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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 15 28
Rank change year-on-year -2 +13 -12
Contract jobs citing DevOps 341 130 117
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.33% 8.84% 5.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.18% 9.95% 7.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 86 88
10th Percentile £400 £413 £325
25th Percentile £425 £453 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £517 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% -1.57% -10.64%
75th Percentile £570 £588 £611
90th Percentile £664 £632 £673
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 £70.00 £70.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year - +3.70% +2.89%

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 2,800 1,306 1,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.82% 88.78% 80.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,842 825 1,099
10th Percentile £313 £200 £269
25th Percentile £405 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £481 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.80% -1.48%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £658 £738
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 79 121
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.13
25th Percentile £22.48 £14.60 £14.25
Median hourly rate £33.99 £24.22 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.34% +7.64% -8.16%
75th Percentile £61.00 £32.82 £40.00
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £47.50 £27.06 £38.12
% change year-on-year +75.52% -29.01% +8.82%

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 22 June 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 22 June 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 22 June 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 +10 108 £500 +3.90% 27
Shropshire -9 99 £492 -6.17% 5
Warwickshire +3 49 £500 - 10
Coventry +3 27 £407 -25.66% 4
Solihull -7 25 £488 -2.50% 2
Herefordshire +2 10 £700 - 3
Worcestershire -4 9 £669 +16.30% 2
Staffordshire -2 3 £388 -26.19%
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 66 (19.35%) SAS
2 52 (15.25%) Confluence
3 19 (5.57%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.05%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.76%) Apache
6 5 (1.47%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.88%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.59%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.59%) CloudStack
9 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.29%) LiveCycle
Applications
1 9 (2.64%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (1.76%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.47%) 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
1 165 (48.39%) Azure
2 123 (36.07%) AWS
3 91 (26.69%) Azure DevOps
4 49 (14.37%) GitHub
5 37 (10.85%) Amazon S3
6 36 (10.56%) GitHub Actions
7 33 (9.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 32 (9.38%) Serverless
9 29 (8.50%) Amazon EC2
10 25 (7.33%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (6.74%) Power Platform
12 18 (5.28%) Amazon SQS
12 18 (5.28%) Azure Data Factory
12 18 (5.28%) GCP
13 16 (4.69%) AWS KMS
13 16 (4.69%) Route 53
14 13 (3.81%) Amazon EKS
14 13 (3.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 12 (3.52%) AWS CloudFormation
15 12 (3.52%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.99%) Firewall
2 6 (1.76%) DNS
2 6 (1.76%) Network Security
2 6 (1.76%) SD-WAN
2 6 (1.76%) WAN
3 4 (1.17%) BGP
3 4 (1.17%) OSPF
3 4 (1.17%) VPN
3 4 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.88%) BIG-IP
4 3 (0.88%) DHCP
4 3 (0.88%) Ethernet VPN
4 3 (0.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (0.88%) Internet
4 3 (0.88%) LAN
4 3 (0.88%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.88%) VXLAN
4 3 (0.88%) WLAN
5 2 (0.59%) NAS
5 2 (0.59%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (7.92%) Pentaho
1 27 (7.92%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (6.16%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (6.16%) DynamoDB
3 19 (5.57%) Power BI
3 19 (5.57%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 18 (5.28%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 17 (4.99%) Oracle Database
6 15 (4.40%) Amazon Aurora
7 12 (3.52%) Relational Database
8 10 (2.93%) NoSQL
9 9 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (2.64%) SQL Server
10 8 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (2.05%) Metadata
12 6 (1.76%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.76%) BusinessObjects
12 6 (1.76%) Data Lake
13 5 (1.47%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 83 (24.34%) Jenkins
2 78 (22.87%) JIRA
3 62 (18.18%) Git
4 48 (14.08%) GitLab
5 21 (6.16%) JUnit
6 19 (5.57%) SonarQube
7 18 (5.28%) Bitbucket
7 18 (5.28%) Maven
7 18 (5.28%) Selenium
8 15 (4.40%) Mockito
9 11 (3.23%) DbUnit
9 11 (3.23%) jMock
10 9 (2.64%) Bitbucket Server
10 9 (2.64%) REST Assured
11 7 (2.05%) LoadRunner
12 6 (1.76%) Postman
12 6 (1.76%) Serenity BDD
13 5 (1.47%) Cypress.io
14 4 (1.17%) Artifactory
14 4 (1.17%) Gatling
General
1 102 (29.91%) Social Skills
2 76 (22.29%) Public Sector
3 52 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (11.73%) Finance
5 11 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.05%) Banking
8 7 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.47%) Retail
10 3 (0.88%) Legal
11 2 (0.59%) Advertising
11 2 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.29%) Local Government
12 1 (0.29%) Military
12 1 (0.29%) Publishing
12 1 (0.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (13.49%) Developer
2 44 (12.90%) Senior
3 43 (12.61%) Data Engineer
4 42 (12.32%) Architect
5 37 (10.85%) DevOps Engineer
6 26 (7.62%) Analyst
7 25 (7.33%) Lead
8 18 (5.28%) Business Analyst
8 18 (5.28%) Full-Stack Developer
9 15 (4.40%) Java Developer
9 15 (4.40%) Scrum Master
10 14 (4.11%) Senior Developer
11 12 (3.52%) Release Manager
12 11 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
13 10 (2.93%) AWS DevOps
13 10 (2.93%) Security Architect
13 10 (2.93%) Senior DevOps
13 10 (2.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 9 (2.64%) Azure Engineer
14 9 (2.64%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (11.73%) REST
2 31 (9.09%) Node.js
3 21 (6.16%) Web Services
4 20 (5.87%) Spring
4 20 (5.87%) Spring Boot
5 19 (5.57%) .NET
5 19 (5.57%) AngularJS
5 19 (5.57%) SOAP
6 18 (5.28%) Spring Cloud
6 18 (5.28%) YAML
7 16 (4.69%) Elastic Stack
7 16 (4.69%) Flask
8 15 (4.40%) ActiveMQ
8 15 (4.40%) Hibernate
8 15 (4.40%) JPA
8 15 (4.40%) Spring Batch
8 15 (4.40%) Spring Integration
9 14 (4.11%) RESTful
10 12 (3.52%) Django
10 12 (3.52%) React
Miscellaneous
1 53 (15.54%) Cloud Native
2 28 (8.21%) Product Ownership
3 17 (4.99%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.35%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (2.05%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.76%) SCADA
9 5 (1.47%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.47%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.47%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.47%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.17%) Blog
10 4 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (0.88%) Educational Technology
11 3 (0.88%) IoT
11 3 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.88%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 30 (8.80%) Linux
2 11 (3.23%) Windows
3 8 (2.35%) Unix
4 3 (0.88%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.59%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.59%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (59.24%) CI/CD
2 176 (51.61%) Agile
3 91 (26.69%) Scrum
4 81 (23.75%) Analytics
4 81 (23.75%) Test Automation
5 79 (23.17%) Stakeholder Management
6 77 (22.58%) Containerisation
7 76 (22.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 71 (20.82%) Migration
9 62 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
10 61 (17.89%) Infrastructure as Code
11 58 (17.01%) Data Integration
12 53 (15.54%) Data Modelling
13 45 (13.20%) ETL
14 44 (12.90%) Data Pipeline
15 42 (12.32%) Microservices
16 41 (12.02%) Business Intelligence
17 39 (11.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 38 (11.14%) Observability
19 35 (10.26%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 96 (28.15%) SQL
2 61 (17.89%) Python
3 40 (11.73%) Java
4 21 (6.16%) JavaScript
5 18 (5.28%) C#
6 16 (4.69%) Bash
6 16 (4.69%) PowerShell
7 13 (3.81%) Bicep
8 9 (2.64%) Go
9 5 (1.47%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.47%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.17%) Groovy
11 3 (0.88%) HiveQL
11 3 (0.88%) VB
12 2 (0.59%) 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
1 160 (46.92%) Security Cleared
2 131 (38.42%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.57%) Degree
4 12 (3.52%) Azure Certification
5 11 (3.23%) SAFe Agilist
6 10 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (2.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 9 (2.64%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.64%) IIBA
7 9 (2.64%) ISTQB
8 8 (2.35%) AWS Certification
8 8 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 4 (1.17%) SAS Certification
11 3 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.88%) CISSP
12 2 (0.59%) CCNP
12 2 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (11.14%) Data Quality
2 28 (8.21%) QA
3 15 (4.40%) Accessibility
4 14 (4.11%) GDPR
5 11 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (2.05%) NIST
7 4 (1.17%) ISO 19650
7 4 (1.17%) WCAG
8 3 (0.88%) SLA
9 2 (0.59%) NCSC
10 1 (0.29%) FATCA
10 1 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.29%) PMO
System Software
1 101 (29.62%) Docker
2 11 (3.23%) Postfix
3 6 (1.76%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.47%) vSphere
5 3 (0.88%) HDFS
5 3 (0.88%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.29%) KVM
6 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 87 (25.51%) Kubernetes
2 70 (20.53%) Terraform
3 52 (15.25%) Grafana
4 33 (9.68%) Ansible
5 31 (9.09%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.35%) Kibana
6 8 (2.35%) Puppet
7 6 (1.76%) Argo
8 4 (1.17%) HP ALM
8 4 (1.17%) HP Quality Center
8 4 (1.17%) logstash
8 4 (1.17%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.88%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.59%) Check_MK
11 1 (0.29%) Istio
11 1 (0.29%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.29%) Packer
11 1 (0.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 54 (15.84%) Microsoft
2 42 (12.32%) Oracle
3 26 (7.62%) Denodo
4 22 (6.45%) Atlassian
4 22 (6.45%) Talend
5 20 (5.87%) Splunk
6 15 (4.40%) Jaspersoft
7 12 (3.52%) Databricks
8 9 (2.64%) Informatica
8 9 (2.64%) SAP
8 9 (2.64%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.76%) Dynatrace
9 6 (1.76%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.76%) VMware
10 5 (1.47%) Cisco
10 5 (1.47%) Fortinet
10 5 (1.47%) HP
10 5 (1.47%) Pega
11 4 (1.17%) Aruba
11 4 (1.17%) Google