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

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -11 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 7,721 13,867 25,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.80% 13.82% 15.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.12% 14.46% 16.59%
Number of salaries quoted 5,294 8,107 12,981
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,529 £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 £101,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £61,700 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.76% +2.83% +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 84,701 95,929 153,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.52% 95.60% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 59,701 56,502 82,944
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 14 May 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 14 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
England -12 6,648 £65,000 -7.14% 1,614
UK excluding London -14 5,223 £60,000 -2.76% 1,027
Work from Home -9 3,315 £65,000 -7.14% 953
London -5 2,105 £80,000 - 640
North of England -11 1,392 £60,000 -2.44% 294
South East -5 1,307 £61,500 -5.38% 220
South West -3 868 £61,500 -1.60% 153
North West -7 867 £62,641 -3.63% 182
Midlands -11 715 £58,500 +1.74% 183
Scotland -37 490 £69,000 +6.15% 62
West Midlands -10 469 £60,000 +4.35% 118
Yorkshire -7 433 £60,000 -2.18% 85
East Midlands -10 246 £57,500 - 63
East of England -30 225 £56,250 -13.46% 65
Wales -4 159 £52,500 +5.00% 39
North East 0 94 £59,000 +7.27% 27
Northern Ireland +2 69 £63,750 +6.25% 32
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 (4.27%) ArcGIS
1 330 (4.27%) GeoServer
2 236 (3.06%) Confluence
3 186 (2.41%) SharePoint
4 148 (1.92%) CMS
5 134 (1.74%) IIS
6 95 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
7 88 (1.14%) Apache
8 83 (1.07%) Apache Spark
8 83 (1.07%) nginx
9 81 (1.05%) Umbraco
10 75 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
11 57 (0.74%) OpenStack
12 48 (0.62%) Sitecore CMS
13 43 (0.56%) Headless CMS
13 43 (0.56%) Kentico
14 35 (0.45%) WebSphere
15 33 (0.43%) Drupal
16 31 (0.40%) WordPress
17 28 (0.36%) Captiva
Applications
1 85 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 74 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
3 49 (0.63%) MS Visio
4 32 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
4 32 (0.41%) UserZoom
5 26 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 23 (0.30%) Photoshop
7 18 (0.23%) Trello
8 15 (0.19%) Simulink
8 15 (0.19%) Sketch
9 9 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
10 5 (0.065%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.039%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.026%) Notion
12 2 (0.026%) S-PLUS
13 1 (0.013%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.013%) Chatbot
13 1 (0.013%) GNU Octave
13 1 (0.013%) MicroStation
13 1 (0.013%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 172 (2.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 53 (0.69%) Dynamics AX
3 36 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 16 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
5 14 (0.18%) SDL Web 8
6 11 (0.14%) NetSuite
7 9 (0.12%) Magento
8 8 (0.10%) Remedy ITSM
8 8 (0.10%) Shopify
9 6 (0.078%) Maximo
10 5 (0.065%) Primavera
10 5 (0.065%) SAP S/4HANA
10 5 (0.065%) Temenos T24
11 4 (0.052%) Elite 3E
11 4 (0.052%) Oracle EBS
11 4 (0.052%) Payment Gateway
11 4 (0.052%) Visualfiles
12 3 (0.039%) Dynamics GP
12 3 (0.039%) Oracle Applications
12 3 (0.039%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 4,497 (58.24%) Azure
2 2,882 (37.33%) AWS
3 2,266 (29.35%) Azure DevOps
4 854 (11.06%) GCP
5 700 (9.07%) Serverless
6 606 (7.85%) Power Platform
7 523 (6.77%) SaaS
8 457 (5.92%) GitHub
9 386 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
10 367 (4.75%) PaaS
11 355 (4.60%) Microsoft 365
12 290 (3.76%) Amazon S3
13 285 (3.69%) IaaS
14 279 (3.61%) Azure Service Bus
15 269 (3.48%) Azure Logic Apps
16 266 (3.45%) Azure Functions
17 251 (3.25%) IBM Cloud
18 237 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
19 232 (3.00%) PowerApps
20 230 (2.98%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 289 (3.74%) Firewall
2 244 (3.16%) DNS
3 129 (1.67%) TCP/IP
4 124 (1.61%) VPN
5 122 (1.58%) Network Security
6 103 (1.33%) HTTP
6 103 (1.33%) WAN
7 90 (1.17%) DHCP
8 71 (0.92%) LAN
9 49 (0.63%) Internet
10 33 (0.43%) SD-WAN
11 30 (0.39%) SSL
12 20 (0.26%) SNMP
12 20 (0.26%) Unified Communications
13 19 (0.25%) BGP
13 19 (0.25%) SAN
14 18 (0.23%) HTTPS
15 16 (0.21%) IPv4
15 16 (0.21%) MQTT
16 15 (0.19%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 929 (12.03%) SQL Server
2 720 (9.33%) PostgreSQL
3 431 (5.58%) Relational Database
4 428 (5.54%) NoSQL
5 342 (4.43%) GIS
6 332 (4.30%) Data Warehouse
7 330 (4.27%) QGIS
8 325 (4.21%) MongoDB
9 316 (4.09%) Power BI
10 260 (3.37%) BigQuery
11 255 (3.30%) Looker
12 226 (2.93%) MySQL
13 211 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
14 207 (2.68%) Big Data
15 190 (2.46%) Azure SQL Database
16 168 (2.18%) Data Lake
17 145 (1.88%) DB2
18 115 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
19 93 (1.20%) Metadata
20 92 (1.19%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1,124 (14.56%) Git
2 792 (10.26%) Jenkins
3 634 (8.21%) JIRA
4 334 (4.33%) GitLab
5 296 (3.83%) Visual Studio
6 140 (1.81%) Selenium
7 137 (1.77%) Bitbucket
7 137 (1.77%) Team Foundation Server
8 119 (1.54%) Postman
9 96 (1.24%) TeamCity
10 83 (1.07%) Cypress.io
11 75 (0.97%) Sourcetree
12 74 (0.96%) Cucumber
12 74 (0.96%) JUnit
13 73 (0.95%) NUnit
13 73 (0.95%) Octopus Deploy
14 62 (0.80%) Subversion
15 58 (0.75%) Artifactory
16 57 (0.74%) CircleCI
17 54 (0.70%) SonarQube
General
1 1,705 (22.08%) Social Skills
2 1,396 (18.08%) Finance
3 708 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
4 537 (6.96%) Public Sector
5 472 (6.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 397 (5.14%) Law
7 377 (4.88%) Banking
8 272 (3.52%) Marketing
9 228 (2.95%) Retail
10 223 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
11 173 (2.24%) Legal
12 149 (1.93%) Aerospace
13 128 (1.66%) Games
14 105 (1.36%) Front Office
15 99 (1.28%) Manufacturing
16 96 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
17 83 (1.07%) Billing
18 78 (1.01%) Telecoms
19 77 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
20 66 (0.85%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 2,021 (26.18%) Developer
2 1,652 (21.40%) Senior
3 1,104 (14.30%) DevOps Engineer
4 923 (11.95%) Software Engineer
5 872 (11.29%) Lead
6 624 (8.08%) Architect
7 510 (6.61%) Senior Developer
8 404 (5.23%) .NET Developer
9 402 (5.21%) Data Engineer
10 381 (4.93%) Full Stack Developer
11 350 (4.53%) Senior Software Engineer
12 319 (4.13%) AWS Engineer
13 314 (4.07%) Azure Engineer
14 303 (3.92%) Software Developer
15 298 (3.86%) Platform Engineer
16 287 (3.72%) Senior DevOps
17 272 (3.52%) Cloud Engineer
18 268 (3.47%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 227 (2.94%) Analyst
19 227 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,972 (25.54%) .NET
2 1,220 (15.80%) React
3 995 (12.89%) CSS
4 796 (10.31%) .NET Core
5 760 (9.84%) HTML
6 689 (8.92%) AngularJS
7 620 (8.03%) ASP.NET
8 609 (7.89%) Node.js
9 517 (6.70%) REST
10 463 (6.00%) .NET Framework
11 423 (5.48%) Web Services
12 403 (5.22%) RESTful
13 355 (4.60%) Vue
14 339 (4.39%) PostGIS
15 337 (4.36%) JSON
16 330 (4.27%) Leaflet
16 330 (4.27%) OpenLayers
17 283 (3.67%) Spring
18 270 (3.50%) jQuery
19 268 (3.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 447 (5.79%) Product Ownership
2 357 (4.62%) Hybrid Cloud
3 329 (4.26%) Cloud Native
4 322 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
5 321 (4.16%) Public Cloud
6 276 (3.57%) Blockchain
7 254 (3.29%) Data Structures
8 250 (3.24%) Management Information System
9 211 (2.73%) Algorithms
10 191 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
11 178 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
12 166 (2.15%) Data Centre
13 165 (2.14%) Private Cloud
14 149 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
15 134 (1.74%) Mobile App
16 123 (1.59%) Hedge funds
17 113 (1.46%) Onboarding
18 110 (1.42%) IoT
19 92 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
20 77 (1.00%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 1,276 (16.53%) Linux
2 765 (9.91%) Windows
3 215 (2.78%) Android
4 210 (2.72%) Windows Server
5 203 (2.63%) Apple iOS
6 150 (1.94%) Unix
7 100 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 91 (1.18%) Ubuntu
9 86 (1.11%) CentOS
10 64 (0.83%) VMS
11 63 (0.82%) Debian
12 46 (0.60%) Alpine Linux
13 41 (0.53%) Windows 10
14 38 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
15 28 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
16 25 (0.32%) Embedded Linux
17 14 (0.18%) Mac OS X
18 13 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
19 10 (0.13%) AIX
20 8 (0.10%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,919 (50.76%) Agile
2 2,507 (32.47%) CI/CD
3 1,818 (23.55%) Software Engineering
4 1,531 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
5 1,121 (14.52%) Scrum
6 1,092 (14.14%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1,085 (14.05%) Mentoring
8 876 (11.35%) Microservices
9 837 (10.84%) Test Automation
10 830 (10.75%) Containerisation
11 810 (10.49%) Full Stack Development
12 756 (9.79%) Continuous Integration
13 755 (9.78%) Actionable Insight
14 699 (9.05%) Web Development
15 653 (8.46%) Artificial Intelligence
15 653 (8.46%) Roadmaps
16 646 (8.37%) SDLC
17 583 (7.55%) Continuous Improvement
18 561 (7.27%) TDD
19 549 (7.11%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 2,079 (26.93%) Python
2 2,002 (25.93%) C#
3 1,800 (23.31%) JavaScript
4 1,653 (21.41%) SQL
5 1,253 (16.23%) Java
6 644 (8.34%) PowerShell
7 493 (6.39%) Bash
8 491 (6.36%) TypeScript
9 322 (4.17%) Go
10 215 (2.78%) PHP
11 208 (2.69%) T-SQL
12 168 (2.18%) C
13 153 (1.98%) Bicep
14 152 (1.97%) Ruby
15 150 (1.94%) C++
16 114 (1.48%) Shell Script
17 96 (1.24%) Perl
18 80 (1.04%) VB.NET
19 70 (0.91%) Groovy
20 63 (0.82%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,367 (17.70%) Security Cleared
2 1,098 (14.22%) Degree
3 1,063 (13.77%) SC Cleared
4 393 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 244 (3.16%) Azure Certification
6 215 (2.78%) DV Cleared
7 177 (2.29%) AWS Certification
8 169 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 168 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
10 129 (1.67%) Master's Degree
11 65 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 58 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
13 52 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
13 52 (0.67%) CISSP
14 46 (0.60%) PMI Certification
15 45 (0.58%) MCSE
16 44 (0.57%) DBS Check
17 43 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 41 (0.53%) ISTQB
18 41 (0.53%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 635 (8.22%) QA
2 278 (3.60%) GDPR
3 152 (1.97%) Data Quality
4 99 (1.28%) Accessibility
5 90 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 72 (0.93%) PMO
7 48 (0.62%) NIST
8 40 (0.52%) PCI DSS
9 39 (0.51%) SLA
10 33 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
11 21 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
12 16 (0.21%) HIPAA
13 13 (0.17%) NCSC
14 10 (0.13%) ISO 9001
15 9 (0.12%) PSD2
16 7 (0.091%) ISO 13485
16 7 (0.091%) SOC 2
17 6 (0.078%) GRC
18 5 (0.065%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 5 (0.065%) WCAG
System Software
1 1,388 (17.98%) Docker
2 313 (4.05%) Active Directory
3 177 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 160 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
5 121 (1.57%) Hyper-V
6 62 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
7 41 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
8 38 (0.49%) Firmware
9 21 (0.27%) vSphere
10 15 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
11 13 (0.17%) NFS
11 13 (0.17%) VMware NSX
12 11 (0.14%) IAG
13 10 (0.13%) HDFS
13 10 (0.13%) pfSense
14 9 (0.12%) KVM
15 6 (0.078%) DFS Replication
15 6 (0.078%) VirtualBox
16 5 (0.065%) Xen
16 5 (0.065%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1,626 (21.06%) Kubernetes
2 1,577 (20.42%) Terraform
3 762 (9.87%) Ansible
4 262 (3.39%) Puppet
5 245 (3.17%) Prometheus
6 191 (2.47%) Grafana
7 159 (2.06%) Progress Chef
8 47 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
9 45 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 44 (0.57%) Kibana
11 38 (0.49%) Packer
11 38 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
11 38 (0.49%) ZABBIX
12 32 (0.41%) HAProxy
13 28 (0.36%) Istio
14 27 (0.35%) Nagios
15 26 (0.34%) Consul
15 26 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
16 20 (0.26%) Rancher
16 20 (0.26%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1,744 (22.59%) Microsoft
2 478 (6.19%) Google
3 346 (4.48%) Red Hat
4 340 (4.40%) IBM
5 332 (4.30%) ESRI
6 287 (3.72%) Oracle
7 242 (3.13%) VMware
8 213 (2.76%) Databricks
9 133 (1.72%) ServiceNow
10 106 (1.37%) SAP
11 104 (1.35%) Splunk
12 102 (1.32%) Cisco
13 98 (1.27%) Dynatrace
14 78 (1.01%) Atlassian
15 65 (0.84%) Salesforce
16 64 (0.83%) Sitecore
17 61 (0.79%) Adobe
18 59 (0.76%) Citrix
19 41 (0.53%) WSO2
20 40 (0.52%) Informatica