DevOps Engineer salary
What a devops engineer actually earns, from 923 live job postings blended with the official US OEWS (Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics) wage anchor. Pick a market for its median and range, then read the seniority split, the trend, and the country comparison below. Updated 2026-07-23.
Switch the market above to see devops engineer pay in the 3 countries our sources cover, each with its own cost of living. The trend, seniority, and state detail below are United States data, where the official record runs deepest.
What the number means
DevOps and platform engineering posts a blended US median near 134,000 dollars, and the pay reflects a role on the critical path: the person who owns deployment, reliability, and the infrastructure a hundred other engineers depend on. The premium is for the pager as much as the skill, because owning production means owning the failure at three in the morning. The band runs high toward site-reliability and cloud-platform specialties. It is a natural step up from software engineering or systems administration, and the demand is durable, because every company that ships software needs someone to keep it shipped.
Open devops engineer roles
Live openings tagged to this occupation, from company career pages and remote boards. Apply at the source.
- Cloud Engineer (6 months Contract)Experian · Cyberjaya, MYJul 23
- AI DevOps Engineer / Automation Builder (m/w/d)Ecoturn GmbH · MunichRemoteJul 22
- Simulation Infrastructure EngineerOpenAI · San Francisco$230k–$385kFeaturedJul 22
- Senior Cloud Data Infrastructure EngineerClickHouse · EMEAJul 22
- Cloud Engineer (m/w/d) mit Karriereambitionen!Auralis Group · Markt IndersdorfRemoteJul 22
- Platform Engineer (m/w/d) mit Karriereambitionen!Auralis Group · Markt IndersdorfRemoteJul 22
By seniority
Posted-median pay by seniority signal in the title, from our corpus. Noisy at the edges where sample sizes are small.
By country
- United States$111,672 – $169,346 · median $134,499
- Canada$69,543 – $95,149 · median $73,109
- United Kingdom$73,939 – $107,547 · median $86,421
Top-paying US states
OEWS median by state, highest first.
- Marylandmedian $112,080
- Californiamedian $106,620
- Virginiamedian $106,610
- New Jerseymedian $104,850
- Massachusettsmedian $104,730
- New Yorkmedian $104,050
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Move into or out of devops engineer
- software engineer → solutions architectmeasured route
Related salaries
- Software Engineer salary$181,991 median
- Backend Developer salary$135,581 median
- Solutions Architect salary$143,641 median
Quick answers
How much do DevOps engineers make?
The blended US median is about 134,000 dollars, rising toward site-reliability and cloud-platform roles.
Why do DevOps engineers earn a premium?
They own production reliability and the infrastructure many other engineers depend on, including the on-call failures.
How do you become a DevOps engineer?
Commonly from software engineering or systems administration, adding infrastructure and reliability ownership.
Method: bands are the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles of live US postings with stated pay, shrunk toward the official OEWS anchor by sample size (the “blended” figure). Trend is the OEWS annual median for SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code 15-1244. Live corpus 923 observations, 2026-07-23. Definitions in the glossary.