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 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 275 237 134
Rank change year-on-year -38 -103 -26
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 485 1,021 2,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.05% 1.20% 2.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.17% 1.27% 2.89%
Number of salaries quoted 389 772 1,739
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £52,450
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 £70,576 £75,000
% change year-on-year +16.90% -5.90% +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 41,506 80,486 84,681
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 94.46% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,507 60,251 53,657
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
Median % change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

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 1 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 1 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 +22 264 £110,000 +30.95% 139
South East +16 74 £60,000 -14.29% 71
North of England -42 58 £68,000 +4.62% 66
South West +6 42 £70,996 +0.60% 35
North West -48 34 £72,500 +20.83% 40
East of England +41 24 £66,200 +1.85% 23
Midlands +48 22 £75,000 +36.36% 25
West Midlands +39 18 £75,000 +50.00% 15
Yorkshire +35 18 £68,000 - 21
North East +34 6 £56,500 -1.74% 7
East Midlands +27 4 £62,500 +11.11% 10
DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 485 (100.00%) DevOps
2 349 (71.96%) CI/CD
3 321 (66.19%) Kubernetes
4 319 (65.77%) Terraform
5 298 (61.44%) AWS
6 265 (54.64%) Python
7 264 (54.43%) Docker
8 214 (44.12%) Finance
9 200 (41.24%) Agile
10 184 (37.94%) Azure
11 149 (30.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 145 (29.90%) Infrastructure as Code
13 136 (28.04%) Serverless
14 135 (27.84%) Software Engineering
15 121 (24.95%) Java
15 121 (24.95%) Containerisation
16 119 (24.54%) Amazon ECS
17 117 (24.12%) AWS Lambda
18 116 (23.92%) Ansible
19 113 (23.30%) Front Office
20 111 (22.89%) Asset Management
21 105 (21.65%) Azure DevOps
22 103 (21.24%) Go
23 91 (18.76%) Open Source
23 91 (18.76%) Linux
24 90 (18.56%) Artifactory
25 89 (18.35%) OpenShift
26 87 (17.94%) Kafka
27 86 (17.73%) Data Engineering
28 85 (17.53%) 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 78 (16.08%) Apache
2 73 (15.05%) Apache Airflow
2 73 (15.05%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.27%) Confluence
3 11 (2.27%) nginx
4 9 (1.86%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.41%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.21%) CICS
6 1 (0.21%) CMS
6 1 (0.21%) Drupal
6 1 (0.21%) Jetty
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.24%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.82%) 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
1 298 (61.44%) AWS
2 184 (37.94%) Azure
3 136 (28.04%) Serverless
4 119 (24.54%) Amazon ECS
5 117 (24.12%) AWS Lambda
6 105 (21.65%) Azure DevOps
7 89 (18.35%) OpenShift
8 74 (15.26%) dbt
9 71 (14.64%) GitHub
10 58 (11.96%) GCP
11 54 (11.13%) Amazon S3
12 53 (10.93%) AWS CloudFormation
13 48 (9.90%) Amazon EC2
14 44 (9.07%) GitHub Actions
15 36 (7.42%) Amazon SQS
16 33 (6.80%) Amazon EKS
17 24 (4.95%) SaaS
18 20 (4.12%) Azure AKS
19 19 (3.92%) PaaS
20 17 (3.51%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.12%) DNS
2 14 (2.89%) Firewall
2 14 (2.89%) Network Security
3 10 (2.06%) HTTPS
3 10 (2.06%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.86%) IPsec
5 7 (1.44%) SSL
6 5 (1.03%) VPN
7 3 (0.62%) HTTP
7 3 (0.62%) Internet
7 3 (0.62%) SAN
8 2 (0.41%) DHCP
8 2 (0.41%) LAN
8 2 (0.41%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.41%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.41%) SSH
8 2 (0.41%) WAN
9 1 (0.21%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.21%) FTP
9 1 (0.21%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (15.05%) Amazon Athena
1 73 (15.05%) Apache Iceberg
1 73 (15.05%) Dremio
2 71 (14.64%) Apache Arrow
2 71 (14.64%) Apache Ignite
3 45 (9.28%) Amazon RDS
4 36 (7.42%) Amazon Redshift
5 21 (4.33%) MySQL
6 19 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (2.68%) NoSQL
8 9 (1.86%) Couchbase
8 9 (1.86%) SQL Server
9 8 (1.65%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (1.24%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.82%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.62%) Power BI
13 3 (0.62%) Redis
14 2 (0.41%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 90 (18.56%) Artifactory
2 85 (17.53%) Jenkins
3 49 (10.10%) GitLab
4 38 (7.84%) SonarQube
5 37 (7.63%) Git
6 19 (3.92%) JIRA
6 19 (3.92%) Sonatype Nexus
7 14 (2.89%) Selenium
8 13 (2.68%) CircleCI
9 10 (2.06%) Bitbucket
10 9 (1.86%) IBM UrbanCode
10 9 (1.86%) TeamCity
11 6 (1.24%) Octopus Deploy
12 4 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.82%) Bitbucket Server
12 4 (0.82%) Liquibase
13 3 (0.62%) AppScan
14 2 (0.41%) Cucumber
14 2 (0.41%) JUnit
14 2 (0.41%) Maven
General
1 214 (44.12%) Finance
2 113 (23.30%) Front Office
3 73 (15.05%) Social Skills
4 57 (11.75%) Banking
5 26 (5.36%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (1.65%) Manufacturing
8 6 (1.24%) Health Technology
8 6 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.03%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (1.03%) Back Office
9 5 (1.03%) Retail
10 4 (0.82%) Automotive
11 3 (0.62%) Advertising
11 3 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.41%) Electronics
12 2 (0.41%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.41%) Games
12 2 (0.41%) Legal
12 2 (0.41%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (17.94%) Kafka
2 81 (16.70%) J2EE
3 73 (15.05%) PySpark
4 21 (4.33%) Elastic Stack
5 17 (3.51%) REST
6 15 (3.09%) Azure Blueprints
7 13 (2.68%) ARM Templates
7 13 (2.68%) React
8 12 (2.47%) YAML
9 11 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
10 8 (1.65%) .NET
11 6 (1.24%) HTML
12 5 (1.03%) JSON
12 5 (1.03%) Node.js
13 4 (0.82%) Serverless Framework
14 3 (0.62%) Django
14 3 (0.62%) FastAPI
14 3 (0.62%) Flask
14 3 (0.62%) Loki
14 3 (0.62%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 36 (7.42%) Cloud Native
2 20 (4.12%) Hybrid Cloud
2 20 (4.12%) Public Cloud
3 19 (3.92%) Management Information System
4 16 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (3.09%) e-Learning
6 10 (2.06%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.06%) Tandem
7 7 (1.44%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (1.24%) Life Science
8 6 (1.24%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.03%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.03%) PKI
9 5 (1.03%) Security Posture
10 4 (0.82%) Blockchain
10 4 (0.82%) IoT
10 4 (0.82%) Mainframe
10 4 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 91 (18.76%) Linux
2 36 (7.42%) Windows
3 10 (2.06%) Unix
4 8 (1.65%) Ubuntu
5 7 (1.44%) CentOS
5 7 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.24%) VMS
6 6 (1.24%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.03%) Debian
8 4 (0.82%) 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
1 485 (100.00%) DevOps
2 349 (71.96%) CI/CD
3 200 (41.24%) Agile
4 149 (30.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 145 (29.90%) Infrastructure as Code
6 135 (27.84%) Software Engineering
7 121 (24.95%) Containerisation
8 111 (22.89%) Asset Management
9 91 (18.76%) Open Source
10 86 (17.73%) Data Engineering
11 63 (12.99%) Mentoring
12 59 (12.16%) Platform Engineering
13 58 (11.96%) Deployment Automation
14 53 (10.93%) Problem-Solving
14 53 (10.93%) Test Automation
15 48 (9.90%) Fintech
16 39 (8.04%) Migration
17 38 (7.84%) Release Management
17 38 (7.84%) Software Delivery
18 32 (6.60%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 265 (54.64%) Python
2 121 (24.95%) Java
3 103 (21.24%) Go
4 66 (13.61%) Bash
5 60 (12.37%) PowerShell
6 47 (9.69%) JavaScript
7 29 (5.98%) SQL
8 18 (3.71%) Bicep
9 16 (3.30%) C#
10 15 (3.09%) PHP
11 10 (2.06%) TypeScript
12 9 (1.86%) C++
12 9 (1.86%) Shell Script
13 7 (1.44%) Ruby
14 6 (1.24%) Groovy
15 4 (0.82%) Perl
16 2 (0.41%) C
16 2 (0.41%) Search Processing Language
17 1 (0.21%) Korn
17 1 (0.21%) Rust
Qualifications
1 60 (12.37%) Security Cleared
2 31 (6.39%) SC Cleared
3 18 (3.71%) Degree
3 18 (3.71%) DV Cleared
4 13 (2.68%) Azure Certification
5 11 (2.27%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (0.82%) CCSP
8 4 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.82%) CISSP
9 3 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.62%) OCP
9 3 (0.62%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.41%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.21%) A+ Certification
11 1 (0.21%) PhD
11 1 (0.21%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.54%) QA
2 12 (2.47%) GDPR
3 9 (1.86%) NCSC
4 6 (1.24%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.03%) NIST
5 5 (1.03%) SLA
5 5 (1.03%) SOC 2
6 4 (0.82%) FINRA
6 4 (0.82%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.21%) Basel III
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.21%) PMO
System Software
1 264 (54.43%) Docker
2 20 (4.12%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (2.27%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.82%) vSphere
6 2 (0.41%) 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
1 321 (66.19%) Kubernetes
2 319 (65.77%) Terraform
3 116 (23.92%) Ansible
4 32 (6.60%) Prometheus
5 29 (5.98%) Progress Chef
6 27 (5.57%) Grafana
7 25 (5.15%) Puppet
8 14 (2.89%) Istio
9 12 (2.47%) Argo
10 10 (2.06%) Podman
11 7 (1.44%) Nagios
12 6 (1.24%) Nessus
12 6 (1.24%) Packer
13 4 (0.82%) CASB
13 4 (0.82%) Kibana
13 4 (0.82%) linkerd
13 4 (0.82%) Proxmox
13 4 (0.82%) Rancher
14 3 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 39 (8.04%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.19%) IBM
3 26 (5.36%) Red Hat
4 18 (3.71%) VMware
5 13 (2.68%) Splunk
6 12 (2.47%) Atlassian
7 11 (2.27%) Databricks
8 9 (1.86%) Dynatrace
8 9 (1.86%) Rackspace
9 7 (1.44%) Confluent
10 6 (1.24%) Google
10 6 (1.24%) PayPal
11 5 (1.03%) Hitachi
12 4 (0.82%) Juniper
12 4 (0.82%) Rapid7
12 4 (0.82%) SAP
13 3 (0.62%) AppDynamics
13 3 (0.62%) Oracle
13 3 (0.62%) ServiceNow
14 2 (0.41%) Commvault