Cloud and DevOps Salary Guide 2025
For the IT Search Cloud and DevOps Salary Guide 2025, we have surveyed almost 400 Irish based technology professionals to better understand how the Cloud and DevOps jobs market may perform in 2025, and what their own motivations and expectations are. We hope this information may help our clients make more informed decisions on retention and attraction of Cloud and DevOps talent. Many thanks to all our Clients, Candidates and Partners who have helped with this report.
Introduction
2024’s market in Cloud and Platform Engineering was very stable, some small growth but increased candidate movement as expected in a maturing area. Market conditions mostly based around company policies of returning to the workplace has been a strong driver of candidate motivation to move.
Those employers favouring continued hybrid or fully remote practices have a distinct advantage in securing talent with the hybrid model (two or three days weekly onsite attendance) being the most common.
Site Reliability Engineering jobs demand has remained stable, we’re seeing a 3% to 5% increase in average salary expectations (with some exceptions due to the aforementioned high-level expansions). A definite uptick in more mid level DevOps Engineering jobs demand has been happening as more employers invest further in this area.
We are seeing less movement across Platforms, but market share (AWS, Azure, GCP) has remained static in this market locally so a pause in migrations from On-Prem to cloud, likely this has reached saturation.
Cloud and DevOps Salary Guide 2025
Position
Junior (1-3 years)
Mid(3-6 years)
Senior (6+ years)
Day Rate
DevOps Engineer
€50000-€65000
€65000-€90000
€95000-€110000
€450-€700
Site Reliability Engineer
€48000-€70000
€70000-€90000
€85000-€120000
€500-€650
Cloud Engineer
€55000-€65000
€65000-€78000
€75000-€95000
€350-€550
Cloud Architect
€95000
€95000-€115000
€110000-€120000
€550-€750
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If you have any queries in regards to the salary survey or anything cloud and devops recruitment related, contact Ruadhri on +353 1 507 9264 or email ruadhri.mcgarry@itsearch.ie.
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