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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 16 14
Rank change year-on-year -10 -2 -3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 464 806 845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.42% 11.98% 11.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.73% 12.37% 12.25%
Number of salaries quoted 386 421 581
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £42,636 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £85,000
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 6,005 6,515 6,899
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.09% 96.86% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 4,520 3,307 4,728
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £40,000 £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 £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,550 £80,000
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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -5 235 £65,000 +4.84% 56
Warwickshire +9 58 £57,500 +4.55% 24
Staffordshire -1 57 £52,500 - 5
Coventry -2 24 £65,000 +18.18% 7
Wolverhampton -10 12 £65,000 +18.18% 3
Solihull -5 11 £67,500 -1.46% 5
Halesowen - 11 £60,000 -
Shropshire -17 8 £50,000 -16.67% 3
Worcestershire -26 8 £50,750 -15.42% 2
Wednesbury - 4 £65,750 -
Walsall -4 2 £42,500 -2.30%
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 25 (5.39%) SharePoint
2 23 (4.96%) IIS
3 10 (2.16%) Apache
3 10 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.72%) Umbraco
5 5 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.08%) nginx
6 4 (0.86%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.86%) Confluence
7 3 (0.65%) CMS
8 2 (0.43%) Liferay
8 2 (0.43%) Magnolia
8 2 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.65%) Adobe XD
2 3 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.65%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.22%) InVision
3 1 (0.22%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.22%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 20 (4.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 322 (69.40%) Azure
2 180 (38.79%) Azure DevOps
3 105 (22.63%) AWS
4 67 (14.44%) Power Platform
5 61 (13.15%) SaaS
6 57 (12.28%) PaaS
7 52 (11.21%) Dynamics 365
8 51 (10.99%) Microsoft 365
9 44 (9.48%) IaaS
10 42 (9.05%) GCP
11 32 (6.90%) Serverless
12 25 (5.39%) PowerApps
13 22 (4.74%) GitHub
14 21 (4.53%) Amazon S3
15 19 (4.09%) Azure Data Factory
15 19 (4.09%) Azure Logic Apps
16 18 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
17 16 (3.45%) Entra ID
18 14 (3.02%) Azure Service Bus
18 14 (3.02%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.88%) Firewall
2 15 (3.23%) VPN
3 10 (2.16%) NGFW
4 9 (1.94%) DNS
5 7 (1.51%) HTTP
6 6 (1.29%) Intranet
7 4 (0.86%) MQTT
7 4 (0.86%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.65%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.43%) BGP
9 2 (0.43%) DHCP
9 2 (0.43%) EIGRP
9 2 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (0.43%) IPv6
9 2 (0.43%) OSPF
9 2 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.22%) 3GPP
10 1 (0.22%) LAN
10 1 (0.22%) Network Security
10 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (17.89%) SQL Server
2 34 (7.33%) Power BI
3 33 (7.11%) Relational Database
4 25 (5.39%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (4.53%) Elasticsearch
6 20 (4.31%) NoSQL
7 19 (4.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 14 (3.02%) Data Lake
8 14 (3.02%) DynamoDB
8 14 (3.02%) MySQL
8 14 (3.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 12 (2.59%) BigQuery
10 11 (2.37%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (2.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 11 (2.37%) SQLite
11 10 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (2.16%) Metadata
12 9 (1.94%) Big Data
12 9 (1.94%) Looker
13 8 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 78 (16.81%) Git
2 25 (5.39%) Visual Studio
3 20 (4.31%) Postman
4 19 (4.09%) GitLab
5 17 (3.66%) JIRA
6 14 (3.02%) Jenkins
7 12 (2.59%) SoapUI
8 11 (2.37%) Team Foundation Server
9 10 (2.16%) MSTest
9 10 (2.16%) SonarQube
9 10 (2.16%) TeamCity
10 9 (1.94%) Jasmine
10 9 (1.94%) Octopus Deploy
11 7 (1.51%) NUnit
12 5 (1.08%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.08%) Karma Test Runner
12 5 (1.08%) webpack
13 3 (0.65%) Moq
13 3 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
14 2 (0.43%) Metasploit
General
1 77 (16.59%) Social Skills
2 61 (13.15%) Finance
3 27 (5.82%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (5.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 18 (3.88%) Manufacturing
6 15 (3.23%) Law
7 13 (2.80%) Automotive
7 13 (2.80%) Public Sector
8 8 (1.72%) Marketing
9 7 (1.51%) Retail
10 6 (1.29%) Electronics
10 6 (1.29%) Legal
11 5 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.08%) Publishing
12 4 (0.86%) Games
12 4 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.86%) Police
12 4 (0.86%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.65%) Banking
Job Titles
1 121 (26.08%) Developer
2 81 (17.46%) Senior
3 40 (8.62%) Lead
4 38 (8.19%) Software Engineer
5 34 (7.33%) Architect
6 29 (6.25%) Software Developer
7 28 (6.03%) Data Engineer
7 28 (6.03%) DevOps Engineer
8 26 (5.60%) Azure Engineer
9 24 (5.17%) Analyst
10 23 (4.96%) Cloud Engineer
10 23 (4.96%) Senior Developer
11 22 (4.74%) Full Stack Developer
12 21 (4.53%) Consultant
13 18 (3.88%) .NET Developer
13 18 (3.88%) Senior Software Engineer
14 16 (3.45%) Junior
15 15 (3.23%) C# Developer
15 15 (3.23%) Project Manager
16 14 (3.02%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (27.59%) .NET
2 60 (12.93%) React
3 49 (10.56%) HTML
4 48 (10.34%) .NET Framework
5 46 (9.91%) ASP.NET
6 42 (9.05%) JSON
7 41 (8.84%) .NET Core
7 41 (8.84%) RESTful
8 34 (7.33%) AngularJS
8 34 (7.33%) CSS
8 34 (7.33%) Entity Framework
9 30 (6.47%) ARM Templates
9 30 (6.47%) Node.js
9 30 (6.47%) REST
9 30 (6.47%) XML
10 29 (6.25%) YAML
11 25 (5.39%) SOAP
12 24 (5.17%) Blazor
13 23 (4.96%) Web Services
14 22 (4.74%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 36 (7.76%) Management Information System
2 33 (7.11%) Cloud Native
3 25 (5.39%) Product Ownership
4 22 (4.74%) Private Cloud
4 22 (4.74%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (3.88%) Public Cloud
6 16 (3.45%) Low-Code
7 13 (2.80%) Data Structures
7 13 (2.80%) Mobile App
8 11 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (2.37%) Onboarding
9 10 (2.16%) Data Centre
9 10 (2.16%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.94%) NHS
11 7 (1.51%) PKI
12 6 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.29%) FMCG
12 6 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (1.08%) Distributed Applications
13 5 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 40 (8.62%) Windows
2 20 (4.31%) Linux
2 20 (4.31%) Windows Server
3 8 (1.72%) Android
4 6 (1.29%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.29%) VMS
5 2 (0.43%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.43%) Unix
6 1 (0.22%) CentOS
6 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (45.69%) Agile
2 154 (33.19%) CI/CD
3 95 (20.47%) Software Engineering
4 79 (17.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 71 (15.30%) Mentoring
6 68 (14.66%) Scrum
7 60 (12.93%) Test Automation
8 59 (12.72%) Continuous Improvement
9 56 (12.07%) Containerisation
10 54 (11.64%) Problem-Solving
11 53 (11.42%) Continuous Integration
11 53 (11.42%) SDLC
12 42 (9.05%) MVC
12 42 (9.05%) Project Management
13 40 (8.62%) Business Intelligence
14 39 (8.41%) Full Stack Development
15 37 (7.97%) Microservices
16 35 (7.54%) Roadmaps
17 32 (6.90%) Continuous Delivery
17 32 (6.90%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 141 (30.39%) C#
2 119 (25.65%) SQL
3 92 (19.83%) JavaScript
4 78 (16.81%) Python
5 55 (11.85%) PowerShell
6 52 (11.21%) TypeScript
7 43 (9.27%) T-SQL
8 34 (7.33%) Java
9 17 (3.66%) Bash
10 16 (3.45%) Bicep
11 14 (3.02%) PHP
12 13 (2.80%) VB
12 13 (2.80%) XAML
13 9 (1.94%) VB.NET
14 8 (1.72%) C
15 6 (1.29%) Go
16 5 (1.08%) Kotlin
16 5 (1.08%) VB6
17 2 (0.43%) Swift
18 1 (0.22%) C++
Qualifications
1 42 (9.05%) Degree
2 34 (7.33%) Security Cleared
3 25 (5.39%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.23%) Azure Certification
5 9 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.29%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.29%) ISTQB
6 6 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.08%) HNC
8 4 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.65%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.43%) Chartered Engineer
10 2 (0.43%) HND
10 2 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.43%) MCSE
11 1 (0.22%) CBAP
11 1 (0.22%) Citrix Certification
11 1 (0.22%) IIBA
11 1 (0.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (12.50%) QA
2 16 (3.45%) GDPR
3 12 (2.59%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.16%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.94%) NCSC
6 7 (1.51%) PMO
7 4 (0.86%) NIST
7 4 (0.86%) SLA
8 3 (0.65%) IFRS
8 3 (0.65%) IFRS 17
8 3 (0.65%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.22%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 57 (12.28%) Docker
2 19 (4.09%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (3.45%) Active Directory
5 10 (2.16%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (2.16%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (2.16%) vSphere
6 7 (1.51%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 98 (21.12%) Terraform
2 56 (12.07%) Kubernetes
3 20 (4.31%) Ansible
4 7 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.86%) Grafana
6 2 (0.43%) Kibana
6 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.43%) MIIS
6 2 (0.43%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.43%) Puppet
Vendors
1 140 (30.17%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.09%) VMware
3 18 (3.88%) Databricks
4 17 (3.66%) Google
5 13 (2.80%) Citrix
6 11 (2.37%) OpenAI
6 11 (2.37%) YouTube
7 8 (1.72%) iManage
7 8 (1.72%) SAP
8 7 (1.51%) Adobe
8 7 (1.51%) DevExpress
8 7 (1.51%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.86%) Apple
9 4 (0.86%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.86%) Cisco
9 4 (0.86%) InterSystems
9 4 (0.86%) Jaspersoft
10 3 (0.65%) Informatica
10 3 (0.65%) Telerik
10 3 (0.65%) Xamarin