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 8 November 2025.

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

 6 months to
8 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 609 691 647
Rank change year-on-year +82 -44 +352
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Developer 8 14 37
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.018% 0.023% 0.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.024% 0.081%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 34
10th Percentile £48,000 £41,250 £48,454
25th Percentile £56,250 £43,125 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £49,250 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +21.83% -25.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,688 £74,375
90th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £90,875
UK median annual salary £60,000 £45,000 £66,250
% change year-on-year +33.33% -32.08% +6.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 40,271 57,548 45,584
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.96% 94.92% 95.42%
Number of salaries quoted 25,710 32,582 35,348
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -

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 8 November 2025.

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 8 November 2025. 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
Midlands +67 4 £60,000 +33.33%
West Midlands +46 4 £60,000 +33.33%
North of England - 2 £60,000 -
Yorkshire - 2 £60,000 -
London +66 1 - - 4
South East +40 1 £41,000 -23.36% 4
DevOps Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 November 2025, 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%) Git
3 5 (62.50%) Agile
4 4 (50.00%) AWS
4 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (50.00%) REST
4 4 (50.00%) Serverless
4 4 (50.00%) SQL
5 3 (37.50%) .NET
5 3 (37.50%) .NET Core
5 3 (37.50%) git-flow
5 3 (37.50%) jQuery
5 3 (37.50%) PHP
5 3 (37.50%) Symfony
5 3 (37.50%) Terraform
5 3 (37.50%) Trunk-Based Development
6 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
6 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (25.00%) Azure
6 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (25.00%) GitHub
6 2 (25.00%) GitLab
6 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (25.00%) Linux
6 2 (25.00%) Microservices
6 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
7 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
7 1 (12.50%) ActiveMQ

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 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) Serverless
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (12.50%) Datadog
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
2 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Git
2 3 (37.50%) git-flow
3 2 (25.00%) GitLab
4 1 (12.50%) Artifactory
4 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
4 1 (12.50%) IntelliJ
4 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 1 (12.50%) JUnit
4 1 (12.50%) Maven
4 1 (12.50%) Mockito
4 1 (12.50%) NUnit
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) REST
2 3 (37.50%) .NET
2 3 (37.50%) .NET Core
2 3 (37.50%) jQuery
2 3 (37.50%) Symfony
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 1 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CDK
3 1 (12.50%) Blazor
3 1 (12.50%) Dapper ORM
3 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (12.50%) Entity Framework
3 1 (12.50%) JMS
3 1 (12.50%) React
3 1 (12.50%) RESTful
3 1 (12.50%) Spring
3 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Credit Derivative
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (37.50%) Trunk-Based Development
5 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (25.00%) Microservices
6 1 (12.50%) Analytics
6 1 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
6 1 (12.50%) Clean Code
6 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven
6 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 1 (12.50%) Integration Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
6 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) PHP
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) C++
3 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
2 1 (12.50%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) IBM
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
6 DevOps Developer jobs in England