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 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 28 15 12
Rank change year-on-year -13 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,326 7,007 10,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.14% 12.08% 13.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.67% 12.64% 14.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,371 3,874 6,029
10th Percentile £38,890 £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 61,416 55,447 69,258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.37% 95.57% 94.26%
Number of salaries quoted 42,187 28,710 41,237
10th Percentile £27,250 £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 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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 29 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 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
North of England -9 1,442 £60,000 -4.00% 282
South East -5 1,342 £61,500 -5.38% 205
North West -6 902 £62,500 -3.85% 158
South West -4 866 £60,750 -2.80% 137
Midlands -10 734 £58,000 +0.87% 173
Scotland -37 487 £69,000 +6.15% 73
West Midlands -9 477 £60,000 +4.35% 130
Yorkshire -5 447 £59,526 -2.70% 93
East Midlands -15 257 £57,500 -4.17% 43
East of England -26 223 £55,000 -15.38% 78
Wales -8 159 £52,500 +10.53% 28
North East -1 95 £60,000 +9.09% 31
Northern Ireland +5 73 £65,000 - 30
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 (5.33%) ArcGIS
1 284 (5.33%) GeoServer
2 167 (3.14%) Confluence
3 120 (2.25%) SharePoint
4 111 (2.08%) IIS
5 79 (1.48%) CMS
6 70 (1.31%) Umbraco
7 55 (1.03%) nginx
8 54 (1.01%) Apache
9 48 (0.90%) OpenStack
10 46 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
11 42 (0.79%) Headless CMS
11 42 (0.79%) Kentico
12 39 (0.73%) Sitecore CMS
13 37 (0.69%) Apache Spark
14 16 (0.30%) Jupyter
15 15 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
15 15 (0.28%) WordPress
16 14 (0.26%) JBoss
17 12 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 57 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 34 (0.64%) 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%) MicroStation
14 1 (0.019%) PTC Creo
14 1 (0.019%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 100 (1.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 36 (0.68%) Dynamics AX
3 26 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 11 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
5 10 (0.19%) 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 (0.038%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.038%) SystmOne
11 1 (0.019%) Dynamics GP
11 1 (0.019%) NEC Housing
11 1 (0.019%) Primavera
11 1 (0.019%) SDL Web 8
11 1 (0.019%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 3,146 (59.07%) Azure
2 1,964 (36.88%) AWS
3 1,532 (28.76%) Azure DevOps
4 531 (9.97%) GCP
5 381 (7.15%) SaaS
6 367 (6.89%) Power Platform
7 351 (6.59%) Serverless
8 243 (4.56%) GitHub
9 238 (4.47%) Microsoft 365
10 228 (4.28%) Dynamics 365
11 225 (4.22%) IBM Cloud
12 189 (3.55%) PaaS
13 179 (3.36%) Azure Service Bus
14 171 (3.21%) Amazon S3
14 171 (3.21%) Azure Functions
15 165 (3.10%) Azure Logic Apps
16 143 (2.68%) IaaS
17 135 (2.53%) PowerApps
18 134 (2.52%) Power Automate
19 133 (2.50%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 181 (3.40%) Firewall
2 155 (2.91%) DNS
3 77 (1.45%) DHCP
3 77 (1.45%) HTTP
3 77 (1.45%) TCP/IP
4 74 (1.39%) VPN
5 66 (1.24%) Network Security
6 50 (0.94%) WAN
7 32 (0.60%) 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%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 615 (11.55%) SQL Server
2 594 (11.15%) PostgreSQL
3 329 (6.18%) NoSQL
4 325 (6.10%) Relational Database
5 291 (5.46%) GIS
6 284 (5.33%) QGIS
7 251 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
8 250 (4.69%) MongoDB
9 242 (4.54%) Looker
10 232 (4.36%) BigQuery
11 214 (4.02%) Power BI
12 165 (3.10%) MySQL
13 125 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
13 125 (2.35%) DB2
14 100 (1.88%) Big Data
15 89 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
16 78 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
17 77 (1.45%) DynamoDB
18 67 (1.26%) Hadoop
19 65 (1.22%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 759 (14.25%) Git
2 454 (8.52%) Jenkins
3 451 (8.47%) JIRA
4 233 (4.37%) Visual Studio
5 207 (3.89%) GitLab
6 104 (1.95%) Bitbucket
7 102 (1.92%) Team Foundation Server
8 93 (1.75%) Selenium
9 77 (1.45%) Postman
10 61 (1.15%) JUnit
10 61 (1.15%) Sourcetree
11 60 (1.13%) Cypress.io
12 56 (1.05%) NUnit
13 52 (0.98%) Jasmine
13 52 (0.98%) TeamCity
14 51 (0.96%) Cucumber
15 47 (0.88%) SonarQube
16 45 (0.84%) Subversion
17 35 (0.66%) CircleCI
18 33 (0.62%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1,193 (22.40%) Social Skills
2 676 (12.69%) Finance
3 474 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
4 392 (7.36%) Public Sector
5 314 (5.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 288 (5.41%) Law
7 179 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
8 169 (3.17%) Retail
9 163 (3.06%) Banking
10 158 (2.97%) Aerospace
11 149 (2.80%) Marketing
12 122 (2.29%) Games
13 116 (2.18%) Legal
14 93 (1.75%) Billing
15 71 (1.33%) Manufacturing
16 59 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
17 56 (1.05%) Electronics
18 54 (1.01%) Automotive
19 50 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
19 50 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,420 (26.66%) Developer
2 1,101 (20.67%) Senior
3 713 (13.39%) Software Engineer
4 689 (12.94%) DevOps Engineer
5 541 (10.16%) Lead
6 410 (7.70%) Architect
7 370 (6.95%) Senior Developer
8 297 (5.58%) Senior Software Engineer
9 287 (5.39%) .NET Developer
10 282 (5.29%) Full Stack Developer
11 279 (5.24%) Data Engineer
12 265 (4.98%) Software Developer
13 217 (4.07%) Platform Engineer
14 184 (3.45%) Azure Developer
15 178 (3.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 173 (3.25%) Cloud Engineer
17 164 (3.08%) Principal Engineer
18 162 (3.04%) Azure Engineer
18 162 (3.04%) C# Developer
19 149 (2.80%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,414 (26.55%) .NET
2 938 (17.61%) React
3 795 (14.93%) CSS
4 624 (11.72%) .NET Core
5 586 (11.00%) HTML
6 518 (9.73%) AngularJS
7 467 (8.77%) ASP.NET
8 464 (8.71%) Node.js
9 374 (7.02%) .NET Framework
10 347 (6.52%) REST
11 306 (5.75%) Web Services
12 286 (5.37%) PostGIS
13 284 (5.33%) Leaflet
13 284 (5.33%) OpenLayers
14 276 (5.18%) Vue
15 260 (4.88%) RESTful
16 226 (4.24%) jQuery
17 210 (3.94%) Entity Framework
18 207 (3.89%) JSON
19 197 (3.70%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 340 (6.38%) Product Ownership
2 288 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 277 (5.20%) Self-Motivation
4 225 (4.22%) Blockchain
5 224 (4.21%) Public Cloud
6 212 (3.98%) Cloud Native
7 184 (3.45%) Data Structures
8 176 (3.30%) Algorithms
9 165 (3.10%) Management Information System
10 150 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
11 129 (2.42%) Data Centre
12 118 (2.22%) Private Cloud
13 103 (1.93%) Mobile App
14 97 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
15 92 (1.73%) IoT
16 91 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
17 90 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
18 72 (1.35%) Onboarding
19 68 (1.28%) e-Learning
19 68 (1.28%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 889 (16.69%) Linux
2 565 (10.61%) Windows
3 171 (3.21%) Android
4 161 (3.02%) Apple iOS
5 139 (2.61%) Windows Server
6 79 (1.48%) Ubuntu
7 75 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 67 (1.26%) CentOS
9 66 (1.24%) Debian
10 58 (1.09%) Unix
11 48 (0.90%) Alpine Linux
12 44 (0.83%) VMS
13 30 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
14 29 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
15 26 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
16 25 (0.47%) Windows 10
17 14 (0.26%) Mac OS X
18 11 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
19 10 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
20 7 (0.13%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,819 (52.93%) Agile
2 1,599 (30.02%) CI/CD
3 1,273 (23.90%) Software Engineering
4 1,093 (20.52%) Problem-Solving
5 818 (15.36%) Mentoring
6 751 (14.10%) Scrum
7 639 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 622 (11.68%) Actionable Insight
9 602 (11.30%) Web Development
10 570 (10.70%) Full Stack Development
11 555 (10.42%) Continuous Integration
12 554 (10.40%) Test Automation
13 516 (9.69%) Microservices
14 513 (9.63%) Containerisation
15 476 (8.94%) SDLC
16 471 (8.84%) Artificial Intelligence
17 456 (8.56%) Roadmaps
18 418 (7.85%) Design Patterns
19 413 (7.75%) MVC
20 409 (7.68%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1,427 (26.79%) C#
2 1,338 (25.12%) JavaScript
3 1,259 (23.64%) Python
4 1,048 (19.68%) SQL
5 752 (14.12%) Java
6 388 (7.29%) PowerShell
7 348 (6.53%) TypeScript
8 301 (5.65%) Bash
9 162 (3.04%) PHP
10 141 (2.65%) T-SQL
11 132 (2.48%) C
12 107 (2.01%) C++
13 106 (1.99%) Go
14 101 (1.90%) Bicep
15 72 (1.35%) VB.NET
16 69 (1.30%) Shell Script
17 63 (1.18%) Ruby
18 59 (1.11%) VB
19 48 (0.90%) Groovy
20 39 (0.73%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,120 (21.03%) Security Cleared
2 860 (16.15%) SC Cleared
3 839 (15.75%) Degree
4 289 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 214 (4.02%) DV Cleared
6 163 (3.06%) Azure Certification
7 126 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 117 (2.20%) AWS Certification
9 116 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
10 98 (1.84%) Master's Degree
11 51 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
12 45 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 43 (0.81%) MCSE
14 41 (0.77%) MCSA
15 38 (0.71%) DBS Check
15 38 (0.71%) PMI Certification
16 33 (0.62%) ISTQB
17 32 (0.60%) CISSP
18 29 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 29 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 435 (8.17%) QA
2 211 (3.96%) GDPR
3 106 (1.99%) 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 (0.53%) NIST
9 25 (0.47%) PCI DSS
10 22 (0.41%) SLA
11 18 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
12 15 (0.28%) NCSC
13 14 (0.26%) HIPAA
14 8 (0.15%) PSD2
15 7 (0.13%) ISO 13485
16 5 (0.094%) GRC
17 4 (0.075%) MISRA
17 4 (0.075%) SOC 2
18 2 (0.038%) ISO 22301
18 2 (0.038%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 881 (16.54%) Docker
2 168 (3.15%) Active Directory
3 131 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 124 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
5 108 (2.03%) Hyper-V
6 49 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (0.49%) Firmware
8 19 (0.36%) 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 (0.038%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1,018 (19.11%) Kubernetes
2 923 (17.33%) Terraform
3 516 (9.69%) Ansible
4 152 (2.85%) Puppet
5 135 (2.53%) Prometheus
6 128 (2.40%) Grafana
7 87 (1.63%) 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%) WSUS
16 16 (0.30%) FortiGate
16 16 (0.30%) HAProxy
17 12 (0.23%) CA Single Sign-On
17 12 (0.23%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,160 (21.78%) Microsoft
2 346 (6.50%) Google
3 295 (5.54%) Red Hat
4 285 (5.35%) ESRI
5 264 (4.96%) IBM
6 177 (3.32%) VMware
7 152 (2.85%) Oracle
8 100 (1.88%) Databricks
9 84 (1.58%) ServiceNow
10 73 (1.37%) Dynatrace
11 57 (1.07%) Atlassian
11 57 (1.07%) Splunk
12 53 (1.00%) Cisco
13 46 (0.86%) Sitecore
14 44 (0.83%) SAP
15 36 (0.68%) Optimizely
16 32 (0.60%) Informatica
17 31 (0.58%) Qualtrics
17 31 (0.58%) WSO2
18 30 (0.56%) Salesforce