DevOps Contracts in Birmingham

DevOps
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 20 17
Rank change year-on-year -13 -3 -8
Contract jobs citing DevOps 35 70 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 4.57% 7.80% 8.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.47% 8.84% 8.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 50 80
10th Percentile £250 £413 £388
25th Percentile £321 £525 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +19.05% +31.25%
75th Percentile £531 £700 £625
90th Percentile £595 £731 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £556 £530
% change year-on-year -14.61% +4.95% +21.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £55.25 - -
25th Percentile £55.63 - -
Median hourly rate £56.25 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £56.25 - £39.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 640 792 1,215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 83.55% 88.20% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 532 879
10th Percentile £248 £264 £213
25th Percentile £363 £395 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +7.89% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £594
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £488
% change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +17.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 27 23
10th Percentile £13.20 £11.00 £12.10
25th Percentile £17.75 £12.50 £13.88
Median hourly rate £27.25 £15.00 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +81.67% -14.19% -2.89%
75th Percentile £48.75 £26.50 £18.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £71.25 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
% change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Birmingham

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Birmingham

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Birmingham over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Birmingham

DevOps
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:

Business Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (74.29%) Azure
2 15 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (20.00%) Serverless
4 5 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (11.43%) AWS
5 4 (11.43%) Azure Functions
5 4 (11.43%) Power Platform
6 3 (8.57%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (8.57%) GitHub
7 2 (5.71%) PaaS
7 2 (5.71%) SaaS
8 1 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.86%) IaaS
8 1 (2.86%) Route 53
8 1 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) FTP
1 1 (2.86%) IPsec
1 1 (2.86%) Kerberos
1 1 (2.86%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) Power BI
2 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.86%) Big Data
3 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.86%) Flink
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.86%) MySQL
3 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Jenkins
1 3 (8.57%) JIRA
2 2 (5.71%) Git
2 2 (5.71%) Selenium
3 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.86%) GitLab
3 1 (2.86%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 9 (25.71%) Finance
2 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Banking
4 1 (2.86%) Electronics
4 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.86%) Marketing
4 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (28.57%) Analyst
2 7 (20.00%) Developer
2 7 (20.00%) Test Analyst
3 5 (14.29%) Senior
4 3 (8.57%) Business Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Java Developer
4 3 (8.57%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (8.57%) Test Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) C# Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Test Assurance Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) AngularJS
2 3 (8.57%) .NET
2 3 (8.57%) React
2 3 (8.57%) Spring
3 1 (2.86%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.86%) Entity Framework
3 1 (2.86%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.86%) JDBC
3 1 (2.86%) Kafka
3 1 (2.86%) Node.js
3 1 (2.86%) ODBC
3 1 (2.86%) Protocol Buffers
3 1 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.86%) Swagger
3 1 (2.86%) Vue
3 1 (2.86%) Web Services
3 1 (2.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.86%) Clustering
2 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (2.86%) Replication
2 1 (2.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.43%) Windows
2 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (31.43%) Agile
2 9 (25.71%) CI/CD
3 8 (22.86%) Test Strategy
4 7 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 7 (20.00%) Scrum
4 7 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 6 (17.14%) ITIL
5 6 (17.14%) Microservices
6 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (14.29%) Integration Testing
6 5 (14.29%) Manual Testing
6 5 (14.29%) SDLC
6 5 (14.29%) Software Testing
7 4 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (11.43%) Service Management
7 4 (11.43%) SOA
7 4 (11.43%) Software Engineering
7 4 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (11.43%) TDD
7 4 (11.43%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 5 (14.29%) SQL
2 4 (11.43%) Python
3 3 (8.57%) C#
3 3 (8.57%) Java
4 1 (2.86%) Go
4 1 (2.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (20.00%) Degree
2 6 (17.14%) ISTQB
3 3 (8.57%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 3 (8.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (8.57%) Master's Degree
4 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.86%) ISEB
5 1 (2.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) QA
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) Docker
1 3 (8.57%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Terraform
2 3 (8.57%) HP ALM
2 3 (8.57%) SysTrack
3 1 (2.86%) Ansible
3 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.86%) Packer
3 1 (2.86%) PowerCLI
3 1 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.43%) Citrix
3 3 (8.57%) HP
3 3 (8.57%) New Relic
3 3 (8.57%) OpenAI
3 3 (8.57%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.71%) SAP
5 1 (2.86%) Google
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle
5 1 (2.86%) Sage
5 1 (2.86%) VMware