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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 13 21
Rank change year-on-year -2 +8 -1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 352 195 131
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.21% 11.04% 6.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.06% 12.50% 8.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 134 94
10th Percentile £381 £401 £338
25th Percentile £413 £463 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £519 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% -9.83% +4.55%
75th Percentile £580 £594 £633
90th Percentile £671 £659 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 1
10th Percentile £21.25 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £82.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.63% +17.14% -
75th Percentile £75.00 - £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -4.29% +7.69%

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 2,919 1,560 1,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.71% 88.34% 81.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,797 998 1,014
10th Percentile £313 £250 £250
25th Percentile £411 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £725
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 102 50
10th Percentile £13.45 £12.62 £13.14
25th Percentile £17.74 £15.34 £14.78
Median hourly rate £30.27 £24.34 £22.05
Median % change year-on-year +24.36% +10.41% -19.84%
75th Percentile £53.75 £35.45 £35.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £50.00 £55.03
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.63%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -14 98 £500 -4.67% 13
Birmingham -2 89 £469 -1.32% 44
Coventry +10 49 £425 -15.42% 9
Warwickshire +10 48 £500 - 6
Solihull -4 28 £475 -17.39% 4
Herefordshire 0 10 £563 -19.64%
Worcestershire -8 6 £575 -1.08% 4
Staffordshire -4 3 £388 - 6
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 48 (13.64%) Confluence
2 42 (11.93%) SAS
3 19 (5.40%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (3.13%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.99%) Apache
6 3 (0.85%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.57%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.57%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.57%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.28%) IIS
8 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (1.99%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (1.42%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (3.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.28%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.28%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.28%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.28%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 192 (54.55%) Azure
2 123 (34.94%) AWS
2 123 (34.94%) Azure DevOps
3 57 (16.19%) GitHub
4 50 (14.20%) Serverless
5 49 (13.92%) GitHub Actions
6 42 (11.93%) Amazon S3
7 41 (11.65%) Power Platform
8 35 (9.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 35 (9.94%) AWS Lambda
9 34 (9.66%) Amazon EC2
10 28 (7.95%) Dynamics 365
11 24 (6.82%) Amazon EKS
11 24 (6.82%) Power Automate
12 21 (5.97%) Amazon ECS
13 19 (5.40%) Azure Data Factory
14 17 (4.83%) AWS CloudFormation
14 17 (4.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 12 (3.41%) Amazon SQS
15 12 (3.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.68%) Firewall
2 8 (2.27%) SD-WAN
2 8 (2.27%) WAN
3 5 (1.42%) DNS
3 5 (1.42%) LAN
3 5 (1.42%) Network Security
4 4 (1.14%) BGP
4 4 (1.14%) DHCP
4 4 (1.14%) Internet
4 4 (1.14%) NetScaler
4 4 (1.14%) OSPF
4 4 (1.14%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.14%) VPN
4 4 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.85%) BIG-IP
5 3 (0.85%) Ethernet VPN
5 3 (0.85%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (0.85%) SSL
5 3 (0.85%) VXLAN
5 3 (0.85%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (7.39%) Power BI
2 22 (6.25%) Pentaho
3 21 (5.97%) NoSQL
4 19 (5.40%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (5.11%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (5.11%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 18 (5.11%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 18 (5.11%) SQL Server
6 17 (4.83%) Oracle Database
7 15 (4.26%) Data Lake
8 14 (3.98%) Metadata
9 13 (3.69%) DynamoDB
10 12 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
11 10 (2.84%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (2.56%) MongoDB
13 7 (1.99%) Amazon Aurora
14 6 (1.70%) Delta Lake
15 4 (1.14%) Data Vault
15 4 (1.14%) SAS Data Integration Studio
15 4 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 80 (22.73%) JIRA
2 64 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 44 (12.50%) Git
4 42 (11.93%) GitLab
5 20 (5.68%) Bitbucket
6 18 (5.11%) Selenium
7 14 (3.98%) Postman
8 13 (3.69%) Cypress.io
9 12 (3.41%) SonarQube
10 11 (3.13%) Maven
11 10 (2.84%) WebDriver
12 8 (2.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 8 (2.27%) JUnit
13 7 (1.99%) Mockito
14 6 (1.70%) Cucumber
14 6 (1.70%) LoadRunner
14 6 (1.70%) REST Assured
15 5 (1.42%) Artifactory
15 5 (1.42%) Bitbucket Server
15 5 (1.42%) jMock
General
1 127 (36.08%) Social Skills
2 106 (30.11%) Public Sector
3 49 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (12.22%) Finance
5 32 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (1.99%) Legal
8 6 (1.70%) Banking
8 6 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.85%) Local Government
11 3 (0.85%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.57%) Advertising
12 2 (0.57%) Billing
12 2 (0.57%) Military
12 2 (0.57%) Publishing
12 2 (0.57%) Retail
13 1 (0.28%) Front Office
13 1 (0.28%) Police
Job Titles
1 52 (14.77%) Architect
1 52 (14.77%) Senior
2 42 (11.93%) DevOps Engineer
3 41 (11.65%) Developer
4 33 (9.38%) Data Engineer
4 33 (9.38%) Lead
5 29 (8.24%) Analyst
5 29 (8.24%) Scrum Master
6 19 (5.40%) Azure Engineer
7 15 (4.26%) Data Architect
7 15 (4.26%) Test Analyst
8 13 (3.69%) Business Analyst
8 13 (3.69%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 13 (3.69%) Senior Developer
9 11 (3.13%) Senior DevOps
9 11 (3.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 10 (2.84%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (2.84%) Java Developer
10 10 (2.84%) Release Manager
10 10 (2.84%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (19.03%) Terraform
2 36 (10.23%) REST
3 24 (6.82%) JSON
4 23 (6.53%) Spring
4 23 (6.53%) Spring Boot
5 21 (5.97%) RESTful
6 17 (4.83%) Node.js
7 16 (4.55%) .NET
8 14 (3.98%) Kafka
9 13 (3.69%) Web Services
9 13 (3.69%) YAML
10 12 (3.41%) SOAP
11 10 (2.84%) AWS CDK
11 10 (2.84%) Elastic Stack
12 9 (2.56%) Gherkin
12 9 (2.56%) Playwright
12 9 (2.56%) Spring Cloud
13 7 (1.99%) AngularJS
13 7 (1.99%) Spring Batch
13 7 (1.99%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 76 (21.59%) Cloud Native
2 45 (12.78%) Product Ownership
3 17 (4.83%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (2.84%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.27%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.27%) SCADA
6 8 (2.27%) Virtual Team
7 7 (1.99%) Mobile App
7 7 (1.99%) Private Cloud
7 7 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.70%) Autonomous Agent
8 6 (1.70%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.42%) IoT
9 5 (1.42%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.42%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.42%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.53%) Linux
2 15 (4.26%) Windows
3 4 (1.14%) AIX
4 3 (0.85%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.85%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.57%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (60.80%) CI/CD
2 191 (54.26%) Agile
3 105 (29.83%) Scrum
4 103 (29.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 88 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 78 (22.16%) Infrastructure as Code
6 78 (22.16%) Stakeholder Management
7 72 (20.45%) Technical Leadership
8 71 (20.17%) Analytics
9 70 (19.89%) Problem-Solving
10 67 (19.03%) Migration
11 63 (17.90%) Containerisation
12 56 (15.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 53 (15.06%) Data Modelling
14 50 (14.20%) Microservices
15 49 (13.92%) Platform Engineering
16 46 (13.07%) ETL
17 45 (12.78%) AI
18 44 (12.50%) Data Integration
18 44 (12.50%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 60 (17.05%) SQL
2 50 (14.20%) Java
3 45 (12.78%) Python
4 35 (9.94%) C#
5 28 (7.95%) JavaScript
6 17 (4.83%) PowerShell
7 13 (3.69%) Bash
7 13 (3.69%) Bicep
8 8 (2.27%) Go
9 6 (1.70%) Scala
9 6 (1.70%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.85%) Groovy
10 3 (0.85%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.57%) VB
11 2 (0.57%) VB6
12 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.28%) R
Qualifications
1 149 (42.33%) Security Cleared
2 118 (33.52%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.53%) BPSS Clearance
4 19 (5.40%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (4.83%) ISTQB
6 15 (4.26%) Degree
7 14 (3.98%) AWS Certification
8 13 (3.69%) DV Cleared
9 11 (3.13%) Azure Certification
9 11 (3.13%) SAFe Agilist
10 9 (2.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 6 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.14%) SAS Certification
13 3 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.57%) CCNP
14 2 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.57%) CISSP
14 2 (0.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 1 (0.28%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (10.51%) QA
2 32 (9.09%) Data Quality
3 31 (8.81%) Accessibility
4 17 (4.83%) GDPR
5 13 (3.69%) WCAG
6 11 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.14%) ISO 19650
7 4 (1.14%) NIST
7 4 (1.14%) PMO
8 1 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.28%) NCSC
8 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 81 (23.01%) Docker
2 5 (1.42%) Postfix
3 4 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.85%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.85%) vSphere
5 1 (0.28%) KVM
5 1 (0.28%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 67 (19.03%) Kubernetes
2 32 (9.09%) Grafana
3 23 (6.53%) Prometheus
4 22 (6.25%) Ansible
5 8 (2.27%) Progress Chef
5 8 (2.27%) Puppet
6 6 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.14%) Argo
8 3 (0.85%) HP ALM
8 3 (0.85%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.57%) Check_MK
9 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.28%) Istio
10 1 (0.28%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.28%) Podman
10 1 (0.28%) SCCM
10 1 (0.28%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 70 (19.89%) Microsoft
2 33 (9.38%) Oracle
3 21 (5.97%) Denodo
4 18 (5.11%) Atlassian
5 15 (4.26%) Splunk
6 13 (3.69%) Databricks
7 12 (3.41%) Talend
8 9 (2.56%) Cisco
9 8 (2.27%) Informatica
9 8 (2.27%) SAP
9 8 (2.27%) VMware
10 7 (1.99%) Jaspersoft
11 5 (1.42%) Fortinet
11 5 (1.42%) Google
11 5 (1.42%) Pega
11 5 (1.42%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.42%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.14%) Aruba
12 4 (1.14%) F5
12 4 (1.14%) HP