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 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 244 132 108
Rank change year-on-year -112 -24 -27
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 1,006 2,449 4,350
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.18% 2.66% 3.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.25% 2.90% 3.42%
Number of salaries quoted 756 1,741 2,520
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,401 £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 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,288 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.28% +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 80,497 84,397 127,287
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.51% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 60,179 53,484 75,704
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,809 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 4 May 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 4 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
London -109 371 £83,615 +1.35% 106
North of England -74 193 £65,000 -3.70% 41
South East -73 178 £68,250 -3.87% 31
South West -40 153 £70,576 +8.58% 34
North West -51 114 £60,000 -14.29% 25
Yorkshire -29 58 £68,000 +4.62% 14
Midlands -33 54 £55,000 -19.12% 18
East of England -17 40 £65,000 -13.33% 9
West Midlands -31 29 £50,000 -28.57% 13
East Midlands -16 25 £55,000 -15.38% 5
North East -1 21 £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 4 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 England region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 1,006 (100.00%) DevOps
2 652 (64.81%) Terraform
3 617 (61.33%) AWS
4 604 (60.04%) CI/CD
5 600 (59.64%) Kubernetes
6 459 (45.63%) Azure
7 447 (44.43%) Docker
8 389 (38.67%) Python
9 368 (36.58%) Agile
10 332 (33.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 327 (32.50%) Linux
12 323 (32.11%) Containerisation
13 295 (29.32%) Ansible
14 257 (25.55%) Jenkins
15 236 (23.46%) Security Cleared
16 182 (18.09%) Social Skills
17 178 (17.69%) Azure DevOps
17 178 (17.69%) Bash
18 172 (17.10%) Finance
19 164 (16.30%) Amazon S3
20 162 (16.10%) PowerShell
21 153 (15.21%) Continuous Integration
22 152 (15.11%) Java
23 151 (15.01%) Problem-Solving
24 148 (14.71%) Mentoring
25 142 (14.12%) Test Automation
26 141 (14.02%) Prometheus
27 138 (13.72%) Git
27 138 (13.72%) GCP
28 137 (13.62%) Amazon RDS

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 34 (3.38%) nginx
2 21 (2.09%) Apache
3 18 (1.79%) Jupyter
4 17 (1.69%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.99%) Confluence
6 9 (0.89%) Drupal
7 5 (0.50%) WordPress
8 4 (0.40%) IIS
9 3 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.20%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.20%) CMS
10 2 (0.20%) JBoss
10 2 (0.20%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.099%) Moodle
11 1 (0.099%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.099%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 617 (61.33%) AWS
2 459 (45.63%) Azure
3 178 (17.69%) Azure DevOps
4 164 (16.30%) Amazon S3
5 138 (13.72%) GCP
6 130 (12.92%) Amazon EKS
7 121 (12.03%) Serverless
8 114 (11.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 109 (10.83%) GitHub
10 97 (9.64%) AWS Lambda
11 93 (9.24%) Amazon ECS
12 91 (9.05%) Amazon EC2
12 91 (9.05%) OpenShift
13 70 (6.96%) IBM Cloud
14 64 (6.36%) SaaS
15 63 (6.26%) Route 53
16 62 (6.16%) GitHub Actions
17 61 (6.06%) Amazon ECR
18 57 (5.67%) OCI
19 45 (4.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 63 (6.26%) DNS
2 46 (4.57%) Firewall
3 30 (2.98%) TCP/IP
4 27 (2.68%) HTTP
5 26 (2.58%) Network Security
6 16 (1.59%) Internet
7 10 (0.99%) Cisco ASA
7 10 (0.99%) SNMP
7 10 (0.99%) tcpdump
7 10 (0.99%) WAN
8 8 (0.80%) LAN
8 8 (0.80%) VPN
9 6 (0.60%) IPv4
9 6 (0.60%) IPv6
10 5 (0.50%) AMQP
11 3 (0.30%) SSH
11 3 (0.30%) SSL
12 2 (0.20%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.20%) IPsec
12 2 (0.20%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (13.62%) Amazon RDS
2 74 (7.36%) SQL Server
3 53 (5.27%) MongoDB
3 53 (5.27%) PostgreSQL
4 41 (4.08%) Hadoop
5 37 (3.68%) Amazon Redshift
6 29 (2.88%) Big Data
7 28 (2.78%) Relational Database
8 24 (2.39%) MySQL
9 22 (2.19%) Azure SQL Database
9 22 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
10 18 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
11 17 (1.69%) Presto
12 16 (1.59%) DynamoDB
13 12 (1.19%) DB2
13 12 (1.19%) InfluxDB
13 12 (1.19%) Power BI
13 12 (1.19%) RDBMS
14 11 (1.09%) NoSQL
15 10 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 257 (25.55%) Jenkins
2 138 (13.72%) Git
3 105 (10.44%) GitLab
4 84 (8.35%) JIRA
5 53 (5.27%) Artifactory
6 31 (3.08%) SonarQube
7 25 (2.49%) TeamCity
8 20 (1.99%) Sonatype Nexus
9 19 (1.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 19 (1.89%) CircleCI
10 18 (1.79%) Bitbucket
11 16 (1.59%) IBM UrbanCode
12 15 (1.49%) Octopus Deploy
13 11 (1.09%) Maven
13 11 (1.09%) Selenium
14 9 (0.89%) Subversion
14 9 (0.89%) Team Foundation Server
15 8 (0.80%) MSBuild
15 8 (0.80%) Vagrant
16 6 (0.60%) Cucumber
General
1 182 (18.09%) Social Skills
2 172 (17.10%) Finance
3 128 (12.72%) Public Sector
4 91 (9.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 52 (5.17%) Aerospace
6 41 (4.08%) Banking
7 34 (3.38%) Front Office
8 33 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
9 25 (2.49%) Law
10 18 (1.79%) Tech for Good
11 16 (1.59%) Retail
12 15 (1.49%) Telecoms
13 14 (1.39%) Games
14 12 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (0.80%) Manufacturing
17 7 (0.70%) Marketing
18 6 (0.60%) Electronics
19 5 (0.50%) Legal
19 5 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (8.15%) .NET
2 66 (6.56%) Elastic Stack
3 59 (5.86%) YAML
4 43 (4.27%) Node.js
5 34 (3.38%) J2EE
6 31 (3.08%) Kafka
7 29 (2.88%) RabbitMQ
8 28 (2.78%) ARM Templates
9 27 (2.68%) RESTful
10 21 (2.09%) AWS CDK
11 20 (1.99%) JSON
12 18 (1.79%) REST
13 17 (1.69%) ActiveMQ
13 17 (1.69%) Apache NiFi
13 17 (1.69%) JWT
13 17 (1.69%) React
14 16 (1.59%) .NET Core
15 14 (1.39%) Spring
16 12 (1.19%) Middleware
16 12 (1.19%) Spring XD
Miscellaneous
1 92 (9.15%) Hybrid Cloud
2 76 (7.55%) Blockchain
3 57 (5.67%) e-Learning
4 56 (5.57%) Public Cloud
5 35 (3.48%) Tandem
6 32 (3.18%) Cloud Native
7 27 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
8 18 (1.79%) Product Ownership
9 16 (1.59%) Client/Server
10 15 (1.49%) Private Cloud
11 14 (1.39%) Low-Code
12 12 (1.19%) Clustering
12 12 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
12 12 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (1.09%) Hedge funds
13 11 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (0.80%) Data Centre
14 8 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
15 6 (0.60%) PKI
15 6 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 327 (32.50%) Linux
2 122 (12.13%) Windows
3 14 (1.39%) VMS
4 12 (1.19%) Unix
4 12 (1.19%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.80%) CentOS
7 5 (0.50%) CoreOS
7 5 (0.50%) zOS
8 4 (0.40%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.099%) Debian
10 1 (0.099%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.099%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,006 (100.00%) DevOps
2 604 (60.04%) CI/CD
3 368 (36.58%) Agile
4 332 (33.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 323 (32.11%) Containerisation
6 153 (15.21%) Continuous Integration
7 151 (15.01%) Problem-Solving
8 148 (14.71%) Mentoring
9 142 (14.12%) Test Automation
10 120 (11.93%) Observability
11 119 (11.83%) Software Engineering
12 115 (11.43%) Configuration Management
13 111 (11.03%) Artificial Intelligence
14 103 (10.24%) Deployment Automation
15 98 (9.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 96 (9.54%) Microservices
17 90 (8.95%) Coaching
18 86 (8.55%) Scrum
19 84 (8.35%) Continuous Deployment
19 84 (8.35%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 389 (38.67%) Python
2 178 (17.69%) Bash
3 162 (16.10%) PowerShell
4 152 (15.11%) Java
5 99 (9.84%) SQL
6 98 (9.74%) Go
7 73 (7.26%) C#
8 42 (4.17%) Shell Script
9 38 (3.78%) Groovy
10 33 (3.28%) JavaScript
10 33 (3.28%) Ruby
11 24 (2.39%) PHP
12 23 (2.29%) Perl
13 21 (2.09%) Bicep
14 17 (1.69%) T-SQL
15 16 (1.59%) C++
16 12 (1.19%) C
17 9 (0.89%) Rust
17 9 (0.89%) TypeScript
18 7 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 236 (23.46%) Security Cleared
2 117 (11.63%) SC Cleared
3 95 (9.44%) DV Cleared
4 56 (5.57%) Degree
5 53 (5.27%) AWS Certification
6 32 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (2.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 12 (1.19%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.099%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.099%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.099%) BC Cleared
13 1 (0.099%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.099%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.58%) QA
2 9 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.40%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.30%) NIST
4 3 (0.30%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.20%) GDPR
5 2 (0.20%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.099%) NCSC
6 1 (0.099%) SLA
System Software
1 447 (44.43%) Docker
2 36 (3.58%) Virtual Machines
3 18 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
4 17 (1.69%) Active Directory
4 17 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.70%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.30%) KVM
6 3 (0.30%) vSphere
7 2 (0.20%) Firmware
7 2 (0.20%) Varnish
7 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.099%) etcd
8 1 (0.099%) iptables
8 1 (0.099%) NFS
Systems Management
1 652 (64.81%) Terraform
2 600 (59.64%) Kubernetes
3 295 (29.32%) Ansible
4 141 (14.02%) Prometheus
5 101 (10.04%) Puppet
6 99 (9.84%) Grafana
7 83 (8.25%) Progress Chef
8 28 (2.78%) HAProxy
9 20 (1.99%) Consul
9 20 (1.99%) Packer
10 19 (1.89%) Rancher
11 15 (1.49%) Argo
11 15 (1.49%) Istio
12 14 (1.39%) Kibana
13 13 (1.29%) Nagios
14 12 (1.19%) Docker Swarm
15 10 (0.99%) Graphite
15 10 (0.99%) vCenter Server
16 7 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 7 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 107 (10.64%) Microsoft
2 84 (8.35%) IBM
3 83 (8.25%) Red Hat
4 67 (6.66%) Dynatrace
5 41 (4.08%) Oracle
6 33 (3.28%) Google
7 31 (3.08%) VMware
8 17 (1.69%) Splunk
9 15 (1.49%) Cisco
9 15 (1.49%) Databricks
10 12 (1.19%) Sybase
11 10 (0.99%) Atlassian
12 6 (0.60%) SAP
12 6 (0.60%) ServiceNow
13 5 (0.50%) ForgeRock
13 5 (0.50%) New Relic
13 5 (0.50%) SaltStack
13 5 (0.50%) YouTube
14 3 (0.30%) Black Duck
14 3 (0.30%) Veeam