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 18 March 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 154 198
Rank change year-on-year +3 +44 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 33 30 31
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.49% 0.85% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.95% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 29 29 27
10th Percentile £50,600 £38,500 £24,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +42.86% -24.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 - £70,000
90th Percentile £96,000 £86,500 £88,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -15.15% +13.79% -6.45%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 6,073 3,167 5,842
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.89% 89.56% 93.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3,693 1,809 4,632
10th Percentile £29,750 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £38,754 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £63,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.69%

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 18 March 2026.

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 18 March 2026. 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
Staffordshire - 9 £70,000 - 1
Birmingham +11 8 £65,000 +0.35% 5
Warwickshire - 8 £85,000 - 2
Solihull +12 3 £95,000 - 1
Herefordshire -15 3 £100,000 +21.21%
Coventry - 2 £70,000 -
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 March 2026, 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 33 (100.00%) DevOps
2 14 (42.42%) AWS
2 14 (42.42%) CI/CD
2 14 (42.42%) Python
3 10 (30.30%) Azure
4 9 (27.27%) Terraform
5 7 (21.21%) Docker
5 7 (21.21%) Kubernetes
6 6 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (15.15%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (15.15%) Git
8 4 (12.12%) Agile
8 4 (12.12%) Bash
8 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (12.12%) Linux
9 3 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (9.09%) AWS CDK
9 3 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (9.09%) DV Cleared
9 3 (9.09%) GitHub
9 3 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (9.09%) Go
9 3 (9.09%) JavaScript
9 3 (9.09%) Jenkins
9 3 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
9 3 (9.09%) Product Backlog
9 3 (9.09%) Security Cleared

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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (42.42%) AWS
2 10 (30.30%) Azure
3 6 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (15.15%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (9.09%) GitHub
5 3 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (9.09%) Serverless
6 2 (6.06%) Azure AKS
6 2 (6.06%) Datadog
7 1 (3.03%) GCP
7 1 (3.03%) SaaS
7 1 (3.03%) SonarCloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.06%) Delta Lake
3 1 (3.03%) Metadata
3 1 (3.03%) MySQL
3 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.03%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Git
2 3 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.03%) Maven
3 1 (3.03%) Snyk
3 1 (3.03%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (3.03%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) AWS CDK
2 2 (6.06%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.03%) .NET
3 1 (3.03%) JSON
3 1 (3.03%) React
3 1 (3.03%) SLSA
3 1 (3.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.06%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (3.03%) Derivative
3 1 (3.03%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.12%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (100.00%) DevOps
2 14 (42.42%) CI/CD
3 4 (12.12%) Agile
3 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (9.09%) Product Backlog
4 3 (9.09%) SIEM
5 2 (6.06%) Containerisation
5 2 (6.06%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (6.06%) RBAC
5 2 (6.06%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (6.06%) Runbook
5 2 (6.06%) Task Automation
6 1 (3.03%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (3.03%) Microservices
6 1 (3.03%) Process Improvement
6 1 (3.03%) Software Engineering
6 1 (3.03%) Validation
6 1 (3.03%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 14 (42.42%) Python
2 4 (12.12%) Bash
3 3 (9.09%) Go
3 3 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.06%) Bicep
4 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.03%) Groovy
5 1 (3.03%) Java
5 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (9.09%) DV Cleared
1 3 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 7 (21.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (27.27%) Terraform
2 7 (21.21%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.03%) Ansible
3 1 (3.03%) Argo
Vendors
1 2 (6.06%) LogicMonitor
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
1 2 (6.06%) SolarWinds
2 1 (3.03%) Google
2 1 (3.03%) Sonatype