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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 14 22
Rank change year-on-year -3 +8 -4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 347 144 130
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.15% 8.93% 6.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.82% 10.07% 7.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 96 93
10th Percentile £400 £401 £337
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.25% -4.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £611
90th Percentile £671 £632 £674
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 3
10th Percentile £60.70 - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
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 £68.75 £66.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +3.38% -5.00% +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 2,936 1,430 1,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.87% 88.71% 80.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,911 905 1,099
10th Percentile £313 £207 £263
25th Percentile £405 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £671 £688 £725
England median daily rate £525 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 97 108
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.06
25th Percentile £20.31 £13.78 £14.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £22.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.07% +18.42% -24.38%
75th Percentile £59.56 £33.88 £37.50
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £57.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -5.96%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 13 July 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
Birmingham +8 101 £500 +5.26% 42
Shropshire -10 93 £510 -2.76% 13
Warwickshire +3 51 £500 - 8
Coventry +2 37 £407 -19.00% 6
Solihull -6 27 £488 -2.50% 3
Herefordshire +6 13 £700 - 5
Worcestershire -7 9 £669 +16.30% 3
Staffordshire +2 3 £388 -26.19% 3
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 56 (16.14%) SAS
2 44 (12.68%) Confluence
3 19 (5.48%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.31%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.73%) Apache
6 5 (1.44%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.86%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.58%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.58%) CloudStack
9 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.29%) LiveCycle
Applications
1 9 (2.59%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (2.31%) MS Visio
3 7 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (2.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.29%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.29%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 185 (53.31%) Azure
2 118 (34.01%) AWS
3 109 (31.41%) Azure DevOps
4 54 (15.56%) GitHub
5 42 (12.10%) Amazon S3
5 42 (12.10%) GitHub Actions
6 38 (10.95%) Serverless
7 35 (10.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 33 (9.51%) Amazon EC2
9 29 (8.36%) AWS Lambda
10 27 (7.78%) Power Platform
11 21 (6.05%) Azure Data Factory
12 19 (5.48%) Amazon SQS
13 16 (4.61%) AWS KMS
13 16 (4.61%) Route 53
14 15 (4.32%) Amazon EKS
14 15 (4.32%) OpenShift
14 15 (4.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 14 (4.03%) AWS CloudFormation
15 14 (4.03%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.48%) Firewall
2 7 (2.02%) DNS
2 7 (2.02%) Network Security
2 7 (2.02%) SD-WAN
2 7 (2.02%) WAN
3 5 (1.44%) VPN
4 4 (1.15%) BGP
4 4 (1.15%) DHCP
4 4 (1.15%) Internet
4 4 (1.15%) LAN
4 4 (1.15%) OSPF
4 4 (1.15%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.86%) BIG-IP
5 3 (0.86%) Ethernet VPN
5 3 (0.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (0.86%) SSL
5 3 (0.86%) VXLAN
5 3 (0.86%) WLAN
6 2 (0.58%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (7.49%) Pentaho
2 25 (7.20%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (6.92%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (6.05%) DynamoDB
5 20 (5.76%) Power BI
6 19 (5.48%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 18 (5.19%) Oracle Database
7 18 (5.19%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 15 (4.32%) Amazon Aurora
9 12 (3.46%) SQL Server
10 10 (2.88%) NoSQL
11 9 (2.59%) Azure SQL Database
11 9 (2.59%) Relational Database
12 8 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (2.02%) Metadata
14 6 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (1.73%) BusinessObjects
14 6 (1.73%) Data Lake
14 6 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (1.44%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 86 (24.78%) Jenkins
2 73 (21.04%) JIRA
3 60 (17.29%) Git
4 51 (14.70%) GitLab
5 21 (6.05%) JUnit
5 21 (6.05%) Selenium
6 19 (5.48%) SonarQube
7 18 (5.19%) Bitbucket
7 18 (5.19%) Maven
8 15 (4.32%) Mockito
9 11 (3.17%) DbUnit
9 11 (3.17%) jMock
10 10 (2.88%) Postman
11 9 (2.59%) Bitbucket Server
11 9 (2.59%) REST Assured
12 8 (2.31%) Cypress.io
13 7 (2.02%) LoadRunner
14 6 (1.73%) Serenity BDD
14 6 (1.73%) WebDriver
15 5 (1.44%) Cucumber
General
1 98 (28.24%) Social Skills
2 80 (23.05%) Public Sector
3 45 (12.97%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (12.10%) Finance
5 17 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (2.02%) Legal
6 7 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (1.73%) Banking
8 5 (1.44%) Retail
9 4 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.58%) Advertising
10 2 (0.58%) Billing
10 2 (0.58%) Local Government
11 1 (0.29%) Front Office
11 1 (0.29%) Military
11 1 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.29%) Publishing
11 1 (0.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (13.54%) Architect
1 47 (13.54%) Developer
1 47 (13.54%) Senior
2 43 (12.39%) Data Engineer
3 40 (11.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 30 (8.65%) Lead
5 25 (7.20%) Analyst
6 18 (5.19%) Scrum Master
7 15 (4.32%) Full-Stack Developer
7 15 (4.32%) Java Developer
8 13 (3.75%) Azure Engineer
8 13 (3.75%) Business Analyst
9 12 (3.46%) Senior Developer
10 11 (3.17%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (3.17%) Senior DevOps
10 11 (3.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 11 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
10 11 (3.17%) Test Analyst
11 10 (2.88%) AWS DevOps
11 10 (2.88%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (11.24%) REST
2 31 (8.93%) Node.js
3 22 (6.34%) Spring
3 22 (6.34%) Spring Boot
4 21 (6.05%) Web Services
5 20 (5.76%) .NET
6 19 (5.48%) SOAP
7 18 (5.19%) Spring Cloud
8 17 (4.90%) RESTful
8 17 (4.90%) YAML
9 16 (4.61%) AngularJS
9 16 (4.61%) Elastic Stack
9 16 (4.61%) Flask
10 15 (4.32%) ActiveMQ
10 15 (4.32%) Hibernate
10 15 (4.32%) JPA
10 15 (4.32%) Spring Batch
10 15 (4.32%) Spring Integration
11 13 (3.75%) JSON
12 12 (3.46%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 60 (17.29%) Cloud Native
2 32 (9.22%) Product Ownership
3 22 (6.34%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (2.31%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.02%) SCADA
6 7 (2.02%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.73%) Private Cloud
8 5 (1.44%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.44%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.44%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.15%) Blog
9 4 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.15%) IoT
9 4 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.15%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.86%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 29 (8.36%) Linux
2 11 (3.17%) Windows
3 5 (1.44%) Unix
4 3 (0.86%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.86%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.58%) AIX
5 2 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.58%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (61.67%) CI/CD
2 176 (50.72%) Agile
3 99 (28.53%) Scrum
4 87 (25.07%) Test Automation
5 85 (24.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 77 (22.19%) Containerisation
7 73 (21.04%) Stakeholder Management
8 72 (20.75%) Analytics
9 70 (20.17%) Infrastructure as Code
10 65 (18.73%) Problem-Solving
11 62 (17.87%) Migration
12 57 (16.43%) Data Integration
13 49 (14.12%) Data Modelling
14 46 (13.26%) ETL
14 46 (13.26%) Technical Leadership
15 45 (12.97%) Microservices
16 44 (12.68%) Data Pipeline
17 42 (12.10%) Observability
17 42 (12.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 41 (11.82%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 96 (27.67%) SQL
2 55 (15.85%) Python
3 46 (13.26%) Java
4 26 (7.49%) JavaScript
5 25 (7.20%) C#
6 15 (4.32%) Bicep
7 14 (4.03%) PowerShell
8 13 (3.75%) Bash
9 12 (3.46%) Go
10 5 (1.44%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.44%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.86%) Groovy
11 3 (0.86%) HiveQL
11 3 (0.86%) VB
12 2 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.29%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.29%) Scala
13 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.29%) VB6
Qualifications
1 157 (45.24%) Security Cleared
2 124 (35.73%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.61%) Degree
4 14 (4.03%) DV Cleared
5 13 (3.75%) Azure Certification
6 12 (3.46%) ISTQB
7 11 (3.17%) SAFe Agilist
8 10 (2.88%) AWS Certification
8 10 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (2.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 9 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (1.15%) SAS Certification
13 3 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.86%) CISSP
14 2 (0.58%) CCNP
14 2 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (10.95%) Data Quality
2 34 (9.80%) QA
3 21 (6.05%) Accessibility
4 11 (3.17%) GDPR
5 10 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (2.02%) WCAG
7 5 (1.44%) NIST
8 4 (1.15%) ISO 19650
9 3 (0.86%) SLA
10 2 (0.58%) NCSC
11 1 (0.29%) FATCA
11 1 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.29%) PMO
System Software
1 98 (28.24%) Docker
2 11 (3.17%) Postfix
3 7 (2.02%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.44%) vSphere
6 3 (0.86%) HDFS
6 3 (0.86%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.29%) KVM
Systems Management
1 83 (23.92%) Kubernetes
2 75 (21.61%) Terraform
3 51 (14.70%) Grafana
4 33 (9.51%) Ansible
5 30 (8.65%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.31%) Puppet
7 7 (2.02%) Progress Chef
8 6 (1.73%) Argo
9 5 (1.44%) HP ALM
9 5 (1.44%) HP Quality Center
9 5 (1.44%) Kibana
10 4 (1.15%) logstash
10 4 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.86%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.58%) Check_MK
13 1 (0.29%) Istio
13 1 (0.29%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.29%) Packer
13 1 (0.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 63 (18.16%) Microsoft
2 42 (12.10%) Oracle
3 25 (7.20%) Denodo
4 21 (6.05%) Talend
5 20 (5.76%) Atlassian
6 17 (4.90%) Splunk
7 15 (4.32%) Jaspersoft
8 13 (3.75%) Databricks
9 10 (2.88%) Informatica
9 10 (2.88%) SAP
10 9 (2.59%) ServiceNow
11 8 (2.31%) VMware
12 7 (2.02%) Cisco
13 6 (1.73%) HP
13 6 (1.73%) Red Hat
14 5 (1.44%) Fortinet
14 5 (1.44%) Pega
15 4 (1.15%) Aruba
15 4 (1.15%) F5
15 4 (1.15%) Google