DevOps Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Development Operations Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 233 191 126
Rank change year-on-year -42 -65 -23
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 31 65 184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.39% 1.10% 2.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 1.22% 2.56%
Number of salaries quoted 27 51 124
10th Percentile £24,000 £46,250 £47,800
25th Percentile £41,250 £59,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,245 £80,125 £81,250
90th Percentile £88,750 £100,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +11.54%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 7,516 5,322 7,184
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.52% 89.97% 95.03%
Number of salaries quoted 5,554 3,223 4,801
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,357 £37,762
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.22% +0.83% +9.09%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the West Midlands

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer 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 31 May 2024.

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 31 May 2024. 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 -26 25 £55,000 -21.43% 10
Shropshire -19 2 £24,000 -65.71%
Staffordshire - 1 £52,500 -
Coventry - 1 - - 1
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West Midlands region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 31 (100.00%) DevOps
2 16 (51.61%) Azure
3 13 (41.94%) Terraform
4 12 (38.71%) CI/CD
5 11 (35.48%) Python
5 11 (35.48%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (32.26%) Kubernetes
7 9 (29.03%) Mentoring
7 9 (29.03%) AWS
8 8 (25.81%) PowerShell
9 7 (22.58%) SaaS
9 7 (22.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (22.58%) SQL Server
9 7 (22.58%) Microsoft
9 7 (22.58%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (19.35%) Public Sector
10 6 (19.35%) Coaching
10 6 (19.35%) Agile
10 6 (19.35%) C#
10 6 (19.35%) Windows
10 6 (19.35%) Docker
10 6 (19.35%) Release Management
11 5 (16.13%) Test Automation
11 5 (16.13%) Security Cleared
11 5 (16.13%) Asset Management
11 5 (16.13%) Finance
11 5 (16.13%) Ansible
11 5 (16.13%) Cloud Native
11 5 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (16.13%) Site Reliability Engineering

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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 4 (12.90%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 16 (51.61%) Azure
2 11 (35.48%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (29.03%) AWS
4 7 (22.58%) SaaS
5 4 (12.90%) GitHub
6 3 (9.68%) PaaS
7 2 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (6.45%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (6.45%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 2 (6.45%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (6.45%) Azure AKS
7 2 (6.45%) Azure App Service
7 2 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (6.45%) IaaS
7 2 (6.45%) Matillion
8 1 (3.23%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) DNS
1 2 (6.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (22.58%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (12.90%) Octopus Deploy
1 4 (12.90%) TeamCity
2 3 (9.68%) GitLab
3 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.45%) SonarQube
3 2 (6.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (19.35%) Public Sector
2 5 (16.13%) Finance
3 3 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.45%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) ARM Templates
2 2 (6.45%) AWS CDK
2 2 (6.45%) Azure Blueprints
2 2 (6.45%) JWT
2 2 (6.45%) RESTful
3 1 (3.23%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Cloud Native
2 4 (12.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (6.45%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (19.35%) Windows
2 4 (12.90%) VMS
3 1 (3.23%) Linux
3 1 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (100.00%) DevOps
2 12 (38.71%) CI/CD
3 9 (29.03%) Mentoring
4 7 (22.58%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (22.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (19.35%) Agile
5 6 (19.35%) Coaching
5 6 (19.35%) Release Management
6 5 (16.13%) Asset Management
6 5 (16.13%) Containerisation
6 5 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (16.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (16.13%) Test Automation
7 4 (12.90%) Collaborative Culture
7 4 (12.90%) High Availability
7 4 (12.90%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (9.68%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (9.68%) Investment Management
8 3 (9.68%) Software Engineering
9 2 (6.45%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 11 (35.48%) Python
2 8 (25.81%) PowerShell
3 6 (19.35%) C#
4 2 (6.45%) Bash
4 2 (6.45%) SQL
4 2 (6.45%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.23%) Java
5 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.90%) Azure Certification
3 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) QA
2 2 (6.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (19.35%) Docker
2 2 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (41.94%) Terraform
2 10 (32.26%) Kubernetes
3 5 (16.13%) Ansible
4 2 (6.45%) Progress Chef
4 2 (6.45%) Puppet
5 1 (3.23%) Grafana
5 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.68%) YouTube