Principal DevOps Engineer Jobs

Principal Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Principal Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK is £95,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 893 933 1156
Rank change year-on-year +40 +223 -265
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal DevOps Engineer 3 37 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.035% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.003% 0.039% 0.051%
Number of salaries quoted 3 29 26
10th Percentile - £79,750 £83,125
25th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £83,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £95,000 £98,750
Median % change year-on-year - -3.80% +51.92%
75th Percentile £97,500 £112,500 £105,000
90th Percentile - £130,750 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £95,000 £90,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% +2.86% +44.15%

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 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +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%

Principal DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal DevOps Engineer in the UK

Principal DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Principal DevOps Engineer in the UK

Principal DevOps Engineer
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principal DevOps Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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 +80 3 £95,000 - 1
Work from Home +70 2 £95,000 -
UK excluding London -5 2 £95,000 +5.56% 1
South East - 2 £95,000 -
London +119 1 £95,000 -9.52%

Principal DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Principal 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 featuring Principal DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Content Management
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (66.67%) Cloudflare
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (66.67%) ForgeRock
2 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) SaaS
2 2 (66.67%) Akamai
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (66.67%) CloudFront
2 2 (66.67%) Sitecore
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) Automotive
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Fargate
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Functions
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EKS

Principal DevOps Engineer 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Akamai
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Fargate
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) Azure AKS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Functions
2 2 (66.67%) Cloudflare
2 2 (66.67%) CloudFront
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) SaaS
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Design
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Content Management
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Content Management
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) ForgeRock
1 2 (66.67%) Sitecore