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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 21 28
Rank change year-on-year +13 +7 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 299 145 127
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 14.04% 7.64% 6.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.77% 9.11% 7.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 101 96
10th Percentile £421 £363 £381
25th Percentile £463 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £591
90th Percentile £700 £688 £744
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
England median hourly rate £61.25 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -12.50% +7.69% -0.92%

All Process and 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 1,896 1,592 1,623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 89.06% 83.83% 84.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,207 992 1,098
10th Percentile £263 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £613 £600
90th Percentile £675 £713 £713
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 52 51
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £16.07 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.01 £21.80 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -12.82% +41.24%
75th Percentile £30.00 £33.80 £52.50
90th Percentile £41.30 £47.38 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +25.00%

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 24 November 2025.

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
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 24 November 2025. 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 +16 102 £500 - 40
Shropshire +13 89 £515 +1.98% 10
Worcestershire -1 42 £638 +10.87% 7
Herefordshire -2 33 £650 +6.21% 1
Warwickshire -3 31 £563 -6.25% 11
Solihull +12 11 £575 +66.67% 1
Coventry -15 7 £400 -5.88% 9
Wolverhampton - 2 - - 1
Staffordshire +4 1 - - 8
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 61 (20.40%) SAS
2 34 (11.37%) Confluence
3 14 (4.68%) nginx
4 11 (3.68%) WebLogic
5 10 (3.34%) Apache
5 10 (3.34%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (3.01%) JBoss
6 9 (3.01%) SharePoint
7 8 (2.68%) OpenStack
8 4 (1.34%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.67%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.67%) CMS
10 1 (0.33%) CICS
10 1 (0.33%) IIS
10 1 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.33%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 12 (4.01%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 11 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.01%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (1.67%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.33%) Moqups
6 1 (0.33%) Revit
6 1 (0.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.67%) ResourceLink
2 2 (0.67%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.33%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 131 (43.81%) Azure
2 108 (36.12%) AWS
3 56 (18.73%) GitHub
4 52 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (14.05%) GCP
6 40 (13.38%) Serverless
7 36 (12.04%) Amazon S3
8 33 (11.04%) AWS KMS
9 32 (10.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 32 (10.70%) Amazon EC2
10 29 (9.70%) GitHub Actions
10 29 (9.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 28 (9.36%) Amazon ELB
12 23 (7.69%) OpenShift
13 21 (7.02%) Microsoft 365
14 20 (6.69%) Azure Data Factory
15 16 (5.35%) Route 53
16 15 (5.02%) Amazon ECS
16 15 (5.02%) Power Platform
17 13 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 33 (11.04%) Firewall
2 29 (9.70%) DNS
3 24 (8.03%) SMTP
3 24 (8.03%) SSH
4 22 (7.36%) FTP
4 22 (7.36%) HTTP
5 12 (4.01%) IMAP
5 12 (4.01%) OpenLDAP
6 6 (2.01%) LAN
6 6 (2.01%) TCP/IP
6 6 (2.01%) WAN
7 5 (1.67%) SSL
7 5 (1.67%) VPN
8 3 (1.00%) Network Security
8 3 (1.00%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.33%) DHCP
9 1 (0.33%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.33%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.33%) VLAN
9 1 (0.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (18.06%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (11.71%) Pentaho
3 29 (9.70%) Amazon RDS
4 22 (7.36%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 17 (5.69%) NoSQL
5 17 (5.69%) Oracle Database
6 16 (5.35%) Elasticsearch
7 15 (5.02%) Amazon Aurora
8 12 (4.01%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 9 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (3.01%) Relational Database
10 8 (2.68%) MongoDB
10 8 (2.68%) Redis
11 7 (2.34%) Power BI
12 6 (2.01%) MySQL
13 5 (1.67%) Data Mining
14 4 (1.34%) SAS Data Integration Studio
15 3 (1.00%) DynamoDB
16 2 (0.67%) Big Data
16 2 (0.67%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 117 (39.13%) Jenkins
2 114 (38.13%) Git
3 81 (27.09%) JIRA
4 52 (17.39%) GitLab
5 29 (9.70%) JUnit
5 29 (9.70%) Selenium
6 24 (8.03%) Vagrant
7 23 (7.69%) SonarQube
8 10 (3.34%) Liquibase
9 8 (2.68%) CircleCI
9 8 (2.68%) Eclipse
9 8 (2.68%) IntelliJ
9 8 (2.68%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (2.34%) Maven
11 6 (2.01%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.67%) Cypress.io
13 4 (1.34%) Artifactory
13 4 (1.34%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (1.34%) Gradle
13 4 (1.34%) webpack
General
1 103 (34.45%) Social Skills
2 62 (20.74%) Public Sector
3 35 (11.71%) Finance
4 21 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (4.68%) Banking
6 12 (4.01%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (4.01%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (3.34%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.34%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.34%) Marketing
11 2 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.67%) Military
12 1 (0.33%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.33%) Digital Healthcare
12 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 62 (20.74%) DevOps Engineer
2 42 (14.05%) Developer
3 37 (12.37%) Senior
4 32 (10.70%) AWS Engineer
5 30 (10.03%) Data Engineer
6 24 (8.03%) AWS DevOps
6 24 (8.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 23 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
8 22 (7.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 16 (5.35%) Cloud Engineer
10 14 (4.68%) Architect
10 14 (4.68%) Test Specialist
11 13 (4.35%) Software Engineer
12 12 (4.01%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 12 (4.01%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 12 (4.01%) GCP Engineer
12 12 (4.01%) Senior DevOps
12 12 (4.01%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 10 (3.34%) DevOps Platform Engineer
13 10 (3.34%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (19.73%) REST
2 31 (10.37%) Elastic Stack
3 21 (7.02%) RESTful
3 21 (7.02%) YAML
4 16 (5.35%) pytest
5 15 (5.02%) HTML
5 15 (5.02%) JSON
6 14 (4.68%) .NET
6 14 (4.68%) Flask
6 14 (4.68%) SOAP
7 13 (4.35%) Spring
8 12 (4.01%) Kafka
8 12 (4.01%) LDAP
9 11 (3.68%) FastAPI
9 11 (3.68%) Hibernate
9 11 (3.68%) Node.js
9 11 (3.68%) Play Framework
10 10 (3.34%) Keycloak
10 10 (3.34%) XML
11 9 (3.01%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 35 (11.71%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.69%) Replication
3 19 (6.35%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.68%) Public Cloud
5 11 (3.68%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (3.01%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.01%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.68%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.34%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.00%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.00%) IoT
11 2 (0.67%) CMDB
11 2 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.33%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 69 (23.08%) Linux
2 34 (11.37%) Windows
3 24 (8.03%) Amazon Linux
3 24 (8.03%) VMS
4 16 (5.35%) Unix
5 11 (3.68%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.67%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.33%) Android
7 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.33%) SUSE
7 1 (0.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (63.21%) CI/CD
2 138 (46.15%) Agile
3 104 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
4 103 (34.45%) Containerisation
5 78 (26.09%) Analytics
6 73 (24.41%) Scrum
7 71 (23.75%) Test Automation
8 67 (22.41%) Data Pipeline
9 62 (20.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 61 (20.40%) Infrastructure as Code
11 52 (17.39%) ETL
12 51 (17.06%) Change Management
13 49 (16.39%) Deployment Automation
14 48 (16.05%) Data Modelling
15 46 (15.38%) Microservices
16 42 (14.05%) Platform Engineering
17 41 (13.71%) Configuration Management
17 41 (13.71%) Data Integration
18 40 (13.38%) Business Intelligence
19 35 (11.71%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 113 (37.79%) Python
2 95 (31.77%) SQL
3 41 (13.71%) Go
4 35 (11.71%) PowerShell
5 27 (9.03%) Groovy
5 27 (9.03%) Java
6 21 (7.02%) Bash
7 19 (6.35%) JavaScript
8 13 (4.35%) C#
8 13 (4.35%) Perl
9 12 (4.01%) Scala
10 8 (2.68%) TypeScript
11 6 (2.01%) VBA
12 2 (0.67%) Bicep
12 2 (0.67%) Korn
12 2 (0.67%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.67%) VBScript
13 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.33%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 157 (52.51%) Security Cleared
2 134 (44.82%) SC Cleared
3 43 (14.38%) Degree
4 30 (10.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 30 (10.03%) DV Cleared
5 27 (9.03%) Azure Certification
6 18 (6.02%) AWS Certification
7 13 (4.35%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.67%) CISSP
10 2 (0.67%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.67%) PMP
11 1 (0.33%) CEH
11 1 (0.33%) CISM
11 1 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (10.37%) Data Quality
2 29 (9.70%) QA
3 12 (4.01%) NCSC
4 7 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.01%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.00%) GDPR
7 2 (0.67%) NIST
7 2 (0.67%) SLA
8 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.33%) ISO 19650
8 1 (0.33%) PMO
8 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 173 (57.86%) Docker
2 22 (7.36%) DFS Replication
3 15 (5.02%) Active Directory
3 15 (5.02%) Postfix
4 12 (4.01%) Dovecot
4 12 (4.01%) Squid
5 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 132 (44.15%) Kubernetes
2 84 (28.09%) Terraform
3 59 (19.73%) Grafana
4 56 (18.73%) Prometheus
5 38 (12.71%) Ansible
6 19 (6.35%) Puppet
7 12 (4.01%) Nessus
8 10 (3.34%) Proxmox
9 7 (2.34%) Argo
9 7 (2.34%) Kibana
10 6 (2.01%) Progress Chef
11 5 (1.67%) HP ALM
12 4 (1.34%) Podman
13 3 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.67%) Istio
15 1 (0.33%) Consul
15 1 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
15 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
15 1 (0.33%) PowerCLI
15 1 (0.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 59 (19.73%) Microsoft
2 51 (17.06%) Oracle
3 35 (11.71%) ServiceNow
3 35 (11.71%) Talend
4 34 (11.37%) Denodo
5 29 (9.70%) Splunk
6 15 (5.02%) Jaspersoft
7 14 (4.68%) Google
8 9 (3.01%) webMethods
9 7 (2.34%) SAP
9 7 (2.34%) VMware
10 6 (2.01%) CyberArk
10 6 (2.01%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.67%) Cisco
11 5 (1.67%) HP
12 4 (1.34%) Atlassian
12 4 (1.34%) CheckPoint
12 4 (1.34%) F5
12 4 (1.34%) Palo Alto
12 4 (1.34%) Salesforce