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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 15 13
Rank change year-on-year -11 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 472 759 820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.40% 11.90% 11.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.73% 12.29% 11.83%
Number of salaries quoted 394 419 558
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,050 £38,375
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,875 £82,500 £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 6,110 6,175 6,931
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.82% 96.79% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4,561 3,191 4,708
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 £63,750 £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 10 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 10 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 -5 230 £65,000 +6.56% 56
Staffordshire -5 64 £52,500 - 7
Warwickshire +7 63 £57,500 +4.55% 23
Coventry -1 24 £65,000 +18.18% 13
Solihull -7 12 £67,500 +10.66% 7
Halesowen - 11 £60,000 - 2
Wolverhampton -10 10 £55,000 - 3
Shropshire -27 8 £50,000 -16.67% 2
Worcestershire -27 8 £50,750 -15.42% 2
Wednesbury - 4 £65,750 -
Walsall -5 3 £42,500 -2.30% 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 24 (5.08%) SharePoint
2 22 (4.66%) IIS
3 10 (2.12%) Apache
4 9 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.69%) Umbraco
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 (0.42%) Liferay
9 2 (0.42%) Magnolia
9 2 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 8 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.27%) 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 20 (4.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 323 (68.43%) Azure
2 182 (38.56%) Azure DevOps
3 101 (21.40%) AWS
4 75 (15.89%) Power Platform
5 58 (12.29%) SaaS
6 54 (11.44%) PaaS
7 52 (11.02%) Microsoft 365
8 50 (10.59%) Dynamics 365
9 44 (9.32%) IaaS
10 37 (7.84%) GCP
11 33 (6.99%) Serverless
12 32 (6.78%) PowerApps
13 26 (5.51%) Azure Data Factory
14 22 (4.66%) GitHub
15 21 (4.45%) Amazon S3
16 19 (4.03%) AWS Lambda
16 19 (4.03%) Azure Logic Apps
17 15 (3.18%) Entra ID
17 15 (3.18%) Power Automate
18 14 (2.97%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.81%) Firewall
2 15 (3.18%) VPN
3 10 (2.12%) NGFW
4 8 (1.69%) DNS
5 6 (1.27%) HTTP
5 6 (1.27%) Intranet
6 4 (0.85%) MQTT
6 4 (0.85%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.64%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.42%) BGP
8 2 (0.42%) EIGRP
8 2 (0.42%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (0.42%) OSPF
8 2 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.21%) 3GPP
9 1 (0.21%) DHCP
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 93 (19.70%) SQL Server
2 42 (8.90%) Power BI
3 35 (7.42%) Relational Database
4 31 (6.57%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (4.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 19 (4.03%) MySQL
7 18 (3.81%) Data Lake
7 18 (3.81%) Elasticsearch
8 17 (3.60%) NoSQL
9 16 (3.39%) Metadata
10 15 (3.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 14 (2.97%) DynamoDB
12 13 (2.75%) BigQuery
13 11 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (2.33%) Big Data
13 11 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 11 (2.33%) SQLite
14 10 (2.12%) Amazon Redshift
15 9 (1.91%) Looker
16 7 (1.48%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 75 (15.89%) Git
2 30 (6.36%) Visual Studio
3 20 (4.24%) GitLab
4 17 (3.60%) Postman
5 15 (3.18%) JIRA
6 11 (2.33%) Jenkins
7 10 (2.12%) MSTest
7 10 (2.12%) SonarQube
7 10 (2.12%) 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 (1.48%) 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 82 (17.37%) Social Skills
2 62 (13.14%) Finance
3 26 (5.51%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (5.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (4.45%) Manufacturing
5 16 (3.39%) Law
6 14 (2.97%) Automotive
6 14 (2.97%) Public Sector
7 8 (1.69%) Marketing
7 8 (1.69%) Retail
8 7 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (1.27%) Electronics
9 6 (1.27%) Legal
10 5 (1.06%) Police
11 4 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.85%) Publishing
11 4 (0.85%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.64%) Banking
12 3 (0.64%) Games
12 3 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 124 (26.27%) Developer
2 85 (18.01%) Senior
3 40 (8.47%) Lead
3 40 (8.47%) Software Engineer
4 33 (6.99%) Architect
5 32 (6.78%) Data Engineer
6 29 (6.14%) Azure Engineer
6 29 (6.14%) Software Developer
7 28 (5.93%) DevOps Engineer
8 24 (5.08%) Analyst
8 24 (5.08%) Cloud Engineer
8 24 (5.08%) Senior Developer
9 22 (4.66%) Full Stack Developer
10 20 (4.24%) Consultant
11 19 (4.03%) Senior Software Engineer
12 17 (3.60%) Junior
13 15 (3.18%) Project Manager
14 14 (2.97%) .NET Developer
14 14 (2.97%) Business Analyst
14 14 (2.97%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (27.12%) .NET
2 59 (12.50%) React
3 52 (11.02%) .NET Framework
3 52 (11.02%) HTML
4 43 (9.11%) ASP.NET
5 41 (8.69%) JSON
6 39 (8.26%) .NET Core
7 38 (8.05%) Entity Framework
8 37 (7.84%) CSS
9 36 (7.63%) RESTful
10 35 (7.42%) XML
11 33 (6.99%) AngularJS
12 30 (6.36%) ARM Templates
12 30 (6.36%) REST
13 29 (6.14%) YAML
14 27 (5.72%) Node.js
15 25 (5.30%) Web Services
16 24 (5.08%) Blazor
16 24 (5.08%) SOAP
17 23 (4.87%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 35 (7.42%) Management Information System
2 33 (6.99%) Cloud Native
3 26 (5.51%) Product Ownership
4 22 (4.66%) Private Cloud
4 22 (4.66%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (3.81%) Public Cloud
6 16 (3.39%) Low-Code
7 14 (2.97%) Data Structures
8 12 (2.54%) Mobile App
9 11 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (2.33%) NHS
9 11 (2.33%) Onboarding
10 10 (2.12%) Data Centre
10 10 (2.12%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.48%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.48%) PKI
13 6 (1.27%) FMCG
13 6 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
14 5 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 42 (8.90%) Windows
2 21 (4.45%) Windows Server
3 19 (4.03%) Linux
4 7 (1.48%) Android
5 6 (1.27%) VMS
6 5 (1.06%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.42%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.42%) Unix
8 1 (0.21%) CentOS
8 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (45.76%) Agile
2 156 (33.05%) CI/CD
3 97 (20.55%) Software Engineering
4 81 (17.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 75 (15.89%) Mentoring
6 67 (14.19%) Continuous Improvement
7 65 (13.77%) Scrum
8 63 (13.35%) Test Automation
9 59 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
10 54 (11.44%) Containerisation
11 53 (11.23%) Continuous Integration
12 51 (10.81%) Business Intelligence
13 48 (10.17%) SDLC
14 42 (8.90%) Project Management
15 39 (8.26%) Full Stack Development
15 39 (8.26%) MVC
16 36 (7.63%) Data Engineering
17 35 (7.42%) Microservices
18 33 (6.99%) Roadmaps
19 32 (6.78%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 141 (29.87%) C#
2 118 (25.00%) SQL
3 94 (19.92%) JavaScript
4 76 (16.10%) Python
5 55 (11.65%) PowerShell
6 50 (10.59%) TypeScript
7 48 (10.17%) T-SQL
8 32 (6.78%) Java
9 17 (3.60%) Bash
9 17 (3.60%) VB
10 16 (3.39%) Bicep
11 13 (2.75%) PHP
11 13 (2.75%) XAML
12 10 (2.12%) VB.NET
13 8 (1.69%) C
14 7 (1.48%) C++
15 6 (1.27%) Go
16 5 (1.06%) Kotlin
16 5 (1.06%) VB6
17 2 (0.42%) Swift
Qualifications
1 44 (9.32%) Degree
2 38 (8.05%) Security Cleared
3 27 (5.72%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.39%) Azure Certification
5 9 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.48%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.06%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.85%) HNC
10 3 (0.64%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.42%) Chartered Engineer
11 2 (0.42%) HND
11 2 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.21%) CBAP
12 1 (0.21%) Citrix Certification
12 1 (0.21%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.21%) IIBA
12 1 (0.21%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (12.08%) QA
2 19 (4.03%) GDPR
3 17 (3.60%) Data Quality
4 13 (2.75%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.91%) NCSC
6 7 (1.48%) PMO
7 5 (1.06%) NIST
8 4 (0.85%) SLA
9 3 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.21%) AUTOSAR
11 1 (0.21%) IFRS
11 1 (0.21%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.21%) Solvency II
System Software
1 54 (11.44%) Docker
2 19 (4.03%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (3.39%) Active Directory
5 10 (2.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (2.12%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (2.12%) vSphere
6 7 (1.48%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 102 (21.61%) Terraform
2 55 (11.65%) Kubernetes
3 20 (4.24%) Ansible
4 7 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.27%) Grafana
6 2 (0.42%) Kibana
6 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.42%) MIIS
6 2 (0.42%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.42%) Puppet
7 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 157 (33.26%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.66%) Databricks
3 19 (4.03%) VMware
4 16 (3.39%) Google
5 13 (2.75%) Citrix
6 11 (2.33%) OpenAI
6 11 (2.33%) Oracle
6 11 (2.33%) YouTube
7 8 (1.69%) iManage
7 8 (1.69%) SAP
8 7 (1.48%) Adobe
8 7 (1.48%) DevExpress
8 7 (1.48%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.06%) Informatica
10 4 (0.85%) Apple
10 4 (0.85%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.85%) Cisco
10 4 (0.85%) Dynatrace
10 4 (0.85%) InterSystems
10 4 (0.85%) Jaspersoft