DevOps Engineer Contracts in the West Midlands

Development Operations Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the West Midlands is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 94 94
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 +7
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 11 46 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.57% 1.93% 2.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 2.03% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 34 57
10th Percentile £349 £477 £410
25th Percentile £394 £550 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +13.64% +29.41%
75th Percentile £538 £700 £638
90th Percentile £541 - £675
England median daily rate £545 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -9.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.00
Median hourly rate - - £39.00
75th Percentile - - £41.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £59.75 £57.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +3.91% +173.81% -56.92%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,758 2,262 3,427
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.32% 94.88% 96.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,183 1,556 2,510
10th Percentile £259 £250 £220
25th Percentile £363 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +18.01%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 66 81
10th Percentile £12.01 £12.50 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.02 £14.32
Median hourly rate £22.25 £19.50 £17.28
Median % change year-on-year +14.10% +12.85% +9.71%
75th Percentile £42.31 £26.82 £20.00
90th Percentile £55.88 £55.63 £22.25
England median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.38% +100.00% +0.29%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the West Midlands

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the West Midlands

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the West Midlands

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 DevOps Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
Worcestershire +13 5 £525 -
Birmingham -13 3 £350 -50.00% 9
Coventry +4 2 £413 -25.34%
Herefordshire -8 1 £525 -16.00%
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Midlands region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (54.55%) Decision-Making
3 5 (45.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (45.45%) Computer Science
3 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
3 5 (45.45%) Software Engineering
3 5 (45.45%) Degree
4 4 (36.36%) Workflow
4 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
4 4 (36.36%) DV Cleared
4 4 (36.36%) QA
4 4 (36.36%) Terraform
4 4 (36.36%) User Experience
4 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
5 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
5 3 (27.27%) Docker
5 3 (27.27%) Python
5 3 (27.27%) Azure
5 3 (27.27%) AWS
6 2 (18.18%) Red Hat
6 2 (18.18%) .NET
6 2 (18.18%) Windows
6 2 (18.18%) Linux
6 2 (18.18%) Ansible
6 2 (18.18%) Microservices
6 2 (18.18%) GitLab
6 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) Containerisation

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
3 1 (9.09%) Route 53
3 1 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
1 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) Artifactory
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) NUnit
2 1 (9.09%) Selenium
2 1 (9.09%) SpecFlow
2 1 (9.09%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) .NET Framework
2 1 (9.09%) ADO
2 1 (9.09%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (9.09%) ARM Templates
2 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web Forms
2 1 (9.09%) Castle Windsor
2 1 (9.09%) Entity Framework
2 1 (9.09%) jQuery
2 1 (9.09%) NHibernate
2 1 (9.09%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (9.09%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) Sass
2 1 (9.09%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (54.55%) Decision-Making
3 5 (45.45%) Computer Science
3 5 (45.45%) Software Engineering
4 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 4 (36.36%) User Experience
4 4 (36.36%) Workflow
5 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
6 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) Microservices
7 1 (9.09%) Coaching
7 1 (9.09%) Dependency Injection
7 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
7 1 (9.09%) MVC
7 1 (9.09%) Performance Monitoring
7 1 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
7 1 (9.09%) SIEM
7 1 (9.09%) Unit Testing
7 1 (9.09%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
2 3 (27.27%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (45.45%) Degree
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) DV Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) QA
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
2 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
3 2 (18.18%) Ansible
4 1 (9.09%) Argo
4 1 (9.09%) Istio
4 1 (9.09%) linkerd
4 1 (9.09%) Packer
4 1 (9.09%) SELinux
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Red Hat
2 1 (9.09%) Citrix
2 1 (9.09%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft