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

 6 months to
1 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 19 32
Rank change year-on-year +6 +13 -10
Contract jobs citing DevOps 329 101 101
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 11.28% 7.66% 5.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.43% 8.57% 6.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 73 77
10th Percentile £404 £363 £310
25th Percentile £450 £419 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -17.39%
75th Percentile £555 £541 £588
90th Percentile £618 £635 £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 2,449 1,178 1,656
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.98% 89.31% 83.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,622 796 1,100
10th Percentile £305 £200 £275
25th Percentile £402 £387 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £606
90th Percentile £650 £683 £707
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 54 118
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.36 £11.11
25th Percentile £16.17 £14.70 £14.03
Median hourly rate £25.00 £18.07 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.39% -19.71% +26.98%
75th Percentile £33.78 £28.18 £39.69
90th Percentile £71.02 £35.00 £57.00
England median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.85% - -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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -3 117 £492 -0.59% 20
Birmingham +11 102 £525 +10.53% 45
Warwickshire +9 41 £520 +4.00% 7
Worcestershire +6 29 £605 +2.98% 2
Herefordshire -1 21 £650 -7.14% 1
Coventry - 19 £407 - 6
Solihull -2 12 £481 - 3
Staffordshire -3 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 82 (24.92%) SAS
2 39 (11.85%) Confluence
3 11 (3.34%) OpenStack
4 8 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.82%) Apache
6 5 (1.52%) WebLogic
7 4 (1.22%) JBoss
8 3 (0.91%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.30%) IIS
10 1 (0.30%) LiveCycle
10 1 (0.30%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 8 (2.43%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (1.82%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.30%) Maximo
2 1 (0.30%) Shopify
2 1 (0.30%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 137 (41.64%) Azure
2 95 (28.88%) AWS
3 65 (19.76%) Azure DevOps
4 51 (15.50%) GitHub
5 38 (11.55%) GCP
6 36 (10.94%) Serverless
7 30 (9.12%) Azure Data Factory
7 30 (9.12%) GitHub Actions
8 29 (8.81%) OpenShift
9 19 (5.78%) Amazon S3
10 16 (4.86%) Power Platform
11 15 (4.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (4.56%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (4.56%) AWS KMS
12 13 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (3.65%) Azure Key Vault
14 11 (3.34%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (3.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 11 (3.34%) Entra ID
15 10 (3.04%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.65%) Firewall
2 5 (1.52%) DNS
2 5 (1.52%) Network Security
2 5 (1.52%) VPN
3 2 (0.61%) LAN
3 2 (0.61%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.61%) SSL
3 2 (0.61%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.61%) WAN
4 1 (0.30%) BGP
4 1 (0.30%) DHCP
4 1 (0.30%) Internet
4 1 (0.30%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.30%) MPLS
4 1 (0.30%) OSPF
4 1 (0.30%) SMS
4 1 (0.30%) VLAN
4 1 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.30%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.30%) WPA2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (14.59%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (11.55%) Pentaho
3 27 (8.21%) Elasticsearch
4 20 (6.08%) Oracle Database
5 19 (5.78%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 16 (4.86%) NoSQL
7 12 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (3.34%) DynamoDB
8 11 (3.34%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 10 (3.04%) Power BI
9 10 (3.04%) Relational Database
10 9 (2.74%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.82%) Redis
13 5 (1.52%) MongoDB
14 4 (1.22%) Apache Hive
14 4 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (1.22%) Hadoop
14 4 (1.22%) Impala
14 4 (1.22%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 108 (32.83%) Jenkins
2 93 (28.27%) Git
3 79 (24.01%) JIRA
4 55 (16.72%) GitLab
5 35 (10.64%) JUnit
6 34 (10.33%) Selenium
7 15 (4.56%) SonarQube
8 13 (3.95%) Bitbucket
8 13 (3.95%) Maven
9 9 (2.74%) Mockito
10 7 (2.13%) DbUnit
10 7 (2.13%) jMock
11 6 (1.82%) Liquibase
11 6 (1.82%) Postman
12 5 (1.52%) Artifactory
12 5 (1.52%) Bitbucket Server
12 5 (1.52%) CircleCI
12 5 (1.52%) Cypress.io
13 4 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (1.22%) Eclipse
General
1 114 (34.65%) Social Skills
2 55 (16.72%) Public Sector
3 45 (13.68%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (12.77%) Finance
5 14 (4.26%) Banking
6 12 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.13%) 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 53 (16.11%) Data Engineer
2 42 (12.77%) Developer
3 36 (10.94%) Senior
4 30 (9.12%) Architect
5 24 (7.29%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (6.08%) Test Specialist
7 19 (5.78%) Analyst
8 18 (5.47%) Full-Stack Developer
9 16 (4.86%) Business Analyst
10 15 (4.56%) Cloud Engineer
11 14 (4.26%) Lead
11 14 (4.26%) Project Manager
12 13 (3.95%) GCP Engineer
13 12 (3.65%) SAS Engineer
13 12 (3.65%) Senior Data Engineer
13 12 (3.65%) Software Engineer
14 11 (3.34%) Test Automation Specialist
15 10 (3.04%) AWS Engineer
15 10 (3.04%) Site Engineer
15 10 (3.04%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (20.06%) REST
2 31 (9.42%) Elastic Stack
3 26 (7.90%) Node.js
4 21 (6.38%) Flask
4 21 (6.38%) YAML
5 20 (6.08%) pytest
6 19 (5.78%) Kafka
7 17 (5.17%) RESTful
8 16 (4.86%) SOAP
9 15 (4.56%) .NET
9 15 (4.56%) Spring
10 13 (3.95%) AngularJS
10 13 (3.95%) Hibernate
10 13 (3.95%) Middleware
11 12 (3.65%) Django
11 12 (3.65%) React
12 11 (3.34%) JSON
12 11 (3.34%) Keycloak
12 11 (3.34%) Spring Boot
13 10 (3.04%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 34 (10.33%) Cloud Native
2 23 (6.99%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (6.38%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.95%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (3.65%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (3.34%) Management Information System
7 10 (3.04%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.74%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.91%) Educational Technology
10 3 (0.91%) IoT
10 3 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.91%) SCADA
10 3 (0.91%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.61%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.61%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.30%) CMDB
12 1 (0.30%) Freedom of Information
12 1 (0.30%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 40 (12.16%) Linux
2 19 (5.78%) Unix
3 13 (3.95%) Windows
4 3 (0.91%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (64.44%) CI/CD
2 179 (54.41%) Agile
3 109 (33.13%) Containerisation
4 99 (30.09%) Analytics
5 92 (27.96%) Scrum
6 89 (27.05%) Problem-Solving
7 85 (25.84%) Test Automation
8 74 (22.49%) Data Pipeline
9 73 (22.19%) Stakeholder Management
10 64 (19.45%) Data Modelling
11 63 (19.15%) Continuous Improvement
11 63 (19.15%) Data Integration
11 63 (19.15%) ETL
12 58 (17.63%) Infrastructure as Code
13 55 (16.72%) Migration
14 49 (14.89%) Change Management
15 48 (14.59%) Microservices
16 46 (13.98%) Business Intelligence
17 41 (12.46%) Deployment Automation
18 40 (12.16%) Data Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 105 (31.91%) SQL
2 101 (30.70%) Python
3 33 (10.03%) Go
4 27 (8.21%) Java
5 25 (7.60%) Bash
6 23 (6.99%) JavaScript
7 19 (5.78%) PowerShell
8 13 (3.95%) C#
9 10 (3.04%) Bicep
10 8 (2.43%) Scala
11 6 (1.82%) TypeScript
12 5 (1.52%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.91%) Groovy
13 3 (0.91%) HiveQL
13 3 (0.91%) VB
14 2 (0.61%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.30%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.30%) Ruby
15 1 (0.30%) VB6
Qualifications
1 158 (48.02%) Security Cleared
2 134 (40.73%) SC Cleared
3 34 (10.33%) Degree
4 26 (7.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (6.38%) Azure Certification
6 14 (4.26%) DV Cleared
7 13 (3.95%) Master's Degree
8 9 (2.74%) IIBA
9 7 (2.13%) AWS Certification
9 7 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.52%) ISTQB
11 4 (1.22%) CISSP
11 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.22%) SAFe Agilist
12 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.61%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.61%) PMP
13 2 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (12.46%) Data Quality
2 36 (10.94%) QA
3 13 (3.95%) GDPR
3 13 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.13%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.82%) NIST
6 4 (1.22%) NCSC
7 3 (0.91%) SLA
8 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.30%) FATCA
8 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.30%) PMO
8 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 142 (43.16%) Docker
2 7 (2.13%) 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
1 141 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 72 (21.88%) Terraform
3 49 (14.89%) Grafana
4 48 (14.59%) Ansible
5 32 (9.73%) Prometheus
6 16 (4.86%) Puppet
7 15 (4.56%) Kibana
8 7 (2.13%) Argo
9 5 (1.52%) logstash
10 3 (0.91%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.91%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.61%) HP Quality Center
11 2 (0.61%) Podman
11 2 (0.61%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.30%) Packer
12 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 51 (15.50%) Microsoft
2 49 (14.89%) Oracle
3 38 (11.55%) Talend
4 37 (11.25%) Denodo
5 36 (10.94%) Splunk
6 19 (5.78%) Atlassian
7 11 (3.34%) SAP
8 9 (2.74%) CyberArk
8 9 (2.74%) Jaspersoft
8 9 (2.74%) ServiceNow
9 8 (2.43%) Google
9 8 (2.43%) Red Hat
10 7 (2.13%) AppDynamics
10 7 (2.13%) Dynatrace
11 6 (1.82%) Databricks
11 6 (1.82%) Informatica
11 6 (1.82%) VMware
12 4 (1.22%) HP
12 4 (1.22%) Pega
12 4 (1.22%) webMethods
98 DevOps jobs in the West Midlands