DevOps Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Development Operations Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 283 169 118
Rank change year-on-year -114 -51 -24
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 684 1,210 2,050
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.96% 2.01% 2.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.02% 2.25% 3.01%
Number of salaries quoted 495 730 1,257
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,219 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,497 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% -2.15% +21.74%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +11.54%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 67,268 53,729 68,078
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.81% 89.16% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,545 30,499 42,724
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
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 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,750 £81,251 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
North of England -69 198 £65,000 -3.70% 40
South East -70 183 £66,500 -5.00% 30
South West -39 155 £70,576 +8.58% 29
North West -57 116 £60,000 -14.29% 27
Yorkshire -29 60 £68,000 +4.62% 11
Midlands -44 54 £55,000 -19.12% 18
East of England -26 40 £65,000 -13.33% 9
West Midlands -31 29 £52,500 -25.00% 11
Scotland -107 29 £70,576 +0.82% 6
East Midlands -18 25 £55,000 -15.38% 7
North East +1 22 £57,500 -13.21% 2
Wales -3 17 £52,500 -26.83% 2
Northern Ireland +10 8 £52,500 -17.65% 3
Channel Islands - 1 £110,000 -
DevOps Engineer
UK

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 8 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 UK excluding London region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 684 (100.00%) DevOps
2 416 (60.82%) Terraform
3 399 (58.33%) Kubernetes
4 395 (57.75%) AWS
5 394 (57.60%) CI/CD
6 337 (49.27%) Azure
7 301 (44.01%) Docker
8 265 (38.74%) Agile
9 244 (35.67%) Linux
10 221 (32.31%) Ansible
11 217 (31.73%) Containerisation
12 212 (30.99%) Infrastructure as Code
13 193 (28.22%) Python
14 177 (25.88%) Security Cleared
15 142 (20.76%) Jenkins
16 127 (18.57%) Continuous Integration
17 123 (17.98%) Azure DevOps
18 120 (17.54%) Mentoring
19 111 (16.23%) Prometheus
20 110 (16.08%) Social Skills
21 102 (14.91%) PowerShell
22 98 (14.33%) Observability
23 97 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
23 97 (14.18%) Bash
24 95 (13.89%) Public Sector
25 91 (13.30%) Test Automation
26 90 (13.16%) GCP
27 89 (13.01%) Artificial Intelligence
28 82 (11.99%) Amazon S3
29 81 (11.84%) Git

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 32 (4.68%) nginx
2 19 (2.78%) Apache
3 18 (2.63%) Apache Spark
4 17 (2.49%) Jupyter
5 6 (0.88%) Confluence
6 5 (0.73%) IIS
7 2 (0.29%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.15%) JBoss
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 395 (57.75%) AWS
2 337 (49.27%) Azure
3 123 (17.98%) Azure DevOps
4 90 (13.16%) GCP
5 82 (11.99%) Amazon S3
6 68 (9.94%) Amazon EKS
7 66 (9.65%) GitHub
8 59 (8.63%) IBM Cloud
9 56 (8.19%) SaaS
10 52 (7.60%) OpenShift
11 48 (7.02%) Route 53
12 47 (6.87%) OCI
13 46 (6.73%) Amazon ECR
13 46 (6.73%) GitHub Actions
14 42 (6.14%) AWS CloudFormation
15 33 (4.82%) Amazon ECS
16 26 (3.80%) Datadog
17 25 (3.65%) Serverless
18 22 (3.22%) Amazon EC2
19 21 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 23 (3.36%) DNS
2 21 (3.07%) Firewall
3 16 (2.34%) Network Security
4 12 (1.75%) HTTP
5 10 (1.46%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
6 7 (1.02%) VPN
7 6 (0.88%) WAN
8 5 (0.73%) AMQP
9 4 (0.58%) LAN
10 2 (0.29%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.29%) IPsec
11 1 (0.15%) BGP
11 1 (0.15%) DHCP
11 1 (0.15%) Internet
11 1 (0.15%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.15%) SSL
11 1 (0.15%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (8.48%) Amazon RDS
2 45 (6.58%) Hadoop
3 36 (5.26%) SQL Server
4 34 (4.97%) PostgreSQL
5 33 (4.82%) MongoDB
6 29 (4.24%) Big Data
7 18 (2.63%) Relational Database
8 17 (2.49%) Presto
9 16 (2.34%) InfluxDB
10 10 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (1.32%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.73%) MySQL
13 3 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.44%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.29%) Couchbase
14 2 (0.29%) DB2
14 2 (0.29%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.29%) Redis
15 1 (0.15%) Amazon Aurora
15 1 (0.15%) Flink
Development Applications
1 142 (20.76%) Jenkins
2 81 (11.84%) Git
3 75 (10.96%) JIRA
4 71 (10.38%) GitLab
5 23 (3.36%) IBM UrbanCode
6 21 (3.07%) SonarQube
7 20 (2.92%) TeamCity
8 18 (2.63%) CircleCI
9 17 (2.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 12 (1.75%) Artifactory
11 10 (1.46%) Maven
12 9 (1.32%) Selenium
12 9 (1.32%) Team Foundation Server
13 8 (1.17%) MSBuild
14 7 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
14 7 (1.02%) Vagrant
15 6 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
16 5 (0.73%) Subversion
17 4 (0.58%) git-flow
17 4 (0.58%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 110 (16.08%) Social Skills
2 95 (13.89%) Public Sector
3 80 (11.70%) Finance
4 62 (9.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 52 (7.60%) Aerospace
6 37 (5.41%) Banking
7 20 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
8 17 (2.49%) Tech for Good
9 13 (1.90%) Law
10 11 (1.61%) Games
11 9 (1.32%) Retail
12 8 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.02%) Analytical Skills
13 7 (1.02%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.02%) Retail Banking
14 5 (0.73%) Electronics
14 5 (0.73%) Legal
14 5 (0.73%) Marketing
14 5 (0.73%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.58%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (6.87%) .NET
2 40 (5.85%) Node.js
3 39 (5.70%) Elastic Stack
4 36 (5.26%) YAML
5 29 (4.24%) Kafka
6 27 (3.95%) RabbitMQ
7 17 (2.49%) ActiveMQ
7 17 (2.49%) Apache NiFi
7 17 (2.49%) JSON
7 17 (2.49%) RESTful
8 12 (1.75%) ARM Templates
9 10 (1.46%) AWS CDK
9 10 (1.46%) JWT
10 9 (1.32%) XML
11 7 (1.02%) React
12 6 (0.88%) .NET Core
12 6 (0.88%) Spring
13 5 (0.73%) Lambda Expressions
14 4 (0.58%) LDAP
14 4 (0.58%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 76 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 60 (8.77%) Blockchain
2 60 (8.77%) Public Cloud
3 46 (6.73%) e-Learning
4 28 (4.09%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (2.49%) Cloud Native
6 14 (2.05%) Low-Code
7 13 (1.90%) Product Ownership
8 10 (1.46%) Client/Server
8 10 (1.46%) Private Cloud
9 7 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (0.73%) Mainframe
10 5 (0.73%) Onboarding
10 5 (0.73%) Online Games
10 5 (0.73%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.58%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.58%) Data Centre
11 4 (0.58%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 244 (35.67%) Linux
2 74 (10.82%) Windows
3 12 (1.75%) Unix
4 9 (1.32%) VMS
5 7 (1.02%) CentOS
6 5 (0.73%) CoreOS
6 5 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.73%) zOS
7 4 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.44%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.29%) Debian
10 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 684 (100.00%) DevOps
2 394 (57.60%) CI/CD
3 265 (38.74%) Agile
4 217 (31.73%) Containerisation
5 212 (30.99%) Infrastructure as Code
6 127 (18.57%) Continuous Integration
7 120 (17.54%) Mentoring
8 98 (14.33%) Observability
9 97 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
10 91 (13.30%) Test Automation
11 89 (13.01%) Artificial Intelligence
12 76 (11.11%) Scrum
12 76 (11.11%) SDLC
13 75 (10.96%) Coaching
14 70 (10.23%) Continuous Deployment
15 64 (9.36%) Kanban
16 62 (9.06%) Configuration Management
17 60 (8.77%) Collaborative Working
18 58 (8.48%) Software Delivery
19 57 (8.33%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 193 (28.22%) Python
2 102 (14.91%) PowerShell
3 97 (14.18%) Bash
4 74 (10.82%) Java
5 67 (9.80%) SQL
6 40 (5.85%) C#
7 37 (5.41%) Groovy
7 37 (5.41%) Shell Script
8 25 (3.65%) Go
9 22 (3.22%) JavaScript
10 19 (2.78%) Bicep
11 16 (2.34%) Ruby
12 10 (1.46%) Perl
12 10 (1.46%) T-SQL
13 9 (1.32%) C
13 9 (1.32%) PHP
14 6 (0.88%) C++
15 5 (0.73%) Ada
16 4 (0.58%) Lua
16 4 (0.58%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 177 (25.88%) Security Cleared
2 81 (11.84%) DV Cleared
3 71 (10.38%) SC Cleared
4 37 (5.41%) Degree
5 29 (4.24%) AWS Certification
6 24 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (2.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.88%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 6 (0.88%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.29%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.15%) OCP
11 1 (0.15%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (1.90%) QA
2 7 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.58%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 301 (44.01%) Docker
2 20 (2.92%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (0.88%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.73%) Active Directory
7 3 (0.44%) KVM
8 2 (0.29%) Firmware
9 1 (0.15%) iptables
9 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 416 (60.82%) Terraform
2 399 (58.33%) Kubernetes
3 221 (32.31%) Ansible
4 111 (16.23%) Prometheus
5 63 (9.21%) Grafana
6 61 (8.92%) Progress Chef
7 51 (7.46%) Puppet
8 17 (2.49%) HAProxy
8 17 (2.49%) Rancher
9 13 (1.90%) Consul
10 12 (1.75%) Docker Swarm
11 10 (1.46%) Istio
12 9 (1.32%) Kibana
12 9 (1.32%) Packer
13 8 (1.17%) Argo
14 5 (0.73%) CA Endevor
15 4 (0.58%) Rundeck
15 4 (0.58%) vRealize
16 2 (0.29%) Kustomize
16 2 (0.29%) Podman
Vendors
1 78 (11.40%) IBM
2 71 (10.38%) Microsoft
3 59 (8.63%) Red Hat
4 48 (7.02%) Dynatrace
5 24 (3.51%) Google
6 22 (3.22%) VMware
7 15 (2.19%) Oracle
8 11 (1.61%) Cisco
9 7 (1.02%) Splunk
10 6 (0.88%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.58%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.58%) SaltStack
11 4 (0.58%) SAP
11 4 (0.58%) YouTube
12 3 (0.44%) Databricks
12 3 (0.44%) ForgeRock
12 3 (0.44%) Sitecore
12 3 (0.44%) Veeam
13 2 (0.29%) Sybase
14 1 (0.15%) Salesforce