DevOps Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Development Operations Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 July 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 229 178
Rank change year-on-year +63 -51 -39
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 31 34 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.75% 0.41% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 0.43% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 21 31 51
10th Percentile £66,250 £24,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £71,250 £44,375 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% -21.43% +3.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,245 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £88,750 £100,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 3,722 7,893 4,949
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.19% 94.26% 90.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,926 5,560 3,253
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,700 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,563 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the West Midlands

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in the West Midlands

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in the West Midlands

DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 July 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
Birmingham +32 14 £72,500 +31.82% 8
Solihull - 7 £47,500 - 1
Herefordshire - 3 £90,000 - 1
Warwickshire - 1 £67,500 - 2
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 July 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 West Midlands region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 31 (100.00%) DevOps
2 29 (93.55%) AWS
3 28 (90.32%) Docker
4 27 (87.10%) Terraform
5 24 (77.42%) Security Cleared
6 20 (64.52%) Linux
6 20 (64.52%) Python
6 20 (64.52%) Jenkins
7 19 (61.29%) Git
8 18 (58.06%) DNS
8 18 (58.06%) Firewall
8 18 (58.06%) Patch Management
9 17 (54.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 17 (54.84%) Grafana
9 17 (54.84%) Amazon S3
9 17 (54.84%) Confluence
9 17 (54.84%) Configuration Management
9 17 (54.84%) HTTP
9 17 (54.84%) JIRA
9 17 (54.84%) Prometheus
9 17 (54.84%) AWS KMS
10 16 (51.61%) Public Sector
10 16 (51.61%) Cloud Security
10 16 (51.61%) PowerShell
10 16 (51.61%) Groovy
10 16 (51.61%) SSH
10 16 (51.61%) VMS
10 16 (51.61%) SMTP
10 16 (51.61%) FTP
10 16 (51.61%) Change Management

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 17 (54.84%) Confluence
2 4 (12.90%) nginx
3 1 (3.23%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 29 (93.55%) AWS
2 17 (54.84%) Amazon S3
2 17 (54.84%) AWS KMS
2 17 (54.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 16 (51.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 16 (51.61%) Amazon EC2
3 16 (51.61%) Amazon ELB
3 16 (51.61%) Azure
4 12 (38.71%) Amazon Glacier
5 7 (22.58%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (22.58%) IaaS
6 6 (19.35%) GitHub
6 6 (19.35%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (19.35%) PaaS
6 6 (19.35%) SaaS
7 5 (16.13%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (12.90%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (12.90%) Route 53
9 2 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (6.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 18 (58.06%) DNS
1 18 (58.06%) Firewall
2 17 (54.84%) HTTP
3 16 (51.61%) FTP
3 16 (51.61%) SMTP
3 16 (51.61%) SSH
4 5 (16.13%) OpenLDAP
5 4 (12.90%) IMAP
6 2 (6.45%) SSL
7 1 (3.23%) DHCP
7 1 (3.23%) SAN
7 1 (3.23%) VLAN
7 1 (3.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (51.61%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (12.90%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (12.90%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (64.52%) Jenkins
2 19 (61.29%) Git
3 17 (54.84%) JIRA
4 16 (51.61%) Vagrant
5 5 (16.13%) SonarQube
5 5 (16.13%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (3.23%) Maven
6 1 (3.23%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 16 (51.61%) Public Sector
2 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
3 8 (25.81%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Automotive
4 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) ARM Templates
1 5 (16.13%) Azure Blueprints
1 5 (16.13%) LDAP
2 1 (3.23%) Visualforce
2 1 (3.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.81%) Replication
2 5 (16.13%) Management Information System
2 5 (16.13%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.23%) N-Tier
3 1 (3.23%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (64.52%) Linux
2 16 (51.61%) Amazon Linux
2 16 (51.61%) VMS
3 9 (29.03%) Windows
4 6 (19.35%) Ubuntu
5 1 (3.23%) CentOS
5 1 (3.23%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (100.00%) DevOps
2 18 (58.06%) Patch Management
3 17 (54.84%) Configuration Management
4 16 (51.61%) Change Management
4 16 (51.61%) Cloud Security
5 12 (38.71%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (22.58%) CI/CD
6 7 (22.58%) Software Engineering
6 7 (22.58%) Test Automation
7 6 (19.35%) Containerisation
7 6 (19.35%) Mentoring
8 5 (16.13%) Continuous Delivery
8 5 (16.13%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (16.13%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (16.13%) DevSecOps
8 5 (16.13%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 5 (16.13%) Functional Testing
8 5 (16.13%) Non-Functional Testing
8 5 (16.13%) Performance Analysis
8 5 (16.13%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (64.52%) Python
2 16 (51.61%) Groovy
2 16 (51.61%) PowerShell
3 13 (41.94%) Java
4 12 (38.71%) Perl
5 6 (19.35%) SQL
6 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.45%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.23%) C#
7 1 (3.23%) Go
Qualifications
1 24 (77.42%) Security Cleared
2 14 (45.16%) SC Cleared
3 9 (29.03%) AWS Certification
3 9 (29.03%) Azure Certification
4 8 (25.81%) Degree
5 5 (16.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (9.68%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 28 (90.32%) Docker
2 13 (41.94%) Active Directory
3 8 (25.81%) DFS Replication
4 4 (12.90%) Dovecot
4 4 (12.90%) Postfix
4 4 (12.90%) Squid
5 1 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (87.10%) Terraform
2 17 (54.84%) Grafana
2 17 (54.84%) Prometheus
3 10 (32.26%) Ansible
3 10 (32.26%) Kubernetes
4 6 (19.35%) Nessus
5 5 (16.13%) Proxmox
6 2 (6.45%) Puppet
7 1 (3.23%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 16 (51.61%) ServiceNow
2 4 (12.90%) Jaspersoft
3 2 (6.45%) VMware
4 1 (3.23%) Juniper
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.23%) Sophos