DevOps Engineer Jobs in England

Development Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in England is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 May 2025.

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

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 243 134
Rank change year-on-year -49 -109 -25
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 477 1,011 2,452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.03% 1.19% 2.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 1.25% 2.90%
Number of salaries quoted 382 762 1,740
10th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £51,386
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £70,576 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.90% -5.90% +3.45%
75th Percentile £115,000 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £138,750 £105,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £70,288 £75,000
% change year-on-year +17.37% -6.28% +3.45%

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 42,028 80,606 84,581
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.33% 94.48% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 24,667 60,286 53,585
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,435 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,991 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

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 4 May 2025.

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 4 May 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 +15 260 £110,000 +30.95% 175
South East +14 74 £60,000 -12.09% 75
North of England -55 57 £68,000 +4.62% 70
South West +8 39 £70,000 -0.82% 45
North West -55 34 £72,500 +20.83% 44
East of England +36 24 £66,200 +1.85% 17
Midlands +27 22 £75,000 +36.36% 30
West Midlands +43 18 £75,000 +50.00% 19
Yorkshire +38 17 £68,000 - 21
North East +32 6 £56,500 -1.74% 6
East Midlands +18 4 £62,500 +13.64% 10
DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, 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.

1 477 (100.00%) DevOps
2 342 (71.70%) CI/CD
3 311 (65.20%) Kubernetes
4 309 (64.78%) Terraform
5 288 (60.38%) AWS
6 261 (54.72%) Docker
6 261 (54.72%) Python
7 208 (43.61%) Finance
8 194 (40.67%) Agile
9 188 (39.41%) Azure
10 145 (30.40%) Infrastructure as Code
11 144 (30.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 131 (27.46%) Software Engineering
13 130 (27.25%) Serverless
14 120 (25.16%) Containerisation
15 119 (24.95%) Java
16 115 (24.11%) Ansible
16 115 (24.11%) Amazon ECS
17 112 (23.48%) AWS Lambda
18 109 (22.85%) Front Office
19 108 (22.64%) Azure DevOps
20 107 (22.43%) Asset Management
21 101 (21.17%) Go
22 92 (19.29%) Linux
23 89 (18.66%) Open Source
24 88 (18.45%) Kafka
24 88 (18.45%) Artifactory
24 88 (18.45%) OpenShift
25 86 (18.03%) Data Engineering
26 83 (17.40%) Jenkins

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 79 (16.56%) Apache
2 73 (15.30%) Apache Airflow
2 73 (15.30%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.31%) Confluence
4 9 (1.89%) nginx
5 7 (1.47%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.42%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.21%) CICS
7 1 (0.21%) CMS
7 1 (0.21%) Drupal
7 1 (0.21%) JBoss
7 1 (0.21%) Jetty
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.26%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.84%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 1 (0.21%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 288 (60.38%) AWS
2 188 (39.41%) Azure
3 130 (27.25%) Serverless
4 115 (24.11%) Amazon ECS
5 112 (23.48%) AWS Lambda
6 108 (22.64%) Azure DevOps
7 88 (18.45%) OpenShift
8 74 (15.51%) dbt
9 71 (14.88%) GitHub
10 56 (11.74%) GCP
11 50 (10.48%) AWS CloudFormation
12 45 (9.43%) Amazon S3
13 44 (9.22%) GitHub Actions
14 43 (9.01%) Amazon EC2
15 32 (6.71%) Amazon SQS
16 28 (5.87%) Amazon EKS
17 24 (5.03%) SaaS
18 19 (3.98%) Azure AKS
18 19 (3.98%) PaaS
19 17 (3.56%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.77%) DNS
2 14 (2.94%) Firewall
3 13 (2.73%) Network Security
4 8 (1.68%) HTTPS
4 8 (1.68%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.47%) IPsec
5 7 (1.47%) SSL
6 5 (1.05%) VPN
7 3 (0.63%) HTTP
7 3 (0.63%) Internet
7 3 (0.63%) SAN
8 2 (0.42%) DHCP
8 2 (0.42%) LAN
8 2 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.42%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.42%) SSH
8 2 (0.42%) WAN
9 1 (0.21%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.21%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.21%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (15.30%) Amazon Athena
1 73 (15.30%) Apache Iceberg
1 73 (15.30%) Dremio
2 71 (14.88%) Apache Arrow
2 71 (14.88%) Apache Ignite
3 37 (7.76%) Amazon RDS
4 32 (6.71%) Amazon Redshift
5 19 (3.98%) MySQL
5 19 (3.98%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (2.31%) NoSQL
7 10 (2.10%) SQL Server
8 8 (1.68%) MongoDB
9 7 (1.47%) Couchbase
10 6 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (1.26%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.84%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.63%) Power BI
13 3 (0.63%) Redis
14 2 (0.42%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 88 (18.45%) Artifactory
2 83 (17.40%) Jenkins
3 48 (10.06%) GitLab
4 37 (7.76%) Git
4 37 (7.76%) SonarQube
5 20 (4.19%) Sonatype Nexus
6 19 (3.98%) JIRA
7 14 (2.94%) Selenium
8 13 (2.73%) CircleCI
9 10 (2.10%) Bitbucket
10 9 (1.89%) IBM UrbanCode
10 9 (1.89%) TeamCity
11 6 (1.26%) Octopus Deploy
12 4 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.84%) Bitbucket Server
12 4 (0.84%) Liquibase
13 3 (0.63%) AppScan
13 3 (0.63%) Maven
14 2 (0.42%) JUnit
14 2 (0.42%) Postman
General
1 208 (43.61%) Finance
2 109 (22.85%) Front Office
3 72 (15.09%) Social Skills
4 56 (11.74%) Banking
5 23 (4.82%) Public Sector
6 18 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (1.68%) Manufacturing
8 6 (1.26%) Health Technology
8 6 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.05%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (1.05%) Automotive
9 5 (1.05%) Back Office
9 5 (1.05%) Retail
10 3 (0.63%) Advertising
10 3 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.42%) Electronics
11 2 (0.42%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.42%) Games
11 2 (0.42%) Legal
11 2 (0.42%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (18.45%) Kafka
2 79 (16.56%) J2EE
3 73 (15.30%) PySpark
4 21 (4.40%) Elastic Stack
5 16 (3.35%) REST
6 14 (2.94%) Azure Blueprints
7 13 (2.73%) ARM Templates
7 13 (2.73%) React
7 13 (2.73%) YAML
8 8 (1.68%) .NET
8 8 (1.68%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (1.26%) HTML
10 5 (1.05%) Node.js
11 4 (0.84%) JSON
11 4 (0.84%) Playwright
12 3 (0.63%) Django
12 3 (0.63%) FastAPI
12 3 (0.63%) RESTful
12 3 (0.63%) SOAP
12 3 (0.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (7.76%) Cloud Native
2 20 (4.19%) Public Cloud
3 19 (3.98%) Management Information System
4 18 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
5 15 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (2.73%) e-Learning
7 10 (2.10%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.68%) Tandem
9 7 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (1.26%) Life Science
10 6 (1.26%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.05%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.05%) PKI
12 4 (0.84%) IoT
12 4 (0.84%) Mainframe
12 4 (0.84%) Security Posture
12 4 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.63%) NHS
13 3 (0.63%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 92 (19.29%) Linux
2 37 (7.76%) Windows
3 10 (2.10%) Unix
4 8 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (1.68%) Ubuntu
5 7 (1.47%) CentOS
6 6 (1.26%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.05%) Debian
7 5 (1.05%) VMS
8 4 (0.84%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.21%) AIX
9 1 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.21%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 477 (100.00%) DevOps
2 342 (71.70%) CI/CD
3 194 (40.67%) Agile
4 145 (30.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 144 (30.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 131 (27.46%) Software Engineering
7 120 (25.16%) Containerisation
8 107 (22.43%) Asset Management
9 89 (18.66%) Open Source
10 86 (18.03%) Data Engineering
11 61 (12.79%) Mentoring
12 60 (12.58%) Platform Engineering
13 56 (11.74%) Deployment Automation
14 51 (10.69%) Problem-Solving
15 50 (10.48%) Test Automation
16 46 (9.64%) Fintech
17 40 (8.39%) Migration
18 39 (8.18%) Release Management
19 36 (7.55%) Software Delivery
20 30 (6.29%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 261 (54.72%) Python
2 119 (24.95%) Java
3 101 (21.17%) Go
4 66 (13.84%) Bash
5 59 (12.37%) PowerShell
6 45 (9.43%) JavaScript
7 29 (6.08%) SQL
8 18 (3.77%) Bicep
9 17 (3.56%) C#
10 13 (2.73%) PHP
11 10 (2.10%) TypeScript
12 9 (1.89%) C++
13 8 (1.68%) Shell Script
14 7 (1.47%) Ruby
15 6 (1.26%) Groovy
16 3 (0.63%) Perl
17 2 (0.42%) C
17 2 (0.42%) Search Processing Language
18 1 (0.21%) JCL
18 1 (0.21%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 57 (11.95%) Security Cleared
2 30 (6.29%) SC Cleared
3 18 (3.77%) Degree
3 18 (3.77%) DV Cleared
4 13 (2.73%) Azure Certification
5 10 (2.10%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.63%) CCSP
8 3 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.63%) CISSP
8 3 (0.63%) OCP
8 3 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.42%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.21%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.21%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.61%) QA
2 11 (2.31%) GDPR
3 9 (1.89%) NCSC
4 5 (1.05%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.05%) SLA
4 5 (1.05%) SOC 2
5 4 (0.84%) FINRA
5 4 (0.84%) HIPAA
5 4 (0.84%) NIST
6 3 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.21%) Basel III
7 1 (0.21%) IFRS
7 1 (0.21%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.21%) PMO
System Software
1 261 (54.72%) Docker
2 19 (3.98%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (2.52%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.84%) vSphere
6 2 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.21%) KVM
7 1 (0.21%) NFS
7 1 (0.21%) Postfix
7 1 (0.21%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.21%) Squid
Systems Management
1 311 (65.20%) Kubernetes
2 309 (64.78%) Terraform
3 115 (24.11%) Ansible
4 29 (6.08%) Progress Chef
5 28 (5.87%) Prometheus
6 27 (5.66%) Grafana
7 26 (5.45%) Puppet
8 13 (2.73%) Istio
9 12 (2.52%) Argo
10 11 (2.31%) Podman
11 7 (1.47%) Nagios
12 6 (1.26%) Nessus
13 5 (1.05%) Packer
14 4 (0.84%) Kibana
14 4 (0.84%) Proxmox
14 4 (0.84%) Rancher
15 3 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 3 (0.63%) CASB
15 3 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
15 3 (0.63%) linkerd
Vendors
1 40 (8.39%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.66%) IBM
3 24 (5.03%) Red Hat
4 18 (3.77%) VMware
5 13 (2.73%) Splunk
6 11 (2.31%) Atlassian
6 11 (2.31%) Databricks
7 9 (1.89%) Rackspace
8 7 (1.47%) Confluent
9 6 (1.26%) PayPal
10 5 (1.05%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.05%) Google
10 5 (1.05%) Hitachi
11 4 (0.84%) Juniper
11 4 (0.84%) Rapid7
11 4 (0.84%) SAP
12 3 (0.63%) Oracle
12 3 (0.63%) ServiceNow
13 2 (0.42%) Commvault
13 2 (0.42%) Salesforce