Development Operations Specialist
UK

The median Development Operations Specialist salary in the UK is £71,750 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 890 973 1174
Rank change year-on-year +83 +201 -302
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Specialist 4 16 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.004% 0.015% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.004% 0.017% 0.015%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 18
10th Percentile - £49,750 -
25th Percentile £65,000 £53,125 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,750 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.03% +16.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £79,719 £85,000 £81,875
90th Percentile £80,563 - £91,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - £50,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -20.00% -10.71%

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 Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Specialist in the UK

DevOps Specialist
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for DevOps Specialist in the UK

DevOps Specialist
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Specialist 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
London +121 2 £79,125 +31.88% 1
England +98 2 £79,125 +43.86% 3
Work from Home +94 2 £79,125 -6.91% 1

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

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

1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (100.00%) High Availability
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) Bash
3 2 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (50.00%) tcpdump
3 2 (50.00%) Puppet
3 2 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Clustering
3 2 (50.00%) Agile

DevOps Specialist 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) Internet
1 2 (50.00%) SNMP
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (50.00%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Blockchain
1 2 (50.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (100.00%) High Availability
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
2 2 (50.00%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
2 2 (50.00%) Perl
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
2 2 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (50.00%) Grafana
2 2 (50.00%) Graphite
2 2 (50.00%) HAProxy
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Nagios
2 2 (50.00%) Puppet
2 2 (50.00%) vCenter Server