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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 22 30
Rank change year-on-year +14 +8 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 298 130 123
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 13.91% 7.10% 6.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.72% 8.45% 7.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 88 94
10th Percentile £413 £363 £375
25th Percentile £463 £459 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £584
90th Percentile £700 £685 £734
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 - £57.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
England median hourly rate £61.25 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -12.50% +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 1,896 1,539 1,626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.47% 84.10% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,203 953 1,104
10th Percentile £263 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £713 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 51 53
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.19 £15.88 £17.72
Median hourly rate £20.50 £22.00 £24.60
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -10.57% +38.98%
75th Percentile £30.00 £34.38 £50.00
90th Percentile £40.46 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.14%

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 1 December 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 1 December 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 +13 102 £500 - 32
Shropshire +12 91 £515 +1.98% 8
Worcestershire +1 42 £638 +10.87% 5
Herefordshire -2 34 £650 +6.21% 1
Warwickshire -1 30 £563 -2.17% 8
Solihull +12 9 £575 +66.67% 2
Coventry -10 7 £400 -5.88% 7
Wolverhampton - 2 - - 2
Staffordshire +3 1 - - 8
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 61 (20.47%) SAS
2 33 (11.07%) Confluence
3 14 (4.70%) nginx
4 11 (3.69%) WebLogic
5 10 (3.36%) Apache
5 10 (3.36%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (3.02%) JBoss
6 9 (3.02%) SharePoint
7 8 (2.68%) OpenStack
8 4 (1.34%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.67%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.67%) CMS
10 1 (0.34%) CICS
10 1 (0.34%) IIS
10 1 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.34%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 12 (4.03%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 11 (3.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (2.68%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (1.68%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.34%) Moqups
6 1 (0.34%) Revit
6 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.67%) ResourceLink
2 2 (0.67%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.34%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 133 (44.63%) Azure
2 107 (35.91%) AWS
3 57 (19.13%) GitHub
4 52 (17.45%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (14.77%) GCP
6 41 (13.76%) Serverless
7 33 (11.07%) Amazon S3
8 30 (10.07%) AWS KMS
9 29 (9.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 29 (9.73%) Amazon EC2
9 29 (9.73%) GitHub Actions
10 28 (9.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 27 (9.06%) Amazon ELB
12 23 (7.72%) OpenShift
13 21 (7.05%) Microsoft 365
14 20 (6.71%) Azure Data Factory
15 15 (5.03%) Amazon ECS
16 14 (4.70%) Azure Key Vault
16 14 (4.70%) Power Platform
16 14 (4.70%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 33 (11.07%) Firewall
2 28 (9.40%) DNS
3 23 (7.72%) SMTP
3 23 (7.72%) SSH
4 21 (7.05%) FTP
4 21 (7.05%) HTTP
5 12 (4.03%) IMAP
5 12 (4.03%) OpenLDAP
6 6 (2.01%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.68%) LAN
7 5 (1.68%) SSL
7 5 (1.68%) VPN
7 5 (1.68%) WAN
8 3 (1.01%) Network Security
9 2 (0.67%) 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 53 (17.79%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (11.74%) Pentaho
3 26 (8.72%) Amazon RDS
4 22 (7.38%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 18 (6.04%) Elasticsearch
6 17 (5.70%) NoSQL
6 17 (5.70%) Oracle Database
7 13 (4.36%) Amazon Aurora
8 12 (4.03%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 9 (3.02%) Relational Database
10 8 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (2.68%) MongoDB
10 8 (2.68%) Redis
11 7 (2.35%) Power BI
12 6 (2.01%) MySQL
13 5 (1.68%) Data Mining
14 4 (1.34%) SAS Data Integration Studio
15 2 (0.67%) Big Data
15 2 (0.67%) Hadoop
15 2 (0.67%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 115 (38.59%) Jenkins
2 112 (37.58%) Git
3 80 (26.85%) JIRA
4 52 (17.45%) GitLab
5 30 (10.07%) Selenium
6 27 (9.06%) JUnit
7 23 (7.72%) Vagrant
8 21 (7.05%) SonarQube
9 10 (3.36%) Liquibase
10 8 (2.68%) CircleCI
10 8 (2.68%) Eclipse
10 8 (2.68%) IntelliJ
10 8 (2.68%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (2.01%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.68%) Cypress.io
12 5 (1.68%) Maven
13 4 (1.34%) Artifactory
13 4 (1.34%) Gradle
13 4 (1.34%) Postman
13 4 (1.34%) webpack
General
1 103 (34.56%) Social Skills
2 58 (19.46%) Public Sector
3 37 (12.42%) Finance
4 21 (7.05%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (4.70%) Banking
6 12 (4.03%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (4.03%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (3.36%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.01%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.34%) Marketing
11 2 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.67%) Military
12 1 (0.34%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.34%) Digital Healthcare
12 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 60 (20.13%) DevOps Engineer
2 41 (13.76%) Developer
3 38 (12.75%) Senior
4 32 (10.74%) AWS Engineer
5 30 (10.07%) Data Engineer
6 24 (8.05%) AWS DevOps
6 24 (8.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 23 (7.72%) Platform Engineer
8 22 (7.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 16 (5.37%) Cloud Engineer
10 14 (4.70%) Architect
10 14 (4.70%) Test Specialist
11 13 (4.36%) Software Engineer
12 12 (4.03%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 12 (4.03%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 12 (4.03%) GCP Engineer
12 12 (4.03%) Senior DevOps
12 12 (4.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 10 (3.36%) DevOps Platform Engineer
13 10 (3.36%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (19.13%) REST
2 32 (10.74%) Elastic Stack
3 21 (7.05%) YAML
4 19 (6.38%) RESTful
5 16 (5.37%) pytest
6 15 (5.03%) HTML
6 15 (5.03%) JSON
7 14 (4.70%) Flask
8 13 (4.36%) .NET
8 13 (4.36%) Kafka
8 13 (4.36%) LDAP
9 12 (4.03%) SOAP
10 11 (3.69%) FastAPI
10 11 (3.69%) Keycloak
10 11 (3.69%) Play Framework
11 10 (3.36%) Node.js
11 10 (3.36%) Spring
11 10 (3.36%) XML
12 9 (3.02%) Hibernate
12 9 (3.02%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 34 (11.41%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.38%) Replication
3 17 (5.70%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.70%) Public Cloud
5 12 (4.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (3.69%) Onboarding
7 9 (3.02%) Management Information System
7 9 (3.02%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.68%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.34%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.01%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.01%) IoT
11 2 (0.67%) CMDB
11 2 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.34%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.34%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 67 (22.48%) Linux
2 33 (11.07%) Windows
3 23 (7.72%) Amazon Linux
3 23 (7.72%) VMS
4 17 (5.70%) Unix
5 11 (3.69%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.68%) 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
1 193 (64.77%) CI/CD
2 137 (45.97%) Agile
3 104 (34.90%) Containerisation
4 103 (34.56%) Problem-Solving
5 78 (26.17%) Analytics
6 72 (24.16%) Test Automation
7 71 (23.83%) Scrum
8 68 (22.82%) Data Pipeline
9 61 (20.47%) Infrastructure as Code
10 60 (20.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 53 (17.79%) Change Management
11 53 (17.79%) ETL
12 49 (16.44%) Deployment Automation
13 48 (16.11%) Data Modelling
14 43 (14.43%) Microservices
15 41 (13.76%) Data Integration
15 41 (13.76%) Platform Engineering
16 40 (13.42%) Configuration Management
17 39 (13.09%) Business Intelligence
18 36 (12.08%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 115 (38.59%) Python
2 93 (31.21%) SQL
3 42 (14.09%) Go
4 34 (11.41%) PowerShell
5 26 (8.72%) Groovy
6 24 (8.05%) Java
7 22 (7.38%) Bash
8 19 (6.38%) JavaScript
9 13 (4.36%) C#
10 12 (4.03%) Perl
10 12 (4.03%) Scala
11 7 (2.35%) TypeScript
12 6 (2.01%) VBA
13 2 (0.67%) Bicep
13 2 (0.67%) Korn
13 2 (0.67%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.67%) VBScript
14 1 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 155 (52.01%) Security Cleared
2 133 (44.63%) SC Cleared
3 43 (14.43%) Degree
4 30 (10.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (9.73%) DV Cleared
6 28 (9.40%) Azure Certification
7 18 (6.04%) AWS Certification
8 13 (4.36%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.67%) CISSP
11 2 (0.67%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.67%) PMP
12 1 (0.34%) CEH
12 1 (0.34%) CISM
12 1 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 1 (0.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.07%) Data Quality
1 30 (10.07%) QA
2 12 (4.03%) NCSC
3 7 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.68%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.01%) GDPR
6 2 (0.67%) NIST
6 2 (0.67%) SLA
7 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.34%) ISO 19650
7 1 (0.34%) PMO
System Software
1 171 (57.38%) Docker
2 21 (7.05%) DFS Replication
3 14 (4.70%) Active Directory
4 13 (4.36%) Postfix
5 12 (4.03%) Dovecot
5 12 (4.03%) Squid
6 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 133 (44.63%) Kubernetes
2 84 (28.19%) Terraform
3 56 (18.79%) Grafana
4 53 (17.79%) Prometheus
5 40 (13.42%) Ansible
6 20 (6.71%) Puppet
7 12 (4.03%) Nessus
8 10 (3.36%) Proxmox
9 8 (2.68%) Kibana
10 7 (2.35%) Argo
11 6 (2.01%) Progress Chef
12 4 (1.34%) HP ALM
12 4 (1.34%) Podman
13 3 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.67%) Istio
15 1 (0.34%) Consul
15 1 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
15 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
15 1 (0.34%) PowerCLI
15 1 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 61 (20.47%) Microsoft
2 51 (17.11%) Oracle
3 36 (12.08%) ServiceNow
4 35 (11.74%) Talend
5 34 (11.41%) Denodo
6 30 (10.07%) Splunk
7 14 (4.70%) Google
8 13 (4.36%) Jaspersoft
9 9 (3.02%) SAP
9 9 (3.02%) webMethods
10 7 (2.35%) VMware
11 6 (2.01%) CyberArk
11 6 (2.01%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.34%) CheckPoint
12 4 (1.34%) Cisco
12 4 (1.34%) F5
12 4 (1.34%) HP
12 4 (1.34%) Palo Alto
12 4 (1.34%) Salesforce
13 3 (1.01%) IBM