Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

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

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 126 153 115
Rank change year-on-year +27 -38 -46
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 1,390 2,923 4,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.62% 2.38% 3.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.75% 2.49% 3.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,117 2,082 3,128
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £92,500 £91,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,143 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.26% +7.43% +13.64%

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 50,561 117,203 121,950
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.43% 95.41% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 36,942 73,752 84,378
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,798 £32,125
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 7 December 2023.

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 7 December 2023. 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 +29 1,237 £75,000 - 329
UK excluding London +77 726 £70,000 +4.26% 204
Work from Home +43 724 £75,000 - 204
London -2 555 £85,000 +6.25% 159
North of England +58 207 £71,288 +5.61% 51
South West +117 185 £65,000 - 38
South East +74 140 £67,500 -6.90% 69
Yorkshire +68 99 £70,576 +4.56% 14
North West +62 94 £75,000 +15.38% 27
Scotland -2 63 £70,576 +8.58% 8
Midlands +24 60 £65,000 - 14
East of England +79 43 £70,000 -12.50% 18
East Midlands +39 40 £65,000 - 6
Wales +27 28 £66,749 +2.69% 8
West Midlands +23 20 £65,000 -3.70% 8
North East +26 14 £68,750 +1.85% 11
Northern Ireland +21 8 £75,000 +25.00% 1
Channel Islands - 1 £110,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 7 December 2023, 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 1,390 (100.00%) DevOps
2 935 (67.27%) Terraform
3 866 (62.30%) Kubernetes
4 814 (58.56%) CI/CD
5 748 (53.81%) AWS
6 695 (50.00%) Python
7 680 (48.92%) Docker
8 665 (47.84%) Azure
9 600 (43.17%) Agile
10 581 (41.80%) Infrastructure as Code
11 502 (36.12%) Ansible
12 487 (35.04%) Linux
13 485 (34.89%) Jenkins
14 406 (29.21%) Bash
15 387 (27.84%) Containerisation
16 363 (26.12%) Finance
17 315 (22.66%) PowerShell
18 310 (22.30%) GCP
19 309 (22.23%) Azure DevOps
20 287 (20.65%) Java
21 245 (17.63%) Security Cleared
22 237 (17.05%) Git
23 234 (16.83%) Social Skills
24 210 (15.11%) GitHub
25 202 (14.53%) GitLab
26 195 (14.03%) Problem-Solving
27 192 (13.81%) Banking
28 191 (13.74%) Software Engineering
28 191 (13.74%) Continuous Integration
29 189 (13.60%) Configuration Management

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 80 (5.76%) Confluence
2 39 (2.81%) nginx
3 25 (1.80%) Apache
4 16 (1.15%) Tomcat
5 14 (1.01%) Apache Spark
6 12 (0.86%) SharePoint
7 11 (0.79%) Jupyter
8 7 (0.50%) IIS
9 6 (0.43%) CMS
10 5 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.36%) Drupal
11 3 (0.22%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.22%) WordPress
12 2 (0.14%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.14%) ColdFusion
12 2 (0.14%) JBoss
12 2 (0.14%) WebSphere Application Server
13 1 (0.072%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.072%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.072%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.072%) PTC Creo
1 1 (0.072%) SOLIDWORKS
1 1 (0.072%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.072%) Endur
1 1 (0.072%) Magento
1 1 (0.072%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 748 (53.81%) AWS
2 665 (47.84%) Azure
3 310 (22.30%) GCP
4 309 (22.23%) Azure DevOps
5 210 (15.11%) GitHub
6 180 (12.95%) Serverless
7 160 (11.51%) AWS CloudFormation
8 152 (10.94%) OpenShift
9 118 (8.49%) PaaS
10 109 (7.84%) SaaS
11 92 (6.62%) Amazon EC2
11 92 (6.62%) GitHub Actions
11 92 (6.62%) IaaS
12 91 (6.55%) Amazon S3
13 88 (6.33%) AWS Lambda
14 73 (5.25%) Azure AKS
15 64 (4.60%) Amazon ECS
16 61 (4.39%) Amazon EKS
17 55 (3.96%) Datadog
18 53 (3.81%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 64 (4.60%) DNS
2 51 (3.67%) Firewall
3 48 (3.45%) TCP/IP
4 28 (2.01%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 28 (2.01%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 27 (1.94%) VPN
6 23 (1.65%) Internet
7 19 (1.37%) HTTP
8 14 (1.01%) SSL
9 12 (0.86%) IPv4
10 11 (0.79%) Network Security
11 10 (0.72%) DHCP
12 9 (0.65%) OSPF
12 9 (0.65%) VLAN
13 6 (0.43%) FTP
13 6 (0.43%) SMTP
13 6 (0.43%) SSH
14 5 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
14 5 (0.36%) WAN
15 3 (0.22%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (5.76%) Amazon RDS
2 47 (3.38%) SQL Server
3 43 (3.09%) Big Data
4 37 (2.66%) MySQL
5 30 (2.16%) Amazon Redshift
5 30 (2.16%) MongoDB
6 28 (2.01%) NoSQL
7 26 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
8 21 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
9 19 (1.37%) Hadoop
10 18 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
10 18 (1.29%) InfluxDB
11 17 (1.22%) DynamoDB
12 16 (1.15%) Apache Cassandra
12 16 (1.15%) BigQuery
13 15 (1.08%) Data Lake
13 15 (1.08%) Power BI
14 11 (0.79%) Presto
15 10 (0.72%) Relational Database
16 9 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 485 (34.89%) Jenkins
2 237 (17.05%) Git
3 202 (14.53%) GitLab
4 145 (10.43%) JIRA
5 90 (6.47%) SonarQube
6 83 (5.97%) Artifactory
7 67 (4.82%) Bitbucket
8 64 (4.60%) TeamCity
9 59 (4.24%) Sonatype Nexus
10 54 (3.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 51 (3.67%) Maven
12 47 (3.38%) CircleCI
13 42 (3.02%) IBM UrbanCode
14 39 (2.81%) Octopus Deploy
15 31 (2.23%) Cucumber
16 27 (1.94%) Selenium
16 27 (1.94%) Team Foundation Server
17 22 (1.58%) Spinnaker
18 18 (1.29%) Travis CI
19 16 (1.15%) Gradle
General
1 363 (26.12%) Finance
2 234 (16.83%) Social Skills
3 192 (13.81%) Banking
4 97 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 66 (4.75%) Public Sector
6 60 (4.32%) Retail
7 51 (3.67%) Front Office
8 47 (3.38%) Analytical Skills
9 38 (2.73%) Investment Banking
10 26 (1.87%) Retail Banking
11 22 (1.58%) Law
12 19 (1.37%) Aerospace
12 19 (1.37%) Telecoms
13 18 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
14 17 (1.22%) Financial Institution
14 17 (1.22%) Games
15 14 (1.01%) Tech for Good
16 13 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
17 12 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
18 9 (0.65%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (8.20%) Elastic Stack
2 77 (5.54%) .NET
3 64 (4.60%) YAML
4 62 (4.46%) ARM Templates
5 45 (3.24%) Kafka
6 37 (2.66%) RabbitMQ
7 35 (2.52%) Node.js
8 30 (2.16%) JSON
9 28 (2.01%) Spine.js
10 26 (1.87%) .NET Core
11 20 (1.44%) Apache NiFi
11 20 (1.44%) LDAP
11 20 (1.44%) REST
12 17 (1.22%) OAuth
12 17 (1.22%) React
13 13 (0.94%) OpenID
14 12 (0.86%) ADO
14 12 (0.86%) J2EE
14 12 (0.86%) JRuby
14 12 (0.86%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 125 (8.99%) Public Cloud
2 82 (5.90%) Cloud Native
3 46 (3.31%) Data Centre
4 41 (2.95%) Private Cloud
5 35 (2.52%) Product Ownership
6 34 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
6 34 (2.45%) Linux Command Line
7 33 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
8 22 (1.58%) Mobile App
9 19 (1.37%) Tandem
10 18 (1.29%) Management Information System
10 18 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
11 17 (1.22%) Virtual Team
12 16 (1.15%) Online Banking
12 16 (1.15%) Robotics
13 14 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (1.01%) Onboarding
14 11 (0.79%) Low-Code
15 10 (0.72%) Blog
15 10 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 487 (35.04%) Linux
2 139 (10.00%) Windows
3 84 (6.04%) Unix
4 29 (2.09%) Windows Server
5 27 (1.94%) Ubuntu
6 18 (1.29%) VMS
7 15 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (0.94%) Debian
9 8 (0.58%) Solaris
10 7 (0.50%) CoreOS
10 7 (0.50%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.50%) zOS
11 6 (0.43%) CentOS
12 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,390 (100.00%) DevOps
2 814 (58.56%) CI/CD
3 600 (43.17%) Agile
4 581 (41.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 387 (27.84%) Containerisation
6 195 (14.03%) Problem-Solving
7 191 (13.74%) Continuous Integration
7 191 (13.74%) Software Engineering
8 189 (13.60%) Configuration Management
9 182 (13.09%) Mentoring
10 149 (10.72%) DevSecOps
11 141 (10.14%) Microservices
12 139 (10.00%) Scrum
13 127 (9.14%) Platform Engineering
14 124 (8.92%) Test Automation
15 113 (8.13%) SDLC
15 113 (8.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 112 (8.06%) Deployment Automation
17 111 (7.99%) Migration
18 97 (6.98%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 695 (50.00%) Python
2 406 (29.21%) Bash
3 315 (22.66%) PowerShell
4 287 (20.65%) Java
5 146 (10.50%) Go
6 117 (8.42%) SQL
7 98 (7.05%) Ruby
8 84 (6.04%) JavaScript
9 77 (5.54%) C#
9 77 (5.54%) Groovy
10 57 (4.10%) Shell Script
11 52 (3.74%) Perl
12 50 (3.60%) Bicep
13 23 (1.65%) TypeScript
14 22 (1.58%) C++
14 22 (1.58%) PHP
15 14 (1.01%) Scala
16 11 (0.79%) C
17 9 (0.65%) Rust
18 5 (0.36%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 245 (17.63%) Security Cleared
2 158 (11.37%) SC Cleared
3 113 (8.13%) Degree
4 65 (4.68%) AWS Certification
5 59 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 34 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 31 (2.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 31 (2.23%) Azure Certification
8 30 (2.16%) DV Cleared
9 13 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (0.86%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 11 (0.79%) Master's Degree
12 9 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 9 (0.65%) GIAC
12 9 (0.65%) RHCE
13 3 (0.22%) CISSP
13 3 (0.22%) MCSA
13 3 (0.22%) MCSE
14 2 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.14%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (4.68%) QA
2 15 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (0.86%) Data Quality
4 5 (0.36%) GDPR
5 4 (0.29%) NIST
6 2 (0.14%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.14%) NCSC
6 2 (0.14%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.072%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.072%) AUTOSAR
7 1 (0.072%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.072%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.072%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.072%) PMO
7 1 (0.072%) PSD2
System Software
1 680 (48.92%) Docker
2 94 (6.76%) Active Directory
3 32 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.94%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.29%) Ceph
6 4 (0.29%) vSphere
7 3 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.072%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.072%) iptables
8 1 (0.072%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 935 (67.27%) Terraform
2 866 (62.30%) Kubernetes
3 502 (36.12%) Ansible
4 139 (10.00%) Grafana
4 139 (10.00%) Puppet
5 135 (9.71%) Prometheus
6 93 (6.69%) Progress Chef
7 52 (3.74%) Rancher
8 43 (3.09%) Argo
9 42 (3.02%) Packer
10 31 (2.23%) Nagios
11 25 (1.80%) Kibana
12 17 (1.22%) Istio
13 13 (0.94%) HAProxy
13 13 (0.94%) Kustomize
14 12 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
15 7 (0.50%) CA Endevor
16 6 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 5 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
17 5 (0.36%) Podman
Vendors
1 98 (7.05%) Google
2 92 (6.62%) Microsoft
3 80 (5.76%) Splunk
4 65 (4.68%) Oracle
5 54 (3.88%) Atlassian
6 50 (3.60%) VMware
7 41 (2.95%) IBM
8 39 (2.81%) Red Hat
9 38 (2.73%) New Relic
10 35 (2.52%) ServiceNow
11 29 (2.09%) Cisco
11 29 (2.09%) F5
11 29 (2.09%) Fortinet
11 29 (2.09%) Veracode
12 28 (2.01%) CheckPoint
13 23 (1.65%) AppDynamics
14 20 (1.44%) Dynatrace
15 13 (0.94%) SaltStack
16 11 (0.79%) CyberArk
17 10 (0.72%) TOWER Software