Development Operations Consultant
UK

The median Development Operations Consultant salary in the UK is £82,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 877 980 1093
Rank change year-on-year +103 +113 -285
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Consultant 17 13 119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.012% 0.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.014% 0.080%
Number of salaries quoted 11 6 75
10th Percentile £70,000 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £74,375 £55,625 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.92% -10.34% -9.38%
75th Percentile £90,000 £78,750 £86,875
90th Percentile £101,250 £83,125 £105,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £82,500 £57,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +43.48% -30.30% +34.69%

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 92,901 95,961 148,050
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,751 60,281 85,224
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,495
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

DevOps Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Consultant in the UK

DevOps Consultant
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for DevOps Consultant in the UK

DevOps Consultant
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Consultant over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps Consultant in the UK

DevOps Consultant
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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 +122 16 £82,500 +26.92% 6
Work from Home +89 14 £82,500 +37.50% 4
London +144 11 £81,250 +16.07% 4
UK excluding London -1 5 £82,500 +43.48% 3
South West - 2 £82,500 - 1
North of England +44 1 £82,500 +50.00% 1
North West +7 1 £82,500 +50.00% 1
Scotland - 1 £82,500 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £82,500 -
Midlands - 1 £82,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, DevOps Consultant 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 Consultant in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) DevOps
2 16 (94.12%) Azure
3 11 (64.71%) AWS
4 10 (58.82%) GCP
4 10 (58.82%) CI/CD
5 8 (47.06%) Terraform
5 8 (47.06%) SC Cleared
5 8 (47.06%) Security Cleared
6 7 (41.18%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (35.29%) Roadmaps
7 6 (35.29%) Continuous Delivery
7 6 (35.29%) Agile
8 5 (29.41%) Law
8 5 (29.41%) Integration Testing
8 5 (29.41%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
8 5 (29.41%) SaaS
8 5 (29.41%) PaaS
8 5 (29.41%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (29.41%) IaaS
8 5 (29.41%) Git
8 5 (29.41%) SDLC
8 5 (29.41%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (29.41%) Azure Certification
8 5 (29.41%) Bicep
8 5 (29.41%) ARM Templates
8 5 (29.41%) Storage Management
8 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
10 2 (11.76%) Microservices

DevOps Consultant 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 16 (94.12%) Azure
2 11 (64.71%) AWS
3 10 (58.82%) GCP
4 7 (41.18%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (29.41%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (29.41%) IaaS
5 5 (29.41%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (29.41%) PaaS
5 5 (29.41%) SaaS
6 2 (11.76%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (5.88%) Apigee
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.88%) GitLab
General
1 5 (29.41%) Law
2 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Online Banking
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) DevOps
2 10 (58.82%) CI/CD
3 6 (35.29%) Agile
3 6 (35.29%) Continuous Delivery
3 6 (35.29%) Roadmaps
4 5 (29.41%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (29.41%) Integration Testing
4 5 (29.41%) SDLC
4 5 (29.41%) Storage Management
5 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
5 2 (11.76%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (11.76%) DevSecOps
5 2 (11.76%) Microservices
5 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (5.88%) Customer Requirements
6 1 (5.88%) ITIL
6 1 (5.88%) Project Management
6 1 (5.88%) Scrum
6 1 (5.88%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Bicep
2 2 (11.76%) Bash
2 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) SC Cleared
1 8 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) Terraform
2 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
3 2 (11.76%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Adaptive Insights
2 1 (5.88%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.88%) Workday