Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK is £70,000 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 265 130 108
Rank change year-on-year -135 -22 -20
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 1,099 2,681 5,345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.10% 2.70% 3.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 2.95% 3.47%
Number of salaries quoted 839 1,853 2,704
10th Percentile £45,000 £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 £91,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £104,000 £107,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £69,447 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.40% -0.79% +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 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 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 17 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 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 -119 994 £70,000 -6.67% 273
UK excluding London -126 671 £65,000 -6.40% 172
Work from Home -121 501 £70,000 -6.67% 171
London -113 359 £80,000 -3.03% 133
North of England -78 195 £60,000 -12.09% 40
South East -82 185 £65,000 -7.14% 56
South West -37 153 £70,576 +8.58% 29
North West -69 115 £60,000 -14.29% 25
Yorkshire -41 58 £65,465 -3.02% 12
Midlands -58 52 £55,000 -19.71% 22
East of England -31 38 £65,000 -13.33% 12
West Midlands -24 28 £51,250 -26.79% 15
Scotland -116 25 £70,576 +0.82% 8
East Midlands -22 24 £55,000 -15.38% 7
North East 0 22 £57,500 -13.21% 3
Wales -4 16 £52,500 -26.83% 1
Northern Ireland 0 7 £52,500 -22.22% 4
Channel Islands - 1 £110,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 1,099 (100.00%) DevOps
2 718 (65.33%) Terraform
3 684 (62.24%) AWS
4 674 (61.33%) CI/CD
5 632 (57.51%) Kubernetes
6 517 (47.04%) Azure
7 469 (42.68%) Docker
8 434 (39.49%) Python
9 415 (37.76%) Agile
10 381 (34.67%) Infrastructure as Code
11 355 (32.30%) Linux
12 341 (31.03%) Containerisation
13 328 (29.85%) Ansible
14 277 (25.20%) Jenkins
15 247 (22.47%) Security Cleared
16 209 (19.02%) Social Skills
17 198 (18.02%) Azure DevOps
18 188 (17.11%) Bash
19 181 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
20 175 (15.92%) Finance
21 173 (15.74%) Mentoring
22 168 (15.29%) GCP
23 167 (15.20%) Continuous Integration
24 165 (15.01%) Java
25 164 (14.92%) Amazon S3
26 161 (14.65%) PowerShell
27 150 (13.65%) Git
28 147 (13.38%) Test Automation
29 143 (13.01%) Public Sector
30 139 (12.65%) Prometheus

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 (3.55%) nginx
2 25 (2.27%) Apache
3 19 (1.73%) Apache Spark
3 19 (1.73%) Jupyter
4 9 (0.82%) Confluence
5 7 (0.64%) Drupal
6 5 (0.45%) IIS
7 4 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.36%) JBoss
8 3 (0.27%) WordPress
9 2 (0.18%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.18%) Moodle
10 1 (0.091%) CMS
10 1 (0.091%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.091%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.091%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.091%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 684 (62.24%) AWS
2 517 (47.04%) Azure
3 198 (18.02%) Azure DevOps
4 168 (15.29%) GCP
5 164 (14.92%) Amazon S3
6 138 (12.56%) Amazon EKS
7 136 (12.37%) Serverless
8 134 (12.19%) GitHub
9 106 (9.65%) AWS Lambda
10 105 (9.55%) AWS CloudFormation
11 99 (9.01%) OpenShift
12 95 (8.64%) Amazon ECS
13 94 (8.55%) Amazon EC2
14 82 (7.46%) GitHub Actions
15 72 (6.55%) SaaS
16 70 (6.37%) IBM Cloud
17 63 (5.73%) Route 53
18 61 (5.55%) Amazon ECR
19 58 (5.28%) OCI
20 47 (4.28%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (5.82%) DNS
2 52 (4.73%) Firewall
3 34 (3.09%) Network Security
4 31 (2.82%) TCP/IP
5 26 (2.37%) HTTP
6 17 (1.55%) Internet
6 17 (1.55%) VPN
7 14 (1.27%) WAN
8 12 (1.09%) LAN
9 10 (0.91%) Cisco ASA
9 10 (0.91%) IPv4
10 9 (0.82%) SNMP
10 9 (0.82%) tcpdump
11 6 (0.55%) IPv6
12 5 (0.45%) AMQP
13 4 (0.36%) SSL
13 4 (0.36%) WLAN
14 3 (0.27%) SSH
15 2 (0.18%) IPsec
15 2 (0.18%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (12.28%) Amazon RDS
2 75 (6.82%) SQL Server
3 67 (6.10%) MongoDB
4 64 (5.82%) PostgreSQL
5 51 (4.64%) Hadoop
6 34 (3.09%) Big Data
7 33 (3.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 31 (2.82%) Relational Database
9 27 (2.46%) MySQL
10 26 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
11 25 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
12 19 (1.73%) DynamoDB
13 18 (1.64%) Presto
14 16 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
14 16 (1.46%) NoSQL
15 13 (1.18%) Power BI
16 12 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
16 12 (1.09%) DB2
16 12 (1.09%) RDBMS
17 11 (1.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 277 (25.20%) Jenkins
2 150 (13.65%) Git
3 118 (10.74%) GitLab
4 84 (7.64%) JIRA
5 47 (4.28%) Artifactory
6 31 (2.82%) CircleCI
7 26 (2.37%) TeamCity
8 24 (2.18%) SonarQube
9 21 (1.91%) Sonatype Nexus
10 19 (1.73%) Bitbucket
11 18 (1.64%) IBM UrbanCode
12 17 (1.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 16 (1.46%) Octopus Deploy
14 14 (1.27%) Maven
15 13 (1.18%) Selenium
16 10 (0.91%) Team Foundation Server
17 9 (0.82%) git-flow
17 9 (0.82%) Subversion
18 8 (0.73%) MSBuild
18 8 (0.73%) Vagrant
General
1 209 (19.02%) Social Skills
2 175 (15.92%) Finance
3 143 (13.01%) Public Sector
4 104 (9.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 56 (5.10%) Aerospace
6 43 (3.91%) Banking
7 33 (3.00%) Analytical Skills
8 32 (2.91%) Front Office
9 30 (2.73%) Law
10 22 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
11 20 (1.82%) Legal
11 20 (1.82%) Tech for Good
12 16 (1.46%) Games
12 16 (1.46%) Retail
13 15 (1.36%) Telecoms
14 12 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (0.73%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.64%) Marketing
17 6 (0.55%) Electronics
18 5 (0.45%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (7.55%) .NET
2 68 (6.19%) Node.js
3 67 (6.10%) Elastic Stack
4 56 (5.10%) YAML
5 44 (4.00%) Kafka
6 31 (2.82%) ARM Templates
7 30 (2.73%) J2EE
7 30 (2.73%) RabbitMQ
8 29 (2.64%) RESTful
9 26 (2.37%) AWS CDK
10 20 (1.82%) REST
11 19 (1.73%) JSON
11 19 (1.73%) React
12 18 (1.64%) Apache NiFi
13 17 (1.55%) ActiveMQ
13 17 (1.55%) JWT
14 16 (1.46%) Spring
15 12 (1.09%) .NET Core
15 12 (1.09%) Middleware
15 12 (1.09%) Spring XD
Miscellaneous
1 92 (8.37%) Hybrid Cloud
2 76 (6.92%) Blockchain
3 61 (5.55%) Public Cloud
4 57 (5.19%) e-Learning
5 31 (2.82%) Cloud Native
5 31 (2.82%) Tandem
6 24 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
7 22 (2.00%) Product Ownership
8 18 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
9 17 (1.55%) Private Cloud
10 16 (1.46%) Client/Server
11 14 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (1.27%) Low-Code
12 13 (1.18%) Virtual Team
13 12 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
13 12 (1.09%) Management Information System
14 11 (1.00%) Clustering
14 11 (1.00%) Hedge funds
15 10 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
15 10 (0.91%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 355 (32.30%) Linux
2 123 (11.19%) Windows
3 15 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (1.36%) Windows Server
4 14 (1.27%) Unix
5 13 (1.18%) VMS
6 12 (1.09%) CentOS
7 7 (0.64%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.18%) Debian
8 2 (0.18%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,099 (100.00%) DevOps
2 674 (61.33%) CI/CD
3 415 (37.76%) Agile
4 381 (34.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 341 (31.03%) Containerisation
6 181 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
7 173 (15.74%) Mentoring
8 167 (15.20%) Continuous Integration
9 147 (13.38%) Test Automation
10 123 (11.19%) Observability
10 123 (11.19%) Software Engineering
11 117 (10.65%) Artificial Intelligence
12 113 (10.28%) Configuration Management
13 110 (10.01%) Deployment Automation
14 102 (9.28%) Coaching
15 100 (9.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 98 (8.92%) Microservices
17 93 (8.46%) Scrum
18 90 (8.19%) Continuous Deployment
19 87 (7.92%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 434 (39.49%) Python
2 188 (17.11%) Bash
3 165 (15.01%) Java
4 161 (14.65%) PowerShell
5 135 (12.28%) SQL
6 104 (9.46%) Go
7 71 (6.46%) C#
8 49 (4.46%) Groovy
8 49 (4.46%) Shell Script
9 44 (4.00%) Ruby
10 41 (3.73%) JavaScript
11 24 (2.18%) Bicep
11 24 (2.18%) Perl
12 23 (2.09%) PHP
13 17 (1.55%) T-SQL
14 16 (1.46%) C++
15 12 (1.09%) C
16 9 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 9 (0.82%) TypeScript
16 9 (0.82%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 247 (22.47%) Security Cleared
2 131 (11.92%) SC Cleared
3 94 (8.55%) DV Cleared
4 65 (5.91%) Degree
5 63 (5.73%) AWS Certification
6 37 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (2.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 14 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (1.09%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.27%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.18%) BC Cleared
14 1 (0.091%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.091%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.091%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.091%) OCP
14 1 (0.091%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.091%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (2.18%) QA
2 13 (1.18%) GDPR
3 8 (0.73%) 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 (0.091%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.091%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.091%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.091%) SLA
System Software
1 469 (42.68%) Docker
2 35 (3.18%) Virtual Machines
3 28 (2.55%) Active Directory
4 19 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
5 17 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.64%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.27%) KVM
9 2 (0.18%) Firmware
9 2 (0.18%) Varnish
9 2 (0.18%) vSphere
10 1 (0.091%) etcd
10 1 (0.091%) iptables
10 1 (0.091%) NFS
10 1 (0.091%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 718 (65.33%) Terraform
2 632 (57.51%) Kubernetes
3 328 (29.85%) Ansible
4 139 (12.65%) Prometheus
5 110 (10.01%) Puppet
6 97 (8.83%) Progress Chef
7 96 (8.74%) Grafana
8 27 (2.46%) HAProxy
9 21 (1.91%) Consul
10 20 (1.82%) Packer
11 18 (1.64%) Rancher
12 16 (1.46%) Argo
13 15 (1.36%) Istio
14 14 (1.27%) Kibana
14 14 (1.27%) Nagios
15 12 (1.09%) Docker Swarm
16 11 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 9 (0.82%) Graphite
17 9 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
17 9 (0.82%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 122 (11.10%) Microsoft
2 89 (8.10%) IBM
3 86 (7.83%) Red Hat
4 68 (6.19%) Dynatrace
5 42 (3.82%) Oracle
6 37 (3.37%) Google
7 31 (2.82%) VMware
8 20 (1.82%) Splunk
9 19 (1.73%) Cisco
10 16 (1.46%) Databricks
11 12 (1.09%) Sybase
12 11 (1.00%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.64%) New Relic
14 6 (0.55%) SAP
14 6 (0.55%) Zscaler
15 5 (0.45%) ForgeRock
15 5 (0.45%) McAfee
15 5 (0.45%) SaltStack
15 5 (0.45%) ServiceNow
15 5 (0.45%) YouTube