Junior Development Operations
UK

The median Junior Development Operations salary in the UK is £40,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 878 948 1125
Rank change year-on-year +70 +177 -311
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior DevOps 33 51 88
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.049% 0.056%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.054% 0.059%
Number of salaries quoted 31 39 87
10th Percentile - £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £24,000 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £55,000 £54,375 £50,000
90th Percentile £57,500 £58,000 £53,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,250 £45,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +12.50% +23.08%

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 93,212 94,769 150,357
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.51% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,814 59,630 85,382
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,225
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Junior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior DevOps in the UK

Junior DevOps
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Junior DevOps in the UK

Junior DevOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Junior DevOps over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Junior DevOps in the UK

Junior DevOps
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Junior DevOps within the UK over the 6 months to 4 May 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 +72 32 £41,250 -17.50% 6
UK excluding London -19 21 £41,250 -8.33% 3
Midlands +27 12 £24,000 -31.43% 1
West Midlands - 12 £24,000 - 1
Work from Home +70 11 £42,500 -15.00% 1
London +111 10 £50,000 - 2
South East +5 5 £42,500 -10.53%
North of England +28 2 £24,000 -46.67% 1
North West +6 2 £24,000 -46.67% 1
South West -21 1 £42,500 -5.79% 1
Scotland - 1 £40,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Junior DevOps 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 in the job title.

1 33 (100.00%) DevOps
2 21 (63.64%) Python
3 16 (48.48%) AWS
4 12 (36.36%) Git
4 12 (36.36%) Terraform
4 12 (36.36%) Jenkins
4 12 (36.36%) CI/CD
5 11 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 11 (33.33%) Docker
6 10 (30.30%) Kubernetes
6 10 (30.30%) Azure
7 9 (27.27%) GCP
7 9 (27.27%) Mentoring
7 9 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (24.24%) Degree
9 7 (21.21%) Agile
9 7 (21.21%) Test Automation
9 7 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (21.21%) Containerisation
10 6 (18.18%) Computer Science
10 6 (18.18%) Puppet
10 6 (18.18%) Linux
11 5 (15.15%) C#
11 5 (15.15%) Risk Management
11 5 (15.15%) SaaS
11 5 (15.15%) Bash
11 5 (15.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (15.15%) YouTube
11 5 (15.15%) Public Sector
11 5 (15.15%) Coaching

Junior DevOps 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 3 (9.09%) nginx
2 1 (3.03%) Apache
2 1 (3.03%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 16 (48.48%) AWS
2 10 (30.30%) Azure
3 9 (27.27%) GCP
4 5 (15.15%) SaaS
5 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.03%) Datadog
5 1 (3.03%) GitHub
5 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.03%) IaaS
5 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) DNS
1 2 (6.06%) HTTP
1 2 (6.06%) Internet
1 2 (6.06%) SMTP
1 2 (6.06%) SSH
1 2 (6.06%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.03%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (6.06%) GIS
1 2 (6.06%) MySQL
1 2 (6.06%) Redis
2 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (36.36%) Git
1 12 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.06%) GitLab
3 1 (3.03%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.03%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (15.15%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Finance
4 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (6.06%) REST
1 2 (6.06%) SOAP
2 1 (3.03%) CSS
2 1 (3.03%) CSS3
2 1 (3.03%) HTML
2 1 (3.03%) HTML5
2 1 (3.03%) Keycloak
2 1 (3.03%) OAuth
2 1 (3.03%) OAuth2
2 1 (3.03%) OpenID
2 1 (3.03%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.18%) Linux
2 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (100.00%) DevOps
2 12 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 9 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (27.27%) Mentoring
4 7 (21.21%) Agile
4 7 (21.21%) Containerisation
4 7 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (21.21%) Test Automation
5 6 (18.18%) Computer Science
6 5 (15.15%) Coaching
6 5 (15.15%) Risk Management
7 4 (12.12%) Software Engineering
8 3 (9.09%) Asset Management
8 3 (9.09%) Configuration Management
8 3 (9.09%) Investment Management
8 3 (9.09%) Time Management
9 2 (6.06%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (6.06%) Fund Management
9 2 (6.06%) Mathematics
9 2 (6.06%) Scrum-ban
Programming Languages
1 21 (63.64%) Python
2 5 (15.15%) Bash
2 5 (15.15%) C#
3 4 (12.12%) Groovy
4 2 (6.06%) C++
4 2 (6.06%) Java
4 2 (6.06%) SQL
5 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (24.24%) Degree
2 4 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) QA
System Software
1 11 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (6.06%) Varnish
2 2 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.06%) vSphere
3 1 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (36.36%) Terraform
2 10 (30.30%) Kubernetes
3 6 (18.18%) Puppet
4 4 (12.12%) Ansible
5 2 (6.06%) Packer
6 1 (3.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (3.03%) Nagios
6 1 (3.03%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) YouTube
2 2 (6.06%) Google
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.06%) VMware
3 1 (3.03%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.03%) New Relic
3 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.03%) Splunk