Principal DevOps Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Principal Development Operations Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Principal Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 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
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 568 769 741
Rank change year-on-year +201 -28 +79
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal DevOps Engineer 5 2 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.013% 0.003% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.014% 0.003% 0.037%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 15
10th Percentile £20,200 - £78,750
25th Percentile £40,750 £92,500 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £95,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% +2.86%
75th Percentile £102,500 £97,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £113,000 - -
UK median annual salary £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +1.32% - -2.56%

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 34,854 66,889 54,723
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.45% 94.81% 89.26%
Number of salaries quoted 18,748 47,339 31,114
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,438 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

Principal DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

Principal DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Principal DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

Principal DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principal DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Principal DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

Principal 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 Principal DevOps Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 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
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 1
North of England - 1 £120,000 - 1
North West - 1 £120,000 - 1
South West - 1 £7,000 -
Scotland - 1 £80,000 -
Principal DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2025, Principal 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 Principal DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Azure AKS
3 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) Python
3 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Docker
4 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (40.00%) Runbook
4 2 (40.00%) Apache Archiva
4 2 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (40.00%) Vagrant
4 2 (40.00%) Multicast
4 2 (40.00%) Ansible
4 2 (40.00%) GCP
4 2 (40.00%) GitLab
4 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (40.00%) Open Source
4 2 (40.00%) Bash
4 2 (40.00%) Confluence
4 2 (40.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (40.00%) GitHub

Principal 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 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure AKS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECR
3 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Event Grid
3 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (20.00%) SaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) IPv6
1 2 (40.00%) Multicast
1 2 (40.00%) Reverse Proxy
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Archiva
1 2 (40.00%) Artifactory
1 2 (40.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
1 2 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 2 (40.00%) Vagrant
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (40.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (20.00%) Java EE
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) PKI
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) VMS
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
4 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (40.00%) Customer-Centricity
4 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (40.00%) GitOps
4 2 (40.00%) Observability
4 2 (40.00%) Open Source
4 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) Runbook
4 2 (40.00%) Workflow
5 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Argo
2 2 (40.00%) Kustomize
2 2 (40.00%) Prometheus