DevOps Systems Engineer Jobs

Development Operations System Engineer
UK

The median Development Operations System Engineer salary in the UK is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 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
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 698 901 955
Rank change year-on-year +203 +54 +255
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Systems Engineer 2 11 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.004% 0.011% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.004% 0.012% 0.026%
Number of salaries quoted 1 8 15
10th Percentile - £40,000 -
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £56,250 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -16.67% -3.57%
75th Percentile £58,750 £96,875 £112,500
90th Percentile - £110,000 £160,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -26.92% -

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 49,015 93,487 94,651
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 94.63% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,518 67,038 59,603
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

DevOps Systems Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Systems Engineer in the UK

DevOps Systems Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for DevOps Systems Engineer in the UK

DevOps Systems Engineer
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Systems Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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
UK excluding London +195 2 £52,500 +10.53% 1
England +158 2 £52,500 -6.67% 2
South East +96 1 £52,500 - 1
London +93 1 - - 1
Midlands +56 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2025, DevOps Systems 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 Systems Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Server Management
2 1 (50.00%) Log Aggregation
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) LDAP
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) SSL
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) Sophos
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Debian
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Agile

DevOps Systems 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) OpenLDAP
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
1 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) CentOS
2 1 (50.00%) Debian
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) IT Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Log Aggregation
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Nessus
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Sophos
1 1 (50.00%) VMware