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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 24 20
Rank change year-on-year +14 -4 -1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 228 131 155
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.41% 6.86% 7.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.99% 8.39% 8.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 89 114
10th Percentile £409 £349 £402
25th Percentile £463 £498 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £540
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +6.48% -
75th Percentile £600 £613 £672
90th Percentile £671 £686 £738
England median daily rate £525 £550 £583
% change year-on-year -4.55% -5.66% -2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £82.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +17.14% - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -4.29% +7.69% -0.92%

All Process and 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 1,630 1,561 1,762
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.73% 81.77% 85.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,046 1,005 1,180
10th Percentile £250 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £663 £725 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 40 48
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.48 £14.42
25th Percentile £16.13 £15.22 £19.56
Median hourly rate £24.34 £24.31 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -11.59% +52.78%
75th Percentile £35.15 £37.63 £44.69
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.45 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.05% +51.38%

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
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 18 September 2025.

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
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 18 September 2025. 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 +12 68 £475 -5.00% 54
Shropshire +17 60 £521 +2.56% 23
Warwickshire -6 29 £500 -16.67% 13
Worcestershire -2 24 £600 +4.35% 9
Solihull +14 20 £575 +66.67% 4
Herefordshire +4 14 £650 +6.21% 4
Coventry -5 10 £495 +23.75% 7
Staffordshire +5 1 - - 29
Wolverhampton - 1 - - 6
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 34 (14.91%) Confluence
2 27 (11.84%) SAS
3 14 (6.14%) nginx
4 10 (4.39%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (3.07%) Apache
5 7 (3.07%) SharePoint
5 7 (3.07%) WebLogic
6 5 (2.19%) JBoss
7 4 (1.75%) OpenStack
7 4 (1.75%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (1.32%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.88%) CMS
10 1 (0.44%) CICS
10 1 (0.44%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.44%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 12 (5.26%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 8 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (3.07%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (3.07%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.44%) Moqups
5 1 (0.44%) Revit
5 1 (0.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.32%) SAP PM
2 2 (0.88%) ResourceLink
2 2 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.44%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 109 (47.81%) Azure
2 94 (41.23%) AWS
3 45 (19.74%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (18.42%) Amazon S3
5 38 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
6 37 (16.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 35 (15.35%) GitHub
8 30 (13.16%) AWS KMS
8 30 (13.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 27 (11.84%) Amazon ELB
9 27 (11.84%) GCP
10 26 (11.40%) Serverless
11 22 (9.65%) GitHub Actions
11 22 (9.65%) Power Platform
12 20 (8.77%) Microsoft 365
13 18 (7.89%) Route 53
14 15 (6.58%) Amazon ECS
15 12 (5.26%) Amazon Glacier
15 12 (5.26%) PowerApps
16 9 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 31 (13.60%) Firewall
2 28 (12.28%) DNS
3 24 (10.53%) SMTP
3 24 (10.53%) SSH
4 22 (9.65%) FTP
4 22 (9.65%) HTTP
5 12 (5.26%) IMAP
5 12 (5.26%) OpenLDAP
6 7 (3.07%) LAN
6 7 (3.07%) WAN
7 5 (2.19%) TCP/IP
7 5 (2.19%) VPN
8 4 (1.75%) Network Security
8 4 (1.75%) SSL
8 4 (1.75%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.44%) DHCP
9 1 (0.44%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.44%) VLAN
9 1 (0.44%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (15.35%) Amazon RDS
2 34 (14.91%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 18 (7.89%) Pentaho
5 13 (5.70%) NoSQL
6 12 (5.26%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 10 (4.39%) Oracle Database
7 10 (4.39%) Power BI
7 10 (4.39%) Relational Database
8 9 (3.95%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 9 (3.95%) SQL Server
9 6 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (2.63%) Delta Lake
10 5 (2.19%) DynamoDB
10 5 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.75%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.75%) MySQL
11 4 (1.75%) Redis
11 4 (1.75%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 78 (34.21%) Git
2 74 (32.46%) Jenkins
3 61 (26.75%) JIRA
4 29 (12.72%) GitLab
5 24 (10.53%) Vagrant
6 22 (9.65%) SonarQube
7 14 (6.14%) JUnit
8 10 (4.39%) Maven
8 10 (4.39%) Selenium
9 7 (3.07%) Mockito
9 7 (3.07%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (2.63%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (2.19%) Bitbucket
11 5 (2.19%) DbUnit
11 5 (2.19%) jMock
12 4 (1.75%) Eclipse
12 4 (1.75%) IntelliJ
12 4 (1.75%) Liquibase
12 4 (1.75%) Postman
13 3 (1.32%) Snyk
General
1 69 (30.26%) Social Skills
2 57 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 23 (10.09%) Finance
4 17 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.70%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (4.39%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.19%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.75%) Marketing
9 3 (1.32%) Games
10 2 (0.88%) Banking
10 2 (0.88%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.44%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.44%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.44%) Law
11 1 (0.44%) Legal
11 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.44%) Military
Job Titles
1 62 (27.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 41 (17.98%) Developer
3 27 (11.84%) AWS Engineer
4 25 (10.96%) Platform Engineer
5 24 (10.53%) AWS DevOps
5 24 (10.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 22 (9.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 20 (8.77%) Architect
8 16 (7.02%) Senior
9 12 (5.26%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 12 (5.26%) Lead
9 12 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
10 11 (4.82%) Data Engineer
11 10 (4.39%) DevOps Platform Engineer
12 8 (3.51%) Java Developer
13 7 (3.07%) Analyst
13 7 (3.07%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 7 (3.07%) Software Engineer
14 6 (2.63%) Network Engineer
14 6 (2.63%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.53%) REST
2 18 (7.89%) .NET
3 16 (7.02%) Elastic Stack
3 16 (7.02%) RESTful
4 15 (6.58%) SOAP
4 15 (6.58%) YAML
5 13 (5.70%) Spring
6 12 (5.26%) LDAP
7 11 (4.82%) HTML
8 10 (4.39%) JSON
9 9 (3.95%) AngularJS
9 9 (3.95%) Hibernate
9 9 (3.95%) Spring Boot
9 9 (3.95%) Web Services
10 7 (3.07%) ActiveMQ
10 7 (3.07%) Bootstrap
10 7 (3.07%) Flask
10 7 (3.07%) JPA
10 7 (3.07%) Spring Cloud
11 6 (2.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.84%) Cloud Native
2 23 (10.09%) Replication
3 9 (3.95%) IoT
4 7 (3.07%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.63%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.63%) PKI
6 5 (2.19%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.19%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.75%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.32%) Blockchain
8 3 (1.32%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.32%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.32%) SCADA
9 2 (0.88%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 56 (24.56%) Linux
2 29 (12.72%) Windows
3 24 (10.53%) Amazon Linux
3 24 (10.53%) VMS
4 11 (4.82%) Ubuntu
5 9 (3.95%) Unix
6 7 (3.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.32%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.44%) Android
8 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.44%) SUSE
8 1 (0.44%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (56.14%) CI/CD
2 100 (43.86%) Agile
3 68 (29.82%) Problem-Solving
4 50 (21.93%) Containerisation
5 47 (20.61%) Configuration Management
6 45 (19.74%) Scrum
7 44 (19.30%) Analytics
7 44 (19.30%) Test Automation
8 43 (18.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 40 (17.54%) Change Management
9 40 (17.54%) Infrastructure as Code
9 40 (17.54%) Platform Engineering
10 36 (15.79%) Data Modelling
11 32 (14.04%) Microservices
12 31 (13.60%) Deployment Automation
12 31 (13.60%) ETL
13 30 (13.16%) Business Intelligence
14 29 (12.72%) Cloud Security
14 29 (12.72%) Data Integration
15 28 (12.28%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 75 (32.89%) SQL
2 67 (29.39%) Python
3 33 (14.47%) PowerShell
4 29 (12.72%) Java
5 27 (11.84%) Groovy
6 19 (8.33%) Bash
7 14 (6.14%) C#
8 13 (5.70%) Perl
9 12 (5.26%) Go
10 10 (4.39%) JavaScript
11 7 (3.07%) Scala
12 5 (2.19%) Bicep
13 4 (1.75%) TypeScript
13 4 (1.75%) VBA
14 3 (1.32%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.88%) Korn
15 2 (0.88%) VBScript
16 1 (0.44%) C
16 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 119 (52.19%) Security Cleared
2 98 (42.98%) SC Cleared
3 34 (14.91%) Degree
4 24 (10.53%) DV Cleared
5 20 (8.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (5.70%) AWS Certification
7 11 (4.82%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.88%) CEH
9 2 (0.88%) CISSP
9 2 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.88%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.44%) OCP
10 1 (0.44%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.53%) QA
2 22 (9.65%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.51%) NCSC
4 7 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.75%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.75%) GDPR
6 2 (0.88%) NIST
6 2 (0.88%) SLA
7 1 (0.44%) ISO 19650
7 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.44%) PMO
7 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 112 (49.12%) Docker
2 22 (9.65%) DFS Replication
3 17 (7.46%) Postfix
4 14 (6.14%) Active Directory
5 12 (5.26%) Dovecot
5 12 (5.26%) Squid
6 4 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.44%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 71 (31.14%) Kubernetes
1 71 (31.14%) Terraform
2 47 (20.61%) Grafana
2 47 (20.61%) Prometheus
3 30 (13.16%) Ansible
4 12 (5.26%) Nessus
4 12 (5.26%) Puppet
5 10 (4.39%) Proxmox
6 5 (2.19%) HP ALM
6 5 (2.19%) Kibana
6 5 (2.19%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.75%) Argo
8 3 (1.32%) Opsview
8 3 (1.32%) Podman
8 3 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.88%) Istio
10 1 (0.44%) Consul
10 1 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.44%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.44%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 48 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 34 (14.91%) Oracle
3 31 (13.60%) ServiceNow
4 18 (7.89%) Denodo
4 18 (7.89%) Talend
5 17 (7.46%) Jaspersoft
6 15 (6.58%) Splunk
7 9 (3.95%) Cisco
7 9 (3.95%) SAP
8 8 (3.51%) Google
9 7 (3.07%) Databricks
10 6 (2.63%) Atlassian
10 6 (2.63%) Micro Focus
10 6 (2.63%) VMware
11 5 (2.19%) HP
11 5 (2.19%) Progress
11 5 (2.19%) Red Hat
11 5 (2.19%) Salesforce
11 5 (2.19%) webMethods
12 3 (1.32%) IBM