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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 17 18
Rank change year-on-year -14 +1 -6
Contract jobs citing DevOps 34 74 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 4.61% 8.40% 8.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.57% 9.56% 9.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 52 82
10th Percentile £250 £413 £383
25th Percentile £335 £519 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +19.05% +23.53%
75th Percentile £538 £700 £625
90th Percentile £625 £729 £686
West Midlands median daily rate £513 £575 £530
% change year-on-year -10.87% +8.49% +21.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £56.25 - -
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 610 774 1,196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 82.66% 87.85% 91.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 514 862
10th Percentile £250 £275 £226
25th Percentile £375 £398 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +7.89% +11.76%
75th Percentile £578 £636 £600
90th Percentile £698 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £490
% change year-on-year -2.44% +4.59% +15.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 29 22
10th Percentile £13.19 £11.00 £12.05
25th Percentile £17.00 £12.50 £13.81
Median hourly rate £26.00 £16.29 £17.24
Median % change year-on-year +59.66% -5.54% -4.22%
75th Percentile £47.13 £28.75 £18.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £62.50 £19.87
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £19.00 £16.83
% change year-on-year +18.42% +12.93% +3.09%

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 14 May 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 (8.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.94%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 25 (73.53%) Azure
2 13 (38.24%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (17.65%) Serverless
4 5 (14.71%) AWS
4 5 (14.71%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (11.76%) GitHub
5 4 (11.76%) Power Platform
6 3 (8.82%) Azure Functions
6 3 (8.82%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (5.88%) PaaS
7 2 (5.88%) SaaS
8 1 (2.94%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.94%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.94%) IaaS
8 1 (2.94%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.94%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) IPsec
1 1 (2.94%) Kerberos
1 1 (2.94%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) Power BI
2 3 (8.82%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.88%) Big Data
3 2 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.94%) DB2
4 1 (2.94%) Flink
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (2.94%) MySQL
4 1 (2.94%) OLAP
4 1 (2.94%) OLTP
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle OLAP
4 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.88%) Selenium
3 1 (2.94%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.94%) Git
3 1 (2.94%) JIRA
3 1 (2.94%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (2.94%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.94%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 9 (26.47%) Finance
2 7 (20.59%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Banking
4 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (29.41%) Analyst
2 7 (20.59%) Developer
2 7 (20.59%) Test Analyst
3 4 (11.76%) Senior
4 3 (8.82%) Architect
4 3 (8.82%) Business Analyst
4 3 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
4 3 (8.82%) Java Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Dynamics 365 Business Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Test Manager
6 1 (2.94%) Lead
6 1 (2.94%) Lead Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.82%) AngularJS
1 3 (8.82%) React
1 3 (8.82%) Spring
2 2 (5.88%) .NET
3 1 (2.94%) JDBC
3 1 (2.94%) Kafka
3 1 (2.94%) Node.js
3 1 (2.94%) ODBC
3 1 (2.94%) Protocol Buffers
3 1 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.94%) RESTful
3 1 (2.94%) SOAP
3 1 (2.94%) Vue
3 1 (2.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.94%) Clustering
2 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (2.94%) Replication
2 1 (2.94%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.71%) Windows
2 2 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (32.35%) Agile
2 8 (23.53%) CI/CD
3 7 (20.59%) Computer Science
3 7 (20.59%) Scrum
3 7 (20.59%) User Acceptance Testing
4 6 (17.65%) SDLC
4 6 (17.65%) Software Testing
4 6 (17.65%) Test Strategy
5 5 (14.71%) Analytics
5 5 (14.71%) Manual Testing
5 5 (14.71%) Microservices
6 4 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (11.76%) Conflict Resolution
6 4 (11.76%) Data Science
6 4 (11.76%) Incident Management
6 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (11.76%) ITIL
6 4 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (11.76%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 6 (17.65%) PowerShell
2 5 (14.71%) SQL
3 4 (11.76%) Python
4 3 (8.82%) Java
5 2 (5.88%) C#
6 1 (2.94%) Go
6 1 (2.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (20.59%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (20.59%) Degree
2 4 (11.76%) ISTQB
3 3 (8.82%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.94%) ISEB
4 1 (2.94%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (2.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (2.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) QA
System Software
1 3 (8.82%) Docker
1 3 (8.82%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (8.82%) SysTrack
1 3 (8.82%) Terraform
2 2 (5.88%) Ansible
3 1 (2.94%) HP ALM
3 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.94%) Packer
3 1 (2.94%) PowerCLI
3 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.94%) Puppet
3 1 (2.94%) Rancher
3 1 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (32.35%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.76%) Citrix
3 3 (8.82%) New Relic
3 3 (8.82%) OpenAI
3 3 (8.82%) Oracle
4 2 (5.88%) VMware
5 1 (2.94%) Google
5 1 (2.94%) Guidewire
5 1 (2.94%) HP
5 1 (2.94%) Sage
5 1 (2.94%) SAP
5 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow