DevOps Developer Job Trends

Development Operations Developer
UK

The median Development Operations Developer salary in the UK is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 June 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 749 652 876
Rank change year-on-year -97 +224 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Developer 9 19 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.009% 0.042% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.010% 0.047% 0.021%
Number of salaries quoted 7 5 16
10th Percentile - £68,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £47,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £71,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +14.40% +6.38%
75th Percentile £85,250 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,050 - £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 - £72,500
% change year-on-year - - +31.82%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 89,296 40,583 101,492
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.03% 89.54% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 61,271 23,147 73,313
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.54%

DevOps Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

DevOps Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

DevOps Developer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Developer job vacancies in the UK

DevOps Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Developer over the 6 months to 25 June 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps Developer in the UK

DevOps Developer
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 25 June 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
England -81 8 £73,750 +3.15% 1
UK excluding London -66 5 £65,000 -
London -54 3 £84,500 +18.18% 1
South West - 3 £65,000 -
Yorkshire -31 2 £82,500 -
North of England -38 2 £82,500 -
South East - 2 £82,500 -

DevOps Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 June 2026, DevOps Developer 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 featuring DevOps Developer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Terraform
3 3 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Serverless
3 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Task Automation
4 2 (22.22%) .NET
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
4 2 (22.22%) Ansible
4 2 (22.22%) AppDynamics
4 2 (22.22%) Artifactory
4 2 (22.22%) Auto-Scaling
4 2 (22.22%) AWS
4 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (22.22%) Azure API Management
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
4 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (22.22%) Git
4 2 (22.22%) GitLab
4 2 (22.22%) Groovy
4 2 (22.22%) IBM
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code

DevOps Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 3 (33.33%) Serverless
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
3 2 (22.22%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (22.22%) Azure API Management
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (11.11%) Azure App Service
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Functions
4 1 (11.11%) PaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Artifactory
1 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
1 2 (22.22%) Git
1 2 (22.22%) GitLab
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
1 2 (22.22%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) .NET
1 2 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (22.22%) JSON
1 2 (22.22%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (22.22%) REST
1 2 (22.22%) YAML
2 1 (11.11%) .NET Core
2 1 (11.11%) CSS
2 1 (11.11%) HTML
2 1 (11.11%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Auto-Scaling
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (22.22%) Issue Tracking
3 2 (22.22%) Microservices
3 2 (22.22%) Secrets Management
3 2 (22.22%) Security Hardening
3 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
4 1 (11.11%) AI
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning
4 1 (11.11%) Resource Management
4 1 (11.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Groovy
1 2 (22.22%) Java
1 2 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Bicep
2 1 (11.11%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) Ansible
2 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) AppDynamics
1 2 (22.22%) IBM
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft