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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 9 23
Rank change year-on-year -8 +14 -1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 334 248 139
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 9.43% 13.22% 7.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.13% 14.71% 8.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 176 92
10th Percentile £400 £413 £351
25th Percentile £425 £463 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £611 £613 £613
90th Percentile £688 £700 £685
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 1
10th Percentile £21.25 - -
25th Percentile £43.13 - £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 £68.75 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +2.61% -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 3,000 1,686 1,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.72% 89.87% 83.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,843 1,074 984
10th Percentile £316 £259 £228
25th Percentile £413 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.68% +2.75%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £683 £725
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 116 40
10th Percentile £13.45 £12.62 £14.66
25th Percentile £17.48 £16.30 £15.44
Median hourly rate £22.75 £23.03 £23.05
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% -0.11% -16.18%
75th Percentile £43.96 £31.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £59.28 £50.00 £52.78
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -19 89 £506 -2.36% 14
Birmingham -6 82 £525 +7.69% 70
Coventry +9 55 £425 -14.14% 11
Warwickshire 0 44 £500 -4.76% 13
Solihull -8 24 £488 -8.24% 9
Herefordshire -1 12 £700 +3.70% 5
Worcestershire -9 8 £700 +7.69% 7
Staffordshire -10 3 £489 - 4
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 40 (11.98%) Confluence
2 32 (9.58%) SAS
3 19 (5.69%) SharePoint
4 14 (4.19%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (2.69%) Apache
6 2 (0.60%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.60%) CloudStack
6 2 (0.60%) OpenROAD
7 1 (0.30%) CMS
7 1 (0.30%) IIS
7 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.90%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.90%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 20 (5.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.30%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.30%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.30%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.30%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 187 (55.99%) Azure
2 118 (35.33%) Azure DevOps
3 110 (32.93%) AWS
4 59 (17.66%) Power Platform
5 51 (15.27%) GitHub
6 49 (14.67%) Serverless
7 42 (12.57%) GitHub Actions
8 36 (10.78%) Dynamics 365
9 34 (10.18%) Power Automate
10 33 (9.88%) Amazon S3
11 29 (8.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 29 (8.68%) Amazon EC2
12 26 (7.78%) AWS Lambda
13 23 (6.89%) Amazon EKS
14 22 (6.59%) Azure Data Factory
15 21 (6.29%) Azure Functions
16 20 (5.99%) Amazon ECS
17 15 (4.49%) GCP
18 14 (4.19%) PowerApps
19 13 (3.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.89%) Firewall
2 5 (1.50%) SD-WAN
2 5 (1.50%) WAN
3 4 (1.20%) Ethernet VPN
3 4 (1.20%) NetScaler
3 4 (1.20%) VXLAN
4 3 (0.90%) BGP
4 3 (0.90%) BIG-IP
4 3 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (0.90%) OSPF
4 3 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.90%) WLAN
5 2 (0.60%) DNS
5 2 (0.60%) LAN
5 2 (0.60%) NAS
5 2 (0.60%) Network Security
5 2 (0.60%) SAN
5 2 (0.60%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (0.60%) VPN
6 1 (0.30%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (8.98%) Power BI
2 25 (7.49%) Pentaho
2 25 (7.49%) SQL Server
3 22 (6.59%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (5.39%) Metadata
5 17 (5.09%) Data Lake
5 17 (5.09%) NoSQL
6 13 (3.89%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (3.59%) MongoDB
8 11 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (3.29%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 11 (3.29%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 10 (2.99%) Oracle Database
10 7 (2.10%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (2.10%) DynamoDB
11 6 (1.80%) BusinessObjects
12 5 (1.50%) Data Vault
12 5 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 60 (17.96%) JIRA
2 57 (17.07%) Jenkins
3 42 (12.57%) Git
4 38 (11.38%) GitLab
5 19 (5.69%) Bitbucket
6 18 (5.39%) Selenium
7 13 (3.89%) Cypress.io
7 13 (3.89%) Postman
8 11 (3.29%) WebDriver
9 10 (2.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 9 (2.69%) Cucumber
10 9 (2.69%) SonarQube
11 7 (2.10%) Maven
12 6 (1.80%) JUnit
12 6 (1.80%) LoadRunner
13 5 (1.50%) REST Assured
14 4 (1.20%) Artifactory
14 4 (1.20%) Mockito
14 4 (1.20%) Serenity BDD
15 3 (0.90%) DbUnit
General
1 125 (37.43%) Social Skills
2 111 (33.23%) Public Sector
3 52 (15.57%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (12.28%) Finance
5 40 (11.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (4.79%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (2.40%) Legal
8 7 (2.10%) Banking
9 5 (1.50%) Local Government
9 5 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.60%) Billing
10 2 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.60%) Military
10 2 (0.60%) Publishing
10 2 (0.60%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.30%) Advertising
11 1 (0.30%) Front Office
11 1 (0.30%) Law
11 1 (0.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 56 (16.77%) Architect
2 55 (16.47%) Senior
3 38 (11.38%) Data Engineer
3 38 (11.38%) Developer
4 37 (11.08%) Lead
5 35 (10.48%) DevOps Engineer
6 26 (7.78%) Scrum Master
7 24 (7.19%) Analyst
8 20 (5.99%) Azure Engineer
9 19 (5.69%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 14 (4.19%) Data Architect
11 13 (3.89%) Senior Data Engineer
11 13 (3.89%) Test Analyst
12 12 (3.59%) Senior Developer
12 12 (3.59%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (2.99%) JIRA Engineer
13 10 (2.99%) Senior DevOps
13 10 (2.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 9 (2.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 9 (2.69%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (16.47%) Terraform
2 35 (10.48%) REST
3 31 (9.28%) JSON
4 24 (7.19%) Spring
5 23 (6.89%) Spring Boot
6 20 (5.99%) RESTful
7 15 (4.49%) Kafka
8 12 (3.59%) Gherkin
9 11 (3.29%) .NET
9 11 (3.29%) SOAP
9 11 (3.29%) Web Services
9 11 (3.29%) XML
9 11 (3.29%) XSLT
10 10 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (2.10%) AWS CDK
11 7 (2.10%) LangChain
11 7 (2.10%) Node.js
11 7 (2.10%) Playwright
11 7 (2.10%) Semantic Kernel
11 7 (2.10%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 71 (21.26%) Cloud Native
2 43 (12.87%) Product Ownership
3 16 (4.79%) Management Information System
4 15 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (3.89%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (3.89%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (3.29%) Taxonomies
6 11 (3.29%) Virtual Team
7 9 (2.69%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (2.69%) Autonomous Agent
7 9 (2.69%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.69%) Mobile App
7 9 (2.69%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.10%) AI Agents
8 7 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.10%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.50%) SCADA
9 5 (1.50%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.99%) Linux
2 11 (3.29%) Windows
3 4 (1.20%) AIX
4 3 (0.90%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.60%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.30%) macOS
6 1 (0.30%) Unix
6 1 (0.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (58.08%) CI/CD
2 184 (55.09%) Agile
3 98 (29.34%) Continuous Improvement
4 86 (25.75%) Scrum
5 81 (24.25%) Technical Leadership
6 79 (23.65%) Test Automation
7 75 (22.46%) Stakeholder Management
8 68 (20.36%) Infrastructure as Code
8 68 (20.36%) Problem-Solving
9 63 (18.86%) Analytics
10 62 (18.56%) Migration
11 58 (17.37%) Data Modelling
12 56 (16.77%) AI
12 56 (16.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 54 (16.17%) Microservices
14 53 (15.87%) Platform Engineering
15 50 (14.97%) Containerisation
15 50 (14.97%) ETL
16 45 (13.47%) Observability
17 42 (12.57%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 59 (17.66%) Java
2 51 (15.27%) Python
3 46 (13.77%) SQL
4 41 (12.28%) C#
5 33 (9.88%) JavaScript
6 18 (5.39%) PowerShell
7 12 (3.59%) Bash
7 12 (3.59%) Go
8 10 (2.99%) Bicep
9 6 (1.80%) Scala
9 6 (1.80%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.20%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.60%) Groovy
11 2 (0.60%) VB
11 2 (0.60%) VB6
12 1 (0.30%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.30%) R
Qualifications
1 138 (41.32%) Security Cleared
2 112 (33.53%) SC Cleared
3 29 (8.68%) BPSS Clearance
4 28 (8.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 20 (5.99%) AWS Certification
6 17 (5.09%) Azure Certification
6 17 (5.09%) Degree
7 16 (4.79%) ISTQB
8 15 (4.49%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.40%) SAFe Agilist
10 6 (1.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 6 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.20%) SAS Certification
12 3 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.60%) CCNP
13 2 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 1 (0.30%) CISM
14 1 (0.30%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (12.87%) Accessibility
2 37 (11.08%) QA
3 33 (9.88%) Data Quality
4 23 (6.89%) GDPR
5 22 (6.59%) WCAG
6 5 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.20%) ISO 19650
7 4 (1.20%) PMO
8 2 (0.60%) NIST
9 1 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.30%) NCSC
9 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 64 (19.16%) Docker
2 3 (0.90%) Postfix
3 2 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.60%) vSphere
4 1 (0.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 58 (17.37%) Kubernetes
2 29 (8.68%) Grafana
3 23 (6.89%) Prometheus
4 21 (6.29%) Ansible
5 8 (2.40%) Progress Chef
5 8 (2.40%) Puppet
6 5 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.90%) Argo
8 3 (0.90%) HP ALM
8 3 (0.90%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.60%) Check_MK
10 1 (0.30%) Control-M
10 1 (0.30%) Istio
10 1 (0.30%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.30%) Podman
10 1 (0.30%) SCCM
Vendors
1 75 (22.46%) Microsoft
2 23 (6.89%) Oracle
3 21 (6.29%) Denodo
4 13 (3.89%) Atlassian
4 13 (3.89%) Splunk
5 10 (2.99%) Databricks
5 10 (2.99%) SAP
5 10 (2.99%) Talend
6 9 (2.69%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.40%) Cisco
8 7 (2.10%) Google
8 7 (2.10%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.80%) VMware
10 5 (1.50%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.50%) Informatica
11 4 (1.20%) F5
11 4 (1.20%) Foundry
11 4 (1.20%) Jaspersoft
12 3 (0.90%) Aruba
12 3 (0.90%) Fortinet