DevOps Jobs in the West Midlands

DevOps
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 25 16
Rank change year-on-year -14 -9 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 238 472 763
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.48% 6.40% 11.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.01% 7.72% 12.29%
Number of salaries quoted 166 394 423
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,563 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £73,751
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,875 £82,300
England median annual salary £72,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.77% -7.14% -

All Process and 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 3,961 6,114 6,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.27% 82.87% 96.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,664 4,560 3,220
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.85% +5.10%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the West Midlands

DevOps
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for DevOps in the West Midlands

DevOps
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

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 May 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 -13 99 £57,500 -11.54% 106
Staffordshire 0 36 £70,000 +33.33% 52
Warwickshire -32 36 £67,500 +17.39% 25
Shropshire +24 14 £60,000 +20.00% 16
Solihull +16 14 £65,000 -3.70% 5
Worcestershire +23 7 £65,000 +28.08% 16
Coventry -19 5 £65,000 - 17
Herefordshire - 4 - - 5
Walsall +3 3 £60,000 +41.18% 1
Wolverhampton +5 1 £60,000 +9.09% 5
Dudley - 1 £45,000 - 2
DevOps
England

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 28 (11.76%) Confluence
2 4 (1.68%) CMS
3 3 (1.26%) IIS
3 3 (1.26%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.84%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.84%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.42%) Apache
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.42%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.42%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.42%) Sitefinity
5 1 (0.42%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (1.68%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.42%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.42%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.42%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (4.62%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (3.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.68%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (1.68%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 2 (0.84%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 171 (71.85%) Azure
2 100 (42.02%) AWS
3 70 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (13.45%) GCP
4 32 (13.45%) Power Platform
5 29 (12.18%) Dynamics 365
6 27 (11.34%) Serverless
7 26 (10.92%) SaaS
8 21 (8.82%) IaaS
8 21 (8.82%) PaaS
9 19 (7.98%) GitHub
10 17 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
11 16 (6.72%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (5.88%) Amazon S3
12 14 (5.88%) PowerApps
13 12 (5.04%) Azure Logic Apps
14 11 (4.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (4.62%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (4.62%) Azure Functions
15 10 (4.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.88%) Firewall
2 8 (3.36%) DNS
3 7 (2.94%) HTTP
3 7 (2.94%) VPN
4 5 (2.10%) SSL
5 3 (1.26%) Network Security
5 3 (1.26%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.84%) Broadband
6 2 (0.84%) FTP
6 2 (0.84%) IPsec
6 2 (0.84%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.84%) SMTP
6 2 (0.84%) SSH
6 2 (0.84%) WAN
7 1 (0.42%) DHCP
7 1 (0.42%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (0.42%) SAN
7 1 (0.42%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (21.43%) SQL Server
2 14 (5.88%) Data Lake
3 13 (5.46%) Power BI
3 13 (5.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 12 (5.04%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (4.62%) NoSQL
6 10 (4.20%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (3.78%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.52%) MySQL
8 6 (2.52%) Redis
9 4 (1.68%) BigQuery
9 4 (1.68%) Cloud Spanner
9 4 (1.68%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.68%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.68%) Power Query
9 4 (1.68%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.26%) Data Mining
10 3 (1.26%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 55 (23.11%) JIRA
2 39 (16.39%) SonarQube
3 33 (13.87%) Git
4 30 (12.61%) Sonatype Nexus
5 29 (12.18%) Selenium
6 27 (11.34%) Maven
7 26 (10.92%) Cucumber
8 24 (10.08%) Bitbucket
8 24 (10.08%) GitLab
9 17 (7.14%) Visual Studio
10 16 (6.72%) Jenkins
11 8 (3.36%) Vagrant
12 6 (2.52%) JUnit
12 6 (2.52%) NUnit
12 6 (2.52%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (2.10%) Bitbucket Server
14 4 (1.68%) Postman
14 4 (1.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 4 (1.68%) Team Foundation Server
15 3 (1.26%) WebDriver
General
1 62 (26.05%) Social Skills
2 46 (19.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 40 (16.81%) Finance
4 26 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (10.08%) Banking
6 21 (8.82%) Retail
7 18 (7.56%) Public Sector
8 17 (7.14%) Manufacturing
9 11 (4.62%) Corporate Banking
9 11 (4.62%) Investment Banking
10 9 (3.78%) Law
11 7 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (2.52%) Advertising
13 3 (1.26%) Marketing
13 3 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.84%) Automotive
14 2 (0.84%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.42%) Games
15 1 (0.42%) Legal
15 1 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 44 (18.49%) Developer
2 37 (15.55%) Software Engineer
3 35 (14.71%) Senior
4 22 (9.24%) Architect
5 20 (8.40%) Lead
6 19 (7.98%) DevOps Engineer
7 18 (7.56%) Senior Developer
8 16 (6.72%) Analyst
9 13 (5.46%) Site Engineer
9 13 (5.46%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 13 (5.46%) Solutions Architect
10 11 (4.62%) Test Analyst
11 10 (4.20%) Cloud Architect
11 10 (4.20%) IT Manager
12 9 (3.78%) Backend Developer
13 8 (3.36%) Azure Engineer
13 8 (3.36%) C# Developer
13 8 (3.36%) Data Engineer
13 8 (3.36%) Java Engineer
13 8 (3.36%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (21.01%) React
2 46 (19.33%) .NET
3 38 (15.97%) CSS
4 32 (13.45%) HTML
4 32 (13.45%) Spring
5 26 (10.92%) JPA
5 26 (10.92%) Kafka
5 26 (10.92%) Spring Boot
6 25 (10.50%) Redux
7 23 (9.66%) RESTful
8 20 (8.40%) Node.js
9 17 (7.14%) Jest
10 15 (6.30%) REST
11 14 (5.88%) Hibernate
11 14 (5.88%) HTML5
12 13 (5.46%) .NET Core
12 13 (5.46%) CSS3
13 12 (5.04%) AngularJS
13 12 (5.04%) Loki
13 12 (5.04%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.61%) Enterprise Software
2 28 (11.76%) Product Ownership
3 19 (7.98%) Onboarding
4 16 (6.72%) Mobile App
5 11 (4.62%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.94%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.52%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (2.10%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.68%) Replication
10 3 (1.26%) EPoS
10 3 (1.26%) IoT
10 3 (1.26%) PropTech
10 3 (1.26%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.26%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.84%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (11.34%) Linux
2 21 (8.82%) Windows
3 11 (4.62%) Android
3 11 (4.62%) Apple iOS
4 8 (3.36%) VMS
5 6 (2.52%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.68%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.26%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (1.26%) Unix
8 2 (0.84%) CentOS
8 2 (0.84%) Debian
8 2 (0.84%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (45.38%) CI/CD
2 104 (43.70%) Agile
3 60 (25.21%) Software Engineering
4 55 (23.11%) Containerisation
5 54 (22.69%) Mentoring
6 48 (20.17%) Microservices
7 47 (19.75%) SDLC
7 47 (19.75%) Test Automation
8 41 (17.23%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (15.97%) Front End Development
10 35 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (13.03%) Full-Stack Development
12 27 (11.34%) Migration
12 27 (11.34%) TDD
13 26 (10.92%) Infrastructure as Code
13 26 (10.92%) Performance Optimisation
14 25 (10.50%) Continuous Delivery
14 25 (10.50%) Project Management
15 23 (9.66%) Continuous Integration
16 21 (8.82%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 77 (32.35%) SQL
2 65 (27.31%) JavaScript
3 64 (26.89%) C#
4 53 (22.27%) Java
5 37 (15.55%) TypeScript
6 35 (14.71%) Python
7 22 (9.24%) PowerShell
8 8 (3.36%) X++
9 7 (2.94%) Bash
9 7 (2.94%) Groovy
10 6 (2.52%) C
10 6 (2.52%) Perl
10 6 (2.52%) PHP
11 5 (2.10%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.26%) Delphi
12 3 (1.26%) Go
12 3 (1.26%) Ruby
13 2 (0.84%) Bicep
14 1 (0.42%) C++
14 1 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 36 (15.13%) Security Cleared
2 33 (13.87%) Degree
3 19 (7.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (7.14%) SC Cleared
5 13 (5.46%) Azure Certification
5 13 (5.46%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (4.20%) AWS Certification
7 8 (3.36%) ISTQB
8 7 (2.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (1.26%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.84%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.84%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.42%) APMP
11 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.42%) CITP
11 1 (0.42%) MCP
11 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Master
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (16.39%) QA
2 12 (5.04%) Accessibility
3 9 (3.78%) NCSC
4 7 (2.94%) GDPR
4 7 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.26%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.84%) NIST
7 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.42%) PMO
7 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 69 (28.99%) Docker
2 14 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.68%) DFS Replication
4 4 (1.68%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.42%) Firmware
5 1 (0.42%) Postfix
5 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 72 (30.25%) Kubernetes
2 50 (21.01%) Terraform
3 28 (11.76%) Prometheus
4 26 (10.92%) Grafana
5 21 (8.82%) Ansible
6 6 (2.52%) Nessus
6 6 (2.52%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.68%) Proxmox
8 3 (1.26%) Nagios
8 3 (1.26%) Puppet
9 2 (0.84%) Argo
9 2 (0.84%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.84%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.42%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.42%) WSUS
Vendors
1 68 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 24 (10.08%) Solace
3 17 (7.14%) Oracle
4 10 (4.20%) Google
4 10 (4.20%) OpenAI
5 9 (3.78%) ServiceNow
6 8 (3.36%) Databricks
7 7 (2.94%) SAP
7 7 (2.94%) Xamarin
8 6 (2.52%) Juniper
8 6 (2.52%) VMware
9 4 (1.68%) Hyperion
9 4 (1.68%) JD Edwards
9 4 (1.68%) Okta
9 4 (1.68%) PeopleSoft
10 3 (1.26%) Borland
11 2 (0.84%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.84%) Cisco
11 2 (0.84%) IBM
11 2 (0.84%) Meraki