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 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 260 127 107
Rank change year-on-year -133 -20 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 1,112 2,705 5,475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.10% 2.75% 3.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 3.00% 3.48%
Number of salaries quoted 839 1,853 2,708
10th Percentile £44,540 £51,150 £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 £87,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £107,500 £97,500
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 95,626 90,111 157,385
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.48% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 68,292 56,801 84,606
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 £70,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,250 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.10% +6.13% +5.63%

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 23 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 23 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 -116 1,007 £70,000 -6.67% 231
UK excluding London -119 687 £65,000 -6.40% 139
Work from Home -125 501 £70,000 -6.67% 171
London -121 357 £80,000 -3.03% 100
North of England -67 202 £60,000 -13.60% 42
South East -79 188 £63,169 -9.76% 22
South West -37 157 £70,288 +8.14% 29
North West -59 120 £60,000 -14.29% 29
Yorkshire -35 60 £65,232 -3.36% 10
Midlands -63 53 £55,000 -19.71% 20
East of England -32 38 £65,000 -13.33% 10
West Midlands -34 29 £52,500 -25.00% 15
Scotland -121 25 £70,576 +1.62% 9
East Midlands -21 24 £55,000 -15.38% 5
North East -3 22 £57,500 -13.21% 3
Wales -14 16 £52,500 -26.83% 1
Northern Ireland +2 8 £52,500 -27.59% 6
Channel Islands - 1 £110,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 1,112 (100.00%) DevOps
2 730 (65.65%) Terraform
3 704 (63.31%) AWS
4 683 (61.42%) CI/CD
5 645 (58.00%) Kubernetes
6 532 (47.84%) Azure
7 484 (43.53%) Docker
8 446 (40.11%) Python
9 423 (38.04%) Agile
10 387 (34.80%) Infrastructure as Code
11 351 (31.56%) Linux
12 347 (31.21%) Containerisation
13 344 (30.94%) Ansible
14 286 (25.72%) Jenkins
15 263 (23.65%) Security Cleared
16 222 (19.96%) Social Skills
17 195 (17.54%) Azure DevOps
18 188 (16.91%) Mentoring
19 182 (16.37%) GCP
19 182 (16.37%) Bash
20 177 (15.92%) Problem-Solving
21 165 (14.84%) Java
21 165 (14.84%) Finance
22 164 (14.75%) Amazon S3
23 163 (14.66%) Continuous Integration
24 160 (14.39%) Test Automation
25 157 (14.12%) PowerShell
26 149 (13.40%) Public Sector
27 148 (13.31%) Git
28 144 (12.95%) SC Cleared

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 40 (3.60%) nginx
2 26 (2.34%) Apache
3 19 (1.71%) Apache Spark
3 19 (1.71%) Jupyter
4 10 (0.90%) Confluence
5 7 (0.63%) Drupal
6 5 (0.45%) JBoss
7 4 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.36%) IIS
8 3 (0.27%) WordPress
9 2 (0.18%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.18%) Moodle
10 1 (0.090%) CMS
10 1 (0.090%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.090%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.090%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 704 (63.31%) AWS
2 532 (47.84%) Azure
3 195 (17.54%) Azure DevOps
4 182 (16.37%) GCP
5 164 (14.75%) Amazon S3
6 138 (12.41%) Amazon EKS
7 133 (11.96%) GitHub
8 130 (11.69%) Serverless
9 113 (10.16%) AWS CloudFormation
10 102 (9.17%) AWS Lambda
11 97 (8.72%) OpenShift
12 94 (8.45%) Amazon EC2
13 89 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
14 84 (7.55%) GitHub Actions
15 73 (6.56%) SaaS
16 70 (6.29%) IBM Cloud
16 70 (6.29%) OCI
17 63 (5.67%) Route 53
18 62 (5.58%) Amazon ECR
19 46 (4.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 66 (5.94%) DNS
2 52 (4.68%) Firewall
3 34 (3.06%) Network Security
4 30 (2.70%) TCP/IP
5 27 (2.43%) HTTP
6 17 (1.53%) Internet
7 16 (1.44%) VPN
8 14 (1.26%) WAN
9 12 (1.08%) LAN
10 11 (0.99%) IPv4
11 10 (0.90%) Cisco ASA
12 9 (0.81%) SNMP
12 9 (0.81%) tcpdump
13 7 (0.63%) IPv6
14 5 (0.45%) AMQP
14 5 (0.45%) SSL
15 4 (0.36%) WLAN
16 3 (0.27%) SSH
17 2 (0.18%) IPsec
17 2 (0.18%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (12.05%) Amazon RDS
2 72 (6.47%) SQL Server
3 69 (6.21%) MongoDB
4 67 (6.03%) PostgreSQL
5 55 (4.95%) Hadoop
6 33 (2.97%) Big Data
7 32 (2.88%) Amazon Redshift
8 31 (2.79%) Relational Database
9 26 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
9 26 (2.34%) MySQL
10 24 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
11 19 (1.71%) DynamoDB
12 18 (1.62%) Presto
13 15 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
13 15 (1.35%) NoSQL
14 13 (1.17%) Power BI
15 12 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
15 12 (1.08%) DB2
15 12 (1.08%) RDBMS
16 11 (0.99%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 286 (25.72%) Jenkins
2 148 (13.31%) Git
3 117 (10.52%) GitLab
4 98 (8.81%) JIRA
5 45 (4.05%) Artifactory
6 35 (3.15%) SonarQube
7 33 (2.97%) CircleCI
8 26 (2.34%) TeamCity
9 21 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
10 20 (1.80%) Bitbucket
11 18 (1.62%) IBM UrbanCode
12 17 (1.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 15 (1.35%) Octopus Deploy
14 13 (1.17%) Maven
14 13 (1.17%) Terragrunt
15 12 (1.08%) Selenium
16 10 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
17 9 (0.81%) git-flow
17 9 (0.81%) Subversion
18 8 (0.72%) Vagrant
General
1 222 (19.96%) Social Skills
2 165 (14.84%) Finance
3 149 (13.40%) Public Sector
4 103 (9.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 58 (5.22%) Aerospace
6 40 (3.60%) Banking
7 31 (2.79%) Analytical Skills
8 30 (2.70%) Front Office
9 29 (2.61%) Law
10 22 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
11 20 (1.80%) Legal
12 19 (1.71%) Tech for Good
13 16 (1.44%) Retail
14 15 (1.35%) Games
14 15 (1.35%) Telecoms
15 14 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (0.72%) Manufacturing
17 7 (0.63%) Marketing
18 5 (0.45%) Electronics
19 4 (0.36%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (7.19%) Node.js
2 78 (7.01%) .NET
3 68 (6.12%) Elastic Stack
4 53 (4.77%) YAML
5 48 (4.32%) Kafka
6 43 (3.87%) ARM Templates
7 30 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
8 29 (2.61%) RESTful
9 28 (2.52%) J2EE
10 25 (2.25%) AWS CDK
11 20 (1.80%) REST
12 19 (1.71%) Apache NiFi
13 17 (1.53%) ActiveMQ
13 17 (1.53%) JSON
13 17 (1.53%) JWT
13 17 (1.53%) React
14 16 (1.44%) Spring
15 12 (1.08%) Spring XD
16 11 (0.99%) Middleware
16 11 (0.99%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 92 (8.27%) Hybrid Cloud
2 75 (6.74%) Blockchain
3 61 (5.49%) Public Cloud
4 57 (5.13%) e-Learning
5 41 (3.69%) Cloud Native
6 37 (3.33%) Product Ownership
7 29 (2.61%) Tandem
8 27 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
9 17 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (1.44%) Client/Server
10 16 (1.44%) Private Cloud
11 14 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
12 13 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
12 13 (1.17%) Low-Code
12 13 (1.17%) Management Information System
13 12 (1.08%) Clustering
13 12 (1.08%) Virtual Team
14 11 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
14 11 (0.99%) Hedge funds
14 11 (0.99%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 351 (31.56%) Linux
2 117 (10.52%) Windows
3 16 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (1.26%) Unix
4 14 (1.26%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.08%) CentOS
5 12 (1.08%) VMS
6 6 (0.54%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.18%) Debian
7 2 (0.18%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,112 (100.00%) DevOps
2 683 (61.42%) CI/CD
3 423 (38.04%) Agile
4 387 (34.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 347 (31.21%) Containerisation
6 188 (16.91%) Mentoring
7 177 (15.92%) Problem-Solving
8 163 (14.66%) Continuous Integration
9 160 (14.39%) Test Automation
10 121 (10.88%) Observability
10 121 (10.88%) Software Engineering
11 116 (10.43%) Artificial Intelligence
12 110 (9.89%) Configuration Management
12 110 (9.89%) Deployment Automation
13 106 (9.53%) Scrum
14 101 (9.08%) Coaching
15 100 (8.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 97 (8.72%) Microservices
17 89 (8.00%) Continuous Deployment
18 87 (7.82%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 446 (40.11%) Python
2 182 (16.37%) Bash
3 165 (14.84%) Java
4 157 (14.12%) PowerShell
5 138 (12.41%) SQL
6 100 (8.99%) Go
7 70 (6.29%) C#
8 51 (4.59%) JavaScript
9 50 (4.50%) Groovy
10 49 (4.41%) Shell Script
11 42 (3.78%) Ruby
12 24 (2.16%) Bicep
12 24 (2.16%) Perl
13 22 (1.98%) PHP
14 17 (1.53%) T-SQL
15 15 (1.35%) C++
16 11 (0.99%) C
17 9 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 9 (0.81%) TypeScript
17 9 (0.81%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 263 (23.65%) Security Cleared
2 144 (12.95%) SC Cleared
3 97 (8.72%) DV Cleared
4 75 (6.74%) AWS Certification
5 64 (5.76%) Degree
6 36 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (2.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 24 (2.16%) Azure Certification
9 14 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.54%) 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 (0.090%) 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 23 (2.07%) QA
2 13 (1.17%) GDPR
3 8 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.36%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.36%) NIST
5 3 (0.27%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.27%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.090%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.090%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.090%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.090%) NCSC
6 1 (0.090%) SLA
System Software
1 484 (43.53%) Docker
2 34 (3.06%) Virtual Machines
3 26 (2.34%) Active Directory
4 20 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 17 (1.53%) 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
1 730 (65.65%) Terraform
2 645 (58.00%) Kubernetes
3 344 (30.94%) Ansible
4 141 (12.68%) Prometheus
5 108 (9.71%) Puppet
6 97 (8.72%) Grafana
6 97 (8.72%) Progress Chef
7 27 (2.43%) HAProxy
8 20 (1.80%) Consul
8 20 (1.80%) Packer
9 17 (1.53%) Rancher
10 15 (1.35%) Argo
10 15 (1.35%) Nagios
11 13 (1.17%) Kibana
12 12 (1.08%) Docker Swarm
12 12 (1.08%) Istio
13 11 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 9 (0.81%) Graphite
14 9 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (0.81%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 119 (10.70%) Microsoft
2 89 (8.00%) IBM
3 87 (7.82%) Red Hat
4 68 (6.12%) Dynatrace
5 40 (3.60%) Oracle
6 36 (3.24%) Google
7 31 (2.79%) VMware
8 20 (1.80%) Splunk
9 19 (1.71%) Cisco
10 18 (1.62%) ServiceNow
11 16 (1.44%) Databricks
12 15 (1.35%) Black Duck
13 12 (1.08%) Atlassian
13 12 (1.08%) Sybase
14 8 (0.72%) New Relic
15 6 (0.54%) SAP
15 6 (0.54%) Zscaler
16 5 (0.45%) ForgeRock
16 5 (0.45%) McAfee
16 5 (0.45%) YouTube