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 April 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 653 571 772
Rank change year-on-year -82 +201 +158
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Developer 12 24 35
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.017% 0.066% 0.045%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.073% 0.047%
Number of salaries quoted 10 6 28
10th Percentile £58,100 £68,125 £53,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £68,750 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.72% +15.20% -1.19%
75th Percentile £79,063 £76,250 £74,688
90th Percentile £84,050 £76,875 £80,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £71,991 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.71% +15.19% -2.53%

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 65,559 32,850 74,204
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.22% 89.88% 94.37%
Number of salaries quoted 43,137 21,103 57,884
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,676
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.71%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,934
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,995
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.10% -8.34%

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 April 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 April 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 -53 6 £71,250 - 1
North of England -61 6 £71,250 - 1
South East - 3 £82,500 -
South West - 3 £65,000 -
London -24 1 £84,500 +17.36% 1
West Midlands - 1 £60,000 -
Midlands - 1 £60,000 -
DevOps Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 April 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 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (58.33%) AWS
2 7 (58.33%) Serverless
3 6 (50.00%) Agile
3 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (50.00%) Git
3 6 (50.00%) Terraform
4 5 (41.67%) .NET
4 5 (41.67%) Amazon S3
4 5 (41.67%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (41.67%) Deployment Automation
4 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (41.67%) Microservices
5 4 (33.33%) .NET Core
5 4 (33.33%) Azure
5 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (33.33%) GitHub
5 4 (33.33%) React
5 4 (33.33%) SQL
6 3 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
6 3 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (25.00%) Application Security
6 3 (25.00%) Artifactory
6 3 (25.00%) ASP.NET
6 3 (25.00%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (25.00%) AWS CDK
6 3 (25.00%) AWS Certification
6 3 (25.00%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation

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 (8.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) AWS
1 7 (58.33%) Serverless
2 5 (41.67%) Amazon S3
2 5 (41.67%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (33.33%) Azure
3 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) GitHub
4 3 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
4 3 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 3 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (8.33%) Azure App Service
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (8.33%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) DynamoDB
1 3 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Git
2 3 (25.00%) Artifactory
2 3 (25.00%) GitLab
3 2 (16.67%) Cucumber
3 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (16.67%) JIRA
3 2 (16.67%) SonarQube
4 1 (8.33%) git-flow
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) .NET
2 4 (33.33%) .NET Core
2 4 (33.33%) React
3 3 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 3 (25.00%) ASP.NET Core
3 3 (25.00%) AWS CDK
3 3 (25.00%) Blazor
3 3 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (25.00%) REST
3 3 (25.00%) RESTful
4 2 (16.67%) JSON
4 2 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (16.67%) YAML
5 1 (8.33%) CSS
5 1 (8.33%) HTML
5 1 (8.33%) jQuery
5 1 (8.33%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (50.00%) Agile
2 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (41.67%) Deployment Automation
3 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (41.67%) Microservices
4 3 (25.00%) Application Security
4 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (25.00%) Task Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Auto-Scaling
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (16.67%) Issue Tracking
5 2 (16.67%) Secrets Management
5 2 (16.67%) Security Hardening
5 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 1 (8.33%) AI
6 1 (8.33%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) Groovy
2 2 (16.67%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) Bicep
3 1 (8.33%) C#
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (25.00%) AWS Certified Developer
1 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (16.67%) Ansible
3 2 (16.67%) Packer
4 1 (8.33%) Grafana
4 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (8.33%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) AppDynamics
1 2 (16.67%) IBM