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 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
5 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 20 34
Rank change year-on-year +7 +14 -13
Contract jobs citing DevOps 335 106 94
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.22% 7.89% 4.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.34% 8.89% 5.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 77 69
10th Percentile £404 £363 £305
25th Percentile £450 £419 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -17.39%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £618 £631 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £54.40 - £55.25
25th Percentile £59.13 £56.25 £55.63
Median hourly rate £69.25 £57.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +20.43% +2.22% -
75th Percentile £78.63 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £80.65 - -
England median hourly rate £63.73 £68.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.30% +5.77% -0.76%

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 2,511 1,193 1,612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.09% 88.76% 83.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,663 804 1,066
10th Percentile £305 £200 £275
25th Percentile £403 £387 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +2.56% -2.60%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £717
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 54 117
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.36 £11.10
25th Percentile £16.25 £14.55 £14.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £18.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -20.00% +26.98%
75th Percentile £53.75 £27.19 £40.00
90th Percentile £70.47 £34.63 £57.25
England median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year +15.38% -1.71% -11.83%

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 5 April 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 5 April 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 5 April 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 -4 121 £494 -0.25% 20
Birmingham +11 101 £525 +10.53% 45
Warwickshire +10 43 £510 +2.00% 7
Worcestershire +6 29 £605 +2.98% 2
Herefordshire -1 21 £650 -7.14% 1
Coventry - 19 £407 - 6
Solihull -6 13 £481 -19.70% 3
Staffordshire 0 2 £388 -26.19% 11
Wolverhampton - 1 - -
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 85 (25.37%) SAS
2 40 (11.94%) Confluence
3 11 (3.28%) OpenStack
4 9 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.79%) Apache
6 5 (1.49%) WebLogic
7 4 (1.19%) JBoss
8 3 (0.90%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.90%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.30%) IIS
9 1 (0.30%) LiveCycle
9 1 (0.30%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 8 (2.39%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (1.79%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.30%) Maximo
2 1 (0.30%) Shopify
2 1 (0.30%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 142 (42.39%) Azure
2 98 (29.25%) AWS
3 69 (20.60%) Azure DevOps
4 51 (15.22%) GitHub
5 37 (11.04%) GCP
5 37 (11.04%) Serverless
6 30 (8.96%) GitHub Actions
7 29 (8.66%) Azure Data Factory
7 29 (8.66%) OpenShift
8 20 (5.97%) Amazon S3
9 16 (4.78%) AWS KMS
10 15 (4.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 15 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (4.48%) Power Platform
11 14 (4.18%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (3.88%) Amazon SQS
12 13 (3.88%) Entra ID
13 12 (3.58%) Azure Key Vault
14 11 (3.28%) Route 53
15 10 (2.99%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.18%) Firewall
2 6 (1.79%) DNS
2 6 (1.79%) Network Security
2 6 (1.79%) VPN
3 4 (1.19%) LAN
3 4 (1.19%) SD-WAN
3 4 (1.19%) WAN
4 3 (0.90%) DHCP
4 3 (0.90%) Internet
4 3 (0.90%) SSL
4 3 (0.90%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.30%) 4G
5 1 (0.30%) BGP
5 1 (0.30%) MPLS
5 1 (0.30%) OSPF
5 1 (0.30%) tcpdump
5 1 (0.30%) VLAN
5 1 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.30%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.30%) WPA2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (14.33%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (11.34%) Pentaho
3 26 (7.76%) Elasticsearch
4 20 (5.97%) Oracle Database
4 20 (5.97%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 17 (5.07%) NoSQL
6 13 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (3.88%) DynamoDB
7 12 (3.58%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 10 (2.99%) Amazon Aurora
8 10 (2.99%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.69%) Power BI
10 6 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.79%) Redis
11 5 (1.49%) Metadata
11 5 (1.49%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.19%) Hadoop
12 4 (1.19%) MySQL
12 4 (1.19%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 108 (32.24%) Jenkins
2 94 (28.06%) Git
3 82 (24.48%) JIRA
4 54 (16.12%) GitLab
5 36 (10.75%) JUnit
6 34 (10.15%) Selenium
7 17 (5.07%) SonarQube
8 15 (4.48%) Maven
9 13 (3.88%) Bitbucket
10 10 (2.99%) Mockito
11 8 (2.39%) DbUnit
11 8 (2.39%) jMock
12 6 (1.79%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (1.79%) Liquibase
12 6 (1.79%) Postman
13 5 (1.49%) Artifactory
13 5 (1.49%) CircleCI
13 5 (1.49%) Cypress.io
14 4 (1.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (1.19%) Eclipse
General
1 115 (34.33%) Social Skills
2 56 (16.72%) Public Sector
3 47 (14.03%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (12.54%) Finance
5 14 (4.18%) Banking
6 13 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.09%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.49%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.19%) Retail
10 2 (0.60%) Advertising
10 2 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.60%) Military
10 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.30%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 53 (15.82%) Data Engineer
2 44 (13.13%) Developer
3 37 (11.04%) Senior
4 29 (8.66%) Architect
5 25 (7.46%) DevOps Engineer
6 21 (6.27%) Analyst
7 20 (5.97%) Test Specialist
8 18 (5.37%) Full-Stack Developer
9 16 (4.78%) Business Analyst
10 14 (4.18%) Cloud Engineer
10 14 (4.18%) Lead
10 14 (4.18%) Project Manager
11 13 (3.88%) SAS Engineer
12 12 (3.58%) GCP Engineer
12 12 (3.58%) Senior Data Engineer
12 12 (3.58%) Software Engineer
13 11 (3.28%) Java Developer
13 11 (3.28%) Test Automation Specialist
14 10 (2.99%) AWS Engineer
15 9 (2.69%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (20.00%) REST
2 30 (8.96%) Elastic Stack
3 28 (8.36%) Node.js
4 22 (6.57%) YAML
5 21 (6.27%) Flask
6 20 (5.97%) pytest
7 19 (5.67%) Kafka
7 19 (5.67%) RESTful
8 17 (5.07%) SOAP
9 16 (4.78%) Spring
10 15 (4.48%) .NET
11 14 (4.18%) AngularJS
11 14 (4.18%) Hibernate
12 13 (3.88%) Middleware
13 12 (3.58%) Django
13 12 (3.58%) JSON
13 12 (3.58%) React
13 12 (3.58%) Spring Boot
14 11 (3.28%) Spring Cloud
14 11 (3.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 36 (10.75%) Cloud Native
2 23 (6.87%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (6.87%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.18%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (3.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (2.99%) Management Information System
5 10 (2.99%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.69%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (0.90%) Educational Technology
8 3 (0.90%) IoT
8 3 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.90%) SCADA
8 3 (0.90%) Security Posture
8 3 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.60%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.60%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.30%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.30%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.30%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 40 (11.94%) Linux
2 18 (5.37%) Unix
3 15 (4.48%) Windows
4 3 (0.90%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.60%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (63.58%) CI/CD
2 183 (54.63%) Agile
3 109 (32.54%) Containerisation
4 101 (30.15%) Analytics
5 95 (28.36%) Scrum
6 90 (26.87%) Problem-Solving
7 87 (25.97%) Test Automation
8 75 (22.39%) Data Pipeline
9 74 (22.09%) Stakeholder Management
10 65 (19.40%) Continuous Improvement
11 64 (19.10%) Data Integration
12 63 (18.81%) Data Modelling
12 63 (18.81%) ETL
13 57 (17.01%) Infrastructure as Code
13 57 (17.01%) Migration
14 50 (14.93%) Microservices
15 48 (14.33%) Change Management
16 45 (13.43%) Business Intelligence
17 43 (12.84%) Deployment Automation
18 40 (11.94%) Data Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 106 (31.64%) SQL
2 100 (29.85%) Python
3 33 (9.85%) Go
4 29 (8.66%) Java
5 23 (6.87%) Bash
5 23 (6.87%) JavaScript
6 19 (5.67%) PowerShell
7 13 (3.88%) C#
8 10 (2.99%) Bicep
9 8 (2.39%) Scala
10 6 (1.79%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.49%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.19%) Groovy
13 3 (0.90%) HiveQL
13 3 (0.90%) VB
14 2 (0.60%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.30%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.30%) Ruby
15 1 (0.30%) VB6
Qualifications
1 164 (48.96%) Security Cleared
2 140 (41.79%) SC Cleared
3 32 (9.55%) Degree
4 25 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (6.87%) Azure Certification
6 14 (4.18%) DV Cleared
7 13 (3.88%) Master's Degree
8 9 (2.69%) IIBA
9 7 (2.09%) AWS Certification
9 7 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.79%) ISTQB
11 4 (1.19%) CISSP
11 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.19%) SAFe Agilist
12 3 (0.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.60%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.60%) PMP
13 2 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (12.24%) Data Quality
2 36 (10.75%) QA
3 13 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (3.58%) GDPR
5 7 (2.09%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.79%) NIST
7 4 (1.19%) NCSC
8 3 (0.90%) SLA
9 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.30%) FATCA
9 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.30%) PMO
9 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 142 (42.39%) Docker
2 8 (2.39%) Postfix
3 7 (2.09%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.19%) HDFS
6 3 (0.90%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.90%) vSphere
7 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.30%) KVM
7 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 141 (42.09%) Kubernetes
2 71 (21.19%) Terraform
3 50 (14.93%) Grafana
4 46 (13.73%) Ansible
5 33 (9.85%) Prometheus
6 15 (4.48%) Puppet
7 14 (4.18%) Kibana
8 7 (2.09%) Argo
9 5 (1.49%) logstash
10 3 (0.90%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.90%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.60%) HP Quality Center
11 2 (0.60%) Podman
11 2 (0.60%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.30%) Packer
Vendors
1 52 (15.52%) Microsoft
2 50 (14.93%) Oracle
3 38 (11.34%) Talend
4 37 (11.04%) Denodo
5 35 (10.45%) Splunk
6 20 (5.97%) Atlassian
7 11 (3.28%) SAP
8 10 (2.99%) Jaspersoft
9 9 (2.69%) CyberArk
9 9 (2.69%) ServiceNow
10 8 (2.39%) Google
10 8 (2.39%) Red Hat
11 7 (2.09%) AppDynamics
11 7 (2.09%) Dynatrace
12 6 (1.79%) Informatica
12 6 (1.79%) VMware
13 5 (1.49%) Databricks
14 4 (1.19%) HP
14 4 (1.19%) Pega
14 4 (1.19%) webMethods
98 DevOps jobs in the West Midlands