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 25 January 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 161 184
Rank change year-on-year +28 +23 -23
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 39 38 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.71% 0.93% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 1.00% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 29 37 19
10th Percentile £50,000 £46,718 £24,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +27.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £60,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £71,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -

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 4,909 3,790 4,480
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.89% 92.64% 93.88%
Number of salaries quoted 2,852 1,818 3,699
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £33,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £49,532
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.99% -5.65%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 25 January 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 25 January 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
Birmingham +23 11 £65,000 -7.14% 5
Staffordshire - 10 £65,000 - 2
Warwickshire - 8 £85,000 -
Solihull +9 4 - -
Coventry -5 3 £70,000 -
Herefordshire -8 3 £100,000 +21.21%
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 January 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 39 (100.00%) DevOps
2 23 (58.97%) AWS
2 23 (58.97%) Python
3 19 (48.72%) CI/CD
4 18 (46.15%) Terraform
5 13 (33.33%) Azure
5 13 (33.33%) Docker
6 12 (30.77%) Linux
7 11 (28.21%) Jenkins
8 10 (25.64%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (25.64%) Git
8 10 (25.64%) Security Cleared
9 9 (23.08%) Kubernetes
10 8 (20.51%) Groovy
10 8 (20.51%) PowerShell
11 7 (17.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (17.95%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (17.95%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (17.95%) Amazon ELB
11 7 (17.95%) Amazon S3
11 7 (17.95%) AWS KMS
11 7 (17.95%) Cloud Security
11 7 (17.95%) Configuration Management
11 7 (17.95%) DNS
11 7 (17.95%) FTP
11 7 (17.95%) HTTP
11 7 (17.95%) SC Cleared
11 7 (17.95%) SMTP
11 7 (17.95%) SSH
11 7 (17.95%) Vagrant

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 5 (12.82%) Confluence
2 3 (7.69%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 23 (58.97%) AWS
2 13 (33.33%) Azure
3 7 (17.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (17.95%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (17.95%) Amazon EKS
3 7 (17.95%) Amazon ELB
3 7 (17.95%) Amazon S3
3 7 (17.95%) AWS KMS
3 7 (17.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 6 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (10.26%) Amazon Glacier
5 4 (10.26%) GitHub
5 4 (10.26%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (7.69%) Azure AKS
6 3 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (7.69%) Datadog
6 3 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (7.69%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.95%) DNS
1 7 (17.95%) FTP
1 7 (17.95%) HTTP
1 7 (17.95%) SMTP
1 7 (17.95%) SSH
2 5 (12.82%) Firewall
3 3 (7.69%) IMAP
3 3 (7.69%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.64%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (5.13%) Delta Lake
4 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.56%) Metadata
5 1 (2.56%) MySQL
5 1 (2.56%) Neo4j
5 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.56%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 11 (28.21%) Jenkins
2 10 (25.64%) Git
3 7 (17.95%) Vagrant
4 5 (12.82%) JIRA
5 2 (5.13%) Subversion
6 1 (2.56%) Maven
6 1 (2.56%) Snyk
6 1 (2.56%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.82%) Presentation Skills
2 5 (12.82%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.69%) ARM Templates
1 3 (7.69%) AWS CDK
1 3 (7.69%) LDAP
2 1 (2.56%) .NET
2 1 (2.56%) JSON
2 1 (2.56%) React
2 1 (2.56%) SLSA
2 1 (2.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.69%) Product Ownership
1 3 (7.69%) Replication
2 2 (5.13%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (2.56%) Derivative
3 1 (2.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (30.77%) Linux
2 7 (17.95%) VMS
3 5 (12.82%) Amazon Linux
3 5 (12.82%) Windows
4 3 (7.69%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (100.00%) DevOps
2 19 (48.72%) CI/CD
3 7 (17.95%) Cloud Security
3 7 (17.95%) Configuration Management
4 6 (15.38%) Agile
4 6 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (12.82%) Change Management
5 5 (12.82%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (12.82%) Patch Management
6 4 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (7.69%) Containerisation
7 3 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (7.69%) Product Backlog
7 3 (7.69%) RBAC
7 3 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (7.69%) Runbook
7 3 (7.69%) SIEM
7 3 (7.69%) Task Automation
8 2 (5.13%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (58.97%) Python
2 8 (20.51%) Groovy
2 8 (20.51%) PowerShell
3 5 (12.82%) Bash
3 5 (12.82%) Java
4 4 (10.26%) Perl
5 3 (7.69%) Bicep
5 3 (7.69%) Go
5 3 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.69%) SQL
6 2 (5.13%) C#
6 2 (5.13%) Ruby
7 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (25.64%) Security Cleared
2 7 (17.95%) SC Cleared
3 6 (15.38%) AWS Certification
4 3 (7.69%) Azure Certification
4 3 (7.69%) Degree
4 3 (7.69%) DV Cleared
4 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 13 (33.33%) Docker
2 3 (7.69%) DFS Replication
2 3 (7.69%) Dovecot
2 3 (7.69%) Postfix
2 3 (7.69%) Squid
3 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (46.15%) Terraform
2 9 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 6 (15.38%) Grafana
4 5 (12.82%) Prometheus
5 3 (7.69%) Nessus
5 3 (7.69%) Proxmox
6 2 (5.13%) Ansible
6 2 (5.13%) Argo
6 2 (5.13%) Nagios
7 1 (2.56%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 5 (12.82%) ServiceNow
2 3 (7.69%) Jaspersoft
2 3 (7.69%) LogicMonitor
2 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.69%) SolarWinds
3 2 (5.13%) Oracle
4 1 (2.56%) Google
4 1 (2.56%) Sonatype