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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 13 19
Rank change year-on-year -2 +6 -1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 380 182 131
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.89% 10.71% 7.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.75% 12.13% 8.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 126 98
10th Percentile £381 £380 £333
25th Percentile £413 £451 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.85% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £579 £588 £622
90th Percentile £671 £638 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 3
10th Percentile £21.25 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
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 £67.00 £67.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -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 2,980 1,500 1,514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.44% 88.29% 81.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,905 942 1,035
10th Percentile £313 £235 £275
25th Percentile £406 £376 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.52% -4.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £580 £625
90th Percentile £671 £668 £725
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 107 59
10th Percentile £13.45 £12.62 £13.14
25th Percentile £20.02 £14.91 £14.70
Median hourly rate £33.98 £24.34 £18.97
Median % change year-on-year +39.61% +28.31% -29.74%
75th Percentile £53.75 £34.43 £37.50
90th Percentile £71.56 £50.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.19%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -14 117 £500 -4.58% 23
Birmingham +3 90 £475 - 60
Warwickshire +8 49 £500 - 12
Coventry +11 48 £407 -19.00% 12
Solihull -8 31 £484 -15.78% 8
Herefordshire +5 12 £700 - 3
Worcestershire -5 9 £638 +10.87% 6
Staffordshire -4 3 £388 -26.19% 4
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 62 (16.32%) SAS
2 53 (13.95%) Confluence
3 19 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.11%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.58%) Apache
6 3 (0.79%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.53%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.53%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.53%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (2.11%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.84%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (3.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.26%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.26%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.26%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.26%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 199 (52.37%) Azure
2 129 (33.95%) Azure DevOps
3 126 (33.16%) AWS
4 59 (15.53%) GitHub
5 49 (12.89%) GitHub Actions
6 48 (12.63%) Amazon S3
6 48 (12.63%) Serverless
7 42 (11.05%) Power Platform
8 40 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 39 (10.26%) Amazon EC2
10 36 (9.47%) AWS Lambda
11 26 (6.84%) Dynamics 365
12 23 (6.05%) Amazon EKS
13 22 (5.79%) Azure Data Factory
14 20 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
15 19 (5.00%) Power Automate
16 18 (4.74%) Amazon SQS
17 17 (4.47%) AWS CloudFormation
17 17 (4.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 14 (3.68%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.26%) Firewall
2 7 (1.84%) Network Security
2 7 (1.84%) SD-WAN
2 7 (1.84%) WAN
3 5 (1.32%) DNS
3 5 (1.32%) VPN
4 4 (1.05%) BGP
4 4 (1.05%) DHCP
4 4 (1.05%) Internet
4 4 (1.05%) LAN
4 4 (1.05%) NetScaler
4 4 (1.05%) OSPF
4 4 (1.05%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.79%) BIG-IP
5 3 (0.79%) Ethernet VPN
5 3 (0.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (0.79%) SSL
5 3 (0.79%) VXLAN
5 3 (0.79%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.68%) Pentaho
2 30 (7.89%) Power BI
3 24 (6.32%) Amazon RDS
4 22 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (5.00%) DynamoDB
5 19 (5.00%) NoSQL
5 19 (5.00%) Oracle Database
5 19 (5.00%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 19 (5.00%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 15 (3.95%) SQL Server
7 14 (3.68%) Data Lake
8 13 (3.42%) Amazon Aurora
8 13 (3.42%) Metadata
9 10 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.58%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (1.58%) BusinessObjects
10 6 (1.58%) Delta Lake
11 4 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (1.05%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 91 (23.95%) JIRA
2 87 (22.89%) Jenkins
3 63 (16.58%) Git
4 50 (13.16%) GitLab
5 26 (6.84%) Bitbucket
6 22 (5.79%) Selenium
7 18 (4.74%) JUnit
8 17 (4.47%) SonarQube
9 16 (4.21%) Maven
10 14 (3.68%) Postman
11 13 (3.42%) Cypress.io
11 13 (3.42%) Mockito
12 11 (2.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 10 (2.63%) WebDriver
14 9 (2.37%) Bitbucket Server
14 9 (2.37%) DbUnit
14 9 (2.37%) jMock
15 6 (1.58%) Cucumber
15 6 (1.58%) LoadRunner
15 6 (1.58%) REST Assured
General
1 125 (32.89%) Social Skills
2 105 (27.63%) Public Sector
3 51 (13.42%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (10.53%) Finance
5 28 (7.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (1.84%) Legal
9 6 (1.58%) Banking
10 4 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.05%) Retail
11 3 (0.79%) Advertising
11 3 (0.79%) Local Government
12 2 (0.53%) Billing
12 2 (0.53%) Military
12 2 (0.53%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.26%) Front Office
13 1 (0.26%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 56 (14.74%) Architect
2 50 (13.16%) Data Engineer
2 50 (13.16%) Senior
3 47 (12.37%) Developer
4 40 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
5 34 (8.95%) Lead
6 31 (8.16%) Analyst
7 27 (7.11%) Scrum Master
8 17 (4.47%) Azure Engineer
9 16 (4.21%) Data Architect
10 15 (3.95%) Business Analyst
10 15 (3.95%) Test Analyst
11 13 (3.42%) Java Developer
12 12 (3.16%) Full-Stack Developer
13 11 (2.89%) AWS Engineer
13 11 (2.89%) JIRA Engineer
13 11 (2.89%) Senior Developer
13 11 (2.89%) Senior DevOps
13 11 (2.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 10 (2.63%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (10.00%) REST
2 27 (7.11%) Node.js
3 25 (6.58%) Spring
3 25 (6.58%) Spring Boot
4 23 (6.05%) RESTful
5 19 (5.00%) Web Services
6 18 (4.74%) JSON
6 18 (4.74%) SOAP
6 18 (4.74%) YAML
7 16 (4.21%) .NET
8 15 (3.95%) Spring Cloud
9 14 (3.68%) Flask
10 13 (3.42%) ActiveMQ
10 13 (3.42%) AngularJS
10 13 (3.42%) Hibernate
10 13 (3.42%) JPA
10 13 (3.42%) Spring Batch
10 13 (3.42%) Spring Integration
11 11 (2.89%) Django
12 10 (2.63%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 72 (18.95%) Cloud Native
2 41 (10.79%) Product Ownership
3 20 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (2.37%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.11%) SCADA
6 7 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.84%) Mobile App
6 7 (1.84%) Private Cloud
6 7 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.58%) Autonomous Agent
7 6 (1.58%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.58%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.58%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.58%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.32%) IoT
8 5 (1.32%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.32%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.11%) Linux
2 14 (3.68%) Windows
3 4 (1.05%) AIX
4 3 (0.79%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.79%) Unix
4 3 (0.79%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.53%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (63.42%) CI/CD
2 211 (55.53%) Agile
3 121 (31.84%) Scrum
4 110 (28.95%) Continuous Improvement
5 100 (26.32%) Test Automation
6 88 (23.16%) Analytics
7 81 (21.32%) Stakeholder Management
8 80 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
9 77 (20.26%) Infrastructure as Code
10 73 (19.21%) Containerisation
11 71 (18.68%) Migration
12 66 (17.37%) Data Modelling
12 66 (17.37%) Technical Leadership
13 62 (16.32%) ETL
14 58 (15.26%) Data Integration
15 57 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
16 56 (14.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 51 (13.42%) Data Pipeline
17 51 (13.42%) Microservices
18 48 (12.63%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 91 (23.95%) SQL
2 54 (14.21%) Java
3 47 (12.37%) Python
4 30 (7.89%) JavaScript
5 29 (7.63%) C#
6 16 (4.21%) PowerShell
7 13 (3.42%) Bicep
8 12 (3.16%) Bash
9 10 (2.63%) Go
10 6 (1.58%) Scala
11 4 (1.05%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.79%) HiveQL
12 3 (0.79%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.79%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.53%) Groovy
13 2 (0.53%) VB
13 2 (0.53%) VB6
14 1 (0.26%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.26%) R
Qualifications
1 172 (45.26%) Security Cleared
2 140 (36.84%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.05%) BPSS Clearance
4 17 (4.47%) ISTQB
5 15 (3.95%) Degree
5 15 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (3.68%) AWS Certification
6 14 (3.68%) DV Cleared
7 11 (2.89%) SAFe Agilist
8 9 (2.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (2.37%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.05%) SAS Certification
11 3 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.79%) CISSP
11 3 (0.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.53%) CCNP
12 2 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (11.58%) Data Quality
2 36 (9.47%) QA
3 27 (7.11%) Accessibility
4 16 (4.21%) GDPR
5 11 (2.89%) WCAG
6 10 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.05%) ISO 19650
7 4 (1.05%) NIST
8 2 (0.53%) PMO
9 1 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.26%) NCSC
9 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 98 (25.79%) Docker
2 9 (2.37%) Postfix
3 4 (1.05%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.79%) HDFS
4 3 (0.79%) vSphere
5 1 (0.26%) KVM
5 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 82 (21.58%) Kubernetes
2 68 (17.89%) Terraform
3 43 (11.32%) Grafana
4 26 (6.84%) Ansible
4 26 (6.84%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.11%) Progress Chef
5 8 (2.11%) Puppet
6 4 (1.05%) Argo
6 4 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.79%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.79%) HP Quality Center
8 2 (0.53%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.26%) Istio
9 1 (0.26%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.26%) Packer
9 1 (0.26%) Podman
9 1 (0.26%) SCCM
9 1 (0.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 70 (18.42%) Microsoft
2 42 (11.05%) Oracle
3 32 (8.42%) Denodo
4 25 (6.58%) Atlassian
5 23 (6.05%) Talend
6 15 (3.95%) Splunk
7 14 (3.68%) Databricks
8 13 (3.42%) Jaspersoft
9 11 (2.89%) Informatica
10 9 (2.37%) Cisco
11 8 (2.11%) SAP
11 8 (2.11%) VMware
12 5 (1.32%) Fortinet
12 5 (1.32%) Google
12 5 (1.32%) Pega
12 5 (1.32%) ServiceNow
13 4 (1.05%) Aruba
13 4 (1.05%) Citrix
13 4 (1.05%) F5
13 4 (1.05%) Red Hat