DevOps Contracts in the West Midlands

DevOps
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 17 15
Rank change year-on-year -13 -2 +6
Contract jobs citing DevOps 91 224 350
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.81% 9.85% 9.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.74% 11.15% 11.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 142 256
10th Percentile £275 £413 £400
25th Percentile £350 £480 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £530
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +8.49% +21.14%
75th Percentile £611 £663 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.00
Median hourly rate £56.25 - £39.00
75th Percentile - - £41.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £57.70
% change year-on-year -0.76% +13.53% +9.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,586 2,009 3,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.87% 88.31% 90.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,053 1,370 2,323
10th Percentile £275 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +4.59% +15.29%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 48 66
10th Percentile £11.08 £12.35 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.90
Median hourly rate £22.50 £19.00 £16.91
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% +12.34% +3.63%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £58.00 £49.38 £22.13
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.14% +49.20% +6.79%

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 15 May 2024.

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 15 May 2024. 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 33 £438 -30.00% 59
Warwickshire -2 22 £607 -8.03% 24
Coventry -8 16 £475 -1.04% 11
Worcestershire +1 7 £525 +0.96% 1
Solihull -14 3 £275 -44.44% 6
West Bromwich - 2 £331 - 1
Shropshire -7 1 £523 -3.24% 1
Herefordshire -15 1 £525 -16.50%
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 3 (3.30%) CMS
1 3 (3.30%) Drupal
2 2 (2.20%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.10%) Apache
3 1 (1.10%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.10%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (5.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.10%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 68 (74.73%) Azure
2 43 (47.25%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (12.09%) Power Platform
4 10 (10.99%) AWS
4 10 (10.99%) Serverless
5 7 (7.69%) Azure AKS
5 7 (7.69%) Azure App Service
5 7 (7.69%) Azure Functions
5 7 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (7.69%) PaaS
6 5 (5.49%) Power Automate
6 5 (5.49%) PowerApps
7 4 (4.40%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (4.40%) GCP
7 4 (4.40%) GitHub
7 4 (4.40%) IaaS
8 3 (3.30%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (3.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (3.30%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.59%) DNS
2 5 (5.49%) SSL
3 4 (4.40%) Firewall
4 2 (2.20%) VPN
5 1 (1.10%) Extranet
5 1 (1.10%) Internet
5 1 (1.10%) Intranet
5 1 (1.10%) IPsec
5 1 (1.10%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.10%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 9 (9.89%) Power BI
3 4 (4.40%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (4.40%) Big Data
3 4 (4.40%) MySQL
4 3 (3.30%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (3.30%) Data Lake
4 3 (3.30%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.20%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.20%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.10%) DB2
6 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (1.10%) OLAP
6 1 (1.10%) Oracle OLAP
6 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (13.19%) Git
2 8 (8.79%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.69%) Visual Studio
4 6 (6.59%) JIRA
5 5 (5.49%) Artifactory
5 5 (5.49%) Selenium
6 3 (3.30%) GitLab
6 3 (3.30%) NUnit
6 3 (3.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (3.30%) Subversion
7 2 (2.20%) Moq
7 2 (2.20%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.20%) Travis CI
8 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.10%) Hudson
8 1 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 26 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 16 (17.58%) Finance
3 7 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.10%) Banking
7 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.10%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (25.27%) Developer
2 16 (17.58%) Analyst
3 12 (13.19%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (10.99%) Test Analyst
5 9 (9.89%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (9.89%) Senior
6 8 (8.79%) Architect
7 5 (5.49%) Angular Developer
7 5 (5.49%) Azure Architect
7 5 (5.49%) Lead
8 4 (4.40%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Data Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Power Platform Developer
8 4 (4.40%) Test Manager
9 3 (3.30%) C# Developer
9 3 (3.30%) Java Developer
9 3 (3.30%) Lead Developer
9 3 (3.30%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (19.78%) .NET
2 8 (8.79%) AngularJS
3 6 (6.59%) RESTful
4 5 (5.49%) .NET Framework
5 4 (4.40%) Web Services
6 3 (3.30%) Entity Framework
6 3 (3.30%) Kafka
6 3 (3.30%) React
6 3 (3.30%) Spring
6 3 (3.30%) XML
6 3 (3.30%) XSLT
7 2 (2.20%) ASP.NET
7 2 (2.20%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (2.20%) JSON
7 2 (2.20%) YAML
8 1 (1.10%) CSS
8 1 (1.10%) HTML
8 1 (1.10%) JDBC
8 1 (1.10%) ODBC
8 1 (1.10%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.59%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.49%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.40%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.40%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.30%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.30%) Private Cloud
4 3 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Clustering
6 1 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.10%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.10%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.10%) PMI
6 1 (1.10%) Replication
6 1 (1.10%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.69%) Windows
2 3 (3.30%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.20%) Android
3 2 (2.20%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.20%) Linux
3 2 (2.20%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.10%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (40.66%) Agile
2 28 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 18 (19.78%) Computer Science
4 14 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (14.29%) Scrum
6 12 (13.19%) Microservices
6 12 (13.19%) Software Engineering
7 11 (12.09%) SDLC
7 11 (12.09%) User Experience
8 10 (10.99%) User Acceptance Testing
9 9 (9.89%) Decision-Making
9 9 (9.89%) Software Testing
10 8 (8.79%) Analytics
10 8 (8.79%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (8.79%) Roadmaps
10 8 (8.79%) Test Automation
11 7 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
11 7 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 7 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (24.18%) SQL
2 15 (16.48%) C#
3 12 (13.19%) Python
4 11 (12.09%) PowerShell
5 7 (7.69%) Bicep
6 5 (5.49%) Java
6 5 (5.49%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.30%) Bash
7 3 (3.30%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.20%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.10%) Go
9 1 (1.10%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 19 (20.88%) Degree
2 17 (18.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (7.69%) Security Cleared
4 6 (6.59%) ISTQB
5 5 (5.49%) DV Cleared
6 4 (4.40%) ISEB
6 4 (4.40%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.20%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.20%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.10%) APMG
8 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.10%) CCSP
8 1 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.10%) CISSP
8 1 (1.10%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.10%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.10%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (21.98%) QA
System Software
1 8 (8.79%) Docker
2 5 (5.49%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (4.40%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.10%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (13.19%) Terraform
2 7 (7.69%) Ansible
2 7 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.30%) SysTrack
4 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.20%) SCCM
4 2 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.10%) Argo
5 1 (1.10%) Istio
5 1 (1.10%) linkerd
5 1 (1.10%) Packer
5 1 (1.10%) PowerCLI
5 1 (1.10%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.10%) Puppet
5 1 (1.10%) Rancher
5 1 (1.10%) SELinux
Vendors
1 28 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.59%) Oracle
3 5 (5.49%) Citrix
3 5 (5.49%) Salesforce
4 4 (4.40%) Databricks
4 4 (4.40%) SAP
5 3 (3.30%) New Relic
5 3 (3.30%) OpenAI
5 3 (3.30%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.20%) Confluent
6 2 (2.20%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.20%) VMware
7 1 (1.10%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.10%) Google
7 1 (1.10%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.10%) Planview
7 1 (1.10%) Sage