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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 14 18
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 +3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 378 160 133
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.92% 9.60% 7.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.74% 10.87% 8.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 108 100
10th Percentile £384 £354 £334
25th Percentile £413 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £579 £588 £616
90th Percentile £671 £629 £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% +7.69%

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 2,967 1,472 1,515
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.70% 88.36% 81.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,907 928 1,034
10th Percentile £313 £220 £287
25th Percentile £406 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £626
90th Percentile £673 £663 £738
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 106 61
10th Percentile £14.25 £12.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.31 £14.01 £14.25
Median hourly rate £33.99 £23.42 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.13% +26.59% -32.73%
75th Percentile £53.75 £33.16 £37.50
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -10 112 £500 -4.58% 30
Birmingham +1 97 £475 - 55
Warwickshire +5 50 £500 - 12
Coventry +8 46 £407 -19.00% 10
Solihull -6 31 £488 -2.50% 9
Herefordshire +5 12 £700 - 3
Worcestershire -6 9 £638 +10.87% 7
Staffordshire -5 3 £388 -26.19% 5
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 58 (15.34%) SAS
2 55 (14.55%) Confluence
3 19 (5.03%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.38%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.59%) 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%) LiveCycle
8 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (2.12%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (3.17%) 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
1 201 (53.17%) Azure
2 130 (34.39%) AWS
3 126 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 59 (15.61%) GitHub
5 49 (12.96%) Amazon S3
6 47 (12.43%) GitHub Actions
7 46 (12.17%) Serverless
8 41 (10.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 40 (10.58%) Amazon EC2
10 37 (9.79%) Power Platform
11 34 (8.99%) AWS Lambda
12 25 (6.61%) Dynamics 365
13 22 (5.82%) Amazon EKS
14 20 (5.29%) Amazon SQS
14 20 (5.29%) Azure Data Factory
15 19 (5.03%) Amazon ECS
16 18 (4.76%) Power Automate
17 17 (4.50%) AWS CloudFormation
17 17 (4.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 16 (4.23%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.29%) Firewall
2 7 (1.85%) DNS
2 7 (1.85%) Network Security
2 7 (1.85%) SD-WAN
2 7 (1.85%) WAN
3 5 (1.32%) VPN
4 4 (1.06%) BGP
4 4 (1.06%) DHCP
4 4 (1.06%) Internet
4 4 (1.06%) LAN
4 4 (1.06%) NetScaler
4 4 (1.06%) OSPF
4 4 (1.06%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.06%) 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 29 (7.67%) Pentaho
2 26 (6.88%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (6.88%) Power BI
3 24 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (5.56%) DynamoDB
5 19 (5.03%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 18 (4.76%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 17 (4.50%) Oracle Database
8 15 (3.97%) Amazon Aurora
8 15 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (3.97%) SQL Server
9 14 (3.70%) NoSQL
10 10 (2.65%) Data Lake
11 9 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (2.12%) Metadata
13 6 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (1.59%) BusinessObjects
14 5 (1.32%) Big Data
14 5 (1.32%) Delta Lake
15 4 (1.06%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 90 (23.81%) Jenkins
1 90 (23.81%) JIRA
2 63 (16.67%) Git
3 51 (13.49%) GitLab
4 26 (6.88%) Bitbucket
5 23 (6.08%) Selenium
6 21 (5.56%) JUnit
7 19 (5.03%) SonarQube
8 18 (4.76%) Maven
9 15 (3.97%) Mockito
9 15 (3.97%) Postman
10 13 (3.44%) Cypress.io
11 11 (2.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 11 (2.91%) DbUnit
11 11 (2.91%) jMock
12 10 (2.65%) WebDriver
13 9 (2.38%) Bitbucket Server
14 7 (1.85%) Cucumber
14 7 (1.85%) LoadRunner
14 7 (1.85%) REST Assured
General
1 118 (31.22%) Social Skills
2 100 (26.46%) Public Sector
3 50 (13.23%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (11.90%) Finance
5 27 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (1.85%) Banking
7 7 (1.85%) Legal
8 5 (1.32%) Retail
9 4 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.79%) Advertising
10 3 (0.79%) Local Government
11 2 (0.53%) Billing
11 2 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.53%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.26%) Front Office
12 1 (0.26%) Military
12 1 (0.26%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 52 (13.76%) Architect
2 50 (13.23%) Senior
3 46 (12.17%) Data Engineer
3 46 (12.17%) Developer
4 41 (10.85%) DevOps Engineer
5 33 (8.73%) Lead
6 31 (8.20%) Analyst
7 26 (6.88%) Scrum Master
8 17 (4.50%) Azure Engineer
9 15 (3.97%) Business Analyst
9 15 (3.97%) Java Developer
9 15 (3.97%) Test Analyst
10 13 (3.44%) Data Architect
11 12 (3.17%) Full-Stack Developer
11 12 (3.17%) Senior DevOps
11 12 (3.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 11 (2.91%) AWS Engineer
12 11 (2.91%) JIRA Engineer
12 11 (2.91%) Senior Developer
13 10 (2.65%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (11.11%) REST
2 30 (7.94%) Node.js
3 27 (7.14%) Spring
3 27 (7.14%) Spring Boot
4 21 (5.56%) Web Services
5 20 (5.29%) RESTful
5 20 (5.29%) SOAP
6 18 (4.76%) YAML
7 17 (4.50%) JSON
7 17 (4.50%) Spring Cloud
8 16 (4.23%) .NET
9 15 (3.97%) ActiveMQ
9 15 (3.97%) AngularJS
9 15 (3.97%) Hibernate
9 15 (3.97%) JPA
9 15 (3.97%) Spring Batch
9 15 (3.97%) Spring Integration
10 14 (3.70%) Flask
11 11 (2.91%) Django
11 11 (2.91%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 66 (17.46%) Cloud Native
2 41 (10.85%) Product Ownership
3 22 (5.82%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (2.91%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.12%) Mobile App
6 7 (1.85%) Private Cloud
6 7 (1.85%) SCADA
6 7 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.59%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.59%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.59%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.59%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.59%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.32%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.32%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (7.94%) Linux
2 14 (3.70%) Windows
3 4 (1.06%) 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
1 237 (62.70%) CI/CD
2 207 (54.76%) Agile
3 117 (30.95%) Scrum
4 106 (28.04%) Continuous Improvement
5 98 (25.93%) Test Automation
6 83 (21.96%) Stakeholder Management
7 79 (20.90%) Analytics
8 76 (20.11%) Problem-Solving
9 75 (19.84%) Infrastructure as Code
10 74 (19.58%) Containerisation
11 73 (19.31%) Migration
12 61 (16.14%) Technical Leadership
13 57 (15.08%) Data Modelling
14 54 (14.29%) Data Integration
15 53 (14.02%) ETL
15 53 (14.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 51 (13.49%) Business Intelligence
17 47 (12.43%) Microservices
18 46 (12.17%) Platform Engineering
19 45 (11.90%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 90 (23.81%) SQL
2 55 (14.55%) Java
3 51 (13.49%) Python
4 29 (7.67%) JavaScript
5 28 (7.41%) C#
6 16 (4.23%) PowerShell
7 14 (3.70%) Bash
8 12 (3.17%) Bicep
9 11 (2.91%) Go
10 5 (1.32%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.06%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.79%) HiveQL
12 3 (0.79%) Scala
12 3 (0.79%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.79%) VB
13 2 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.53%) Groovy
13 2 (0.53%) VB6
14 1 (0.26%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.26%) R
Qualifications
1 169 (44.71%) Security Cleared
2 136 (35.98%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 18 (4.76%) ISTQB
5 16 (4.23%) Degree
6 15 (3.97%) AWS Certification
7 14 (3.70%) DV Cleared
7 14 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (2.91%) Azure Certification
8 11 (2.91%) SAFe Agilist
9 9 (2.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (1.06%) SAS Certification
12 3 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.79%) CISSP
13 2 (0.53%) CCNP
13 2 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (10.05%) Data Quality
1 38 (10.05%) QA
2 26 (6.88%) Accessibility
3 15 (3.97%) GDPR
4 11 (2.91%) WCAG
5 9 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.06%) ISO 19650
6 4 (1.06%) NIST
7 2 (0.53%) SLA
8 1 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.26%) NCSC
8 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 99 (26.19%) Docker
2 11 (2.91%) Postfix
3 6 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.32%) vSphere
5 4 (1.06%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.79%) HDFS
6 3 (0.79%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.26%) KVM
Systems Management
1 82 (21.69%) Kubernetes
2 70 (18.52%) Terraform
3 49 (12.96%) Grafana
4 29 (7.67%) Ansible
5 27 (7.14%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.12%) Progress Chef
6 8 (2.12%) Puppet
7 6 (1.59%) Argo
8 4 (1.06%) HP ALM
8 4 (1.06%) HP Quality Center
8 4 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.79%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.53%) Check_MK
11 1 (0.26%) Istio
11 1 (0.26%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.26%) Packer
11 1 (0.26%) Podman
11 1 (0.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 71 (18.78%) Microsoft
2 40 (10.58%) Oracle
3 28 (7.41%) Denodo
4 27 (7.14%) Atlassian
5 21 (5.56%) Talend
6 19 (5.03%) Splunk
7 15 (3.97%) Jaspersoft
8 13 (3.44%) Databricks
9 10 (2.65%) Informatica
9 10 (2.65%) SAP
9 10 (2.65%) VMware
10 9 (2.38%) Cisco
10 9 (2.38%) ServiceNow
11 8 (2.12%) Google
12 6 (1.59%) Red Hat
13 5 (1.32%) Fortinet
13 5 (1.32%) HP
13 5 (1.32%) Pega
14 4 (1.06%) Aruba
14 4 (1.06%) F5