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 6 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 13 12 10
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,780 16,447 17,345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.30% 15.11% 15.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.11% 15.78% 16.26%
Number of salaries quoted 4,440 9,634 11,752
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,000
25th Percentile £56,219 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £107,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% +11.57%

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 44,098 104,252 106,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.85% 95.75% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 32,639 65,263 72,635
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.83% +0.83% +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 6 December 2023.

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 6 December 2023. 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 -4 2,395 £82,500 +3.13% 885
North of England -2 1,049 £65,000 - 335
South West +6 728 £62,500 +8.70% 174
South East -1 720 £65,000 - 440
Midlands -1 563 £60,000 -4.00% 183
North West -4 550 £65,351 +8.92% 198
Yorkshire -4 437 £65,000 -3.70% 106
West Midlands -5 305 £60,000 -4.00% 126
East Midlands +7 260 £62,500 - 55
East of England +2 171 £65,000 -3.70% 91
North East +6 62 £57,500 -14.81% 34
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
1 203 (3.51%) Confluence
2 160 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 81 (1.40%) Apache
4 63 (1.09%) CMS
5 52 (0.90%) Apache Spark
6 51 (0.88%) nginx
7 48 (0.83%) IIS
7 48 (0.83%) MS Exchange
8 45 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
9 40 (0.69%) WebSphere
10 27 (0.47%) Tomcat
11 25 (0.43%) Jupyter
12 19 (0.33%) OpenStack
13 18 (0.31%) Captiva
13 18 (0.31%) FileNet
14 16 (0.28%) JBoss
14 16 (0.28%) NServiceBus
15 14 (0.24%) Drupal
16 13 (0.22%) Jetty
17 12 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 52 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (0.50%) MS Visio
4 18 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.16%) AutoCAD
6 9 (0.16%) PTC Creo
6 9 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
7 8 (0.14%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.10%) Trello
9 3 (0.052%) Simulink
10 2 (0.035%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.017%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 134 (2.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 36 (0.62%) Unit4 Business World
3 18 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 11 (0.19%) Maximo
5 10 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
6 5 (0.087%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.087%) Endur
7 4 (0.069%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.052%) Magento
8 3 (0.052%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.052%) ReMetrica
8 3 (0.052%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.052%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.035%) iTrent
9 2 (0.035%) SAP FI-GL
9 2 (0.035%) Shopify
9 2 (0.035%) Visualfiles
10 1 (0.017%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.017%) Softmar
10 1 (0.017%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3,408 (58.96%) Azure
2 2,017 (34.90%) AWS
3 1,753 (30.33%) Azure DevOps
4 790 (13.67%) GCP
5 577 (9.98%) Power Platform
6 538 (9.31%) Serverless
7 437 (7.56%) PaaS
8 420 (7.27%) GitHub
9 372 (6.44%) SaaS
10 345 (5.97%) Dynamics 365
11 314 (5.43%) IaaS
12 300 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
13 263 (4.55%) OpenShift
14 234 (4.05%) AWS CloudFormation
15 156 (2.70%) Entra ID
16 154 (2.66%) Cloud Computing
17 150 (2.60%) Azure Service Bus
18 146 (2.53%) PowerApps
19 145 (2.51%) AWS Lambda
20 144 (2.49%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 157 (2.72%) DNS
2 141 (2.44%) Firewall
3 108 (1.87%) TCP/IP
4 100 (1.73%) VPN
5 75 (1.30%) Internet
6 74 (1.28%) HTTP
7 69 (1.19%) Network Security
8 59 (1.02%) DHCP
9 39 (0.67%) WAN
10 26 (0.45%) LAN
11 24 (0.42%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 24 (0.42%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 23 (0.40%) NGFW
13 22 (0.38%) SSL
14 21 (0.36%) SAN
15 19 (0.33%) IPv4
15 19 (0.33%) VLAN
16 18 (0.31%) AMQP
16 18 (0.31%) OSPF
17 16 (0.28%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 669 (11.57%) SQL Server
2 322 (5.57%) Power BI
3 234 (4.05%) NoSQL
4 192 (3.32%) MongoDB
5 187 (3.24%) Relational Database
6 167 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
7 165 (2.85%) Azure SQL Database
8 164 (2.84%) Big Data
9 138 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
10 124 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
11 118 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 115 (1.99%) Data Lake
13 106 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
14 103 (1.78%) MySQL
15 91 (1.57%) RDBMS
16 85 (1.47%) Oracle Database
17 84 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 67 (1.16%) Redis
19 59 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
19 59 (1.02%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 874 (15.12%) Jenkins
2 792 (13.70%) Git
3 454 (7.85%) JIRA
4 296 (5.12%) GitLab
5 209 (3.62%) Selenium
6 161 (2.79%) Cucumber
7 141 (2.44%) Bitbucket
8 125 (2.16%) Artifactory
9 112 (1.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 109 (1.89%) TeamCity
11 106 (1.83%) Maven
11 106 (1.83%) SonarQube
12 103 (1.78%) Postman
13 92 (1.59%) Team Foundation Server
14 87 (1.51%) Visual Studio
15 82 (1.42%) Cypress.io
16 80 (1.38%) Sonatype Nexus
17 69 (1.19%) JUnit
18 66 (1.14%) Octopus Deploy
19 61 (1.06%) CircleCI
General
1 1,575 (27.25%) Finance
2 1,130 (19.55%) Social Skills
3 522 (9.03%) Banking
4 397 (6.87%) Analytical Skills
5 289 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 257 (4.45%) Retail
7 183 (3.17%) Public Sector
8 168 (2.91%) Front Office
9 126 (2.18%) Law
10 122 (2.11%) Telecoms
11 120 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
12 102 (1.76%) Marketing
13 99 (1.71%) Legal
14 90 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
15 87 (1.51%) Manufacturing
16 83 (1.44%) Investment Banking
17 62 (1.07%) Financial Institution
18 54 (0.93%) Aerospace
19 52 (0.90%) Electronics
20 45 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,312 (22.70%) Developer
2 1,256 (21.73%) DevOps Engineer
3 1,070 (18.51%) Senior
4 695 (12.02%) Lead
5 569 (9.84%) Architect
6 481 (8.32%) Software Engineer
7 348 (6.02%) Azure Engineer
8 346 (5.99%) .NET Developer
9 335 (5.80%) Senior DevOps
10 334 (5.78%) Solutions Architect
11 299 (5.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 285 (4.93%) Cloud Engineer
12 285 (4.93%) Senior Developer
13 276 (4.78%) AWS Engineer
14 254 (4.39%) Analyst
15 234 (4.05%) AWS DevOps
16 223 (3.86%) Data Engineer
17 217 (3.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 194 (3.36%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 172 (2.98%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,125 (19.46%) .NET
2 592 (10.24%) React
3 528 (9.13%) AngularJS
4 450 (7.79%) HTML
5 418 (7.23%) CSS
6 353 (6.11%) REST
7 321 (5.55%) ASP.NET
8 309 (5.35%) .NET Core
9 307 (5.31%) Node.js
10 282 (4.88%) .NET Framework
11 272 (4.71%) JSON
12 229 (3.96%) Spring
13 217 (3.75%) Kafka
13 217 (3.75%) RESTful
14 174 (3.01%) Vue
15 173 (2.99%) YAML
16 171 (2.96%) Web Services
17 158 (2.73%) ARM Templates
18 140 (2.42%) Elastic Stack
19 138 (2.39%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 322 (5.57%) Public Cloud
2 296 (5.12%) Cloud Native
3 272 (4.71%) Product Ownership
4 186 (3.22%) Private Cloud
5 160 (2.77%) Greenfield Project
6 130 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
7 118 (2.04%) Data Centre
8 113 (1.96%) Derivative
8 113 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
9 106 (1.83%) Management Information System
10 96 (1.66%) Hedge funds
11 95 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
12 92 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 83 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
14 78 (1.35%) Fixed Income
14 78 (1.35%) Low-Code
15 77 (1.33%) Virtual Team
16 75 (1.30%) Mobile App
17 63 (1.09%) Equities
18 60 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 905 (15.66%) Linux
2 508 (8.79%) Windows
3 207 (3.58%) Unix
4 206 (3.56%) Windows Server
5 109 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 49 (0.85%) Android
7 41 (0.71%) Apple iOS
8 40 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
9 30 (0.52%) Ubuntu
10 27 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
11 26 (0.45%) Solaris
11 26 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
12 24 (0.42%) CentOS
12 24 (0.42%) VMS
12 24 (0.42%) Windows 10
13 22 (0.38%) Debian
14 18 (0.31%) HPUX
15 12 (0.21%) AIX
16 11 (0.19%) Fedora
17 8 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,895 (50.09%) Agile
2 2,128 (36.82%) CI/CD
3 1,126 (19.48%) Software Engineering
4 1,089 (18.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 876 (15.16%) Problem-Solving
6 830 (14.36%) Microservices
7 741 (12.82%) Mentoring
8 676 (11.70%) Containerisation
9 662 (11.45%) Scrum
10 643 (11.12%) Test Automation
11 546 (9.45%) Continuous Integration
12 524 (9.07%) TDD
13 511 (8.84%) Actionable Insight
14 492 (8.51%) Full Stack Development
15 480 (8.30%) Roadmaps
16 442 (7.65%) Analytics
17 438 (7.58%) SDLC
18 386 (6.68%) Migration
19 375 (6.49%) Computer Science
20 370 (6.40%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,629 (28.18%) Python
2 1,249 (21.61%) SQL
3 1,137 (19.67%) C#
4 1,115 (19.29%) Java
5 1,085 (18.77%) JavaScript
6 792 (13.70%) PowerShell
7 661 (11.44%) Bash
8 425 (7.35%) TypeScript
9 259 (4.48%) Go
10 196 (3.39%) Ruby
11 190 (3.29%) T-SQL
12 152 (2.63%) Perl
13 140 (2.42%) C++
14 123 (2.13%) Bicep
15 115 (1.99%) PHP
16 92 (1.59%) Shell Script
17 90 (1.56%) Groovy
18 70 (1.21%) Kotlin
19 66 (1.14%) C
20 56 (0.97%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 803 (13.89%) Security Cleared
2 708 (12.25%) Degree
3 518 (8.96%) SC Cleared
4 279 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 165 (2.85%) Azure Certification
6 135 (2.34%) AWS Certification
6 135 (2.34%) DV Cleared
7 108 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
8 91 (1.57%) TOGAF Certification
9 55 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 52 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
10 52 (0.90%) Master's Degree
11 47 (0.81%) ISTQB
12 38 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 31 (0.54%) ISEB
14 28 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 27 (0.47%) CISSP
16 26 (0.45%) CCNA
17 21 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
17 21 (0.36%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 523 (9.05%) QA
2 107 (1.85%) Data Quality
3 67 (1.16%) Accessibility
4 65 (1.12%) GDPR
5 62 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 38 (0.66%) SLA
7 37 (0.64%) PMO
8 29 (0.50%) NIST
9 19 (0.33%) PCI DSS
10 17 (0.29%) NCSC
11 14 (0.24%) COBIT
12 8 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.14%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.10%) GAAP
13 6 (0.10%) ISO 9000
13 6 (0.10%) WCAG
14 5 (0.087%) DO-178B
14 5 (0.087%) IEC 61508
14 5 (0.087%) Software Quality Assurance
15 4 (0.069%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 1,441 (24.93%) Docker
2 312 (5.40%) Active Directory
3 177 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 105 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
5 76 (1.31%) Hyper-V
6 58 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
7 38 (0.66%) vSphere
8 34 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
9 13 (0.22%) Firmware
10 9 (0.16%) KVM
11 7 (0.12%) Ceph
11 7 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.069%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 4 (0.069%) DFS Replication
12 4 (0.069%) FreeRADIUS
13 3 (0.052%) Apache Flume
13 3 (0.052%) IAG
13 3 (0.052%) NFS
13 3 (0.052%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.052%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 1,663 (28.77%) Kubernetes
2 1,506 (26.06%) Terraform
3 786 (13.60%) Ansible
4 235 (4.07%) Puppet
5 172 (2.98%) Grafana
6 146 (2.53%) Prometheus
7 121 (2.09%) Progress Chef
8 58 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
9 57 (0.99%) Packer
10 56 (0.97%) Argo
11 50 (0.87%) Rancher
12 49 (0.85%) SCCM
13 48 (0.83%) Istio
14 42 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 37 (0.64%) Nagios
16 35 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
17 25 (0.43%) SCOM
18 22 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
19 19 (0.33%) Kibana
20 17 (0.29%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1,279 (22.13%) Microsoft
2 267 (4.62%) Google
3 259 (4.48%) Oracle
4 244 (4.22%) VMware
5 134 (2.32%) Databricks
6 122 (2.11%) Splunk
7 121 (2.09%) ServiceNow
8 113 (1.96%) IBM
9 111 (1.92%) Red Hat
10 80 (1.38%) Cisco
11 78 (1.35%) SAP
12 74 (1.28%) Citrix
13 68 (1.18%) Atlassian
14 49 (0.85%) TOWER Software
15 47 (0.81%) New Relic
16 44 (0.76%) HP
17 42 (0.73%) Salesforce
18 34 (0.59%) Fortinet
19 30 (0.52%) F5
20 29 (0.50%) AppDynamics