DevOps Contract Job Trends in Coventry

DevOps
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 16 11
Rank change year-on-year -10 -5 -6
Contract jobs citing DevOps 8 2 22
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 3.96% 2.02% 12.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.60% 2.35% 13.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 18
10th Percentile £321 - £308
25th Percentile £381 £313 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £325 £450
Median % change year-on-year +41.54% -27.78% -12.62%
75th Percentile £490 £338 £547
90th Percentile £502 - £661
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £512 £465
% change year-on-year +2.54% +10.17% -19.17%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 174 85 162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 86.14% 85.86% 90.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 60 124
10th Percentile £263 £310 £363
25th Percentile £306 £398 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -6.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £550 £541 £600
90th Percentile £638 £626 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £515 £489
% change year-on-year -2.91% +5.37% -2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £19.19 - -
25th Percentile £24.35 - £76.59
Median hourly rate £27.21 - £78.19
Median % change year-on-year - - +525.48%
75th Percentile - - £79.78
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.00 £21.59 £23.00
% change year-on-year -7.36% -6.13% +29.87%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry.

DevOps job vacancy trend in Coventry

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing DevOps

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Coventry

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Coventry over the 6 months to 2 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Coventry

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (12.50%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
4 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) GoCD
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 5 (62.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) React
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
3 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
3 1 (12.50%) CSS
3 1 (12.50%) Django
3 1 (12.50%) Flask
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js
3 1 (12.50%) REST
3 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) CMDB
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) API Integration
2 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (25.00%) Microservices
2 2 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (12.50%) Clean Code
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (12.50%) Data Integration
3 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven
3 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (12.50%) High Availability
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) System Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
3 1 (12.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Argo
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) VMware