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 29 November 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
29 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 124 153 117
Rank change year-on-year +29 -36 -48
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 1,439 3,019 4,020
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.66% 2.40% 3.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.79% 2.52% 3.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,158 2,111 3,141
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 £92,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £103,750 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% +8.00% +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 51,668 119,945 122,710
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.49% 95.32% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 37,837 75,409 83,805
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
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 £97,750 £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 29 November 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 29 November 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 +37 1,285 £75,000 - 307
UK excluding London +74 763 £70,000 +3.70% 203
Work from Home +46 758 £75,000 - 203
London -2 562 £85,000 +6.25% 141
North of England +66 225 £72,500 +7.41% 42
South West +125 191 £65,000 - 36
South East +93 149 £67,500 -6.90% 74
North West +71 111 £75,000 +15.38% 21
Yorkshire +64 100 £70,576 +3.78% 13
Midlands +20 62 £65,000 - 14
Scotland +19 62 £70,576 +8.58% 7
East of England +81 48 £72,500 -7.94% 24
East Midlands +37 41 £65,000 - 6
Wales +25 28 £66,749 +2.69% 8
West Midlands +11 21 £70,000 +3.70% 8
North East +24 14 £68,750 +1.85% 9
Northern Ireland +16 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 29 November 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 1,439 (100.00%) DevOps
2 965 (67.06%) Terraform
3 899 (62.47%) Kubernetes
4 840 (58.37%) CI/CD
5 792 (55.04%) AWS
6 730 (50.73%) Python
7 708 (49.20%) Docker
8 676 (46.98%) Azure
9 624 (43.36%) Agile
10 602 (41.83%) Infrastructure as Code
11 538 (37.39%) Ansible
12 506 (35.16%) Jenkins
13 497 (34.54%) Linux
14 426 (29.60%) Bash
15 399 (27.73%) Containerisation
16 365 (25.36%) Finance
17 328 (22.79%) PowerShell
18 313 (21.75%) Azure DevOps
19 308 (21.40%) GCP
20 295 (20.50%) Java
21 257 (17.86%) Git
22 252 (17.51%) Security Cleared
23 243 (16.89%) Social Skills
24 214 (14.87%) GitHub
25 208 (14.45%) GitLab
26 199 (13.83%) Problem-Solving
27 198 (13.76%) Serverless
27 198 (13.76%) Continuous Integration
28 197 (13.69%) Configuration Management
29 195 (13.55%) Banking

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 83 (5.77%) Confluence
2 39 (2.71%) nginx
3 29 (2.02%) Apache
4 21 (1.46%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.11%) Tomcat
6 14 (0.97%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.83%) Jupyter
8 7 (0.49%) IIS
9 6 (0.42%) CMS
10 5 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.28%) Drupal
12 3 (0.21%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
13 2 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.14%) ColdFusion
13 2 (0.14%) JBoss
13 2 (0.14%) WebSphere Application Server
13 2 (0.14%) WordPress
14 1 (0.069%) Camunda
14 1 (0.069%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.069%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.069%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.069%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.069%) PTC Creo
1 1 (0.069%) SOLIDWORKS
1 1 (0.069%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
1 2 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.069%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.069%) Endur
2 1 (0.069%) Magento
2 1 (0.069%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 792 (55.04%) AWS
2 676 (46.98%) Azure
3 313 (21.75%) Azure DevOps
4 308 (21.40%) GCP
5 214 (14.87%) GitHub
6 198 (13.76%) Serverless
7 170 (11.81%) AWS CloudFormation
8 149 (10.35%) OpenShift
9 130 (9.03%) PaaS
10 112 (7.78%) SaaS
11 106 (7.37%) IaaS
12 93 (6.46%) Amazon EC2
12 93 (6.46%) Amazon S3
13 92 (6.39%) GitHub Actions
14 89 (6.18%) AWS Lambda
15 73 (5.07%) Azure AKS
16 62 (4.31%) Amazon EKS
17 59 (4.10%) Amazon ECS
17 59 (4.10%) Datadog
18 55 (3.82%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 65 (4.52%) DNS
2 52 (3.61%) Firewall
3 47 (3.27%) TCP/IP
4 28 (1.95%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 28 (1.95%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 28 (1.95%) VPN
5 22 (1.53%) Internet
6 20 (1.39%) HTTP
7 15 (1.04%) SSL
8 12 (0.83%) IPv4
9 11 (0.76%) Network Security
10 10 (0.69%) DHCP
11 9 (0.63%) OSPF
11 9 (0.63%) VLAN
12 7 (0.49%) FTP
12 7 (0.49%) WAN
13 6 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
13 6 (0.42%) SMTP
13 6 (0.42%) SSH
14 4 (0.28%) IPFIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (5.42%) Amazon RDS
2 49 (3.41%) SQL Server
3 45 (3.13%) Big Data
4 40 (2.78%) MySQL
5 30 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
6 29 (2.02%) MongoDB
6 29 (2.02%) NoSQL
7 28 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
8 23 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
9 20 (1.39%) Hadoop
10 18 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
10 18 (1.25%) InfluxDB
11 16 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
11 16 (1.11%) BigQuery
12 15 (1.04%) Data Lake
12 15 (1.04%) DynamoDB
12 15 (1.04%) Power BI
13 12 (0.83%) Presto
13 12 (0.83%) Relational Database
14 8 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 506 (35.16%) Jenkins
2 257 (17.86%) Git
3 208 (14.45%) GitLab
4 150 (10.42%) JIRA
5 91 (6.32%) SonarQube
6 81 (5.63%) Artifactory
7 73 (5.07%) Bitbucket
8 66 (4.59%) TeamCity
9 59 (4.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 58 (4.03%) Sonatype Nexus
11 52 (3.61%) Maven
12 50 (3.47%) CircleCI
13 40 (2.78%) Octopus Deploy
14 36 (2.50%) IBM UrbanCode
15 34 (2.36%) Cucumber
16 30 (2.08%) Team Foundation Server
17 29 (2.02%) Selenium
18 22 (1.53%) Spinnaker
19 19 (1.32%) Travis CI
20 16 (1.11%) Gradle
General
1 365 (25.36%) Finance
2 243 (16.89%) Social Skills
3 195 (13.55%) Banking
4 95 (6.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 70 (4.86%) Retail
6 69 (4.79%) Public Sector
7 52 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
8 48 (3.34%) Front Office
9 38 (2.64%) Investment Banking
10 26 (1.81%) Retail Banking
11 20 (1.39%) Aerospace
12 19 (1.32%) Law
13 18 (1.25%) Games
13 18 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
13 18 (1.25%) Telecoms
14 17 (1.18%) Financial Institution
15 15 (1.04%) Tech for Good
16 12 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (0.63%) Electronics
17 9 (0.63%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (8.13%) Elastic Stack
2 79 (5.49%) .NET
3 68 (4.73%) YAML
4 61 (4.24%) ARM Templates
5 52 (3.61%) Kafka
6 40 (2.78%) Node.js
7 38 (2.64%) RabbitMQ
8 32 (2.22%) JSON
9 28 (1.95%) Spine.js
10 26 (1.81%) .NET Core
11 24 (1.67%) REST
12 21 (1.46%) Apache NiFi
12 21 (1.46%) LDAP
13 19 (1.32%) React
14 18 (1.25%) OAuth
15 14 (0.97%) ADO
15 14 (0.97%) OpenID
16 13 (0.90%) SAML
17 12 (0.83%) .NET Framework
17 12 (0.83%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 121 (8.41%) Public Cloud
2 94 (6.53%) Cloud Native
3 47 (3.27%) Data Centre
4 44 (3.06%) Private Cloud
5 39 (2.71%) Greenfield Project
5 39 (2.71%) Product Ownership
6 36 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
7 35 (2.43%) Linux Command Line
8 25 (1.74%) Mobile App
9 18 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
10 17 (1.18%) Management Information System
10 17 (1.18%) Tandem
11 16 (1.11%) Online Banking
11 16 (1.11%) Robotics
11 16 (1.11%) Virtual Team
12 15 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
13 12 (0.83%) Onboarding
14 10 (0.69%) Blog
14 10 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (0.69%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 497 (34.54%) Linux
2 139 (9.66%) Windows
3 89 (6.18%) Unix
4 31 (2.15%) Windows Server
5 27 (1.88%) Ubuntu
6 17 (1.18%) VMS
7 15 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (0.90%) Debian
9 9 (0.63%) Mac OS
10 8 (0.56%) Solaris
11 7 (0.49%) CoreOS
11 7 (0.49%) zOS
12 5 (0.35%) CentOS
13 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.069%) Android
14 1 (0.069%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.069%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,439 (100.00%) DevOps
2 840 (58.37%) CI/CD
3 624 (43.36%) Agile
4 602 (41.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 399 (27.73%) Containerisation
6 199 (13.83%) Problem-Solving
7 198 (13.76%) Continuous Integration
8 197 (13.69%) Configuration Management
9 193 (13.41%) Software Engineering
10 182 (12.65%) Mentoring
11 158 (10.98%) DevSecOps
12 147 (10.22%) Microservices
13 143 (9.94%) Scrum
14 139 (9.66%) Platform Engineering
15 130 (9.03%) Test Automation
16 123 (8.55%) Deployment Automation
17 117 (8.13%) SDLC
18 114 (7.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 110 (7.64%) Migration
20 97 (6.74%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 730 (50.73%) Python
2 426 (29.60%) Bash
3 328 (22.79%) PowerShell
4 295 (20.50%) Java
5 151 (10.49%) Go
6 114 (7.92%) SQL
7 103 (7.16%) Ruby
8 89 (6.18%) JavaScript
9 77 (5.35%) C#
10 74 (5.14%) Groovy
11 62 (4.31%) Shell Script
12 52 (3.61%) Perl
13 49 (3.41%) Bicep
14 27 (1.88%) TypeScript
15 23 (1.60%) C++
15 23 (1.60%) PHP
16 19 (1.32%) Scala
17 12 (0.83%) C
18 9 (0.63%) Rust
19 5 (0.35%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 252 (17.51%) Security Cleared
2 159 (11.05%) SC Cleared
3 116 (8.06%) Degree
4 68 (4.73%) AWS Certification
5 64 (4.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 33 (2.29%) Azure Certification
6 33 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
7 32 (2.22%) DV Cleared
8 31 (2.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 13 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (0.76%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 11 (0.76%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 9 (0.63%) GIAC
11 9 (0.63%) RHCE
12 4 (0.28%) CCNA
12 4 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.28%) CISSP
12 4 (0.28%) JNCIA
13 3 (0.21%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (4.66%) QA
2 14 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (0.83%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.28%) GDPR
4 4 (0.28%) NIST
5 2 (0.14%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.14%) NCSC
5 2 (0.14%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.069%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.069%) AUTOSAR
6 1 (0.069%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.069%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.069%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.069%) PMO
6 1 (0.069%) PSD2
System Software
1 708 (49.20%) Docker
2 96 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 34 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.90%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.28%) Ceph
6 4 (0.28%) vSphere
7 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.069%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.069%) iptables
8 1 (0.069%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 965 (67.06%) Terraform
2 899 (62.47%) Kubernetes
3 538 (37.39%) Ansible
4 147 (10.22%) Puppet
5 142 (9.87%) Grafana
6 137 (9.52%) Prometheus
7 97 (6.74%) Progress Chef
8 51 (3.54%) Rancher
9 44 (3.06%) Packer
10 43 (2.99%) Argo
11 32 (2.22%) Nagios
12 26 (1.81%) Kibana
13 19 (1.32%) Istio
14 13 (0.90%) HAProxy
14 13 (0.90%) Kustomize
15 11 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
16 7 (0.49%) CA Endevor
17 6 (0.42%) Docker Swarm
17 6 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
17 6 (0.42%) Kiali
Vendors
1 104 (7.23%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.39%) Google
3 84 (5.84%) Splunk
4 67 (4.66%) Oracle
5 56 (3.89%) Atlassian
6 52 (3.61%) VMware
7 41 (2.85%) New Relic
8 40 (2.78%) Red Hat
9 37 (2.57%) IBM
10 36 (2.50%) ServiceNow
11 30 (2.08%) Veracode
12 29 (2.02%) Cisco
12 29 (2.02%) F5
12 29 (2.02%) Fortinet
13 28 (1.95%) CheckPoint
14 24 (1.67%) AppDynamics
15 22 (1.53%) Dynatrace
16 14 (0.97%) SaltStack
17 12 (0.83%) CyberArk
18 10 (0.69%) TOWER Software