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 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 288 166 123
Rank change year-on-year -122 -43 -26
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 669 1,252 2,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.94% 2.11% 2.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 2.37% 2.95%
Number of salaries quoted 492 738 1,229
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,980 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,000 £56,219 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,447 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% -0.79% +21.74%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £81,250
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 67,720 52,840 68,639
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.16% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,860 30,029 42,498
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 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £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 16 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 16 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 -81 194 £60,000 -11.11% 36
South East -77 185 £65,000 -7.14% 27
South West -44 152 £70,576 +8.58% 32
North West -62 114 £60,000 -14.29% 24
Yorkshire -36 58 £65,465 +0.17% 10
Midlands -51 52 £55,000 -19.71% 17
East of England -37 38 £65,000 -13.33% 7
West Midlands -28 28 £51,250 -26.79% 10
Scotland -122 25 £70,576 +1.22% 8
East Midlands -16 24 £55,000 -15.38% 7
North East -4 22 £57,500 -13.21% 2
Wales -10 16 £52,500 -26.83% 1
Northern Ireland +4 7 £52,500 -22.22% 2
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 16 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.

1 669 (100.00%) DevOps
2 400 (59.79%) Terraform
3 395 (59.04%) AWS
4 385 (57.55%) CI/CD
5 378 (56.50%) Kubernetes
6 327 (48.88%) Azure
7 284 (42.45%) Docker
8 247 (36.92%) Agile
9 224 (33.48%) Linux
10 209 (31.24%) Ansible
11 206 (30.79%) Containerisation
12 201 (30.04%) Infrastructure as Code
13 199 (29.75%) Python
14 176 (26.31%) Security Cleared
15 133 (19.88%) Jenkins
16 121 (18.09%) Continuous Integration
17 116 (17.34%) Social Skills
17 116 (17.34%) Mentoring
18 109 (16.29%) Azure DevOps
19 100 (14.95%) Prometheus
20 98 (14.65%) Public Sector
21 96 (14.35%) Problem-Solving
22 95 (14.20%) Observability
23 92 (13.75%) GCP
24 91 (13.60%) PowerShell
24 91 (13.60%) Test Automation
25 87 (13.00%) Bash
25 87 (13.00%) Artificial Intelligence
26 83 (12.41%) Java
27 82 (12.26%) Amazon S3

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 (4.78%) nginx
2 21 (3.14%) Apache
3 18 (2.69%) Apache Spark
4 17 (2.54%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.75%) Confluence
5 5 (0.75%) IIS
6 2 (0.30%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.30%) JBoss
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.15%) Moodle
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 395 (59.04%) AWS
2 327 (48.88%) Azure
3 109 (16.29%) Azure DevOps
4 92 (13.75%) GCP
5 82 (12.26%) Amazon S3
6 67 (10.01%) Amazon EKS
6 67 (10.01%) GitHub
7 59 (8.82%) IBM Cloud
8 56 (8.37%) SaaS
9 53 (7.92%) OpenShift
10 48 (7.17%) GitHub Actions
11 47 (7.03%) OCI
11 47 (7.03%) Route 53
12 46 (6.88%) Amazon ECR
13 31 (4.63%) Amazon ECS
13 31 (4.63%) AWS CloudFormation
14 27 (4.04%) Datadog
15 24 (3.59%) Serverless
16 21 (3.14%) Amazon EC2
17 20 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.29%) DNS
2 20 (2.99%) Firewall
3 16 (2.39%) Network Security
4 11 (1.64%) HTTP
5 9 (1.35%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.05%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (0.90%) VPN
7 6 (0.90%) WAN
8 5 (0.75%) AMQP
9 4 (0.60%) LAN
10 2 (0.30%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.30%) IPsec
10 2 (0.30%) SSL
11 1 (0.15%) Internet
11 1 (0.15%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.15%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (8.67%) Amazon RDS
2 51 (7.62%) Hadoop
3 40 (5.98%) PostgreSQL
4 39 (5.83%) MongoDB
5 37 (5.53%) SQL Server
6 30 (4.48%) Big Data
7 20 (2.99%) Relational Database
8 17 (2.54%) Presto
9 11 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (1.64%) NoSQL
10 6 (0.90%) InfluxDB
11 5 (0.75%) MySQL
12 3 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.45%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.30%) Couchbase
13 2 (0.30%) DB2
13 2 (0.30%) Flink
13 2 (0.30%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.30%) Redis
14 1 (0.15%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 133 (19.88%) Jenkins
2 77 (11.51%) Git
3 73 (10.91%) JIRA
4 62 (9.27%) GitLab
5 21 (3.14%) TeamCity
6 20 (2.99%) CircleCI
7 18 (2.69%) IBM UrbanCode
8 17 (2.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 12 (1.79%) Artifactory
10 11 (1.64%) SonarQube
11 10 (1.49%) Maven
12 9 (1.35%) Selenium
12 9 (1.35%) Team Foundation Server
13 8 (1.20%) MSBuild
14 7 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
14 7 (1.05%) Vagrant
15 6 (0.90%) Octopus Deploy
16 5 (0.75%) Subversion
17 4 (0.60%) Bitbucket
17 4 (0.60%) git-flow
General
1 116 (17.34%) Social Skills
2 98 (14.65%) Public Sector
3 71 (10.61%) Finance
4 61 (9.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 53 (7.92%) Aerospace
6 30 (4.48%) Banking
7 20 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
8 17 (2.54%) Tech for Good
9 13 (1.94%) Law
10 11 (1.64%) Games
11 10 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (1.35%) Retail
13 7 (1.05%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.90%) Analytical Skills
15 5 (0.75%) Electronics
15 5 (0.75%) Legal
15 5 (0.75%) Marketing
15 5 (0.75%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.60%) Advertising
17 3 (0.45%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (6.88%) Node.js
2 45 (6.73%) .NET
3 35 (5.23%) Kafka
4 34 (5.08%) YAML
5 29 (4.33%) Elastic Stack
6 28 (4.19%) RabbitMQ
7 18 (2.69%) Apache NiFi
8 17 (2.54%) ActiveMQ
8 17 (2.54%) RESTful
9 15 (2.24%) JSON
10 12 (1.79%) ARM Templates
11 11 (1.64%) AWS CDK
12 10 (1.49%) JWT
13 9 (1.35%) XML
14 6 (0.90%) Spring
15 5 (0.75%) Lambda Expressions
15 5 (0.75%) React
16 4 (0.60%) .NET Core
16 4 (0.60%) Keycloak
16 4 (0.60%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 76 (11.36%) Hybrid Cloud
2 59 (8.82%) Blockchain
3 52 (7.77%) Public Cloud
4 46 (6.88%) e-Learning
5 20 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (2.39%) Cloud Native
7 14 (2.09%) Low-Code
8 13 (1.94%) Product Ownership
9 10 (1.49%) Client/Server
9 10 (1.49%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (0.75%) Onboarding
11 5 (0.75%) Online Games
11 5 (0.75%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.60%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.60%) PKI
12 4 (0.60%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 224 (33.48%) Linux
2 59 (8.82%) Windows
3 9 (1.35%) VMS
4 6 (0.90%) CentOS
4 6 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (0.90%) Unix
5 4 (0.60%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.45%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.30%) Debian
8 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 669 (100.00%) DevOps
2 385 (57.55%) CI/CD
3 247 (36.92%) Agile
4 206 (30.79%) Containerisation
5 201 (30.04%) Infrastructure as Code
6 121 (18.09%) Continuous Integration
7 116 (17.34%) Mentoring
8 96 (14.35%) Problem-Solving
9 95 (14.20%) Observability
10 91 (13.60%) Test Automation
11 87 (13.00%) Artificial Intelligence
12 73 (10.91%) SDLC
13 70 (10.46%) Coaching
14 67 (10.01%) Continuous Deployment
15 65 (9.72%) Scrum
16 61 (9.12%) Collaborative Working
17 60 (8.97%) Configuration Management
18 54 (8.07%) Software Delivery
19 53 (7.92%) Kanban
19 53 (7.92%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 199 (29.75%) Python
2 91 (13.60%) PowerShell
3 87 (13.00%) Bash
4 83 (12.41%) Java
5 75 (11.21%) SQL
6 40 (5.98%) C#
7 37 (5.53%) Groovy
7 37 (5.53%) Shell Script
8 24 (3.59%) Go
9 22 (3.29%) JavaScript
10 19 (2.84%) Bicep
11 16 (2.39%) Ruby
12 10 (1.49%) T-SQL
13 9 (1.35%) C
13 9 (1.35%) Perl
13 9 (1.35%) PHP
14 6 (0.90%) C++
15 5 (0.75%) Ada
16 4 (0.60%) Lua
16 4 (0.60%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 176 (26.31%) Security Cleared
2 79 (11.81%) DV Cleared
3 74 (11.06%) SC Cleared
4 40 (5.98%) Degree
5 29 (4.33%) AWS Certification
6 25 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (2.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.90%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.75%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (0.30%) BC Cleared
12 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.15%) OCP
12 1 (0.15%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.24%) QA
2 7 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.60%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 284 (42.45%) Docker
2 20 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (0.90%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.75%) Active Directory
7 3 (0.45%) KVM
8 2 (0.30%) Firmware
8 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.15%) iptables
Systems Management
1 400 (59.79%) Terraform
2 378 (56.50%) Kubernetes
3 209 (31.24%) Ansible
4 100 (14.95%) Prometheus
5 63 (9.42%) Progress Chef
6 54 (8.07%) Puppet
7 52 (7.77%) Grafana
8 17 (2.54%) HAProxy
9 14 (2.09%) Rancher
10 13 (1.94%) Consul
11 12 (1.79%) Docker Swarm
12 9 (1.35%) Packer
13 8 (1.20%) Argo
13 8 (1.20%) Istio
13 8 (1.20%) Kibana
14 4 (0.60%) Rundeck
14 4 (0.60%) vRealize
15 2 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 2 (0.30%) Kustomize
15 2 (0.30%) Nagios
Vendors
1 78 (11.66%) IBM
2 72 (10.76%) Microsoft
3 60 (8.97%) Red Hat
4 48 (7.17%) Dynatrace
5 20 (2.99%) VMware
6 19 (2.84%) Google
7 15 (2.24%) Oracle
8 11 (1.64%) Cisco
9 8 (1.20%) Splunk
10 5 (0.75%) Atlassian
10 5 (0.75%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.60%) SaltStack
11 4 (0.60%) SAP
11 4 (0.60%) YouTube
12 3 (0.45%) Databricks
12 3 (0.45%) ForgeRock
12 3 (0.45%) Sitecore
12 3 (0.45%) Veeam
13 2 (0.30%) New Relic
13 2 (0.30%) Talend