Senior DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Senior Development Operations Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £892, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025.

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

 6 months to
1 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 124 130
Rank change year-on-year -26 +6 -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 13 6 6
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.43% 0.24% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.25% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 4
10th Percentile £508 £411 £416
25th Percentile £613 £484 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £892 £550 £631
Median % change year-on-year +62.18% -12.87% -
75th Percentile - £625 £688
90th Percentile - £715 -
England median daily rate £600 £700 £619
% change year-on-year -14.29% +13.13% -8.33%

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 2,704 2,375 2,532
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.27% 93.10% 93.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,740 1,448 1,757
10th Percentile £213 £225 £213
25th Percentile £363 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £594 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £503 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.12% -1.78% -2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 97 116
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.00 £14.19
25th Percentile £16.35 £16.26 £16.92
Median hourly rate £24.34 £23.82 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.18% +19.10% +13.51%
75th Percentile £28.38 £32.25 £31.59
90th Percentile £40.40 £51.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% -16.67% +38.46%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Senior DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

Senior DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior DevOps Engineer in the Midlands

Senior 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 Senior DevOps Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
West Midlands -14 12 £892 +62.18% 2
East Midlands -13 1 £525 -30.00% 6
Senior DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 December 2025, Senior 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 Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) DevOps
2 12 (92.31%) AWS
2 12 (92.31%) CI/CD
2 12 (92.31%) Docker
2 12 (92.31%) Jenkins
3 10 (76.92%) Ansible
3 10 (76.92%) Python
3 10 (76.92%) Terraform
4 9 (69.23%) Kubernetes
4 9 (69.23%) Root Cause Analysis
5 8 (61.54%) Containerisation
5 8 (61.54%) GitLab
5 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure Automation
6 7 (53.85%) High Availability
6 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (46.15%) Agile
7 6 (46.15%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (46.15%) Linux
8 5 (38.46%) Git
8 5 (38.46%) Go
8 5 (38.46%) Grafana
8 5 (38.46%) Mentoring
8 5 (38.46%) Microservices
8 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
9 4 (30.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (30.77%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (30.77%) Amazon ELB
9 4 (30.77%) Amazon S3
9 4 (30.77%) AWS Certification
9 4 (30.77%) Azure

Senior 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Confluence
1 1 (7.69%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (30.77%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (30.77%) Amazon ELB
2 4 (30.77%) Amazon S3
2 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) GCP
2 4 (30.77%) Serverless
2 4 (30.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 3 (23.08%) Azure AKS
3 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) GitHub
3 3 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (15.38%) Azure API Management
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) DNS
1 4 (30.77%) Firewall
1 4 (30.77%) SSL
1 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
1 4 (30.77%) VPN
2 3 (23.08%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 12 (92.31%) Jenkins
2 8 (61.54%) GitLab
3 5 (38.46%) Git
4 4 (30.77%) Liquibase
5 2 (15.38%) CircleCI
5 2 (15.38%) JIRA
6 1 (7.69%) Artifactory
6 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
6 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
6 1 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Banking
2 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Financial Institution
3 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Military
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (30.77%) REST
2 4 (30.77%) RESTful
3 1 (7.69%) ADO
3 1 (7.69%) Kafka
3 1 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Cloud Native
2 4 (30.77%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (30.77%) Public Cloud
3 2 (15.38%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) DevOps
2 12 (92.31%) CI/CD
3 9 (69.23%) Root Cause Analysis
4 8 (61.54%) Containerisation
4 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure Automation
5 7 (53.85%) High Availability
5 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (46.15%) Agile
7 5 (38.46%) Mentoring
7 5 (38.46%) Microservices
8 4 (30.77%) Change Management
8 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
8 4 (30.77%) Continuous Delivery
8 4 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (30.77%) Cost Optimisation
8 4 (30.77%) Cryptography
8 4 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (30.77%) Data Encryption
8 4 (30.77%) Data Security
8 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) Python
2 5 (38.46%) Go
3 4 (30.77%) Bash
3 4 (30.77%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) Java
4 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) AWS Certification
2 4 (30.77%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (30.77%) Degree
2 4 (30.77%) Master's Degree
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Certification
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 12 (92.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (76.92%) Ansible
1 10 (76.92%) Terraform
2 9 (69.23%) Kubernetes
3 5 (38.46%) Grafana
4 4 (30.77%) Prometheus
5 1 (7.69%) Argo
5 1 (7.69%) Istio
5 1 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) CheckPoint
1 4 (30.77%) F5
1 4 (30.77%) Palo Alto
1 4 (30.77%) Splunk
2 2 (15.38%) Google
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
8 Senior DevOps Engineer jobs in the Midlands