Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK is £70,288 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 254 135 105
Rank change year-on-year -119 -30 -21
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 1,126 2,674 5,181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.14% 2.58% 3.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.21% 2.82% 3.44%
Number of salaries quoted 858 1,874 2,770
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,288 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.28% +3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £91,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £107,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,497 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.11% -2.15% +21.74%

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 93,314 94,990 150,394
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.53% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,914 59,752 85,367
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the UK

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in the UK

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in the UK

DevOps Engineer
Top 18 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 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 -109 1,011 £70,576 -5.90% 242
UK excluding London -108 675 £65,000 -5.11% 139
Work from Home -104 508 £70,000 -6.67% 137
London -101 373 £84,000 +1.82% 100
North of England -70 194 £65,000 -3.70% 40
South East -72 178 £68,250 -3.19% 30
South West -36 153 £70,576 +8.58% 34
North West -55 114 £60,000 -14.29% 25
Yorkshire -31 58 £68,000 +4.62% 13
Midlands -36 55 £55,000 -18.52% 18
East of England -24 40 £65,000 -13.33% 9
West Midlands -31 29 £50,000 -28.57% 13
Scotland -113 29 £70,576 +0.82% 6
East Midlands -9 26 £55,000 -15.38% 5
North East -1 22 £57,500 -13.21% 2
Wales -4 18 £52,500 -26.83% 2
Northern Ireland +13 8 £52,500 -12.50% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £110,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 1,126 (100.00%) DevOps
2 741 (65.81%) Terraform
3 690 (61.28%) CI/CD
4 688 (61.10%) AWS
5 664 (58.97%) Kubernetes
6 531 (47.16%) Azure
7 495 (43.96%) Docker
8 441 (39.17%) Python
9 429 (38.10%) Agile
10 397 (35.26%) Infrastructure as Code
11 384 (34.10%) Linux
12 354 (31.44%) Containerisation
13 345 (30.64%) Ansible
14 293 (26.02%) Jenkins
15 245 (21.76%) Security Cleared
16 216 (19.18%) Azure DevOps
17 203 (18.03%) Social Skills
18 202 (17.94%) Finance
19 201 (17.85%) Bash
20 177 (15.72%) PowerShell
21 175 (15.54%) GCP
21 175 (15.54%) Continuous Integration
22 173 (15.36%) Mentoring
22 173 (15.36%) Problem-Solving
23 168 (14.92%) Amazon S3
24 166 (14.74%) Java
25 155 (13.77%) Git
26 148 (13.14%) Test Automation
27 146 (12.97%) Prometheus
28 145 (12.88%) Windows

DevOps Engineer 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 39 (3.46%) nginx
2 23 (2.04%) Apache
3 19 (1.69%) Apache Spark
3 19 (1.69%) Jupyter
4 13 (1.15%) Confluence
5 9 (0.80%) Drupal
6 5 (0.44%) IIS
6 5 (0.44%) WordPress
7 4 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.18%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.18%) CMS
8 2 (0.18%) JBoss
8 2 (0.18%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.089%) Moodle
Applications
1 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.089%) Magento
1 1 (0.089%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 688 (61.10%) AWS
2 531 (47.16%) Azure
3 216 (19.18%) Azure DevOps
4 175 (15.54%) GCP
5 168 (14.92%) Amazon S3
6 144 (12.79%) Serverless
7 140 (12.43%) Amazon EKS
8 137 (12.17%) GitHub
9 126 (11.19%) AWS CloudFormation
10 112 (9.95%) AWS Lambda
11 101 (8.97%) OpenShift
12 100 (8.88%) Amazon ECS
13 98 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
14 83 (7.37%) GitHub Actions
15 73 (6.48%) SaaS
16 69 (6.13%) IBM Cloud
17 63 (5.60%) Route 53
18 60 (5.33%) Amazon ECR
19 56 (4.97%) OCI
20 46 (4.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 68 (6.04%) DNS
2 54 (4.80%) Firewall
3 35 (3.11%) TCP/IP
4 31 (2.75%) Network Security
5 27 (2.40%) HTTP
6 18 (1.60%) Internet
6 18 (1.60%) VPN
7 14 (1.24%) WAN
8 12 (1.07%) LAN
9 10 (0.89%) Cisco ASA
9 10 (0.89%) IPv4
9 10 (0.89%) SNMP
9 10 (0.89%) tcpdump
10 6 (0.53%) IPv6
11 5 (0.44%) AMQP
12 4 (0.36%) SSL
12 4 (0.36%) WLAN
13 3 (0.27%) SSH
14 2 (0.18%) IPsec
14 2 (0.18%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (12.26%) Amazon RDS
2 76 (6.75%) SQL Server
3 56 (4.97%) MongoDB
4 55 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
5 41 (3.64%) Hadoop
6 37 (3.29%) Amazon Redshift
7 33 (2.93%) Big Data
8 28 (2.49%) MySQL
9 27 (2.40%) Relational Database
10 26 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
11 22 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
12 18 (1.60%) Amazon Aurora
12 18 (1.60%) DynamoDB
12 18 (1.60%) InfluxDB
12 18 (1.60%) Presto
13 13 (1.15%) Power BI
14 12 (1.07%) NoSQL
15 11 (0.98%) DB2
15 11 (0.98%) RDBMS
16 10 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 293 (26.02%) Jenkins
2 155 (13.77%) Git
3 124 (11.01%) GitLab
4 89 (7.90%) JIRA
5 54 (4.80%) Artifactory
6 39 (3.46%) SonarQube
7 31 (2.75%) CircleCI
8 25 (2.22%) IBM UrbanCode
8 25 (2.22%) TeamCity
9 23 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
10 19 (1.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 19 (1.69%) Bitbucket
11 15 (1.33%) Octopus Deploy
12 14 (1.24%) Maven
13 13 (1.15%) Selenium
14 11 (0.98%) git-flow
15 10 (0.89%) Team Foundation Server
16 9 (0.80%) Subversion
17 8 (0.71%) MSBuild
17 8 (0.71%) Vagrant
General
1 203 (18.03%) Social Skills
2 202 (17.94%) Finance
3 135 (11.99%) Public Sector
4 106 (9.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 54 (4.80%) Banking
6 52 (4.62%) Aerospace
7 36 (3.20%) Analytical Skills
7 36 (3.20%) Front Office
8 29 (2.58%) Law
9 21 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
10 20 (1.78%) Legal
10 20 (1.78%) Tech for Good
11 16 (1.42%) Games
11 16 (1.42%) Retail
12 15 (1.33%) Telecoms
13 9 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (0.80%) Retail Banking
14 8 (0.71%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.62%) Marketing
16 6 (0.53%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (7.64%) .NET
2 80 (7.10%) Elastic Stack
3 59 (5.24%) Node.js
3 59 (5.24%) YAML
4 36 (3.20%) Kafka
5 34 (3.02%) J2EE
6 31 (2.75%) ARM Templates
7 30 (2.66%) RabbitMQ
8 27 (2.40%) RESTful
9 25 (2.22%) AWS CDK
10 22 (1.95%) JSON
11 20 (1.78%) REST
12 19 (1.69%) React
13 17 (1.51%) ActiveMQ
13 17 (1.51%) Apache NiFi
13 17 (1.51%) JWT
14 16 (1.42%) .NET Core
15 15 (1.33%) Spring
16 14 (1.24%) Middleware
17 11 (0.98%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 91 (8.08%) Hybrid Cloud
2 76 (6.75%) Blockchain
3 73 (6.48%) Public Cloud
4 56 (4.97%) e-Learning
5 35 (3.11%) Cloud Native
5 35 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
5 35 (3.11%) Tandem
6 19 (1.69%) Product Ownership
7 18 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
8 16 (1.42%) Client/Server
9 15 (1.33%) Private Cloud
9 15 (1.33%) Virtual Team
10 14 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
10 14 (1.24%) Low-Code
11 13 (1.15%) Management Information System
12 12 (1.07%) Clustering
12 12 (1.07%) Onboarding
13 11 (0.98%) Hedge funds
13 11 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
14 10 (0.89%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 384 (34.10%) Linux
2 145 (12.88%) Windows
3 17 (1.51%) Unix
4 14 (1.24%) VMS
4 14 (1.24%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.07%) CentOS
5 12 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.62%) CoreOS
6 7 (0.62%) zOS
7 6 (0.53%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.18%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.089%) Debian
9 1 (0.089%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,126 (100.00%) DevOps
2 690 (61.28%) CI/CD
3 429 (38.10%) Agile
4 397 (35.26%) Infrastructure as Code
5 354 (31.44%) Containerisation
6 175 (15.54%) Continuous Integration
7 173 (15.36%) Mentoring
7 173 (15.36%) Problem-Solving
8 148 (13.14%) Test Automation
9 145 (12.88%) Software Engineering
10 126 (11.19%) Observability
11 119 (10.57%) Artificial Intelligence
12 117 (10.39%) Configuration Management
13 113 (10.04%) Deployment Automation
14 109 (9.68%) Microservices
15 105 (9.33%) Scrum
16 103 (9.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 101 (8.97%) Coaching
18 95 (8.44%) Continuous Deployment
19 89 (7.90%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 441 (39.17%) Python
2 201 (17.85%) Bash
3 177 (15.72%) PowerShell
4 166 (14.74%) Java
5 124 (11.01%) SQL
6 113 (10.04%) Go
7 76 (6.75%) C#
8 53 (4.71%) Shell Script
9 48 (4.26%) Groovy
10 47 (4.17%) Ruby
11 39 (3.46%) JavaScript
12 27 (2.40%) Perl
13 25 (2.22%) PHP
14 24 (2.13%) Bicep
15 18 (1.60%) C++
16 17 (1.51%) T-SQL
17 12 (1.07%) C
18 9 (0.80%) Rust
18 9 (0.80%) TypeScript
19 7 (0.62%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 245 (21.76%) Security Cleared
2 126 (11.19%) SC Cleared
3 95 (8.44%) DV Cleared
4 65 (5.77%) Degree
5 61 (5.42%) AWS Certification
6 36 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 17 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.07%) Azure Certification
10 11 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.53%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 2 (0.18%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.089%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.089%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.089%) BC Cleared
14 1 (0.089%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.089%) OCP
14 1 (0.089%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.089%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.31%) QA
2 14 (1.24%) GDPR
3 9 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.36%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.27%) NIST
5 3 (0.27%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.18%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.089%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.089%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.089%) NCSC
7 1 (0.089%) SLA
System Software
1 495 (43.96%) Docker
2 36 (3.20%) Virtual Machines
3 29 (2.58%) Active Directory
4 18 (1.60%) VMware ESXi
4 18 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.62%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.27%) KVM
6 3 (0.27%) vSphere
7 2 (0.18%) Firmware
7 2 (0.18%) Varnish
7 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.089%) etcd
8 1 (0.089%) iptables
8 1 (0.089%) NFS
8 1 (0.089%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 741 (65.81%) Terraform
2 664 (58.97%) Kubernetes
3 345 (30.64%) Ansible
4 146 (12.97%) Prometheus
5 106 (9.41%) Grafana
5 106 (9.41%) Puppet
6 94 (8.35%) Progress Chef
7 28 (2.49%) HAProxy
8 21 (1.87%) Packer
8 21 (1.87%) Rancher
9 20 (1.78%) Consul
10 17 (1.51%) Istio
11 16 (1.42%) Argo
12 15 (1.33%) Kibana
13 13 (1.15%) Nagios
14 12 (1.07%) Docker Swarm
15 10 (0.89%) Graphite
15 10 (0.89%) vCenter Server
16 7 (0.62%) CA Endevor
16 7 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 119 (10.57%) Microsoft
2 89 (7.90%) IBM
3 83 (7.37%) Red Hat
4 67 (5.95%) Dynatrace
5 49 (4.35%) Google
6 42 (3.73%) Oracle
7 32 (2.84%) VMware
8 19 (1.69%) Cisco
8 19 (1.69%) Splunk
9 15 (1.33%) Databricks
10 12 (1.07%) Atlassian
11 11 (0.98%) Sybase
12 7 (0.62%) McAfee
13 6 (0.53%) SAP
13 6 (0.53%) ServiceNow
13 6 (0.53%) Zscaler
14 5 (0.44%) ForgeRock
14 5 (0.44%) New Relic
14 5 (0.44%) SaltStack
14 5 (0.44%) YouTube