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

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -12 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 6,763 11,539 21,825
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.56% 13.36% 15.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.99% 13.98% 16.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4,739 6,965 11,271
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 75,196 82,567 133,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.05% 95.58% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 54,702 49,145 73,289
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,452 £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 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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 29 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 29 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 2,111 £80,000 - 654
North of England -9 1,442 £60,000 -4.00% 277
South East -5 1,342 £61,500 -5.38% 202
North West -6 902 £62,500 -3.85% 156
South West -4 866 £60,750 -2.80% 137
Midlands -10 734 £58,000 +0.87% 174
West Midlands -9 477 £60,000 +4.35% 130
Yorkshire -5 447 £59,526 -2.70% 90
East Midlands -15 257 £57,500 -4.17% 44
East of England -26 223 £55,000 -15.38% 78
North East -1 95 £60,000 +9.09% 31
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
1 200 (2.96%) Confluence
2 196 (2.90%) ArcGIS
2 196 (2.90%) GeoServer
3 157 (2.32%) SharePoint
4 146 (2.16%) CMS
5 131 (1.94%) IIS
6 95 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
7 82 (1.21%) Apache
8 72 (1.06%) nginx
8 72 (1.06%) Umbraco
9 70 (1.04%) Apache Spark
10 66 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
11 54 (0.80%) OpenStack
12 46 (0.68%) Sitecore CMS
13 43 (0.64%) Headless CMS
13 43 (0.64%) Kentico
14 35 (0.52%) Drupal
15 28 (0.41%) WordPress
16 22 (0.33%) JBoss
17 17 (0.25%) Jupyter
Applications
1 72 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 72 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (0.62%) MS Visio
3 30 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (0.40%) Photoshop
5 24 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 18 (0.27%) Simulink
7 17 (0.25%) Trello
8 9 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
9 7 (0.10%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.059%) Sketch
11 3 (0.044%) Adobe Illustrator
11 3 (0.044%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.044%) S-PLUS
12 2 (0.030%) Notion
13 1 (0.015%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.015%) GNU Octave
13 1 (0.015%) MicroStation
13 1 (0.015%) Revit
13 1 (0.015%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 148 (2.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 47 (0.69%) Dynamics AX
3 30 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 18 (0.27%) SDL Web 8
5 14 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
6 11 (0.16%) Magento
6 11 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 9 (0.13%) Shopify
8 8 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
9 6 (0.089%) Temenos T24
10 5 (0.074%) Primavera
10 5 (0.074%) SAP S/4HANA
11 4 (0.059%) Elite 3E
11 4 (0.059%) Oracle EBS
11 4 (0.059%) Payment Gateway
11 4 (0.059%) Visualfiles
12 3 (0.044%) Endur
12 3 (0.044%) Maximo
12 3 (0.044%) Oracle Applications
12 3 (0.044%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3,929 (58.10%) Azure
2 2,562 (37.88%) AWS
3 2,033 (30.06%) Azure DevOps
4 698 (10.32%) GCP
5 590 (8.72%) Serverless
6 530 (7.84%) Power Platform
7 447 (6.61%) SaaS
8 367 (5.43%) GitHub
9 332 (4.91%) Dynamics 365
10 299 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
11 288 (4.26%) PaaS
12 272 (4.02%) Amazon S3
13 264 (3.90%) Azure Service Bus
14 247 (3.65%) Azure Functions
15 246 (3.64%) IBM Cloud
16 240 (3.55%) Azure Logic Apps
17 223 (3.30%) IaaS
18 217 (3.21%) AWS CloudFormation
19 215 (3.18%) AWS Lambda
20 205 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 256 (3.79%) Firewall
2 240 (3.55%) DNS
3 123 (1.82%) TCP/IP
4 110 (1.63%) Network Security
5 106 (1.57%) HTTP
6 95 (1.40%) DHCP
7 93 (1.38%) VPN
8 85 (1.26%) WAN
9 67 (0.99%) 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
1 863 (12.76%) SQL Server
2 608 (8.99%) PostgreSQL
3 376 (5.56%) NoSQL
4 364 (5.38%) Relational Database
5 299 (4.42%) Data Warehouse
6 294 (4.35%) Power BI
7 293 (4.33%) MongoDB
8 231 (3.42%) BigQuery
9 210 (3.11%) Amazon RDS
9 210 (3.11%) Looker
10 207 (3.06%) GIS
11 204 (3.02%) MySQL
12 196 (2.90%) QGIS
13 188 (2.78%) Big Data
14 174 (2.57%) Azure SQL Database
15 161 (2.38%) Data Lake
16 145 (2.14%) DB2
17 97 (1.43%) DynamoDB
18 85 (1.26%) Hadoop
19 84 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1,019 (15.07%) Git
2 683 (10.10%) Jenkins
3 545 (8.06%) JIRA
4 324 (4.79%) GitLab
5 276 (4.08%) Visual Studio
6 127 (1.88%) Bitbucket
7 122 (1.80%) Team Foundation Server
8 113 (1.67%) Selenium
9 97 (1.43%) TeamCity
10 92 (1.36%) Postman
11 79 (1.17%) Sourcetree
12 77 (1.14%) NUnit
12 77 (1.14%) Octopus Deploy
13 61 (0.90%) SonarQube
14 58 (0.86%) Subversion
15 54 (0.80%) JUnit
16 51 (0.75%) CircleCI
16 51 (0.75%) Cypress.io
16 51 (0.75%) Jasmine
17 50 (0.74%) Artifactory
General
1 1,522 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 1,084 (16.03%) Finance
3 625 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
4 518 (7.66%) Public Sector
5 288 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 253 (3.74%) Law
7 245 (3.62%) Banking
8 210 (3.11%) Retail
9 203 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
10 172 (2.54%) Marketing
11 160 (2.37%) Aerospace
12 141 (2.08%) Legal
13 119 (1.76%) Games
14 100 (1.48%) Manufacturing
15 96 (1.42%) Front Office
16 87 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
17 86 (1.27%) Billing
18 79 (1.17%) Telecoms
19 78 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
20 70 (1.04%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,814 (26.82%) Developer
2 1,398 (20.67%) Senior
3 1,012 (14.96%) DevOps Engineer
4 720 (10.65%) Lead
5 660 (9.76%) Software Engineer
6 579 (8.56%) Architect
7 444 (6.57%) Senior Developer
8 411 (6.08%) .NET Developer
9 364 (5.38%) Full Stack Developer
10 345 (5.10%) Data Engineer
11 300 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
12 286 (4.23%) Azure Engineer
13 279 (4.13%) Software Developer
14 270 (3.99%) Platform Engineer
15 264 (3.90%) Senior Software Engineer
16 249 (3.68%) Senior DevOps
17 243 (3.59%) C# Developer
18 237 (3.50%) Cloud Engineer
19 233 (3.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 222 (3.28%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,700 (25.14%) .NET
2 974 (14.40%) React
3 784 (11.59%) CSS
4 658 (9.73%) HTML
5 640 (9.46%) AngularJS
6 622 (9.20%) .NET Core
7 588 (8.69%) ASP.NET
8 502 (7.42%) Node.js
8 502 (7.42%) REST
9 454 (6.71%) .NET Framework
10 404 (5.97%) Web Services
11 378 (5.59%) RESTful
12 316 (4.67%) Vue
13 283 (4.18%) jQuery
14 276 (4.08%) JSON
15 261 (3.86%) XML
16 255 (3.77%) Entity Framework
17 226 (3.34%) Spring
18 215 (3.18%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 208 (3.08%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 382 (5.65%) Product Ownership
2 347 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 307 (4.54%) Cloud Native
4 298 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
5 271 (4.01%) Blockchain
6 243 (3.59%) Data Structures
6 243 (3.59%) Public Cloud
7 219 (3.24%) Management Information System
8 199 (2.94%) Algorithms
9 197 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
10 152 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
11 151 (2.23%) Data Centre
12 127 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
13 125 (1.85%) Hedge funds
14 116 (1.72%) Mobile App
15 104 (1.54%) Private Cloud
16 92 (1.36%) IoT
17 90 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
18 79 (1.17%) e-Learning
19 78 (1.15%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1,100 (16.26%) Linux
2 710 (10.50%) Windows
3 201 (2.97%) Android
4 195 (2.88%) Apple iOS
5 189 (2.79%) Windows Server
6 104 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 90 (1.33%) Unix
8 76 (1.12%) CentOS
9 71 (1.05%) Ubuntu
10 66 (0.98%) Debian
11 61 (0.90%) VMS
12 48 (0.71%) Alpine Linux
13 43 (0.64%) 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 3,283 (48.54%) Agile
2 2,195 (32.46%) CI/CD
3 1,441 (21.31%) Software Engineering
4 1,357 (20.07%) Problem-Solving
5 989 (14.62%) Infrastructure as Code
6 975 (14.42%) Scrum
7 939 (13.88%) Mentoring
8 768 (11.36%) Containerisation
9 758 (11.21%) Microservices
10 737 (10.90%) Test Automation
11 729 (10.78%) Full Stack Development
12 615 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
13 592 (8.75%) Artificial Intelligence
14 569 (8.41%) Roadmaps
15 554 (8.19%) Web Development
16 539 (7.97%) SDLC
17 536 (7.93%) Computer Science
18 502 (7.42%) Continuous Improvement
18 502 (7.42%) Design Patterns
19 483 (7.14%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 1,791 (26.48%) Python
2 1,748 (25.85%) C#
3 1,487 (21.99%) JavaScript
4 1,391 (20.57%) SQL
5 1,068 (15.79%) Java
6 617 (9.12%) PowerShell
7 458 (6.77%) TypeScript
8 438 (6.48%) Bash
9 254 (3.76%) Go
10 205 (3.03%) T-SQL
11 194 (2.87%) PHP
12 164 (2.42%) C
13 151 (2.23%) Bicep
14 139 (2.06%) C++
15 99 (1.46%) Ruby
16 84 (1.24%) Shell Script
17 74 (1.09%) VB.NET
18 68 (1.01%) Scala
19 60 (0.89%) Perl
20 58 (0.86%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,163 (17.20%) Security Cleared
2 972 (14.37%) Degree
3 863 (12.76%) SC Cleared
4 385 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 243 (3.59%) DV Cleared
6 236 (3.49%) Azure Certification
7 183 (2.71%) AWS Certification
8 155 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 130 (1.92%) 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
18 34 (0.50%) ISTQB
19 29 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 549 (8.12%) QA
2 225 (3.33%) GDPR
3 139 (2.06%) Data Quality
4 89 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 77 (1.14%) Accessibility
6 50 (0.74%) NIST
7 44 (0.65%) PMO
8 43 (0.64%) PCI DSS
9 39 (0.58%) SLA
10 24 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 18 (0.27%) HIPAA
12 13 (0.19%) 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
16 5 (0.074%) SOC 2
17 3 (0.044%) EMIR
17 3 (0.044%) SEPA
System Software
1 1,281 (18.94%) Docker
2 272 (4.02%) Active Directory
3 164 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 162 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
5 119 (1.76%) Hyper-V
6 65 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
7 38 (0.56%) Firmware
8 35 (0.52%) 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 1,526 (22.56%) Kubernetes
2 1,440 (21.29%) Terraform
3 692 (10.23%) Ansible
4 256 (3.79%) Puppet
5 240 (3.55%) Prometheus
6 158 (2.34%) Grafana
7 144 (2.13%) Progress Chef
8 46 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
9 45 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 40 (0.59%) ZABBIX
11 38 (0.56%) Packer
11 38 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
12 34 (0.50%) Kibana
13 30 (0.44%) 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 1,558 (23.04%) Microsoft
2 394 (5.83%) Google
3 357 (5.28%) Red Hat
4 278 (4.11%) IBM
5 220 (3.25%) VMware
6 205 (3.03%) Oracle
7 198 (2.93%) ESRI
8 184 (2.72%) Databricks
9 98 (1.45%) ServiceNow
10 84 (1.24%) Cisco
11 80 (1.18%) Dynatrace
12 76 (1.12%) Splunk
13 70 (1.04%) SAP
14 64 (0.95%) Atlassian
15 63 (0.93%) Adobe
16 62 (0.92%) Sitecore
17 52 (0.77%) Salesforce
18 50 (0.74%) Citrix
19 38 (0.56%) Informatica
20 37 (0.55%) WSO2