Senior DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Senior Development Operations Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Birmingham is £892, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 66 71
Rank change year-on-year +1 +5 -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 10 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.45% 0.14% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.62% 0.15% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £784 - -
25th Percentile - £363 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £892 £375 £588
Median % change year-on-year +137.87% -36.17% -
75th Percentile - £388 £606
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £892 £550 £675
% change year-on-year +62.18% -18.52% -

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 617 680 755
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.68% 95.10% 94.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 440 520
10th Percentile £227 £200 £257
25th Percentile £363 £352 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £613 £600
90th Percentile £644 £738 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 15 22
10th Percentile - £17.33 £14.60
25th Percentile £12.62 £21.63 £15.75
Median hourly rate £18.00 £30.00 £28.02
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +7.07% +47.47%
75th Percentile £26.51 £51.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £33.72 £56.45 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £23.71 £22.20
% change year-on-year +6.07% +6.83% +25.25%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Senior DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Birmingham.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Birmingham

Senior DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 16 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior DevOps Engineer in Birmingham

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 16 November 2025, Senior DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) AWS
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
1 10 (100.00%) Docker
1 10 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 9 (90.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (90.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 8 (80.00%) Ansible
3 8 (80.00%) Python
3 8 (80.00%) Terraform
4 7 (70.00%) GitLab
4 7 (70.00%) High Availability
4 7 (70.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (70.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 6 (60.00%) Containerisation
5 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
6 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
7 4 (40.00%) Agile
7 4 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (40.00%) Amazon ELB
7 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
7 4 (40.00%) AWS Certification
7 4 (40.00%) Bash
7 4 (40.00%) Change Management
7 4 (40.00%) CheckPoint
7 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
7 4 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
7 4 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (40.00%) Cost Optimisation

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon ELB
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 4 (40.00%) GCP
2 4 (40.00%) Serverless
2 4 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) Azure AKS
3 2 (20.00%) Azure API Management
3 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) DNS
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
1 4 (40.00%) SSL
1 4 (40.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (40.00%) VPN
2 3 (30.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (70.00%) GitLab
3 4 (40.00%) Git
3 4 (40.00%) Liquibase
4 2 (20.00%) CircleCI
General
1 4 (40.00%) Banking
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
1 4 (40.00%) Financial Institution
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (40.00%) REST
1 4 (40.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (90.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (90.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 7 (70.00%) High Availability
3 7 (70.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (70.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 6 (60.00%) Containerisation
5 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
6 4 (40.00%) Agile
6 4 (40.00%) Change Management
6 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
6 4 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 4 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (40.00%) Cost Optimisation
6 4 (40.00%) Cryptography
6 4 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (40.00%) Data Security
6 4 (40.00%) Microservices
6 4 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
6 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) Bash
2 4 (40.00%) Go
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) AWS Certification
1 4 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
1 4 (40.00%) Master's Degree
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Certified Developer
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Ansible
1 8 (80.00%) Terraform
2 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (40.00%) Grafana
3 4 (40.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) CheckPoint
1 4 (40.00%) F5
1 4 (40.00%) Palo Alto
1 4 (40.00%) Splunk
2 2 (20.00%) Google
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft