DevOps Engineer Jobs in England

Development Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in England is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 246 127 111
Rank change year-on-year -119 -16 -24
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 1,014 2,350 4,633
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.12% 2.77% 3.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.18% 3.04% 3.42%
Number of salaries quoted 751 1,677 2,451
10th Percentile £44,738 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +11.54%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 85,614 77,363 135,380
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.70% 91.32% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 63,242 50,157 75,088
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.22% +0.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in England

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in England

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in England

DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 31 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
London -123 355 £80,000 -3.03% 128
North of England -72 200 £60,000 -14.29% 56
South East -84 194 £60,669 -13.33% 29
South West -47 160 £70,000 +7.69% 29
North West -64 118 £60,000 -14.29% 31
Yorkshire -36 61 £65,000 -3.70% 21
Midlands -50 55 £55,000 -21.43% 23
East of England -43 37 £65,000 -13.33% 10
West Midlands -42 31 £55,000 -21.43% 16
East Midlands -29 24 £55,000 -15.38% 7
North East -8 21 £57,500 -11.54% 4
DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, 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 across the England region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 1,014 (100.00%) DevOps
2 647 (63.81%) Terraform
3 642 (63.31%) AWS
4 601 (59.27%) CI/CD
5 593 (58.48%) Kubernetes
6 476 (46.94%) Azure
7 447 (44.08%) Docker
8 396 (39.05%) Python
9 362 (35.70%) Agile
10 331 (32.64%) Infrastructure as Code
11 326 (32.15%) Containerisation
12 298 (29.39%) Ansible
13 297 (29.29%) Linux
14 255 (25.15%) Security Cleared
15 243 (23.96%) Jenkins
16 193 (19.03%) Social Skills
17 172 (16.96%) Azure DevOps
18 167 (16.47%) Bash
19 164 (16.17%) Mentoring
20 161 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
21 154 (15.19%) Amazon S3
22 153 (15.09%) PowerShell
22 153 (15.09%) Java
23 149 (14.69%) Continuous Integration
24 148 (14.60%) Public Sector
25 147 (14.50%) Test Automation
26 141 (13.91%) GCP
27 140 (13.81%) Prometheus
28 135 (13.31%) Git
29 134 (13.21%) Finance

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 32 (3.16%) nginx
2 23 (2.27%) Apache
3 17 (1.68%) Jupyter
4 16 (1.58%) Apache Spark
5 8 (0.79%) Confluence
6 7 (0.69%) Drupal
7 5 (0.49%) JBoss
8 4 (0.39%) IIS
9 3 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.30%) WordPress
10 2 (0.20%) Moodle
11 1 (0.099%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.099%) CMS
11 1 (0.099%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.099%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.099%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 642 (63.31%) AWS
2 476 (46.94%) Azure
3 172 (16.96%) Azure DevOps
4 154 (15.19%) Amazon S3
5 141 (13.91%) GCP
6 127 (12.52%) Amazon EKS
7 111 (10.95%) Serverless
8 105 (10.36%) GitHub
9 104 (10.26%) AWS CloudFormation
10 87 (8.58%) AWS Lambda
11 86 (8.48%) Amazon EC2
12 82 (8.09%) Amazon ECS
13 81 (7.99%) OpenShift
14 70 (6.90%) IBM Cloud
15 66 (6.51%) GitHub Actions
16 65 (6.41%) OCI
17 63 (6.21%) Amazon ECR
18 62 (6.11%) Route 53
18 62 (6.11%) SaaS
19 40 (3.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 60 (5.92%) DNS
2 43 (4.24%) Firewall
3 30 (2.96%) Network Security
4 26 (2.56%) HTTP
5 23 (2.27%) TCP/IP
6 13 (1.28%) Internet
7 10 (0.99%) Cisco ASA
7 10 (0.99%) WAN
8 8 (0.79%) LAN
8 8 (0.79%) SNMP
8 8 (0.79%) tcpdump
9 7 (0.69%) IPv4
9 7 (0.69%) IPv6
9 7 (0.69%) VPN
10 5 (0.49%) AMQP
10 5 (0.49%) SSL
11 3 (0.30%) SSH
12 2 (0.20%) SMTP
13 1 (0.099%) HTTPS
13 1 (0.099%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (12.72%) Amazon RDS
2 71 (7.00%) SQL Server
3 69 (6.80%) MongoDB
4 67 (6.61%) PostgreSQL
5 57 (5.62%) Hadoop
6 34 (3.35%) Relational Database
7 30 (2.96%) Amazon Redshift
7 30 (2.96%) Big Data
8 28 (2.76%) Azure SQL Database
9 23 (2.27%) MySQL
10 20 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
11 17 (1.68%) DynamoDB
12 16 (1.58%) Presto
13 15 (1.48%) NoSQL
14 13 (1.28%) Amazon Aurora
14 13 (1.28%) Power BI
15 12 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
15 12 (1.18%) DB2
15 12 (1.18%) RDBMS
16 10 (0.99%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 243 (23.96%) Jenkins
2 135 (13.31%) Git
3 107 (10.55%) GitLab
4 89 (8.78%) JIRA
5 40 (3.94%) Artifactory
6 27 (2.66%) TeamCity
7 26 (2.56%) SonarQube
8 25 (2.47%) CircleCI
9 21 (2.07%) Bitbucket
10 16 (1.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 16 (1.58%) Octopus Deploy
10 16 (1.58%) Sonatype Nexus
11 10 (0.99%) Selenium
12 9 (0.89%) Maven
12 9 (0.89%) Subversion
12 9 (0.89%) Team Foundation Server
13 8 (0.79%) IBM UrbanCode
13 8 (0.79%) MSBuild
13 8 (0.79%) Terragrunt
13 8 (0.79%) Vagrant
General
1 193 (19.03%) Social Skills
2 148 (14.60%) Public Sector
3 134 (13.21%) Finance
4 86 (8.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 60 (5.92%) Aerospace
6 30 (2.96%) Analytical Skills
7 29 (2.86%) Banking
8 26 (2.56%) Front Office
9 23 (2.27%) Law
10 17 (1.68%) Retail
10 17 (1.68%) Tech for Good
11 15 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (1.38%) Games
12 14 (1.38%) Telecoms
13 10 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (0.79%) Manufacturing
14 8 (0.79%) Marketing
15 6 (0.59%) Legal
16 5 (0.49%) Electronics
17 4 (0.39%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (7.00%) .NET
2 64 (6.31%) Node.js
3 60 (5.92%) Elastic Stack
4 50 (4.93%) YAML
5 49 (4.83%) Kafka
6 35 (3.45%) ARM Templates
7 30 (2.96%) RESTful
8 27 (2.66%) RabbitMQ
9 26 (2.56%) J2EE
10 21 (2.07%) AWS CDK
11 19 (1.87%) Apache NiFi
12 18 (1.78%) React
12 18 (1.78%) REST
13 17 (1.68%) JWT
14 16 (1.58%) ActiveMQ
15 15 (1.48%) JSON
16 14 (1.38%) Spring
17 12 (1.18%) Spring XD
18 11 (1.08%) HTML
19 10 (0.99%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 91 (8.97%) Hybrid Cloud
2 74 (7.30%) Blockchain
3 57 (5.62%) e-Learning
4 49 (4.83%) Public Cloud
5 35 (3.45%) Cloud Native
6 29 (2.86%) Product Ownership
7 27 (2.66%) Tandem
8 26 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
9 16 (1.58%) Client/Server
10 14 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
11 12 (1.18%) Low-Code
11 12 (1.18%) Private Cloud
12 11 (1.08%) Clustering
12 11 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (0.99%) Hedge funds
14 7 (0.69%) Data Centre
15 6 (0.59%) PKI
16 5 (0.49%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 297 (29.29%) Linux
2 99 (9.76%) Windows
3 16 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (1.28%) VMS
4 13 (1.28%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.18%) Unix
6 8 (0.79%) CentOS
7 5 (0.49%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.20%) Debian
8 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.099%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,014 (100.00%) DevOps
2 601 (59.27%) CI/CD
3 362 (35.70%) Agile
4 331 (32.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 326 (32.15%) Containerisation
6 164 (16.17%) Mentoring
7 161 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
8 149 (14.69%) Continuous Integration
9 147 (14.50%) Test Automation
10 120 (11.83%) Observability
11 108 (10.65%) Artificial Intelligence
12 107 (10.55%) Configuration Management
13 104 (10.26%) Software Engineering
14 102 (10.06%) Deployment Automation
15 94 (9.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 93 (9.17%) Coaching
17 91 (8.97%) Scrum
18 88 (8.68%) Microservices
19 84 (8.28%) SDLC
20 82 (8.09%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 396 (39.05%) Python
2 167 (16.47%) Bash
3 153 (15.09%) Java
3 153 (15.09%) PowerShell
4 115 (11.34%) SQL
5 81 (7.99%) Go
6 66 (6.51%) C#
7 42 (4.14%) JavaScript
8 40 (3.94%) Shell Script
9 36 (3.55%) Groovy
10 27 (2.66%) Ruby
11 22 (2.17%) PHP
12 21 (2.07%) Bicep
13 19 (1.87%) Perl
14 17 (1.68%) T-SQL
15 15 (1.48%) C++
16 12 (1.18%) C
17 9 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 9 (0.89%) TypeScript
17 9 (0.89%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 255 (25.15%) Security Cleared
2 133 (13.12%) SC Cleared
3 99 (9.76%) DV Cleared
4 65 (6.41%) AWS Certification
5 54 (5.33%) Degree
6 35 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (2.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 19 (1.87%) Azure Certification
9 14 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.39%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (0.30%) BC Cleared
13 3 (0.30%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 1 (0.099%) AWS Certified Developer
15 1 (0.099%) Master's Degree
15 1 (0.099%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (2.17%) QA
2 8 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.39%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.39%) NIST
4 3 (0.30%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.30%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.20%) NCSC
6 1 (0.099%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.099%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.099%) GDPR
6 1 (0.099%) SLA
System Software
1 447 (44.08%) Docker
2 37 (3.65%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.68%) Active Directory
5 16 (1.58%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.69%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.30%) KVM
9 2 (0.20%) Firmware
9 2 (0.20%) Varnish
9 2 (0.20%) vSphere
10 1 (0.099%) etcd
10 1 (0.099%) iptables
10 1 (0.099%) NFS
Systems Management
1 647 (63.81%) Terraform
2 593 (58.48%) Kubernetes
3 298 (29.39%) Ansible
4 140 (13.81%) Prometheus
5 104 (10.26%) Puppet
6 93 (9.17%) Grafana
7 82 (8.09%) Progress Chef
8 25 (2.47%) HAProxy
9 19 (1.87%) Consul
9 19 (1.87%) Packer
10 14 (1.38%) Nagios
10 14 (1.38%) Rancher
11 13 (1.28%) Argo
12 12 (1.18%) Docker Swarm
12 12 (1.18%) Kibana
13 11 (1.08%) Istio
14 9 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 8 (0.79%) Graphite
15 8 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
15 8 (0.79%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 109 (10.75%) Microsoft
2 87 (8.58%) Red Hat
3 80 (7.89%) IBM
4 67 (6.61%) Dynatrace
5 38 (3.75%) Oracle
6 31 (3.06%) VMware
7 22 (2.17%) Google
8 20 (1.97%) Splunk
9 16 (1.58%) Databricks
10 15 (1.48%) Cisco
11 13 (1.28%) ServiceNow
12 12 (1.18%) Atlassian
12 12 (1.18%) Sybase
13 10 (0.99%) Black Duck
13 10 (0.99%) New Relic
14 6 (0.59%) SAP
15 5 (0.49%) ForgeRock
15 5 (0.49%) Salesforce
15 5 (0.49%) SaltStack
15 5 (0.49%) YouTube