DevOps
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 21 25
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,990 4,198 6,866
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.05% 8.54% 6.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.85% 9.47% 8.26%
Number of salaries quoted 3,623 2,429 4,949
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,850 £42,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,196
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -4.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72,817 44,332 83,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.70% 90.20% 82.17%
Number of salaries quoted 50,259 24,803 58,175
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

DevOps job vacancy trend in the UK

DevOps
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the UK over the 6 months to 15 July 2026. 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
England -8 4,320 £70,000 -2.77% 1,893
UK excluding London -5 3,107 £65,000 - 1,657
Work from Home -2 1,817 £65,576 -6.32% 1,478
London -10 1,480 £85,000 +6.25% 607
North of England +1 1,089 £67,500 +3.85% 414
South East -12 652 £65,000 - 416
North West -1 600 £70,000 +7.69% 228
South West -5 434 £70,000 +7.69% 186
Midlands -22 371 £65,000 - 227
Yorkshire +8 287 £70,000 - 124
West Midlands -28 204 £65,000 - 141
North East +7 202 £60,000 -7.69% 63
East of England +10 193 £60,000 -9.37% 163
East Midlands +7 166 £65,000 +15.56% 86
Wales +6 157 £53,585 -8.79% 74
Scotland -2 135 £60,000 -14.29% 148
Northern Ireland -4 83 £72,500 -9.38% 64
Isle of Man +2 3 £35,000 -33.33% 2

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 96 (1.92%) Confluence
2 89 (1.78%) SharePoint
3 71 (1.42%) Apache Spark
4 63 (1.26%) Apache
5 45 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
6 43 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
7 30 (0.60%) IIS
8 29 (0.58%) CMS
9 20 (0.40%) SAS
10 15 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
11 12 (0.24%) nginx
11 12 (0.24%) OpenStack
12 10 (0.20%) Jupyter
12 10 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
13 9 (0.18%) Umbraco
13 9 (0.18%) WordPress
14 8 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
15 7 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 7 (0.14%) Anypoint
16 6 (0.12%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 57 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
2 41 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.40%) MS Visio
3 20 (0.40%) PlantUML
4 15 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.28%) Chatbot
6 11 (0.22%) Trello
7 9 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
8 7 (0.14%) Simulink
9 4 (0.080%) Maya
10 3 (0.060%) Blender
11 2 (0.040%) Lightworks
11 2 (0.040%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.020%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.020%) Notion
12 1 (0.020%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 80 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.12%) Elite 3E
3 6 (0.12%) SAP IBP
4 5 (0.10%) Endur
4 5 (0.10%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.10%) Visualfiles
5 4 (0.080%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.080%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.060%) Carpe Diem
6 3 (0.060%) Infor SunSystems
6 3 (0.060%) Magento
6 3 (0.060%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.040%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.040%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 2 (0.040%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.040%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.040%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,639 (52.89%) Azure
2 1,635 (32.77%) AWS
3 1,312 (26.29%) Azure DevOps
4 548 (10.98%) GCP
5 504 (10.10%) GitHub
6 471 (9.44%) Serverless
7 382 (7.66%) SaaS
8 349 (6.99%) Power Platform
9 272 (5.45%) GitHub Actions
10 229 (4.59%) AWS CloudFormation
11 225 (4.51%) Amazon S3
12 206 (4.13%) AWS Lambda
13 204 (4.09%) PaaS
14 164 (3.29%) Azure AKS
15 150 (3.01%) Azure Logic Apps
15 150 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
16 149 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
17 144 (2.89%) Amazon EKS
18 140 (2.81%) Azure Service Bus
19 138 (2.77%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 142 (2.85%) Firewall
2 89 (1.78%) DNS
3 66 (1.32%) VPN
4 63 (1.26%) TCP/IP
5 57 (1.14%) Broadband
6 39 (0.78%) Network Security
7 35 (0.70%) HTTP
8 33 (0.66%) Internet
9 22 (0.44%) DHCP
10 20 (0.40%) LAN
11 19 (0.38%) WAN
12 16 (0.32%) MQTT
13 14 (0.28%) Wireless
14 13 (0.26%) DMARC
15 10 (0.20%) BGP
15 10 (0.20%) HTTPS
15 10 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (0.16%) Bluetooth
16 8 (0.16%) ZigBee
17 7 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 270 (5.41%) MongoDB
2 268 (5.37%) SQL Server
3 263 (5.27%) Azure SQL Database
4 189 (3.79%) NoSQL
5 188 (3.77%) Power BI
6 181 (3.63%) PostgreSQL
7 103 (2.06%) DynamoDB
8 97 (1.94%) MySQL
9 92 (1.84%) Relational Database
10 88 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
11 87 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
12 75 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
13 74 (1.48%) Data Lake
14 62 (1.24%) Metadata
15 48 (0.96%) Redis
16 46 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
17 40 (0.80%) Big Data
18 36 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
19 34 (0.68%) Delta Lake
20 31 (0.62%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 510 (10.22%) Git
2 411 (8.24%) GitLab
3 409 (8.20%) Jenkins
4 318 (6.37%) JIRA
5 98 (1.96%) SonarQube
6 84 (1.68%) Selenium
7 77 (1.54%) Cypress.io
8 58 (1.16%) Maven
9 49 (0.98%) Postman
10 46 (0.92%) JUnit
11 37 (0.74%) Cucumber
12 34 (0.68%) JMeter
13 32 (0.64%) Bitbucket
13 32 (0.64%) TeamCity
14 31 (0.62%) CircleCI
15 26 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 26 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
16 20 (0.40%) Eclipse
16 20 (0.40%) REST Assured
16 20 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,057 (21.18%) Social Skills
2 958 (19.20%) Finance
3 366 (7.33%) Public Sector
4 362 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
5 300 (6.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 244 (4.89%) Banking
7 195 (3.91%) Law
8 160 (3.21%) Retail
9 122 (2.44%) Legal
10 116 (2.32%) Marketing
11 81 (1.62%) Games
12 62 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
13 57 (1.14%) Manufacturing
14 55 (1.10%) Advertising
15 51 (1.02%) Financial Institution
16 45 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
16 45 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
17 42 (0.84%) Telecoms
18 36 (0.72%) Back Office
19 26 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1,124 (22.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,075 (21.54%) Senior
3 870 (17.43%) Developer
4 672 (13.47%) Lead
5 420 (8.42%) Architect
6 361 (7.23%) Software Engineer
7 346 (6.93%) Azure Engineer
8 263 (5.27%) Cloud Engineer
8 263 (5.27%) Senior DevOps
9 237 (4.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 219 (4.39%) .NET Developer
11 214 (4.29%) Senior Developer
12 195 (3.91%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 190 (3.81%) Platform Engineer
14 174 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
15 168 (3.37%) Data Engineer
16 161 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
17 142 (2.85%) Java Developer
18 137 (2.75%) Lead DevOps
19 119 (2.38%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 663 (13.29%) .NET
2 432 (8.66%) React
3 309 (6.19%) RESTful
4 307 (6.15%) REST
5 304 (6.09%) Node.js
6 279 (5.59%) ASP.NET
7 245 (4.91%) .NET Core
8 228 (4.57%) CSS
9 225 (4.51%) Spring Boot
10 224 (4.49%) HTML
11 220 (4.41%) ASP.NET Core
12 216 (4.33%) Spring
13 183 (3.67%) Kafka
14 157 (3.15%) AngularJS
15 132 (2.65%) Middleware
16 127 (2.55%) Entity Framework
17 126 (2.53%) Blazor
18 112 (2.24%) YAML
19 103 (2.06%) SOAP
20 97 (1.94%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 835 (16.73%) Cloud Native
2 326 (6.53%) Product Ownership
3 218 (4.37%) Distributed Systems
4 160 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
5 128 (2.57%) Onboarding
6 95 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
7 89 (1.78%) Management Information System
8 81 (1.62%) Mobile App
9 80 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
10 73 (1.46%) Virtual Team
11 70 (1.40%) Data Centre
12 67 (1.34%) Public Cloud
13 63 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
14 61 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
15 51 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
16 49 (0.98%) Data Structures
17 46 (0.92%) Low-Code
18 43 (0.86%) Algorithms
19 41 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
19 41 (0.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 484 (9.70%) Linux
2 233 (4.67%) Windows
3 89 (1.78%) Unix
4 70 (1.40%) Windows Server
5 65 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 48 (0.96%) Ubuntu
7 43 (0.86%) CentOS
8 39 (0.78%) VMS
9 33 (0.66%) Android
10 20 (0.40%) Apple iOS
11 16 (0.32%) Debian
12 7 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
12 7 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
13 6 (0.12%) Rocky
14 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
15 4 (0.080%) Kali Linux
16 3 (0.060%) AIX
17 2 (0.040%) Amazon Linux
17 2 (0.040%) FreeRTOS
18 1 (0.020%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,510 (50.30%) CI/CD
2 1,859 (37.25%) Agile
3 1,193 (23.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 948 (19.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 881 (17.66%) Mentoring
6 866 (17.35%) Software Engineering
7 810 (16.23%) AI
8 788 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
9 756 (15.15%) Test Automation
10 676 (13.55%) Microservices
11 636 (12.75%) Containerisation
12 553 (11.08%) Full-Stack Development
13 547 (10.96%) Roadmaps
14 528 (10.58%) Platform Engineering
15 522 (10.46%) Observability
16 518 (10.38%) Scrum
17 480 (9.62%) Technical Leadership
18 458 (9.18%) Analytics
19 401 (8.04%) Stakeholder Management
20 341 (6.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,180 (23.65%) Python
2 884 (17.72%) SQL
3 722 (14.47%) C#
4 658 (13.19%) Java
5 624 (12.51%) JavaScript
6 391 (7.84%) TypeScript
7 379 (7.60%) Bash
8 337 (6.75%) PowerShell
9 156 (3.13%) Bicep
10 137 (2.75%) Go
11 132 (2.65%) C++
12 76 (1.52%) Apex Code
13 59 (1.18%) PHP
14 50 (1.00%) Groovy
15 49 (0.98%) C
16 47 (0.94%) SOQL
17 44 (0.88%) SOSL
18 42 (0.84%) Rust
19 37 (0.74%) Kotlin
20 36 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 783 (15.69%) Security Cleared
2 503 (10.08%) Degree
3 500 (10.02%) SC Cleared
4 198 (3.97%) DV Cleared
5 187 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 122 (2.44%) Azure Certification
7 115 (2.30%) Master's Degree
8 86 (1.72%) AWS Certification
9 79 (1.58%) CISSP
9 79 (1.58%) ITIL Certification
10 60 (1.20%) CISM
11 57 (1.14%) ISTQB
12 49 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
13 38 (0.76%) PMI Certification
14 36 (0.72%) DBS Check
15 30 (0.60%) PMP
16 27 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 26 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 26 (0.52%) PhD
18 19 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 477 (9.56%) QA
2 165 (3.31%) Accessibility
3 157 (3.15%) Data Quality
4 113 (2.26%) GDPR
5 103 (2.06%) NIST
6 69 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 60 (1.20%) WCAG
8 52 (1.04%) GRC
9 44 (0.88%) ISO 22301
10 41 (0.82%) PCI DSS
11 30 (0.60%) SOC 2
12 23 (0.46%) PMO
13 20 (0.40%) SLA
14 15 (0.30%) NCSC
15 12 (0.24%) TickIT
16 11 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
17 10 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 8 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
18 8 (0.16%) NIST 800
19 7 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 789 (15.81%) Docker
2 130 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 76 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (0.56%) vSphere
6 23 (0.46%) Firmware
7 20 (0.40%) Hyper-V
8 13 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 5 (0.10%) iptables
12 4 (0.080%) Embedded Firmware
13 3 (0.060%) KVM
13 3 (0.060%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.060%) Xen
14 2 (0.040%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.040%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.020%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.020%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,201 (24.07%) Terraform
2 914 (18.32%) Kubernetes
3 425 (8.52%) Ansible
4 237 (4.75%) Grafana
5 176 (3.53%) Prometheus
6 75 (1.50%) Argo
7 59 (1.18%) Puppet
8 38 (0.76%) Nagios
9 28 (0.56%) HP Fortify
10 27 (0.54%) Kibana
11 23 (0.46%) Istio
12 21 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
13 16 (0.32%) Rancher
14 14 (0.28%) Packer
15 13 (0.26%) Progress Chef
15 13 (0.26%) Proxmox
16 11 (0.22%) ZABBIX
17 10 (0.20%) logstash
18 9 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
19 8 (0.16%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 954 (19.12%) Microsoft
2 188 (3.77%) Google
3 159 (3.19%) Databricks
4 153 (3.07%) Salesforce
5 111 (2.22%) VMware
6 103 (2.06%) Splunk
7 100 (2.00%) ServiceNow
8 95 (1.90%) Oracle
9 80 (1.60%) Red Hat
10 66 (1.32%) SAP
11 54 (1.08%) Pega
12 45 (0.90%) MuleSoft
13 44 (0.88%) Cisco
14 43 (0.86%) Dynatrace
15 42 (0.84%) Facebook
15 42 (0.84%) OpenAI
16 30 (0.60%) Apple
16 30 (0.60%) YouTube
17 27 (0.54%) Foundry
18 25 (0.50%) Palo Alto