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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 9 21
Rank change year-on-year -8 +12 -1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 340 221 133
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 9.66% 12.18% 7.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.39% 13.73% 8.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 155 90
10th Percentile £381 £406 £350
25th Percentile £413 £463 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £524 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.08% -8.87% +6.48%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £613
90th Percentile £684 £673 £685
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 1
10th Percentile £21.25 - -
25th Percentile £43.75 - £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 £68.48 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +2.21% -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 2,985 1,610 1,555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.78% 88.71% 82.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,827 1,026 994
10th Percentile £313 £247 £250
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £675 £731
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 107 38
10th Percentile £13.45 £12.62 £14.70
25th Percentile £17.57 £16.22 £15.94
Median hourly rate £29.60 £24.34 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.61% -14.60% +3.64%
75th Percentile £53.75 £34.99 £42.88
90th Percentile £67.84 £50.00 £55.85
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -2.27%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 21 September 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 92 £515 -0.68% 15
Birmingham -3 88 £481 +1.32% 126
Coventry +12 53 £425 -14.14% 8
Warwickshire -2 41 £500 - 12
Solihull -11 26 £488 -15.22% 5
Herefordshire -1 11 £700 +7.69% 4
Worcestershire -7 6 £575 -4.17% 6
Staffordshire -8 3 £388 - 7
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 43 (12.65%) SAS
2 38 (11.18%) Confluence
3 19 (5.59%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (5.59%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.76%) Apache
5 3 (0.88%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.59%) CloudStack
6 2 (0.59%) OpenROAD
7 1 (0.29%) CMS
7 1 (0.29%) IIS
7 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.76%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.88%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.59%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 22 (6.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.29%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.29%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.29%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.29%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 188 (55.29%) Azure
2 120 (35.29%) AWS
3 117 (34.41%) Azure DevOps
4 52 (15.29%) Serverless
5 50 (14.71%) GitHub
5 50 (14.71%) Power Platform
6 42 (12.35%) GitHub Actions
7 39 (11.47%) Amazon S3
8 36 (10.59%) Dynamics 365
9 33 (9.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 33 (9.71%) Power Automate
10 32 (9.41%) Amazon EC2
11 29 (8.53%) AWS Lambda
12 23 (6.76%) Amazon EKS
13 20 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
13 20 (5.88%) Azure Functions
14 17 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
15 14 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
15 14 (4.12%) PowerApps
16 13 (3.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.71%) Firewall
2 7 (2.06%) SD-WAN
2 7 (2.06%) WAN
3 4 (1.18%) Ethernet VPN
3 4 (1.18%) LAN
3 4 (1.18%) NetScaler
3 4 (1.18%) Network Security
3 4 (1.18%) VXLAN
4 3 (0.88%) BGP
4 3 (0.88%) BIG-IP
4 3 (0.88%) DHCP
4 3 (0.88%) DNS
4 3 (0.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (0.88%) Internet
4 3 (0.88%) OSPF
4 3 (0.88%) SSL
4 3 (0.88%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.88%) VPN
4 3 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.88%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (7.35%) Power BI
1 25 (7.35%) SQL Server
2 23 (6.76%) Pentaho
3 21 (6.18%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (5.29%) NoSQL
4 18 (5.29%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 18 (5.29%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 17 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (5.00%) Data Lake
6 16 (4.71%) Metadata
7 14 (4.12%) Oracle Database
8 12 (3.53%) DynamoDB
8 12 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (2.65%) MongoDB
10 7 (2.06%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.18%) Data Vault
11 4 (1.18%) SAS Data Integration Studio
11 4 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.88%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 65 (19.12%) JIRA
2 61 (17.94%) Jenkins
3 48 (14.12%) Git
4 38 (11.18%) GitLab
5 18 (5.29%) Selenium
6 17 (5.00%) Bitbucket
7 14 (4.12%) Postman
8 13 (3.82%) Cypress.io
9 12 (3.53%) SonarQube
9 12 (3.53%) WebDriver
10 11 (3.24%) Maven
11 8 (2.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 8 (2.35%) Cucumber
11 8 (2.35%) JUnit
12 7 (2.06%) Mockito
13 6 (1.76%) LoadRunner
14 5 (1.47%) Bitbucket Server
14 5 (1.47%) DbUnit
14 5 (1.47%) jMock
14 5 (1.47%) REST Assured
General
1 124 (36.47%) Social Skills
2 113 (33.24%) Public Sector
3 48 (14.12%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (11.76%) Finance
4 40 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (3.82%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (2.35%) Banking
6 8 (2.35%) Legal
7 5 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.88%) Local Government
10 2 (0.59%) Billing
10 2 (0.59%) Military
10 2 (0.59%) Publishing
10 2 (0.59%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.29%) Advertising
11 1 (0.29%) Front Office
11 1 (0.29%) Police
11 1 (0.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 59 (17.35%) Senior
2 54 (15.88%) Architect
3 43 (12.65%) Developer
4 41 (12.06%) DevOps Engineer
5 39 (11.47%) Lead
6 34 (10.00%) Data Engineer
7 28 (8.24%) Scrum Master
8 24 (7.06%) Analyst
9 19 (5.59%) Azure Engineer
9 19 (5.59%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 16 (4.71%) Senior Developer
11 15 (4.41%) Test Analyst
12 14 (4.12%) Data Architect
13 11 (3.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 11 (3.24%) Senior DevOps
13 11 (3.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 10 (2.94%) Java Developer
14 10 (2.94%) Release Manager
14 10 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
14 10 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (15.59%) Terraform
2 36 (10.59%) REST
3 31 (9.12%) JSON
4 26 (7.65%) Spring
4 26 (7.65%) Spring Boot
5 22 (6.47%) RESTful
6 14 (4.12%) Web Services
7 13 (3.82%) .NET
7 13 (3.82%) Kafka
7 13 (3.82%) SOAP
8 11 (3.24%) Gherkin
8 11 (3.24%) Node.js
8 11 (3.24%) XML
8 11 (3.24%) XSLT
9 10 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
10 9 (2.65%) Spring Cloud
10 9 (2.65%) YAML
11 7 (2.06%) JPA
11 7 (2.06%) Spring Batch
11 7 (2.06%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 75 (22.06%) Cloud Native
2 42 (12.35%) Product Ownership
3 18 (5.29%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (4.71%) Management Information System
5 11 (3.24%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (3.24%) Taxonomies
5 11 (3.24%) Virtual Team
6 10 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.35%) Autonomous Agent
8 7 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (2.06%) Data Centre
8 7 (2.06%) Mobile App
8 7 (2.06%) Private Cloud
8 7 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.76%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.47%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.47%) SCADA
10 5 (1.47%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.18%) Linux
2 13 (3.82%) Windows
3 4 (1.18%) AIX
4 3 (0.88%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.88%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.59%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (59.71%) CI/CD
2 185 (54.41%) Agile
3 102 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 99 (29.12%) Scrum
5 84 (24.71%) Test Automation
6 81 (23.82%) Technical Leadership
7 79 (23.24%) Stakeholder Management
8 71 (20.88%) Analytics
8 71 (20.88%) Infrastructure as Code
9 70 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
10 69 (20.29%) Migration
11 57 (16.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 56 (16.47%) Data Modelling
13 55 (16.18%) Containerisation
14 53 (15.59%) Microservices
15 52 (15.29%) Platform Engineering
16 51 (15.00%) AI
17 45 (13.24%) ETL
18 43 (12.65%) Observability
19 42 (12.35%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 56 (16.47%) Java
2 47 (13.82%) SQL
3 44 (12.94%) Python
4 42 (12.35%) C#
5 32 (9.41%) JavaScript
6 17 (5.00%) PowerShell
7 11 (3.24%) Bash
8 10 (2.94%) Bicep
9 9 (2.65%) Go
10 6 (1.76%) Scala
11 5 (1.47%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.88%) Groovy
12 3 (0.88%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.59%) VB
13 2 (0.59%) VB6
14 1 (0.29%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.29%) R
Qualifications
1 145 (42.65%) Security Cleared
2 115 (33.82%) SC Cleared
3 28 (8.24%) Microsoft Certification
4 25 (7.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (5.00%) Azure Certification
5 17 (5.00%) Degree
5 17 (5.00%) ISTQB
6 16 (4.71%) AWS Certification
7 13 (3.82%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.35%) SAFe Agilist
9 6 (1.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.18%) SAS Certification
11 3 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.59%) CCNP
12 2 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.59%) CISSP
12 2 (0.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.29%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (11.47%) Accessibility
2 38 (11.18%) QA
3 31 (9.12%) Data Quality
4 21 (6.18%) GDPR
5 20 (5.88%) WCAG
6 6 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.18%) ISO 19650
7 4 (1.18%) PMO
8 3 (0.88%) NIST
9 1 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.29%) NCSC
9 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 72 (21.18%) Docker
2 5 (1.47%) Postfix
3 3 (0.88%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 60 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 29 (8.53%) Grafana
3 22 (6.47%) Prometheus
4 21 (6.18%) Ansible
5 8 (2.35%) Progress Chef
5 8 (2.35%) Puppet
6 6 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.88%) Argo
8 3 (0.88%) HP ALM
8 3 (0.88%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.59%) Check_MK
10 1 (0.29%) Control-M
10 1 (0.29%) Istio
10 1 (0.29%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.29%) Podman
10 1 (0.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 76 (22.35%) Microsoft
2 30 (8.82%) Oracle
3 22 (6.47%) Denodo
4 13 (3.82%) Atlassian
4 13 (3.82%) Splunk
5 11 (3.24%) Talend
6 10 (2.94%) Databricks
6 10 (2.94%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.65%) Cisco
8 7 (2.06%) Jaspersoft
9 6 (1.76%) VMware
10 5 (1.47%) Google
10 5 (1.47%) Informatica
10 5 (1.47%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.47%) Pega
10 5 (1.47%) SAP
11 4 (1.18%) Citrix
11 4 (1.18%) Dynatrace
11 4 (1.18%) F5
11 4 (1.18%) Fortinet