DevOps Engineer salary
What a devops engineer actually earns, from 1,333 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 2026-09-06.
Switch the market above to see devops engineer pay in the 6 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.
- (Senior) DevOps Engineer (m/f/x) at Aer GroupBerlin Boppstr.TodayApply
Cloud Platform Engineer (m/w/d) at IP Dynamics GmbHStuttgartTodayApply
DevOps Engineer at WhitecircleParisTodayApply
DevOps - H/F at MARGOParisTodayApply
Infrastructure Engineer – Automation at Bright Vision TechnologiesUnited States · Remote$100k–$150kTodayApply
Lead Platform Engineer at KoalafiUnited States · Remote$174k–$226kTodayApply
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$117,247$141,732$182,301
- Canada$77,983$91,041$113,347
- United Kingdom$71,629$88,684$117,038
- France$50,223$58,399$74,167
- Netherlands$70,079$81,488$100,395
- India$11,483$15,659$19,835
Switzerland · official wage bands
median CHF 9'949/month
Swiss postings do not state pay, so these are not posted salaries: they are the federal wage survey (Lohnstrukturerhebung 2024) for the ISCO group 25 Spezialisten in der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie: standardized gross monthly, full-time, 13th salary included pro rata. The band covers the whole occupation group, which is coarser than this occupation alone.
Annual ≈ CHF 119'388 at the median. Source: Bundesamt für Statistik, LSE 2024.
Top-paying US states
OEWS median by state, highest first.
- California$166,795
- Maryland$112,080
- Virginia$106,610
- New Jersey$104,850
- Massachusetts$104,730
- New York$104,050
Roles that pay more, that these skills already reach
Median pay from each destination’s own postings, with the readiness a devops engineer profile already covers.
- 600 open software engineer roles$185,617 median · +$43,885 · 43% readiness
- 600 open solutions architect roles$162,988 median · +$21,256 · 51% readiness
- 600 open data engineer roles$147,787 median · +$6,055 · 32% readiness
Every measured move out of this role, ranked by readiness: alternative careers for a devops engineer.
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Move into or out of devops engineer
- software engineer → solutions architectmeasured route
Related salaries
- Software Engineer salary$185,617 median
- Backend Developer salary$130,255 median
- Solutions Architect salary$162,988 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 1,333 observations, 2026-09-06. Definitions in the glossary.