DevOps Engineer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Development Operations Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 May 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 298 282
Rank change year-on-year +94 -16 -107
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 566 240 648
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.87% 0.83% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 0.93% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 453 170 495
10th Percentile £25,200 £44,650 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -5.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 61,165 25,677 65,104
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.49% 89.10% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 40,252 14,677 47,474
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,480
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £52,550
% change year-on-year -5.17% +10.37% -12.42%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

DevOps Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 May 2026. 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 +78 206 £65,000 -4.41% 53
South East +14 115 £65,000 +8.33% 38
Midlands +43 105 £70,000 -6.67% 28
South West 0 89 £75,000 +9.09% 29
North West +40 83 £69,655 -3.59% 17
North East +20 78 £60,000 +6.19% 22
East Midlands +30 64 £70,000 +12.00% 13
Yorkshire -20 45 £69,310 -0.99% 14
West Midlands -2 41 £85,000 +13.33% 15
Wales -5 27 £45,000 -10.00% 5
East of England -21 16 £75,000 +13.29% 2
Scotland -7 11 £24,000 -70.00% 8
DevOps Engineer
UK

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 11 May 2026, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 566 (100.00%) DevOps
2 225 (39.75%) Azure
3 191 (33.75%) Terraform
4 173 (30.57%) CI/CD
5 166 (29.33%) AWS
6 144 (25.44%) Infrastructure as Code
7 127 (22.44%) Azure DevOps
8 103 (18.20%) Kubernetes
9 85 (15.02%) Bash
10 84 (14.84%) Linux
11 83 (14.66%) Security Cleared
12 81 (14.31%) Containerisation
13 80 (14.13%) Python
14 77 (13.60%) Ansible
15 70 (12.37%) Agile
16 68 (12.01%) Docker
17 62 (10.95%) Mentoring
18 54 (9.54%) Continuous Integration
18 54 (9.54%) GitLab
19 52 (9.19%) GitHub
20 51 (9.01%) Grafana
20 51 (9.01%) Jenkins
21 50 (8.83%) GCP
22 47 (8.30%) Platform Engineering
22 47 (8.30%) PowerShell
23 46 (8.13%) Git
23 46 (8.13%) GitHub Actions
24 45 (7.95%) Observability
25 44 (7.77%) DevSecOps
25 44 (7.77%) Prometheus

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 13 (2.30%) IIS
2 2 (0.35%) Apache
2 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.18%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.18%) Confluence
3 1 (0.18%) Drupal
3 1 (0.18%) nginx
3 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Magento
1 1 (0.18%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 225 (39.75%) Azure
2 166 (29.33%) AWS
3 127 (22.44%) Azure DevOps
4 52 (9.19%) GitHub
5 50 (8.83%) GCP
6 46 (8.13%) GitHub Actions
7 28 (4.95%) Azure AKS
8 27 (4.77%) SaaS
9 25 (4.42%) Amazon EKS
10 17 (3.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (3.00%) Serverless
11 15 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (2.47%) Amazon S3
12 14 (2.47%) Azure Service Bus
13 13 (2.30%) OpenShift
14 12 (2.12%) Datadog
15 11 (1.94%) npm
15 11 (1.94%) NuGet
15 11 (1.94%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 30 (5.30%) Firewall
2 25 (4.42%) DNS
3 18 (3.18%) HTTP
3 18 (3.18%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.88%) Network Security
5 3 (0.53%) DHCP
6 2 (0.35%) BGP
6 2 (0.35%) SSL
7 1 (0.18%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (2.47%) MongoDB
3 13 (2.30%) SQL Server
4 11 (1.94%) NoSQL
5 9 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.35%) Big Data
8 1 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.18%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.18%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.18%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.18%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.18%) Metadata
8 1 (0.18%) MySQL
8 1 (0.18%) Power BI
8 1 (0.18%) Redis
8 1 (0.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 54 (9.54%) GitLab
2 51 (9.01%) Jenkins
3 46 (8.13%) Git
4 12 (2.12%) JIRA
5 11 (1.94%) SonarQube
6 8 (1.41%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.24%) Artifactory
7 7 (1.24%) Subversion
8 5 (0.88%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.53%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.18%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.18%) Gatling
10 1 (0.18%) git-flow
10 1 (0.18%) JMeter
10 1 (0.18%) Maven
10 1 (0.18%) Vagrant
General
1 39 (6.89%) Finance
1 39 (6.89%) Public Sector
2 23 (4.06%) Social Skills
3 20 (3.53%) Telecoms
4 18 (3.18%) Law
5 14 (2.47%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (1.94%) Aerospace
7 8 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.24%) Retail
9 3 (0.53%) Games
9 3 (0.53%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.35%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.35%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.18%) Advertising
11 1 (0.18%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.18%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (5.12%) Node.js
2 25 (4.42%) Elastic Stack
2 25 (4.42%) YAML
3 20 (3.53%) .NET
4 16 (2.83%) React
5 14 (2.47%) RabbitMQ
6 9 (1.59%) .NET Framework
7 8 (1.41%) JSON
7 8 (1.41%) OAuth
7 8 (1.41%) SAML
8 6 (1.06%) ARM Templates
9 5 (0.88%) .NET Core
9 5 (0.88%) ASP.NET
9 5 (0.88%) ASP.NET Core
9 5 (0.88%) REST
9 5 (0.88%) Spring
10 3 (0.53%) AWS CDK
10 3 (0.53%) Spring Boot
11 2 (0.35%) Kafka
11 2 (0.35%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 25 (4.42%) Cloud Native
2 12 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (0.71%) Cyber Defence
6 4 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (0.71%) Life Science
6 4 (0.71%) Private Cloud
7 3 (0.53%) Product Ownership
7 3 (0.53%) Public Cloud
7 3 (0.53%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (0.53%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.35%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.35%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.35%) PKI
9 1 (0.18%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.18%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.18%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 84 (14.84%) Linux
2 38 (6.71%) Windows
3 19 (3.36%) Ubuntu
4 14 (2.47%) Unix
5 4 (0.71%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.35%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 566 (100.00%) DevOps
2 173 (30.57%) CI/CD
3 144 (25.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 81 (14.31%) Containerisation
5 70 (12.37%) Agile
6 62 (10.95%) Mentoring
7 54 (9.54%) Continuous Integration
8 47 (8.30%) Platform Engineering
9 45 (7.95%) Observability
10 44 (7.77%) DevSecOps
11 42 (7.42%) Problem-Solving
12 41 (7.24%) Test Automation
13 35 (6.18%) Continuous Improvement
13 35 (6.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 34 (6.01%) Microservices
15 33 (5.83%) Cybersecurity
16 30 (5.30%) Scrum
17 27 (4.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 21 (3.71%) Coaching
19 20 (3.53%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 85 (15.02%) Bash
2 80 (14.13%) Python
3 47 (8.30%) PowerShell
4 35 (6.18%) Java
5 31 (5.48%) Go
6 19 (3.36%) C#
7 17 (3.00%) SQL
8 9 (1.59%) Bicep
9 8 (1.41%) Groovy
10 6 (1.06%) JavaScript
11 4 (0.71%) Perl
12 2 (0.35%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.18%) C++
13 1 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.18%) PHP
13 1 (0.18%) Ruby
13 1 (0.18%) VB
Qualifications
1 83 (14.66%) Security Cleared
2 38 (6.71%) SC Cleared
3 13 (2.30%) DV Cleared
4 9 (1.59%) Degree
5 7 (1.24%) AWS Certification
5 7 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (0.71%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.18%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.65%) QA
2 3 (0.53%) NCSC
2 3 (0.53%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.18%) PMO
System Software
1 68 (12.01%) Docker
2 4 (0.71%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.71%) iptables
2 4 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (0.71%) vSphere
3 3 (0.53%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.18%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 191 (33.75%) Terraform
2 103 (18.20%) Kubernetes
3 77 (13.60%) Ansible
4 51 (9.01%) Grafana
5 44 (7.77%) Prometheus
6 22 (3.89%) Argo
7 10 (1.77%) Puppet
8 8 (1.41%) Progress Chef
9 7 (1.24%) Rancher
9 7 (1.24%) yum
10 5 (0.88%) Packer
11 3 (0.53%) Control-M
11 3 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.35%) Istio
12 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.18%) Consul
13 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (4.77%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.42%) Red Hat
3 14 (2.47%) Google
4 11 (1.94%) CrowdStrike
5 10 (1.77%) Dynatrace
6 8 (1.41%) VMware
7 5 (0.88%) AppDynamics
8 4 (0.71%) Atlassian
8 4 (0.71%) IBM
9 3 (0.53%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (0.35%) Cisco
10 2 (0.35%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.35%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.35%) Pega
10 2 (0.35%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.35%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.18%) F5
11 1 (0.18%) Sonatype
11 1 (0.18%) Splunk
11 1 (0.18%) TOWER Software