DevOps Architect Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Development Operations Architect
England > West Midlands

The median Development Operations Architect daily rate in the West Midlands is £470, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 126 -
Rank change year-on-year -41 - -
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Architect 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.11% 0.053% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.059% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £434 - -
25th Percentile £448 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% - -
75th Percentile £484 - -
90th Percentile £490 - -
England median daily rate £488 £643 £650
% change year-on-year -24.12% -1.15% +30.00%

All Contract IT Job Roles
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 the West Midlands with a recognized job title 3,230 1,684 1,768
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.99% 89.34% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,920 1,088 1,113
10th Percentile £325 £245 £213
25th Percentile £413 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £613
90th Percentile £688 £675 £712
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 109 61
10th Percentile £14.15 £12.62 £12.59
25th Percentile £17.74 £15.13 £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.42 £25.15 £21.59
Median % change year-on-year +5.05% +16.49% -6.13%
75th Percentile £45.94 £40.02 £32.28
90th Percentile £67.84 £50.00 £48.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -6.70%

DevOps Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

DevOps Architect job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

DevOps Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Architect job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Architect job vacancies in the West Midlands

DevOps Architect
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 DevOps Architect within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 October 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
Warwickshire -11 4 £470 -21.67%
DevOps Architect
England

DevOps Architect Skill Set
Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 9 October 2026, DevOps Architect 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 West Midlands region featuring DevOps Architect in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 4 (100.00%) GitOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) RBAC
1 4 (100.00%) Release Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Docker
2 3 (75.00%) Git
2 3 (75.00%) Identity Management
2 3 (75.00%) Software Delivery
3 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared

DevOps Architect Skill Set
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 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) GitOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) RBAC
1 4 (100.00%) Release Management
2 3 (75.00%) Identity Management
2 3 (75.00%) Software Delivery
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes