DevOps Engineer Jobs

Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 October 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 253 109 145
Rank change year-on-year -144 +36 -35
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 820 1,710 3,718
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.08% 2.91% 2.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 3.04% 2.76%
Number of salaries quoted 519 1,299 2,237
10th Percentile £43,750 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £92,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £68,515
% change year-on-year -7.14% +2.17% +14.19%

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 72,160 56,195 134,726
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.93% 95.71% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 37,655 40,750 78,298
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,874 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,900 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.66% - +5.00%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the UK

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in the UK

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 26 October 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in the UK

DevOps Engineer
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 26 October 2024. 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 -141 758 £70,000 -6.67% 182
UK excluding London -122 541 £65,000 -7.14% 112
Work from Home -142 320 £70,000 -6.67% 113
London -139 254 £87,500 +2.94% 84
South East -25 196 £60,000 -11.11% 24
North of England -78 147 £66,732 -9.52% 21
South West -59 91 £67,500 +3.85% 33
North West -76 82 £62,500 -16.67% 15
Yorkshire -27 58 £68,000 -4.61% 3
Midlands -56 55 £65,000 - 8
West Midlands -15 42 £60,000 -14.29% 6
Scotland -50 30 £70,000 -0.82% 10
Wales +16 17 £47,500 -30.65% 3
East Midlands -60 13 £65,000 +0.78% 2
East of England -89 13 £77,500 -1.59% 10
North East -37 7 £85,000 +25.93% 3
Northern Ireland +9 2 - - 4

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

For the 6 months to 26 October 2024, DevOps Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 820 (100.00%) DevOps
2 482 (58.78%) AWS
3 480 (58.54%) Terraform
4 423 (51.59%) Kubernetes
5 399 (48.66%) CI/CD
6 375 (45.73%) Azure
7 301 (36.71%) Python
8 295 (35.98%) Docker
9 290 (35.37%) Agile
10 287 (35.00%) Containerisation
11 267 (32.56%) Infrastructure as Code
12 257 (31.34%) Mentoring
13 210 (25.61%) Social Skills
14 204 (24.88%) Ansible
15 197 (24.02%) Software Engineering
16 184 (22.44%) Finance
17 172 (20.98%) Problem-Solving
18 159 (19.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 155 (18.90%) Linux
20 153 (18.66%) Security Cleared
21 145 (17.68%) Public Sector
22 140 (17.07%) Test Automation
23 135 (16.46%) Azure DevOps
24 133 (16.22%) Bash
25 131 (15.98%) Jenkins
26 121 (14.76%) Java
27 120 (14.63%) Prometheus
28 115 (14.02%) Amazon S3
29 110 (13.41%) GCP
29 110 (13.41%) Observability

DevOps Engineer 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 75 (9.15%) Oracle Application Server
2 30 (3.66%) nginx
3 19 (2.32%) Apache
4 13 (1.59%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.46%) Confluence
5 12 (1.46%) IIS
5 12 (1.46%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.49%) JBoss
7 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.12%) Moodle
8 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.12%) EngageOne
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.12%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 75 (9.15%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.12%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 482 (58.78%) AWS
2 375 (45.73%) Azure
3 135 (16.46%) Azure DevOps
4 115 (14.02%) Amazon S3
5 110 (13.41%) GCP
6 102 (12.44%) GitHub
7 82 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
8 76 (9.27%) Serverless
9 74 (9.02%) GitHub Actions
10 72 (8.78%) OCI
11 67 (8.17%) AWS CloudFormation
12 66 (8.05%) Amazon ECR
13 65 (7.93%) Route 53
14 57 (6.95%) Amazon EC2
15 56 (6.83%) IBM Cloud
16 54 (6.59%) PaaS
17 51 (6.22%) AWS Lambda
18 47 (5.73%) SaaS
19 41 (5.00%) IaaS
20 36 (4.39%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.32%) DNS
1 19 (2.32%) Firewall
2 10 (1.22%) SSL
3 9 (1.10%) Network Security
4 3 (0.37%) HTTP
4 3 (0.37%) IPv4
4 3 (0.37%) IPv6
5 2 (0.24%) LAN
5 2 (0.24%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.24%) WAN
6 1 (0.12%) DHCP
6 1 (0.12%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.12%) SAN
6 1 (0.12%) VLAN
6 1 (0.12%) VPN
6 1 (0.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (12.68%) Amazon RDS
2 91 (11.10%) Relational Database
3 79 (9.63%) Data Warehouse
4 78 (9.51%) RDBMS
5 75 (9.15%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 56 (6.83%) PostgreSQL
7 51 (6.22%) Hadoop
7 51 (6.22%) MongoDB
8 37 (4.51%) SQL Server
9 35 (4.27%) Azure SQL Database
10 28 (3.41%) Big Data
11 23 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
12 19 (2.32%) NoSQL
13 17 (2.07%) MySQL
14 12 (1.46%) Presto
15 10 (1.22%) MariaDB
16 8 (0.98%) Redis
17 6 (0.73%) DynamoDB
18 3 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
18 3 (0.37%) Flink
Development Applications
1 131 (15.98%) Jenkins
2 96 (11.71%) GitLab
3 87 (10.61%) Git
4 53 (6.46%) SonarQube
5 44 (5.37%) JIRA
6 40 (4.88%) CircleCI
7 37 (4.51%) Artifactory
8 33 (4.02%) Octopus Deploy
9 24 (2.93%) TeamCity
10 18 (2.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 16 (1.95%) Selenium
12 13 (1.59%) Terragrunt
13 12 (1.46%) Bitbucket
14 11 (1.34%) Cucumber
15 9 (1.10%) Maven
16 7 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
17 5 (0.61%) AppScan
18 4 (0.49%) GoCD
19 3 (0.37%) Chocolatey
19 3 (0.37%) Gradle
General
1 210 (25.61%) Social Skills
2 184 (22.44%) Finance
3 159 (19.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 145 (17.68%) Public Sector
5 104 (12.68%) Analytical Skills
6 93 (11.34%) Organisational Skills
7 80 (9.76%) Influencing Skills
8 75 (9.15%) Military
9 36 (4.39%) Banking
10 22 (2.68%) Front Office
11 14 (1.71%) Marketing
12 11 (1.34%) Games
13 10 (1.22%) Aerospace
13 10 (1.22%) Law
14 7 (0.85%) Automotive
15 6 (0.73%) Legal
16 5 (0.61%) Financial Institution
17 4 (0.49%) Police
17 4 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
18 3 (0.37%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (8.05%) Node.js
2 48 (5.85%) Kafka
3 44 (5.37%) Elastic Stack
4 43 (5.24%) .NET
5 42 (5.12%) ARM Templates
6 30 (3.66%) RabbitMQ
7 24 (2.93%) React
7 24 (2.93%) YAML
8 21 (2.56%) RESTful
9 18 (2.20%) Apache NiFi
10 16 (1.95%) Azure Blueprints
11 14 (1.71%) JSON
12 12 (1.46%) ActiveMQ
12 12 (1.46%) Loki
12 12 (1.46%) SAML
13 10 (1.22%) OAuth
14 7 (0.85%) .NET Framework
14 7 (0.85%) REST
15 6 (0.73%) OpenID
15 6 (0.73%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 82 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
2 70 (8.54%) Hybrid Cloud
3 59 (7.20%) Blockchain
4 56 (6.83%) e-Learning
5 49 (5.98%) Public Cloud
6 37 (4.51%) Cloud Native
7 36 (4.39%) Distributed Systems
8 25 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
8 25 (3.05%) Management Information System
9 21 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
9 21 (2.56%) Product Ownership
10 18 (2.20%) Onboarding
11 11 (1.34%) Private Cloud
12 7 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (0.85%) Data Centre
13 6 (0.73%) IoT
13 6 (0.73%) Tandem
13 6 (0.73%) Virtual Team
14 5 (0.61%) Hedge funds
15 4 (0.49%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 155 (18.90%) Linux
2 50 (6.10%) Windows
3 13 (1.59%) Unix
4 12 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.22%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.85%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.85%) VMS
7 5 (0.61%) Debian
8 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.24%) Android
9 2 (0.24%) CentOS
10 1 (0.12%) Fedora
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 820 (100.00%) DevOps
2 399 (48.66%) CI/CD
3 290 (35.37%) Agile
4 287 (35.00%) Containerisation
5 267 (32.56%) Infrastructure as Code
6 257 (31.34%) Mentoring
7 197 (24.02%) Software Engineering
8 172 (20.98%) Problem-Solving
9 140 (17.07%) Test Automation
10 110 (13.41%) Observability
11 106 (12.93%) Software Delivery
12 102 (12.44%) Coaching
13 98 (11.95%) Analytics
14 97 (11.83%) Design Patterns
15 88 (10.73%) Customer Experience
16 82 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
17 81 (9.88%) Fintech
18 79 (9.63%) ITIL
19 78 (9.51%) Service Management
20 77 (9.39%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 301 (36.71%) Python
2 133 (16.22%) Bash
3 121 (14.76%) Java
4 106 (12.93%) PowerShell
5 101 (12.32%) SQL
6 57 (6.95%) JavaScript
7 42 (5.12%) C#
8 41 (5.00%) Go
9 26 (3.17%) Shell Script
10 19 (2.32%) C++
11 18 (2.20%) Bicep
12 16 (1.95%) Groovy
13 15 (1.83%) Ruby
14 13 (1.59%) TypeScript
15 11 (1.34%) Perl
16 8 (0.98%) Rust
17 7 (0.85%) C
18 5 (0.61%) PHP
19 3 (0.37%) Scala
20 2 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 153 (18.66%) Security Cleared
2 79 (9.63%) SC Cleared
3 78 (9.51%) DBS Check
4 47 (5.73%) Degree
5 41 (5.00%) DV Cleared
6 40 (4.88%) AWS Certification
7 33 (4.02%) Azure Certification
7 33 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (1.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 9 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.37%) BC Cleared
13 2 (0.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (0.24%) RHCE
13 2 (0.24%) RHCSA
14 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 1 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.12%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (1.95%) NCSC
2 11 (1.34%) QA
3 10 (1.22%) Solvency II
4 4 (0.49%) NIST
5 3 (0.37%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.37%) MiFID
5 3 (0.37%) SLA
5 3 (0.37%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 295 (35.98%) Docker
2 30 (3.66%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (1.59%) Active Directory
4 10 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.24%) vSphere
7 1 (0.12%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 480 (58.54%) Terraform
2 423 (51.59%) Kubernetes
3 204 (24.88%) Ansible
4 120 (14.63%) Prometheus
5 61 (7.44%) Grafana
6 55 (6.71%) Puppet
7 34 (4.15%) Progress Chef
8 21 (2.56%) Argo
9 13 (1.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 13 (1.59%) Packer
10 12 (1.46%) HAProxy
11 11 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.73%) Istio
13 5 (0.61%) Nagios
14 4 (0.49%) Kibana
14 4 (0.49%) Podman
15 3 (0.37%) Consul
15 3 (0.37%) Fortio
15 3 (0.37%) Kiali
16 2 (0.24%) Rancher
Vendors
1 87 (10.61%) Oracle
2 82 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 69 (8.41%) Microsoft
4 61 (7.44%) IBM
5 60 (7.32%) Dynatrace
6 32 (3.90%) Google
7 24 (2.93%) VMware
8 22 (2.68%) Atlassian
9 19 (2.32%) ServiceNow
10 13 (1.59%) Black Duck
11 12 (1.46%) Databricks
12 11 (1.34%) Veracode
13 9 (1.10%) Splunk
14 8 (0.98%) New Relic
14 8 (0.98%) Salesforce
15 6 (0.73%) AppDynamics
16 4 (0.49%) ForgeRock
16 4 (0.49%) Zscaler
17 3 (0.37%) Sybase
17 3 (0.37%) Talend