Lead DevOps Contracts in the West Midlands

Lead Development Operations
England > West Midlands

The median Lead Development Operations daily rate in the West Midlands is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 - 178
Rank change year-on-year - - -7
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 5 0 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.26% - 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% - 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile - - £526
25th Percentile £413 - £654
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.11%
75th Percentile £588 - £775
90th Percentile £610 - -
England median daily rate £635 £650 £696
% change year-on-year -2.31% -6.64% +10.17%

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 1,757 1,818 3,370
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.82% 94.25% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,114 1,246 2,360
10th Percentile £213 £220 £210
25th Percentile £376 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% +10.00%
75th Percentile £612 £594 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 66 57
10th Percentile £12.58 £15.38 £12.41
25th Percentile £14.03 £17.31 £14.50
Median hourly rate £23.05 £22.20 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +25.25% +14.32%
75th Percentile £33.23 £33.64 £24.50
90th Percentile £45.63 £67.50 £42.55
England median hourly rate £41.50 £45.94 £30.00
% change year-on-year -9.66% +53.13% +50.00%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps in the West Midlands

Lead DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Lead DevOps in the West Midlands

Lead DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead DevOps in the West Midlands

Lead 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 Lead DevOps within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 October 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 - 3 £425 -
Coventry - 2 £575 -
Lead DevOps
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Lead DevOps 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 Lead DevOps in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (60.00%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) OpenStack
3 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (40.00%) Kafka
3 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) logstash
3 2 (40.00%) Grafana
3 2 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (40.00%) ARM Templates
4 1 (20.00%) Log Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (20.00%) RBAC
4 1 (20.00%) Checkmarx
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (20.00%) Azure App Service
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (20.00%) AWS KMS
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Rancher

Lead DevOps 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (20.00%) Confluence
2 1 (20.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS KMS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure App Service
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) Route 53
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (20.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (40.00%) ARM Templates
2 2 (40.00%) Kafka
3 1 (20.00%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) API Management
4 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (20.00%) Log Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (20.00%) RBAC
4 1 (20.00%) The Twelve-Factor App
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Grafana
2 2 (40.00%) logstash
2 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Rancher
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Black Duck
1 1 (20.00%) Checkmarx