DevOps Jobs in the UK excluding London

DevOps
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 28 15 12
Rank change year-on-year -13 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,334 7,022 10,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.21% 12.09% 13.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.74% 12.65% 14.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3,385 3,896 6,052
10th Percentile £38,806 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,715 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 61,033 55,511 69,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.47% 95.56% 94.27%
Number of salaries quoted 42,006 28,806 41,464
10th Percentile £27,336 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the UK excluding London

DevOps
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for DevOps in the UK excluding London

DevOps
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps in the UK excluding London

DevOps
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the UK excluding London 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
North of England -9 1,446 £60,000 -4.00% 290
South East -5 1,339 £61,500 -5.38% 213
North West -6 902 £62,500 -3.85% 163
South West -4 867 £61,500 -1.60% 144
Midlands -10 734 £57,500 - 175
Scotland -34 490 £69,000 +6.15% 72
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
Wales -7 160 £52,500 +10.53% 28
North East -1 96 £60,000 +9.09% 32
Northern Ireland +5 74 £65,000 - 28
Isle of Man - 3 - -
Channel Islands - 2 £115,000 -
DevOps
UK

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 284 (5.32%) ArcGIS
1 284 (5.32%) GeoServer
2 167 (3.13%) Confluence
3 122 (2.29%) SharePoint
4 111 (2.08%) IIS
5 79 (1.48%) CMS
6 70 (1.31%) Umbraco
7 56 (1.05%) nginx
8 55 (1.03%) Apache
9 50 (0.94%) OpenStack
10 49 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
11 42 (0.79%) Headless CMS
11 42 (0.79%) Kentico
12 39 (0.73%) Sitecore CMS
13 38 (0.71%) Apache Spark
14 17 (0.32%) Jupyter
15 15 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
16 14 (0.26%) JBoss
16 14 (0.26%) WordPress
17 13 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 59 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 35 (0.66%) MS Visio
4 31 (0.58%) UserZoom
5 29 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
6 22 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 19 (0.36%) Simulink
8 15 (0.28%) Sketch
9 13 (0.24%) Trello
10 10 (0.19%) Photoshop
11 7 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
12 6 (0.11%) Adobe XD
13 3 (0.056%) Adobe Illustrator
13 3 (0.056%) S-PLUS
14 1 (0.019%) AutoCAD
14 1 (0.019%) Chatbot
14 1 (0.019%) GNU Octave
14 1 (0.019%) InVision
14 1 (0.019%) MicroStation
14 1 (0.019%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 101 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 36 (0.67%) Dynamics AX
3 26 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 11 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
5 9 (0.17%) Magento
6 8 (0.15%) Shopify
7 7 (0.13%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.075%) Elite 3E
8 4 (0.075%) SAP S/4HANA
8 4 (0.075%) Visualfiles
9 3 (0.056%) Maximo
9 3 (0.056%) Oracle Applications
9 3 (0.056%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.037%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.037%) SystmOne
11 1 (0.019%) NEC Housing
11 1 (0.019%) Payment Gateway
11 1 (0.019%) Primavera
11 1 (0.019%) Salesforce CRM
11 1 (0.019%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 3,152 (59.09%) Azure
2 1,953 (36.61%) AWS
3 1,536 (28.80%) Azure DevOps
4 540 (10.12%) GCP
5 380 (7.12%) SaaS
6 368 (6.90%) Power Platform
7 363 (6.81%) Serverless
8 243 (4.56%) GitHub
8 243 (4.56%) Microsoft 365
9 229 (4.29%) Dynamics 365
10 225 (4.22%) IBM Cloud
11 193 (3.62%) PaaS
12 179 (3.36%) Azure Service Bus
13 172 (3.22%) Amazon S3
13 172 (3.22%) Azure Functions
14 166 (3.11%) Azure Logic Apps
15 144 (2.70%) IaaS
16 136 (2.55%) Power Automate
16 136 (2.55%) PowerApps
17 134 (2.51%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 181 (3.39%) Firewall
2 155 (2.91%) DNS
3 77 (1.44%) DHCP
3 77 (1.44%) HTTP
3 77 (1.44%) TCP/IP
4 75 (1.41%) VPN
5 66 (1.24%) Network Security
6 51 (0.96%) WAN
7 33 (0.62%) LAN
8 19 (0.36%) SD-WAN
9 18 (0.34%) Unified Communications
10 17 (0.32%) Internet
11 16 (0.30%) SSL
12 15 (0.28%) MQTT
13 11 (0.21%) 5G
13 11 (0.21%) Intranet
14 10 (0.19%) VLAN
15 9 (0.17%) BGP
15 9 (0.17%) SAN
16 8 (0.15%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 614 (11.51%) SQL Server
2 593 (11.12%) PostgreSQL
3 334 (6.26%) Relational Database
4 330 (6.19%) NoSQL
5 291 (5.46%) GIS
6 284 (5.32%) QGIS
7 250 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
8 248 (4.65%) MongoDB
9 242 (4.54%) Looker
10 232 (4.35%) BigQuery
11 215 (4.03%) Power BI
12 165 (3.09%) MySQL
13 125 (2.34%) DB2
14 124 (2.32%) Amazon RDS
15 100 (1.87%) Big Data
16 87 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
17 78 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
18 76 (1.42%) DynamoDB
19 67 (1.26%) Hadoop
20 59 (1.11%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 768 (14.40%) Git
2 461 (8.64%) Jenkins
3 453 (8.49%) JIRA
4 232 (4.35%) Visual Studio
5 207 (3.88%) GitLab
6 103 (1.93%) Bitbucket
7 102 (1.91%) Team Foundation Server
8 94 (1.76%) Selenium
9 76 (1.42%) Postman
10 61 (1.14%) Sourcetree
11 60 (1.12%) Cypress.io
11 60 (1.12%) JUnit
12 56 (1.05%) NUnit
13 53 (0.99%) Jasmine
14 52 (0.97%) TeamCity
15 51 (0.96%) Cucumber
16 46 (0.86%) SonarQube
17 45 (0.84%) Subversion
18 34 (0.64%) CircleCI
19 33 (0.62%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1,191 (22.33%) Social Skills
2 686 (12.86%) Finance
3 475 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
4 391 (7.33%) Public Sector
5 315 (5.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 291 (5.46%) Law
7 183 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
8 175 (3.28%) Banking
9 169 (3.17%) Retail
10 159 (2.98%) Aerospace
11 148 (2.77%) Marketing
12 122 (2.29%) Games
13 117 (2.19%) Legal
14 92 (1.72%) Billing
15 70 (1.31%) Manufacturing
16 59 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
17 55 (1.03%) Electronics
18 53 (0.99%) Automotive
19 50 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
19 50 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,416 (26.55%) Developer
2 1,107 (20.75%) Senior
3 724 (13.57%) Software Engineer
4 686 (12.86%) DevOps Engineer
5 538 (10.09%) Lead
6 403 (7.56%) Architect
7 367 (6.88%) Senior Developer
8 297 (5.57%) Senior Software Engineer
9 285 (5.34%) .NET Developer
10 281 (5.27%) Data Engineer
11 279 (5.23%) Full Stack Developer
12 265 (4.97%) Software Developer
13 217 (4.07%) Platform Engineer
14 183 (3.43%) Azure Developer
15 181 (3.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 176 (3.30%) Cloud Engineer
17 163 (3.06%) Principal Engineer
18 162 (3.04%) Azure Engineer
19 161 (3.02%) C# Developer
20 149 (2.79%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,413 (26.49%) .NET
2 946 (17.74%) React
3 794 (14.89%) CSS
4 623 (11.68%) .NET Core
5 585 (10.97%) HTML
6 521 (9.77%) AngularJS
7 474 (8.89%) Node.js
8 466 (8.74%) ASP.NET
9 373 (6.99%) .NET Framework
10 348 (6.52%) REST
11 307 (5.76%) Web Services
12 286 (5.36%) PostGIS
13 284 (5.32%) Leaflet
13 284 (5.32%) OpenLayers
14 274 (5.14%) Vue
15 260 (4.87%) RESTful
16 224 (4.20%) jQuery
17 212 (3.97%) JSON
18 209 (3.92%) Entity Framework
19 198 (3.71%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 342 (6.41%) Product Ownership
2 288 (5.40%) Hybrid Cloud
3 279 (5.23%) Self-Motivation
4 232 (4.35%) Public Cloud
5 225 (4.22%) Blockchain
6 216 (4.05%) Cloud Native
7 184 (3.45%) Data Structures
8 176 (3.30%) Algorithms
9 164 (3.07%) Management Information System
10 150 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
11 127 (2.38%) Data Centre
12 122 (2.29%) Private Cloud
13 101 (1.89%) Mobile App
14 97 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
15 92 (1.72%) IoT
16 90 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
17 86 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
18 71 (1.33%) Onboarding
19 70 (1.31%) Low-Code
20 68 (1.27%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 894 (16.76%) Linux
2 574 (10.76%) Windows
3 170 (3.19%) Android
4 160 (3.00%) Apple iOS
5 140 (2.62%) Windows Server
6 79 (1.48%) Ubuntu
7 74 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 67 (1.26%) CentOS
9 66 (1.24%) Debian
10 59 (1.11%) Unix
11 48 (0.90%) Alpine Linux
12 44 (0.82%) VMS
13 30 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
14 29 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
15 26 (0.49%) Windows 10
15 26 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
16 14 (0.26%) Mac OS X
17 11 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
18 10 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
19 7 (0.13%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,831 (53.07%) Agile
2 1,597 (29.94%) CI/CD
3 1,281 (24.02%) Software Engineering
4 1,104 (20.70%) Problem-Solving
5 816 (15.30%) Mentoring
6 755 (14.15%) Scrum
7 646 (12.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 633 (11.87%) Actionable Insight
9 601 (11.27%) Web Development
10 568 (10.65%) Full Stack Development
11 564 (10.57%) Continuous Integration
12 558 (10.46%) Test Automation
13 526 (9.86%) Microservices
14 522 (9.79%) Containerisation
15 476 (8.92%) SDLC
16 469 (8.79%) Artificial Intelligence
17 457 (8.57%) Roadmaps
18 427 (8.01%) Design Patterns
19 413 (7.74%) MVC
20 406 (7.61%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1,428 (26.77%) C#
2 1,348 (25.27%) JavaScript
3 1,269 (23.79%) Python
4 1,054 (19.76%) SQL
5 763 (14.30%) Java
6 391 (7.33%) PowerShell
7 344 (6.45%) TypeScript
8 311 (5.83%) Bash
9 160 (3.00%) PHP
10 140 (2.62%) T-SQL
11 131 (2.46%) C
12 116 (2.17%) Go
13 106 (1.99%) C++
14 101 (1.89%) Bicep
15 73 (1.37%) Ruby
16 72 (1.35%) VB.NET
17 71 (1.33%) Shell Script
18 59 (1.11%) VB
19 53 (0.99%) Groovy
20 47 (0.88%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,124 (21.07%) Security Cleared
2 863 (16.18%) SC Cleared
3 838 (15.71%) Degree
4 287 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 216 (4.05%) DV Cleared
6 163 (3.06%) Azure Certification
7 125 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
8 117 (2.19%) AWS Certification
8 117 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
9 98 (1.84%) Master's Degree
10 51 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
11 45 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 43 (0.81%) MCSE
13 41 (0.77%) MCSA
14 38 (0.71%) DBS Check
14 38 (0.71%) PMI Certification
15 35 (0.66%) ISTQB
16 32 (0.60%) CISSP
17 29 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 29 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 447 (8.38%) QA
2 211 (3.96%) GDPR
3 107 (2.01%) Data Quality
4 66 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 57 (1.07%) PMO
6 39 (0.73%) Accessibility
7 32 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
8 28 (0.52%) NIST
9 24 (0.45%) PCI DSS
10 22 (0.41%) SLA
11 18 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.26%) HIPAA
12 14 (0.26%) NCSC
13 8 (0.15%) PSD2
14 7 (0.13%) ISO 13485
15 5 (0.094%) GRC
16 4 (0.075%) MISRA
16 4 (0.075%) SOC 2
17 2 (0.037%) ISO 22301
17 2 (0.037%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 881 (16.52%) Docker
2 170 (3.19%) Active Directory
3 133 (2.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 124 (2.32%) Virtual Machines
5 110 (2.06%) Hyper-V
6 50 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (0.49%) Firmware
8 20 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 15 (0.28%) vSphere
10 13 (0.24%) VMware NSX
11 10 (0.19%) NFS
11 10 (0.19%) pfSense
12 7 (0.13%) IAG
12 7 (0.13%) KVM
13 6 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
14 4 (0.075%) VMware Server
14 4 (0.075%) Xen
15 3 (0.056%) VirtualBox
15 3 (0.056%) XenApp
16 2 (0.037%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1,018 (19.09%) Kubernetes
2 930 (17.44%) Terraform
3 522 (9.79%) Ansible
4 151 (2.83%) Puppet
5 136 (2.55%) Prometheus
6 129 (2.42%) Grafana
7 90 (1.69%) Progress Chef
8 38 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
9 33 (0.62%) ZABBIX
10 27 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
11 25 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 24 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
13 23 (0.43%) Kibana
13 23 (0.43%) SCOM
14 21 (0.39%) SCCM
15 17 (0.32%) HAProxy
15 17 (0.32%) WSUS
16 16 (0.30%) FortiGate
17 12 (0.22%) CA Single Sign-On
17 12 (0.22%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,165 (21.84%) Microsoft
2 357 (6.69%) Google
3 294 (5.51%) Red Hat
4 285 (5.34%) ESRI
5 270 (5.06%) IBM
6 181 (3.39%) VMware
7 163 (3.06%) Oracle
8 100 (1.87%) Databricks
9 85 (1.59%) ServiceNow
10 73 (1.37%) Dynatrace
11 57 (1.07%) Splunk
12 56 (1.05%) Atlassian
13 52 (0.97%) Cisco
14 46 (0.86%) Sitecore
15 44 (0.82%) SAP
16 36 (0.67%) Optimizely
17 33 (0.62%) WSO2
18 32 (0.60%) Citrix
18 32 (0.60%) Informatica
19 31 (0.58%) Qualtrics