Principal DevOps Engineer Jobs in England

Principal Development Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Principal Development Operations Engineer salary in England is £95,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 838 866 1075
Rank change year-on-year +28 +209 -185
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal DevOps Engineer 4 30 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.004% 0.035% 0.069%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.005% 0.038% 0.072%
Number of salaries quoted 4 26 33
10th Percentile - £79,375 -
25th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £83,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year - -2.56% +45.61%
75th Percentile £104,375 £113,125 £105,000
90th Percentile £116,750 £131,875 -
UK median annual salary £95,000 £95,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +34.62%

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 84,698 78,992 134,069
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.67% 91.44% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 62,716 50,412 74,905
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,066 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Principal DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal DevOps Engineer in England

Principal DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Principal DevOps Engineer in England

Principal DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal DevOps Engineer in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Principal DevOps Engineer in England

Principal 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 Principal DevOps Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 29 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 +91 2 £107,500 -2.27% 2
South East - 2 £95,000 -
Principal DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 2024, Principal 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 Principal DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Docker
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (50.00%) Terraform
3 2 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (50.00%) Cloudflare
3 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Functions
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (50.00%) Architectural Design
3 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (50.00%) Azure AKS
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) SaaS
3 2 (50.00%) Akamai
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (50.00%) CloudFront
3 2 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) .NET
3 2 (50.00%) Automotive
3 2 (50.00%) Content Management
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Digital Content Management
3 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring

Principal 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Akamai
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 2 (50.00%) Cloudflare
2 2 (50.00%) CloudFront
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) SaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Automotive
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Retail Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Content Management
2 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (50.00%) Digital Content Management
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Conversational UI
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Fintech
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) ForgeRock
1 2 (50.00%) Sitecore