DevOps Engineer Jobs

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 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 268 129 109
Rank change year-on-year -139 -20 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 1,117 2,594 5,658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.06% 2.74% 3.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 3.00% 3.48%
Number of salaries quoted 836 1,802 2,675
10th Percentile £43,750 £51,250 £48,600
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 £103,750 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +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 99,838 86,540 162,414
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 91.29% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,991 55,953 84,888
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,676
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,238
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%

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 2 June 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 2 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
England -115 1,016 £70,000 -6.67% 274
UK excluding London -129 693 £65,000 -7.14% 151
Work from Home -135 495 £70,000 -6.67% 170
London -117 356 £80,000 -3.03% 132
North of England -78 200 £60,000 -14.29% 48
South East -93 194 £60,000 -14.29% 26
South West -37 160 £70,000 +7.69% 30
North West -75 118 £60,000 -14.29% 27
Yorkshire -41 61 £65,000 -3.70% 18
Midlands -54 56 £55,000 -21.43% 23
East of England -47 37 £65,000 -13.33% 9
West Midlands -44 32 £55,000 -21.43% 17
East Midlands -27 24 £55,000 -15.38% 6
Scotland -122 23 £70,576 -5.90% 9
North East -8 21 £57,500 -11.54% 3
Wales -20 16 £52,500 -23.35%
Northern Ireland -5 7 £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 2 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 featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 1,117 (100.00%) DevOps
2 721 (64.55%) Terraform
3 707 (63.29%) AWS
4 674 (60.34%) CI/CD
5 644 (57.65%) Kubernetes
6 537 (48.08%) Azure
7 484 (43.33%) Docker
8 447 (40.02%) Python
9 411 (36.79%) Agile
10 380 (34.02%) Infrastructure as Code
11 344 (30.80%) Containerisation
12 340 (30.44%) Ansible
13 338 (30.26%) Linux
14 276 (24.71%) Jenkins
15 265 (23.72%) Security Cleared
16 215 (19.25%) Social Skills
17 200 (17.91%) Azure DevOps
18 188 (16.83%) Mentoring
19 181 (16.20%) Bash
20 178 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
21 175 (15.67%) GCP
22 166 (14.86%) Java
23 164 (14.68%) Continuous Integration
24 161 (14.41%) PowerShell
25 159 (14.23%) Test Automation
25 159 (14.23%) Amazon S3
26 155 (13.88%) Finance
27 153 (13.70%) Public Sector
28 147 (13.16%) Git
29 143 (12.80%) 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 37 (3.31%) nginx
2 25 (2.24%) Apache
3 18 (1.61%) Apache Spark
3 18 (1.61%) 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%) Moodle
10 1 (0.090%) Apache Solr
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%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.090%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 707 (63.29%) AWS
2 537 (48.08%) Azure
3 200 (17.91%) Azure DevOps
4 175 (15.67%) GCP
5 159 (14.23%) Amazon S3
6 134 (12.00%) Amazon EKS
7 130 (11.64%) GitHub
8 128 (11.46%) Serverless
9 112 (10.03%) AWS CloudFormation
10 97 (8.68%) AWS Lambda
11 92 (8.24%) Amazon EC2
12 89 (7.97%) OpenShift
13 86 (7.70%) Amazon ECS
14 84 (7.52%) GitHub Actions
15 73 (6.54%) SaaS
16 70 (6.27%) IBM Cloud
16 70 (6.27%) OCI
17 63 (5.64%) Amazon ECR
17 63 (5.64%) Route 53
18 48 (4.30%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (5.73%) DNS
2 51 (4.57%) Firewall
3 35 (3.13%) Network Security
4 27 (2.42%) TCP/IP
5 26 (2.33%) HTTP
6 15 (1.34%) Internet
6 15 (1.34%) VPN
7 14 (1.25%) WAN
8 12 (1.07%) LAN
9 11 (0.98%) IPv4
10 10 (0.90%) Cisco ASA
11 8 (0.72%) SNMP
11 8 (0.72%) tcpdump
12 7 (0.63%) IPv6
13 5 (0.45%) AMQP
13 5 (0.45%) SSL
14 4 (0.36%) WLAN
15 3 (0.27%) SSH
16 2 (0.18%) SMTP
17 1 (0.090%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (11.64%) Amazon RDS
2 72 (6.45%) SQL Server
3 71 (6.36%) MongoDB
4 69 (6.18%) PostgreSQL
5 57 (5.10%) Hadoop
6 34 (3.04%) Relational Database
7 33 (2.95%) Big Data
8 30 (2.69%) Amazon Redshift
9 28 (2.51%) Azure SQL Database
10 25 (2.24%) MySQL
11 23 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
12 18 (1.61%) DynamoDB
13 17 (1.52%) Presto
14 15 (1.34%) NoSQL
15 13 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
15 13 (1.16%) Power BI
16 12 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
16 12 (1.07%) DB2
16 12 (1.07%) RDBMS
17 11 (0.98%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 276 (24.71%) Jenkins
2 147 (13.16%) Git
3 115 (10.30%) GitLab
4 98 (8.77%) JIRA
5 41 (3.67%) Artifactory
6 34 (3.04%) CircleCI
7 33 (2.95%) SonarQube
8 27 (2.42%) TeamCity
9 21 (1.88%) Bitbucket
10 19 (1.70%) Sonatype Nexus
11 16 (1.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 16 (1.43%) Octopus Deploy
12 13 (1.16%) IBM UrbanCode
12 13 (1.16%) Terragrunt
13 12 (1.07%) Maven
13 12 (1.07%) Selenium
14 10 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
15 9 (0.81%) Subversion
16 8 (0.72%) MSBuild
16 8 (0.72%) Vagrant
General
1 215 (19.25%) Social Skills
2 155 (13.88%) Finance
3 153 (13.70%) Public Sector
4 102 (9.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 60 (5.37%) Aerospace
6 35 (3.13%) Banking
7 32 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
8 27 (2.42%) Front Office
8 27 (2.42%) Law
9 21 (1.88%) Legal
10 19 (1.70%) Tech for Good
11 17 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
11 17 (1.52%) Retail
12 15 (1.34%) Games
12 15 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (1.25%) Telecoms
14 10 (0.90%) Marketing
15 8 (0.72%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.45%) Electronics
17 4 (0.36%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (7.52%) Node.js
2 74 (6.62%) .NET
3 65 (5.82%) Elastic Stack
4 53 (4.74%) Kafka
5 50 (4.48%) YAML
6 42 (3.76%) ARM Templates
7 30 (2.69%) RESTful
8 28 (2.51%) RabbitMQ
9 26 (2.33%) J2EE
10 23 (2.06%) AWS CDK
11 20 (1.79%) REST
12 19 (1.70%) Apache NiFi
13 18 (1.61%) React
14 17 (1.52%) JSON
14 17 (1.52%) JWT
15 16 (1.43%) ActiveMQ
15 16 (1.43%) Spring
16 12 (1.07%) Spring XD
17 11 (0.98%) HTML
17 11 (0.98%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 92 (8.24%) Hybrid Cloud
2 75 (6.71%) Blockchain
3 57 (5.10%) e-Learning
4 56 (5.01%) Public Cloud
5 41 (3.67%) Cloud Native
6 35 (3.13%) Product Ownership
7 29 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
8 27 (2.42%) Tandem
9 16 (1.43%) Client/Server
9 16 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
10 14 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
11 13 (1.16%) Management Information System
12 12 (1.07%) Low-Code
12 12 (1.07%) Private Cloud
13 11 (0.98%) Clustering
13 11 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (0.98%) Onboarding
14 10 (0.90%) Hedge funds
14 10 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 338 (30.26%) Linux
2 110 (9.85%) Windows
3 17 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (1.25%) Unix
4 14 (1.25%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.16%) VMS
6 12 (1.07%) CentOS
7 6 (0.54%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.18%) Debian
8 2 (0.18%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,117 (100.00%) DevOps
2 674 (60.34%) CI/CD
3 411 (36.79%) Agile
4 380 (34.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 344 (30.80%) Containerisation
6 188 (16.83%) Mentoring
7 178 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
8 164 (14.68%) Continuous Integration
9 159 (14.23%) Test Automation
10 123 (11.01%) Observability
11 122 (10.92%) Software Engineering
12 118 (10.56%) Artificial Intelligence
13 110 (9.85%) Configuration Management
14 108 (9.67%) Deployment Automation
15 107 (9.58%) Scrum
16 102 (9.13%) Coaching
17 99 (8.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 96 (8.59%) Microservices
19 90 (8.06%) Continuous Deployment
20 88 (7.88%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 447 (40.02%) Python
2 181 (16.20%) Bash
3 166 (14.86%) Java
4 161 (14.41%) PowerShell
5 138 (12.35%) SQL
6 96 (8.59%) Go
7 67 (6.00%) C#
8 50 (4.48%) JavaScript
9 48 (4.30%) Shell Script
10 42 (3.76%) Groovy
11 41 (3.67%) Ruby
12 23 (2.06%) Bicep
12 23 (2.06%) Perl
13 22 (1.97%) PHP
14 17 (1.52%) C++
14 17 (1.52%) T-SQL
15 12 (1.07%) C
16 9 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 9 (0.81%) TypeScript
16 9 (0.81%) U-SQL
Qualifications
1 265 (23.72%) Security Cleared
2 143 (12.80%) SC Cleared
3 99 (8.86%) DV Cleared
4 73 (6.54%) AWS Certification
5 61 (5.46%) Degree
6 37 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (2.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 24 (2.15%) Azure Certification
9 14 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.36%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.27%) BC Cleared
12 3 (0.27%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.18%) 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 22 (1.97%) QA
2 13 (1.16%) 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 2 (0.18%) NCSC
7 1 (0.090%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.090%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.090%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.090%) SLA
System Software
1 484 (43.33%) Docker
2 37 (3.31%) Virtual Machines
3 25 (2.24%) Active Directory
4 20 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.43%) 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
1 721 (64.55%) Terraform
2 644 (57.65%) Kubernetes
3 340 (30.44%) Ansible
4 141 (12.62%) Prometheus
5 108 (9.67%) Puppet
6 95 (8.50%) Grafana
7 91 (8.15%) Progress Chef
8 25 (2.24%) HAProxy
9 20 (1.79%) Packer
10 19 (1.70%) Consul
11 16 (1.43%) Rancher
12 14 (1.25%) Argo
12 14 (1.25%) Nagios
13 13 (1.16%) Kibana
14 12 (1.07%) Docker Swarm
15 11 (0.98%) Istio
16 9 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 8 (0.72%) Graphite
17 8 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
17 8 (0.72%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 120 (10.74%) Microsoft
2 88 (7.88%) Red Hat
3 84 (7.52%) IBM
4 68 (6.09%) Dynatrace
5 39 (3.49%) Oracle
6 31 (2.78%) Google
6 31 (2.78%) VMware
7 21 (1.88%) Splunk
8 19 (1.70%) Cisco
9 18 (1.61%) ServiceNow
10 16 (1.43%) Databricks
11 15 (1.34%) Black Duck
12 12 (1.07%) Atlassian
12 12 (1.07%) Sybase
13 10 (0.90%) New Relic
14 6 (0.54%) Salesforce
14 6 (0.54%) SAP
14 6 (0.54%) Zscaler
15 5 (0.45%) ForgeRock
15 5 (0.45%) YouTube