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 £65,000 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 283 160 125
Rank change year-on-year -123 -35 -27
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 674 1,299 2,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.94% 2.20% 2.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 2.46% 2.94%
Number of salaries quoted 495 747 1,238
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,750 £56,235 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,447 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% -0.79% +21.74%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £85,000
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
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 67,966 52,773 69,497
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.88% 89.23% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 47,979 30,132 42,817
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
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 20 May 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 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
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
Scotland -128 24 £70,576 +0.82% 10
East Midlands -34 23 £55,000 -15.38% 6
North East +2 22 £57,500 -13.21% 5
Wales -15 15 £52,500 -26.83% 1
Northern Ireland +5 7 £52,500 -22.22% 5
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 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 UK excluding London region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 674 (100.00%) DevOps
2 402 (59.64%) Terraform
3 401 (59.50%) AWS
4 389 (57.72%) CI/CD
5 380 (56.38%) Kubernetes
6 331 (49.11%) Azure
7 286 (42.43%) Docker
8 248 (36.80%) Agile
9 223 (33.09%) Linux
10 211 (31.31%) Ansible
11 209 (31.01%) Containerisation
12 201 (29.82%) Infrastructure as Code
12 201 (29.82%) Python
13 180 (26.71%) Security Cleared
14 134 (19.88%) Jenkins
15 122 (18.10%) Continuous Integration
16 117 (17.36%) Social Skills
16 117 (17.36%) Mentoring
17 110 (16.32%) Azure DevOps
18 102 (15.13%) Public Sector
19 101 (14.99%) Prometheus
20 95 (14.09%) Problem-Solving
20 95 (14.09%) Observability
21 94 (13.95%) GCP
22 92 (13.65%) Test Automation
23 90 (13.35%) PowerShell
24 87 (12.91%) Artificial Intelligence
24 87 (12.91%) Bash
25 85 (12.61%) Java
26 83 (12.31%) Amazon S3

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 32 (4.75%) nginx
2 22 (3.26%) Apache
3 19 (2.82%) Apache Spark
4 18 (2.67%) Jupyter
5 6 (0.89%) Confluence
6 4 (0.59%) IIS
7 2 (0.30%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.30%) JBoss
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.15%) Moodle
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 401 (59.50%) AWS
2 331 (49.11%) Azure
3 110 (16.32%) Azure DevOps
4 94 (13.95%) GCP
5 83 (12.31%) Amazon S3
6 70 (10.39%) GitHub
7 66 (9.79%) Amazon EKS
8 59 (8.75%) IBM Cloud
9 57 (8.46%) SaaS
10 54 (8.01%) OpenShift
11 50 (7.42%) GitHub Actions
12 47 (6.97%) OCI
12 47 (6.97%) Route 53
13 46 (6.82%) Amazon ECR
14 31 (4.60%) AWS CloudFormation
15 30 (4.45%) Amazon ECS
16 27 (4.01%) Datadog
17 23 (3.41%) Serverless
18 21 (3.12%) Amazon EC2
19 20 (2.97%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (3.41%) DNS
2 20 (2.97%) Firewall
3 16 (2.37%) Network Security
4 11 (1.63%) HTTP
5 9 (1.34%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (0.89%) VPN
7 6 (0.89%) WAN
8 5 (0.74%) AMQP
9 4 (0.59%) LAN
10 2 (0.30%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.30%) IPsec
10 2 (0.30%) SSL
11 1 (0.15%) Internet
11 1 (0.15%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.15%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (8.61%) Amazon RDS
2 54 (8.01%) Hadoop
3 42 (6.23%) PostgreSQL
4 40 (5.93%) MongoDB
5 35 (5.19%) SQL Server
6 31 (4.60%) Big Data
7 20 (2.97%) Relational Database
8 18 (2.67%) Presto
9 10 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (1.48%) NoSQL
10 6 (0.89%) InfluxDB
11 5 (0.74%) MySQL
12 3 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.45%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.30%) Couchbase
13 2 (0.30%) DB2
13 2 (0.30%) Flink
13 2 (0.30%) RDBMS
14 1 (0.15%) Redis
14 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 134 (19.88%) Jenkins
2 76 (11.28%) Git
3 75 (11.13%) JIRA
4 62 (9.20%) GitLab
5 21 (3.12%) CircleCI
5 21 (3.12%) TeamCity
6 18 (2.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 18 (2.67%) IBM UrbanCode
7 12 (1.78%) Artifactory
7 12 (1.78%) SonarQube
8 10 (1.48%) Maven
9 9 (1.34%) Selenium
9 9 (1.34%) Team Foundation Server
10 8 (1.19%) MSBuild
11 7 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (1.04%) Vagrant
12 6 (0.89%) Octopus Deploy
13 5 (0.74%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.74%) Subversion
14 4 (0.59%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 117 (17.36%) Social Skills
2 102 (15.13%) Public Sector
3 71 (10.53%) Finance
4 61 (9.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 54 (8.01%) Aerospace
6 30 (4.45%) Banking
7 20 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
8 17 (2.52%) Tech for Good
9 13 (1.93%) Law
10 11 (1.63%) Games
10 11 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (1.34%) Retail
12 7 (1.04%) Manufacturing
13 6 (0.89%) Analytical Skills
14 5 (0.74%) Electronics
14 5 (0.74%) Legal
14 5 (0.74%) Marketing
14 5 (0.74%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.59%) Advertising
16 3 (0.45%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (6.97%) Node.js
2 45 (6.68%) .NET
3 37 (5.49%) Kafka
4 35 (5.19%) YAML
5 29 (4.30%) Elastic Stack
5 29 (4.30%) RabbitMQ
6 19 (2.82%) Apache NiFi
7 18 (2.67%) ActiveMQ
8 17 (2.52%) RESTful
9 15 (2.23%) JSON
10 13 (1.93%) ARM Templates
11 11 (1.63%) AWS CDK
12 10 (1.48%) JWT
13 9 (1.34%) XML
14 6 (0.89%) Spring
15 5 (0.74%) Lambda Expressions
16 4 (0.59%) .NET Core
16 4 (0.59%) Keycloak
16 4 (0.59%) React
16 4 (0.59%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 77 (11.42%) Hybrid Cloud
2 59 (8.75%) Blockchain
3 53 (7.86%) Public Cloud
4 46 (6.82%) e-Learning
5 22 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (2.37%) Cloud Native
7 14 (2.08%) Low-Code
7 14 (2.08%) Product Ownership
8 10 (1.48%) Client/Server
8 10 (1.48%) Private Cloud
9 7 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (0.89%) Onboarding
11 5 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (0.74%) Online Games
11 5 (0.74%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.59%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.59%) PKI
12 4 (0.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 223 (33.09%) Linux
2 57 (8.46%) Windows
3 9 (1.34%) VMS
4 6 (0.89%) CentOS
4 6 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (0.89%) Unix
5 3 (0.45%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.30%) Debian
6 2 (0.30%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 674 (100.00%) DevOps
2 389 (57.72%) CI/CD
3 248 (36.80%) Agile
4 209 (31.01%) Containerisation
5 201 (29.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 122 (18.10%) Continuous Integration
7 117 (17.36%) Mentoring
8 95 (14.09%) Observability
8 95 (14.09%) Problem-Solving
9 92 (13.65%) Test Automation
10 87 (12.91%) Artificial Intelligence
11 74 (10.98%) SDLC
12 69 (10.24%) Coaching
13 68 (10.09%) Continuous Deployment
14 66 (9.79%) Scrum
15 62 (9.20%) Collaborative Working
16 60 (8.90%) Configuration Management
17 54 (8.01%) Kanban
18 53 (7.86%) Secrets Management
19 52 (7.72%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 201 (29.82%) Python
2 90 (13.35%) PowerShell
3 87 (12.91%) Bash
4 85 (12.61%) Java
5 77 (11.42%) SQL
6 40 (5.93%) C#
7 38 (5.64%) Shell Script
8 37 (5.49%) Groovy
9 25 (3.71%) Go
10 21 (3.12%) JavaScript
11 19 (2.82%) Bicep
12 15 (2.23%) Ruby
13 10 (1.48%) T-SQL
14 9 (1.34%) C
14 9 (1.34%) Perl
14 9 (1.34%) PHP
15 6 (0.89%) C++
16 5 (0.74%) Ada
17 4 (0.59%) Lua
17 4 (0.59%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 180 (26.71%) Security Cleared
2 81 (12.02%) DV Cleared
3 75 (11.13%) SC Cleared
4 40 (5.93%) Degree
5 29 (4.30%) AWS Certification
6 25 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (2.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.89%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.74%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (0.30%) BC Cleared
12 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.15%) OCP
12 1 (0.15%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.23%) QA
2 7 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.59%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.15%) NCSC
4 1 (0.15%) NIST
4 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 286 (42.43%) Docker
2 20 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.89%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.59%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.45%) KVM
7 2 (0.30%) Firmware
7 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.15%) iptables
Systems Management
1 402 (59.64%) Terraform
2 380 (56.38%) Kubernetes
3 211 (31.31%) Ansible
4 101 (14.99%) Prometheus
5 63 (9.35%) Progress Chef
6 53 (7.86%) Grafana
6 53 (7.86%) Puppet
7 18 (2.67%) HAProxy
8 13 (1.93%) Consul
8 13 (1.93%) Rancher
9 12 (1.78%) Docker Swarm
10 9 (1.34%) Packer
11 8 (1.19%) Argo
11 8 (1.19%) Istio
12 7 (1.04%) Kibana
13 4 (0.59%) Rundeck
13 4 (0.59%) vRealize
14 2 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.30%) Kustomize
14 2 (0.30%) Podman
Vendors
1 78 (11.57%) IBM
2 72 (10.68%) Microsoft
3 60 (8.90%) Red Hat
4 48 (7.12%) Dynatrace
5 19 (2.82%) Google
6 18 (2.67%) VMware
7 15 (2.23%) Oracle
8 11 (1.63%) Cisco
9 8 (1.19%) Splunk
10 6 (0.89%) Atlassian
10 6 (0.89%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.59%) SaltStack
11 4 (0.59%) SAP
11 4 (0.59%) YouTube
12 3 (0.45%) Databricks
12 3 (0.45%) ForgeRock
12 3 (0.45%) Sitecore
12 3 (0.45%) Veeam
13 2 (0.30%) New Relic
13 2 (0.30%) Talend