DevOps Architect Job Trends

Development Operations Architect
UK

The median Development Operations Architect salary in the UK is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 May 2026.

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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 732 616 852
Rank change year-on-year -116 +236 +85
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Architect 11 41 44
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.012% 0.095% 0.044%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% 0.11% 0.046%
Number of salaries quoted 5 30 25
10th Percentile £83,750 - £73,500
25th Percentile £87,500 £55,000 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £60,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -36.84% +28.81%
75th Percentile - £90,000 £115,000
90th Percentile - £90,175 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £82,500 £72,500 £110,000
% change year-on-year +13.79% -34.09% +27.54%

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 87,026 38,759 95,314
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.46% 89.38% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 58,020 21,803 69,625
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
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 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.90% +1.93% -6.54%

DevOps Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

DevOps Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

DevOps Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Architect job vacancies in the UK

DevOps Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Architect over the 6 months to 30 May 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps Architect in the UK

DevOps Architect
Top 6 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 30 May 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 -96 10 £100,000 +66.67% 12
London -55 9 £100,000 +66.67% 8
Work from Home +10 5 £100,000 +53.85% 6
Midlands -35 1 £82,500 - 1
UK excluding London -63 1 £82,500 +13.79% 5
East Midlands - 1 £82,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 2026, DevOps Architect 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 Architect in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 10 (90.91%) AWS
3 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
4 7 (63.64%) Azure
4 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (54.55%) Jenkins
5 6 (54.55%) Terraform
6 5 (45.45%) GCP
7 4 (36.36%) Docker
7 4 (36.36%) Google
7 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
8 3 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
9 2 (18.18%) GitHub
9 2 (18.18%) Observability
9 2 (18.18%) Python
10 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (9.09%) AWS SAM
10 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (9.09%) Bash
10 1 (9.09%) Bicep
10 1 (9.09%) CircleCI
10 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security
10 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
10 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 1 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
10 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
10 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
10 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (9.09%) GitLab
10 1 (9.09%) Go

DevOps Architect 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
2 7 (63.64%) Azure
3 5 (45.45%) GCP
4 2 (18.18%) GitHub
5 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (9.09%) OCI
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) CircleCI
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 1 (9.09%) Finance
1 1 (9.09%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) AWS SAM
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 1 (9.09%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
3 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Observability
6 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security
6 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
6 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
6 1 (9.09%) Presales
6 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
6 1 (9.09%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) Bash
2 1 (9.09%) Bicep
2 1 (9.09%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Terraform
2 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle