DevOps Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Development Operations Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the Midlands is £75,000 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 230 260 220
Rank change year-on-year +30 -40 -95
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 22 56 107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.32% 0.48% 1.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.51% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 18 43 86
10th Percentile £46,250 £24,000 £46,875
25th Percentile - £45,000 £56,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £55,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -18.52% -
75th Percentile £81,875 £66,250 £80,250
90th Percentile £90,500 £88,750 £93,750
England median annual salary £82,500 £70,576 £75,000
% change year-on-year +16.90% -5.90% +3.45%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 6,353 11,023 8,571
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.62% 94.33% 89.47%
Number of salaries quoted 2,854 8,245 4,769
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £60,741 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £54,000 £60,775
% change year-on-year +6.48% -11.15% +1.29%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the Midlands

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in the Midlands

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

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

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in the Midlands

DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
West Midlands +39 18 £75,000 +50.00% 17
East Midlands +30 4 £62,500 +11.11% 10
DevOps Engineer
England

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

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 Midlands region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) DevOps
2 17 (77.27%) Azure
3 16 (72.73%) AWS
3 16 (72.73%) Terraform
4 14 (63.64%) Kubernetes
4 14 (63.64%) Docker
5 12 (54.55%) Security Cleared
5 12 (54.55%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (54.55%) Containerisation
6 11 (50.00%) IaaS
6 11 (50.00%) Mentoring
6 11 (50.00%) Software Engineering
7 10 (45.45%) Ansible
7 10 (45.45%) SaaS
7 10 (45.45%) PaaS
8 9 (40.91%) Test Automation
8 9 (40.91%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (40.91%) Continuous Delivery
9 8 (36.36%) SonarQube
9 8 (36.36%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (36.36%) Performance Analysis
9 8 (36.36%) Functional Testing
9 8 (36.36%) Non-Functional Testing
9 8 (36.36%) GitHub
9 8 (36.36%) Management Information System
9 8 (36.36%) Release Management
9 8 (36.36%) Project Management
9 8 (36.36%) Onboarding
9 8 (36.36%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (36.36%) ARM Templates

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 2 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.55%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 17 (77.27%) Azure
2 16 (72.73%) AWS
3 12 (54.55%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (50.00%) IaaS
5 10 (45.45%) PaaS
5 10 (45.45%) SaaS
6 8 (36.36%) GitHub
6 8 (36.36%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (13.64%) GCP
8 2 (9.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (9.09%) Entra ID
8 2 (9.09%) Pulumi
9 1 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (4.55%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (4.55%) AWS KMS
9 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (4.55%) Azure AKS
9 1 (4.55%) Cloud Run
9 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) Firewall
2 3 (13.64%) DNS
2 3 (13.64%) VPN
3 2 (9.09%) LAN
3 2 (9.09%) Network Security
3 2 (9.09%) SD-WAN
3 2 (9.09%) SSL
3 2 (9.09%) WAN
4 1 (4.55%) DHCP
4 1 (4.55%) HTTP
4 1 (4.55%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (4.55%) SAN
4 1 (4.55%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
1 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (36.36%) SonarQube
2 4 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 2 (9.09%) Git
4 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (4.55%) GitLab
4 1 (4.55%) JIRA
4 1 (4.55%) Maven
4 1 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.09%) Legal
2 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.55%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (36.36%) ARM Templates
1 8 (36.36%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (4.55%) LDAP
2 1 (4.55%) RESTful
2 1 (4.55%) Visualforce
2 1 (4.55%) Web Services
2 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) Management Information System
1 8 (36.36%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.55%) N-Tier
2 1 (4.55%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Linux
2 3 (13.64%) Windows
3 2 (9.09%) Ubuntu
3 2 (9.09%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.55%) CentOS
4 1 (4.55%) Debian
4 1 (4.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) DevOps
2 12 (54.55%) Containerisation
3 11 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 11 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 9 (40.91%) Continuous Delivery
4 9 (40.91%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (40.91%) Test Automation
5 8 (36.36%) Deployment Automation
5 8 (36.36%) DevSecOps
5 8 (36.36%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 8 (36.36%) Functional Testing
5 8 (36.36%) Non-Functional Testing
5 8 (36.36%) Performance Analysis
5 8 (36.36%) Project Management
5 8 (36.36%) Release Management
5 8 (36.36%) Static Application Security Testing
6 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
6 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (13.64%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) Python
2 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
3 2 (9.09%) Go
3 2 (9.09%) Java
3 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 2 (9.09%) Shell Script
3 2 (9.09%) SQL
4 1 (4.55%) Bash
4 1 (4.55%) C#
Qualifications
1 12 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 8 (36.36%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 2 (9.09%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (36.36%) NCSC
System Software
1 14 (63.64%) Docker
2 3 (13.64%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (72.73%) Terraform
2 14 (63.64%) Kubernetes
3 10 (45.45%) Ansible
4 2 (9.09%) Nessus
5 1 (4.55%) Consul
5 1 (4.55%) Grafana
5 1 (4.55%) Packer
5 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
5 1 (4.55%) Proxmox
5 1 (4.55%) Puppet
5 1 (4.55%) Rancher
5 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
1 3 (13.64%) VMware
2 1 (4.55%) Juniper
2 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.55%) Sophos