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 £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 February 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 146 135
Rank change year-on-year +9 -11 +27
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 20 25 61
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.43% 0.75% 1.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.84% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 19 22 47
10th Percentile £41,250 £51,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £49,732 £58,125 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% - -18.75%
75th Percentile - £69,050 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,000 £79,875 £83,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +10.34% -6.45%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 4,180 2,972 4,198
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.41% 88.82% 94.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,586 1,392 3,369
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,250 £39,938 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,296 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,725 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 13 February 2026.

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 13 February 2026. 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 +9 11 £80,000 +23.08% 1
Norfolk +1 3 £80,000 +23.08% 1
Hertfordshire -2 3 £85,000 -17.07%
Essex -3 2 £68,750 +44.74%
Suffolk -4 1 £57,500 -13.14%
DevOps Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 February 2026, 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 9 (45.00%) AWS
3 6 (30.00%) Azure
4 5 (25.00%) SaaS
4 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
5 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (15.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 3 (15.00%) Docker
5 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
5 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
5 3 (15.00%) Terraform
6 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (10.00%) Cloud Operations
6 2 (10.00%) GCP
6 2 (10.00%) Python
6 2 (10.00%) VMS
7 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (5.00%) Argo
7 1 (5.00%) Bash
7 1 (5.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
7 1 (5.00%) Canary Deployment
7 1 (5.00%) CCNA
7 1 (5.00%) Cisco
7 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (5.00%) Client Onboarding

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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) AWS
2 6 (30.00%) Azure
3 5 (25.00%) SaaS
4 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (10.00%) GCP
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) DNS
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
1 1 (5.00%) IP Telephony
1 1 (5.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) GitLab
General
1 5 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (5.00%) Advertising
2 1 (5.00%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) VMS
2 1 (5.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (15.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (5.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
4 1 (5.00%) Canary Deployment
4 1 (5.00%) Client Onboarding
4 1 (5.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (5.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (5.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (5.00%) ITIL
4 1 (5.00%) Load Balancing
4 1 (5.00%) Microservices
4 1 (5.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (5.00%) Problem Management
4 1 (5.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) CCNA
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (15.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) Argo
2 1 (5.00%) Istio
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) Cisco
1 1 (5.00%) Dell
1 1 (5.00%) HP
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft