DevOps Engineer Jobs in England

Development Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in England is £68,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 244 118 143
Rank change year-on-year -126 +25 -46
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 895 2,066 4,274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.14% 2.91% 2.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.21% 3.17% 3.04%
Number of salaries quoted 628 1,564 2,335
10th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £49,160
25th Percentile £52,500 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £86,000 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £98,250 £110,000 £103,750
UK median annual salary £68,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.33% - +15.38%

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 74,198 65,186 140,455
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.70% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 51,681 46,119 77,508
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in England

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in England.

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in England

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in England over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in England

DevOps Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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 -138 283 £82,500 -2.94% 22
North of England -59 206 £60,000 -14.29% 9
South East -71 170 £60,000 -14.29% 8
South West -38 148 £67,500 +3.85% 11
North West -47 133 £63,750 -12.07% 6
Yorkshire -11 63 £60,000 -11.15% 3
Midlands -58 54 £60,000 -14.29% 10
West Midlands -32 28 £60,000 -14.29% 7
East Midlands -36 26 £65,000 -1.89% 3
East of England -46 21 £68,750 -8.33% 1
North East -17 10 £62,732 -5.31%
DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, DevOps Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 895 (100.00%) DevOps
2 604 (67.49%) AWS
3 552 (61.68%) Terraform
4 525 (58.66%) Kubernetes
5 461 (51.51%) CI/CD
6 427 (47.71%) Azure
7 369 (41.23%) Docker
8 332 (37.09%) Containerisation
9 330 (36.87%) Python
10 316 (35.31%) Agile
11 271 (30.28%) Infrastructure as Code
12 231 (25.81%) Ansible
13 224 (25.03%) Linux
14 221 (24.69%) Security Cleared
15 186 (20.78%) Mentoring
16 175 (19.55%) Public Sector
17 168 (18.77%) Jenkins
18 165 (18.44%) Prometheus
19 161 (17.99%) Social Skills
20 160 (17.88%) Amazon S3
21 155 (17.32%) Observability
22 149 (16.65%) Test Automation
23 144 (16.09%) Azure DevOps
24 141 (15.75%) Java
25 135 (15.08%) Amazon RDS
26 132 (14.75%) Bash
27 127 (14.19%) Artificial Intelligence
28 126 (14.08%) Continuous Integration
29 125 (13.97%) Hybrid Cloud
29 125 (13.97%) Amazon EKS

DevOps Engineer 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 30 (3.35%) nginx
2 22 (2.46%) Apache
3 17 (1.90%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.79%) Jupyter
5 8 (0.89%) IIS
6 5 (0.56%) JBoss
7 4 (0.45%) Confluence
8 3 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.22%) Moodle
9 2 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.11%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 604 (67.49%) AWS
2 427 (47.71%) Azure
3 160 (17.88%) Amazon S3
4 144 (16.09%) Azure DevOps
5 125 (13.97%) Amazon EKS
6 118 (13.18%) GCP
7 104 (11.62%) GitHub
8 101 (11.28%) IBM Cloud
9 100 (11.17%) Amazon ECR
9 100 (11.17%) Route 53
10 99 (11.06%) OCI
11 80 (8.94%) Serverless
12 74 (8.27%) GitHub Actions
13 71 (7.93%) AWS CloudFormation
14 65 (7.26%) Amazon EC2
15 57 (6.37%) AWS Lambda
16 54 (6.03%) OpenShift
17 50 (5.59%) SaaS
18 42 (4.69%) PaaS
19 40 (4.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.58%) DNS
2 29 (3.24%) Firewall
3 28 (3.13%) Network Security
4 8 (0.89%) IPv4
4 8 (0.89%) IPv6
5 6 (0.67%) WAN
6 5 (0.56%) AMQP
6 5 (0.56%) HTTP
6 5 (0.56%) LAN
6 5 (0.56%) SSL
6 5 (0.56%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.45%) Internet
8 3 (0.34%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (0.22%) SMTP
9 2 (0.22%) SSH
10 1 (0.11%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.11%) SNMP
10 1 (0.11%) tcpdump
10 1 (0.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (15.08%) Amazon RDS
2 75 (8.38%) MongoDB
3 74 (8.27%) PostgreSQL
4 73 (8.16%) Hadoop
5 50 (5.59%) SQL Server
6 39 (4.36%) Big Data
6 39 (4.36%) Relational Database
7 29 (3.24%) Azure SQL Database
8 23 (2.57%) NoSQL
9 16 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
9 16 (1.79%) Presto
10 14 (1.56%) MySQL
11 13 (1.45%) Power BI
12 12 (1.34%) DB2
12 12 (1.34%) RDBMS
13 11 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (1.12%) Data Lake
15 9 (1.01%) Microsoft Analysis Services
16 6 (0.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 168 (18.77%) Jenkins
2 106 (11.84%) Git
3 89 (9.94%) GitLab
4 68 (7.60%) JIRA
5 37 (4.13%) CircleCI
6 29 (3.24%) SonarQube
7 23 (2.57%) Artifactory
8 21 (2.35%) TeamCity
9 17 (1.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 15 (1.68%) Octopus Deploy
11 14 (1.56%) Bitbucket
12 10 (1.12%) Selenium
13 8 (0.89%) Maven
13 8 (0.89%) Terragrunt
13 8 (0.89%) Vagrant
14 7 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
15 5 (0.56%) Cucumber
16 3 (0.34%) Gradle
16 3 (0.34%) NUnit
16 3 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 175 (19.55%) Public Sector
2 161 (17.99%) Social Skills
3 100 (11.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 77 (8.60%) Finance
5 49 (5.47%) Aerospace
6 25 (2.79%) Analytical Skills
7 24 (2.68%) Banking
8 20 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
9 15 (1.68%) Marketing
9 15 (1.68%) Tech for Good
10 13 (1.45%) Games
11 12 (1.34%) Law
12 10 (1.12%) Front Office
13 8 (0.89%) Retail
14 7 (0.78%) Legal
15 5 (0.56%) Advertising
15 5 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.45%) Automotive
16 4 (0.45%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.45%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (9.05%) Node.js
2 64 (7.15%) Kafka
3 44 (4.92%) .NET
4 43 (4.80%) Elastic Stack
5 40 (4.47%) YAML
6 32 (3.58%) ARM Templates
7 29 (3.24%) RabbitMQ
8 25 (2.79%) React
9 22 (2.46%) Apache NiFi
9 22 (2.46%) RESTful
10 16 (1.79%) ActiveMQ
10 16 (1.79%) JSON
11 14 (1.56%) AWS CDK
12 12 (1.34%) REST
12 12 (1.34%) Spring
12 12 (1.34%) Spring XD
13 11 (1.23%) AWS SAM
13 11 (1.23%) HTML
13 11 (1.23%) OAuth
14 10 (1.12%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 125 (13.97%) Hybrid Cloud
2 103 (11.51%) Blockchain
3 89 (9.94%) e-Learning
4 43 (4.80%) Public Cloud
5 32 (3.58%) Cloud Native
5 32 (3.58%) Distributed Systems
6 26 (2.91%) Product Ownership
7 16 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
8 11 (1.23%) Management Information System
8 11 (1.23%) Tandem
9 10 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (0.89%) IoT
11 8 (0.89%) Onboarding
11 8 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (0.67%) Data Centre
12 6 (0.67%) Hedge funds
12 6 (0.67%) Mobile App
12 6 (0.67%) PKI
13 5 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 224 (25.03%) Linux
2 59 (6.59%) Windows
3 15 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (1.45%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.12%) Unix
5 10 (1.12%) VMS
6 6 (0.67%) CentOS
7 4 (0.45%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.22%) Debian
9 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 895 (100.00%) DevOps
2 461 (51.51%) CI/CD
3 332 (37.09%) Containerisation
4 316 (35.31%) Agile
5 271 (30.28%) Infrastructure as Code
6 186 (20.78%) Mentoring
7 155 (17.32%) Observability
8 149 (16.65%) Test Automation
9 127 (14.19%) Artificial Intelligence
10 126 (14.08%) Continuous Integration
11 124 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
12 115 (12.85%) Coaching
13 93 (10.39%) Secrets Management
13 93 (10.39%) Software Engineering
14 85 (9.50%) Scrum
15 81 (9.05%) Configuration Management
16 78 (8.72%) Deployment Automation
17 77 (8.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 76 (8.49%) SDLC
19 74 (8.27%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 330 (36.87%) Python
2 141 (15.75%) Java
3 132 (14.75%) Bash
4 116 (12.96%) PowerShell
4 116 (12.96%) SQL
5 48 (5.36%) C#
6 41 (4.58%) JavaScript
7 38 (4.25%) Go
8 35 (3.91%) Shell Script
9 19 (2.12%) Bicep
10 17 (1.90%) C++
10 17 (1.90%) Groovy
11 10 (1.12%) Ruby
11 10 (1.12%) TypeScript
12 9 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 9 (1.01%) U-SQL
13 8 (0.89%) PHP
14 6 (0.67%) C
14 6 (0.67%) Perl
15 5 (0.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 221 (24.69%) Security Cleared
2 116 (12.96%) SC Cleared
3 82 (9.16%) DV Cleared
4 53 (5.92%) Degree
5 49 (5.47%) AWS Certification
6 39 (4.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (2.35%) Azure Certification
8 17 (1.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 17 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.34%) BC Cleared
11 3 (0.34%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (0.22%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.11%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.11%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (2.23%) QA
2 7 (0.78%) NCSC
2 7 (0.78%) NIST
3 6 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (0.67%) SOC 2
4 5 (0.56%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.34%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.22%) MiFID
6 2 (0.22%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.11%) SLA
System Software
1 369 (41.23%) Docker
2 22 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.45%) Active Directory
5 7 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.34%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.34%) vSphere
8 2 (0.22%) Firmware
8 2 (0.22%) KVM
8 2 (0.22%) Varnish
9 1 (0.11%) iptables
Systems Management
1 552 (61.68%) Terraform
2 525 (58.66%) Kubernetes
3 231 (25.81%) Ansible
4 165 (18.44%) Prometheus
5 70 (7.82%) Grafana
6 64 (7.15%) Puppet
7 50 (5.59%) Progress Chef
8 17 (1.90%) HAProxy
9 14 (1.56%) Packer
10 13 (1.45%) Argo
11 12 (1.34%) Docker Swarm
11 12 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
12 10 (1.12%) Istio
13 8 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (0.78%) Consul
14 7 (0.78%) Nagios
15 6 (0.67%) Kibana
16 3 (0.34%) Podman
17 2 (0.22%) Kustomize
17 2 (0.22%) Salt
Vendors
1 110 (12.29%) Red Hat
2 102 (11.40%) IBM
3 97 (10.84%) Dynatrace
4 77 (8.60%) Microsoft
5 30 (3.35%) Oracle
6 22 (2.46%) Google
7 20 (2.23%) VMware
8 17 (1.90%) Splunk
9 15 (1.68%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.56%) Databricks
11 12 (1.34%) New Relic
11 12 (1.34%) Sybase
12 10 (1.12%) Atlassian
12 10 (1.12%) Black Duck
13 9 (1.01%) Salesforce
14 6 (0.67%) ForgeRock
14 6 (0.67%) Veracode
15 5 (0.56%) Cisco
16 3 (0.34%) Sitecore
16 3 (0.34%) Talend