Development Operations Architect
UK

The median Development Operations Architect salary in the UK is £110,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 848 970 1112
Rank change year-on-year +122 +142 -301
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Architect 46 19 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.047% 0.018% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.050% 0.020% 0.057%
Number of salaries quoted 29 12 47
10th Percentile £74,500 - £74,500
25th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £78,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £82,500 £102,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -19.51% +24.24%
75th Percentile £115,000 £105,625 £117,500
90th Percentile - £107,500 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £110,000 £75,000 £91,250
% change year-on-year +46.67% -17.81% +30.36%

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 92,894 96,310 147,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.58% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,756 60,420 85,018
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

DevOps Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Architect in the UK

DevOps Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for DevOps Architect in the UK

DevOps Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Architect over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps Architect in the UK

DevOps Architect
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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
England +117 25 £110,000 +33.33% 9
UK excluding London +21 18 £110,000 +46.67% 6
Work from Home +106 16 £110,000 +22.22% 7
London +125 10 £100,000 +40.35% 5
Midlands - 10 £110,000 -
West Midlands - 10 £110,000 -
South West -17 4 £80,000 +6.67%
Scotland - 3 £80,000 - 2
North of England +41 1 £75,000 +50.00% 4
North West +12 1 £75,000 +50.00% 2

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, DevOps Architect 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 Architect in the job title.

1 46 (100.00%) DevOps
2 35 (76.09%) CI/CD
3 20 (43.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 20 (43.48%) Public Cloud
3 20 (43.48%) Terraform
4 19 (41.30%) Agile
5 18 (39.13%) IaaS
5 18 (39.13%) PaaS
6 17 (36.96%) Azure
7 16 (34.78%) Degree
7 16 (34.78%) Computer Science
7 16 (34.78%) Salesforce
7 16 (34.78%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (34.78%) Digital Thinking
7 16 (34.78%) Customer Experience
7 16 (34.78%) ARM Templates
8 15 (32.61%) Metadata
8 15 (32.61%) Conflict Resolution
8 15 (32.61%) Deployment Automation
8 15 (32.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (32.61%) Virtual Desktop
8 15 (32.61%) Presales
8 15 (32.61%) PlayStation
8 15 (32.61%) Sony
8 15 (32.61%) IBM
8 15 (32.61%) Software Engineering
8 15 (32.61%) Facebook
9 14 (30.43%) vSphere
9 14 (30.43%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (30.43%) VMware Infrastructure

DevOps Architect 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 1 (2.17%) Apache
1 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.17%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 18 (39.13%) IaaS
1 18 (39.13%) PaaS
2 17 (36.96%) Azure
3 16 (34.78%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (30.43%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (13.04%) AWS
6 2 (4.35%) Kong
6 2 (4.35%) Serverless
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.17%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (2.17%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (2.17%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (30.43%) NGFW
1 14 (30.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (32.61%) Metadata
2 2 (4.35%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.17%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.17%) Ant
2 1 (2.17%) JIRA
2 1 (2.17%) Maven
2 1 (2.17%) SonarQube
2 1 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.17%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (2.17%) Finance
1 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (2.17%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (34.78%) ARM Templates
2 14 (30.43%) JSON
2 14 (30.43%) YAML
3 1 (2.17%) boto
3 1 (2.17%) NumPy
3 1 (2.17%) Pandas
3 1 (2.17%) PySpark
3 1 (2.17%) PyTorch
3 1 (2.17%) scikit-learn
3 1 (2.17%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 20 (43.48%) Public Cloud
2 15 (32.61%) PlayStation
3 14 (30.43%) Private Cloud
4 6 (13.04%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.35%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.17%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.87%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (100.00%) DevOps
2 35 (76.09%) CI/CD
3 20 (43.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (41.30%) Agile
5 16 (34.78%) Computer Science
5 16 (34.78%) Customer Experience
5 16 (34.78%) Digital Thinking
6 15 (32.61%) Conflict Resolution
6 15 (32.61%) Deployment Automation
6 15 (32.61%) Presales
6 15 (32.61%) Software Engineering
7 14 (30.43%) Network Design
7 14 (30.43%) Network Virtualisation
7 14 (30.43%) SDLC
8 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 3 (6.52%) DevSecOps
9 3 (6.52%) Roadmaps
9 3 (6.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 2 (4.35%) Architectural Patterns
10 2 (4.35%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 14 (30.43%) PowerShell
2 5 (10.87%) Python
3 2 (4.35%) Java
4 1 (2.17%) Bash
4 1 (2.17%) Bicep
4 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.17%) Scala
4 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (34.78%) Degree
2 15 (32.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (13.04%) Security Cleared
4 4 (8.70%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (4.35%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 15 (32.61%) Virtual Desktop
2 14 (30.43%) VMware ESXi
2 14 (30.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (30.43%) vSphere
3 2 (4.35%) Docker
4 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (43.48%) Terraform
2 6 (13.04%) Kubernetes
3 5 (10.87%) Ansible
4 4 (8.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (34.78%) Salesforce
2 15 (32.61%) Facebook
2 15 (32.61%) IBM
2 15 (32.61%) Sony
3 14 (30.43%) Citrix
3 14 (30.43%) VMware
4 1 (2.17%) Hitachi