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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 33 19
Rank change year-on-year +12 -14 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 99 92 228
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.36% 4.73% 9.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.33% 5.62% 10.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 65 145
10th Percentile £400 £275 £413
25th Percentile £432 £350 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £650
90th Percentile £615 £688 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £58.83 £55.25 -
25th Percentile £62.69 £55.63 -
Median hourly rate £69.75 £56.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% - -
75th Percentile £76.19 - -
90th Percentile £79.68 - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.76% +19.09%

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 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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 1 May 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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 +15 35 £475 +11.76% 94
Shropshire +19 26 £524 +0.29% 12
Warwickshire -3 15 £500 -17.63% 27
Solihull +25 9 £594 +116.09% 9
Worcestershire +1 7 £588 +11.90% 12
Herefordshire +14 3 £700 +33.33% 4
Walsall - 2 £375 - 2
Staffordshire - 1 £525 - 52
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 7 (7.07%) Confluence
2 2 (2.02%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.01%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.02%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (4.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 56 (56.57%) Azure
2 26 (26.26%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (25.25%) AWS
4 24 (24.24%) Power Platform
5 21 (21.21%) PowerApps
6 10 (10.10%) GCP
7 8 (8.08%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (6.06%) Amazon S3
9 5 (5.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (5.05%) Power Automate
10 4 (4.04%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (4.04%) GitHub
10 4 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (3.03%) AWS KMS
11 3 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (3.03%) Route 53
11 3 (3.03%) Serverless
12 2 (2.02%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (2.02%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.03%) Firewall
2 2 (2.02%) DHCP
2 2 (2.02%) DNS
2 2 (2.02%) HTTP
2 2 (2.02%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (2.02%) SAN
2 2 (2.02%) SSL
2 2 (2.02%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.08%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (7.07%) SQL Server
3 6 (6.06%) NoSQL
4 5 (5.05%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (5.05%) Data Lake
5 4 (4.04%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (4.04%) DynamoDB
6 3 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.02%) Power BI
8 1 (1.01%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.01%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.01%) GIS
8 1 (1.01%) Metadata
8 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (1.01%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (1.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (15.15%) Git
1 15 (15.15%) Jenkins
2 14 (14.14%) GitLab
3 13 (13.13%) JIRA
4 8 (8.08%) Maven
5 4 (4.04%) JUnit
5 4 (4.04%) Mockito
5 4 (4.04%) Selenium
5 4 (4.04%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.03%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (3.03%) DbUnit
6 3 (3.03%) JMeter
6 3 (3.03%) jMock
6 3 (3.03%) Plastic SCM
6 3 (3.03%) Postman
6 3 (3.03%) REST Assured
6 3 (3.03%) TestNG
6 3 (3.03%) Travis CI
7 2 (2.02%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.02%) Visual Studio
General
1 38 (38.38%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.17%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 10 (10.10%) Finance
5 5 (5.05%) Retail
6 3 (3.03%) Games
6 3 (3.03%) Law
7 1 (1.01%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.01%) Banking
7 1 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.01%) Electronics
7 1 (1.01%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.01%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.01%) Military
7 1 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (23.23%) Developer
2 17 (17.17%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (16.16%) Architect
4 12 (12.12%) Lead
5 9 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (9.09%) Technical Leader
6 7 (7.07%) Java Developer
7 6 (6.06%) Consultant
8 5 (5.05%) Power Platform Developer
9 4 (4.04%) Applications Architect
9 4 (4.04%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (4.04%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
9 4 (4.04%) Enterprise Architect
9 4 (4.04%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (4.04%) Junior
9 4 (4.04%) Junior Architect
9 4 (4.04%) Junior Solutions Architect
10 3 (3.03%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
10 3 (3.03%) Operations Engineer
10 3 (3.03%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.07%) .NET
1 7 (7.07%) RESTful
2 6 (6.06%) ADO
2 6 (6.06%) SOAP
2 6 (6.06%) Spring
2 6 (6.06%) Spring Boot
3 5 (5.05%) REST
3 5 (5.05%) Web Services
4 4 (4.04%) .NET Framework
4 4 (4.04%) ActiveMQ
4 4 (4.04%) AngularJS
4 4 (4.04%) Hibernate
4 4 (4.04%) JPA
4 4 (4.04%) Middleware
4 4 (4.04%) Spring Cloud
4 4 (4.04%) YAML
5 3 (3.03%) Bootstrap
5 3 (3.03%) React
5 3 (3.03%) Spring Batch
5 3 (3.03%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.06%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.05%) PKI
3 4 (4.04%) Blockchain
3 4 (4.04%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.04%) IoT
4 2 (2.02%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.02%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.02%) Replication
4 2 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.02%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.01%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.01%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.01%) NHS
5 1 (1.01%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.01%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.01%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.01%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.08%) Linux
2 3 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.02%) CentOS
3 2 (2.02%) Debian
3 2 (2.02%) Ubuntu
3 2 (2.02%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (64.65%) Agile
2 39 (39.39%) CI/CD
3 34 (34.34%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (19.19%) Test Strategy
5 17 (17.17%) Test Automation
6 16 (16.16%) Process Improvement
7 15 (15.15%) Data Modelling
8 14 (14.14%) Software Engineering
9 13 (13.13%) Configuration Management
9 13 (13.13%) Migration
9 13 (13.13%) User Experience
10 12 (12.12%) Microservices
10 12 (12.12%) OO
10 12 (12.12%) Problem Management
10 12 (12.12%) Scrum
11 9 (9.09%) Computer Science
11 9 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (9.09%) Roadmaps
12 8 (8.08%) Containerisation
12 8 (8.08%) Interface Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 27 (27.27%) SQL
2 16 (16.16%) Python
3 10 (10.10%) Java
4 8 (8.08%) C#
5 6 (6.06%) JavaScript
6 5 (5.05%) Bash
7 4 (4.04%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.04%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.02%) Go
8 2 (2.02%) Scala
8 2 (2.02%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.02%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.01%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (1.01%) C++
9 1 (1.01%) R
Qualifications
1 28 (28.28%) Security Cleared
2 21 (21.21%) SC Cleared
3 12 (12.12%) Degree
4 9 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (6.06%) DV Cleared
6 4 (4.04%) CEH
6 4 (4.04%) CISSP
6 4 (4.04%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (3.03%) Azure Certification
7 3 (3.03%) ISTQB
8 2 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.02%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.01%) CITP
9 1 (1.01%) GIAC
9 1 (1.01%) HND
9 1 (1.01%) OCP
9 1 (1.01%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.15%) QA
2 2 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.01%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.01%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.01%) GDPR
3 1 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (1.01%) NCSC
3 1 (1.01%) NIST
3 1 (1.01%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.01%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (17.17%) Docker
2 4 (4.04%) Postfix
3 2 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (19.19%) Terraform
2 16 (16.16%) Kubernetes
3 11 (11.11%) Ansible
4 5 (5.05%) Grafana
4 5 (5.05%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.03%) Kibana
5 3 (3.03%) Opsview
6 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.02%) Nessus
6 2 (2.02%) Puppet
7 1 (1.01%) Argo
7 1 (1.01%) Rancher
7 1 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.04%) Atlassian
3 3 (3.03%) Jaspersoft
3 3 (3.03%) PagerDuty
3 3 (3.03%) VMware
4 2 (2.02%) Fujitsu
4 2 (2.02%) Oracle
4 2 (2.02%) Sophos
5 1 (1.01%) Databricks
5 1 (1.01%) F5
5 1 (1.01%) Imperva
5 1 (1.01%) Micro Focus
5 1 (1.01%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.01%) SAP
5 1 (1.01%) Siemens
5 1 (1.01%) Splunk
5 1 (1.01%) Veeam