DevOps Engineer Jobs

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 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 271 132 107
Rank change year-on-year -139 -25 -15
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 1,105 2,550 5,683
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.02% 2.74% 3.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 3.00% 3.45%
Number of salaries quoted 825 1,774 2,692
10th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £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 £92,188 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,750 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.79% - +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 102,753 84,908 164,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.21% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 72,538 55,143 85,388
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,524 £45,000 £42,750
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 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%

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 9 June 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 9 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 -130 1,008 £70,000 -6.67% 239
UK excluding London -132 691 £61,750 -11.79% 152
Work from Home -135 481 £70,000 -6.67% 163
London -140 346 £80,000 -3.03% 100
North of England -90 197 £60,000 -14.29% 39
South East -87 193 £60,000 -14.29% 26
South West -40 161 £68,750 +5.77% 33
North West -72 120 £60,000 -14.29% 24
Midlands -70 59 £55,000 -21.43% 28
Yorkshire -44 57 £57,500 -14.85% 12
East of England -52 38 £65,000 -13.33% 8
West Midlands -41 33 £55,000 -21.43% 18
East Midlands -42 26 £57,500 -11.54% 10
North East -12 20 £60,000 -9.43% 3
Scotland -124 20 £72,500 -3.33% 8
Wales -12 16 £51,250 -25.18% 3
Northern Ireland -5 7 £52,500 -28.81% 7
Channel Islands - 1 £110,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 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 1,105 (100.00%) DevOps
2 704 (63.71%) AWS
3 695 (62.90%) Terraform
4 659 (59.64%) CI/CD
5 634 (57.38%) Kubernetes
6 529 (47.87%) Azure
7 477 (43.17%) Docker
8 442 (40.00%) Python
9 394 (35.66%) Agile
10 365 (33.03%) Infrastructure as Code
11 341 (30.86%) Containerisation
12 329 (29.77%) Ansible
13 320 (28.96%) Linux
14 269 (24.34%) Jenkins
15 265 (23.98%) Security Cleared
16 207 (18.73%) Social Skills
17 199 (18.01%) Azure DevOps
18 180 (16.29%) Bash
19 179 (16.20%) Mentoring
20 178 (16.11%) Problem-Solving
21 166 (15.02%) GCP
22 164 (14.84%) Java
23 163 (14.75%) PowerShell
24 159 (14.39%) Continuous Integration
25 156 (14.12%) Amazon S3
25 156 (14.12%) Test Automation
26 153 (13.85%) Public Sector
27 143 (12.94%) Git
28 141 (12.76%) SC Cleared
29 139 (12.58%) 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 36 (3.26%) nginx
2 25 (2.26%) Apache
3 18 (1.63%) Apache Spark
3 18 (1.63%) Jupyter
4 10 (0.90%) Confluence
5 6 (0.54%) Drupal
6 5 (0.45%) JBoss
7 4 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.36%) IIS
8 2 (0.18%) Moodle
8 2 (0.18%) WordPress
9 1 (0.090%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.090%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.090%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.090%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 704 (63.71%) AWS
2 529 (47.87%) Azure
3 199 (18.01%) Azure DevOps
4 166 (15.02%) GCP
5 156 (14.12%) Amazon S3
6 129 (11.67%) Amazon EKS
7 128 (11.58%) GitHub
8 123 (11.13%) Serverless
9 108 (9.77%) AWS CloudFormation
10 92 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
11 87 (7.87%) Amazon EC2
12 83 (7.51%) GitHub Actions
13 81 (7.33%) Amazon ECS
14 79 (7.15%) OpenShift
15 72 (6.52%) SaaS
16 70 (6.33%) IBM Cloud
16 70 (6.33%) OCI
17 63 (5.70%) Amazon ECR
17 63 (5.70%) Route 53
18 47 (4.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (5.70%) DNS
2 51 (4.62%) Firewall
3 35 (3.17%) Network Security
4 26 (2.35%) HTTP
5 25 (2.26%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.36%) Internet
6 15 (1.36%) VPN
7 14 (1.27%) WAN
8 12 (1.09%) LAN
9 11 (1.00%) IPv4
10 10 (0.90%) Cisco ASA
11 8 (0.72%) SNMP
11 8 (0.72%) tcpdump
12 7 (0.63%) IPv6
13 5 (0.45%) AMQP
13 5 (0.45%) SSL
14 4 (0.36%) WLAN
15 3 (0.27%) SSH
16 2 (0.18%) SMTP
17 1 (0.090%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (11.31%) Amazon RDS
2 77 (6.97%) MongoDB
3 74 (6.70%) PostgreSQL
4 72 (6.52%) SQL Server
5 63 (5.70%) Hadoop
6 36 (3.26%) Relational Database
7 35 (3.17%) Big Data
8 29 (2.62%) Amazon Redshift
9 28 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
10 24 (2.17%) MySQL
11 23 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (1.54%) DynamoDB
12 17 (1.54%) NoSQL
12 17 (1.54%) Presto
13 13 (1.18%) Power BI
14 12 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
14 12 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
14 12 (1.09%) DB2
14 12 (1.09%) RDBMS
15 11 (1.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 269 (24.34%) Jenkins
2 143 (12.94%) Git
3 116 (10.50%) GitLab
4 95 (8.60%) JIRA
5 38 (3.44%) Artifactory
6 34 (3.08%) CircleCI
7 31 (2.81%) SonarQube
8 27 (2.44%) TeamCity
9 20 (1.81%) Bitbucket
10 17 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
11 16 (1.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 16 (1.45%) Octopus Deploy
12 13 (1.18%) Terragrunt
13 12 (1.09%) Selenium
14 11 (1.00%) Maven
15 10 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
16 9 (0.81%) Subversion
17 8 (0.72%) MSBuild
17 8 (0.72%) Vagrant
18 7 (0.63%) git-flow
General
1 207 (18.73%) Social Skills
2 153 (13.85%) Public Sector
3 137 (12.40%) Finance
4 97 (8.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 60 (5.43%) Aerospace
6 31 (2.81%) Analytical Skills
7 28 (2.53%) Banking
8 25 (2.26%) Front Office
9 20 (1.81%) Law
10 19 (1.72%) Tech for Good
11 18 (1.63%) Retail
12 17 (1.54%) Legal
13 15 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (1.27%) Games
14 14 (1.27%) Telecoms
15 11 (1.00%) Marketing
16 10 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
17 8 (0.72%) Manufacturing
18 5 (0.45%) Advertising
18 5 (0.45%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (7.96%) Node.js
2 72 (6.52%) .NET
3 65 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
4 59 (5.34%) Kafka
5 49 (4.43%) YAML
6 41 (3.71%) ARM Templates
7 31 (2.81%) RESTful
8 27 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
9 24 (2.17%) J2EE
10 23 (2.08%) AWS CDK
11 21 (1.90%) React
12 20 (1.81%) Apache NiFi
13 19 (1.72%) REST
14 17 (1.54%) JWT
15 16 (1.45%) ActiveMQ
15 16 (1.45%) JSON
16 15 (1.36%) Spring
17 12 (1.09%) Spring XD
18 11 (1.00%) HTML
18 11 (1.00%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 93 (8.42%) Hybrid Cloud
2 75 (6.79%) Blockchain
3 57 (5.16%) e-Learning
4 49 (4.43%) Public Cloud
5 39 (3.53%) Cloud Native
6 33 (2.99%) Product Ownership
7 29 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
8 25 (2.26%) Tandem
9 16 (1.45%) Client/Server
9 16 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
10 15 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
10 15 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
11 12 (1.09%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.09%) Private Cloud
12 11 (1.00%) Clustering
12 11 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (1.00%) Low-Code
13 10 (0.90%) Hedge funds
14 9 (0.81%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.72%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 320 (28.96%) Linux
2 102 (9.23%) Windows
3 17 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.18%) Unix
6 12 (1.09%) VMS
7 11 (1.00%) CentOS
8 5 (0.45%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.18%) Debian
9 2 (0.18%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,105 (100.00%) DevOps
2 659 (59.64%) CI/CD
3 394 (35.66%) Agile
4 365 (33.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 341 (30.86%) Containerisation
6 179 (16.20%) Mentoring
7 178 (16.11%) Problem-Solving
8 159 (14.39%) Continuous Integration
9 156 (14.12%) Test Automation
10 124 (11.22%) Observability
11 116 (10.50%) Artificial Intelligence
12 115 (10.41%) Software Engineering
13 109 (9.86%) Configuration Management
14 108 (9.77%) Scrum
15 104 (9.41%) Deployment Automation
16 102 (9.23%) Coaching
17 99 (8.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 93 (8.42%) Microservices
19 89 (8.05%) Continuous Deployment
20 85 (7.69%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 442 (40.00%) Python
2 180 (16.29%) Bash
3 164 (14.84%) Java
4 163 (14.75%) PowerShell
5 132 (11.95%) SQL
6 88 (7.96%) Go
7 66 (5.97%) C#
8 49 (4.43%) JavaScript
9 46 (4.16%) Shell Script
10 40 (3.62%) Ruby
11 33 (2.99%) Groovy
12 23 (2.08%) Bicep
12 23 (2.08%) Perl
13 20 (1.81%) PHP
14 17 (1.54%) C++
14 17 (1.54%) T-SQL
15 12 (1.09%) C
16 11 (1.00%) TypeScript
17 9 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 9 (0.81%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 265 (23.98%) Security Cleared
2 141 (12.76%) SC Cleared
3 101 (9.14%) DV Cleared
4 70 (6.33%) AWS Certification
5 62 (5.61%) Degree
6 41 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (2.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 24 (2.17%) Azure Certification
9 15 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.27%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.27%) BC Cleared
12 3 (0.27%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.090%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.090%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.090%) OCP
14 1 (0.090%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.090%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (1.99%) QA
2 12 (1.09%) GDPR
3 7 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.36%) NIST
5 3 (0.27%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.27%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.27%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.18%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.18%) NCSC
7 1 (0.090%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.090%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.090%) SLA
System Software
1 477 (43.17%) Docker
2 37 (3.35%) Virtual Machines
3 23 (2.08%) Active Directory
4 20 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.63%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.27%) KVM
9 2 (0.18%) Firmware
9 2 (0.18%) Varnish
9 2 (0.18%) vSphere
10 1 (0.090%) etcd
10 1 (0.090%) iptables
10 1 (0.090%) NFS
10 1 (0.090%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 695 (62.90%) Terraform
2 634 (57.38%) Kubernetes
3 329 (29.77%) Ansible
4 139 (12.58%) Prometheus
5 107 (9.68%) Puppet
6 92 (8.33%) Grafana
7 84 (7.60%) Progress Chef
8 25 (2.26%) HAProxy
9 20 (1.81%) Packer
10 18 (1.63%) Consul
11 14 (1.27%) Argo
11 14 (1.27%) Nagios
12 13 (1.18%) Kibana
13 12 (1.09%) Docker Swarm
13 12 (1.09%) Rancher
14 11 (1.00%) Istio
15 8 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 8 (0.72%) Graphite
15 8 (0.72%) vCenter Server
16 7 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 122 (11.04%) Microsoft
2 88 (7.96%) Red Hat
3 77 (6.97%) IBM
4 68 (6.15%) Dynatrace
5 38 (3.44%) Oracle
6 31 (2.81%) VMware
7 24 (2.17%) Google
8 19 (1.72%) Cisco
8 19 (1.72%) Splunk
9 18 (1.63%) ServiceNow
10 15 (1.36%) Black Duck
10 15 (1.36%) Databricks
11 12 (1.09%) Atlassian
11 12 (1.09%) Sybase
12 10 (0.90%) New Relic
13 8 (0.72%) Salesforce
14 6 (0.54%) SAP
14 6 (0.54%) Zscaler
15 5 (0.45%) ForgeRock
15 5 (0.45%) YouTube