Lead DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Lead Development Operations Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £569, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025.

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

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 133 145
Rank change year-on-year -17 +12 +58
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 3 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.11% 0.11% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.12% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £558 £530 -
25th Percentile £561 £538 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% +4.55% +25.00%
75th Percentile £573 £613 -
90th Percentile £574 £620 -
England median daily rate £588 £648 £650
% change year-on-year -9.27% -0.38% -7.14%

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 2,419 2,507 2,808
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.06% 93.02% 94.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,582 1,563 1,960
10th Percentile £220 £230 £220
25th Percentile £358 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £594
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 105 117
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.57 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.40 £15.00 £16.66
Median hourly rate £24.34 £23.60 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% +18.00% +13.90%
75th Percentile £31.00 £35.00 £34.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £52.26 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.90 £45.88
% change year-on-year -42.71% -4.32% +74.00%

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Lead DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Lead DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

Lead 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 Lead DevOps Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 October 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 -8 3 £569 -1.09% 3
Lead DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 October 2025, Lead 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 Midlands region featuring Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Docker
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Argo
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Software Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) IBM Cloud
2 2 (66.67%) Coaching
2 2 (66.67%) GitLab
2 2 (66.67%) OpenShift
2 2 (66.67%) IBM
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon SageMaker

Lead DevOps Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) IBM Cloud
1 2 (66.67%) OpenShift
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Coaching
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Software Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
3 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Argo
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) IBM
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat