DevOps Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Development Operations Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 282 174 117
Rank change year-on-year -108 -57 -24
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 674 1,223 2,038
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.96% 1.98% 2.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.02% 2.22% 3.01%
Number of salaries quoted 492 736 1,261
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,219 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,999 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -2.86% +25.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,576 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -5.90% +3.45% +11.54%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 66,397 55,186 67,621
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.30% 95.79%
Number of salaries quoted 47,063 31,277 42,902
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer 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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 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
North of England -61 195 £65,000 -3.70% 36
South East -59 173 £70,000 -1.41% 38
South West -27 153 £70,288 +8.14% 35
North West -48 114 £60,000 -14.29% 24
Yorkshire -22 59 £68,000 +4.62% 9
Midlands -45 55 £55,000 -18.52% 16
East of England -27 40 £65,000 -13.33% 7
Scotland -111 30 £70,576 +0.82% 4
West Midlands -26 28 £51,250 -26.79% 11
East Midlands -18 27 £56,250 -13.46% 5
North East +1 22 £57,500 -13.21% 3
Wales +3 19 £52,500 -26.83% 1
Northern Ireland +15 8 £52,500 -12.50% 5
Channel Islands - 2 £110,000 -
DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 UK excluding London region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 674 (100.00%) DevOps
2 410 (60.83%) Terraform
3 398 (59.05%) Kubernetes
4 389 (57.72%) CI/CD
5 380 (56.38%) AWS
6 326 (48.37%) Azure
7 297 (44.07%) Docker
8 258 (38.28%) Agile
9 245 (36.35%) Linux
10 217 (32.20%) Ansible
11 216 (32.05%) Containerisation
12 209 (31.01%) Infrastructure as Code
13 191 (28.34%) Python
14 166 (24.63%) Security Cleared
15 146 (21.66%) Jenkins
16 123 (18.25%) Azure DevOps
17 121 (17.95%) Continuous Integration
18 114 (16.91%) Mentoring
19 108 (16.02%) Prometheus
20 106 (15.73%) Social Skills
21 105 (15.58%) PowerShell
22 99 (14.69%) Bash
23 95 (14.09%) Observability
24 93 (13.80%) Problem-Solving
25 91 (13.50%) GCP
25 91 (13.50%) Test Automation
26 88 (13.06%) Artificial Intelligence
27 84 (12.46%) Public Sector
27 84 (12.46%) Finance
28 83 (12.31%) Amazon S3

DevOps Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 33 (4.90%) nginx
2 19 (2.82%) Apache
3 18 (2.67%) Apache Spark
4 17 (2.52%) Jupyter
5 11 (1.63%) Confluence
6 5 (0.74%) IIS
7 4 (0.59%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.30%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.30%) CMS
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.15%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 380 (56.38%) AWS
2 326 (48.37%) Azure
3 123 (18.25%) Azure DevOps
4 91 (13.50%) GCP
5 83 (12.31%) Amazon S3
6 67 (9.94%) Amazon EKS
7 65 (9.64%) GitHub
8 58 (8.61%) IBM Cloud
9 56 (8.31%) SaaS
10 51 (7.57%) OpenShift
11 49 (7.27%) Route 53
12 47 (6.97%) AWS CloudFormation
13 45 (6.68%) Amazon ECR
13 45 (6.68%) OCI
14 42 (6.23%) GitHub Actions
15 35 (5.19%) Amazon ECS
16 26 (3.86%) Amazon EC2
16 26 (3.86%) Datadog
16 26 (3.86%) Serverless
17 21 (3.12%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.01%) DNS
2 22 (3.26%) Firewall
3 15 (2.23%) Network Security
4 14 (2.08%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.78%) HTTP
6 8 (1.19%) VPN
7 7 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.89%) WAN
9 5 (0.74%) AMQP
9 5 (0.74%) SSL
10 4 (0.59%) LAN
11 2 (0.30%) BGP
11 2 (0.30%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.30%) Internet
11 2 (0.30%) IPsec
12 1 (0.15%) DHCP
12 1 (0.15%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.15%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (8.46%) Amazon RDS
2 39 (5.79%) SQL Server
3 36 (5.34%) Hadoop
4 27 (4.01%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (3.86%) Big Data
6 24 (3.56%) MongoDB
7 17 (2.52%) Presto
8 16 (2.37%) InfluxDB
9 15 (2.23%) Relational Database
10 11 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (1.48%) MySQL
12 7 (1.04%) NoSQL
13 4 (0.59%) Power BI
14 3 (0.45%) Oracle Database
15 2 (0.30%) Couchbase
15 2 (0.30%) Redis
16 1 (0.15%) Amazon Aurora
16 1 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
16 1 (0.15%) DB2
16 1 (0.15%) Flink
Development Applications
1 146 (21.66%) Jenkins
2 81 (12.02%) Git
3 79 (11.72%) JIRA
4 69 (10.24%) GitLab
5 24 (3.56%) IBM UrbanCode
6 22 (3.26%) SonarQube
7 20 (2.97%) TeamCity
8 17 (2.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 17 (2.52%) CircleCI
9 13 (1.93%) Artifactory
10 11 (1.63%) Maven
11 10 (1.48%) Selenium
11 10 (1.48%) Team Foundation Server
12 8 (1.19%) MSBuild
13 7 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (1.04%) Vagrant
14 6 (0.89%) Octopus Deploy
14 6 (0.89%) Subversion
15 4 (0.59%) Cucumber
15 4 (0.59%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 106 (15.73%) Social Skills
2 84 (12.46%) Finance
2 84 (12.46%) Public Sector
3 61 (9.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 48 (7.12%) Aerospace
5 43 (6.38%) Banking
6 19 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
7 18 (2.67%) Tech for Good
8 12 (1.78%) Law
9 11 (1.63%) Games
10 10 (1.48%) Analytical Skills
11 9 (1.34%) Retail
12 7 (1.04%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.04%) Retail Banking
13 6 (0.89%) Marketing
14 5 (0.74%) Electronics
14 5 (0.74%) Legal
15 4 (0.59%) Advertising
15 4 (0.59%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (6.82%) .NET
2 41 (6.08%) Elastic Stack
3 36 (5.34%) YAML
4 32 (4.75%) Node.js
5 28 (4.15%) RabbitMQ
6 21 (3.12%) Kafka
7 18 (2.67%) JSON
8 17 (2.52%) ActiveMQ
8 17 (2.52%) Apache NiFi
9 16 (2.37%) RESTful
10 13 (1.93%) ARM Templates
11 10 (1.48%) AWS CDK
11 10 (1.48%) JWT
12 9 (1.34%) XML
13 7 (1.04%) React
14 6 (0.89%) .NET Core
15 5 (0.74%) Lambda Expressions
15 5 (0.74%) Spring
16 4 (0.59%) HTML
16 4 (0.59%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 75 (11.13%) Hybrid Cloud
2 61 (9.05%) Public Cloud
3 59 (8.75%) Blockchain
4 45 (6.68%) e-Learning
5 27 (4.01%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (2.37%) Cloud Native
7 14 (2.08%) Low-Code
8 11 (1.63%) Product Ownership
9 10 (1.48%) Client/Server
9 10 (1.48%) Private Cloud
10 8 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (0.74%) Data Centre
12 5 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.74%) Mainframe
12 5 (0.74%) Onboarding
12 5 (0.74%) Online Games
12 5 (0.74%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.59%) PKI
13 4 (0.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 245 (36.35%) Linux
2 74 (10.98%) Windows
3 11 (1.63%) Unix
4 10 (1.48%) VMS
5 6 (0.89%) CentOS
6 5 (0.74%) CoreOS
6 5 (0.74%) zOS
7 4 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.59%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.45%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.30%) Debian
10 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 674 (100.00%) DevOps
2 389 (57.72%) CI/CD
3 258 (38.28%) Agile
4 216 (32.05%) Containerisation
5 209 (31.01%) Infrastructure as Code
6 121 (17.95%) Continuous Integration
7 114 (16.91%) Mentoring
8 95 (14.09%) Observability
9 93 (13.80%) Problem-Solving
10 91 (13.50%) Test Automation
11 88 (13.06%) Artificial Intelligence
12 74 (10.98%) SDLC
13 71 (10.53%) Scrum
14 68 (10.09%) Coaching
15 67 (9.94%) Continuous Deployment
16 66 (9.79%) Configuration Management
17 61 (9.05%) Kanban
18 59 (8.75%) Software Delivery
19 57 (8.46%) Actionable Insight
20 56 (8.31%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 191 (28.34%) Python
2 105 (15.58%) PowerShell
3 99 (14.69%) Bash
4 66 (9.79%) Java
5 59 (8.75%) SQL
6 40 (5.93%) C#
7 38 (5.64%) Shell Script
8 37 (5.49%) Groovy
9 27 (4.01%) Go
10 21 (3.12%) Bicep
11 20 (2.97%) JavaScript
12 18 (2.67%) Ruby
13 11 (1.63%) Perl
14 10 (1.48%) T-SQL
15 9 (1.34%) C
15 9 (1.34%) PHP
16 6 (0.89%) C++
17 5 (0.74%) Ada
18 4 (0.59%) Lua
18 4 (0.59%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 166 (24.63%) Security Cleared
2 79 (11.72%) DV Cleared
3 61 (9.05%) SC Cleared
4 38 (5.64%) Degree
5 28 (4.15%) AWS Certification
6 25 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (2.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (1.04%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 7 (1.04%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.15%) OCP
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.08%) QA
2 7 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (0.74%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 297 (44.07%) Docker
2 18 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.89%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.45%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.45%) KVM
6 2 (0.30%) Firmware
7 1 (0.15%) iptables
7 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 410 (60.83%) Terraform
2 398 (59.05%) Kubernetes
3 217 (32.20%) Ansible
4 108 (16.02%) Prometheus
5 62 (9.20%) Progress Chef
6 60 (8.90%) Grafana
7 52 (7.72%) Puppet
8 18 (2.67%) Rancher
9 17 (2.52%) HAProxy
10 13 (1.93%) Consul
11 12 (1.78%) Docker Swarm
12 11 (1.63%) Kibana
13 10 (1.48%) Istio
13 10 (1.48%) Packer
14 8 (1.19%) Argo
15 5 (0.74%) CA Endevor
16 4 (0.59%) Rundeck
16 4 (0.59%) vRealize
17 2 (0.30%) Nagios
17 2 (0.30%) Podman
Vendors
1 78 (11.57%) IBM
2 71 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 58 (8.61%) Red Hat
4 48 (7.12%) Dynatrace
5 24 (3.56%) Google
6 21 (3.12%) VMware
7 13 (1.93%) Oracle
8 11 (1.63%) Cisco
9 10 (1.48%) Splunk
10 9 (1.34%) Atlassian
11 7 (1.04%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.59%) SaltStack
12 4 (0.59%) SAP
12 4 (0.59%) YouTube
13 3 (0.45%) Databricks
13 3 (0.45%) ForgeRock
13 3 (0.45%) Sitecore
13 3 (0.45%) Veeam
14 2 (0.30%) AppDynamics
14 2 (0.30%) New Relic