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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 15 12
Rank change year-on-year -13 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,229 7,544 9,912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.43% 12.30% 13.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.81% 12.86% 14.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3,391 4,070 6,176
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,725 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.79% +2.88% +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% - +7.69%

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 59,358 58,642 66,863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.33% 95.62% 94.03%
Number of salaries quoted 41,086 30,131 41,542
10th Percentile £27,004 £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 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +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 5 May 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 5 May 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 -11 1,371 £60,000 -2.44% 285
South East -5 1,312 £61,500 -5.38% 227
South West -3 877 £61,500 -1.60% 156
North West -5 847 £62,500 - 180
Midlands -10 722 £57,500 - 186
Scotland -40 490 £69,000 +6.15% 72
West Midlands -9 472 £60,000 - 124
Yorkshire -8 429 £60,000 -3.23% 87
East Midlands -10 252 £57,500 +4.55% 61
East of England -24 237 £57,500 -11.54% 72
Wales -5 160 £53,750 +7.50% 35
North East -5 97 £57,500 +4.55% 19
Northern Ireland +1 67 £63,750 +6.25% 30
Isle of Man - 3 - -
Channel Islands - 2 £115,000 -
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
2 171 (3.27%) Confluence
3 135 (2.58%) SharePoint
4 112 (2.14%) IIS
5 78 (1.49%) CMS
6 68 (1.30%) Umbraco
7 62 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
8 59 (1.13%) nginx
9 53 (1.01%) Apache
10 51 (0.98%) OpenStack
11 41 (0.78%) Apache Spark
11 41 (0.78%) Headless CMS
11 41 (0.78%) Kentico
12 39 (0.75%) Sitecore CMS
13 28 (0.54%) WebSphere
14 22 (0.42%) Captiva
14 22 (0.42%) FileNet
15 18 (0.34%) Jupyter
16 15 (0.29%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 54 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 36 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 32 (0.61%) UserZoom
5 30 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
6 22 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 15 (0.29%) Sketch
8 14 (0.27%) Trello
9 13 (0.25%) 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%) MicroStation
15 1 (0.019%) PTC Creo
15 1 (0.019%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 102 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 36 (0.69%) Dynamics AX
3 29 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 11 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
5 8 (0.15%) Magento
5 8 (0.15%) Shopify
6 7 (0.13%) Maximo
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%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.038%) SAP FI-GL
9 2 (0.038%) SystmOne
10 1 (0.019%) Dynamics GP
10 1 (0.019%) Infor M3
10 1 (0.019%) NEC Housing
10 1 (0.019%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3,068 (58.67%) Azure
2 1,831 (35.02%) AWS
3 1,549 (29.62%) Azure DevOps
4 560 (10.71%) GCP
5 379 (7.25%) Serverless
6 374 (7.15%) SaaS
7 351 (6.71%) Power Platform
8 262 (5.01%) Microsoft 365
9 253 (4.84%) GitHub
10 232 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
11 228 (4.36%) IBM Cloud
12 198 (3.79%) PaaS
13 179 (3.42%) Azure Service Bus
14 174 (3.33%) Azure Functions
15 171 (3.27%) Amazon S3
16 163 (3.12%) Azure Logic Apps
17 151 (2.89%) IaaS
18 136 (2.60%) Azure API Management
19 134 (2.56%) PowerApps
20 132 (2.52%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 175 (3.35%) Firewall
2 154 (2.95%) DNS
3 81 (1.55%) TCP/IP
4 79 (1.51%) VPN
5 75 (1.43%) DHCP
5 75 (1.43%) HTTP
6 62 (1.19%) Network Security
7 49 (0.94%) WAN
8 32 (0.61%) LAN
9 20 (0.38%) Internet
10 19 (0.36%) SD-WAN
10 19 (0.36%) Unified Communications
11 17 (0.33%) SSL
12 15 (0.29%) MQTT
13 11 (0.21%) 5G
13 11 (0.21%) Intranet
14 10 (0.19%) BGP
14 10 (0.19%) NGFW
15 9 (0.17%) SAN
15 9 (0.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 624 (11.93%) SQL Server
2 562 (10.75%) PostgreSQL
3 339 (6.48%) Relational Database
4 311 (5.95%) NoSQL
5 293 (5.60%) GIS
6 284 (5.43%) QGIS
7 244 (4.67%) MongoDB
8 243 (4.65%) Looker
9 239 (4.57%) BigQuery
10 231 (4.42%) Data Warehouse
11 196 (3.75%) Power BI
12 166 (3.17%) MySQL
13 125 (2.39%) DB2
14 117 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
15 95 (1.82%) Big Data
16 91 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
17 88 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
18 64 (1.22%) RDBMS
19 55 (1.05%) Hadoop
20 54 (1.03%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 789 (15.09%) Git
2 484 (9.26%) Jenkins
3 463 (8.85%) JIRA
4 222 (4.25%) Visual Studio
5 213 (4.07%) GitLab
6 104 (1.99%) Selenium
7 103 (1.97%) Team Foundation Server
8 102 (1.95%) Bitbucket
9 85 (1.63%) Postman
10 68 (1.30%) Cypress.io
11 61 (1.17%) JUnit
11 61 (1.17%) Sourcetree
12 60 (1.15%) Cucumber
13 52 (0.99%) Jasmine
14 51 (0.98%) NUnit
15 50 (0.96%) TeamCity
16 47 (0.90%) Subversion
17 42 (0.80%) SonarQube
18 37 (0.71%) Oracle Forms
19 33 (0.63%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 1,067 (20.41%) Social Skills
2 737 (14.09%) Finance
3 489 (9.35%) Analytical Skills
4 371 (7.10%) Public Sector
5 333 (6.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 287 (5.49%) Law
7 229 (4.38%) Banking
8 173 (3.31%) Retail
9 162 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
10 148 (2.83%) Marketing
11 129 (2.47%) Aerospace
12 126 (2.41%) Legal
13 121 (2.31%) Games
14 75 (1.43%) Billing
15 71 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
16 66 (1.26%) Manufacturing
17 50 (0.96%) Automotive
18 48 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
19 46 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
20 44 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,380 (26.39%) Developer
2 1,081 (20.67%) Senior
3 728 (13.92%) Software Engineer
4 673 (12.87%) DevOps Engineer
5 537 (10.27%) Lead
6 349 (6.67%) Senior Developer
7 339 (6.48%) Architect
8 296 (5.66%) Data Engineer
9 281 (5.37%) Senior Software Engineer
10 268 (5.13%) .NET Developer
10 268 (5.13%) Full Stack Developer
11 249 (4.76%) Software Developer
12 214 (4.09%) Platform Engineer
13 180 (3.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 176 (3.37%) Azure Engineer
15 165 (3.16%) Cloud Engineer
15 165 (3.16%) Principal Engineer
16 163 (3.12%) Azure Developer
17 149 (2.85%) Principal Data Engineer
18 148 (2.83%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,398 (26.74%) .NET
2 957 (18.30%) React
3 781 (14.94%) CSS
4 617 (11.80%) .NET Core
5 572 (10.94%) HTML
6 525 (10.04%) AngularJS
7 468 (8.95%) ASP.NET
8 460 (8.80%) Node.js
9 353 (6.75%) .NET Framework
10 332 (6.35%) REST
11 287 (5.49%) PostGIS
12 286 (5.47%) Web Services
13 284 (5.43%) Leaflet
13 284 (5.43%) OpenLayers
14 268 (5.13%) RESTful
15 267 (5.11%) Vue
16 229 (4.38%) JSON
17 221 (4.23%) jQuery
18 208 (3.98%) Spring
19 196 (3.75%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 335 (6.41%) Product Ownership
2 290 (5.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 271 (5.18%) Self-Motivation
4 260 (4.97%) Public Cloud
5 226 (4.32%) Blockchain
6 215 (4.11%) Cloud Native
7 180 (3.44%) Data Structures
8 174 (3.33%) Algorithms
9 163 (3.12%) Management Information System
10 144 (2.75%) Private Cloud
11 142 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
12 125 (2.39%) Data Centre
13 98 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
14 97 (1.86%) Mobile App
15 96 (1.84%) IoT
16 89 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
17 75 (1.43%) Low-Code
18 71 (1.36%) Onboarding
19 66 (1.26%) e-Learning
20 60 (1.15%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 924 (17.67%) Linux
2 585 (11.19%) Windows
3 174 (3.33%) Android
4 165 (3.16%) Apple iOS
5 137 (2.62%) Windows Server
6 79 (1.51%) Ubuntu
7 78 (1.49%) Unix
8 71 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 69 (1.32%) CentOS
10 63 (1.20%) Debian
11 46 (0.88%) Alpine Linux
12 42 (0.80%) VMS
13 28 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
14 26 (0.50%) Windows 10
15 23 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
15 23 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
16 14 (0.27%) Mac OS X
17 13 (0.25%) CoreOS
18 10 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
19 7 (0.13%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,759 (52.76%) Agile
2 1,562 (29.87%) CI/CD
3 1,287 (24.61%) Software Engineering
4 1,080 (20.65%) Problem-Solving
5 790 (15.11%) Mentoring
6 761 (14.55%) Scrum
7 670 (12.81%) Actionable Insight
8 652 (12.47%) Infrastructure as Code
9 608 (11.63%) Web Development
10 562 (10.75%) Continuous Integration
11 557 (10.65%) Full Stack Development
12 547 (10.46%) Microservices
13 540 (10.33%) Test Automation
14 539 (10.31%) Containerisation
15 482 (9.22%) SDLC
16 453 (8.66%) Roadmaps
17 449 (8.59%) Artificial Intelligence
18 438 (8.38%) Design Patterns
19 420 (8.03%) MVC
20 388 (7.42%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1,409 (26.95%) C#
2 1,347 (25.76%) JavaScript
3 1,262 (24.13%) Python
4 1,090 (20.85%) SQL
5 771 (14.74%) Java
6 402 (7.69%) PowerShell
7 343 (6.56%) Bash
8 341 (6.52%) TypeScript
9 164 (3.14%) PHP
10 138 (2.64%) T-SQL
11 124 (2.37%) Go
12 121 (2.31%) C
13 98 (1.87%) C++
14 90 (1.72%) Bicep
15 85 (1.63%) Ruby
16 72 (1.38%) VB.NET
17 71 (1.36%) Shell Script
18 60 (1.15%) Perl
19 56 (1.07%) Groovy
19 56 (1.07%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,083 (20.71%) Security Cleared
2 823 (15.74%) SC Cleared
3 812 (15.53%) Degree
4 253 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 190 (3.63%) DV Cleared
6 151 (2.89%) Azure Certification
7 132 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 117 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
9 107 (2.05%) AWS Certification
10 93 (1.78%) Master's Degree
11 56 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
12 46 (0.88%) MCSE
13 45 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 41 (0.78%) MCSA
15 37 (0.71%) PMI Certification
16 36 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
17 35 (0.67%) DBS Check
18 33 (0.63%) ISTQB
19 32 (0.61%) CISSP
20 30 (0.57%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 446 (8.53%) QA
2 227 (4.34%) GDPR
3 99 (1.89%) Data Quality
4 63 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 62 (1.19%) PMO
6 42 (0.80%) Accessibility
7 33 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
8 25 (0.48%) NIST
9 22 (0.42%) SLA
10 21 (0.40%) PCI DSS
11 15 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
11 15 (0.29%) 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 2 (0.038%) ISO/IEC 12207
17 2 (0.038%) SEPA
System Software
1 891 (17.04%) Docker
2 178 (3.40%) Active Directory
3 137 (2.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 119 (2.28%) 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
12 7 (0.13%) KVM
13 6 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
14 4 (0.076%) VMware Server
14 4 (0.076%) Xen
15 3 (0.057%) VirtualBox
15 3 (0.057%) XenApp
16 2 (0.038%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 996 (19.05%) Kubernetes
2 918 (17.56%) Terraform
3 503 (9.62%) Ansible
4 151 (2.89%) Puppet
5 138 (2.64%) Prometheus
6 129 (2.47%) Grafana
7 89 (1.70%) Progress Chef
8 35 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
9 31 (0.59%) ZABBIX
10 25 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
10 25 (0.48%) Kibana
11 21 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
12 20 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 20 (0.38%) SCOM
13 19 (0.36%) SCCM
14 18 (0.34%) Rancher
15 17 (0.33%) HAProxy
16 16 (0.31%) FortiGate
17 14 (0.27%) WSUS
18 13 (0.25%) Consul
Vendors
1 1,161 (22.20%) Microsoft
2 379 (7.25%) Google
3 298 (5.70%) IBM
4 289 (5.53%) Red Hat
5 285 (5.45%) ESRI
6 192 (3.67%) VMware
7 184 (3.52%) Oracle
8 101 (1.93%) Databricks
9 85 (1.63%) ServiceNow
10 71 (1.36%) Dynatrace
11 60 (1.15%) SAP
12 56 (1.07%) Cisco
13 53 (1.01%) Atlassian
14 52 (0.99%) Splunk
15 46 (0.88%) Sitecore
16 40 (0.76%) Citrix
17 35 (0.67%) Optimizely
17 35 (0.67%) WSO2
18 33 (0.63%) Adobe
19 32 (0.61%) Qualtrics