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 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 7,850 13,182 26,526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.65% 13.54% 15.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.08% 14.17% 16.57%
Number of salaries quoted 5,273 7,848 12,869
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,520 £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 £100,750
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 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 28 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 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
England -12 6,770 £65,000 -7.14% 1,629
UK excluding London -13 5,334 £60,000 -4.00% 1,013
Work from Home -9 3,335 £65,000 -6.40% 966
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
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
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 (4.20%) ArcGIS
1 330 (4.20%) GeoServer
2 242 (3.08%) Confluence
3 177 (2.25%) SharePoint
4 151 (1.92%) CMS
5 135 (1.72%) IIS
6 97 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
7 89 (1.13%) Apache
8 82 (1.04%) Umbraco
9 81 (1.03%) nginx
10 80 (1.02%) Apache Spark
11 70 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
12 57 (0.73%) OpenStack
13 47 (0.60%) Sitecore CMS
14 43 (0.55%) Headless CMS
14 43 (0.55%) Kentico
15 34 (0.43%) Drupal
16 32 (0.41%) WordPress
17 22 (0.28%) JBoss
18 19 (0.24%) Jupyter
Applications
1 83 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
3 47 (0.60%) MS Visio
4 31 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
4 31 (0.39%) UserZoom
5 26 (0.33%) Photoshop
6 25 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 19 (0.24%) Simulink
8 17 (0.22%) Trello
9 16 (0.20%) Sketch
10 9 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
11 7 (0.089%) Adobe XD
12 3 (0.038%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.038%) S-PLUS
13 2 (0.025%) Chatbot
13 2 (0.025%) Notion
14 1 (0.013%) AutoCAD
14 1 (0.013%) MicroStation
14 1 (0.013%) Revit
14 1 (0.013%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 172 (2.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 53 (0.68%) Dynamics AX
3 33 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 17 (0.22%) SDL Web 8
5 16 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
6 11 (0.14%) NetSuite
7 10 (0.13%) Magento
8 9 (0.11%) 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 4,593 (58.51%) Azure
2 2,997 (38.18%) AWS
3 2,270 (28.92%) Azure DevOps
4 841 (10.71%) GCP
5 675 (8.60%) Serverless
6 629 (8.01%) Power Platform
7 524 (6.68%) SaaS
8 423 (5.39%) GitHub
9 385 (4.90%) Dynamics 365
10 354 (4.51%) PaaS
11 339 (4.32%) Microsoft 365
12 288 (3.67%) Amazon S3
13 283 (3.61%) Azure Service Bus
14 274 (3.49%) Azure Logic Apps
15 272 (3.46%) IaaS
16 265 (3.38%) Azure Functions
17 248 (3.16%) IBM Cloud
18 238 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
19 231 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
19 231 (2.94%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 294 (3.75%) Firewall
2 251 (3.20%) DNS
3 128 (1.63%) TCP/IP
4 123 (1.57%) Network Security
5 117 (1.49%) VPN
6 108 (1.38%) HTTP
7 104 (1.32%) WAN
8 95 (1.21%) DHCP
9 73 (0.93%) LAN
10 45 (0.57%) 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%) SNMP
14 19 (0.24%) Unified Communications
15 17 (0.22%) HTTPS
16 16 (0.20%) IPv4
16 16 (0.20%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 941 (11.99%) SQL Server
2 749 (9.54%) PostgreSQL
3 447 (5.69%) NoSQL
4 425 (5.41%) Relational Database
5 349 (4.45%) Data Warehouse
6 341 (4.34%) GIS
7 340 (4.33%) Power BI
8 330 (4.20%) QGIS
9 327 (4.17%) MongoDB
10 256 (3.26%) BigQuery
11 254 (3.24%) Looker
12 227 (2.89%) MySQL
13 213 (2.71%) Amazon RDS
14 212 (2.70%) Big Data
15 188 (2.39%) Azure SQL Database
16 175 (2.23%) Data Lake
17 145 (1.85%) DB2
18 109 (1.39%) DynamoDB
19 106 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
20 89 (1.13%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1,113 (14.18%) Git
2 782 (9.96%) Jenkins
3 630 (8.03%) JIRA
4 341 (4.34%) GitLab
5 308 (3.92%) Visual Studio
6 138 (1.76%) Bitbucket
7 136 (1.73%) Team Foundation Server
8 128 (1.63%) Selenium
9 113 (1.44%) Postman
10 98 (1.25%) TeamCity
11 80 (1.02%) NUnit
12 78 (0.99%) Sourcetree
13 76 (0.97%) Octopus Deploy
14 75 (0.96%) Cypress.io
14 75 (0.96%) JUnit
15 67 (0.85%) Cucumber
15 67 (0.85%) SonarQube
16 61 (0.78%) Subversion
17 59 (0.75%) CircleCI
18 53 (0.68%) Jasmine
General
1 1,794 (22.85%) Social Skills
2 1,357 (17.29%) Finance
3 693 (8.83%) Analytical Skills
4 554 (7.06%) Public Sector
5 463 (5.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 388 (4.94%) Law
7 338 (4.31%) Banking
8 271 (3.45%) Marketing
9 249 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
10 228 (2.90%) Retail
11 170 (2.17%) Aerospace
12 169 (2.15%) Legal
13 129 (1.64%) Games
14 100 (1.27%) Manufacturing
15 98 (1.25%) Front Office
16 95 (1.21%) Billing
17 92 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
18 82 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
19 81 (1.03%) Telecoms
20 77 (0.98%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 2,046 (26.06%) Developer
2 1,698 (21.63%) Senior
3 1,110 (14.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 920 (11.72%) Software Engineer
5 874 (11.13%) Lead
6 690 (8.79%) Architect
7 536 (6.83%) Senior Developer
8 426 (5.43%) .NET Developer
9 403 (5.13%) Full Stack Developer
10 390 (4.97%) Data Engineer
11 363 (4.62%) Senior Software Engineer
12 317 (4.04%) Azure Engineer
13 315 (4.01%) Software Developer
14 314 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
15 302 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
16 292 (3.72%) Senior DevOps
17 288 (3.67%) Cloud Engineer
18 271 (3.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 251 (3.20%) C# Developer
20 232 (2.96%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,992 (25.38%) .NET
2 1,225 (15.61%) React
3 1,012 (12.89%) CSS
4 792 (10.09%) .NET Core
5 769 (9.80%) HTML
6 699 (8.90%) AngularJS
7 630 (8.03%) ASP.NET
8 624 (7.95%) Node.js
9 527 (6.71%) REST
10 486 (6.19%) .NET Framework
11 446 (5.68%) Web Services
12 416 (5.30%) RESTful
13 359 (4.57%) Vue
14 337 (4.29%) PostGIS
15 330 (4.20%) Leaflet
15 330 (4.20%) OpenLayers
16 314 (4.00%) JSON
17 281 (3.58%) Spring
18 279 (3.55%) jQuery
19 275 (3.50%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 454 (5.78%) Product Ownership
2 356 (4.54%) Hybrid Cloud
3 337 (4.29%) Cloud Native
4 327 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
5 307 (3.91%) Public Cloud
6 273 (3.48%) Blockchain
7 252 (3.21%) Management Information System
8 251 (3.20%) Data Structures
9 214 (2.73%) Algorithms
10 209 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
11 177 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
12 170 (2.17%) Data Centre
13 154 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
14 136 (1.73%) Private Cloud
15 133 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
16 131 (1.67%) Mobile App
17 126 (1.61%) Hedge funds
18 114 (1.45%) Onboarding
19 110 (1.40%) IoT
20 79 (1.01%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 1,248 (15.90%) Linux
2 773 (9.85%) Windows
3 212 (2.70%) Android
3 212 (2.70%) Windows Server
4 201 (2.56%) Apple iOS
5 130 (1.66%) Unix
6 106 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 93 (1.18%) Ubuntu
8 82 (1.04%) CentOS
9 66 (0.84%) Debian
10 65 (0.83%) VMS
11 48 (0.61%) Alpine Linux
12 44 (0.56%) Windows 10
13 42 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
14 32 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
15 29 (0.37%) Embedded Linux
16 14 (0.18%) Mac OS X
16 14 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
17 11 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
18 10 (0.13%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,976 (50.65%) Agile
2 2,543 (32.39%) CI/CD
3 1,815 (23.12%) Software Engineering
4 1,576 (20.08%) Problem-Solving
5 1,131 (14.41%) Mentoring
6 1,122 (14.29%) Scrum
7 1,101 (14.03%) Infrastructure as Code
8 867 (11.04%) Microservices
9 848 (10.80%) Test Automation
10 841 (10.71%) Full Stack Development
11 825 (10.51%) Containerisation
12 758 (9.66%) Continuous Integration
13 739 (9.41%) Actionable Insight
14 697 (8.88%) Web Development
15 660 (8.41%) Artificial Intelligence
16 657 (8.37%) Roadmaps
17 648 (8.25%) SDLC
18 594 (7.57%) Continuous Improvement
19 587 (7.48%) Analytics
20 580 (7.39%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 2,093 (26.66%) Python
2 2,017 (25.69%) C#
3 1,822 (23.21%) JavaScript
4 1,623 (20.68%) SQL
5 1,224 (15.59%) Java
6 657 (8.37%) PowerShell
7 500 (6.37%) TypeScript
8 484 (6.17%) Bash
9 308 (3.92%) Go
10 214 (2.73%) T-SQL
11 209 (2.66%) PHP
12 175 (2.23%) C
13 159 (2.03%) Bicep
14 157 (2.00%) C++
15 140 (1.78%) Ruby
16 112 (1.43%) Shell Script
17 83 (1.06%) Perl
18 79 (1.01%) VB.NET
19 71 (0.90%) Scala
20 68 (0.87%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1,418 (18.06%) Security Cleared
2 1,120 (14.27%) Degree
3 1,102 (14.04%) SC Cleared
4 421 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 260 (3.31%) Azure Certification
6 247 (3.15%) DV Cleared
7 199 (2.54%) AWS Certification
8 168 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 163 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
10 132 (1.68%) Master's Degree
11 69 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 56 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
13 52 (0.66%) CISSP
14 50 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
15 48 (0.61%) DBS Check
16 46 (0.59%) PMI Certification
17 43 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 43 (0.55%) MCSE
18 42 (0.54%) ISTQB
18 42 (0.54%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 627 (7.99%) QA
2 260 (3.31%) GDPR
3 152 (1.94%) Data Quality
4 102 (1.30%) Accessibility
5 93 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 69 (0.88%) PMO
7 52 (0.66%) NIST
8 42 (0.54%) PCI DSS
9 39 (0.50%) SLA
10 32 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
11 24 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
12 17 (0.22%) HIPAA
13 14 (0.18%) NCSC
14 9 (0.11%) ISO 9001
14 9 (0.11%) PSD2
15 8 (0.10%) SOC 2
16 7 (0.089%) ISO 13485
17 6 (0.076%) GRC
18 5 (0.064%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 5 (0.064%) WCAG
System Software
1 1,397 (17.80%) Docker
2 306 (3.90%) Active Directory
3 182 (2.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 165 (2.10%) Virtual Machines
5 122 (1.55%) Hyper-V
6 68 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
7 38 (0.48%) Firmware
8 36 (0.46%) 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 11 (0.14%) IAG
13 11 (0.14%) KVM
14 10 (0.13%) pfSense
14 10 (0.13%) XenApp
15 9 (0.11%) HDFS
16 7 (0.089%) Xen
16 7 (0.089%) XenDesktop
17 6 (0.076%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 1,659 (21.13%) Kubernetes
2 1,597 (20.34%) Terraform
3 785 (10.00%) Ansible
4 259 (3.30%) Puppet
5 251 (3.20%) Prometheus
6 193 (2.46%) Grafana
7 157 (2.00%) Progress Chef
8 50 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
9 46 (0.59%) 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 31 (0.39%) HAProxy
14 28 (0.36%) Nagios
15 27 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
16 24 (0.31%) Consul
17 23 (0.29%) Istio
17 23 (0.29%) SCOM
18 22 (0.28%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1,741 (22.18%) Microsoft
2 459 (5.85%) Google
3 358 (4.56%) Red Hat
4 332 (4.23%) ESRI
5 312 (3.97%) IBM
6 252 (3.21%) Oracle
7 242 (3.08%) VMware
8 208 (2.65%) Databricks
9 130 (1.66%) ServiceNow
10 106 (1.35%) Cisco
11 105 (1.34%) Splunk
12 96 (1.22%) Dynatrace
13 84 (1.07%) SAP
14 82 (1.04%) Atlassian
15 68 (0.87%) Salesforce
16 63 (0.80%) Sitecore
17 62 (0.79%) Adobe
18 54 (0.69%) Citrix
19 40 (0.51%) WSO2
20 38 (0.48%) Informatica