DevOps Engineer Jobs in England

Development Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in England is £70,576 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 238 130 109
Rank change year-on-year -108 -21 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 1,018 2,453 4,343
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.20% 2.65% 3.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.27% 2.89% 3.42%
Number of salaries quoted 773 1,740 2,534
10th Percentile £47,500 £52,475 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.90% +3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,576 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -5.90% +3.45% +11.54%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,360 84,735 126,842
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 91.51% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 60,202 53,671 75,665
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,160 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,225 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.08% - +9.09%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in England

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in England

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in England

DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
London -98 377 £84,000 +1.82% 89
North of England -70 198 £65,000 -3.70% 33
South East -79 175 £70,000 -0.36% 36
South West -35 154 £70,576 +8.58% 32
North West -55 115 £60,000 -14.29% 23
Yorkshire -21 61 £68,000 +4.62% 8
Midlands -33 56 £55,000 -18.52% 15
East of England -26 40 £65,000 -13.33% 10
West Midlands -18 29 £50,000 -28.57% 10
East Midlands -16 27 £56,250 -13.46% 5
North East -1 22 £57,500 -13.21% 2
DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 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 England region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 1,018 (100.00%) DevOps
2 665 (65.32%) Terraform
3 625 (61.39%) AWS
4 613 (60.22%) Kubernetes
5 611 (60.02%) CI/CD
6 457 (44.89%) Docker
7 452 (44.40%) Azure
8 400 (39.29%) Python
9 369 (36.25%) Agile
10 339 (33.30%) Infrastructure as Code
11 333 (32.71%) Linux
12 325 (31.93%) Containerisation
13 298 (29.27%) Ansible
14 262 (25.74%) Jenkins
15 234 (22.99%) Security Cleared
16 184 (18.07%) Bash
17 183 (17.98%) Social Skills
18 179 (17.58%) Azure DevOps
19 177 (17.39%) Finance
20 167 (16.40%) Amazon S3
21 161 (15.82%) PowerShell
22 152 (14.93%) Continuous Integration
22 152 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
23 151 (14.83%) Java
24 146 (14.34%) Mentoring
25 144 (14.15%) Prometheus
26 141 (13.85%) GCP
27 140 (13.75%) Test Automation
28 139 (13.65%) Amazon RDS
29 136 (13.36%) Git

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 36 (3.54%) nginx
2 22 (2.16%) Apache
3 19 (1.87%) Jupyter
4 18 (1.77%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.18%) Confluence
6 9 (0.88%) Drupal
7 5 (0.49%) WordPress
8 4 (0.39%) CMS
8 4 (0.39%) IIS
9 3 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.20%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.20%) JBoss
10 2 (0.20%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.098%) Moodle
Applications
1 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.098%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 625 (61.39%) AWS
2 452 (44.40%) Azure
3 179 (17.58%) Azure DevOps
4 167 (16.40%) Amazon S3
5 141 (13.85%) GCP
6 129 (12.67%) Amazon EKS
7 125 (12.28%) Serverless
8 123 (12.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 110 (10.81%) GitHub
10 100 (9.82%) AWS Lambda
11 96 (9.43%) Amazon ECS
12 95 (9.33%) Amazon EC2
13 93 (9.14%) OpenShift
14 68 (6.68%) IBM Cloud
15 64 (6.29%) SaaS
16 63 (6.19%) Route 53
17 59 (5.80%) Amazon ECR
17 59 (5.80%) GitHub Actions
18 55 (5.40%) OCI
19 48 (4.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 62 (6.09%) DNS
2 47 (4.62%) Firewall
3 31 (3.05%) TCP/IP
4 27 (2.65%) HTTP
5 26 (2.55%) Network Security
6 17 (1.67%) Internet
7 10 (0.98%) Cisco ASA
7 10 (0.98%) SNMP
7 10 (0.98%) tcpdump
7 10 (0.98%) WAN
8 9 (0.88%) VPN
9 8 (0.79%) LAN
10 5 (0.49%) AMQP
10 5 (0.49%) IPv4
10 5 (0.49%) IPv6
11 4 (0.39%) SSL
12 3 (0.29%) SSH
13 2 (0.20%) BGP
13 2 (0.20%) HTTPS
13 2 (0.20%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (13.65%) Amazon RDS
2 73 (7.17%) SQL Server
3 52 (5.11%) PostgreSQL
4 48 (4.72%) MongoDB
5 39 (3.83%) Amazon Redshift
5 39 (3.83%) Hadoop
6 30 (2.95%) Big Data
7 26 (2.55%) MySQL
8 25 (2.46%) Relational Database
9 22 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
10 19 (1.87%) Amazon Aurora
10 19 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
11 18 (1.77%) Presto
12 16 (1.57%) DynamoDB
13 13 (1.28%) Power BI
14 12 (1.18%) InfluxDB
15 10 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
15 10 (0.98%) DB2
15 10 (0.98%) NoSQL
15 10 (0.98%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 262 (25.74%) Jenkins
2 136 (13.36%) Git
3 104 (10.22%) GitLab
4 84 (8.25%) JIRA
5 55 (5.40%) Artifactory
6 29 (2.85%) SonarQube
7 25 (2.46%) TeamCity
8 21 (2.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 20 (1.96%) CircleCI
9 20 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
10 18 (1.77%) Bitbucket
11 16 (1.57%) IBM UrbanCode
12 15 (1.47%) Octopus Deploy
13 12 (1.18%) Maven
14 11 (1.08%) Selenium
15 10 (0.98%) Team Foundation Server
16 9 (0.88%) Subversion
17 8 (0.79%) MSBuild
17 8 (0.79%) Vagrant
18 5 (0.49%) Cucumber
General
1 183 (17.98%) Social Skills
2 177 (17.39%) Finance
3 124 (12.18%) Public Sector
4 89 (8.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 50 (4.91%) Aerospace
6 43 (4.22%) Banking
7 36 (3.54%) Front Office
8 33 (3.24%) Analytical Skills
9 24 (2.36%) Law
10 19 (1.87%) Tech for Good
11 16 (1.57%) Retail
12 15 (1.47%) Telecoms
13 14 (1.38%) Games
14 12 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (0.79%) Manufacturing
17 7 (0.69%) Marketing
18 6 (0.59%) Electronics
19 5 (0.49%) Police
19 5 (0.49%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (7.96%) .NET
2 68 (6.68%) Elastic Stack
3 59 (5.80%) YAML
4 40 (3.93%) Node.js
5 36 (3.54%) J2EE
6 30 (2.95%) ARM Templates
6 30 (2.95%) RabbitMQ
7 29 (2.85%) Kafka
8 26 (2.55%) RESTful
9 20 (1.96%) AWS CDK
9 20 (1.96%) JSON
10 18 (1.77%) ActiveMQ
10 18 (1.77%) Apache NiFi
10 18 (1.77%) REST
11 17 (1.67%) JWT
12 16 (1.57%) .NET Core
12 16 (1.57%) React
13 13 (1.28%) Middleware
14 12 (1.18%) Spring
15 10 (0.98%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 91 (8.94%) Hybrid Cloud
2 74 (7.27%) Blockchain
3 57 (5.60%) Public Cloud
4 55 (5.40%) e-Learning
5 37 (3.63%) Tandem
6 30 (2.95%) Cloud Native
7 26 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
8 18 (1.77%) Product Ownership
9 16 (1.57%) Client/Server
10 15 (1.47%) Private Cloud
11 14 (1.38%) Low-Code
12 13 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.18%) Clustering
13 12 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
13 12 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
14 11 (1.08%) Hedge funds
15 9 (0.88%) Data Centre
16 8 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
17 6 (0.59%) PKI
17 6 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 333 (32.71%) Linux
2 120 (11.79%) Windows
3 14 (1.38%) VMS
4 13 (1.28%) Unix
5 11 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.88%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.79%) CentOS
8 5 (0.49%) CoreOS
8 5 (0.49%) zOS
9 4 (0.39%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.20%) Debian
10 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.098%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,018 (100.00%) DevOps
2 611 (60.02%) CI/CD
3 369 (36.25%) Agile
4 339 (33.30%) Infrastructure as Code
5 325 (31.93%) Containerisation
6 152 (14.93%) Continuous Integration
6 152 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
7 146 (14.34%) Mentoring
8 140 (13.75%) Test Automation
9 122 (11.98%) Software Engineering
10 121 (11.89%) Configuration Management
11 120 (11.79%) Observability
12 108 (10.61%) Artificial Intelligence
13 103 (10.12%) Deployment Automation
14 102 (10.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 92 (9.04%) Microservices
16 87 (8.55%) Coaching
17 83 (8.15%) SDLC
18 82 (8.06%) Scrum
19 81 (7.96%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 400 (39.29%) Python
2 184 (18.07%) Bash
3 161 (15.82%) PowerShell
4 151 (14.83%) Java
5 102 (10.02%) Go
6 96 (9.43%) SQL
7 75 (7.37%) C#
8 44 (4.32%) Shell Script
9 39 (3.83%) Groovy
10 36 (3.54%) Ruby
11 32 (3.14%) JavaScript
12 24 (2.36%) PHP
13 23 (2.26%) Bicep
13 23 (2.26%) Perl
14 17 (1.67%) T-SQL
15 16 (1.57%) C++
16 12 (1.18%) C
17 9 (0.88%) Rust
18 8 (0.79%) TypeScript
19 7 (0.69%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 234 (22.99%) Security Cleared
2 113 (11.10%) SC Cleared
3 94 (9.23%) DV Cleared
4 58 (5.70%) Degree
5 55 (5.40%) AWS Certification
6 33 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (2.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 13 (1.28%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.69%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 5 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.098%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.098%) BC Cleared
14 1 (0.098%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.098%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.55%) QA
2 9 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.39%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.29%) NIST
4 3 (0.29%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.20%) GDPR
5 2 (0.20%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.098%) NCSC
6 1 (0.098%) SLA
System Software
1 457 (44.89%) Docker
2 33 (3.24%) Virtual Machines
3 18 (1.77%) VMware ESXi
4 17 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (1.47%) Active Directory
6 7 (0.69%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.29%) KVM
7 3 (0.29%) vSphere
8 2 (0.20%) Firmware
8 2 (0.20%) Varnish
8 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.098%) etcd
9 1 (0.098%) iptables
9 1 (0.098%) NFS
Systems Management
1 665 (65.32%) Terraform
2 613 (60.22%) Kubernetes
3 298 (29.27%) Ansible
4 144 (14.15%) Prometheus
5 105 (10.31%) Grafana
6 101 (9.92%) Puppet
7 85 (8.35%) Progress Chef
8 29 (2.85%) HAProxy
9 20 (1.96%) Consul
9 20 (1.96%) Rancher
10 19 (1.87%) Packer
11 14 (1.38%) Argo
11 14 (1.38%) Istio
11 14 (1.38%) Kibana
12 13 (1.28%) Nagios
13 12 (1.18%) Docker Swarm
14 10 (0.98%) Graphite
14 10 (0.98%) vCenter Server
15 7 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 7 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 108 (10.61%) Microsoft
2 82 (8.06%) IBM
3 81 (7.96%) Red Hat
4 64 (6.29%) Dynatrace
5 40 (3.93%) Oracle
6 33 (3.24%) Google
6 33 (3.24%) VMware
7 18 (1.77%) Splunk
8 15 (1.47%) Cisco
8 15 (1.47%) Databricks
9 11 (1.08%) Atlassian
10 10 (0.98%) Sybase
11 7 (0.69%) ServiceNow
12 6 (0.59%) New Relic
12 6 (0.59%) SaltStack
12 6 (0.59%) SAP
13 5 (0.49%) ForgeRock
13 5 (0.49%) YouTube
14 3 (0.29%) Sitecore
14 3 (0.29%) Veeam