DevOps Architect Jobs

Development Operations Architect
UK

The median Development Operations Architect salary in the UK is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 693 854 894
Rank change year-on-year +161 +40 +293
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Architect 40 49 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.067% 0.046% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% 0.049% 0.020%
Number of salaries quoted 25 24 9
10th Percentile - £55,000 £65,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £78,125 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £80,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £96,250 £98,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £137,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £80,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -15.63% -11.11% +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 53,646 100,958 81,022
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.91% 94.82% 91.25%
Number of salaries quoted 29,258 71,135 54,610
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,573 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £38,750 £44,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,708 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year - -5.66% +4.74%

DevOps Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured DevOps Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Architect in the UK

DevOps Architect
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps Architect.

Salary trend for DevOps Architect in the UK

DevOps Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Architect over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps Architect in the UK

DevOps Architect
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 6 July 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
England +165 40 £62,500 -30.56% 12
London +111 23 £60,000 -29.41% 6
Work from Home +139 18 £65,000 -40.91% 9
UK excluding London +181 15 £67,500 -15.63% 4
North of England +57 12 £72,500 -3.33% 1
North West +20 10 - -
Midlands +78 3 £65,000 -40.91%
West Midlands +67 3 £65,000 -40.91%
Yorkshire - 2 £72,500 - 1

DevOps Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 6 July 2025, DevOps Architect 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 featuring DevOps Architect in the job title.

1 40 (100.00%) DevOps
2 36 (90.00%) Azure
3 29 (72.50%) Agile
4 22 (55.00%) Python
5 20 (50.00%) AWS
5 20 (50.00%) CI/CD
6 19 (47.50%) Containerisation
7 18 (45.00%) Kubernetes
7 18 (45.00%) Docker
8 17 (42.50%) Microservices
8 17 (42.50%) Azure Certification
9 16 (40.00%) Roadmaps
9 16 (40.00%) Technology Roadmap
10 15 (37.50%) Cloud Native
10 15 (37.50%) Java
10 15 (37.50%) SQL
11 14 (35.00%) C#
12 13 (32.50%) GDPR
12 13 (32.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 13 (32.50%) NIST
12 13 (32.50%) Architectural Design
12 13 (32.50%) Linux
12 13 (32.50%) JavaScript
12 13 (32.50%) Disaster Recovery
12 13 (32.50%) Management Information System
12 13 (32.50%) Data Management
12 13 (32.50%) TOGAF
12 13 (32.50%) Google
12 13 (32.50%) Enterprise Architecture
12 13 (32.50%) AWS Certification

DevOps Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 12 (30.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 36 (90.00%) Azure
2 20 (50.00%) AWS
3 13 (32.50%) GCP
4 7 (17.50%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (15.00%) Power Platform
6 5 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (12.50%) SaaS
7 4 (10.00%) PaaS
8 3 (7.50%) Azure Storage
8 3 (7.50%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (7.50%) IaaS
8 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (5.00%) Amazon S3
9 2 (5.00%) GitHub
9 2 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (2.50%) Azure AKS
10 1 (2.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (32.50%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 12 (30.00%) Ant
1 12 (30.00%) Jenkins
1 12 (30.00%) JIRA
1 12 (30.00%) Maven
1 12 (30.00%) SonarQube
1 12 (30.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 12 (30.00%) TeamCity
2 4 (10.00%) GitLab
3 1 (2.50%) Git
General
1 3 (7.50%) Local Government
1 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.50%) Billing
3 1 (2.50%) Finance
3 1 (2.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) RESTful
2 1 (2.50%) .NET
2 1 (2.50%) .NET Framework
2 1 (2.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 15 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 13 (32.50%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.50%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.50%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 13 (32.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (100.00%) DevOps
2 29 (72.50%) Agile
3 20 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 19 (47.50%) Containerisation
5 17 (42.50%) Microservices
6 16 (40.00%) Roadmaps
6 16 (40.00%) Technology Roadmap
7 13 (32.50%) Architectural Design
7 13 (32.50%) Data Management
7 13 (32.50%) Data Privacy
7 13 (32.50%) Disaster Recovery
7 13 (32.50%) Enterprise Architecture
7 13 (32.50%) TOGAF
8 12 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
8 12 (30.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 12 (30.00%) Static Code Analysis
9 8 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (12.50%) E-Commerce
11 4 (10.00%) Data Governance
11 4 (10.00%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 22 (55.00%) Python
2 15 (37.50%) Java
2 15 (37.50%) SQL
3 14 (35.00%) C#
4 13 (32.50%) JavaScript
5 4 (10.00%) Bash
5 4 (10.00%) Bicep
6 2 (5.00%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (42.50%) Azure Certification
2 13 (32.50%) AWS Certification
2 13 (32.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (32.50%) GDPR
1 13 (32.50%) HIPAA
1 13 (32.50%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (45.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (45.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (15.00%) Terraform
3 3 (7.50%) Ansible
4 1 (2.50%) Grafana
4 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (32.50%) Google
2 5 (12.50%) Microsoft