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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 10 24
Rank change year-on-year -7 +14 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 346 217 131
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 9.92% 11.98% 6.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.69% 13.55% 8.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 151 89
10th Percentile £385 £402 £349
25th Percentile £413 £463 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £671 £669 £686
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -5.66%
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 £67.00 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -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 2,959 1,602 1,554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.86% 88.46% 81.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,815 1,032 1,008
10th Percentile £313 £237 £250
25th Percentile £413 £399 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £519
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -3.66% +3.80%
75th Percentile £579 £588 £625
90th Percentile £674 £663 £725
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 103 41
10th Percentile £13.45 £12.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.57 £16.07 £15.13
Median hourly rate £29.60 £24.34 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.61% +8.18% -18.18%
75th Percentile £53.75 £35.30 £35.00
90th Percentile £68.49 £50.00 £55.25
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.71%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -17 92 £514 -2.10% 11
Birmingham -2 88 £481 +1.32% 100
Coventry +11 51 £425 -14.14% 7
Warwickshire +2 46 £500 - 11
Solihull -11 29 £463 -19.57% 4
Herefordshire -1 10 £563 -16.67% 1
Worcestershire -7 6 £575 -4.17% 5
Staffordshire -8 3 £388 - 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 43 (12.43%) Confluence
2 42 (12.14%) SAS
3 19 (5.49%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (4.91%) SharePoint
5 7 (2.02%) Apache
6 3 (0.87%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.58%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.58%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.58%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.29%) IIS
8 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.73%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (1.45%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.58%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (5.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.58%) 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
1 190 (54.91%) Azure
2 125 (36.13%) AWS
3 117 (33.82%) Azure DevOps
4 57 (16.47%) GitHub
5 54 (15.61%) Serverless
6 47 (13.58%) GitHub Actions
6 47 (13.58%) Power Platform
7 42 (12.14%) Amazon S3
8 36 (10.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 35 (10.12%) Amazon EC2
10 33 (9.54%) AWS Lambda
10 33 (9.54%) Dynamics 365
11 31 (8.96%) Power Automate
12 26 (7.51%) Amazon EKS
13 23 (6.65%) Amazon ECS
14 18 (5.20%) Azure Data Factory
15 17 (4.91%) AWS CloudFormation
15 17 (4.91%) Azure Functions
16 16 (4.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 14 (4.05%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.91%) Firewall
2 7 (2.02%) SD-WAN
2 7 (2.02%) WAN
3 4 (1.16%) DNS
3 4 (1.16%) LAN
3 4 (1.16%) NetScaler
3 4 (1.16%) Network Security
4 3 (0.87%) BGP
4 3 (0.87%) BIG-IP
4 3 (0.87%) DHCP
4 3 (0.87%) Ethernet VPN
4 3 (0.87%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (0.87%) Internet
4 3 (0.87%) OSPF
4 3 (0.87%) SSL
4 3 (0.87%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.87%) VPN
4 3 (0.87%) VXLAN
4 3 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.87%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (7.23%) Power BI
2 22 (6.36%) Pentaho
2 22 (6.36%) SQL Server
3 20 (5.78%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (5.20%) NoSQL
4 18 (5.20%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 18 (5.20%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 17 (4.91%) Amazon RDS
6 16 (4.62%) Data Lake
7 15 (4.34%) Metadata
7 15 (4.34%) Oracle Database
8 12 (3.47%) DynamoDB
9 11 (3.18%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (2.60%) MongoDB
11 8 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (2.02%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (1.16%) Data Vault
13 4 (1.16%) Delta Lake
13 4 (1.16%) SAS Data Integration Studio
13 4 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 72 (20.81%) JIRA
2 65 (18.79%) Jenkins
3 46 (13.29%) Git
4 42 (12.14%) GitLab
5 20 (5.78%) Bitbucket
6 17 (4.91%) Selenium
7 13 (3.76%) Postman
8 12 (3.47%) Cypress.io
8 12 (3.47%) SonarQube
9 11 (3.18%) Maven
9 11 (3.18%) WebDriver
10 8 (2.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 8 (2.31%) JUnit
11 7 (2.02%) Cucumber
11 7 (2.02%) Mockito
12 6 (1.73%) LoadRunner
12 6 (1.73%) REST Assured
13 5 (1.45%) Bitbucket Server
13 5 (1.45%) DbUnit
13 5 (1.45%) jMock
General
1 126 (36.42%) Social Skills
2 112 (32.37%) Public Sector
3 48 (13.87%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (11.27%) Finance
5 37 (10.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (2.31%) Banking
8 7 (2.02%) Legal
9 5 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.87%) Local Government
12 2 (0.58%) Billing
12 2 (0.58%) Military
12 2 (0.58%) Publishing
12 2 (0.58%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.29%) Advertising
13 1 (0.29%) Front Office
13 1 (0.29%) Police
13 1 (0.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 56 (16.18%) Senior
2 54 (15.61%) Architect
3 41 (11.85%) Developer
3 41 (11.85%) DevOps Engineer
4 38 (10.98%) Lead
5 33 (9.54%) Data Engineer
6 31 (8.96%) Scrum Master
7 26 (7.51%) Analyst
8 19 (5.49%) Azure Engineer
9 17 (4.91%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 15 (4.34%) Senior Developer
11 14 (4.05%) Data Architect
11 14 (4.05%) Test Analyst
12 11 (3.18%) Business Analyst
12 11 (3.18%) Senior DevOps
12 11 (3.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 10 (2.89%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 10 (2.89%) Java Developer
13 10 (2.89%) Release Manager
13 10 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (17.92%) Terraform
2 38 (10.98%) REST
3 29 (8.38%) JSON
4 26 (7.51%) Spring
4 26 (7.51%) Spring Boot
5 23 (6.65%) RESTful
6 15 (4.34%) .NET
7 14 (4.05%) Web Services
8 13 (3.76%) Kafka
8 13 (3.76%) SOAP
9 11 (3.18%) Node.js
10 10 (2.89%) AWS CDK
10 10 (2.89%) Elastic Stack
10 10 (2.89%) Gherkin
11 9 (2.60%) Spring Cloud
11 9 (2.60%) XML
11 9 (2.60%) XSLT
11 9 (2.60%) YAML
12 7 (2.02%) ActiveMQ
12 7 (2.02%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 76 (21.97%) Cloud Native
2 46 (13.29%) Product Ownership
3 19 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (3.76%) Management Information System
5 12 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (3.18%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (2.89%) Virtual Team
8 9 (2.60%) Taxonomies
9 7 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (2.02%) Autonomous Agent
9 7 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.02%) Mobile App
9 7 (2.02%) Private Cloud
9 7 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.73%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.73%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.73%) SCADA
11 5 (1.45%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.45%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 22 (6.36%) Linux
2 14 (4.05%) Windows
3 4 (1.16%) AIX
4 3 (0.87%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.87%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.58%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (60.69%) CI/CD
2 190 (54.91%) Agile
3 106 (30.64%) Continuous Improvement
3 106 (30.64%) Scrum
4 86 (24.86%) Test Automation
5 79 (22.83%) Stakeholder Management
6 78 (22.54%) Technical Leadership
7 76 (21.97%) Infrastructure as Code
8 72 (20.81%) Analytics
9 71 (20.52%) Problem-Solving
10 69 (19.94%) Migration
11 62 (17.92%) Containerisation
12 57 (16.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 55 (15.90%) Data Modelling
13 55 (15.90%) Microservices
14 54 (15.61%) Platform Engineering
15 51 (14.74%) AI
16 45 (13.01%) ETL
16 45 (13.01%) Observability
17 43 (12.43%) Backlog Refinement
Programming Languages
1 56 (16.18%) Java
2 49 (14.16%) SQL
3 45 (13.01%) Python
4 41 (11.85%) C#
5 30 (8.67%) JavaScript
6 19 (5.49%) PowerShell
7 13 (3.76%) Bash
8 11 (3.18%) Bicep
9 8 (2.31%) Go
10 6 (1.73%) Scala
11 5 (1.45%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.87%) Groovy
12 3 (0.87%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.58%) VB
13 2 (0.58%) VB6
14 1 (0.29%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.29%) R
Qualifications
1 147 (42.49%) Security Cleared
2 116 (33.53%) SC Cleared
3 25 (7.23%) BPSS Clearance
3 25 (7.23%) Microsoft Certification
4 16 (4.62%) AWS Certification
4 16 (4.62%) Degree
4 16 (4.62%) ISTQB
5 15 (4.34%) Azure Certification
6 13 (3.76%) DV Cleared
7 11 (3.18%) SAFe Agilist
8 9 (2.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.16%) SAS Certification
11 3 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.58%) CCNP
12 2 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.58%) CISSP
12 2 (0.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.29%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (11.85%) QA
2 37 (10.69%) Accessibility
3 31 (8.96%) Data Quality
4 20 (5.78%) GDPR
5 18 (5.20%) WCAG
6 8 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.16%) ISO 19650
7 4 (1.16%) PMO
8 3 (0.87%) 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 78 (22.54%) Docker
2 5 (1.45%) Postfix
3 3 (0.87%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.87%) vSphere
4 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 63 (18.21%) Kubernetes
2 31 (8.96%) Grafana
3 22 (6.36%) Ansible
3 22 (6.36%) Prometheus
4 8 (2.31%) Progress Chef
4 8 (2.31%) Puppet
5 6 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.16%) Argo
6 4 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.87%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.87%) HP Quality Center
8 2 (0.58%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.29%) Control-M
9 1 (0.29%) Istio
9 1 (0.29%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.29%) Podman
9 1 (0.29%) SCCM
9 1 (0.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 74 (21.39%) Microsoft
2 31 (8.96%) Oracle
3 21 (6.07%) Denodo
4 15 (4.34%) Splunk
5 13 (3.76%) Atlassian
6 11 (3.18%) Databricks
6 11 (3.18%) Talend
7 9 (2.60%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.31%) Cisco
9 7 (2.02%) Jaspersoft
9 7 (2.02%) VMware
10 6 (1.73%) Informatica
10 6 (1.73%) SAP
11 5 (1.45%) Google
11 5 (1.45%) OpenAI
11 5 (1.45%) Pega
12 4 (1.16%) Dynatrace
12 4 (1.16%) F5
12 4 (1.16%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.16%) Red Hat