DevOps Jobs in England

DevOps
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 24 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 22 12
Rank change year-on-year -1 -10 -1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 3,439 6,547 14,109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.64% 8.35% 14.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.11% 9.60% 14.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2,411 4,814 8,228
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,933 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £86,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £103,750 £106,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% -5.71% -

All Process and 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 42,387 68,208 94,533
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.16% 87.01% 95.71%
Number of salaries quoted 23,196 51,658 55,737
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,010 £34,452
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,114
UK median annual salary £58,033 £55,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year +5.51% -11.29% +3.33%

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 24 March 2025.

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 24 March 2025. 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 0 1,472 £85,000 +3.03% 841
South East -2 564 £67,500 +9.76% 297
North of England -16 524 £67,500 +12.50% 262
South West +1 413 £67,500 +12.50% 125
North West -34 289 £67,500 +7.51% 164
Midlands -31 278 £62,500 +4.17% 112
West Midlands -16 228 £62,500 +4.17% 64
Yorkshire -6 193 £68,000 +13.33% 69
East of England -4 143 £57,500 -4.17% 55
East Midlands -59 47 £65,000 +8.33% 45
North East +1 42 £65,000 +13.04% 30
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
1 119 (3.46%) Confluence
2 105 (3.05%) Apache Spark
3 99 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
4 88 (2.56%) Apache
5 78 (2.27%) SharePoint
6 60 (1.74%) Oracle Application Server
7 39 (1.13%) nginx
8 30 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
9 23 (0.67%) Jupyter
10 16 (0.47%) IIS
11 14 (0.41%) CMS
12 12 (0.35%) JBoss
13 11 (0.32%) Apache Solr
13 11 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
14 8 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 8 (0.23%) SAS
15 7 (0.20%) OpenStack
15 7 (0.20%) Tomcat
16 6 (0.17%) CICS
16 6 (0.17%) Drupal
Applications
1 45 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (0.49%) Chatbot
3 17 (0.49%) MS Visio
4 13 (0.38%) Trello
5 12 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.17%) Maya
8 5 (0.15%) Sketch
9 4 (0.12%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.087%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 3 (0.087%) Productboard
11 2 (0.058%) Moqups
11 2 (0.058%) Simulink
11 2 (0.058%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.029%) OrCAD
12 1 (0.029%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 71 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.17%) Oracle BPM
4 4 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.12%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 3 (0.087%) Magento
5 3 (0.087%) Orchestrade
6 2 (0.058%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.058%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.058%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.058%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 2 (0.058%) Shopify
6 2 (0.058%) Sprinklr
6 2 (0.058%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.029%) Eikon
7 1 (0.029%) Endur
7 1 (0.029%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.029%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.029%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 1,928 (56.06%) Azure
2 1,155 (33.59%) AWS
3 1,026 (29.83%) Azure DevOps
4 502 (14.60%) Serverless
5 439 (12.77%) GCP
6 425 (12.36%) Power Platform
7 316 (9.19%) PaaS
8 290 (8.43%) GitHub
9 276 (8.03%) SaaS
10 232 (6.75%) IaaS
11 223 (6.48%) AWS Lambda
12 221 (6.43%) PowerApps
13 204 (5.93%) Azure Functions
13 204 (5.93%) Power Automate
14 196 (5.70%) Azure Logic Apps
15 190 (5.52%) Amazon ECS
16 168 (4.89%) AWS CloudFormation
17 141 (4.10%) Dynamics 365
18 140 (4.07%) Amazon S3
19 130 (3.78%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 131 (3.81%) Firewall
2 104 (3.02%) Network Security
3 61 (1.77%) DNS
4 58 (1.69%) VPN
5 49 (1.42%) Broadband
5 49 (1.42%) TCP/IP
6 34 (0.99%) HTTP
7 23 (0.67%) Internet
8 21 (0.61%) WAN
9 18 (0.52%) HTTPS
9 18 (0.52%) IPsec
10 15 (0.44%) SSL
11 13 (0.38%) SAN
12 11 (0.32%) LAN
13 10 (0.29%) DHCP
14 9 (0.26%) SD-WAN
14 9 (0.26%) VLAN
14 9 (0.26%) Wireless
15 8 (0.23%) Multicast
16 7 (0.20%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 461 (13.41%) SQL Server
2 167 (4.86%) NoSQL
3 161 (4.68%) PostgreSQL
4 160 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
5 156 (4.54%) Power BI
6 118 (3.43%) Amazon RDS
7 104 (3.02%) Azure SQL Database
8 97 (2.82%) Data Lake
9 89 (2.59%) MySQL
10 85 (2.47%) MongoDB
11 84 (2.44%) Relational Database
12 83 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
13 81 (2.36%) Amazon Athena
14 78 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
15 74 (2.15%) Apache Iceberg
16 73 (2.12%) Dremio
17 71 (2.06%) Apache Arrow
17 71 (2.06%) Apache Ignite
18 70 (2.04%) Big Data
19 64 (1.86%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 499 (14.51%) Git
2 344 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 277 (8.05%) JIRA
4 158 (4.59%) GitLab
5 122 (3.55%) SonarQube
6 112 (3.26%) Artifactory
7 97 (2.82%) Visual Studio
8 87 (2.53%) Maven
9 68 (1.98%) Octopus Deploy
10 65 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
11 60 (1.74%) TeamCity
12 58 (1.69%) Selenium
13 52 (1.51%) Team Foundation Server
14 51 (1.48%) JUnit
15 46 (1.34%) Bitbucket
16 39 (1.13%) MSBuild
17 38 (1.10%) Postman
18 37 (1.08%) Cucumber
19 33 (0.96%) CircleCI
19 33 (0.96%) Cypress.io
General
1 990 (28.79%) Finance
2 987 (28.70%) Social Skills
3 384 (11.17%) Analytical Skills
4 297 (8.64%) Banking
5 284 (8.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 197 (5.73%) Law
7 165 (4.80%) Retail
8 155 (4.51%) Front Office
9 152 (4.42%) Public Sector
10 106 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
11 94 (2.73%) Marketing
12 63 (1.83%) Military
13 62 (1.80%) Manufacturing
14 60 (1.74%) Games
15 59 (1.72%) Legal
16 45 (1.31%) Telecoms
17 44 (1.28%) Advertising
18 42 (1.22%) Tech for Good
19 37 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
20 33 (0.96%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 794 (23.09%) Senior
2 627 (18.23%) Developer
3 512 (14.89%) DevOps Engineer
3 512 (14.89%) Lead
4 317 (9.22%) Architect
5 238 (6.92%) Software Engineer
6 237 (6.89%) Analyst
7 226 (6.57%) Senior Developer
8 218 (6.34%) AWS Engineer
9 195 (5.67%) Cloud Engineer
10 193 (5.61%) AWS DevOps
11 191 (5.55%) Data Engineer
12 170 (4.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 161 (4.68%) Python Engineer
14 151 (4.39%) Azure Engineer
15 143 (4.16%) .NET Developer
16 139 (4.04%) Senior DevOps
17 110 (3.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 96 (2.79%) Solutions Architect
19 88 (2.56%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 625 (18.17%) .NET
2 313 (9.10%) React
3 228 (6.63%) CSS
3 228 (6.63%) HTML
4 208 (6.05%) Kafka
5 204 (5.93%) AngularJS
6 202 (5.87%) REST
7 200 (5.82%) .NET Framework
8 182 (5.29%) ASP.NET
8 182 (5.29%) RESTful
9 162 (4.71%) Node.js
10 157 (4.57%) .NET Core
11 114 (3.31%) Spring
12 105 (3.05%) PySpark
13 103 (3.00%) Entity Framework
13 103 (3.00%) JSON
13 103 (3.00%) Spring Boot
14 101 (2.94%) J2EE
15 90 (2.62%) XML
16 82 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 245 (7.12%) Cloud Native
2 182 (5.29%) Management Information System
3 180 (5.23%) Product Ownership
4 160 (4.65%) Data Structures
5 105 (3.05%) Public Cloud
6 91 (2.65%) Algorithms
7 88 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
8 85 (2.47%) Mobile App
9 83 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
10 74 (2.15%) Security Posture
11 72 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
12 60 (1.74%) Private Cloud
13 57 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
14 56 (1.63%) Onboarding
14 56 (1.63%) Virtual Team
15 47 (1.37%) Cyberattack
16 44 (1.28%) Blockchain
17 36 (1.05%) Data Centre
18 34 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
19 29 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 434 (12.62%) Linux
2 231 (6.72%) Windows
3 79 (2.30%) Windows Server
4 78 (2.27%) Unix
5 74 (2.15%) Android
6 63 (1.83%) Apple iOS
7 47 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 19 (0.55%) VMS
9 17 (0.49%) CentOS
10 15 (0.44%) Ubuntu
11 13 (0.38%) zOS
12 11 (0.32%) Windows 10
12 11 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
13 9 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
14 7 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
15 6 (0.17%) Debian
15 6 (0.17%) Solaris
15 6 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.12%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,642 (47.75%) Agile
2 1,582 (46.00%) CI/CD
3 776 (22.56%) Software Engineering
4 707 (20.56%) Problem-Solving
5 599 (17.42%) Mentoring
6 586 (17.04%) Infrastructure as Code
7 561 (16.31%) Containerisation
8 520 (15.12%) Microservices
9 409 (11.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 363 (10.56%) Analytics
11 332 (9.65%) Roadmaps
12 323 (9.39%) Test Automation
13 297 (8.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 287 (8.35%) Computer Science
15 272 (7.91%) Data Engineering
16 268 (7.79%) Technical Leadership
17 267 (7.76%) Artificial Intelligence
17 267 (7.76%) Coaching
18 264 (7.68%) ITIL
19 257 (7.47%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 978 (28.44%) Python
2 866 (25.18%) SQL
3 642 (18.67%) C#
4 604 (17.56%) JavaScript
5 528 (15.35%) Java
6 310 (9.01%) PowerShell
7 202 (5.87%) Bash
8 200 (5.82%) TypeScript
9 164 (4.77%) Go
10 76 (2.21%) T-SQL
11 74 (2.15%) PHP
12 64 (1.86%) Bicep
13 62 (1.80%) C++
14 54 (1.57%) Shell Script
15 47 (1.37%) C
16 39 (1.13%) Kotlin
17 38 (1.10%) Objective-C
18 29 (0.84%) Scala
19 26 (0.76%) Apex Code
20 25 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 511 (14.86%) Degree
2 348 (10.12%) Security Cleared
3 235 (6.83%) Azure Certification
4 226 (6.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 195 (5.67%) SC Cleared
6 117 (3.40%) AWS Certification
7 110 (3.20%) Master's Degree
8 97 (2.82%) DBS Check
9 90 (2.62%) DV Cleared
10 61 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
11 40 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 28 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
13 27 (0.79%) RHCSA
14 25 (0.73%) CISSP
14 25 (0.73%) PhD
15 24 (0.70%) LPIC
15 24 (0.70%) PMI Certification
16 23 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 21 (0.61%) ISTQB
18 15 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 218 (6.34%) QA
2 173 (5.03%) GDPR
3 106 (3.08%) NIST
4 81 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 71 (2.06%) Accessibility
6 65 (1.89%) Data Quality
7 64 (1.86%) HIPAA
8 46 (1.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 45 (1.31%) SOC 2
10 43 (1.25%) SLA
11 35 (1.02%) PCI DSS
12 27 (0.79%) NCSC
13 9 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.23%) Basel III
14 8 (0.23%) IFRS
14 8 (0.23%) IFRS 9
15 7 (0.20%) Basel II
15 7 (0.20%) Dodd-Frank
15 7 (0.20%) PMO
16 5 (0.15%) NIST 800
System Software
1 915 (26.61%) Docker
2 91 (2.65%) Active Directory
3 59 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.55%) Hyper-V
6 18 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
7 11 (0.32%) vSphere
8 8 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 5 (0.15%) Postfix
11 4 (0.12%) Firmware
12 3 (0.087%) Dovecot
13 2 (0.058%) KVM
13 2 (0.058%) Sendmail
14 1 (0.029%) Apache Flume
14 1 (0.029%) HDFS
14 1 (0.029%) Lustre
14 1 (0.029%) NFS
14 1 (0.029%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.029%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 947 (27.54%) Kubernetes
2 825 (23.99%) Terraform
3 391 (11.37%) Ansible
4 135 (3.93%) Prometheus
5 125 (3.63%) Grafana
6 64 (1.86%) Puppet
7 61 (1.77%) Progress Chef
8 31 (0.90%) Istio
9 26 (0.76%) Argo
10 20 (0.58%) Nagios
11 18 (0.52%) AWS Copilot
12 16 (0.47%) CASB
13 15 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
13 15 (0.44%) QRadar
13 15 (0.44%) Red Hat Satellite
14 12 (0.35%) Packer
14 12 (0.35%) Podman
15 9 (0.26%) Kibana
15 9 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
16 7 (0.20%) Nessus
Vendors
1 864 (25.12%) Microsoft
2 196 (5.70%) Google
3 153 (4.45%) Oracle
4 139 (4.04%) Databricks
5 105 (3.05%) VMware
6 85 (2.47%) IBM
7 82 (2.38%) Red Hat
8 73 (2.12%) ServiceNow
9 47 (1.37%) Atlassian
9 47 (1.37%) Xamarin
10 45 (1.31%) Salesforce
11 44 (1.28%) SAP
12 43 (1.25%) Dynatrace
13 31 (0.90%) OpenAI
13 31 (0.90%) Splunk
14 29 (0.84%) Cisco
15 23 (0.67%) Citrix
16 20 (0.58%) New Relic
17 18 (0.52%) Adobe
18 15 (0.44%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud