DevOps Architect Jobs

Development Operations Architect
UK

The median Development Operations Architect salary in the UK is £95,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 861 933 1169
Rank change year-on-year +72 +236 -313
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Architect 46 14 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.015% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.046% 0.016% 0.057%
Number of salaries quoted 25 8 40
10th Percentile £75,500 - £74,875
25th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £73,750 £101,250
Median % change year-on-year +28.81% -27.16% +22.73%
75th Percentile £115,000 £95,000 £120,625
90th Percentile - £100,625 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £110,000 £86,250 £86,250
% change year-on-year +27.54% - +21.05%

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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

DevOps Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Architect in the UK

DevOps Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for DevOps Architect in the UK

DevOps Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Architect over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps Architect in the UK

DevOps Architect
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +45 22 £110,000 +49.15% 9
UK excluding London -17 17 £110,000 +27.54% 3
London +115 11 £95,000 +33.33% 6
Work from Home +49 11 £110,000 +51.72% 5
Midlands - 9 £110,000 - 1
West Midlands - 9 £110,000 - 1
Scotland - 6 £80,000 -
South East -6 1 - - 2
North West - 1 £75,000 -
North of England - 1 £75,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, DevOps Architect 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 Architect in the job title.

1 46 (100.00%) DevOps
2 32 (69.57%) CI/CD
3 16 (34.78%) Salesforce
3 16 (34.78%) Degree
3 16 (34.78%) Computer Science
3 16 (34.78%) Customer Experience
3 16 (34.78%) Digital Thinking
4 15 (32.61%) Metadata
4 15 (32.61%) Conflict Resolution
4 15 (32.61%) Facebook
4 15 (32.61%) IBM
4 15 (32.61%) Sony
4 15 (32.61%) Software Engineering
4 15 (32.61%) PlayStation
4 15 (32.61%) Presales
4 15 (32.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (32.61%) Deployment Automation
5 13 (28.26%) Agile
5 13 (28.26%) Azure
6 11 (23.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (23.91%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (23.91%) Terraform
7 10 (21.74%) Public Cloud
7 10 (21.74%) ARM Templates
8 9 (19.57%) PaaS
8 9 (19.57%) PowerShell
8 9 (19.57%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (17.39%) Network Virtualisation
9 8 (17.39%) Private Cloud
9 8 (17.39%) SDLC

DevOps Architect 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 2 (4.35%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) Apache
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 13 (28.26%) Azure
2 11 (23.91%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (19.57%) PaaS
4 8 (17.39%) IaaS
4 8 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.35%) AWS
5 2 (4.35%) Azure AKS
5 2 (4.35%) Kong
5 2 (4.35%) Serverless
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.17%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.17%) SaaS
6 1 (2.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.39%) NGFW
1 8 (17.39%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (32.61%) Metadata
2 2 (4.35%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.17%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
1 2 (4.35%) JIRA
2 1 (2.17%) Ant
2 1 (2.17%) Maven
2 1 (2.17%) SonarQube
2 1 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.17%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (8.70%) Finance
2 3 (6.52%) Retail
3 2 (4.35%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (21.74%) ARM Templates
2 8 (17.39%) JSON
2 8 (17.39%) YAML
3 1 (2.17%) ADO
3 1 (2.17%) boto
3 1 (2.17%) NumPy
3 1 (2.17%) Pandas
3 1 (2.17%) PySpark
3 1 (2.17%) PyTorch
3 1 (2.17%) scikit-learn
3 1 (2.17%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 15 (32.61%) PlayStation
2 10 (21.74%) Public Cloud
3 8 (17.39%) Private Cloud
4 3 (6.52%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.35%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.17%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (100.00%) DevOps
2 32 (69.57%) CI/CD
3 16 (34.78%) Computer Science
3 16 (34.78%) Customer Experience
3 16 (34.78%) Digital Thinking
4 15 (32.61%) Conflict Resolution
4 15 (32.61%) Deployment Automation
4 15 (32.61%) Presales
4 15 (32.61%) Software Engineering
5 13 (28.26%) Agile
6 11 (23.91%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (17.39%) Network Design
7 8 (17.39%) Network Virtualisation
7 8 (17.39%) SDLC
8 7 (15.22%) DevSecOps
9 6 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 3 (6.52%) Roadmaps
11 2 (4.35%) Architectural Patterns
11 2 (4.35%) Collaborative Working
11 2 (4.35%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 9 (19.57%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.35%) Java
3 1 (2.17%) Bash
3 1 (2.17%) Bicep
3 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.17%) Python
3 1 (2.17%) Scala
3 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (34.78%) Degree
2 15 (32.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.52%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.52%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 9 (19.57%) Virtual Desktop
2 8 (17.39%) VMware ESXi
2 8 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (17.39%) vSphere
3 2 (4.35%) Docker
4 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (23.91%) Terraform
2 3 (6.52%) Consul
3 2 (4.35%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.17%) Ansible
Vendors
1 16 (34.78%) Salesforce
2 15 (32.61%) Facebook
2 15 (32.61%) IBM
2 15 (32.61%) Sony
3 8 (17.39%) Citrix
3 8 (17.39%) VMware
4 1 (2.17%) Databricks
4 1 (2.17%) Hitachi
4 1 (2.17%) Microsoft