DevOps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 7,872 12,537 26,907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.48% 13.23% 15.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.95% 13.85% 16.59%
Number of salaries quoted 5,267 7,802 12,771
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £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 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £105,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,980 90,493 162,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.59% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,356 54,578 82,967
10th Percentile £29,284 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the UK 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
England -12 6,802 £65,000 -7.14% 1,716
UK excluding London -13 5,357 £60,000 -4.00% 1,015
Work from Home -10 3,325 £65,000 -7.14% 966
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
Scotland -35 486 £69,000 +6.15% 85
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
Wales -11 160 £53,750 +13.16% 28
North East -8 95 £60,000 +6.19% 31
Northern Ireland +4 72 £70,000 +12.00% 28
Isle of Man - 3 - -
Channel Islands - 2 £115,000 -

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 330 (4.19%) ArcGIS
1 330 (4.19%) GeoServer
2 246 (3.13%) Confluence
3 175 (2.22%) SharePoint
4 155 (1.97%) CMS
5 136 (1.73%) IIS
6 96 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
7 88 (1.12%) Apache
8 82 (1.04%) Apache Spark
8 82 (1.04%) Umbraco
9 80 (1.02%) nginx
10 63 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
11 53 (0.67%) OpenStack
12 47 (0.60%) Sitecore CMS
13 43 (0.55%) Headless CMS
13 43 (0.55%) Kentico
14 35 (0.44%) Drupal
15 33 (0.42%) WordPress
16 22 (0.28%) JBoss
17 18 (0.23%) Jupyter
Applications
1 82 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
3 45 (0.57%) MS Visio
4 30 (0.38%) UserZoom
5 29 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
6 28 (0.36%) Photoshop
7 25 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 21 (0.27%) Simulink
9 17 (0.22%) Trello
10 16 (0.20%) Sketch
11 9 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
12 7 (0.089%) Adobe XD
13 3 (0.038%) Adobe Illustrator
13 3 (0.038%) Chatbot
13 3 (0.038%) S-PLUS
14 2 (0.025%) Notion
15 1 (0.013%) GNU Octave
15 1 (0.013%) InVision
15 1 (0.013%) MicroStation
15 1 (0.013%) Revit
Business Applications
1 171 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 53 (0.67%) Dynamics AX
3 33 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 19 (0.24%) SDL Web 8
5 16 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
6 11 (0.14%) Magento
6 11 (0.14%) NetSuite
7 10 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
8 9 (0.11%) Shopify
9 6 (0.076%) Temenos T24
10 5 (0.064%) Primavera
10 5 (0.064%) SAP S/4HANA
11 4 (0.051%) Elite 3E
11 4 (0.051%) Oracle EBS
11 4 (0.051%) Payment Gateway
11 4 (0.051%) Visualfiles
12 3 (0.038%) Dynamics GP
12 3 (0.038%) Oracle Applications
12 3 (0.038%) Salesforce CRM
12 3 (0.038%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 4,603 (58.47%) Azure
2 3,035 (38.55%) AWS
3 2,273 (28.87%) Azure DevOps
4 829 (10.53%) GCP
5 646 (8.21%) Serverless
6 628 (7.98%) Power Platform
7 534 (6.78%) SaaS
8 423 (5.37%) GitHub
9 388 (4.93%) Dynamics 365
10 347 (4.41%) PaaS
11 333 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
12 286 (3.63%) Amazon S3
13 282 (3.58%) Azure Service Bus
14 275 (3.49%) Azure Logic Apps
15 271 (3.44%) IaaS
16 266 (3.38%) Azure Functions
17 248 (3.15%) IBM Cloud
18 241 (3.06%) AWS CloudFormation
19 231 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
20 230 (2.92%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 295 (3.75%) Firewall
2 252 (3.20%) DNS
3 126 (1.60%) TCP/IP
4 125 (1.59%) Network Security
5 117 (1.49%) VPN
6 109 (1.38%) HTTP
7 104 (1.32%) WAN
8 95 (1.21%) DHCP
9 72 (0.91%) LAN
10 44 (0.56%) Internet
11 32 (0.41%) SD-WAN
12 31 (0.39%) SSL
13 20 (0.25%) 5G
14 19 (0.24%) BGP
14 19 (0.24%) SAN
14 19 (0.24%) Unified Communications
15 18 (0.23%) SNMP
16 17 (0.22%) HTTPS
17 16 (0.20%) IPv4
17 16 (0.20%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 938 (11.92%) SQL Server
2 754 (9.58%) PostgreSQL
3 449 (5.70%) NoSQL
4 399 (5.07%) Relational Database
5 348 (4.42%) Data Warehouse
6 341 (4.33%) GIS
7 340 (4.32%) Power BI
8 330 (4.19%) QGIS
9 327 (4.15%) MongoDB
10 256 (3.25%) BigQuery
11 253 (3.21%) Looker
12 226 (2.87%) MySQL
13 216 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
14 212 (2.69%) Big Data
15 192 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
16 175 (2.22%) Data Lake
17 145 (1.84%) DB2
18 116 (1.47%) DynamoDB
19 105 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
20 95 (1.21%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 1,091 (13.86%) Git
2 770 (9.78%) Jenkins
3 633 (8.04%) JIRA
4 342 (4.34%) GitLab
5 309 (3.93%) Visual Studio
6 138 (1.75%) Bitbucket
7 137 (1.74%) Team Foundation Server
8 126 (1.60%) Selenium
9 114 (1.45%) Postman
10 100 (1.27%) TeamCity
11 82 (1.04%) NUnit
12 80 (1.02%) Sourcetree
13 78 (0.99%) Octopus Deploy
14 76 (0.97%) JUnit
15 74 (0.94%) Cypress.io
16 68 (0.86%) SonarQube
17 67 (0.85%) Cucumber
18 62 (0.79%) Subversion
19 60 (0.76%) CircleCI
20 53 (0.67%) Artifactory
General
1 1,807 (22.95%) Social Skills
2 1,351 (17.16%) Finance
3 687 (8.73%) Analytical Skills
4 554 (7.04%) Public Sector
5 470 (5.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 388 (4.93%) Law
7 326 (4.14%) Banking
8 275 (3.49%) Marketing
9 241 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
10 235 (2.99%) Retail
11 169 (2.15%) Legal
12 168 (2.13%) Aerospace
13 129 (1.64%) Games
14 102 (1.30%) Manufacturing
15 98 (1.24%) Billing
16 96 (1.22%) Front Office
17 90 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
18 82 (1.04%) Electronics
19 81 (1.03%) Telecoms
20 80 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2,050 (26.04%) Developer
2 1,705 (21.66%) Senior
3 1,117 (14.19%) DevOps Engineer
4 909 (11.55%) Software Engineer
5 885 (11.24%) Lead
6 720 (9.15%) Architect
7 545 (6.92%) Senior Developer
8 430 (5.46%) .NET Developer
9 407 (5.17%) Full Stack Developer
10 383 (4.87%) Data Engineer
11 369 (4.69%) Senior Software Engineer
12 323 (4.10%) Azure Engineer
13 315 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
14 314 (3.99%) Software Developer
15 300 (3.81%) Platform Engineer
16 291 (3.70%) Senior DevOps
17 289 (3.67%) Cloud Engineer
18 267 (3.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 259 (3.29%) C# Developer
20 234 (2.97%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,993 (25.32%) .NET
2 1,214 (15.42%) React
3 1,011 (12.84%) CSS
4 789 (10.02%) .NET Core
5 768 (9.76%) HTML
6 691 (8.78%) AngularJS
7 631 (8.02%) ASP.NET
8 604 (7.67%) Node.js
9 528 (6.71%) REST
10 492 (6.25%) .NET Framework
11 450 (5.72%) Web Services
12 417 (5.30%) RESTful
13 358 (4.55%) Vue
14 335 (4.26%) PostGIS
15 330 (4.19%) Leaflet
15 330 (4.19%) OpenLayers
16 309 (3.93%) JSON
17 283 (3.60%) jQuery
18 282 (3.58%) Spring
19 277 (3.52%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 449 (5.70%) Product Ownership
2 356 (4.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 337 (4.28%) Cloud Native
4 327 (4.15%) Self-Motivation
5 296 (3.76%) Public Cloud
6 275 (3.49%) Blockchain
7 255 (3.24%) Management Information System
8 252 (3.20%) Data Structures
9 214 (2.72%) Algorithms
10 212 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
11 179 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
12 175 (2.22%) Data Centre
13 152 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
14 148 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
15 133 (1.69%) Mobile App
16 128 (1.63%) Private Cloud
17 124 (1.58%) Hedge funds
18 115 (1.46%) Onboarding
19 109 (1.38%) IoT
20 79 (1.00%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 1,248 (15.85%) Linux
2 768 (9.76%) Windows
3 215 (2.73%) Android
4 214 (2.72%) Windows Server
5 203 (2.58%) Apple iOS
6 127 (1.61%) Unix
7 110 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 95 (1.21%) Ubuntu
9 82 (1.04%) CentOS
10 66 (0.84%) Debian
11 65 (0.83%) VMS
12 48 (0.61%) Alpine Linux
13 44 (0.56%) Windows 10
14 42 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
15 32 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
16 31 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
17 14 (0.18%) Mac OS X
18 13 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
19 11 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
20 10 (0.13%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,981 (50.57%) Agile
2 2,551 (32.41%) CI/CD
3 1,813 (23.03%) Software Engineering
4 1,554 (19.74%) Problem-Solving
5 1,147 (14.57%) Mentoring
6 1,120 (14.23%) Scrum
7 1,092 (13.87%) Infrastructure as Code
8 845 (10.73%) Full Stack Development
9 843 (10.71%) Microservices
10 842 (10.70%) Test Automation
11 805 (10.23%) Containerisation
12 750 (9.53%) Continuous Integration
13 711 (9.03%) Actionable Insight
14 697 (8.85%) Web Development
15 667 (8.47%) Artificial Intelligence
16 663 (8.42%) Roadmaps
17 650 (8.26%) SDLC
18 594 (7.55%) Continuous Improvement
19 592 (7.52%) Analytics
20 587 (7.46%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 2,083 (26.46%) Python
2 2,012 (25.56%) C#
3 1,798 (22.84%) JavaScript
4 1,615 (20.52%) SQL
5 1,201 (15.26%) Java
6 662 (8.41%) PowerShell
7 504 (6.40%) TypeScript
8 462 (5.87%) Bash
9 284 (3.61%) Go
10 214 (2.72%) T-SQL
11 212 (2.69%) PHP
12 180 (2.29%) C
13 164 (2.08%) C++
14 160 (2.03%) Bicep
15 118 (1.50%) Ruby
16 109 (1.38%) Shell Script
17 80 (1.02%) VB.NET
18 74 (0.94%) Scala
19 63 (0.80%) Groovy
20 60 (0.76%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,425 (18.10%) Security Cleared
2 1,124 (14.28%) Degree
3 1,104 (14.02%) SC Cleared
4 428 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 258 (3.28%) Azure Certification
6 254 (3.23%) DV Cleared
7 197 (2.50%) AWS Certification
8 167 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
9 164 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
10 133 (1.69%) Master's Degree
11 68 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 56 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
13 54 (0.69%) CISSP
14 51 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
15 48 (0.61%) DBS Check
16 46 (0.58%) PMI Certification
17 43 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 42 (0.53%) MCSE
19 41 (0.52%) MCSA
20 40 (0.51%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 602 (7.65%) QA
2 261 (3.32%) GDPR
3 152 (1.93%) Data Quality
4 103 (1.31%) Accessibility
5 93 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 67 (0.85%) PMO
7 53 (0.67%) NIST
8 43 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 38 (0.48%) SLA
10 31 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
11 24 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
12 18 (0.23%) HIPAA
13 15 (0.19%) NCSC
14 9 (0.11%) ISO 9001
14 9 (0.11%) PSD2
14 9 (0.11%) SOC 2
15 7 (0.089%) ISO 13485
16 6 (0.076%) GRC
16 6 (0.076%) WCAG
17 5 (0.064%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 1,397 (17.75%) Docker
2 303 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 182 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 167 (2.12%) Virtual Machines
5 117 (1.49%) Hyper-V
6 68 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
7 38 (0.48%) Firmware
8 34 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
9 19 (0.24%) vSphere
10 15 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
11 14 (0.18%) NFS
12 13 (0.17%) VMware NSX
13 12 (0.15%) XenApp
14 11 (0.14%) IAG
14 11 (0.14%) KVM
15 10 (0.13%) pfSense
16 9 (0.11%) HDFS
16 9 (0.11%) XenDesktop
17 7 (0.089%) Xen
18 6 (0.076%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 1,661 (21.10%) Kubernetes
2 1,597 (20.29%) Terraform
3 779 (9.90%) Ansible
4 261 (3.32%) Puppet
5 250 (3.18%) Prometheus
6 191 (2.43%) Grafana
7 153 (1.94%) Progress Chef
8 51 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
9 43 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 41 (0.52%) Kibana
11 40 (0.51%) ZABBIX
12 39 (0.50%) Packer
12 39 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
13 29 (0.37%) HAProxy
14 27 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
14 27 (0.34%) Nagios
15 26 (0.33%) Consul
16 23 (0.29%) Istio
17 22 (0.28%) SCOM
18 21 (0.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1,735 (22.04%) Microsoft
2 444 (5.64%) Google
3 360 (4.57%) Red Hat
4 332 (4.22%) ESRI
5 304 (3.86%) IBM
6 239 (3.04%) VMware
7 226 (2.87%) Oracle
8 203 (2.58%) Databricks
9 128 (1.63%) ServiceNow
10 107 (1.36%) Cisco
11 103 (1.31%) Splunk
12 96 (1.22%) Dynatrace
13 83 (1.05%) Atlassian
13 83 (1.05%) SAP
14 69 (0.88%) Salesforce
15 64 (0.81%) Adobe
16 63 (0.80%) Sitecore
17 52 (0.66%) Citrix
18 39 (0.50%) Informatica
19 37 (0.47%) New Relic