DevOps Engineer Jobs in the East of England

Development Operations Engineer
England > East of England

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the East of England is £66,200 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 May 2025.

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

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 180 158
Rank change year-on-year +32 -22 -17
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 24 40 79
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.76% 0.66% 1.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 0.70% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 23 33 43
10th Percentile £47,250 £42,500 -
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,200 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -13.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £75,625 £72,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £79,750 £77,000 £92,500
England median annual salary £82,500 £70,576 £75,000
% change year-on-year +16.90% -5.90% +3.45%

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 2,864 5,706 4,590
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.58% 93.93% 84.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,538 4,353 2,290
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,809 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,967 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,205 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the East of England.

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer 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 5 May 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 5 May 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
Cambridgeshire +39 7 £58,750 -16.07% 11
Suffolk -7 7 £66,200 -5.43% 2
Norfolk +25 5 £65,000 +41.30%
Hertfordshire +26 4 £78,750 +21.15% 2
Essex +14 2 £39,500 -12.22% 1
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 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 24 (100.00%) DevOps
2 13 (54.17%) Python
2 13 (54.17%) CI/CD
3 12 (50.00%) AWS
4 9 (37.50%) Mentoring
5 8 (33.33%) Docker
6 7 (29.17%) Kubernetes
6 7 (29.17%) Security Cleared
6 7 (29.17%) SQL
6 7 (29.17%) Linux
7 6 (25.00%) C#
7 6 (25.00%) C++
7 6 (25.00%) HTML
7 6 (25.00%) JavaScript
7 6 (25.00%) VMware
7 6 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 6 (25.00%) Degree
7 6 (25.00%) Chatbot
7 6 (25.00%) PayPal
7 6 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (25.00%) Conversational UI
7 6 (25.00%) Code Quality
8 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (20.83%) Architectural Design
8 5 (20.83%) QA
8 5 (20.83%) DV Cleared
8 5 (20.83%) Migration
8 5 (20.83%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (20.83%) High Availability
8 5 (20.83%) Software Delivery

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 (4.17%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 12 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (20.83%) Azure
3 2 (8.33%) GCP
3 2 (8.33%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.17%) IaaS
4 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) HTTP
1 1 (4.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) GitLab
2 2 (8.33%) Artifactory
2 2 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (4.17%) Aviation
1 1 (4.17%) Finance
1 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.17%) JSON
2 1 (4.17%) Keycloak
2 1 (4.17%) OAuth
2 1 (4.17%) REST
2 1 (4.17%) SOAP
2 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) PKI
1 4 (16.67%) Private Cloud
2 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.17%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (29.17%) Linux
2 3 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (8.33%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) DevOps
2 13 (54.17%) CI/CD
3 9 (37.50%) Mentoring
4 6 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 6 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 6 (25.00%) Conversational UI
4 6 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 5 (20.83%) Architectural Design
5 5 (20.83%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (20.83%) High Availability
5 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (20.83%) Migration
5 5 (20.83%) Software Delivery
6 4 (16.67%) Agile
6 4 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 4 (16.67%) Kanban
6 4 (16.67%) Scrum
7 3 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
8 2 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (8.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 13 (54.17%) Python
2 7 (29.17%) SQL
3 6 (25.00%) C#
3 6 (25.00%) C++
3 6 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (16.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 6 (25.00%) Degree
3 5 (20.83%) DV Cleared
4 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.17%) A+ Certification
5 1 (4.17%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) Kubernetes
2 4 (16.67%) Terraform
3 3 (12.50%) Ansible
4 2 (8.33%) Rancher
5 1 (4.17%) Grafana
5 1 (4.17%) Graylog
5 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) PayPal
1 6 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (4.17%) Google
2 1 (4.17%) Splunk