Senior DevOps Engineer Contracts in the West Midlands

Senior Development Operations Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the West Midlands is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 134 170
Rank change year-on-year +27 +36 -47
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 2 7 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.10% 0.29% 0.083%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.31% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 3
10th Percentile - - £510
25th Percentile - £625 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £700 £550
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +27.27% +25.71%
75th Percentile - - £625
90th Percentile - - £655
England median daily rate £650 £650 £625
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +13.64%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,762 2,284 3,481
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.30% 94.69% 96.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,188 1,571 2,548
10th Percentile £259 £250 £213
25th Percentile £363 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 69 85
10th Percentile £12.01 £12.50 £12.30
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.10 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.25 £19.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.11% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £42.31 £27.13 £20.00
90th Percentile £55.88 £54.50 £23.15
England median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -21.11% +100.00% +0.36%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in the West Midlands

Senior DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in the West Midlands

Senior DevOps Engineer
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 Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 April 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 2 £350 -50.00% 2
Senior DevOps Engineer
England

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Senior DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Maintenance
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Packer
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Maintenance
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix