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% +32.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 700 852 1,275
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 96.38% 96.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 569 934
10th Percentile £258 £263 £213
25th Percentile £338 £378 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +17.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 35 21
10th Percentile £13.10 £11.40 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.88 £12.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £20.00 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% +14.42% -2.89%
75th Percentile £48.75 £24.94 £18.00
90th Percentile £57.91 £60.50 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.00 £19.50 £17.28
% change year-on-year +12.82% +12.85% +9.71%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Birmingham

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in Birmingham

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Birmingham region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Packer
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Maintenance
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (50.00%) Route 53
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) Route 53
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Maintenance
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Packer
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) Google