DevOps Engineer salary
Typical advertised pay for DevOps Engineer roles, from real job postings on FindRole.
Median advertised base salary
$130,000
Most postings fall between $101,500 and $178,035.
Based on 89 postings across 27 companies. Updated October 27, 2026.
As of October 2026, the median advertised base salary for DevOps Engineer roles is $130,000, based on 89 live job postings from 27 employers tracked by FindRole.
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Salary by seniority
| Level | 25th %ile | Median | 75th %ile | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $126,800 | $169,000 | $190,000 | 21 |
| Not specified | $101,500 | $126,800 | $162,000 | 53 |
Skills employers ask for
Share of DevOps Engineer postings that name each skill.
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Kubernetes 85% · 76 of 89
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CI/CD 84% · 75 of 89
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Python 83% · 74 of 89
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AWS 80% · 71 of 89
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Terraform 55% · 49 of 89
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Docker 53% · 47 of 89
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Bash 49% · 44 of 89
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Azure 46% · 41 of 89
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Jenkins 44% · 39 of 89
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Linux 44% · 39 of 89
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Infrastructure as Code 37% · 33 of 89
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PowerShell 35% · 31 of 89
Counted once per posting across 89 DevOps Engineer postings with an extracted skill list, as of October 2026. Spellings are folded to one name (K8s → Kubernetes) — see methodology.
Related roles
Titles whose postings ask for many of the same skills.
- Cloud Engineer shares Kubernetes, CI/CD, Python median $152,167
- Platform Engineer shares Kubernetes, CI/CD, Python median $156,250
- Site Reliability Engineer shares Kubernetes, CI/CD, Python median $180,200
- Engineer shares Kubernetes, CI/CD, Python median $178,175
- Software Developer shares Kubernetes, CI/CD, Python median $149,350
- Software Engineer shares Kubernetes, CI/CD, Python median $197,400
Top companies hiring DevOps Engineers
- Booz Allen Hamilton 38 postings · median $101,500
- General Dynamics 9 postings · median $163,000
- Apple Inc 8 postings · median $225,150
- CoStar Group 7 postings · median $180,500
- AbbVie 3 postings · median $159,000
- Dell Technologies 2 postings · median $213,428
- Upstart 2 postings · median $169,300
- Humana 1 postings · median $153,550
Open DevOps Engineer roles right now
The postings these numbers come from — see all DevOps Engineer jobs.
- DevOps Engineer Booz Allen Hamilton · McLean, VA View →
- DevOps Engineer, Retail and Marcom Engineering Apple Inc · Sunnyvale, CA View →
- DevOps Engineer TSC · Huntsville, AL View →
- DevOps Engineer Booz Allen Hamilton · Lexington, MA View →
- DevOps Engineer Fiserv · Berkeley Heights, NJ View →
- Senior DevOps Engineer II, Platform & Full Stack Engineering AbbVie · North Chicago, IL View →
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Create a free accountThese figures are the midpoint of the advertised salary range on real DevOps Engineer job postings indexed by FindRole — employer-stated base pay, not total compensation (they exclude equity and bonuses), and they reflect the roles we index rather than the whole market. A guide, not a guarantee.