DevOps Developer Job Trends in England

Development Operations Developer
UK > England

The median Development Operations Developer salary in England is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 May 2026.

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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 664 601 797
Rank change year-on-year -63 +196 +90
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Developer 10 24 31
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.012% 0.063% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% 0.071% 0.039%
Number of salaries quoted 7 6 24
10th Percentile £63,000 £68,125 £52,250
25th Percentile - £68,750 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.72% +15.20% -2.53%
75th Percentile £83,750 £76,250 £74,688
90th Percentile £84,950 £76,875 £77,500
UK median annual salary £73,750 £71,991 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.44% +15.19% -3.85%

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 74,665 33,869 78,856
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 89.15% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 49,095 21,316 60,150
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £38,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -11.18%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -6.78% +11.32% -11.67%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -57 4 £82,500 -
North of England -57 4 £82,500 -
London -26 3 £84,500 +17.36%
South West - 3 £65,000 -
South East - 2 £82,500 -
DevOps Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 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 6 (60.00%) Terraform
3 5 (50.00%) Azure
3 5 (50.00%) Serverless
4 4 (40.00%) Agile
4 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
4 4 (40.00%) AWS
4 4 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
4 4 (40.00%) Git
4 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (40.00%) Microservices
5 3 (30.00%) .NET
5 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (30.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (30.00%) React
5 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) Task Automation
6 2 (20.00%) .NET Core
6 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (20.00%) Ansible
6 2 (20.00%) AppDynamics
6 2 (20.00%) Application Security
6 2 (20.00%) Artifactory
6 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET

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%) Azure
1 5 (50.00%) Serverless
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (20.00%) Azure API Management
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (20.00%) GitHub
4 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
5 1 (10.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) Artifactory
2 2 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (20.00%) GitLab
2 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) .NET
1 3 (30.00%) React
2 2 (20.00%) .NET Core
2 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET Core
2 2 (20.00%) AWS CDK
2 2 (20.00%) Blazor
2 2 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (20.00%) JSON
2 2 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (20.00%) REST
2 2 (20.00%) RESTful
2 2 (20.00%) YAML
3 1 (10.00%) CSS
3 1 (10.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (40.00%) Microservices
3 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Task Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Application Security
4 2 (20.00%) Auto-Scaling
4 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (20.00%) Issue Tracking
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Secrets Management
4 2 (20.00%) Security Hardening
4 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Groovy
1 2 (20.00%) Java
1 2 (20.00%) Python
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Bicep
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Certified Developer
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) Ansible
2 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) AppDynamics
1 2 (20.00%) IBM