DevOps Architect Job Trends

Development Operations Architect
UK

The median Development Operations Architect salary in the UK is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 September 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 656 746 737
Rank change year-on-year +90 -9 +388
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Architect 22 55 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.045% 0.071% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.050% 0.074% 0.042%
Number of salaries quoted 9 35 18
10th Percentile £60,000 - £82,000
25th Percentile - £55,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,500 £91,250
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% -15.07% -8.75%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,125 £100,938
90th Percentile £90,350 £95,000 £118,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £80,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year -18.75% -13.51% +15.63%

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 44,259 74,162 57,379
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.67% 95.25% 94.07%
Number of salaries quoted 26,008 44,624 44,413
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -

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

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +75 22 £65,000 -7.14% 4
Work from Home +80 17 £65,000 -16.13%
UK excluding London +89 16 £65,000 -18.75%
North of England - 13 £75,000 -
North West - 12 - -
London +46 5 £65,000 +8.33% 4
Midlands +53 3 £65,000 -43.48%
West Midlands +51 3 £65,000 -43.48%
Yorkshire - 1 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 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 22 (100.00%) DevOps
2 19 (86.36%) Azure
3 16 (72.73%) Python
3 16 (72.73%) Agile
4 15 (68.18%) Technology Roadmap
4 15 (68.18%) Azure Certification
4 15 (68.18%) Roadmaps
5 14 (63.64%) CI/CD
5 14 (63.64%) Containerisation
5 14 (63.64%) AWS
6 13 (59.09%) Microservices
6 13 (59.09%) Docker
6 13 (59.09%) Kubernetes
6 13 (59.09%) Cloud Native
6 13 (59.09%) Java
6 13 (59.09%) SQL
7 12 (54.55%) Disaster Recovery
7 12 (54.55%) Management Information System
7 12 (54.55%) Data Management
7 12 (54.55%) TOGAF
7 12 (54.55%) C#
7 12 (54.55%) Google
7 12 (54.55%) Enterprise Architecture
7 12 (54.55%) HIPAA
7 12 (54.55%) AWS Certification
7 12 (54.55%) GCP
7 12 (54.55%) NoSQL
7 12 (54.55%) Data Privacy
7 12 (54.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (54.55%) NIST

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 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 19 (86.36%) Azure
2 14 (63.64%) AWS
3 12 (54.55%) GCP
4 6 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (22.73%) Power Platform
5 5 (22.73%) SaaS
6 3 (13.64%) Azure Storage
6 3 (13.64%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (13.64%) IaaS
6 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (13.64%) PaaS
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.55%) Azure AKS
7 1 (4.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (4.55%) GitHub
7 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (54.55%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Ant
1 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
1 1 (4.55%) Maven
1 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
1 1 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (4.55%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (13.64%) Local Government
1 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (59.09%) Cloud Native
2 12 (54.55%) Management Information System
3 3 (13.64%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.55%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) DevOps
2 16 (72.73%) Agile
3 15 (68.18%) Roadmaps
3 15 (68.18%) Technology Roadmap
4 14 (63.64%) CI/CD
4 14 (63.64%) Containerisation
5 13 (59.09%) Microservices
6 12 (54.55%) Architectural Design
6 12 (54.55%) Data Management
6 12 (54.55%) Data Privacy
6 12 (54.55%) Disaster Recovery
6 12 (54.55%) Enterprise Architecture
6 12 (54.55%) TOGAF
7 5 (22.73%) E-Commerce
8 4 (18.18%) Data Governance
8 4 (18.18%) Data Modelling
9 3 (13.64%) Data Science
9 3 (13.64%) Product Management
9 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 3 (13.64%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 16 (72.73%) Python
2 13 (59.09%) Java
2 13 (59.09%) SQL
3 12 (54.55%) C#
4 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 15 (68.18%) Azure Certification
2 12 (54.55%) AWS Certification
2 12 (54.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (54.55%) GDPR
1 12 (54.55%) HIPAA
1 12 (54.55%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (59.09%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (59.09%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.09%) Terraform
3 1 (4.55%) Grafana
3 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (54.55%) Google
2 4 (18.18%) Microsoft