DevOps Contracts in the West Midlands

DevOps
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 23 18
Rank change year-on-year +9 -5 -4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 139 123 209
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.99% 5.96% 9.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.13% 7.36% 10.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 90 139
10th Percentile £413 £327 £423
25th Percentile £453 £413 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £525 £588
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% -10.64% +8.80%
75th Percentile £588 £611 £688
90th Percentile £635 £672 £733
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £82.00 £56.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +45.78% - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £70.00 £65.61
% change year-on-year -10.71% +6.70% +0.93%

All Process and 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 1,372 1,672 1,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.75% 81.01% 87.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 867 1,116 1,371
10th Percentile £206 £273 £263
25th Percentile £363 £374 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +0.20%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £608
90th Percentile £673 £725 £713
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 111 48
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.06 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.06 £15.38
Median hourly rate £22.50 £19.95 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.78% -20.20% +47.06%
75th Percentile £33.88 £37.50 £30.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £56.25 £49.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £39.92
% change year-on-year -34.02% -4.50% +55.43%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the West Midlands

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the West Midlands

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the West Midlands

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend 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 7 July 2025. 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 +9 39 £475 +2.70% 67
Shropshire +20 28 £525 +2.84% 17
Warwickshire -7 26 £500 -18.83% 37
Solihull +24 19 £500 +61.29% 5
Worcestershire -2 11 £575 - 7
Coventry -4 7 £503 +11.67% 23
Herefordshire +17 3 £700 +33.33% 4
Staffordshire - 1 £525 - 40
DevOps
England

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (12.95%) Confluence
2 3 (2.16%) WebLogic
3 2 (1.44%) nginx
4 1 (0.72%) Apache
4 1 (0.72%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.72%) CMS
4 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.72%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.72%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 6 (4.32%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.44%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.72%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.16%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.16%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 71 (51.08%) Azure
2 45 (32.37%) AWS
3 36 (25.90%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (18.71%) Power Platform
5 23 (16.55%) Amazon EC2
5 23 (16.55%) Amazon S3
6 20 (14.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 18 (12.95%) PowerApps
8 16 (11.51%) AWS KMS
9 14 (10.07%) GitHub
10 12 (8.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 11 (7.91%) GCP
12 10 (7.19%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (7.19%) Route 53
12 10 (7.19%) Serverless
13 9 (6.47%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (5.76%) Amazon ELB
15 7 (5.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 7 (5.04%) Microsoft 365
16 6 (4.32%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.35%) Firewall
2 10 (7.19%) DNS
3 8 (5.76%) HTTP
3 8 (5.76%) SMTP
4 7 (5.04%) LAN
4 7 (5.04%) WAN
5 6 (4.32%) FTP
5 6 (4.32%) SSH
6 4 (2.88%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (2.88%) Wireshark
7 3 (2.16%) DHCP
7 3 (2.16%) VLAN
8 2 (1.44%) IMAP
8 2 (1.44%) Network Security
8 2 (1.44%) SAN
8 2 (1.44%) SSL
8 2 (1.44%) VPN
9 1 (0.72%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.72%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.11%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (11.51%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (8.63%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (7.19%) SQL Server
5 9 (6.47%) NoSQL
6 8 (5.76%) DynamoDB
7 7 (5.04%) Power BI
8 6 (4.32%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (2.88%) Delta Lake
9 4 (2.88%) GIS
9 4 (2.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (2.16%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 2 (1.44%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.72%) Big Data
12 1 (0.72%) Metadata
12 1 (0.72%) Semantic Layer
12 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 33 (23.74%) Jenkins
2 32 (23.02%) Git
3 23 (16.55%) JIRA
4 16 (11.51%) GitLab
5 14 (10.07%) Maven
6 10 (7.19%) JUnit
6 10 (7.19%) Mockito
6 10 (7.19%) SonarQube
7 8 (5.76%) Vagrant
8 7 (5.04%) Bitbucket Server
8 7 (5.04%) DbUnit
8 7 (5.04%) jMock
9 4 (2.88%) Selenium
10 3 (2.16%) JMeter
10 3 (2.16%) Plastic SCM
10 3 (2.16%) Postman
10 3 (2.16%) REST Assured
10 3 (2.16%) TestNG
10 3 (2.16%) Travis CI
10 3 (2.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 38 (27.34%) Social Skills
2 29 (20.86%) Public Sector
3 12 (8.63%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.91%) Finance
5 5 (3.60%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.16%) Games
7 3 (2.16%) Law
7 3 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.44%) Marketing
8 2 (1.44%) Retail
9 1 (0.72%) Legal
9 1 (0.72%) Military
Job Titles
1 33 (23.74%) DevOps Engineer
2 32 (23.02%) Developer
3 18 (12.95%) Architect
4 14 (10.07%) Lead
5 13 (9.35%) Java Developer
6 11 (7.91%) Solutions Architect
7 9 (6.47%) Technical Leader
8 7 (5.04%) Azure Engineer
8 7 (5.04%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (5.04%) Senior
9 6 (4.32%) Test Engineer
10 5 (3.60%) AWS DevOps
10 5 (3.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.60%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (3.60%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 5 (3.60%) Consultant
10 5 (3.60%) Data Architect
10 5 (3.60%) Network Engineer
10 5 (3.60%) Power Platform Developer
11 4 (2.88%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.07%) .NET
1 14 (10.07%) Spring
2 13 (9.35%) RESTful
2 13 (9.35%) SOAP
2 13 (9.35%) Spring Boot
3 12 (8.63%) Web Services
4 11 (7.91%) REST
5 10 (7.19%) ActiveMQ
5 10 (7.19%) AngularJS
5 10 (7.19%) JPA
5 10 (7.19%) Spring Cloud
6 9 (6.47%) Bootstrap
7 8 (5.76%) ADO
7 8 (5.76%) Hibernate
7 8 (5.76%) YAML
8 7 (5.04%) PowerMock
8 7 (5.04%) Spring Batch
8 7 (5.04%) Spring Integration
9 4 (2.88%) LDAP
9 4 (2.88%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.47%) Cloud Native
1 9 (6.47%) Replication
2 8 (5.76%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (5.76%) IoT
2 8 (5.76%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.32%) PKI
4 4 (2.88%) Blockchain
4 4 (2.88%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.16%) SCADA
6 2 (1.44%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.72%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.72%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.72%) NHS
7 1 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (16.55%) Linux
2 10 (7.19%) Windows
3 8 (5.76%) Amazon Linux
3 8 (5.76%) VMS
4 4 (2.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.16%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.44%) CentOS
6 2 (1.44%) Debian
7 1 (0.72%) SUSE
7 1 (0.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (55.40%) Agile
2 53 (38.13%) CI/CD
3 33 (23.74%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (18.71%) Scrum
5 24 (17.27%) Configuration Management
5 24 (17.27%) Microservices
6 20 (14.39%) Containerisation
7 19 (13.67%) Data Modelling
7 19 (13.67%) Test Strategy
8 18 (12.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (12.95%) Software Engineering
9 16 (11.51%) Process Improvement
10 15 (10.79%) Analytics
10 15 (10.79%) Test Automation
11 14 (10.07%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (10.07%) Platform Engineering
11 14 (10.07%) User Experience
12 13 (9.35%) Cloud Security
12 13 (9.35%) Computer Science
12 13 (9.35%) OO
Programming Languages
1 38 (27.34%) SQL
2 27 (19.42%) Python
3 23 (16.55%) Java
4 13 (9.35%) C#
5 12 (8.63%) PowerShell
6 9 (6.47%) Bash
7 8 (5.76%) Groovy
8 6 (4.32%) JavaScript
8 6 (4.32%) Perl
9 5 (3.60%) Bicep
9 5 (3.60%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.16%) Go
10 3 (2.16%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (2.16%) Scala
10 3 (2.16%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.72%) C
11 1 (0.72%) Korn
11 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (35.25%) Security Cleared
2 36 (25.90%) SC Cleared
3 15 (10.79%) Degree
4 12 (8.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (7.19%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.16%) CEH
6 3 (2.16%) CISSP
6 3 (2.16%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.44%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.72%) CITP
8 1 (0.72%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.72%) OCP
8 1 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.72%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.72%) PMP
8 1 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.95%) QA
2 6 (4.32%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.16%) GDPR
5 2 (1.44%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.72%) NCSC
6 1 (0.72%) NIST
6 1 (0.72%) PMO
6 1 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.72%) SLA
6 1 (0.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 42 (30.22%) Docker
2 10 (7.19%) Postfix
3 7 (5.04%) Active Directory
4 6 (4.32%) DFS Replication
4 6 (4.32%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.44%) Dovecot
5 2 (1.44%) Squid
6 1 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.72%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 37 (26.62%) Terraform
2 28 (20.14%) Kubernetes
3 20 (14.39%) Grafana
3 20 (14.39%) Prometheus
4 15 (10.79%) Ansible
5 5 (3.60%) HP ALM
6 4 (2.88%) Nessus
6 4 (2.88%) Puppet
7 3 (2.16%) Kibana
7 3 (2.16%) Opsview
8 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.72%) Argo
9 1 (0.72%) Consul
9 1 (0.72%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.72%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.72%) Rancher
9 1 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.72%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (17.99%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.47%) Atlassian
2 9 (6.47%) Jaspersoft
2 9 (6.47%) ServiceNow
3 7 (5.04%) Cisco
3 7 (5.04%) Databricks
4 6 (4.32%) Micro Focus
5 5 (3.60%) HP
5 5 (3.60%) Oracle
5 5 (3.60%) Progress
6 4 (2.88%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.88%) SAP
6 4 (2.88%) VMware
7 3 (2.16%) Informatica
7 3 (2.16%) PagerDuty
8 2 (1.44%) Google
8 2 (1.44%) Sophos
8 2 (1.44%) Splunk
8 2 (1.44%) Veeam
9 1 (0.72%) Fujitsu