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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 14 23
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 -5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 342 139 124
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.09% 8.99% 6.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.78% 10.13% 7.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 93 91
10th Percentile £400 £413 £328
25th Percentile £425 £453 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -2.48% -10.64%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £611
90th Percentile £681 £635 £672
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 3
10th Percentile £60.70 - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £82.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -14.63% +45.78% -
75th Percentile £75.00 - £65.63
90th Percentile - - £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -10.71% +6.70%

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 2,902 1,372 1,678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.60% 88.75% 81.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,898 867 1,117
10th Percentile £313 £206 £273
25th Percentile £405 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £673 £725
England median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.84% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 92 111
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.06
25th Percentile £20.31 £13.76 £14.06
Median hourly rate £33.99 £23.36 £19.95
Median % change year-on-year +45.51% +17.09% -20.20%
75th Percentile £60.06 £34.16 £37.50
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -3.62%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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
Birmingham +7 103 £500 +5.26% 33
Shropshire -12 92 £502 -4.39% 14
Warwickshire +1 51 £500 - 8
Coventry +2 35 £407 -19.00% 3
Solihull -6 25 £488 -2.50% 4
Herefordshire +3 11 £700 - 4
Worcestershire -5 9 £669 +16.30% 6
Staffordshire 0 3 £388 -26.19% 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 57 (16.67%) SAS
2 44 (12.87%) Confluence
3 19 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.34%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.75%) Apache
6 5 (1.46%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.88%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.58%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.58%) CloudStack
9 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.29%) LiveCycle
Applications
1 9 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (2.34%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.29%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 180 (52.63%) Azure
2 117 (34.21%) AWS
3 105 (30.70%) Azure DevOps
4 52 (15.20%) GitHub
5 40 (11.70%) GitHub Actions
6 39 (11.40%) Amazon S3
7 34 (9.94%) Serverless
8 33 (9.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 31 (9.06%) Amazon EC2
10 26 (7.60%) AWS Lambda
10 26 (7.60%) Power Platform
11 21 (6.14%) Azure Data Factory
12 19 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
13 16 (4.68%) AWS KMS
13 16 (4.68%) Route 53
14 15 (4.39%) GCP
14 15 (4.39%) OpenShift
14 15 (4.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 14 (4.09%) AWS CloudFormation
16 13 (3.80%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.56%) Firewall
2 7 (2.05%) DNS
2 7 (2.05%) Network Security
2 7 (2.05%) SD-WAN
2 7 (2.05%) WAN
3 5 (1.46%) VPN
4 4 (1.17%) BGP
4 4 (1.17%) DHCP
4 4 (1.17%) Internet
4 4 (1.17%) LAN
4 4 (1.17%) OSPF
4 4 (1.17%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.88%) BIG-IP
5 3 (0.88%) Ethernet VPN
5 3 (0.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (0.88%) SSL
5 3 (0.88%) VXLAN
5 3 (0.88%) WLAN
6 2 (0.58%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (7.60%) Pentaho
1 26 (7.60%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (6.73%) Amazon RDS
3 21 (6.14%) DynamoDB
4 20 (5.85%) Power BI
5 19 (5.56%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 18 (5.26%) Oracle Database
6 18 (5.26%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 15 (4.39%) Amazon Aurora
8 11 (3.22%) NoSQL
8 11 (3.22%) SQL Server
9 9 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (2.63%) Relational Database
10 8 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (2.05%) Metadata
12 6 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.75%) BusinessObjects
12 6 (1.75%) Data Lake
13 5 (1.46%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 85 (24.85%) Jenkins
2 70 (20.47%) JIRA
3 61 (17.84%) Git
4 51 (14.91%) GitLab
5 21 (6.14%) JUnit
6 20 (5.85%) Selenium
7 19 (5.56%) SonarQube
8 18 (5.26%) Bitbucket
8 18 (5.26%) Maven
9 15 (4.39%) Mockito
10 11 (3.22%) DbUnit
10 11 (3.22%) jMock
11 9 (2.63%) Bitbucket Server
11 9 (2.63%) REST Assured
12 8 (2.34%) Postman
13 7 (2.05%) Cypress.io
13 7 (2.05%) LoadRunner
14 6 (1.75%) Serenity BDD
15 5 (1.46%) WebDriver
16 4 (1.17%) Cucumber
General
1 95 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 77 (22.51%) Public Sector
3 44 (12.87%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (12.28%) Finance
5 15 (4.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.05%) Banking
7 7 (2.05%) Legal
7 7 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.46%) Retail
9 2 (0.58%) Advertising
9 2 (0.58%) Billing
9 2 (0.58%) Local Government
10 1 (0.29%) Military
10 1 (0.29%) Publishing
10 1 (0.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (13.74%) Architect
2 45 (13.16%) Developer
3 44 (12.87%) Senior
4 42 (12.28%) Data Engineer
5 41 (11.99%) DevOps Engineer
6 28 (8.19%) Lead
7 23 (6.73%) Analyst
8 16 (4.68%) Scrum Master
9 15 (4.39%) Full-Stack Developer
9 15 (4.39%) Java Developer
10 13 (3.80%) Azure Engineer
10 13 (3.80%) Business Analyst
11 11 (3.22%) AWS Engineer
11 11 (3.22%) Senior Developer
11 11 (3.22%) Senior DevOps
11 11 (3.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 11 (3.22%) Solutions Architect
12 10 (2.92%) AWS DevOps
12 10 (2.92%) Data Architect
12 10 (2.92%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (11.40%) REST
2 31 (9.06%) Node.js
3 21 (6.14%) .NET
3 21 (6.14%) Web Services
4 20 (5.85%) Spring
4 20 (5.85%) Spring Boot
5 19 (5.56%) SOAP
6 18 (5.26%) Spring Cloud
7 17 (4.97%) Elastic Stack
7 17 (4.97%) YAML
8 16 (4.68%) AngularJS
8 16 (4.68%) Flask
9 15 (4.39%) ActiveMQ
9 15 (4.39%) Hibernate
9 15 (4.39%) JPA
9 15 (4.39%) RESTful
9 15 (4.39%) Spring Batch
9 15 (4.39%) Spring Integration
10 12 (3.51%) Django
10 12 (3.51%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 56 (16.37%) Cloud Native
2 31 (9.06%) Product Ownership
3 22 (6.43%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (2.34%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.05%) SCADA
6 7 (2.05%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.75%) Private Cloud
8 5 (1.46%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.46%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.46%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.17%) Blog
9 4 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.17%) IoT
9 4 (1.17%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.88%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 30 (8.77%) Linux
2 11 (3.22%) Windows
3 6 (1.75%) Unix
4 3 (0.88%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.88%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.58%) AIX
5 2 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.58%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (61.70%) CI/CD
2 171 (50.00%) Agile
3 95 (27.78%) Scrum
4 84 (24.56%) Test Automation
5 80 (23.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 78 (22.81%) Containerisation
7 73 (21.35%) Analytics
8 72 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
9 70 (20.47%) Infrastructure as Code
10 65 (19.01%) Problem-Solving
11 64 (18.71%) Migration
12 57 (16.67%) Data Integration
13 49 (14.33%) Data Modelling
14 45 (13.16%) ETL
15 43 (12.57%) Data Pipeline
15 43 (12.57%) Microservices
15 43 (12.57%) Technical Leadership
16 42 (12.28%) Observability
17 41 (11.99%) Business Intelligence
18 40 (11.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 95 (27.78%) SQL
2 56 (16.37%) Python
3 41 (11.99%) Java
4 24 (7.02%) JavaScript
5 23 (6.73%) C#
6 15 (4.39%) Bicep
7 14 (4.09%) Bash
7 14 (4.09%) PowerShell
8 12 (3.51%) Go
9 5 (1.46%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.46%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.17%) Groovy
11 3 (0.88%) HiveQL
11 3 (0.88%) VB
12 2 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.29%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.29%) Scala
13 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.29%) VB6
Qualifications
1 152 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 119 (34.80%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.97%) Degree
4 13 (3.80%) Azure Certification
5 12 (3.51%) DV Cleared
6 11 (3.22%) ISTQB
6 11 (3.22%) SAFe Agilist
7 9 (2.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 8 (2.34%) AWS Certification
8 8 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (1.17%) SAS Certification
12 3 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.88%) CISSP
13 2 (0.58%) CCNP
13 2 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.58%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 31 (9.06%) QA
3 19 (5.56%) Accessibility
4 11 (3.22%) GDPR
5 10 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.75%) WCAG
7 5 (1.46%) NIST
8 4 (1.17%) ISO 19650
9 3 (0.88%) SLA
10 2 (0.58%) NCSC
11 1 (0.29%) FATCA
11 1 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.29%) PMO
System Software
1 98 (28.65%) Docker
2 11 (3.22%) Postfix
3 7 (2.05%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.46%) vSphere
6 3 (0.88%) HDFS
6 3 (0.88%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.29%) KVM
7 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 84 (24.56%) Kubernetes
2 76 (22.22%) Terraform
3 52 (15.20%) Grafana
4 34 (9.94%) Ansible
5 31 (9.06%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.63%) Puppet
7 7 (2.05%) Progress Chef
8 6 (1.75%) Argo
8 6 (1.75%) Kibana
9 5 (1.46%) HP ALM
10 4 (1.17%) HP Quality Center
10 4 (1.17%) logstash
10 4 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.88%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.58%) Check_MK
13 1 (0.29%) Istio
13 1 (0.29%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.29%) Packer
13 1 (0.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 61 (17.84%) Microsoft
2 42 (12.28%) Oracle
3 25 (7.31%) Denodo
4 21 (6.14%) Talend
5 20 (5.85%) Atlassian
6 18 (5.26%) Splunk
7 15 (4.39%) Jaspersoft
8 13 (3.80%) Databricks
9 10 (2.92%) Informatica
9 10 (2.92%) SAP
10 9 (2.63%) ServiceNow
11 8 (2.34%) VMware
12 7 (2.05%) Cisco
13 6 (1.75%) HP
13 6 (1.75%) Red Hat
14 5 (1.46%) Fortinet
14 5 (1.46%) Pega
15 4 (1.17%) Aruba
15 4 (1.17%) F5
15 4 (1.17%) Google