DevOps Engineer Jobs in Birmingham

Development Operations Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Birmingham is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 128 95
Rank change year-on-year +25 -33 -38
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 6 23 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.41% 0.84% 2.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.90% 2.57%
Number of salaries quoted 5 20 46
10th Percentile £59,750 £24,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £80,000 £42,500 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £52,500 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year +61.90% -26.32% +1.79%
75th Percentile £97,500 £78,438 £87,188
90th Percentile £105,000 £88,750 £100,000
West Midlands median annual salary £75,000 £50,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +50.00% -28.57% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Birmingham. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Birmingham with a recognized job title 1,391 2,567 1,870
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.31% 94.27% 93.41%
Number of salaries quoted 799 2,093 1,432
10th Percentile £33,100 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,988 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,914 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,964 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Birmingham

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Birmingham.

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in Birmingham

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in Birmingham

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Birmingham region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Terraform
3 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (66.67%) Docker
3 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
4 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (50.00%) Python
4 3 (50.00%) Azure
5 2 (33.33%) AWS
5 2 (33.33%) SaaS
5 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
5 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
5 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 2 (33.33%) DNS
5 2 (33.33%) Agile
5 2 (33.33%) Linux
5 2 (33.33%) GCP
5 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
6 1 (16.67%) Serverless
6 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (16.67%) Proxmox
6 1 (16.67%) Server Management
6 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
6 1 (16.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (16.67%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) SaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (16.67%) AWS KMS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Run
3 1 (16.67%) IaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Pulumi
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) SSL
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Capacity Management
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (16.67%) Dashboard Development
5 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
5 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 1 (16.67%) Patch Management
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) SDLC
5 1 (16.67%) Server Management
5 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) Go
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Terraform
2 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (16.67%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) Grafana
3 1 (16.67%) Nessus
3 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (16.67%) Proxmox
3 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Juniper
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) VMware