DevOps Jobs in the UK excluding London

DevOps
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 14 11
Rank change year-on-year -14 -3 +1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,233 7,802 9,909
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.47% 12.63% 14.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.85% 13.20% 14.92%
Number of salaries quoted 3,402 4,137 6,195
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,715 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,145 59,105 66,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.43% 95.64% 94.05%
Number of salaries quoted 40,986 30,311 41,402
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the UK excluding London

DevOps
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for DevOps in the UK excluding London

DevOps
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps in the UK excluding London

DevOps
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 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
North of England -12 1,373 £60,000 -2.44% 290
South East -3 1,312 £61,500 -5.38% 220
South West -3 872 £60,500 -3.20% 159
North West -7 840 £62,500 - 186
Midlands -10 721 £58,500 +1.74% 171
Scotland -41 492 £69,000 +3.32% 78
West Midlands -10 464 £60,000 - 107
Yorkshire -10 439 £60,000 -4.00% 86
East Midlands -12 259 £57,500 +4.55% 64
East of England -30 237 £57,500 -11.54% 89
Wales -5 165 £55,000 +6.80% 28
North East -8 96 £57,500 +4.55% 20
Northern Ireland 0 68 £60,000 - 30
Channel Islands - 3 £110,000 -
Isle of Man - 3 - - 1
DevOps
UK

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 284 (5.43%) ArcGIS
1 284 (5.43%) GeoServer
2 174 (3.33%) Confluence
3 134 (2.56%) SharePoint
4 113 (2.16%) IIS
5 81 (1.55%) CMS
6 69 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
7 67 (1.28%) Umbraco
8 59 (1.13%) nginx
9 53 (1.01%) Apache
10 51 (0.97%) OpenStack
11 41 (0.78%) Headless CMS
11 41 (0.78%) Kentico
12 40 (0.76%) Apache Spark
13 39 (0.75%) Sitecore CMS
14 28 (0.54%) WebSphere
15 22 (0.42%) Captiva
15 22 (0.42%) FileNet
16 18 (0.34%) Jupyter
17 14 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 53 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 34 (0.65%) MS Visio
4 32 (0.61%) UserZoom
5 29 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
6 20 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 15 (0.29%) Sketch
8 14 (0.27%) Trello
9 11 (0.21%) Simulink
10 10 (0.19%) Photoshop
11 7 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
12 5 (0.096%) Adobe XD
13 3 (0.057%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.038%) S-PLUS
15 1 (0.019%) AutoCAD
15 1 (0.019%) Chatbot
15 1 (0.019%) GNU Octave
15 1 (0.019%) InVision
15 1 (0.019%) MicroStation
15 1 (0.019%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 102 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 36 (0.69%) Dynamics AX
3 28 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 11 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
5 8 (0.15%) Magento
5 8 (0.15%) Maximo
5 8 (0.15%) Shopify
6 7 (0.13%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.076%) Elite 3E
7 4 (0.076%) SAP S/4HANA
7 4 (0.076%) Visualfiles
8 3 (0.057%) Oracle Applications
8 3 (0.057%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.038%) Infor M3
9 2 (0.038%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.038%) SAP FI-GL
9 2 (0.038%) SystmOne
10 1 (0.019%) Dynamics GP
10 1 (0.019%) NEC Housing
10 1 (0.019%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3,069 (58.65%) Azure
2 1,817 (34.72%) AWS
3 1,550 (29.62%) Azure DevOps
4 558 (10.66%) GCP
5 377 (7.20%) Serverless
6 370 (7.07%) SaaS
7 350 (6.69%) Power Platform
8 260 (4.97%) Microsoft 365
9 254 (4.85%) GitHub
10 231 (4.41%) Dynamics 365
11 222 (4.24%) IBM Cloud
12 198 (3.78%) PaaS
13 173 (3.31%) Azure Service Bus
14 172 (3.29%) Amazon S3
15 170 (3.25%) Azure Functions
16 157 (3.00%) Azure Logic Apps
17 150 (2.87%) IaaS
18 131 (2.50%) Azure API Management
19 126 (2.41%) PowerApps
20 125 (2.39%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 174 (3.33%) Firewall
2 155 (2.96%) DNS
3 82 (1.57%) TCP/IP
4 80 (1.53%) VPN
5 74 (1.41%) DHCP
5 74 (1.41%) HTTP
6 61 (1.17%) Network Security
7 49 (0.94%) WAN
8 32 (0.61%) LAN
9 21 (0.40%) Internet
10 19 (0.36%) SD-WAN
10 19 (0.36%) Unified Communications
11 18 (0.34%) SSL
12 13 (0.25%) MQTT
13 11 (0.21%) 5G
13 11 (0.21%) BGP
13 11 (0.21%) Intranet
14 10 (0.19%) NGFW
15 9 (0.17%) SAN
15 9 (0.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 627 (11.98%) SQL Server
2 552 (10.55%) PostgreSQL
3 330 (6.31%) Relational Database
4 302 (5.77%) NoSQL
5 293 (5.60%) GIS
6 284 (5.43%) QGIS
7 242 (4.62%) Looker
8 240 (4.59%) MongoDB
9 237 (4.53%) BigQuery
10 229 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
11 196 (3.75%) Power BI
12 166 (3.17%) MySQL
13 118 (2.25%) DB2
14 116 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
15 93 (1.78%) Big Data
16 91 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
17 85 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
18 62 (1.18%) RDBMS
19 55 (1.05%) DynamoDB
20 52 (0.99%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 786 (15.02%) Git
2 492 (9.40%) Jenkins
3 471 (9.00%) JIRA
4 216 (4.13%) Visual Studio
5 210 (4.01%) GitLab
6 107 (2.04%) Team Foundation Server
7 105 (2.01%) Selenium
8 103 (1.97%) Bitbucket
9 85 (1.62%) Postman
10 68 (1.30%) Cypress.io
11 61 (1.17%) Sourcetree
12 60 (1.15%) Cucumber
13 59 (1.13%) JUnit
14 51 (0.97%) Jasmine
14 51 (0.97%) NUnit
14 51 (0.97%) TeamCity
15 48 (0.92%) Subversion
16 42 (0.80%) SonarQube
17 37 (0.71%) Oracle Forms
18 34 (0.65%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 1,062 (20.29%) Social Skills
2 743 (14.20%) Finance
3 492 (9.40%) Analytical Skills
4 364 (6.96%) Public Sector
5 336 (6.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 286 (5.47%) Law
7 238 (4.55%) Banking
8 180 (3.44%) Retail
9 161 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
10 149 (2.85%) Marketing
11 128 (2.45%) Legal
12 126 (2.41%) Aerospace
13 121 (2.31%) Games
14 75 (1.43%) Billing
15 74 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
16 71 (1.36%) Manufacturing
17 48 (0.92%) Automotive
18 46 (0.88%) Telecoms
19 45 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
20 44 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,371 (26.20%) Developer
2 1,079 (20.62%) Senior
3 731 (13.97%) Software Engineer
4 674 (12.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 532 (10.17%) Lead
6 347 (6.63%) Senior Developer
7 332 (6.34%) Architect
8 292 (5.58%) Data Engineer
9 283 (5.41%) Senior Software Engineer
10 270 (5.16%) .NET Developer
11 262 (5.01%) Full Stack Developer
12 246 (4.70%) Software Developer
13 214 (4.09%) Platform Engineer
14 179 (3.42%) Azure Engineer
15 177 (3.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 167 (3.19%) Cloud Engineer
17 164 (3.13%) Principal Engineer
18 159 (3.04%) Azure Developer
19 150 (2.87%) Analyst
20 149 (2.85%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,387 (26.50%) .NET
2 954 (18.23%) React
3 773 (14.77%) CSS
4 615 (11.75%) .NET Core
5 563 (10.76%) HTML
6 525 (10.03%) AngularJS
7 458 (8.75%) ASP.NET
8 453 (8.66%) Node.js
9 346 (6.61%) .NET Framework
10 327 (6.25%) REST
11 287 (5.48%) PostGIS
12 284 (5.43%) Leaflet
12 284 (5.43%) OpenLayers
13 278 (5.31%) Web Services
14 271 (5.18%) RESTful
15 263 (5.03%) Vue
16 234 (4.47%) JSON
17 219 (4.18%) jQuery
18 205 (3.92%) Spring
19 189 (3.61%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 339 (6.48%) Product Ownership
2 284 (5.43%) Hybrid Cloud
3 273 (5.22%) Self-Motivation
4 263 (5.03%) Public Cloud
5 219 (4.18%) Blockchain
6 211 (4.03%) Cloud Native
7 173 (3.31%) Data Structures
8 167 (3.19%) Algorithms
9 166 (3.17%) Management Information System
10 143 (2.73%) Private Cloud
11 140 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
12 124 (2.37%) Data Centre
13 99 (1.89%) IoT
14 98 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
14 98 (1.87%) Mobile App
15 89 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
16 77 (1.47%) Low-Code
17 70 (1.34%) Onboarding
18 65 (1.24%) e-Learning
19 60 (1.15%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 917 (17.52%) Linux
2 574 (10.97%) Windows
3 170 (3.25%) Android
4 161 (3.08%) Apple iOS
5 136 (2.60%) Windows Server
6 81 (1.55%) Unix
7 80 (1.53%) Ubuntu
8 69 (1.32%) CentOS
9 68 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 64 (1.22%) Debian
11 46 (0.88%) Alpine Linux
12 43 (0.82%) VMS
13 28 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
14 26 (0.50%) Windows 10
15 23 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
16 21 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
17 14 (0.27%) Mac OS X
18 13 (0.25%) CoreOS
19 10 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
20 7 (0.13%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,767 (52.88%) Agile
2 1,556 (29.73%) CI/CD
3 1,281 (24.48%) Software Engineering
4 1,089 (20.81%) Problem-Solving
5 787 (15.04%) Mentoring
6 759 (14.50%) Scrum
7 669 (12.78%) Actionable Insight
8 649 (12.40%) Infrastructure as Code
9 601 (11.48%) Web Development
10 555 (10.61%) Full Stack Development
11 552 (10.55%) Continuous Integration
12 551 (10.53%) Microservices
13 543 (10.38%) Test Automation
14 541 (10.34%) Containerisation
15 481 (9.19%) SDLC
16 454 (8.68%) Roadmaps
17 440 (8.41%) Artificial Intelligence
18 431 (8.24%) Design Patterns
19 413 (7.89%) MVC
20 383 (7.32%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,400 (26.75%) C#
2 1,348 (25.76%) JavaScript
3 1,256 (24.00%) Python
4 1,098 (20.98%) SQL
5 755 (14.43%) Java
6 415 (7.93%) PowerShell
7 349 (6.67%) Bash
8 347 (6.63%) TypeScript
9 165 (3.15%) PHP
10 137 (2.62%) T-SQL
11 126 (2.41%) Go
12 118 (2.25%) C
13 93 (1.78%) Bicep
13 93 (1.78%) C++
14 86 (1.64%) Ruby
15 72 (1.38%) Shell Script
16 71 (1.36%) VB.NET
17 60 (1.15%) Perl
18 56 (1.07%) Groovy
19 52 (0.99%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,072 (20.49%) Security Cleared
2 818 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 816 (15.59%) Degree
4 253 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 185 (3.54%) DV Cleared
6 153 (2.92%) Azure Certification
7 132 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 116 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
9 107 (2.04%) AWS Certification
10 91 (1.74%) Master's Degree
11 55 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
12 46 (0.88%) MCSE
13 45 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 43 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
15 41 (0.78%) MCSA
16 38 (0.73%) PMI Certification
17 37 (0.71%) CCNA
18 36 (0.69%) DBS Check
18 36 (0.69%) ISTQB
19 32 (0.61%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 450 (8.60%) QA
2 227 (4.34%) GDPR
3 100 (1.91%) Data Quality
4 63 (1.20%) PMO
5 62 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 41 (0.78%) Accessibility
7 33 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
8 25 (0.48%) NIST
9 21 (0.40%) PCI DSS
9 21 (0.40%) SLA
10 15 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
11 14 (0.27%) NCSC
12 13 (0.25%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.15%) PSD2
14 7 (0.13%) ISO 13485
15 5 (0.096%) GRC
16 4 (0.076%) MISRA
16 4 (0.076%) SOC 2
17 3 (0.057%) IFRS
17 3 (0.057%) Solvency II
System Software
1 896 (17.12%) Docker
2 182 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 137 (2.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 117 (2.24%) Virtual Machines
5 109 (2.08%) Hyper-V
6 43 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (0.50%) Firmware
8 24 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
9 18 (0.34%) vSphere
10 13 (0.25%) VMware NSX
11 10 (0.19%) NFS
11 10 (0.19%) pfSense
12 7 (0.13%) IAG
13 6 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
13 6 (0.11%) KVM
14 4 (0.076%) VMware Server
15 3 (0.057%) VirtualBox
15 3 (0.057%) Xen
15 3 (0.057%) XenApp
16 2 (0.038%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 993 (18.98%) Kubernetes
2 921 (17.60%) Terraform
3 498 (9.52%) Ansible
4 149 (2.85%) Puppet
5 139 (2.66%) Prometheus
6 129 (2.47%) Grafana
7 89 (1.70%) Progress Chef
8 35 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
9 31 (0.59%) ZABBIX
10 27 (0.52%) Kibana
11 23 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
12 22 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
13 20 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 20 (0.38%) SCOM
14 19 (0.36%) Rancher
14 19 (0.36%) SCCM
15 17 (0.32%) HAProxy
16 16 (0.31%) FortiGate
17 14 (0.27%) WSUS
18 13 (0.25%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,161 (22.19%) Microsoft
2 381 (7.28%) Google
3 298 (5.69%) IBM
4 285 (5.45%) ESRI
5 281 (5.37%) Red Hat
6 194 (3.71%) VMware
7 177 (3.38%) Oracle
8 102 (1.95%) Databricks
9 86 (1.64%) ServiceNow
10 70 (1.34%) Dynatrace
11 63 (1.20%) Cisco
12 60 (1.15%) SAP
13 55 (1.05%) Atlassian
14 54 (1.03%) Splunk
15 46 (0.88%) Sitecore
16 41 (0.78%) Citrix
17 35 (0.67%) Optimizely
17 35 (0.67%) WSO2
18 33 (0.63%) Adobe
19 32 (0.61%) Salesforce