DevOps

Most DevOps specialists already have a job. Active candidates find work quickly, but competition is rising.

AI-assisted summary of published DOU and Djinni analytics

Salary from $2,388 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Salary to $4,258 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Jobs 1,858 Last 3 months
Applications per job 17.97 JobNote category match
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Salary

DevOps
Bar chart of June 2026 monthly net compensation: all DevOps $2,750, SRE $3,500, Security Engineer $4,000, DefTech DevOps $5,000, and Senior DevOps $5,100.
$2,750 DevOps median
$5,100 Senior DevOps
$3,500 SRE median
$5,000 DefTech DevOps

Hiring Set the range by level and sector; the overall median hides improving Middle and Senior benchmarks.

Candidate Compare exact title, level, on-call scope, and sector—not the blended DevOps median alone.

Data Monthly net USD. The main survey includes 489 DevOps / SRE respondents in Ukraine or planning to return; DefTech is a separate, smaller sector sample.

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Candidate market

DevOps + SRE
93% Currently employed
49% Contacted by recruiters often
37% Looked for a job
68% Searchers who found a job

Hiring Most candidates already have a job. Show salary, on-call load, and platform scale early.

Candidate The market is strong, but results still depend on level and experience.

Data DOU combines DevOps and SRE. The 68% is only among people who searched.

03

Changing jobs

DevOps + SRE
5.4 weeks Typical job search
8 median applications
9 Djinni recruiter proposals
+$1,000 average pay increase

Hiring Active candidates often move within six weeks. Keep the process short.

Candidate The pay increase applies only to people who changed jobs and earned more.

Data DevOps + SRE combined. Search time uses 53 searchers; pay increase is not guaranteed.

04

Competition

DevOps
25 Applications / vacancy · all DOU
~1.5× Growth in six months
23.2 Applications / vacancy · DefTech

Hiring Applications are rising. Screen for platform ownership and production experience.

Candidate Show results from incidents, reliability work, and platform improvements.

Data All DOU: June and H1 2026. DefTech: Q2 2026.

Independent salary benchmark

DOU salary survey

Source data
June 2026 · 588 respondents
Role family
Lower quartile$2400
Median$4000
Upper quartile$6000
Year over year -3.6%

Salary range history

Lower quartile Median Upper quartile

DevOps and site reliability engineers · monthly net base salary in USD; bonuses excluded; all locations in the published CSV.

Derived from the shortened public salary-survey data published by DOU. Jobnote and DOU vacancy salaries are separate datasets.

Most wanted skills

Counts of active jobs now and salaries.

Kubernetes 395 $3635–$5439 Terraform 357 $3390–$5296 CI/CD 355 $2875–$4760 Linux 318 $1983–$3871 Python 295 $2969–$4699 AWS 289 $3640–$5305 Docker 277 $2695–$4541 Shell Scripting 205 $2756–$4542 DevOps 202 $3335–$5302 Azure 197 $2847–$4650 Ansible 135 $2587–$4534 Infrastructure as Code 126 $3614–$5186 Grafana 118 $2186–$4279 Network Administration 112 $2117–$3656 Google Cloud Platform 109 $4296–$5300 Prometheus 107 $2290–$4595 Github Actions 96 $3277–$5061 Git 87 $1948–$3603

Where to hire

Sources

  1. DevOps, SRE, Security, and SysAdmin salaries — summer 2026 Salary ·
  2. DefTech salaries — summer 2026 Salary ·
  3. More searching, less optimism: employment Candidate market ·
  4. More searching, less optimism: recruiter outreach Candidate market ·
  5. How IT specialists search for work in 2026 Candidate market ·
  6. Interactive job-search widget Changing jobs ·
  7. How IT specialists search for work in 2026 Changing jobs ·
  8. Salary change after moving jobs Changing jobs ·
  9. Applications before hire in 2026 Changing jobs ·
  10. IT job market in the first half of 2026 Competition ·
  11. DefTech labour market — Q2 2026 Competition ·
  12. Ukraine Top-50 IT companies — summer 2026 Competition ·