DevOps Consultant Job Trends

Development Operations Consultant
UK

The median Development Operations Consultant salary in the UK is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 January 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 635 680 735
Rank change year-on-year +45 +55 +248
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Consultant 16 32 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.027% 0.060% 0.004%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.065% 0.004%
Number of salaries quoted 10 15 2
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 -
25th Percentile £71,250 £52,500 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -27.27% +17.86%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £83,750
90th Percentile - £72,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -27.27% +10.00%

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 54,089 49,558 53,300
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.68% 92.89% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 33,489 25,634 41,126
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%

DevOps Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

DevOps Consultant job vacancy trend in the UK

DevOps Consultant
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Consultant job vacancies in the UK

DevOps Consultant
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Consultant over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps Consultant in the UK

DevOps Consultant
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Work from Home +72 15 £72,500 +38.10%
England +49 8 £55,000 -8.33% 1
London +48 5 - -
UK excluding London +50 3 £55,000 -8.33% 1
Midlands +25 2 £55,000 -
West Midlands +23 2 £55,000 -
North of England +18 2 £55,000 -8.33%
North East - 2 £55,000 -
Yorkshire - 2 £55,000 -
South East +23 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 13 January 2026, DevOps Consultant 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 Consultant in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (68.75%) AWS
2 11 (68.75%) Azure
2 11 (68.75%) CI/CD
3 10 (62.50%) Collaborative Culture
3 10 (62.50%) GCP
4 8 (50.00%) Active Directory
4 8 (50.00%) AI
4 8 (50.00%) Atlassian
4 8 (50.00%) Bitbucket
4 8 (50.00%) Change Management
4 8 (50.00%) Confluence
4 8 (50.00%) Dependency Management
4 8 (50.00%) DevSecOps
4 8 (50.00%) Entra ID
4 8 (50.00%) GitHub
4 8 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (50.00%) GitLab
4 8 (50.00%) JIRA
4 8 (50.00%) Logistics
4 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 8 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (50.00%) Subversion
5 2 (12.50%) Agile
5 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (12.50%) Incident Response
5 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
5 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
5 2 (12.50%) Software Delivery

DevOps Consultant 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 8 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) AWS
1 11 (68.75%) Azure
2 10 (62.50%) GCP
3 8 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 8 (50.00%) GitHub
3 8 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 8 (50.00%) GitLab
1 8 (50.00%) JIRA
1 8 (50.00%) Subversion
General
1 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
2 8 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (50.00%) Finance
2 8 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 8 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 8 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 8 (50.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (68.75%) CI/CD
3 10 (62.50%) Collaborative Culture
4 8 (50.00%) AI
4 8 (50.00%) Change Management
4 8 (50.00%) Dependency Management
4 8 (50.00%) DevSecOps
4 8 (50.00%) Logistics
4 8 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (12.50%) Agile
5 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (12.50%) Incident Response
5 2 (12.50%) Software Delivery
5 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (6.25%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (6.25%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Atlassian
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft