DevOps Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

DevOps
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 15 21
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 +6
Contract jobs citing DevOps 2 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 2.82% 1.00% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.45% 1.43% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £350 £500
Median % change year-on-year +32.14% -30.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £469 - £519
90th Percentile - - £553
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £533 £500
% change year-on-year -1.52% +6.62% -9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 58 70 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 81.69% 70.00% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 32 96
10th Percentile £140 £292 £325
25th Percentile £200 £356 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £413 £495
Median % change year-on-year -24.24% -16.67% +4.21%
75th Percentile £442 £488 £575
90th Percentile £575 £549 £656
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 5
10th Percentile - £16.60 -
25th Percentile £29.00 £16.94 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £19.12 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.90% -16.87% +2.63%
75th Percentile £40.25 £23.93 -
90th Percentile £56.90 £39.13 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.25 £22.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -7.95% -4.35% +29.94%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire.

DevOps job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing DevOps

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 20 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
Stoke-on-Trent - 1 £463 - 1
DevOps
West Midlands

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Web API
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Remediation Plan
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Korn
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft