DevOps Developer Jobs

Development Operations Developer
UK

The median Development Operations Developer salary in the UK is £71,991 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

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

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 662 870 943
Rank change year-on-year +208 +73 +114
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Developer 29 32 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.056% 0.032% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% 0.034% 0.042%
Number of salaries quoted 9 25 38
10th Percentile £68,500 £52,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £68,750 £61,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.19% -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £76,500 £77,500 £84,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,991 £72,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.70% +31.82% -8.33%

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 46,967 93,227 95,240
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.30% 94.63% 91.55%
Number of salaries quoted 27,330 66,890 59,886
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%

DevOps Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Developer in the UK

DevOps Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend 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 2 May 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 +163 24 £72,000 +15.20% 7
London +114 22 £72,000 +15.20% 4
Work from Home +179 20 £71,991 +15.19% 6
UK excluding London +203 7 £71,991 -0.70% 4
Scotland - 5 £71,991 -
North of England +91 2 - - 1
Yorkshire +74 2 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, DevOps Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) DevOps
2 25 (86.21%) CI/CD
3 20 (68.97%) AWS
3 20 (68.97%) Terraform
4 18 (62.07%) Finance
5 16 (55.17%) Java
5 16 (55.17%) Git
5 16 (55.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (55.17%) GitLab
5 16 (55.17%) SDLC
6 15 (51.72%) Ansible
6 15 (51.72%) Jenkins
6 15 (51.72%) Deployment Automation
6 15 (51.72%) Linux
6 15 (51.72%) IBM
7 14 (48.28%) Management Information System
7 14 (48.28%) Agile
7 14 (48.28%) ActiveMQ
7 14 (48.28%) Credit Derivative
7 14 (48.28%) JMS
7 14 (48.28%) IntelliJ
7 14 (48.28%) JUnit
7 14 (48.28%) C++
7 14 (48.28%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (48.28%) Amazon S3
7 14 (48.28%) Spring
7 14 (48.28%) Maven
7 14 (48.28%) Software Engineering
7 14 (48.28%) Cucumber
7 14 (48.28%) Mockito

DevOps Developer 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 6 (20.69%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 20 (68.97%) AWS
2 14 (48.28%) Amazon EC2
2 14 (48.28%) Amazon EKS
2 14 (48.28%) Amazon S3
2 14 (48.28%) AWS Lambda
2 14 (48.28%) Datadog
2 14 (48.28%) Serverless
3 8 (27.59%) Azure
4 5 (17.24%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (13.79%) SaaS
6 3 (10.34%) GCP
7 2 (6.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (3.45%) GitHub
8 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.45%) PaaS
8 1 (3.45%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) MySQL
1 4 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.90%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.45%) DB2
3 1 (3.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (55.17%) Git
1 16 (55.17%) GitLab
2 15 (51.72%) Jenkins
3 14 (48.28%) Cucumber
3 14 (48.28%) IntelliJ
3 14 (48.28%) JUnit
3 14 (48.28%) Maven
3 14 (48.28%) Mockito
4 6 (20.69%) JIRA
5 3 (10.34%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket
General
1 18 (62.07%) Finance
2 4 (13.79%) Banking
3 1 (3.45%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (48.28%) ActiveMQ
1 14 (48.28%) JMS
1 14 (48.28%) Spring
1 14 (48.28%) Spring Boot
2 4 (13.79%) Node.js
2 4 (13.79%) React
3 3 (10.34%) Vue
4 2 (6.90%) AngularJS
4 2 (6.90%) CSS
4 2 (6.90%) Django
4 2 (6.90%) HTML
5 1 (3.45%) .NET
5 1 (3.45%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 14 (48.28%) Credit Derivative
1 14 (48.28%) Enterprise Software
1 14 (48.28%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.45%) Mainframe
2 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (51.72%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) DevOps
2 25 (86.21%) CI/CD
3 16 (55.17%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (55.17%) SDLC
4 15 (51.72%) Deployment Automation
5 14 (48.28%) Agile
5 14 (48.28%) Analytics
5 14 (48.28%) Software Engineering
6 5 (17.24%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (17.24%) Mentoring
7 4 (13.79%) Non-Blocking Code
7 4 (13.79%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (13.79%) Software Delivery
7 4 (13.79%) User Experience
7 4 (13.79%) UX Design
8 3 (10.34%) Continuous Deployment
8 3 (10.34%) Customer-Centricity
8 3 (10.34%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 3 (10.34%) Full-Stack Development
9 2 (6.90%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 16 (55.17%) Java
2 14 (48.28%) C++
3 6 (20.69%) TypeScript
4 4 (13.79%) Go
4 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
4 4 (13.79%) Python
5 2 (6.90%) C#
5 2 (6.90%) SQL
6 1 (3.45%) COBOL
6 1 (3.45%) JCL
Qualifications
1 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) QA
System Software
1 9 (31.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (68.97%) Terraform
2 15 (51.72%) Ansible
3 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (51.72%) IBM
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft