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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 19 26
Rank change year-on-year -10 +7 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,322 3,981 7,166
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.63% 9.07% 7.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.27% 9.73% 8.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3,110 2,341 5,252
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,411 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 68,914 40,901 84,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.88% 93.19% 83.44%
Number of salaries quoted 45,055 21,599 60,884
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -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 1 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 1 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 -13 3,824 £70,000 -2.77% 1,269
UK excluding London -19 2,549 £65,000 - 913
Work from Home -6 1,541 £69,310 -0.99% 687
London -9 1,419 £82,500 +3.13% 561
North of England -14 902 £70,000 +3.70% 266
South East -12 567 £65,000 - 235
North West -15 471 £70,000 +0.89% 156
South West -14 353 £65,000 - 118
Midlands -31 334 £67,500 +12.50% 114
Yorkshire -4 274 £70,000 - 67
West Midlands -44 190 £63,500 +5.83% 78
East of England -4 161 £62,500 -3.85% 67
North East +10 157 £60,000 -7.69% 44
Scotland -4 145 £55,000 -24.14% 54
East Midlands -2 141 £70,000 +27.27% 36
Wales -7 81 £53,000 -11.67% 31
Northern Ireland -38 10 £73,151 +33.00% 43
Isle of Man +3 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 79 (1.83%) Confluence
2 77 (1.78%) SharePoint
3 56 (1.30%) Apache
4 52 (1.20%) Apache Spark
5 49 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
6 37 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
7 28 (0.65%) CMS
8 26 (0.60%) IIS
9 16 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
10 11 (0.25%) OpenStack
10 11 (0.25%) SAS
11 9 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
11 9 (0.21%) Umbraco
12 8 (0.19%) Moodle
12 8 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
13 7 (0.16%) Apache Solr
13 7 (0.16%) Jupyter
13 7 (0.16%) nginx
13 7 (0.16%) WordPress
14 6 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 33 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 33 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
2 26 (0.60%) MS Visio
3 12 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (0.28%) PlantUML
4 10 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (0.14%) Simulink
7 3 (0.069%) Maya
7 3 (0.069%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.046%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.046%) Blender
8 2 (0.046%) Trello
9 1 (0.023%) EngageOne
9 1 (0.023%) Lightworks
9 1 (0.023%) Notion
9 1 (0.023%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 72 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.30%) SAP ERP
4 10 (0.23%) Endur
5 7 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
7 5 (0.12%) Visualfiles
8 4 (0.093%) Dynamics NAV
8 4 (0.093%) Shopify
9 3 (0.069%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.069%) Magento
9 3 (0.069%) Markit EDM
9 3 (0.069%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.046%) Distributed Ledger
10 2 (0.046%) Fidessa
10 2 (0.046%) Infor SunSystems
11 1 (0.023%) Oracle Applications
11 1 (0.023%) SAP FI
11 1 (0.023%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 2,280 (52.75%) Azure
2 1,390 (32.16%) AWS
3 1,117 (25.84%) Azure DevOps
4 482 (11.15%) GCP
5 479 (11.08%) GitHub
6 433 (10.02%) Serverless
7 330 (7.64%) Power Platform
8 267 (6.18%) SaaS
9 258 (5.97%) GitHub Actions
10 232 (5.37%) Amazon S3
11 223 (5.16%) AWS CloudFormation
12 216 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
13 163 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
14 159 (3.68%) PaaS
15 149 (3.45%) Entra ID
16 141 (3.26%) Amazon EKS
17 138 (3.19%) Amazon ECS
17 138 (3.19%) Azure AKS
18 137 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 134 (3.10%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 142 (3.29%) Firewall
2 93 (2.15%) DNS
3 65 (1.50%) Broadband
4 59 (1.37%) TCP/IP
5 47 (1.09%) VPN
6 38 (0.88%) Network Security
7 35 (0.81%) HTTP
8 28 (0.65%) WAN
9 27 (0.62%) DHCP
10 23 (0.53%) LAN
11 11 (0.25%) MQTT
12 10 (0.23%) BGP
12 10 (0.23%) SAN
12 10 (0.23%) Wireless
13 8 (0.19%) HTTPS
13 8 (0.19%) Internet
14 7 (0.16%) DMARC
15 6 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
15 6 (0.14%) OSPF
15 6 (0.14%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (5.65%) SQL Server
2 204 (4.72%) NoSQL
3 187 (4.33%) Power BI
4 168 (3.89%) MongoDB
5 160 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 142 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
7 113 (2.61%) DynamoDB
8 89 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
8 89 (2.06%) Relational Database
9 86 (1.99%) Data Lake
10 81 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
11 69 (1.60%) MySQL
12 66 (1.53%) Metadata
13 64 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
14 49 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
15 38 (0.88%) BigQuery
16 36 (0.83%) Delta Lake
17 35 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
18 33 (0.76%) Big Data
19 31 (0.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 468 (10.83%) Git
2 392 (9.07%) Jenkins
3 367 (8.49%) GitLab
4 252 (5.83%) JIRA
5 100 (2.31%) SonarQube
6 84 (1.94%) Cypress.io
7 80 (1.85%) Selenium
8 64 (1.48%) Maven
9 46 (1.06%) Postman
10 38 (0.88%) Cucumber
11 35 (0.81%) Bitbucket
12 34 (0.79%) CircleCI
12 34 (0.79%) TeamCity
13 33 (0.76%) JUnit
14 26 (0.60%) Eclipse
15 25 (0.58%) JMeter
16 24 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
17 23 (0.53%) Visual Studio
18 20 (0.46%) REST Assured
19 18 (0.42%) Jaeger
General
1 924 (21.38%) Finance
2 892 (20.64%) Social Skills
3 357 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
4 284 (6.57%) Public Sector
5 251 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 233 (5.39%) Banking
7 136 (3.15%) Retail
8 125 (2.89%) Law
9 103 (2.38%) Marketing
10 79 (1.83%) Legal
11 74 (1.71%) Games
12 46 (1.06%) Manufacturing
13 43 (0.99%) Advertising
13 43 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
13 43 (0.99%) Telecoms
14 40 (0.93%) Financial Institution
15 35 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
16 34 (0.79%) Billing
17 31 (0.72%) Back Office
17 31 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 935 (21.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 876 (20.27%) Senior
3 767 (17.75%) Developer
4 616 (14.25%) Lead
5 347 (8.03%) Architect
6 325 (7.52%) Software Engineer
7 316 (7.31%) Azure Engineer
8 254 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
9 220 (5.09%) Senior DevOps
10 199 (4.60%) Senior Developer
11 191 (4.42%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 170 (3.93%) Data Engineer
13 168 (3.89%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 153 (3.54%) AWS Engineer
15 152 (3.52%) Platform Engineer
16 146 (3.38%) Java Developer
17 145 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
18 135 (3.12%) Lead DevOps
19 123 (2.85%) .NET Developer
20 112 (2.59%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 524 (12.12%) .NET
2 378 (8.75%) React
3 282 (6.52%) REST
4 268 (6.20%) Node.js
5 242 (5.60%) RESTful
6 184 (4.26%) Spring Boot
7 174 (4.03%) CSS
8 170 (3.93%) ASP.NET
8 170 (3.93%) HTML
8 170 (3.93%) Spring
9 162 (3.75%) .NET Core
10 159 (3.68%) Kafka
11 156 (3.61%) AngularJS
12 122 (2.82%) ASP.NET Core
13 114 (2.64%) SOAP
14 103 (2.38%) OAuth
14 103 (2.38%) YAML
15 98 (2.27%) Middleware
16 97 (2.24%) PySpark
17 91 (2.11%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 607 (14.04%) Cloud Native
2 292 (6.76%) Product Ownership
3 153 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
4 121 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
5 87 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
6 81 (1.87%) Management Information System
7 73 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
8 68 (1.57%) Mobile App
9 67 (1.55%) Onboarding
10 60 (1.39%) Data Centre
11 53 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
12 52 (1.20%) Public Cloud
13 51 (1.18%) Algorithms
13 51 (1.18%) Data Structures
14 49 (1.13%) Low-Code
15 36 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
16 35 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
17 33 (0.76%) Security Posture
18 31 (0.72%) Virtual Team
19 28 (0.65%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 432 (10.00%) Linux
2 186 (4.30%) Windows
3 83 (1.92%) Unix
4 72 (1.67%) Windows Server
5 53 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 45 (1.04%) Ubuntu
7 31 (0.72%) Android
7 31 (0.72%) CentOS
8 30 (0.69%) VMS
9 26 (0.60%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.19%) Debian
10 8 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.093%) Kali Linux
11 4 (0.093%) Rocky
11 4 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.046%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.046%) Embedded Linux
12 2 (0.046%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.023%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.023%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,194 (50.76%) CI/CD
2 1,520 (35.17%) Agile
3 1,044 (24.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 779 (18.02%) Continuous Improvement
5 722 (16.71%) Problem-Solving
6 718 (16.61%) Mentoring
7 698 (16.15%) Software Engineering
8 667 (15.43%) AI
9 628 (14.53%) Test Automation
10 573 (13.26%) Containerisation
11 570 (13.19%) Microservices
12 465 (10.76%) Observability
13 453 (10.48%) Roadmaps
14 443 (10.25%) Full-Stack Development
15 436 (10.09%) Analytics
16 432 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
17 418 (9.67%) Scrum
18 377 (8.72%) Technical Leadership
19 316 (7.31%) Data Modelling
20 296 (6.85%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,070 (24.76%) Python
2 796 (18.42%) SQL
3 609 (14.09%) Java
4 531 (12.29%) C#
5 490 (11.34%) JavaScript
6 365 (8.45%) Bash
7 335 (7.75%) TypeScript
8 265 (6.13%) PowerShell
9 146 (3.38%) Go
10 126 (2.92%) C++
11 119 (2.75%) Bicep
12 82 (1.90%) Apex Code
13 58 (1.34%) PHP
14 54 (1.25%) Groovy
15 47 (1.09%) SOQL
16 46 (1.06%) Scala
17 44 (1.02%) SOSL
18 42 (0.97%) C
19 39 (0.90%) Kotlin
20 34 (0.79%) Rust
Qualifications
1 625 (14.46%) Security Cleared
2 444 (10.27%) Degree
3 372 (8.61%) SC Cleared
4 171 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 166 (3.84%) DV Cleared
6 106 (2.45%) AWS Certification
7 99 (2.29%) Azure Certification
8 92 (2.13%) Master's Degree
9 51 (1.18%) ISTQB
10 41 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
11 35 (0.81%) DBS Check
12 32 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
13 30 (0.69%) PMI Certification
14 29 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 27 (0.62%) CISSP
16 24 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 21 (0.49%) PhD
18 20 (0.46%) PMP
19 18 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
20 16 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 354 (8.19%) QA
2 173 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 140 (3.24%) Accessibility
4 91 (2.11%) GDPR
5 67 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 56 (1.30%) NIST
7 46 (1.06%) GRC
8 36 (0.83%) WCAG
9 34 (0.79%) SOC 2
10 32 (0.74%) PCI DSS
11 20 (0.46%) SLA
12 15 (0.35%) PMO
13 12 (0.28%) TickIT
14 11 (0.25%) NCSC
15 9 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
16 8 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 8 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
17 6 (0.14%) Solvency II
18 5 (0.12%) IFRS
18 5 (0.12%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 710 (16.43%) Docker
2 137 (3.17%) Active Directory
3 52 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.44%) Firmware
6 17 (0.39%) Hyper-V
7 15 (0.35%) vSphere
8 7 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.12%) iptables
10 4 (0.093%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 4 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.069%) Embedded Firmware
11 3 (0.069%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.069%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.046%) KVM
12 2 (0.046%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.023%) OpenAM
13 1 (0.023%) OpenDJ
13 1 (0.023%) OpenIDM
13 1 (0.023%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,073 (24.83%) Terraform
2 774 (17.91%) Kubernetes
3 386 (8.93%) Ansible
4 222 (5.14%) Grafana
5 181 (4.19%) Prometheus
6 76 (1.76%) Argo
7 49 (1.13%) Puppet
8 36 (0.83%) HP Fortify
8 36 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
8 36 (0.83%) Nagios
9 27 (0.62%) Kibana
10 21 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
11 18 (0.42%) Istio
11 18 (0.42%) Kustomize
12 14 (0.32%) Packer
12 14 (0.32%) Rancher
13 12 (0.28%) Progress Chef
14 11 (0.25%) Proxmox
15 9 (0.21%) logstash
16 8 (0.19%) yum
Vendors
1 806 (18.65%) Microsoft
2 160 (3.70%) Google
3 157 (3.63%) Salesforce
4 154 (3.56%) Databricks
5 95 (2.20%) Splunk
6 88 (2.04%) VMware
7 84 (1.94%) Oracle
8 81 (1.87%) Red Hat
9 80 (1.85%) ServiceNow
10 55 (1.27%) SAP
11 42 (0.97%) MuleSoft
12 33 (0.76%) Dynatrace
13 32 (0.74%) Cisco
14 31 (0.72%) Palo Alto
15 25 (0.58%) OpenAI
16 23 (0.53%) Adobe
16 23 (0.53%) Pega
17 19 (0.44%) Apple
17 19 (0.44%) SolarWinds
18 18 (0.42%) Foundry