DevOps Contracts in Birmingham

DevOps
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 32 17
Rank change year-on-year +15 -15 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 35 35 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 6.70% 4.53% 7.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.74% 5.43% 8.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 19 49
10th Percentile £400 £250 £413
25th Percentile £419 £321 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £625
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -32.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £538 £531 £700
90th Percentile £601 £595 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £523 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £56.25 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £69.75 £56.25 -
% change year-on-year +24.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 644 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 83.31% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 423 537
10th Percentile £163 £240 £263
25th Percentile £375 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.38 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £27.69 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

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 1 May 2025.

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.57%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (65.71%) Azure
2 14 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (25.71%) AWS
3 9 (25.71%) Power Platform
4 7 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (17.14%) PowerApps
6 5 (14.29%) GCP
6 5 (14.29%) Power Automate
7 3 (8.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (5.71%) Amazon S3
8 2 (5.71%) Azure AKS
8 2 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (5.71%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (5.71%) GitHub
8 2 (5.71%) Serverless
9 1 (2.86%) Akamai
9 1 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (2.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) Firewall
2 1 (2.86%) DHCP
2 1 (2.86%) DNS
2 1 (2.86%) HTTP
2 1 (2.86%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (2.86%) SAN
2 1 (2.86%) SSL
2 1 (2.86%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 2 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (5.71%) Power BI
2 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.86%) Data Mining
3 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.86%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.86%) GIS
3 1 (2.86%) Metadata
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.86%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 6 (17.14%) Git
2 5 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 5 (14.29%) JIRA
3 2 (5.71%) GitLab
3 2 (5.71%) JMeter
3 2 (5.71%) Maven
3 2 (5.71%) Postman
3 2 (5.71%) REST Assured
3 2 (5.71%) Selenium
3 2 (5.71%) SonarQube
3 2 (5.71%) TestNG
3 2 (5.71%) Travis CI
4 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (2.86%) DbUnit
4 1 (2.86%) JUnit
4 1 (2.86%) LoadRunner
4 1 (2.86%) Mockito
4 1 (2.86%) Snyk
4 1 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.86%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (37.14%) Analytical Skills
1 13 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.29%) Retail
3 3 (8.57%) Finance
3 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.86%) Banking
4 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.86%) General Ledger
4 1 (2.86%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (20.00%) Architect
2 5 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Consultant
3 4 (11.43%) Developer
3 4 (11.43%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 4 (11.43%) Junior
3 4 (11.43%) Junior Architect
3 4 (11.43%) Junior Solutions Architect
3 4 (11.43%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Data Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Java Developer
4 2 (5.71%) Lead
4 2 (5.71%) Test Manager
4 2 (5.71%) Tester
5 1 (2.86%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (2.86%) Lead Enterprise Architect
5 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) Middleware
2 3 (8.57%) .NET
2 3 (8.57%) YAML
3 2 (5.71%) REST
3 2 (5.71%) RESTful
3 2 (5.71%) SOAP
3 2 (5.71%) Spring
3 2 (5.71%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.86%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.86%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (2.86%) Bootstrap
4 1 (2.86%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (2.86%) NumPy
4 1 (2.86%) OpenID
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (2.86%) Pandas
4 1 (2.86%) PowerMock
4 1 (2.86%) Spring Batch
4 1 (2.86%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.71%) Replication
3 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) NHS
3 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.86%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (2.86%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Linux
2 1 (2.86%) CentOS
2 1 (2.86%) Debian
2 1 (2.86%) Ubuntu
2 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (54.29%) CI/CD
2 17 (48.57%) Agile
3 11 (31.43%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (20.00%) Migration
4 7 (20.00%) Scrum
5 6 (17.14%) Integration Patterns
6 5 (14.29%) Data Governance
6 5 (14.29%) Data Integration
6 5 (14.29%) ERP
6 5 (14.29%) Project Management
6 5 (14.29%) TOGAF
7 4 (11.43%) B2B
7 4 (11.43%) Containerisation
7 4 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (11.43%) Data Extraction
7 4 (11.43%) Interface Catalogue
7 4 (11.43%) Procure-to-Pay
7 4 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (11.43%) Test Automation
7 4 (11.43%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.71%) Python
2 6 (17.14%) SQL
3 3 (8.57%) Bash
3 3 (8.57%) C#
3 3 (8.57%) Java
4 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.71%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.86%) ANSI SQL
5 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.86%) R
5 1 (2.86%) Scala
5 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.43%) TOGAF Certification
3 3 (8.57%) Azure Certification
3 3 (8.57%) CEH
3 3 (8.57%) CISSP
3 3 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (8.57%) Degree
3 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.71%) ISTQB
4 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.86%) CITP
5 1 (2.86%) GIAC
5 1 (2.86%) OCP
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) QA
2 2 (5.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.86%) GDPR
3 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (2.86%) NIST
3 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (14.29%) Docker
2 2 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.86%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 6 (17.14%) Kubernetes
1 6 (17.14%) Terraform
2 2 (5.71%) Kibana
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.86%) Ansible
3 1 (2.86%) Argo
3 1 (2.86%) Grafana
3 1 (2.86%) Nessus
3 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.86%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (45.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.71%) Fujitsu
2 2 (5.71%) Oracle
3 1 (2.86%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.86%) Databricks
3 1 (2.86%) F5
3 1 (2.86%) Imperva
3 1 (2.86%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (2.86%) Micro Focus
3 1 (2.86%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.86%) SAP
3 1 (2.86%) Sophos
3 1 (2.86%) Splunk
3 1 (2.86%) VMware