DevOps Job Trends in the West Midlands

DevOps
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 19 33
Rank change year-on-year -23 +14 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 242 265 349
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 2.84% 7.69% 5.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.12% 9.05% 6.81%
Number of salaries quoted 189 188 276
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,125 £39,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £54,875 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.63% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £94,000 £87,500 £89,375
England median annual salary £70,400 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +0.57% +3.70% -3.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,879 2,929 5,123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 69.04% 85.00% 78.71%
Number of salaries quoted 4,416 1,881 3,134
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,822 £28,119
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

DevOps job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

DevOps
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps in the West Midlands

DevOps
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 within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 August 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 -18 119 £69,306 -1.41% 57
Shropshire -8 30 £52,500 -12.50% 25
Worcestershire -5 19 £70,000 +40.00% 2
Coventry -2 18 £87,500 +48.94% 12
Herefordshire -10 15 £90,000 -2.70% 3
Staffordshire -16 11 £70,000 - 4
Warwickshire -26 11 £60,000 - 10
Solihull -3 8 £95,000 +26.67% 6
Wolverhampton -12 5 £62,000 -4.62% 1
Dudley - 2 £47,500 -
West Bromwich - 1 £60,000 -
DevOps
England

DevOps
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 8 (3.31%) Confluence
2 4 (1.65%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.24%) CICS
4 1 (0.41%) Apache
4 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.41%) CMS
4 1 (0.41%) Documentum
4 1 (0.41%) IIS
4 1 (0.41%) nginx
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 1 (0.41%) SAS
4 1 (0.41%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.41%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.41%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.41%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.41%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 135 (55.79%) Azure
2 83 (34.30%) Azure DevOps
3 45 (18.60%) AWS
4 25 (10.33%) Power Platform
5 23 (9.50%) GitHub
5 23 (9.50%) PaaS
6 16 (6.61%) SaaS
7 15 (6.20%) Dynamics 365
7 15 (6.20%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (5.37%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (4.96%) Azure App Service
9 12 (4.96%) GCP
10 11 (4.55%) IaaS
11 10 (4.13%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (3.72%) Power Automate
13 7 (2.89%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (2.89%) Serverless
14 6 (2.48%) Azure Functions
14 6 (2.48%) Entra ID
15 5 (2.07%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.48%) DNS
1 6 (2.48%) TCP/IP
1 6 (2.48%) VPN
2 4 (1.65%) Firewall
2 4 (1.65%) HTTP
3 3 (1.24%) SSL
4 2 (0.83%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.83%) SSH
5 1 (0.41%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.41%) RFID
5 1 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.68%) Azure SQL Database
2 16 (6.61%) SQL Server
3 14 (5.79%) Power BI
4 11 (4.55%) MongoDB
5 9 (3.72%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (2.89%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (2.89%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.07%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.65%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.65%) Power Query
9 3 (1.24%) Db2
10 2 (0.83%) Metadata
11 1 (0.41%) GIS
11 1 (0.41%) Pentaho
11 1 (0.41%) Redis
11 1 (0.41%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.41%) TimescaleDB
11 1 (0.41%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 28 (11.57%) Git
2 24 (9.92%) Jenkins
3 16 (6.61%) Selenium
4 15 (6.20%) JIRA
5 14 (5.79%) GitLab
6 12 (4.96%) Cucumber
6 12 (4.96%) Postman
7 11 (4.55%) JMeter
8 9 (3.72%) Cypress.io
9 7 (2.89%) Visual Studio Code
10 6 (2.48%) REST Assured
10 6 (2.48%) Zephyr
11 5 (2.07%) Gatling
11 5 (2.07%) LoadRunner
11 5 (2.07%) SoapUI
12 4 (1.65%) Burp Suite
12 4 (1.65%) SonarQube
13 3 (1.24%) HP UFT
13 3 (1.24%) TestRail
13 3 (1.24%) Toad
General
1 40 (16.53%) Social Skills
2 35 (14.46%) Finance
3 28 (11.57%) Public Sector
4 19 (7.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.55%) Banking
7 7 (2.89%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.07%) Advertising
9 5 (2.07%) Legal
10 4 (1.65%) Retail
11 3 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.24%) Law
12 1 (0.41%) Automotive
12 1 (0.41%) Billing
12 1 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.41%) Electronics
12 1 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.41%) Police
12 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (28.93%) DevOps Engineer
2 58 (23.97%) Senior
3 46 (19.01%) Developer
4 29 (11.98%) Lead
5 28 (11.57%) Azure Engineer
6 19 (7.85%) Senior DevOps
6 19 (7.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 16 (6.61%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 13 (5.37%) Analyst
9 11 (4.55%) .NET Developer
9 11 (4.55%) Lead DevOps
9 11 (4.55%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 11 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (4.13%) Architect
10 10 (4.13%) Data Engineer
10 10 (4.13%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (4.13%) Senior Analyst
11 8 (3.31%) Principal Engineer
11 8 (3.31%) Python Engineer
11 8 (3.31%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (18.18%) .NET
2 17 (7.02%) Kafka
2 17 (7.02%) React
3 16 (6.61%) .NET Framework
4 15 (6.20%) Entity Framework
4 15 (6.20%) REST
5 13 (5.37%) .NET Core
6 12 (4.96%) ASP.NET
6 12 (4.96%) ASP.NET Core
6 12 (4.96%) Playwright
7 10 (4.13%) Spring
7 10 (4.13%) Spring Boot
8 9 (3.72%) CSS
8 9 (3.72%) HTML
8 9 (3.72%) Node.js
9 8 (3.31%) RESTful
10 7 (2.89%) ISPF
10 7 (2.89%) SOAP
11 6 (2.48%) AngularJS
11 6 (2.48%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.81%) Cloud Native
2 25 (10.33%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (4.96%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.13%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.13%) Legacy Applications
5 9 (3.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (3.72%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.89%) Mainframe
7 6 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.48%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.07%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.24%) PMI
9 3 (1.24%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.83%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (0.83%) iPhone
10 2 (0.83%) Robotics
11 1 (0.41%) Photography
Operating Systems
1 25 (10.33%) Linux
2 18 (7.44%) Windows
3 9 (3.72%) Unix
4 6 (2.48%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.65%) Kali Linux
6 3 (1.24%) Solaris
7 2 (0.83%) Android
8 1 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (45.87%) CI/CD
2 84 (34.71%) Agile
3 65 (26.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 42 (17.36%) Test Automation
5 41 (16.94%) Infrastructure as Code
6 39 (16.12%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (15.29%) Mentoring
8 33 (13.64%) AI
8 33 (13.64%) Analytics
8 33 (13.64%) Platform Engineering
9 31 (12.81%) Technical Leadership
10 27 (11.16%) Full-Stack Development
11 24 (9.92%) Decision-Making
12 23 (9.50%) Roadmaps
12 23 (9.50%) Scrum
13 22 (9.09%) Observability
13 22 (9.09%) Software Engineering
14 21 (8.68%) Business Intelligence
15 20 (8.26%) Stakeholder Management
16 18 (7.44%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 51 (21.07%) SQL
2 37 (15.29%) C#
3 34 (14.05%) Java
3 34 (14.05%) Python
4 21 (8.68%) JavaScript
5 10 (4.13%) TypeScript
6 8 (3.31%) JCL
7 7 (2.89%) COBOL
7 7 (2.89%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.48%) Go
9 4 (1.65%) Bash
9 4 (1.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (1.65%) PHP
10 3 (1.24%) Bicep
10 3 (1.24%) Rust
10 3 (1.24%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.83%) C++
12 1 (0.41%) C
12 1 (0.41%) Delphi
12 1 (0.41%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (16.12%) Security Cleared
2 33 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 26 (10.74%) Degree
4 14 (5.79%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.13%) Azure Certification
5 10 (4.13%) ISEB
5 10 (4.13%) ISTQB
5 10 (4.13%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.65%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.24%) CBAP
7 3 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.24%) IIBA
7 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.24%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.83%) CITP
8 2 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.41%) CISM
9 1 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (14.05%) QA
2 9 (3.72%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.48%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.07%) SLA
5 3 (1.24%) Software Quality Assurance
5 3 (1.24%) WCAG
6 2 (0.83%) GDPR
6 2 (0.83%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.41%) NCSC
7 1 (0.41%) NIST
7 1 (0.41%) PSD2
System Software
1 17 (7.02%) Docker
2 6 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.83%) Firmware
4 1 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 45 (18.60%) Terraform
2 24 (9.92%) Kubernetes
3 10 (4.13%) Grafana
4 5 (2.07%) Argo
4 5 (2.07%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.65%) Ansible
5 4 (1.65%) HP Fortify
6 3 (1.24%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.83%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.83%) Puppet
8 1 (0.41%) Nagios
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 56 (23.14%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.72%) Pega
3 7 (2.89%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.48%) Google
4 6 (2.48%) SAP
5 5 (2.07%) Databricks
5 5 (2.07%) Facebook
5 5 (2.07%) Oracle
5 5 (2.07%) YouTube
6 4 (1.65%) Broadcom
6 4 (1.65%) Veracode
7 3 (1.24%) HP
7 3 (1.24%) Workday
8 2 (0.83%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.41%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.41%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.41%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.41%) Infor
9 1 (0.41%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.41%) Splunk