ChatOps Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

ChatOps
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring ChatOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ChatOps 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.036% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.042% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 - -
England median daily rate £514 - £500

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

ChatOps 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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,368 1,201 1,637
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.54% 90.37% 84.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,567 791 1,071
10th Percentile £303 £204 £263
25th Percentile £402 £394 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £670 £700 £690
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 54 122
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.36 £11.43
25th Percentile £16.25 £14.70 £15.54
Median hourly rate £22.01 £18.32 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.14% -20.35% +29.80%
75th Percentile £27.50 £27.81 £42.31
90th Percentile £59.50 £35.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -8.84%

ChatOps
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 ChatOps within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 March 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 - 1 £514 - 1
ChatOps
England

ChatOps
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 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Fluent Bit
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CMDB
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AIOps
1 1 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 1 (100.00%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Search Processing Language
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) etcd
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Fluentd
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk