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 13 January 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 245 177
Rank change year-on-year -40 -68 +44
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 246 395 610
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.58% 1.10% 1.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 1.19% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 211 221 499
10th Percentile £47,500 £44,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £53,375 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year - -2.80% +2.88%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £86,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% -3.33%

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 38,179 33,328 33,027
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.48% 92.91% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 23,318 16,178 25,075
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

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 13 January 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 13 January 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
Midlands +44 62 £70,000 +3.70% 30
North of England -7 60 £70,000 +7.69% 47
South West -8 45 £75,000 +3.45% 35
West Midlands +26 42 £70,000 +3.70% 10
South East -75 39 £60,000 -11.11% 71
North West +2 28 £67,500 +12.50% 14
East of England +29 21 £80,000 +23.08% 21
East Midlands +8 20 £70,000 - 18
Yorkshire -23 20 £69,000 +1.47% 19
Wales +6 15 £55,000 +16.03% 10
North East +11 12 £80,000 +14.29% 14
Scotland -16 7 £70,000 - 3
DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 January 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.

1 246 (100.00%) DevOps
2 112 (45.53%) CI/CD
3 111 (45.12%) Azure
4 109 (44.31%) Terraform
5 108 (43.90%) AWS
6 85 (34.55%) Kubernetes
7 71 (28.86%) Infrastructure as Code
8 69 (28.05%) Docker
9 59 (23.98%) Azure DevOps
10 57 (23.17%) Python
11 48 (19.51%) PowerShell
12 47 (19.11%) Linux
13 46 (18.70%) Agile
14 44 (17.89%) Security Cleared
15 43 (17.48%) Containerisation
16 41 (16.67%) Ansible
17 38 (15.45%) Jenkins
18 36 (14.63%) Bash
18 36 (14.63%) Grafana
19 35 (14.23%) Problem-Solving
20 30 (12.20%) Prometheus
21 29 (11.79%) Windows
22 28 (11.38%) Observability
23 27 (10.98%) Git
24 26 (10.57%) GCP
25 25 (10.16%) GitLab
25 25 (10.16%) SQL
26 23 (9.35%) .NET
26 23 (9.35%) GitHub
27 21 (8.54%) Infrastructure Engineering

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 8 (3.25%) Confluence
2 7 (2.85%) IIS
3 5 (2.03%) nginx
4 1 (0.41%) Apache
4 1 (0.41%) JBoss
4 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.63%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 111 (45.12%) Azure
2 108 (43.90%) AWS
3 59 (23.98%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (10.57%) GCP
5 23 (9.35%) GitHub
6 19 (7.72%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (7.72%) SaaS
7 17 (6.91%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (6.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 15 (6.10%) Amazon S3
10 14 (5.69%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (5.28%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (4.47%) Azure AKS
13 11 (4.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 10 (4.07%) Serverless
15 9 (3.66%) Amazon ELB
15 9 (3.66%) AWS KMS
15 9 (3.66%) OpenShift
15 9 (3.66%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.72%) DNS
2 18 (7.32%) Firewall
3 13 (5.28%) HTTP
4 9 (3.66%) FTP
4 9 (3.66%) SMTP
4 9 (3.66%) SSH
5 6 (2.44%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.63%) IMAP
6 4 (1.63%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (1.22%) WAN
8 2 (0.81%) AMQP
8 2 (0.81%) DHCP
8 2 (0.81%) IP Telephony
8 2 (0.81%) Network Security
8 2 (0.81%) SAN
9 1 (0.41%) LAN
9 1 (0.41%) SSL
9 1 (0.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.13%) SQL Server
2 14 (5.69%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (4.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.63%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.63%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.22%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.22%) MySQL
6 3 (1.22%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.81%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.41%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.41%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.41%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.41%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.41%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 38 (15.45%) Jenkins
2 27 (10.98%) Git
3 25 (10.16%) GitLab
4 13 (5.28%) TeamCity
5 12 (4.88%) JIRA
5 12 (4.88%) Octopus Deploy
6 9 (3.66%) Vagrant
7 5 (2.03%) Subversion
8 4 (1.63%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.63%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.22%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.81%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.81%) git-flow
10 2 (0.81%) Snyk
10 2 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.41%) CA Release Automation
11 1 (0.41%) Maven
11 1 (0.41%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.41%) Selenium
General
1 36 (14.63%) Finance
2 26 (10.57%) Social Skills
3 18 (7.32%) Public Sector
4 9 (3.66%) Law
5 7 (2.85%) Telecoms
6 6 (2.44%) Aerospace
6 6 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.63%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.22%) Advertising
8 3 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.81%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.41%) Automotive
10 1 (0.41%) Banking
10 1 (0.41%) Electronics
10 1 (0.41%) Legal
10 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.41%) Marketing
10 1 (0.41%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.35%) .NET
2 9 (3.66%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (3.25%) ARM Templates
4 6 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (2.44%) React
4 6 (2.44%) YAML
5 5 (2.03%) LDAP
6 4 (1.63%) AWS CDK
6 4 (1.63%) Kafka
6 4 (1.63%) Node.js
7 2 (0.81%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.81%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.81%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (0.81%) J2EE
7 2 (0.81%) Spring
7 2 (0.81%) WCF
8 1 (0.41%) JSON
8 1 (0.41%) Middleware
8 1 (0.41%) RESTful
8 1 (0.41%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.79%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (4.07%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (4.07%) Virtual Team
4 4 (1.63%) Data Centre
4 4 (1.63%) Replication
5 3 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.22%) Clustering
5 3 (1.22%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.81%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (0.81%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.41%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.41%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.41%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.41%) PKI
7 1 (0.41%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 47 (19.11%) Linux
2 29 (11.79%) Windows
3 13 (5.28%) VMS
4 10 (4.07%) Ubuntu
5 7 (2.85%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (2.03%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.41%) Debian
7 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.41%) Unix
7 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (100.00%) DevOps
2 112 (45.53%) CI/CD
3 71 (28.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (18.70%) Agile
5 43 (17.48%) Containerisation
6 35 (14.23%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (11.38%) Observability
8 21 (8.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 21 (8.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 20 (8.13%) Cloud Security
10 19 (7.72%) Continuous Integration
11 16 (6.50%) Configuration Management
11 16 (6.50%) Infrastructure Automation
11 16 (6.50%) Mentoring
12 15 (6.10%) Incident Response
13 14 (5.69%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (5.69%) DevSecOps
14 13 (5.28%) AI
14 13 (5.28%) Microservices
14 13 (5.28%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 57 (23.17%) Python
2 48 (19.51%) PowerShell
3 36 (14.63%) Bash
4 25 (10.16%) SQL
5 17 (6.91%) Java
6 15 (6.10%) Bicep
6 15 (6.10%) Go
7 10 (4.07%) C#
7 10 (4.07%) Groovy
8 6 (2.44%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.03%) Perl
10 2 (0.81%) PHP
10 2 (0.81%) Ruby
11 1 (0.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 44 (17.89%) Security Cleared
2 19 (7.72%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.91%) DV Cleared
4 11 (4.47%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.44%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.44%) Degree
6 5 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.81%) CCNA
7 2 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.44%) QA
2 1 (0.41%) GDPR
2 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 69 (28.05%) Docker
2 9 (3.66%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.03%) Squid
4 4 (1.63%) DFS Replication
4 4 (1.63%) Dovecot
4 4 (1.63%) Postfix
4 4 (1.63%) vSphere
5 2 (0.81%) iptables
5 2 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.81%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 109 (44.31%) Terraform
2 85 (34.55%) Kubernetes
3 41 (16.67%) Ansible
4 36 (14.63%) Grafana
5 30 (12.20%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.66%) Argo
7 5 (2.03%) Puppet
8 4 (1.63%) Nessus
8 4 (1.63%) Proxmox
9 3 (1.22%) Rancher
9 3 (1.22%) yum
10 2 (0.81%) Control-M
10 2 (0.81%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.81%) Nagios
10 2 (0.81%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.81%) SCCM
11 1 (0.41%) Istio
11 1 (0.41%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.41%) Podman
Vendors
1 19 (7.72%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.85%) Red Hat
2 7 (2.85%) ServiceNow
3 5 (2.03%) LogicMonitor
3 5 (2.03%) Rackspace
3 5 (2.03%) VMware
4 4 (1.63%) Jaspersoft
4 4 (1.63%) SolarWinds
5 3 (1.22%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (1.22%) Google
6 2 (0.81%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.81%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.81%) Cisco
6 2 (0.81%) Oracle
7 1 (0.41%) Black Duck
7 1 (0.41%) F5
7 1 (0.41%) HP
7 1 (0.41%) New Relic
7 1 (0.41%) SAP
7 1 (0.41%) Splunk