DevOps Architect Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Development Operations Architect
England > Midlands

The median Development Operations Architect daily rate in the Midlands is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025.

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

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 131 -
Rank change year-on-year -29 - -
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Architect 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.064% 0.079% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.084% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £514 - -
25th Percentile £516 £675 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - -
75th Percentile £534 £725 -
90th Percentile £536 - -
England median daily rate £643 £650 £570
% change year-on-year -1.15% +14.04% -16.79%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,782 2,367 2,482
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.31% 93.12% 93.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,784 1,452 1,715
10th Percentile £221 £225 £211
25th Percentile £363 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £473
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.82% -0.53%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £504 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 98 116
10th Percentile £13.56 £13.00 £14.19
25th Percentile £16.35 £16.38 £16.92
Median hourly rate £23.70 £23.82 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.52% +19.10% +13.90%
75th Percentile £27.41 £32.13 £31.59
90th Percentile £40.31 £50.75 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.47 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.08% -16.67% +36.36%

DevOps Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

DevOps Architect job vacancy trend in the Midlands

DevOps Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Architect job vacancies in the Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Architect job vacancies in the Midlands

DevOps Architect
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Architect within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East Midlands -13 2 £525 -25.00% 2
DevOps Architect
England

DevOps Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 4 December 2025, DevOps Architect 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 Midlands region featuring DevOps Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Istio
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Puppet
1 2 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) ADO
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (50.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality

DevOps Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (50.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (50.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Istio
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Puppet