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 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 21 26
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,582 4,054 7,231
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.85% 8.98% 6.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.62% 9.73% 8.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,343 2,354 5,215
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,565 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £88,563 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
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 69,167 41,647 89,300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.14% 92.28% 81.67%
Number of salaries quoted 47,650 22,422 63,265
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,145
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 22 June 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 22 June 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 4,064 £70,000 -2.10% 1,088
UK excluding London -6 2,752 £65,000 - 852
Work from Home -2 1,638 £67,500 -3.57% 600
London -6 1,462 £82,500 +3.13% 433
North of England -1 1,000 £69,308 +3.39% 246
South East -12 605 £65,000 - 275
North West -3 544 £70,000 +3.70% 140
South West -7 390 £69,200 +6.46% 95
Midlands -25 340 £65,000 +4.00% 103
Yorkshire +5 276 £70,000 - 69
West Midlands -34 189 £65,000 - 59
North East +8 180 £60,000 -7.69% 40
East of England +7 180 £60,000 -7.69% 64
East Midlands +4 148 £66,750 +16.09% 44
Scotland -8 128 £56,250 -23.73% 33
Wales -1 105 £53,171 -11.38% 29
Northern Ireland -39 8 £73,151 -20.92% 27
Isle of Man +2 3 £35,000 -33.33%

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 91 (1.99%) Confluence
2 85 (1.86%) SharePoint
3 61 (1.33%) Apache Spark
4 58 (1.27%) Apache
5 44 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
6 41 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
7 28 (0.61%) CMS
7 28 (0.61%) IIS
8 15 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
8 15 (0.33%) SAS
9 10 (0.22%) OpenStack
9 10 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
10 9 (0.20%) nginx
10 9 (0.20%) Umbraco
10 9 (0.20%) WordPress
11 8 (0.17%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
12 7 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 6 (0.13%) Apache Solr
13 6 (0.13%) Moodle
Applications
1 46 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
2 35 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.46%) MS Visio
4 17 (0.37%) PlantUML
5 12 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.15%) Simulink
8 6 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
8 6 (0.13%) Trello
9 4 (0.087%) Maya
10 3 (0.065%) Blender
10 3 (0.065%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.022%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.022%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.022%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.022%) Notion
11 1 (0.022%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 77 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.17%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.13%) Endur
5 5 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.11%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.087%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.087%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.087%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.065%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.065%) Magento
7 3 (0.065%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.044%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.044%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.044%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 2 (0.044%) Shopify
9 1 (0.022%) Adobe Campaign
9 1 (0.022%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.022%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2,417 (52.75%) Azure
2 1,466 (31.99%) AWS
3 1,218 (26.58%) Azure DevOps
4 504 (11.00%) GCP
5 481 (10.50%) GitHub
6 447 (9.76%) Serverless
7 343 (7.49%) Power Platform
8 287 (6.26%) SaaS
9 254 (5.54%) GitHub Actions
10 221 (4.82%) Amazon S3
11 216 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
12 205 (4.47%) AWS Lambda
13 182 (3.97%) PaaS
14 152 (3.32%) Azure AKS
15 151 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
16 146 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
17 141 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 138 (3.01%) Entra ID
19 137 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
20 136 (2.97%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 143 (3.12%) Firewall
2 89 (1.94%) DNS
3 68 (1.48%) Broadband
4 57 (1.24%) TCP/IP
5 56 (1.22%) VPN
6 41 (0.89%) Network Security
7 33 (0.72%) HTTP
8 26 (0.57%) DHCP
9 24 (0.52%) WAN
10 22 (0.48%) LAN
11 18 (0.39%) Internet
12 12 (0.26%) DMARC
12 12 (0.26%) MQTT
13 10 (0.22%) BGP
13 10 (0.22%) Wireless
14 9 (0.20%) SAN
15 8 (0.17%) HTTPS
16 6 (0.13%) Bluetooth
16 6 (0.13%) Cisco ASA
16 6 (0.13%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 251 (5.48%) SQL Server
2 228 (4.98%) MongoDB
3 224 (4.89%) Azure SQL Database
4 201 (4.39%) NoSQL
5 188 (4.10%) Power BI
6 154 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
7 103 (2.25%) DynamoDB
8 93 (2.03%) Relational Database
9 82 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
10 81 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
11 79 (1.72%) Data Lake
11 79 (1.72%) MySQL
12 76 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
13 60 (1.31%) Metadata
14 50 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
15 40 (0.87%) Redis
16 38 (0.83%) Delta Lake
17 37 (0.81%) Big Data
17 37 (0.81%) BigQuery
18 34 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 485 (10.58%) Git
2 384 (8.38%) Jenkins
3 380 (8.29%) GitLab
4 285 (6.22%) JIRA
5 97 (2.12%) SonarQube
6 84 (1.83%) Selenium
7 82 (1.79%) Cypress.io
8 58 (1.27%) Maven
9 49 (1.07%) Postman
10 37 (0.81%) JUnit
11 35 (0.76%) Cucumber
12 34 (0.74%) Bitbucket
13 33 (0.72%) CircleCI
13 33 (0.72%) TeamCity
14 30 (0.65%) JMeter
15 26 (0.57%) Eclipse
16 24 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
17 23 (0.50%) Visual Studio
18 21 (0.46%) REST Assured
19 18 (0.39%) Jaeger
General
1 927 (20.23%) Social Skills
2 923 (20.14%) Finance
3 340 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
4 303 (6.61%) Public Sector
5 280 (6.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 233 (5.09%) Banking
7 147 (3.21%) Retail
8 130 (2.84%) Law
9 103 (2.25%) Marketing
10 82 (1.79%) Games
11 78 (1.70%) Legal
12 52 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
13 51 (1.11%) Manufacturing
14 48 (1.05%) Advertising
15 46 (1.00%) Telecoms
16 44 (0.96%) Financial Institution
17 42 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
18 36 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
19 32 (0.70%) Back Office
20 29 (0.63%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,011 (22.06%) DevOps Engineer
2 895 (19.53%) Senior
3 819 (17.87%) Developer
4 639 (13.95%) Lead
5 391 (8.53%) Architect
6 343 (7.49%) Software Engineer
7 332 (7.25%) Azure Engineer
8 254 (5.54%) Cloud Engineer
9 215 (4.69%) Senior DevOps
10 201 (4.39%) Senior Developer
11 189 (4.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 184 (4.02%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 178 (3.88%) .NET Developer
14 175 (3.82%) Platform Engineer
15 164 (3.58%) Data Engineer
16 161 (3.51%) AWS Engineer
17 160 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
18 146 (3.19%) Java Developer
19 131 (2.86%) Lead DevOps
20 110 (2.40%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 605 (13.20%) .NET
2 406 (8.86%) React
3 294 (6.42%) Node.js
4 283 (6.18%) REST
5 272 (5.94%) RESTful
6 234 (5.11%) ASP.NET
7 215 (4.69%) .NET Core
8 202 (4.41%) CSS
9 196 (4.28%) HTML
10 195 (4.26%) Spring Boot
11 185 (4.04%) Spring
12 179 (3.91%) ASP.NET Core
13 162 (3.54%) Kafka
14 160 (3.49%) AngularJS
15 111 (2.42%) YAML
16 106 (2.31%) Entity Framework
17 103 (2.25%) Blazor
17 103 (2.25%) SOAP
18 96 (2.10%) Middleware
19 93 (2.03%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 714 (15.58%) Cloud Native
2 294 (6.42%) Product Ownership
3 175 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
4 133 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
5 92 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
6 89 (1.94%) Onboarding
7 81 (1.77%) Management Information System
7 81 (1.77%) Mobile App
8 79 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
9 64 (1.40%) Data Centre
10 62 (1.35%) Public Cloud
11 59 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
12 52 (1.13%) Data Structures
13 48 (1.05%) Algorithms
14 47 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
15 46 (1.00%) Low-Code
16 43 (0.94%) Security Posture
17 37 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
18 34 (0.74%) Virtual Team
19 32 (0.70%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 455 (9.93%) Linux
2 210 (4.58%) Windows
3 87 (1.90%) Unix
4 73 (1.59%) Windows Server
5 53 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 49 (1.07%) Ubuntu
7 37 (0.81%) VMS
8 35 (0.76%) Android
9 32 (0.70%) CentOS
10 25 (0.55%) Apple iOS
11 11 (0.24%) Debian
12 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.087%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.087%) Rocky
15 3 (0.065%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.044%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.044%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.022%) SUSE
17 1 (0.022%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,322 (50.68%) CI/CD
2 1,650 (36.01%) Agile
3 1,098 (23.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 834 (18.20%) Continuous Improvement
5 770 (16.80%) Mentoring
6 756 (16.50%) Software Engineering
7 721 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
8 720 (15.71%) AI
9 633 (13.81%) Test Automation
10 615 (13.42%) Microservices
11 602 (13.14%) Containerisation
12 509 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
13 504 (11.00%) Roadmaps
14 480 (10.48%) Observability
15 470 (10.26%) Platform Engineering
16 462 (10.08%) Scrum
17 441 (9.62%) Analytics
18 422 (9.21%) Technical Leadership
19 339 (7.40%) Stakeholder Management
20 297 (6.48%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,078 (23.53%) Python
2 839 (18.31%) SQL
3 628 (13.71%) Java
4 615 (13.42%) C#
5 538 (11.74%) JavaScript
6 383 (8.36%) Bash
7 345 (7.53%) TypeScript
8 285 (6.22%) PowerShell
9 142 (3.10%) Bicep
10 138 (3.01%) Go
11 126 (2.75%) C++
12 77 (1.68%) Apex Code
13 56 (1.22%) PHP
14 49 (1.07%) Groovy
15 48 (1.05%) SOQL
16 45 (0.98%) C
16 45 (0.98%) SOSL
17 43 (0.94%) Kotlin
18 38 (0.83%) Rust
18 38 (0.83%) Scala
Qualifications
1 688 (15.02%) Security Cleared
2 469 (10.24%) Degree
3 428 (9.34%) SC Cleared
4 178 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 161 (3.51%) DV Cleared
6 111 (2.42%) Azure Certification
7 103 (2.25%) Master's Degree
8 100 (2.18%) AWS Certification
9 55 (1.20%) ISTQB
10 53 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
11 34 (0.74%) DBS Check
12 31 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
13 30 (0.65%) CISSP
13 30 (0.65%) PMI Certification
14 28 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 24 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 23 (0.50%) PhD
16 23 (0.50%) PMP
17 20 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
18 15 (0.33%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 398 (8.69%) QA
2 158 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 156 (3.40%) Accessibility
4 96 (2.10%) GDPR
5 67 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 56 (1.22%) NIST
7 50 (1.09%) WCAG
8 46 (1.00%) GRC
9 36 (0.79%) PCI DSS
10 32 (0.70%) SOC 2
11 21 (0.46%) SLA
12 19 (0.41%) PMO
13 14 (0.31%) NCSC
14 12 (0.26%) TickIT
15 10 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
16 9 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 9 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
17 6 (0.13%) Solvency II
18 5 (0.11%) IFRS
18 5 (0.11%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 743 (16.22%) Docker
2 130 (2.84%) Active Directory
3 66 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (0.55%) vSphere
6 20 (0.44%) Firmware
7 19 (0.41%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.13%) iptables
10 6 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.087%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.087%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.065%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.065%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.044%) KVM
14 1 (0.022%) OpenAM
14 1 (0.022%) OpenDJ
14 1 (0.022%) OpenIDM
14 1 (0.022%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,114 (24.31%) Terraform
2 828 (18.07%) Kubernetes
3 403 (8.80%) Ansible
4 225 (4.91%) Grafana
5 183 (3.99%) Prometheus
6 78 (1.70%) Argo
7 50 (1.09%) Puppet
8 38 (0.83%) Nagios
9 30 (0.65%) Kibana
9 30 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
10 29 (0.63%) HP Fortify
11 20 (0.44%) Istio
12 18 (0.39%) Kustomize
13 15 (0.33%) Packer
14 13 (0.28%) Progress Chef
14 13 (0.28%) Proxmox
14 13 (0.28%) Rancher
15 9 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
15 9 (0.20%) logstash
15 9 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 885 (19.31%) Microsoft
2 178 (3.88%) Google
3 158 (3.45%) Databricks
4 148 (3.23%) Salesforce
5 105 (2.29%) VMware
6 100 (2.18%) Splunk
7 98 (2.14%) ServiceNow
8 84 (1.83%) Oracle
9 80 (1.75%) Red Hat
10 58 (1.27%) SAP
11 44 (0.96%) MuleSoft
12 40 (0.87%) Dynatrace
13 37 (0.81%) Cisco
13 37 (0.81%) Pega
14 33 (0.72%) OpenAI
15 31 (0.68%) Facebook
16 28 (0.61%) Palo Alto
17 26 (0.57%) Apple
18 24 (0.52%) Foundry
19 23 (0.50%) YouTube