DevOps Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

Development Operations Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 112 106
Rank change year-on-year -7 -6 +8
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 17 52 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.62% 1.51% 2.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 1.60% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 40 74
10th Percentile £360 £473 £345
25th Percentile £425 £486 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +19.05% +29.63%
75th Percentile £541 £700 £625
90th Percentile £576 - £675
England median daily rate £545 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -9.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.00
Median hourly rate - - £21.00
75th Percentile - - £31.50
90th Percentile - - £37.20
England median hourly rate £59.75 £57.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +3.91% +91.67% -38.46%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,541 3,250 4,823
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 94.53% 95.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,714 2,283 3,535
10th Percentile £213 £223 £210
25th Percentile £325 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% +3.26% +15.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £550
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 127 174
10th Percentile £11.85 £12.30 £10.50
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.17 £13.75
Median hourly rate £19.59 £20.00 £17.19
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +16.33% +13.18%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.25 £22.00
90th Percentile £54.40 £60.50 £33.60
England median hourly rate £36.02 £44.77 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.53% +98.96% +0.36%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the Midlands

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the Midlands

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the Midlands

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the Midlands

DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2024. 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
West Midlands -7 11 £500 -20.00% 12
East Midlands +6 6 £538 -23.21% 6
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 Midlands region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (47.06%) AWS
3 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
3 6 (35.29%) Terraform
3 6 (35.29%) Decision-Making
4 5 (29.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (29.41%) Kubernetes
4 5 (29.41%) Docker
4 5 (29.41%) PowerShell
4 5 (29.41%) Degree
4 5 (29.41%) DV Cleared
4 5 (29.41%) Linux
4 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
4 5 (29.41%) Computer Science
5 4 (23.53%) QA
5 4 (23.53%) Workflow
5 4 (23.53%) REST
5 4 (23.53%) User Experience
5 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
6 3 (17.65%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (17.65%) Virtual Team
6 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (17.65%) OpenID
6 3 (17.65%) OAuth2
6 3 (17.65%) ForgeRock
6 3 (17.65%) OpenIDM
6 3 (17.65%) OpenAM

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (5.88%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (17.65%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.76%) Serverless
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.88%) Route 53
4 1 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (5.88%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.88%) MySQL
2 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) GitLab
2 1 (5.88%) Artifactory
2 1 (5.88%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) NUnit
2 1 (5.88%) Selenium
2 1 (5.88%) SpecFlow
2 1 (5.88%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) REST
2 3 (17.65%) JSON
2 3 (17.65%) OAuth
2 3 (17.65%) OAuth2
2 3 (17.65%) OpenID
2 3 (17.65%) SAML
3 2 (11.76%) .NET
4 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
4 1 (5.88%) ADO
4 1 (5.88%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (5.88%) ARM Templates
4 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 1 (5.88%) Castle Windsor
4 1 (5.88%) Entity Framework
4 1 (5.88%) jQuery
4 1 (5.88%) NHibernate
4 1 (5.88%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (5.88%) Sass
4 1 (5.88%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Self-Motivation
1 3 (17.65%) Virtual Team
2 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (5.88%) HP Storage
2 1 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Linux
2 3 (17.65%) Windows
3 1 (5.88%) AIX
3 1 (5.88%) Solaris
3 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (35.29%) Decision-Making
3 5 (29.41%) Computer Science
3 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
4 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
4 4 (23.53%) User Experience
4 4 (23.53%) Workflow
5 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
6 2 (11.76%) DevSecOps
6 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (11.76%) Microservices
6 2 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
7 1 (5.88%) Coaching
7 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 1 (5.88%) Mentoring
7 1 (5.88%) Observability
7 1 (5.88%) Performance Monitoring
7 1 (5.88%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) PowerShell
2 3 (17.65%) BeanShell
2 3 (17.65%) Java
2 3 (17.65%) Python
3 2 (11.76%) Bash
4 1 (5.88%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (29.41%) Degree
2 5 (29.41%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) QA
2 2 (11.76%) GDPR
2 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
2 3 (17.65%) OpenAM
2 3 (17.65%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Terraform
2 5 (29.41%) Kubernetes
3 2 (11.76%) Ansible
4 1 (5.88%) Argo
4 1 (5.88%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (5.88%) HP Data Protector
4 1 (5.88%) Istio
4 1 (5.88%) linkerd
4 1 (5.88%) NetBackup
4 1 (5.88%) Packer
4 1 (5.88%) SELinux
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) ForgeRock
2 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.88%) Brocade
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco
3 1 (5.88%) Citrix
3 1 (5.88%) EMC
3 1 (5.88%) Google
3 1 (5.88%) HP
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Symantec