DevOps Contracts in the West Midlands

DevOps
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 24 15
Rank change year-on-year +10 -9 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 131 117 208
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.86% 5.72% 9.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.96% 7.07% 10.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 88 140
10th Percentile £413 £325 £424
25th Percentile £453 £413 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £589
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -10.83% +9.03%
75th Percentile £588 £611 £700
90th Percentile £631 £673 £732
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £82.00 £56.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +45.78% - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £67.50 £65.61
% change year-on-year +3.70% +2.89% +0.93%

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 1,315 1,654 1,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.97% 80.88% 87.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 828 1,093 1,337
10th Percentile £200 £264 £263
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% +3.03%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £618
90th Percentile £650 £738 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 119 47
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.32 £14.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £24.28 £22.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.91% -10.00% +44.93%
75th Percentile £34.16 £40.25 £30.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.75 £50.00
England median hourly rate £26.12 £38.00 £35.03
% change year-on-year -31.26% +8.48% +36.41%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the West Midlands

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the West Midlands

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the West Midlands

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend 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 24 June 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 +11 36 £481 +6.94% 213
Shropshire +22 28 £525 +2.09% 84
Warwickshire -8 24 £500 -18.83% 54
Solihull +24 18 £475 +53.23% 3
Worcestershire -3 11 £575 - 49
Coventry -3 6 £548 +9.50% 80
Herefordshire +16 3 £700 +33.33% 11
Staffordshire - 1 £525 - 75
DevOps
England

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (12.21%) Confluence
2 3 (2.29%) WebLogic
3 2 (1.53%) nginx
4 1 (0.76%) Apache
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.76%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 6 (4.58%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.53%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 3 (2.29%) SAP PM
2 2 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 68 (51.91%) Azure
2 41 (31.30%) AWS
3 34 (25.95%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (19.08%) Power Platform
5 20 (15.27%) Amazon EC2
5 20 (15.27%) Amazon S3
6 17 (12.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 17 (12.98%) PowerApps
7 13 (9.92%) AWS KMS
8 11 (8.40%) GCP
8 11 (8.40%) GitHub
9 10 (7.63%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (6.87%) Route 53
10 9 (6.87%) Serverless
10 9 (6.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 8 (6.11%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (5.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (5.34%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (4.58%) Amazon ELB
13 6 (4.58%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.40%) Firewall
2 7 (5.34%) DNS
3 6 (4.58%) HTTP
3 6 (4.58%) LAN
3 6 (4.58%) SMTP
3 6 (4.58%) WAN
4 4 (3.05%) FTP
4 4 (3.05%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (3.05%) SSH
4 4 (3.05%) Wireshark
5 2 (1.53%) DHCP
5 2 (1.53%) IMAP
5 2 (1.53%) Network Security
5 2 (1.53%) SAN
5 2 (1.53%) SSL
5 2 (1.53%) VLAN
5 2 (1.53%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.74%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (12.21%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (9.16%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (6.87%) NoSQL
4 9 (6.87%) SQL Server
5 8 (6.11%) DynamoDB
6 7 (5.34%) Power BI
7 6 (4.58%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (3.05%) Delta Lake
8 4 (3.05%) GIS
8 4 (3.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (2.29%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 2 (1.53%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.76%) Big Data
11 1 (0.76%) Metadata
11 1 (0.76%) Semantic Layer
11 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 31 (23.66%) Jenkins
2 28 (21.37%) Git
3 20 (15.27%) JIRA
4 16 (12.21%) GitLab
5 14 (10.69%) Maven
6 10 (7.63%) JUnit
6 10 (7.63%) Mockito
6 10 (7.63%) SonarQube
7 7 (5.34%) Bitbucket Server
7 7 (5.34%) DbUnit
7 7 (5.34%) jMock
8 6 (4.58%) Vagrant
9 4 (3.05%) Selenium
10 3 (2.29%) JMeter
10 3 (2.29%) Plastic SCM
10 3 (2.29%) Postman
10 3 (2.29%) REST Assured
10 3 (2.29%) TestNG
10 3 (2.29%) Travis CI
10 3 (2.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 36 (27.48%) Social Skills
2 27 (20.61%) Public Sector
3 12 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.40%) Finance
5 5 (3.82%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.29%) Games
7 3 (2.29%) Law
7 3 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.29%) Retail
8 2 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.76%) Legal
9 1 (0.76%) Military
Job Titles
1 31 (23.66%) Developer
2 28 (21.37%) DevOps Engineer
3 18 (13.74%) Architect
4 14 (10.69%) Lead
5 13 (9.92%) Java Developer
6 11 (8.40%) Solutions Architect
7 9 (6.87%) Technical Leader
8 7 (5.34%) Senior
9 6 (4.58%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (4.58%) Consultant
9 6 (4.58%) Test Engineer
10 5 (3.82%) Data Architect
10 5 (3.82%) Network Engineer
10 5 (3.82%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (3.82%) Power Platform Developer
11 4 (3.05%) Applications Architect
11 4 (3.05%) Data Engineer
11 4 (3.05%) Lead Developer
11 4 (3.05%) Lead Java Developer
11 4 (3.05%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.69%) Spring
2 13 (9.92%) RESTful
2 13 (9.92%) SOAP
2 13 (9.92%) Spring Boot
3 12 (9.16%) .NET
3 12 (9.16%) Web Services
4 11 (8.40%) REST
5 10 (7.63%) ActiveMQ
5 10 (7.63%) AngularJS
5 10 (7.63%) JPA
5 10 (7.63%) Spring Cloud
6 9 (6.87%) Bootstrap
7 8 (6.11%) Hibernate
8 7 (5.34%) PowerMock
8 7 (5.34%) Spring Batch
8 7 (5.34%) Spring Integration
9 6 (4.58%) ADO
10 5 (3.82%) YAML
11 4 (3.05%) LDAP
11 4 (3.05%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.87%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.11%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.34%) IoT
3 7 (5.34%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.58%) Replication
5 5 (3.82%) PKI
6 4 (3.05%) Blockchain
6 4 (3.05%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.29%) SCADA
8 2 (1.53%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.76%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.76%) NHS
9 1 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (15.27%) Linux
2 7 (5.34%) Windows
3 6 (4.58%) Amazon Linux
3 6 (4.58%) VMS
4 3 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.53%) CentOS
5 2 (1.53%) Debian
5 2 (1.53%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (56.49%) Agile
2 51 (38.93%) CI/CD
3 30 (22.90%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (19.08%) Scrum
5 23 (17.56%) Microservices
6 22 (16.79%) Configuration Management
7 20 (15.27%) Containerisation
8 19 (14.50%) Data Modelling
8 19 (14.50%) Test Strategy
9 18 (13.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (13.74%) Software Engineering
10 16 (12.21%) Process Improvement
11 15 (11.45%) Analytics
11 15 (11.45%) Test Automation
12 14 (10.69%) User Experience
13 13 (9.92%) Computer Science
13 13 (9.92%) OO
14 12 (9.16%) Migration
14 12 (9.16%) Problem Management
14 12 (9.16%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 36 (27.48%) SQL
2 25 (19.08%) Python
3 21 (16.03%) Java
4 12 (9.16%) C#
5 9 (6.87%) Bash
5 9 (6.87%) PowerShell
6 6 (4.58%) Groovy
7 5 (3.82%) Bicep
7 5 (3.82%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.82%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.05%) Perl
9 3 (2.29%) Go
9 3 (2.29%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (2.29%) Scala
9 3 (2.29%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.76%) C
10 1 (0.76%) Korn
10 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (35.11%) Security Cleared
2 33 (25.19%) SC Cleared
3 14 (10.69%) Degree
4 12 (9.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (7.63%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.29%) CEH
6 3 (2.29%) CISSP
6 3 (2.29%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.53%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.53%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.76%) CITP
8 1 (0.76%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.76%) OCP
8 1 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.98%) QA
2 6 (4.58%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.29%) GDPR
5 2 (1.53%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.76%) NCSC
6 1 (0.76%) NIST
6 1 (0.76%) PMO
6 1 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.76%) SLA
6 1 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (29.77%) Docker
2 10 (7.63%) Postfix
3 5 (3.82%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.05%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.05%) DFS Replication
5 2 (1.53%) Dovecot
5 2 (1.53%) Squid
6 1 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 33 (25.19%) Terraform
2 27 (20.61%) Kubernetes
3 18 (13.74%) Grafana
3 18 (13.74%) Prometheus
4 15 (11.45%) Ansible
5 5 (3.82%) HP ALM
6 4 (3.05%) Nessus
6 4 (3.05%) Puppet
7 3 (2.29%) Kibana
7 3 (2.29%) Opsview
8 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.76%) Argo
9 1 (0.76%) Consul
9 1 (0.76%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.76%) Rancher
9 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (18.32%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.87%) Atlassian
2 9 (6.87%) Jaspersoft
3 7 (5.34%) Cisco
3 7 (5.34%) Databricks
3 7 (5.34%) ServiceNow
4 6 (4.58%) Micro Focus
5 5 (3.82%) HP
5 5 (3.82%) Oracle
5 5 (3.82%) Progress
6 4 (3.05%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.05%) SAP
7 3 (2.29%) Informatica
7 3 (2.29%) PagerDuty
7 3 (2.29%) VMware
8 2 (1.53%) Fujitsu
8 2 (1.53%) Google
8 2 (1.53%) Sophos
8 2 (1.53%) Splunk
9 1 (0.76%) Veeam