Junior DevOps Jobs in England

Junior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Junior Development Operations salary in England is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 671 812 867
Rank change year-on-year +141 +55 +246
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior DevOps 12 30 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.025% 0.034% 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.036% 0.068%
Number of salaries quoted 12 28 43
10th Percentile £26,775 - £32,000
25th Percentile £27,000 £24,000 £36,154
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -15.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £53,125
90th Percentile - £59,000 £57,400
UK median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% -15.00% +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 43,919 83,679 79,671
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.64% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 23,116 62,210 50,998
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,084 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Junior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior DevOps in England

Junior DevOps
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Junior DevOps in England

Junior DevOps
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Junior DevOps in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Junior DevOps in England

Junior DevOps
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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 +45 6 £28,000 +16.67% 7
North West +3 4 £36,000 +50.00% 3
London +113 3 £40,000 -20.00% 4
North East - 2 £28,000 - 1
East of England - 2 £38,250 - 1
Midlands +49 1 £45,000 +87.50% 3
East Midlands - 1 £45,000 - 1
Junior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, Junior DevOps 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 in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (91.67%) Linux
3 10 (83.33%) AWS
4 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
5 7 (58.33%) Windows
6 6 (50.00%) Azure
6 6 (50.00%) Kubernetes
7 5 (41.67%) Docker
8 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
8 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (33.33%) Python
9 3 (25.00%) VMware
9 3 (25.00%) Bash
9 3 (25.00%) Splunk
9 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
9 3 (25.00%) GitLab
9 3 (25.00%) Windows Server
9 3 (25.00%) Prometheus
10 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
10 2 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (16.67%) Terraform
10 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (16.67%) GitOps
10 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
10 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 2 (16.67%) Server Management

Junior DevOps 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 (83.33%) AWS
2 6 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) HTTP
1 1 (8.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Big Data
2 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) GitLab
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Advertising
2 2 (16.67%) Cantonese Language
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Mandarin Language
2 2 (16.67%) Marketing
2 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Retail
2 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (8.33%) Aviation
3 1 (8.33%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (8.33%) JSON
2 1 (8.33%) OAuth
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) SOAP
2 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (16.67%) Tandem
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Linux
2 7 (58.33%) Windows
3 3 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (16.67%) Agile
5 2 (16.67%) Analytics
5 2 (16.67%) Big Data Analytics
5 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
5 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) Data Analytics
5 2 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (16.67%) ERP
5 2 (16.67%) GitOps
5 2 (16.67%) Logistics
5 2 (16.67%) Migration
5 2 (16.67%) Resource Management
5 2 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (16.67%) Server Management
5 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) Bash
3 2 (16.67%) Go
3 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
4 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
1 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) A+ Certification
2 1 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (16.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (16.67%) Ansible
3 2 (16.67%) Kibana
3 2 (16.67%) Nagios
3 2 (16.67%) Puppet
3 2 (16.67%) Salt
3 2 (16.67%) Terraform
4 1 (8.33%) Graylog
4 1 (8.33%) Rancher
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Splunk
1 3 (25.00%) VMware
2 2 (16.67%) Commvault
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Google