DevOps Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

Development Operations Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 116 115
Rank change year-on-year +27 -1 -7
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 22 17 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.15% 0.62% 1.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.28% 0.67% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 15 40
10th Percentile £425 £360 £473
25th Percentile £453 £425 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -16.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £616 £541 £700
90th Percentile £636 £576 -
England median daily rate £550 £545 £600
% change year-on-year +0.92% -9.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £82.00 - -
England median hourly rate £82.48 £59.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year +38.04% +3.91% +91.67%

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 1,725 2,532 3,256
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 91.84% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,707 2,290
10th Percentile £200 £213 £223
25th Percentile £356 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.26%
75th Percentile £552 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 213 128
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.84 £12.35
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.27 £15.21
Median hourly rate £18.82 £19.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -2.05% +16.33%
75th Percentile £28.18 £35.00 £28.88
90th Percentile £35.58 £54.60 £61.50
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the Midlands

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the Midlands

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the Midlands

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the Midlands

DevOps Engineer
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 Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West Midlands +20 17 £575 +15.00% 15
East Midlands +9 5 £375 -30.23% 10
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Midlands region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) DevOps
2 14 (63.64%) Azure
2 14 (63.64%) Terraform
3 13 (59.09%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (59.09%) CI/CD
4 12 (54.55%) Security Cleared
5 11 (50.00%) Ansible
6 9 (40.91%) Software Engineering
7 8 (36.36%) Test Automation
7 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
8 7 (31.82%) Kubernetes
8 7 (31.82%) Docker
8 7 (31.82%) SC Cleared
8 7 (31.82%) Agile
8 7 (31.82%) C#
9 6 (27.27%) Git
9 6 (27.27%) GitLab
10 5 (22.73%) Software Delivery
10 5 (22.73%) PowerShell
10 5 (22.73%) .NET
10 5 (22.73%) PKI
10 5 (22.73%) Workflow
11 4 (18.18%) DV Cleared
11 4 (18.18%) Degree
11 4 (18.18%) Computer Science
11 4 (18.18%) QA
11 4 (18.18%) AWS
11 4 (18.18%) User Experience
11 4 (18.18%) SonarQube
11 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (63.64%) Azure
2 13 (59.09%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (18.18%) AWS
4 2 (9.09%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.55%) SonarCloud
5 1 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) DHCP
1 2 (9.09%) DNS
1 2 (9.09%) Firewall
1 2 (9.09%) HTTP
1 2 (9.09%) OpenLDAP
1 2 (9.09%) SAN
1 2 (9.09%) SSL
1 2 (9.09%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Git
1 6 (27.27%) GitLab
2 4 (18.18%) SonarQube
3 3 (13.64%) Chocolatey
3 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
3 3 (13.64%) JIRA
4 2 (9.09%) Maven
4 2 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (9.09%) TeamCity
5 1 (4.55%) Snyk
General
1 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.55%) Games
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) .NET
2 3 (13.64%) YAML
3 2 (9.09%) LDAP
4 1 (4.55%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) PKI
2 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
2 2 (9.09%) CentOS
2 2 (9.09%) Debian
2 2 (9.09%) Ubuntu
2 2 (9.09%) Windows
3 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) DevOps
2 13 (59.09%) CI/CD
3 9 (40.91%) Software Engineering
4 8 (36.36%) Test Automation
5 7 (31.82%) Agile
6 5 (22.73%) Software Delivery
6 5 (22.73%) Workflow
7 4 (18.18%) Computer Science
7 4 (18.18%) Decision-Making
7 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (18.18%) Task Automation
7 4 (18.18%) User Experience
8 3 (13.64%) ITIL
8 3 (13.64%) Microservices
8 3 (13.64%) Service Catalogue
9 2 (9.09%) Containerisation
9 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
9 2 (9.09%) Patch Management
9 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (9.09%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) C#
2 5 (22.73%) PowerShell
3 2 (9.09%) Python
3 2 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 7 (31.82%) SC Cleared
3 4 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (18.18%) Degree
3 4 (18.18%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (63.64%) Terraform
2 11 (50.00%) Ansible
3 7 (31.82%) Kubernetes
4 2 (9.09%) Nessus
4 2 (9.09%) Puppet
5 1 (4.55%) Argo
5 1 (4.55%) Opsview
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) ServiceNow
2 2 (9.09%) Perforce
2 2 (9.09%) Sophos
2 2 (9.09%) VMware
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.55%) PagerDuty
3 1 (4.55%) Red Hat