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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 20 27
Rank change year-on-year +12 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 294 142 126
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 13.89% 7.50% 6.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.46% 9.00% 7.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 98 93
10th Percentile £425 £363 £388
25th Percentile £463 £477 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £594
90th Percentile £700 £688 £748
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 - £70.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +27.27% -
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 1,902 1,577 1,654
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 89.84% 83.26% 84.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,213 990 1,115
10th Percentile £263 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £624 £600
90th Percentile £675 £714 £714
England median daily rate £507 £525 £546
% change year-on-year -3.43% -3.85% -0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 47 54
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £16.09
25th Percentile £16.30 £17.25 £18.31
Median hourly rate £23.00 £26.13 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.96% -5.00% +55.19%
75th Percentile £30.29 £34.47 £49.38
90th Percentile £50.00 £51.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +27.14%

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 15 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 15 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 +14 102 £500 - 63
Shropshire +12 85 £515 +1.98% 15
Worcestershire -2 40 £650 +13.04% 7
Herefordshire 0 32 £650 +6.21% 1
Warwickshire 0 32 £563 -6.25% 17
Solihull +13 13 £575 +66.67% 2
Coventry -12 6 £440 +3.53% 7
Staffordshire +2 1 - - 6
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 56 (19.05%) SAS
2 34 (11.56%) Confluence
3 14 (4.76%) nginx
4 11 (3.74%) WebLogic
5 10 (3.40%) Apache
5 10 (3.40%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (3.06%) JBoss
6 9 (3.06%) SharePoint
7 5 (1.70%) OpenStack
8 4 (1.36%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.68%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.68%) CMS
10 1 (0.34%) CICS
10 1 (0.34%) IIS
10 1 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.34%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 12 (4.08%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 11 (3.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (1.70%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.34%) Moqups
6 1 (0.34%) Revit
6 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.68%) ResourceLink
2 2 (0.68%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.34%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 126 (42.86%) Azure
2 109 (37.07%) AWS
3 53 (18.03%) GitHub
4 52 (17.69%) Azure DevOps
5 41 (13.95%) GCP
6 40 (13.61%) Amazon S3
6 40 (13.61%) Serverless
7 36 (12.24%) Amazon EC2
8 34 (11.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 34 (11.56%) AWS KMS
9 29 (9.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 28 (9.52%) Amazon ELB
11 27 (9.18%) GitHub Actions
12 23 (7.82%) OpenShift
13 21 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
14 19 (6.46%) Azure Data Factory
15 17 (5.78%) Route 53
16 16 (5.44%) Amazon ECS
16 16 (5.44%) Power Platform
17 12 (4.08%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 32 (10.88%) Firewall
2 29 (9.86%) DNS
3 24 (8.16%) SMTP
3 24 (8.16%) SSH
4 22 (7.48%) FTP
4 22 (7.48%) HTTP
5 12 (4.08%) IMAP
5 12 (4.08%) OpenLDAP
6 7 (2.38%) LAN
6 7 (2.38%) WAN
7 6 (2.04%) TCP/IP
8 5 (1.70%) SSL
8 5 (1.70%) VPN
9 4 (1.36%) Wireshark
10 3 (1.02%) Network Security
11 1 (0.34%) DHCP
11 1 (0.34%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.34%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.34%) VLAN
11 1 (0.34%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (10.88%) Amazon RDS
3 30 (10.20%) Pentaho
4 22 (7.48%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 18 (6.12%) Amazon Aurora
6 17 (5.78%) NoSQL
6 17 (5.78%) Oracle Database
7 15 (5.10%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (4.08%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 10 (3.40%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (3.06%) Relational Database
11 8 (2.72%) MongoDB
11 8 (2.72%) Power BI
11 8 (2.72%) Redis
12 6 (2.04%) MySQL
13 5 (1.70%) Data Mining
14 4 (1.36%) DynamoDB
14 4 (1.36%) SAS Data Integration Studio
15 2 (0.68%) Big Data
15 2 (0.68%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 113 (38.44%) Git
1 113 (38.44%) Jenkins
2 73 (24.83%) JIRA
3 49 (16.67%) GitLab
4 32 (10.88%) JUnit
5 29 (9.86%) Selenium
6 26 (8.84%) SonarQube
7 24 (8.16%) Vagrant
8 10 (3.40%) Liquibase
8 10 (3.40%) Maven
9 8 (2.72%) Eclipse
9 8 (2.72%) IntelliJ
9 8 (2.72%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (2.04%) Bitbucket
10 6 (2.04%) CircleCI
10 6 (2.04%) Mockito
11 5 (1.70%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (1.70%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.36%) Postman
12 4 (1.36%) Snyk
General
1 99 (33.67%) Social Skills
2 63 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 36 (12.24%) Finance
4 21 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (4.76%) Banking
6 12 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (3.40%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.70%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.36%) Marketing
11 2 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.68%) Military
12 1 (0.34%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.34%) Digital Healthcare
12 1 (0.34%) Legal
12 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 62 (21.09%) DevOps Engineer
2 44 (14.97%) Developer
3 35 (11.90%) Senior
4 33 (11.22%) AWS Engineer
5 25 (8.50%) AWS DevOps
5 25 (8.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 25 (8.50%) Data Engineer
6 23 (7.82%) Platform Engineer
7 22 (7.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 16 (5.44%) Cloud Engineer
9 14 (4.76%) Test Specialist
10 13 (4.42%) Architect
10 13 (4.42%) Software Engineer
11 12 (4.08%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 12 (4.08%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 12 (4.08%) GCP Engineer
12 11 (3.74%) Lead
12 11 (3.74%) Project Manager
12 11 (3.74%) Senior DevOps
12 11 (3.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (20.75%) REST
2 28 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
3 22 (7.48%) RESTful
4 21 (7.14%) YAML
5 17 (5.78%) SOAP
6 16 (5.44%) pytest
6 16 (5.44%) Spring
7 15 (5.10%) HTML
7 15 (5.10%) JSON
8 14 (4.76%) .NET
8 14 (4.76%) Flask
9 12 (4.08%) Hibernate
9 12 (4.08%) LDAP
10 11 (3.74%) FastAPI
10 11 (3.74%) Node.js
10 11 (3.74%) Play Framework
11 10 (3.40%) XML
12 9 (3.06%) HTML5
12 9 (3.06%) Keycloak
13 8 (2.72%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 36 (12.24%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.82%) Replication
3 20 (6.80%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.76%) Public Cloud
5 10 (3.40%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (3.06%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.72%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.04%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.70%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.36%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.02%) IoT
12 2 (0.68%) Client/Server
12 2 (0.68%) CMDB
12 2 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
13 1 (0.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 1 (0.34%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 67 (22.79%) Linux
2 31 (10.54%) Windows
3 24 (8.16%) Amazon Linux
3 24 (8.16%) VMS
4 16 (5.44%) Unix
5 11 (3.74%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.36%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.34%) Android
7 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.34%) SUSE
7 1 (0.34%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (62.59%) CI/CD
2 133 (45.24%) Agile
3 101 (34.35%) Containerisation
4 97 (32.99%) Problem-Solving
5 74 (25.17%) Analytics
6 71 (24.15%) Scrum
7 68 (23.13%) Test Automation
8 62 (21.09%) Data Pipeline
9 61 (20.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 60 (20.41%) Infrastructure as Code
11 51 (17.35%) Change Management
12 47 (15.99%) ETL
12 47 (15.99%) Microservices
13 46 (15.65%) Deployment Automation
14 43 (14.63%) Data Modelling
15 42 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
16 41 (13.95%) Configuration Management
17 37 (12.59%) Business Intelligence
17 37 (12.59%) Data Integration
17 37 (12.59%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 109 (37.07%) Python
2 91 (30.95%) SQL
3 37 (12.59%) Go
4 35 (11.90%) PowerShell
5 30 (10.20%) Java
6 27 (9.18%) Groovy
7 21 (7.14%) Bash
8 16 (5.44%) JavaScript
9 13 (4.42%) Perl
10 12 (4.08%) C#
10 12 (4.08%) Scala
11 8 (2.72%) TypeScript
12 6 (2.04%) VBA
13 2 (0.68%) Bicep
13 2 (0.68%) Korn
13 2 (0.68%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.68%) VBScript
14 1 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 154 (52.38%) Security Cleared
2 132 (44.90%) SC Cleared
3 42 (14.29%) Degree
4 29 (9.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 29 (9.86%) DV Cleared
5 25 (8.50%) Azure Certification
6 17 (5.78%) AWS Certification
7 13 (4.42%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.68%) CISSP
9 2 (0.68%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.68%) PMP
10 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.34%) CEH
10 1 (0.34%) CISM
10 1 (0.34%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.18%) Data Quality
1 27 (9.18%) QA
2 12 (4.08%) NCSC
3 7 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.04%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.02%) GDPR
6 2 (0.68%) NIST
6 2 (0.68%) SLA
7 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.34%) ISO 19650
7 1 (0.34%) PMO
7 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 167 (56.80%) Docker
2 22 (7.48%) DFS Replication
3 16 (5.44%) Postfix
4 15 (5.10%) Active Directory
5 12 (4.08%) Dovecot
5 12 (4.08%) Squid
6 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 123 (41.84%) Kubernetes
2 80 (27.21%) Terraform
3 59 (20.07%) Grafana
3 59 (20.07%) Prometheus
4 34 (11.56%) Ansible
5 19 (6.46%) Puppet
6 12 (4.08%) Nessus
7 10 (3.40%) Proxmox
8 7 (2.38%) Kibana
9 6 (2.04%) HP ALM
9 6 (2.04%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.36%) Argo
10 4 (1.36%) Podman
11 3 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.68%) Istio
13 1 (0.34%) CA Endevor
13 1 (0.34%) Consul
13 1 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.34%) PowerCLI
13 1 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 59 (20.07%) Microsoft
2 46 (15.65%) Oracle
3 35 (11.90%) ServiceNow
4 30 (10.20%) Talend
5 29 (9.86%) Denodo
5 29 (9.86%) Splunk
6 16 (5.44%) Jaspersoft
7 14 (4.76%) Google
8 9 (3.06%) webMethods
9 7 (2.38%) SAP
10 6 (2.04%) Cisco
10 6 (2.04%) CyberArk
10 6 (2.04%) HP
10 6 (2.04%) VMware
11 5 (1.70%) Atlassian
11 5 (1.70%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.36%) CheckPoint
12 4 (1.36%) Micro Focus
12 4 (1.36%) Progress
12 4 (1.36%) Salesforce