DevOps Engineer Jobs in Exeter

Development Operations Engineer
Devon > Exeter

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Exeter is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 August 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 30 26
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 1 5 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Exeter 0.67% 1.50% 8.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 1.53% 9.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 19
10th Percentile - £25,439 £30,173
25th Percentile - £27,598 £31,680
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £35,015 £38,279
Median % change year-on-year +57.08% -8.53% -34.29%
75th Percentile - £35,625 £49,245
90th Percentile - - £60,500
Devon median annual salary £55,000 £35,015 £38,279
% change year-on-year +57.08% -8.53% -34.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Exeter

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Exeter. 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 Exeter with a recognized job title 139 327 221
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.29% 97.90% 85.33%
Number of salaries quoted 125 266 178
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,218 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £31,973
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £40,000 £44,578
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -10.27% +18.87%
75th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £63,250 £62,500 £67,875
Devon median annual salary £31,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -30.00% - -

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Exeter

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Exeter

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Exeter

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

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in Exeter

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

For the 6 months to 3 August 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 Exeter region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) CloudFront
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) iptables
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Exeter 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECR
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) CloudFront
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) iptables
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform