DevOps Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

Development Operations Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £554, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 105 115
Rank change year-on-year -1 +10 +6
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 35 53 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.19% 1.65% 1.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.29% 1.74% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 36 65
10th Percentile £448 £463 £345
25th Percentile £513 £480 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.44% +13.64% +18.28%
75th Percentile £588 £700 £639
90th Percentile £613 - £695
England median daily rate £538 £611 £600
% change year-on-year -12.07% +1.88% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - £41.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £47.50
75th Percentile £75.00 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £73.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -4.11% +53.68% -9.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 2,719 3,042 4,799
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.23% 94.50% 95.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,809 2,147 3,499
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £338 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +1.05% +15.85%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £569
90th Percentile £675 £692 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 113 146
10th Percentile £11.83 £12.50 £11.63
25th Percentile £14.09 £15.00 £14.67
Median hourly rate £19.00 £20.71 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.23% +13.45% +21.67%
75th Percentile £35.00 £30.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £51.91 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

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 12 June 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 12 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
West Midlands -2 27 £557 -12.97% 17
East Midlands -2 8 £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 12 June 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 35 (100.00%) DevOps
2 21 (60.00%) Security Cleared
3 17 (48.57%) DV Cleared
4 13 (37.14%) Degree
4 13 (37.14%) Computer Science
4 13 (37.14%) Software Engineering
4 13 (37.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (34.29%) Decision-Making
5 12 (34.29%) AWS
6 11 (31.43%) QA
6 11 (31.43%) Workflow
6 11 (31.43%) Terraform
6 11 (31.43%) User Experience
7 10 (28.57%) Linux
7 10 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (22.86%) Python
8 8 (22.86%) Ansible
8 8 (22.86%) Docker
9 6 (17.14%) Windows
9 6 (17.14%) PowerShell
9 6 (17.14%) CI/CD
10 5 (14.29%) Social Skills
10 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (14.29%) Java
10 5 (14.29%) REST
10 5 (14.29%) Artifactory
10 5 (14.29%) Kubernetes
11 4 (11.43%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (11.43%) Serverless

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 2 (5.71%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 12 (34.29%) AWS
2 4 (11.43%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (11.43%) Serverless
3 3 (8.57%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (8.57%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (8.57%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (8.57%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (8.57%) Azure
4 2 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.86%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.86%) GitHub
5 1 (2.86%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.86%) Route 53
5 1 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (2.86%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.86%) MySQL
2 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Artifactory
2 4 (11.43%) Jenkins
3 3 (8.57%) Git
4 2 (5.71%) Bitbucket
4 2 (5.71%) GitLab
4 2 (5.71%) Gradle
4 2 (5.71%) Maven
4 2 (5.71%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.86%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 5 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.29%) REST
2 3 (8.57%) JSON
2 3 (8.57%) OAuth
2 3 (8.57%) OAuth2
2 3 (8.57%) OpenID
2 3 (8.57%) SAML
3 2 (5.71%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (5.71%) Django
3 2 (5.71%) FastAPI
3 2 (5.71%) Flask
4 1 (2.86%) .NET
4 1 (2.86%) Next.js
4 1 (2.86%) React
4 1 (2.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Self-Motivation
1 3 (8.57%) Virtual Team
2 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (2.86%) HP Storage
2 1 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (28.57%) Linux
2 6 (17.14%) Windows
3 2 (5.71%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.86%) AIX
4 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.86%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (100.00%) DevOps
2 13 (37.14%) Computer Science
2 13 (37.14%) Software Engineering
3 12 (34.29%) Decision-Making
4 11 (31.43%) User Experience
4 11 (31.43%) Workflow
5 10 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (17.14%) CI/CD
7 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (11.43%) Containerisation
8 4 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (8.57%) DevSecOps
10 2 (5.71%) Domain-Driven Design
10 2 (5.71%) OO
10 2 (5.71%) OOP
10 2 (5.71%) TDD
10 2 (5.71%) Web Development
11 1 (2.86%) Configuration Management
11 1 (2.86%) Incident Management
11 1 (2.86%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.86%) Python
2 6 (17.14%) PowerShell
3 5 (14.29%) Java
4 4 (11.43%) Groovy
5 3 (8.57%) BeanShell
6 2 (5.71%) Bash
Qualifications
1 21 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (48.57%) DV Cleared
3 13 (37.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (37.14%) Degree
4 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (31.43%) QA
2 2 (5.71%) GDPR
2 2 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (22.86%) Docker
2 3 (8.57%) OpenAM
2 3 (8.57%) OpenIDM
3 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (31.43%) Terraform
2 8 (22.86%) Ansible
3 5 (14.29%) Kubernetes
4 2 (5.71%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (5.71%) Progress Chef
4 2 (5.71%) Puppet
5 1 (2.86%) Argo
5 1 (2.86%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (2.86%) HP Data Protector
5 1 (2.86%) Istio
5 1 (2.86%) linkerd
5 1 (2.86%) NetBackup
5 1 (2.86%) Rancher
5 1 (2.86%) Salt
5 1 (2.86%) SELinux
Vendors
1 4 (11.43%) Red Hat
2 3 (8.57%) ForgeRock
3 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.71%) VMware
4 1 (2.86%) Brocade
4 1 (2.86%) Cisco
4 1 (2.86%) EMC
4 1 (2.86%) Google
4 1 (2.86%) Guidewire
4 1 (2.86%) HP
4 1 (2.86%) SaltStack
4 1 (2.86%) Symantec