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 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 256 129 106
Rank change year-on-year -127 -23 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 1,097 2,729 5,442
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.10% 2.74% 3.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 3.00% 3.48%
Number of salaries quoted 837 1,872 2,720
10th Percentile £44,895 £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 £91,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £104,250 £107,500 £98,750
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 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%

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 20 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 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 -127 994 £70,000 -6.67% 305
UK excluding London -123 674 £65,000 -6.40% 206
Work from Home -117 499 £70,000 -6.67% 190
London -121 355 £80,000 -3.03% 147
North of England -72 198 £60,000 -12.09% 54
South East -70 186 £65,000 -7.14% 62
South West -47 154 £70,576 +8.58% 31
North West -61 117 £60,000 -14.29% 32
Yorkshire -33 59 £66,732 +0.46% 16
Midlands -61 52 £55,000 -19.71% 26
East of England -39 38 £65,000 -13.33% 15
West Midlands -28 29 £52,500 -25.00% 20
Scotland -128 24 £70,576 +0.82% 12
East Midlands -34 23 £55,000 -15.38% 6
North East +2 22 £57,500 -13.21% 6
Wales -15 15 £52,500 -26.83% 1
Northern Ireland +5 7 £52,500 -22.22% 5
Channel Islands - 1 £110,000 -

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

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 featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 1,097 (100.00%) DevOps
2 717 (65.36%) Terraform
3 685 (62.44%) AWS
4 671 (61.17%) CI/CD
5 631 (57.52%) Kubernetes
6 517 (47.13%) Azure
7 469 (42.75%) Docker
8 433 (39.47%) Python
9 414 (37.74%) Agile
10 380 (34.64%) Infrastructure as Code
11 352 (32.09%) Linux
12 342 (31.18%) Containerisation
13 329 (29.99%) Ansible
14 276 (25.16%) Jenkins
15 248 (22.61%) Security Cleared
16 209 (19.05%) Social Skills
17 197 (17.96%) Azure DevOps
18 187 (17.05%) Bash
19 179 (16.32%) Problem-Solving
20 174 (15.86%) Mentoring
21 173 (15.77%) Finance
22 170 (15.50%) GCP
23 166 (15.13%) Java
24 165 (15.04%) Amazon S3
25 164 (14.95%) Continuous Integration
26 158 (14.40%) PowerShell
27 148 (13.49%) Git
27 148 (13.49%) Test Automation
28 147 (13.40%) Public Sector
29 140 (12.76%) Prometheus

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 (3.56%) nginx
2 26 (2.37%) Apache
3 20 (1.82%) Apache Spark
3 20 (1.82%) Jupyter
4 10 (0.91%) Confluence
5 7 (0.64%) Drupal
6 4 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.36%) IIS
6 4 (0.36%) JBoss
7 3 (0.27%) WordPress
8 2 (0.18%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.18%) Moodle
9 1 (0.091%) CMS
9 1 (0.091%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.091%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.091%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 685 (62.44%) AWS
2 517 (47.13%) Azure
3 197 (17.96%) Azure DevOps
4 170 (15.50%) GCP
5 165 (15.04%) Amazon S3
6 137 (12.49%) Amazon EKS
7 135 (12.31%) GitHub
8 132 (12.03%) Serverless
9 104 (9.48%) AWS CloudFormation
9 104 (9.48%) AWS Lambda
10 100 (9.12%) OpenShift
11 94 (8.57%) Amazon EC2
12 93 (8.48%) Amazon ECS
13 84 (7.66%) GitHub Actions
14 73 (6.65%) SaaS
15 70 (6.38%) IBM Cloud
16 63 (5.74%) Route 53
17 61 (5.56%) Amazon ECR
18 58 (5.29%) OCI
19 47 (4.28%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (5.93%) DNS
2 52 (4.74%) Firewall
3 34 (3.10%) Network Security
4 31 (2.83%) TCP/IP
5 26 (2.37%) HTTP
6 17 (1.55%) Internet
6 17 (1.55%) VPN
7 14 (1.28%) WAN
8 12 (1.09%) LAN
9 10 (0.91%) Cisco ASA
9 10 (0.91%) IPv4
10 9 (0.82%) SNMP
10 9 (0.82%) tcpdump
11 6 (0.55%) IPv6
12 5 (0.46%) AMQP
13 4 (0.36%) SSL
13 4 (0.36%) WLAN
14 3 (0.27%) SSH
15 2 (0.18%) HTTPS
15 2 (0.18%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (12.31%) Amazon RDS
2 73 (6.65%) SQL Server
3 68 (6.20%) MongoDB
4 66 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
5 54 (4.92%) Hadoop
6 35 (3.19%) Big Data
7 33 (3.01%) Amazon Redshift
8 31 (2.83%) Relational Database
9 27 (2.46%) MySQL
10 26 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
11 24 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
12 19 (1.73%) DynamoDB
12 19 (1.73%) Presto
13 16 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
14 15 (1.37%) NoSQL
15 13 (1.19%) Power BI
16 12 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
16 12 (1.09%) DB2
16 12 (1.09%) RDBMS
17 11 (1.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 276 (25.16%) Jenkins
2 148 (13.49%) Git
3 117 (10.67%) GitLab
4 85 (7.75%) JIRA
5 47 (4.28%) Artifactory
6 32 (2.92%) CircleCI
7 25 (2.28%) SonarQube
7 25 (2.28%) TeamCity
8 21 (1.91%) Sonatype Nexus
9 20 (1.82%) Bitbucket
10 18 (1.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 18 (1.64%) IBM UrbanCode
11 15 (1.37%) Octopus Deploy
12 14 (1.28%) Maven
13 13 (1.19%) Selenium
14 10 (0.91%) Team Foundation Server
15 9 (0.82%) git-flow
15 9 (0.82%) Subversion
16 8 (0.73%) MSBuild
16 8 (0.73%) Vagrant
General
1 209 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 173 (15.77%) Finance
3 147 (13.40%) Public Sector
4 104 (9.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 56 (5.10%) Aerospace
6 43 (3.92%) Banking
7 33 (3.01%) Analytical Skills
8 32 (2.92%) Front Office
9 30 (2.73%) Law
10 22 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
11 20 (1.82%) Legal
11 20 (1.82%) Tech for Good
12 16 (1.46%) Games
12 16 (1.46%) Retail
13 15 (1.37%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (0.73%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.64%) Marketing
17 6 (0.55%) Electronics
18 5 (0.46%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (7.38%) .NET
2 69 (6.29%) Node.js
3 67 (6.11%) Elastic Stack
4 57 (5.20%) YAML
5 46 (4.19%) Kafka
6 32 (2.92%) ARM Templates
7 31 (2.83%) RabbitMQ
8 30 (2.73%) J2EE
9 29 (2.64%) RESTful
10 26 (2.37%) AWS CDK
11 20 (1.82%) REST
12 19 (1.73%) Apache NiFi
12 19 (1.73%) JSON
13 18 (1.64%) ActiveMQ
13 18 (1.64%) React
14 17 (1.55%) JWT
15 16 (1.46%) Spring
16 12 (1.09%) .NET Core
16 12 (1.09%) Middleware
16 12 (1.09%) Spring XD
Miscellaneous
1 93 (8.48%) Hybrid Cloud
2 76 (6.93%) Blockchain
3 62 (5.65%) Public Cloud
4 57 (5.20%) e-Learning
5 31 (2.83%) Tandem
6 30 (2.73%) Cloud Native
7 26 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
8 23 (2.10%) Product Ownership
9 18 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
10 17 (1.55%) Private Cloud
11 16 (1.46%) Client/Server
12 14 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
12 14 (1.28%) Low-Code
13 13 (1.19%) Management Information System
13 13 (1.19%) Virtual Team
14 12 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
15 11 (1.00%) Clustering
15 11 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
15 11 (1.00%) Hedge funds
15 11 (1.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 352 (32.09%) Linux
2 119 (10.85%) Windows
3 15 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (1.28%) Unix
4 14 (1.28%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.09%) CentOS
5 12 (1.09%) VMS
6 6 (0.55%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.18%) Debian
7 2 (0.18%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,097 (100.00%) DevOps
2 671 (61.17%) CI/CD
3 414 (37.74%) Agile
4 380 (34.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 342 (31.18%) Containerisation
6 179 (16.32%) Problem-Solving
7 174 (15.86%) Mentoring
8 164 (14.95%) Continuous Integration
9 148 (13.49%) Test Automation
10 123 (11.21%) Observability
10 123 (11.21%) Software Engineering
11 116 (10.57%) Artificial Intelligence
12 112 (10.21%) Deployment Automation
13 111 (10.12%) Configuration Management
14 101 (9.21%) Coaching
14 101 (9.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 98 (8.93%) Microservices
16 93 (8.48%) Scrum
17 89 (8.11%) Continuous Deployment
18 86 (7.84%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 433 (39.47%) Python
2 187 (17.05%) Bash
3 166 (15.13%) Java
4 158 (14.40%) PowerShell
5 137 (12.49%) SQL
6 104 (9.48%) Go
7 69 (6.29%) C#
8 50 (4.56%) Shell Script
9 49 (4.47%) Groovy
10 42 (3.83%) Ruby
11 39 (3.56%) JavaScript
12 24 (2.19%) Bicep
12 24 (2.19%) Perl
13 23 (2.10%) PHP
14 17 (1.55%) T-SQL
15 16 (1.46%) C++
16 12 (1.09%) C
17 9 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 9 (0.82%) TypeScript
17 9 (0.82%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 248 (22.61%) Security Cleared
2 131 (11.94%) SC Cleared
3 95 (8.66%) DV Cleared
4 64 (5.83%) Degree
5 63 (5.74%) AWS Certification
6 36 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (2.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 14 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (1.09%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.46%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.27%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.18%) BC Cleared
14 1 (0.091%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.091%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.091%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.091%) OCP
14 1 (0.091%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.091%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (2.10%) QA
2 13 (1.19%) GDPR
3 8 (0.73%) 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 (0.091%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.091%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.091%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.091%) NCSC
6 1 (0.091%) SLA
System Software
1 469 (42.75%) Docker
2 34 (3.10%) Virtual Machines
3 27 (2.46%) Active Directory
4 18 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 17 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.64%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.27%) KVM
9 2 (0.18%) Firmware
9 2 (0.18%) Varnish
9 2 (0.18%) vSphere
10 1 (0.091%) etcd
10 1 (0.091%) iptables
10 1 (0.091%) NFS
10 1 (0.091%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 717 (65.36%) Terraform
2 631 (57.52%) Kubernetes
3 329 (29.99%) Ansible
4 140 (12.76%) Prometheus
5 109 (9.94%) Puppet
6 97 (8.84%) Grafana
6 97 (8.84%) Progress Chef
7 28 (2.55%) HAProxy
8 21 (1.91%) Consul
9 20 (1.82%) Packer
10 17 (1.55%) Rancher
11 16 (1.46%) Argo
12 15 (1.37%) Istio
13 14 (1.28%) Nagios
14 13 (1.19%) Kibana
15 12 (1.09%) Docker Swarm
16 11 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 9 (0.82%) Graphite
17 9 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
17 9 (0.82%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 121 (11.03%) Microsoft
2 89 (8.11%) IBM
3 86 (7.84%) Red Hat
4 68 (6.20%) Dynatrace
5 42 (3.83%) Oracle
6 37 (3.37%) Google
7 29 (2.64%) VMware
8 20 (1.82%) Splunk
9 19 (1.73%) Cisco
10 16 (1.46%) Databricks
11 12 (1.09%) Atlassian
11 12 (1.09%) Sybase
12 7 (0.64%) New Relic
13 6 (0.55%) SAP
13 6 (0.55%) ServiceNow
13 6 (0.55%) Zscaler
14 5 (0.46%) ForgeRock
14 5 (0.46%) McAfee
14 5 (0.46%) SaltStack
14 5 (0.46%) YouTube