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

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -11 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 7,757 13,827 25,413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.82% 13.87% 15.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.15% 14.51% 16.60%
Number of salaries quoted 5,300 8,045 12,884
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 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +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 84,815 95,319 153,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.51% 95.59% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 59,706 56,021 82,390
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,645
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 15 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 15 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 6,676 £65,000 -7.14% 1,574
UK excluding London -14 5,252 £60,000 -2.44% 1,011
Work from Home -8 3,325 £65,000 -7.14% 994
London -5 2,111 £80,000 - 626
North of England -11 1,403 £60,000 -2.44% 287
South East -5 1,314 £61,500 -5.38% 208
North West -7 873 £62,783 -3.41% 179
South West -3 868 £61,500 -1.60% 158
Midlands -9 719 £58,500 +1.74% 180
Scotland -38 494 £69,000 +6.15% 64
West Midlands -9 470 £60,000 +4.35% 119
Yorkshire -7 437 £59,763 -2.32% 83
East Midlands -11 248 £57,500 - 60
East of England -29 223 £56,250 -13.46% 63
Wales -3 161 £52,500 +5.00% 39
North East -1 95 £58,000 +5.45% 25
Northern Ireland +1 70 £63,750 +6.25% 30
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 (4.25%) ArcGIS
1 330 (4.25%) GeoServer
2 238 (3.07%) Confluence
3 186 (2.40%) SharePoint
4 150 (1.93%) CMS
5 134 (1.73%) IIS
6 95 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
7 88 (1.13%) Apache
8 83 (1.07%) nginx
9 82 (1.06%) Apache Spark
10 81 (1.04%) Umbraco
11 73 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
12 57 (0.73%) OpenStack
13 48 (0.62%) Sitecore CMS
14 43 (0.55%) Headless CMS
14 43 (0.55%) Kentico
15 35 (0.45%) WebSphere
16 33 (0.43%) Drupal
17 31 (0.40%) WordPress
18 28 (0.36%) Captiva
Applications
1 85 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 75 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
3 50 (0.64%) MS Visio
4 32 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
4 32 (0.41%) UserZoom
5 26 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 24 (0.31%) Photoshop
7 18 (0.23%) Trello
8 15 (0.19%) Simulink
8 15 (0.19%) Sketch
9 9 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
10 5 (0.064%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.039%) Adobe Illustrator
11 3 (0.039%) S-PLUS
12 2 (0.026%) Notion
13 1 (0.013%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.013%) Chatbot
13 1 (0.013%) MicroStation
13 1 (0.013%) Revit
13 1 (0.013%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 172 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 53 (0.68%) Dynamics AX
3 36 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 16 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
5 15 (0.19%) 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 (0.077%) Maximo
9 6 (0.077%) Temenos T24
10 5 (0.064%) Primavera
10 5 (0.064%) SAP S/4HANA
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%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 4,529 (58.39%) Azure
2 2,911 (37.53%) AWS
3 2,268 (29.24%) Azure DevOps
4 855 (11.02%) GCP
5 703 (9.06%) Serverless
6 608 (7.84%) Power Platform
7 527 (6.79%) SaaS
8 458 (5.90%) GitHub
9 387 (4.99%) Dynamics 365
10 367 (4.73%) PaaS
11 353 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
12 289 (3.73%) Amazon S3
13 285 (3.67%) IaaS
14 282 (3.64%) Azure Service Bus
15 271 (3.49%) Azure Logic Apps
16 268 (3.45%) Azure Functions
17 251 (3.24%) IBM Cloud
18 238 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
19 234 (3.02%) PowerApps
20 228 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 291 (3.75%) Firewall
2 245 (3.16%) DNS
3 129 (1.66%) TCP/IP
4 124 (1.60%) VPN
5 123 (1.59%) Network Security
6 103 (1.33%) HTTP
6 103 (1.33%) WAN
7 90 (1.16%) DHCP
8 71 (0.92%) LAN
9 49 (0.63%) Internet
10 33 (0.43%) SD-WAN
11 31 (0.40%) SSL
12 20 (0.26%) SNMP
12 20 (0.26%) Unified Communications
13 19 (0.24%) BGP
13 19 (0.24%) SAN
14 18 (0.23%) HTTPS
15 16 (0.21%) IPv4
15 16 (0.21%) MQTT
16 15 (0.19%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 939 (12.11%) SQL Server
2 721 (9.29%) PostgreSQL
3 434 (5.59%) NoSQL
4 431 (5.56%) Relational Database
5 342 (4.41%) GIS
6 332 (4.28%) Data Warehouse
7 330 (4.25%) QGIS
8 327 (4.22%) MongoDB
9 317 (4.09%) Power BI
10 259 (3.34%) BigQuery
11 255 (3.29%) Looker
12 228 (2.94%) MySQL
13 212 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
14 205 (2.64%) Big Data
15 190 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
16 168 (2.17%) Data Lake
17 145 (1.87%) DB2
18 114 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
19 93 (1.20%) DynamoDB
20 92 (1.19%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1,131 (14.58%) Git
2 795 (10.25%) Jenkins
3 637 (8.21%) JIRA
4 334 (4.31%) GitLab
5 301 (3.88%) Visual Studio
6 138 (1.78%) Bitbucket
6 138 (1.78%) Selenium
7 137 (1.77%) Team Foundation Server
8 119 (1.53%) Postman
9 98 (1.26%) TeamCity
10 83 (1.07%) Cypress.io
11 76 (0.98%) Sourcetree
12 75 (0.97%) NUnit
13 74 (0.95%) Cucumber
13 74 (0.95%) JUnit
13 74 (0.95%) Octopus Deploy
14 62 (0.80%) Subversion
15 58 (0.75%) CircleCI
16 57 (0.73%) Artifactory
17 54 (0.70%) SonarQube
General
1 1,732 (22.33%) Social Skills
2 1,396 (18.00%) Finance
3 707 (9.11%) Analytical Skills
4 538 (6.94%) Public Sector
5 469 (6.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 395 (5.09%) Law
7 375 (4.83%) Banking
8 273 (3.52%) Marketing
9 226 (2.91%) Retail
10 223 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
11 173 (2.23%) Legal
12 156 (2.01%) Aerospace
13 129 (1.66%) Games
14 105 (1.35%) Front Office
15 99 (1.28%) Manufacturing
16 95 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
17 84 (1.08%) Billing
18 78 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
18 78 (1.01%) Telecoms
19 67 (0.86%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 2,034 (26.22%) Developer
2 1,657 (21.36%) Senior
3 1,102 (14.21%) DevOps Engineer
4 931 (12.00%) Software Engineer
5 873 (11.25%) Lead
6 645 (8.32%) Architect
7 516 (6.65%) Senior Developer
8 411 (5.30%) .NET Developer
9 400 (5.16%) Data Engineer
10 384 (4.95%) Full Stack Developer
11 351 (4.52%) Senior Software Engineer
12 321 (4.14%) AWS Engineer
13 314 (4.05%) Azure Engineer
14 307 (3.96%) Software Developer
15 297 (3.83%) Platform Engineer
16 286 (3.69%) Senior DevOps
17 274 (3.53%) Cloud Engineer
18 266 (3.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 235 (3.03%) C# Developer
20 228 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,984 (25.58%) .NET
2 1,229 (15.84%) React
3 1,002 (12.92%) CSS
4 798 (10.29%) .NET Core
5 767 (9.89%) HTML
6 693 (8.93%) AngularJS
7 624 (8.04%) ASP.NET
8 612 (7.89%) Node.js
9 519 (6.69%) REST
10 470 (6.06%) .NET Framework
11 426 (5.49%) Web Services
12 408 (5.26%) RESTful
13 355 (4.58%) Vue
14 337 (4.34%) PostGIS
15 334 (4.31%) JSON
16 330 (4.25%) Leaflet
16 330 (4.25%) OpenLayers
17 287 (3.70%) Spring
18 273 (3.52%) jQuery
19 272 (3.51%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 446 (5.75%) Product Ownership
2 356 (4.59%) Hybrid Cloud
3 326 (4.20%) Cloud Native
4 324 (4.18%) Self-Motivation
5 321 (4.14%) Public Cloud
6 276 (3.56%) Blockchain
7 255 (3.29%) Data Structures
8 251 (3.24%) Management Information System
9 211 (2.72%) Algorithms
10 193 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
11 181 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
12 166 (2.14%) Data Centre
13 165 (2.13%) Private Cloud
14 152 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
15 134 (1.73%) Mobile App
16 125 (1.61%) Hedge funds
17 114 (1.47%) Onboarding
18 110 (1.42%) IoT
19 109 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
20 77 (0.99%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 1,277 (16.46%) Linux
2 769 (9.91%) Windows
3 216 (2.78%) Android
4 211 (2.72%) Windows Server
5 204 (2.63%) Apple iOS
6 149 (1.92%) Unix
7 101 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 91 (1.17%) Ubuntu
9 85 (1.10%) CentOS
10 64 (0.83%) VMS
11 63 (0.81%) Debian
12 46 (0.59%) 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%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,946 (50.87%) Agile
2 2,522 (32.51%) CI/CD
3 1,827 (23.55%) Software Engineering
4 1,542 (19.88%) Problem-Solving
5 1,120 (14.44%) Scrum
6 1,091 (14.06%) Mentoring
7 1,090 (14.05%) Infrastructure as Code
8 883 (11.38%) Microservices
9 840 (10.83%) Test Automation
10 830 (10.70%) Containerisation
11 821 (10.58%) Full Stack Development
12 756 (9.75%) Continuous Integration
13 755 (9.73%) Actionable Insight
14 698 (9.00%) Web Development
15 655 (8.44%) Roadmaps
16 650 (8.38%) Artificial Intelligence
17 649 (8.37%) SDLC
18 585 (7.54%) Continuous Improvement
19 567 (7.31%) TDD
20 554 (7.14%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 2,078 (26.79%) Python
2 2,013 (25.95%) C#
3 1,809 (23.32%) JavaScript
4 1,654 (21.32%) SQL
5 1,259 (16.23%) Java
6 644 (8.30%) PowerShell
7 497 (6.41%) Bash
8 491 (6.33%) TypeScript
9 321 (4.14%) Go
10 215 (2.77%) PHP
11 209 (2.69%) T-SQL
12 169 (2.18%) C
13 155 (2.00%) C++
14 152 (1.96%) Bicep
15 150 (1.93%) Ruby
16 113 (1.46%) Shell Script
17 96 (1.24%) Perl
18 80 (1.03%) VB.NET
19 70 (0.90%) Groovy
20 64 (0.83%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,372 (17.69%) Security Cleared
2 1,107 (14.27%) Degree
3 1,066 (13.74%) SC Cleared
4 397 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 243 (3.13%) Azure Certification
6 215 (2.77%) DV Cleared
7 178 (2.29%) AWS Certification
8 170 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
9 169 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
10 129 (1.66%) Master's Degree
11 63 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 58 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
13 52 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
13 52 (0.67%) CISSP
14 47 (0.61%) DBS Check
14 47 (0.61%) PMI Certification
15 45 (0.58%) MCSE
16 43 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 41 (0.53%) MCSA
18 39 (0.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 641 (8.26%) QA
2 277 (3.57%) GDPR
3 151 (1.95%) Data Quality
4 100 (1.29%) Accessibility
5 90 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 72 (0.93%) PMO
7 48 (0.62%) NIST
8 41 (0.53%) PCI DSS
9 39 (0.50%) 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 (0.090%) ISO 13485
16 7 (0.090%) SOC 2
17 6 (0.077%) GRC
18 5 (0.064%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 5 (0.064%) WCAG
System Software
1 1,392 (17.95%) Docker
2 311 (4.01%) Active Directory
3 179 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 160 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
5 122 (1.57%) Hyper-V
6 63 (0.81%) 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 (0.077%) DFS Replication
15 6 (0.077%) VirtualBox
16 5 (0.064%) Xen
16 5 (0.064%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1,626 (20.96%) Kubernetes
2 1,572 (20.27%) Terraform
3 760 (9.80%) Ansible
4 260 (3.35%) Puppet
5 242 (3.12%) Prometheus
6 188 (2.42%) Grafana
7 158 (2.04%) Progress Chef
8 47 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
9 46 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 44 (0.57%) Kibana
11 40 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
12 38 (0.49%) Packer
12 38 (0.49%) ZABBIX
13 31 (0.40%) HAProxy
14 28 (0.36%) Nagios
15 27 (0.35%) Istio
16 26 (0.34%) Consul
16 26 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
17 20 (0.26%) SCOM
18 19 (0.24%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1,751 (22.57%) Microsoft
2 477 (6.15%) Google
3 347 (4.47%) Red Hat
4 341 (4.40%) IBM
5 332 (4.28%) ESRI
6 290 (3.74%) Oracle
7 242 (3.12%) VMware
8 212 (2.73%) Databricks
9 136 (1.75%) ServiceNow
10 106 (1.37%) SAP
11 105 (1.35%) Splunk
12 102 (1.31%) Cisco
13 98 (1.26%) Dynatrace
14 80 (1.03%) Atlassian
15 65 (0.84%) Salesforce
16 64 (0.83%) Sitecore
17 62 (0.80%) Adobe
18 57 (0.73%) Citrix
19 41 (0.53%) WSO2
20 39 (0.50%) Informatica