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 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 261 132 106
Rank change year-on-year -129 -26 -20
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 1,126 2,638 5,273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.14% 2.60% 3.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 2.85% 3.50%
Number of salaries quoted 854 1,859 2,753
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,215 £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 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £107,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,497 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.11% -2.15% +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 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
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 £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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 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 9 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 -113 1,015 £70,000 -6.67% 229
UK excluding London -105 683 £65,000 -5.11% 132
Work from Home -114 504 £70,000 -6.67% 139
London -109 371 £82,500 - 93
North of England -59 196 £65,000 -3.70% 42
South East -75 187 £65,000 -7.14% 28
South West -40 153 £70,576 +8.58% 28
North West -54 115 £60,000 -14.29% 29
Yorkshire -23 59 £68,000 +4.62% 11
Midlands -54 54 £55,000 -19.71% 18
East of England -21 40 £65,000 -13.33% 7
West Midlands -30 29 £52,500 -25.00% 11
Scotland -117 28 £70,576 +0.82% 5
East Midlands -20 25 £55,000 -15.38% 7
North East -1 22 £57,500 -13.21% 2
Wales -8 17 £52,500 -26.83% 2
Northern Ireland +10 8 £52,500 -17.65% 3
Channel Islands - 1 £110,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 1,126 (100.00%) DevOps
2 743 (65.99%) Terraform
3 695 (61.72%) CI/CD
4 691 (61.37%) AWS
5 656 (58.26%) Kubernetes
6 530 (47.07%) Azure
7 487 (43.25%) Docker
8 441 (39.17%) Python
9 431 (38.28%) Agile
10 403 (35.79%) Infrastructure as Code
11 379 (33.66%) Linux
12 351 (31.17%) Containerisation
13 347 (30.82%) Ansible
14 294 (26.11%) Jenkins
15 250 (22.20%) Security Cleared
16 214 (19.01%) Azure DevOps
17 208 (18.47%) Social Skills
18 201 (17.85%) Bash
19 187 (16.61%) Finance
20 182 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
21 177 (15.72%) PowerShell
22 172 (15.28%) Mentoring
22 172 (15.28%) Continuous Integration
23 171 (15.19%) GCP
24 167 (14.83%) Amazon S3
24 167 (14.83%) Java
25 154 (13.68%) Prometheus
26 153 (13.59%) Git
27 149 (13.23%) Test Automation
28 143 (12.70%) Public Sector

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 39 (3.46%) nginx
2 23 (2.04%) Apache
3 19 (1.69%) Apache Spark
3 19 (1.69%) Jupyter
4 11 (0.98%) Confluence
5 7 (0.62%) Drupal
6 5 (0.44%) IIS
7 4 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.27%) JBoss
8 3 (0.27%) WordPress
9 2 (0.18%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.089%) CMS
10 1 (0.089%) Moodle
10 1 (0.089%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.089%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.089%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.089%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 691 (61.37%) AWS
2 530 (47.07%) Azure
3 214 (19.01%) Azure DevOps
4 171 (15.19%) GCP
5 167 (14.83%) Amazon S3
6 140 (12.43%) Amazon EKS
7 139 (12.34%) Serverless
8 136 (12.08%) GitHub
9 121 (10.75%) AWS CloudFormation
10 109 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
11 101 (8.97%) OpenShift
12 99 (8.79%) Amazon ECS
13 97 (8.61%) Amazon EC2
14 83 (7.37%) GitHub Actions
15 72 (6.39%) SaaS
16 70 (6.22%) IBM Cloud
17 64 (5.68%) Route 53
18 61 (5.42%) Amazon ECR
19 58 (5.15%) OCI
20 46 (4.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 66 (5.86%) DNS
2 54 (4.80%) Firewall
3 33 (2.93%) Network Security
3 33 (2.93%) TCP/IP
4 27 (2.40%) HTTP
5 18 (1.60%) Internet
5 18 (1.60%) VPN
6 14 (1.24%) WAN
7 12 (1.07%) LAN
8 10 (0.89%) Cisco ASA
8 10 (0.89%) IPv4
8 10 (0.89%) SNMP
8 10 (0.89%) tcpdump
9 6 (0.53%) IPv6
10 5 (0.44%) AMQP
11 4 (0.36%) WLAN
12 3 (0.27%) SSH
12 3 (0.27%) SSL
13 2 (0.18%) IPsec
13 2 (0.18%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (12.17%) Amazon RDS
2 74 (6.57%) SQL Server
3 63 (5.60%) MongoDB
4 60 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
5 47 (4.17%) Hadoop
6 36 (3.20%) Big Data
7 35 (3.11%) Amazon Redshift
8 31 (2.75%) Relational Database
9 27 (2.40%) MySQL
10 25 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
11 24 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
12 18 (1.60%) DynamoDB
12 18 (1.60%) InfluxDB
12 18 (1.60%) Presto
13 17 (1.51%) Amazon Aurora
14 15 (1.33%) NoSQL
15 12 (1.07%) DB2
15 12 (1.07%) Power BI
15 12 (1.07%) RDBMS
16 11 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 294 (26.11%) Jenkins
2 153 (13.59%) Git
3 128 (11.37%) GitLab
4 85 (7.55%) JIRA
5 50 (4.44%) Artifactory
6 37 (3.29%) SonarQube
7 32 (2.84%) CircleCI
8 25 (2.22%) TeamCity
9 22 (1.95%) Sonatype Nexus
10 19 (1.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 19 (1.69%) Bitbucket
11 18 (1.60%) IBM UrbanCode
12 15 (1.33%) Octopus Deploy
13 14 (1.24%) Maven
14 13 (1.15%) Selenium
15 10 (0.89%) git-flow
15 10 (0.89%) Team Foundation Server
16 9 (0.80%) Subversion
17 8 (0.71%) MSBuild
17 8 (0.71%) Vagrant
General
1 208 (18.47%) Social Skills
2 187 (16.61%) Finance
3 143 (12.70%) Public Sector
4 106 (9.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 54 (4.80%) Aerospace
6 44 (3.91%) Banking
7 35 (3.11%) Analytical Skills
8 34 (3.02%) Front Office
9 30 (2.66%) Law
10 22 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
11 20 (1.78%) Legal
11 20 (1.78%) Tech for Good
12 16 (1.42%) Games
12 16 (1.42%) Retail
12 16 (1.42%) Telecoms
13 11 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (0.71%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.62%) Marketing
16 6 (0.53%) Electronics
17 5 (0.44%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (7.55%) .NET
2 80 (7.10%) Elastic Stack
3 66 (5.86%) Node.js
4 59 (5.24%) YAML
5 41 (3.64%) Kafka
6 32 (2.84%) J2EE
7 31 (2.75%) ARM Templates
8 29 (2.58%) RabbitMQ
9 27 (2.40%) RESTful
10 25 (2.22%) AWS CDK
11 21 (1.87%) JSON
12 20 (1.78%) React
13 19 (1.69%) REST
14 17 (1.51%) ActiveMQ
14 17 (1.51%) Apache NiFi
14 17 (1.51%) JWT
15 16 (1.42%) Spring
16 15 (1.33%) .NET Core
17 13 (1.15%) Middleware
18 12 (1.07%) Spring XD
Miscellaneous
1 92 (8.17%) Hybrid Cloud
2 77 (6.84%) Blockchain
3 74 (6.57%) Public Cloud
4 57 (5.06%) e-Learning
5 35 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
6 34 (3.02%) Cloud Native
7 33 (2.93%) Tandem
8 22 (1.95%) Product Ownership
9 18 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (1.42%) Client/Server
10 16 (1.42%) Private Cloud
11 14 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (1.24%) Low-Code
11 14 (1.24%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.07%) Clustering
12 12 (1.07%) Management Information System
13 11 (0.98%) Hedge funds
13 11 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
13 11 (0.98%) Onboarding
14 10 (0.89%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 379 (33.66%) Linux
2 137 (12.17%) Windows
3 15 (1.33%) Unix
3 15 (1.33%) Windows Server
4 14 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.15%) CentOS
5 13 (1.15%) VMS
6 7 (0.62%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.18%) Debian
7 2 (0.18%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.089%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,126 (100.00%) DevOps
2 695 (61.72%) CI/CD
3 431 (38.28%) Agile
4 403 (35.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 351 (31.17%) Containerisation
6 182 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
7 172 (15.28%) Continuous Integration
7 172 (15.28%) Mentoring
8 149 (13.23%) Test Automation
9 140 (12.43%) Software Engineering
10 126 (11.19%) Observability
11 119 (10.57%) Artificial Intelligence
12 117 (10.39%) Configuration Management
13 112 (9.95%) Deployment Automation
14 110 (9.77%) Microservices
15 105 (9.33%) Scrum
16 104 (9.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 102 (9.06%) Coaching
18 93 (8.26%) Continuous Deployment
19 88 (7.82%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 441 (39.17%) Python
2 201 (17.85%) Bash
3 177 (15.72%) PowerShell
4 167 (14.83%) Java
5 131 (11.63%) SQL
6 110 (9.77%) Go
7 72 (6.39%) C#
8 52 (4.62%) Shell Script
9 49 (4.35%) Groovy
10 45 (4.00%) Ruby
11 41 (3.64%) JavaScript
12 26 (2.31%) Perl
13 24 (2.13%) Bicep
14 23 (2.04%) PHP
15 17 (1.51%) C++
15 17 (1.51%) T-SQL
16 12 (1.07%) C
17 9 (0.80%) TypeScript
18 8 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 8 (0.71%) Rust
Qualifications
1 250 (22.20%) Security Cleared
2 132 (11.72%) SC Cleared
3 94 (8.35%) DV Cleared
4 65 (5.77%) Degree
5 62 (5.51%) AWS Certification
6 35 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (2.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 15 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.07%) Azure Certification
9 12 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.53%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.18%) BC Cleared
12 2 (0.18%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.089%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.089%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.089%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.089%) OCP
13 1 (0.089%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.089%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (2.22%) QA
2 13 (1.15%) GDPR
3 8 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.36%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.27%) NIST
5 3 (0.27%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.18%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.089%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.089%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.089%) SLA
System Software
1 487 (43.25%) Docker
2 35 (3.11%) Virtual Machines
3 29 (2.58%) Active Directory
4 19 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 18 (1.60%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.62%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.27%) KVM
7 3 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.27%) vSphere
8 2 (0.18%) Firmware
8 2 (0.18%) Varnish
9 1 (0.089%) etcd
9 1 (0.089%) iptables
9 1 (0.089%) NFS
9 1 (0.089%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 743 (65.99%) Terraform
2 656 (58.26%) Kubernetes
3 347 (30.82%) Ansible
4 154 (13.68%) Prometheus
5 113 (10.04%) Grafana
6 110 (9.77%) Puppet
7 95 (8.44%) Progress Chef
8 28 (2.49%) HAProxy
9 21 (1.87%) Consul
9 21 (1.87%) Rancher
10 20 (1.78%) Packer
11 17 (1.51%) Istio
12 16 (1.42%) Argo
13 15 (1.33%) Kibana
14 14 (1.24%) Nagios
15 12 (1.07%) Docker Swarm
16 10 (0.89%) Graphite
16 10 (0.89%) vCenter Server
17 9 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 8 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 119 (10.57%) Microsoft
2 89 (7.90%) IBM
3 85 (7.55%) Red Hat
4 68 (6.04%) Dynatrace
5 43 (3.82%) Oracle
6 39 (3.46%) Google
7 34 (3.02%) VMware
8 20 (1.78%) Splunk
9 19 (1.69%) Cisco
10 15 (1.33%) Databricks
11 12 (1.07%) Sybase
12 10 (0.89%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.53%) McAfee
13 6 (0.53%) New Relic
13 6 (0.53%) SAP
13 6 (0.53%) ServiceNow
13 6 (0.53%) Zscaler
14 5 (0.44%) ForgeRock
14 5 (0.44%) SaltStack
14 5 (0.44%) YouTube