DevOps Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

The median annual salary for a DevOps Engineer was £47,500 in advertised job vacancies in the West Midlands during the 3 months to 28 June 2017.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

Development Operations Engineer England / West Midlands
Location	3 months to 28 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	213	228	203
Rank change year-on-year	+15	-25
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer	16	13	30
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands	0.31%	0.21%	0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category	0.32%	0.22%	0.54%
Number of salaries quoted	13	12	21
Median salary	£47,500	£55,000	£50,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	-13.63%	+10.00%
90% offered a salary of more than	£35,250	£32,300	£43,750
10% offered a salary of more than	£70,750	£64,750	£62,500
UK excluding London median salary	£50,000	£47,500	£50,000
% change year-on-year	+5.26%	-5.00%

The next table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all job roles in permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title. As such, the figures in the first row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

IT Job Roles West Midlands
Permanent job vacancies with a job title containing a recognized job role	4976	5936	5505
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands	96.85%	96.24%	96.80%
Number of salaries quoted	18330	19769	21754
Median salary	£40,000	£38,000	£40,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	+5.26%	-5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than	£22,750	£22,750	£22,500
10% offered a salary of more than	£58,750	£66,750	£61,250
UK excluding London median salary	£42,500	£41,000	£40,000
% change year-on-year	+3.65%	+2.50%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a percentage 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

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT 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

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the West Midlands over the 3 months to 28 June 2017.

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 3 months to 28 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Median Salary Last 3 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
Warwickshire	+19	10	£47,500	-9.52%	1
Birmingham	+7	4	£51,250	-6.81%	8
Staffordshire	+14	1	£23,000	-32.35%	1
Shropshire	+3	1	£65,000	+8.33%	1
DevOps Engineer England

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

For the 6 months to 28 June 2017, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads across the West Midlands region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1	27 (100.00%)	DevOps
2	21 (77.78%)	Amazon AWS
3	18 (66.67%)	Docker
4	15 (55.56%)	Apache Cassandra
4	15 (55.56%)	Configuration Management
5	14 (51.85%)	Linux
6	12 (44.44%)	Java
6	12 (44.44%)	Puppet
6	12 (44.44%)	Microsoft Azure
7	11 (40.74%)	Git (software)
7	11 (40.74%)	Test Automation
7	11 (40.74%)	Python
7	11 (40.74%)	Agile Software Development
7	11 (40.74%)	Kubernetes
7	11 (40.74%)	Continuous Delivery

8	10 (37.04%)	Terraform
8	10 (37.04%)	Consul
8	10 (37.04%)	AWS CloudFormation
8	10 (37.04%)	Software Engineering
8	10 (37.04%)	Web Services
8	10 (37.04%)	JavaScript
8	10 (37.04%)	Ruby
9	9 (33.33%)	Continuous Integration
9	9 (33.33%)	PowerShell
9	9 (33.33%)	HTML
9	9 (33.33%)	Node.js
9	9 (33.33%)	Opscode Chef
10	8 (29.63%)	New Relic
10	8 (29.63%)	StatsD
10	8 (29.63%)	IaaS

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring IT Skills in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	1 (3.70%)	OpenStack

Cloud Services
1	21 (77.78%)	Amazon AWS
2	12 (44.44%)	Microsoft Azure
3	10 (37.04%)	AWS CloudFormation
4	8 (29.63%)	IaaS
4	8 (29.63%)	PaaS
5	1 (3.70%)	Google Cloud Platform
5	1 (3.70%)	OpenShift

Communications & Networking
1	7 (25.93%)	Internet
2	1 (3.70%)	DNS
2	1 (3.70%)	NetScaler

Database & Business Intelligence
1	15 (55.56%)	Apache Cassandra
2	7 (25.93%)	MongoDB
2	7 (25.93%)	NoSQL
3	2 (7.41%)	SQL Server

Development Applications
1	11 (40.74%)	Git (software)
2	8 (29.63%)	Vagrant
3	3 (11.11%)	Atlassian Bamboo
3	3 (11.11%)	TeamCity
4	2 (7.41%)	Jenkins
4	2 (7.41%)	NuGet
4	2 (7.41%)	Octopus Deploy
4	2 (7.41%)	SonarQube
4	2 (7.41%)	Team Foundation Server
5	1 (3.70%)	Bitbucket
5	1 (3.70%)	JIRA

General
1	2 (7.41%)	Marketing

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	10 (37.04%)	Web Services
2	9 (33.33%)	HTML
2	9 (33.33%)	Node.js
3	8 (29.63%)	ActiveMQ
3	8 (29.63%)	HornetQ
3	8 (29.63%)	JMS
3	8 (29.63%)	Kafka
3	8 (29.63%)	RESTful
4	3 (11.11%)	.NET
4	3 (11.11%)	ASP.NET
5	1 (3.70%)	AngularJS
5	1 (3.70%)	CSS
5	1 (3.70%)	React
5	1 (3.70%)	XHTML
5	1 (3.70%)	XML

Miscellaneous
1	8 (29.63%)	Analytical Skills
2	6 (22.22%)	Cloud Native
2	6 (22.22%)	Internet of Things
3	2 (7.41%)	Linux Command Line
4	1 (3.70%)	Data Centre
4	1 (3.70%)	Fintech
4	1 (3.70%)	Private Cloud
4	1 (3.70%)	Public Cloud
4	1 (3.70%)	Robotics
4	1 (3.70%)	Virtual Team

Operating Systems
1	14 (51.85%)	Linux
2	8 (29.63%)	CentOS
2	8 (29.63%)	Ubuntu
3	2 (7.41%)	Windows
3	2 (7.41%)	Windows Server
4	1 (3.70%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Processes & Methodologies
1	27 (100.00%)	DevOps
2	15 (55.56%)	Configuration Management
3	11 (40.74%)	Agile Software Development
3	11 (40.74%)	Continuous Delivery
3	11 (40.74%)	Test Automation
4	10 (37.04%)	Software Engineering
5	9 (33.33%)	Continuous Integration
6	8 (29.63%)	Microservices
6	8 (29.63%)	Scrum
7	7 (25.93%)	Release Automation
8	6 (22.22%)	Use Case
8	6 (22.22%)	Virtual Environments
9	3 (11.11%)	E-Commerce
9	3 (11.11%)	SDLC
10	2 (7.41%)	Content Management
10	2 (7.41%)	Digital Marketing
10	2 (7.41%)	Open Source
10	2 (7.41%)	Protective Monitoring
10	2 (7.41%)	Target Operating Model
11	1 (3.70%)	User Acceptance Testing

Programming Languages
1	12 (44.44%)	Java
2	11 (40.74%)	Python
3	10 (37.04%)	JavaScript
3	10 (37.04%)	Ruby
4	9 (33.33%)	PowerShell
5	8 (29.63%)	Bash Shell
5	8 (29.63%)	Groovy
5	8 (29.63%)	Scala
6	3 (11.11%)	C#
7	2 (7.41%)	Go
8	1 (3.70%)	PHP

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	1 (3.70%)	PCI DSS

System Software
1	18 (66.67%)	Docker
2	8 (29.63%)	VirtualBox
2	8 (29.63%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	2 (7.41%)	etcd
3	2 (7.41%)	flannel

Systems Management
1	12 (44.44%)	Puppet
2	11 (40.74%)	Kubernetes
3	10 (37.04%)	Consul
3	10 (37.04%)	Terraform
4	9 (33.33%)	Opscode Chef
5	8 (29.63%)	Docker Swarm
5	8 (29.63%)	Mesos
5	8 (29.63%)	Nagios
5	8 (29.63%)	StatsD
6	4 (14.81%)	Ansible
7	2 (7.41%)	Salt
7	2 (7.41%)	Sysdig
8	1 (3.70%)	CloudForms