AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for AWS Certified DevOps Engineer qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.055% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.16% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £892 - -
England median daily rate £675 £400 £625
% change year-on-year +68.75% -36.00% +8.70%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 636 603 587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 35.00% 31.59% 27.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 389 361
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.28% -1.20% +9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £635 £606
90th Percentile £650 £725 £725
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 11 23
10th Percentile - £20.50 £13.87
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.41 £19.55
Median hourly rate £30.00 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% +54.55% +37.50%
75th Percentile £41.86 £54.88 £67.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.75 £68.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £55.00 £54.78
% change year-on-year -54.27% +0.40% +21.73%

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certified DevOps Engineer in the West Midlands

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 September 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
Birmingham - 1 £892 -
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
England

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Liquibase
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk