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 19 October 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 181 162
Rank change year-on-year +56 -19 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 43 40 31
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.35% 0.73% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.45% 0.77% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 27 39 27
10th Percentile £50,750 £42,000 £46,500
25th Percentile £63,750 - £56,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -14.29% +3.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,620 £82,500
90th Percentile £89,500 £74,000 £106,289
England median annual salary £70,000 £68,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% -9.33% -3.23%

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 2,956 5,222 3,432
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 94.72% 95.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,923 2,754 2,749
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £34,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,001 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% -4.17% -

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 19 October 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 19 October 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 +11.73% 4
Solihull 0 9 - -
Herefordshire - 4 £87,500 - 3
Staffordshire - 4 £51,500 - 5
Coventry +6 3 £70,000 - 3
Warwickshire - 2 £67,500 - 3
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 October 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 43 (100.00%) DevOps
2 39 (90.70%) AWS
3 37 (86.05%) Terraform
4 35 (81.40%) Docker
5 33 (76.74%) Python
6 32 (74.42%) Linux
7 29 (67.44%) Jenkins
8 26 (60.47%) Configuration Management
8 26 (60.47%) PowerShell
8 26 (60.47%) Security Cleared
9 25 (58.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 25 (58.14%) Amazon EC2
9 25 (58.14%) Amazon ELB
9 25 (58.14%) Amazon RDS
9 25 (58.14%) Amazon S3
9 25 (58.14%) AWS KMS
9 25 (58.14%) Cloud Security
9 25 (58.14%) DNS
9 25 (58.14%) FTP
9 25 (58.14%) Groovy
9 25 (58.14%) HTTP
9 25 (58.14%) SMTP
9 25 (58.14%) SSH
9 25 (58.14%) Vagrant
9 25 (58.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 25 (58.14%) VMS
10 24 (55.81%) Git
10 24 (55.81%) Grafana
11 23 (53.49%) Amazon Linux
11 23 (53.49%) Change Management

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 23 (53.49%) Confluence
2 8 (18.60%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (18.60%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 39 (90.70%) AWS
2 25 (58.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 25 (58.14%) Amazon EC2
2 25 (58.14%) Amazon ELB
2 25 (58.14%) Amazon S3
2 25 (58.14%) AWS KMS
2 25 (58.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 17 (39.53%) Amazon Glacier
3 17 (39.53%) Azure
4 8 (18.60%) Amazon ECS
4 8 (18.60%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (18.60%) Route 53
5 6 (13.95%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (11.63%) GitHub
6 5 (11.63%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (9.30%) Azure AKS
7 4 (9.30%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (6.98%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (6.98%) Datadog
8 3 (6.98%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 25 (58.14%) DNS
1 25 (58.14%) FTP
1 25 (58.14%) HTTP
1 25 (58.14%) SMTP
1 25 (58.14%) SSH
2 23 (53.49%) Firewall
3 8 (18.60%) IMAP
3 8 (18.60%) OpenLDAP
4 3 (6.98%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (58.14%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (20.93%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (18.60%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.33%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.33%) MySQL
5 1 (2.33%) Neo4j
5 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.33%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 29 (67.44%) Jenkins
2 25 (58.14%) Vagrant
3 24 (55.81%) Git
4 23 (53.49%) JIRA
5 4 (9.30%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (4.65%) Subversion
7 1 (2.33%) Snyk
7 1 (2.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 18 (41.86%) Public Sector
2 15 (34.88%) Social Skills
3 14 (32.56%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (6.98%) Advertising
5 2 (4.65%) Automotive
5 2 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.60%) LDAP
2 3 (6.98%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.33%) .NET
3 1 (2.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 12 (27.91%) Replication
2 1 (2.33%) Derivative
2 1 (2.33%) PKI
2 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (74.42%) Linux
2 25 (58.14%) VMS
3 23 (53.49%) Amazon Linux
4 14 (32.56%) Windows
5 8 (18.60%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (100.00%) DevOps
2 26 (60.47%) Configuration Management
3 25 (58.14%) Cloud Security
4 23 (53.49%) Change Management
4 23 (53.49%) Patch Management
5 18 (41.86%) CI/CD
5 18 (41.86%) Platform Engineering
6 8 (18.60%) Performance Tuning
7 7 (16.28%) Agile
7 7 (16.28%) Containerisation
8 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (9.30%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (9.30%) Process Improvement
10 4 (9.30%) Servant Leadership
10 4 (9.30%) Workshop Facilitation
11 3 (6.98%) RBAC
11 3 (6.98%) Root Cause Analysis
11 3 (6.98%) Runbook
11 3 (6.98%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 33 (76.74%) Python
2 26 (60.47%) PowerShell
3 25 (58.14%) Groovy
4 18 (41.86%) Java
5 17 (39.53%) Perl
6 8 (18.60%) SQL
7 4 (9.30%) Bash
8 3 (6.98%) Bicep
9 2 (4.65%) C#
9 2 (4.65%) Go
9 2 (4.65%) JavaScript
9 2 (4.65%) Ruby
10 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (60.47%) Security Cleared
2 23 (53.49%) SC Cleared
3 16 (37.21%) AWS Certification
4 13 (30.23%) Azure Certification
5 12 (27.91%) Degree
6 3 (6.98%) DV Cleared
6 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 35 (81.40%) Docker
2 15 (34.88%) Active Directory
3 12 (27.91%) DFS Replication
4 8 (18.60%) Dovecot
4 8 (18.60%) Postfix
4 8 (18.60%) Squid
Systems Management
1 37 (86.05%) Terraform
2 24 (55.81%) Grafana
3 23 (53.49%) Prometheus
4 13 (30.23%) Kubernetes
5 8 (18.60%) Nessus
5 8 (18.60%) Proxmox
6 6 (13.95%) Ansible
7 2 (4.65%) Argo
7 2 (4.65%) Nagios
8 1 (2.33%) Kustomize
8 1 (2.33%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (53.49%) ServiceNow
2 8 (18.60%) Jaspersoft
3 4 (9.30%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.98%) LogicMonitor
4 3 (6.98%) SolarWinds
5 2 (4.65%) Oracle
6 1 (2.33%) Google