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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 24 12
Rank change year-on-year +1 -12 +1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 3,958 6,763 11,539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.08% 7.56% 13.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.60% 8.99% 13.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,201 4,739 6,965
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,745 £51,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £89,852
90th Percentile £111,250 £102,500 £106,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% -7.14% -

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 46,039 75,199 82,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.03% 84.05% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 22,875 54,702 49,146
10th Percentile £29,500 £29,000 £34,452
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +2 1,456 £80,000 - 1,741
North of England -9 874 £67,813 +13.02% 3,283
South East -6 665 £70,000 +13.82% 4,130
North West -14 644 £69,692 +11.51% 1,573
Midlands -20 324 £60,000 +3.45% 2,720
South West -5 269 £65,000 +7.00% 1,718
West Midlands -13 219 £60,000 - 1,477
East of England +3 197 £65,000 +18.18% 2,120
Yorkshire -10 180 £70,000 +17.60% 1,319
East Midlands -28 105 £55,000 -4.35% 1,059
North East +9 50 £65,000 +8.33% 392
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
1 234 (5.91%) Confluence
2 108 (2.73%) Apache Spark
3 95 (2.40%) Apache
3 95 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
4 67 (1.69%) SharePoint
5 60 (1.52%) Oracle Application Server
6 39 (0.99%) nginx
7 26 (0.66%) CMS
8 23 (0.58%) Jupyter
9 20 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
10 16 (0.40%) JBoss
11 14 (0.35%) IIS
11 14 (0.35%) Red Hat Fuse
12 8 (0.20%) Headless CMS
13 7 (0.18%) Apache Solr
14 5 (0.13%) Appian
14 5 (0.13%) SAS
14 5 (0.13%) Tomcat
15 4 (0.10%) Drupal
15 4 (0.10%) Umbraco
Applications
1 33 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.38%) Chatbot
4 14 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (0.28%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.28%) Trello
6 9 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.23%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 7 (0.18%) Maya
8 5 (0.13%) Sketch
9 4 (0.10%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.076%) Productboard
11 2 (0.051%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.025%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.025%) Moqups
12 1 (0.025%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.025%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 63 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.15%) Shopify
5 4 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
6 3 (0.076%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.076%) Magento
6 3 (0.076%) Orchestrade
7 2 (0.051%) Endur
7 2 (0.051%) Infor M3
7 2 (0.051%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.051%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 2 (0.051%) SAP GRC
7 2 (0.051%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.051%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.025%) Eikon
8 1 (0.025%) LabWindows
8 1 (0.025%) RMDS
8 1 (0.025%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.025%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,843 (46.56%) Azure
2 1,586 (40.07%) AWS
3 812 (20.52%) Azure DevOps
4 500 (12.63%) GCP
5 427 (10.79%) Serverless
6 283 (7.15%) Power Platform
7 266 (6.72%) AWS Lambda
8 258 (6.52%) GitHub
9 239 (6.04%) Pulumi
10 238 (6.01%) SaaS
11 167 (4.22%) PaaS
12 151 (3.82%) Dynamics 365
13 136 (3.44%) Amazon ECS
14 123 (3.11%) Azure Data Factory
15 119 (3.01%) GitHub Actions
16 109 (2.75%) Amazon S3
17 103 (2.60%) Azure Monitor
18 100 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
19 99 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
19 99 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 397 (10.03%) VPN
2 299 (7.55%) Broadband
3 268 (6.77%) Cisco IOS
4 123 (3.11%) Firewall
5 112 (2.83%) TCP/IP
6 96 (2.43%) SSL
7 91 (2.30%) SSH
8 72 (1.82%) DNS
9 68 (1.72%) Network Security
10 34 (0.86%) WAN
11 33 (0.83%) HTTP
12 21 (0.53%) SD-WAN
13 19 (0.48%) SAN
14 14 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
15 13 (0.33%) LAN
16 12 (0.30%) Multicast
17 11 (0.28%) SMTP
18 10 (0.25%) FTP
18 10 (0.25%) Internet
19 8 (0.20%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 468 (11.82%) SQL Server
2 383 (9.68%) NoSQL
3 315 (7.96%) Relational Database
4 228 (5.76%) RDBMS
5 164 (4.14%) Power BI
6 160 (4.04%) Data Warehouse
7 152 (3.84%) PostgreSQL
8 94 (2.37%) MongoDB
9 87 (2.20%) Data Lake
10 86 (2.17%) MySQL
11 85 (2.15%) Big Data
12 79 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
13 73 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
14 64 (1.62%) Apache Iceberg
14 64 (1.62%) Oracle Reports
15 62 (1.57%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
16 61 (1.54%) Dremio
17 60 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
18 59 (1.49%) Apache Arrow
18 59 (1.49%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 465 (11.75%) JIRA
2 445 (11.24%) Git
3 361 (9.12%) GitLab
4 320 (8.08%) Jenkins
5 307 (7.76%) Cucumber
6 296 (7.48%) SonarQube
7 267 (6.75%) Selenium
8 262 (6.62%) Maven
9 260 (6.57%) Sonatype Nexus
10 232 (5.86%) Bitbucket
11 215 (5.43%) Jaeger
12 80 (2.02%) Artifactory
13 76 (1.92%) Visual Studio
14 74 (1.87%) Robot Framework
15 64 (1.62%) JUnit
16 54 (1.36%) Octopus Deploy
17 46 (1.16%) Team Foundation Server
17 46 (1.16%) TeamCity
18 39 (0.99%) Postman
19 34 (0.86%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,156 (29.21%) Finance
2 1,054 (26.63%) Social Skills
3 928 (23.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 617 (15.59%) Analytical Skills
5 465 (11.75%) Banking
6 246 (6.22%) Retail
7 245 (6.19%) Law
8 181 (4.57%) Public Sector
9 122 (3.08%) Telecoms
10 120 (3.03%) Investment Banking
11 95 (2.40%) Front Office
12 90 (2.27%) Corporate Banking
13 77 (1.95%) Marketing
14 76 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
15 64 (1.62%) Military
16 62 (1.57%) Games
17 60 (1.52%) Manufacturing
18 39 (0.99%) Legal
19 31 (0.78%) Financial Institution
20 30 (0.76%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 650 (16.42%) Lead
2 595 (15.03%) Senior
3 564 (14.25%) Developer
4 555 (14.02%) DevOps Engineer
5 436 (11.02%) Software Engineer
6 351 (8.87%) Architect
7 344 (8.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 248 (6.27%) Team Leader
9 244 (6.16%) Cloud Engineer
10 185 (4.67%) Data Engineer
11 172 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
12 165 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
13 157 (3.97%) AWS DevOps
14 153 (3.87%) Senior Developer
15 129 (3.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 121 (3.06%) Senior DevOps
17 113 (2.85%) Python Engineer
18 109 (2.75%) Analyst
19 91 (2.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 87 (2.20%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 529 (13.37%) Elastic Stack
2 510 (12.89%) .NET
3 501 (12.66%) React
4 424 (10.71%) Kafka
5 377 (9.53%) HTML
6 370 (9.35%) CSS
7 355 (8.97%) Spring
8 351 (8.87%) REST
9 345 (8.72%) RESTful
10 332 (8.39%) Spring Boot
11 219 (5.53%) OpenTelemetry
12 209 (5.28%) Redux
13 206 (5.20%) JPA
14 167 (4.22%) AngularJS
15 154 (3.89%) Web Services
16 153 (3.87%) Node.js
17 152 (3.84%) .NET Framework
18 144 (3.64%) .NET Core
19 139 (3.51%) Hibernate
20 133 (3.36%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 402 (10.16%) Product Ownership
2 367 (9.27%) Cyberattack
3 264 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
4 241 (6.09%) Cloud Native
5 222 (5.61%) Management Information System
6 128 (3.23%) Onboarding
7 113 (2.85%) Hybrid Cloud
8 94 (2.37%) PKI
9 88 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
9 88 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
10 82 (2.07%) Algorithms
11 81 (2.05%) Public Cloud
12 76 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
13 60 (1.52%) Data Centre
13 60 (1.52%) Mobile App
14 58 (1.47%) e-Learning
15 44 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
15 44 (1.11%) Security Posture
16 32 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
17 31 (0.78%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 907 (22.92%) Linux
2 535 (13.52%) Windows
3 306 (7.73%) Android
4 269 (6.80%) Unix
5 69 (1.74%) Windows Server
6 64 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 38 (0.96%) Apple iOS
8 32 (0.81%) VMS
9 26 (0.66%) Ubuntu
10 23 (0.58%) CentOS
11 16 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
12 14 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
13 11 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
14 10 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
15 9 (0.23%) Debian
16 8 (0.20%) Mac OS
17 6 (0.15%) Windows 10
17 6 (0.15%) zOS
18 5 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
19 3 (0.076%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,923 (48.59%) Agile
2 1,662 (41.99%) CI/CD
3 955 (24.13%) Problem-Solving
4 947 (23.93%) Mentoring
5 913 (23.07%) Containerisation
6 836 (21.12%) Software Engineering
7 769 (19.43%) Infrastructure as Code
8 754 (19.05%) Microservices
9 627 (15.84%) Test Automation
10 611 (15.44%) Roadmaps
11 528 (13.34%) Performance Optimisation
12 523 (13.21%) Task Automation
13 506 (12.78%) Continuous Improvement
14 490 (12.38%) SDLC
15 442 (11.17%) Platform Engineering
16 414 (10.46%) Analytics
17 408 (10.31%) Continuous Integration
17 408 (10.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 402 (10.16%) Full-Stack Development
19 388 (9.80%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 1,465 (37.01%) Python
2 955 (24.13%) Java
3 940 (23.75%) JavaScript
4 881 (22.26%) SQL
5 704 (17.79%) Bash
6 610 (15.41%) PowerShell
7 556 (14.05%) C#
8 353 (8.92%) Go
9 311 (7.86%) TypeScript
10 67 (1.69%) Bicep
11 53 (1.34%) PHP
12 47 (1.19%) C++
13 43 (1.09%) Apex Code
14 42 (1.06%) T-SQL
15 34 (0.86%) Shell Script
16 32 (0.81%) Groovy
17 31 (0.78%) Scala
18 25 (0.63%) C
18 25 (0.63%) Kotlin
19 22 (0.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 609 (15.39%) Degree
2 329 (8.31%) Security Cleared
3 327 (8.26%) AWS Certification
4 289 (7.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 207 (5.23%) SC Cleared
6 160 (4.04%) Azure Certification
7 97 (2.45%) Master's Degree
8 93 (2.35%) DBS Check
9 85 (2.15%) DV Cleared
10 71 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
11 58 (1.47%) Chartered Engineer
12 53 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
13 47 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 33 (0.83%) ISTQB
14 33 (0.83%) PMI Certification
15 21 (0.53%) PhD
15 21 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
16 18 (0.45%) CISSP
16 18 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 14 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 497 (12.56%) QA
2 161 (4.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 157 (3.97%) GDPR
4 149 (3.76%) Accessibility
5 139 (3.51%) NIST
6 80 (2.02%) Data Quality
7 56 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 53 (1.34%) HIPAA
9 43 (1.09%) SLA
10 31 (0.78%) NCSC
11 29 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 26 (0.66%) PCI DSS
13 25 (0.63%) SOC 2
14 15 (0.38%) PMO
15 12 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
16 9 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 6 (0.15%) CDISC
17 6 (0.15%) NIST 800
18 4 (0.10%) JSP 440
18 4 (0.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 1,433 (36.21%) Docker
2 283 (7.15%) Hyper-V
3 278 (7.02%) vSphere
4 263 (6.64%) VMware NSX
5 165 (4.17%) Active Directory
6 76 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
7 66 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
8 18 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (0.28%) DFS Replication
10 9 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
11 8 (0.20%) Postfix
12 7 (0.18%) NFS
13 6 (0.15%) Veritas Cluster Server
14 5 (0.13%) Dovecot
15 4 (0.10%) Squid
16 1 (0.025%) Apache ZooKeeper
16 1 (0.025%) Firmware
16 1 (0.025%) HDFS
16 1 (0.025%) Oracle RAC
16 1 (0.025%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,316 (33.25%) Terraform
2 1,238 (31.28%) Kubernetes
3 840 (21.22%) Ansible
4 358 (9.04%) Prometheus
5 236 (5.96%) Argo
6 216 (5.46%) Kustomize
7 140 (3.54%) Grafana
8 42 (1.06%) Progress Chef
9 37 (0.93%) Puppet
10 28 (0.71%) Istio
11 27 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
12 24 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
12 24 (0.61%) Nagios
13 12 (0.30%) Proxmox
14 11 (0.28%) Kibana
14 11 (0.28%) Nessus
15 10 (0.25%) AWS Copilot
16 9 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
17 8 (0.20%) Podman
17 8 (0.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 621 (15.69%) Microsoft
2 391 (9.88%) Google
3 308 (7.78%) Cisco
4 307 (7.76%) Splunk
5 277 (7.00%) Juniper
6 262 (6.62%) 3PAR
7 200 (5.05%) Solace
8 161 (4.07%) Oracle
9 158 (3.99%) Databricks
10 115 (2.91%) Red Hat
11 112 (2.83%) IBM
12 104 (2.63%) VMware
13 83 (2.10%) Salesforce
14 82 (2.07%) Thales
15 77 (1.95%) ServiceNow
16 45 (1.14%) SAP
17 31 (0.78%) OpenAI
18 28 (0.71%) Atlassian
19 26 (0.66%) MuleSoft
20 22 (0.56%) Informatica