DevOps Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

DevOps
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 21 29
Rank change year-on-year +12 +8 -8
Contract jobs citing DevOps 290 144 128
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 14.11% 7.54% 6.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.64% 9.07% 7.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 99 93
10th Percentile £425 £363 £388
25th Percentile £463 £484 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £600 £616 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £748
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +27.27% -
England median hourly rate £57.25 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -18.21% +7.69% -0.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

DevOps 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 1,854 1,587 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 90.18% 83.13% 84.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,180 1,000 1,102
10th Percentile £263 £231 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.66% +3.80% -
75th Percentile £588 £614 £600
90th Percentile £675 £713 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 44 54
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £16.09
25th Percentile £16.30 £17.25 £18.31
Median hourly rate £23.05 £28.06 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +2.98% +53.78%
75th Percentile £31.00 £35.00 £49.38
90th Percentile £50.00 £51.75 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +27.14%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

DevOps job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing DevOps

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the West Midlands

DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing DevOps.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing DevOps

DevOps
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 within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 November 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 +17 96 £500 - 73
Shropshire +12 83 £515 +1.98% 19
Worcestershire -1 40 £650 +13.04% 8
Warwickshire -3 32 £556 -7.29% 20
Herefordshire 0 31 £650 +6.21%
Solihull +12 15 £563 +63.04% 3
Coventry -13 7 £440 +3.53% 9
Staffordshire +3 1 - - 7
Wolverhampton - 1 - - 1
DevOps
England

DevOps
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:

Application Platforms
1 56 (19.31%) SAS
2 34 (11.72%) Confluence
3 14 (4.83%) nginx
4 11 (3.79%) WebLogic
5 10 (3.45%) Apache
5 10 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (3.10%) JBoss
7 8 (2.76%) SharePoint
8 5 (1.72%) OpenStack
9 4 (1.38%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.69%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.69%) CMS
11 1 (0.34%) CICS
11 1 (0.34%) IIS
11 1 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.34%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 12 (4.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 11 (3.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.07%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (1.72%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.34%) Moqups
7 1 (0.34%) Revit
7 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.69%) ResourceLink
2 2 (0.69%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.34%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.34%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 121 (41.72%) Azure
2 109 (37.59%) AWS
3 52 (17.93%) GitHub
4 51 (17.59%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (14.48%) GCP
6 40 (13.79%) Amazon S3
7 38 (13.10%) Serverless
8 36 (12.41%) Amazon EC2
9 34 (11.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 34 (11.72%) AWS KMS
10 29 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 28 (9.66%) Amazon ELB
12 27 (9.31%) GitHub Actions
13 23 (7.93%) OpenShift
14 21 (7.24%) Microsoft 365
15 19 (6.55%) Azure Data Factory
16 17 (5.86%) Power Platform
16 17 (5.86%) Route 53
17 16 (5.52%) Amazon ECS
18 12 (4.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (11.03%) Firewall
2 29 (10.00%) DNS
3 24 (8.28%) SMTP
3 24 (8.28%) SSH
4 22 (7.59%) FTP
4 22 (7.59%) HTTP
5 12 (4.14%) IMAP
5 12 (4.14%) OpenLDAP
6 8 (2.76%) LAN
6 8 (2.76%) WAN
7 6 (2.07%) TCP/IP
7 6 (2.07%) VPN
8 5 (1.72%) SSL
9 4 (1.38%) Network Security
9 4 (1.38%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.34%) DHCP
10 1 (0.34%) iSCSI
10 1 (0.34%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.34%) VLAN
10 1 (0.34%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (18.97%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (11.03%) Amazon RDS
3 30 (10.34%) Pentaho
4 22 (7.59%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 18 (6.21%) Amazon Aurora
5 18 (6.21%) NoSQL
5 18 (6.21%) Oracle Database
6 14 (4.83%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (4.14%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 11 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (3.45%) Power BI
10 9 (3.10%) Relational Database
11 8 (2.76%) MongoDB
11 8 (2.76%) Redis
12 6 (2.07%) MySQL
13 5 (1.72%) Data Mining
14 4 (1.38%) DynamoDB
14 4 (1.38%) SAS Data Integration Studio
15 3 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
15 3 (1.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 114 (39.31%) Jenkins
2 112 (38.62%) Git
3 73 (25.17%) JIRA
4 50 (17.24%) GitLab
5 32 (11.03%) JUnit
6 28 (9.66%) Selenium
7 26 (8.97%) SonarQube
8 24 (8.28%) Vagrant
9 10 (3.45%) Liquibase
9 10 (3.45%) Maven
10 8 (2.76%) Eclipse
10 8 (2.76%) IntelliJ
10 8 (2.76%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (2.07%) Bitbucket
11 6 (2.07%) CircleCI
11 6 (2.07%) Mockito
12 5 (1.72%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (1.38%) Artifactory
13 4 (1.38%) Postman
13 4 (1.38%) Snyk
General
1 97 (33.45%) Social Skills
2 64 (22.07%) Public Sector
3 35 (12.07%) Finance
4 21 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (4.83%) Banking
6 13 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (3.45%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.07%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.38%) Marketing
11 3 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.69%) Military
13 1 (0.34%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.34%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.34%) Legal
13 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 63 (21.72%) DevOps Engineer
2 41 (14.14%) Developer
3 34 (11.72%) Senior
4 33 (11.38%) AWS Engineer
5 26 (8.97%) Data Engineer
6 25 (8.62%) AWS DevOps
6 25 (8.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 23 (7.93%) Platform Engineer
8 22 (7.59%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 15 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
10 14 (4.83%) Test Specialist
11 13 (4.48%) Architect
11 13 (4.48%) Software Engineer
12 12 (4.14%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 12 (4.14%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 12 (4.14%) GCP Engineer
13 11 (3.79%) Senior DevOps
13 11 (3.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 10 (3.45%) DevOps Platform Engineer
14 10 (3.45%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (20.69%) REST
2 29 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
3 22 (7.59%) RESTful
4 21 (7.24%) YAML
5 17 (5.86%) SOAP
6 16 (5.52%) pytest
6 16 (5.52%) Spring
7 15 (5.17%) HTML
7 15 (5.17%) JSON
8 13 (4.48%) .NET
8 13 (4.48%) Flask
9 12 (4.14%) Hibernate
9 12 (4.14%) LDAP
10 11 (3.79%) Node.js
10 11 (3.79%) Play Framework
11 10 (3.45%) FastAPI
11 10 (3.45%) XML
12 9 (3.10%) HTML5
13 8 (2.76%) Kafka
13 8 (2.76%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 38 (13.10%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.93%) Replication
3 20 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.83%) Public Cloud
5 10 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.76%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.76%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.07%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.38%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.38%) IoT
9 4 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.38%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.69%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.69%) CMDB
10 2 (0.69%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.34%) PDA
11 1 (0.34%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 66 (22.76%) Linux
2 30 (10.34%) Windows
3 24 (8.28%) Amazon Linux
3 24 (8.28%) VMS
4 16 (5.52%) Unix
5 11 (3.79%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.38%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.34%) Android
7 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.34%) SUSE
7 1 (0.34%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (63.10%) CI/CD
2 131 (45.17%) Agile
3 100 (34.48%) Containerisation
4 97 (33.45%) Problem-Solving
5 74 (25.52%) Analytics
6 72 (24.83%) Scrum
7 67 (23.10%) Test Automation
8 64 (22.07%) Continuous Improvement
9 62 (21.38%) Data Pipeline
9 62 (21.38%) Infrastructure as Code
10 50 (17.24%) Change Management
11 48 (16.55%) ETL
12 47 (16.21%) Microservices
13 46 (15.86%) Data Modelling
13 46 (15.86%) Deployment Automation
14 42 (14.48%) Configuration Management
14 42 (14.48%) Platform Engineering
15 40 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
16 38 (13.10%) Data Integration
17 35 (12.07%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 108 (37.24%) Python
2 92 (31.72%) SQL
3 36 (12.41%) Go
4 33 (11.38%) PowerShell
5 30 (10.34%) Java
6 27 (9.31%) Groovy
7 22 (7.59%) Bash
8 15 (5.17%) JavaScript
9 13 (4.48%) Perl
10 12 (4.14%) Scala
11 9 (3.10%) C#
12 7 (2.41%) TypeScript
13 6 (2.07%) VBA
14 3 (1.03%) Bicep
15 2 (0.69%) Korn
15 2 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.69%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.69%) VBScript
16 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 153 (52.76%) Security Cleared
2 128 (44.14%) SC Cleared
3 43 (14.83%) Degree
4 31 (10.69%) DV Cleared
5 30 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (8.28%) Azure Certification
7 17 (5.86%) AWS Certification
8 13 (4.48%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.69%) CISSP
10 2 (0.69%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.69%) PMP
11 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.34%) CISM
11 1 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.34%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.34%) Data Quality
2 26 (8.97%) QA
3 12 (4.14%) NCSC
4 7 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.07%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.38%) GDPR
7 3 (1.03%) SLA
8 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.34%) ISO 19650
8 1 (0.34%) NIST
8 1 (0.34%) PMO
8 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 168 (57.93%) Docker
2 22 (7.59%) DFS Replication
3 16 (5.52%) Postfix
4 15 (5.17%) Active Directory
5 12 (4.14%) Dovecot
5 12 (4.14%) Squid
6 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 124 (42.76%) Kubernetes
2 80 (27.59%) Terraform
3 60 (20.69%) Grafana
3 60 (20.69%) Prometheus
4 34 (11.72%) Ansible
5 20 (6.90%) Puppet
6 12 (4.14%) Nessus
7 10 (3.45%) Proxmox
8 7 (2.41%) HP ALM
8 7 (2.41%) Kibana
9 6 (2.07%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.38%) Argo
10 4 (1.38%) Podman
11 3 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.69%) Istio
13 1 (0.34%) Consul
13 1 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.34%) PowerCLI
13 1 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 56 (19.31%) Microsoft
2 47 (16.21%) Oracle
3 34 (11.72%) ServiceNow
4 30 (10.34%) Talend
5 29 (10.00%) Denodo
5 29 (10.00%) Splunk
6 16 (5.52%) Jaspersoft
7 15 (5.17%) Google
8 9 (3.10%) webMethods
9 8 (2.76%) Cisco
10 7 (2.41%) HP
10 7 (2.41%) SAP
11 6 (2.07%) VMware
12 5 (1.72%) Atlassian
12 5 (1.72%) Databricks
12 5 (1.72%) Micro Focus
12 5 (1.72%) Progress
12 5 (1.72%) Red Hat
12 5 (1.72%) Salesforce
13 4 (1.38%) CheckPoint