DevOps Engineer Job Trends in Devon

Development Operations Engineer
South West > Devon

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Devon is £56,250 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 49 43 45
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 +26
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 6 10 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Devon 1.07% 2.11% 3.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 2.21% 3.83%
Number of salaries quoted 6 10 8
10th Percentile £51,250 £33,724 £24,146
25th Percentile £53,125 £34,404 £25,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £53,750 £38,838
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% +38.40% +2.30%
75th Percentile £65,256 £60,938 £55,625
90th Percentile £68,713 £72,500 £57,500
South West median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Devon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Devon. 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 Devon with a recognized job title 537 452 287
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.72% 95.16% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 348 231 224
10th Percentile £26,350 £28,000 £23,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £43,491 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.03% -8.44% +18.75%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £54,175
90th Percentile £72,875 £70,000 £63,925
South West median annual salary £50,000 £51,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +5.00%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Devon.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Devon

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Devon

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Devon.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Devon

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in Devon

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Devon over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in Devon

DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in Devon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the Devon region over the 6 months to 21 December 2025. 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
Exeter -9 3 £55,000 +2.33%
Plymouth - 2 £66,975 - 1
DevOps Engineer
South West

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

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 Devon region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (66.67%) Terraform
3 3 (50.00%) AWS
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Docker
3 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (33.33%) ARM Templates
4 2 (33.33%) Azure
4 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (33.33%) Bash
4 2 (33.33%) Bicep
4 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
4 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 2 (33.33%) Python
4 2 (33.33%) Serverless
5 1 (16.67%) .NET
5 1 (16.67%) Agile
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
5 1 (16.67%) Ansible
5 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Devon 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 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Stack
3 1 (16.67%) CloudFront
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
4 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 1 (16.67%) Agile
5 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
5 1 (16.67%) Coaching
5 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (16.67%) High Availability
5 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
2 2 (33.33%) Bicep
2 2 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) iptables
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (16.67%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) Grafana
3 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
3 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft