DevOps Contracts in the Midlands

DevOps
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 30 20
Rank change year-on-year +12 -10 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 140 132 302
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.31% 4.79% 8.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.35% 5.83% 9.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 97 205
10th Percentile £363 £304 £363
25th Percentile £425 £375 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £530
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -10.38% +6.00%
75th Percentile £586 £600 £625
90th Percentile £638 £688 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £58.83 £55.25 -
25th Percentile £62.69 £55.63 -
Median hourly rate £69.75 £56.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% - -
75th Percentile £76.19 - -
90th Percentile £79.68 - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.76% +19.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the Midlands

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the Midlands

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the Midlands

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in the Midlands

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in the Midlands

DevOps
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 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 +12 99 £523 +10.00% 202
East Midlands +14 41 £469 +4.17% 99
DevOps
England

DevOps
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 10 (7.14%) Confluence
2 2 (1.43%) JBoss
2 2 (1.43%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.71%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.71%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.43%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.43%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 83 (59.29%) Azure
2 50 (35.71%) Azure DevOps
3 35 (25.00%) AWS
4 25 (17.86%) Power Platform
5 21 (15.00%) PowerApps
6 11 (7.86%) GCP
7 8 (5.71%) Amazon S3
7 8 (5.71%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (4.29%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (4.29%) GitHub
8 6 (4.29%) Serverless
9 5 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (3.57%) Power Automate
9 5 (3.57%) SaaS
10 4 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (2.14%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.14%) Firewall
2 2 (1.43%) DHCP
2 2 (1.43%) DNS
2 2 (1.43%) HTTP
2 2 (1.43%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (1.43%) SAN
2 2 (1.43%) SSL
2 2 (1.43%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.71%) NoSQL
2 8 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (3.57%) Data Lake
3 5 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (2.86%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.14%) Power BI
6 2 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.43%) Big Data
6 2 (1.43%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.71%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.71%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.71%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.71%) GIS
7 1 (0.71%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.71%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (20.00%) Git
2 25 (17.86%) Jenkins
3 17 (12.14%) GitLab
3 17 (12.14%) JIRA
4 11 (7.86%) Maven
4 11 (7.86%) SonarQube
5 9 (6.43%) Selenium
6 6 (4.29%) JUnit
6 6 (4.29%) Mockito
6 6 (4.29%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (3.57%) Bitbucket
7 5 (3.57%) Bitbucket Server
7 5 (3.57%) JMeter
7 5 (3.57%) Postman
8 4 (2.86%) TeamCity
9 3 (2.14%) Cucumber
9 3 (2.14%) DbUnit
9 3 (2.14%) jMock
9 3 (2.14%) TestNG
9 3 (2.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 46 (32.86%) Social Skills
2 26 (18.57%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (12.14%) Finance
4 11 (7.86%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.29%) Retail
6 4 (2.86%) Games
6 4 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.14%) Law
8 2 (1.43%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.43%) Banking
8 2 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Automotive
9 1 (0.71%) Electronics
9 1 (0.71%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.71%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.71%) Marketing
9 1 (0.71%) Military
Job Titles
1 30 (21.43%) Developer
2 24 (17.14%) Architect
3 22 (15.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (12.14%) Lead
5 11 (7.86%) Solutions Architect
6 9 (6.43%) Cloud Engineer
6 9 (6.43%) Technical Leader
7 8 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (5.71%) Consultant
7 8 (5.71%) Java Developer
7 8 (5.71%) Senior
8 7 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (4.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 5 (3.57%) Android Developer
10 5 (3.57%) Azure Architect
10 5 (3.57%) Power Platform Developer
11 4 (2.86%) Data Engineer
11 4 (2.86%) Junior Architect
11 4 (2.86%) Junior Solutions Architect
11 4 (2.86%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.86%) .NET
1 11 (7.86%) RESTful
1 11 (7.86%) Spring Boot
2 8 (5.71%) Spring
3 7 (5.00%) ADO
3 7 (5.00%) REST
3 7 (5.00%) SOAP
4 6 (4.29%) Hibernate
4 6 (4.29%) JPA
5 5 (3.57%) Android Jetpack
5 5 (3.57%) CSS
5 5 (3.57%) Jetpack Compose
5 5 (3.57%) React
5 5 (3.57%) Web Services
6 4 (2.86%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.86%) HTML
6 4 (2.86%) Middleware
6 4 (2.86%) Node.js
6 4 (2.86%) Spring Cloud
6 4 (2.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.57%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.57%) IoT
2 5 (3.57%) Mobile App
2 5 (3.57%) PKI
3 4 (2.86%) Blockchain
3 4 (2.86%) Data Structures
3 4 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.14%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.43%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.43%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.43%) Replication
5 2 (1.43%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.43%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.71%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.71%) Linux
2 5 (3.57%) Android
2 5 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (3.57%) Windows
3 4 (2.86%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.43%) CentOS
4 2 (1.43%) Debian
4 2 (1.43%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.71%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (57.14%) Agile
2 60 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 40 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (23.57%) Test Automation
5 22 (15.71%) Test Strategy
6 21 (15.00%) Microservices
7 18 (12.86%) Migration
7 18 (12.86%) Scrum
8 17 (12.14%) Data Modelling
9 16 (11.43%) Configuration Management
9 16 (11.43%) Process Improvement
10 15 (10.71%) Software Engineering
11 14 (10.00%) User Experience
12 13 (9.29%) Roadmaps
13 12 (8.57%) Continuous Integration
13 12 (8.57%) OO
13 12 (8.57%) Problem Management
13 12 (8.57%) TDD
14 11 (7.86%) Computer Science
14 11 (7.86%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 34 (24.29%) SQL
2 24 (17.14%) Python
3 16 (11.43%) Java
4 15 (10.71%) C#
4 15 (10.71%) PowerShell
5 10 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 7 (5.00%) Bash
7 5 (3.57%) Kotlin
8 4 (2.86%) Scala
8 4 (2.86%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.14%) Bicep
10 2 (1.43%) C++
10 2 (1.43%) Go
10 2 (1.43%) Perl
10 2 (1.43%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.43%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.71%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.71%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.71%) C
11 1 (0.71%) R
Qualifications
1 30 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 23 (16.43%) SC Cleared
3 15 (10.71%) Degree
4 11 (7.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.29%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.86%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.86%) CEH
6 4 (2.86%) CISSP
6 4 (2.86%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (2.14%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.14%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.71%) GIAC
9 1 (0.71%) HND
9 1 (0.71%) OCP
9 1 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (14.29%) QA
2 3 (2.14%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.43%) GDPR
3 2 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.71%) IEC 61508
4 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.71%) MISRA
4 1 (0.71%) MISRA C
4 1 (0.71%) NCSC
4 1 (0.71%) NIST
4 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.71%) PMO
4 1 (0.71%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 26 (18.57%) Docker
2 4 (2.86%) Postfix
3 3 (2.14%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (20.00%) Terraform
2 26 (18.57%) Kubernetes
3 16 (11.43%) Ansible
4 5 (3.57%) Grafana
4 5 (3.57%) Kibana
4 5 (3.57%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.14%) Opsview
6 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.43%) Nessus
6 2 (1.43%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.43%) Puppet
7 1 (0.71%) Argo
7 1 (0.71%) Rancher
7 1 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.86%) Atlassian
2 4 (2.86%) Databricks
2 4 (2.86%) Oracle
2 4 (2.86%) Splunk
3 3 (2.14%) Jaspersoft
3 3 (2.14%) PagerDuty
3 3 (2.14%) Red Hat
3 3 (2.14%) ServiceNow
3 3 (2.14%) VMware
4 2 (1.43%) AppDynamics
4 2 (1.43%) Fujitsu
4 2 (1.43%) MuleSoft
4 2 (1.43%) Nintex
4 2 (1.43%) Perforce
4 2 (1.43%) SAP
4 2 (1.43%) Sophos
4 2 (1.43%) Veracode
5 1 (0.71%) F5
5 1 (0.71%) Google