DevOps Contracts in the West Midlands

DevOps
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 15 15
Rank change year-on-year -14 0 +8
Contract jobs citing DevOps 102 218 357
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.24% 9.75% 10.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.32% 11.09% 11.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 141 259
10th Percentile £283 £413 £406
25th Percentile £400 £475 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £540
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +6.48% +23.43%
75th Percentile £611 £673 £638
90th Percentile £688 £731 £704
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £56.25 - -
75th Percentile £65.63 - -
90th Percentile £71.25 - -
England median hourly rate £65.50 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year - +0.77% +19.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,613 1,965 3,219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.93% 87.84% 90.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,075 1,334 2,338
10th Percentile £263 £263 £278
25th Percentile £371 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.05% +16.47%
75th Percentile £625 £609 £586
90th Percentile £745 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 49 63
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.50 £12.05
25th Percentile £14.22 £13.70 £13.94
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.97 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% +23.35% +6.25%
75th Percentile £40.81 £28.75 £19.93
90th Percentile £58.75 £48.75 £24.05
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the West Midlands

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the West Midlands

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the West Midlands

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in the West Midlands

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in the West Midlands

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 DevOps within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 June 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 -17 32 £438 -30.00% 61
Warwickshire -1 30 £630 -13.10% 25
Coventry -8 14 £475 -1.04% 14
Worcestershire +5 13 £550 +22.22% 3
Solihull -8 3 £275 -47.62% 8
West Bromwich - 2 £331 -
Herefordshire -18 1 £525 -16.50%
Shropshire -19 1 £523 -3.24% 2
DevOps
England

DevOps
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 3 (2.94%) CMS
1 3 (2.94%) Drupal
2 2 (1.96%) Apache
2 2 (1.96%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.98%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.98%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.98%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (4.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.98%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 63 (61.76%) Azure
2 40 (39.22%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (11.76%) Power Platform
4 9 (8.82%) AWS
4 9 (8.82%) Serverless
5 7 (6.86%) Azure AKS
5 7 (6.86%) Azure App Service
5 7 (6.86%) Azure Functions
5 7 (6.86%) PaaS
6 6 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (5.88%) Power Automate
6 6 (5.88%) PowerApps
7 5 (4.90%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (3.92%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (3.92%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (3.92%) GCP
8 4 (3.92%) IaaS
9 3 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (2.94%) SaaS
10 2 (1.96%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.88%) DNS
2 5 (4.90%) SSL
3 4 (3.92%) Firewall
4 2 (1.96%) VPN
5 1 (0.98%) Extranet
5 1 (0.98%) Internet
5 1 (0.98%) Intranet
5 1 (0.98%) IPsec
5 1 (0.98%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.98%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.71%) SQL Server
2 10 (9.80%) Power BI
3 5 (4.90%) MySQL
4 4 (3.92%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (3.92%) BusinessObjects
4 4 (3.92%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.94%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.96%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.96%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.98%) DB2
7 1 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (0.98%) OLAP
7 1 (0.98%) OLTP
7 1 (0.98%) Oracle OLAP
7 1 (0.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (12.75%) Git
2 8 (7.84%) Jenkins
2 8 (7.84%) Visual Studio
3 6 (5.88%) Artifactory
4 5 (4.90%) JIRA
4 5 (4.90%) Selenium
5 4 (3.92%) GitLab
6 3 (2.94%) NUnit
6 3 (2.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (2.94%) Subversion
7 2 (1.96%) Moq
7 2 (1.96%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.96%) Travis CI
8 1 (0.98%) Hudson
8 1 (0.98%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.98%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 25 (24.51%) Social Skills
2 13 (12.75%) Finance
3 8 (7.84%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.96%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.98%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (23.53%) Developer
2 18 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (14.71%) Analyst
4 13 (12.75%) Architect
5 9 (8.82%) Test Analyst
6 8 (7.84%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (5.88%) Lead
7 6 (5.88%) Senior
8 5 (4.90%) Angular Developer
8 5 (4.90%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.90%) Power Platform Developer
9 4 (3.92%) Azure Architect
9 4 (3.92%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 3 (2.94%) C# Developer
10 3 (2.94%) DevOps Specialist
10 3 (2.94%) Java Developer
10 3 (2.94%) Lead Developer
10 3 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
10 3 (2.94%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (17.65%) .NET
2 8 (7.84%) AngularJS
3 6 (5.88%) .NET Framework
3 6 (5.88%) RESTful
4 5 (4.90%) Web Services
4 5 (4.90%) YAML
5 4 (3.92%) Entity Framework
5 4 (3.92%) Kafka
5 4 (3.92%) XML
5 4 (3.92%) XSLT
6 3 (2.94%) React
6 3 (2.94%) Spring
7 2 (1.96%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (1.96%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.96%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (1.96%) JSON
7 2 (1.96%) REST
8 1 (0.98%) MDX
8 1 (0.98%) Protocol Buffers
8 1 (0.98%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.86%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.88%) SCADA
3 5 (4.90%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.92%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.92%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.92%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.94%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.96%) IoT
6 2 (1.96%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.98%) Clustering
7 1 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.98%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.98%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.98%) PMI
7 1 (0.98%) Replication
7 1 (0.98%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.78%) Linux
1 11 (10.78%) Windows
2 9 (8.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.94%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.98%) Android
4 1 (0.98%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.98%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.98%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (34.31%) Agile
2 26 (25.49%) CI/CD
3 22 (21.57%) Computer Science
4 21 (20.59%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (15.69%) Software Engineering
6 15 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (13.73%) User Experience
8 13 (12.75%) Decision-Making
9 11 (10.78%) Microservices
10 10 (9.80%) Scrum
11 9 (8.82%) Roadmaps
11 9 (8.82%) User Acceptance Testing
11 9 (8.82%) Workflow
12 8 (7.84%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (7.84%) Platform Engineering
12 8 (7.84%) SDLC
12 8 (7.84%) Software Testing
13 7 (6.86%) Analytics
13 7 (6.86%) Business Intelligence
13 7 (6.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (19.61%) SQL
2 16 (15.69%) C#
3 13 (12.75%) PowerShell
4 10 (9.80%) Python
5 7 (6.86%) Bicep
6 5 (4.90%) Java
6 5 (4.90%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.94%) Bash
7 3 (2.94%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.96%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.98%) Go
9 1 (0.98%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 24 (23.53%) Degree
2 21 (20.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (19.61%) Security Cleared
4 10 (9.80%) DV Cleared
5 6 (5.88%) SC Cleared
6 5 (4.90%) ISTQB
7 4 (3.92%) ISEB
7 4 (3.92%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.98%) APMG
8 1 (0.98%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.98%) CCSP
8 1 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.98%) CISSP
8 1 (0.98%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.98%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (23.53%) QA
System Software
1 8 (7.84%) Docker
1 8 (7.84%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (3.92%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.98%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (15.69%) Terraform
2 10 (9.80%) Ansible
3 9 (8.82%) Kubernetes
4 4 (3.92%) Progress Chef
4 4 (3.92%) Puppet
5 3 (2.94%) Salt
5 3 (2.94%) SysTrack
6 2 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.98%) Argo
7 1 (0.98%) Istio
7 1 (0.98%) linkerd
7 1 (0.98%) logstash
7 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.98%) Rancher
7 1 (0.98%) SCCM
7 1 (0.98%) SELinux
Vendors
1 28 (27.45%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.76%) Red Hat
3 7 (6.86%) Oracle
4 5 (4.90%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.92%) Citrix
5 4 (3.92%) SAP
5 4 (3.92%) VMware
6 3 (2.94%) Databricks
6 3 (2.94%) New Relic
6 3 (2.94%) OpenAI
6 3 (2.94%) SaltStack
6 3 (2.94%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.96%) Confluent
8 1 (0.98%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.98%) Google
8 1 (0.98%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.98%) Planview