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

 6 months to
25 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 22 30
Rank change year-on-year +11 +8 -8
Contract jobs citing DevOps 320 96 104
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.12% 7.26% 5.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.23% 8.14% 6.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 69 80
10th Percentile £404 £363 £306
25th Percentile £455 £419 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% +7.58% -15.50%
75th Percentile £575 £541 £588
90th Percentile £644 £638 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £551
% change year-on-year -4.55% -0.09% -8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £63.90 - £55.25
25th Percentile £67.13 £56.25 £55.63
Median hourly rate £75.00 £57.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% +2.22% -
75th Percentile £79.75 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £81.10 - -
England median hourly rate £63.73 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -8.96% +7.69% -0.76%

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 2,418 1,180 1,658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.02% 89.26% 84.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,609 798 1,100
10th Percentile £303 £200 £274
25th Percentile £402 £393 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £601
90th Percentile £658 £688 £707
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 54 119
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.36 £11.11
25th Percentile £16.05 £14.70 £14.06
Median hourly rate £25.00 £18.07 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.39% -19.71% +26.98%
75th Percentile £30.00 £27.19 £40.25
90th Percentile £65.80 £35.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.25 £32.81 £33.00
% change year-on-year +7.44% -0.58% -12.00%

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 March 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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -2 105 £492 -6.20% 20
Birmingham +8 102 £525 +10.53% 45
Warwickshire +15 42 £525 +5.00% 6
Worcestershire +5 32 £638 +8.51% 2
Herefordshire +1 23 £650 -7.14% 1
Coventry - 20 £407 - 7
Solihull -4 12 £481 - 3
Staffordshire -4 1 £463 -11.90% 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 72 (22.50%) SAS
2 39 (12.19%) Confluence
3 11 (3.44%) OpenStack
4 6 (1.88%) Apache
5 5 (1.56%) WebLogic
6 4 (1.25%) JBoss
7 3 (0.94%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.31%) IIS
8 1 (0.31%) LiveCycle
8 1 (0.31%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 8 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (1.88%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.63%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.31%) Maximo
3 1 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 132 (41.25%) Azure
2 85 (26.56%) AWS
3 67 (20.94%) Azure DevOps
4 53 (16.56%) GitHub
5 39 (12.19%) GCP
6 36 (11.25%) Serverless
7 32 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 31 (9.69%) GitHub Actions
9 29 (9.06%) OpenShift
10 17 (5.31%) Amazon S3
11 16 (5.00%) Power Platform
12 15 (4.69%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (4.69%) AWS KMS
13 14 (4.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (4.06%) Azure Key Vault
14 13 (4.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 11 (3.44%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (3.44%) Entra ID
16 10 (3.13%) Route 53
17 9 (2.81%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.75%) Firewall
2 5 (1.56%) DNS
2 5 (1.56%) Network Security
2 5 (1.56%) VPN
3 2 (0.63%) LAN
3 2 (0.63%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.63%) SSL
3 2 (0.63%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.63%) WAN
4 1 (0.31%) 5G
4 1 (0.31%) BGP
4 1 (0.31%) DHCP
4 1 (0.31%) Internet
4 1 (0.31%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.31%) MPLS
4 1 (0.31%) OSPF
4 1 (0.31%) SMS
4 1 (0.31%) VLAN
4 1 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.31%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (15.31%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (10.94%) Pentaho
3 28 (8.75%) Elasticsearch
4 17 (5.31%) NoSQL
5 16 (5.00%) Oracle Database
6 13 (4.06%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 11 (3.44%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (3.13%) DynamoDB
8 10 (3.13%) Power BI
9 9 (2.81%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (2.81%) Relational Database
10 7 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (2.19%) Redis
11 5 (1.56%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.56%) SAS Visual Analytics
12 4 (1.25%) Apache Hive
12 4 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.25%) Hadoop
12 4 (1.25%) Impala
12 4 (1.25%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 106 (33.13%) Jenkins
2 87 (27.19%) Git
3 77 (24.06%) JIRA
4 53 (16.56%) GitLab
5 35 (10.94%) JUnit
6 33 (10.31%) Selenium
7 16 (5.00%) SonarQube
8 13 (4.06%) Bitbucket
8 13 (4.06%) Maven
9 9 (2.81%) Mockito
10 7 (2.19%) DbUnit
10 7 (2.19%) jMock
10 7 (2.19%) Liquibase
11 5 (1.56%) Artifactory
11 5 (1.56%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (1.56%) CircleCI
11 5 (1.56%) Cypress.io
11 5 (1.56%) Postman
12 4 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (1.25%) REST Assured
General
1 110 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 50 (15.63%) Public Sector
3 45 (14.06%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (13.75%) Finance
5 15 (4.69%) Banking
6 10 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.50%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.56%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.25%) Retail
10 2 (0.63%) Advertising
10 2 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.63%) Military
10 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.31%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 52 (16.25%) Data Engineer
2 42 (13.13%) Developer
3 36 (11.25%) Senior
4 28 (8.75%) Architect
5 25 (7.81%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (6.25%) Test Specialist
7 19 (5.94%) Analyst
8 17 (5.31%) Full-Stack Developer
9 16 (5.00%) Business Analyst
9 16 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
10 14 (4.38%) GCP Engineer
10 14 (4.38%) Project Manager
11 13 (4.06%) Lead
11 13 (4.06%) Senior Data Engineer
11 13 (4.06%) Software Engineer
12 11 (3.44%) Test Automation Specialist
13 10 (3.13%) Java Developer
13 10 (3.13%) Site Engineer
13 10 (3.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 10 (3.13%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (20.00%) REST
2 32 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
3 24 (7.50%) Node.js
4 22 (6.88%) Flask
4 22 (6.88%) YAML
5 20 (6.25%) Kafka
5 20 (6.25%) pytest
6 18 (5.63%) RESTful
7 15 (4.69%) Spring
8 14 (4.38%) .NET
8 14 (4.38%) SOAP
9 13 (4.06%) AngularJS
9 13 (4.06%) Hibernate
9 13 (4.06%) Middleware
10 12 (3.75%) Django
10 12 (3.75%) Keycloak
11 11 (3.44%) JSON
11 11 (3.44%) React
11 11 (3.44%) Spring Boot
11 11 (3.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 32 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.88%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 14 (4.38%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (3.44%) Management Information System
6 11 (3.44%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.81%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (0.94%) IoT
9 3 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.94%) SCADA
9 3 (0.94%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.63%) CMDB
10 2 (0.63%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.63%) Educational Technology
10 2 (0.63%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.31%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.31%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 41 (12.81%) Linux
2 19 (5.94%) Unix
3 13 (4.06%) Windows
4 3 (0.94%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (63.44%) CI/CD
2 175 (54.69%) Agile
3 110 (34.38%) Containerisation
4 91 (28.44%) Analytics
5 87 (27.19%) Scrum
6 86 (26.88%) Problem-Solving
7 80 (25.00%) Test Automation
8 71 (22.19%) Stakeholder Management
9 70 (21.88%) Data Pipeline
10 62 (19.38%) Data Modelling
11 61 (19.06%) ETL
12 58 (18.13%) Continuous Improvement
13 56 (17.50%) Infrastructure as Code
14 54 (16.88%) Data Integration
15 50 (15.63%) Microservices
16 47 (14.69%) Change Management
17 46 (14.38%) Migration
18 43 (13.44%) Business Intelligence
19 37 (11.56%) Data Virtualisation
20 36 (11.25%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 103 (32.19%) Python
1 103 (32.19%) SQL
2 36 (11.25%) Go
3 27 (8.44%) Java
4 25 (7.81%) Bash
5 24 (7.50%) JavaScript
6 19 (5.94%) PowerShell
7 12 (3.75%) C#
8 10 (3.13%) Bicep
9 8 (2.50%) Scala
10 5 (1.56%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.56%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.94%) Groovy
11 3 (0.94%) HiveQL
11 3 (0.94%) VB
12 2 (0.63%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.31%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.31%) Ruby
13 1 (0.31%) VB6
Qualifications
1 152 (47.50%) Security Cleared
2 130 (40.63%) SC Cleared
3 35 (10.94%) Degree
4 27 (8.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (6.88%) Azure Certification
6 16 (5.00%) DV Cleared
7 14 (4.38%) Master's Degree
8 9 (2.81%) IIBA
9 7 (2.19%) AWS Certification
9 7 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.56%) ISTQB
11 4 (1.25%) CISSP
11 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.25%) SAFe Agilist
12 3 (0.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.63%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.63%) PMP
13 2 (0.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (11.88%) Data Quality
2 34 (10.63%) QA
3 13 (4.06%) GDPR
4 12 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.19%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.56%) NCSC
6 5 (1.56%) NIST
7 4 (1.25%) SLA
8 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.31%) FATCA
8 1 (0.31%) PMO
8 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 140 (43.75%) Docker
2 7 (2.19%) Postfix
3 5 (1.56%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.25%) HDFS
5 3 (0.94%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.94%) vSphere
6 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.31%) KVM
6 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 139 (43.44%) Kubernetes
2 74 (23.13%) Terraform
3 51 (15.94%) Grafana
4 49 (15.31%) Ansible
5 34 (10.63%) Prometheus
6 16 (5.00%) Puppet
7 15 (4.69%) Kibana
8 7 (2.19%) Argo
9 5 (1.56%) logstash
10 4 (1.25%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.94%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.63%) HP Quality Center
12 2 (0.63%) Podman
12 2 (0.63%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.31%) Packer
13 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 51 (15.94%) Microsoft
2 39 (12.19%) Oracle
3 37 (11.56%) Splunk
4 35 (10.94%) Talend
5 34 (10.63%) Denodo
6 19 (5.94%) Atlassian
7 11 (3.44%) SAP
8 10 (3.13%) ServiceNow
9 9 (2.81%) CyberArk
9 9 (2.81%) Google
9 9 (2.81%) Jaspersoft
10 8 (2.50%) Red Hat
11 7 (2.19%) AppDynamics
11 7 (2.19%) Databricks
11 7 (2.19%) Dynatrace
12 6 (1.88%) Informatica
12 6 (1.88%) VMware
13 5 (1.56%) HP
14 4 (1.25%) webMethods
15 3 (0.94%) NEC
99 DevOps jobs in the West Midlands