DevOps Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Development Operations Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £61,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 286 154 135
Rank change year-on-year -132 -19 -33
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 691 1,255 2,003
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.87% 2.25% 2.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% 2.54% 2.76%
Number of salaries quoted 497 743 1,189
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,750 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.79% - +21.74%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 74,927 49,444 72,458
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.84% 88.83% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 52,326 29,284 42,904
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

DevOps Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
North of England -90 197 £60,000 -14.29% 39
South East -87 193 £60,000 -14.29% 26
South West -40 161 £68,750 +5.77% 32
North West -72 120 £60,000 -14.29% 24
Midlands -70 59 £55,000 -21.43% 29
Yorkshire -44 57 £57,500 -14.85% 12
East of England -52 38 £65,000 -13.33% 8
West Midlands -41 33 £55,000 -21.43% 18
East Midlands -42 26 £57,500 -11.54% 11
North East -12 20 £60,000 -9.43% 3
Scotland -124 20 £72,500 -3.33% 8
Wales -12 16 £51,250 -25.18% 3
Northern Ireland -5 7 £52,500 -28.81% 7
Channel Islands - 1 £110,000 -
DevOps Engineer
UK

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 9 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 UK excluding London region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 691 (100.00%) DevOps
2 426 (61.65%) AWS
3 395 (57.16%) CI/CD
4 394 (57.02%) Terraform
5 390 (56.44%) Kubernetes
6 350 (50.65%) Azure
7 300 (43.42%) Docker
8 239 (34.59%) Agile
9 220 (31.84%) Python
10 212 (30.68%) Ansible
11 209 (30.25%) Containerisation
12 204 (29.52%) Linux
13 201 (29.09%) Security Cleared
14 194 (28.08%) Infrastructure as Code
15 135 (19.54%) Jenkins
16 122 (17.66%) Mentoring
17 121 (17.51%) Social Skills
18 118 (17.08%) Continuous Integration
19 114 (16.50%) Azure DevOps
20 110 (15.92%) Public Sector
21 101 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
22 100 (14.47%) Test Automation
23 99 (14.33%) Prometheus
24 94 (13.60%) GCP
25 93 (13.46%) Observability
25 93 (13.46%) PowerShell
26 91 (13.17%) SC Cleared
26 91 (13.17%) Java
27 86 (12.45%) DV Cleared
28 85 (12.30%) JIRA

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 28 (4.05%) nginx
2 21 (3.04%) Apache
3 17 (2.46%) Apache Spark
4 16 (2.32%) Jupyter
5 6 (0.87%) Confluence
6 4 (0.58%) IIS
7 3 (0.43%) JBoss
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.14%) Moodle
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 426 (61.65%) AWS
2 350 (50.65%) Azure
3 114 (16.50%) Azure DevOps
4 94 (13.60%) GCP
5 82 (11.87%) Amazon S3
6 72 (10.42%) GitHub
7 65 (9.41%) Amazon EKS
8 59 (8.54%) IBM Cloud
9 58 (8.39%) SaaS
10 57 (8.25%) OCI
11 54 (7.81%) GitHub Actions
12 47 (6.80%) Amazon ECR
12 47 (6.80%) Route 53
13 40 (5.79%) OpenShift
14 39 (5.64%) AWS CloudFormation
15 26 (3.76%) Amazon ECS
16 25 (3.62%) Datadog
16 25 (3.62%) Serverless
17 23 (3.33%) PaaS
18 21 (3.04%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.04%) DNS
2 20 (2.89%) Firewall
3 17 (2.46%) Network Security
4 10 (1.45%) HTTP
5 7 (1.01%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (0.87%) WAN
7 5 (0.72%) AMQP
7 5 (0.72%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.58%) LAN
8 4 (0.58%) VPN
9 3 (0.43%) SSL
10 1 (0.14%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.14%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (9.12%) Hadoop
2 59 (8.54%) Amazon RDS
3 53 (7.67%) PostgreSQL
4 51 (7.38%) MongoDB
5 36 (5.21%) SQL Server
6 32 (4.63%) Big Data
7 25 (3.62%) Relational Database
8 16 (2.32%) Presto
9 11 (1.59%) NoSQL
10 10 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (0.87%) InfluxDB
12 4 (0.58%) MySQL
13 3 (0.43%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.29%) DB2
14 2 (0.29%) Flink
14 2 (0.29%) RDBMS
15 1 (0.14%) MariaDB
15 1 (0.14%) Redis
15 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 135 (19.54%) Jenkins
2 85 (12.30%) JIRA
3 72 (10.42%) Git
4 61 (8.83%) GitLab
5 25 (3.62%) CircleCI
6 22 (3.18%) TeamCity
7 20 (2.89%) SonarQube
8 16 (2.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 12 (1.74%) Artifactory
10 10 (1.45%) Terragrunt
11 9 (1.30%) Team Foundation Server
12 8 (1.16%) MSBuild
13 7 (1.01%) Bitbucket
13 7 (1.01%) Maven
13 7 (1.01%) Selenium
13 7 (1.01%) Vagrant
14 6 (0.87%) IBM UrbanCode
14 6 (0.87%) Octopus Deploy
14 6 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
15 5 (0.72%) Subversion
General
1 121 (17.51%) Social Skills
2 110 (15.92%) Public Sector
3 58 (8.39%) Aerospace
3 58 (8.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 49 (7.09%) Finance
5 16 (2.32%) Tech for Good
6 13 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (1.59%) Banking
7 11 (1.59%) Games
8 10 (1.45%) Retail
9 9 (1.30%) Law
9 9 (1.30%) Marketing
10 8 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.01%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.87%) Analytical Skills
13 5 (0.72%) Advertising
13 5 (0.72%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.58%) Automotive
14 4 (0.58%) Electronics
15 2 (0.29%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (9.55%) Node.js
2 50 (7.24%) Kafka
3 39 (5.64%) .NET
4 31 (4.49%) YAML
5 30 (4.34%) Elastic Stack
6 25 (3.62%) RabbitMQ
7 23 (3.33%) ARM Templates
8 20 (2.89%) Apache NiFi
9 18 (2.60%) RESTful
10 16 (2.32%) ActiveMQ
11 12 (1.74%) JSON
12 10 (1.45%) JWT
13 9 (1.30%) XML
14 8 (1.16%) AWS CDK
15 6 (0.87%) React
16 5 (0.72%) HTML
16 5 (0.72%) Keycloak
16 5 (0.72%) Spring
17 4 (0.58%) Lambda Expressions
17 4 (0.58%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 77 (11.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 59 (8.54%) Blockchain
3 46 (6.66%) e-Learning
4 40 (5.79%) Public Cloud
5 25 (3.62%) Cloud Native
5 25 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
6 23 (3.33%) Product Ownership
7 11 (1.59%) Low-Code
8 10 (1.45%) Client/Server
9 7 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (0.87%) Private Cloud
10 6 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (0.72%) Online Games
11 5 (0.72%) Renewable Energy
12 4 (0.58%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.58%) PKI
12 4 (0.58%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 3 (0.43%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 204 (29.52%) Linux
2 44 (6.37%) Windows
3 9 (1.30%) VMS
4 8 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.87%) CentOS
5 6 (0.87%) Unix
6 3 (0.43%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.29%) Debian
7 2 (0.29%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 691 (100.00%) DevOps
2 395 (57.16%) CI/CD
3 239 (34.59%) Agile
4 209 (30.25%) Containerisation
5 194 (28.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 122 (17.66%) Mentoring
7 118 (17.08%) Continuous Integration
8 101 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
9 100 (14.47%) Test Automation
10 93 (13.46%) Observability
11 85 (12.30%) Artificial Intelligence
12 80 (11.58%) Scrum
13 72 (10.42%) Continuous Deployment
13 72 (10.42%) SDLC
14 70 (10.13%) Coaching
15 63 (9.12%) Collaborative Working
16 62 (8.97%) Configuration Management
17 58 (8.39%) Kanban
18 55 (7.96%) Validation
19 52 (7.53%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 220 (31.84%) Python
2 93 (13.46%) PowerShell
3 91 (13.17%) Java
4 83 (12.01%) Bash
5 80 (11.58%) SQL
6 40 (5.79%) C#
7 35 (5.07%) Shell Script
8 28 (4.05%) JavaScript
9 22 (3.18%) Groovy
10 21 (3.04%) Go
11 18 (2.60%) Bicep
12 15 (2.17%) Ruby
13 10 (1.45%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.30%) C
14 9 (1.30%) Perl
15 8 (1.16%) PHP
16 7 (1.01%) C++
17 5 (0.72%) Ada
18 4 (0.58%) Lua
18 4 (0.58%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 201 (29.09%) Security Cleared
2 91 (13.17%) SC Cleared
3 86 (12.45%) DV Cleared
4 39 (5.64%) Degree
5 35 (5.07%) AWS Certification
6 29 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (2.32%) Azure Certification
8 14 (2.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 9 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.43%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 3 (0.43%) BC Cleared
11 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.14%) OCP
12 1 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (2.32%) QA
2 7 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.43%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.29%) NCSC
5 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.14%) NIST
5 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 300 (43.42%) Docker
2 22 (3.18%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (0.87%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.87%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.43%) KVM
6 3 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.29%) Firmware
8 1 (0.14%) iptables
Systems Management
1 394 (57.02%) Terraform
2 390 (56.44%) Kubernetes
3 212 (30.68%) Ansible
4 99 (14.33%) Prometheus
5 52 (7.53%) Progress Chef
5 52 (7.53%) Puppet
6 51 (7.38%) Grafana
7 16 (2.32%) HAProxy
8 12 (1.74%) Docker Swarm
9 10 (1.45%) Consul
10 9 (1.30%) Packer
11 7 (1.01%) Kibana
11 7 (1.01%) Rancher
12 6 (0.87%) Argo
13 4 (0.58%) Istio
13 4 (0.58%) Rundeck
13 4 (0.58%) vRealize
14 3 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.43%) Nagios
14 3 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 76 (11.00%) Microsoft
2 66 (9.55%) IBM
3 62 (8.97%) Red Hat
4 48 (6.95%) Dynatrace
5 19 (2.75%) VMware
6 16 (2.32%) ServiceNow
7 15 (2.17%) Oracle
8 11 (1.59%) Cisco
9 10 (1.45%) Black Duck
10 9 (1.30%) Google
11 7 (1.01%) Atlassian
11 7 (1.01%) Splunk
12 4 (0.58%) New Relic
12 4 (0.58%) SaltStack
12 4 (0.58%) SAP
12 4 (0.58%) YouTube
13 3 (0.43%) ForgeRock
13 3 (0.43%) Sitecore
13 3 (0.43%) Veeam
14 2 (0.29%) Sybase