DevOps Engineer Salary in India (2026): By Experience, City, Skills and Role

The DevOps engineer salary in India typically falls between ₹8.8 LPA and ₹9.8 LPA for professionals with 2 to 6 years of experience, according to AmbitionBox (based on 1.2 lakh salaries, updated 5 October 2026). PayScale puts the median base salary at ₹9.98 LPA, while Indeed India's average is lower at ₹7.79 LPA. Once you reach senior, lead or architect titles, pay goes well past ₹20 LPA.

Key Highlights of DevOps Engineer Salary in India

• Three salary platforms give three different numbers: ₹7.79 LPA on Indeed India, ₹8.8 to 9.8 LPA on AmbitionBox and a ₹9.98 LPA median on PayScale. The gap reflects who reports to each platform, and none of them is wrong.
• Experience moves pay more than city does. AmbitionBox shows ₹6 to 6.6 LPA at 2 years and ₹10.4 to 11.5 LPA at 5 years.
• Industry matters more than most people expect, with AmbitionBox listing IT services at ₹8 to 8.8 LPA and management consulting at ₹16.7 to 18.4 LPA.
• SRE, platform engineering and DevSecOps titles report noticeably higher bands than the generic "DevOps Engineer" title.
• On AmbitionBox's numbers, pay roughly doubles at the step from DevOps Engineer to Senior DevOps Engineer.

Introduction to DevOps Engineer Salaries in India

Search for DevOps pay in India and almost every site hands you one big number. That number hides most of what you actually need to know. A DevOps engineer at a large IT services firm in Pune and a platform engineer at a product company in Bengaluru may share a job title on LinkedIn, but their offer letters look nothing alike.

This guide puts the sources side by side instead of blending them into one average. Every figure below comes from a named salary platform, along with its sample size and update date, so you can judge it for yourself. Where a platform doesn't publish a figure for a band, the table says "Not published" rather than guessing.

If you're still working out what the job involves day to day, read this overview of DevOps engineer roles and responsibilities first, then come back for the money.

Average DevOps Engineer Salary in India: Data From Multiple Sources

Depending on which platform you read, the average salary of a DevOps engineer in India sits roughly between ₹7.8 LPA and ₹10 LPA. The table shows what each source reported when we checked in October 2026.

Why the disagreement? Mostly sampling. AmbitionBox's sample is huge and leans heavily on IT services, with 72.1k of its 1.2 lakh DevOps salaries coming from that one industry. PayScale's sample is smaller and self-selected, and Indeed's figure rests on only 274 data points. Each platform is measuring a different slice of the same market.

AmbitionBox also reports 22% growth in average DevOps engineer salary over the last two years, which is the platform's own calculation rather than ours.

DevOps Engineer Salary Per Month in India

Salary platforms report annual CTC, so to get a monthly figure you divide by 12, before tax and deductions. AmbitionBox's ₹8.8 to 9.8 LPA range works out to about ₹73,333 to ₹81,667 per month, and Indeed India's ₹7,78,972 average comes to about ₹64,914 per month.

Expect your in-hand salary to be lower. PF contributions, professional tax, income tax and any variable pay held back until appraisal all come out before money reaches your account, so ask HR for the fixed versus variable split before you compare two offers.

DevOps Engineer Salary in India by Experience

Nothing moves DevOps pay as much as experience does. AmbitionBox publishes year-by-year ranges for the DevOps Engineer title up to 5 years, then broader bands after that.

Source:AmbitionBox DevOps Engineer salaries, experience filters, checked on 5 and 6 October 2026.

Look at the jump between years 3 and 5. It usually lines up with the point where engineers stop running pipelines someone else designed and start owning infrastructure decisions themselves.

DevOps Engineer Salary for Freshers

PayScale India reports an average total compensation of ₹4,52,793 for entry-level DevOps engineers with less than 1 year of experience, based on 80 salaries. AmbitionBox has no separate under-1-year band for this title; its first bucket is 1 to 3 years at ₹5.8 to 6.4 LPA.

Very few companies hire freshers straight into a pure "DevOps Engineer" title. Most start as cloud support associates, Linux administrators or build and release engineers and move across within 12 to 24 months, so it's worth learning the practices and vocabulary interviewers test before you go deep on any single tool.

DevOps Engineer Salary in India for 2 Years Experience

At 2 years, AmbitionBox shows ₹6 LPA to ₹6.6 LPA. Plenty of engineers at service companies start wondering at this stage whether a switch would fix their pay, and the industry data further down suggests it often can, because a product company values the same 2 years of Jenkins, Terraform and AWS work very differently from a services vendor billing hours.

DevOps Engineer Salary in India for 5 Years Experience

For the DevOps Engineer title, AmbitionBox shows ₹10.4 LPA to ₹11.5 LPA at 5 years. Many engineers with 5 years behind them no longer carry that title, though, and AmbitionBox's Senior DevOps Engineer page shows ₹15 LPA to ₹16.5 LPA for 3 to 6 years of experience. Same experience, different title, meaningfully higher band. At this point, negotiating the title is a real lever.

Senior DevOps Engineer Salary in India

AmbitionBox's Senior DevOps Engineer page shows a typical range of ₹19.3 LPA to ₹21.4 LPA for 4 to 10 years of experience, based on 22.1k salaries (updated 2 October 2026). The bands break down as follows:

• 3 to 6 years: ₹15 LPA to ₹16.5 LPA
• 6 to 9 years: ₹19.7 LPA to ₹21.7 LPA
• 9 to 12 years: ₹25.2 LPA to ₹27.9 LPA

Apple sits at the top of AmbitionBox's list of top-paying companies for DevOps engineers, at ₹36 LPA to ₹44.6 LPA.

DevOps Engineer Salary by City in India

City affects DevOps pay far less than experience or employer type does. On AmbitionBox, the highest and lowest major metros are separated by under ₹1 LPA.

Sources: AmbitionBox location data (updated 4 to 5 October 2026); Indeed India city averages (updated 27 September 2026). Indeed also lists Kochi at ₹9,40,195.

The DevOps engineer salary in Bangalore leads on AmbitionBox, but only narrowly, and Indeed puts Gurgaon on top instead. Indeed's city-level samples are small, so read that as a signal rather than a ranking. Relocating to work for the same type of employer rarely changes your pay much, whereas moving from a services firm to a product company often does.

Industry Matters More Than City

Split AmbitionBox's DevOps engineer data by industry and the picture gets much sharper.

Services and software product companies sit roughly ₹4 LPA or more apart, a bigger gap than you'll find between any two cities.

DevOps Salary by Specialisation: AWS DevOps, Azure DevOps, SRE and Platform Engineering

AmbitionBox reports different bands for specialised titles than for the generic DevOps title, and they don't always move the way people expect. Every figure in this table is an AmbitionBox typical range.

The experience windows differ from row to row, so compare with care.

AWS DevOps Engineer Salary

On AmbitionBox, the AWS DevOps engineer salary sits slightly below the generic DevOps title, at ₹4.8 to 5.3 LPA for 1 to 3 years, ₹7.2 to 8 LPA for 3 to 6 years and ₹10.5 to 11.6 LPA for 6 to 9 years. The likely reason is who uses the title. Services firms often staff "AWS DevOps" roles for client projects, whereas product companies tend to just say "DevOps" or "SRE". AWS skills still matter; the title on its own just doesn't raise pay. If you want structured depth on AWS CodePipeline, CloudFormation and multi-account deployments, Simpliaxis's AWS DevOps Engineer certification training covers them.

Azure DevOps Engineer Salary

Azure DevOps engineer salary bands on AmbitionBox run ₹5.1 to 5.6 LPA at 1 to 3 years, ₹7.3 to 8.1 LPA at 3 to 6 years and ₹11.3 to 12.5 LPA at 6 to 9 years. Azure-heavy roles cluster in enterprises running Microsoft stacks, banks among them, and Microsoft's AZ-400 exam is the usual reference point for Azure Pipelines, GitHub Actions and release strategy.

SRE Salary and Platform Engineering

SREs earn a clear premium. AmbitionBox shows ₹10 to 11.1 LPA at 1 to 3 years, rising to ₹22.4 to 24.8 LPA at 9 to 12 years. These roles usually demand coding, SLO design and on-call ownership, and you'll find more of them at product companies. Platform engineer and DevSecOps titles show similar premiums, but their samples are smaller (2.2k and 1.3k), so treat those bands as less stable. Our explainer on the difference between DevOps and DevSecOps covers what changes in that role.

DevOps Engineer vs SRE vs Cloud Engineer vs Software Engineer Salary

On AmbitionBox, DevOps engineers earn roughly what cloud engineers and software engineers do, while SREs report a higher band.

At a like-for-like 3 to 6 years, AmbitionBox shows ₹8.3 to 9.2 LPA for DevOps Engineer, ₹8 to 8.9 LPA for Cloud Engineer, ₹9.3 to 10.3 LPA for Software Engineer and ₹12.9 to 14.3 LPA for SRE. Our guide to software engineer salary in India has a fuller breakdown of developer pay.

DevOps Engineer Salary in the US: A Quick Comparison

Depending on the source, the DevOps engineer salary in the US is reported to be between about $115,000 and $135,000 a year.

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics has no "DevOps engineer" occupation, which is why both BLS rows are proxies. DevOps work sits between software development and systems administration, and the US figures land between those two medians. Don't convert dollars to rupees and compare directly, because cost of living, taxes and health insurance change the picture completely. If you hold a certification, our data on DevOps Foundation certification salary across five countries is more specific.

Skills and Certifications That Raise DevOps Pay

No salary platform we checked publishes a reliable "certification premium" for DevOps in India, so we won't invent one. What the data does show is that the higher-paying titles (SRE, platform engineer, senior DevOps) demand deeper ownership of a handful of skill areas.

AmbitionBox lists Linux, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, Jenkins, Ansible, Python, Git, AWS and CI/CD pipelines as top skills for DevOps engineers. The table shows how those skills tend to show up at junior and senior levels.

Kubernetes is the clearest dividing line between junior and senior. Try a quick self-test: can you explain why a pod is stuck in CrashLoopBackOff using kubectl describe pod and kubectl logs --previous, and then fix it? If you can, you're past junior. If you can't yet, Simpliaxis's Docker and Kubernetes training is one way to build that hands-on base. Our guide to top in-demand DevOps skills covers a wider list.

DevOps Certifications Employers Recognise

Three certifications map most directly to the tools covered above.

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional (DOP-C02): 75 questions in 180 minutes, priced at $300. AWS recommends 2 or more years of experience provisioning, operating and managing AWS environments.
• Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert: requires passing AZ-400 (Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions) plus holding either the Azure Administrator Associate or Azure Developer Associate certification, per Microsoft Learn.
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA): a 2-hour, performance-based exam solved on a live command line, valid for 2 years. The Linux Foundation lists the exam-only price at $445.

Certifications help you clear resume filters and give your learning some structure, but they won't stand in for production experience once you're in the interview room. Our roundup of the best DevOps certifications compares more options by level.

DevOps Career Path: From Fresher to Senior DevOps Engineer

In India, the typical DevOps career path runs from an entry or adjacent role to DevOps Engineer, then on to Senior, Lead and Architect. Each step widens what you own, and AmbitionBox's bands track that closely.

A realistic sequence looks something like this:

1. Year 0 to 1: Learn Linux, networking, Git and one cloud, and get into any role near infrastructure.
2. Year 1 to 3: Own a CI/CD pipeline end to end, write Terraform for real environments and get comfortable on call.
3. Year 3 to 5: Run Kubernetes in production, and push for the Senior title once your scope already matches it. This introduction to Kubernetes is a good starting point.
4. Year 5 and beyond: Pick a direction, whether that's SRE, platform engineering, DevSecOps or people leadership.

Our guide on how to become a DevOps engineer lays out a step-by-step plan.

Conclusion

The DevOps engineer salary in India starts modestly and climbs quickly as your ownership grows. AmbitionBox puts the typical band at ₹8.8 to 9.8 LPA for 2 to 6 years, and senior, lead and architect titles move into ₹19 LPA to ₹35 LPA territory. Your city matters far less than the type of company you work for, the title you negotiate and how deep your Kubernetes, IaC and reliability skills go.

If you're just starting out, Simpliaxis's DevOps Foundation certification training covers the practices and language interviewers expect. If you already work in DevOps, pick the AWS or Azure path that matches your current stack. To prepare for the interview itself, work through our DevOps interview questions and answers.