DevOps Jobs in United Kingdom
There are 4,648 open DevOps jobs in United Kingdom on freehire right now. 1,288 of them were posted recently. The skills employers ask for most often are devops, cloud and ci-cd.
Salary
| Currency | Period | 25th | Median | 75th | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GBP | year | £57,500 | £75,374 | £95,000 | 240 |
| GBP | day | £498 | £544 | £600 | 47 |
| USD | year | $151,250 | $169,525 | $174,762 | 10 |
From postings that disclose pay. Currencies are counted separately, never converted.
Most requested skills
- devops 61%
- cloud 56%
- ci-cd 47%
- automation 40%
- aws 36%
- terraform 34%
- infrastructure-as-code 34%
- kubernetes 31%
How the work is done
- Hybrid 923 · 20%
- Remote 229 · 5%
- Onsite 79 · 2%
Visa sponsorship offered in 28% of the 248 postings that state a position on it.
Seniority
- Senior 1,246
- Lead 487
- Principal 95
- Staff 54
- Junior 45
- C-level 40
Who is hiring
- 1000+ employees 441
- 501-1000 employees 234
- 51-200 employees 109
- 11-50 employees 47
- 201-500 employees 21
- 1-10 employees 2
Cloud Engineer
Design and deploy Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure for clients, automate deployments, and troubleshoot issues while working directly with customers.
3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Provide advanced troubleshooting and maintenance for critical national-security IT systems, primarily VMware/Hyper-V virtualized environments, VDI, SAN, backup tools, and Windows/Linux servers.
Principal Platform Engineer
Senior hands-on engineer designing and operating multi-cloud (AWS/Azure) infrastructure and Kubernetes platforms for a global trading platform, while leading AI-driven automation to reduce operational toil and improve reliability.
Intermediate/Senior DevOps
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, and monitoring stacks for a cloud archiving platform, automating deployments and ensuring high availability of enterprise-grade software.
Analytical platform Engineer
Build and maintain secure analytics platforms for UK Defence projects using DevOps practices and require DV clearance.
Platform Engineer
Design and run secure, automated platforms for defence and national security using cloud, Kubernetes, IaC and CI/CD pipelines.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Senior Infrastructure Engineer maintaining Windows Server, Active Directory, Citrix/VMware VDI, and SQL Server for a UK defence programme, ensuring secure and resilient mission-critical systems.
Cloud Platform Engineer - Azure
Builds and operates Azure cloud foundations—landing zones, identity, networking, and IaC—so application teams can deploy securely and reliably.
Senior Backend Infrastructure Engineer (Platform)
Build and maintain the backend infrastructure platform that powers Soda’s data-quality engine, ensuring AI systems operate on reliable data.
Platform Engineer (Kubernetes on-premises)
Build and maintain on-premises Kubernetes platforms for a proprietary trading firm, automating deployments and ensuring reliability for global trading systems.
SC cleared GCP Cloud engineer
Senior GCP cloud engineer designs, deploys and secures Kubernetes workloads on Google Cloud using Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.
DevOps Engineer
Build and maintain cloud platforms that power mission-critical software for UK emergency services, ensuring fast, reliable responses.
DevOps Engineer
DevOps Engineer maintaining and automating secure AWS cloud platforms for public sector services using modern DevOps tooling.
DevOps Engineer
Build and maintain secure, cloud-native infrastructure for critical national services as part of a large-scale public-sector cloud transformation.

Senior Release Manager (Agile / DevOps / Financial Services)
Own the end-to-end release lifecycle for a major financial services org, coordinating multiple Agile squads to deliver enterprise-wide technology releases.
Junior DevOps Engineer - Accelerator Academy (ENG25)
Junior DevOps Engineer role providing hands-on cloud and infrastructure support for public sector projects with mentorship and training.