DevOps Contracts in Worcestershire

DevOps
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Worcestershire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 11 12
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 7 6 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Worcestershire 15.22% 8.00% 11.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.91% 10.00% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 12
10th Percentile - £431 -
25th Percentile £563 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.90% +16.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £678 £538 £593
90th Percentile £700 £556 £623
West Midlands median daily rate £523 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £82.00 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £69.75 £56.25 -
% change year-on-year +24.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 44 60 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 95.65% 80.00% 93.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 47 81
10th Percentile £145 £213 £331
25th Percentile £200 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - +35.48%
75th Percentile £700 £575 £650
90th Percentile £830 £675 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 6
10th Percentile £14.09 - £15.82
25th Percentile £15.22 £10.50 £16.83
Median hourly rate £17.16 £11.73 £17.70
Median % change year-on-year +46.31% -33.76% +11.60%
75th Percentile £18.13 £48.13 £17.72
90th Percentile £37.29 £72.50 £17.72
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Worcestershire

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Worcestershire.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Worcestershire

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Worcestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Worcestershire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Worcestershire

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Malvern +1 5 £575 +9.52% 1
Worcester -6 3 £700 +27.27% 8
DevOps
West Midlands

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Worcestershire 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 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Node.js
1 2 (28.57%) React
1 2 (28.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Computer Science
1 4 (57.14%) Decision-Making
1 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
1 4 (57.14%) User Experience
1 4 (57.14%) Workflow
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) API Design
2 2 (28.57%) API Development
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
2 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) SDLC
2 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Go
1 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
1 2 (28.57%) Python
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
1 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) DV Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (57.14%) Degree
3 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) QA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible