DevOps Jobs in England

DevOps
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 12 12
Rank change year-on-year -12 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 6,676 13,041 20,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.87% 13.99% 15.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.17% 14.62% 16.51%
Number of salaries quoted 4,776 7,613 11,664
10th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £54,750 £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 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £106,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72,814 89,178 125,034
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.85% 95.66% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 53,731 52,642 73,765
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £33,327
25th Percentile £39,750 £46,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in England

DevOps
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps in England.

Salary trend for DevOps in England

DevOps
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 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
London -7 2,125 £80,000 - 672
North of England -12 1,373 £60,000 -2.44% 292
South East -3 1,312 £61,500 -5.38% 219
South West -3 872 £60,500 -3.20% 160
North West -7 840 £62,500 - 187
Midlands -10 721 £58,500 +1.74% 171
West Midlands -10 464 £60,000 - 107
Yorkshire -10 439 £60,000 -4.00% 87
East Midlands -12 259 £57,500 +4.55% 64
East of England -30 237 £57,500 -11.54% 88
North East -8 96 £57,500 +4.55% 20
DevOps
UK

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 199 (2.98%) Confluence
2 196 (2.94%) ArcGIS
2 196 (2.94%) GeoServer
3 176 (2.64%) SharePoint
4 143 (2.14%) CMS
5 125 (1.87%) IIS
6 102 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 82 (1.23%) Apache
8 78 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
8 78 (1.17%) nginx
9 72 (1.08%) Apache Spark
10 68 (1.02%) Umbraco
11 57 (0.85%) OpenStack
12 46 (0.69%) Sitecore CMS
13 42 (0.63%) Headless CMS
13 42 (0.63%) Kentico
14 34 (0.51%) Drupal
15 28 (0.42%) WordPress
16 19 (0.28%) JBoss
16 19 (0.28%) WebSphere
Applications
1 68 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (0.64%) MS Visio
4 30 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
5 23 (0.34%) Photoshop
6 22 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 18 (0.27%) Trello
8 10 (0.15%) Simulink
9 9 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
10 5 (0.075%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.045%) Adobe Illustrator
11 3 (0.045%) Sketch
12 2 (0.030%) Notion
12 2 (0.030%) S-PLUS
13 1 (0.015%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.015%) GNU Octave
13 1 (0.015%) InVision
13 1 (0.015%) MicroStation
13 1 (0.015%) PTC Creo
13 1 (0.015%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 153 (2.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 47 (0.70%) Dynamics AX
3 33 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 14 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
4 14 (0.21%) SDL Web 8
5 11 (0.16%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.15%) Magento
7 8 (0.12%) Maximo
7 8 (0.12%) Shopify
8 5 (0.075%) SAP S/4HANA
8 5 (0.075%) Temenos T24
9 4 (0.060%) Elite 3E
9 4 (0.060%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.060%) Primavera
9 4 (0.060%) Remedy ITSM
9 4 (0.060%) Visualfiles
10 3 (0.045%) Oracle Applications
10 3 (0.045%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.045%) SAP ERP
11 2 (0.030%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3,885 (58.19%) Azure
2 2,424 (36.31%) AWS
3 2,080 (31.16%) Azure DevOps
4 716 (10.72%) GCP
5 620 (9.29%) Serverless
6 525 (7.86%) Power Platform
7 436 (6.53%) SaaS
8 389 (5.83%) GitHub
9 343 (5.14%) Dynamics 365
10 335 (5.02%) Microsoft 365
11 317 (4.75%) PaaS
12 278 (4.16%) Amazon S3
13 269 (4.03%) Azure Service Bus
14 246 (3.68%) Azure Functions
15 244 (3.65%) IaaS
16 238 (3.57%) IBM Cloud
17 237 (3.55%) Azure Logic Apps
18 226 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
19 223 (3.34%) AWS Lambda
20 207 (3.10%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 244 (3.65%) Firewall
2 234 (3.51%) DNS
3 127 (1.90%) TCP/IP
4 108 (1.62%) Network Security
5 107 (1.60%) VPN
6 103 (1.54%) HTTP
7 94 (1.41%) DHCP
8 83 (1.24%) WAN
9 66 (0.99%) LAN
10 40 (0.60%) Internet
11 29 (0.43%) SSL
12 21 (0.31%) SAN
13 20 (0.30%) SNMP
14 19 (0.28%) Unified Communications
15 18 (0.27%) HTTPS
16 17 (0.25%) BGP
17 15 (0.22%) 5G
17 15 (0.22%) SD-WAN
18 14 (0.21%) NGFW
18 14 (0.21%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 859 (12.87%) SQL Server
2 568 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
3 360 (5.39%) Relational Database
4 347 (5.20%) NoSQL
5 286 (4.28%) Data Warehouse
6 284 (4.25%) Power BI
7 279 (4.18%) MongoDB
8 230 (3.45%) BigQuery
9 209 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
9 209 (3.13%) GIS
9 209 (3.13%) Looker
10 199 (2.98%) MySQL
11 196 (2.94%) QGIS
12 173 (2.59%) Azure SQL Database
13 157 (2.35%) Big Data
14 135 (2.02%) DB2
15 134 (2.01%) Data Lake
16 96 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
17 89 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
18 77 (1.15%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1,024 (15.34%) Git
2 717 (10.74%) Jenkins
3 560 (8.39%) JIRA
4 312 (4.67%) GitLab
5 251 (3.76%) Visual Studio
6 128 (1.92%) Bitbucket
7 127 (1.90%) Selenium
8 126 (1.89%) Team Foundation Server
9 105 (1.57%) Postman
10 98 (1.47%) TeamCity
11 75 (1.12%) Sourcetree
12 70 (1.05%) Octopus Deploy
13 69 (1.03%) NUnit
14 67 (1.00%) Artifactory
15 61 (0.91%) Subversion
16 59 (0.88%) Cypress.io
17 57 (0.85%) Cucumber
18 56 (0.84%) SonarQube
19 52 (0.78%) JUnit
20 50 (0.75%) Jasmine
General
1 1,412 (21.15%) Social Skills
2 1,139 (17.06%) Finance
3 646 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
4 485 (7.26%) Public Sector
5 314 (4.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 294 (4.40%) Banking
7 264 (3.95%) Law
8 213 (3.19%) Retail
9 192 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
10 168 (2.52%) Marketing
11 154 (2.31%) Legal
12 128 (1.92%) Aerospace
13 117 (1.75%) Games
14 109 (1.63%) Front Office
15 100 (1.50%) Manufacturing
16 92 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
17 74 (1.11%) Telecoms
18 70 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
19 69 (1.03%) Billing
20 57 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,797 (26.92%) Developer
2 1,374 (20.58%) Senior
3 1,009 (15.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 712 (10.67%) Lead
5 641 (9.60%) Software Engineer
6 522 (7.82%) Architect
7 415 (6.22%) Senior Developer
8 400 (5.99%) .NET Developer
9 363 (5.44%) Data Engineer
10 332 (4.97%) Full Stack Developer
11 291 (4.36%) Azure Engineer
12 289 (4.33%) AWS Engineer
13 266 (3.98%) Platform Engineer
14 261 (3.91%) Software Developer
15 250 (3.74%) Senior DevOps
16 240 (3.59%) Senior Software Engineer
17 237 (3.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 226 (3.39%) Cloud Engineer
19 221 (3.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
20 212 (3.18%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,685 (25.24%) .NET
2 969 (14.51%) React
3 753 (11.28%) CSS
4 649 (9.72%) AngularJS
5 631 (9.45%) HTML
6 629 (9.42%) .NET Core
7 569 (8.52%) ASP.NET
8 481 (7.20%) REST
9 471 (7.06%) Node.js
10 424 (6.35%) .NET Framework
11 377 (5.65%) RESTful
12 363 (5.44%) Web Services
13 315 (4.72%) JSON
14 306 (4.58%) Vue
15 262 (3.92%) jQuery
16 253 (3.79%) XML
17 232 (3.48%) Spring
18 228 (3.42%) Entity Framework
19 205 (3.07%) PostGIS
20 199 (2.98%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 369 (5.53%) Product Ownership
2 342 (5.12%) Hybrid Cloud
3 293 (4.39%) Cloud Native
4 289 (4.33%) Self-Motivation
5 271 (4.06%) Public Cloud
6 265 (3.97%) Blockchain
7 237 (3.55%) Data Structures
8 223 (3.34%) Management Information System
9 188 (2.82%) Algorithms
10 182 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
11 154 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
12 144 (2.16%) Data Centre
13 135 (2.02%) Private Cloud
14 123 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
15 115 (1.72%) Mobile App
16 109 (1.63%) Hedge funds
17 100 (1.50%) IoT
18 75 (1.12%) e-Learning
18 75 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 70 (1.05%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1,126 (16.87%) Linux
2 712 (10.67%) Windows
3 199 (2.98%) Android
4 194 (2.91%) Apple iOS
5 192 (2.88%) Windows Server
6 110 (1.65%) Unix
7 98 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 77 (1.15%) CentOS
9 69 (1.03%) Ubuntu
10 64 (0.96%) Debian
11 60 (0.90%) VMS
12 46 (0.69%) Alpine Linux
13 40 (0.60%) Windows 10
13 40 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
14 27 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
15 21 (0.31%) Embedded Linux
16 13 (0.19%) CoreOS
16 13 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
17 10 (0.15%) AIX
18 7 (0.10%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,253 (48.73%) Agile
2 2,191 (32.82%) CI/CD
3 1,433 (21.46%) Software Engineering
4 1,316 (19.71%) Problem-Solving
5 982 (14.71%) Scrum
6 973 (14.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 880 (13.18%) Mentoring
8 768 (11.50%) Microservices
9 766 (11.47%) Containerisation
10 727 (10.89%) Test Automation
11 697 (10.44%) Full Stack Development
12 608 (9.11%) Continuous Integration
13 559 (8.37%) Artificial Intelligence
14 553 (8.28%) Web Development
15 552 (8.27%) Roadmaps
16 534 (8.00%) SDLC
17 514 (7.70%) Actionable Insight
18 511 (7.65%) Design Patterns
19 493 (7.38%) Computer Science
20 486 (7.28%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,784 (26.72%) Python
2 1,747 (26.17%) C#
3 1,459 (21.85%) JavaScript
3 1,459 (21.85%) SQL
4 1,049 (15.71%) Java
5 649 (9.72%) PowerShell
6 467 (7.00%) Bash
7 462 (6.92%) TypeScript
8 262 (3.92%) Go
9 204 (3.06%) T-SQL
10 202 (3.03%) PHP
11 152 (2.28%) Bicep
12 151 (2.26%) C
13 126 (1.89%) Ruby
14 121 (1.81%) C++
15 86 (1.29%) Perl
15 86 (1.29%) Shell Script
16 73 (1.09%) VB.NET
17 55 (0.82%) Groovy
18 54 (0.81%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,100 (16.48%) Security Cleared
2 950 (14.23%) Degree
3 817 (12.24%) SC Cleared
4 349 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 218 (3.27%) Azure Certification
6 204 (3.06%) DV Cleared
7 158 (2.37%) AWS Certification
8 151 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 142 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
10 124 (1.86%) Master's Degree
11 60 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 60 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
12 46 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
12 46 (0.69%) MCSE
13 45 (0.67%) PMI Certification
14 41 (0.61%) DBS Check
14 41 (0.61%) MCSA
15 37 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 37 (0.55%) CISSP
16 34 (0.51%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 577 (8.64%) QA
2 240 (3.59%) GDPR
3 133 (1.99%) Data Quality
4 87 (1.30%) Accessibility
5 85 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 48 (0.72%) PMO
7 44 (0.66%) NIST
8 38 (0.57%) PCI DSS
9 37 (0.55%) SLA
10 22 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
11 16 (0.24%) HIPAA
12 13 (0.19%) NCSC
13 9 (0.13%) PSD2
14 7 (0.10%) ISO 13485
14 7 (0.10%) ISO 9001
15 6 (0.090%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.090%) GRC
16 3 (0.045%) IFRS
16 3 (0.045%) IFRS 17
16 3 (0.045%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1,306 (19.56%) Docker
2 304 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 176 (2.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 158 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
5 125 (1.87%) Hyper-V
6 65 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
7 42 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
8 38 (0.57%) Firmware
9 23 (0.34%) vSphere
10 15 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
11 12 (0.18%) NFS
12 10 (0.15%) HDFS
12 10 (0.15%) pfSense
13 7 (0.10%) IAG
14 6 (0.090%) DFS Replication
14 6 (0.090%) KVM
14 6 (0.090%) VirtualBox
15 4 (0.060%) VMware Server
16 3 (0.045%) Virtual Servers
16 3 (0.045%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1,478 (22.14%) Kubernetes
2 1,391 (20.84%) Terraform
3 674 (10.10%) Ansible
4 257 (3.85%) Puppet
5 213 (3.19%) Prometheus
6 159 (2.38%) Grafana
7 145 (2.17%) Progress Chef
8 44 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
9 43 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 39 (0.58%) ZABBIX
11 38 (0.57%) Kibana
12 37 (0.55%) Packer
13 36 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
14 30 (0.45%) HAProxy
15 25 (0.37%) Consul
15 25 (0.37%) Nagios
16 24 (0.36%) Istio
17 23 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
18 20 (0.30%) Rancher
18 20 (0.30%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1,579 (23.65%) Microsoft
2 422 (6.32%) Google
3 340 (5.09%) Red Hat
4 301 (4.51%) IBM
5 247 (3.70%) VMware
6 221 (3.31%) Oracle
7 198 (2.97%) ESRI
8 196 (2.94%) Databricks
9 102 (1.53%) ServiceNow
10 94 (1.41%) Cisco
11 87 (1.30%) SAP
12 77 (1.15%) Dynatrace
13 72 (1.08%) Splunk
14 71 (1.06%) Citrix
15 62 (0.93%) Adobe
16 60 (0.90%) Atlassian
16 60 (0.90%) Sitecore
17 46 (0.69%) Salesforce
18 41 (0.61%) WSO2
19 40 (0.60%) Informatica