DevOps Contracts in Birmingham

DevOps
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 15 15
Rank change year-on-year -16 0 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 31 77 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 4.18% 8.64% 8.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.12% 9.92% 9.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 53 84
10th Percentile £250 £413 £392
25th Percentile £321 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +19.05% +27.27%
75th Percentile £581 £700 £625
90th Percentile £663 £726 £684
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £581 £540
% change year-on-year -9.68% +7.64% +23.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £56.25 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £56.25 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 606 776 1,202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 81.67% 87.09% 91.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 400 507 859
10th Percentile £237 £298 £225
25th Percentile £375 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £488
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +6.67% +14.71%
75th Percentile £575 £634 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £495
% change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% +16.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 31 22
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.00 £12.05
25th Percentile £18.50 £12.50 £13.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £20.71 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year +25.57% +23.61% -6.94%
75th Percentile £47.13 £29.38 £18.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £53.75 £19.95
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £21.69 £16.83
% change year-on-year +3.73% +28.92% +5.16%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Birmingham

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Birmingham

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Birmingham over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Birmingham

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.23%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 22 (70.97%) Azure
2 10 (32.26%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (16.13%) Serverless
4 4 (12.90%) AWS
4 4 (12.90%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (12.90%) Power Platform
5 3 (9.68%) Azure Functions
5 3 (9.68%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (6.45%) GitHub
6 2 (6.45%) PaaS
6 2 (6.45%) SaaS
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.23%) GCP
7 1 (3.23%) IaaS
7 1 (3.23%) Power Automate
7 1 (3.23%) PowerApps
7 1 (3.23%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) IPsec
1 1 (3.23%) Kerberos
1 1 (3.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) Power BI
2 3 (9.68%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.23%) Big Data
3 1 (3.23%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.23%) DB2
3 1 (3.23%) Flink
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (3.23%) MySQL
3 1 (3.23%) OLAP
3 1 (3.23%) OLTP
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle OLAP
3 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.45%) Selenium
3 1 (3.23%) Artifactory
3 1 (3.23%) Git
3 1 (3.23%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (3.23%) TeamCity
3 1 (3.23%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 6 (19.35%) Finance
2 5 (16.13%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Manufacturing
3 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (29.03%) Analyst
2 7 (22.58%) Developer
3 6 (19.35%) Test Analyst
4 3 (9.68%) Business Analyst
4 3 (9.68%) Java Developer
4 3 (9.68%) Senior
5 2 (6.45%) Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Dynamics 365 Business Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Product Owner
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (3.23%) CRM Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) Lead Test Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) AngularJS
1 3 (9.68%) React
1 3 (9.68%) Spring
2 1 (3.23%) .NET
2 1 (3.23%) Kafka
2 1 (3.23%) Protocol Buffers
2 1 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (3.23%) RESTful
2 1 (3.23%) SOAP
2 1 (3.23%) Vue
2 1 (3.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (6.45%) IoT
2 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.23%) Clustering
3 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (3.23%) Replication
3 1 (3.23%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.13%) Windows
2 2 (6.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (38.71%) Agile
2 7 (22.58%) CI/CD
2 7 (22.58%) Computer Science
3 6 (19.35%) User Acceptance Testing
4 5 (16.13%) Analytics
4 5 (16.13%) Manual Testing
4 5 (16.13%) Scrum
4 5 (16.13%) Software Testing
4 5 (16.13%) Test Strategy
4 5 (16.13%) User Stories
5 4 (12.90%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (12.90%) Data Science
5 4 (12.90%) Incident Management
5 4 (12.90%) Microservices
5 4 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (12.90%) Roadmaps
5 4 (12.90%) SDLC
5 4 (12.90%) SOA
6 3 (9.68%) Business Analysis
6 3 (9.68%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.13%) SQL
2 4 (12.90%) PowerShell
3 3 (9.68%) Java
3 3 (9.68%) Python
4 2 (6.45%) C#
5 1 (3.23%) Go
5 1 (3.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (22.58%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (22.58%) Degree
2 3 (9.68%) Master's Degree
3 2 (6.45%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.23%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) QA
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Docker
1 3 (9.68%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) SysTrack
1 3 (9.68%) Terraform
2 1 (3.23%) Ansible
2 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) Progress Chef
2 1 (3.23%) Puppet
2 1 (3.23%) Rancher
2 1 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (32.26%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.68%) Citrix
2 3 (9.68%) New Relic
2 3 (9.68%) OpenAI
2 3 (9.68%) Oracle
3 1 (3.23%) Databricks
3 1 (3.23%) Google
3 1 (3.23%) Guidewire
3 1 (3.23%) SAP
3 1 (3.23%) VMware