DevOps Contracts in the West Midlands

DevOps
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 18 16
Rank change year-on-year -13 -2 +5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 89 229 335
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.62% 9.62% 9.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.50% 10.87% 10.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 146 249
10th Percentile £275 £413 £400
25th Percentile £363 £482 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £556 £530
Median % change year-on-year -14.61% +4.95% +21.14%
75th Percentile £605 £650 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +15.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £55.25 - -
25th Percentile £55.63 - £37.00
Median hourly rate £56.25 - £39.00
75th Percentile - - £41.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £54.00
% change year-on-year -0.76% +21.30% +16.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,617 2,107 3,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.00% 88.53% 90.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,066 1,446 2,363
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £406 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +17.47%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 71
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.81
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.25
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the West Midlands

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the West Midlands

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the West Midlands

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend 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 27 April 2024. 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 -13 35 £425 -32.00% 56
Warwickshire -4 19 £629 +12.99% 23
Coventry -6 17 £500 +4.17% 7
Worcestershire +1 6 £525 +16.67% 2
Solihull -14 2 £275 -44.44% 5
West Bromwich - 2 £331 -
Shropshire 0 1 £523 -3.24% 3
Herefordshire -14 1 £525 -16.50%
DevOps
England

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.37%) CMS
1 3 (3.37%) Drupal
2 2 (2.25%) Confluence
2 2 (2.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.12%) Apache
3 1 (1.12%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (5.62%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 68 (76.40%) Azure
2 44 (49.44%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (12.36%) Serverless
4 8 (8.99%) Azure App Service
4 8 (8.99%) Azure Functions
4 8 (8.99%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (8.99%) Power Platform
5 7 (7.87%) AWS
5 7 (7.87%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (7.87%) PaaS
6 6 (6.74%) Azure AKS
7 4 (4.49%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (4.49%) IaaS
7 4 (4.49%) SaaS
8 3 (3.37%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (3.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (3.37%) GCP
8 3 (3.37%) GitHub
9 2 (2.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (2.25%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.74%) DNS
2 5 (5.62%) Firewall
2 5 (5.62%) SSL
3 3 (3.37%) VPN
4 1 (1.12%) Extranet
4 1 (1.12%) FTP
4 1 (1.12%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.12%) Internet
4 1 (1.12%) Intranet
4 1 (1.12%) IPsec
4 1 (1.12%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.12%) Network Security
4 1 (1.12%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.24%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.87%) Power BI
3 4 (4.49%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (4.49%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.37%) Big Data
4 3 (3.37%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.25%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.12%) Flink
6 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (1.12%) MySQL
6 1 (1.12%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (15.73%) Git
2 10 (11.24%) JIRA
3 7 (7.87%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.74%) Selenium
5 4 (4.49%) Artifactory
5 4 (4.49%) NUnit
5 4 (4.49%) Visual Studio
6 3 (3.37%) GitLab
6 3 (3.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (3.37%) Subversion
7 2 (2.25%) Moq
8 1 (1.12%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.12%) Fiddler
8 1 (1.12%) Hudson
8 1 (1.12%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.12%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.12%) Travis CI
8 1 (1.12%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 26 (29.21%) Social Skills
2 16 (17.98%) Finance
3 8 (8.99%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.12%) Banking
7 1 (1.12%) Electronics
7 1 (1.12%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.12%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.12%) Marketing
7 1 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (20.22%) Developer
2 16 (17.98%) Analyst
3 11 (12.36%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (12.36%) Senior
4 10 (11.24%) Test Analyst
5 8 (8.99%) Architect
6 7 (7.87%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) Test Manager
8 5 (5.62%) Angular Developer
8 5 (5.62%) Azure Architect
8 5 (5.62%) Lead
9 4 (4.49%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) C# Developer
9 4 (4.49%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Data Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Java Developer
10 3 (3.37%) QA Analyst
10 3 (3.37%) Senior Analyst
10 3 (3.37%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (19.10%) .NET
2 9 (10.11%) AngularJS
3 5 (5.62%) RESTful
4 4 (4.49%) .NET Framework
5 3 (3.37%) ADO
5 3 (3.37%) React
5 3 (3.37%) Spring
5 3 (3.37%) YAML
6 2 (2.25%) ASP.NET
6 2 (2.25%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (2.25%) Entity Framework
6 2 (2.25%) JSON
6 2 (2.25%) Kafka
7 1 (1.12%) Castle Windsor
7 1 (1.12%) Node.js
7 1 (1.12%) Protocol Buffers
7 1 (1.12%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.12%) Razor View Engine
7 1 (1.12%) REST
7 1 (1.12%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.87%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.62%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.49%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.49%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.37%) Private Cloud
4 3 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.25%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.12%) Clustering
6 1 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.12%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.12%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.12%) PMI
6 1 (1.12%) Replication
6 1 (1.12%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.74%) Windows
2 2 (2.25%) Android
2 2 (2.25%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.25%) Linux
2 2 (2.25%) Mac OS
2 2 (2.25%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (39.33%) Agile
2 28 (31.46%) CI/CD
3 15 (16.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (15.73%) Computer Science
5 13 (14.61%) Microservices
5 13 (14.61%) Scrum
6 12 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (12.36%) SDLC
7 11 (12.36%) Software Engineering
7 11 (12.36%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (11.24%) Test Automation
8 10 (11.24%) User Experience
9 9 (10.11%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (10.11%) Decision-Making
9 9 (10.11%) ITIL
9 9 (10.11%) User Acceptance Testing
10 8 (8.99%) Software Testing
10 8 (8.99%) Test Strategy
11 7 (7.87%) Analytics
11 7 (7.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (22.47%) SQL
2 13 (14.61%) C#
3 11 (12.36%) Python
4 10 (11.24%) PowerShell
5 7 (7.87%) Bicep
6 5 (5.62%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.49%) Java
8 2 (2.25%) Bash
8 2 (2.25%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.12%) Go
9 1 (1.12%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.12%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 15 (16.85%) Degree
2 13 (14.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (10.11%) ISTQB
4 6 (6.74%) Security Cleared
5 4 (4.49%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.49%) ISEB
5 4 (4.49%) Master's Degree
6 3 (3.37%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 3 (3.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (2.25%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.12%) APMG
8 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.12%) CCSP
8 1 (1.12%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.12%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.12%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (23.60%) QA
System Software
1 8 (8.99%) Docker
2 4 (4.49%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (4.49%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.12%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (14.61%) Terraform
2 7 (7.87%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.74%) Ansible
4 3 (3.37%) HP ALM
4 3 (3.37%) SysTrack
5 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.25%) SCCM
5 2 (2.25%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.12%) Argo
6 1 (1.12%) Istio
6 1 (1.12%) linkerd
6 1 (1.12%) Packer
6 1 (1.12%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.12%) SELinux
Vendors
1 23 (25.84%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.74%) ServiceNow
3 5 (5.62%) Citrix
3 5 (5.62%) Databricks
3 5 (5.62%) Salesforce
3 5 (5.62%) SAP
4 3 (3.37%) HP
4 3 (3.37%) New Relic
4 3 (3.37%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.25%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.12%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.12%) Cadence
6 1 (1.12%) Confluent
6 1 (1.12%) Google
6 1 (1.12%) Oracle
6 1 (1.12%) Planview
6 1 (1.12%) Sage
6 1 (1.12%) VMware
6 1 (1.12%) Zscaler