DevOps Jobs in the UK excluding London

DevOps
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 14 14
Rank change year-on-year -11 0 -4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,373 5,908 10,312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.70% 12.27% 13.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.41% 12.84% 13.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2,699 3,633 5,985
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,104 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% - +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,975 45,995 74,754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 79.63% 95.53% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 33,355 26,900 43,045
10th Percentile £28,371 £30,500 £30,076
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,050 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -6 1,335 £62,500 - 148
South East -4 1,104 £62,500 -3.85% 120
North West -5 893 £65,000 -0.54% 98
South West -10 659 £62,500 - 71
Midlands -21 580 £60,000 - 62
Yorkshire -11 369 £60,000 - 37
West Midlands -21 365 £60,000 +4.35% 48
Scotland -31 362 £68,250 +9.20% 53
East Midlands -18 215 £57,500 -11.54% 14
East of England -33 160 £52,500 -16.00% 31
Wales -5 123 £50,000 +5.26% 10
North East -6 73 £55,000 -8.33% 14
Northern Ireland -5 50 £67,500 -8.47% 41
Isle of Man - 3 - - 2
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
1 184 (4.21%) ArcGIS
1 184 (4.21%) GeoServer
2 124 (2.84%) Confluence
3 97 (2.22%) IIS
4 87 (1.99%) SharePoint
5 59 (1.35%) Umbraco
6 56 (1.28%) CMS
7 55 (1.26%) Apache
8 51 (1.17%) Apache Spark
9 49 (1.12%) nginx
10 34 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
11 29 (0.66%) Headless CMS
11 29 (0.66%) Kentico
12 27 (0.62%) Sitecore CMS
13 25 (0.57%) OpenStack
14 16 (0.37%) Jupyter
15 15 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
15 15 (0.34%) WordPress
16 10 (0.23%) Apache Solr
16 10 (0.23%) JBoss
Applications
1 41 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (0.75%) Simulink
4 21 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (0.48%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (0.34%) Trello
7 13 (0.30%) Sketch
8 9 (0.21%) Photoshop
9 8 (0.18%) Adobe XD
10 7 (0.16%) UserZoom
11 4 (0.091%) Spreadsheet
12 3 (0.069%) S-PLUS
13 2 (0.046%) Chatbot
14 1 (0.023%) Adobe Illustrator
14 1 (0.023%) InVision
14 1 (0.023%) SketchUp
14 1 (0.023%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 72 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 14 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
4 11 (0.25%) Magento
5 7 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
7 4 (0.091%) Elite 3E
7 4 (0.091%) Shopify
8 3 (0.069%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.046%) BambooHR
9 2 (0.046%) iTrent
9 2 (0.046%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.046%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.046%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.046%) Temenos T24
10 1 (0.023%) Dynamics GP
10 1 (0.023%) Maximo
10 1 (0.023%) NEC Housing
10 1 (0.023%) NetSuite
10 1 (0.023%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2,577 (58.93%) Azure
2 1,684 (38.51%) AWS
3 1,315 (30.07%) Azure DevOps
4 476 (10.88%) GCP
5 314 (7.18%) Power Platform
6 308 (7.04%) Serverless
7 294 (6.72%) SaaS
8 246 (5.63%) IBM Cloud
9 224 (5.12%) GitHub
10 178 (4.07%) Azure Service Bus
11 177 (4.05%) Amazon S3
12 171 (3.91%) Azure Functions
12 171 (3.91%) Azure Logic Apps
13 160 (3.66%) Dynamics 365
14 156 (3.57%) PaaS
15 140 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
16 137 (3.13%) IaaS
17 127 (2.90%) Azure API Management
18 118 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
19 106 (2.42%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 140 (3.20%) Firewall
2 120 (2.74%) DNS
3 65 (1.49%) DHCP
4 55 (1.26%) Network Security
5 50 (1.14%) VPN
6 46 (1.05%) HTTP
7 42 (0.96%) TCP/IP
8 38 (0.87%) WAN
9 21 (0.48%) LAN
10 18 (0.41%) MQTT
11 17 (0.39%) SD-WAN
12 12 (0.27%) 5G
12 12 (0.27%) SSL
13 11 (0.25%) Internet
14 10 (0.23%) Intranet
15 8 (0.18%) VLAN
16 7 (0.16%) Modbus
16 7 (0.16%) Reverse Proxy
17 6 (0.14%) BGP
17 6 (0.14%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 504 (11.53%) PostgreSQL
2 481 (11.00%) SQL Server
3 305 (6.97%) NoSQL
4 277 (6.33%) Relational Database
5 255 (5.83%) MongoDB
6 243 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
7 229 (5.24%) BigQuery
8 223 (5.10%) Looker
9 190 (4.34%) GIS
10 189 (4.32%) Power BI
11 184 (4.21%) QGIS
12 157 (3.59%) Amazon RDS
13 137 (3.13%) MySQL
14 119 (2.72%) DB2
15 108 (2.47%) Big Data
15 108 (2.47%) DynamoDB
16 85 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
17 83 (1.90%) Hadoop
18 77 (1.76%) Geospatial Data
19 76 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 565 (12.92%) Git
2 338 (7.73%) JIRA
3 247 (5.65%) Jenkins
4 177 (4.05%) Visual Studio
5 128 (2.93%) GitLab
6 74 (1.69%) Bitbucket
7 72 (1.65%) Selenium
8 70 (1.60%) Team Foundation Server
9 60 (1.37%) Postman
10 56 (1.28%) Cypress.io
11 50 (1.14%) Jasmine
11 50 (1.14%) SonarQube
12 49 (1.12%) Gatling
13 41 (0.94%) NUnit
14 39 (0.89%) Octopus Deploy
15 38 (0.87%) CircleCI
16 37 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
17 32 (0.73%) TeamCity
18 30 (0.69%) Subversion
19 29 (0.66%) Cucumber
General
1 963 (22.02%) Social Skills
2 483 (11.05%) Finance
3 446 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
4 378 (8.64%) Public Sector
5 252 (5.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 175 (4.00%) Law
7 134 (3.06%) Retail
8 124 (2.84%) Aerospace
9 108 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
10 105 (2.40%) Billing
11 91 (2.08%) Marketing
12 80 (1.83%) Legal
13 66 (1.51%) Games
14 61 (1.39%) Banking
15 53 (1.21%) Electronics
15 53 (1.21%) Manufacturing
16 42 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
17 41 (0.94%) Automotive
18 40 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
19 39 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,119 (25.59%) Developer
2 909 (20.79%) Senior
3 640 (14.64%) DevOps Engineer
4 542 (12.39%) Software Engineer
5 448 (10.24%) Lead
6 407 (9.31%) Architect
7 285 (6.52%) Senior Developer
8 273 (6.24%) Data Engineer
9 260 (5.95%) .NET Developer
10 253 (5.79%) Full Stack Developer
11 235 (5.37%) Software Developer
12 210 (4.80%) Platform Engineer
13 193 (4.41%) Senior Software Engineer
14 192 (4.39%) Azure Developer
15 173 (3.96%) C# Developer
16 167 (3.82%) Senior DevOps
17 164 (3.75%) Principal Engineer
18 162 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
19 155 (3.54%) Cloud Engineer
20 152 (3.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,136 (25.98%) .NET
2 725 (16.58%) React
3 632 (14.45%) CSS
4 480 (10.98%) HTML
5 453 (10.36%) .NET Core
6 407 (9.31%) AngularJS
7 398 (9.10%) ASP.NET
8 369 (8.44%) Node.js
9 336 (7.68%) REST
10 312 (7.13%) .NET Framework
11 308 (7.04%) Web Services
12 259 (5.92%) Vue
13 205 (4.69%) jQuery
14 191 (4.37%) RESTful
15 185 (4.23%) PostGIS
15 185 (4.23%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 184 (4.21%) Leaflet
16 184 (4.21%) OpenLayers
17 176 (4.02%) Entity Framework
18 175 (4.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 299 (6.84%) Hybrid Cloud
2 260 (5.95%) Self-Motivation
3 258 (5.90%) Product Ownership
4 249 (5.69%) Blockchain
5 189 (4.32%) Cloud Native
6 184 (4.21%) Distributed Systems
7 166 (3.80%) Data Structures
8 153 (3.50%) Algorithms
9 147 (3.36%) Public Cloud
10 141 (3.22%) Management Information System
11 103 (2.36%) Data Centre
12 97 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
13 96 (2.20%) Mobile App
14 95 (2.17%) e-Learning
15 85 (1.94%) IoT
16 76 (1.74%) Media Streaming
17 69 (1.58%) Blog
17 69 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
18 64 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
19 58 (1.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 690 (15.78%) Linux
2 435 (9.95%) Windows
3 154 (3.52%) Android
4 148 (3.38%) Apple iOS
5 100 (2.29%) Windows Server
6 59 (1.35%) Debian
7 57 (1.30%) CentOS
7 57 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 46 (1.05%) Alpine Linux
9 40 (0.91%) Ubuntu
10 38 (0.87%) Embedded Linux
11 34 (0.78%) VMS
12 31 (0.71%) Unix
13 27 (0.62%) Windows 10
13 27 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
14 22 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
15 11 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
16 6 (0.14%) Mac OS
17 5 (0.11%) Windows 7
17 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,254 (51.54%) Agile
2 1,333 (30.48%) CI/CD
3 974 (22.27%) Software Engineering
4 887 (20.28%) Problem-Solving
5 724 (16.56%) Mentoring
6 553 (12.65%) Scrum
7 536 (12.26%) Infrastructure as Code
8 490 (11.21%) Full Stack Development
9 484 (11.07%) Continuous Integration
10 474 (10.84%) Artificial Intelligence
11 460 (10.52%) Web Development
12 447 (10.22%) Containerisation
13 425 (9.72%) Test Automation
14 374 (8.55%) Actionable Insight
15 365 (8.35%) Microservices
16 354 (8.10%) Roadmaps
17 350 (8.00%) Design Patterns
18 341 (7.80%) Data Engineering
19 337 (7.71%) Analytics
20 334 (7.64%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1,142 (26.11%) C#
2 1,034 (23.65%) Python
3 1,017 (23.26%) JavaScript
4 866 (19.80%) SQL
5 599 (13.70%) Java
6 294 (6.72%) PowerShell
7 289 (6.61%) TypeScript
8 220 (5.03%) Bash
9 144 (3.29%) PHP
10 125 (2.86%) T-SQL
11 118 (2.70%) C++
12 109 (2.49%) Bicep
13 93 (2.13%) C
14 85 (1.94%) Scala
15 68 (1.55%) Go
16 64 (1.46%) VB.NET
17 55 (1.26%) VB
18 54 (1.23%) Shell Script
19 44 (1.01%) Kotlin
20 28 (0.64%) VB6
Qualifications
1 825 (18.87%) Security Cleared
2 598 (13.67%) Degree
3 589 (13.47%) SC Cleared
4 267 (6.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 218 (4.99%) DV Cleared
6 136 (3.11%) Azure Certification
7 96 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 78 (1.78%) Master's Degree
9 70 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
10 63 (1.44%) AWS Certification
11 41 (0.94%) MCSE
12 39 (0.89%) MCSA
13 35 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
14 26 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 25 (0.57%) PMI Certification
16 22 (0.50%) ISTQB
17 21 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
18 20 (0.46%) CCNA
19 19 (0.43%) DBS Check
20 17 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 325 (7.43%) QA
2 207 (4.73%) GDPR
3 105 (2.40%) Data Quality
4 53 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 45 (1.03%) Accessibility
6 27 (0.62%) PMO
7 20 (0.46%) NCSC
8 16 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
9 15 (0.34%) HIPAA
10 14 (0.32%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.23%) NIST
12 9 (0.21%) SLA
13 7 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.14%) ISO 13485
14 6 (0.14%) Solvency II
15 5 (0.11%) GRC
16 3 (0.069%) ISO 22301
16 3 (0.069%) ISO 31000
17 2 (0.046%) MISRA
System Software
1 724 (16.56%) Docker
2 154 (3.52%) Active Directory
3 112 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
4 85 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
5 66 (1.51%) Hyper-V
6 37 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
7 13 (0.30%) Firmware
8 12 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 10 (0.23%) NFS
9 10 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.21%) pfSense
11 7 (0.16%) IAG
12 6 (0.14%) KVM
13 5 (0.11%) vSphere
14 4 (0.091%) Xen
15 3 (0.069%) XenApp
16 2 (0.046%) HDFS
16 2 (0.046%) QEMU
16 2 (0.046%) RACF
16 2 (0.046%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 880 (20.12%) Kubernetes
2 828 (18.93%) Terraform
3 393 (8.99%) Ansible
4 157 (3.59%) Prometheus
5 113 (2.58%) Grafana
6 102 (2.33%) Puppet
7 38 (0.87%) Progress Chef
8 31 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
8 31 (0.71%) ZABBIX
9 28 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
10 27 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
11 22 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 22 (0.50%) SCOM
12 19 (0.43%) WSUS
13 18 (0.41%) SCCM
14 17 (0.39%) HAProxy
15 15 (0.34%) FortiGate
16 14 (0.32%) Kibana
17 13 (0.30%) Nagios
18 9 (0.21%) MIIS
Vendors
1 828 (18.93%) Microsoft
2 309 (7.07%) Google
3 288 (6.59%) Red Hat
4 260 (5.95%) IBM
5 185 (4.23%) ESRI
6 117 (2.68%) VMware
7 109 (2.49%) Oracle
8 98 (2.24%) Databricks
9 92 (2.10%) Dynatrace
10 73 (1.67%) ServiceNow
11 42 (0.96%) Cisco
12 39 (0.89%) Atlassian
13 37 (0.85%) Informatica
14 33 (0.75%) Sitecore
15 32 (0.73%) Splunk
15 32 (0.73%) Xilinx
16 30 (0.69%) SAP
17 26 (0.59%) Optimizely
18 18 (0.41%) New Relic
18 18 (0.41%) Sparx