About DevOps jobs
DevOps in the UK has matured from “sysadmin who writes scripts” into a proper engineering discipline with clear sub-specialisms. Of the 49 DevOps roles currently listed on Geekery.io, the largest cluster is site reliability engineering (SRE) — engineers focused on production reliability, observability, incident response, and on-call. The second is platform engineering — teams building internal developer platforms so product engineers can ship faster. The third is CI/CD and release engineering — specialists in build pipelines, deployment automation, and developer experience.
UK DevOps salaries cluster as follows: junior no data, mid-level £30,000–£140,000, senior £35,000–£130,000, and expert £35,000–£85,000. The UK median is around £67,500. SRE roles at large platforms (Google, Meta, Netflix, Amazon, plus their UK competitors) can pay 20–30% above market median.
The most common tech stacks you’ll see: Kubernetes + Terraform + AWS at scale-ups, Ansible / Puppet / Chef in legacy enterprise, GitHub Actions / GitLab CI / Jenkins for CI/CD, Prometheus + Grafana + Datadog for observability, and a growing share of ArgoCD / FluxCD for GitOps deployments.
UK DevOps hiring is concentrated in London, Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh, and Cambridge, with strong demand across financial services, SaaS, e-commerce, and the public sector. Roughly 45% of DevOps roles offer full remote within the UK, with the rest being hybrid. Senior and expert-level platform engineering roles skew more remote than junior ops roles.
A trend worth noting: DevOps and SRE are converging with backend engineering in some employers. Hiring managers increasingly want engineers who can write application code, not just configuration. If you’re a backend engineer curious about DevOps, your existing skills translate well — and DevOps salaries are typically higher than equivalent backend roles at the same seniority.
If you’re hiring a DevOps engineer, expect strong competition on the most in-demand skills (Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, observability tooling). The listings below are filtered by recency.
