DevOps Engineer Job Trends in the East of England

Development Operations Engineer
England > East of England

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the East of England is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 157 101
Rank change year-on-year -1 -56 +76
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 18 17 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.53% 0.38% 2.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.41% 2.30%
Number of salaries quoted 11 14 36
10th Percentile £41,250 £60,000 £59,375
25th Percentile £41,401 £61,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -14.06% +23.08%
75th Percentile £81,250 £79,688 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,000 £86,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% -10.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 East of England with a recognized job title 3,130 4,185 2,351
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 94.41% 90.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,751 2,499 1,496
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,223 £25,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £34,126
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the East of England

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the East of England.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the East of England

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the East of England over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in the East of England

DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the East of England region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
Bedfordshire - 7 - - 1
Hertfordshire +10 5 £77,500 +12.73% 2
Essex - 3 £65,000 -
Cambridgeshire +17 2 £42,500 -34.62% 2
Suffolk -27 1 £82,500 +6.45%
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 16 September 2025, 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 across the East of England region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) DevOps
2 14 (77.78%) Azure
3 11 (61.11%) Terraform
4 10 (55.56%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (38.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 7 (38.89%) React
5 7 (38.89%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (38.89%) TypeScript
5 7 (38.89%) .NET
5 7 (38.89%) C#
5 7 (38.89%) IBM
6 6 (33.33%) PowerShell
7 5 (27.78%) Python
8 4 (22.22%) JIRA
8 4 (22.22%) Bash
8 4 (22.22%) Docker
8 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
8 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
9 3 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
9 3 (16.67%) ARM Templates
9 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
9 3 (16.67%) SaaS
9 3 (16.67%) Finance
9 3 (16.67%) Agile
9 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
10 2 (11.11%) CCNA
10 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
10 2 (11.11%) ERP
10 2 (11.11%) Windows

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (5.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (77.78%) Azure
2 10 (55.56%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (38.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (16.67%) SaaS
5 2 (11.11%) AWS
5 2 (11.11%) GCP
5 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Firewall
1 2 (11.11%) IP Telephony
2 1 (5.56%) HTTP
2 1 (5.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Artifactory
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) GitLab
2 1 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (16.67%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) .NET
1 7 (38.89%) React
2 3 (16.67%) ARM Templates
3 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.56%) JSON
3 1 (5.56%) OAuth
3 1 (5.56%) REST
3 1 (5.56%) SOAP
3 1 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
1 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.56%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
3 3 (16.67%) Agile
3 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 2 (11.11%) ERP
4 2 (11.11%) Incident Response
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (11.11%) Logistics
4 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 2 (11.11%) Project Management
4 2 (11.11%) SDLC
4 2 (11.11%) Secrets Management
4 2 (11.11%) Storage Management
5 1 (5.56%) Customer Experience
5 1 (5.56%) Customer Service
5 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (5.56%) RBAC
5 1 (5.56%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) C#
1 7 (38.89%) TypeScript
2 6 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 5 (27.78%) Python
4 4 (22.22%) Bash
5 2 (11.11%) Bicep
6 1 (5.56%) Go
6 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) CCNA
1 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) A+ Certification
2 1 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Docker
2 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (61.11%) Terraform
2 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (11.11%) SCCM
4 1 (5.56%) Ansible
4 1 (5.56%) Graylog
4 1 (5.56%) Rancher
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) IBM
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco
4 1 (5.56%) Dell
4 1 (5.56%) Google
4 1 (5.56%) HP
4 1 (5.56%) Splunk