Senior DevOps Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Senior Development Operations
England > West Midlands

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in the West Midlands is £892, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 109 112
Rank change year-on-year -15 +3 +63
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 12 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.56% 0.16% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.17% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 3
10th Percentile £606 £395 £588
25th Percentile £757 £444 £616
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £892 £550 £675
Median % change year-on-year +62.18% -18.52% -6.90%
75th Percentile - £575 £688
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £558 £690 £625
% change year-on-year -19.17% +10.40% -7.41%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,910 1,735 1,777
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.09% 93.28% 93.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,235 1,084 1,218
10th Percentile £250 £213 £220
25th Percentile £400 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -3.81% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 67 64
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.66 £15.50
25th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £17.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.60 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year +6.57% +5.38% +26.38%
75th Percentile £32.46 £31.78 £35.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £46.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.32 £39.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -35.08% -13.33% +38.46%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior DevOps' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Senior DevOps job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Senior DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior DevOps job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior DevOps job vacancies in the West Midlands

Senior DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior DevOps in the West Midlands

Senior 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 Senior DevOps within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 November 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 +4 11 £892 +137.87% 2
Herefordshire - 1 £500 -
Senior DevOps
England

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 29 November 2025, Senior DevOps contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) AWS
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (91.67%) CI/CD
2 11 (91.67%) Docker
2 11 (91.67%) Jenkins
3 10 (83.33%) Python
3 10 (83.33%) Terraform
4 9 (75.00%) Ansible
4 9 (75.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 8 (66.67%) GitLab
5 8 (66.67%) Kubernetes
6 7 (58.33%) Containerisation
6 7 (58.33%) High Availability
6 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure Automation
7 5 (41.67%) Agile
7 5 (41.67%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (41.67%) Go
7 5 (41.67%) Grafana
7 5 (41.67%) Linux
7 5 (41.67%) Mentoring
8 4 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
8 4 (33.33%) Amazon S3
8 4 (33.33%) AWS Certification
8 4 (33.33%) Bash
8 4 (33.33%) Change Management
8 4 (33.33%) CheckPoint
8 4 (33.33%) Computer Science

Senior DevOps Skill Set
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 1 (8.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
2 4 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 4 (33.33%) GCP
2 4 (33.33%) Serverless
2 4 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 3 (25.00%) Azure
3 3 (25.00%) GitHub
3 3 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (16.67%) Azure AKS
4 2 (16.67%) Azure API Management
4 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) DNS
1 4 (33.33%) Firewall
1 4 (33.33%) SSL
1 4 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 4 (33.33%) VPN
2 3 (25.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (91.67%) Jenkins
2 8 (66.67%) GitLab
3 4 (33.33%) Git
3 4 (33.33%) Liquibase
4 2 (16.67%) CircleCI
5 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Banking
2 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Financial Institution
3 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Military
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (33.33%) REST
2 4 (33.33%) RESTful
3 1 (8.33%) Kafka
3 1 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 4 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (91.67%) CI/CD
3 9 (75.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 7 (58.33%) Containerisation
4 7 (58.33%) High Availability
4 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (41.67%) Agile
5 5 (41.67%) Mentoring
6 4 (33.33%) Change Management
6 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
6 4 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
6 4 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (33.33%) Cryptography
6 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (33.33%) Data Encryption
6 4 (33.33%) Data Security
6 4 (33.33%) Microservices
6 4 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
6 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Python
2 5 (41.67%) Go
3 4 (33.33%) Bash
3 4 (33.33%) SQL
4 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 4 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
1 4 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified Developer
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 11 (91.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (83.33%) Terraform
2 9 (75.00%) Ansible
3 8 (66.67%) Kubernetes
4 5 (41.67%) Grafana
5 4 (33.33%) Prometheus
6 1 (8.33%) Argo
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) CheckPoint
1 4 (33.33%) F5
1 4 (33.33%) Palo Alto
1 4 (33.33%) Splunk
2 2 (16.67%) Google
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft