DevOps Job Trends in Staffordshire

DevOps
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 41 21
Rank change year-on-year -20 -20 -11
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 15 23 26
As % of all permanent jobs in Staffordshire 1.52% 4.10% 6.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 4.60% 7.37%
Number of salaries quoted 13 16 24
10th Percentile - £36,875 £28,050
25th Percentile £50,750 £41,250 £34,969
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +31.25% -23.81%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,625 £53,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £69,125
West Midlands median annual salary £63,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.60% +4.17% -3.23%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 836 500 353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 84.62% 89.13% 88.47%
Number of salaries quoted 333 318 301
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,119 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,580 £31,250 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +4.94% -14.74%
75th Percentile £60,000 £54,659 £53,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £66,967 £63,750
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire.

DevOps job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

DevOps
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Staffordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps in Staffordshire

DevOps
Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Burton-upon-Trent +2 13 £60,000 +37.14% 5
DevOps
West Midlands

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (93.33%) Azure
2 9 (60.00%) AWS
3 8 (53.33%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (26.67%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (26.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (26.67%) Azure AKS
4 4 (26.67%) Datadog
4 4 (26.67%) GitHub
4 4 (26.67%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (13.33%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
7 1 (6.67%) Azure Functions
7 1 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (20.00%) Metadata
2 2 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Git
1 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) NUnit
General
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Senior
2 3 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Data Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) IT Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) IT Security Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) .NET Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Developer
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) ARM Templates
2 4 (26.67%) .NET
3 1 (6.67%) .NET Core
3 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
3 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (6.67%) Dapper ORM
3 1 (6.67%) Entity Framework
3 1 (6.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) CI/CD
2 6 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (40.00%) Task Automation
3 4 (26.67%) RBAC
3 4 (26.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (26.67%) Runbook
4 3 (20.00%) Analytics
4 3 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 3 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 3 (20.00%) Metadata Management
5 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (13.33%) Design Patterns
5 2 (13.33%) ETL
5 2 (13.33%) Proactive Monitoring
5 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (13.33%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) Python
2 7 (46.67%) Bicep
3 6 (40.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (26.67%) Bash
4 4 (26.67%) C#
5 3 (20.00%) Scala
5 3 (20.00%) SQL
5 3 (20.00%) T-SQL
6 2 (13.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (13.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (13.33%) CCSP
2 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (13.33%) CISM
2 2 (13.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (20.00%) GDPR
2 2 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (6.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 10 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) LogicMonitor
2 4 (26.67%) SolarWinds
3 3 (20.00%) Databricks
4 2 (13.33%) Cisco
4 2 (13.33%) Exabeam
4 2 (13.33%) Meraki