DevOps Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

Development Operations Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 May 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
16 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 105 110
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 +3
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 18 55 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.67% 1.68% 2.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 1.77% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 40 69
10th Percentile £395 £473 £345
25th Percentile £450 £486 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +13.64% +29.41%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £638
90th Percentile £619 - £690
England median daily rate £538 £610 £600
% change year-on-year -11.89% +1.67% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.00
Median hourly rate - - £39.00
75th Percentile - - £41.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £59.75 £71.00 £39.00
% change year-on-year -15.85% +82.05% -25.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 2,482 3,103 4,788
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.16% 94.52% 96.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,681 2,182 3,494
10th Percentile £213 £220 £213
25th Percentile £328 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +2.70% +15.63%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £560
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 118 165
10th Percentile £11.83 £12.35 £10.93
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.06 £14.61
Median hourly rate £19.13 £20.16 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% +15.20% +16.67%
75th Percentile £35.00 £30.00 £22.75
90th Percentile £52.45 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
% change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the Midlands

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the Midlands

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the Midlands

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the Midlands

DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 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
West Midlands -11 12 £525 -16.00% 11
East Midlands +2 6 £538 -23.21% 7
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, 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 Midlands region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (44.44%) AWS
3 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
3 7 (38.89%) Software Engineering
3 7 (38.89%) Degree
3 7 (38.89%) Computer Science
3 7 (38.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (33.33%) Terraform
4 6 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 6 (33.33%) DV Cleared
5 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
5 5 (27.78%) QA
5 5 (27.78%) Workflow
5 5 (27.78%) Linux
5 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (27.78%) User Experience
6 4 (22.22%) Docker
6 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
6 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 4 (22.22%) Windows
6 4 (22.22%) Azure
6 4 (22.22%) REST
7 3 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (16.67%) OAuth2
7 3 (16.67%) ForgeRock
7 3 (16.67%) OpenIDM
7 3 (16.67%) OpenAM
7 3 (16.67%) Ansible
7 3 (16.67%) OAuth
7 3 (16.67%) OpenID

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 1 (5.56%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) Azure
3 3 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (11.11%) GitHub
4 2 (11.11%) Serverless
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.56%) Route 53
5 1 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (5.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.56%) MySQL
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Artifactory
1 2 (11.11%) TeamCity
2 1 (5.56%) GitLab
2 1 (5.56%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) REST
2 3 (16.67%) JSON
2 3 (16.67%) OAuth
2 3 (16.67%) OAuth2
2 3 (16.67%) OpenID
2 3 (16.67%) SAML
3 1 (5.56%) .NET
3 1 (5.56%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
1 3 (16.67%) Virtual Team
2 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (5.56%) HP Storage
2 1 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Linux
2 4 (22.22%) Windows
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.56%) AIX
4 1 (5.56%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (38.89%) Computer Science
2 7 (38.89%) Software Engineering
3 6 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (27.78%) User Experience
4 5 (27.78%) Workflow
5 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 3 (16.67%) DevSecOps
6 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (11.11%) Containerisation
7 2 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
8 1 (5.56%) Continuous Delivery
8 1 (5.56%) Data Protection
8 1 (5.56%) Kanban
8 1 (5.56%) Performance Monitoring
8 1 (5.56%) SIEM
8 1 (5.56%) Test Automation
8 1 (5.56%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
2 3 (16.67%) BeanShell
2 3 (16.67%) Java
2 3 (16.67%) Python
3 2 (11.11%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (38.89%) Degree
1 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 6 (33.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) QA
2 2 (11.11%) GDPR
2 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Docker
2 3 (16.67%) OpenAM
2 3 (16.67%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Terraform
2 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 3 (16.67%) Ansible
4 1 (5.56%) Argo
4 1 (5.56%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (5.56%) HP Data Protector
4 1 (5.56%) Istio
4 1 (5.56%) linkerd
4 1 (5.56%) NetBackup
4 1 (5.56%) Packer
4 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
4 1 (5.56%) Puppet
4 1 (5.56%) Rancher
4 1 (5.56%) SELinux
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) ForgeRock
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.56%) Brocade
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco
3 1 (5.56%) Citrix
3 1 (5.56%) EMC
3 1 (5.56%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) Guidewire
3 1 (5.56%) HP
3 1 (5.56%) Symantec
3 1 (5.56%) VMware
229 DevOps Engineer jobs in England