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 £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 129 185
Rank change year-on-year -12 +56 -20
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 72 40 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.80% 1.23% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 1.34% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 58 24 29
10th Percentile £63,289 £50,750 £43,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% +20.83% -14.29%
75th Percentile £90,000 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,875 £72,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -10.00%

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 8,351 2,975 5,754
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.34% 91.40% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 6,112 1,990 3,325
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,591 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £79,225
England median annual salary £59,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.18% - -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 18 September 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 September 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 -12 37 £81,887 +12.95% 11
Herefordshire -12 8 £100,000 +11.11% 2
Coventry -13 8 - - 1
Worcestershire - 7 £70,000 - 2
Warwickshire -11 5 £85,000 +25.93% 1
Solihull +2 3 £95,000 +100.00%
Staffordshire +4 2 £72,500 +40.78%
Shropshire - 1 £44,000 - 1
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 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 72 (100.00%) DevOps
2 32 (44.44%) Azure
3 24 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (29.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (26.39%) Terraform
6 16 (22.22%) CI/CD
7 15 (20.83%) Platform Engineering
8 13 (18.06%) SQL
9 12 (16.67%) API Management
9 12 (16.67%) AWS
9 12 (16.67%) Azure App Service
9 12 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
9 12 (16.67%) PaaS
10 11 (15.28%) Containerisation
11 10 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (13.89%) Security Cleared
12 9 (12.50%) DevSecOps
12 9 (12.50%) DV Cleared
13 7 (9.72%) Linux
13 7 (9.72%) Test Automation
14 6 (8.33%) Agile
14 6 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
14 6 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 6 (8.33%) Kubernetes
14 6 (8.33%) Mentoring
14 6 (8.33%) Observability
14 6 (8.33%) Pega
15 5 (6.94%) Argo
15 5 (6.94%) Coaching
15 5 (6.94%) Continuous Delivery

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 1 (1.39%) nginx
1 1 (1.39%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 1 (1.39%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 32 (44.44%) Azure
2 24 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (16.67%) AWS
3 12 (16.67%) Azure App Service
3 12 (16.67%) PaaS
4 4 (5.56%) GCP
4 4 (5.56%) GitHub
5 3 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.78%) Azure AKS
6 2 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.39%) HTTP
1 1 (1.39%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.39%) GIS
2 1 (1.39%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (6.94%) GitLab
2 4 (5.56%) Git
3 3 (4.17%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 5 (6.94%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.39%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (1.39%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (26.39%) Terraform
2 1 (1.39%) AWS CDK
2 1 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.39%) Java SE
2 1 (1.39%) Loki
2 1 (1.39%) Node.js
2 1 (1.39%) OpenLayers
2 1 (1.39%) RESTful
2 1 (1.39%) Spring
2 1 (1.39%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.39%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.72%) Linux
2 4 (5.56%) Unix
2 4 (5.56%) Windows
3 1 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.39%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (100.00%) DevOps
2 21 (29.17%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 15 (20.83%) Platform Engineering
5 12 (16.67%) API Management
6 11 (15.28%) Containerisation
7 10 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (12.50%) DevSecOps
9 7 (9.72%) Test Automation
10 6 (8.33%) Agile
10 6 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 6 (8.33%) Mentoring
10 6 (8.33%) Observability
11 5 (6.94%) Coaching
11 5 (6.94%) Continuous Delivery
12 4 (5.56%) Cloud Security
12 4 (5.56%) Scrum
12 4 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 3 (4.17%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (18.06%) SQL
2 4 (5.56%) Python
3 3 (4.17%) Java
4 2 (2.78%) Bash
5 1 (1.39%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (13.89%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 4 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.78%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.39%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.94%) QA
System Software
1 5 (6.94%) Docker
2 1 (1.39%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.94%) Argo
3 3 (4.17%) Grafana
3 3 (4.17%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.39%) Ansible
4 1 (1.39%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 6 (8.33%) Pega
2 2 (2.78%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.39%) Databricks
3 1 (1.39%) Google
3 1 (1.39%) Oracle
3 1 (1.39%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.39%) VMware