DevOps Platform Engineer Contracts in Solihull

Platform Engineer - DevOps
West Midlands > Solihull

The median Platform Engineer - DevOps daily rate in Solihull is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Platform Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Solihull 1.85% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.89% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £557 -
% change year-on-year -19.21% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Solihull

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Solihull. 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 Solihull with a recognized job title 53 116 57
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 98.15% 100.00% 86.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 51 16
10th Percentile £220 £156 £250
25th Percentile £318 £269 £279
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £375 £510
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -26.47% +10.27%
75th Percentile £538 £388 £575
90th Percentile £595 £475 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 3
10th Percentile - - £13.15
25th Percentile - £11.25 £13.16
Median hourly rate - £11.50 £13.16
Median % change year-on-year - -12.61% -
75th Percentile - £11.75 £14.08
90th Percentile - £14.90 £14.63
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.00 £19.77 £20.00
% change year-on-year +1.16% -1.15% +17.65%

DevOps Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Solihull

Job postings that featured DevOps Platform Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Solihull.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Platform Engineer in Solihull

DevOps Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Solihull

For the 6 months to 5 June 2025, DevOps Platform Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Solihull region featuring DevOps Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
1 1 (100.00%) SMTP
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
1 1 (100.00%) Squid
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) IMAP
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) OpenLDAP
1 1 (100.00%) Postfix
1 1 (100.00%) nginx
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Dovecot
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Route 53
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ELB

DevOps Platform Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Solihull 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Route 53
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) IMAP
1 1 (100.00%) OpenLDAP
1 1 (100.00%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Vagrant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Dovecot
1 1 (100.00%) Postfix
1 1 (100.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Jaspersoft
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow