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

 6 months to
10 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 19 32
Rank change year-on-year +5 +13 -10
Contract jobs citing DevOps 326 105 94
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.79% 7.82% 4.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.84% 8.85% 5.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 75 69
10th Percentile £400 £378 £305
25th Percentile £442 £424 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -17.39%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £618 £633 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £54.40 - £55.25
25th Percentile £59.13 £56.25 £55.63
Median hourly rate £69.25 £57.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +20.43% +2.22% -
75th Percentile £78.63 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £80.65 - -
England median hourly rate £63.73 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -8.96% +7.69% -0.76%

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 2,539 1,187 1,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.02% 88.45% 83.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,674 799 1,064
10th Percentile £305 £200 £275
25th Percentile £402 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - -0.99%
75th Percentile £575 £591 £606
90th Percentile £650 £688 £723
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 55 117
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.62 £11.10
25th Percentile £17.12 £14.60 £14.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £18.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.72% -20.00% +26.98%
75th Percentile £53.75 £26.20 £40.00
90th Percentile £71.76 £34.50 £57.25
England median hourly rate £40.00 £32.03 £34.11
% change year-on-year +24.90% -6.10% -9.05%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 -3 122 £495 - 20
Birmingham +10 95 £512 +7.68% 45
Warwickshire +9 41 £500 - 7
Worcestershire +5 24 £568 -3.40% 2
Coventry - 21 £407 - 6
Herefordshire -2 17 £550 -21.43% 1
Solihull -6 13 £481 -19.70% 3
Staffordshire +2 2 £388 -26.19% 11
Wolverhampton - 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 85 (26.07%) SAS
2 40 (12.27%) Confluence
3 10 (3.07%) OpenStack
4 9 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.84%) Apache
6 5 (1.53%) WebLogic
7 4 (1.23%) JBoss
8 3 (0.92%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.92%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.31%) LiveCycle
9 1 (0.31%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 9 (2.76%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (1.84%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.31%) Maximo
2 1 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 140 (42.94%) Azure
2 90 (27.61%) AWS
3 67 (20.55%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (14.42%) GitHub
5 29 (8.90%) Serverless
6 28 (8.59%) Azure Data Factory
6 28 (8.59%) GitHub Actions
6 28 (8.59%) OpenShift
7 27 (8.28%) GCP
8 21 (6.44%) Amazon S3
9 16 (4.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 16 (4.91%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (4.60%) Power Platform
11 14 (4.29%) Amazon SQS
11 14 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (3.68%) AWS KMS
12 12 (3.68%) Entra ID
12 12 (3.68%) Route 53
13 11 (3.37%) Azure Key Vault
14 10 (3.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.99%) Firewall
2 6 (1.84%) DNS
2 6 (1.84%) Network Security
2 6 (1.84%) VPN
3 3 (0.92%) DHCP
3 3 (0.92%) Internet
3 3 (0.92%) LAN
3 3 (0.92%) SD-WAN
3 3 (0.92%) SSL
3 3 (0.92%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.92%) WAN
4 1 (0.31%) 4G
4 1 (0.31%) 5G
4 1 (0.31%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.31%) SMS
4 1 (0.31%) tcpdump
4 1 (0.31%) VLAN
4 1 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.31%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.31%) WPA2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (11.66%) Pentaho
2 37 (11.35%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (7.36%) Elasticsearch
4 20 (6.13%) Oracle Database
4 20 (6.13%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 14 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (4.29%) DynamoDB
6 12 (3.68%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 11 (3.37%) Amazon Aurora
8 10 (3.07%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.76%) NoSQL
9 9 (2.76%) Power BI
10 6 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.53%) Metadata
11 5 (1.53%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.53%) Redis
12 4 (1.23%) Impala
12 4 (1.23%) MySQL
12 4 (1.23%) SAS Data Integration Studio
12 4 (1.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 97 (29.75%) Git
1 97 (29.75%) Jenkins
2 83 (25.46%) JIRA
3 43 (13.19%) GitLab
4 36 (11.04%) JUnit
5 33 (10.12%) Selenium
6 16 (4.91%) SonarQube
7 15 (4.60%) Maven
8 12 (3.68%) Bitbucket
9 11 (3.37%) Mockito
10 8 (2.45%) DbUnit
10 8 (2.45%) jMock
11 6 (1.84%) Bitbucket Server
12 5 (1.53%) Postman
13 4 (1.23%) Artifactory
13 4 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (1.23%) CircleCI
13 4 (1.23%) Cypress.io
13 4 (1.23%) Eclipse
13 4 (1.23%) REST Assured
General
1 104 (31.90%) Social Skills
2 56 (17.18%) Public Sector
3 46 (14.11%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (9.20%) Finance
5 13 (3.99%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (1.84%) Banking
7 5 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.23%) Retail
8 4 (1.23%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.61%) Advertising
9 2 (0.61%) Military
9 2 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.31%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.31%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 52 (15.95%) Data Engineer
2 43 (13.19%) Developer
3 37 (11.35%) Senior
4 30 (9.20%) Architect
5 26 (7.98%) DevOps Engineer
6 22 (6.75%) Analyst
7 20 (6.13%) Test Specialist
8 18 (5.52%) Business Analyst
8 18 (5.52%) Full-Stack Developer
9 14 (4.29%) Lead
9 14 (4.29%) Project Manager
10 13 (3.99%) SAS Engineer
11 12 (3.68%) Java Developer
12 11 (3.37%) Senior Data Engineer
12 11 (3.37%) Test Automation Specialist
13 9 (2.76%) Engagement Manager
13 9 (2.76%) Release Manager
13 9 (2.76%) Senior Developer
13 9 (2.76%) Software Engineer
13 9 (2.76%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (17.18%) REST
2 28 (8.59%) Node.js
3 20 (6.13%) Elastic Stack
3 20 (6.13%) Flask
3 20 (6.13%) pytest
3 20 (6.13%) YAML
4 18 (5.52%) Kafka
4 18 (5.52%) SOAP
5 17 (5.21%) Spring
6 16 (4.91%) .NET
7 15 (4.60%) AngularJS
7 15 (4.60%) Hibernate
8 13 (3.99%) Spring Boot
9 12 (3.68%) Django
9 12 (3.68%) Middleware
9 12 (3.68%) Spring Cloud
9 12 (3.68%) Web Services
10 11 (3.37%) JPA
10 11 (3.37%) JSON
10 11 (3.37%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 35 (10.74%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.06%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.29%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (3.99%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.68%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (2.76%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.15%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (0.92%) Educational Technology
9 3 (0.92%) IoT
9 3 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.92%) SCADA
9 3 (0.92%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.61%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.31%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.31%) CMDB
11 1 (0.31%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.31%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.31%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 30 (9.20%) Linux
2 17 (5.21%) Unix
3 14 (4.29%) Windows
4 2 (0.61%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (62.58%) CI/CD
2 181 (55.52%) Agile
3 101 (30.98%) Analytics
4 100 (30.67%) Scrum
5 96 (29.45%) Containerisation
6 87 (26.69%) Problem-Solving
7 84 (25.77%) Test Automation
8 74 (22.70%) Data Pipeline
9 70 (21.47%) Stakeholder Management
10 65 (19.94%) Continuous Improvement
11 64 (19.63%) Data Integration
12 63 (19.33%) Data Modelling
13 62 (19.02%) ETL
14 58 (17.79%) Migration
15 47 (14.42%) Infrastructure as Code
16 45 (13.80%) Business Intelligence
16 45 (13.80%) Microservices
17 43 (13.19%) Deployment Automation
18 42 (12.88%) Change Management
19 40 (12.27%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 106 (32.52%) SQL
2 87 (26.69%) Python
3 30 (9.20%) Java
4 22 (6.75%) Bash
4 22 (6.75%) JavaScript
5 21 (6.44%) Go
6 18 (5.52%) PowerShell
7 13 (3.99%) C#
8 10 (3.07%) Bicep
9 8 (2.45%) Scala
10 5 (1.53%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.53%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.23%) Groovy
12 3 (0.92%) HiveQL
12 3 (0.92%) VB
13 2 (0.61%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.31%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.31%) Ruby
14 1 (0.31%) VB6
Qualifications
1 160 (49.08%) Security Cleared
2 137 (42.02%) SC Cleared
3 22 (6.75%) Degree
4 21 (6.44%) Azure Certification
5 15 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.37%) DV Cleared
7 10 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (2.76%) IIBA
9 6 (1.84%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.84%) ISTQB
10 4 (1.23%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.23%) SAFe Agilist
11 3 (0.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.92%) CISSP
11 3 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.61%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.61%) PMP
12 2 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (12.58%) Data Quality
2 36 (11.04%) QA
3 12 (3.68%) GDPR
4 11 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.45%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.84%) NIST
7 3 (0.92%) NCSC
7 3 (0.92%) SLA
8 1 (0.31%) FATCA
8 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 133 (40.80%) Docker
2 8 (2.45%) Postfix
3 7 (2.15%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.23%) HDFS
6 3 (0.92%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.92%) vSphere
7 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.31%) KVM
7 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 129 (39.57%) Kubernetes
2 61 (18.71%) Terraform
3 41 (12.58%) Grafana
4 37 (11.35%) Ansible
5 23 (7.06%) Prometheus
6 13 (3.99%) Kibana
6 13 (3.99%) Puppet
7 7 (2.15%) Argo
8 5 (1.53%) logstash
9 3 (0.92%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.61%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.61%) HP Quality Center
10 2 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.31%) Packer
11 1 (0.31%) Podman
11 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 50 (15.34%) Microsoft
1 50 (15.34%) Oracle
2 38 (11.66%) Talend
3 37 (11.35%) Denodo
4 25 (7.67%) Splunk
5 20 (6.13%) Atlassian
6 11 (3.37%) Jaspersoft
6 11 (3.37%) SAP
6 11 (3.37%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.45%) CyberArk
7 8 (2.45%) Red Hat
8 7 (2.15%) AppDynamics
8 7 (2.15%) Dynatrace
9 6 (1.84%) Informatica
9 6 (1.84%) VMware
10 5 (1.53%) Databricks
11 4 (1.23%) Pega
11 4 (1.23%) webMethods
12 3 (0.92%) HP
12 3 (0.92%) NEC
98 DevOps jobs in the West Midlands