IT Admins and DevOps

See what work of IT admins and DevOps specialists looks like. Check what are the average salaries of admins and DevOps. Find out what are the most popular Technologiess.

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Respondent Profile

Subroles
DevOps
40.9%
System Administrator
28.7%
Security Engineer
10.3%
Network Administrator
6.8%
application administrator
4.9%
Site Reliability Engineer
4.9%
Database Administrator
3.5%
Gender
Male
96.0%
Female
4.0%
Age
18 - 24 years old
12.1%
25 - 29 years old
24.1%
30 - 34 years old
23.4%
35 - 39 years old
21.3%
40+ years
19.2%
Education
Master's degree (Master, Master of Science in Engineering)
30.6%
High school
9.1%
Attended university but did not obtain a degree
9.6%
Currently studying
9.1%
Bachelor's degree (licentiate, engineer)
34.3%
Postgraduate studies
6.3%
Company size
Small company (up to 50)
8.9%
Medium-sized company (51-500)
27.3%
Large company (501-5,000)
28.0%
Very large company (more than 5,000)
35.9%
Level of experience
Intern
0.5%
Junior
12.9%
Mid / Regular
40.4%
Senior
35.4%
Tech Lead / Team Lead
8.9%
Mid-level Manager
1.0%
Director / C-level
1.0%
Experience level vs. years of experienc
Director / C-level
16.0 years
Tech Lead / Team Lead
14.1 years
Senior
13.6 years
Mid-level Manager
12.5 years
Mid / Regular
6.6 years
Junior
2.8 years
What are your career aspirations?
I want to stay in my specialization
71.0%
I want to change my specialization within IT
17.4%
I don't know.
7.6%
I do not want to work in IT in the future
3.9%
Do you want to manage a team in the future?
I don't know.
8.8%
Yes
29.3%
No
35.2%
It doesn't matter to me
26.7%

Technologies

Daily tasks
Coding (scripts, infrastructure, etc.)
93.7%
Process automation
93.1%
Monitoring and analysis of infrastructure/environments
84.6%
Maintenance of IT infrastructure
76.6%
Technical support
62.9%
Release and environment management
60.0%
IT security management
42.3%
Disaster Recovery Planning
39.4%
Technical support
76.2%
Monitoring and analysis of infrastructure/environments
76.2%
Maintenance of IT infrastructure
66.7%
Process automation
66.7%
Release and environment management
57.1%
Coding (scripts, infrastructure, etc.)
52.4%
Maintenance of IT infrastructure
86.7%
Monitoring and analysis of infrastructure/environments
80.0%
Technical support
80.0%
Process automation
73.3%
Coding (scripts, infrastructure, etc.)
66.7%
Maintenance of IT infrastructure
100.0%
Monitoring and analysis of infrastructure/environments
86.2%
Technical support
86.2%
IT security management
79.3%
Process automation
37.9%
Coding (scripts, infrastructure, etc.)
34.5%
IT security management
84.1%
Monitoring and analysis of infrastructure/environments
68.2%
Process automation
34.1%
Coding (scripts, infrastructure, etc.)
34.1%
Technical support
29.5%
Disaster Recovery Planning
22.7%
Monitoring and analysis of infrastructure/environments
95.2%
Maintenance of IT infrastructure
85.7%
Process automation
85.7%
Coding (scripts, infrastructure, etc.)
76.2%
Disaster Recovery Planning
66.7%
Release and environment management
57.1%
Maintenance of IT infrastructure
95.1%
Monitoring and analysis of infrastructure/environments
82.9%
Technical support
81.3%
IT security management
61.0%
Process automation
56.9%
Coding (scripts, infrastructure, etc.)
54.5%
Disaster Recovery Planning
46.3%
Release and environment management
38.2%
How many projects do you handle at the same time?
Several projects at once
69.1%
One project
30.9%
Which programming languages do you use?
Also scripting, markup, and query languages.
Python
85.8%
SQL
29.1%
Bash / PowerShell
24.3%
Java
14.9%
JavaScript
14.9%
Go
14.2%
C#
8.8%
HTML / CSS
8.1%
TypeScript
7.4%
Python
59.1%
SQL
48.5%
Bash / PowerShell
36.4%
PHP
22.7%
HTML / CSS
21.2%
Which solutions do you use?
Cloud
81.7%
On-premise
53.1%
Serverless
25.7%
Dedicated servers
20.6%
VPS
10.3%
Other
5.1%
On-premise
61.9%
Cloud
57.1%
Dedicated servers
52.4%
Serverless
9.5%
VPS
4.8%
Other
4.8%
On-premise
53.3%
Cloud
40.0%
Dedicated servers
40.0%
VPS
13.3%
Serverless
6.7%
Other
6.7%
On-premise
72.4%
Cloud
65.5%
Dedicated servers
37.9%
VPS
10.3%
Serverless
3.4%
Other
3.4%
Cloud
93.2%
On-premise
63.6%
Dedicated servers
25.0%
VPS
22.7%
Serverless
11.4%
Other
9.1%
Cloud
90.5%
On-premise
52.4%
Serverless
19.0%
Dedicated servers
9.5%
Other
9.5%
VPS
4.8%
On-premise
83.7%
Cloud
64.2%
Dedicated servers
47.2%
VPS
27.6%
Serverless
4.9%
Other
2.4%
Virtualization and containerization tools
Docker
86.8%
VMware
26.4%
VirtualBox
13.2%
Hyper-V
12.1%
Proxmox
10.9%
I don't use it
9.8%
KVM
7.5%
Other
5.2%
Xen
1.7%
I don't use it
42.9%
Docker
28.6%
VMware
23.8%
Hyper-V
14.3%
Proxmox
4.8%
I don't use it
53.3%
VMware
40.0%
Hyper-V
26.7%
Docker
20.0%
KVM
13.3%
Proxmox
6.7%
VMware
62.1%
Hyper-V
48.3%
Proxmox
34.5%
Docker
31.0%
VirtualBox
20.7%
I don't use it
17.2%
KVM
10.3%
Other
3.4%
Docker
52.3%
VMware
52.3%
VirtualBox
27.3%
I don't use it
18.2%
Hyper-V
15.9%
Proxmox
9.1%
KVM
6.8%
Other
2.3%
Xen
2.3%
Docker
81.0%
VMware
23.8%
VirtualBox
19.0%
Hyper-V
19.0%
KVM
14.3%
Proxmox
14.3%
I don't use it
4.8%
Other
4.8%
VMware
62.6%
Hyper-V
47.2%
Docker
38.2%
Proxmox
32.5%
KVM
14.6%
VirtualBox
11.4%
I don't use it
4.9%
Other
4.1%
Xen
3.3%
Orchestration tools
Kubernetes
76.0%
I don't use it
18.9%
Rancher
13.1%
Other
12.0%
Docker Swarm
5.7%
I don't use it
81.0%
Kubernetes
19.0%
Rancher
4.8%
Docker Swarm
4.8%
I don't use it
92.9%
Rancher
7.1%
I don't use it
82.8%
Kubernetes
10.3%
Other
6.9%
Rancher
3.4%
Apache Mesos
3.4%
I don't use it
63.2%
Kubernetes
34.2%
Docker Swarm
10.5%
Other
7.9%
Rancher
2.6%
Kubernetes
76.2%
I don't use it
14.3%
Other
14.3%
Rancher
4.8%
Docker Swarm
4.8%
I don't use it
68.9%
Kubernetes
26.1%
Rancher
6.7%
Docker Swarm
5.9%
Other
3.4%
Apache Mesos
0.8%
Cloud providers
Azure
66.9%
AWS
47.1%
GCP
22.7%
OpenShift
6.5%
Other
5.8%
Oracle Cloud
4.5%
IBM Cloud
3.2%

Salaries

AVG
MEDIAN
Salaries by job type - all experience levels, average
UoP, UZ, and UD - net amount; B2B - net on the invoice.
Site Reliability Engineer
13 385 PLN
Security Engineer
12 046 PLN
DevOps
11 920 PLN
application administrator
9 152 PLN
Database Administrator
8 625 PLN
Network Administrator
8 509 PLN
System Administrator
8 312 PLN
DevOps
25 927 PLN
System Administrator
20 712 PLN
AVG
MEDIAN
Earnings by job type - all experience levels, median
UoP, UZ, and UD - net amount; B2B - net on the invoice.
Site Reliability Engineer
11 800 PLN
DevOps
11 300 PLN
Security Engineer
11 000 PLN
application administrator
9 000 PLN
Network Administrator
8 500 PLN
System Administrator
7 200 PLN
Database Administrator
7 000 PLN
DevOps
25 000 PLN
System Administrator
17 000 PLN
AVG
MEDIAN
Salaries by job type - junior, mid-level
UoP, UZ, and UD - net amount; B2B - net on the invoice.
Security Engineer
6 536 PLN
DevOps
5 969 PLN
System Administrator
5 016 PLN
Network Administrator
4 579 PLN
Database Administrator
4 577 PLN
DevOps
10 735 PLN
AVG
MEDIAN
Earnings by position type - junior, median
UoP, UZ, and UD - net amount; B2B - net on the invoice.
DevOps
6 000 PLN
Security Engineer
6 000 PLN
System Administrator
4 800 PLN
Network Administrator
4 300 PLN
Database Administrator
3 850 PLN
DevOps
10 000 PLN
AVG
MEDIAN
Salaries by job type - mid, average
UoP, UZ, and UD - net amount; B2B - net on the invoice.
Site Reliability Engineer
11 071 PLN
DevOps
9 445 PLN
Security Engineer
8 923 PLN
Database Administrator
8 032 PLN
System Administrator
6 970 PLN
Network Administrator
6 362 PLN
Site Reliability Engineer
22 667 PLN
DevOps
19 364 PLN
System Administrator
14 551 PLN
Network Administrator
13 000 PLN
AVG
MEDIAN
Earnings by job type - mid, median
UoP, UZ, and UD - net amount; B2B - net on the invoice.
Site Reliability Engineer
10 500 PLN
DevOps
9 000 PLN
Security Engineer
8 500 PLN
Database Administrator
7 500 PLN
System Administrator
6 500 PLN
Network Administrator
6 200 PLN
Site Reliability Engineer
21 000 PLN
DevOps
18 000 PLN
Network Administrator
13 000 PLN
System Administrator
12 500 PLN
AVG
MEDIAN
Salaries by job type - senior, average
UoP, UZ, and UD - net amount; B2B - net on the invoice.
Security Engineer
14 850 PLN
DevOps
13 466 PLN
Database Administrator
9 921 PLN
Network Administrator
9 347 PLN
System Administrator
8 937 PLN
Site Reliability Engineer
38 174 PLN
DevOps
29 540 PLN
Security Engineer
27 136 PLN
Database Administrator
21 435 PLN
System Administrator
20 115 PLN
Network Administrator
15 833 PLN
AVG
MEDIAN
Earnings by job type - senior, median
UoP, UZ, and UD - net amount; B2B - net on the invoice.
Security Engineer
13 000 PLN
DevOps
12 500 PLN
Network Administrator
9 300 PLN
Database Administrator
9 000 PLN
System Administrator
8 000 PLN
Site Reliability Engineer
35 000 PLN
DevOps
28 000 PLN
Security Engineer
22 500 PLN
Database Administrator
18 800 PLN
System Administrator
18 000 PLN
Network Administrator
14 000 PLN

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