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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 16 26
Rank change year-on-year -1 +10 -9
Contract jobs citing DevOps 331 123 121
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.17% 8.29% 5.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.02% 9.33% 7.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 83 91
10th Percentile £400 £413 £306
25th Percentile £425 £451 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -10.64%
75th Percentile £568 £588 £611
90th Percentile £656 £626 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 3
10th Percentile £59.65 - -
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 £67.50 £70.00 £66.50
% change year-on-year -3.57% +5.26% +1.36%

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 2,753 1,319 1,679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.55% 88.88% 81.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,805 838 1,103
10th Percentile £313 £203 £263
25th Percentile £405 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £484 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.62% -3.20% -3.85%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £663 £736
England median daily rate £517 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.67% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 76 120
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.12
25th Percentile £22.50 £14.65 £14.22
Median hourly rate £33.99 £22.05 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.15% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £63.12 £32.29 £40.13
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.50 £37.75
% change year-on-year +70.91% -27.15% +7.43%

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 15 June 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 +11 106 £500 +3.90% 32
Shropshire -9 97 £492 -6.17% 4
Warwickshire +8 51 £477 -4.60% 13
Solihull -6 24 £488 -2.50% 1
Coventry -1 23 £407 -25.66% 4
Worcestershire -2 9 £669 +16.30% 5
Herefordshire 0 8 £700 - 3
Staffordshire 0 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 66 (19.94%) SAS
2 52 (15.71%) Confluence
3 19 (5.74%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.81%) Apache
4 6 (1.81%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.51%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.91%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.60%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.60%) CloudStack
8 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.30%) LiveCycle
Applications
1 9 (2.72%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (1.81%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.30%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 160 (48.34%) Azure
2 122 (36.86%) AWS
3 86 (25.98%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (14.20%) GitHub
5 36 (10.88%) Amazon S3
6 34 (10.27%) GitHub Actions
7 32 (9.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 30 (9.06%) Serverless
9 28 (8.46%) Amazon EC2
10 24 (7.25%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (6.34%) GCP
11 21 (6.34%) Power Platform
12 18 (5.44%) Amazon SQS
12 18 (5.44%) Azure Data Factory
13 16 (4.83%) AWS KMS
13 16 (4.83%) Route 53
14 13 (3.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 12 (3.63%) AWS CloudFormation
15 12 (3.63%) OpenShift
15 12 (3.63%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.14%) Firewall
2 6 (1.81%) DNS
2 6 (1.81%) Network Security
2 6 (1.81%) SD-WAN
2 6 (1.81%) WAN
3 4 (1.21%) BGP
3 4 (1.21%) OSPF
3 4 (1.21%) VPN
3 4 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.91%) BIG-IP
4 3 (0.91%) DHCP
4 3 (0.91%) Ethernet VPN
4 3 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (0.91%) Internet
4 3 (0.91%) LAN
4 3 (0.91%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.91%) VXLAN
4 3 (0.91%) WLAN
5 2 (0.60%) NAS
5 2 (0.60%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (7.85%) Pentaho
3 21 (6.34%) Amazon RDS
3 21 (6.34%) DynamoDB
4 19 (5.74%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 18 (5.44%) Power BI
5 18 (5.44%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 16 (4.83%) Oracle Database
7 15 (4.53%) Amazon Aurora
8 12 (3.63%) Relational Database
9 10 (3.02%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (3.02%) NoSQL
10 8 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (2.11%) Metadata
12 6 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.81%) BusinessObjects
12 6 (1.81%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.81%) SQL Server
13 5 (1.51%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 81 (24.47%) Jenkins
2 78 (23.56%) JIRA
3 62 (18.73%) Git
4 47 (14.20%) GitLab
5 21 (6.34%) JUnit
6 19 (5.74%) SonarQube
7 18 (5.44%) Bitbucket
7 18 (5.44%) Maven
8 16 (4.83%) Selenium
9 15 (4.53%) Mockito
10 11 (3.32%) DbUnit
10 11 (3.32%) jMock
11 9 (2.72%) Bitbucket Server
11 9 (2.72%) REST Assured
12 7 (2.11%) LoadRunner
13 6 (1.81%) Serenity BDD
14 4 (1.21%) Artifactory
14 4 (1.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (1.21%) Gatling
14 4 (1.21%) Postman
General
1 102 (30.82%) Social Skills
2 71 (21.45%) Public Sector
3 54 (16.31%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (10.88%) Finance
5 11 (3.32%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.81%) Banking
9 5 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.51%) Retail
10 3 (0.91%) Legal
11 2 (0.60%) Advertising
11 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.30%) Military
12 1 (0.30%) Publishing
12 1 (0.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (13.29%) Developer
2 42 (12.69%) Data Engineer
2 42 (12.69%) Senior
3 41 (12.39%) Architect
4 35 (10.57%) DevOps Engineer
5 24 (7.25%) Analyst
6 22 (6.65%) Lead
7 18 (5.44%) Business Analyst
7 18 (5.44%) Full-Stack Developer
8 15 (4.53%) Java Developer
9 13 (3.93%) Scrum Master
9 13 (3.93%) Senior Developer
10 12 (3.63%) Release Manager
11 10 (3.02%) AWS Engineer
11 10 (3.02%) Security Architect
11 10 (3.02%) Senior DevOps
11 10 (3.02%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 9 (2.72%) AWS DevOps
12 9 (2.72%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (2.72%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (11.78%) REST
2 31 (9.37%) Node.js
3 21 (6.34%) Web Services
4 19 (5.74%) AngularJS
4 19 (5.74%) SOAP
4 19 (5.74%) Spring
4 19 (5.74%) Spring Boot
5 18 (5.44%) Spring Cloud
5 18 (5.44%) YAML
6 17 (5.14%) .NET
6 17 (5.14%) Elastic Stack
7 16 (4.83%) Flask
8 15 (4.53%) ActiveMQ
8 15 (4.53%) Hibernate
8 15 (4.53%) JPA
8 15 (4.53%) Spring Batch
8 15 (4.53%) Spring Integration
9 13 (3.93%) RESTful
10 12 (3.63%) Django
10 12 (3.63%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 55 (16.62%) Cloud Native
2 26 (7.85%) Product Ownership
3 17 (5.14%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (3.93%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (3.32%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.42%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.11%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.81%) SCADA
9 5 (1.51%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.51%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.51%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.21%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.21%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.91%) Educational Technology
11 3 (0.91%) IoT
11 3 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.91%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (9.37%) Linux
2 11 (3.32%) Windows
3 9 (2.72%) Unix
4 3 (0.91%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.60%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.60%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (59.82%) CI/CD
2 166 (50.15%) Agile
3 86 (25.98%) Scrum
4 81 (24.47%) Stakeholder Management
5 79 (23.87%) Analytics
6 77 (23.26%) Containerisation
6 77 (23.26%) Test Automation
7 70 (21.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 69 (20.85%) Migration
9 60 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
10 58 (17.52%) Infrastructure as Code
11 57 (17.22%) Data Integration
12 52 (15.71%) Data Modelling
13 44 (13.29%) ETL
13 44 (13.29%) Microservices
14 43 (12.99%) Data Pipeline
15 42 (12.69%) Observability
16 40 (12.08%) Business Intelligence
17 36 (10.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 36 (10.88%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 95 (28.70%) SQL
2 65 (19.64%) Python
3 37 (11.18%) Java
4 21 (6.34%) Bash
5 20 (6.04%) PowerShell
6 19 (5.74%) JavaScript
7 13 (3.93%) C#
8 12 (3.63%) Bicep
9 9 (2.72%) Go
10 5 (1.51%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.51%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.21%) Groovy
12 3 (0.91%) HiveQL
12 3 (0.91%) VB
13 2 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.30%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.30%) Scala
14 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.30%) VB6
Qualifications
1 159 (48.04%) Security Cleared
2 130 (39.27%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.04%) Degree
4 12 (3.63%) Azure Certification
5 11 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.32%) SAFe Agilist
6 9 (2.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 9 (2.72%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.72%) IIBA
7 8 (2.42%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (2.11%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.21%) SAS Certification
10 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.91%) CISSP
10 3 (0.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.60%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (11.18%) Data Quality
2 27 (8.16%) QA
3 12 (3.63%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.63%) GDPR
4 11 (3.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.11%) NIST
6 4 (1.21%) ISO 19650
7 3 (0.91%) SLA
8 2 (0.60%) NCSC
8 2 (0.60%) WCAG
9 1 (0.30%) FATCA
9 1 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.30%) PMO
System Software
1 104 (31.42%) Docker
2 11 (3.32%) Postfix
3 6 (1.81%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.51%) vSphere
5 3 (0.91%) HDFS
5 3 (0.91%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.30%) KVM
6 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 89 (26.89%) Kubernetes
2 68 (20.54%) Terraform
3 55 (16.62%) Grafana
4 34 (10.27%) Prometheus
5 33 (9.97%) Ansible
6 9 (2.72%) Kibana
6 9 (2.72%) Puppet
7 6 (1.81%) Argo
8 4 (1.21%) HP ALM
8 4 (1.21%) HP Quality Center
8 4 (1.21%) logstash
8 4 (1.21%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.91%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.60%) Check_MK
11 1 (0.30%) Istio
11 1 (0.30%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.30%) Packer
11 1 (0.30%) SCCM
Vendors
1 51 (15.41%) Microsoft
2 41 (12.39%) Oracle
3 26 (7.85%) Denodo
4 25 (7.55%) Splunk
5 22 (6.65%) Atlassian
6 21 (6.34%) Talend
7 15 (4.53%) Jaspersoft
8 12 (3.63%) Databricks
9 10 (3.02%) Dynatrace
10 9 (2.72%) Informatica
10 9 (2.72%) SAP
10 9 (2.72%) ServiceNow
11 7 (2.11%) AppDynamics
12 6 (1.81%) Red Hat
12 6 (1.81%) VMware
13 5 (1.51%) Cisco
13 5 (1.51%) Fortinet
13 5 (1.51%) HP
13 5 (1.51%) Pega
14 4 (1.21%) Aruba