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 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 20 25
Rank change year-on-year +12 +5 -5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 288 147 135
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 14.57% 7.82% 6.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.10% 9.43% 7.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 100 100
10th Percentile £426 £361 £388
25th Percentile £468 £488 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £614 £639
90th Percentile £700 £688 £750
England median daily rate £525 £560 £575
% change year-on-year -6.25% -2.61% -4.17%
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 £67.00 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -4.29% +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 1,789 1,559 1,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 90.49% 82.93% 84.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,136 988 1,139
10th Percentile £263 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £397 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £517 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.29% +3.40% -
75th Percentile £588 £620 £600
90th Percentile £675 £725 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 39 56
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.61 £16.22
25th Percentile £16.30 £17.25 £20.64
Median hourly rate £24.34 £26.13 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.83% -5.00% +55.19%
75th Percentile £31.00 £35.00 £44.69
90th Percentile £50.00 £53.05 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -9.38% +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 25 October 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 25 October 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 +15 94 £500 - 56
Shropshire +14 80 £515 +1.98% 16
Worcestershire -2 39 £650 +13.04% 2
Warwickshire -9 30 £550 -8.33% 21
Herefordshire 0 29 £650 +6.21% 2
Solihull +11 16 £563 +63.04% 1
Coventry -6 11 £495 +23.75% 5
Staffordshire +4 1 - - 12
Wolverhampton - 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 55 (19.10%) SAS
2 34 (11.81%) Confluence
3 14 (4.86%) nginx
4 10 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (3.13%) Apache
5 9 (3.13%) WebLogic
6 8 (2.78%) SharePoint
7 7 (2.43%) JBoss
8 5 (1.74%) OpenStack
9 4 (1.39%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (1.04%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.69%) CMS
12 1 (0.35%) CICS
12 1 (0.35%) IIS
12 1 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.35%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 12 (4.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 11 (3.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (1.74%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.35%) Moqups
7 1 (0.35%) Revit
7 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.04%) SAP PM
3 2 (0.69%) ResourceLink
3 2 (0.69%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.35%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 123 (42.71%) Azure
2 107 (37.15%) AWS
3 55 (19.10%) Azure DevOps
4 52 (18.06%) GitHub
5 41 (14.24%) Amazon S3
5 41 (14.24%) GCP
6 40 (13.89%) Serverless
7 37 (12.85%) Amazon EC2
8 35 (12.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 34 (11.81%) AWS KMS
10 30 (10.42%) GitHub Actions
10 30 (10.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 28 (9.72%) Amazon ELB
12 22 (7.64%) OpenShift
13 21 (7.29%) Power Platform
14 20 (6.94%) Microsoft 365
15 17 (5.90%) Route 53
16 16 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
16 16 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
17 13 (4.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 34 (11.81%) Firewall
2 29 (10.07%) DNS
3 24 (8.33%) SMTP
3 24 (8.33%) SSH
4 22 (7.64%) FTP
4 22 (7.64%) HTTP
5 12 (4.17%) IMAP
5 12 (4.17%) OpenLDAP
6 8 (2.78%) LAN
6 8 (2.78%) WAN
7 7 (2.43%) VPN
8 6 (2.08%) TCP/IP
9 5 (1.74%) Network Security
9 5 (1.74%) SSL
10 4 (1.39%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.35%) DHCP
11 1 (0.35%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.35%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.35%) VLAN
11 1 (0.35%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (18.40%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (11.46%) Amazon RDS
3 30 (10.42%) Pentaho
4 22 (7.64%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 19 (6.60%) NoSQL
5 19 (6.60%) Oracle Database
6 18 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
7 13 (4.51%) Power BI
8 12 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (4.17%) Relational Database
8 12 (4.17%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 10 (3.47%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (2.78%) Redis
11 6 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (2.08%) Delta Lake
11 6 (2.08%) MongoDB
11 6 (2.08%) MySQL
11 6 (2.08%) SQL Server
12 5 (1.74%) Data Mining
13 4 (1.39%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 112 (38.89%) Jenkins
2 106 (36.81%) Git
3 72 (25.00%) JIRA
4 48 (16.67%) GitLab
5 29 (10.07%) JUnit
6 26 (9.03%) SonarQube
7 25 (8.68%) Selenium
8 24 (8.33%) Vagrant
9 10 (3.47%) Maven
10 9 (3.13%) Liquibase
11 8 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (2.08%) CircleCI
12 6 (2.08%) Eclipse
12 6 (2.08%) IntelliJ
12 6 (2.08%) Mockito
13 5 (1.74%) Bitbucket
13 5 (1.74%) Bitbucket Server
14 4 (1.39%) Gradle
14 4 (1.39%) Postman
14 4 (1.39%) Snyk
General
1 95 (32.99%) Social Skills
2 63 (21.88%) Public Sector
3 35 (12.15%) Finance
4 20 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (4.51%) Banking
5 13 (4.51%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.13%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.08%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.39%) Marketing
10 2 (0.69%) Military
11 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.35%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.35%) Legal
11 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 61 (21.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 44 (15.28%) Developer
3 32 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
4 31 (10.76%) Senior
5 24 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
5 24 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 24 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
6 22 (7.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 22 (7.64%) Data Engineer
7 16 (5.56%) Architect
8 14 (4.86%) Cloud Engineer
9 13 (4.51%) Lead
9 13 (4.51%) Test Specialist
10 12 (4.17%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 12 (4.17%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 12 (4.17%) GCP Engineer
10 12 (4.17%) Software Engineer
11 10 (3.47%) DevOps Platform Engineer
11 10 (3.47%) Senior DevOps
11 10 (3.47%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (18.75%) REST
2 28 (9.72%) Elastic Stack
3 24 (8.33%) RESTful
4 21 (7.29%) YAML
5 16 (5.56%) .NET
6 15 (5.21%) pytest
6 15 (5.21%) SOAP
7 14 (4.86%) Spring
8 13 (4.51%) HTML
8 13 (4.51%) JSON
9 12 (4.17%) LDAP
10 11 (3.82%) Flask
10 11 (3.82%) Node.js
11 10 (3.47%) Hibernate
12 9 (3.13%) Web Services
13 8 (2.78%) AngularJS
13 8 (2.78%) Kafka
13 8 (2.78%) Play Framework
13 8 (2.78%) WebSockets
13 8 (2.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (13.54%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.99%) Replication
3 19 (6.60%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (4.51%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.78%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.43%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.08%) IoT
9 5 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.74%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.39%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.04%) SCADA
12 2 (0.69%) Client/Server
12 2 (0.69%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
13 1 (0.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 1 (0.35%) Freedom of Information
13 1 (0.35%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 65 (22.57%) Linux
2 30 (10.42%) Windows
3 24 (8.33%) Amazon Linux
3 24 (8.33%) VMS
4 14 (4.86%) Unix
5 11 (3.82%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.39%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.35%) Android
7 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.35%) SUSE
7 1 (0.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (63.19%) CI/CD
2 126 (43.75%) Agile
3 100 (34.72%) Problem-Solving
4 96 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 76 (26.39%) Analytics
6 69 (23.96%) Scrum
7 66 (22.92%) Test Automation
8 63 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
9 59 (20.49%) Continuous Improvement
10 58 (20.14%) Data Pipeline
11 50 (17.36%) Change Management
11 50 (17.36%) Data Modelling
11 50 (17.36%) ETL
12 45 (15.63%) Configuration Management
13 43 (14.93%) Business Intelligence
13 43 (14.93%) Deployment Automation
13 43 (14.93%) Microservices
13 43 (14.93%) Platform Engineering
14 41 (14.24%) Data Integration
15 34 (11.81%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 105 (36.46%) Python
2 93 (32.29%) SQL
3 33 (11.46%) Go
3 33 (11.46%) PowerShell
4 28 (9.72%) Java
5 27 (9.38%) Groovy
6 22 (7.64%) Bash
7 15 (5.21%) JavaScript
8 13 (4.51%) Perl
9 12 (4.17%) C#
10 10 (3.47%) Scala
11 7 (2.43%) TypeScript
12 6 (2.08%) Bicep
12 6 (2.08%) VBA
13 4 (1.39%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.69%) Korn
14 2 (0.69%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.69%) VBScript
15 1 (0.35%) C
15 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 148 (51.39%) Security Cleared
2 123 (42.71%) SC Cleared
3 42 (14.58%) Degree
4 32 (11.11%) DV Cleared
5 29 (10.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (7.64%) Azure Certification
7 16 (5.56%) AWS Certification
8 12 (4.17%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.69%) CISSP
11 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.35%) CISM
11 1 (0.35%) CSSLP
11 1 (0.35%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (10.76%) Data Quality
2 24 (8.33%) QA
3 12 (4.17%) NCSC
4 8 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.74%) GDPR
6 4 (1.39%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.04%) SLA
8 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.35%) ISO 19650
8 1 (0.35%) NIST
8 1 (0.35%) PMO
8 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 163 (56.60%) Docker
2 22 (7.64%) DFS Replication
3 16 (5.56%) Postfix
4 15 (5.21%) Active Directory
5 12 (4.17%) Dovecot
5 12 (4.17%) Squid
6 4 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 120 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 82 (28.47%) Terraform
3 59 (20.49%) Grafana
3 59 (20.49%) Prometheus
4 33 (11.46%) Ansible
5 18 (6.25%) Puppet
6 12 (4.17%) Nessus
7 10 (3.47%) Proxmox
8 7 (2.43%) HP ALM
8 7 (2.43%) Kibana
9 6 (2.08%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.39%) Argo
10 4 (1.39%) Podman
11 3 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.69%) Istio
13 1 (0.35%) CA Endevor
13 1 (0.35%) Consul
13 1 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.35%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 57 (19.79%) Microsoft
2 48 (16.67%) Oracle
3 33 (11.46%) ServiceNow
4 30 (10.42%) Talend
5 29 (10.07%) Denodo
6 28 (9.72%) Splunk
7 16 (5.56%) Google
7 16 (5.56%) Jaspersoft
8 9 (3.13%) Cisco
8 9 (3.13%) Databricks
8 9 (3.13%) SAP
9 7 (2.43%) HP
9 7 (2.43%) webMethods
10 5 (1.74%) Atlassian
10 5 (1.74%) Micro Focus
10 5 (1.74%) Progress
10 5 (1.74%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.74%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.74%) VMware
11 4 (1.39%) F5