Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 265 131 108
Rank change year-on-year -134 -23 -21
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 1,110 2,663 5,584
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.08% 2.74% 3.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 2.99% 3.48%
Number of salaries quoted 833 1,819 2,697
10th Percentile £43,750 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £110,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £69,447 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.40% -0.79% +21.74%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 97,260 88,990 160,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.41% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 69,382 56,369 85,188
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,663
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the UK

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in the UK

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in the UK

DevOps Engineer
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
England -116 1,007 £70,000 -6.67% 256
UK excluding London -120 686 £65,000 -6.40% 157
Work from Home -118 498 £70,000 -6.67% 170
London -112 356 £80,000 -3.03% 110
North of England -69 203 £60,000 -13.60% 49
South East -82 188 £60,000 -14.29% 28
South West -42 157 £70,288 +8.14% 27
North West -55 118 £60,000 -14.29% 31
Yorkshire -38 64 £65,465 -3.02% 13
Midlands -54 53 £55,000 -20.58% 21
East of England -45 37 £65,000 -13.33% 13
West Midlands -29 29 £52,500 -25.00% 15
East Midlands -29 24 £55,000 -15.38% 6
Scotland -119 24 £70,576 -5.90% 11
North East -2 21 £57,500 -13.21% 5
Wales -21 16 £52,500 -23.35% 1
Northern Ireland -5 8 £52,500 -27.59% 7
Channel Islands - 1 £110,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 1,110 (100.00%) DevOps
2 721 (64.95%) Terraform
3 697 (62.79%) AWS
4 675 (60.81%) CI/CD
5 637 (57.39%) Kubernetes
6 535 (48.20%) Azure
7 478 (43.06%) Docker
8 444 (40.00%) Python
9 418 (37.66%) Agile
10 383 (34.50%) Infrastructure as Code
11 344 (30.99%) Linux
12 342 (30.81%) Ansible
13 340 (30.63%) Containerisation
14 277 (24.95%) Jenkins
15 265 (23.87%) Security Cleared
16 222 (20.00%) Social Skills
17 196 (17.66%) Azure DevOps
18 188 (16.94%) Mentoring
19 182 (16.40%) Bash
20 178 (16.04%) GCP
21 176 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
22 165 (14.86%) Java
23 161 (14.50%) Continuous Integration
23 161 (14.50%) Amazon S3
24 159 (14.32%) PowerShell
24 159 (14.32%) Test Automation
25 158 (14.23%) Finance
26 149 (13.42%) Public Sector
27 146 (13.15%) Git
28 144 (12.97%) SC Cleared

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 38 (3.42%) nginx
2 26 (2.34%) Apache
3 19 (1.71%) Apache Spark
3 19 (1.71%) Jupyter
4 10 (0.90%) Confluence
5 7 (0.63%) Drupal
6 5 (0.45%) JBoss
7 4 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.36%) IIS
8 3 (0.27%) WordPress
9 2 (0.18%) Moodle
10 1 (0.090%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.090%) CMS
10 1 (0.090%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.090%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.090%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 697 (62.79%) AWS
2 535 (48.20%) Azure
3 196 (17.66%) Azure DevOps
4 178 (16.04%) GCP
5 161 (14.50%) Amazon S3
6 134 (12.07%) Amazon EKS
7 128 (11.53%) GitHub
7 128 (11.53%) Serverless
8 111 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 98 (8.83%) AWS Lambda
10 95 (8.56%) OpenShift
11 91 (8.20%) Amazon EC2
12 86 (7.75%) Amazon ECS
13 81 (7.30%) GitHub Actions
14 71 (6.40%) SaaS
15 70 (6.31%) IBM Cloud
15 70 (6.31%) OCI
16 63 (5.68%) Amazon ECR
16 63 (5.68%) Route 53
17 47 (4.23%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (5.86%) DNS
2 52 (4.68%) Firewall
3 35 (3.15%) Network Security
4 28 (2.52%) TCP/IP
5 26 (2.34%) HTTP
6 16 (1.44%) Internet
7 15 (1.35%) VPN
8 14 (1.26%) WAN
9 12 (1.08%) LAN
10 11 (0.99%) IPv4
11 10 (0.90%) Cisco ASA
12 9 (0.81%) SNMP
12 9 (0.81%) tcpdump
13 7 (0.63%) IPv6
14 5 (0.45%) AMQP
14 5 (0.45%) SSL
15 4 (0.36%) WLAN
16 3 (0.27%) SSH
17 2 (0.18%) SMTP
18 1 (0.090%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (11.62%) Amazon RDS
2 72 (6.49%) SQL Server
3 71 (6.40%) MongoDB
4 68 (6.13%) PostgreSQL
5 57 (5.14%) Hadoop
6 33 (2.97%) Big Data
7 32 (2.88%) Relational Database
8 30 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
9 26 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
10 25 (2.25%) MySQL
11 24 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
12 18 (1.62%) DynamoDB
12 18 (1.62%) Presto
13 14 (1.26%) NoSQL
14 13 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
14 13 (1.17%) Power BI
15 12 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
15 12 (1.08%) DB2
15 12 (1.08%) RDBMS
16 11 (0.99%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 277 (24.95%) Jenkins
2 146 (13.15%) Git
3 114 (10.27%) GitLab
4 99 (8.92%) JIRA
5 41 (3.69%) Artifactory
6 33 (2.97%) CircleCI
7 32 (2.88%) SonarQube
8 27 (2.43%) TeamCity
9 20 (1.80%) Bitbucket
10 19 (1.71%) Sonatype Nexus
11 18 (1.62%) IBM UrbanCode
12 17 (1.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 16 (1.44%) Octopus Deploy
14 13 (1.17%) Terragrunt
15 12 (1.08%) Maven
15 12 (1.08%) Selenium
16 10 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
17 9 (0.81%) Subversion
18 8 (0.72%) MSBuild
18 8 (0.72%) Vagrant
General
1 222 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 158 (14.23%) Finance
3 149 (13.42%) Public Sector
4 102 (9.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 60 (5.41%) Aerospace
6 39 (3.51%) Banking
7 31 (2.79%) Analytical Skills
8 28 (2.52%) Front Office
8 28 (2.52%) Law
9 22 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
10 21 (1.89%) Legal
11 19 (1.71%) Tech for Good
12 16 (1.44%) Retail
13 15 (1.35%) Games
13 15 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (1.35%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.72%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.63%) Marketing
16 5 (0.45%) Electronics
17 4 (0.36%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (7.39%) Node.js
2 76 (6.85%) .NET
3 66 (5.95%) Elastic Stack
4 53 (4.77%) YAML
5 50 (4.50%) Kafka
6 43 (3.87%) ARM Templates
7 29 (2.61%) RabbitMQ
7 29 (2.61%) RESTful
8 26 (2.34%) J2EE
9 23 (2.07%) AWS CDK
10 20 (1.80%) REST
11 19 (1.71%) Apache NiFi
12 17 (1.53%) ActiveMQ
12 17 (1.53%) JSON
12 17 (1.53%) JWT
12 17 (1.53%) React
13 16 (1.44%) Spring
14 12 (1.08%) Spring XD
15 11 (0.99%) HTML
15 11 (0.99%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 92 (8.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 75 (6.76%) Blockchain
3 60 (5.41%) Public Cloud
4 57 (5.14%) e-Learning
5 40 (3.60%) Cloud Native
6 35 (3.15%) Product Ownership
7 28 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
8 27 (2.43%) Tandem
9 16 (1.44%) Client/Server
9 16 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
11 13 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (1.17%) Low-Code
12 12 (1.08%) Clustering
12 12 (1.08%) Management Information System
12 12 (1.08%) Private Cloud
13 11 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (0.90%) Hedge funds
14 10 (0.90%) Onboarding
14 10 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 344 (30.99%) Linux
2 117 (10.54%) Windows
3 16 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (1.26%) Unix
4 14 (1.26%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.17%) VMS
6 12 (1.08%) CentOS
7 6 (0.54%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.18%) Debian
8 2 (0.18%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,110 (100.00%) DevOps
2 675 (60.81%) CI/CD
3 418 (37.66%) Agile
4 383 (34.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 340 (30.63%) Containerisation
6 188 (16.94%) Mentoring
7 176 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
8 161 (14.50%) Continuous Integration
9 159 (14.32%) Test Automation
10 123 (11.08%) Observability
11 118 (10.63%) Software Engineering
12 116 (10.45%) Artificial Intelligence
13 109 (9.82%) Configuration Management
14 107 (9.64%) Scrum
15 106 (9.55%) Deployment Automation
16 101 (9.10%) Coaching
17 99 (8.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 97 (8.74%) Microservices
19 89 (8.02%) Continuous Deployment
20 88 (7.93%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 444 (40.00%) Python
2 182 (16.40%) Bash
3 165 (14.86%) Java
4 159 (14.32%) PowerShell
5 139 (12.52%) SQL
6 96 (8.65%) Go
7 69 (6.22%) C#
8 51 (4.59%) JavaScript
9 49 (4.41%) Shell Script
10 47 (4.23%) Groovy
11 41 (3.69%) Ruby
12 24 (2.16%) Bicep
12 24 (2.16%) Perl
13 21 (1.89%) PHP
14 17 (1.53%) T-SQL
15 15 (1.35%) C++
16 11 (0.99%) C
17 9 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 9 (0.81%) TypeScript
17 9 (0.81%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 265 (23.87%) Security Cleared
2 144 (12.97%) SC Cleared
3 99 (8.92%) DV Cleared
4 73 (6.58%) AWS Certification
5 63 (5.68%) Degree
6 36 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (2.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 24 (2.16%) Azure Certification
9 14 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.36%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (0.27%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 2 (0.18%) BC Cleared
15 1 (0.090%) AWS Certified Developer
15 1 (0.090%) Master's Degree
15 1 (0.090%) OCP
15 1 (0.090%) Oracle Certification
15 1 (0.090%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (2.07%) QA
2 13 (1.17%) GDPR
3 8 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.36%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.36%) NIST
5 3 (0.27%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.27%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.090%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.090%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.090%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.090%) NCSC
6 1 (0.090%) SLA
System Software
1 478 (43.06%) Docker
2 35 (3.15%) Virtual Machines
3 24 (2.16%) Active Directory
4 20 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 17 (1.53%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.63%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.27%) KVM
9 2 (0.18%) Firmware
9 2 (0.18%) Varnish
9 2 (0.18%) vSphere
10 1 (0.090%) etcd
10 1 (0.090%) iptables
10 1 (0.090%) NFS
10 1 (0.090%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 721 (64.95%) Terraform
2 637 (57.39%) Kubernetes
3 342 (30.81%) Ansible
4 141 (12.70%) Prometheus
5 107 (9.64%) Puppet
6 96 (8.65%) Grafana
7 95 (8.56%) Progress Chef
8 27 (2.43%) HAProxy
9 20 (1.80%) Packer
10 19 (1.71%) Consul
11 16 (1.44%) Rancher
12 15 (1.35%) Nagios
13 14 (1.26%) Argo
14 13 (1.17%) Kibana
15 12 (1.08%) Docker Swarm
16 11 (0.99%) Istio
17 10 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 9 (0.81%) Graphite
18 9 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
18 9 (0.81%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 120 (10.81%) Microsoft
2 89 (8.02%) IBM
3 87 (7.84%) Red Hat
4 68 (6.13%) Dynatrace
5 39 (3.51%) Oracle
6 35 (3.15%) Google
7 31 (2.79%) VMware
8 21 (1.89%) Splunk
9 19 (1.71%) Cisco
10 18 (1.62%) ServiceNow
11 16 (1.44%) Databricks
12 15 (1.35%) Black Duck
13 12 (1.08%) Atlassian
13 12 (1.08%) Sybase
14 9 (0.81%) New Relic
15 6 (0.54%) SAP
15 6 (0.54%) Zscaler
16 5 (0.45%) ForgeRock
16 5 (0.45%) Salesforce
16 5 (0.45%) YouTube