DevOps Developer Job Trends in England

Development Operations Developer
UK > England

The median Development Operations Developer salary in England is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 March 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 641 578 772
Rank change year-on-year -63 +194 +149
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Developer 10 23 37
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.015% 0.063% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.070% 0.051%
Number of salaries quoted 8 5 29
10th Percentile £54,300 £68,000 £54,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £68,750 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +16.00% -1.19%
75th Percentile £65,000 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £71,525 £77,000 £79,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £71,991 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.71% +15.19% -1.19%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 63,292 32,676 73,151
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.08% 89.99% 94.40%
Number of salaries quoted 41,400 20,880 57,222
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%

DevOps Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

DevOps Developer job vacancy trend in England

DevOps Developer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Developer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Developer job vacancies in England

DevOps Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Developer in England over the 6 months to 27 March 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps Developer in England

DevOps Developer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 27 March 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
North of England -45 4 £60,000 - 1
Yorkshire -55 4 £60,000 - 1
South West - 3 £65,000 -
London -23 1 £84,500 +16.55% 1
West Midlands - 1 £60,000 -
Midlands - 1 £60,000 -
South East - 1 £41,000 -
DevOps Developer
UK

DevOps Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 27 March 2026, DevOps Developer 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 England region featuring DevOps Developer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) .NET
2 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Serverless
3 4 (40.00%) .NET Core
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 4 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Git
3 4 (40.00%) GitHub
3 4 (40.00%) React
3 4 (40.00%) SQL
3 4 (40.00%) Terraform
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon EventBridge
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (30.00%) Application Security
4 3 (30.00%) ASP.NET
4 3 (30.00%) ASP.NET Core
4 3 (30.00%) AWS CDK
4 3 (30.00%) AWS Certification
4 3 (30.00%) AWS Certified Developer
4 3 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (30.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 3 (30.00%) Blazor
4 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (30.00%) Deployment Automation

DevOps Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
1 5 (50.00%) Serverless
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) GitHub
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon EventBridge
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (30.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 3 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECR
4 1 (10.00%) Azure App Service
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (10.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) DynamoDB
1 3 (30.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (10.00%) git-flow
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) .NET
2 4 (40.00%) .NET Core
2 4 (40.00%) React
3 3 (30.00%) ASP.NET
3 3 (30.00%) ASP.NET Core
3 3 (30.00%) AWS CDK
3 3 (30.00%) Blazor
3 3 (30.00%) RESTful
4 1 (10.00%) CSS
4 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (10.00%) HTML
4 1 (10.00%) jQuery
4 1 (10.00%) REST
4 1 (10.00%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Application Security
3 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (30.00%) Microservices
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (10.00%) AI
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (10.00%) Immutable Infrastructure
4 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (10.00%) Resource Management
4 1 (10.00%) Trunk-Based Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Bicep
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (30.00%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Grafana
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (10.00%) Sysdig