DevOps Engineer Job Trends in Coventry

Development Operations Engineer
West Midlands > Coventry

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Coventry is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 32 44
Rank change year-on-year +2 +12 +42
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 3 6 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Coventry 1.52% 2.97% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.67% 3.14% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 3
10th Percentile - £65,625 £58,800
25th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £63,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £72,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +20.83% -14.29% +3.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Coventry

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Coventry. 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 Coventry with a recognized job title 180 191 282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.91% 94.55% 96.58%
Number of salaries quoted 79 94 251
10th Percentile £24,750 £31,925 £26,500
25th Percentile £29,750 £46,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £69,688 £63,750
90th Percentile £69,500 £77,500 £75,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Coventry.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Coventry

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Coventry

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Coventry.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Coventry

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry

For the 6 months to 21 October 2025, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Coventry region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (33.33%) Argo
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Google
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) React
3 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) SonarCloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (33.33%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Snyk
General
1 1 (33.33%) Automotive
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Derivative
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Software Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
3 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) Argo
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google