DevOps Engineer Contracts in the West Midlands

Development Operations Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the West Midlands is £557, 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 84 82 102
Rank change year-on-year -2 +20 +10
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 27 47 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.32% 2.12% 2.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.44% 2.25% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 31 48
10th Percentile £477 £475 £423
25th Percentile £513 £515 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £557 £640 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.97% +6.67% +24.35%
75th Percentile £588 £700 £651
90th Percentile £613 - £683
England median daily rate £538 £611 £600
% change year-on-year -12.07% +1.88% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
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
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 1,870 2,090 3,437
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.58% 94.44% 96.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,255 1,426 2,483
10th Percentile £250 £260 £230
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 63 67
10th Percentile £12.02 £12.50 £12.60
25th Percentile £14.75 £14.75 £14.75
Median hourly rate £19.59 £20.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £39.69 £28.38 £20.00
90th Percentile £55.63 £56.75 £24.05
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the West Midlands

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the West Midlands

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the West Midlands

DevOps Engineer
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 Engineer within the West 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
Worcestershire +18 18 £575 - 2
Shropshire -1 3 £505 +6.32%
Birmingham -11 2 £494 -29.46% 9
Coventry +1 1 £450 -18.55% 1
Herefordshire -12 1 £525 -16.00%
Warwickshire - 1 £557 -
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 West Midlands region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 27 (100.00%) DevOps
2 20 (74.07%) Security Cleared
3 16 (59.26%) DV Cleared
4 13 (48.15%) Software Engineering
4 13 (48.15%) Degree
4 13 (48.15%) Computer Science
4 13 (48.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (44.44%) Decision-Making
6 11 (40.74%) QA
6 11 (40.74%) Workflow
6 11 (40.74%) User Experience
7 10 (37.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (25.93%) Terraform
9 6 (22.22%) Ansible
9 6 (22.22%) Python
10 5 (18.52%) Windows
10 5 (18.52%) Linux
10 5 (18.52%) PowerShell
10 5 (18.52%) AWS
10 5 (18.52%) Artifactory
11 4 (14.81%) Docker
11 4 (14.81%) Red Hat
11 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
12 3 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
12 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
12 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
12 3 (11.11%) Azure
12 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
12 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared

DevOps Engineer 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 (7.41%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (18.52%) AWS
2 3 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (11.11%) Azure
3 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.70%) Azure AKS
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub
4 1 (3.70%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.70%) Route 53
4 1 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (3.70%) MySQL
1 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Artifactory
2 2 (7.41%) GitLab
2 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.41%) TeamCity
3 1 (3.70%) Git
3 1 (3.70%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
1 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.70%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (7.41%) Django
1 2 (7.41%) FastAPI
1 2 (7.41%) Flask
1 2 (7.41%) REST
2 1 (3.70%) .NET
2 1 (3.70%) Next.js
2 1 (3.70%) React
2 1 (3.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (3.70%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (18.52%) Linux
1 5 (18.52%) Windows
2 2 (7.41%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (100.00%) DevOps
2 13 (48.15%) Computer Science
2 13 (48.15%) Software Engineering
3 12 (44.44%) Decision-Making
4 11 (40.74%) User Experience
4 11 (40.74%) Workflow
5 10 (37.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
7 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (7.41%) Containerisation
8 2 (7.41%) Domain-Driven Design
8 2 (7.41%) OO
8 2 (7.41%) OOP
8 2 (7.41%) TDD
8 2 (7.41%) Web Development
9 1 (3.70%) Configuration Management
9 1 (3.70%) Incident Management
9 1 (3.70%) Software Testing
9 1 (3.70%) Stakeholder Management
9 1 (3.70%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (22.22%) Python
2 5 (18.52%) PowerShell
3 2 (7.41%) Groovy
4 1 (3.70%) Bash
Qualifications
1 20 (74.07%) Security Cleared
2 16 (59.26%) DV Cleared
3 13 (48.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (48.15%) Degree
4 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (40.74%) QA
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (25.93%) Terraform
2 6 (22.22%) Ansible
3 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
4 2 (7.41%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (7.41%) Progress Chef
4 2 (7.41%) Puppet
5 1 (3.70%) Argo
5 1 (3.70%) Istio
5 1 (3.70%) linkerd
5 1 (3.70%) Rancher
5 1 (3.70%) Salt
5 1 (3.70%) SELinux
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Red Hat
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) VMware
3 1 (3.70%) Google
3 1 (3.70%) Guidewire
3 1 (3.70%) SaltStack
236 DevOps Engineer jobs in England