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 28 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 - 104
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.073% - 0.053%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.20% - 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £892 - -
England median daily rate £475 £629 £600
% change year-on-year -24.45% +4.79% +14.29%

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 984 439 618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 36.03% 31.27% 32.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 712 286 385
10th Percentile £313 £179 £268
25th Percentile £413 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £515 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.47% +14.44% -10.94%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £570
90th Percentile £650 £703 £648
England median daily rate £520 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 18 41
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.26 £17.13
25th Percentile £16.30 £18.50 £23.00
Median hourly rate £19.44 £26.30 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.10% -23.77% +72.50%
75th Percentile £25.15 £35.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £33.50 £45.13 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £49.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -48.67% +15.29% -10.53%

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend 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 28 February 2026. 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 - 2 £892 -
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
England

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Liquibase
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) AWS DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Software Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 2 (100.00%) Data Security
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Go
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certified Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk