Junior DevOps Engineer

Salary band

Base salary, gross annual

25th percentile

€45,000

Median

€52,000

75th percentile

€62,000

For reference: the statutory minimum wage in Germany has stood at €13.90 gross per hour since January 1, 2026 — roughly €2,410 gross a month for a full-time role at 40 hours/week. (BMAS: Mindestlohn steigt zum 1. Januar 2026 auf 13,90 Euro)

Gross fixed salary per year for a junior DevOps Engineer (0 to 2 years of experience, including career changers from classic system administration, recent computer-science graduates and bootcamp leavers) at a German SMB or Mittelstand company. Berlin, Munich and Hamburg in the SaaS and scale-up scene trend toward the upper half of this band; classic Mittelstand and regional locations trend toward the lower half. Cloud exposure from an internship, a working-student stint or a bootcamp capstone (AWS or GCP basics, a Kubernetes side project, a Terraform module) pulls up; a purely on-prem or manual-ops background with no cloud exposure pulls down. Engineering roles in Germany usually have no variable compensation component.

Sources: StepStone Gehaltsdaten Junior DevOps Engineer Deutschland 2026; Glassdoor Gehaltsdaten Junior DevOps Engineer Deutschland 2026