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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 22 31
Rank change year-on-year +6 +9 -11
Contract jobs citing DevOps 299 97 91
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 9.78% 7.09% 4.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.75% 7.98% 5.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 69 66
10th Percentile £400 £400 £275
25th Percentile £425 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £524 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +10.32% -15.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £597
90th Percentile £619 £628 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £54.40 - £55.25
25th Percentile £59.13 £56.25 £55.63
Median hourly rate £69.25 £57.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +20.43% +2.22% -
75th Percentile £78.63 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £80.65 - -
England median hourly rate £63.73 £67.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -5.59% +3.85% -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 2,544 1,215 1,621
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.22% 88.75% 83.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,660 808 1,071
10th Percentile £306 £195 £275
25th Percentile £402 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £624
90th Percentile £651 £678 £738
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 56 116
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.62 £11.09
25th Percentile £17.65 £14.32 £14.00
Median hourly rate £28.75 £18.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.72% -20.00% +26.98%
75th Percentile £59.69 £23.87 £40.81
90th Percentile £70.53 £34.51 £57.50
England median hourly rate £42.69 £30.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year +40.18% -13.00% -8.74%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 -5 98 £492 -6.20% 7
Birmingham +9 92 £519 +9.21% 42
Warwickshire +10 42 £488 -2.50% 6
Coventry - 22 £407 - 6
Worcestershire +6 19 £560 -4.68% 4
Solihull -5 17 £481 -19.06% 1
Herefordshire -2 12 £550 -21.43%
Staffordshire +1 3 £388 -26.19% 3
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 62 (20.74%) SAS
2 43 (14.38%) Confluence
3 10 (3.34%) OpenStack
4 9 (3.01%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.67%) Apache
6 3 (1.00%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (1.00%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.00%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.67%) JBoss
8 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.33%) LiveCycle
8 1 (0.33%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 9 (3.01%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (2.01%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.33%) Maximo
2 1 (0.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 138 (46.15%) Azure
2 92 (30.77%) AWS
3 67 (22.41%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (14.05%) GitHub
5 31 (10.37%) Serverless
6 27 (9.03%) GitHub Actions
7 26 (8.70%) Amazon S3
7 26 (8.70%) GCP
8 25 (8.36%) Azure Data Factory
9 21 (7.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 19 (6.35%) Amazon EC2
11 18 (6.02%) Power Platform
12 17 (5.69%) AWS Lambda
13 16 (5.35%) Amazon SQS
14 15 (5.02%) OpenShift
15 14 (4.68%) AWS KMS
15 14 (4.68%) Route 53
16 11 (3.68%) Entra ID
17 10 (3.34%) Azure Key Vault
17 10 (3.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.01%) Firewall
2 6 (2.01%) DNS
2 6 (2.01%) Network Security
3 5 (1.67%) VPN
4 3 (1.00%) DHCP
4 3 (1.00%) Internet
4 3 (1.00%) LAN
4 3 (1.00%) SD-WAN
4 3 (1.00%) SSL
4 3 (1.00%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.00%) WAN
5 1 (0.33%) 4G
5 1 (0.33%) BGP
5 1 (0.33%) MPLS
5 1 (0.33%) OSPF
5 1 (0.33%) tcpdump
5 1 (0.33%) VLAN
5 1 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.33%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.33%) WPA2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (11.37%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (10.03%) Pentaho
3 21 (7.02%) Elasticsearch
4 18 (6.02%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (6.02%) DynamoDB
5 13 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
6 12 (4.01%) Power BI
7 11 (3.68%) NoSQL
7 11 (3.68%) Oracle Database
8 10 (3.34%) Relational Database
8 10 (3.34%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 9 (3.01%) SAS Visual Analytics
10 8 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (2.34%) Data Lake
12 6 (2.01%) Metadata
13 5 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (1.67%) BusinessObjects
14 4 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (1.34%) MySQL
14 4 (1.34%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 77 (25.75%) JIRA
2 75 (25.08%) Jenkins
3 72 (24.08%) Git
4 32 (10.70%) GitLab
5 23 (7.69%) JUnit
6 17 (5.69%) Maven
6 17 (5.69%) Selenium
6 17 (5.69%) SonarQube
7 13 (4.35%) Bitbucket
7 13 (4.35%) Mockito
8 10 (3.34%) DbUnit
8 10 (3.34%) jMock
9 8 (2.68%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (1.67%) Postman
11 4 (1.34%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.34%) CircleCI
11 4 (1.34%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.34%) REST Assured
12 3 (1.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 92 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 51 (17.06%) Public Sector
3 48 (16.05%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (9.70%) Finance
5 13 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (1.67%) Banking
6 5 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.34%) Retail
7 4 (1.34%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.67%) Advertising
8 2 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.33%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.33%) Legal
9 1 (0.33%) Military
9 1 (0.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 48 (16.05%) Data Engineer
2 43 (14.38%) Developer
3 35 (11.71%) Senior
4 33 (11.04%) Architect
5 26 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 23 (7.69%) Analyst
7 18 (6.02%) Business Analyst
7 18 (6.02%) Full-Stack Developer
8 13 (4.35%) Java Developer
8 13 (4.35%) Lead
9 12 (4.01%) Project Manager
10 11 (3.68%) SAS Engineer
11 10 (3.34%) Senior Data Engineer
11 10 (3.34%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (3.01%) Data Architect
12 9 (3.01%) Engagement Manager
12 9 (3.01%) Senior Developer
12 9 (3.01%) Site Engineer
12 9 (3.01%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 9 (3.01%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (14.05%) REST
2 29 (9.70%) Node.js
3 21 (7.02%) Elastic Stack
4 19 (6.35%) Flask
4 19 (6.35%) YAML
5 18 (6.02%) SOAP
6 17 (5.69%) AngularJS
6 17 (5.69%) Spring
7 16 (5.35%) .NET
8 15 (5.02%) Hibernate
8 15 (5.02%) Kafka
8 15 (5.02%) Spring Boot
8 15 (5.02%) Web Services
9 14 (4.68%) Spring Cloud
10 13 (4.35%) ActiveMQ
10 13 (4.35%) JPA
10 13 (4.35%) RESTful
10 13 (4.35%) Spring Batch
10 13 (4.35%) Spring Integration
11 12 (4.01%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 39 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.03%) Product Ownership
3 15 (5.02%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.68%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (3.01%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.34%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.34%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.00%) Educational Technology
9 3 (1.00%) IoT
9 3 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.00%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.00%) SCADA
9 3 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.67%) Autonomous Agent
10 2 (0.67%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.67%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.67%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.33%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 33 (11.04%) Linux
2 15 (5.02%) Unix
3 14 (4.68%) Windows
4 2 (0.67%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (59.20%) CI/CD
2 158 (52.84%) Agile
3 85 (28.43%) Scrum
4 79 (26.42%) Containerisation
5 78 (26.09%) Analytics
6 64 (21.40%) Test Automation
7 63 (21.07%) Problem-Solving
8 62 (20.74%) Migration
9 60 (20.07%) Stakeholder Management
10 56 (18.73%) Continuous Improvement
10 56 (18.73%) Data Modelling
11 53 (17.73%) Data Integration
11 53 (17.73%) Data Pipeline
12 52 (17.39%) ETL
13 43 (14.38%) Change Management
13 43 (14.38%) Infrastructure as Code
14 42 (14.05%) Microservices
15 39 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
16 35 (11.71%) Data Analytics
16 35 (11.71%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 98 (32.78%) SQL
2 72 (24.08%) Python
3 32 (10.70%) Java
4 22 (7.36%) Bash
5 21 (7.02%) JavaScript
6 18 (6.02%) PowerShell
7 17 (5.69%) Go
8 13 (4.35%) C#
9 11 (3.68%) Bicep
10 5 (1.67%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.67%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.34%) Groovy
11 4 (1.34%) Scala
12 3 (1.00%) HiveQL
12 3 (1.00%) VB
13 1 (0.33%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.33%) VB6
Qualifications
1 141 (47.16%) Security Cleared
2 119 (39.80%) SC Cleared
3 23 (7.69%) Degree
4 17 (5.69%) Azure Certification
5 15 (5.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (3.34%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (3.34%) DV Cleared
7 9 (3.01%) IIBA
8 7 (2.34%) ISTQB
9 6 (2.01%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.67%) SAFe Agilist
11 4 (1.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (1.34%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.00%) CISSP
12 3 (1.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.67%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.67%) PMP
13 2 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (11.71%) Data Quality
2 31 (10.37%) QA
3 12 (4.01%) GDPR
4 11 (3.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.68%) Accessibility
6 7 (2.34%) NIST
7 3 (1.00%) SLA
8 2 (0.67%) ISO 19650
8 2 (0.67%) WCAG
9 1 (0.33%) FATCA
9 1 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.33%) NCSC
9 1 (0.33%) PMO
System Software
1 107 (35.79%) Docker
2 10 (3.34%) Postfix
3 6 (2.01%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.34%) HDFS
6 3 (1.00%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.00%) vSphere
7 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.33%) KVM
7 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 101 (33.78%) Kubernetes
2 61 (20.40%) Terraform
3 46 (15.38%) Grafana
4 38 (12.71%) Ansible
5 25 (8.36%) Prometheus
6 13 (4.35%) Kibana
7 12 (4.01%) Puppet
8 8 (2.68%) Argo
9 5 (1.67%) logstash
10 3 (1.00%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.67%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.67%) HP Quality Center
11 2 (0.67%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.33%) Packer
12 1 (0.33%) Podman
Vendors
1 48 (16.05%) Microsoft
2 37 (12.37%) Oracle
3 30 (10.03%) Denodo
4 26 (8.70%) Splunk
4 26 (8.70%) Talend
5 22 (7.36%) Atlassian
6 13 (4.35%) Jaspersoft
7 11 (3.68%) SAP
7 11 (3.68%) ServiceNow
8 9 (3.01%) Dynatrace
9 8 (2.68%) Informatica
9 8 (2.68%) Red Hat
10 7 (2.34%) AppDynamics
11 6 (2.01%) CyberArk
11 6 (2.01%) Databricks
11 6 (2.01%) VMware
12 4 (1.34%) Pega
13 3 (1.00%) Google
13 3 (1.00%) HP
13 3 (1.00%) NEC