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 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 53 61
Rank change year-on-year -8 +8 -10
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 3 24 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.40% 2.71% 2.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 2.81% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 20
10th Percentile £338 £563 £436
25th Percentile £343 £660 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £700 £525
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +33.33% +18.31%
75th Percentile £511 - £620
90th Percentile £598 - £630
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -16.00% +4.17% +41.18%

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 697 855 1,245
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.06% 96.61% 95.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 566 905
10th Percentile £254 £263 £225
25th Percentile £350 £378 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.70% +5.26% +15.85%
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 £20.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% +17.65% +9.68%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Proactive Maintenance
3 1 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) Rancher
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) Puppet
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (33.33%) Route 53
3 1 (33.33%) TeamCity
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation

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 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Route 53
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Artifactory
1 1 (33.33%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (33.33%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Proactive Maintenance
3 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Python
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Packer
2 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
2 1 (33.33%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Guidewire
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) VMware