DevOps Consultant Jobs in the UK excluding London

Development Operations Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Development Operations Consultant salary in the UK excluding London is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 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
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 584 759 742
Rank change year-on-year +175 -17 +79
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Consultant 4 5 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.010% 0.007% 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.011% 0.007% 0.013%
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 7
10th Percentile - - £54,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £76,250 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +3.13% -3.03%
75th Percentile £64,375 £88,750 -
90th Percentile £70,750 - -
UK median annual salary £58,750 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -28.79% +3.13% +10.34%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 36,224 67,834 52,633
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.86% 94.85% 89.18%
Number of salaries quoted 18,759 47,939 30,034
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

DevOps Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured DevOps Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Consultant in the UK excluding London

DevOps Consultant
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for DevOps Consultant in the UK excluding London

DevOps Consultant
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps Consultant in the UK excluding London

DevOps Consultant
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Consultant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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 +46 2 £52,500 -36.36% 2
North West 0 2 £52,500 -36.36% 2
Scotland +112 1 £52,500 -36.36% 1
East of England - 1 £70,000 -
DevOps Consultant
UK

DevOps Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 18 May 2025, DevOps Consultant 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 UK excluding London region featuring DevOps Consultant in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Customer Experience
3 2 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Observability
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (50.00%) Dynatrace
3 2 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Marketing
3 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) CRM
3 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) PKI
4 1 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (25.00%) NFS
4 1 (25.00%) MySQL
4 1 (25.00%) Windows
4 1 (25.00%) Linux

DevOps Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (25.00%) Amazon Cognito
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (25.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
General
1 2 (50.00%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (25.00%) Keycloak
2 1 (25.00%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) PKI
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (50.00%) CRM
3 2 (50.00%) Customer Experience
3 2 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Observability
3 2 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NCSC
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (25.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (25.00%) cPanel
3 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Dynatrace