Development Operations Developer
UK

The median Development Operations Developer salary in the UK is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 857 921 1075
Rank change year-on-year +64 +154 -256
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Developer 26 38 158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.026% 0.038% 0.099%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.042% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 19 36 113
10th Percentile £43,750 £51,250 -
25th Percentile £59,375 £55,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,125 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.53% +6.88% -20.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £84,375 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +15.91% -8.33% +41.18%

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 94,483 90,798 154,064
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 91.49% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67,539 57,358 84,412
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,526
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

DevOps Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Developer in the UK

DevOps Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for DevOps Developer in the UK

DevOps Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Developer over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps Developer in the UK

DevOps Developer
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 17 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 +90 25 £62,500 -1.19% 8
London +124 16 £62,500 -16.67% 3
Work from Home +65 14 £62,500 - 6
UK excluding London -26 9 £63,750 +15.91% 5
North of England - 4 £47,500 - 1
South East -6 3 £72,500 +11.54% 2
Yorkshire - 2 £47,500 - 1
North West - 2 - -
West Midlands +5 1 - -
Midlands -17 1 - -
East of England - 1 £100,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, DevOps Developer 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 DevOps Developer in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) DevOps
2 15 (57.69%) Agile
3 14 (53.85%) Python
3 14 (53.85%) Docker
3 14 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (50.00%) Azure
4 13 (50.00%) Microsoft
5 11 (42.31%) Scrum
5 11 (42.31%) JSON
5 11 (42.31%) Containerisation
6 9 (34.62%) QA
6 9 (34.62%) OAuth
6 9 (34.62%) OpenID
6 9 (34.62%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (30.77%) Flask
7 8 (30.77%) Data Structures
7 8 (30.77%) Swagger
7 8 (30.77%) Google
7 8 (30.77%) Django
7 8 (30.77%) SAML
7 8 (30.77%) Java
7 8 (30.77%) OpenAPI
7 8 (30.77%) Product Ownership
7 8 (30.77%) Microsoft Graph
7 8 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (26.92%) Serverless
8 7 (26.92%) C#
8 7 (26.92%) AWS
9 6 (23.08%) AngularJS
9 6 (23.08%) SDLC

DevOps Developer 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 (11.54%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (3.85%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 13 (50.00%) Azure
2 8 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (26.92%) AWS
3 7 (26.92%) Serverless
4 5 (19.23%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (11.54%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (11.54%) PaaS
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 2 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (7.69%) CloudFront
6 2 (7.69%) IBM Cloud
6 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 2 (7.69%) SaaS
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (3.85%) Power Automate
7 1 (3.85%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
3 3 (11.54%) NoSQL
3 3 (11.54%) Relational Database
4 2 (7.69%) DynamoDB
4 2 (7.69%) Metadata
4 2 (7.69%) MongoDB
4 2 (7.69%) Redis
5 1 (3.85%) Power BI
5 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Git
1 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.69%) Eclipse
General
1 5 (19.23%) Public Sector
1 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Law
4 1 (3.85%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (42.31%) JSON
2 9 (34.62%) OAuth
2 9 (34.62%) OpenID
3 8 (30.77%) Django
3 8 (30.77%) Flask
3 8 (30.77%) Microsoft Graph
3 8 (30.77%) OpenAPI
3 8 (30.77%) SAML
3 8 (30.77%) Swagger
4 6 (23.08%) .NET
4 6 (23.08%) AngularJS
5 5 (19.23%) Node.js
6 4 (15.38%) ASP.NET
6 4 (15.38%) REST
6 4 (15.38%) Web Services
7 3 (11.54%) .NET Framework
7 3 (11.54%) Apache Camel
7 3 (11.54%) Spring
7 3 (11.54%) Spring Boot
7 3 (11.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Data Structures
1 8 (30.77%) Product Ownership
2 3 (11.54%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (11.54%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (7.69%) Blockchain
3 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (7.69%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.85%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Linux
2 2 (7.69%) Windows
2 2 (7.69%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) DevOps
2 15 (57.69%) Agile
3 14 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (42.31%) Containerisation
4 11 (42.31%) Scrum
5 9 (34.62%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (23.08%) CI/CD
6 6 (23.08%) SDLC
7 5 (19.23%) Microservices
8 4 (15.38%) Full Stack Development
8 4 (15.38%) Process Improvement
8 4 (15.38%) TDD
9 3 (11.54%) Biometrics
9 3 (11.54%) BPEL
9 3 (11.54%) Computer Science
9 3 (11.54%) Kanban
9 3 (11.54%) Migration
9 3 (11.54%) Process Management
9 3 (11.54%) Test Automation
9 3 (11.54%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) Python
2 8 (30.77%) Java
3 7 (26.92%) C#
4 5 (19.23%) SQL
5 4 (15.38%) JavaScript
6 3 (11.54%) PowerShell
6 3 (11.54%) Shell Script
7 2 (7.69%) Apex Code
8 1 (3.85%) PHP
8 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) AWS Certification
2 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
2 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 3 (11.54%) Azure Certification
4 2 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Degree
5 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (34.62%) QA
System Software
1 14 (53.85%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Kubernetes
1 5 (19.23%) Terraform
2 3 (11.54%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (30.77%) Google
3 3 (11.54%) WSO2
4 2 (7.69%) IBM
4 2 (7.69%) Red Hat
4 2 (7.69%) Salesforce