DevOps Engineer Jobs 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 to 9 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 241 128 106
Rank change year-on-year -113 -22 -21
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 1,015 2,421 4,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.18% 2.68% 3.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.25% 2.93% 3.46%
Number of salaries quoted 761 1,728 2,502
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £47,625
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £107,875 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +11.54%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 81,041 82,556 127,446
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.46% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,522 52,365 74,626
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -109 371 £82,500 - 94
North of England -59 196 £65,000 -3.70% 43
South East -75 187 £65,000 -7.14% 28
South West -40 153 £70,576 +8.58% 28
North West -54 115 £60,000 -14.29% 29
Yorkshire -23 59 £68,000 +4.62% 11
Midlands -54 54 £55,000 -19.71% 18
East of England -21 40 £65,000 -13.33% 7
West Midlands -30 29 £52,500 -25.00% 11
East Midlands -20 25 £55,000 -15.38% 7
North East -1 22 £57,500 -13.21% 3
DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 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 1,015 (100.00%) DevOps
2 660 (65.02%) Terraform
3 627 (61.77%) AWS
4 613 (60.39%) CI/CD
5 598 (58.92%) Kubernetes
6 464 (45.71%) Azure
7 444 (43.74%) Docker
8 393 (38.72%) Python
9 375 (36.95%) Agile
10 343 (33.79%) Infrastructure as Code
11 326 (32.12%) Containerisation
11 326 (32.12%) Linux
12 299 (29.46%) Ansible
13 258 (25.42%) Jenkins
14 242 (23.84%) Security Cleared
15 187 (18.42%) Social Skills
16 179 (17.64%) Azure DevOps
17 178 (17.54%) Bash
18 163 (16.06%) PowerShell
19 162 (15.96%) Amazon S3
19 162 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
20 161 (15.86%) Finance
21 154 (15.17%) Java
22 153 (15.07%) Continuous Integration
23 151 (14.88%) Mentoring
24 148 (14.58%) Prometheus
25 142 (13.99%) Test Automation
26 138 (13.60%) Git
27 137 (13.50%) GCP
28 136 (13.40%) Public Sector

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 34 (3.35%) nginx
2 21 (2.07%) Apache
3 18 (1.77%) Jupyter
4 17 (1.67%) Apache Spark
5 9 (0.89%) Confluence
6 7 (0.69%) Drupal
7 4 (0.39%) IIS
8 3 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.30%) JBoss
8 3 (0.30%) WordPress
9 2 (0.20%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.099%) CMS
10 1 (0.099%) Moodle
10 1 (0.099%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.099%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.099%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 627 (61.77%) AWS
2 464 (45.71%) Azure
3 179 (17.64%) Azure DevOps
4 162 (15.96%) Amazon S3
5 137 (13.50%) GCP
6 130 (12.81%) Amazon EKS
7 119 (11.72%) Serverless
8 112 (11.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 109 (10.74%) GitHub
10 95 (9.36%) AWS Lambda
11 92 (9.06%) Amazon ECS
12 90 (8.87%) Amazon EC2
12 90 (8.87%) OpenShift
13 70 (6.90%) IBM Cloud
14 63 (6.21%) GitHub Actions
14 63 (6.21%) Route 53
14 63 (6.21%) SaaS
15 61 (6.01%) Amazon ECR
16 58 (5.71%) OCI
17 44 (4.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 62 (6.11%) DNS
2 46 (4.53%) Firewall
3 29 (2.86%) TCP/IP
4 28 (2.76%) Network Security
5 27 (2.66%) HTTP
6 16 (1.58%) Internet
7 10 (0.99%) Cisco ASA
7 10 (0.99%) SNMP
7 10 (0.99%) tcpdump
7 10 (0.99%) WAN
8 8 (0.79%) LAN
8 8 (0.79%) VPN
9 6 (0.59%) IPv4
9 6 (0.59%) IPv6
10 5 (0.49%) AMQP
11 3 (0.30%) SSH
11 3 (0.30%) SSL
12 2 (0.20%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.20%) IPsec
12 2 (0.20%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (13.30%) Amazon RDS
2 72 (7.09%) SQL Server
3 59 (5.81%) MongoDB
4 58 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
5 47 (4.63%) Hadoop
6 35 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 32 (3.15%) Big Data
8 31 (3.05%) Relational Database
9 24 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
9 24 (2.36%) MySQL
10 21 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
11 17 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
11 17 (1.67%) Presto
12 16 (1.58%) DynamoDB
13 14 (1.38%) NoSQL
14 12 (1.18%) DB2
14 12 (1.18%) InfluxDB
14 12 (1.18%) Power BI
14 12 (1.18%) RDBMS
15 11 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 258 (25.42%) Jenkins
2 138 (13.60%) Git
3 110 (10.84%) GitLab
4 81 (7.98%) JIRA
5 49 (4.83%) Artifactory
6 29 (2.86%) SonarQube
7 25 (2.46%) TeamCity
8 21 (2.07%) CircleCI
9 19 (1.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 19 (1.87%) Sonatype Nexus
10 18 (1.77%) Bitbucket
11 15 (1.48%) Octopus Deploy
12 11 (1.08%) IBM UrbanCode
12 11 (1.08%) Maven
12 11 (1.08%) Selenium
13 9 (0.89%) Subversion
13 9 (0.89%) Team Foundation Server
14 8 (0.79%) MSBuild
14 8 (0.79%) Vagrant
15 5 (0.49%) Cucumber
General
1 187 (18.42%) Social Skills
2 161 (15.86%) Finance
3 136 (13.40%) Public Sector
4 90 (8.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 54 (5.32%) Aerospace
6 34 (3.35%) Banking
7 33 (3.25%) Analytical Skills
8 32 (3.15%) Front Office
9 26 (2.56%) Law
10 18 (1.77%) Tech for Good
11 16 (1.58%) Retail
11 16 (1.58%) Telecoms
12 14 (1.38%) Games
13 13 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (0.79%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.69%) Marketing
17 6 (0.59%) Electronics
18 5 (0.49%) Legal
18 5 (0.49%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (7.98%) .NET
2 67 (6.60%) Elastic Stack
3 59 (5.81%) YAML
4 50 (4.93%) Node.js
5 36 (3.55%) Kafka
6 32 (3.15%) J2EE
7 28 (2.76%) ARM Templates
7 28 (2.76%) RabbitMQ
8 27 (2.66%) RESTful
9 21 (2.07%) AWS CDK
10 19 (1.87%) JSON
11 18 (1.77%) React
12 17 (1.67%) ActiveMQ
12 17 (1.67%) Apache NiFi
12 17 (1.67%) JWT
12 17 (1.67%) REST
13 15 (1.48%) .NET Core
14 14 (1.38%) Spring
15 12 (1.18%) Spring XD
16 11 (1.08%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 92 (9.06%) Hybrid Cloud
2 76 (7.49%) Blockchain
3 58 (5.71%) Public Cloud
4 57 (5.62%) e-Learning
5 33 (3.25%) Tandem
6 31 (3.05%) Cloud Native
7 27 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
8 21 (2.07%) Product Ownership
9 16 (1.58%) Client/Server
9 16 (1.58%) Private Cloud
10 14 (1.38%) Low-Code
11 12 (1.18%) Clustering
11 12 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
11 12 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (1.08%) Hedge funds
12 11 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
13 9 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (0.79%) Data Centre
15 6 (0.59%) PKI
15 6 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 326 (32.12%) Linux
2 116 (11.43%) Windows
3 13 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (1.28%) Unix
3 13 (1.28%) VMS
3 13 (1.28%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.89%) CentOS
5 5 (0.49%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.20%) Debian
6 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.099%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.099%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,015 (100.00%) DevOps
2 613 (60.39%) CI/CD
3 375 (36.95%) Agile
4 343 (33.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 326 (32.12%) Containerisation
6 162 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
7 153 (15.07%) Continuous Integration
8 151 (14.88%) Mentoring
9 142 (13.99%) Test Automation
10 121 (11.92%) Observability
11 115 (11.33%) Configuration Management
11 115 (11.33%) Software Engineering
12 110 (10.84%) Artificial Intelligence
13 103 (10.15%) Deployment Automation
14 99 (9.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 97 (9.56%) Microservices
16 92 (9.06%) Coaching
17 87 (8.57%) Scrum
18 84 (8.28%) SDLC
19 83 (8.18%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 393 (38.72%) Python
2 178 (17.54%) Bash
3 163 (16.06%) PowerShell
4 154 (15.17%) Java
5 106 (10.44%) SQL
6 95 (9.36%) Go
7 70 (6.90%) C#
8 42 (4.14%) Shell Script
9 39 (3.84%) Groovy
10 35 (3.45%) JavaScript
11 31 (3.05%) Ruby
12 22 (2.17%) Perl
12 22 (2.17%) PHP
13 21 (2.07%) Bicep
14 17 (1.67%) T-SQL
15 15 (1.48%) C++
16 12 (1.18%) C
17 9 (0.89%) TypeScript
18 8 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 8 (0.79%) Rust
Qualifications
1 242 (23.84%) Security Cleared
2 124 (12.22%) SC Cleared
3 94 (9.26%) DV Cleared
4 58 (5.71%) Degree
5 56 (5.52%) AWS Certification
6 33 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (2.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 12 (1.18%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (0.59%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (0.20%) BC Cleared
11 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.099%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.099%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.099%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.099%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (2.46%) QA
2 8 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.39%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.30%) NIST
4 3 (0.30%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.20%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.099%) GDPR
6 1 (0.099%) SLA
System Software
1 444 (43.74%) Docker
2 35 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
3 18 (1.77%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.77%) VMware ESXi
3 18 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.69%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.30%) KVM
5 3 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.30%) vSphere
6 2 (0.20%) Firmware
6 2 (0.20%) Varnish
7 1 (0.099%) etcd
7 1 (0.099%) iptables
7 1 (0.099%) NFS
Systems Management
1 660 (65.02%) Terraform
2 598 (58.92%) Kubernetes
3 299 (29.46%) Ansible
4 148 (14.58%) Prometheus
5 106 (10.44%) Grafana
6 105 (10.34%) Puppet
7 84 (8.28%) Progress Chef
8 28 (2.76%) HAProxy
9 21 (2.07%) Consul
10 19 (1.87%) Packer
10 19 (1.87%) Rancher
11 15 (1.48%) Argo
11 15 (1.48%) Istio
12 14 (1.38%) Kibana
12 14 (1.38%) Nagios
13 12 (1.18%) Docker Swarm
14 10 (0.99%) Graphite
14 10 (0.99%) vCenter Server
15 9 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 8 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 107 (10.54%) Microsoft
2 84 (8.28%) Red Hat
3 83 (8.18%) IBM
4 67 (6.60%) Dynatrace
5 41 (4.04%) Oracle
6 33 (3.25%) VMware
7 26 (2.56%) Google
8 18 (1.77%) Splunk
9 15 (1.48%) Cisco
9 15 (1.48%) Databricks
10 12 (1.18%) Sybase
11 9 (0.89%) Atlassian
12 6 (0.59%) New Relic
12 6 (0.59%) SAP
12 6 (0.59%) ServiceNow
13 5 (0.49%) ForgeRock
13 5 (0.49%) SaltStack
13 5 (0.49%) YouTube
14 3 (0.30%) Black Duck
14 3 (0.30%) Veeam