DevOps Contracts in Shropshire

DevOps
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire 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 9 28 30
Rank change year-on-year +19 +2 -6
Contract jobs citing DevOps 26 1 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 20.00% 0.75% 19.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.80% 1.20% 21.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 1 27
10th Percentile £438 - £495
25th Percentile £454 £511 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £523 £540
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% -3.24% -
75th Percentile £538 £534 £595
90th Percentile £583 - £600
West Midlands median daily rate £523 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.64% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 125 83 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 96.15% 61.94% 93.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 51 125
10th Percentile £311 £260 £410
25th Percentile £403 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £378 £538
Median % change year-on-year +28.04% -29.74% +6.53%
75th Percentile £537 £497 £540
90th Percentile £544 £519 £595
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate £12.18 £10.42 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.89% -81.05% +214.29%
75th Percentile - £11.32 £57.50
90th Percentile - £14.26 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Shropshire

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Shropshire

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Shropshire

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Shropshire 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
Telford +19 24 £524 +0.29% 6
DevOps
West Midlands

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire 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 (7.69%) Confluence
1 2 (7.69%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.85%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 22 (84.62%) Azure
2 13 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 13 (50.00%) PowerApps
3 5 (19.23%) AWS
3 5 (19.23%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (7.69%) GitHub
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.85%) GCP
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 10 (38.46%) GitLab
2 4 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 3 (11.54%) JIRA
4 2 (7.69%) Maven
5 1 (3.85%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.85%) JBehave
5 1 (3.85%) Selenium
5 1 (3.85%) SoapUI
5 1 (3.85%) WebDriver
General
1 19 (73.08%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.85%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Developer
2 7 (26.92%) Lead
2 7 (26.92%) Technical Leader
3 5 (19.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Power Platform Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Java Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Applications Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Data Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Engagement Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Java Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Power Apps Developer
6 1 (3.85%) QA Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) QA Tester
6 1 (3.85%) Quality Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Engagement Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Tester
6 1 (3.85%) WebLogic Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) Apache Camel
2 1 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.85%) Quarkus
2 1 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (3.85%) SOAP
2 1 (3.85%) Spring
2 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) PKI
2 1 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Linux
1 3 (11.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (80.77%) Agile
2 17 (65.38%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (57.69%) Process Improvement
4 12 (46.15%) Test Strategy
5 11 (42.31%) Configuration Management
5 11 (42.31%) Data Modelling
5 11 (42.31%) OO
5 11 (42.31%) Problem Management
6 7 (26.92%) CI/CD
7 6 (23.08%) Software Delivery
7 6 (23.08%) Software Engineering
7 6 (23.08%) Test Automation
8 4 (15.38%) Cost Optimisation
9 3 (11.54%) Cost Reduction
10 2 (7.69%) BDD
10 2 (7.69%) Business Analysis
10 2 (7.69%) Microservices
10 2 (7.69%) Software Testing
11 1 (3.85%) Project Management
11 1 (3.85%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) SQL
2 3 (11.54%) Java
3 1 (3.85%) Bash
3 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.85%) Python
3 1 (3.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) SC Cleared
1 9 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.85%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) Ansible
1 8 (30.77%) Terraform
2 3 (11.54%) Kubernetes
2 3 (11.54%) Opsview
3 1 (3.85%) Grafana
3 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.85%) Rancher
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) PagerDuty
2 1 (3.85%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft