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

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 15 12
Rank change year-on-year -13 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,236 7,419 9,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.38% 12.31% 13.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.78% 12.87% 14.76%
Number of salaries quoted 3,394 3,990 6,137
10th Percentile £38,792 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +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 59,635 57,626 66,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.05% 95.63% 94.05%
Number of salaries quoted 41,208 29,573 41,244
10th Percentile £27,117 £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 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 8 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 8 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 -11 1,377 £60,000 -2.18% 276
South East -5 1,308 £61,500 -5.38% 226
South West -2 881 £61,500 -1.60% 167
North West -6 853 £62,500 - 171
Midlands -10 723 £57,500 - 189
Scotland -38 491 £69,000 +3.60% 72
West Midlands -8 471 £60,000 +4.35% 125
Yorkshire -7 430 £60,000 -2.44% 85
East Midlands -8 252 £57,500 +4.55% 63
East of England -27 229 £57,500 -11.54% 73
Wales -4 161 £52,500 +5.00% 35
North East -6 96 £57,750 +5.00% 20
Northern Ireland +3 68 £63,750 +6.25% 36
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 (5.42%) ArcGIS
1 284 (5.42%) GeoServer
2 169 (3.23%) Confluence
3 134 (2.56%) SharePoint
4 112 (2.14%) IIS
5 78 (1.49%) CMS
6 69 (1.32%) Umbraco
7 59 (1.13%) nginx
8 53 (1.01%) Apache
9 52 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
10 51 (0.97%) OpenStack
11 41 (0.78%) Apache Spark
11 41 (0.78%) Headless CMS
11 41 (0.78%) Kentico
12 39 (0.74%) Sitecore CMS
13 28 (0.53%) WebSphere
14 22 (0.42%) Captiva
14 22 (0.42%) FileNet
15 17 (0.32%) Jupyter
16 15 (0.29%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 56 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 36 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 32 (0.61%) UserZoom
5 30 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
6 22 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 15 (0.29%) Sketch
8 14 (0.27%) Trello
9 13 (0.25%) Simulink
10 10 (0.19%) Photoshop
11 7 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
12 5 (0.095%) Adobe XD
13 3 (0.057%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.038%) S-PLUS
15 1 (0.019%) AutoCAD
15 1 (0.019%) Chatbot
15 1 (0.019%) GNU Octave
15 1 (0.019%) MicroStation
15 1 (0.019%) PTC Creo
15 1 (0.019%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 103 (1.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 36 (0.69%) Dynamics AX
3 29 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 11 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
5 8 (0.15%) Magento
5 8 (0.15%) Shopify
6 7 (0.13%) Maximo
6 7 (0.13%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.076%) Elite 3E
7 4 (0.076%) SAP S/4HANA
7 4 (0.076%) Visualfiles
8 3 (0.057%) Oracle Applications
8 3 (0.057%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.038%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.038%) SAP FI-GL
9 2 (0.038%) SystmOne
10 1 (0.019%) Dynamics GP
10 1 (0.019%) Infor M3
10 1 (0.019%) NEC Housing
10 1 (0.019%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3,085 (58.92%) Azure
2 1,861 (35.54%) AWS
3 1,547 (29.55%) Azure DevOps
4 556 (10.62%) GCP
5 379 (7.24%) SaaS
6 378 (7.22%) Serverless
7 353 (6.74%) Power Platform
8 262 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
9 255 (4.87%) GitHub
10 234 (4.47%) Dynamics 365
11 228 (4.35%) IBM Cloud
12 198 (3.78%) PaaS
13 179 (3.42%) Azure Service Bus
14 173 (3.30%) Azure Functions
15 170 (3.25%) Amazon S3
16 163 (3.11%) Azure Logic Apps
17 148 (2.83%) IaaS
18 136 (2.60%) PowerApps
19 135 (2.58%) Azure API Management
19 135 (2.58%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 178 (3.40%) Firewall
2 150 (2.86%) DNS
3 80 (1.53%) TCP/IP
4 79 (1.51%) VPN
5 76 (1.45%) DHCP
5 76 (1.45%) HTTP
6 63 (1.20%) Network Security
7 49 (0.94%) WAN
8 32 (0.61%) LAN
9 20 (0.38%) Internet
10 19 (0.36%) SD-WAN
10 19 (0.36%) Unified Communications
11 15 (0.29%) MQTT
11 15 (0.29%) SSL
12 11 (0.21%) 5G
12 11 (0.21%) Intranet
13 10 (0.19%) BGP
13 10 (0.19%) NGFW
14 9 (0.17%) SAN
14 9 (0.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 622 (11.88%) SQL Server
2 559 (10.68%) PostgreSQL
3 342 (6.53%) Relational Database
4 309 (5.90%) NoSQL
5 293 (5.60%) GIS
6 284 (5.42%) QGIS
7 243 (4.64%) Looker
8 241 (4.60%) MongoDB
9 238 (4.55%) BigQuery
10 233 (4.45%) Data Warehouse
11 197 (3.76%) Power BI
12 165 (3.15%) MySQL
13 125 (2.39%) DB2
14 119 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
15 99 (1.89%) Big Data
16 90 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
17 86 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
18 64 (1.22%) RDBMS
19 59 (1.13%) Hadoop
20 55 (1.05%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 790 (15.09%) Git
2 484 (9.24%) Jenkins
3 461 (8.80%) JIRA
4 224 (4.28%) Visual Studio
5 215 (4.11%) GitLab
6 104 (1.99%) Team Foundation Server
7 103 (1.97%) Selenium
8 102 (1.95%) Bitbucket
9 81 (1.55%) Postman
10 68 (1.30%) Cypress.io
11 61 (1.17%) JUnit
11 61 (1.17%) Sourcetree
12 56 (1.07%) Cucumber
13 52 (0.99%) Jasmine
14 50 (0.95%) NUnit
14 50 (0.95%) TeamCity
15 47 (0.90%) Subversion
16 43 (0.82%) SonarQube
17 38 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
18 34 (0.65%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 1,088 (20.78%) Social Skills
2 727 (13.88%) Finance
3 486 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
4 377 (7.20%) Public Sector
5 324 (6.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 288 (5.50%) Law
7 222 (4.24%) Banking
8 172 (3.28%) Retail
9 164 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
10 149 (2.85%) Marketing
11 136 (2.60%) Aerospace
12 124 (2.37%) Legal
13 122 (2.33%) Games
14 75 (1.43%) Billing
15 67 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
16 66 (1.26%) Manufacturing
17 50 (0.95%) Automotive
18 49 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
19 46 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
20 44 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,382 (26.39%) Developer
2 1,069 (20.42%) Senior
3 730 (13.94%) Software Engineer
4 684 (13.06%) DevOps Engineer
5 534 (10.20%) Lead
6 355 (6.78%) Architect
7 347 (6.63%) Senior Developer
8 286 (5.46%) Data Engineer
9 281 (5.37%) Senior Software Engineer
10 268 (5.12%) Full Stack Developer
11 265 (5.06%) .NET Developer
12 252 (4.81%) Software Developer
13 215 (4.11%) Platform Engineer
14 177 (3.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 176 (3.36%) Azure Engineer
16 167 (3.19%) Cloud Engineer
17 165 (3.15%) Principal Engineer
18 163 (3.11%) Azure Developer
19 149 (2.85%) Principal Data Engineer
20 148 (2.83%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,398 (26.70%) .NET
2 955 (18.24%) React
3 782 (14.94%) CSS
4 619 (11.82%) .NET Core
5 576 (11.00%) HTML
6 525 (10.03%) AngularJS
7 466 (8.90%) ASP.NET
8 462 (8.82%) Node.js
9 356 (6.80%) .NET Framework
10 329 (6.28%) REST
11 288 (5.50%) Web Services
12 287 (5.48%) PostGIS
13 284 (5.42%) Leaflet
13 284 (5.42%) OpenLayers
14 266 (5.08%) RESTful
14 266 (5.08%) Vue
15 226 (4.32%) JSON
16 221 (4.22%) jQuery
17 207 (3.95%) Spring
18 197 (3.76%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 336 (6.42%) Product Ownership
2 290 (5.54%) Hybrid Cloud
3 271 (5.18%) Self-Motivation
4 256 (4.89%) Public Cloud
5 226 (4.32%) Blockchain
6 216 (4.13%) Cloud Native
7 182 (3.48%) Data Structures
8 175 (3.34%) Algorithms
9 158 (3.02%) Management Information System
10 144 (2.75%) Private Cloud
11 141 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
12 125 (2.39%) Data Centre
13 99 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
14 98 (1.87%) Mobile App
15 92 (1.76%) IoT
16 89 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
17 74 (1.41%) Low-Code
18 71 (1.36%) Onboarding
19 66 (1.26%) e-Learning
20 60 (1.15%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 936 (17.88%) Linux
2 586 (11.19%) Windows
3 172 (3.28%) Android
4 163 (3.11%) Apple iOS
5 137 (2.62%) Windows Server
6 81 (1.55%) Unix
7 79 (1.51%) Ubuntu
8 74 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 71 (1.36%) CentOS
10 64 (1.22%) Debian
11 46 (0.88%) Alpine Linux
12 42 (0.80%) VMS
13 28 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
14 26 (0.50%) Windows 10
15 23 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
15 23 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
16 14 (0.27%) Mac OS X
17 13 (0.25%) CoreOS
18 10 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
19 7 (0.13%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,777 (53.04%) Agile
2 1,570 (29.98%) CI/CD
3 1,289 (24.62%) Software Engineering
4 1,085 (20.72%) Problem-Solving
5 792 (15.13%) Mentoring
6 761 (14.53%) Scrum
7 670 (12.80%) Actionable Insight
8 656 (12.53%) Infrastructure as Code
9 607 (11.59%) Web Development
10 564 (10.77%) Continuous Integration
11 554 (10.58%) Full Stack Development
12 544 (10.39%) Microservices
13 543 (10.37%) Test Automation
14 541 (10.33%) Containerisation
15 479 (9.15%) SDLC
16 451 (8.61%) Roadmaps
17 446 (8.52%) Artificial Intelligence
18 437 (8.35%) Design Patterns
19 418 (7.98%) MVC
20 387 (7.39%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1,408 (26.89%) C#
2 1,347 (25.73%) JavaScript
3 1,256 (23.99%) Python
4 1,076 (20.55%) SQL
5 771 (14.72%) Java
6 396 (7.56%) PowerShell
7 338 (6.46%) Bash
8 337 (6.44%) TypeScript
9 164 (3.13%) PHP
10 140 (2.67%) T-SQL
11 125 (2.39%) Go
12 121 (2.31%) C
13 99 (1.89%) C++
14 92 (1.76%) Bicep
15 85 (1.62%) Ruby
16 72 (1.38%) VB.NET
17 70 (1.34%) Shell Script
18 56 (1.07%) Groovy
18 56 (1.07%) Perl
18 56 (1.07%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,097 (20.95%) Security Cleared
2 831 (15.87%) SC Cleared
3 808 (15.43%) Degree
4 255 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 191 (3.65%) DV Cleared
6 152 (2.90%) Azure Certification
7 131 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 117 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 109 (2.08%) AWS Certification
10 94 (1.80%) Master's Degree
11 56 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
12 46 (0.88%) MCSE
13 45 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 41 (0.78%) MCSA
15 37 (0.71%) PMI Certification
16 35 (0.67%) DBS Check
17 34 (0.65%) ISTQB
18 32 (0.61%) CISSP
19 31 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
20 29 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 445 (8.50%) QA
2 227 (4.34%) GDPR
3 98 (1.87%) Data Quality
4 63 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 62 (1.18%) PMO
6 41 (0.78%) Accessibility
7 33 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
8 25 (0.48%) NIST
9 22 (0.42%) SLA
10 21 (0.40%) PCI DSS
11 15 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.27%) HIPAA
12 14 (0.27%) NCSC
13 8 (0.15%) PSD2
14 7 (0.13%) ISO 13485
15 5 (0.095%) GRC
16 4 (0.076%) MISRA
16 4 (0.076%) SOC 2
17 2 (0.038%) HL7
17 2 (0.038%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 894 (17.07%) Docker
2 166 (3.17%) Active Directory
3 135 (2.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 117 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
5 110 (2.10%) Hyper-V
6 43 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (0.50%) Firmware
8 24 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
9 18 (0.34%) vSphere
10 13 (0.25%) 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 (0.076%) VMware Server
14 4 (0.076%) Xen
15 3 (0.057%) VirtualBox
15 3 (0.057%) XenApp
16 2 (0.038%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,003 (19.16%) Kubernetes
2 928 (17.72%) Terraform
3 512 (9.78%) Ansible
4 153 (2.92%) Puppet
5 145 (2.77%) Prometheus
6 135 (2.58%) Grafana
7 89 (1.70%) Progress Chef
8 35 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
9 31 (0.59%) ZABBIX
10 26 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
11 25 (0.48%) Kibana
12 21 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
13 20 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 20 (0.38%) SCOM
14 19 (0.36%) SCCM
15 18 (0.34%) Rancher
16 17 (0.32%) HAProxy
17 16 (0.31%) FortiGate
18 14 (0.27%) WSUS
19 13 (0.25%) Consul
Vendors
1 1,165 (22.25%) Microsoft
2 375 (7.16%) Google
3 295 (5.63%) IBM
4 289 (5.52%) Red Hat
5 285 (5.44%) ESRI
6 189 (3.61%) VMware
7 188 (3.59%) Oracle
8 99 (1.89%) Databricks
9 87 (1.66%) ServiceNow
10 73 (1.39%) Dynatrace
11 60 (1.15%) SAP
12 55 (1.05%) Splunk
13 51 (0.97%) Atlassian
14 49 (0.94%) Cisco
15 46 (0.88%) Sitecore
16 37 (0.71%) Citrix
17 35 (0.67%) Optimizely
17 35 (0.67%) WSO2
18 33 (0.63%) Adobe
19 32 (0.61%) Qualtrics