DevOps Manager Jobs

Development Operations Manager
UK

The median Development Operations Manager salary in the UK is £96,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 695 882 817
Rank change year-on-year +187 -65 +249
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Manager 16 28 147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.029% 0.027% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.029% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 10 22 119
10th Percentile £83,750 £67,750 £58,101
25th Percentile £84,063 £71,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £96,250 £77,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.19% -22.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £118,750 £80,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £96,125 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - £76,500 £110,000
% change year-on-year - -30.45% +41.03%

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 49,435 96,820 89,564
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 94.78% 91.46%
Number of salaries quoted 25,727 69,155 56,824
10th Percentile £28,822 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%

DevOps Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Manager in the UK

DevOps Manager
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for DevOps Manager in the UK

DevOps Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Manager over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps Manager in the UK

DevOps Manager
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +154 16 £96,250 +31.85% 15
London +125 13 £112,500 +40.63% 10
Work from Home +126 9 £90,000 +34.58% 4

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, DevOps Manager 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 Manager in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) DevOps
2 15 (93.75%) Terraform
2 15 (93.75%) CI/CD
3 11 (68.75%) Finance
4 10 (62.50%) Kubernetes
5 8 (50.00%) Docker
5 8 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 8 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (43.75%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
6 7 (43.75%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (43.75%) Banking
6 7 (43.75%) Python
6 7 (43.75%) AWS
7 6 (37.50%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (37.50%) Amazon S3
7 6 (37.50%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (37.50%) Software Engineering
7 6 (37.50%) JavaScript
7 6 (37.50%) Asset Management
7 6 (37.50%) Agile
7 6 (37.50%) Front Office
7 6 (37.50%) Serverless
7 6 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (37.50%) Fintech
7 6 (37.50%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (37.50%) Ansible
7 6 (37.50%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (37.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (31.25%) Cloud Operations

DevOps Manager 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) Amazon ECS
1 7 (43.75%) AWS
1 7 (43.75%) AWS CloudFormation
2 6 (37.50%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (37.50%) Amazon S3
2 6 (37.50%) Amazon SQS
2 6 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (37.50%) Serverless
3 5 (31.25%) Azure
4 4 (25.00%) GitHub
5 3 (18.75%) GCP
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (37.50%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (68.75%) Finance
2 7 (43.75%) Banking
2 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
3 6 (37.50%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) DevOps
2 15 (93.75%) CI/CD
3 8 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 6 (37.50%) Agile
4 6 (37.50%) Asset Management
4 6 (37.50%) Fintech
4 6 (37.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 6 (37.50%) Software Engineering
5 5 (31.25%) Cloud Operations
6 4 (25.00%) Configuration Management
7 3 (18.75%) Cloud Security
7 3 (18.75%) E-Commerce
7 3 (18.75%) High Availability
7 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
7 3 (18.75%) Network Architecture
8 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
8 2 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
8 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (12.50%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Python
2 6 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.25%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (93.75%) Terraform
2 10 (62.50%) Kubernetes
3 6 (37.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Google
2 2 (12.50%) Citrix
2 2 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 2 (12.50%) VMware