DevOps Developer Job Trends in England

Development Operations Developer
UK > England

The median Development Operations Developer salary in England is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 January 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 603 655 659
Rank change year-on-year +52 +4 +286
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Developer 8 17 53
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.015% 0.036% 0.093%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.039% 0.098%
Number of salaries quoted 6 2 47
10th Percentile £50,500 £47,750 £56,250
25th Percentile - £51,875 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +1.36%
75th Percentile - £69,375 £73,750
90th Percentile £62,500 £74,250 £90,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £71,991 £65,000
% change year-on-year -16.66% +10.76% -1.89%

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 49,796 44,069 53,935
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.93% 92.09% 95.06%
Number of salaries quoted 31,642 23,032 42,681
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,262
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +7.14% -10.40%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,969
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 23 January 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 23 January 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
Yorkshire - 4 £60,000 -
North of England - 4 £60,000 -
West Midlands - 3 £60,000 -
Midlands - 3 £60,000 -
South East - 1 £41,000 - 2
DevOps Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 January 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 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 6 (75.00%) Git
2 6 (75.00%) SQL
3 5 (62.50%) AWS
4 4 (50.00%) .NET
4 4 (50.00%) .NET Core
4 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (50.00%) GitHub
4 4 (50.00%) Serverless
4 4 (50.00%) Terraform
5 3 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (37.50%) Amazon EventBridge
5 3 (37.50%) Amazon S3
5 3 (37.50%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (37.50%) Application Security
5 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET
5 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (37.50%) AWS CDK
5 3 (37.50%) AWS Certification
5 3 (37.50%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (37.50%) AWS Step Functions
5 3 (37.50%) Azure
5 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (37.50%) Blazor
5 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
5 3 (37.50%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (37.50%) Docker

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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) GitHub
2 4 (50.00%) Serverless
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon EventBridge
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon S3
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (37.50%) AWS Step Functions
3 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECR
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) DynamoDB
1 3 (37.50%) NoSQL
1 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Git
2 3 (37.50%) git-flow
3 1 (12.50%) Artifactory
3 1 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) .NET
1 4 (50.00%) .NET Core
2 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET
2 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET Core
2 3 (37.50%) AWS CDK
2 3 (37.50%) Blazor
2 3 (37.50%) jQuery
2 3 (37.50%) React
2 3 (37.50%) REST
2 3 (37.50%) RESTful
2 3 (37.50%) Symfony
3 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (75.00%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (37.50%) Application Security
4 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
4 3 (37.50%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (37.50%) Microservices
4 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (37.50%) Trunk-Based Development
5 1 (12.50%) Immutable Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) AWS Certification
1 3 (37.50%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
2 1 (12.50%) Sysdig