Junior DevOps Engineer Jobs

Junior Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Junior Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK is £42,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 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
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 689 871 943
Rank change year-on-year +182 +72 +210
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior DevOps Engineer 11 33 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.033% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.035% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 10 31 39
10th Percentile £26,700 - £32,500
25th Percentile £30,875 £24,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £54,375
90th Percentile £48,125 £57,500 £58,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £41,250 £45,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +12.50%

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 47,541 93,322 94,998
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.35% 94.63% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 27,467 66,921 59,760
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%

Junior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Junior DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Junior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Junior DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Junior DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Junior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Junior DevOps Engineer
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Junior DevOps Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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 +158 10 £45,000 +9.09% 13
UK excluding London +185 7 £45,000 +9.09% 13
Work from Home +163 6 £45,000 +5.88% 18
North of England +72 4 £36,750 +53.13% 6
London +95 3 £46,250 -7.50% 2
North West +22 2 £45,000 +87.50% 2
North East - 2 £28,000 - 1
East of England - 2 £38,250 -
Midlands +49 1 £45,000 +87.50% 2
East Midlands - 1 £45,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, Junior 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 Junior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) AWS
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (81.82%) Linux
3 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
4 6 (54.55%) Azure
5 5 (45.45%) Docker
5 5 (45.45%) Windows
5 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
6 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (36.36%) Python
6 4 (36.36%) Bash
6 4 (36.36%) GitLab
6 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
7 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
7 3 (27.27%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
8 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 2 (18.18%) Server Management
8 2 (18.18%) CircleCI
8 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (18.18%) Splunk
8 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (18.18%) Ansible
8 2 (18.18%) Salt
8 2 (18.18%) Software Delivery
8 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (18.18%) Terraform
8 2 (18.18%) Puppet

Junior 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (54.55%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) HTTP
1 1 (9.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) GitLab
2 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
3 2 (18.18%) CircleCI
4 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Aviation
2 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (9.09%) Law
2 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (9.09%) JSON
1 1 (9.09%) OAuth
1 1 (9.09%) REST
1 1 (9.09%) SOAP
1 1 (9.09%) XML
1 1 (9.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
1 1 (9.09%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 9 (81.82%) Linux
2 5 (45.45%) Windows
3 2 (18.18%) Unix
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
3 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
4 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (18.18%) Agile
5 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (18.18%) ERP
5 2 (18.18%) Migration
5 2 (18.18%) Server Management
5 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Software Delivery
6 1 (9.09%) API Integration
6 1 (9.09%) Performance Metrics
6 1 (9.09%) Process Improvement
6 1 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (9.09%) SDLC
6 1 (9.09%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Bash
1 4 (36.36%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) Go
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) A+ Certification
2 1 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Ansible
2 2 (18.18%) Puppet
2 2 (18.18%) Salt
2 2 (18.18%) Terraform
3 1 (9.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (9.09%) Graylog
3 1 (9.09%) Kibana
3 1 (9.09%) Nagios
3 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
3 1 (9.09%) Rancher
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Splunk
1 2 (18.18%) VMware
2 1 (9.09%) Commvault
2 1 (9.09%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft