Junior DevOps Jobs

Junior Development Operations
UK

The median Junior Development Operations salary in the UK is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 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
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 701 859 927
Rank change year-on-year +158 +68 +236
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior DevOps 11 31 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.031% 0.050%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.033% 0.055%
Number of salaries quoted 11 29 39
10th Percentile £26,750 - £32,375
25th Percentile £28,875 £24,000 £36,154
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £53,125
90th Percentile £53,750 £58,500 £57,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,250 £41,250 £45,000
% change year-on-year -7.27% -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 50,683 94,601 90,752
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 94.69% 91.52%
Number of salaries quoted 27,196 67,610 57,343
10th Percentile £29,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,320 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,564 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -5.66% +6.00%

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 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Junior DevOps in the UK

Junior DevOps
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 within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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 +128 11 £45,000 +5.88% 23
UK excluding London +175 8 £38,250 -7.27% 21
Work from Home +119 5 £45,000 -10.00% 24
North of England +48 5 £28,500 +18.75% 10
London +104 3 £52,500 +5.00% 6
North West -4 3 £45,000 +87.50% 5
North East - 2 £28,000 - 2
East of England - 2 £38,250 -
Midlands +59 1 £45,000 +87.50% 5
East Midlands - 1 £45,000 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 2025, 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 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 10 (90.91%) AWS
2 10 (90.91%) Linux
3 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
4 6 (54.55%) Windows
5 5 (45.45%) Azure
5 5 (45.45%) Docker
5 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
6 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
6 4 (36.36%) Python
7 3 (27.27%) Bash
7 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
7 3 (27.27%) GitLab
7 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 2 (18.18%) Server Management
8 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
8 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
8 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (18.18%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (18.18%) Terraform
8 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
8 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
8 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (18.18%) Ansible
8 2 (18.18%) Salt
8 2 (18.18%) Puppet
8 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
8 2 (18.18%) Degree

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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
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%) Big Data
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) GitLab
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) CircleCI
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Advertising
2 1 (9.09%) Aviation
2 1 (9.09%) Cantonese Language
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Law
2 1 (9.09%) Mandarin Language
2 1 (9.09%) Marketing
2 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Retail
2 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (9.09%) JSON
2 1 (9.09%) OAuth
2 1 (9.09%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) SOAP
2 1 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
1 1 (9.09%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (9.09%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Linux
2 6 (54.55%) Windows
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
4 1 (9.09%) Unix
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%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (18.18%) Agile
5 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
5 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
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
6 1 (9.09%) Analytics
6 1 (9.09%) Big Data Analytics
6 1 (9.09%) Data Analytics
6 1 (9.09%) Logistics
6 1 (9.09%) Performance Metrics
6 1 (9.09%) Resource Management
6 1 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) Go
3 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
3 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 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Ansible
2 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
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%) 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