Junior DevOps Engineer Jobs in England

Junior Development Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Junior Development Operations Engineer salary in England is £45,000 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 651 809 878
Rank change year-on-year +158 +69 +172
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior DevOps Engineer 10 32 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.021% 0.038% 0.054%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.024% 0.040% 0.059%
Number of salaries quoted 9 30 38
10th Percentile £26,650 - £32,500
25th Percentile £30,750 £24,000 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -17.50% +25.00%
75th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £54,688
90th Percentile £48,750 £58,000 £58,250
UK median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% +25.00%

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% -

Junior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior DevOps Engineer in England

Junior DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Junior DevOps Engineer in England

Junior DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Junior DevOps Engineer in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Junior DevOps Engineer in England

Junior 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 Junior 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
North of England +72 4 £36,750 +53.13% 6
London +95 3 £46,250 -7.50% 2
North West +22 2 £45,000 +87.50% 2
East of England - 2 £38,250 -
North East - 2 £28,000 - 1
Midlands +49 1 £45,000 +87.50% 2
East Midlands - 1 £45,000 - 1
Junior DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, Junior 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 Junior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) AWS
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (90.00%) Linux
3 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (50.00%) Windows
4 5 (50.00%) Docker
4 5 (50.00%) Azure
5 4 (40.00%) GitLab
5 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
5 4 (40.00%) Python
5 4 (40.00%) Bash
5 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (30.00%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
7 2 (20.00%) Splunk
7 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (20.00%) Ansible
7 2 (20.00%) Salt
7 2 (20.00%) Software Delivery
7 2 (20.00%) CircleCI
7 2 (20.00%) Terraform
7 2 (20.00%) Puppet
7 2 (20.00%) Agile
7 2 (20.00%) Degree
7 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
7 2 (20.00%) QA

Junior 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) HTTP
1 1 (10.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) GitLab
2 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (20.00%) CircleCI
4 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Aviation
2 1 (10.00%) Law
2 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (10.00%) JSON
1 1 (10.00%) OAuth
1 1 (10.00%) REST
1 1 (10.00%) SOAP
1 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (10.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) Linux
2 5 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (20.00%) Unix
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (20.00%) Agile
5 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (20.00%) ERP
5 2 (20.00%) Migration
5 2 (20.00%) Server Management
5 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Software Delivery
6 1 (10.00%) API Integration
6 1 (10.00%) Customer Experience
6 1 (10.00%) Fintech
6 1 (10.00%) Performance Metrics
6 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (10.00%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Bash
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Go
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) A+ Certification
2 1 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) Ansible
2 2 (20.00%) Puppet
2 2 (20.00%) Salt
2 2 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (10.00%) Graylog
3 1 (10.00%) Kibana
3 1 (10.00%) Nagios
3 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (10.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Splunk
1 2 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) Commvault
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft