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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 26 19
Rank change year-on-year +21 -7 +9
Contract jobs citing DevOps 54 4 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 26.87% 3.60% 13.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 28.72% 4.94% 15.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 4 8
10th Percentile £453 - £518
25th Percentile £508 £498 £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £508 £540
Median % change year-on-year +3.25% -6.02% -
75th Percentile £540 £515 £543
90th Percentile £600 £521 £553
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - +3.77%

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 188 81 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 93.53% 72.97% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 58 42
10th Percentile £325 £188 £450
25th Percentile £409 £328 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £358 £540
Median % change year-on-year +43.16% -33.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £538 £501 £548
90th Percentile £549 £519 £573
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £26.13 - -
25th Percentile £27.59 - -
Median hourly rate £31.31 £14.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +123.61% - -
75th Percentile £36.30 - -
90th Percentile £38.53 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £24.31 £27.00
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.95% +54.29%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 +18 47 £524 +3.25% 14
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 22 (40.74%) SAS
2 8 (14.81%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (7.41%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (5.56%) Confluence
4 3 (5.56%) WebLogic
5 2 (3.70%) Apache
6 1 (1.85%) JBoss
6 1 (1.85%) nginx
6 1 (1.85%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 35 (64.81%) Azure
2 19 (35.19%) AWS
3 13 (24.07%) Power Platform
3 13 (24.07%) PowerApps
4 6 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (9.26%) PaaS
6 4 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (3.70%) GitHub
8 1 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.85%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (1.85%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (1.85%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.85%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.85%) GCP
8 1 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.85%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.85%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (24.07%) Pentaho
2 9 (16.67%) SAS Enterprise Guide
2 9 (16.67%) SAS Visual Analytics
3 5 (9.26%) Oracle Database
4 4 (7.41%) SAS Data Integration Studio
5 2 (3.70%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.85%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (33.33%) JIRA
2 16 (29.63%) Jenkins
3 14 (25.93%) Git
4 12 (22.22%) GitLab
5 2 (3.70%) Selenium
6 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (1.85%) CA Release Automation
6 1 (1.85%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.85%) JBehave
6 1 (1.85%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.85%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.85%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.85%) WebDriver
General
1 24 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 15 (27.78%) Public Sector
3 3 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.85%) Finance
4 1 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (14.81%) DevOps Engineer
1 8 (14.81%) Lead
2 7 (12.96%) Developer
2 7 (12.96%) Technical Leader
3 5 (9.26%) Power Platform Developer
3 5 (9.26%) Release Manager
4 4 (7.41%) Data Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Operations Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (3.70%) Configuration Engineer
7 1 (1.85%) .NET Developer
7 1 (1.85%) Applications Developer
7 1 (1.85%) Consultant
7 1 (1.85%) Data Manager
7 1 (1.85%) Engagement Manager
7 1 (1.85%) Environment Manager
7 1 (1.85%) Integration Engineer
7 1 (1.85%) QA Engineer
7 1 (1.85%) QA Leader
7 1 (1.85%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (5.56%) SOAP
2 2 (3.70%) HTML
2 2 (3.70%) JSON
2 2 (3.70%) REST
2 2 (3.70%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.85%) .NET
3 1 (1.85%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.85%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.85%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (1.85%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (1.85%) CSS
3 1 (1.85%) Entity Framework
3 1 (1.85%) LINQ
3 1 (1.85%) OAuth
3 1 (1.85%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.85%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (1.85%) Spring
3 1 (1.85%) Web Services
3 1 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.26%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.41%) PKI
3 2 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.96%) Linux
2 4 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (5.56%) Windows
4 2 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (64.81%) Agile
2 31 (57.41%) CI/CD
3 28 (51.85%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (46.30%) Analytics
5 24 (44.44%) Data Modelling
5 24 (44.44%) Test Strategy
6 22 (40.74%) Test Automation
7 21 (38.89%) Configuration Management
8 20 (37.04%) Data Integration
9 17 (31.48%) Deployment Automation
9 17 (31.48%) Scrum
10 16 (29.63%) Data Pipeline
11 15 (27.78%) Process Improvement
12 14 (25.93%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (25.93%) Data Analytics
13 13 (24.07%) Business Intelligence
13 13 (24.07%) Data Virtualisation
13 13 (24.07%) ETL
14 12 (22.22%) Migration
15 11 (20.37%) OO
Programming Languages
1 29 (53.70%) SQL
2 3 (5.56%) Java
2 3 (5.56%) Python
3 2 (3.70%) Bash
3 2 (3.70%) Scala
4 1 (1.85%) C
4 1 (1.85%) C#
4 1 (1.85%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.85%) Korn
4 1 (1.85%) Perl
4 1 (1.85%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (62.96%) Security Cleared
2 32 (59.26%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.56%) QA
3 2 (3.70%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.85%) NCSC
4 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (40.74%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (38.89%) Kubernetes
2 9 (16.67%) Ansible
2 9 (16.67%) Terraform
3 3 (5.56%) Opsview
4 1 (1.85%) Consul
4 1 (1.85%) Grafana
4 1 (1.85%) Kibana
4 1 (1.85%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (46.30%) Oracle
2 13 (24.07%) Denodo
2 13 (24.07%) Talend
3 11 (20.37%) Microsoft
4 4 (7.41%) Splunk
5 3 (5.56%) AppDynamics
5 3 (5.56%) PagerDuty
6 2 (3.70%) Atlassian
6 2 (3.70%) Cisco
6 2 (3.70%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.85%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.85%) Pega
7 1 (1.85%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.85%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.85%) Trillium
7 1 (1.85%) webMethods