DevOps Consultant Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Development Operations Consultant
England > West Midlands

The median Development Operations Consultant daily rate in the West Midlands is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 March 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Consultant 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.035% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.038% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -23.08% +13.04% -4.17%

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 2,639 1,195 1,794
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.70% 90.39% 91.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,740 823 1,206
10th Percentile £305 £200 £250
25th Percentile £402 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.02% +3.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £595
90th Percentile £675 £662 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 59 139
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.62 £12.18
25th Percentile £17.20 £14.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £18.13 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.72% -17.59% +17.76%
75th Percentile £33.75 £28.47 £39.38
90th Percentile £65.25 £35.00 £56.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +14.29% +7.69% -23.53%

DevOps Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

DevOps Consultant job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

DevOps Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

DevOps Consultant
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 Consultant within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 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 £500 - 1
DevOps Consultant
England

DevOps Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 25 March 2026, DevOps Consultant 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 Consultant in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Blueprints
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared

DevOps Consultant 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Blueprints
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft