Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 24 July 2017

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Configuration Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Configuration Management over the 6 months to 24 July 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Configuration Management
UK > England
6 months to
24 Jul 2017		 Same period 2016 Same period 2015
Rank 173 184 204
Rank change year-on-year +11 +20 +25
Permanent jobs citing Configuration Management 3400 3392 3514
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in England 2.04% 1.78% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 2.00% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2542 2768 2647
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median salary % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,925 £31,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £76,250 £72,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +9.38% +4.35%

Configuration Management is in the process and methodology skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process and methodology skills.

Process & Methodology Skills
England
Permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills 149861 169437 183822
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England 89.74% 88.94% 87.81%
Number of salaries quoted 120881 142713 151107
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median salary % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,000 £27,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £76,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £48,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +1.05% +5.56%

Configuration Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Configuration Management as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Configuration Management in England

Configuration Management
Salary Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Configuration Management in England.

Salary trend for Configuration Management in England

Configuration Management
Salary Histogram in England

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing Configuration Management in England over the 6 months to 24 July 2017.

Salary histogram for Configuration Management in England

Configuration Management
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Configuration Management within the England region over the 6 months to 24 July 2017. 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
Job
Vacancies
London +19 1732 £65,000 +8.33% 139
North of England +50 557 £50,000 +17.65% 58
South East +72 538 £50,000 - 40
North West +28 285 £50,000 +17.65% 33
Yorkshire +50 243 £55,000 +29.41% 20
East of England +34 243 £50,000 -6.98% 13
Midlands -38 167 £40,000 -5.88% 18
South West -55 153 £47,500 +11.76% 13
West Midlands +8 143 £40,000 -5.88% 16
North East +38 29 £39,000 -13.33% 5
East Midlands -74 24 £48,750 +14.71% 2
Configuration Management
UK

For the 6 months to 24 July 2017, IT jobs citing Configuration Management also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads across the England region with a requirement for Configuration Management.

1 1585 (46.62%) Linux
2 1403 (41.26%) DevOps
3 1326 (39.00%) Puppet
4 1255 (36.91%) Agile Software Development
5 1089 (32.03%) Python
6 955 (28.09%) Opscode Chef
7 931 (27.38%) Amazon AWS
8 928 (27.29%) Ansible
9 868 (25.53%) Continuous Integration
10 852 (25.06%) Jenkins
10 852 (25.06%) Finance
11 774 (22.76%) Windows
12 731 (21.50%) Java
13 667 (19.62%) Docker
14 648 (19.06%) SQL
15 637 (18.74%) Bash Shell
16 614 (18.06%) Ruby
17 587 (17.26%) Unix
18 585 (17.21%) Microsoft
19 573 (16.85%) ITIL
20 546 (16.06%) Git (software)
21 497 (14.62%) Test Automation
22 442 (13.00%) SDLC
23 422 (12.41%) Scrum
24 421 (12.38%) Perl
25 414 (12.18%) Microsoft Azure
26 411 (12.09%) Degree
27 406 (11.94%) VMware
28 396 (11.65%) PowerShell
29 394 (11.59%) .NET

Configuration Management
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 283 (8.32%) Apache
2 221 (6.50%) OpenStack
3 169 (4.97%) nginx
4 166 (4.88%) Tomcat
5 164 (4.82%) IIS
6 107 (3.15%) WebSphere
7 104 (3.06%) CloudStack
8 82 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
9 73 (2.15%) JBoss
10 72 (2.12%) WebLogic
11 68 (2.00%) SharePoint
12 67 (1.97%) MS Exchange
13 65 (1.91%) Confluence
14 53 (1.56%) CMS
15 48 (1.41%) Jetty
16 33 (0.97%) WebSphere Application Server
17 31 (0.91%) Cloud Foundry
18 30 (0.88%) Apache Solr
19 27 (0.79%) Apache Spark
20 26 (0.76%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 111 (3.26%) Microsoft Office
2 52 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
5 24 (0.71%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.12%) Abaqus
7 4 (0.12%) Windchill
8 3 (0.088%) Autodesk Inventor
9 1 (0.029%) Simulink
9 1 (0.029%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 63 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 43 (1.26%) Actimize
3 23 (0.68%) RMDS
4 9 (0.26%) Workfront
5 8 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.21%) SAP BPC
7 6 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
8 5 (0.15%) SAP HR
9 4 (0.12%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.12%) SAP PM
10 3 (0.088%) Dynamics GP
10 3 (0.088%) LabWindows
10 3 (0.088%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.088%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.088%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.088%) SAP GTS
10 3 (0.088%) SAP PS
10 3 (0.088%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 931 (27.38%) Amazon AWS
2 414 (12.18%) Microsoft Azure
3 150 (4.41%) AWS CloudFormation
4 145 (4.26%) IaaS
5 144 (4.24%) GitHub
6 121 (3.56%) Google Cloud Platform
7 102 (3.00%) PaaS
8 94 (2.76%) Amazon EC2
9 88 (2.59%) SaaS
10 58 (1.71%) Office 365
11 56 (1.65%) Amazon S3
12 43 (1.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 40 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
13 40 (1.18%) OpenShift
14 38 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
15 33 (0.97%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
16 27 (0.79%) Amazon ELB
17 24 (0.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 23 (0.68%) Route 53
19 18 (0.53%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 265 (7.79%) DNS
2 264 (7.76%) Firewall
3 172 (5.06%) TCP/IP
4 170 (5.00%) Internet
5 97 (2.85%) DHCP
6 91 (2.68%) VPN
7 76 (2.24%) LDAP
7 76 (2.24%) SAN
8 73 (2.15%) WAN
9 67 (1.97%) HTTP
9 67 (1.97%) LAN
10 57 (1.68%) Kerberos
11 52 (1.53%) Wireless
12 49 (1.44%) Network Security
12 49 (1.44%) VoIP
13 47 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
14 46 (1.35%) VLAN
15 45 (1.32%) NAS
16 41 (1.21%) BGP
16 41 (1.21%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 310 (9.12%) MySQL
2 271 (7.97%) SQL Server
3 147 (4.32%) NoSQL
4 140 (4.12%) Relational Database
5 128 (3.76%) Big Data
6 102 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
7 96 (2.82%) MongoDB
8 92 (2.71%) Hadoop
9 85 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
10 84 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
11 69 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 66 (1.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 58 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
14 55 (1.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 52 (1.53%) RDBMS
16 50 (1.47%) InfluxDB
17 47 (1.38%) Power BI
17 47 (1.38%) Redis
18 45 (1.32%) SQL Server 2008
19 44 (1.29%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 852 (25.06%) Jenkins
2 546 (16.06%) Git (software)
3 316 (9.29%) TeamCity
4 224 (6.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 206 (6.06%) Selenium
6 205 (6.03%) Maven
7 201 (5.91%) Subversion
8 200 (5.88%) JIRA
9 194 (5.71%) Team Foundation Server
10 146 (4.29%) Octopus Deploy
11 138 (4.06%) Cucumber
12 137 (4.03%) MSBuild
13 120 (3.53%) Hudson
14 108 (3.18%) Vagrant
15 102 (3.00%) WebDriver
16 101 (2.97%) Ant
17 62 (1.82%) GoCD
17 62 (1.82%) JUnit
18 54 (1.59%) Visual Studio
19 52 (1.53%) Bitbucket
General
1 852 (25.06%) Finance
2 394 (11.59%) Banking
3 266 (7.82%) Retail
4 189 (5.56%) Telecoms
5 173 (5.09%) Investment Banking
6 138 (4.06%) Retail Banking
7 103 (3.03%) Marketing
8 92 (2.71%) Games
9 87 (2.56%) Electronics
10 79 (2.32%) Law
11 72 (2.12%) Manufacturing
12 60 (1.76%) Legal
13 47 (1.38%) Front Office
14 43 (1.26%) Online Betting
15 23 (0.68%) Advertising
16 22 (0.65%) Polish Language
17 20 (0.59%) Publishing
18 19 (0.56%) Military
19 16 (0.47%) Automotive
19 16 (0.47%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 864 (25.41%) DevOps Engineer
2 355 (10.44%) Developer
3 305 (8.97%) Analyst
4 294 (8.65%) Linux Engineer
5 230 (6.76%) Administrator
6 225 (6.62%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 186 (5.47%) Linux DevOps Engineer
8 178 (5.24%) AWS Engineer
9 158 (4.65%) Systems Administrator
10 149 (4.38%) Cloud Engineer
11 144 (4.24%) AWS DevOps
12 137 (4.03%) Systems Engineer
13 134 (3.94%) Architect
14 130 (3.82%) Platform Engineer
15 124 (3.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 122 (3.59%) Linux Administrator
17 112 (3.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 111 (3.26%) Linux Systems Administrator
19 110 (3.24%) Tester
20 108 (3.18%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 394 (11.59%) .NET
2 236 (6.94%) Web Services
3 139 (4.09%) RESTful
4 130 (3.82%) LAMP
5 127 (3.74%) Node.js
6 125 (3.68%) HTML
7 120 (3.53%) Elastic Stack
8 108 (3.18%) Gherkin
9 107 (3.15%) XML
10 100 (2.94%) ASP.NET
11 88 (2.59%) JSON
12 83 (2.44%) CSS
13 80 (2.35%) SOAP
14 79 (2.32%) Spring
15 68 (2.00%) Kafka
16 60 (1.76%) Java EE
16 60 (1.76%) REST
17 59 (1.74%) ASP.NET Web API
17 59 (1.74%) RabbitMQ
18 58 (1.71%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 251 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
2 238 (7.00%) Computer Science
3 227 (6.68%) Management Information System
4 223 (6.56%) Data Centre
5 152 (4.47%) CMDB
6 132 (3.88%) Public Cloud
7 121 (3.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 114 (3.35%) Greenfield Project
9 96 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
10 94 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
11 75 (2.21%) Private Cloud
12 69 (2.03%) Fixed Income
13 67 (1.97%) Online Banking
14 60 (1.76%) Equities
15 57 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
16 55 (1.62%) Clustering
17 53 (1.56%) User Experience
18 41 (1.21%) Fintech
19 38 (1.12%) Algorithms
20 37 (1.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1585 (46.62%) Linux
2 774 (22.76%) Windows
3 587 (17.26%) Unix
4 303 (8.91%) Windows Server
5 284 (8.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 217 (6.38%) CentOS
7 193 (5.68%) Ubuntu
8 146 (4.29%) Windows Server 2012
9 125 (3.68%) Windows Server 2008
10 82 (2.41%) Windows 7
11 71 (2.09%) Solaris
12 69 (2.03%) Debian
13 58 (1.71%) Windows 10
14 49 (1.44%) Windows Server 2003
15 46 (1.35%) Android
16 36 (1.06%) Apple iOS
17 32 (0.94%) Mac OS X
18 28 (0.82%) CoreOS
19 25 (0.74%) VMS
20 17 (0.50%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 1403 (41.26%) DevOps
2 1255 (36.91%) Agile Software Development
3 868 (25.53%) Continuous Integration
4 573 (16.85%) ITIL
5 497 (14.62%) Test Automation
6 442 (13.00%) SDLC
7 422 (12.41%) Scrum
8 380 (11.18%) Open Source
9 370 (10.88%) Software Engineering
10 323 (9.50%) Mentoring
11 320 (9.41%) TDD
12 292 (8.59%) Change Management
13 275 (8.09%) Continuous Delivery
14 273 (8.03%) Release Management
15 268 (7.88%) Continuous Improvement
16 257 (7.56%) Project Management
17 213 (6.26%) Microservices
18 205 (6.03%) High Availability
19 201 (5.91%) E-Commerce
20 198 (5.82%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1089 (32.03%) Python
2 731 (21.50%) Java
3 648 (19.06%) SQL
4 637 (18.74%) Bash Shell
5 614 (18.06%) Ruby
6 421 (12.38%) Perl
7 396 (11.65%) PowerShell
8 390 (11.47%) C#
9 254 (7.47%) Shell Script
10 218 (6.41%) JavaScript
11 180 (5.29%) PHP
12 165 (4.85%) C++
13 130 (3.82%) C
14 128 (3.76%) Go
15 89 (2.62%) VBScript
16 79 (2.32%) Groovy
17 71 (2.09%) T-SQL
18 65 (1.91%) VB.NET
19 43 (1.26%) VB
20 39 (1.15%) Scala
Qualifications
1 411 (12.09%) Degree
2 143 (4.21%) Security Cleared
3 118 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 79 (2.32%) ITIL Certification
5 72 (2.12%) ISTQB
6 71 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 68 (2.00%) ISEB
8 60 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
9 51 (1.50%) SC Cleared
10 47 (1.38%) MCSE
11 46 (1.35%) CCNP
12 38 (1.12%) MCSA
13 33 (0.97%) AWS Certification
14 28 (0.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 26 (0.76%) MCP
16 24 (0.71%) RHCE
17 23 (0.68%) CCNA
17 23 (0.68%) Master's Degree
18 16 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 14 (0.41%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 290 (8.53%) QA
2 125 (3.68%) SLA
3 67 (1.97%) PCI DSS
4 32 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 28 (0.82%) GCP
6 26 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 25 (0.74%) Data Quality
8 20 (0.59%) ISO 9001
9 19 (0.56%) PMO
10 9 (0.26%) COBIT
10 9 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 9 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 6 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.15%) P3O
13 4 (0.12%) GDPR
14 3 (0.088%) EMIR
14 3 (0.088%) ISO 14001
14 3 (0.088%) PMBOK
15 2 (0.059%) Cyber Essentials
15 2 (0.059%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 667 (19.62%) Docker
2 283 (8.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 267 (7.85%) Active Directory
4 146 (4.29%) vSphere
5 119 (3.50%) Xen
6 98 (2.88%) XenServer
7 72 (2.12%) Hyper-V
8 51 (1.50%) KVM
9 40 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
10 35 (1.03%) Microsoft App-V
11 28 (0.82%) etcd
11 28 (0.82%) LXC
12 26 (0.76%) flannel
12 26 (0.76%) Varnish
13 24 (0.71%) Veritas Cluster Server
14 22 (0.65%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 22 (0.65%) Firmware
14 22 (0.65%) NFS
14 22 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
15 21 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1326 (39.00%) Puppet
2 955 (28.09%) Opscode Chef
3 928 (27.29%) Ansible
4 279 (8.21%) Terraform
5 263 (7.74%) Kubernetes
6 243 (7.15%) Nagios
7 143 (4.21%) SCCM
8 98 (2.88%) Cobbler
9 96 (2.82%) Tivoli
10 92 (2.71%) Salt
11 73 (2.15%) ZABBIX
12 62 (1.82%) Mesos
13 61 (1.79%) Packer
14 57 (1.68%) logstash
15 54 (1.59%) CFEngine
16 53 (1.56%) HAProxy
17 52 (1.53%) SCOM
18 49 (1.44%) Graphite
19 46 (1.35%) Consul
20 30 (0.88%) rkt
Vendors
1 585 (17.21%) Microsoft
2 406 (11.94%) VMware
3 356 (10.47%) Red Hat
4 312 (9.18%) Oracle
5 201 (5.91%) Cisco
6 155 (4.56%) Google
7 116 (3.41%) HP
8 107 (3.15%) SaltStack
9 93 (2.74%) Citrix
9 93 (2.74%) SAP
10 89 (2.62%) EnterpriseDB
11 86 (2.53%) Splunk
12 85 (2.50%) New Relic
13 74 (2.18%) ServiceNow
14 53 (1.56%) Juniper
15 51 (1.50%) SolarWinds
16 48 (1.41%) IBM
17 44 (1.29%) Rackspace
18 43 (1.26%) Dell
19 40 (1.18%) NetApp
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Central London / West End
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Salary: £75k to £100k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 11 hours ago
Platform Engineer / DevOps - AWS
Bristol, Avon
Client Server
Salary: £70k to £95k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 11 hours ago
Devops Engineer (linux) - Gain AWS/Docker (Leading .com)
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Salary: £70000 - £90000 per annum + bonus + package
Posted: 10 hours ago
Support Analyst
West London
OpenBet Technology
Posted: 11 hours ago
Linux Systems Administrator - (bash/python) - Gain AWS/docker
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Talent Point Ltd
Salary: £55000.00 - £65000.00 per annum
Posted: 10 hours ago
DevOps Engineer Linux Red Hat Redhat Puppet Banking London
London
Joseph Harry Ltd
Salary: £55000 - £70000 per annum + 25% bonus + 10% pension
Posted: 18 hours ago
Systems Administrator X-Platform - Finance
City, London
Client Server
Salary: £40k to £50k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 11 hours ago
DevOps Engineer
North West London
People Source Consulting
Salary: £80000 - £90000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 12 hours ago
Database Administrator
Manchester, Lancashire
Missguided
Salary: £Competitive
Posted: 11 hours ago
Application and Systems Support Engineer
City, London
Quant Capital
Salary: Up to £65,000 per annum + benefit and bonus
Posted: 10 hours ago
Junior Linux Systems Engineer- Hedge Fund
City, London
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Salary: Up to £65,000 per annum Bonus Medical Pension
Posted: 13 hours ago
DevOps Engineer - City of London - Ubuntu, Linux, SQL, TCP/IP
City, London
Harrington Starr
Salary: £60000 - £80000 per annum
Posted: Yesterday
Platform Engineer / DevOps Engineer
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Digital Gurus
Salary: £50000.00 - £60000.00 per annum
Posted: 3 days ago
Development Manager Agile Scrum DevOps Finance Banking London
London
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Salary: £75000 - £95000 per annum + + 10% Pension + 30% Bonus
Posted: 12 hours ago
Lead .NET Developer C# ASP.NET Microservices Banking London
London
Joseph Harry Ltd
Salary: £75000 - £85000 per annum + 20-30% Bonus + 10% Pension
Posted: 16 hours ago
DevOps Engineer
Leicestershire
Searchability
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 3 days ago
DevOps Engineer
City, London
Franklin Fitch Limited
Salary: From £45,000 to £60,000 per annum
Posted: 3 days ago
Systems Administrator- Linux, Wireshark, MongoDB/NoSql
Guildford, Surrey
Total Recruitment Specialists Limited / TRG / Total recruitment group
Salary: £55000 - £60000 Per Annum Benefits
Posted: 19 hours ago
Head of Cloud
London
Explore Group
Salary: £130000 - £160000 per annum + exceptional Corporate benefits
Posted: 3 days ago
DevOps Engineer
London
set2recruit
Salary: Up to £70,000 per annum
Posted: 4 days ago
DevOps Engineer (Cloud, Scalable, Advisory)
City, London
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: £50,000 - 60,000k base and excellent package
Posted: 4 days ago
Head of Big Data - Relocate to Bangkok, Thailand
City, London
Big Wednesday Digital Ltd
Salary: £85000 - £150000 per annum + Negotiable
Posted: 13 hours ago
Test Analyst
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £32000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 13 hours ago
Head of DevOps
London
Explore Group
Salary: £130000 - £160000 per annum + exceptional Corporate benefits
Posted: 3 days ago
.NET Development Manager Digital Agile Finance Banking London
London
Joseph Harry Ltd
Salary: £75000 - £95000 per annum + + 10% Pension + 25% Bonus
Posted: 11 hours ago
.NET Developer C# ASP.NET Web API Agile Finance Banking London
London
Joseph Harry Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £65000 per annum + annum 20-30% Bonus + 10% Pension
Posted: 18 hours ago
DevOps Engineer - £65,000 - Farnborough
Farnborough, Hampshire
Austin Fraser
Salary: £60000 - £65000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 4 days ago
DevOps Engineer
London
Empiric
Salary: From £80,000 to £120,000 per annum
Posted: 3 days ago
DevOps Engineer - Swindon - £45-55,000
Swindon, Wiltshire
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Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 5 days ago
DevOps Engineer - Southampton - £45K to £55K
Southampton, Hampshire
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Salary: training & benefits
Posted: 3 days ago