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

 6 months to
28 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 22 31
Rank change year-on-year +6 +9 -13
Contract jobs citing DevOps 302 98 89
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 9.76% 7.20% 4.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.74% 8.13% 5.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 69 63
10th Percentile £400 £400 £275
25th Percentile £425 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £524 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +10.32% -14.61%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £605
90th Percentile £618 £628 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £54.40 £58.83 £55.25
25th Percentile £59.13 £62.69 £55.63
Median hourly rate £69.25 £69.75 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -0.72% +24.00% -
75th Percentile £78.63 £76.19 -
90th Percentile £80.65 £79.68 -
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 2,573 1,205 1,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.19% 88.47% 84.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,677 800 1,066
10th Percentile £306 £200 £275
25th Percentile £402 £386 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £650 £679 £750
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 57 115
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.62 £11.09
25th Percentile £19.67 £14.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £18.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -20.00% +26.98%
75th Percentile £66.54 £24.22 £41.13
90th Percentile £72.15 £39.14 £57.75
England median hourly rate £44.00 £30.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year +44.50% -13.00% -6.67%

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 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 28 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 28 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 -5 100 £492 -6.20% 7
Birmingham +10 92 £513 +7.89% 51
Warwickshire +4 42 £488 -2.50% 5
Coventry - 21 £407 - 5
Worcestershire +5 19 £560 -4.68% 4
Solihull -4 19 £484 -18.51% 2
Herefordshire -4 12 £550 -21.43%
Staffordshire 0 3 £388 -26.19% 5
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 63 (20.86%) SAS
2 46 (15.23%) Confluence
3 10 (3.31%) OpenStack
4 9 (2.98%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.66%) Apache
6 3 (0.99%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.99%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.99%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.66%) JBoss
8 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.33%) LiveCycle
8 1 (0.33%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 9 (2.98%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (1.99%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.33%) Maximo
2 1 (0.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 139 (46.03%) Azure
2 96 (31.79%) AWS
3 66 (21.85%) Azure DevOps
4 43 (14.24%) GitHub
5 32 (10.60%) Serverless
6 29 (9.60%) Amazon S3
6 29 (9.60%) GitHub Actions
7 25 (8.28%) Azure Data Factory
7 25 (8.28%) GCP
8 24 (7.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 21 (6.95%) Amazon EC2
10 19 (6.29%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (6.29%) Power Platform
11 16 (5.30%) Amazon SQS
12 15 (4.97%) OpenShift
13 14 (4.64%) AWS KMS
13 14 (4.64%) Route 53
14 11 (3.64%) Entra ID
15 10 (3.31%) AWS CloudFormation
15 10 (3.31%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.30%) Firewall
2 6 (1.99%) DNS
2 6 (1.99%) Network Security
3 5 (1.66%) VPN
4 4 (1.32%) SD-WAN
4 4 (1.32%) WAN
5 3 (0.99%) DHCP
5 3 (0.99%) Internet
5 3 (0.99%) LAN
5 3 (0.99%) SSL
5 3 (0.99%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.66%) BGP
6 2 (0.66%) OSPF
6 2 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.33%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.33%) MPLS
7 1 (0.33%) SMS
7 1 (0.33%) VLAN
7 1 (0.33%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (11.26%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (10.26%) Pentaho
3 21 (6.95%) Elasticsearch
4 19 (6.29%) Amazon RDS
4 19 (6.29%) DynamoDB
5 13 (4.30%) Amazon Aurora
5 13 (4.30%) Power BI
6 11 (3.64%) Oracle Database
7 10 (3.31%) NoSQL
7 10 (3.31%) Relational Database
7 10 (3.31%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 9 (2.98%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (2.98%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 8 (2.65%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.99%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (1.99%) BusinessObjects
10 6 (1.99%) Metadata
11 4 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.32%) Impala
11 4 (1.32%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 80 (26.49%) JIRA
2 75 (24.83%) Jenkins
3 71 (23.51%) Git
4 35 (11.59%) GitLab
5 23 (7.62%) JUnit
6 17 (5.63%) Maven
6 17 (5.63%) Selenium
6 17 (5.63%) SonarQube
7 14 (4.64%) Bitbucket
8 13 (4.30%) Mockito
9 10 (3.31%) DbUnit
9 10 (3.31%) jMock
10 8 (2.65%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (1.66%) Postman
12 4 (1.32%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (1.32%) CircleCI
12 4 (1.32%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.32%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.99%) LoadRunner
General
1 94 (31.13%) Social Skills
2 51 (16.89%) Public Sector
3 48 (15.89%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (9.27%) Finance
5 13 (4.30%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.32%) Banking
7 4 (1.32%) Retail
7 4 (1.32%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.66%) Advertising
8 2 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.33%) Legal
9 1 (0.33%) Military
9 1 (0.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 49 (16.23%) Data Engineer
2 43 (14.24%) Developer
3 36 (11.92%) Senior
4 34 (11.26%) Architect
5 24 (7.95%) DevOps Engineer
6 23 (7.62%) Analyst
7 18 (5.96%) Business Analyst
7 18 (5.96%) Full-Stack Developer
8 14 (4.64%) Lead
9 13 (4.30%) Java Developer
10 12 (3.97%) Project Manager
11 11 (3.64%) SAS Engineer
11 11 (3.64%) Senior Data Engineer
12 10 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
13 9 (2.98%) Data Architect
13 9 (2.98%) Engagement Manager
13 9 (2.98%) Senior Developer
13 9 (2.98%) Site Engineer
13 9 (2.98%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 8 (2.65%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (13.91%) REST
2 29 (9.60%) Node.js
3 20 (6.62%) Elastic Stack
4 19 (6.29%) Flask
4 19 (6.29%) SOAP
4 19 (6.29%) YAML
5 17 (5.63%) AngularJS
5 17 (5.63%) Spring
6 16 (5.30%) .NET
7 15 (4.97%) Hibernate
7 15 (4.97%) Kafka
7 15 (4.97%) Spring Boot
7 15 (4.97%) Web Services
8 14 (4.64%) Spring Cloud
9 13 (4.30%) ActiveMQ
9 13 (4.30%) JPA
9 13 (4.30%) Spring Batch
9 13 (4.30%) Spring Integration
10 12 (3.97%) Django
10 12 (3.97%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 40 (13.25%) Cloud Native
2 26 (8.61%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.64%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.64%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (2.98%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (2.98%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.32%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.32%) Security Posture
7 3 (0.99%) Educational Technology
7 3 (0.99%) IoT
7 3 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (0.99%) Mobile App
7 3 (0.99%) SCADA
7 3 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.66%) Autonomous Agent
8 2 (0.66%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.66%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.66%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.33%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 32 (10.60%) Linux
2 15 (4.97%) Unix
3 14 (4.64%) Windows
4 2 (0.66%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.66%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (59.60%) CI/CD
2 161 (53.31%) Agile
3 89 (29.47%) Scrum
4 80 (26.49%) Containerisation
5 79 (26.16%) Analytics
6 66 (21.85%) Test Automation
7 63 (20.86%) Migration
7 63 (20.86%) Problem-Solving
8 62 (20.53%) Stakeholder Management
9 58 (19.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 57 (18.87%) Data Modelling
11 54 (17.88%) Data Pipeline
12 53 (17.55%) Data Integration
12 53 (17.55%) ETL
13 45 (14.90%) Infrastructure as Code
14 42 (13.91%) Change Management
15 41 (13.58%) Microservices
16 40 (13.25%) Business Intelligence
17 36 (11.92%) Data Analytics
17 36 (11.92%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 98 (32.45%) SQL
2 73 (24.17%) Python
3 32 (10.60%) Java
4 22 (7.28%) Bash
5 21 (6.95%) JavaScript
6 18 (5.96%) PowerShell
7 16 (5.30%) Go
8 13 (4.30%) C#
9 11 (3.64%) Bicep
10 5 (1.66%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.66%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.32%) Groovy
11 4 (1.32%) Scala
12 3 (0.99%) HiveQL
12 3 (0.99%) VB
13 1 (0.33%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.33%) VB6
Qualifications
1 144 (47.68%) Security Cleared
2 122 (40.40%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.28%) Degree
4 17 (5.63%) Azure Certification
5 14 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (3.31%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.98%) IIBA
8 7 (2.32%) ISTQB
8 7 (2.32%) SAFe Agilist
9 6 (1.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (1.66%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.99%) CISSP
11 3 (0.99%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.99%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.66%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.66%) PMP
12 2 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (11.59%) Data Quality
2 31 (10.26%) QA
3 12 (3.97%) GDPR
4 11 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.65%) Accessibility
6 7 (2.32%) NIST
7 3 (0.99%) SLA
8 2 (0.66%) ISO 19650
8 2 (0.66%) WCAG
9 1 (0.33%) FATCA
9 1 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.33%) NCSC
9 1 (0.33%) PMO
System Software
1 108 (35.76%) Docker
2 10 (3.31%) Postfix
3 6 (1.99%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.32%) HDFS
6 3 (0.99%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.99%) vSphere
7 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.33%) KVM
7 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 100 (33.11%) Kubernetes
2 64 (21.19%) Terraform
3 46 (15.23%) Grafana
4 38 (12.58%) Ansible
5 24 (7.95%) Prometheus
6 13 (4.30%) Kibana
7 12 (3.97%) Puppet
8 8 (2.65%) Argo
9 5 (1.66%) logstash
10 3 (0.99%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.66%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.66%) HP Quality Center
11 2 (0.66%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.33%) Packer
12 1 (0.33%) Podman
Vendors
1 48 (15.89%) Microsoft
2 38 (12.58%) Oracle
3 31 (10.26%) Denodo
4 26 (8.61%) Talend
5 25 (8.28%) Splunk
6 22 (7.28%) Atlassian
7 13 (4.30%) Jaspersoft
8 11 (3.64%) SAP
8 11 (3.64%) ServiceNow
9 10 (3.31%) Dynatrace
10 9 (2.98%) Informatica
11 8 (2.65%) Red Hat
12 7 (2.32%) AppDynamics
13 6 (1.99%) CyberArk
13 6 (1.99%) Databricks
13 6 (1.99%) VMware
14 5 (1.66%) Pega
15 3 (0.99%) Google
15 3 (0.99%) HP
15 3 (0.99%) NEC
79 DevOps jobs in the West Midlands