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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 10 22
Rank change year-on-year -8 +12 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 343 223 135
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 9.62% 12.15% 7.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.36% 13.61% 8.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 159 89
10th Percentile £387 £405 £349
25th Percentile £413 £463 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +8.49%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £613
90th Percentile £686 £680 £686
England median daily rate £525 £525 £560
% change year-on-year - -6.25% -3.95%
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 £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 3,020 1,638 1,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.74% 89.26% 82.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,846 1,045 983
10th Percentile £316 £250 £231
25th Percentile £413 £400 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £519
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -3.66% +3.80%
75th Percentile £582 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £675 £725
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 111 39
10th Percentile £13.45 £12.62 £14.70
25th Percentile £17.48 £16.30 £16.38
Median hourly rate £28.05 £23.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +21.93% -4.88% -12.07%
75th Percentile £53.75 £32.44 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.84 £50.00 £55.65
England median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -19 90 £515 -0.77% 13
Birmingham -3 89 £500 +5.26% 82
Coventry +13 55 £425 -14.14% 9
Warwickshire -2 42 £500 - 15
Solihull -9 25 £488 -15.22% 6
Herefordshire -2 12 £700 +7.69% 5
Worcestershire -8 7 £638 +6.25% 5
Staffordshire -10 4 £388 - 9
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 39 (11.37%) Confluence
1 39 (11.37%) SAS
2 20 (5.83%) SharePoint
3 17 (4.96%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.75%) Apache
5 2 (0.58%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.58%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.58%) OpenROAD
5 2 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.29%) CMS
6 1 (0.29%) IIS
6 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.87%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.87%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 22 (6.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.87%) 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
1 193 (56.27%) Azure
2 120 (34.99%) AWS
2 120 (34.99%) Azure DevOps
3 53 (15.45%) Serverless
4 51 (14.87%) GitHub
4 51 (14.87%) Power Platform
5 42 (12.24%) GitHub Actions
6 38 (11.08%) Amazon S3
7 36 (10.50%) Dynamics 365
8 34 (9.91%) Power Automate
9 32 (9.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 31 (9.04%) Amazon EC2
11 29 (8.45%) AWS Lambda
12 23 (6.71%) Amazon EKS
13 21 (6.12%) Azure Functions
14 20 (5.83%) Amazon ECS
15 18 (5.25%) Azure Data Factory
16 14 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
16 14 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
16 14 (4.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.66%) Firewall
2 7 (2.04%) SD-WAN
2 7 (2.04%) WAN
3 4 (1.17%) Ethernet VPN
3 4 (1.17%) LAN
3 4 (1.17%) NetScaler
3 4 (1.17%) VXLAN
4 3 (0.87%) BGP
4 3 (0.87%) BIG-IP
4 3 (0.87%) DHCP
4 3 (0.87%) DNS
4 3 (0.87%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (0.87%) Internet
4 3 (0.87%) Network Security
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%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.87%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (7.29%) SQL Server
2 24 (7.00%) Power BI
3 21 (6.12%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (6.12%) Pentaho
4 18 (5.25%) NoSQL
5 17 (4.96%) Data Lake
6 16 (4.66%) Amazon RDS
6 16 (4.66%) Metadata
6 16 (4.66%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 16 (4.66%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 13 (3.79%) Oracle Database
7 13 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (3.21%) DynamoDB
9 9 (2.62%) MongoDB
10 7 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (1.17%) Data Vault
12 4 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.87%) Big Data
13 3 (0.87%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 64 (18.66%) JIRA
2 58 (16.91%) Jenkins
3 46 (13.41%) Git
4 37 (10.79%) GitLab
5 18 (5.25%) Selenium
6 17 (4.96%) Bitbucket
7 14 (4.08%) Postman
8 13 (3.79%) Cypress.io
9 12 (3.50%) WebDriver
10 11 (3.21%) SonarQube
11 10 (2.92%) Maven
12 8 (2.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 8 (2.33%) Cucumber
13 7 (2.04%) JUnit
14 6 (1.75%) LoadRunner
14 6 (1.75%) Mockito
15 5 (1.46%) REST Assured
16 4 (1.17%) Artifactory
16 4 (1.17%) Bitbucket Server
16 4 (1.17%) Serenity BDD
General
1 126 (36.73%) Social Skills
2 114 (33.24%) Public Sector
3 50 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (11.66%) Finance
4 40 (11.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (4.66%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (2.33%) Banking
6 8 (2.33%) Legal
7 5 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.17%) Local Government
9 3 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.58%) Billing
10 2 (0.58%) Military
10 2 (0.58%) Publishing
10 2 (0.58%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.29%) Advertising
11 1 (0.29%) Front Office
11 1 (0.29%) Police
11 1 (0.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 61 (17.78%) Senior
2 57 (16.62%) Architect
3 42 (12.24%) Developer
4 41 (11.95%) DevOps Engineer
5 39 (11.37%) Lead
6 33 (9.62%) Data Engineer
7 28 (8.16%) Scrum Master
8 25 (7.29%) Analyst
9 19 (5.54%) Azure Engineer
9 19 (5.54%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 15 (4.37%) Senior Developer
10 15 (4.37%) Test Analyst
11 14 (4.08%) Data Architect
12 11 (3.21%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 11 (3.21%) Senior DevOps
12 11 (3.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 11 (3.21%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (2.92%) Senior Analyst
13 10 (2.92%) Senior Data Engineer
14 9 (2.62%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (15.74%) Terraform
2 37 (10.79%) REST
3 32 (9.33%) JSON
4 25 (7.29%) Spring
4 25 (7.29%) Spring Boot
5 22 (6.41%) RESTful
6 14 (4.08%) Kafka
7 13 (3.79%) .NET
7 13 (3.79%) SOAP
7 13 (3.79%) Web Services
8 11 (3.21%) Gherkin
8 11 (3.21%) Node.js
8 11 (3.21%) XML
8 11 (3.21%) XSLT
9 10 (2.92%) Elastic Stack
10 9 (2.62%) YAML
11 8 (2.33%) Spring Cloud
12 7 (2.04%) AngularJS
12 7 (2.04%) AWS CDK
12 7 (2.04%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 75 (21.87%) Cloud Native
2 43 (12.54%) Product Ownership
3 17 (4.96%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (4.66%) Management Information System
5 12 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (3.50%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (3.21%) Taxonomies
6 11 (3.21%) Virtual Team
7 9 (2.62%) Mobile App
8 8 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (2.33%) Autonomous Agent
8 8 (2.33%) Data Centre
9 7 (2.04%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.04%) Private Cloud
9 7 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.75%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.46%) SCADA
11 5 (1.46%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.12%) Linux
2 13 (3.79%) Windows
3 4 (1.17%) AIX
4 3 (0.87%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.87%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.58%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.29%) Unix
6 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (58.60%) CI/CD
2 186 (54.23%) Agile
3 99 (28.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 96 (27.99%) Scrum
5 82 (23.91%) Technical Leadership
5 82 (23.91%) Test Automation
6 78 (22.74%) Stakeholder Management
7 71 (20.70%) Infrastructure as Code
8 69 (20.12%) Problem-Solving
9 68 (19.83%) Analytics
9 68 (19.83%) Migration
10 57 (16.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 54 (15.74%) AI
11 54 (15.74%) Containerisation
11 54 (15.74%) Data Modelling
12 53 (15.45%) Microservices
12 53 (15.45%) Platform Engineering
13 45 (13.12%) ETL
14 43 (12.54%) Observability
15 40 (11.66%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 56 (16.33%) Java
2 45 (13.12%) Python
3 44 (12.83%) SQL
4 42 (12.24%) C#
5 33 (9.62%) JavaScript
6 18 (5.25%) PowerShell
7 11 (3.21%) Bash
8 10 (2.92%) Bicep
8 10 (2.92%) Go
9 6 (1.75%) Scala
9 6 (1.75%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.87%) Groovy
10 3 (0.87%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.58%) VB
11 2 (0.58%) VB6
12 1 (0.29%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.29%) R
Qualifications
1 142 (41.40%) Security Cleared
2 112 (32.65%) SC Cleared
3 29 (8.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 28 (8.16%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (5.25%) AWS Certification
5 18 (5.25%) Azure Certification
6 17 (4.96%) Degree
6 17 (4.96%) ISTQB
7 14 (4.08%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.33%) SAFe Agilist
9 6 (1.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.17%) 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%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.29%) CISM
13 1 (0.29%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (11.95%) Accessibility
2 39 (11.37%) QA
3 29 (8.45%) Data Quality
4 21 (6.12%) GDPR
5 20 (5.83%) WCAG
6 6 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.17%) ISO 19650
7 4 (1.17%) 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 69 (20.12%) Docker
2 4 (1.17%) Postfix
3 3 (0.87%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.58%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 58 (16.91%) Kubernetes
2 28 (8.16%) Grafana
3 21 (6.12%) Ansible
3 21 (6.12%) Prometheus
4 8 (2.33%) Progress Chef
4 8 (2.33%) Puppet
5 6 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.87%) Argo
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
Vendors
1 76 (22.16%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.87%) Oracle
3 20 (5.83%) Denodo
4 13 (3.79%) Splunk
5 12 (3.50%) Atlassian
6 11 (3.21%) ServiceNow
7 10 (2.92%) Databricks
8 9 (2.62%) Cisco
8 9 (2.62%) Talend
9 7 (2.04%) SAP
10 6 (1.75%) Jaspersoft
10 6 (1.75%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.75%) VMware
11 5 (1.46%) Google
11 5 (1.46%) Informatica
11 5 (1.46%) Pega
12 4 (1.17%) Citrix
12 4 (1.17%) Dynatrace
12 4 (1.17%) F5
12 4 (1.17%) Fortinet