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

 6 months to
6 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 20 32
Rank change year-on-year +8 +12 -10
Contract jobs citing DevOps 333 106 94
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.16% 7.89% 4.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.29% 8.89% 5.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 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 £615 £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 2,506 1,193 1,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.98% 88.76% 83.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,660 804 1,063
10th Percentile £305 £200 £275
25th Percentile £402 £387 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +2.04% -3.92%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £603
90th Percentile £650 £688 £718
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 £33.00
% change year-on-year +15.38% -1.52% -13.95%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 £519 +9.21% 45
Warwickshire +10 43 £510 +2.00% 7
Worcestershire +5 27 £605 +2.98% 2
Herefordshire -1 20 £600 -14.29% 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 (25.53%) SAS
2 40 (12.01%) Confluence
3 10 (3.00%) OpenStack
4 9 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.80%) Apache
6 5 (1.50%) WebLogic
7 4 (1.20%) 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 (2.40%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (1.80%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.20%) 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
1 141 (42.34%) Azure
2 95 (28.53%) AWS
3 69 (20.72%) Azure DevOps
4 51 (15.32%) GitHub
5 38 (11.41%) Serverless
6 35 (10.51%) GCP
7 30 (9.01%) GitHub Actions
8 29 (8.71%) Azure Data Factory
9 28 (8.41%) OpenShift
10 20 (6.01%) Amazon S3
11 16 (4.80%) AWS KMS
12 15 (4.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 15 (4.50%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (4.50%) Power Platform
13 14 (4.20%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (3.90%) Amazon SQS
14 13 (3.90%) Azure Key Vault
15 12 (3.60%) Entra ID
16 11 (3.30%) Route 53
17 10 (3.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.20%) Firewall
2 6 (1.80%) DNS
2 6 (1.80%) Network Security
2 6 (1.80%) VPN
3 4 (1.20%) LAN
3 4 (1.20%) SD-WAN
3 4 (1.20%) 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%) BGP
5 1 (0.30%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.30%) MPLS
5 1 (0.30%) OSPF
5 1 (0.30%) SMS
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 47 (14.11%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (11.41%) Pentaho
3 26 (7.81%) Elasticsearch
4 20 (6.01%) Oracle Database
4 20 (6.01%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 17 (5.11%) NoSQL
6 13 (3.90%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (3.90%) DynamoDB
7 12 (3.60%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 10 (3.00%) Amazon Aurora
8 10 (3.00%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.70%) Power BI
10 6 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.80%) Redis
11 5 (1.50%) Metadata
11 5 (1.50%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.20%) Apache Hive
12 4 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.20%) Hadoop
12 4 (1.20%) Impala
Development Applications
1 106 (31.83%) Jenkins
2 93 (27.93%) Git
3 82 (24.62%) JIRA
4 52 (15.62%) GitLab
5 35 (10.51%) JUnit
6 33 (9.91%) Selenium
7 16 (4.80%) SonarQube
8 14 (4.20%) Maven
9 12 (3.60%) Bitbucket
10 10 (3.00%) Mockito
11 8 (2.40%) DbUnit
11 8 (2.40%) jMock
12 6 (1.80%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (1.80%) Liquibase
13 5 (1.50%) CircleCI
13 5 (1.50%) Postman
14 4 (1.20%) Artifactory
14 4 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (1.20%) Cypress.io
14 4 (1.20%) REST Assured
General
1 114 (34.23%) Social Skills
2 56 (16.82%) Public Sector
3 47 (14.11%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (12.31%) Finance
5 13 (3.90%) Banking
5 13 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.10%) Financial Institution
7 5 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (1.50%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.20%) Retail
9 2 (0.60%) Advertising
9 2 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.60%) Military
9 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.30%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 53 (15.92%) Data Engineer
2 43 (12.91%) Developer
3 35 (10.51%) Senior
4 29 (8.71%) Architect
5 26 (7.81%) DevOps Engineer
6 21 (6.31%) Analyst
7 20 (6.01%) Test Specialist
8 18 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
9 16 (4.80%) Business Analyst
10 14 (4.20%) Lead
10 14 (4.20%) Project Manager
11 13 (3.90%) Cloud Engineer
11 13 (3.90%) SAS Engineer
12 12 (3.60%) Senior Data Engineer
12 12 (3.60%) Software Engineer
13 11 (3.30%) GCP Engineer
13 11 (3.30%) Java Developer
13 11 (3.30%) Test Automation Specialist
14 10 (3.00%) AWS Engineer
15 9 (2.70%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (19.52%) REST
2 29 (8.71%) Elastic Stack
3 27 (8.11%) Node.js
4 21 (6.31%) Flask
4 21 (6.31%) YAML
5 20 (6.01%) pytest
6 19 (5.71%) Kafka
6 19 (5.71%) RESTful
7 17 (5.11%) SOAP
8 16 (4.80%) Spring
9 15 (4.50%) .NET
10 14 (4.20%) AngularJS
10 14 (4.20%) Hibernate
11 13 (3.90%) Middleware
12 12 (3.60%) Django
12 12 (3.60%) Spring Boot
13 11 (3.30%) JSON
13 11 (3.30%) React
13 11 (3.30%) Spring Cloud
13 11 (3.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 37 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 23 (6.91%) Product Ownership
3 22 (6.61%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.20%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (3.90%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (3.00%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.00%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.40%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (0.90%) Educational Technology
9 3 (0.90%) IoT
9 3 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.90%) SCADA
9 3 (0.90%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.60%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.30%) CMDB
11 1 (0.30%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.30%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.30%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 39 (11.71%) Linux
2 18 (5.41%) Unix
3 15 (4.50%) Windows
4 3 (0.90%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.60%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (63.36%) CI/CD
2 183 (54.95%) Agile
3 108 (32.43%) Containerisation
4 100 (30.03%) Analytics
5 95 (28.53%) Scrum
6 89 (26.73%) Problem-Solving
7 86 (25.83%) Test Automation
8 75 (22.52%) Data Pipeline
9 74 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
10 64 (19.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 64 (19.22%) Data Integration
11 63 (18.92%) Data Modelling
11 63 (18.92%) ETL
12 57 (17.12%) Migration
13 55 (16.52%) Infrastructure as Code
14 50 (15.02%) Microservices
15 48 (14.41%) Change Management
16 45 (13.51%) Business Intelligence
17 43 (12.91%) Deployment Automation
18 40 (12.01%) Data Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 106 (31.83%) SQL
2 99 (29.73%) Python
3 32 (9.61%) Go
4 29 (8.71%) Java
5 23 (6.91%) Bash
6 22 (6.61%) JavaScript
7 19 (5.71%) PowerShell
8 13 (3.90%) C#
9 10 (3.00%) Bicep
10 8 (2.40%) Scala
11 5 (1.50%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.50%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.20%) 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%) Ruby
15 1 (0.30%) VB6
Qualifications
1 162 (48.65%) Security Cleared
2 139 (41.74%) SC Cleared
3 31 (9.31%) Degree
4 24 (7.21%) Azure Certification
4 24 (7.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (3.90%) DV Cleared
6 12 (3.60%) Master's Degree
7 9 (2.70%) IIBA
8 7 (2.10%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.80%) ISTQB
10 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.20%) SAFe Agilist
11 3 (0.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.90%) CISSP
11 3 (0.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.60%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.60%) PMP
12 2 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (12.31%) Data Quality
2 36 (10.81%) QA
3 12 (3.60%) GDPR
3 12 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.10%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.80%) NIST
6 4 (1.20%) NCSC
7 3 (0.90%) SLA
8 1 (0.30%) FATCA
8 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.30%) PMO
8 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 142 (42.64%) Docker
2 8 (2.40%) Postfix
3 7 (2.10%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.20%) 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
1 140 (42.04%) Kubernetes
2 69 (20.72%) Terraform
3 49 (14.71%) Grafana
4 45 (13.51%) Ansible
5 32 (9.61%) Prometheus
6 14 (4.20%) Kibana
6 14 (4.20%) Puppet
7 7 (2.10%) Argo
8 5 (1.50%) logstash
9 3 (0.90%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.90%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.60%) HP Quality Center
10 2 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.30%) Packer
11 1 (0.30%) Podman
11 1 (0.30%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 51 (15.32%) Microsoft
2 50 (15.02%) Oracle
3 38 (11.41%) Talend
4 37 (11.11%) Denodo
5 34 (10.21%) Splunk
6 20 (6.01%) Atlassian
7 11 (3.30%) SAP
8 10 (3.00%) Jaspersoft
9 9 (2.70%) CyberArk
9 9 (2.70%) ServiceNow
10 8 (2.40%) Red Hat
11 7 (2.10%) AppDynamics
11 7 (2.10%) Dynatrace
11 7 (2.10%) Google
12 6 (1.80%) Informatica
12 6 (1.80%) VMware
13 5 (1.50%) Databricks
14 4 (1.20%) HP
14 4 (1.20%) Pega
14 4 (1.20%) webMethods
98 DevOps jobs in the West Midlands