Junior Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Junior Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK is £42,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 853 923 1172
Rank change year-on-year +70 +249 -327
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior DevOps Engineer 31 52 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.052% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.033% 0.057% 0.045%
Number of salaries quoted 29 41 69
10th Percentile - £32,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £24,000 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +25.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £58,500 £57,500 £57,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,250 £45,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +12.50% +23.08%

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 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £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%

Junior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Junior DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Junior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Junior DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Junior DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Junior DevOps Engineer in the UK

Junior DevOps Engineer
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Junior DevOps Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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 +64 30 £42,500 -15.00% 9
UK excluding London -19 21 £41,250 -8.33% 8
Midlands +3 12 £24,000 -31.43% 1
West Midlands - 12 £24,000 - 1
London +100 10 £50,000 - 2
Work from Home +72 9 £50,000 - 9
South East +2 5 £42,500 -19.05% 3
North of England +29 2 £24,000 -46.67% 1
North West -6 2 £24,000 -46.67% 1
South West -23 1 £42,500 -5.79% 2
Scotland - 1 £40,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Junior 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 Junior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 31 (100.00%) DevOps
2 19 (61.29%) Python
3 14 (45.16%) AWS
4 12 (38.71%) Git
4 12 (38.71%) Jenkins
4 12 (38.71%) Terraform
4 12 (38.71%) CI/CD
5 11 (35.48%) Docker
6 10 (32.26%) Kubernetes
6 10 (32.26%) Azure
7 9 (29.03%) GCP
7 9 (29.03%) Mentoring
7 9 (29.03%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
8 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (22.58%) Containerisation
8 7 (22.58%) Test Automation
8 7 (22.58%) Agile
9 6 (19.35%) Degree
9 6 (19.35%) Linux
9 6 (19.35%) Puppet
10 5 (16.13%) SaaS
10 5 (16.13%) Bash
10 5 (16.13%) Risk Management
10 5 (16.13%) YouTube
10 5 (16.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
10 5 (16.13%) Coaching
11 4 (12.90%) Ansible
11 4 (12.90%) Computer Science Degree

Junior 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 3 (9.68%) nginx
2 1 (3.23%) Apache
2 1 (3.23%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 14 (45.16%) AWS
2 10 (32.26%) Azure
3 9 (29.03%) GCP
4 5 (16.13%) SaaS
5 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.23%) Datadog
5 1 (3.23%) GitHub
5 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.23%) IaaS
5 1 (3.23%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) DNS
1 2 (6.45%) HTTP
1 2 (6.45%) Internet
1 2 (6.45%) SMTP
1 2 (6.45%) SSH
1 2 (6.45%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (6.45%) GIS
1 2 (6.45%) MySQL
1 2 (6.45%) Redis
2 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (38.71%) Git
1 12 (38.71%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.45%) GitLab
3 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.23%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Finance
4 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (6.45%) REST
1 2 (6.45%) SOAP
2 1 (3.23%) CSS
2 1 (3.23%) CSS3
2 1 (3.23%) HTML
2 1 (3.23%) HTML5
2 1 (3.23%) Keycloak
2 1 (3.23%) OAuth
2 1 (3.23%) OAuth2
2 1 (3.23%) OpenID
2 1 (3.23%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (19.35%) Linux
2 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (100.00%) DevOps
2 12 (38.71%) CI/CD
3 9 (29.03%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (29.03%) Mentoring
4 7 (22.58%) Agile
4 7 (22.58%) Containerisation
4 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (22.58%) Test Automation
5 5 (16.13%) Coaching
5 5 (16.13%) Risk Management
6 4 (12.90%) Computer Science
6 4 (12.90%) Software Engineering
7 3 (9.68%) Asset Management
7 3 (9.68%) Configuration Management
7 3 (9.68%) Investment Management
7 3 (9.68%) Time Management
8 2 (6.45%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (6.45%) Data Analysis
8 2 (6.45%) Fund Management
8 2 (6.45%) Scrum-ban
Programming Languages
1 19 (61.29%) Python
2 5 (16.13%) Bash
3 4 (12.90%) Groovy
4 3 (9.68%) C#
5 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (19.35%) Degree
2 4 (12.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) QA
System Software
1 11 (35.48%) Docker
2 2 (6.45%) Varnish
2 2 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.45%) vSphere
3 1 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (38.71%) Terraform
2 10 (32.26%) Kubernetes
3 6 (19.35%) Puppet
4 4 (12.90%) Ansible
5 2 (6.45%) Packer
6 1 (3.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (3.23%) Nagios
6 1 (3.23%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) YouTube
2 2 (6.45%) Google
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.45%) VMware
3 1 (3.23%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.23%) New Relic
3 1 (3.23%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.23%) Splunk