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 £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 188 161
Rank change year-on-year +56 -27 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 40 30 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.23% 0.50% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.34% 0.52% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 24 29 31
10th Percentile £50,750 £43,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £63,750 - £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £80,625
90th Percentile £86,875 £72,500 £106,289
England median annual salary £70,000 £68,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% -9.33% -

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 2,977 5,744 3,591
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.40% 94.90% 92.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,990 3,336 2,817
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
75th Percentile £65,188 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £79,225 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

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

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 September 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 18 September 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 +38 20 £72,500 +10.75% 4
Solihull +6 10 £47,500 -28.03%
Herefordshire - 3 £90,000 - 2
Staffordshire - 3 £51,500 - 2
Warwickshire - 2 £67,500 - 1
Coventry +5 1 £70,000 - 1
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 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 40 (100.00%) DevOps
2 38 (95.00%) AWS
3 36 (90.00%) Terraform
4 32 (80.00%) Docker
5 31 (77.50%) Linux
6 30 (75.00%) Python
7 29 (72.50%) Jenkins
8 26 (65.00%) Amazon S3
8 26 (65.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 26 (65.00%) Configuration Management
8 26 (65.00%) Security Cleared
8 26 (65.00%) AWS KMS
9 25 (62.50%) Cloud Security
9 25 (62.50%) PowerShell
9 25 (62.50%) Groovy
9 25 (62.50%) Amazon EC2
9 25 (62.50%) SSH
9 25 (62.50%) DNS
9 25 (62.50%) VMS
9 25 (62.50%) SMTP
9 25 (62.50%) FTP
9 25 (62.50%) HTTP
9 25 (62.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 25 (62.50%) Amazon ELB
9 25 (62.50%) Amazon RDS
9 25 (62.50%) Vagrant
10 24 (60.00%) Grafana
10 24 (60.00%) Patch Management
10 24 (60.00%) Firewall
10 24 (60.00%) Git

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 23 (57.50%) Confluence
2 8 (20.00%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (22.50%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 38 (95.00%) AWS
2 26 (65.00%) Amazon S3
2 26 (65.00%) AWS KMS
2 26 (65.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 25 (62.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 25 (62.50%) Amazon EC2
3 25 (62.50%) Amazon ELB
4 17 (42.50%) Amazon Glacier
4 17 (42.50%) Azure
5 9 (22.50%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (20.00%) Route 53
7 4 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (7.50%) Azure AKS
8 3 (7.50%) GitHub
8 3 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (5.00%) Datadog
9 2 (5.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 25 (62.50%) DNS
1 25 (62.50%) FTP
1 25 (62.50%) HTTP
1 25 (62.50%) SMTP
1 25 (62.50%) SSH
2 24 (60.00%) Firewall
3 8 (20.00%) IMAP
3 8 (20.00%) OpenLDAP
4 3 (7.50%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (62.50%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.50%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 29 (72.50%) Jenkins
2 25 (62.50%) Vagrant
3 24 (60.00%) Git
4 23 (57.50%) JIRA
5 4 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (5.00%) Subversion
7 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (2.50%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 18 (45.00%) Public Sector
2 14 (35.00%) Presentation Skills
2 14 (35.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Advertising
4 2 (5.00%) Automotive
4 2 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.00%) LDAP
2 2 (5.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.50%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 12 (30.00%) Replication
2 1 (2.50%) N-Tier
2 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (77.50%) Linux
2 25 (62.50%) VMS
3 23 (57.50%) Amazon Linux
4 14 (35.00%) Windows
5 9 (22.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (100.00%) DevOps
2 26 (65.00%) Configuration Management
3 25 (62.50%) Cloud Security
4 24 (60.00%) Patch Management
5 23 (57.50%) Change Management
6 17 (42.50%) Platform Engineering
7 14 (35.00%) CI/CD
8 8 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (15.00%) Agile
10 5 (12.50%) Containerisation
10 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
11 4 (10.00%) Process Improvement
11 4 (10.00%) Servant Leadership
11 4 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
12 3 (7.50%) Continuous Integration
12 3 (7.50%) OO
12 3 (7.50%) Problem-Solving
12 3 (7.50%) Test Automation
13 2 (5.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 30 (75.00%) Python
2 25 (62.50%) Groovy
2 25 (62.50%) PowerShell
3 18 (45.00%) Java
4 17 (42.50%) Perl
5 9 (22.50%) SQL
6 3 (7.50%) C#
7 2 (5.00%) Bash
7 2 (5.00%) Bicep
7 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
7 2 (5.00%) Ruby
8 1 (2.50%) Go
8 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (65.00%) Security Cleared
2 23 (57.50%) SC Cleared
3 16 (40.00%) AWS Certification
4 13 (32.50%) Azure Certification
5 12 (30.00%) Degree
6 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared
6 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 32 (80.00%) Docker
2 16 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 12 (30.00%) DFS Replication
4 8 (20.00%) Dovecot
4 8 (20.00%) Postfix
4 8 (20.00%) Squid
5 1 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (90.00%) Terraform
2 24 (60.00%) Grafana
3 23 (57.50%) Prometheus
4 9 (22.50%) Kubernetes
4 9 (22.50%) Nessus
4 9 (22.50%) Proxmox
5 6 (15.00%) Ansible
6 2 (5.00%) Nagios
7 1 (2.50%) Argo
7 1 (2.50%) Kustomize
7 1 (2.50%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (57.50%) ServiceNow
2 8 (20.00%) Jaspersoft
3 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.00%) LogicMonitor
4 2 (5.00%) Oracle
4 2 (5.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.50%) Juniper
5 1 (2.50%) Salesforce