DevOps Platform Engineer Job Trends in the West Midlands

Platform Engineer - DevOps
England > West Midlands

The median Platform Engineer - DevOps salary in the West Midlands is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 December 2025.

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

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Platform Engineer 5 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.096% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £86,000 - -
25th Percentile £91,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £82,500 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.45% -3.13% +10.34%

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 4,649 4,114 2,865
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.40% 93.29% 93.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,652 1,983 2,438
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £33,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,500 £67,500 £63,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,975
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

DevOps Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Platform Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

DevOps Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

DevOps Platform Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Platform Engineer job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Platform Engineer job vacancies in the West Midlands

DevOps Platform Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Platform Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps Platform Engineer in the West Midlands

DevOps Platform 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 Platform Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 December 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
Herefordshire - 3 £100,000 -
Birmingham - 2 - - 1
DevOps Platform Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 December 2025, DevOps Platform 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 Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) Docker
2 4 (80.00%) Python
3 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon ELB
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (40.00%) AWS
4 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (40.00%) AWS KMS
4 2 (40.00%) Azure
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (40.00%) Bash
4 2 (40.00%) Change Management
4 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (40.00%) Confluence
4 2 (40.00%) Degree
4 2 (40.00%) Delta Lake
4 2 (40.00%) DFS Replication
4 2 (40.00%) DNS

DevOps Platform 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 2 (40.00%) Confluence
1 2 (40.00%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon ELB
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS KMS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (40.00%) Route 53
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) FTP
1 2 (40.00%) HTTP
1 2 (40.00%) IMAP
1 2 (40.00%) OpenLDAP
1 2 (40.00%) SMTP
1 2 (40.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (40.00%) Delta Lake
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) Vagrant
General
1 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Ubuntu
2 2 (40.00%) VMS
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (40.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) Groovy
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (40.00%) Degree
3 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
2 2 (40.00%) DFS Replication
2 2 (40.00%) Dovecot
2 2 (40.00%) Postfix
2 2 (40.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Grafana
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Nessus
1 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (40.00%) Proxmox
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Jaspersoft
1 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow