Career Radar IT roles · Poland
#19 by score · #14 editorially · Cloud and Infrastructure

DevOps Engineer

Tier 2 · Strong and stableAI risk: lowMixed32 offers on SOLID.Jobs

High demand; the title is slowly merging into platform engineering

Overall scoreDerived
6.75/ 10
#19 of 63 by score with the default weights. #14 in the editorial ranking.
  • Salary 30% × 4.71.40
  • AI resistance 35% × 8.02.80
  • Demand 20% × 8.01.60
  • Remote work 10% × 8.00.80
  • Low stress 5% × 3.00.15

Salary, k PLN per month

Estimate
0510152025303540Estimate≈17–32Market B2B19.2–27.7 · 28 offersMarket employment21.2–22.5 · 4 offers

estimate MID → SENIORmarket: middle half of offersmidpoint, medianjunior (derived)

Range MID → SENIOR
≈17–32
Range midpoint
≈24.5
Junior Derived
≈12.3
Take-home, employment (UoP) Derived
≈16.7
Take-home, B2B flat-rate tax Derived
≈20.1

NOTE: this is NOT a junior salary! The bottom of the range = MID level (or just promoted from junior). The top of the range = an experienced SENIOR. Staff/principal/architect levels can earn above it.

Easiest transitions

Estimate
SREPlatform EngCloud Architect

2-3 roles with the shortest path from this one (overlapping skills)

Key certifications

Estimate
AZ-400 / AWS DevOps ProCKATerraform

Scores 1–10

Estimate
  • AI resistance8/10
    10 = rides the AI wave, 1 = highly automatable
  • Demand8/10
    10 = acute shortage of specialists, 1 = shrinking market
  • Remote work8/10
    10 = fully remote is the norm, 1 = mostly on-site
  • Stress7/10
    10 = heavy on-call / shifts / pressure, 1 = calm
  • Entry barrier6/10
    10 = years of prerequisites, 1 = open to beginners
  • Prestige7/10
    10 = elite reputation in the industry, 1 = underrated role; a subjective view of the title among engineers - informational, not part of the Score formula

The market in job ads

From job ads SOLID.Jobs · 30/10/2026
32offers · 19 employers
23.9kB2B median · 19.2–27.7k
21.7kemployment median · 4 offers
47%remote · 50% hybrid

Most common stack

  • CI/CD
  • Azure
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • Docker
  • Linux
  • DevOps
  • Jenkins
  • Python
  • Bash
  • Grafana

requirednice to have% of this role's offers

Experience level

Junior 6%Regular 47%Senior 47%

8025 Q19625 Q26725 Q35525 Q47326 Q18826 Q28826 Q32926 Q4
Offers per quarter in DevOps · hollow dot = quarter in progress

Matching: 30 by title, 2 by category. Pay is the midpoint of each offer's range in PLN per month (B2B net, employment gross); the median and the band holding the middle half of offers are shown.