DevOps Jobs in the West Midlands

DevOps
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 20 16
Rank change year-on-year -7 -4 -4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 480 585 808
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.98% 10.04% 10.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.41% 10.37% 11.10%
Number of salaries quoted 397 405 537
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,100 £37,100
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -2.54% -1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,751 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,500 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,474 5,639 7,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 80.61% 96.74% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 4,705 3,166 4,804
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £39,951 £38,637
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for DevOps in the West Midlands

DevOps
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps in the West Midlands

DevOps
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham -7 226 £65,000 +8.33% 62
Warwickshire +2 67 £57,500 +4.55% 26
Staffordshire -9 65 £55,000 +7.32% 7
Coventry +11 24 £65,000 +18.18% 15
Solihull -4 17 £67,500 +18.42% 8
Halesowen - 11 £60,000 - 1
Wolverhampton +2 10 £55,000 - 6
Worcestershire -24 9 £50,000 -13.04% 3
Shropshire -29 8 £50,000 -16.67% 2
Wednesbury - 4 £65,750 -
Walsall -4 1 £42,500 -
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 22 (4.58%) IIS
2 20 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.08%) Apache
4 9 (1.88%) Umbraco
5 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.04%) nginx
6 4 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.83%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.83%) Confluence
7 3 (0.63%) CMS
8 2 (0.42%) Liferay
8 2 (0.42%) Magnolia
8 2 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.21%) Drupal
Applications
1 8 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.83%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.63%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.21%) InVision
5 1 (0.21%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.21%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 20 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 320 (66.67%) Azure
2 186 (38.75%) Azure DevOps
3 106 (22.08%) AWS
4 76 (15.83%) Power Platform
5 58 (12.08%) SaaS
6 56 (11.67%) PaaS
7 48 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
8 46 (9.58%) IaaS
8 46 (9.58%) Microsoft 365
9 33 (6.88%) GCP
9 33 (6.88%) Serverless
10 32 (6.67%) PowerApps
11 29 (6.04%) Azure Data Factory
12 23 (4.79%) GitHub
13 21 (4.38%) Amazon S3
14 19 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
14 19 (3.96%) Azure Logic Apps
15 18 (3.75%) Power Automate
16 16 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 15 (3.13%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.17%) Firewall
2 15 (3.13%) VPN
3 9 (1.88%) DNS
4 8 (1.67%) NGFW
5 6 (1.25%) Intranet
6 5 (1.04%) HTTP
7 4 (0.83%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.63%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.63%) MQTT
9 2 (0.42%) BGP
9 2 (0.42%) EIGRP
9 2 (0.42%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (0.42%) OSPF
9 2 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.21%) 3GPP
10 1 (0.21%) 5G
10 1 (0.21%) LAN
10 1 (0.21%) Network Security
10 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.21%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (19.58%) SQL Server
2 45 (9.38%) Power BI
3 38 (7.92%) Relational Database
4 31 (6.46%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (4.38%) MySQL
6 20 (4.17%) Data Lake
6 20 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 17 (3.54%) Elasticsearch
7 17 (3.54%) Metadata
7 17 (3.54%) NoSQL
8 16 (3.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 14 (2.92%) DynamoDB
10 12 (2.50%) BigQuery
11 11 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (2.29%) Big Data
11 11 (2.29%) SQLite
12 10 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 9 (1.88%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (1.88%) Looker
14 8 (1.67%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 77 (16.04%) Git
2 30 (6.25%) Visual Studio
3 17 (3.54%) GitLab
3 17 (3.54%) Postman
4 15 (3.13%) JIRA
5 12 (2.50%) SonarQube
6 10 (2.08%) Jenkins
6 10 (2.08%) MSTest
6 10 (2.08%) Team Foundation Server
7 9 (1.88%) Octopus Deploy
7 9 (1.88%) SoapUI
7 9 (1.88%) TeamCity
8 8 (1.67%) Jasmine
9 7 (1.46%) NUnit
10 5 (1.04%) Karma Test Runner
10 5 (1.04%) Visual Studio Code
10 5 (1.04%) webpack
11 3 (0.63%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.63%) Burp Suite
11 3 (0.63%) sqlmap
General
1 83 (17.29%) Social Skills
2 62 (12.92%) Finance
3 28 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 25 (5.21%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (4.17%) Manufacturing
6 15 (3.13%) Law
6 15 (3.13%) Public Sector
7 13 (2.71%) Automotive
8 9 (1.88%) Retail
9 8 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (1.46%) Marketing
11 5 (1.04%) Electronics
11 5 (1.04%) Legal
11 5 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.04%) Police
12 4 (0.83%) Publishing
13 3 (0.63%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (0.63%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.42%) Billing
14 2 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 125 (26.04%) Developer
2 90 (18.75%) Senior
3 41 (8.54%) Software Engineer
4 39 (8.13%) Lead
5 33 (6.88%) Architect
6 32 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
6 32 (6.67%) Data Engineer
6 32 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
7 28 (5.83%) Software Developer
8 27 (5.63%) Cloud Engineer
9 25 (5.21%) Analyst
9 25 (5.21%) Senior Developer
10 22 (4.58%) Full Stack Developer
10 22 (4.58%) Senior Software Engineer
11 18 (3.75%) Consultant
12 17 (3.54%) Junior
13 16 (3.33%) .NET Developer
14 14 (2.92%) Business Analyst
14 14 (2.92%) C# Developer
14 14 (2.92%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (27.29%) .NET
2 58 (12.08%) React
3 55 (11.46%) .NET Framework
3 55 (11.46%) HTML
4 44 (9.17%) ASP.NET
5 43 (8.96%) JSON
6 42 (8.75%) Entity Framework
7 40 (8.33%) .NET Core
7 40 (8.33%) CSS
8 39 (8.13%) XML
9 37 (7.71%) RESTful
10 33 (6.88%) AngularJS
11 31 (6.46%) REST
12 30 (6.25%) ARM Templates
13 29 (6.04%) YAML
14 28 (5.83%) Web Services
15 27 (5.63%) Node.js
16 25 (5.21%) ASP.NET MVC
17 24 (5.00%) SOAP
18 23 (4.79%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 37 (7.71%) Management Information System
2 34 (7.08%) Cloud Native
3 27 (5.63%) Product Ownership
4 23 (4.79%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (3.75%) Private Cloud
6 16 (3.33%) Data Structures
6 16 (3.33%) Public Cloud
7 14 (2.92%) Low-Code
8 13 (2.71%) Onboarding
9 12 (2.50%) NHS
10 11 (2.29%) Data Centre
10 11 (2.29%) Mobile App
11 10 (2.08%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.67%) Algorithms
13 8 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
14 7 (1.46%) PKI
15 6 (1.25%) FMCG
15 6 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
16 5 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 44 (9.17%) Windows
2 21 (4.38%) Windows Server
3 18 (3.75%) Linux
4 7 (1.46%) Android
4 7 (1.46%) VMS
5 5 (1.04%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.42%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.42%) Unix
7 1 (0.21%) CentOS
7 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (45.21%) Agile
2 151 (31.46%) CI/CD
3 99 (20.63%) Software Engineering
4 83 (17.29%) Mentoring
5 80 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 66 (13.75%) Test Automation
7 64 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 64 (13.33%) Scrum
8 60 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 54 (11.25%) Continuous Integration
10 53 (11.04%) Business Intelligence
10 53 (11.04%) Containerisation
11 45 (9.38%) SDLC
12 42 (8.75%) MVC
13 40 (8.33%) Project Management
14 37 (7.71%) Data Engineering
15 36 (7.50%) Full Stack Development
16 35 (7.29%) Microservices
16 35 (7.29%) Roadmaps
17 33 (6.88%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 140 (29.17%) C#
2 122 (25.42%) SQL
3 98 (20.42%) JavaScript
4 79 (16.46%) Python
5 54 (11.25%) PowerShell
6 51 (10.63%) T-SQL
7 48 (10.00%) TypeScript
8 32 (6.67%) Java
9 17 (3.54%) Bash
9 17 (3.54%) VB
10 16 (3.33%) Bicep
11 13 (2.71%) PHP
11 13 (2.71%) XAML
12 12 (2.50%) VB.NET
13 9 (1.88%) C++
14 8 (1.67%) C
15 6 (1.25%) Go
16 5 (1.04%) Kotlin
16 5 (1.04%) VB6
17 2 (0.42%) Swift
Qualifications
1 44 (9.17%) Degree
1 44 (9.17%) Security Cleared
2 29 (6.04%) SC Cleared
3 16 (3.33%) Azure Certification
4 11 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.46%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.04%) ISTQB
7 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.83%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.83%) HNC
9 3 (0.63%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.42%) Chartered Engineer
10 2 (0.42%) HND
10 2 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.42%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.42%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.21%) CBAP
11 1 (0.21%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (12.29%) QA
2 20 (4.17%) GDPR
3 18 (3.75%) Data Quality
4 14 (2.92%) Accessibility
5 11 (2.29%) NCSC
6 5 (1.04%) NIST
6 5 (1.04%) PMO
7 4 (0.83%) SLA
8 3 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.21%) AUTOSAR
10 1 (0.21%) IFRS
10 1 (0.21%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.21%) Solvency II
System Software
1 54 (11.25%) Docker
2 19 (3.96%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (1.67%) vSphere
5 7 (1.46%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 105 (21.88%) Terraform
2 59 (12.29%) Kubernetes
3 22 (4.58%) Ansible
4 7 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.25%) Grafana
6 2 (0.42%) Kibana
6 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.42%) MIIS
6 2 (0.42%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.42%) Puppet
7 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 163 (33.96%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.79%) Databricks
3 16 (3.33%) VMware
4 14 (2.92%) Google
5 13 (2.71%) Oracle
6 11 (2.29%) YouTube
7 9 (1.88%) Citrix
7 9 (1.88%) OpenAI
8 8 (1.67%) Adobe
9 7 (1.46%) DevExpress
9 7 (1.46%) SAP
9 7 (1.46%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.25%) iManage
11 5 (1.04%) Informatica
12 4 (0.83%) Apple
12 4 (0.83%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.83%) Cisco
12 4 (0.83%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.83%) InterSystems
12 4 (0.83%) Jaspersoft