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 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 253 126 111
Rank change year-on-year -127 -15 -25
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 994 2,477 4,501
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.15% 2.80% 3.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.22% 3.06% 3.42%
Number of salaries quoted 747 1,746 2,469
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £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 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £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 81,786 81,001 131,568
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.57% 91.55% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 60,839 51,644 75,317
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £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 20 May 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 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
London -121 355 £80,000 -3.03% 146
North of England -72 198 £60,000 -12.09% 51
South East -70 186 £65,000 -7.14% 59
South West -47 154 £70,576 +8.58% 34
North West -61 117 £60,000 -14.29% 31
Yorkshire -33 59 £66,732 +0.46% 15
Midlands -61 52 £55,000 -19.71% 27
East of England -39 38 £65,000 -13.33% 15
West Midlands -28 29 £52,500 -25.00% 21
East Midlands -34 23 £55,000 -15.38% 6
North East +2 22 £57,500 -13.21% 5
DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 across the England region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 994 (100.00%) DevOps
2 642 (64.59%) Terraform
3 623 (62.68%) AWS
4 597 (60.06%) CI/CD
5 580 (58.35%) Kubernetes
6 458 (46.08%) Azure
7 435 (43.76%) Docker
8 387 (38.93%) Python
9 364 (36.62%) Agile
10 329 (33.10%) Infrastructure as Code
11 323 (32.49%) Containerisation
12 305 (30.68%) Linux
13 288 (28.97%) Ansible
14 246 (24.75%) Jenkins
15 241 (24.25%) Security Cleared
16 188 (18.91%) Social Skills
17 171 (17.20%) Bash
18 168 (16.90%) Azure DevOps
19 161 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
20 160 (16.10%) Amazon S3
21 153 (15.39%) Mentoring
21 153 (15.39%) Java
22 150 (15.09%) PowerShell
23 147 (14.79%) Finance
24 146 (14.69%) Continuous Integration
25 141 (14.19%) Test Automation
25 141 (14.19%) Public Sector
26 139 (13.98%) Prometheus
27 137 (13.78%) GCP
28 135 (13.58%) 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 34 (3.42%) nginx
2 24 (2.41%) Apache
3 19 (1.91%) Jupyter
4 18 (1.81%) Apache Spark
5 8 (0.80%) Confluence
6 7 (0.70%) Drupal
7 4 (0.40%) IIS
7 4 (0.40%) JBoss
8 3 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.30%) WordPress
9 2 (0.20%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.20%) Moodle
10 1 (0.10%) CMS
10 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 623 (62.68%) AWS
2 458 (46.08%) Azure
3 168 (16.90%) Azure DevOps
4 160 (16.10%) Amazon S3
5 137 (13.78%) GCP
6 129 (12.98%) Amazon EKS
7 114 (11.47%) Serverless
8 109 (10.97%) GitHub
9 100 (10.06%) AWS CloudFormation
10 92 (9.26%) AWS Lambda
11 89 (8.95%) OpenShift
12 88 (8.85%) Amazon ECS
13 87 (8.75%) Amazon EC2
14 70 (7.04%) IBM Cloud
15 65 (6.54%) GitHub Actions
16 63 (6.34%) SaaS
17 62 (6.24%) Route 53
18 61 (6.14%) Amazon ECR
19 58 (5.84%) OCI
20 41 (4.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 61 (6.14%) DNS
2 44 (4.43%) Firewall
3 29 (2.92%) Network Security
4 27 (2.72%) TCP/IP
5 26 (2.62%) HTTP
6 15 (1.51%) Internet
7 10 (1.01%) Cisco ASA
7 10 (1.01%) WAN
8 9 (0.91%) SNMP
8 9 (0.91%) tcpdump
9 8 (0.80%) LAN
10 7 (0.70%) VPN
11 6 (0.60%) IPv4
11 6 (0.60%) IPv6
12 5 (0.50%) AMQP
13 4 (0.40%) SSL
14 3 (0.30%) SSH
15 2 (0.20%) HTTPS
15 2 (0.20%) IPsec
15 2 (0.20%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (13.38%) Amazon RDS
2 72 (7.24%) SQL Server
3 65 (6.54%) MongoDB
4 64 (6.44%) PostgreSQL
5 54 (5.43%) Hadoop
6 33 (3.32%) Amazon Redshift
7 31 (3.12%) Big Data
7 31 (3.12%) Relational Database
8 26 (2.62%) Azure SQL Database
9 24 (2.41%) MySQL
10 21 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
11 18 (1.81%) Presto
12 17 (1.71%) DynamoDB
13 16 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
14 15 (1.51%) NoSQL
15 13 (1.31%) Power BI
16 12 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
16 12 (1.21%) DB2
16 12 (1.21%) RDBMS
17 10 (1.01%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 246 (24.75%) Jenkins
2 135 (13.58%) Git
3 106 (10.66%) GitLab
4 81 (8.15%) JIRA
5 46 (4.63%) Artifactory
6 25 (2.52%) TeamCity
7 22 (2.21%) CircleCI
7 22 (2.21%) SonarQube
8 19 (1.91%) Bitbucket
9 18 (1.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 18 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
10 15 (1.51%) Octopus Deploy
11 11 (1.11%) IBM UrbanCode
11 11 (1.11%) Maven
11 11 (1.11%) Selenium
12 9 (0.91%) Subversion
12 9 (0.91%) Team Foundation Server
13 8 (0.80%) MSBuild
13 8 (0.80%) Vagrant
14 5 (0.50%) Cucumber
General
1 188 (18.91%) Social Skills
2 147 (14.79%) Finance
3 141 (14.19%) Public Sector
4 88 (8.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 56 (5.63%) Aerospace
6 33 (3.32%) Banking
7 31 (3.12%) Analytical Skills
8 30 (3.02%) Front Office
9 26 (2.62%) Law
10 18 (1.81%) Tech for Good
11 16 (1.61%) Retail
12 15 (1.51%) Telecoms
13 14 (1.41%) Games
14 13 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
14 13 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (0.80%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.70%) Marketing
17 6 (0.60%) Electronics
18 5 (0.50%) Legal
18 5 (0.50%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (7.75%) .NET
2 60 (6.04%) Elastic Stack
3 57 (5.73%) YAML
4 53 (5.33%) Node.js
5 41 (4.12%) Kafka
6 30 (3.02%) J2EE
6 30 (3.02%) RabbitMQ
7 29 (2.92%) ARM Templates
7 29 (2.92%) RESTful
8 22 (2.21%) AWS CDK
9 19 (1.91%) Apache NiFi
10 18 (1.81%) ActiveMQ
10 18 (1.81%) React
10 18 (1.81%) REST
11 17 (1.71%) JSON
11 17 (1.71%) JWT
12 14 (1.41%) Spring
13 12 (1.21%) .NET Core
13 12 (1.21%) Spring XD
14 10 (1.01%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 93 (9.36%) Hybrid Cloud
2 75 (7.55%) Blockchain
3 57 (5.73%) e-Learning
4 51 (5.13%) Public Cloud
5 31 (3.12%) Tandem
6 27 (2.72%) Cloud Native
7 23 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
8 22 (2.21%) Product Ownership
9 17 (1.71%) Private Cloud
10 16 (1.61%) Client/Server
11 14 (1.41%) Low-Code
12 12 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
12 12 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
12 12 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (1.11%) Clustering
13 11 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (1.11%) Hedge funds
14 7 (0.70%) Data Centre
15 6 (0.60%) PKI
15 6 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 305 (30.68%) Linux
2 104 (10.46%) Windows
3 14 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (1.31%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.21%) Unix
5 12 (1.21%) VMS
6 8 (0.80%) CentOS
7 5 (0.50%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.20%) Debian
8 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 994 (100.00%) DevOps
2 597 (60.06%) CI/CD
3 364 (36.62%) Agile
4 329 (33.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 323 (32.49%) Containerisation
6 161 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
7 153 (15.39%) Mentoring
8 146 (14.69%) Continuous Integration
9 141 (14.19%) Test Automation
10 120 (12.07%) Observability
11 109 (10.97%) Configuration Management
12 107 (10.76%) Artificial Intelligence
13 104 (10.46%) Deployment Automation
13 104 (10.46%) Software Engineering
14 96 (9.66%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 92 (9.26%) Coaching
16 90 (9.05%) Microservices
17 82 (8.25%) SDLC
18 81 (8.15%) Scrum
19 80 (8.05%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 387 (38.93%) Python
2 171 (17.20%) Bash
3 153 (15.39%) Java
4 150 (15.09%) PowerShell
5 112 (11.27%) SQL
6 89 (8.95%) Go
7 67 (6.74%) C#
8 41 (4.12%) Shell Script
9 39 (3.92%) Groovy
10 35 (3.52%) JavaScript
11 28 (2.82%) Ruby
12 22 (2.21%) PHP
13 21 (2.11%) Bicep
14 20 (2.01%) Perl
15 17 (1.71%) T-SQL
16 14 (1.41%) C++
17 12 (1.21%) C
18 9 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 9 (0.91%) TypeScript
18 9 (0.91%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 241 (24.25%) Security Cleared
2 124 (12.47%) SC Cleared
3 95 (9.56%) DV Cleared
4 57 (5.73%) AWS Certification
4 57 (5.73%) Degree
5 34 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (2.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 14 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (1.21%) Azure Certification
9 9 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.50%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (0.30%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.20%) BC Cleared
13 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.10%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.10%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (2.31%) QA
2 8 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.40%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.40%) NIST
4 3 (0.30%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.30%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.10%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.10%) GDPR
5 1 (0.10%) NCSC
5 1 (0.10%) SLA
System Software
1 435 (43.76%) Docker
2 34 (3.42%) Virtual Machines
3 18 (1.81%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.71%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (0.70%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.30%) KVM
8 2 (0.20%) Firmware
8 2 (0.20%) Varnish
8 2 (0.20%) vSphere
9 1 (0.10%) etcd
9 1 (0.10%) iptables
9 1 (0.10%) NFS
Systems Management
1 642 (64.59%) Terraform
2 580 (58.35%) Kubernetes
3 288 (28.97%) Ansible
4 139 (13.98%) Prometheus
5 105 (10.56%) Puppet
6 95 (9.56%) Grafana
7 86 (8.65%) Progress Chef
8 28 (2.82%) HAProxy
9 21 (2.11%) Consul
10 19 (1.91%) Packer
11 15 (1.51%) Argo
11 15 (1.51%) Rancher
12 14 (1.41%) Nagios
13 13 (1.31%) Istio
14 12 (1.21%) Docker Swarm
14 12 (1.21%) Kibana
15 11 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 9 (0.91%) Graphite
16 9 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
16 9 (0.91%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 109 (10.97%) Microsoft
2 85 (8.55%) Red Hat
3 83 (8.35%) IBM
4 67 (6.74%) Dynatrace
5 40 (4.02%) Oracle
6 29 (2.92%) VMware
7 25 (2.52%) Google
8 18 (1.81%) Splunk
9 16 (1.61%) Databricks
10 15 (1.51%) Cisco
11 12 (1.21%) Sybase
12 11 (1.11%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.70%) New Relic
14 6 (0.60%) SAP
14 6 (0.60%) ServiceNow
15 5 (0.50%) ForgeRock
15 5 (0.50%) SaltStack
15 5 (0.50%) YouTube
16 3 (0.30%) Black Duck
16 3 (0.30%) Sitecore