DevOps Engineer Job Trends in Basildon

Development Operations Engineer
Essex > Basildon

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Basildon is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Basildon 2.91% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.19% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £65,250 - -
25th Percentile £65,625 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - -
75th Percentile £69,375 - -
90th Percentile £69,750 - -
Essex median annual salary £67,500 - £82,500

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Basildon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Basildon. 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 Basildon with a recognized job title 94 28 44
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.26% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 57 16 38
10th Percentile £36,100 - £32,300
25th Percentile £40,500 £28,500 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -35.61% +65.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £61,563 £94,688
90th Percentile £65,000 £87,500 £164,500
Essex median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -8.26% +9.00%

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basildon

For the 6 months to 21 December 2025, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Basildon region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (33.33%) Argo
3 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (33.33%) Bicep
3 1 (33.33%) Blue-Green Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Canary Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Docker
3 1 (33.33%) ERP
3 1 (33.33%) GitLab
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Istio
3 1 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Logistics
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basildon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Blue-Green Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Canary Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) ERP
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Logistics
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Bicep
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Python
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Argo
1 1 (33.33%) Istio
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform