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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 24 28
Rank change year-on-year +16 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 303 131 121
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 13.69% 7.16% 6.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.50% 8.51% 7.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 89 92
10th Percentile £414 £363 £375
25th Percentile £466 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £602
90th Percentile £700 £685 £749
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
England median hourly rate £59.25 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -15.36% +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 1,955 1,540 1,604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.30% 84.20% 85.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,242 957 1,087
10th Percentile £263 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £713 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 52 53
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.16 £16.07 £17.72
Median hourly rate £20.25 £21.80 £24.60
Median % change year-on-year -7.09% -11.40% +38.98%
75th Percentile £30.00 £34.06 £50.00
90th Percentile £40.46 £52.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

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 5 December 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 5 December 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 +15 106 £490 +0.51% 29
Shropshire +11 91 £515 +3.00% 10
Worcestershire 0 42 £638 +10.87% 12
Herefordshire -1 35 £650 +6.21% 1
Warwickshire +1 31 £563 -2.17% 12
Solihull +11 8 £575 +66.67% 2
Coventry -12 8 £440 +3.53% 8
Wolverhampton - 2 - - 3
Staffordshire +1 1 - - 12
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 (20.13%) SAS
2 33 (10.89%) Confluence
3 13 (4.29%) nginx
4 11 (3.63%) WebLogic
5 10 (3.30%) Apache
5 10 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (2.97%) JBoss
6 9 (2.97%) OpenStack
6 9 (2.97%) SharePoint
7 4 (1.32%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.66%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.66%) CMS
9 1 (0.33%) CICS
9 1 (0.33%) IIS
9 1 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.33%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 11 (3.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (3.63%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 9 (2.97%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (1.65%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.33%) Moqups
5 1 (0.33%) Revit
5 1 (0.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.66%) ResourceLink
2 2 (0.66%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.33%) Maximo
3 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.33%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 134 (44.22%) Azure
2 106 (34.98%) AWS
3 58 (19.14%) GitHub
4 52 (17.16%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (14.52%) GCP
6 41 (13.53%) Serverless
7 31 (10.23%) Amazon S3
8 30 (9.90%) GitHub Actions
9 28 (9.24%) AWS KMS
10 27 (8.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 27 (8.91%) Amazon EC2
10 27 (8.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 26 (8.58%) Amazon ELB
11 26 (8.58%) OpenShift
12 21 (6.93%) Azure Data Factory
13 20 (6.60%) Microsoft 365
14 14 (4.62%) Amazon ECS
14 14 (4.62%) Azure Key Vault
14 14 (4.62%) Power Platform
15 12 (3.96%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 33 (10.89%) Firewall
2 28 (9.24%) DNS
3 23 (7.59%) SSH
4 22 (7.26%) SMTP
5 21 (6.93%) FTP
5 21 (6.93%) HTTP
6 11 (3.63%) IMAP
6 11 (3.63%) OpenLDAP
7 6 (1.98%) SSL
7 6 (1.98%) TCP/IP
8 5 (1.65%) LAN
8 5 (1.65%) VPN
8 5 (1.65%) WAN
9 3 (0.99%) Network Security
10 2 (0.66%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.33%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.33%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.33%) SMS
11 1 (0.33%) VLAN
11 1 (0.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (17.16%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (11.55%) Pentaho
3 24 (7.92%) Amazon RDS
4 22 (7.26%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 21 (6.93%) Elasticsearch
6 17 (5.61%) NoSQL
6 17 (5.61%) Oracle Database
7 12 (3.96%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 11 (3.63%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (2.97%) Relational Database
10 8 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (2.64%) MongoDB
10 8 (2.64%) Redis
11 7 (2.31%) Power BI
12 6 (1.98%) MySQL
13 5 (1.65%) Data Mining
14 4 (1.32%) SAS Data Integration Studio
15 2 (0.66%) Big Data
15 2 (0.66%) Hadoop
15 2 (0.66%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 113 (37.29%) Jenkins
2 110 (36.30%) Git
3 82 (27.06%) JIRA
4 52 (17.16%) GitLab
5 30 (9.90%) Selenium
6 26 (8.58%) JUnit
7 22 (7.26%) Vagrant
8 20 (6.60%) SonarQube
9 10 (3.30%) Liquibase
10 8 (2.64%) CircleCI
10 8 (2.64%) Eclipse
10 8 (2.64%) IntelliJ
10 8 (2.64%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (1.98%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.65%) Cypress.io
13 4 (1.32%) Artifactory
13 4 (1.32%) Gradle
13 4 (1.32%) Maven
13 4 (1.32%) Snyk
13 4 (1.32%) webpack
General
1 104 (34.32%) Social Skills
2 57 (18.81%) Public Sector
3 38 (12.54%) Finance
4 22 (7.26%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (4.62%) Banking
6 12 (3.96%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (3.96%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (3.30%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.64%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.98%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.32%) Marketing
11 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.66%) Military
12 1 (0.33%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.33%) Digital Healthcare
12 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 59 (19.47%) DevOps Engineer
2 40 (13.20%) Developer
3 39 (12.87%) Senior
4 31 (10.23%) AWS Engineer
4 31 (10.23%) Data Engineer
5 23 (7.59%) AWS DevOps
5 23 (7.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 22 (7.26%) Platform Engineer
7 21 (6.93%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 16 (5.28%) Cloud Engineer
9 14 (4.62%) Architect
9 14 (4.62%) Test Specialist
10 13 (4.29%) Software Engineer
11 12 (3.96%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 12 (3.96%) GCP Engineer
11 12 (3.96%) Senior DevOps
11 12 (3.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 11 (3.63%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 11 (3.63%) Project Manager
12 11 (3.63%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (18.48%) REST
2 34 (11.22%) Elastic Stack
3 21 (6.93%) YAML
4 18 (5.94%) RESTful
5 16 (5.28%) pytest
6 15 (4.95%) HTML
6 15 (4.95%) JSON
7 14 (4.62%) .NET
7 14 (4.62%) Flask
7 14 (4.62%) Kafka
8 12 (3.96%) Keycloak
8 12 (3.96%) LDAP
9 11 (3.63%) FastAPI
9 11 (3.63%) Play Framework
9 11 (3.63%) SOAP
10 10 (3.30%) Node.js
10 10 (3.30%) XML
11 9 (2.97%) HTML5
11 9 (2.97%) Spring
12 8 (2.64%) J2SE
Miscellaneous
1 35 (11.55%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.26%) Replication
3 16 (5.28%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.62%) Public Cloud
5 12 (3.96%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (3.63%) Onboarding
7 10 (3.30%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.97%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.65%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.32%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.99%) Client/Server
11 3 (0.99%) IoT
12 2 (0.66%) CMDB
12 2 (0.66%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.66%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.66%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 66 (21.78%) Linux
2 33 (10.89%) Windows
3 22 (7.26%) Amazon Linux
3 22 (7.26%) VMS
4 18 (5.94%) Unix
5 11 (3.63%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.65%) 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
1 195 (64.36%) CI/CD
2 138 (45.54%) Agile
3 106 (34.98%) Containerisation
4 104 (34.32%) Problem-Solving
5 78 (25.74%) Analytics
6 72 (23.76%) Scrum
6 72 (23.76%) Test Automation
7 69 (22.77%) Data Pipeline
8 61 (20.13%) Infrastructure as Code
9 60 (19.80%) Continuous Improvement
10 56 (18.48%) Change Management
11 55 (18.15%) ETL
12 49 (16.17%) Data Modelling
12 49 (16.17%) Deployment Automation
13 43 (14.19%) Microservices
14 41 (13.53%) Data Integration
14 41 (13.53%) Migration
15 40 (13.20%) Platform Engineering
16 39 (12.87%) Business Intelligence
16 39 (12.87%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 116 (38.28%) Python
2 91 (30.03%) SQL
3 43 (14.19%) Go
4 33 (10.89%) PowerShell
5 25 (8.25%) Groovy
6 24 (7.92%) Java
7 23 (7.59%) Bash
8 19 (6.27%) JavaScript
9 13 (4.29%) C#
10 12 (3.96%) Perl
10 12 (3.96%) Scala
11 7 (2.31%) TypeScript
12 6 (1.98%) VBA
13 2 (0.66%) Bicep
13 2 (0.66%) Korn
13 2 (0.66%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.66%) VBScript
14 1 (0.33%) C
14 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 153 (50.50%) Security Cleared
2 132 (43.56%) SC Cleared
3 45 (14.85%) Degree
4 31 (10.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (9.57%) Azure Certification
6 28 (9.24%) DV Cleared
7 18 (5.94%) AWS Certification
8 14 (4.62%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.99%) CISSP
10 3 (0.99%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.99%) PMP
11 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.66%) CISM
12 1 (0.33%) CEH
12 1 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 1 (0.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.90%) Data Quality
2 29 (9.57%) QA
3 12 (3.96%) NCSC
4 7 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.65%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.99%) GDPR
7 2 (0.66%) NIST
7 2 (0.66%) 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
System Software
1 171 (56.44%) Docker
2 21 (6.93%) DFS Replication
3 14 (4.62%) Active Directory
4 11 (3.63%) Dovecot
4 11 (3.63%) Postfix
4 11 (3.63%) 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
1 139 (45.87%) Kubernetes
2 86 (28.38%) Terraform
3 54 (17.82%) Grafana
4 51 (16.83%) Prometheus
5 44 (14.52%) Ansible
6 21 (6.93%) Puppet
7 11 (3.63%) Nessus
8 10 (3.30%) Kibana
8 10 (3.30%) Proxmox
9 8 (2.64%) Argo
10 6 (1.98%) Progress Chef
11 4 (1.32%) HP ALM
11 4 (1.32%) Podman
12 3 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.66%) Istio
14 1 (0.33%) Consul
14 1 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
14 1 (0.33%) logstash
14 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.33%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 62 (20.46%) Microsoft
2 51 (16.83%) Oracle
3 35 (11.55%) ServiceNow
3 35 (11.55%) Talend
4 34 (11.22%) Denodo
5 31 (10.23%) Splunk
6 14 (4.62%) Google
7 11 (3.63%) Jaspersoft
8 9 (2.97%) SAP
8 9 (2.97%) webMethods
9 7 (2.31%) Red Hat
9 7 (2.31%) VMware
10 6 (1.98%) CyberArk
11 4 (1.32%) CheckPoint
11 4 (1.32%) Cisco
11 4 (1.32%) F5
11 4 (1.32%) HP
11 4 (1.32%) IBM
11 4 (1.32%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.32%) Salesforce