DevOps Jobs in England

DevOps
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -12 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 6,802 11,003 22,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.45% 13.06% 15.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.93% 13.67% 16.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4,750 6,973 11,241
10th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £89,852 £90,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £106,250 £103,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 76,200 80,466 135,750
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 83.51% 95.48% 95.97%
Number of salaries quoted 55,193 48,975 73,419
10th Percentile £29,022 £34,324 £33,262
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in England

DevOps
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps in England.

Salary trend for DevOps in England

DevOps
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps in England

DevOps
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the England region over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -6 2,117 £80,000 - 780
North of England -7 1,460 £60,000 -4.00% 277
South East -5 1,351 £61,500 -5.38% 215
North West -6 916 £62,500 -3.85% 166
South West -5 868 £60,000 -4.00% 146
Midlands -11 738 £60,000 +4.35% 180
West Midlands -7 480 £60,000 +4.35% 131
Yorkshire -8 451 £59,526 -2.42% 80
East Midlands -14 258 £57,500 -4.17% 49
East of England -32 222 £55,000 -15.38% 68
North East -8 95 £60,000 +6.19% 31
DevOps
UK

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 203 (2.98%) Confluence
2 196 (2.88%) ArcGIS
2 196 (2.88%) GeoServer
3 158 (2.32%) SharePoint
4 148 (2.18%) CMS
5 131 (1.93%) IIS
6 95 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
7 82 (1.21%) Apache
8 73 (1.07%) Apache Spark
9 72 (1.06%) nginx
9 72 (1.06%) Umbraco
10 63 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
11 52 (0.76%) OpenStack
12 46 (0.68%) Sitecore CMS
13 43 (0.63%) Headless CMS
13 43 (0.63%) Kentico
14 35 (0.51%) Drupal
15 28 (0.41%) WordPress
16 22 (0.32%) JBoss
17 17 (0.25%) Jupyter
Applications
1 72 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
2 71 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 42 (0.62%) MS Visio
4 28 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
4 28 (0.41%) Photoshop
5 24 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 20 (0.29%) Simulink
7 17 (0.25%) Trello
8 9 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
9 7 (0.10%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.059%) Sketch
11 3 (0.044%) Adobe Illustrator
11 3 (0.044%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.044%) S-PLUS
12 2 (0.029%) Notion
13 1 (0.015%) GNU Octave
13 1 (0.015%) InVision
13 1 (0.015%) MicroStation
13 1 (0.015%) Revit
Business Applications
1 149 (2.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 47 (0.69%) Dynamics AX
3 30 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 19 (0.28%) SDL Web 8
5 14 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
6 11 (0.16%) Magento
6 11 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 9 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
7 9 (0.13%) Shopify
8 6 (0.088%) Temenos T24
9 5 (0.074%) Primavera
9 5 (0.074%) SAP S/4HANA
10 4 (0.059%) Elite 3E
10 4 (0.059%) Oracle EBS
10 4 (0.059%) Payment Gateway
10 4 (0.059%) Visualfiles
11 3 (0.044%) Maximo
11 3 (0.044%) Oracle Applications
11 3 (0.044%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.044%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3,944 (57.98%) Azure
2 2,577 (37.89%) AWS
3 2,039 (29.98%) Azure DevOps
4 697 (10.25%) GCP
5 579 (8.51%) Serverless
6 531 (7.81%) Power Platform
7 455 (6.69%) SaaS
8 370 (5.44%) GitHub
9 336 (4.94%) Dynamics 365
10 300 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
11 288 (4.23%) PaaS
12 271 (3.98%) Amazon S3
13 263 (3.87%) Azure Service Bus
14 248 (3.65%) Azure Functions
15 246 (3.62%) IBM Cloud
16 241 (3.54%) Azure Logic Apps
17 223 (3.28%) IaaS
18 218 (3.20%) AWS CloudFormation
19 214 (3.15%) AWS Lambda
20 202 (2.97%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 257 (3.78%) Firewall
2 241 (3.54%) DNS
3 121 (1.78%) TCP/IP
4 112 (1.65%) Network Security
5 107 (1.57%) HTTP
6 95 (1.40%) DHCP
7 94 (1.38%) VPN
8 86 (1.26%) WAN
9 67 (0.99%) LAN
10 35 (0.51%) Internet
11 30 (0.44%) SSL
12 20 (0.29%) 5G
13 19 (0.28%) SAN
13 19 (0.28%) Unified Communications
14 18 (0.26%) SNMP
15 17 (0.25%) HTTPS
16 15 (0.22%) BGP
16 15 (0.22%) MQTT
16 15 (0.22%) SD-WAN
17 14 (0.21%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 861 (12.66%) SQL Server
2 612 (9.00%) PostgreSQL
3 380 (5.59%) NoSQL
4 355 (5.22%) Relational Database
5 300 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
6 297 (4.37%) Power BI
7 291 (4.28%) MongoDB
8 231 (3.40%) BigQuery
9 212 (3.12%) Amazon RDS
10 210 (3.09%) Looker
11 207 (3.04%) GIS
12 202 (2.97%) MySQL
13 196 (2.88%) QGIS
14 189 (2.78%) Big Data
15 176 (2.59%) Azure SQL Database
16 162 (2.38%) Data Lake
17 145 (2.13%) DB2
18 103 (1.51%) DynamoDB
19 85 (1.25%) Hadoop
20 83 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1,012 (14.88%) Git
2 680 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 549 (8.07%) JIRA
4 326 (4.79%) GitLab
5 276 (4.06%) Visual Studio
6 127 (1.87%) Bitbucket
7 123 (1.81%) Team Foundation Server
8 113 (1.66%) Selenium
9 98 (1.44%) TeamCity
10 92 (1.35%) Postman
11 80 (1.18%) Sourcetree
12 78 (1.15%) NUnit
12 78 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
13 61 (0.90%) SonarQube
14 59 (0.87%) Subversion
15 54 (0.79%) JUnit
16 52 (0.76%) Artifactory
17 51 (0.75%) CircleCI
18 50 (0.74%) Cucumber
18 50 (0.74%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,534 (22.55%) Social Skills
2 1,094 (16.08%) Finance
3 621 (9.13%) Analytical Skills
4 517 (7.60%) Public Sector
5 296 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 260 (3.82%) Law
7 247 (3.63%) Banking
8 215 (3.16%) Retail
9 201 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
10 176 (2.59%) Marketing
11 159 (2.34%) Aerospace
12 143 (2.10%) Legal
13 119 (1.75%) Games
14 101 (1.48%) Manufacturing
15 95 (1.40%) Front Office
16 88 (1.29%) Billing
17 85 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
18 78 (1.15%) Telecoms
19 76 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
20 74 (1.09%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,812 (26.64%) Developer
2 1,412 (20.76%) Senior
3 1,016 (14.94%) DevOps Engineer
4 727 (10.69%) Lead
5 668 (9.82%) Software Engineer
6 596 (8.76%) Architect
7 446 (6.56%) Senior Developer
8 411 (6.04%) .NET Developer
9 364 (5.35%) Full Stack Developer
10 343 (5.04%) Data Engineer
11 300 (4.41%) AWS Engineer
12 293 (4.31%) Azure Engineer
13 279 (4.10%) Software Developer
14 270 (3.97%) Senior Software Engineer
15 268 (3.94%) Platform Engineer
16 251 (3.69%) Senior DevOps
17 246 (3.62%) C# Developer
18 242 (3.56%) Cloud Engineer
19 233 (3.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 223 (3.28%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,697 (24.95%) .NET
2 973 (14.30%) React
3 782 (11.50%) CSS
4 655 (9.63%) HTML
5 633 (9.31%) AngularJS
6 618 (9.09%) .NET Core
7 586 (8.62%) ASP.NET
8 502 (7.38%) REST
9 496 (7.29%) Node.js
10 456 (6.70%) .NET Framework
11 407 (5.98%) Web Services
12 379 (5.57%) RESTful
13 313 (4.60%) Vue
14 283 (4.16%) jQuery
15 276 (4.06%) JSON
16 260 (3.82%) XML
17 256 (3.76%) Entity Framework
18 228 (3.35%) Spring
19 215 (3.16%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 210 (3.09%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 381 (5.60%) Product Ownership
2 347 (5.10%) Hybrid Cloud
3 311 (4.57%) Cloud Native
4 300 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
5 273 (4.01%) Blockchain
6 244 (3.59%) Data Structures
7 243 (3.57%) Public Cloud
8 221 (3.25%) Management Information System
9 200 (2.94%) Algorithms
10 199 (2.93%) Distributed Systems
11 154 (2.26%) Data Centre
12 153 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
13 125 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
14 123 (1.81%) Hedge funds
15 115 (1.69%) Mobile App
16 102 (1.50%) Private Cloud
17 96 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
18 92 (1.35%) IoT
19 79 (1.16%) e-Learning
20 78 (1.15%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1,105 (16.25%) Linux
2 713 (10.48%) Windows
3 202 (2.97%) Android
4 195 (2.87%) Apple iOS
5 192 (2.82%) Windows Server
6 106 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 89 (1.31%) Unix
8 76 (1.12%) CentOS
9 73 (1.07%) Ubuntu
10 66 (0.97%) Debian
11 61 (0.90%) VMS
12 48 (0.71%) Alpine Linux
13 44 (0.65%) Windows 10
14 42 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
15 32 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
16 31 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
17 13 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
18 11 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
19 10 (0.15%) AIX
20 7 (0.10%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,297 (48.47%) Agile
2 2,198 (32.31%) CI/CD
3 1,453 (21.36%) Software Engineering
4 1,352 (19.88%) Problem-Solving
5 989 (14.54%) Infrastructure as Code
6 973 (14.30%) Scrum
7 946 (13.91%) Mentoring
8 763 (11.22%) Containerisation
9 751 (11.04%) Microservices
10 736 (10.82%) Test Automation
11 729 (10.72%) Full Stack Development
12 621 (9.13%) Continuous Integration
13 598 (8.79%) Artificial Intelligence
14 575 (8.45%) Roadmaps
15 552 (8.12%) Web Development
16 543 (7.98%) SDLC
17 541 (7.95%) Computer Science
18 509 (7.48%) Continuous Improvement
19 495 (7.28%) Design Patterns
20 483 (7.10%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 1,799 (26.45%) Python
2 1,744 (25.64%) C#
3 1,478 (21.73%) JavaScript
4 1,392 (20.46%) SQL
5 1,066 (15.67%) Java
6 624 (9.17%) PowerShell
7 458 (6.73%) TypeScript
8 433 (6.37%) Bash
9 247 (3.63%) Go
10 205 (3.01%) T-SQL
11 195 (2.87%) PHP
12 168 (2.47%) C
13 152 (2.23%) Bicep
14 145 (2.13%) C++
15 94 (1.38%) Ruby
16 83 (1.22%) Shell Script
17 75 (1.10%) VB.NET
18 71 (1.04%) Scala
19 58 (0.85%) VB
20 53 (0.78%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,172 (17.23%) Security Cleared
2 976 (14.35%) Degree
3 867 (12.75%) SC Cleared
4 390 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 252 (3.70%) DV Cleared
6 233 (3.43%) Azure Certification
7 181 (2.66%) AWS Certification
8 155 (2.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 130 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
10 128 (1.88%) Master's Degree
11 63 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 56 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
13 44 (0.65%) DBS Check
14 42 (0.62%) MCSE
14 42 (0.62%) PMI Certification
15 41 (0.60%) MCSA
16 40 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 38 (0.56%) CISSP
18 34 (0.50%) ISTQB
19 30 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 542 (7.97%) QA
2 226 (3.32%) GDPR
3 141 (2.07%) Data Quality
4 89 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 77 (1.13%) Accessibility
6 51 (0.75%) NIST
7 43 (0.63%) PCI DSS
7 43 (0.63%) PMO
8 38 (0.56%) SLA
9 24 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
10 18 (0.26%) HIPAA
11 13 (0.19%) NCSC
12 9 (0.13%) ISO 9001
12 9 (0.13%) PSD2
13 7 (0.10%) ISO 13485
14 6 (0.088%) GRC
15 5 (0.074%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 5 (0.074%) SOC 2
16 3 (0.044%) IEC 61508
16 3 (0.044%) SEPA
System Software
1 1,280 (18.82%) Docker
2 274 (4.03%) Active Directory
3 166 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 163 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
5 116 (1.71%) Hyper-V
6 66 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
7 38 (0.56%) Firmware
8 34 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
9 17 (0.25%) vSphere
10 15 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
11 14 (0.21%) NFS
12 12 (0.18%) XenApp
13 10 (0.15%) pfSense
14 9 (0.13%) HDFS
14 9 (0.13%) KVM
14 9 (0.13%) XenDesktop
15 7 (0.10%) IAG
16 6 (0.088%) VirtualBox
17 5 (0.074%) DFS Replication
17 5 (0.074%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,529 (22.48%) Kubernetes
2 1,447 (21.27%) Terraform
3 692 (10.17%) Ansible
4 257 (3.78%) Puppet
5 240 (3.53%) Prometheus
6 157 (2.31%) Grafana
7 143 (2.10%) Progress Chef
8 47 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
9 43 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 40 (0.59%) ZABBIX
11 39 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
12 38 (0.56%) Packer
13 34 (0.50%) Kibana
14 29 (0.43%) HAProxy
15 27 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
15 27 (0.40%) Nagios
16 26 (0.38%) Consul
17 23 (0.34%) Istio
18 22 (0.32%) SCOM
19 19 (0.28%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1,562 (22.96%) Microsoft
2 391 (5.75%) Google
3 358 (5.26%) Red Hat
4 277 (4.07%) IBM
5 222 (3.26%) VMware
6 198 (2.91%) ESRI
7 197 (2.90%) Oracle
8 184 (2.71%) Databricks
9 98 (1.44%) ServiceNow
10 83 (1.22%) Cisco
11 80 (1.18%) Dynatrace
12 74 (1.09%) Splunk
13 70 (1.03%) SAP
14 65 (0.96%) Atlassian
15 63 (0.93%) Adobe
16 62 (0.91%) Sitecore
17 52 (0.76%) Citrix
18 51 (0.75%) Salesforce
19 39 (0.57%) Informatica
20 37 (0.54%) Optimizely