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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 18 15
Rank change year-on-year -21 -3 -3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 2,778 4,094 5,070
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.26% 8.50% 10.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.47% 9.36% 11.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,025 2,511 4,141
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £54,439 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.45%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £69,500
% change year-on-year - +0.72% -0.71%

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 42,913 43,729 44,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.21% 90.84% 89.77%
Number of salaries quoted 25,804 21,413 34,236
10th Percentile £28,742 £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 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 14 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 14 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 1,259 £80,000 -5.88% 445
North of England -11 486 £65,000 +4.00% 352
South East -34 377 £65,000 -3.70% 451
Midlands -31 246 £63,500 +1.60% 181
South West -15 225 £60,000 -7.43% 186
North West -18 219 £65,000 - 158
Yorkshire -3 201 £60,000 +9.09% 145
West Midlands -29 179 £62,500 -0.04% 87
East of England -33 99 £67,500 +27.36% 162
North East +11 68 £52,500 -22.99% 50
East Midlands -25 62 £63,750 +10.87% 90
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 55 (1.98%) Confluence
2 53 (1.91%) SharePoint
3 52 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
3 52 (1.87%) Apache Spark
4 45 (1.62%) Apache
5 38 (1.37%) IIS
6 27 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
7 15 (0.54%) CMS
8 13 (0.47%) nginx
9 11 (0.40%) Appian
9 11 (0.40%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.22%) Camunda
10 6 (0.22%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.18%) Moodle
12 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.11%) Liferay
12 3 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.072%) Anypoint
13 2 (0.072%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.072%) JBoss
Applications
1 45 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (0.68%) MS Visio
4 16 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.22%) Trello
7 4 (0.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 3 (0.11%) PlantUML
8 3 (0.11%) Siemens NX
9 2 (0.072%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.072%) S-PLUS
9 2 (0.072%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.036%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.036%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 56 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.50%) SAP ERP
2 14 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.43%) Endur
4 9 (0.32%) SAP FS
5 8 (0.29%) Shopify
6 6 (0.22%) Teamcenter
7 5 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
9 3 (0.11%) SAP CX
10 2 (0.072%) Elite 3E
10 2 (0.072%) Markit EDM
10 2 (0.072%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.072%) Payment Gateway
10 2 (0.072%) Workday HCM
11 1 (0.036%) NEC Housing
11 1 (0.036%) Primavera
11 1 (0.036%) SAP IBP
11 1 (0.036%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,545 (55.62%) Azure
2 952 (34.27%) AWS
3 801 (28.83%) Azure DevOps
4 365 (13.14%) GitHub
5 307 (11.05%) GCP
6 287 (10.33%) Power Platform
7 273 (9.83%) Serverless
8 256 (9.22%) SaaS
9 193 (6.95%) GitHub Actions
10 154 (5.54%) Amazon S3
11 153 (5.51%) AWS CloudFormation
12 145 (5.22%) AWS Lambda
13 143 (5.15%) PaaS
14 115 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
15 102 (3.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 99 (3.56%) Amazon ECS
16 99 (3.56%) Dynamics 365
17 90 (3.24%) Amazon EKS
18 81 (2.92%) Entra ID
19 76 (2.74%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 100 (3.60%) Firewall
2 83 (2.99%) DNS
3 51 (1.84%) VPN
4 48 (1.73%) WAN
5 46 (1.66%) TCP/IP
6 43 (1.55%) Network Security
7 29 (1.04%) HTTP
7 29 (1.04%) LAN
8 28 (1.01%) DHCP
9 21 (0.76%) SAN
9 21 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
10 16 (0.58%) Broadband
10 16 (0.58%) SD-WAN
11 13 (0.47%) VLAN
12 12 (0.43%) AMQP
13 11 (0.40%) VoIP
14 10 (0.36%) SSH
15 9 (0.32%) FTP
15 9 (0.32%) SMTP
15 9 (0.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 254 (9.14%) SQL Server
2 157 (5.65%) Power BI
3 143 (5.15%) NoSQL
4 124 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
5 103 (3.71%) Data Warehouse
6 84 (3.02%) Relational Database
7 81 (2.92%) Amazon RDS
8 79 (2.84%) Azure SQL Database
9 70 (2.52%) DynamoDB
10 63 (2.27%) Data Lake
11 56 (2.02%) MongoDB
12 55 (1.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 52 (1.87%) MySQL
14 51 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
15 46 (1.66%) Metadata
16 42 (1.51%) BigQuery
17 38 (1.37%) Tableau
18 37 (1.33%) Big Data
18 37 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
19 30 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 332 (11.95%) Git
2 283 (10.19%) Jenkins
3 173 (6.23%) GitLab
4 172 (6.19%) JIRA
5 90 (3.24%) Selenium
6 70 (2.52%) Cypress.io
7 40 (1.44%) SonarQube
8 36 (1.30%) Bitbucket
9 31 (1.12%) Maven
9 31 (1.12%) Postman
10 29 (1.04%) TeamCity
11 27 (0.97%) JMeter
12 26 (0.94%) Cucumber
12 26 (0.94%) Octopus Deploy
12 26 (0.94%) Visual Studio
13 25 (0.90%) JUnit
14 23 (0.83%) Robot Framework
14 23 (0.83%) Snyk
15 21 (0.76%) Artifactory
16 17 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 792 (28.51%) Social Skills
2 615 (22.14%) Finance
3 290 (10.44%) Analytical Skills
4 149 (5.36%) Banking
5 124 (4.46%) Public Sector
6 117 (4.21%) Law
7 100 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 81 (2.92%) Retail
9 72 (2.59%) Marketing
10 62 (2.23%) Telecoms
11 51 (1.84%) Financial Institution
12 50 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
13 49 (1.76%) Manufacturing
14 44 (1.58%) Legal
15 42 (1.51%) Games
16 32 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
17 30 (1.08%) Front Office
18 27 (0.97%) Advertising
18 27 (0.97%) Aviation
19 26 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 506 (18.21%) Developer
2 496 (17.85%) Senior
3 417 (15.01%) DevOps Engineer
4 394 (14.18%) Lead
5 254 (9.14%) Architect
6 206 (7.42%) Software Engineer
7 151 (5.44%) Cloud Engineer
8 130 (4.68%) Data Engineer
9 123 (4.43%) Azure Engineer
10 122 (4.39%) Platform Engineer
10 122 (4.39%) Solutions Architect
11 119 (4.28%) Senior Developer
12 105 (3.78%) Analyst
13 94 (3.38%) Senior DevOps
14 93 (3.35%) Full-Stack Developer
15 87 (3.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 76 (2.74%) AWS Engineer
17 72 (2.59%) Lead DevOps
18 68 (2.45%) .NET Developer
19 65 (2.34%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 408 (14.69%) .NET
2 261 (9.40%) React
3 166 (5.98%) REST
4 163 (5.87%) RESTful
5 139 (5.00%) Kafka
6 133 (4.79%) Spring
7 131 (4.72%) Node.js
7 131 (4.72%) Spring Boot
8 125 (4.50%) CSS
9 124 (4.46%) HTML
10 115 (4.14%) AngularJS
11 94 (3.38%) .NET Framework
12 91 (3.28%) Middleware
13 90 (3.24%) .NET Core
14 81 (2.92%) ASP.NET
15 73 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
16 72 (2.59%) YAML
17 62 (2.23%) Vue
18 50 (1.80%) Blazor
19 48 (1.73%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 388 (13.97%) Cloud Native
2 144 (5.18%) Product Ownership
3 97 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
4 80 (2.88%) Management Information System
5 78 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
6 76 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
7 51 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
7 51 (1.84%) Mobile App
8 49 (1.76%) Onboarding
9 47 (1.69%) Low-Code
10 45 (1.62%) Security Posture
11 39 (1.40%) Algorithms
12 33 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
13 32 (1.15%) Virtual Team
14 31 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
15 30 (1.08%) Public Cloud
16 29 (1.04%) Data Centre
16 29 (1.04%) IoT
17 28 (1.01%) AI Agents
18 27 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 298 (10.73%) Linux
2 223 (8.03%) Windows
3 78 (2.81%) Windows Server
4 61 (2.20%) Unix
5 41 (1.48%) VMS
6 36 (1.30%) Android
7 26 (0.94%) Apple iOS
8 25 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 23 (0.83%) Ubuntu
9 23 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
10 18 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
11 14 (0.50%) Debian
12 7 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
13 5 (0.18%) CentOS
13 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.14%) Mac OS
15 3 (0.11%) Windows 10
16 1 (0.036%) CoreOS
16 1 (0.036%) Solaris
16 1 (0.036%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,446 (52.05%) CI/CD
2 1,109 (39.92%) Agile
3 633 (22.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 569 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
5 451 (16.23%) Mentoring
6 450 (16.20%) Software Engineering
7 434 (15.62%) Microservices
8 426 (15.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 414 (14.90%) Containerisation
10 401 (14.43%) AI
11 323 (11.63%) Test Automation
12 287 (10.33%) Analytics
13 280 (10.08%) Observability
14 271 (9.76%) Roadmaps
15 244 (8.78%) Computer Science
15 244 (8.78%) Scrum
16 235 (8.46%) Full-Stack Development
17 231 (8.32%) SDLC
18 205 (7.38%) Platform Engineering
19 202 (7.27%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 753 (27.11%) Python
2 592 (21.31%) SQL
3 394 (14.18%) C#
4 375 (13.50%) Java
5 299 (10.76%) JavaScript
6 283 (10.19%) PowerShell
7 245 (8.82%) Bash
8 233 (8.39%) TypeScript
9 118 (4.25%) Go
10 109 (3.92%) Bicep
11 43 (1.55%) Scala
12 42 (1.51%) C++
13 40 (1.44%) Groovy
13 40 (1.44%) T-SQL
14 33 (1.19%) PHP
15 21 (0.76%) Apex Code
16 19 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 19 (0.68%) R
16 19 (0.68%) Ruby
17 17 (0.61%) Perl
Qualifications
1 367 (13.21%) Degree
2 291 (10.48%) Security Cleared
3 187 (6.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 183 (6.59%) SC Cleared
5 112 (4.03%) Azure Certification
6 109 (3.92%) AWS Certification
7 106 (3.82%) DV Cleared
8 84 (3.02%) Master's Degree
9 52 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 50 (1.80%) ISTQB
11 31 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 29 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
13 28 (1.01%) PhD
14 26 (0.94%) CISSP
15 24 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
16 23 (0.83%) PMI Certification
16 23 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
17 21 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
18 20 (0.72%) CCNP
19 19 (0.68%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 270 (9.72%) QA
2 101 (3.64%) Data Quality
3 99 (3.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 98 (3.53%) GDPR
5 82 (2.95%) Accessibility
6 65 (2.34%) NIST
7 30 (1.08%) NCSC
8 24 (0.86%) PCI DSS
8 24 (0.86%) SLA
9 23 (0.83%) PMO
10 19 (0.68%) SOC 2
11 16 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
12 15 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 15 (0.54%) WCAG
13 14 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 12207
14 11 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 9 (0.32%) IFRS
15 9 (0.32%) IFRS 17
15 9 (0.32%) Solvency II
16 7 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 551 (19.83%) Docker
2 102 (3.67%) Active Directory
3 55 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (0.58%) vSphere
7 11 (0.40%) NFS
8 9 (0.32%) HDFS
9 8 (0.29%) Postfix
10 7 (0.25%) Firmware
11 6 (0.22%) VMware NSX
12 5 (0.18%) Hyper-V
12 5 (0.18%) Squid
12 5 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
13 4 (0.14%) DFS Replication
13 4 (0.14%) Dovecot
13 4 (0.14%) Kamailio
14 2 (0.072%) iptables
14 2 (0.072%) Virtual Servers
15 1 (0.036%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 675 (24.30%) Terraform
2 609 (21.92%) Kubernetes
3 287 (10.33%) Ansible
4 157 (5.65%) Prometheus
5 155 (5.58%) Grafana
6 49 (1.76%) Argo
7 44 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
8 22 (0.79%) HP Fortify
8 22 (0.79%) SCCM
9 18 (0.65%) Kibana
10 17 (0.61%) Puppet
11 15 (0.54%) Progress Chef
11 15 (0.54%) vCenter Server
12 14 (0.50%) Kustomize
13 12 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
14 10 (0.36%) Rancher
15 8 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
15 8 (0.29%) Red Hat Satellite
16 7 (0.25%) Control-M
16 7 (0.25%) Nagios
Vendors
1 543 (19.55%) Microsoft
2 100 (3.60%) Databricks
2 100 (3.60%) Google
3 90 (3.24%) Salesforce
3 90 (3.24%) VMware
4 79 (2.84%) Oracle
5 62 (2.23%) SAP
6 55 (1.98%) ServiceNow
7 52 (1.87%) Red Hat
8 48 (1.73%) Cisco
9 43 (1.55%) Splunk
10 34 (1.22%) Palo Alto
11 32 (1.15%) Guidewire
12 27 (0.97%) MuleSoft
13 23 (0.83%) SolarWinds
14 19 (0.68%) Black Duck
14 19 (0.68%) Coverity
14 19 (0.68%) Fortinet
14 19 (0.68%) OpenAI
14 19 (0.68%) Veeam