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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -10 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 7,789 14,379 24,801
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.90% 13.85% 15.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.20% 14.49% 16.62%
Number of salaries quoted 5,350 8,377 13,110
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £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 £88,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +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 84,683 99,249 149,267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.94% 95.61% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,831 58,284 83,142
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,182 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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 2 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 2 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 6,709 £65,000 -7.14% 1,638
UK excluding London -13 5,247 £60,000 -3.23% 1,046
Work from Home -9 3,330 £65,000 -7.14% 887
London -6 2,135 £80,000 - 649
North of England -11 1,372 £60,000 -2.44% 287
South East -4 1,323 £61,500 -5.38% 221
South West -2 877 £61,500 -1.60% 156
North West -5 847 £62,500 - 188
Midlands -9 727 £58,500 +1.74% 191
Scotland -41 491 £69,000 +4.86% 75
West Midlands -10 473 £60,000 - 122
Yorkshire -7 430 £60,000 -4.00% 81
East Midlands -11 256 £57,500 +4.55% 66
East of England -22 236 £57,500 -11.54% 76
Wales -3 161 £52,500 +2.73% 32
North East -9 97 £57,500 +4.55% 19
Northern Ireland +2 67 £63,750 +6.25% 29
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 (4.24%) ArcGIS
1 330 (4.24%) GeoServer
2 245 (3.15%) Confluence
3 196 (2.52%) SharePoint
4 151 (1.94%) CMS
5 132 (1.69%) IIS
6 99 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
7 87 (1.12%) Apache
8 85 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
9 84 (1.08%) nginx
10 82 (1.05%) Apache Spark
11 79 (1.01%) Umbraco
12 58 (0.74%) OpenStack
13 47 (0.60%) Sitecore CMS
14 42 (0.54%) Headless CMS
14 42 (0.54%) Kentico
15 35 (0.45%) Drupal
16 34 (0.44%) WebSphere
17 33 (0.42%) WordPress
18 28 (0.36%) Captiva
Applications
1 84 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 73 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
3 48 (0.62%) MS Visio
4 32 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
4 32 (0.41%) UserZoom
5 26 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 23 (0.30%) Photoshop
7 18 (0.23%) Trello
8 15 (0.19%) Sketch
9 13 (0.17%) Simulink
10 9 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
11 5 (0.064%) Adobe XD
12 3 (0.039%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.026%) Notion
13 2 (0.026%) S-PLUS
14 1 (0.013%) AutoCAD
14 1 (0.013%) Chatbot
14 1 (0.013%) InVision
14 1 (0.013%) MicroStation
14 1 (0.013%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 177 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 53 (0.68%) Dynamics AX
3 36 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 16 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
5 14 (0.18%) SDL Web 8
6 11 (0.14%) Magento
6 11 (0.14%) NetSuite
7 8 (0.10%) Maximo
7 8 (0.10%) Shopify
8 5 (0.064%) Primavera
8 5 (0.064%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.064%) SAP S/4HANA
8 5 (0.064%) Temenos T24
9 4 (0.051%) Elite 3E
9 4 (0.051%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.051%) Visualfiles
10 3 (0.039%) Dynamics GP
10 3 (0.039%) Oracle Applications
10 3 (0.039%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.039%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 4,537 (58.25%) Azure
2 2,884 (37.03%) AWS
3 2,322 (29.81%) Azure DevOps
4 865 (11.11%) GCP
5 716 (9.19%) Serverless
6 619 (7.95%) Power Platform
7 526 (6.75%) SaaS
8 459 (5.89%) GitHub
9 395 (5.07%) Dynamics 365
10 378 (4.85%) PaaS
11 369 (4.74%) Microsoft 365
12 294 (3.77%) Amazon S3
12 294 (3.77%) IaaS
13 281 (3.61%) Azure Service Bus
14 269 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
15 264 (3.39%) Azure Functions
16 248 (3.18%) AWS CloudFormation
17 245 (3.15%) AWS Lambda
17 245 (3.15%) IBM Cloud
18 234 (3.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 286 (3.67%) Firewall
2 250 (3.21%) DNS
3 134 (1.72%) TCP/IP
4 129 (1.66%) VPN
5 122 (1.57%) Network Security
6 107 (1.37%) HTTP
7 102 (1.31%) WAN
8 94 (1.21%) DHCP
9 71 (0.91%) LAN
10 50 (0.64%) Internet
11 33 (0.42%) SD-WAN
12 30 (0.39%) SSL
13 20 (0.26%) BGP
13 20 (0.26%) SAN
13 20 (0.26%) SNMP
13 20 (0.26%) Unified Communications
14 18 (0.23%) HTTPS
15 16 (0.21%) IPv4
15 16 (0.21%) MQTT
16 15 (0.19%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 950 (12.20%) SQL Server
2 717 (9.21%) PostgreSQL
3 427 (5.48%) NoSQL
4 425 (5.46%) Relational Database
5 344 (4.42%) GIS
6 330 (4.24%) Data Warehouse
6 330 (4.24%) QGIS
7 328 (4.21%) MongoDB
8 324 (4.16%) Power BI
9 261 (3.35%) BigQuery
10 255 (3.27%) Looker
11 232 (2.98%) MySQL
12 215 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
13 193 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
14 191 (2.45%) Big Data
15 155 (1.99%) Data Lake
16 139 (1.78%) DB2
17 120 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
18 94 (1.21%) RDBMS
19 89 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1,137 (14.60%) Git
2 819 (10.51%) Jenkins
3 653 (8.38%) JIRA
4 348 (4.47%) GitLab
5 292 (3.75%) Visual Studio
6 147 (1.89%) Selenium
7 139 (1.78%) Bitbucket
7 139 (1.78%) Team Foundation Server
8 127 (1.63%) Postman
9 99 (1.27%) TeamCity
10 85 (1.09%) Cypress.io
11 77 (0.99%) Cucumber
12 75 (0.96%) JUnit
12 75 (0.96%) Sourcetree
13 74 (0.95%) NUnit
14 70 (0.90%) Octopus Deploy
15 66 (0.85%) Artifactory
16 65 (0.83%) SonarQube
17 64 (0.82%) Subversion
18 57 (0.73%) CircleCI
General
1 1,672 (21.47%) Social Skills
2 1,433 (18.40%) Finance
3 715 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
4 528 (6.78%) Public Sector
5 489 (6.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 397 (5.10%) Banking
7 392 (5.03%) Law
8 270 (3.47%) Marketing
9 225 (2.89%) Retail
10 224 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
11 184 (2.36%) Legal
12 140 (1.80%) Aerospace
13 129 (1.66%) Games
14 110 (1.41%) Front Office
15 102 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
16 98 (1.26%) Manufacturing
17 82 (1.05%) Telecoms
18 79 (1.01%) Billing
19 76 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
20 64 (0.82%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2,028 (26.04%) Developer
2 1,675 (21.50%) Senior
3 1,129 (14.49%) DevOps Engineer
4 924 (11.86%) Software Engineer
5 884 (11.35%) Lead
6 610 (7.83%) Architect
7 514 (6.60%) Senior Developer
8 413 (5.30%) .NET Developer
8 413 (5.30%) Data Engineer
9 375 (4.81%) Full Stack Developer
10 344 (4.42%) Senior Software Engineer
11 330 (4.24%) Azure Engineer
12 315 (4.04%) AWS Engineer
13 303 (3.89%) Software Developer
14 300 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
15 286 (3.67%) Senior DevOps
16 278 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
17 270 (3.47%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 235 (3.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 234 (3.00%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,985 (25.48%) .NET
2 1,229 (15.78%) React
3 992 (12.74%) CSS
4 804 (10.32%) .NET Core
5 756 (9.71%) HTML
6 700 (8.99%) AngularJS
7 620 (7.96%) ASP.NET
8 600 (7.70%) Node.js
9 514 (6.60%) REST
10 467 (6.00%) .NET Framework
11 416 (5.34%) RESTful
12 413 (5.30%) Web Services
13 355 (4.56%) Vue
14 347 (4.46%) JSON
15 339 (4.35%) PostGIS
16 330 (4.24%) Leaflet
16 330 (4.24%) OpenLayers
17 289 (3.71%) Spring
18 267 (3.43%) XML
19 266 (3.42%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 443 (5.69%) Product Ownership
2 354 (4.54%) Hybrid Cloud
3 336 (4.31%) Public Cloud
4 332 (4.26%) Cloud Native
5 320 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
6 273 (3.50%) Blockchain
7 261 (3.35%) Management Information System
8 249 (3.20%) Data Structures
9 206 (2.64%) Algorithms
10 202 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
11 180 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
12 168 (2.16%) Private Cloud
13 166 (2.13%) Data Centre
14 149 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
15 133 (1.71%) Mobile App
16 117 (1.50%) IoT
17 116 (1.49%) Onboarding
18 114 (1.46%) Hedge funds
19 79 (1.01%) Low-Code
20 76 (0.98%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 1,302 (16.72%) Linux
2 790 (10.14%) Windows
3 218 (2.80%) Windows Server
4 215 (2.76%) Android
5 204 (2.62%) Apple iOS
6 155 (1.99%) Unix
7 107 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 90 (1.16%) Ubuntu
9 85 (1.09%) CentOS
10 64 (0.82%) VMS
11 63 (0.81%) Debian
12 46 (0.59%) Alpine Linux
13 40 (0.51%) Windows 10
13 40 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
14 28 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
15 23 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
16 15 (0.19%) CoreOS
17 14 (0.18%) Mac OS X
18 13 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
19 10 (0.13%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,936 (50.53%) Agile
2 2,551 (32.75%) CI/CD
3 1,838 (23.60%) Software Engineering
4 1,532 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1,143 (14.67%) Scrum
6 1,112 (14.28%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1,094 (14.05%) Mentoring
8 898 (11.53%) Microservices
9 847 (10.87%) Containerisation
10 845 (10.85%) Test Automation
11 813 (10.44%) Full Stack Development
12 784 (10.07%) Actionable Insight
13 765 (9.82%) Continuous Integration
14 703 (9.03%) Web Development
15 656 (8.42%) SDLC
16 644 (8.27%) Roadmaps
17 638 (8.19%) Artificial Intelligence
18 574 (7.37%) Continuous Improvement
19 572 (7.34%) TDD
20 554 (7.11%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 2,111 (27.10%) Python
2 2,027 (26.02%) C#
3 1,811 (23.25%) JavaScript
4 1,703 (21.86%) SQL
5 1,232 (15.82%) Java
6 692 (8.88%) PowerShell
7 527 (6.77%) Bash
8 507 (6.51%) TypeScript
9 314 (4.03%) Go
10 222 (2.85%) PHP
11 216 (2.77%) T-SQL
12 165 (2.12%) C
13 160 (2.05%) Ruby
14 153 (1.96%) Bicep
15 147 (1.89%) C++
16 114 (1.46%) Shell Script
17 107 (1.37%) Perl
18 79 (1.01%) VB.NET
19 70 (0.90%) Groovy
20 62 (0.80%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,362 (17.49%) Security Cleared
2 1,114 (14.30%) Degree
3 1,058 (13.58%) SC Cleared
4 392 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 237 (3.04%) Azure Certification
6 211 (2.71%) DV Cleared
7 179 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 176 (2.26%) AWS Certification
9 165 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
10 130 (1.67%) Master's Degree
11 67 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 67 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
12 60 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
13 53 (0.68%) CISSP
14 47 (0.60%) CCNA
15 46 (0.59%) MCSE
15 46 (0.59%) PMI Certification
16 43 (0.55%) DBS Check
17 42 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 41 (0.53%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 648 (8.32%) QA
2 281 (3.61%) GDPR
3 147 (1.89%) Data Quality
4 109 (1.40%) Accessibility
5 90 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 75 (0.96%) PMO
7 47 (0.60%) NIST
8 40 (0.51%) PCI DSS
9 37 (0.48%) SLA
10 33 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
11 22 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
12 16 (0.21%) HIPAA
13 15 (0.19%) NCSC
14 9 (0.12%) ISO 9001
14 9 (0.12%) PSD2
15 7 (0.090%) ISO 13485
15 7 (0.090%) SOC 2
16 6 (0.077%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.077%) GRC
17 5 (0.064%) WCAG
System Software
1 1,440 (18.49%) Docker
2 337 (4.33%) Active Directory
3 188 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 165 (2.12%) Virtual Machines
5 126 (1.62%) Hyper-V
6 63 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
7 43 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
8 38 (0.49%) Firmware
9 24 (0.31%) 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
17 4 (0.051%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 1,636 (21.00%) Kubernetes
2 1,572 (20.18%) Terraform
3 770 (9.89%) Ansible
4 265 (3.40%) Puppet
5 233 (2.99%) Prometheus
6 196 (2.52%) Grafana
7 157 (2.02%) Progress Chef
8 47 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
9 45 (0.58%) Kibana
10 43 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 39 (0.50%) Packer
11 39 (0.50%) ZABBIX
12 36 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
13 31 (0.40%) HAProxy
14 27 (0.35%) Istio
15 26 (0.33%) Consul
16 25 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
16 25 (0.32%) Nagios
17 22 (0.28%) Rancher
18 20 (0.26%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1,760 (22.60%) Microsoft
2 490 (6.29%) Google
3 347 (4.46%) Red Hat
4 341 (4.38%) IBM
5 332 (4.26%) ESRI
6 282 (3.62%) Oracle
7 258 (3.31%) VMware
8 220 (2.82%) Databricks
9 132 (1.69%) ServiceNow
10 118 (1.51%) Cisco
11 106 (1.36%) SAP
12 102 (1.31%) Splunk
13 95 (1.22%) Dynatrace
14 81 (1.04%) Atlassian
15 67 (0.86%) Citrix
16 64 (0.82%) Salesforce
17 63 (0.81%) Adobe
18 62 (0.80%) Sitecore
19 42 (0.54%) WSO2
20 39 (0.50%) Informatica