DevOps Manager Jobs

Development Operations Manager
UK

The median Development Operations Manager salary in the UK is £102,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 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
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 689 880 808
Rank change year-on-year +191 -72 +255
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Manager 23 27 151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.027% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.029% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 17 23 121
10th Percentile £83,750 £68,000 £58,101
25th Percentile £85,000 £71,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £77,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.26% -22.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £118,750 £80,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £96,000 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - £77,500 £100,000
% change year-on-year - -22.50% +28.21%

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 50,981 94,642 91,089
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.74% 94.70% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,187 67,606 57,639
10th Percentile £29,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £71,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,564 £50,000 £53,059
% change year-on-year +3.13% -5.76% +6.12%

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 20 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 20 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 +155 23 £102,500 +40.41% 18
London +132 20 £112,500 +40.63% 14
Work from Home +137 16 £101,250 +51.40% 5

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 23 (100.00%) DevOps
2 22 (95.65%) Terraform
2 22 (95.65%) CI/CD
3 17 (73.91%) Kubernetes
3 17 (73.91%) Finance
4 15 (65.22%) Docker
5 14 (60.87%) Python
5 14 (60.87%) AWS
6 13 (56.52%) Banking
6 13 (56.52%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (56.52%) Serverless
6 13 (56.52%) Amazon ECS
7 12 (52.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 12 (52.17%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (52.17%) Fintech
7 12 (52.17%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (52.17%) Amazon SQS
7 12 (52.17%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (52.17%) Asset Management
7 12 (52.17%) Front Office
7 12 (52.17%) JavaScript
7 12 (52.17%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (52.17%) Amazon S3
7 12 (52.17%) Agile
7 12 (52.17%) Software Engineering
8 9 (39.13%) Infrastructure Management
8 9 (39.13%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
10 7 (30.43%) Ansible
11 6 (26.09%) Azure

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 14 (60.87%) AWS
2 13 (56.52%) Amazon ECS
2 13 (56.52%) AWS CloudFormation
2 13 (56.52%) Serverless
3 12 (52.17%) Amazon EC2
3 12 (52.17%) Amazon S3
3 12 (52.17%) Amazon SQS
3 12 (52.17%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (26.09%) Azure
5 4 (17.39%) GitHub
6 3 (13.04%) GCP
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (52.17%) Amazon RDS
1 12 (52.17%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Git
1 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) GitLab
General
1 17 (73.91%) Finance
2 13 (56.52%) Banking
3 12 (52.17%) Front Office
4 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) DevOps
2 22 (95.65%) CI/CD
3 12 (52.17%) Agile
3 12 (52.17%) Asset Management
3 12 (52.17%) Fintech
3 12 (52.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 12 (52.17%) Software Engineering
4 9 (39.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (39.13%) Infrastructure Management
5 5 (21.74%) Cloud Operations
6 4 (17.39%) Configuration Management
7 3 (13.04%) Cloud Security
7 3 (13.04%) E-Commerce
7 3 (13.04%) High Availability
7 3 (13.04%) Mentoring
7 3 (13.04%) Network Architecture
8 2 (8.70%) Containerisation
8 2 (8.70%) Identity Access Management
8 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (8.70%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (60.87%) Python
2 12 (52.17%) JavaScript
3 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
4 2 (8.70%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (65.22%) Docker
2 2 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (95.65%) Terraform
2 17 (73.91%) Kubernetes
3 7 (30.43%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Google
2 2 (8.70%) Citrix
2 2 (8.70%) Red Hat
2 2 (8.70%) VMware