DevOps Contracts in the Midlands

DevOps
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 17 17
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 +4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 161 294 447
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.49% 9.11% 8.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.80% 10.41% 10.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 203 328
10th Percentile £321 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £419 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +2.10% +20.00%
75th Percentile £600 £649 £625
90th Percentile £674 £721 £700
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £41.25
Median hourly rate £56.25 - £47.50
75th Percentile £65.63 - £53.75
90th Percentile £71.25 - -
England median hourly rate £65.50 £65.55 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.08% +0.85% +19.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,366 2,825 4,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 80.70% 87.57% 87.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,582 1,983 3,234
10th Percentile £232 £258 £250
25th Percentile £358 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 101 130
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.50 £10.68
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £24.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +31.51% +24.91%
75th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £24.50
90th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £35.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +6.38% +37.27% +14.13%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the Midlands

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the Midlands

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the Midlands over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the Midlands

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in the Midlands

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in the Midlands over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in the Midlands

DevOps
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 within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 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 -10 114 £525 -10.83% 114
East Midlands -16 41 £450 +5.88% 49
DevOps
England

DevOps
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 5 (3.11%) JBoss
2 3 (1.86%) CMS
2 3 (1.86%) Drupal
3 2 (1.24%) Apache
3 2 (1.24%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.62%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.62%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.62%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 80 (49.69%) Azure
2 46 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 33 (20.50%) AWS
4 15 (9.32%) Serverless
5 14 (8.70%) Power Platform
6 9 (5.59%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (4.97%) Azure Functions
8 7 (4.35%) Azure AKS
8 7 (4.35%) Azure App Service
8 7 (4.35%) OpenShift
8 7 (4.35%) PaaS
9 6 (3.73%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (3.73%) Power Automate
9 6 (3.73%) PowerApps
10 5 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (3.11%) GCP
11 4 (2.48%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (2.48%) IaaS
11 4 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.73%) DNS
2 5 (3.11%) SSL
3 4 (2.48%) Firewall
4 2 (1.24%) SAN
4 2 (1.24%) VPN
5 1 (0.62%) DSL
5 1 (0.62%) Extranet
5 1 (0.62%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.62%) Internet
5 1 (0.62%) Intranet
5 1 (0.62%) IPsec
5 1 (0.62%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.18%) SQL Server
2 13 (8.07%) Relational Database
3 12 (7.45%) Power BI
4 11 (6.83%) Data Lake
5 6 (3.73%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (3.73%) MySQL
6 5 (3.11%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (3.11%) BusinessObjects
6 5 (3.11%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.86%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.24%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.24%) Tableau
9 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (0.62%) Oracle OLAP
9 1 (0.62%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 27 (16.77%) Git
1 27 (16.77%) Jenkins
2 19 (11.80%) JIRA
3 8 (4.97%) Artifactory
3 8 (4.97%) Visual Studio
4 7 (4.35%) TeamCity
5 6 (3.73%) CA Release Automation
6 5 (3.11%) Bitbucket Server
6 5 (3.11%) Selenium
6 5 (3.11%) SonarQube
6 5 (3.11%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (2.48%) GitLab
8 3 (1.86%) JMeter
8 3 (1.86%) NUnit
8 3 (1.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (1.86%) Subversion
9 2 (1.24%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.24%) Gradle
9 2 (1.24%) Maven
9 2 (1.24%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 34 (21.12%) Social Skills
2 17 (10.56%) Finance
3 13 (8.07%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (8.07%) Banking
3 13 (8.07%) Public Sector
4 5 (3.11%) Manufacturing
5 3 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.24%) Automotive
6 2 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.62%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.62%) Games
7 1 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (21.12%) DevOps Engineer
2 28 (17.39%) Developer
3 21 (13.04%) Architect
4 18 (11.18%) Analyst
5 12 (7.45%) Senior
6 10 (6.21%) Azure Engineer
6 10 (6.21%) Test Analyst
7 9 (5.59%) Data Engineer
7 9 (5.59%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (3.73%) Lead
9 6 (3.73%) Support Engineer
10 5 (3.11%) Angular Developer
10 5 (3.11%) Business Analyst
10 5 (3.11%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (3.11%) Power Platform Developer
11 4 (2.48%) Azure Architect
11 4 (2.48%) Consultant
11 4 (2.48%) Product Owner
11 4 (2.48%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (12.42%) .NET
2 9 (5.59%) RESTful
3 8 (4.97%) .NET Framework
3 8 (4.97%) AngularJS
3 8 (4.97%) React
3 8 (4.97%) SAML
4 7 (4.35%) OAuth
5 6 (3.73%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (3.73%) Entity Framework
5 6 (3.73%) REST
6 5 (3.11%) JSON
6 5 (3.11%) Kafka
6 5 (3.11%) Spring Boot
6 5 (3.11%) Web Services
6 5 (3.11%) YAML
7 4 (2.48%) OpenID
7 4 (2.48%) XML
7 4 (2.48%) XSLT
8 3 (1.86%) HTML
8 3 (1.86%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.21%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.73%) Credit Risk
2 6 (3.73%) SCADA
2 6 (3.73%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.48%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.48%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.48%) IoT
4 4 (2.48%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.48%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.86%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.24%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.62%) Clustering
7 1 (0.62%) FMCG
7 1 (0.62%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.62%) Online Banking
7 1 (0.62%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (14.91%) Linux
2 19 (11.80%) Windows
3 14 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.48%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.62%) AIX
5 1 (0.62%) Android
5 1 (0.62%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.62%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.62%) Solaris
5 1 (0.62%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (27.33%) Agile
2 37 (22.98%) CI/CD
3 26 (16.15%) Computer Science
4 24 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (12.42%) Software Engineering
7 19 (11.80%) Microservices
8 17 (10.56%) Decision-Making
9 16 (9.94%) User Experience
10 13 (8.07%) Architectural Patterns
10 13 (8.07%) Containerisation
10 13 (8.07%) Continuous Integration
10 13 (8.07%) Scrum
10 13 (8.07%) User Acceptance Testing
11 12 (7.45%) Roadmaps
11 12 (7.45%) Software Testing
11 12 (7.45%) Workflow
12 11 (6.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 10 (6.21%) Business Intelligence
13 10 (6.21%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 27 (16.77%) SQL
2 22 (13.66%) Python
3 21 (13.04%) C#
4 15 (9.32%) PowerShell
5 10 (6.21%) Java
6 7 (4.35%) Bicep
6 7 (4.35%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.73%) Perl
7 6 (3.73%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.48%) Bash
8 4 (2.48%) Groovy
9 3 (1.86%) BeanShell
9 3 (1.86%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.62%) Go
10 1 (0.62%) Ruby
10 1 (0.62%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.62%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.62%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 36 (22.36%) Security Cleared
2 30 (18.63%) Degree
3 25 (15.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (9.94%) DV Cleared
5 10 (6.21%) SC Cleared
6 8 (4.97%) ISEB
6 8 (4.97%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.86%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.62%) APMG
8 1 (0.62%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.62%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.62%) CBAP
8 1 (0.62%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.62%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (16.77%) QA
2 2 (1.24%) GDPR
2 2 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 20 (12.42%) Docker
2 10 (6.21%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.97%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.86%) OpenAM
5 3 (1.86%) OpenIDM
5 3 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (16.77%) Terraform
2 17 (10.56%) Kubernetes
2 17 (10.56%) Progress Chef
3 14 (8.70%) Ansible
4 5 (3.11%) Kibana
5 4 (2.48%) Puppet
6 3 (1.86%) Salt
6 3 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.86%) SysTrack
7 2 (1.24%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.62%) Argo
8 1 (0.62%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.62%) HP Data Protector
8 1 (0.62%) Istio
8 1 (0.62%) linkerd
8 1 (0.62%) logstash
8 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.62%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.62%) Rancher
8 1 (0.62%) SELinux
Vendors
1 30 (18.63%) Microsoft
2 17 (10.56%) Red Hat
3 8 (4.97%) Databricks
3 8 (4.97%) Oracle
4 7 (4.35%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.73%) SAP
5 6 (3.73%) Splunk
6 5 (3.11%) AppDynamics
7 4 (2.48%) Citrix
7 4 (2.48%) ForgeRock
7 4 (2.48%) VMware
8 3 (1.86%) New Relic
8 3 (1.86%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.86%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.86%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.24%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.24%) Confluent
9 2 (1.24%) Google
10 1 (0.62%) Brocade
10 1 (0.62%) Planview