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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 14 18
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 376 184 133
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.83% 10.70% 7.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.73% 12.11% 8.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 126 99
10th Percentile £384 £401 £325
25th Percentile £413 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.85% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £613
90th Percentile £671 £632 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 3
10th Percentile £21.25 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £82.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -14.63% +45.78% -
75th Percentile £75.00 - £65.63
90th Percentile - - £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.50 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +0.75% -4.29% +6.87%

All Process & 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 2,954 1,519 1,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.06% 88.31% 82.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,864 964 1,040
10th Percentile £313 £233 £269
25th Percentile £405 £380 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £665 £650 £725
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.40% -4.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 106 58
10th Percentile £13.39 £12.62 £13.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.81 £14.78
Median hourly rate £30.73 £24.34 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year +26.25% +11.91% -19.44%
75th Percentile £53.75 £35.45 £37.50
90th Percentile £70.51 £50.00 £55.38
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%

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 17 August 2026.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in the West Midlands

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 17 August 2026. 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
Shropshire -13 117 £500 -4.58% 22
Birmingham 0 87 £469 -1.32% 71
Coventry +10 48 £425 -15.42% 9
Warwickshire +7 48 £500 - 7
Solihull -6 30 £481 -16.35% 3
Herefordshire +5 12 £700 -
Worcestershire -6 9 £638 +10.87% 1
Staffordshire -2 3 £388 - 5
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 62 (16.49%) SAS
2 52 (13.83%) Confluence
3 19 (5.05%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.39%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.60%) Apache
6 3 (0.80%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.53%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.53%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.53%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.27%) IIS
8 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (1.86%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (1.60%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (2.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.27%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.27%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.27%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 197 (52.39%) Azure
2 128 (34.04%) Azure DevOps
3 124 (32.98%) AWS
4 58 (15.43%) GitHub
5 48 (12.77%) GitHub Actions
5 48 (12.77%) Serverless
6 46 (12.23%) Amazon S3
7 42 (11.17%) Power Platform
8 38 (10.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 37 (9.84%) Amazon EC2
10 36 (9.57%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (6.65%) Dynamics 365
12 23 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
13 21 (5.59%) Azure Data Factory
13 21 (5.59%) Power Automate
14 20 (5.32%) Amazon ECS
15 17 (4.52%) AWS CloudFormation
15 17 (4.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 16 (4.26%) Amazon SQS
17 13 (3.46%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.32%) Firewall
2 8 (2.13%) SD-WAN
2 8 (2.13%) WAN
3 5 (1.33%) DNS
3 5 (1.33%) LAN
3 5 (1.33%) Network Security
4 4 (1.06%) BGP
4 4 (1.06%) DHCP
4 4 (1.06%) Internet
4 4 (1.06%) NetScaler
4 4 (1.06%) OSPF
4 4 (1.06%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.06%) VPN
4 4 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.80%) BIG-IP
5 3 (0.80%) Ethernet VPN
5 3 (0.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (0.80%) SSL
5 3 (0.80%) VXLAN
5 3 (0.80%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (9.04%) Pentaho
2 29 (7.71%) Power BI
3 22 (5.85%) Amazon RDS
4 20 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (5.05%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (5.05%) NoSQL
5 19 (5.05%) Oracle Database
5 19 (5.05%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 19 (5.05%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 17 (4.52%) DynamoDB
7 15 (3.99%) SQL Server
8 14 (3.72%) Data Lake
8 14 (3.72%) Metadata
9 11 (2.93%) Amazon Aurora
10 10 (2.66%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (1.60%) BusinessObjects
11 6 (1.60%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (1.06%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 90 (23.94%) JIRA
2 86 (22.87%) Jenkins
3 60 (15.96%) Git
4 49 (13.03%) GitLab
5 26 (6.91%) Bitbucket
6 22 (5.85%) Selenium
7 16 (4.26%) JUnit
7 16 (4.26%) SonarQube
8 15 (3.99%) Maven
9 14 (3.72%) Postman
10 13 (3.46%) Cypress.io
11 11 (2.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 11 (2.93%) Mockito
12 10 (2.66%) WebDriver
13 8 (2.13%) Bitbucket Server
13 8 (2.13%) DbUnit
13 8 (2.13%) jMock
14 6 (1.60%) Cucumber
14 6 (1.60%) LoadRunner
14 6 (1.60%) REST Assured
General
1 126 (33.51%) Social Skills
2 106 (28.19%) Public Sector
3 50 (13.30%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (10.64%) Finance
5 29 (7.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (1.86%) Legal
9 6 (1.60%) Banking
10 4 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.06%) Retail
11 3 (0.80%) Advertising
11 3 (0.80%) Local Government
11 3 (0.80%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.53%) Billing
12 2 (0.53%) Military
12 2 (0.53%) Publishing
13 1 (0.27%) Front Office
13 1 (0.27%) Police
Job Titles
1 55 (14.63%) Architect
2 51 (13.56%) Senior
3 49 (13.03%) Data Engineer
4 46 (12.23%) Developer
5 41 (10.90%) DevOps Engineer
6 32 (8.51%) Lead
7 29 (7.71%) Analyst
8 27 (7.18%) Scrum Master
9 19 (5.05%) Azure Engineer
10 16 (4.26%) Data Architect
11 15 (3.99%) Test Analyst
12 13 (3.46%) Business Analyst
13 12 (3.19%) Full-Stack Developer
13 12 (3.19%) Senior Developer
14 11 (2.93%) AWS Engineer
14 11 (2.93%) Java Developer
14 11 (2.93%) JIRA Engineer
14 11 (2.93%) Senior DevOps
14 11 (2.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 10 (2.66%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (9.57%) REST
2 25 (6.65%) Node.js
3 23 (6.12%) Spring
3 23 (6.12%) Spring Boot
4 22 (5.85%) RESTful
5 20 (5.32%) JSON
6 18 (4.79%) YAML
7 17 (4.52%) Web Services
8 16 (4.26%) SOAP
9 15 (3.99%) .NET
10 13 (3.46%) Flask
10 13 (3.46%) Spring Cloud
11 11 (2.93%) ActiveMQ
11 11 (2.93%) AngularJS
11 11 (2.93%) Hibernate
11 11 (2.93%) JPA
11 11 (2.93%) Spring Batch
11 11 (2.93%) Spring Integration
12 10 (2.66%) Django
12 10 (2.66%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 71 (18.88%) Cloud Native
2 42 (11.17%) Product Ownership
3 19 (5.05%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (2.39%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.13%) SCADA
5 8 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.86%) Mobile App
6 7 (1.86%) Private Cloud
7 6 (1.60%) Autonomous Agent
7 6 (1.60%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.60%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.60%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.60%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.33%) IoT
8 5 (1.33%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.65%) Linux
2 14 (3.72%) Windows
3 4 (1.06%) AIX
4 3 (0.80%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.80%) Unix
4 3 (0.80%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.53%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (63.30%) CI/CD
2 207 (55.05%) Agile
3 120 (31.91%) Scrum
4 108 (28.72%) Continuous Improvement
5 100 (26.60%) Test Automation
6 88 (23.40%) Analytics
7 81 (21.54%) Stakeholder Management
8 80 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
9 76 (20.21%) Infrastructure as Code
10 71 (18.88%) Containerisation
10 71 (18.88%) Migration
11 67 (17.82%) Technical Leadership
12 66 (17.55%) Data Modelling
13 62 (16.49%) ETL
14 57 (15.16%) Data Integration
15 56 (14.89%) Business Intelligence
16 55 (14.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 51 (13.56%) Data Pipeline
18 49 (13.03%) Microservices
19 47 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 87 (23.14%) SQL
2 53 (14.10%) Java
3 47 (12.50%) Python
4 30 (7.98%) C#
4 30 (7.98%) JavaScript
5 15 (3.99%) PowerShell
6 12 (3.19%) Bash
6 12 (3.19%) Bicep
7 10 (2.66%) Go
8 6 (1.60%) Scala
9 4 (1.06%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.80%) Groovy
10 3 (0.80%) HiveQL
10 3 (0.80%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.80%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.53%) VB
11 2 (0.53%) VB6
12 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.27%) R
Qualifications
1 171 (45.48%) Security Cleared
2 139 (36.97%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.12%) BPSS Clearance
4 17 (4.52%) ISTQB
5 16 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (3.99%) Degree
7 14 (3.72%) AWS Certification
7 14 (3.72%) DV Cleared
8 11 (2.93%) SAFe Agilist
9 10 (2.66%) Azure Certification
10 9 (2.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.06%) SAS Certification
13 3 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.53%) CCNP
14 2 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.53%) CISSP
14 2 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (11.44%) Data Quality
2 36 (9.57%) QA
3 28 (7.45%) Accessibility
4 15 (3.99%) GDPR
5 11 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (2.93%) WCAG
6 4 (1.06%) ISO 19650
6 4 (1.06%) NIST
7 2 (0.53%) PMO
8 1 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.27%) NCSC
8 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 96 (25.53%) Docker
2 8 (2.13%) Postfix
3 4 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.80%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.80%) HDFS
4 3 (0.80%) vSphere
5 1 (0.27%) KVM
5 1 (0.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 83 (22.07%) Kubernetes
2 67 (17.82%) Terraform
3 41 (10.90%) Grafana
4 26 (6.91%) Prometheus
5 25 (6.65%) Ansible
6 8 (2.13%) Progress Chef
6 8 (2.13%) Puppet
7 4 (1.06%) Argo
7 4 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.80%) HP ALM
8 3 (0.80%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.53%) Check_MK
9 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.27%) Istio
10 1 (0.27%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.27%) Podman
10 1 (0.27%) SCCM
10 1 (0.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 69 (18.35%) Microsoft
2 42 (11.17%) Oracle
3 33 (8.78%) Denodo
4 24 (6.38%) Atlassian
4 24 (6.38%) Talend
5 15 (3.99%) Splunk
6 14 (3.72%) Databricks
7 11 (2.93%) Informatica
7 11 (2.93%) Jaspersoft
8 9 (2.39%) Cisco
9 8 (2.13%) SAP
9 8 (2.13%) VMware
10 5 (1.33%) Fortinet
10 5 (1.33%) Google
10 5 (1.33%) Pega
10 5 (1.33%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.06%) Aruba
11 4 (1.06%) F5
11 4 (1.06%) HP
11 4 (1.06%) Red Hat