Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK is £70,576 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 251 135 109
Rank change year-on-year -116 -26 -26
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 1,128 2,715 5,082
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.15% 2.59% 3.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.22% 2.83% 3.43%
Number of salaries quoted 865 1,903 2,791
10th Percentile £47,500 £52,300 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.90% +3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £91,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,999 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.41% -2.86% +25.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in the UK

DevOps Engineer
Top 18 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 27 April 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 -110 1,009 £70,576 -5.90% 219
UK excluding London -108 674 £65,000 -4.41% 141
Work from Home -101 516 £70,000 -6.67% 141
London -105 376 £84,000 +2.44% 84
North of England -61 195 £65,000 -3.70% 36
South East -59 173 £70,000 -1.41% 38
South West -27 153 £70,288 +8.14% 35
North West -48 114 £60,000 -14.29% 24
Yorkshire -22 59 £68,000 +4.62% 9
Midlands -45 55 £55,000 -18.52% 16
East of England -27 40 £65,000 -13.33% 7
Scotland -111 30 £70,576 +0.82% 4
West Midlands -26 28 £51,250 -26.79% 11
East Midlands -18 27 £56,250 -13.46% 5
North East +1 22 £57,500 -13.21% 3
Wales +3 19 £52,500 -26.83% 1
Northern Ireland +15 8 £52,500 -12.50% 5
Channel Islands - 2 £110,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 1,128 (100.00%) DevOps
2 745 (66.05%) Terraform
3 693 (61.44%) CI/CD
4 687 (60.90%) AWS
5 672 (59.57%) Kubernetes
6 520 (46.10%) Azure
7 500 (44.33%) Docker
8 445 (39.45%) Python
9 432 (38.30%) Agile
10 399 (35.37%) Infrastructure as Code
11 391 (34.66%) Linux
12 351 (31.12%) Containerisation
13 347 (30.76%) Ansible
14 299 (26.51%) Jenkins
15 240 (21.28%) Security Cleared
16 216 (19.15%) Azure DevOps
17 208 (18.44%) Finance
18 206 (18.26%) Bash
19 202 (17.91%) Social Skills
20 178 (15.78%) GCP
21 175 (15.51%) PowerShell
21 175 (15.51%) Continuous Integration
22 171 (15.16%) Amazon S3
22 171 (15.16%) Problem-Solving
23 170 (15.07%) Mentoring
24 162 (14.36%) Java
25 153 (13.56%) Git
26 150 (13.30%) Prometheus
27 149 (13.21%) Software Engineering
28 148 (13.12%) Test Automation

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 40 (3.55%) nginx
2 23 (2.04%) Apache
3 19 (1.68%) Apache Spark
3 19 (1.68%) Jupyter
4 16 (1.42%) Confluence
5 9 (0.80%) Drupal
6 5 (0.44%) IIS
6 5 (0.44%) WordPress
7 4 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.35%) CMS
7 4 (0.35%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.18%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.18%) JBoss
8 2 (0.18%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.089%) Moodle
Applications
1 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.089%) Magento
1 1 (0.089%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 687 (60.90%) AWS
2 520 (46.10%) Azure
3 216 (19.15%) Azure DevOps
4 178 (15.78%) GCP
5 171 (15.16%) Amazon S3
6 146 (12.94%) Serverless
7 141 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
8 139 (12.32%) GitHub
9 132 (11.70%) AWS CloudFormation
10 116 (10.28%) AWS Lambda
11 103 (9.13%) OpenShift
12 102 (9.04%) Amazon EC2
12 102 (9.04%) Amazon ECS
13 80 (7.09%) GitHub Actions
14 73 (6.47%) SaaS
15 68 (6.03%) IBM Cloud
16 64 (5.67%) Route 53
17 59 (5.23%) Amazon ECR
18 55 (4.88%) OCI
19 49 (4.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 68 (6.03%) DNS
2 55 (4.88%) Firewall
3 37 (3.28%) TCP/IP
4 31 (2.75%) Network Security
5 27 (2.39%) HTTP
6 19 (1.68%) Internet
6 19 (1.68%) VPN
7 14 (1.24%) WAN
8 12 (1.06%) LAN
9 10 (0.89%) Cisco ASA
9 10 (0.89%) SNMP
9 10 (0.89%) tcpdump
10 9 (0.80%) IPv4
11 6 (0.53%) SSL
12 5 (0.44%) AMQP
12 5 (0.44%) IPv6
13 4 (0.35%) WLAN
14 3 (0.27%) SSH
15 2 (0.18%) HTTPS
15 2 (0.18%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 77 (6.83%) SQL Server
3 52 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
4 50 (4.43%) MongoDB
5 39 (3.46%) Amazon Redshift
6 36 (3.19%) Hadoop
7 33 (2.93%) Big Data
8 31 (2.75%) MySQL
9 26 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
10 25 (2.22%) Relational Database
11 19 (1.68%) Amazon Aurora
11 19 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
12 18 (1.60%) DynamoDB
12 18 (1.60%) InfluxDB
12 18 (1.60%) Presto
13 15 (1.33%) Power BI
14 11 (0.98%) NoSQL
15 10 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
15 10 (0.89%) DB2
15 10 (0.89%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 299 (26.51%) Jenkins
2 153 (13.56%) Git
3 123 (10.90%) GitLab
4 91 (8.07%) JIRA
5 56 (4.96%) Artifactory
6 38 (3.37%) SonarQube
7 32 (2.84%) CircleCI
8 26 (2.30%) IBM UrbanCode
9 25 (2.22%) TeamCity
10 23 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
11 20 (1.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 19 (1.68%) Bitbucket
13 15 (1.33%) Maven
13 15 (1.33%) Octopus Deploy
14 14 (1.24%) Selenium
15 12 (1.06%) git-flow
15 12 (1.06%) Team Foundation Server
16 10 (0.89%) Subversion
17 8 (0.71%) MSBuild
17 8 (0.71%) Vagrant
General
1 208 (18.44%) Finance
2 202 (17.91%) Social Skills
3 129 (11.44%) Public Sector
4 105 (9.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 58 (5.14%) Banking
6 50 (4.43%) Aerospace
7 38 (3.37%) Front Office
8 37 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
9 28 (2.48%) Law
10 21 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
10 21 (1.86%) Tech for Good
11 19 (1.68%) Legal
12 16 (1.42%) Retail
13 15 (1.33%) Games
13 15 (1.33%) Telecoms
14 9 (0.80%) Retail Banking
15 8 (0.71%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.71%) Marketing
15 8 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.53%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (7.45%) .NET
2 82 (7.27%) Elastic Stack
3 58 (5.14%) YAML
4 54 (4.79%) Node.js
5 36 (3.19%) J2EE
6 33 (2.93%) ARM Templates
7 32 (2.84%) Kafka
8 30 (2.66%) RabbitMQ
9 26 (2.30%) RESTful
10 24 (2.13%) AWS CDK
11 22 (1.95%) JSON
12 20 (1.77%) REST
13 18 (1.60%) React
14 17 (1.51%) ActiveMQ
14 17 (1.51%) Apache NiFi
14 17 (1.51%) JWT
15 16 (1.42%) .NET Core
16 15 (1.33%) Middleware
17 14 (1.24%) Spring
18 11 (0.98%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 90 (7.98%) Hybrid Cloud
2 75 (6.65%) Blockchain
3 74 (6.56%) Public Cloud
4 55 (4.88%) e-Learning
5 37 (3.28%) Tandem
6 33 (2.93%) Cloud Native
6 33 (2.93%) Distributed Systems
7 19 (1.68%) Product Ownership
7 19 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
8 16 (1.42%) Client/Server
8 16 (1.42%) Virtual Team
9 15 (1.33%) Private Cloud
10 14 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
10 14 (1.24%) Low-Code
10 14 (1.24%) Management Information System
11 13 (1.15%) Onboarding
12 12 (1.06%) Clustering
12 12 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
13 11 (0.98%) Data Centre
13 11 (0.98%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 391 (34.66%) Linux
2 143 (12.68%) Windows
3 19 (1.68%) Unix
4 14 (1.24%) VMS
5 12 (1.06%) CentOS
5 12 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.98%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.62%) CoreOS
7 7 (0.62%) zOS
8 6 (0.53%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.18%) Debian
9 2 (0.18%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.089%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,128 (100.00%) DevOps
2 693 (61.44%) CI/CD
3 432 (38.30%) Agile
4 399 (35.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 351 (31.12%) Containerisation
6 175 (15.51%) Continuous Integration
7 171 (15.16%) Problem-Solving
8 170 (15.07%) Mentoring
9 149 (13.21%) Software Engineering
10 148 (13.12%) Test Automation
11 124 (10.99%) Observability
12 123 (10.90%) Configuration Management
13 117 (10.37%) Artificial Intelligence
14 112 (9.93%) Deployment Automation
15 105 (9.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 104 (9.22%) Microservices
17 102 (9.04%) Scrum
18 98 (8.69%) Coaching
19 93 (8.24%) Continuous Deployment
20 87 (7.71%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 445 (39.45%) Python
2 206 (18.26%) Bash
3 175 (15.51%) PowerShell
4 162 (14.36%) Java
5 120 (10.64%) SQL
6 117 (10.37%) Go
7 77 (6.83%) C#
8 55 (4.88%) Shell Script
9 50 (4.43%) Ruby
10 49 (4.34%) Groovy
11 38 (3.37%) JavaScript
12 27 (2.39%) Perl
13 26 (2.30%) Bicep
14 25 (2.22%) PHP
15 18 (1.60%) C++
16 17 (1.51%) T-SQL
17 12 (1.06%) C
18 9 (0.80%) Rust
19 8 (0.71%) TypeScript
20 7 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 240 (21.28%) Security Cleared
2 121 (10.73%) SC Cleared
3 93 (8.24%) DV Cleared
4 65 (5.76%) Degree
5 60 (5.32%) AWS Certification
6 35 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 18 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.15%) Azure Certification
10 11 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.62%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 6 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.18%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.089%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.089%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.089%) OCP
14 1 (0.089%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.089%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.30%) QA
2 14 (1.24%) GDPR
3 9 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.44%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.27%) NIST
5 3 (0.27%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.18%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.089%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.089%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.089%) NCSC
7 1 (0.089%) SLA
System Software
1 500 (44.33%) Docker
2 33 (2.93%) Virtual Machines
3 28 (2.48%) Active Directory
4 18 (1.60%) VMware ESXi
4 18 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.62%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.27%) KVM
6 3 (0.27%) vSphere
7 2 (0.18%) Firmware
7 2 (0.18%) Varnish
7 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.089%) etcd
8 1 (0.089%) iptables
8 1 (0.089%) NFS
8 1 (0.089%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 745 (66.05%) Terraform
2 672 (59.57%) Kubernetes
3 347 (30.76%) Ansible
4 150 (13.30%) Prometheus
5 111 (9.84%) Grafana
6 106 (9.40%) Puppet
7 96 (8.51%) Progress Chef
8 28 (2.48%) HAProxy
9 22 (1.95%) Rancher
10 20 (1.77%) Packer
11 19 (1.68%) Consul
12 16 (1.42%) Istio
12 16 (1.42%) Kibana
13 15 (1.33%) Argo
14 14 (1.24%) Nagios
15 12 (1.06%) Docker Swarm
16 10 (0.89%) Graphite
16 10 (0.89%) vCenter Server
17 7 (0.62%) CA Endevor
17 7 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 119 (10.55%) Microsoft
2 88 (7.80%) IBM
3 82 (7.27%) Red Hat
4 66 (5.85%) Dynatrace
5 50 (4.43%) Google
6 42 (3.72%) Oracle
7 34 (3.01%) VMware
8 21 (1.86%) Splunk
9 19 (1.68%) Cisco
10 15 (1.33%) Databricks
11 14 (1.24%) Atlassian
12 10 (0.89%) Sybase
13 8 (0.71%) McAfee
14 7 (0.62%) New Relic
14 7 (0.62%) ServiceNow
15 6 (0.53%) SaltStack
15 6 (0.53%) SAP
15 6 (0.53%) Zscaler
16 5 (0.44%) ForgeRock
16 5 (0.44%) YouTube