Puppet, a standard for infrastructure automation, revealed the findings of its 2021 DevOps Salary Report. Puppet surveyed over 2,600 tech experts globally and found that while there was significant growth in DevOps salaries, APAC lags behind in the highest salary brackets.
Rachel Lew, Senior Director, Asia Pacific, Puppet commented, “As APAC markets such as Singapore and Australia continue to become synonymous with innovation and transformation, organisations must digitally transform and modernise faster than ever.”
“The survey findings show that companies must keep pace with competitive compensation globally in order to attract and nurture DevOps talent and critical skills in great demand.”
How are women faring in the DevOps Salary Report?
The data reveals that women are increasing their earning status across regions, roles, and industries. “It is exciting to see more women enter higher income brackets, especially in DevOps, which has been a male-dominated area,” said Abby Kearns, CTO, Puppet.
“The gradual decrease in a wage gap hopefully points to a long-term transformation in pay equity. As a DevOps leader, I am inspired by the progression am seeing and look forward to seeing more equality in wages and gender parity across DevOps overall.”
Pandemic-driven digital transformation efforts have directly impacted the DevOps landscape. These transformational enterprise shifts have forced companies to offer more competitive compensation and invest in top talent to ensure sustainable success.
As a result, the 2021 DevOps Salary Report found that more workers are moving into higher income levels than at any time in the past three years. In addition, companies with high-evolution DevOps are compensating their employees at the highest level, with more managers and practitioners entering the salary group earning more than $150,000.
What are the key insights from Puppet’s salary report?
Key findings revealed in the DevOps Salary Report also include:
APAC lags behind in terms of wages in the highest salary bands
Only 4% of managers and practitioners combined earned more than $150,000 in 2021, compared to six percent in Europe/U.K., 12% in Canada, and 35 percent in the United States. However, when it comes to salaries of $100,000-plus, Asia Pacific is slightly ahead (33%) of Europe/U.K. (24%) which is consistent with findings from 2019 and 2020.
Women make a steady, potentially long-term shift into higher earnings
More than double the number of women entered the higher income level of $150,000-plus than the year before (17% in 2021 compared to 8% in 2020 and 10% in 2019).
High level DevOps compensate employees at highest level
Companies at a high level of DevOps evolution continue to compensate their employees at the highest level, with practitioner salaries doubling and manager salaries nearly tripling from 2020 to 2021. The share of those earning more than $150,000 at high-evolution firms more than doubled to 20% in 2021 from 8% in 2020 according to the survey report.
Financial services pay the highest salaries
Respondents working in financial services earned the highest salaries, followed by those working in healthcare and technology. There have been substantial increases across all sectors, with financial services nearly doubling from 16% in 2020 to 29% in 2021.
Puppet’s seventh annual DevOps Salary Report is available for download here.
