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 £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 October 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 166 84
Rank change year-on-year +16 -82 +79
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 20 13 54
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.60% 0.31% 2.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.33% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 13 10 37
10th Percentile - £59,150 £47,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £66,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.81% -3.13% +14.29%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £92,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £68,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% -9.33% -3.23%

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 3,042 3,935 2,147
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.63% 94.86% 96.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,743 2,043 1,438
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £39,077 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% -0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,688 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.63% -4.17% -

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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 the East of England.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend 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 20 October 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 20 October 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 +15 5 £85,000 +6.25% 2
Cambridgeshire +16 4 £42,500 -34.62% 3
Suffolk -21 2 £70,000 -9.68% 1
Essex - 2 £65,000 -
DevOps Engineer
England

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 20 October 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 East of England region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) DevOps
2 14 (70.00%) Azure
3 13 (65.00%) Terraform
4 10 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (35.00%) .NET
5 7 (35.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 7 (35.00%) C#
5 7 (35.00%) IBM
5 7 (35.00%) PowerShell
5 7 (35.00%) React
5 7 (35.00%) TypeScript
6 5 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 5 (25.00%) Docker
6 5 (25.00%) Python
6 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
6 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
7 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (15.00%) Agile
8 3 (15.00%) ARM Templates
8 3 (15.00%) AWS
8 3 (15.00%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (15.00%) Bash
8 3 (15.00%) JIRA
8 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
8 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
9 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
9 2 (10.00%) Bicep
9 2 (10.00%) CCNA
9 2 (10.00%) Cisco

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (70.00%) Azure
2 10 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (35.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (15.00%) AWS
4 3 (15.00%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (10.00%) GCP
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (10.00%) SaaS
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (5.00%) Azure AKS
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Firewall
1 2 (10.00%) IP Telephony
2 1 (5.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 4 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (5.00%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (35.00%) .NET
1 7 (35.00%) React
2 3 (15.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) VMS
1 2 (10.00%) Windows
1 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (15.00%) Agile
5 2 (10.00%) ERP
5 2 (10.00%) Incident Response
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (10.00%) Logistics
5 2 (10.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (10.00%) Project Management
5 2 (10.00%) SDLC
5 2 (10.00%) Secrets Management
5 2 (10.00%) Storage Management
5 2 (10.00%) Test Automation
6 1 (5.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (5.00%) DevSecOps
6 1 (5.00%) High Availability
6 1 (5.00%) Observability
6 1 (5.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) C#
1 7 (35.00%) PowerShell
1 7 (35.00%) TypeScript
2 5 (25.00%) Python
3 3 (15.00%) Bash
4 2 (10.00%) Bicep
5 1 (5.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) CCNA
2 2 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Docker
2 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (65.00%) Terraform
2 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) IBM
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco
4 1 (5.00%) Dell
4 1 (5.00%) HP