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 October 2025.

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

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 615 713 669
Rank change year-on-year +98 -44 +335
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Developer 7 12 32
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.016% 0.019% 0.065%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.020% 0.068%
Number of salaries quoted 5 6 30
10th Percentile £46,600 £41,250 £48,454
25th Percentile £55,000 £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 £65,000 £70,688 £72,500
90th Percentile - £75,000 £90,125
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 38,791 58,964 47,366
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.56% 95.22% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 23,461 33,679 36,554
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £43,869
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £56,252 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% -

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 October 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 23 October 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 +48 4 £60,000 +33.33%
West Midlands +46 4 £60,000 +33.33%
London +69 2 - -
South East +29 1 £41,000 -23.36%
DevOps Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 October 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 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) Git
3 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) REST
4 3 (42.86%) AWS
4 3 (42.86%) git-flow
4 3 (42.86%) GitLab
4 3 (42.86%) jQuery
4 3 (42.86%) Linux
4 3 (42.86%) PHP
4 3 (42.86%) Serverless
4 3 (42.86%) SQL
4 3 (42.86%) Symfony
4 3 (42.86%) Terraform
4 3 (42.86%) Trunk-Based Development
5 2 (28.57%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
5 2 (28.57%) Analytics
5 2 (28.57%) Ansible
5 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (28.57%) C++
5 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
5 2 (28.57%) Datadog
5 2 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (28.57%) IBM
5 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (28.57%) IntelliJ

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 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Serverless
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (28.57%) Datadog
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Git
2 3 (42.86%) git-flow
2 3 (42.86%) GitLab
3 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
3 2 (28.57%) IntelliJ
3 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 2 (28.57%) JUnit
3 2 (28.57%) Maven
3 2 (28.57%) Mockito
4 1 (14.29%) Artifactory
4 1 (14.29%) NUnit
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) REST
2 3 (42.86%) jQuery
2 3 (42.86%) Symfony
3 2 (28.57%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (28.57%) JMS
3 2 (28.57%) Spring
3 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
4 1 (14.29%) .NET
4 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
4 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
4 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (14.29%) Dapper ORM
4 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (14.29%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Credit Derivative
1 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Trunk-Based Development
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) SDLC
4 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
5 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
5 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) Front End Development
5 1 (14.29%) Immutable Infrastructure
5 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Microservices
5 1 (14.29%) SOLID
5 1 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PHP
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) C++
2 2 (28.57%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
3 1 (14.29%) Grafana
3 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
3 1 (14.29%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft