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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 18 15
Rank change year-on-year -7 -3 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 478 671 811
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.12% 11.05% 10.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.52% 11.41% 11.21%
Number of salaries quoted 396 406 540
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £37,213
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £45,094
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,751 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,000 £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 6,359 5,879 7,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 81.37% 96.79% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 4,664 3,160 4,800
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,592 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £40,000 £38,750
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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -8 226 £65,000 +8.33% 60
Warwickshire +2 67 £57,500 +4.55% 27
Staffordshire -2 67 £52,500 - 7
Coventry +7 23 £65,000 +18.18% 16
Solihull -5 15 £67,500 +17.90% 6
Halesowen - 11 £60,000 - 2
Wolverhampton -8 10 £55,000 - 5
Worcestershire -26 9 £50,000 -9.09% 4
Shropshire -26 8 £50,000 -16.67% 1
Wednesbury - 4 £65,750 -
Walsall -5 2 £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 (4.60%) IIS
2 21 (4.39%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.09%) Apache
4 9 (1.88%) Umbraco
5 6 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (1.05%) nginx
7 4 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.84%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.84%) Confluence
8 3 (0.63%) CMS
9 2 (0.42%) Liferay
9 2 (0.42%) Magnolia
9 2 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.21%) Drupal
Applications
1 8 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.84%) 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 19 (3.97%) 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 (66.95%) Azure
2 184 (38.49%) Azure DevOps
3 104 (21.76%) AWS
4 76 (15.90%) Power Platform
5 58 (12.13%) SaaS
6 54 (11.30%) PaaS
7 47 (9.83%) Dynamics 365
7 47 (9.83%) Microsoft 365
8 44 (9.21%) IaaS
9 34 (7.11%) GCP
10 33 (6.90%) Serverless
11 31 (6.49%) PowerApps
12 29 (6.07%) Azure Data Factory
13 22 (4.60%) GitHub
14 21 (4.39%) Amazon S3
15 19 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
15 19 (3.97%) Azure Logic Apps
16 17 (3.56%) Power Automate
17 16 (3.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 15 (3.14%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.97%) Firewall
2 14 (2.93%) VPN
3 8 (1.67%) DNS
3 8 (1.67%) NGFW
4 6 (1.26%) Intranet
5 5 (1.05%) HTTP
6 4 (0.84%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.63%) HTTPS
7 3 (0.63%) MQTT
8 2 (0.42%) BGP
8 2 (0.42%) EIGRP
8 2 (0.42%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (0.42%) OSPF
8 2 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.21%) 3GPP
9 1 (0.21%) LAN
9 1 (0.21%) Network Security
9 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.21%) WAN
9 1 (0.21%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (19.87%) SQL Server
2 45 (9.41%) Power BI
3 37 (7.74%) Relational Database
4 32 (6.69%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (4.39%) MySQL
5 21 (4.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 20 (4.18%) Data Lake
7 17 (3.56%) Elasticsearch
7 17 (3.56%) Metadata
7 17 (3.56%) NoSQL
8 16 (3.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 14 (2.93%) DynamoDB
10 12 (2.51%) BigQuery
11 11 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (2.30%) Big Data
11 11 (2.30%) SQLite
12 10 (2.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 9 (1.88%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (1.88%) Looker
14 8 (1.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 77 (16.11%) Git
2 31 (6.49%) Visual Studio
3 18 (3.77%) GitLab
4 17 (3.56%) Postman
5 15 (3.14%) JIRA
6 11 (2.30%) SonarQube
7 10 (2.09%) Jenkins
7 10 (2.09%) MSTest
7 10 (2.09%) Team Foundation Server
8 9 (1.88%) Jasmine
8 9 (1.88%) Octopus Deploy
8 9 (1.88%) SoapUI
8 9 (1.88%) TeamCity
9 7 (1.46%) NUnit
10 5 (1.05%) Karma Test Runner
10 5 (1.05%) webpack
11 4 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.63%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.63%) Burp Suite
12 3 (0.63%) sqlmap
General
1 83 (17.36%) Social Skills
2 62 (12.97%) Finance
3 26 (5.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 25 (5.23%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (4.18%) Manufacturing
6 16 (3.35%) Law
7 14 (2.93%) Automotive
7 14 (2.93%) Public Sector
8 9 (1.88%) Retail
9 8 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (1.46%) Marketing
11 5 (1.05%) Electronics
11 5 (1.05%) Legal
11 5 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.05%) Police
12 4 (0.84%) Publishing
13 3 (0.63%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (0.63%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.42%) Games
14 2 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 127 (26.57%) Developer
2 89 (18.62%) Senior
3 43 (9.00%) Software Engineer
4 39 (8.16%) Lead
5 32 (6.69%) Data Engineer
6 30 (6.28%) Architect
6 30 (6.28%) Azure Engineer
7 29 (6.07%) DevOps Engineer
7 29 (6.07%) Software Developer
8 26 (5.44%) Cloud Engineer
8 26 (5.44%) Senior Developer
9 25 (5.23%) Analyst
10 22 (4.60%) Full Stack Developer
10 22 (4.60%) Senior Software Engineer
11 18 (3.77%) Consultant
12 17 (3.56%) .NET Developer
12 17 (3.56%) Junior
13 14 (2.93%) Business Analyst
13 14 (2.93%) C# Developer
13 14 (2.93%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (27.62%) .NET
2 58 (12.13%) React
3 56 (11.72%) .NET Framework
4 55 (11.51%) HTML
5 44 (9.21%) ASP.NET
6 42 (8.79%) Entity Framework
6 42 (8.79%) JSON
7 41 (8.58%) .NET Core
8 40 (8.37%) CSS
9 39 (8.16%) XML
10 37 (7.74%) RESTful
11 33 (6.90%) AngularJS
12 31 (6.49%) REST
13 29 (6.07%) ARM Templates
14 28 (5.86%) Web Services
14 28 (5.86%) YAML
15 27 (5.65%) Node.js
16 25 (5.23%) ASP.NET MVC
17 24 (5.02%) SOAP
18 23 (4.81%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 36 (7.53%) Management Information System
2 33 (6.90%) Cloud Native
3 27 (5.65%) Product Ownership
4 23 (4.81%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (3.97%) Private Cloud
6 16 (3.35%) Data Structures
6 16 (3.35%) Public Cloud
7 15 (3.14%) Low-Code
8 12 (2.51%) Mobile App
8 12 (2.51%) NHS
8 12 (2.51%) Onboarding
9 10 (2.09%) Data Centre
9 10 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (2.09%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.67%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.46%) PKI
13 6 (1.26%) FMCG
13 6 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
14 5 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 44 (9.21%) Windows
2 21 (4.39%) Windows Server
3 18 (3.77%) Linux
4 7 (1.46%) Android
4 7 (1.46%) VMS
5 5 (1.05%) 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
1 218 (45.61%) Agile
2 150 (31.38%) CI/CD
3 100 (20.92%) Software Engineering
4 80 (16.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 80 (16.74%) Mentoring
5 65 (13.60%) Continuous Improvement
5 65 (13.60%) Scrum
5 65 (13.60%) Test Automation
6 60 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
7 53 (11.09%) Business Intelligence
7 53 (11.09%) Containerisation
7 53 (11.09%) Continuous Integration
8 45 (9.41%) SDLC
9 42 (8.79%) MVC
10 40 (8.37%) Project Management
11 38 (7.95%) Full Stack Development
12 37 (7.74%) Data Engineering
13 35 (7.32%) Microservices
14 34 (7.11%) Roadmaps
15 31 (6.49%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 142 (29.71%) C#
2 121 (25.31%) SQL
3 97 (20.29%) JavaScript
4 77 (16.11%) Python
5 53 (11.09%) PowerShell
6 51 (10.67%) T-SQL
7 48 (10.04%) TypeScript
8 31 (6.49%) Java
9 17 (3.56%) Bash
9 17 (3.56%) VB
10 16 (3.35%) Bicep
11 13 (2.72%) PHP
11 13 (2.72%) XAML
12 12 (2.51%) VB.NET
13 9 (1.88%) C++
14 8 (1.67%) C
15 6 (1.26%) Go
16 5 (1.05%) Kotlin
16 5 (1.05%) VB6
17 2 (0.42%) Swift
Qualifications
1 44 (9.21%) Degree
2 42 (8.79%) Security Cleared
3 28 (5.86%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.35%) Azure Certification
5 10 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.46%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.05%) ISTQB
7 5 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.84%) HNC
9 3 (0.63%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.63%) DV Cleared
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 60 (12.55%) QA
2 20 (4.18%) GDPR
3 18 (3.77%) Data Quality
4 14 (2.93%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.09%) NCSC
6 5 (1.05%) NIST
6 5 (1.05%) PMO
7 4 (0.84%) 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 53 (11.09%) Docker
2 19 (3.97%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (3.35%) Active Directory
4 15 (3.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (1.67%) vSphere
6 7 (1.46%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 102 (21.34%) Terraform
2 56 (11.72%) Kubernetes
3 21 (4.39%) Ansible
4 7 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.26%) 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 (34.10%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.81%) Databricks
3 17 (3.56%) VMware
4 15 (3.14%) Google
5 13 (2.72%) Oracle
6 11 (2.30%) YouTube
7 10 (2.09%) Citrix
7 10 (2.09%) OpenAI
8 8 (1.67%) Adobe
9 7 (1.46%) DevExpress
9 7 (1.46%) iManage
9 7 (1.46%) SAP
9 7 (1.46%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.05%) Informatica
11 4 (0.84%) Apple
11 4 (0.84%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.84%) Cisco
11 4 (0.84%) InterSystems
11 4 (0.84%) Jaspersoft
11 4 (0.84%) PagerDuty