DevOps Jobs in the West Midlands

DevOps
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 16 14
Rank change year-on-year -9 -2 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 470 748 813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.37% 11.89% 11.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.70% 12.29% 11.61%
Number of salaries quoted 392 414 549
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £37,375
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,751 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £82,200 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,107 6,085 7,003
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.73% 96.76% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 4,547 3,160 4,719
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £64,375 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 15 May 2024.

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 15 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 -6 227 £65,000 +4.84% 58
Warwickshire +5 64 £57,500 +4.55% 23
Staffordshire -3 64 £53,750 +2.38% 8
Coventry +2 24 £65,000 +18.18% 11
Solihull -5 12 £67,500 +18.42% 6
Halesowen - 11 £60,000 - 2
Wolverhampton -8 10 £55,000 - 3
Shropshire -27 8 £50,000 -16.67% 1
Worcestershire -28 8 £50,750 -15.42% 1
Wednesbury - 4 £65,750 -
Walsall -5 3 £42,500 - 1
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 23 (4.89%) SharePoint
2 22 (4.68%) IIS
3 10 (2.13%) Apache
4 8 (1.70%) Umbraco
5 7 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (1.06%) nginx
7 4 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.85%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.85%) Confluence
8 3 (0.64%) CMS
9 2 (0.43%) Liferay
9 2 (0.43%) Magnolia
9 2 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 8 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.64%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.64%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.21%) InVision
4 1 (0.21%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.21%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 18 (3.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 322 (68.51%) Azure
2 181 (38.51%) Azure DevOps
3 102 (21.70%) AWS
4 75 (15.96%) Power Platform
5 58 (12.34%) SaaS
6 54 (11.49%) PaaS
7 50 (10.64%) Microsoft 365
8 47 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
9 44 (9.36%) IaaS
10 36 (7.66%) GCP
11 33 (7.02%) Serverless
12 31 (6.60%) PowerApps
13 27 (5.74%) Azure Data Factory
14 22 (4.68%) GitHub
15 21 (4.47%) Amazon S3
16 19 (4.04%) AWS Lambda
16 19 (4.04%) Azure Logic Apps
17 15 (3.19%) Azure Stack
17 15 (3.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 15 (3.19%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.83%) Firewall
2 15 (3.19%) VPN
3 10 (2.13%) NGFW
4 8 (1.70%) DNS
5 6 (1.28%) HTTP
5 6 (1.28%) Intranet
6 4 (0.85%) MQTT
6 4 (0.85%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.64%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.43%) BGP
8 2 (0.43%) EIGRP
8 2 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (0.43%) OSPF
8 2 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.21%) 3GPP
9 1 (0.21%) 5G
9 1 (0.21%) IPv6
9 1 (0.21%) LAN
9 1 (0.21%) Network Security
9 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (19.57%) SQL Server
2 42 (8.94%) Power BI
3 35 (7.45%) Relational Database
4 32 (6.81%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (4.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 20 (4.26%) MySQL
7 19 (4.04%) Data Lake
8 17 (3.62%) Elasticsearch
8 17 (3.62%) NoSQL
9 16 (3.40%) Metadata
10 15 (3.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 14 (2.98%) DynamoDB
12 13 (2.77%) BigQuery
13 11 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (2.34%) Big Data
13 11 (2.34%) SQLite
14 10 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
15 9 (1.91%) Looker
15 9 (1.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 7 (1.49%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 75 (15.96%) Git
2 30 (6.38%) Visual Studio
3 20 (4.26%) GitLab
4 17 (3.62%) Postman
5 15 (3.19%) JIRA
6 11 (2.34%) Jenkins
7 10 (2.13%) MSTest
7 10 (2.13%) SonarQube
7 10 (2.13%) Team Foundation Server
8 9 (1.91%) Jasmine
8 9 (1.91%) Octopus Deploy
8 9 (1.91%) SoapUI
8 9 (1.91%) TeamCity
9 7 (1.49%) NUnit
10 5 (1.06%) Karma Test Runner
10 5 (1.06%) webpack
11 4 (0.85%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.64%) Burp Suite
12 3 (0.64%) Metasploit
12 3 (0.64%) Moq
General
1 83 (17.66%) Social Skills
2 61 (12.98%) Finance
3 26 (5.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 25 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (4.26%) Manufacturing
6 16 (3.40%) Law
7 13 (2.77%) Automotive
7 13 (2.77%) Public Sector
8 8 (1.70%) Retail
9 7 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (1.28%) Legal
11 5 (1.06%) Electronics
11 5 (1.06%) Marketing
11 5 (1.06%) Police
12 4 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.85%) Publishing
13 3 (0.64%) Banking
13 3 (0.64%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 123 (26.17%) Developer
2 82 (17.45%) Senior
3 41 (8.72%) Software Engineer
4 39 (8.30%) Lead
5 33 (7.02%) Architect
6 32 (6.81%) Data Engineer
7 29 (6.17%) Azure Engineer
8 28 (5.96%) DevOps Engineer
8 28 (5.96%) Software Developer
9 24 (5.11%) Analyst
9 24 (5.11%) Cloud Engineer
10 23 (4.89%) Senior Developer
11 22 (4.68%) Full Stack Developer
12 19 (4.04%) Senior Software Engineer
13 18 (3.83%) Consultant
14 17 (3.62%) Junior
15 14 (2.98%) Business Analyst
15 14 (2.98%) C# Developer
15 14 (2.98%) Platform Engineer
15 14 (2.98%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (27.45%) .NET
2 58 (12.34%) React
3 53 (11.28%) .NET Framework
4 52 (11.06%) HTML
5 42 (8.94%) ASP.NET
6 41 (8.72%) JSON
7 39 (8.30%) .NET Core
7 39 (8.30%) Entity Framework
8 37 (7.87%) CSS
9 36 (7.66%) RESTful
9 36 (7.66%) XML
10 33 (7.02%) AngularJS
11 30 (6.38%) ARM Templates
11 30 (6.38%) REST
12 29 (6.17%) YAML
13 27 (5.74%) Node.js
14 26 (5.53%) Web Services
15 24 (5.11%) Blazor
15 24 (5.11%) SOAP
16 23 (4.89%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 35 (7.45%) Management Information System
2 33 (7.02%) Cloud Native
3 26 (5.53%) Product Ownership
4 22 (4.68%) Private Cloud
4 22 (4.68%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (3.83%) Public Cloud
6 15 (3.19%) Data Structures
6 15 (3.19%) Low-Code
7 12 (2.55%) Mobile App
8 11 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (2.34%) NHS
8 11 (2.34%) Onboarding
9 10 (2.13%) Data Centre
9 10 (2.13%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.49%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.49%) PKI
12 6 (1.28%) FMCG
12 6 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 42 (8.94%) Windows
2 21 (4.47%) Windows Server
3 19 (4.04%) Linux
4 7 (1.49%) Android
5 6 (1.28%) VMS
6 5 (1.06%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.43%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.43%) Unix
8 1 (0.21%) CentOS
8 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (45.74%) Agile
2 156 (33.19%) CI/CD
3 99 (21.06%) Software Engineering
4 81 (17.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 75 (15.96%) Mentoring
6 67 (14.26%) Continuous Improvement
7 65 (13.83%) Scrum
8 63 (13.40%) Test Automation
9 58 (12.34%) Problem-Solving
10 54 (11.49%) Containerisation
11 53 (11.28%) Continuous Integration
12 50 (10.64%) Business Intelligence
13 47 (10.00%) SDLC
14 40 (8.51%) Project Management
15 39 (8.30%) Full Stack Development
16 38 (8.09%) MVC
17 37 (7.87%) Data Engineering
18 35 (7.45%) Microservices
18 35 (7.45%) Roadmaps
19 31 (6.60%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 140 (29.79%) C#
2 118 (25.11%) SQL
3 92 (19.57%) JavaScript
4 76 (16.17%) Python
5 55 (11.70%) PowerShell
6 48 (10.21%) T-SQL
6 48 (10.21%) TypeScript
7 32 (6.81%) Java
8 17 (3.62%) Bash
8 17 (3.62%) VB
9 16 (3.40%) Bicep
10 13 (2.77%) PHP
10 13 (2.77%) XAML
11 10 (2.13%) VB.NET
12 8 (1.70%) C
12 8 (1.70%) C++
13 6 (1.28%) Go
14 5 (1.06%) Kotlin
14 5 (1.06%) VB6
15 2 (0.43%) Swift
Qualifications
1 45 (9.57%) Degree
2 39 (8.30%) Security Cleared
3 27 (5.74%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.40%) Azure Certification
5 10 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (1.49%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.06%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.85%) HNC
11 3 (0.64%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.43%) Chartered Engineer
12 2 (0.43%) HND
12 2 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.43%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.21%) Citrix Certification
13 1 (0.21%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.21%) IIBA
13 1 (0.21%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (12.34%) QA
2 19 (4.04%) GDPR
3 17 (3.62%) Data Quality
4 13 (2.77%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.91%) NCSC
6 5 (1.06%) NIST
6 5 (1.06%) PMO
7 4 (0.85%) SLA
8 3 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.21%) AUTOSAR
10 1 (0.21%) IFRS
10 1 (0.21%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.21%) Solvency II
System Software
1 53 (11.28%) Docker
2 19 (4.04%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (3.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (3.40%) Active Directory
5 10 (2.13%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (2.13%) vSphere
6 7 (1.49%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 102 (21.70%) Terraform
2 54 (11.49%) Kubernetes
3 20 (4.26%) Ansible
4 7 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.28%) Grafana
6 2 (0.43%) Kibana
6 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.43%) MIIS
6 2 (0.43%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.43%) Puppet
7 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 156 (33.19%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.89%) Databricks
3 19 (4.04%) VMware
4 15 (3.19%) Google
5 13 (2.77%) Citrix
6 12 (2.55%) Oracle
7 11 (2.34%) OpenAI
7 11 (2.34%) YouTube
8 8 (1.70%) iManage
9 7 (1.49%) Adobe
9 7 (1.49%) DevExpress
9 7 (1.49%) SAP
9 7 (1.49%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.06%) Informatica
11 4 (0.85%) Apple
11 4 (0.85%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.85%) Cisco
11 4 (0.85%) InterSystems
11 4 (0.85%) Jaspersoft
11 4 (0.85%) PagerDuty