DevOps Developer Job Trends in England

Development Operations Developer
UK > England

The median Development Operations Developer salary in England is £65,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 640 738 691
Rank change year-on-year +98 -47 +349
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Developer 10 11 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.023% 0.016% 0.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.017% 0.060%
Number of salaries quoted 4 7 30
10th Percentile £56,500 £41,500 £48,454
25th Percentile £58,750 £43,125 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,750 £47,500 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +38.42% -30.91% +14.58%
75th Percentile £72,250 £66,375 £75,000
90th Percentile - £75,000 £90,125
UK median annual salary £65,750 £45,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year +46.11% -34.55% +10.00%

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 39,014 65,405 51,304
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 95.19% 93.97%
Number of salaries quoted 23,405 39,738 39,633
10th Percentile £28,300 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

DevOps Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured DevOps Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Developer 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
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 17 September 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
London +74 7 £71,500 - 3
Midlands +52 2 £60,000 +33.33% 1
West Midlands +50 2 £60,000 +33.33% 1
North of England +37 1 - - 2
Yorkshire +17 1 - -
DevOps Developer
UK

DevOps Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 17 September 2025, DevOps Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number 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 9 (90.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (90.00%) Git
3 8 (80.00%) AWS
4 7 (70.00%) GitLab
5 6 (60.00%) Serverless
6 5 (50.00%) Management Information System
6 5 (50.00%) Finance
6 5 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
6 5 (50.00%) Credit Derivative
6 5 (50.00%) Spring
6 5 (50.00%) Maven
6 5 (50.00%) Software Engineering
6 5 (50.00%) C++
6 5 (50.00%) Java
6 5 (50.00%) JUnit
6 5 (50.00%) Linux
6 5 (50.00%) JMS
6 5 (50.00%) IntelliJ
6 5 (50.00%) IBM
6 5 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (50.00%) Amazon S3
6 5 (50.00%) Agile
6 5 (50.00%) Mockito
6 5 (50.00%) Cucumber
6 5 (50.00%) Analytics
6 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
6 5 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (50.00%) Deployment Automation

DevOps Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) Serverless
3 5 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 5 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (50.00%) Datadog
4 2 (20.00%) Azure
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (10.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) MySQL
1 3 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) Git
2 7 (70.00%) GitLab
3 5 (50.00%) Cucumber
3 5 (50.00%) IntelliJ
3 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (50.00%) JUnit
3 5 (50.00%) Maven
3 5 (50.00%) Mockito
4 1 (10.00%) git-flow
4 1 (10.00%) JIRA
4 1 (10.00%) NUnit
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
1 5 (50.00%) JMS
1 5 (50.00%) Spring
1 5 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (30.00%) Node.js
2 3 (30.00%) React
3 2 (20.00%) CSS
3 2 (20.00%) Django
3 2 (20.00%) HTML
3 2 (20.00%) REST
4 1 (10.00%) .NET
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (10.00%) Dapper ORM
4 1 (10.00%) Entity Framework
4 1 (10.00%) jQuery
4 1 (10.00%) Symfony
4 1 (10.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Credit Derivative
1 5 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (90.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) Agile
3 5 (50.00%) Analytics
3 5 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
3 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (50.00%) SDLC
3 5 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (10.00%) Clean Code
5 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Culture
5 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Event-Driven
5 1 (10.00%) Front End Development
5 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
5 1 (10.00%) SOLID
5 1 (10.00%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (10.00%) Trunk-Based Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) C++
1 5 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (30.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Ansible
1 5 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft