Development Operations Manager
UK

The median Development Operations Manager salary in the UK is £76,250 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 862 837 1066
Rank change year-on-year -25 +229 -266
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Manager 26 158 169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.026% 0.16% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.17% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 22 124 93
10th Percentile £67,750 £58,101 £63,750
25th Percentile £71,500 £85,000 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £100,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.75% +17.65% +21.43%
75th Percentile £80,000 £115,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £96,125 £150,000 £127,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,250 £100,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -24.75% +25.00% +25.00%

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 93,864 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,182 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps Manager in the UK

DevOps Manager
Top 12 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 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
England -55 20 £73,000 -28.78% 7
UK excluding London -41 19 £75,250 -24.75% 3
South West -24 7 £73,000 +35.90%
London +35 6 £80,000 -23.81% 4
Scotland - 6 £80,000 - 1
North of England +21 4 £77,500 -29.55% 1
Work from Home +4 4 £66,875 -36.31% 5
North West -3 3 - - 1
Yorkshire +70 1 £77,500 -29.55%
South East +5 1 £63,750 -32.89%
Midlands 0 1 £70,000 +3.70% 1
East Midlands - 1 £70,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 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 26 (100.00%) DevOps
2 19 (73.08%) CI/CD
3 15 (57.69%) AWS
4 12 (46.15%) Azure
5 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
6 7 (26.92%) Oracle
6 7 (26.92%) Agile
7 6 (23.08%) Salesforce
7 6 (23.08%) User Acceptance Testing
7 6 (23.08%) System Integration Testing
8 5 (19.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (19.23%) DevSecOps
8 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (19.23%) ITIL
9 4 (15.38%) Linux
9 4 (15.38%) Python
9 4 (15.38%) Change Management
9 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (15.38%) Terraform
9 4 (15.38%) Microservices
9 4 (15.38%) Kubernetes
10 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (11.54%) Software Engineering
10 3 (11.54%) Go
10 3 (11.54%) Incident Management
10 3 (11.54%) PowerShell
11 2 (7.69%) Wealth Management
11 2 (7.69%) REST
11 2 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 2 (7.69%) Process Improvement

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 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 15 (57.69%) AWS
2 12 (46.15%) Azure
3 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (7.69%) AWS KMS
4 2 (7.69%) GCP
5 1 (3.85%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (3.85%) Apigee
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.85%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.85%) IaaS
5 1 (3.85%) npm
5 1 (3.85%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.85%) PaaS
5 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Git
1 1 (3.85%) Gradle
1 1 (3.85%) IBM UrbanCode
1 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.85%) JIRA
1 1 (3.85%) Maven
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (3.85%) Spinnaker
General
1 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Finance
3 1 (3.85%) Legal
3 1 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (3.85%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.85%) NHS
1 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Linux
2 2 (7.69%) Windows
2 2 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) DevOps
2 19 (73.08%) CI/CD
3 7 (26.92%) Agile
4 6 (23.08%) System Integration Testing
4 6 (23.08%) User Acceptance Testing
5 5 (19.23%) DevSecOps
5 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (19.23%) ITIL
5 5 (19.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (15.38%) Change Management
6 4 (15.38%) Microservices
6 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (11.54%) Incident Management
7 3 (11.54%) Software Engineering
8 2 (7.69%) Continuous Delivery
8 2 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (7.69%) Project Management
8 2 (7.69%) SDLC
8 2 (7.69%) Security Management
8 2 (7.69%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (15.38%) Python
2 3 (11.54%) Go
2 3 (11.54%) PowerShell
3 2 (7.69%) C#
3 2 (7.69%) Java
4 1 (3.85%) Bash
4 1 (3.85%) Groovy
4 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
1 2 (7.69%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (3.85%) OCP
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) ISO 9001
1 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) Kubernetes
1 4 (15.38%) Terraform
2 1 (3.85%) Ansible
2 1 (3.85%) Packer
2 1 (3.85%) Progress Chef
2 1 (3.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Oracle
2 6 (23.08%) Salesforce
3 2 (7.69%) Google
4 1 (3.85%) Adobe
4 1 (3.85%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.85%) Red Hat