DevOps Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Development Operations Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the Midlands is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 263 202 124
Rank change year-on-year -61 -78 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 52 109 284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.43% 1.20% 2.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 1.34% 2.71%
Number of salaries quoted 40 78 200
10th Percentile £24,000 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £68,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.71% +1.48% +12.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £85,000
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
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 11,430 8,135 10,492
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.52% 89.72% 95.10%
Number of salaries quoted 8,444 4,581 7,045
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,500 £27,526
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,741 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the Midlands

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in the Midlands

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in the Midlands

DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 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
West Midlands -28 29 £52,500 -25.00% 21
East Midlands -34 23 £55,000 -15.38% 6
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 Midlands region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 52 (100.00%) DevOps
2 28 (53.85%) Kubernetes
3 24 (46.15%) Azure
3 24 (46.15%) AWS
4 23 (44.23%) Terraform
5 20 (38.46%) CI/CD
6 17 (32.69%) Containerisation
6 17 (32.69%) Agile
7 16 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (28.85%) Mentoring
9 14 (26.92%) Docker
9 14 (26.92%) Python
10 13 (25.00%) Coaching
11 12 (23.08%) Public Sector
12 11 (21.15%) Infrastructure as Code
12 11 (21.15%) Test Automation
13 10 (19.23%) PowerShell
13 10 (19.23%) Microsoft
13 10 (19.23%) SQL Server
13 10 (19.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 9 (17.31%) Secrets Management
14 9 (17.31%) Windows
14 9 (17.31%) Linux
14 9 (17.31%) SaaS
14 9 (17.31%) Artificial Intelligence
14 9 (17.31%) Ansible
15 8 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
15 8 (15.38%) Prometheus
15 8 (15.38%) Red Hat
15 8 (15.38%) Amazon EKS

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 (7.69%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 24 (46.15%) AWS
1 24 (46.15%) Azure
2 16 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (17.31%) SaaS
4 8 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (13.46%) Amazon ECR
5 7 (13.46%) Amazon S3
5 7 (13.46%) IBM Cloud
5 7 (13.46%) OCI
5 7 (13.46%) Route 53
6 5 (9.62%) GitHub
7 4 (7.69%) Azure Pipelines
8 3 (5.77%) Azure App Service
8 3 (5.77%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (5.77%) Matillion
9 2 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.85%) AWS CodeBuild
9 2 (3.85%) AWS CodeDeploy
9 2 (3.85%) AWS CodePipeline
9 2 (3.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.69%) Firewall
2 3 (5.77%) DNS
2 3 (5.77%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (19.23%) SQL Server
2 7 (13.46%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (9.62%) Git
1 5 (9.62%) GitLab
2 4 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.69%) Octopus Deploy
2 4 (7.69%) TeamCity
3 2 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.92%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 10 (19.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (9.62%) Finance
4 2 (3.85%) Law
4 2 (3.85%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.77%) JWT
1 3 (5.77%) RESTful
2 2 (3.85%) ARM Templates
2 2 (3.85%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.92%) .NET
3 1 (1.92%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (1.92%) Node.js
3 1 (1.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.46%) Blockchain
1 7 (13.46%) e-Learning
1 7 (13.46%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (17.31%) Linux
1 9 (17.31%) Windows
2 4 (7.69%) VMS
3 1 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (100.00%) DevOps
2 20 (38.46%) CI/CD
3 17 (32.69%) Agile
3 17 (32.69%) Containerisation
4 15 (28.85%) Mentoring
5 13 (25.00%) Coaching
6 11 (21.15%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (21.15%) Test Automation
7 9 (17.31%) Artificial Intelligence
7 9 (17.31%) Secrets Management
8 8 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (13.46%) Observability
9 7 (13.46%) Technology Transformation
10 5 (9.62%) Asset Management
10 5 (9.62%) Customer Experience
10 5 (9.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 5 (9.62%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (9.62%) Release Management
11 4 (7.69%) Configuration Management
11 4 (7.69%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 14 (26.92%) Python
2 10 (19.23%) PowerShell
3 6 (11.54%) C#
4 3 (5.77%) Bash
4 3 (5.77%) T-SQL
5 2 (3.85%) Ruby
6 1 (1.92%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.92%) PHP
6 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (7.69%) Azure Certification
1 4 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.77%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.46%) QA
2 1 (1.92%) NCSC
System Software
1 14 (26.92%) Docker
2 3 (5.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (53.85%) Kubernetes
2 23 (44.23%) Terraform
3 9 (17.31%) Ansible
4 8 (15.38%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.77%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (5.77%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.85%) Puppet
7 1 (1.92%) Argo
7 1 (1.92%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 8 (15.38%) Red Hat
3 7 (13.46%) Dynatrace
3 7 (13.46%) IBM
4 3 (5.77%) YouTube