DevOps Engineer Job Trends in the West Midlands

Development Operations Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 171 153
Rank change year-on-year +34 -18 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 41 43 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.79% 0.98% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 1.05% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 31 42 16
10th Percentile £50,750 £40,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% +1.54% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £89,385
90th Percentile £100,000 - £106,289
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -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 4,649 4,114 2,865
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.40% 93.29% 93.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,652 1,983 2,438
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £33,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,500 £67,500 £63,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,975
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies 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 23 December 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 23 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
Birmingham +21 14 £70,000 +5.84% 14
Staffordshire - 8 £55,750 - 11
Warwickshire - 8 £85,000 -
Solihull +2 4 - -
Herefordshire -6 4 £95,000 +15.15%
Coventry -1 3 £70,000 - 5
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 23 December 2025, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West Midlands region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 41 (100.00%) DevOps
2 26 (63.41%) AWS
3 25 (60.98%) Python
4 23 (56.10%) Terraform
5 20 (48.78%) Docker
6 19 (46.34%) Linux
7 17 (41.46%) CI/CD
8 15 (36.59%) Jenkins
8 15 (36.59%) Security Cleared
9 13 (31.71%) PowerShell
10 12 (29.27%) Azure
10 12 (29.27%) Kubernetes
11 11 (26.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (26.83%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (26.83%) Amazon ELB
11 11 (26.83%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (26.83%) Amazon S3
11 11 (26.83%) AWS KMS
11 11 (26.83%) Cloud Security
11 11 (26.83%) Configuration Management
11 11 (26.83%) DNS
11 11 (26.83%) FTP
11 11 (26.83%) Git
11 11 (26.83%) Groovy
11 11 (26.83%) HTTP
11 11 (26.83%) SC Cleared
11 11 (26.83%) SMTP
11 11 (26.83%) SSH
11 11 (26.83%) Vagrant
11 11 (26.83%) Virtual Private Cloud

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (21.95%) Confluence
2 4 (9.76%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 26 (63.41%) AWS
2 12 (29.27%) Azure
3 11 (26.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 11 (26.83%) Amazon EC2
3 11 (26.83%) Amazon ELB
3 11 (26.83%) Amazon S3
3 11 (26.83%) AWS KMS
3 11 (26.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 7 (17.07%) Amazon Glacier
5 5 (12.20%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (12.20%) GitHub
5 5 (12.20%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (9.76%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (9.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (9.76%) Azure AKS
6 4 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (9.76%) Datadog
6 4 (9.76%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (9.76%) Route 53
7 2 (4.88%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (26.83%) DNS
1 11 (26.83%) FTP
1 11 (26.83%) HTTP
1 11 (26.83%) SMTP
1 11 (26.83%) SSH
2 9 (21.95%) Firewall
3 4 (9.76%) IMAP
3 4 (9.76%) OpenLDAP
4 3 (7.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (26.83%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (9.76%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (4.88%) Delta Lake
4 2 (4.88%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.44%) MySQL
5 1 (2.44%) Neo4j
5 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.44%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 15 (36.59%) Jenkins
2 11 (26.83%) Git
2 11 (26.83%) Vagrant
3 9 (21.95%) JIRA
4 2 (4.88%) Subversion
5 1 (2.44%) Snyk
General
1 9 (21.95%) Public Sector
2 7 (17.07%) Social Skills
3 6 (14.63%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (7.32%) Advertising
5 2 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.76%) ARM Templates
1 4 (9.76%) LDAP
2 1 (2.44%) .NET
2 1 (2.44%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.76%) Replication
2 3 (7.32%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.88%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.44%) Derivative
4 1 (2.44%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (46.34%) Linux
2 11 (26.83%) VMS
3 9 (21.95%) Amazon Linux
4 6 (14.63%) Windows
5 4 (9.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (100.00%) DevOps
2 17 (41.46%) CI/CD
3 11 (26.83%) Cloud Security
3 11 (26.83%) Configuration Management
4 10 (24.39%) Platform Engineering
5 9 (21.95%) Change Management
5 9 (21.95%) Patch Management
6 6 (14.63%) Agile
6 6 (14.63%) Containerisation
6 6 (14.63%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (9.76%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (9.76%) RBAC
8 4 (9.76%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (9.76%) Runbook
8 4 (9.76%) Task Automation
9 3 (7.32%) Product Backlog
9 3 (7.32%) SIEM
10 2 (4.88%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (60.98%) Python
2 13 (31.71%) PowerShell
3 11 (26.83%) Groovy
4 8 (19.51%) Java
5 7 (17.07%) Perl
6 6 (14.63%) Bash
7 4 (9.76%) Bicep
7 4 (9.76%) Go
7 4 (9.76%) JavaScript
7 4 (9.76%) SQL
8 2 (4.88%) C#
8 2 (4.88%) Ruby
9 1 (2.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (36.59%) Security Cleared
2 11 (26.83%) SC Cleared
3 7 (17.07%) AWS Certification
4 4 (9.76%) Azure Certification
4 4 (9.76%) Degree
4 4 (9.76%) DV Cleared
4 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 20 (48.78%) Docker
2 5 (12.20%) Active Directory
3 4 (9.76%) DFS Replication
3 4 (9.76%) Dovecot
3 4 (9.76%) Postfix
3 4 (9.76%) Squid
Systems Management
1 23 (56.10%) Terraform
2 12 (29.27%) Kubernetes
3 10 (24.39%) Grafana
4 9 (21.95%) Prometheus
5 4 (9.76%) Nessus
5 4 (9.76%) Proxmox
6 2 (4.88%) Ansible
6 2 (4.88%) Argo
6 2 (4.88%) Nagios
7 1 (2.44%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 9 (21.95%) ServiceNow
2 4 (9.76%) Jaspersoft
2 4 (9.76%) LogicMonitor
2 4 (9.76%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.76%) SolarWinds
3 2 (4.88%) Oracle
4 1 (2.44%) Google