DevOps Jobs in the Midlands

DevOps
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 26 17
Rank change year-on-year -21 -9 -1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 337 719 1,036
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.77% 6.04% 11.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.20% 7.37% 11.74%
Number of salaries quoted 200 554 535
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,875 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,688 £45,313 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +1.74% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,327 £88,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £72,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.77% -7.14% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,477 9,753 8,825
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.63% 81.88% 96.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,617 7,144 4,454
10th Percentile £27,331 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £34,959 £38,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the Midlands

DevOps
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for DevOps in the Midlands

DevOps
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps in the Midlands

DevOps
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 within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 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 -13 235 £60,000 - 190
East Midlands -43 102 £65,000 +13.04% 80
DevOps
England

DevOps
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 65 (19.29%) Confluence
2 6 (1.78%) CMS
2 6 (1.78%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.48%) IIS
4 3 (0.89%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.59%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.30%) Apache
6 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.30%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.30%) Mendix
6 1 (0.30%) nginx
6 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.30%) Sitefinity
6 1 (0.30%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (1.48%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.30%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.30%) Moqups
3 1 (0.30%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.30%) Sketch
3 1 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (3.26%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.19%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (1.19%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 2 (0.59%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 236 (70.03%) Azure
2 161 (47.77%) AWS
3 82 (24.33%) Azure DevOps
4 70 (20.77%) GCP
5 38 (11.28%) Power Platform
6 30 (8.90%) SaaS
6 30 (8.90%) Serverless
7 29 (8.61%) Dynamics 365
7 29 (8.61%) IaaS
8 28 (8.31%) PaaS
9 18 (5.34%) Amazon ECS
9 18 (5.34%) Amazon S3
10 17 (5.04%) Azure Logic Apps
10 17 (5.04%) GitHub
11 15 (4.45%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (4.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (4.15%) AWS KMS
12 14 (4.15%) Azure Functions
12 14 (4.15%) Power Automate
12 14 (4.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 32 (9.50%) VPN
2 22 (6.53%) Firewall
3 16 (4.75%) TCP/IP
4 12 (3.56%) DNS
5 10 (2.97%) HTTP
6 8 (2.37%) Cisco IOS
7 6 (1.78%) SD-WAN
7 6 (1.78%) WAN
8 5 (1.48%) FTP
8 5 (1.48%) Network Security
8 5 (1.48%) SMTP
8 5 (1.48%) SSH
8 5 (1.48%) SSL
9 4 (1.19%) Broadband
10 2 (0.59%) IPsec
10 2 (0.59%) LAN
10 2 (0.59%) OpenLDAP
11 1 (0.30%) ADSL2
11 1 (0.30%) IMAP
11 1 (0.30%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (27.60%) SQL Server
2 20 (5.93%) Power BI
3 18 (5.34%) Data Lake
3 18 (5.34%) NoSQL
4 16 (4.75%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (4.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (2.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (2.37%) MySQL
8 8 (2.37%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.48%) Redis
10 4 (1.19%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.19%) Cloud Spanner
10 4 (1.19%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.19%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.19%) Power Query
10 4 (1.19%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.89%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.89%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 101 (29.97%) JIRA
2 78 (23.15%) Cucumber
3 76 (22.55%) SonarQube
4 69 (20.47%) Sonatype Nexus
5 68 (20.18%) Selenium
6 66 (19.58%) Maven
7 65 (19.29%) GitLab
8 63 (18.69%) Bitbucket
9 41 (12.17%) Git
10 21 (6.23%) Jenkins
11 16 (4.75%) Visual Studio
12 15 (4.45%) Robot Framework
13 12 (3.56%) Vagrant
14 7 (2.08%) NUnit
14 7 (2.08%) Postman
15 6 (1.78%) JUnit
16 5 (1.48%) Bitbucket Server
16 5 (1.48%) Team Foundation Server
17 4 (1.19%) Jaeger
17 4 (1.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 109 (32.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 88 (26.11%) Finance
3 84 (24.93%) Social Skills
4 63 (18.69%) Banking
5 40 (11.87%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (8.31%) Retail
7 22 (6.53%) Public Sector
8 18 (5.34%) Manufacturing
9 17 (5.04%) Law
10 16 (4.75%) Corporate Banking
10 16 (4.75%) Investment Banking
11 15 (4.45%) Telecoms
12 7 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.78%) Advertising
14 5 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (1.19%) Legal
16 3 (0.89%) Automotive
16 3 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.89%) Marketing
17 2 (0.59%) Games
Job Titles
1 79 (23.44%) Software Engineer
2 57 (16.91%) Developer
3 39 (11.57%) Senior
4 26 (7.72%) Architect
5 25 (7.42%) Lead
6 24 (7.12%) DevOps Engineer
7 20 (5.93%) Analyst
8 19 (5.64%) Senior Developer
9 16 (4.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 15 (4.45%) Test Automation Engineer
10 15 (4.45%) Test Engineer
11 13 (3.86%) Site Engineer
11 13 (3.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 13 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
12 12 (3.56%) Cloud Architect
12 12 (3.56%) Test Analyst
13 11 (3.26%) Dynamics 365 Developer
14 10 (2.97%) IT Manager
15 9 (2.67%) C# Developer
15 9 (2.67%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (27.60%) React
2 74 (21.96%) Spring
3 73 (21.66%) CSS
4 71 (21.07%) HTML
5 66 (19.58%) Kafka
5 66 (19.58%) Spring Boot
6 65 (19.29%) JPA
7 64 (18.99%) Redux
8 56 (16.62%) .NET
9 49 (14.54%) Hibernate
10 29 (8.61%) RESTful
11 27 (8.01%) REST
12 24 (7.12%) Jest
12 24 (7.12%) Node.js
13 19 (5.64%) HTML5
14 18 (5.34%) CSS3
15 17 (5.04%) AngularJS
15 17 (5.04%) Sass
16 15 (4.45%) .NET Core
17 12 (3.56%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 70 (20.77%) Product Ownership
2 68 (20.18%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (5.34%) Linux Command Line
3 18 (5.34%) Onboarding
4 17 (5.04%) Mobile App
5 10 (2.97%) Cyberattack
5 10 (2.97%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.37%) Cloud Native
7 6 (1.78%) Replication
8 4 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.19%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.19%) IoT
8 4 (1.19%) NHS
8 4 (1.19%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.89%) PropTech
9 3 (0.89%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 58 (17.21%) Linux
2 49 (14.54%) Windows
3 20 (5.93%) Android
4 13 (3.86%) VMS
5 12 (3.56%) Apple iOS
6 7 (2.08%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.78%) Amazon Linux
7 6 (1.78%) Windows Server
8 5 (1.48%) Unix
9 2 (0.59%) CentOS
9 2 (0.59%) Debian
9 2 (0.59%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (45.99%) Agile
2 153 (45.40%) CI/CD
3 103 (30.56%) Software Engineering
4 99 (29.38%) Test Automation
5 96 (28.49%) Containerisation
6 92 (27.30%) Microservices
7 89 (26.41%) SDLC
8 81 (24.04%) Mentoring
9 78 (23.15%) Front End Development
10 76 (22.55%) Full-Stack Development
11 73 (21.66%) Continuous Improvement
12 69 (20.47%) Performance Optimisation
13 68 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
14 63 (18.69%) TDD
15 54 (16.02%) Clean Code
16 37 (10.98%) Infrastructure as Code
17 32 (9.50%) Migration
18 28 (8.31%) Project Management
19 26 (7.72%) Continuous Delivery
19 26 (7.72%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 142 (42.14%) SQL
2 121 (35.91%) JavaScript
3 99 (29.38%) Java
4 70 (20.77%) C#
5 62 (18.40%) Python
6 51 (15.13%) PowerShell
7 43 (12.76%) TypeScript
8 29 (8.61%) Bash
9 11 (3.26%) Groovy
10 8 (2.37%) Perl
10 8 (2.37%) X++
11 7 (2.08%) PHP
12 6 (1.78%) C
13 5 (1.48%) Bicep
13 5 (1.48%) Shell Script
14 4 (1.19%) Go
15 3 (0.89%) Delphi
15 3 (0.89%) Ruby
16 1 (0.30%) C++
16 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (14.84%) Degree
2 39 (11.57%) Security Cleared
3 22 (6.53%) SC Cleared
4 20 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (5.34%) Azure Certification
6 14 (4.15%) AWS Certification
7 11 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (2.67%) ISTQB
9 7 (2.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 5 (1.48%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.89%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.30%) APMP
13 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.30%) CITP
13 1 (0.30%) ISEB
13 1 (0.30%) MCP
13 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certified Master
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (27.89%) QA
2 18 (5.34%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.37%) NCSC
4 7 (2.08%) GDPR
5 3 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.89%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.59%) NIST
7 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.30%) PMO
7 1 (0.30%) SLA
System Software
1 125 (37.09%) Docker
2 21 (6.23%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.37%) Hyper-V
3 8 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (2.37%) VMware NSX
3 8 (2.37%) vSphere
4 6 (1.78%) DFS Replication
5 4 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.59%) Postfix
6 2 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.30%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.30%) Firmware
7 1 (0.30%) Squid
Systems Management
1 118 (35.01%) Kubernetes
2 69 (20.47%) Terraform
3 33 (9.79%) Ansible
3 33 (9.79%) Prometheus
4 29 (8.61%) Grafana
5 7 (2.08%) Nessus
5 7 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.48%) Proxmox
7 4 (1.19%) Argo
7 4 (1.19%) Kustomize
8 3 (0.89%) Nagios
8 3 (0.89%) Puppet
9 2 (0.59%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.30%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.30%) Consul
10 1 (0.30%) Marathon
10 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.30%) Rancher
10 1 (0.30%) WSUS
Vendors
1 76 (22.55%) Microsoft
2 63 (18.69%) Solace
3 17 (5.04%) Oracle
4 15 (4.45%) Juniper
4 15 (4.45%) ServiceNow
5 14 (4.15%) Databricks
6 12 (3.56%) Google
7 10 (2.97%) Cisco
7 10 (2.97%) OpenAI
8 9 (2.67%) Splunk
9 8 (2.37%) 3PAR
10 7 (2.08%) SAP
10 7 (2.08%) VMware
10 7 (2.08%) Xamarin
11 5 (1.48%) Salesforce
12 4 (1.19%) Hyperion
12 4 (1.19%) JD Edwards
12 4 (1.19%) Meraki
12 4 (1.19%) Okta
12 4 (1.19%) PeopleSoft