DevOps Engineer Job Trends in England

Development Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in England is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 August 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 291 243
Rank change year-on-year +113 -48 -130
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 1,088 437 825
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.16% 1.00% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.23% 1.10% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 826 280 571
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £59,063 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +7.41% -10.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% +7.41% -10.00%

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 88,389 39,568 69,016
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 90.60% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 62,111 23,903 47,017
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% - -8.33%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in England

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in England

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in England over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

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 12 August 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
North of England +152 391 £65,250 +0.38% 65
London -35 209 £85,000 +6.25% 239
North West +111 192 £70,000 +7.69% 31
South West +47 165 £75,000 +15.38% 41
Midlands +69 141 £80,000 +10.34% 21
South East +16 140 £67,500 +3.85% 38
North East +36 137 £60,000 -4.00% 20
East Midlands +49 71 £70,000 +29.63% 14
West Midlands +11 70 £85,000 +17.24% 7
Yorkshire +17 62 £80,000 +18.52% 15
East of England -22 24 £54,000 -24.21% 10
DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 August 2026, DevOps Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 1,088 (100.00%) DevOps
2 399 (36.67%) CI/CD
3 379 (34.83%) Terraform
4 372 (34.19%) Azure
5 358 (32.90%) Infrastructure as Code
6 317 (29.14%) AWS
7 282 (25.92%) Kubernetes
8 248 (22.79%) Security Cleared
9 195 (17.92%) Linux
10 189 (17.37%) Containerisation
11 184 (16.91%) Docker
12 183 (16.82%) Azure DevOps
12 183 (16.82%) Python
13 177 (16.27%) Platform Engineering
14 164 (15.07%) Ansible
15 160 (14.71%) SC Cleared
16 140 (12.87%) Agile
17 135 (12.41%) Bash
18 119 (10.94%) GitLab
19 112 (10.29%) Observability
20 101 (9.28%) Continuous Improvement
21 100 (9.19%) Mentoring
22 96 (8.82%) PowerShell
22 96 (8.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
23 95 (8.73%) Git
24 90 (8.27%) Jenkins
25 87 (8.00%) GitHub
26 85 (7.81%) Problem-Solving
27 84 (7.72%) DV Cleared
28 81 (7.44%) Grafana

DevOps Engineer 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 11 (1.01%) IIS
2 10 (0.92%) nginx
3 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.46%) SAS
5 4 (0.37%) Confluence
5 4 (0.37%) WordPress
6 3 (0.28%) Apache
7 2 (0.18%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.092%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.092%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.092%) Drupal
8 1 (0.092%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 1 (0.092%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 5 (0.46%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.092%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 372 (34.19%) Azure
2 317 (29.14%) AWS
3 183 (16.82%) Azure DevOps
4 87 (8.00%) GitHub
5 72 (6.62%) GCP
6 69 (6.34%) AWS CloudFormation
7 58 (5.33%) Azure AKS
8 55 (5.06%) GitHub Actions
8 55 (5.06%) Serverless
9 53 (4.87%) SaaS
10 39 (3.58%) Amazon EKS
11 35 (3.22%) AWS Lambda
12 34 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 34 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
13 32 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
14 30 (2.76%) Datadog
15 28 (2.57%) OpenShift
16 26 (2.39%) Azure Monitor
17 25 (2.30%) Amazon S3
18 24 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 30 (2.76%) Firewall
2 23 (2.11%) DNS
3 10 (0.92%) TCP/IP
4 7 (0.64%) DHCP
4 7 (0.64%) HTTP
5 6 (0.55%) Network Security
5 6 (0.55%) VPN
6 4 (0.37%) Kerberos
6 4 (0.37%) NAS
6 4 (0.37%) SSH
7 2 (0.18%) SAN
8 1 (0.092%) SSL
8 1 (0.092%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (3.03%) SQL Server
3 29 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 26 (2.39%) MongoDB
5 18 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (1.56%) MySQL
7 13 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (1.19%) NoSQL
8 9 (0.83%) DynamoDB
9 6 (0.55%) Redis
10 5 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.37%) Power BI
12 3 (0.28%) Big Data
12 3 (0.28%) DocumentDB
12 3 (0.28%) Flink
13 2 (0.18%) Electronic Patient Records
13 2 (0.18%) Metadata
14 1 (0.092%) Amazon Aurora
14 1 (0.092%) Amazon Redshift
14 1 (0.092%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 119 (10.94%) GitLab
2 95 (8.73%) Git
3 90 (8.27%) Jenkins
4 28 (2.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 20 (1.84%) JIRA
6 14 (1.29%) Bitbucket
7 12 (1.10%) SonarQube
8 8 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
8 8 (0.74%) Subversion
9 7 (0.64%) Artifactory
10 6 (0.55%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.46%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.46%) git-flow
11 5 (0.46%) Maven
12 4 (0.37%) Gradle
12 4 (0.37%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.18%) MLflow
13 2 (0.18%) MSI
13 2 (0.18%) Snyk
13 2 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 95 (8.73%) Social Skills
2 83 (7.63%) Public Sector
3 81 (7.44%) Finance
4 30 (2.76%) Banking
5 16 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (1.10%) Retail
7 11 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (0.83%) Law
9 7 (0.64%) Telecoms
10 5 (0.46%) Games
10 5 (0.46%) Health Technology
11 4 (0.37%) Aviation
11 4 (0.37%) Mandarin Language
11 4 (0.37%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.28%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.28%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.18%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.18%) Marketing
13 2 (0.18%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.092%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (5.61%) YAML
2 36 (3.31%) .NET
3 35 (3.22%) Node.js
4 30 (2.76%) Spring
5 29 (2.67%) Elastic Stack
5 29 (2.67%) Spring Boot
6 22 (2.02%) ARM Templates
6 22 (2.02%) Kafka
7 16 (1.47%) ADO
7 16 (1.47%) JSON
8 14 (1.29%) RabbitMQ
9 13 (1.19%) .NET Core
10 10 (0.92%) React
11 9 (0.83%) AWS CDK
12 8 (0.74%) OpenTelemetry
13 7 (0.64%) .NET Framework
13 7 (0.64%) Loki
13 7 (0.64%) OAuth
13 7 (0.64%) SAML
14 5 (0.46%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 167 (15.35%) Cloud Native
2 15 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
5 10 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (0.92%) Public Cloud
6 7 (0.64%) Life Science
6 7 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (0.64%) Private Cloud
6 7 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (0.55%) Management Information System
8 5 (0.46%) Robotics
9 4 (0.37%) Blockchain
9 4 (0.37%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (0.37%) Data Centre
9 4 (0.37%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (0.37%) PKI
9 4 (0.37%) PropTech
9 4 (0.37%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 195 (17.92%) Linux
2 73 (6.71%) Windows
3 32 (2.94%) Unix
4 29 (2.67%) CentOS
5 23 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 22 (2.02%) Ubuntu
7 21 (1.93%) Windows Server
8 10 (0.92%) VMS
9 6 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.092%) Android
10 1 (0.092%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.092%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,088 (100.00%) DevOps
2 399 (36.67%) CI/CD
3 358 (32.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 189 (17.37%) Containerisation
5 177 (16.27%) Platform Engineering
6 140 (12.87%) Agile
7 112 (10.29%) Observability
8 101 (9.28%) Continuous Improvement
9 100 (9.19%) Mentoring
10 96 (8.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 85 (7.81%) Problem-Solving
12 78 (7.17%) DevSecOps
12 78 (7.17%) Test Automation
13 71 (6.53%) Cybersecurity
13 71 (6.53%) Microservices
14 63 (5.79%) Deployment Automation
14 63 (5.79%) Infrastructure Automation
15 60 (5.51%) AI
15 60 (5.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 59 (5.42%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 183 (16.82%) Python
2 135 (12.41%) Bash
3 96 (8.82%) PowerShell
4 73 (6.71%) Java
5 54 (4.96%) SQL
6 38 (3.49%) Go
7 31 (2.85%) C#
8 23 (2.11%) Bicep
9 10 (0.92%) JavaScript
10 9 (0.83%) Groovy
11 6 (0.55%) PHP
11 6 (0.55%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.46%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.37%) Perl
13 4 (0.37%) Ruby
14 2 (0.18%) C++
15 1 (0.092%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.092%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.092%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.092%) VB
Qualifications
1 248 (22.79%) Security Cleared
2 160 (14.71%) SC Cleared
3 84 (7.72%) DV Cleared
4 23 (2.11%) Azure Certification
5 19 (1.75%) Degree
6 12 (1.10%) AWS Certification
7 9 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.37%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.18%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.092%) CISSP
11 1 (0.092%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.092%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.092%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.092%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (4.32%) QA
2 9 (0.83%) SOC 2
3 8 (0.74%) PCI DSS
4 5 (0.46%) GDPR
5 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.092%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.092%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.092%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.092%) NCSC
6 1 (0.092%) PMO
System Software
1 184 (16.91%) Docker
2 23 (2.11%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.37%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.37%) vSphere
6 1 (0.092%) Firmware
6 1 (0.092%) iptables
6 1 (0.092%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.092%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.092%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 379 (34.83%) Terraform
2 282 (25.92%) Kubernetes
3 164 (15.07%) Ansible
4 81 (7.44%) Grafana
5 64 (5.88%) Prometheus
6 55 (5.06%) Argo
7 19 (1.75%) Istio
8 13 (1.19%) Puppet
9 10 (0.92%) Nagios
10 8 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 8 (0.74%) Progress Chef
10 8 (0.74%) Rancher
11 5 (0.46%) Packer
11 5 (0.46%) yum
12 4 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.28%) Kibana
13 3 (0.28%) Kustomize
13 3 (0.28%) Proxmox
13 3 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 62 (5.70%) Microsoft
2 37 (3.40%) Red Hat
3 30 (2.76%) Pega
4 18 (1.65%) Google
5 17 (1.56%) VMware
6 11 (1.01%) Splunk
7 9 (0.83%) Atlassian
7 9 (0.83%) Dynatrace
7 9 (0.83%) Salesforce
8 8 (0.74%) Confluent
8 8 (0.74%) Rapid7
9 7 (0.64%) CrowdStrike
10 5 (0.46%) AppDynamics
10 5 (0.46%) MuleSoft
10 5 (0.46%) Okta
11 4 (0.37%) IBM
11 4 (0.37%) New Relic
11 4 (0.37%) OneLogin
12 3 (0.28%) Databricks
13 2 (0.18%) Commvault