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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 20 34
Rank change year-on-year +7 +14 -13
Contract jobs citing DevOps 323 100 89
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.55% 7.34% 4.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.59% 8.30% 5.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 71 65
10th Percentile £400 £400 £303
25th Percentile £436 £439 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +7.79% -17.39%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £618 £626 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £54.40 - £55.25
25th Percentile £59.13 £56.25 £55.63
Median hourly rate £69.25 £57.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +20.43% +2.22% -
75th Percentile £78.63 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £80.65 - -
England median hourly rate £63.73 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -8.96% +7.69% -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 2,565 1,205 1,607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.74% 88.47% 83.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,689 804 1,064
10th Percentile £305 £200 £275
25th Percentile £402 £393 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £611
90th Percentile £650 £685 £729
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 57 118
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.62 £11.11
25th Percentile £17.09 £14.50 £14.03
Median hourly rate £27.24 £18.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.33% -20.00% +26.98%
75th Percentile £60.37 £28.18 £40.38
90th Percentile £70.98 £35.90 £57.00
England median hourly rate £41.86 £31.64 £34.21
% change year-on-year +32.29% -7.51% -6.66%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -5 116 £498 +0.51% 10
Birmingham +11 93 £513 +7.89% 35
Warwickshire +7 43 £500 - 7
Coventry - 22 £407 - 4
Worcestershire +7 21 £550 -8.33% 6
Solihull -4 17 £481 -19.70% 1
Herefordshire 0 14 £550 -21.43% 1
Staffordshire +1 3 £388 -26.19% 10
Wolverhampton - 1 - - 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 81 (25.08%) SAS
2 41 (12.69%) Confluence
3 10 (3.10%) OpenStack
4 9 (2.79%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (2.17%) Apache
6 5 (1.55%) WebLogic
7 4 (1.24%) JBoss
8 3 (0.93%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.93%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.31%) LiveCycle
9 1 (0.31%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 9 (2.79%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (1.86%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.31%) Maximo
2 1 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 138 (42.72%) Azure
2 92 (28.48%) AWS
3 67 (20.74%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (13.62%) GitHub
5 29 (8.98%) Serverless
6 27 (8.36%) Azure Data Factory
6 27 (8.36%) GitHub Actions
7 26 (8.05%) GCP
8 24 (7.43%) Amazon S3
8 24 (7.43%) OpenShift
9 19 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 19 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
10 16 (4.95%) Amazon SQS
10 16 (4.95%) Power Platform
11 15 (4.64%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (4.33%) AWS KMS
12 14 (4.33%) Route 53
13 11 (3.41%) Entra ID
14 10 (3.10%) Azure Key Vault
14 10 (3.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.72%) Firewall
2 6 (1.86%) DNS
2 6 (1.86%) Network Security
3 5 (1.55%) VPN
4 3 (0.93%) DHCP
4 3 (0.93%) Internet
4 3 (0.93%) LAN
4 3 (0.93%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.93%) SSL
4 3 (0.93%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.93%) WAN
5 1 (0.31%) 5G
5 1 (0.31%) BGP
5 1 (0.31%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.31%) MPLS
5 1 (0.31%) OSPF
5 1 (0.31%) SMS
5 1 (0.31%) VLAN
5 1 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.31%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (11.76%) Pentaho
2 36 (11.15%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (7.12%) Elasticsearch
4 20 (6.19%) Oracle Database
4 20 (6.19%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 16 (4.95%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (4.95%) DynamoDB
6 13 (4.02%) Amazon Aurora
7 11 (3.41%) NoSQL
7 11 (3.41%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 10 (3.10%) Power BI
8 10 (3.10%) Relational Database
9 7 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (2.17%) Metadata
10 5 (1.55%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.55%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.24%) Apache Hive
11 4 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.24%) Delta Lake
11 4 (1.24%) Redis
Development Applications
1 92 (28.48%) Git
1 92 (28.48%) Jenkins
2 83 (25.70%) JIRA
3 39 (12.07%) GitLab
4 34 (10.53%) JUnit
5 29 (8.98%) Selenium
6 17 (5.26%) Maven
6 17 (5.26%) SonarQube
7 13 (4.02%) Bitbucket
7 13 (4.02%) Mockito
8 10 (3.10%) DbUnit
8 10 (3.10%) jMock
9 8 (2.48%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (1.55%) Postman
11 4 (1.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.24%) CircleCI
11 4 (1.24%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.24%) Eclipse
11 4 (1.24%) IntelliJ
11 4 (1.24%) REST Assured
General
1 107 (33.13%) Social Skills
2 54 (16.72%) Public Sector
3 48 (14.86%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (9.29%) Finance
5 13 (4.02%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (1.55%) Banking
7 5 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.24%) Retail
8 4 (1.24%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.62%) Advertising
9 2 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.31%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.31%) Military
10 1 (0.31%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 52 (16.10%) Data Engineer
2 44 (13.62%) Developer
3 36 (11.15%) Senior
4 34 (10.53%) Architect
5 26 (8.05%) DevOps Engineer
6 23 (7.12%) Analyst
7 18 (5.57%) Business Analyst
7 18 (5.57%) Full-Stack Developer
8 16 (4.95%) Test Specialist
9 14 (4.33%) Java Developer
9 14 (4.33%) Project Manager
10 13 (4.02%) Lead
11 12 (3.72%) SAS Engineer
12 10 (3.10%) Senior Data Engineer
12 10 (3.10%) Solutions Architect
13 9 (2.79%) Data Architect
13 9 (2.79%) Engagement Manager
13 9 (2.79%) Release Manager
13 9 (2.79%) Senior Developer
13 9 (2.79%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (16.72%) REST
2 29 (8.98%) Node.js
3 20 (6.19%) Elastic Stack
3 20 (6.19%) SOAP
4 19 (5.88%) Flask
4 19 (5.88%) Spring
4 19 (5.88%) YAML
5 17 (5.26%) AngularJS
5 17 (5.26%) Hibernate
5 17 (5.26%) Kafka
6 16 (4.95%) .NET
6 16 (4.95%) pytest
7 15 (4.64%) Spring Boot
8 14 (4.33%) Spring Cloud
9 13 (4.02%) ActiveMQ
9 13 (4.02%) JPA
9 13 (4.02%) RESTful
9 13 (4.02%) Spring Batch
9 13 (4.02%) Spring Integration
9 13 (4.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 37 (11.46%) Cloud Native
2 24 (7.43%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.33%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.33%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (3.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (2.79%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.17%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.24%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.24%) Security Posture
8 3 (0.93%) Educational Technology
8 3 (0.93%) IoT
8 3 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.93%) SCADA
8 3 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.62%) Autonomous Agent
9 2 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.62%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.31%) Data Fabric
10 1 (0.31%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.31%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 32 (9.91%) Linux
2 17 (5.26%) Unix
3 14 (4.33%) Windows
4 2 (0.62%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.62%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (61.30%) CI/CD
2 179 (55.42%) Agile
3 98 (30.34%) Scrum
4 96 (29.72%) Analytics
5 91 (28.17%) Containerisation
6 82 (25.39%) Problem-Solving
7 80 (24.77%) Test Automation
8 70 (21.67%) Data Pipeline
9 69 (21.36%) Stakeholder Management
10 63 (19.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 63 (19.50%) Data Modelling
11 62 (19.20%) Data Integration
12 61 (18.89%) ETL
12 61 (18.89%) Migration
13 45 (13.93%) Infrastructure as Code
14 44 (13.62%) Business Intelligence
14 44 (13.62%) Microservices
15 42 (13.00%) Change Management
16 41 (12.69%) Deployment Automation
17 40 (12.38%) Data Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 107 (33.13%) SQL
2 81 (25.08%) Python
3 34 (10.53%) Java
4 21 (6.50%) Bash
4 21 (6.50%) JavaScript
5 18 (5.57%) Go
6 17 (5.26%) PowerShell
7 13 (4.02%) C#
8 11 (3.41%) Bicep
9 6 (1.86%) Scala
10 5 (1.55%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.55%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.24%) Groovy
12 3 (0.93%) HiveQL
12 3 (0.93%) VB
13 1 (0.31%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.31%) VB6
Qualifications
1 157 (48.61%) Security Cleared
2 136 (42.11%) SC Cleared
3 23 (7.12%) Degree
4 20 (6.19%) Azure Certification
5 15 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (3.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (2.79%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.79%) IIBA
8 7 (2.17%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.17%) ISTQB
9 5 (1.55%) SAFe Agilist
10 4 (1.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (1.24%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.93%) CISSP
11 3 (0.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.62%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.62%) PMP
12 2 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (12.69%) Data Quality
2 35 (10.84%) QA
3 12 (3.72%) GDPR
4 11 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (2.79%) Accessibility
6 7 (2.17%) NIST
7 3 (0.93%) SLA
8 2 (0.62%) ISO 19650
8 2 (0.62%) WCAG
9 1 (0.31%) FATCA
9 1 (0.31%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.31%) NCSC
9 1 (0.31%) PMO
System Software
1 128 (39.63%) Docker
2 10 (3.10%) Postfix
3 6 (1.86%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.24%) HDFS
6 3 (0.93%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.93%) vSphere
7 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.31%) KVM
7 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 120 (37.15%) Kubernetes
2 59 (18.27%) Terraform
3 43 (13.31%) Grafana
4 37 (11.46%) Ansible
5 24 (7.43%) Prometheus
6 13 (4.02%) Kibana
6 13 (4.02%) Puppet
7 8 (2.48%) Argo
8 5 (1.55%) logstash
9 3 (0.93%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.62%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.62%) HP Quality Center
10 2 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.31%) Packer
11 1 (0.31%) Podman
11 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 49 (15.17%) Microsoft
1 49 (15.17%) Oracle
2 37 (11.46%) Denodo
3 36 (11.15%) Talend
4 25 (7.74%) Splunk
5 22 (6.81%) Atlassian
6 13 (4.02%) Jaspersoft
7 11 (3.41%) SAP
7 11 (3.41%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.48%) CyberArk
8 8 (2.48%) Red Hat
9 7 (2.17%) AppDynamics
9 7 (2.17%) Dynatrace
10 6 (1.86%) Databricks
10 6 (1.86%) Informatica
10 6 (1.86%) VMware
11 4 (1.24%) Pega
11 4 (1.24%) webMethods
12 3 (0.93%) HP
12 3 (0.93%) NEC