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 £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 83 82
Rank change year-on-year +6 -1 +21
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 29 32 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.97% 1.56% 1.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.17% 1.71% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 28 28
10th Percentile £430 £487 £480
25th Percentile £456 £513 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £554 £670
Median % change year-on-year -14.18% -17.39% +16.52%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £700
90th Percentile £626 £613 £708
England median daily rate £521 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -5.36% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £82.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +17.14% - -
England median hourly rate £82.48 £70.00 £73.00
% change year-on-year +17.83% -4.11% +53.68%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 1,336 1,872 2,094
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.95% 91.23% 94.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 844 1,259 1,451
10th Percentile £200 £250 £263
25th Percentile £363 £363 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.15%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 143 58
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.71 £15.06
Median hourly rate £24.34 £19.00 £20.84
Median % change year-on-year +28.11% -8.82% +19.07%
75th Percentile £33.91 £39.38 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £56.00 £54.88
England median hourly rate £28.17 £39.78 £43.32
% change year-on-year -29.19% -8.17% +73.26%

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 26 June 2025.

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 26 June 2025. 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 +11 10 £475 -15.56% 11
Worcestershire -4 9 £575 - 2
Shropshire +5 5 £626 +23.86% 2
Solihull - 3 £450 - 1
Warwickshire -5 1 £450 -19.21% 2
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 June 2025, 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 29 (100.00%) DevOps
2 22 (75.86%) Security Cleared
3 18 (62.07%) Terraform
4 14 (48.28%) Docker
4 14 (48.28%) AWS
5 13 (44.83%) SC Cleared
5 13 (44.83%) CI/CD
6 12 (41.38%) Software Engineering
6 12 (41.38%) Python
6 12 (41.38%) Jenkins
7 10 (34.48%) Azure
7 10 (34.48%) Ansible
7 10 (34.48%) Linux
7 10 (34.48%) JIRA
8 9 (31.03%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (31.03%) Amazon S3
8 9 (31.03%) Confluence
8 9 (31.03%) Git
8 9 (31.03%) Configuration Management
9 8 (27.59%) DNS
9 8 (27.59%) Firewall
9 8 (27.59%) DV Cleared
9 8 (27.59%) GitLab
9 8 (27.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (27.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 8 (27.59%) Grafana
9 8 (27.59%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (27.59%) Prometheus
10 7 (24.14%) Decision-Making
10 7 (24.14%) Computer Science Degree

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 9 (31.03%) Confluence
2 2 (6.90%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 14 (48.28%) AWS
2 10 (34.48%) Azure
3 9 (31.03%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (31.03%) Amazon S3
4 8 (27.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (27.59%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (27.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 7 (24.14%) Amazon ELB
5 7 (24.14%) AWS KMS
6 5 (17.24%) Amazon Glacier
7 4 (13.79%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (10.34%) GitHub
8 3 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (6.90%) Azure AKS
9 2 (6.90%) GCP
9 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (6.90%) Route 53
10 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 8 (27.59%) DNS
1 8 (27.59%) Firewall
2 7 (24.14%) HTTP
2 7 (24.14%) SMTP
3 5 (17.24%) FTP
3 5 (17.24%) SSH
4 4 (13.79%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (6.90%) DHCP
5 2 (6.90%) IMAP
5 2 (6.90%) SAN
5 2 (6.90%) SSL
5 2 (6.90%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (24.14%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.90%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (41.38%) Jenkins
2 10 (34.48%) JIRA
3 9 (31.03%) Git
4 8 (27.59%) GitLab
5 7 (24.14%) Vagrant
6 2 (6.90%) Maven
6 2 (6.90%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (3.45%) Snyk
7 1 (3.45%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) LDAP
2 3 (10.34%) YAML
3 2 (6.90%) .NET
4 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.45%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) PKI
1 5 (17.24%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (34.48%) Linux
2 7 (24.14%) Amazon Linux
2 7 (24.14%) VMS
2 7 (24.14%) Windows
3 2 (6.90%) CentOS
3 2 (6.90%) Debian
3 2 (6.90%) Ubuntu
4 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) DevOps
2 13 (44.83%) CI/CD
3 12 (41.38%) Software Engineering
4 9 (31.03%) Configuration Management
5 7 (24.14%) Change Management
5 7 (24.14%) Cloud Security
5 7 (24.14%) Computer Science
5 7 (24.14%) Decision-Making
5 7 (24.14%) Patch Management
5 7 (24.14%) Platform Engineering
5 7 (24.14%) User Experience
5 7 (24.14%) Workflow
6 5 (17.24%) Software Delivery
6 5 (17.24%) Test Automation
7 4 (13.79%) Agile
7 4 (13.79%) Containerisation
8 2 (6.90%) Asset Management
8 2 (6.90%) Capacity Management
8 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (6.90%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (41.38%) Python
2 7 (24.14%) Groovy
2 7 (24.14%) PowerShell
3 5 (17.24%) Java
3 5 (17.24%) Perl
4 3 (10.34%) Bash
5 2 (6.90%) C#
5 2 (6.90%) Shell Script
5 2 (6.90%) SQL
6 1 (3.45%) Go
Qualifications
1 22 (75.86%) Security Cleared
2 13 (44.83%) SC Cleared
3 8 (27.59%) DV Cleared
4 7 (24.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (24.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (24.14%) QA
System Software
1 14 (48.28%) Docker
2 5 (17.24%) Active Directory
2 5 (17.24%) DFS Replication
3 2 (6.90%) Dovecot
3 2 (6.90%) Postfix
3 2 (6.90%) Squid
Systems Management
1 18 (62.07%) Terraform
2 10 (34.48%) Ansible
3 8 (27.59%) Grafana
3 8 (27.59%) Prometheus
4 7 (24.14%) Kubernetes
5 4 (13.79%) Nessus
5 4 (13.79%) Puppet
6 1 (3.45%) Argo
6 1 (3.45%) Opsview
6 1 (3.45%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) ServiceNow
2 2 (6.90%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (6.90%) Sophos
2 2 (6.90%) VMware
3 1 (3.45%) PagerDuty
3 1 (3.45%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.45%) Salesforce