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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 12 12
Rank change year-on-year -12 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 6,706 13,161 20,664
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.89% 14.05% 15.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.19% 14.69% 16.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4,802 7,663 11,640
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 £105,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +11.11%

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 72,981 89,600 124,867
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.92% 95.65% 95.66%
Number of salaries quoted 53,915 52,820 73,594
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £33,306
25th Percentile £39,750 £46,000 £44,186
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 £61,700 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.86% +2.83% +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 25 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 25 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 2,140 £82,000 +2.50% 846
North of England -13 1,377 £60,000 -1.93% 304
South East -3 1,314 £61,500 -5.38% 256
South West -4 873 £60,000 -4.00% 157
North West -7 839 £62,641 +0.23% 203
Midlands -12 728 £60,000 +4.35% 175
West Midlands -9 471 £60,000 - 114
Yorkshire -7 443 £60,000 -4.00% 83
East Midlands -11 259 £57,500 +4.55% 61
East of England -24 237 £57,500 -11.54% 93
North East -6 97 £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 (2.97%) Confluence
2 196 (2.92%) ArcGIS
2 196 (2.92%) GeoServer
3 179 (2.67%) SharePoint
4 143 (2.13%) CMS
5 125 (1.86%) IIS
6 102 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
7 83 (1.24%) Apache
8 79 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
9 78 (1.16%) nginx
10 73 (1.09%) Apache Spark
11 68 (1.01%) Umbraco
12 58 (0.86%) OpenStack
13 46 (0.69%) Sitecore CMS
14 42 (0.63%) Headless CMS
14 42 (0.63%) Kentico
15 35 (0.52%) Drupal
16 28 (0.42%) WordPress
17 19 (0.28%) Jupyter
17 19 (0.28%) WebSphere
Applications
1 68 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (0.98%) 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%) Chatbot
13 1 (0.015%) GNU Octave
13 1 (0.015%) InVision
13 1 (0.015%) PTC Creo
13 1 (0.015%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 153 (2.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 47 (0.70%) Dynamics AX
3 34 (0.51%) 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 9 (0.13%) Maximo
8 8 (0.12%) Shopify
9 5 (0.075%) SAP S/4HANA
9 5 (0.075%) Temenos T24
10 4 (0.060%) Elite 3E
10 4 (0.060%) Oracle EBS
10 4 (0.060%) Primavera
10 4 (0.060%) Visualfiles
11 3 (0.045%) Oracle Applications
11 3 (0.045%) Remedy ITSM
11 3 (0.045%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.045%) SAP ERP
12 2 (0.030%) SAP FI-GL
Cloud Services
1 3,903 (58.20%) Azure
2 2,445 (36.46%) AWS
3 2,085 (31.09%) Azure DevOps
4 720 (10.74%) GCP
5 623 (9.29%) Serverless
6 525 (7.83%) Power Platform
7 434 (6.47%) SaaS
8 392 (5.85%) GitHub
9 341 (5.08%) Dynamics 365
10 336 (5.01%) Microsoft 365
11 318 (4.74%) PaaS
12 279 (4.16%) Amazon S3
13 271 (4.04%) Azure Service Bus
14 246 (3.67%) Azure Functions
15 243 (3.62%) IaaS
16 238 (3.55%) Azure Logic Apps
17 237 (3.53%) IBM Cloud
18 230 (3.43%) AWS CloudFormation
19 224 (3.34%) AWS Lambda
20 211 (3.15%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 245 (3.65%) Firewall
2 235 (3.50%) DNS
3 128 (1.91%) TCP/IP
4 108 (1.61%) Network Security
5 107 (1.60%) VPN
6 103 (1.54%) HTTP
7 94 (1.40%) DHCP
8 82 (1.22%) WAN
9 65 (0.97%) LAN
10 41 (0.61%) Internet
11 29 (0.43%) SSL
12 21 (0.31%) SAN
12 21 (0.31%) SNMP
13 19 (0.28%) Unified Communications
14 18 (0.27%) HTTPS
15 17 (0.25%) BGP
16 15 (0.22%) 5G
16 15 (0.22%) SD-WAN
17 14 (0.21%) NGFW
17 14 (0.21%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 861 (12.84%) SQL Server
2 569 (8.48%) PostgreSQL
3 362 (5.40%) Relational Database
4 349 (5.20%) NoSQL
5 290 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
6 284 (4.24%) Power BI
7 279 (4.16%) MongoDB
8 231 (3.44%) BigQuery
9 212 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
10 210 (3.13%) GIS
11 209 (3.12%) Looker
12 201 (3.00%) MySQL
13 196 (2.92%) QGIS
14 178 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
15 157 (2.34%) Big Data
16 135 (2.01%) Data Lake
17 134 (2.00%) DB2
18 100 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
19 91 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
20 77 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1,029 (15.34%) Git
2 718 (10.71%) Jenkins
3 565 (8.43%) JIRA
4 317 (4.73%) GitLab
5 251 (3.74%) Visual Studio
6 130 (1.94%) Bitbucket
7 128 (1.91%) Team Foundation Server
8 126 (1.88%) Selenium
9 106 (1.58%) Postman
10 98 (1.46%) TeamCity
11 75 (1.12%) Sourcetree
12 71 (1.06%) Artifactory
13 70 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
14 69 (1.03%) NUnit
15 61 (0.91%) SonarQube
15 61 (0.91%) Subversion
16 59 (0.88%) Cypress.io
17 56 (0.84%) Cucumber
18 52 (0.78%) JUnit
19 50 (0.75%) Jasmine
General
1 1,415 (21.10%) Social Skills
2 1,157 (17.25%) Finance
3 646 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
4 484 (7.22%) Public Sector
5 314 (4.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 301 (4.49%) Banking
7 269 (4.01%) Law
8 213 (3.18%) Retail
9 193 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
10 166 (2.48%) Marketing
11 157 (2.34%) Legal
12 128 (1.91%) Aerospace
13 117 (1.74%) Games
14 110 (1.64%) Front Office
15 100 (1.49%) Manufacturing
16 94 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
17 74 (1.10%) Telecoms
18 70 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
19 69 (1.03%) Billing
20 57 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,802 (26.87%) Developer
2 1,382 (20.61%) Senior
3 1,020 (15.21%) DevOps Engineer
4 713 (10.63%) Lead
5 646 (9.63%) Software Engineer
6 523 (7.80%) Architect
7 416 (6.20%) Senior Developer
8 402 (5.99%) .NET Developer
9 365 (5.44%) Data Engineer
10 331 (4.94%) Full Stack Developer
11 291 (4.34%) AWS Engineer
11 291 (4.34%) Azure Engineer
12 266 (3.97%) Platform Engineer
13 261 (3.89%) Software Developer
14 255 (3.80%) Senior DevOps
15 243 (3.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 240 (3.58%) Senior Software Engineer
17 229 (3.41%) Cloud Engineer
18 226 (3.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 211 (3.15%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,691 (25.22%) .NET
2 969 (14.45%) React
3 753 (11.23%) CSS
4 655 (9.77%) AngularJS
5 631 (9.41%) HTML
6 629 (9.38%) .NET Core
7 569 (8.48%) ASP.NET
8 485 (7.23%) REST
9 474 (7.07%) Node.js
10 425 (6.34%) .NET Framework
11 380 (5.67%) RESTful
12 364 (5.43%) Web Services
13 315 (4.70%) JSON
14 306 (4.56%) Vue
15 262 (3.91%) jQuery
16 253 (3.77%) XML
17 233 (3.47%) Spring
18 227 (3.39%) Entity Framework
19 205 (3.06%) PostGIS
20 197 (2.94%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 366 (5.46%) Product Ownership
2 341 (5.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 297 (4.43%) Cloud Native
4 288 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
5 269 (4.01%) Public Cloud
6 264 (3.94%) Blockchain
7 237 (3.53%) Data Structures
8 224 (3.34%) Management Information System
9 188 (2.80%) Algorithms
10 183 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
11 154 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
12 144 (2.15%) Data Centre
13 136 (2.03%) Private Cloud
14 124 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
15 114 (1.70%) Mobile App
16 110 (1.64%) Hedge funds
17 101 (1.51%) IoT
18 76 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 74 (1.10%) e-Learning
20 70 (1.04%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1,131 (16.87%) Linux
2 710 (10.59%) Windows
3 200 (2.98%) Android
4 195 (2.91%) Apple iOS
5 193 (2.88%) Windows Server
6 110 (1.64%) Unix
7 100 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 78 (1.16%) CentOS
9 69 (1.03%) Ubuntu
10 64 (0.95%) Debian
11 60 (0.89%) VMS
12 46 (0.69%) Alpine Linux
13 40 (0.60%) Windows 10
13 40 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
14 26 (0.39%) 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 3,265 (48.69%) Agile
2 2,199 (32.79%) CI/CD
3 1,441 (21.49%) Software Engineering
4 1,318 (19.65%) Problem-Solving
5 986 (14.70%) Scrum
6 979 (14.60%) Infrastructure as Code
7 883 (13.17%) Mentoring
8 774 (11.54%) Microservices
9 769 (11.47%) Containerisation
10 728 (10.86%) Test Automation
11 700 (10.44%) Full Stack Development
12 606 (9.04%) Continuous Integration
13 559 (8.34%) Artificial Intelligence
14 557 (8.31%) Roadmaps
15 552 (8.23%) Web Development
16 536 (7.99%) SDLC
17 514 (7.66%) Actionable Insight
18 510 (7.61%) Design Patterns
19 495 (7.38%) Computer Science
20 487 (7.26%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,798 (26.81%) Python
2 1,749 (26.08%) C#
3 1,471 (21.94%) SQL
4 1,467 (21.88%) JavaScript
5 1,054 (15.72%) Java
6 653 (9.74%) PowerShell
7 476 (7.10%) Bash
8 464 (6.92%) TypeScript
9 263 (3.92%) Go
10 206 (3.07%) T-SQL
11 204 (3.04%) PHP
12 153 (2.28%) Bicep
13 151 (2.25%) C
14 129 (1.92%) Ruby
15 121 (1.80%) C++
16 92 (1.37%) Perl
17 86 (1.28%) Shell Script
18 73 (1.09%) VB.NET
19 57 (0.85%) Kotlin
20 54 (0.81%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1,099 (16.39%) Security Cleared
2 953 (14.21%) Degree
3 817 (12.18%) SC Cleared
4 351 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 216 (3.22%) Azure Certification
6 204 (3.04%) DV Cleared
7 158 (2.36%) AWS Certification
8 150 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
9 144 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
10 124 (1.85%) Master's Degree
11 61 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
12 60 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 46 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
13 46 (0.69%) MCSE
13 46 (0.69%) 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
1 579 (8.63%) QA
2 240 (3.58%) GDPR
3 134 (2.00%) Data Quality
4 87 (1.30%) Accessibility
4 87 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 49 (0.73%) PMO
6 45 (0.67%) NIST
7 39 (0.58%) PCI DSS
8 37 (0.55%) SLA
9 22 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
10 16 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 13 (0.19%) NCSC
12 9 (0.13%) PSD2
13 7 (0.10%) ISO 13485
13 7 (0.10%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.089%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.089%) GRC
15 4 (0.060%) ISO 9000
16 3 (0.045%) IEC 61508
16 3 (0.045%) IFRS
System Software
1 1,310 (19.53%) Docker
2 306 (4.56%) Active Directory
3 177 (2.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 160 (2.39%) Virtual Machines
5 126 (1.88%) Hyper-V
6 65 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
7 43 (0.64%) 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 (0.089%) DFS Replication
14 6 (0.089%) KVM
14 6 (0.089%) VirtualBox
15 4 (0.060%) VMware Server
16 3 (0.045%) Virtual Servers
16 3 (0.045%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1,482 (22.10%) Kubernetes
2 1,403 (20.92%) Terraform
3 685 (10.21%) Ansible
4 258 (3.85%) Puppet
5 211 (3.15%) Prometheus
6 159 (2.37%) Grafana
7 145 (2.16%) Progress Chef
8 43 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 43 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
9 39 (0.58%) ZABBIX
10 38 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
11 37 (0.55%) Kibana
11 37 (0.55%) Packer
12 30 (0.45%) HAProxy
13 26 (0.39%) Nagios
14 25 (0.37%) Consul
15 24 (0.36%) Istio
16 23 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
17 20 (0.30%) Rancher
17 20 (0.30%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1,583 (23.61%) Microsoft
2 424 (6.32%) Google
3 339 (5.06%) Red Hat
4 301 (4.49%) IBM
5 248 (3.70%) VMware
6 218 (3.25%) Oracle
7 199 (2.97%) ESRI
8 197 (2.94%) Databricks
9 102 (1.52%) ServiceNow
10 93 (1.39%) Cisco
11 87 (1.30%) SAP
12 76 (1.13%) Dynatrace
13 71 (1.06%) Citrix
13 71 (1.06%) Splunk
14 61 (0.91%) Adobe
14 61 (0.91%) Atlassian
15 60 (0.89%) Sitecore
16 46 (0.69%) Salesforce
17 42 (0.63%) WSO2
18 40 (0.60%) Informatica