DevOps Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Development Operations Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 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 285 163 130
Rank change year-on-year -122 -33 -30
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 692 1,257 2,024
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.92% 2.21% 2.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 2.48% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 496 728 1,209
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +21.74%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £86,500
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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 71,665 50,662 70,663
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.96% 88.95% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,431 29,528 42,704
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,985
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the UK excluding London 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
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
Scotland -122 23 £70,576 -5.90% 11
North East -8 21 £57,500 -11.54% 4
Wales -18 16 £52,500 -23.35%
Northern Ireland 0 7 £52,500 -27.59% 7
Channel Islands - 1 £110,000 -
DevOps Engineer
UK

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 692 (100.00%) DevOps
2 421 (60.84%) AWS
3 409 (59.10%) Terraform
4 402 (58.09%) CI/CD
5 393 (56.79%) Kubernetes
6 353 (51.01%) Azure
7 302 (43.64%) Docker
8 251 (36.27%) Agile
9 222 (32.08%) Ansible
10 218 (31.50%) Python
11 216 (31.21%) Linux
12 211 (30.49%) Containerisation
13 203 (29.34%) Infrastructure as Code
14 198 (28.61%) Security Cleared
15 137 (19.80%) Jenkins
16 130 (18.79%) Mentoring
17 126 (18.21%) Social Skills
18 122 (17.63%) Continuous Integration
19 114 (16.47%) Azure DevOps
20 109 (15.75%) Public Sector
21 101 (14.60%) GCP
21 101 (14.60%) Test Automation
22 100 (14.45%) Prometheus
23 97 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
24 93 (13.44%) Observability
25 91 (13.15%) PowerShell
26 89 (12.86%) SC Cleared
26 89 (12.86%) Java
27 87 (12.57%) Artificial Intelligence
27 87 (12.57%) JIRA

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 29 (4.19%) nginx
2 21 (3.03%) Apache
3 17 (2.46%) Apache Spark
4 16 (2.31%) Jupyter
5 6 (0.87%) Confluence
6 4 (0.58%) IIS
7 3 (0.43%) JBoss
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.14%) Moodle
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 421 (60.84%) AWS
2 353 (51.01%) Azure
3 114 (16.47%) Azure DevOps
4 101 (14.60%) GCP
5 81 (11.71%) Amazon S3
6 71 (10.26%) GitHub
7 65 (9.39%) Amazon EKS
8 59 (8.53%) IBM Cloud
9 58 (8.38%) SaaS
10 57 (8.24%) OCI
11 53 (7.66%) GitHub Actions
12 48 (6.94%) OpenShift
13 47 (6.79%) Amazon ECR
13 47 (6.79%) Route 53
14 41 (5.92%) AWS CloudFormation
15 27 (3.90%) Amazon ECS
16 26 (3.76%) Datadog
17 24 (3.47%) Serverless
18 23 (3.32%) PaaS
19 21 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.18%) DNS
2 20 (2.89%) Firewall
3 17 (2.46%) Network Security
4 10 (1.45%) HTTP
5 7 (1.01%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (0.87%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.87%) WAN
7 5 (0.72%) AMQP
8 4 (0.58%) LAN
8 4 (0.58%) VPN
9 3 (0.43%) SSL
10 1 (0.14%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.14%) IPsec
10 1 (0.14%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.14%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (8.53%) Amazon RDS
2 57 (8.24%) Hadoop
3 47 (6.79%) PostgreSQL
4 45 (6.50%) MongoDB
5 36 (5.20%) SQL Server
6 30 (4.34%) Big Data
7 23 (3.32%) Relational Database
8 16 (2.31%) Presto
9 10 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (1.45%) NoSQL
10 6 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (0.87%) InfluxDB
11 5 (0.72%) MySQL
12 3 (0.43%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.29%) DB2
13 2 (0.29%) Flink
13 2 (0.29%) RDBMS
14 1 (0.14%) Couchbase
14 1 (0.14%) Redis
14 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 137 (19.80%) Jenkins
2 87 (12.57%) JIRA
3 73 (10.55%) Git
4 60 (8.67%) GitLab
5 24 (3.47%) CircleCI
6 22 (3.18%) TeamCity
7 21 (3.03%) SonarQube
8 16 (2.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 13 (1.88%) IBM UrbanCode
10 12 (1.73%) Artifactory
11 10 (1.45%) Terragrunt
12 9 (1.30%) Team Foundation Server
13 8 (1.16%) Maven
13 8 (1.16%) MSBuild
14 7 (1.01%) Bitbucket
14 7 (1.01%) Selenium
14 7 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
14 7 (1.01%) Vagrant
15 6 (0.87%) Octopus Deploy
16 5 (0.72%) Subversion
General
1 126 (18.21%) Social Skills
2 109 (15.75%) Public Sector
3 62 (8.96%) Finance
4 61 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 58 (8.38%) Aerospace
6 19 (2.75%) Banking
7 16 (2.31%) Tech for Good
8 15 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (1.88%) Law
9 13 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (1.59%) Games
11 9 (1.30%) Retail
12 7 (1.01%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.01%) Marketing
13 6 (0.87%) Analytical Skills
14 5 (0.72%) Legal
14 5 (0.72%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.58%) Advertising
15 4 (0.58%) Automotive
15 4 (0.58%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (8.82%) Node.js
2 44 (6.36%) Kafka
3 41 (5.92%) .NET
4 31 (4.48%) YAML
5 29 (4.19%) Elastic Stack
6 26 (3.76%) RabbitMQ
7 24 (3.47%) ARM Templates
8 19 (2.75%) Apache NiFi
9 18 (2.60%) RESTful
10 16 (2.31%) ActiveMQ
11 13 (1.88%) JSON
12 10 (1.45%) JWT
13 9 (1.30%) XML
14 8 (1.16%) AWS CDK
15 6 (0.87%) Spring
16 5 (0.72%) HTML
16 5 (0.72%) Keycloak
17 4 (0.58%) Lambda Expressions
17 4 (0.58%) React
17 4 (0.58%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 76 (10.98%) Hybrid Cloud
2 59 (8.53%) Blockchain
3 47 (6.79%) Public Cloud
4 46 (6.65%) e-Learning
5 26 (3.76%) Cloud Native
6 25 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
7 24 (3.47%) Product Ownership
8 12 (1.73%) Low-Code
9 10 (1.45%) Client/Server
10 7 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.01%) Onboarding
11 6 (0.87%) Private Cloud
11 6 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.72%) Online Games
13 4 (0.58%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (0.58%) Management Information System
13 4 (0.58%) PKI
13 4 (0.58%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 216 (31.21%) Linux
2 51 (7.37%) Windows
3 9 (1.30%) VMS
4 8 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.87%) CentOS
5 6 (0.87%) Unix
6 3 (0.43%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.29%) Debian
7 2 (0.29%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 692 (100.00%) DevOps
2 402 (58.09%) CI/CD
3 251 (36.27%) Agile
4 211 (30.49%) Containerisation
5 203 (29.34%) Infrastructure as Code
6 130 (18.79%) Mentoring
7 122 (17.63%) Continuous Integration
8 101 (14.60%) Test Automation
9 97 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
10 93 (13.44%) Observability
11 87 (12.57%) Artificial Intelligence
12 79 (11.42%) Scrum
13 76 (10.98%) SDLC
14 72 (10.40%) Continuous Deployment
15 70 (10.12%) Coaching
16 63 (9.10%) Collaborative Working
17 60 (8.67%) Configuration Management
18 58 (8.38%) Kanban
19 56 (8.09%) Software Delivery
20 55 (7.95%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 218 (31.50%) Python
2 91 (13.15%) PowerShell
3 89 (12.86%) Java
4 83 (11.99%) SQL
5 82 (11.85%) Bash
6 41 (5.92%) C#
7 36 (5.20%) Shell Script
8 30 (4.34%) Groovy
9 29 (4.19%) JavaScript
10 23 (3.32%) Go
11 19 (2.75%) Bicep
12 15 (2.17%) Ruby
13 10 (1.45%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.30%) C
14 9 (1.30%) Perl
14 9 (1.30%) PHP
15 7 (1.01%) C++
16 5 (0.72%) Ada
17 4 (0.58%) Lua
17 4 (0.58%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 198 (28.61%) Security Cleared
2 89 (12.86%) SC Cleared
3 85 (12.28%) DV Cleared
4 38 (5.49%) Degree
5 36 (5.20%) AWS Certification
6 26 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (2.31%) Azure Certification
8 15 (2.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 9 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.58%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (0.43%) BC Cleared
12 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.14%) OCP
12 1 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.17%) QA
2 7 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.58%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.29%) NCSC
5 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.14%) NIST
5 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 302 (43.64%) Docker
2 22 (3.18%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (0.87%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.87%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.43%) KVM
6 3 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.29%) Firmware
8 1 (0.14%) iptables
Systems Management
1 409 (59.10%) Terraform
2 393 (56.79%) Kubernetes
3 222 (32.08%) Ansible
4 100 (14.45%) Prometheus
5 58 (8.38%) Progress Chef
6 52 (7.51%) Grafana
6 52 (7.51%) Puppet
7 16 (2.31%) HAProxy
8 12 (1.73%) Docker Swarm
9 11 (1.59%) Consul
9 11 (1.59%) Rancher
10 9 (1.30%) Packer
11 7 (1.01%) Kibana
12 6 (0.87%) Argo
13 4 (0.58%) Istio
13 4 (0.58%) Rundeck
13 4 (0.58%) vRealize
14 3 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.43%) Nagios
14 3 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 74 (10.69%) Microsoft
2 73 (10.55%) IBM
3 62 (8.96%) Red Hat
4 48 (6.94%) Dynatrace
5 19 (2.75%) VMware
6 16 (2.31%) ServiceNow
7 15 (2.17%) Google
7 15 (2.17%) Oracle
8 11 (1.59%) Cisco
9 10 (1.45%) Black Duck
10 9 (1.30%) Splunk
11 7 (1.01%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.58%) New Relic
12 4 (0.58%) SaltStack
12 4 (0.58%) SAP
12 4 (0.58%) YouTube
13 3 (0.43%) Databricks
13 3 (0.43%) ForgeRock
13 3 (0.43%) Sitecore
13 3 (0.43%) Veeam