DevOps Platform Engineer Contracts in Birmingham

Platform Engineer - DevOps
West Midlands > Birmingham

As of 15 July 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Platform Engineer - DevOps daily rate in Birmingham.

6 months to
15 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Platform Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.18% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £557 -
% change year-on-year -19.21% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 498 727 886
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.83% 94.17% 96.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 510 610
10th Percentile £163 £249 £263
25th Percentile £350 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £540 £575 £600
90th Percentile £648 £688 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 32 34
10th Percentile - £13.90 £12.50
25th Percentile £12.62 £15.88 £15.31
Median hourly rate £14.00 £23.25 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.78% +22.37% +7.34%
75th Percentile £22.91 £48.75 £25.66
90th Percentile £28.02 £56.13 £61.63
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year +28.11% -6.17% +14.41%

DevOps Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Platform Engineer in Birmingham

DevOps Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Platform Engineer in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 15 July 2025, DevOps Platform 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 Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
1 1 (100.00%) SMTP
1 1 (100.00%) FTP
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
1 1 (100.00%) SSH
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) Squid
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) IMAP
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) OpenLDAP
1 1 (100.00%) Postfix
1 1 (100.00%) nginx

DevOps Platform 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Route 53
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) FTP
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) IMAP
1 1 (100.00%) OpenLDAP
1 1 (100.00%) SMTP
1 1 (100.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Vagrant
General
1 1 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) DFS Replication
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Dovecot
1 1 (100.00%) Postfix
1 1 (100.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Proxmox
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Jaspersoft
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow