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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -12 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 6,770 11,594 21,883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.62% 13.39% 15.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.05% 14.01% 16.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4,751 7,013 11,334
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 74,781 82,738 134,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.16% 95.57% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 54,521 49,312 73,714
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,329 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,000
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 £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 28 May 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 28 May 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 2,116 £80,000 - 683
North of England -9 1,446 £60,000 -4.00% 290
South East -5 1,339 £61,500 -5.38% 212
North West -6 902 £62,500 -3.85% 163
South West -4 867 £61,500 -1.60% 144
Midlands -10 734 £57,500 - 175
West Midlands -7 478 £60,000 +4.35% 130
Yorkshire -7 450 £59,526 -2.70% 95
East Midlands -12 256 £57,500 -4.17% 45
East of England -28 224 £55,000 -15.38% 78
North East -1 96 £60,000 +9.09% 32
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
1 199 (2.94%) Confluence
2 196 (2.90%) ArcGIS
2 196 (2.90%) GeoServer
3 160 (2.36%) SharePoint
4 144 (2.13%) CMS
5 130 (1.92%) IIS
6 96 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
7 83 (1.23%) Apache
8 73 (1.08%) nginx
9 72 (1.06%) Umbraco
10 71 (1.05%) Apache Spark
11 70 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
12 56 (0.83%) OpenStack
13 46 (0.68%) Sitecore CMS
14 43 (0.64%) Headless CMS
14 43 (0.64%) Kentico
15 34 (0.50%) Drupal
16 27 (0.40%) WordPress
17 22 (0.32%) JBoss
18 18 (0.27%) Jupyter
Applications
1 74 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
2 72 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 44 (0.65%) MS Visio
4 30 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
5 26 (0.38%) Photoshop
6 24 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 18 (0.27%) Simulink
8 17 (0.25%) Trello
9 9 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
10 7 (0.10%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.059%) Sketch
12 3 (0.044%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.044%) S-PLUS
13 2 (0.030%) Chatbot
13 2 (0.030%) Notion
14 1 (0.015%) AutoCAD
14 1 (0.015%) GNU Octave
14 1 (0.015%) InVision
14 1 (0.015%) PTC Creo
14 1 (0.015%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 150 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 47 (0.69%) Dynamics AX
3 30 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 17 (0.25%) SDL Web 8
5 14 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
6 11 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 10 (0.15%) Magento
8 9 (0.13%) Shopify
9 8 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
10 6 (0.089%) Temenos T24
11 5 (0.074%) Primavera
11 5 (0.074%) SAP S/4HANA
12 4 (0.059%) Elite 3E
12 4 (0.059%) Oracle EBS
12 4 (0.059%) Payment Gateway
12 4 (0.059%) Visualfiles
13 3 (0.044%) Endur
13 3 (0.044%) Maximo
13 3 (0.044%) Oracle Applications
13 3 (0.044%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3,935 (58.12%) Azure
2 2,549 (37.65%) AWS
3 2,034 (30.04%) Azure DevOps
4 705 (10.41%) GCP
5 598 (8.83%) Serverless
6 531 (7.84%) Power Platform
7 444 (6.56%) SaaS
8 368 (5.44%) GitHub
9 333 (4.92%) Dynamics 365
10 305 (4.51%) Microsoft 365
11 294 (4.34%) PaaS
12 273 (4.03%) Amazon S3
13 264 (3.90%) Azure Service Bus
14 247 (3.65%) Azure Functions
15 246 (3.63%) IBM Cloud
16 240 (3.55%) Azure Logic Apps
17 224 (3.31%) IaaS
18 215 (3.18%) AWS CloudFormation
19 214 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
20 207 (3.06%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 256 (3.78%) Firewall
2 240 (3.55%) DNS
3 123 (1.82%) TCP/IP
4 110 (1.62%) Network Security
5 106 (1.57%) HTTP
6 95 (1.40%) DHCP
7 94 (1.39%) VPN
8 86 (1.27%) WAN
9 68 (1.00%) LAN
10 36 (0.53%) Internet
11 30 (0.44%) SSL
12 20 (0.30%) 5G
13 19 (0.28%) SAN
13 19 (0.28%) SNMP
13 19 (0.28%) Unified Communications
14 17 (0.25%) HTTPS
15 15 (0.22%) BGP
15 15 (0.22%) MQTT
15 15 (0.22%) SD-WAN
16 14 (0.21%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 861 (12.72%) SQL Server
2 607 (8.97%) PostgreSQL
3 377 (5.57%) NoSQL
4 370 (5.47%) Relational Database
5 299 (4.42%) Data Warehouse
6 296 (4.37%) Power BI
7 291 (4.30%) MongoDB
8 231 (3.41%) BigQuery
9 210 (3.10%) Looker
10 209 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
11 207 (3.06%) GIS
12 202 (2.98%) MySQL
13 196 (2.90%) QGIS
14 188 (2.78%) Big Data
15 172 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
16 161 (2.38%) Data Lake
17 145 (2.14%) DB2
18 96 (1.42%) DynamoDB
19 85 (1.26%) Hadoop
20 84 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1,023 (15.11%) Git
2 690 (10.19%) Jenkins
3 545 (8.05%) JIRA
4 324 (4.79%) GitLab
5 274 (4.05%) Visual Studio
6 127 (1.88%) Bitbucket
7 122 (1.80%) Team Foundation Server
8 113 (1.67%) Selenium
9 96 (1.42%) TeamCity
10 91 (1.34%) Postman
11 78 (1.15%) Sourcetree
12 76 (1.12%) NUnit
12 76 (1.12%) Octopus Deploy
13 60 (0.89%) SonarQube
14 58 (0.86%) Subversion
15 53 (0.78%) JUnit
16 52 (0.77%) Jasmine
17 51 (0.75%) Cypress.io
18 50 (0.74%) Artifactory
18 50 (0.74%) Cucumber
General
1 1,522 (22.48%) Social Skills
2 1,092 (16.13%) Finance
3 627 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
4 517 (7.64%) Public Sector
5 290 (4.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 259 (3.83%) Law
7 254 (3.75%) Banking
8 208 (3.07%) Retail
9 207 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
10 171 (2.53%) Marketing
11 161 (2.38%) Aerospace
12 142 (2.10%) Legal
13 119 (1.76%) Games
14 99 (1.46%) Manufacturing
15 96 (1.42%) Front Office
16 87 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
17 85 (1.26%) Billing
18 78 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
19 77 (1.14%) Telecoms
20 69 (1.02%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,809 (26.72%) Developer
2 1,402 (20.71%) Senior
3 1,007 (14.87%) DevOps Engineer
4 717 (10.59%) Lead
5 667 (9.85%) Software Engineer
6 575 (8.49%) Architect
7 439 (6.48%) Senior Developer
8 407 (6.01%) .NET Developer
9 360 (5.32%) Full Stack Developer
10 349 (5.16%) Data Engineer
11 299 (4.42%) AWS Engineer
12 286 (4.22%) Azure Engineer
13 279 (4.12%) Software Developer
14 270 (3.99%) Platform Engineer
15 264 (3.90%) Senior Software Engineer
16 250 (3.69%) Senior DevOps
17 240 (3.55%) Cloud Engineer
18 239 (3.53%) C# Developer
19 235 (3.47%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 221 (3.26%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,696 (25.05%) .NET
2 978 (14.45%) React
3 782 (11.55%) CSS
4 655 (9.68%) HTML
5 642 (9.48%) AngularJS
6 621 (9.17%) .NET Core
7 584 (8.63%) ASP.NET
8 509 (7.52%) Node.js
9 501 (7.40%) REST
10 451 (6.66%) .NET Framework
11 402 (5.94%) Web Services
12 378 (5.58%) RESTful
13 314 (4.64%) Vue
14 281 (4.15%) JSON
15 279 (4.12%) jQuery
16 262 (3.87%) XML
17 254 (3.75%) Entity Framework
18 227 (3.35%) Spring
19 215 (3.18%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 206 (3.04%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 384 (5.67%) Product Ownership
2 348 (5.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 310 (4.58%) Cloud Native
4 299 (4.42%) Self-Motivation
5 271 (4.00%) Blockchain
6 250 (3.69%) Public Cloud
7 243 (3.59%) Data Structures
8 218 (3.22%) Management Information System
9 200 (2.95%) Algorithms
10 196 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
11 152 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
12 149 (2.20%) Data Centre
13 127 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
14 125 (1.85%) Hedge funds
15 113 (1.67%) Mobile App
16 108 (1.60%) Private Cloud
17 92 (1.36%) IoT
18 87 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
19 79 (1.17%) e-Learning
20 78 (1.15%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1,101 (16.26%) Linux
2 715 (10.56%) Windows
3 199 (2.94%) Android
4 193 (2.85%) Apple iOS
5 190 (2.81%) Windows Server
6 102 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 91 (1.34%) Unix
8 76 (1.12%) CentOS
9 71 (1.05%) 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 29 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
17 14 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
18 11 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
19 10 (0.15%) AIX
20 7 (0.10%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,293 (48.64%) Agile
2 2,192 (32.38%) CI/CD
3 1,444 (21.33%) Software Engineering
4 1,362 (20.12%) Problem-Solving
5 995 (14.70%) Infrastructure as Code
6 975 (14.40%) Scrum
7 931 (13.75%) Mentoring
8 773 (11.42%) Containerisation
9 765 (11.30%) Microservices
10 740 (10.93%) Test Automation
11 726 (10.72%) Full Stack Development
12 621 (9.17%) Continuous Integration
13 590 (8.71%) Artificial Intelligence
14 570 (8.42%) Roadmaps
15 552 (8.15%) Web Development
16 539 (7.96%) SDLC
17 532 (7.86%) Computer Science
18 508 (7.50%) Design Patterns
19 507 (7.49%) Continuous Improvement
20 486 (7.18%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 1,801 (26.60%) Python
2 1,746 (25.79%) C#
3 1,491 (22.02%) JavaScript
4 1,394 (20.59%) SQL
5 1,076 (15.89%) Java
6 620 (9.16%) PowerShell
7 454 (6.71%) TypeScript
8 445 (6.57%) Bash
9 261 (3.86%) Go
10 204 (3.01%) T-SQL
11 192 (2.84%) PHP
12 163 (2.41%) C
13 151 (2.23%) Bicep
14 138 (2.04%) C++
15 106 (1.57%) Ruby
16 86 (1.27%) Shell Script
17 74 (1.09%) VB.NET
18 68 (1.00%) Scala
19 67 (0.99%) Perl
20 58 (0.86%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,168 (17.25%) Security Cleared
2 969 (14.31%) Degree
3 867 (12.81%) SC Cleared
4 382 (5.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 245 (3.62%) DV Cleared
6 235 (3.47%) Azure Certification
7 183 (2.70%) AWS Certification
8 156 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
9 129 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
10 127 (1.88%) Master's Degree
11 64 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 56 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
13 44 (0.65%) DBS Check
14 43 (0.64%) MCSE
15 42 (0.62%) MCSA
15 42 (0.62%) PMI Certification
16 40 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 36 (0.53%) CISSP
17 36 (0.53%) ISTQB
18 29 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 556 (8.21%) QA
2 224 (3.31%) GDPR
3 141 (2.08%) Data Quality
4 89 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 76 (1.12%) Accessibility
6 50 (0.74%) NIST
7 44 (0.65%) PMO
8 42 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 39 (0.58%) SLA
10 24 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 17 (0.25%) HIPAA
12 12 (0.18%) NCSC
13 9 (0.13%) ISO 9001
13 9 (0.13%) PSD2
14 7 (0.10%) ISO 13485
15 6 (0.089%) GRC
16 5 (0.074%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 4 (0.059%) SOC 2
18 3 (0.044%) IEC 61508
18 3 (0.044%) SEPA
System Software
1 1,280 (18.91%) Docker
2 276 (4.08%) Active Directory
3 166 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 161 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
5 121 (1.79%) Hyper-V
6 66 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
7 38 (0.56%) Firmware
8 36 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
9 17 (0.25%) vSphere
10 15 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
11 14 (0.21%) NFS
12 10 (0.15%) pfSense
12 10 (0.15%) XenApp
13 9 (0.13%) HDFS
13 9 (0.13%) KVM
14 7 (0.10%) IAG
14 7 (0.10%) XenDesktop
15 6 (0.089%) VirtualBox
16 5 (0.074%) DFS Replication
16 5 (0.074%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,525 (22.53%) Kubernetes
2 1,444 (21.33%) Terraform
3 696 (10.28%) Ansible
4 255 (3.77%) Puppet
5 241 (3.56%) Prometheus
6 159 (2.35%) Grafana
7 145 (2.14%) Progress Chef
8 46 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 46 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
9 40 (0.59%) ZABBIX
10 39 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
11 38 (0.56%) Packer
12 34 (0.50%) Kibana
13 31 (0.46%) HAProxy
14 28 (0.41%) Nagios
15 27 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
16 24 (0.35%) Consul
17 23 (0.34%) Istio
17 23 (0.34%) SCOM
18 20 (0.30%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1,566 (23.13%) Microsoft
2 402 (5.94%) Google
3 356 (5.26%) Red Hat
4 282 (4.17%) IBM
5 225 (3.32%) VMware
6 212 (3.13%) Oracle
7 198 (2.92%) ESRI
8 188 (2.78%) Databricks
9 99 (1.46%) ServiceNow
10 82 (1.21%) Cisco
11 80 (1.18%) Dynatrace
12 76 (1.12%) Splunk
13 70 (1.03%) SAP
14 63 (0.93%) Atlassian
15 62 (0.92%) Sitecore
16 61 (0.90%) Adobe
17 54 (0.80%) Citrix
18 50 (0.74%) Salesforce
19 39 (0.58%) WSO2
20 38 (0.56%) Informatica