DevOps Contracts in the Midlands

DevOps
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 16 17
Rank change year-on-year -10 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 158 293 450
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.47% 9.09% 8.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.74% 10.39% 10.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 202 330
10th Percentile £318 £350 £375
25th Percentile £410 £416 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £600 £648 £625
90th Percentile £676 £706 £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 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year - +0.77% +18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,343 2,821 4,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.04% 87.55% 87.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,568 1,980 3,250
10th Percentile £231 £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 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 101 130
10th Percentile £11.10 £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% +21.67%
75th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £24.50
90th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -10 110 £525 -10.64% 109
East Midlands -12 41 £450 +5.88% 54
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 (3.16%) JBoss
2 3 (1.90%) CMS
2 3 (1.90%) Drupal
3 2 (1.27%) Apache
3 2 (1.27%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.63%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.63%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 79 (50.00%) Azure
2 45 (28.48%) Azure DevOps
3 33 (20.89%) AWS
4 15 (9.49%) Serverless
5 13 (8.23%) Power Platform
6 8 (5.06%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (5.06%) Azure Functions
7 7 (4.43%) Azure AKS
7 7 (4.43%) Azure App Service
7 7 (4.43%) OpenShift
7 7 (4.43%) PaaS
8 6 (3.80%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (3.80%) Power Automate
8 6 (3.80%) PowerApps
9 5 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.16%) GCP
10 4 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.53%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.53%) IaaS
10 4 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.80%) DNS
2 5 (3.16%) SSL
3 4 (2.53%) Firewall
4 2 (1.27%) SAN
4 2 (1.27%) VPN
5 1 (0.63%) DSL
5 1 (0.63%) Extranet
5 1 (0.63%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.63%) Internet
5 1 (0.63%) Intranet
5 1 (0.63%) IPsec
5 1 (0.63%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.39%) SQL Server
2 13 (8.23%) Relational Database
3 11 (6.96%) Data Lake
3 11 (6.96%) Power BI
4 6 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (3.80%) MySQL
5 5 (3.16%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (3.16%) BusinessObjects
5 5 (3.16%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.90%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.27%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.27%) Tableau
8 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (0.63%) Oracle OLAP
8 1 (0.63%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 27 (17.09%) Git
1 27 (17.09%) Jenkins
2 19 (12.03%) JIRA
3 8 (5.06%) Artifactory
3 8 (5.06%) Visual Studio
4 7 (4.43%) TeamCity
5 6 (3.80%) CA Release Automation
6 5 (3.16%) Bitbucket Server
6 5 (3.16%) Selenium
6 5 (3.16%) SonarQube
6 5 (3.16%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (2.53%) GitLab
8 3 (1.90%) JMeter
8 3 (1.90%) NUnit
8 3 (1.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (1.90%) Subversion
9 2 (1.27%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.27%) Maven
9 2 (1.27%) Moq
9 2 (1.27%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 34 (21.52%) Social Skills
2 18 (11.39%) Finance
3 13 (8.23%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (8.23%) Banking
3 13 (8.23%) Public Sector
4 5 (3.16%) Manufacturing
5 3 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.27%) Automotive
6 2 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.63%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.63%) Games
7 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (19.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 28 (17.72%) Developer
3 21 (13.29%) Architect
4 18 (11.39%) Analyst
5 12 (7.59%) Senior
6 10 (6.33%) Test Analyst
7 9 (5.70%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (5.70%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (5.06%) Data Engineer
9 7 (4.43%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (3.80%) Lead
10 6 (3.80%) Support Engineer
11 5 (3.16%) Angular Developer
11 5 (3.16%) Business Analyst
11 5 (3.16%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (3.16%) Power Platform Developer
12 4 (2.53%) Consultant
12 4 (2.53%) Product Owner
12 4 (2.53%) Senior Analyst
12 4 (2.53%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (12.66%) .NET
2 9 (5.70%) RESTful
3 8 (5.06%) .NET Framework
3 8 (5.06%) AngularJS
3 8 (5.06%) React
3 8 (5.06%) SAML
4 7 (4.43%) OAuth
5 6 (3.80%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (3.80%) Entity Framework
5 6 (3.80%) REST
6 5 (3.16%) JSON
6 5 (3.16%) Kafka
6 5 (3.16%) Spring Boot
6 5 (3.16%) Web Services
6 5 (3.16%) YAML
7 4 (2.53%) OpenID
7 4 (2.53%) XML
7 4 (2.53%) XSLT
8 3 (1.90%) CSS
8 3 (1.90%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.33%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.80%) Credit Risk
2 6 (3.80%) SCADA
2 6 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.53%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.53%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.53%) IoT
4 4 (2.53%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.53%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.90%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.27%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.63%) FMCG
7 1 (0.63%) Insider Threat
7 1 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.63%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 24 (15.19%) Linux
2 19 (12.03%) Windows
3 14 (8.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.53%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.63%) AIX
5 1 (0.63%) Android
5 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.63%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.63%) Solaris
5 1 (0.63%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (27.85%) Agile
2 38 (24.05%) CI/CD
3 25 (15.82%) Computer Science
4 24 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (14.56%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (12.03%) Microservices
6 19 (12.03%) Software Engineering
7 16 (10.13%) Decision-Making
8 15 (9.49%) User Experience
9 13 (8.23%) Architectural Patterns
9 13 (8.23%) Containerisation
9 13 (8.23%) Continuous Integration
9 13 (8.23%) Scrum
9 13 (8.23%) User Acceptance Testing
10 12 (7.59%) Roadmaps
10 12 (7.59%) Software Testing
11 11 (6.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 11 (6.96%) Workflow
12 10 (6.33%) SDLC
13 9 (5.70%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (16.46%) SQL
2 22 (13.92%) Python
3 21 (13.29%) C#
4 15 (9.49%) PowerShell
5 10 (6.33%) Java
6 7 (4.43%) Bicep
6 7 (4.43%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.80%) Perl
7 6 (3.80%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.53%) Bash
8 4 (2.53%) Groovy
9 3 (1.90%) BeanShell
9 3 (1.90%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.63%) Go
10 1 (0.63%) Ruby
10 1 (0.63%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.63%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 33 (20.89%) Security Cleared
2 29 (18.35%) Degree
3 24 (15.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (8.86%) DV Cleared
5 9 (5.70%) SC Cleared
6 8 (5.06%) ISEB
6 8 (5.06%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.90%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.63%) APMG
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.63%) CBAP
8 1 (0.63%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (16.46%) QA
2 2 (1.27%) GDPR
2 2 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 20 (12.66%) Docker
2 10 (6.33%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.06%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.53%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.90%) OpenAM
5 3 (1.90%) OpenIDM
5 3 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (17.09%) Terraform
2 17 (10.76%) Kubernetes
2 17 (10.76%) Progress Chef
3 14 (8.86%) Ansible
4 5 (3.16%) Kibana
5 4 (2.53%) Puppet
6 3 (1.90%) Salt
6 3 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.90%) SysTrack
7 2 (1.27%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.63%) Argo
8 1 (0.63%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.63%) Istio
8 1 (0.63%) linkerd
8 1 (0.63%) logstash
8 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.63%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.63%) Rancher
8 1 (0.63%) SCCM
8 1 (0.63%) SELinux
Vendors
1 30 (18.99%) Microsoft
2 17 (10.76%) Red Hat
3 8 (5.06%) Oracle
4 7 (4.43%) Databricks
4 7 (4.43%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.80%) SAP
5 6 (3.80%) Splunk
6 5 (3.16%) AppDynamics
7 4 (2.53%) Citrix
7 4 (2.53%) ForgeRock
7 4 (2.53%) VMware
8 3 (1.90%) New Relic
8 3 (1.90%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.90%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.90%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.27%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.27%) Confluent
9 2 (1.27%) Google
9 2 (1.27%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.63%) Brocade