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 £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 278 182
Rank change year-on-year -60 -96 -65
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 236 681 1,211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.64% 0.97% 1.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 1.02% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 175 496 727
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,813 £56,235
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £68,497
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -5.11% -2.15%
75th Percentile £79,375 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £70,576 £75,000
% change year-on-year +16.90% -5.90% +3.45%

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 33,156 66,640 54,781
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.03% 94.78% 89.23%
Number of salaries quoted 18,505 47,222 31,088
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 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
South East +16 74 £60,000 -14.29% 70
North of England -42 58 £68,000 +4.62% 67
South West +6 42 £70,996 +0.60% 36
North West -48 34 £72,500 +20.83% 40
East of England +41 24 £66,200 +1.85% 22
Midlands +48 22 £75,000 +36.36% 25
West Midlands +39 18 £75,000 +50.00% 15
Yorkshire +35 18 £68,000 - 22
Scotland +118 15 £80,000 +13.35% 12
North East +34 6 £56,500 -1.74% 7
East Midlands +27 4 £62,500 +11.11% 10
Wales +30 3 - - 14
Northern Ireland +30 3 £85,000 +61.90% 8
DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 236 (100.00%) DevOps
2 128 (54.24%) Kubernetes
3 125 (52.97%) CI/CD
4 123 (52.12%) Terraform
5 111 (47.03%) Azure
6 106 (44.92%) AWS
7 93 (39.41%) Docker
8 78 (33.05%) Infrastructure as Code
9 77 (32.63%) Python
10 75 (31.78%) Containerisation
11 68 (28.81%) Azure DevOps
12 65 (27.54%) Agile
13 61 (25.85%) Mentoring
14 54 (22.88%) Ansible
14 54 (22.88%) Finance
15 51 (21.61%) Jenkins
16 49 (20.76%) Linux
17 48 (20.34%) Test Automation
18 43 (18.22%) Security Cleared
19 38 (16.10%) Social Skills
20 35 (14.83%) PowerShell
21 34 (14.41%) GitHub
21 34 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
22 33 (13.98%) Bash
23 29 (12.29%) GCP
23 29 (12.29%) Deployment Automation
24 28 (11.86%) Git
25 27 (11.44%) IBM
26 26 (11.02%) Coaching
27 25 (10.59%) GitLab

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 10 (4.24%) Confluence
2 9 (3.81%) nginx
3 8 (3.39%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.85%) Apache
4 2 (0.85%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.85%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.42%) CICS
5 1 (0.42%) CMS
5 1 (0.42%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (2.54%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.69%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 111 (47.03%) Azure
2 106 (44.92%) AWS
3 68 (28.81%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (14.41%) GitHub
5 29 (12.29%) GCP
6 25 (10.59%) SaaS
6 25 (10.59%) Serverless
7 22 (9.32%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (6.36%) IaaS
8 15 (6.36%) PaaS
9 14 (5.93%) Amazon EC2
10 13 (5.51%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (5.51%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (5.08%) Amazon S3
12 11 (4.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 10 (4.24%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (4.24%) Azure AKS
14 7 (2.97%) Azure Functions
15 6 (2.54%) Azure Monitor
15 6 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 19 (8.05%) DNS
2 13 (5.51%) Firewall
3 10 (4.24%) Network Security
4 9 (3.81%) HTTPS
5 8 (3.39%) IPsec
5 8 (3.39%) TCP/IP
6 7 (2.97%) HTTP
6 7 (2.97%) SSL
6 7 (2.97%) VPN
7 4 (1.69%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (1.27%) SAN
9 2 (0.85%) Internet
9 2 (0.85%) IPv6
9 2 (0.85%) LAN
9 2 (0.85%) Multicast
9 2 (0.85%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.85%) WAN
10 1 (0.42%) DHCP
10 1 (0.42%) FTP
10 1 (0.42%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.51%) MySQL
2 10 (4.24%) NoSQL
3 8 (3.39%) Couchbase
3 8 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (3.39%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (2.54%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.69%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.27%) Power BI
7 1 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.42%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.42%) Cloud Spanner
7 1 (0.42%) DB2
7 1 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 51 (21.61%) Jenkins
2 28 (11.86%) Git
3 25 (10.59%) GitLab
4 21 (8.90%) SonarQube
5 12 (5.08%) JIRA
5 12 (5.08%) Selenium
6 11 (4.66%) CircleCI
7 9 (3.81%) IBM UrbanCode
7 9 (3.81%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (3.39%) Artifactory
9 5 (2.12%) TeamCity
10 4 (1.69%) Bitbucket Server
11 3 (1.27%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.27%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.85%) Apache Archiva
12 2 (0.85%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.85%) Maven
12 2 (0.85%) Vagrant
13 1 (0.42%) Spinnaker
13 1 (0.42%) Travis CI
General
1 54 (22.88%) Finance
2 38 (16.10%) Social Skills
3 21 (8.90%) Public Sector
4 20 (8.47%) Banking
5 17 (7.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.54%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.12%) Retail
8 4 (1.69%) Automotive
9 3 (1.27%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (1.27%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.27%) Health Technology
9 3 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.85%) Advertising
10 2 (0.85%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.85%) Legal
11 1 (0.42%) Aviation
11 1 (0.42%) Electronics
11 1 (0.42%) Front Office
11 1 (0.42%) Law
11 1 (0.42%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.93%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (5.08%) ARM Templates
3 11 (4.66%) Azure Blueprints
4 10 (4.24%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (2.54%) .NET
5 6 (2.54%) HTML
6 5 (2.12%) REST
7 4 (1.69%) JSON
7 4 (1.69%) Kafka
8 3 (1.27%) Django
8 3 (1.27%) FastAPI
8 3 (1.27%) Flask
8 3 (1.27%) Playwright
8 3 (1.27%) Serverless Framework
8 3 (1.27%) SOAP
8 3 (1.27%) XML
9 2 (0.85%) LDAP
9 2 (0.85%) Node.js
9 2 (0.85%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (0.85%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.20%) Cloud Native
1 17 (7.20%) Hybrid Cloud
2 16 (6.78%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.51%) e-Learning
4 10 (4.24%) Management Information System
5 9 (3.81%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.81%) Public Cloud
6 7 (2.97%) PKI
7 6 (2.54%) Life Science
8 5 (2.12%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.69%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.69%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.27%) IoT
11 2 (0.85%) Blockchain
11 2 (0.85%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.85%) Replication
12 1 (0.42%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 49 (20.76%) Linux
2 25 (10.59%) Windows
3 6 (2.54%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.69%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.27%) VMS
6 2 (0.85%) CentOS
6 2 (0.85%) Debian
6 2 (0.85%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.42%) AIX
7 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.42%) Unix
7 1 (0.42%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (100.00%) DevOps
2 125 (52.97%) CI/CD
3 78 (33.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 75 (31.78%) Containerisation
5 65 (27.54%) Agile
6 61 (25.85%) Mentoring
7 48 (20.34%) Test Automation
8 34 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (12.29%) Deployment Automation
10 26 (11.02%) Coaching
11 25 (10.59%) Artificial Intelligence
11 25 (10.59%) Migration
12 24 (10.17%) Software Engineering
13 23 (9.75%) Platform Engineering
14 20 (8.47%) Software Delivery
15 19 (8.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 18 (7.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 17 (7.20%) Continuous Improvement
17 17 (7.20%) Microservices
17 17 (7.20%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 77 (32.63%) Python
2 35 (14.83%) PowerShell
3 33 (13.98%) Bash
4 22 (9.32%) SQL
5 21 (8.90%) Java
6 18 (7.63%) C#
7 17 (7.20%) JavaScript
8 16 (6.78%) Go
9 12 (5.08%) PHP
10 10 (4.24%) C++
11 8 (3.39%) Bicep
11 8 (3.39%) Shell Script
12 5 (2.12%) Groovy
13 4 (1.69%) Perl
14 3 (1.27%) Ruby
14 3 (1.27%) Rust
15 2 (0.85%) C
15 2 (0.85%) TypeScript
16 1 (0.42%) JCL
16 1 (0.42%) Korn
Qualifications
1 43 (18.22%) Security Cleared
2 18 (7.63%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.36%) DV Cleared
4 12 (5.08%) Degree
5 11 (4.66%) Azure Certification
6 9 (3.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.12%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.27%) OCP
9 3 (1.27%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.42%) A+ Certification
11 1 (0.42%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.42%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.63%) QA
2 9 (3.81%) NCSC
3 6 (2.54%) GDPR
3 6 (2.54%) SOC 2
4 4 (1.69%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.85%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.42%) Basel III
7 1 (0.42%) IFRS
7 1 (0.42%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.42%) NIST
7 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 93 (39.41%) Docker
2 10 (4.24%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (3.39%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (1.69%) vSphere
6 2 (0.85%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.42%) KVM
7 1 (0.42%) NFS
7 1 (0.42%) Postfix
7 1 (0.42%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.42%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.42%) Squid
Systems Management
1 128 (54.24%) Kubernetes
2 123 (52.12%) Terraform
3 54 (22.88%) Ansible
4 15 (6.36%) Grafana
5 13 (5.51%) Prometheus
6 11 (4.66%) Argo
7 7 (2.97%) Puppet
8 6 (2.54%) Nessus
9 4 (1.69%) Istio
9 4 (1.69%) Packer
9 4 (1.69%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.69%) Proxmox
9 4 (1.69%) Rancher
10 3 (1.27%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.85%) Consul
11 2 (0.85%) Kubespray
11 2 (0.85%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.85%) Salt
12 1 (0.42%) Graylog
12 1 (0.42%) Kibana
Vendors
1 27 (11.44%) IBM
2 21 (8.90%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.36%) Red Hat
4 14 (5.93%) VMware
5 9 (3.81%) Rackspace
6 7 (2.97%) Atlassian
7 6 (2.54%) Dynatrace
7 6 (2.54%) PayPal
8 5 (2.12%) Hitachi
9 4 (1.69%) Juniper
10 2 (0.85%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.85%) SAP
10 2 (0.85%) Splunk
11 1 (0.42%) Aruba
11 1 (0.42%) Cisco
11 1 (0.42%) Confluent
11 1 (0.42%) New Relic
11 1 (0.42%) Oracle
11 1 (0.42%) Spotify
11 1 (0.42%) Tenable