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

 6 months to
22 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 20 30
Rank change year-on-year +7 +10 -8
Contract jobs citing DevOps 328 96 106
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.40% 7.13% 5.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.53% 7.95% 6.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 68 82
10th Percentile £404 £363 £307
25th Percentile £455 £417 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% +8.11% -19.57%
75th Percentile £575 £540 £584
90th Percentile £644 £638 £686
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% -0.05% -8.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £63.90 - £55.25
25th Percentile £67.13 £56.25 £55.63
Median hourly rate £75.00 £57.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% +2.22% -
75th Percentile £79.75 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £81.10 - -
England median hourly rate £63.73 £68.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.30% +5.77% -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 2,425 1,208 1,661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.29% 89.68% 84.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,617 809 1,106
10th Percentile £305 £200 £269
25th Percentile £402 £393 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £709
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 54 119
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.36 £11.11
25th Percentile £16.10 £14.70 £14.06
Median hourly rate £24.29 £18.07 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.45% -19.71% +26.98%
75th Percentile £30.00 £24.21 £40.25
90th Percentile £60.08 £34.63 £58.75
England median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% -13.33%

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 22 March 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 22 March 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 22 March 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 -1 109 £492 -6.20% 15
Birmingham +8 103 £525 +10.53% 47
Warwickshire +14 43 £525 +5.00% 6
Worcestershire +8 35 £638 +6.25% 1
Herefordshire +3 26 £650 -7.14%
Coventry - 20 £407 - 7
Solihull -3 11 £481 - 2
Staffordshire -3 1 £463 -11.90% 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 72 (21.95%) SAS
2 39 (11.89%) Confluence
3 11 (3.35%) OpenStack
4 6 (1.83%) Apache
5 5 (1.52%) WebLogic
6 4 (1.22%) JBoss
7 3 (0.91%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.30%) IIS
8 1 (0.30%) LiveCycle
8 1 (0.30%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 8 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.61%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.30%) Maximo
3 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 137 (41.77%) Azure
2 85 (25.91%) AWS
3 71 (21.65%) Azure DevOps
4 56 (17.07%) GitHub
5 40 (12.20%) GCP
6 38 (11.59%) Serverless
7 33 (10.06%) GitHub Actions
8 32 (9.76%) Azure Data Factory
9 29 (8.84%) OpenShift
10 16 (4.88%) Amazon S3
10 16 (4.88%) Power Platform
11 15 (4.57%) Azure Key Vault
12 14 (4.27%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (4.27%) AWS KMS
13 13 (3.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (3.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 11 (3.35%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (3.35%) Entra ID
15 10 (3.05%) Azure Monitor
16 9 (2.74%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.66%) Firewall
2 5 (1.52%) DNS
2 5 (1.52%) VPN
3 4 (1.22%) Network Security
4 2 (0.61%) LAN
4 2 (0.61%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.61%) SSL
4 2 (0.61%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.61%) WAN
5 1 (0.30%) 5G
5 1 (0.30%) BGP
5 1 (0.30%) DHCP
5 1 (0.30%) Internet
5 1 (0.30%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.30%) MPLS
5 1 (0.30%) OSPF
5 1 (0.30%) SMS
5 1 (0.30%) VLAN
5 1 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.30%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (15.24%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (10.67%) Pentaho
3 28 (8.54%) Elasticsearch
4 17 (5.18%) NoSQL
5 16 (4.88%) Oracle Database
6 13 (3.96%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 10 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (3.05%) Power BI
7 10 (3.05%) Relational Database
8 9 (2.74%) DynamoDB
9 8 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (2.44%) Redis
10 7 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.52%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.52%) MySQL
11 5 (1.52%) SAS Visual Analytics
12 4 (1.22%) Apache Hive
12 4 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.22%) Hadoop
12 4 (1.22%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 106 (32.32%) Jenkins
2 87 (26.52%) Git
3 77 (23.48%) JIRA
4 53 (16.16%) GitLab
5 34 (10.37%) JUnit
6 33 (10.06%) Selenium
7 16 (4.88%) SonarQube
8 13 (3.96%) Bitbucket
9 12 (3.66%) Maven
10 8 (2.44%) Mockito
11 7 (2.13%) Liquibase
12 6 (1.83%) CircleCI
12 6 (1.83%) DbUnit
12 6 (1.83%) jMock
13 5 (1.52%) Artifactory
13 5 (1.52%) Cypress.io
13 5 (1.52%) Postman
14 4 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (1.22%) Eclipse
14 4 (1.22%) IntelliJ
General
1 111 (33.84%) Social Skills
2 50 (15.24%) Public Sector
3 45 (13.72%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (13.41%) Finance
5 15 (4.57%) Banking
6 10 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.44%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.52%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.22%) Retail
10 2 (0.61%) Advertising
10 2 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.61%) Military
10 2 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.30%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 52 (15.85%) Data Engineer
2 44 (13.41%) Developer
3 37 (11.28%) Senior
4 27 (8.23%) Architect
5 26 (7.93%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (6.10%) Test Specialist
7 19 (5.79%) Analyst
8 17 (5.18%) Full-Stack Developer
9 16 (4.88%) Business Analyst
9 16 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
10 14 (4.27%) GCP Engineer
10 14 (4.27%) Project Manager
10 14 (4.27%) Software Engineer
11 13 (3.96%) Lead
11 13 (3.96%) Senior Data Engineer
12 12 (3.66%) Engagement Manager
13 11 (3.35%) Test Automation Specialist
14 10 (3.05%) Site Engineer
14 10 (3.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 10 (3.05%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (19.51%) REST
2 32 (9.76%) Elastic Stack
3 26 (7.93%) Node.js
4 23 (7.01%) Flask
4 23 (7.01%) YAML
5 20 (6.10%) Kafka
5 20 (6.10%) pytest
6 17 (5.18%) RESTful
7 15 (4.57%) .NET
8 14 (4.27%) Spring
9 13 (3.96%) Middleware
9 13 (3.96%) SOAP
10 12 (3.66%) AngularJS
10 12 (3.66%) Django
10 12 (3.66%) Hibernate
10 12 (3.66%) Keycloak
10 12 (3.66%) React
11 11 (3.35%) FastAPI
11 11 (3.35%) JSON
12 10 (3.05%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 34 (10.37%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.40%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (6.10%) Product Ownership
4 14 (4.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (3.35%) Management Information System
6 11 (3.35%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.74%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (0.91%) IoT
9 3 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.91%) SCADA
9 3 (0.91%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.61%) CMDB
10 2 (0.61%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.61%) Educational Technology
10 2 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.61%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.61%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 40 (12.20%) Linux
2 19 (5.79%) Unix
3 13 (3.96%) Windows
4 3 (0.91%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (63.72%) CI/CD
2 178 (54.27%) Agile
3 112 (34.15%) Containerisation
4 91 (27.74%) Analytics
5 90 (27.44%) Scrum
6 89 (27.13%) Problem-Solving
7 81 (24.70%) Test Automation
8 71 (21.65%) Data Pipeline
8 71 (21.65%) Stakeholder Management
9 62 (18.90%) Data Modelling
9 62 (18.90%) ETL
10 60 (18.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 57 (17.38%) Infrastructure as Code
12 54 (16.46%) Data Integration
13 50 (15.24%) Microservices
13 50 (15.24%) Migration
14 48 (14.63%) Change Management
15 43 (13.11%) Business Intelligence
16 37 (11.28%) Data Virtualisation
17 36 (10.98%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 105 (32.01%) Python
1 105 (32.01%) SQL
2 37 (11.28%) Go
3 26 (7.93%) Java
4 25 (7.62%) Bash
4 25 (7.62%) JavaScript
5 19 (5.79%) PowerShell
6 13 (3.96%) C#
7 10 (3.05%) Bicep
8 8 (2.44%) Scala
9 6 (1.83%) TypeScript
10 5 (1.52%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.91%) Groovy
11 3 (0.91%) HiveQL
11 3 (0.91%) VB
12 2 (0.61%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.30%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.30%) Ruby
13 1 (0.30%) VB6
13 1 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 155 (47.26%) Security Cleared
2 132 (40.24%) SC Cleared
3 35 (10.67%) Degree
4 27 (8.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (7.32%) Azure Certification
6 18 (5.49%) DV Cleared
7 14 (4.27%) Master's Degree
8 9 (2.74%) IIBA
9 8 (2.44%) AWS Certification
10 7 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.52%) ISTQB
11 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.22%) SAFe Agilist
13 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (0.91%) CISSP
13 3 (0.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.61%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.61%) PMP
14 2 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (11.59%) Data Quality
2 34 (10.37%) QA
3 13 (3.96%) GDPR
4 12 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.13%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.83%) NCSC
7 5 (1.52%) NIST
8 4 (1.22%) SLA
9 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.30%) FATCA
9 1 (0.30%) PMO
9 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 142 (43.29%) Docker
2 6 (1.83%) Postfix
3 5 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.22%) HDFS
5 3 (0.91%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.91%) vSphere
6 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.30%) KVM
6 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 142 (43.29%) Kubernetes
2 75 (22.87%) Terraform
3 51 (15.55%) Grafana
4 49 (14.94%) Ansible
5 34 (10.37%) Prometheus
6 16 (4.88%) Puppet
7 15 (4.57%) Kibana
8 7 (2.13%) Argo
9 5 (1.52%) logstash
10 4 (1.22%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.91%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.61%) HP Quality Center
12 2 (0.61%) Podman
12 2 (0.61%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.30%) Packer
13 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (16.16%) Microsoft
2 39 (11.89%) Oracle
3 37 (11.28%) Splunk
4 35 (10.67%) Talend
5 34 (10.37%) Denodo
6 18 (5.49%) Atlassian
7 12 (3.66%) SAP
8 11 (3.35%) ServiceNow
9 10 (3.05%) Google
10 9 (2.74%) CyberArk
11 8 (2.44%) Jaspersoft
11 8 (2.44%) Red Hat
12 7 (2.13%) AppDynamics
12 7 (2.13%) Databricks
12 7 (2.13%) Dynatrace
13 6 (1.83%) Informatica
13 6 (1.83%) VMware
14 5 (1.52%) HP
15 4 (1.22%) webMethods
16 3 (0.91%) NEC
93 DevOps jobs in the West Midlands