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 6 May 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 285 175 119
Rank change year-on-year -110 -56 -25
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 680 1,222 2,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.96% 1.99% 2.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.02% 2.23% 3.00%
Number of salaries quoted 495 736 1,259
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,219 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% -2.14% +21.74%
75th Percentile £79,375 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +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 66,883 54,717 68,218
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 89.25% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,333 31,108 43,002
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% - +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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -65 194 £65,000 -3.70% 41
South East -67 181 £66,500 -5.00% 30
South West -47 155 £70,576 +8.58% 33
North West -46 115 £60,000 -14.29% 26
Yorkshire -22 58 £68,000 +4.62% 12
Midlands -34 54 £55,000 -19.71% 21
East of England -21 41 £65,000 -13.33% 10
West Midlands -19 29 £50,000 -28.57% 14
Scotland -111 29 £70,576 +0.82% 4
East Midlands -18 25 £55,000 -15.38% 7
North East -5 21 £57,500 -13.21% 3
Wales +3 18 £52,500 -26.83% 2
Northern Ireland +7 8 £52,500 -17.65% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £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 6 May 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.

1 680 (100.00%) DevOps
2 411 (60.44%) Terraform
3 398 (58.53%) Kubernetes
4 389 (57.21%) CI/CD
5 388 (57.06%) AWS
6 336 (49.41%) Azure
7 299 (43.97%) Docker
8 259 (38.09%) Agile
9 242 (35.59%) Linux
10 220 (32.35%) Ansible
11 216 (31.76%) Containerisation
12 209 (30.74%) Infrastructure as Code
13 195 (28.68%) Python
14 176 (25.88%) Security Cleared
15 143 (21.03%) Jenkins
16 123 (18.09%) Azure DevOps
16 123 (18.09%) Continuous Integration
17 116 (17.06%) Mentoring
18 110 (16.18%) Social Skills
19 107 (15.74%) Prometheus
20 102 (15.00%) PowerShell
21 99 (14.56%) Observability
22 98 (14.41%) Bash
23 92 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
24 91 (13.38%) GCP
24 91 (13.38%) Test Automation
25 90 (13.24%) Public Sector
26 89 (13.09%) Artificial Intelligence
27 84 (12.35%) Amazon S3
28 82 (12.06%) DV Cleared

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 (4.85%) nginx
2 20 (2.94%) Apache
3 19 (2.79%) Apache Spark
4 18 (2.65%) Jupyter
5 8 (1.18%) Confluence
6 5 (0.74%) IIS
7 2 (0.29%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.29%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.15%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 388 (57.06%) AWS
2 336 (49.41%) Azure
3 123 (18.09%) Azure DevOps
4 91 (13.38%) GCP
5 84 (12.35%) Amazon S3
6 68 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
7 65 (9.56%) GitHub
8 59 (8.68%) IBM Cloud
9 56 (8.24%) SaaS
10 53 (7.79%) OpenShift
11 48 (7.06%) Route 53
12 47 (6.91%) OCI
13 46 (6.76%) Amazon ECR
14 45 (6.62%) GitHub Actions
15 42 (6.18%) AWS CloudFormation
16 33 (4.85%) Amazon ECS
17 26 (3.82%) Datadog
18 25 (3.68%) Serverless
19 23 (3.38%) Amazon EC2
20 21 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.68%) DNS
2 21 (3.09%) Firewall
3 16 (2.35%) Network Security
4 12 (1.76%) HTTP
4 12 (1.76%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.03%) Cisco ASA
5 7 (1.03%) VPN
6 6 (0.88%) WAN
7 5 (0.74%) AMQP
8 4 (0.59%) LAN
9 3 (0.44%) SSL
10 2 (0.29%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.29%) IPsec
11 1 (0.15%) BGP
11 1 (0.15%) DHCP
11 1 (0.15%) Internet
11 1 (0.15%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.15%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (8.53%) Amazon RDS
2 45 (6.62%) Hadoop
3 38 (5.59%) SQL Server
4 34 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
5 33 (4.85%) MongoDB
6 29 (4.26%) Big Data
7 18 (2.65%) Presto
7 18 (2.65%) Relational Database
8 16 (2.35%) InfluxDB
9 11 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (1.32%) NoSQL
11 7 (1.03%) MySQL
12 3 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.44%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.29%) Couchbase
13 2 (0.29%) DB2
13 2 (0.29%) Power BI
13 2 (0.29%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.29%) Redis
14 1 (0.15%) Flink
Development Applications
1 143 (21.03%) Jenkins
2 82 (12.06%) Git
3 77 (11.32%) JIRA
4 68 (10.00%) GitLab
5 23 (3.38%) IBM UrbanCode
6 22 (3.24%) SonarQube
7 20 (2.94%) TeamCity
8 18 (2.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 18 (2.65%) CircleCI
9 13 (1.91%) Artifactory
10 10 (1.47%) Maven
11 9 (1.32%) Selenium
11 9 (1.32%) Team Foundation Server
12 8 (1.18%) MSBuild
13 7 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (1.03%) Vagrant
14 6 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
15 5 (0.74%) Subversion
16 4 (0.59%) Cucumber
16 4 (0.59%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 110 (16.18%) Social Skills
2 90 (13.24%) Public Sector
3 82 (12.06%) Finance
4 62 (9.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 50 (7.35%) Aerospace
6 39 (5.74%) Banking
7 20 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
8 17 (2.50%) Tech for Good
9 13 (1.91%) Law
10 11 (1.62%) Games
11 9 (1.32%) Analytical Skills
11 9 (1.32%) Retail
12 8 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.03%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.03%) Retail Banking
14 5 (0.74%) Electronics
14 5 (0.74%) Legal
14 5 (0.74%) Marketing
14 5 (0.74%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.59%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (6.91%) .NET
2 41 (6.03%) Elastic Stack
3 40 (5.88%) Node.js
4 37 (5.44%) YAML
5 29 (4.26%) Kafka
5 29 (4.26%) RabbitMQ
6 18 (2.65%) ActiveMQ
6 18 (2.65%) Apache NiFi
6 18 (2.65%) JSON
7 17 (2.50%) RESTful
8 12 (1.76%) ARM Templates
9 10 (1.47%) AWS CDK
9 10 (1.47%) JWT
10 9 (1.32%) XML
11 7 (1.03%) React
12 6 (0.88%) .NET Core
12 6 (0.88%) Spring
13 5 (0.74%) Lambda Expressions
14 4 (0.59%) REST
14 4 (0.59%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 77 (11.32%) Hybrid Cloud
2 61 (8.97%) Public Cloud
3 60 (8.82%) Blockchain
4 46 (6.76%) e-Learning
5 29 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (2.50%) Cloud Native
7 14 (2.06%) Low-Code
8 11 (1.62%) Product Ownership
9 10 (1.47%) Client/Server
9 10 (1.47%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (0.74%) Mainframe
11 5 (0.74%) Onboarding
11 5 (0.74%) Online Games
11 5 (0.74%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.59%) PKI
12 4 (0.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 242 (35.59%) Linux
2 74 (10.88%) Windows
3 10 (1.47%) Unix
4 9 (1.32%) VMS
5 6 (0.88%) CentOS
6 5 (0.74%) CoreOS
6 5 (0.74%) zOS
7 4 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.44%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.44%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.15%) Debian
9 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 680 (100.00%) DevOps
2 389 (57.21%) CI/CD
3 259 (38.09%) Agile
4 216 (31.76%) Containerisation
5 209 (30.74%) Infrastructure as Code
6 123 (18.09%) Continuous Integration
7 116 (17.06%) Mentoring
8 99 (14.56%) Observability
9 92 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
10 91 (13.38%) Test Automation
11 89 (13.09%) Artificial Intelligence
12 75 (11.03%) Scrum
12 75 (11.03%) SDLC
13 70 (10.29%) Coaching
13 70 (10.29%) Continuous Deployment
14 63 (9.26%) Kanban
15 62 (9.12%) Configuration Management
16 58 (8.53%) Collaborative Working
16 58 (8.53%) Software Delivery
17 57 (8.38%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 195 (28.68%) Python
2 102 (15.00%) PowerShell
3 98 (14.41%) Bash
4 75 (11.03%) Java
5 67 (9.85%) SQL
6 40 (5.88%) C#
7 39 (5.74%) Shell Script
8 37 (5.44%) Groovy
9 25 (3.68%) Go
10 21 (3.09%) JavaScript
11 19 (2.79%) Bicep
12 16 (2.35%) Ruby
13 11 (1.62%) Perl
14 10 (1.47%) T-SQL
15 9 (1.32%) C
15 9 (1.32%) PHP
16 6 (0.88%) C++
17 5 (0.74%) Ada
18 4 (0.59%) Lua
18 4 (0.59%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 176 (25.88%) Security Cleared
2 82 (12.06%) DV Cleared
3 70 (10.29%) SC Cleared
4 37 (5.44%) Degree
5 28 (4.12%) AWS Certification
6 24 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (2.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.88%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 6 (0.88%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.15%) BC Cleared
10 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.15%) OCP
10 1 (0.15%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.06%) QA
2 7 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.59%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 299 (43.97%) Docker
2 20 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (0.88%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.74%) Active Directory
7 3 (0.44%) KVM
8 2 (0.29%) Firmware
9 1 (0.15%) iptables
9 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 411 (60.44%) Terraform
2 398 (58.53%) Kubernetes
3 220 (32.35%) Ansible
4 107 (15.74%) Prometheus
5 61 (8.97%) Progress Chef
6 59 (8.68%) Grafana
7 51 (7.50%) Puppet
8 18 (2.65%) HAProxy
9 17 (2.50%) Rancher
10 13 (1.91%) Consul
11 12 (1.76%) Docker Swarm
12 10 (1.47%) Istio
12 10 (1.47%) Packer
13 9 (1.32%) Kibana
14 8 (1.18%) Argo
15 5 (0.74%) CA Endevor
16 4 (0.59%) Rundeck
16 4 (0.59%) vRealize
17 2 (0.29%) Podman
18 1 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 79 (11.62%) IBM
2 71 (10.44%) Microsoft
3 59 (8.68%) Red Hat
4 48 (7.06%) Dynatrace
5 24 (3.53%) Google
6 21 (3.09%) VMware
7 14 (2.06%) Oracle
8 11 (1.62%) Cisco
9 7 (1.03%) Atlassian
9 7 (1.03%) Splunk
10 6 (0.88%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.59%) SaltStack
11 4 (0.59%) SAP
11 4 (0.59%) YouTube
12 3 (0.44%) Databricks
12 3 (0.44%) ForgeRock
12 3 (0.44%) Sitecore
12 3 (0.44%) Veeam
13 2 (0.29%) AppDynamics
13 2 (0.29%) Sybase