DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Telford

Development Operations Engineer
Shropshire > Telford

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Telford is £367, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 March 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 27 -
Rank change year-on-year -45 - -
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 0.40% 0.93% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 1.04% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £273 - -
25th Percentile £308 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £367 £477 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.13% - -
75th Percentile £425 - -
90th Percentile £460 - -
Shropshire median daily rate £367 £477 -
% change year-on-year -23.13% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Telford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Telford. 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 Telford with a recognized job title 475 96 65
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.06% 89.72% 81.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 63 40
10th Percentile £363 £313 £368
25th Percentile £409 £411 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £463 £535
Median % change year-on-year +1.84% -13.55% -0.93%
75th Percentile £520 £506 £536
90th Percentile £562 £530 £538
Shropshire median daily rate £468 £454 £500
% change year-on-year +3.10% -9.26% -7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 5
10th Percentile £23.98 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £15.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -72.73%
75th Percentile £65.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Shropshire median hourly rate £25.15 £12.18 £15.00
% change year-on-year +106.49% -18.80% -59.11%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Telford

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Telford.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Telford

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Telford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Telford over the 6 months to 16 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in Telford

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 19 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford

For the 6 months to 16 March 2026, 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 Telford region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Fujitsu
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) MSI
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Tuxedo
2 1 (50.00%) Unix
2 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (50.00%) Windows

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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 (50.00%) Tuxedo
1 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MSI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Fujitsu