DevOps Engineer: market
A DevOps Engineer builds and maintains the path of code from commit to production: CI/CD, infrastructure as code, containers, monitoring and operations automation. We currently track 3 896 open positions for this role, 3 760 of them fresh. The typical set is Linux, Docker and Kubernetes, Terraform, one cloud (AWS, Azure or GCP), CI/CD (GitLab CI, Jenkins), monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana) and scripting in Python or Bash. By co-occurrence in requirements, AWS, Kubernetes, Azure and Docker appear most often. 37% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is a live slice of the DevOps Engineer market: geography, seniority, adjacent stack and sources.
The DevOps Engineer market currently has 3,896 open roles, 3,760 of them freshly observed. Median salary $7,375/mo.
37% of DevOps Engineer postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the format.
⚠ salary known for 337 of 3896 jobs; remote share from 3011 with a stated format; 3760 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Timeline: postings and sources
How many DevOps Engineer postings appeared each week since 4 May, and from how many sources. The second line separates market growth from coverage growth: a jump in the week new sources were connected means we started seeing more, not that the market grew.
New postings and active sources per week
Sources over the period: 221
New sources connected: 11 May +9 · 18 May +6 · 25 May +3 · 1 Jun +7 · 8 Jun +3 · 15 Jun +4 · 22 Jun +19 · 29 Jun +26 · 6 Jul +25 · 13 Jul +18 · 20 Jul +19 · 27 Jul +6 · 3 Aug +6 · 10 Aug +2 · 17 Aug +6 · 24 Aug +1 · 31 Aug +7 · 7 Sept +3 · 21 Sept +10 · 28 Sept +4 · 5 Oct +10 · 12 Oct +4
Week = posting first-seen date, all statuses; postings are selected by the same rule as this page's counter. Sources are distinct collection channels; their names are not published.
Salaries over time
Median DevOps Engineer salary per week, USD per month.
Median salary, USD per month
Only postings with a USD salary and a known period (month or year), $500–$50,000 per month. Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank — that means no data, not zero.
Remote work over time
Share of DevOps Engineer postings offering fully remote work, per week.
Remote postings, %
The share is among postings that state a format (remote, hybrid, office). Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank.
Technologies over time
How the share of DevOps Engineer postings mentioning each of the top technologies changed.
Postings mentioning the technology, %
Share among postings with a tagged stack; the series starts on 10 Aug: earlier stack tags were assigned differently. Weeks with fewer than 20 tagged postings are left blank.
Countries over time
How the share of DevOps Engineer postings in each of the top countries changed, per week.
Postings in the country, %
Share among postings with a known country; the chart shows the five countries with the most postings over six months. Weeks with fewer than 20 postings with a known country are left blank. A rising share can mean a newly connected source in that country rather than market growth.
Demand and observed supply: DevOps Engineer
| Open demand | 3,896 |
| Observed supply | — not published |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution: DevOps Engineer
One in ten earns under $4,375, one in ten over $15,708. Half the market falls between $5,568 and $10,641. Sample: 337.
The range histogram for DevOps Engineer uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
Demand geography: DevOps Engineer
| country | jobs |
|---|---|
| PL | 592 |
| US | 529 |
| GB | 424 |
| IN | 255 |
| SG | 209 |
| DE | 150 |
| RU | 133 |
| UA | 80 |
| CA | 69 |
| NL | 54 |
The top country for DevOps Engineer demand is Poland (592 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
In DevOps Engineer requirements the most frequently named skills and technologies are AWS, Kubernetes, Azure and Docker.
Demand by grade: DevOps Engineer
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 1,373 |
| middle | 241 |
| principal | 145 |
| junior | 144 |
| lead | 117 |
Senior-and-above is about 81% of 2 020 DevOps Engineer postings with an explicit grade.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers: DevOps Engineer
Demand is spread across 1,991 employers. The largest accounts for 1.4%, the top ten for 8.5%; the remaining 91.5% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 1.4% |
| top-3 | 3.7% |
| top-10 | 8.5% |
| long tail | 91.5% |
DevOps Engineer openings come from 1 991 distinct employers; the largest one accounts for only 1.4% of postings — the market is not tied to a single hirer.
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 131 sources; the largest accounts for 10.5% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
DevOps Engineer postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Recent openings: DevOps Engineer
- DevOps Engineer
- DevOps Engineer IV - US · US · $11,012
- DevOps Engineer · PL · $7,725
- [8NW] Sr. Cloud Infrastructure / DevOps Engineer · CR
- Staff DevOps Engineer · INT
- Senior DevOps Engineer (m/f/d) · ES · $5,435
- DevOps Engineer · PL
- Senior DevOps Engineer (f/m/d) · DE
Adjacent markets
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
How this is measured
- Vacancy
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Observed candidate
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Matchable candidate
- not counted yet
- Window
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
About the data
- Some breakdowns are hidden: their data coverage is not yet sufficient.
- Statistics are shown only where the sample clears a quality gate.
- A missing block does not mean a value of zero.
Breakdowns currently hidden: 8.
Data as of 2026-10-23
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about the DevOps Engineer role — short answers from the same data slice.
What does a DevOps Engineer do?
A DevOps Engineer builds and maintains the path of code from commit to production: CI/CD, infrastructure as code, containers, monitoring and operations automation.
Which skills do DevOps Engineer postings require?
The typical set is Linux, Docker and Kubernetes, Terraform, one cloud (AWS, Azure or GCP), CI/CD (GitLab CI, Jenkins), monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana) and scripting in Python or Bash. In the current slice, AWS, Kubernetes, Azure and Docker appear in requirements most often.
How does a DevOps Engineer differ from an SRE?
A DevOps engineer focuses on delivery and infrastructure automation; an SRE — on service reliability in production: SLOs, error budgets, incident reviews. In practice the roles overlap heavily.
How remote-friendly are DevOps Engineer jobs?
37% of postings with an explicit format allow fully remote work; the slice tracks 3 896 open positions.
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