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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 28 16
Rank change year-on-year +4 -12 +2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 31 33 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 5.96% 4.48% 8.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.83% 5.41% 9.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 20 52
10th Percentile £405 £250 £413
25th Percentile £419 £328 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £438 £625
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% -30.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £538 £547 £700
90th Percentile £602 £628 £729
West Midlands median daily rate £524 £513 £575
% change year-on-year +2.24% -10.87% +8.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 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 454 610 764
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.31% 82.77% 87.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 403 509
10th Percentile £163 £250 £275
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.37% -7.32% +7.89%
75th Percentile £588 £581 £638
90th Percentile £689 £698 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +4.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 43 31
10th Percentile - £13.25 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £18.50 £12.50
Median hourly rate £14.70 £26.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.46% +40.54% +7.31%
75th Percentile £22.08 £47.13 £28.75
90th Percentile £26.51 £56.25 £53.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.13 £22.50 £20.71
% change year-on-year -19.42% +8.67% +22.42%

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 17 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 (9.68%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (67.74%) Azure
2 14 (45.16%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (25.81%) AWS
4 7 (22.58%) Power Platform
5 6 (19.35%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (12.90%) GCP
6 4 (12.90%) PowerApps
7 3 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (9.68%) Power Automate
8 2 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (6.45%) Amazon S3
8 2 (6.45%) Azure AKS
8 2 (6.45%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (6.45%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (6.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (6.45%) GitHub
8 2 (6.45%) Serverless
9 1 (3.23%) Akamai
9 1 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (3.23%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) Firewall
2 1 (3.23%) DHCP
2 1 (3.23%) DNS
2 1 (3.23%) HTTP
2 1 (3.23%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (3.23%) SAN
2 1 (3.23%) SSL
2 1 (3.23%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) Data Lake
2 2 (6.45%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (6.45%) Power BI
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.23%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.23%) GIS
3 1 (3.23%) Metadata
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 6 (19.35%) Git
2 5 (16.13%) Jenkins
2 5 (16.13%) JIRA
3 2 (6.45%) GitLab
3 2 (6.45%) JMeter
3 2 (6.45%) Maven
3 2 (6.45%) Postman
3 2 (6.45%) REST Assured
3 2 (6.45%) Selenium
3 2 (6.45%) SonarQube
3 2 (6.45%) TestNG
3 2 (6.45%) Travis CI
4 1 (3.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (3.23%) DbUnit
4 1 (3.23%) jMock
4 1 (3.23%) JUnit
4 1 (3.23%) Mockito
4 1 (3.23%) Snyk
4 1 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (38.71%) Social Skills
2 11 (35.48%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (16.13%) Retail
4 3 (9.68%) Finance
4 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.23%) General Ledger
5 1 (3.23%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (19.35%) Architect
2 5 (16.13%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Developer
4 3 (9.68%) Consultant
4 3 (9.68%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 3 (9.68%) Junior
4 3 (9.68%) Junior Architect
4 3 (9.68%) Junior Solutions Architect
4 3 (9.68%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Java Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Lead
5 2 (6.45%) Test Manager
5 2 (6.45%) Tester
6 1 (3.23%) Administrator
6 1 (3.23%) Integration Manager
6 1 (3.23%) IT Manager
6 1 (3.23%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) .NET
1 3 (9.68%) Middleware
1 3 (9.68%) YAML
2 2 (6.45%) REST
2 2 (6.45%) RESTful
2 2 (6.45%) SOAP
2 2 (6.45%) Spring
2 2 (6.45%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.23%) ADO
3 1 (3.23%) AWS CDK
3 1 (3.23%) GraphQL
3 1 (3.23%) LDAP
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (3.23%) OpenID
3 1 (3.23%) PowerMock
3 1 (3.23%) SAML
3 1 (3.23%) Spring Batch
3 1 (3.23%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) Spring Integration
3 1 (3.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.45%) Replication
3 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.23%) NHS
3 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.23%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (3.23%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Linux
2 1 (3.23%) CentOS
2 1 (3.23%) Debian
2 1 (3.23%) Ubuntu
2 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (51.61%) CI/CD
2 15 (48.39%) Agile
3 10 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (22.58%) Scrum
5 5 (16.13%) Integration Patterns
5 5 (16.13%) Migration
6 4 (12.90%) Containerisation
6 4 (12.90%) Data Governance
6 4 (12.90%) Data Integration
6 4 (12.90%) ERP
6 4 (12.90%) Project Management
6 4 (12.90%) Test Automation
6 4 (12.90%) TOGAF
6 4 (12.90%) User Experience
7 3 (9.68%) Computer Science
7 3 (9.68%) Data Extraction
7 3 (9.68%) Kanban
7 3 (9.68%) Performance Testing
7 3 (9.68%) Security Testing
7 3 (9.68%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.81%) Python
2 5 (16.13%) SQL
3 3 (9.68%) Bash
3 3 (9.68%) C#
3 3 (9.68%) Java
4 2 (6.45%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.23%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.68%) Azure Certification
2 3 (9.68%) CEH
2 3 (9.68%) CISSP
2 3 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (9.68%) Degree
2 3 (9.68%) TOGAF Certification
3 2 (6.45%) ISTQB
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) CITP
4 1 (3.23%) GIAC
4 1 (3.23%) OCP
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.23%) GDPR
2 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (3.23%) NIST
2 1 (3.23%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (16.13%) Docker
2 2 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.23%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 6 (19.35%) Kubernetes
1 6 (19.35%) Terraform
2 2 (6.45%) Kibana
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.23%) Ansible
3 1 (3.23%) Argo
3 1 (3.23%) Grafana
3 1 (3.23%) Nessus
3 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (41.94%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.45%) Fujitsu
2 2 (6.45%) Oracle
3 1 (3.23%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.23%) F5
3 1 (3.23%) Imperva
3 1 (3.23%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (3.23%) Micro Focus
3 1 (3.23%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.23%) SAP
3 1 (3.23%) Sophos
3 1 (3.23%) Splunk
3 1 (3.23%) VMware