Development Operations Manager
UK

The median Development Operations Manager salary in the UK is £78,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 860 817 1040
Rank change year-on-year -43 +223 -241
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Manager 34 168 164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.16% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.17% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 30 128 100
10th Percentile £63,265 £58,101 £63,750
25th Percentile £71,500 £84,375 £72,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £100,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.25% +17.65% +21.43%
75th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £97,597 £150,000 £127,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,250 £100,000 £77,750
% change year-on-year -24.75% +28.62% +24.40%

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 92,682 96,623 147,884
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,673 60,571 85,427
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +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 Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Manager in the UK

DevOps Manager
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for DevOps Manager in the UK

DevOps Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Manager over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps Manager in the UK

DevOps Manager
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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 -12 29 £75,000 -25.00% 10
UK excluding London -10 21 £75,250 -24.75% 3
London +68 12 £90,000 -14.29% 9
Work from Home +40 7 £90,000 -14.29% 7
South West -12 7 £73,000 +35.90%
North of England +31 4 £77,500 -29.55% 1
Scotland - 4 £80,000 - 2
South East +10 3 £90,000 -5.26%
North West +1 3 - - 1
Midlands +1 2 £82,500 +22.22%
Yorkshire +80 1 £77,500 -29.55%
West Midlands +27 1 £95,000 +40.74%
Wales - 1 £70,000 -
East Midlands - 1 £70,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, DevOps Manager 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 Manager in the job title.

1 34 (100.00%) DevOps
2 23 (67.65%) CI/CD
3 21 (61.76%) AWS
4 15 (44.12%) Agile
5 14 (41.18%) Azure
6 10 (29.41%) Python
7 9 (26.47%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (26.47%) Social Skills
8 8 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (23.53%) Terraform
9 7 (20.59%) Oracle
9 7 (20.59%) ITIL
9 7 (20.59%) Finance
10 6 (17.65%) User Acceptance Testing
10 6 (17.65%) Linux
10 6 (17.65%) Salesforce
10 6 (17.65%) Microservices
10 6 (17.65%) Kubernetes
10 6 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (17.65%) System Integration Testing
11 5 (14.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 5 (14.71%) DevSecOps
11 5 (14.71%) Observability
11 5 (14.71%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (14.71%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (14.71%) Serverless
11 5 (14.71%) PowerShell
11 5 (14.71%) Mentoring
11 5 (14.71%) Go
11 5 (14.71%) Git

DevOps Manager 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 2 (5.88%) Apache
1 2 (5.88%) Moodle
1 2 (5.88%) nginx
2 1 (2.94%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 21 (61.76%) AWS
2 14 (41.18%) Azure
3 6 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (14.71%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (14.71%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (14.71%) Serverless
5 4 (11.76%) GCP
6 3 (8.82%) Azure AKS
6 3 (8.82%) IaaS
6 3 (8.82%) PaaS
7 2 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (5.88%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (5.88%) Amazon S3
7 2 (5.88%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (5.88%) Azure API Management
7 2 (5.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.82%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) DynamoDB
2 3 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (5.88%) Redis
3 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Git
2 3 (8.82%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.82%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (5.88%) CircleCI
3 2 (5.88%) Gatling
3 2 (5.88%) git-flow
3 2 (5.88%) JUnit
3 2 (5.88%) LoadRunner
3 2 (5.88%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.94%) Gradle
4 1 (2.94%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (2.94%) JIRA
4 1 (2.94%) Maven
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (2.94%) Spinnaker
General
1 9 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.59%) Finance
3 2 (5.88%) Banking
3 2 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Legal
4 1 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) .NET
1 2 (5.88%) ARM Templates
1 2 (5.88%) AWS CDK
1 2 (5.88%) AWS SAM
1 2 (5.88%) Azure Blueprints
1 2 (5.88%) REST
1 2 (5.88%) RESTful
1 2 (5.88%) YAML
2 1 (2.94%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.88%) Algorithms
1 2 (5.88%) PKI
1 2 (5.88%) Private Cloud
2 1 (2.94%) NHS
2 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.65%) Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Windows
2 2 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (100.00%) DevOps
2 23 (67.65%) CI/CD
3 15 (44.12%) Agile
4 9 (26.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (20.59%) ITIL
7 6 (17.65%) Microservices
7 6 (17.65%) System Integration Testing
7 6 (17.65%) User Acceptance Testing
8 5 (14.71%) DevSecOps
8 5 (14.71%) Mentoring
8 5 (14.71%) Observability
8 5 (14.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 4 (11.76%) Change Management
9 4 (11.76%) Cloud Security
9 4 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (11.76%) Cost Management
9 4 (11.76%) FinOps
9 4 (11.76%) High Availability
10 3 (8.82%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (29.41%) Python
2 5 (14.71%) Go
2 5 (14.71%) PowerShell
3 4 (11.76%) Java
3 4 (11.76%) SQL
4 3 (8.82%) Bash
4 3 (8.82%) Groovy
4 3 (8.82%) JavaScript
4 3 (8.82%) Scala
5 2 (5.88%) Bicep
5 2 (5.88%) C#
5 2 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.88%) Degree
2 2 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.94%) OCP
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) SLA
2 1 (2.94%) ISO 9001
2 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (8.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (23.53%) Terraform
2 6 (17.65%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.82%) Ansible
4 2 (5.88%) Istio
5 1 (2.94%) Packer
5 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.94%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) Oracle
2 6 (17.65%) Salesforce
3 3 (8.82%) Dynatrace
3 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.88%) Google
4 2 (5.88%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.94%) Adobe
5 1 (2.94%) Red Hat