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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 13 19
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 358 147 134
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.48% 9.04% 6.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.18% 10.22% 8.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 96 97
10th Percentile £391 £401 £341
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £612
90th Percentile £671 £632 £679
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 3
10th Percentile £24.25 - -
25th Percentile £59.13 - -
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 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +0.75% -4.29% +6.87%

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 2,939 1,438 1,624
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 86.01% 88.38% 81.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,910 903 1,088
10th Percentile £313 £209 £275
25th Percentile £405 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.16% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £671 £681 £725
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 99 90
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.05
25th Percentile £20.78 £13.74 £14.03
Median hourly rate £33.99 £22.05 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.15% +16.05% -24.38%
75th Percentile £59.50 £32.82 £38.44
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £39.50
% change year-on-year +88.87% -36.33% -7.06%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +6 100 £475 - 30
Shropshire -14 96 £502 -4.29% 20
Warwickshire +3 52 £500 - 4
Coventry +7 42 £407 -19.00% 8
Solihull -7 28 £488 -2.50% 2
Herefordshire +5 13 £700 - 5
Worcestershire -7 9 £669 +16.30% 4
Staffordshire 0 3 £388 -26.19% 3
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 53 (14.80%) SAS
2 47 (13.13%) Confluence
3 19 (5.31%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.51%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.68%) Apache
6 4 (1.12%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.84%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.56%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.56%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.56%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.28%) LiveCycle
Applications
1 9 (2.51%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.23%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (2.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.28%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.28%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.28%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.28%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 194 (54.19%) Azure
2 123 (34.36%) AWS
3 118 (32.96%) Azure DevOps
4 57 (15.92%) GitHub
5 46 (12.85%) Amazon S3
6 44 (12.29%) GitHub Actions
7 41 (11.45%) Serverless
8 38 (10.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 37 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
10 31 (8.66%) AWS Lambda
10 31 (8.66%) Power Platform
11 21 (5.87%) Azure Data Factory
12 20 (5.59%) Amazon SQS
12 20 (5.59%) Dynamics 365
13 18 (5.03%) Amazon EKS
14 17 (4.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 16 (4.47%) Amazon ECS
15 16 (4.47%) AWS CloudFormation
15 16 (4.47%) AWS KMS
15 16 (4.47%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.31%) Firewall
2 7 (1.96%) DNS
2 7 (1.96%) Network Security
2 7 (1.96%) SD-WAN
2 7 (1.96%) WAN
3 5 (1.40%) VPN
4 4 (1.12%) BGP
4 4 (1.12%) DHCP
4 4 (1.12%) Internet
4 4 (1.12%) LAN
4 4 (1.12%) NetScaler
4 4 (1.12%) OSPF
4 4 (1.12%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.84%) BIG-IP
5 3 (0.84%) Ethernet VPN
5 3 (0.84%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (0.84%) SSL
5 3 (0.84%) VXLAN
5 3 (0.84%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (7.26%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (6.42%) Pentaho
4 21 (5.87%) DynamoDB
4 21 (5.87%) Power BI
5 19 (5.31%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 18 (5.03%) Oracle Database
6 18 (5.03%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 15 (4.19%) Amazon Aurora
8 14 (3.91%) SQL Server
9 11 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (2.79%) NoSQL
11 9 (2.51%) Azure SQL Database
11 9 (2.51%) Relational Database
12 6 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.68%) BusinessObjects
12 6 (1.68%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.68%) Metadata
13 5 (1.40%) Delta Lake
13 5 (1.40%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 84 (23.46%) Jenkins
2 80 (22.35%) JIRA
3 55 (15.36%) Git
4 52 (14.53%) GitLab
5 23 (6.42%) Selenium
6 21 (5.87%) JUnit
7 18 (5.03%) Bitbucket
7 18 (5.03%) SonarQube
8 17 (4.75%) Maven
9 15 (4.19%) Mockito
10 12 (3.35%) Postman
11 11 (3.07%) DbUnit
11 11 (3.07%) jMock
12 10 (2.79%) Cypress.io
13 9 (2.51%) Bitbucket Server
13 9 (2.51%) REST Assured
14 8 (2.23%) WebDriver
15 7 (1.96%) LoadRunner
16 6 (1.68%) Cucumber
16 6 (1.68%) Serenity BDD
General
1 105 (29.33%) Social Skills
2 87 (24.30%) Public Sector
3 47 (13.13%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (12.29%) Finance
5 22 (6.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (1.96%) Legal
6 7 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (1.68%) Banking
8 5 (1.40%) Retail
9 4 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.84%) Local Government
11 2 (0.56%) Advertising
11 2 (0.56%) Billing
11 2 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.56%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.28%) Front Office
12 1 (0.28%) Military
Job Titles
1 48 (13.41%) Developer
1 48 (13.41%) Senior
2 46 (12.85%) Architect
3 43 (12.01%) Data Engineer
4 38 (10.61%) DevOps Engineer
5 32 (8.94%) Lead
6 29 (8.10%) Analyst
7 23 (6.42%) Scrum Master
8 15 (4.19%) Azure Engineer
8 15 (4.19%) Business Analyst
8 15 (4.19%) Full-Stack Developer
8 15 (4.19%) Java Developer
9 13 (3.63%) Test Analyst
10 12 (3.35%) Senior Developer
11 11 (3.07%) AWS Engineer
11 11 (3.07%) Senior DevOps
11 11 (3.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 10 (2.79%) AWS DevOps
12 10 (2.79%) Data Architect
12 10 (2.79%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (11.17%) REST
2 30 (8.38%) Node.js
3 24 (6.70%) Spring
3 24 (6.70%) Spring Boot
4 21 (5.87%) Web Services
5 20 (5.59%) .NET
6 19 (5.31%) RESTful
6 19 (5.31%) SOAP
7 18 (5.03%) Spring Cloud
8 17 (4.75%) YAML
9 16 (4.47%) AngularJS
9 16 (4.47%) Flask
10 15 (4.19%) ActiveMQ
10 15 (4.19%) Hibernate
10 15 (4.19%) JPA
10 15 (4.19%) JSON
10 15 (4.19%) Spring Batch
10 15 (4.19%) Spring Integration
11 14 (3.91%) Elastic Stack
12 12 (3.35%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 61 (17.04%) Cloud Native
2 39 (10.89%) Product Ownership
3 22 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.07%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (2.23%) Mobile App
6 7 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (1.96%) SCADA
6 7 (1.96%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.68%) Private Cloud
7 6 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.40%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.40%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.40%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.40%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.12%) Blog
9 4 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.12%) IoT
9 4 (1.12%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 30 (8.38%) Linux
2 14 (3.91%) Windows
3 4 (1.12%) AIX
3 4 (1.12%) Unix
4 3 (0.84%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.84%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.56%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (60.06%) CI/CD
2 188 (52.51%) Agile
3 104 (29.05%) Scrum
4 91 (25.42%) Continuous Improvement
5 88 (24.58%) Test Automation
6 78 (21.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 72 (20.11%) Containerisation
8 70 (19.55%) Analytics
8 70 (19.55%) Infrastructure as Code
9 66 (18.44%) Problem-Solving
10 63 (17.60%) Migration
11 51 (14.25%) Data Integration
12 49 (13.69%) Data Modelling
13 48 (13.41%) Technical Leadership
14 46 (12.85%) ETL
15 45 (12.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 44 (12.29%) Microservices
17 43 (12.01%) Test Strategy
18 42 (11.73%) Business Intelligence
18 42 (11.73%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 93 (25.98%) SQL
2 53 (14.80%) Python
3 50 (13.97%) Java
4 28 (7.82%) JavaScript
5 27 (7.54%) C#
6 16 (4.47%) PowerShell
7 14 (3.91%) Bash
8 12 (3.35%) Bicep
8 12 (3.35%) Go
9 5 (1.40%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.40%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.40%) VB
10 3 (0.84%) HiveQL
10 3 (0.84%) VB6
11 2 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.56%) Groovy
11 2 (0.56%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.28%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.28%) Scala
12 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 158 (44.13%) Security Cleared
2 125 (34.92%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.75%) Degree
3 17 (4.75%) ISTQB
4 14 (3.91%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.35%) AWS Certification
5 12 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (3.07%) Azure Certification
6 11 (3.07%) SAFe Agilist
7 10 (2.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (2.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (1.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 5 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.12%) SAS Certification
12 3 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.84%) CISSP
13 2 (0.56%) CCNP
13 2 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (10.06%) QA
2 35 (9.78%) Data Quality
3 24 (6.70%) Accessibility
4 13 (3.63%) GDPR
5 10 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (2.51%) WCAG
7 5 (1.40%) NIST
8 4 (1.12%) ISO 19650
9 3 (0.84%) SLA
10 2 (0.56%) NCSC
11 1 (0.28%) FATCA
11 1 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.28%) PMO
System Software
1 93 (25.98%) Docker
2 11 (3.07%) Postfix
3 6 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.40%) vSphere
5 4 (1.12%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.84%) HDFS
6 3 (0.84%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.28%) KVM
Systems Management
1 78 (21.79%) Kubernetes
2 71 (19.83%) Terraform
3 50 (13.97%) Grafana
4 32 (8.94%) Ansible
5 29 (8.10%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.96%) Progress Chef
6 7 (1.96%) Puppet
7 6 (1.68%) Argo
8 5 (1.40%) HP ALM
8 5 (1.40%) HP Quality Center
9 4 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.84%) Kibana
10 3 (0.84%) logstash
10 3 (0.84%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.56%) Check_MK
12 1 (0.28%) Istio
12 1 (0.28%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.28%) Packer
12 1 (0.28%) SCCM
Vendors
1 68 (18.99%) Microsoft
2 42 (11.73%) Oracle
3 22 (6.15%) Denodo
4 20 (5.59%) Atlassian
5 18 (5.03%) Splunk
5 18 (5.03%) Talend
6 15 (4.19%) Jaspersoft
7 13 (3.63%) Databricks
8 11 (3.07%) SAP
9 10 (2.79%) Informatica
9 10 (2.79%) VMware
10 9 (2.51%) Cisco
10 9 (2.51%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.68%) Google
11 6 (1.68%) HP
11 6 (1.68%) Red Hat
12 5 (1.40%) Fortinet
12 5 (1.40%) Pega
13 4 (1.12%) Aruba
13 4 (1.12%) F5