DevOps Engineer Jobs in England

Development Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in England is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 252 128 112
Rank change year-on-year -124 -16 -24
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 1,013 2,314 4,679
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.08% 2.78% 3.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 3.05% 3.40%
Number of salaries quoted 749 1,653 2,476
10th Percentile £43,300 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - +15.38%
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +11.54%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 88,752 75,954 137,584
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 91.23% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 65,003 49,705 75,781
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,249 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.86% +0.42% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in England

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in England

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in England over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in England

DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 7 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
London -133 345 £80,000 -3.03% 102
North of England -82 200 £60,000 -14.29% 40
South East -98 195 £60,000 -14.29% 27
South West -37 162 £70,000 +7.69% 32
North West -62 119 £60,000 -14.29% 24
Yorkshire -40 60 £65,000 -3.74% 13
Midlands -59 59 £55,000 -21.43% 31
East of England -45 38 £65,000 -13.33% 7
West Midlands -37 33 £55,000 -21.43% 21
East Midlands -32 26 £57,500 -11.54% 10
North East -12 21 £57,500 -13.21% 3
DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 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 across the England region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 1,013 (100.00%) DevOps
2 645 (63.67%) AWS
3 635 (62.69%) Terraform
4 593 (58.54%) CI/CD
5 588 (58.05%) Kubernetes
6 475 (46.89%) Azure
7 443 (43.73%) Docker
8 397 (39.19%) Python
9 356 (35.14%) Agile
10 325 (32.08%) Containerisation
11 322 (31.79%) Infrastructure as Code
12 295 (29.12%) Ansible
13 286 (28.23%) Linux
14 259 (25.57%) Security Cleared
15 238 (23.49%) Jenkins
16 189 (18.66%) Social Skills
17 174 (17.18%) Azure DevOps
18 166 (16.39%) Bash
19 161 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
20 160 (15.79%) Mentoring
21 157 (15.50%) Java
22 154 (15.20%) PowerShell
23 151 (14.91%) Amazon S3
24 149 (14.71%) Public Sector
25 148 (14.61%) Continuous Integration
26 144 (14.22%) Test Automation
27 140 (13.82%) Prometheus
28 138 (13.62%) GCP
29 134 (13.23%) SC Cleared
30 133 (13.13%) Git

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 31 (3.06%) nginx
2 23 (2.27%) Apache
3 17 (1.68%) Jupyter
4 16 (1.58%) Apache Spark
5 8 (0.79%) Confluence
6 6 (0.59%) Drupal
7 5 (0.49%) JBoss
8 4 (0.39%) IIS
9 3 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.20%) Moodle
10 2 (0.20%) WordPress
11 1 (0.099%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.099%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.099%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 645 (63.67%) AWS
2 475 (46.89%) Azure
3 174 (17.18%) Azure DevOps
4 151 (14.91%) Amazon S3
5 138 (13.62%) GCP
6 123 (12.14%) Amazon EKS
7 108 (10.66%) Serverless
8 104 (10.27%) GitHub
9 102 (10.07%) AWS CloudFormation
10 83 (8.19%) AWS Lambda
11 81 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
12 77 (7.60%) Amazon ECS
13 75 (7.40%) OpenShift
14 70 (6.91%) IBM Cloud
15 66 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
16 65 (6.42%) OCI
17 63 (6.22%) Amazon ECR
18 62 (6.12%) Route 53
18 62 (6.12%) SaaS
19 39 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 59 (5.82%) DNS
2 43 (4.24%) Firewall
3 30 (2.96%) Network Security
4 26 (2.57%) HTTP
5 21 (2.07%) TCP/IP
6 13 (1.28%) Internet
7 10 (0.99%) Cisco ASA
7 10 (0.99%) WAN
8 8 (0.79%) LAN
8 8 (0.79%) SNMP
8 8 (0.79%) tcpdump
9 7 (0.69%) IPv4
9 7 (0.69%) IPv6
9 7 (0.69%) VPN
10 5 (0.49%) AMQP
10 5 (0.49%) SSL
11 3 (0.30%) SSH
12 2 (0.20%) SMTP
13 1 (0.099%) SD-WAN
13 1 (0.099%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (12.24%) Amazon RDS
2 75 (7.40%) MongoDB
3 72 (7.11%) PostgreSQL
4 71 (7.01%) SQL Server
5 63 (6.22%) Hadoop
6 36 (3.55%) Relational Database
7 32 (3.16%) Big Data
8 28 (2.76%) Amazon Redshift
8 28 (2.76%) Azure SQL Database
9 22 (2.17%) MySQL
10 20 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
11 17 (1.68%) NoSQL
12 16 (1.58%) Presto
13 15 (1.48%) DynamoDB
14 13 (1.28%) Power BI
15 12 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
15 12 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
15 12 (1.18%) DB2
15 12 (1.18%) RDBMS
16 10 (0.99%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 238 (23.49%) Jenkins
2 133 (13.13%) Git
3 109 (10.76%) GitLab
4 87 (8.59%) JIRA
5 37 (3.65%) Artifactory
6 27 (2.67%) TeamCity
7 26 (2.57%) CircleCI
8 25 (2.47%) SonarQube
9 20 (1.97%) Bitbucket
10 16 (1.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 16 (1.58%) Octopus Deploy
11 15 (1.48%) Sonatype Nexus
12 10 (0.99%) Selenium
13 9 (0.89%) Maven
13 9 (0.89%) Subversion
13 9 (0.89%) Team Foundation Server
14 8 (0.79%) MSBuild
14 8 (0.79%) Terragrunt
14 8 (0.79%) Vagrant
15 5 (0.49%) Cucumber
General
1 189 (18.66%) Social Skills
2 149 (14.71%) Public Sector
3 122 (12.04%) Finance
4 84 (8.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 60 (5.92%) Aerospace
6 29 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (2.57%) Banking
8 24 (2.37%) Front Office
9 20 (1.97%) Law
10 18 (1.78%) Retail
11 17 (1.68%) Tech for Good
12 15 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (1.38%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.28%) Games
15 9 (0.89%) Marketing
16 8 (0.79%) Manufacturing
17 6 (0.59%) Legal
17 6 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
18 5 (0.49%) Advertising
18 5 (0.49%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (6.91%) Node.js
2 68 (6.71%) .NET
3 61 (6.02%) Elastic Stack
4 56 (5.53%) Kafka
5 49 (4.84%) YAML
6 33 (3.26%) ARM Templates
7 31 (3.06%) RESTful
8 26 (2.57%) RabbitMQ
9 24 (2.37%) J2EE
10 21 (2.07%) AWS CDK
10 21 (2.07%) React
11 20 (1.97%) Apache NiFi
12 18 (1.78%) REST
13 17 (1.68%) JWT
14 16 (1.58%) ActiveMQ
15 15 (1.48%) JSON
16 14 (1.38%) Spring
17 12 (1.18%) Spring XD
18 11 (1.09%) HTML
19 10 (0.99%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 91 (8.98%) Hybrid Cloud
2 74 (7.31%) Blockchain
3 57 (5.63%) e-Learning
4 45 (4.44%) Public Cloud
5 34 (3.36%) Cloud Native
6 27 (2.67%) Product Ownership
7 26 (2.57%) Distributed Systems
8 25 (2.47%) Tandem
9 16 (1.58%) Client/Server
10 15 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
11 12 (1.18%) Private Cloud
12 11 (1.09%) Clustering
12 11 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (1.09%) Low-Code
12 11 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (0.99%) Hedge funds
14 7 (0.69%) Data Centre
15 6 (0.59%) PKI
16 5 (0.49%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 286 (28.23%) Linux
2 94 (9.28%) Windows
3 16 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (1.28%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.18%) VMS
6 11 (1.09%) Unix
7 7 (0.69%) CentOS
8 4 (0.39%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.20%) Debian
9 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.099%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,013 (100.00%) DevOps
2 593 (58.54%) CI/CD
3 356 (35.14%) Agile
4 325 (32.08%) Containerisation
5 322 (31.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 161 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
7 160 (15.79%) Mentoring
8 148 (14.61%) Continuous Integration
9 144 (14.22%) Test Automation
10 121 (11.94%) Observability
11 109 (10.76%) Artificial Intelligence
12 105 (10.37%) Configuration Management
13 103 (10.17%) Software Engineering
14 98 (9.67%) Deployment Automation
15 93 (9.18%) Coaching
15 93 (9.18%) Scrum
15 93 (9.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 85 (8.39%) Microservices
16 85 (8.39%) SDLC
17 82 (8.09%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 397 (39.19%) Python
2 166 (16.39%) Bash
3 157 (15.50%) Java
4 154 (15.20%) PowerShell
5 114 (11.25%) SQL
6 75 (7.40%) Go
7 64 (6.32%) C#
8 43 (4.24%) JavaScript
9 40 (3.95%) Shell Script
10 30 (2.96%) Groovy
11 26 (2.57%) Ruby
12 20 (1.97%) Bicep
12 20 (1.97%) PHP
13 19 (1.88%) Perl
14 17 (1.68%) T-SQL
15 15 (1.48%) C++
16 12 (1.18%) C
17 11 (1.09%) TypeScript
18 9 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 9 (0.89%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 259 (25.57%) Security Cleared
2 134 (13.23%) SC Cleared
3 102 (10.07%) DV Cleared
4 62 (6.12%) AWS Certification
5 56 (5.53%) Degree
6 39 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (2.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 19 (1.88%) Azure Certification
9 15 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.30%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.30%) BC Cleared
12 3 (0.30%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.099%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.099%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.099%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (2.17%) QA
2 7 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.39%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.39%) NIST
4 3 (0.30%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.30%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.20%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.20%) NCSC
6 1 (0.099%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.099%) SLA
System Software
1 443 (43.73%) Docker
2 37 (3.65%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.58%) Active Directory
4 16 (1.58%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (0.69%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.30%) KVM
8 2 (0.20%) Firmware
8 2 (0.20%) Varnish
8 2 (0.20%) vSphere
9 1 (0.099%) etcd
9 1 (0.099%) iptables
9 1 (0.099%) NFS
Systems Management
1 635 (62.69%) Terraform
2 588 (58.05%) Kubernetes
3 295 (29.12%) Ansible
4 140 (13.82%) Prometheus
5 103 (10.17%) Puppet
6 92 (9.08%) Grafana
7 78 (7.70%) Progress Chef
8 25 (2.47%) HAProxy
9 19 (1.88%) Packer
10 18 (1.78%) Consul
11 14 (1.38%) Nagios
12 13 (1.28%) Argo
12 13 (1.28%) Rancher
13 12 (1.18%) Docker Swarm
13 12 (1.18%) Kibana
14 11 (1.09%) Istio
15 8 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 8 (0.79%) Graphite
15 8 (0.79%) vCenter Server
16 7 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 111 (10.96%) Microsoft
2 87 (8.59%) Red Hat
3 76 (7.50%) IBM
4 67 (6.61%) Dynatrace
5 37 (3.65%) Oracle
6 31 (3.06%) VMware
7 20 (1.97%) Splunk
8 19 (1.88%) Google
9 16 (1.58%) Databricks
10 15 (1.48%) Cisco
11 13 (1.28%) ServiceNow
12 12 (1.18%) Atlassian
12 12 (1.18%) Sybase
13 10 (0.99%) Black Duck
13 10 (0.99%) New Relic
14 7 (0.69%) Salesforce
15 6 (0.59%) SAP
16 5 (0.49%) ForgeRock
16 5 (0.49%) SaltStack
16 5 (0.49%) YouTube