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Devops Engineer Salary & Career Guide

What 342 live Devops Engineer postings ask for and pay: salary by years of experience, skills, education and the employers hiring.

Open roles
342
Employers
198
Remote
13%
Typical pay
$90k–226k
Verified live (7d)
323

Pay is advertised by 61% of these postings (210 of 342 in USD), so read it as what is offered rather than what is paid.

Pay by experience

Median advertised base, from postings that disclosed a range in USD · pick a band to read the rest of this page for it

ExperienceMedianPostings
0–2 years$101k19
3–5 years$121k86
6–9 years$130k40
10+ years$130k33

Skills in demand

Across 335 devops engineer postings that named at least one skill

  • Amazon Web Services79%
  • Kubernetes73%
  • Docker54%
  • Python50%
  • Terraform49%
  • Ansible45%
  • Linux43%
  • Microsoft Azure41%
  • GitLab29%
  • GitHub27%

Experience asked for

Minimum years named in the posting · 271 postings stated one

0–2 years
11%
3–5 years
49%
6–9 years
25%
10+ years
15%

Work arrangement

Where the work is done · 207 postings stated one

Remote
21%
Hybrid
42%
On-site
37%

Education

The floor the posting sets · 127 postings stated one

High school
14%
Associate
0.8%
Bachelor's
83%
Master's
1.6%
Doctorate
0.8%

Employers hiring for this

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