DevOps Job Trends in England

DevOps
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 18 15
Rank change year-on-year -22 -3 -3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 2,824 4,090 5,219
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.26% 8.52% 9.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.50% 9.37% 11.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,048 2,503 4,260
10th Percentile £43,847 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £54,439 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% -6.90%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,563
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% -3.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 43,437 43,629 46,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 80.97% 90.90% 89.46%
Number of salaries quoted 26,117 21,359 36,456
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -7.20%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

DevOps job vacancy trend in England

DevOps
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in England over the 6 months to 17 January 2026.

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 17 January 2026. 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 -2 1,264 £80,000 -5.88% 445
North of England -12 496 £65,000 +4.00% 401
South East -32 382 £65,000 -3.70% 553
Midlands -31 252 £63,000 +0.80% 218
South West -16 243 £60,000 -7.69% 239
North West -19 223 £65,000 - 180
Yorkshire -3 205 £60,000 +8.60% 168
West Midlands -27 180 £60,000 -4.00% 96
East of England -31 97 £67,500 +27.36% 239
North East +4 70 £52,500 -22.99% 55
East Midlands -19 67 £65,000 +13.04% 117
DevOps
UK

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 57 (2.02%) Confluence
2 54 (1.91%) SharePoint
3 52 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
4 51 (1.81%) Apache Spark
5 47 (1.66%) Apache
6 40 (1.42%) IIS
7 29 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
8 14 (0.50%) CMS
9 13 (0.46%) nginx
10 11 (0.39%) OpenStack
11 10 (0.35%) Appian
12 6 (0.21%) Camunda
12 6 (0.21%) Tomcat
13 5 (0.18%) Moodle
14 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.11%) Liferay
14 3 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
14 3 (0.11%) SAS
15 2 (0.071%) Anypoint
15 2 (0.071%) Documentum
Applications
1 45 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (0.67%) MS Visio
4 16 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.21%) Trello
7 4 (0.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 3 (0.11%) PlantUML
8 3 (0.11%) Siemens NX
8 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.071%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.071%) S-PLUS
10 1 (0.035%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 55 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.53%) SAP ERP
3 14 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.46%) Endur
5 9 (0.32%) SAP FS
6 8 (0.28%) Shopify
7 6 (0.21%) Teamcenter
8 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.11%) SAP CX
11 2 (0.071%) Dynamics AX
11 2 (0.071%) Elite 3E
11 2 (0.071%) Markit EDM
11 2 (0.071%) Payment Gateway
11 2 (0.071%) Workday HCM
12 1 (0.035%) NEC Housing
12 1 (0.035%) Oracle BPM
12 1 (0.035%) SAP IBP
12 1 (0.035%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,573 (55.70%) Azure
2 976 (34.56%) AWS
3 809 (28.65%) Azure DevOps
4 372 (13.17%) GitHub
5 327 (11.58%) GCP
6 287 (10.16%) Power Platform
7 275 (9.74%) Serverless
8 261 (9.24%) SaaS
9 201 (7.12%) GitHub Actions
10 159 (5.63%) AWS CloudFormation
11 154 (5.45%) Amazon S3
12 144 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
12 144 (5.10%) PaaS
13 118 (4.18%) Microsoft 365
14 102 (3.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 99 (3.51%) Amazon ECS
16 97 (3.43%) Dynamics 365
17 95 (3.36%) Amazon EKS
18 84 (2.97%) Entra ID
19 78 (2.76%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 105 (3.72%) Firewall
2 84 (2.97%) DNS
3 53 (1.88%) VPN
4 47 (1.66%) WAN
5 46 (1.63%) TCP/IP
6 44 (1.56%) Network Security
7 30 (1.06%) HTTP
8 27 (0.96%) DHCP
8 27 (0.96%) LAN
9 20 (0.71%) SAN
9 20 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
10 16 (0.57%) Broadband
11 15 (0.53%) SD-WAN
12 12 (0.42%) AMQP
12 12 (0.42%) VLAN
13 10 (0.35%) VoIP
14 9 (0.32%) SSH
14 9 (0.32%) SSL
15 8 (0.28%) FTP
15 8 (0.28%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 261 (9.24%) SQL Server
2 155 (5.49%) Power BI
3 149 (5.28%) NoSQL
4 123 (4.36%) PostgreSQL
5 103 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
6 84 (2.97%) Relational Database
7 80 (2.83%) Amazon RDS
8 79 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
9 69 (2.44%) DynamoDB
10 64 (2.27%) Data Lake
11 59 (2.09%) MongoDB
12 56 (1.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 55 (1.95%) MySQL
14 54 (1.91%) Metadata
15 52 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
16 42 (1.49%) BigQuery
17 41 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
18 39 (1.38%) Tableau
19 38 (1.35%) Big Data
20 30 (1.06%) Redis
Development Applications
1 335 (11.86%) Git
2 291 (10.30%) Jenkins
3 175 (6.20%) GitLab
4 171 (6.06%) JIRA
5 88 (3.12%) Selenium
6 71 (2.51%) Cypress.io
7 43 (1.52%) SonarQube
8 40 (1.42%) Bitbucket
9 33 (1.17%) Maven
10 31 (1.10%) Postman
11 29 (1.03%) TeamCity
12 27 (0.96%) Cucumber
12 27 (0.96%) JMeter
13 26 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
13 26 (0.92%) Visual Studio
14 24 (0.85%) JUnit
15 23 (0.81%) Robot Framework
16 22 (0.78%) Snyk
17 20 (0.71%) Artifactory
18 17 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 802 (28.40%) Social Skills
2 624 (22.10%) Finance
3 294 (10.41%) Analytical Skills
4 149 (5.28%) Banking
5 133 (4.71%) Public Sector
6 123 (4.36%) Law
7 99 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 83 (2.94%) Retail
9 72 (2.55%) Marketing
10 62 (2.20%) Telecoms
11 51 (1.81%) Financial Institution
12 48 (1.70%) Manufacturing
12 48 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
13 44 (1.56%) Games
13 44 (1.56%) Legal
14 34 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
15 30 (1.06%) Front Office
16 28 (0.99%) Aviation
17 26 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
18 25 (0.89%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 519 (18.38%) Senior
2 510 (18.06%) Developer
3 432 (15.30%) DevOps Engineer
4 400 (14.16%) Lead
5 264 (9.35%) Architect
6 216 (7.65%) Software Engineer
7 156 (5.52%) Cloud Engineer
8 130 (4.60%) Data Engineer
9 127 (4.50%) Azure Engineer
10 125 (4.43%) Senior Developer
11 124 (4.39%) Platform Engineer
12 121 (4.28%) Solutions Architect
13 103 (3.65%) Analyst
14 100 (3.54%) Senior DevOps
15 92 (3.26%) Full-Stack Developer
16 91 (3.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 76 (2.69%) AWS Engineer
18 73 (2.58%) Lead DevOps
19 70 (2.48%) .NET Developer
20 67 (2.37%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 417 (14.77%) .NET
2 260 (9.21%) React
3 169 (5.98%) REST
4 167 (5.91%) RESTful
5 140 (4.96%) Kafka
6 137 (4.85%) Spring
7 135 (4.78%) Spring Boot
8 132 (4.67%) Node.js
9 123 (4.36%) CSS
10 122 (4.32%) HTML
11 119 (4.21%) AngularJS
12 96 (3.40%) .NET Framework
13 91 (3.22%) Middleware
14 90 (3.19%) .NET Core
15 86 (3.05%) ASP.NET
16 79 (2.80%) Elastic Stack
17 73 (2.58%) YAML
18 66 (2.34%) Vue
19 49 (1.74%) Blazor
20 48 (1.70%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 389 (13.77%) Cloud Native
2 147 (5.21%) Product Ownership
3 100 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
4 79 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
5 78 (2.76%) Management Information System
6 75 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
7 54 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
8 50 (1.77%) Mobile App
9 49 (1.74%) Low-Code
10 48 (1.70%) Onboarding
11 46 (1.63%) Security Posture
12 40 (1.42%) Algorithms
12 40 (1.42%) Public Cloud
13 37 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
14 33 (1.17%) Virtual Team
15 32 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
16 30 (1.06%) Data Centre
17 29 (1.03%) IoT
18 28 (0.99%) AI Agents
19 26 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 306 (10.84%) Linux
2 224 (7.93%) Windows
3 77 (2.73%) Windows Server
4 62 (2.20%) Unix
5 41 (1.45%) VMS
6 36 (1.27%) Android
7 26 (0.92%) Apple iOS
8 24 (0.85%) Ubuntu
9 23 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 21 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
11 17 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
12 14 (0.50%) Debian
13 6 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
14 5 (0.18%) CentOS
14 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
15 4 (0.14%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.11%) Windows 10
17 1 (0.035%) CoreOS
17 1 (0.035%) Solaris
17 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,485 (52.58%) CI/CD
2 1,123 (39.77%) Agile
3 648 (22.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 578 (20.47%) Problem-Solving
5 463 (16.40%) Software Engineering
6 458 (16.22%) Mentoring
7 443 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 439 (15.55%) Microservices
9 429 (15.19%) Containerisation
10 405 (14.34%) AI
11 331 (11.72%) Test Automation
12 295 (10.45%) Analytics
13 287 (10.16%) Observability
14 279 (9.88%) Roadmaps
15 249 (8.82%) Scrum
16 245 (8.68%) Computer Science
17 237 (8.39%) Full-Stack Development
18 231 (8.18%) SDLC
19 208 (7.37%) Data Modelling
19 208 (7.37%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 771 (27.30%) Python
2 600 (21.25%) SQL
3 406 (14.38%) C#
4 389 (13.77%) Java
5 303 (10.73%) JavaScript
6 284 (10.06%) PowerShell
7 259 (9.17%) Bash
8 231 (8.18%) TypeScript
9 128 (4.53%) Go
10 109 (3.86%) Bicep
11 45 (1.59%) C++
12 43 (1.52%) Scala
13 38 (1.35%) Groovy
13 38 (1.35%) T-SQL
14 32 (1.13%) PHP
15 20 (0.71%) Apex Code
16 19 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 19 (0.67%) R
16 19 (0.67%) Ruby
17 15 (0.53%) Perl
Qualifications
1 369 (13.07%) Degree
2 312 (11.05%) Security Cleared
3 185 (6.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 183 (6.48%) SC Cleared
5 116 (4.11%) DV Cleared
6 114 (4.04%) Azure Certification
7 113 (4.00%) AWS Certification
8 83 (2.94%) Master's Degree
9 51 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
10 50 (1.77%) ISTQB
11 33 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 28 (0.99%) PhD
13 26 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
14 25 (0.89%) CISSP
15 24 (0.85%) PMI Certification
16 23 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
16 23 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
17 21 (0.74%) AWS Certified Developer
18 20 (0.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
19 19 (0.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 277 (9.81%) QA
2 107 (3.79%) Data Quality
3 100 (3.54%) GDPR
4 97 (3.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 82 (2.90%) Accessibility
6 62 (2.20%) NIST
7 28 (0.99%) NCSC
8 27 (0.96%) PCI DSS
9 25 (0.89%) PMO
10 24 (0.85%) SLA
11 20 (0.71%) SOC 2
12 16 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
13 15 (0.53%) WCAG
14 14 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 12207
14 14 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 11 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 9 (0.32%) IFRS
16 9 (0.32%) IFRS 17
16 9 (0.32%) Solvency II
17 6 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 561 (19.87%) Docker
2 104 (3.68%) Active Directory
3 53 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (0.53%) vSphere
7 9 (0.32%) HDFS
7 9 (0.32%) NFS
8 8 (0.28%) Postfix
9 6 (0.21%) Firmware
9 6 (0.21%) VMware NSX
10 5 (0.18%) Hyper-V
10 5 (0.18%) Squid
10 5 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.14%) DFS Replication
11 4 (0.14%) Dovecot
11 4 (0.14%) Kamailio
12 3 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.071%) iptables
13 2 (0.071%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 692 (24.50%) Terraform
2 624 (22.10%) Kubernetes
3 299 (10.59%) Ansible
4 163 (5.77%) Grafana
5 160 (5.67%) Prometheus
6 52 (1.84%) Argo
7 43 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
8 22 (0.78%) HP Fortify
9 21 (0.74%) SCCM
10 20 (0.71%) Kibana
10 20 (0.71%) Puppet
11 15 (0.53%) Progress Chef
12 14 (0.50%) Kustomize
12 14 (0.50%) Rancher
12 14 (0.50%) vCenter Server
13 12 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (0.32%) logstash
15 8 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
16 7 (0.25%) Proxmox
16 7 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 549 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 110 (3.90%) Google
3 98 (3.47%) Databricks
4 90 (3.19%) Salesforce
5 88 (3.12%) VMware
6 83 (2.94%) Oracle
7 62 (2.20%) SAP
8 54 (1.91%) ServiceNow
9 51 (1.81%) Red Hat
10 46 (1.63%) Splunk
11 45 (1.59%) Cisco
12 34 (1.20%) Palo Alto
13 32 (1.13%) Guidewire
14 26 (0.92%) MuleSoft
15 22 (0.78%) SolarWinds
16 20 (0.71%) OpenAI
17 19 (0.67%) Zscaler
18 18 (0.64%) Black Duck
18 18 (0.64%) New Relic
18 18 (0.64%) Veeam