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 7 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 21 26
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -15
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,919 4,159 7,063
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.04% 8.66% 6.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.84% 9.53% 8.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3,597 2,416 5,113
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,115 £41,250
25th Percentile £54,500 £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 £86,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,625 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -2.76%

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 71,870 43,651 85,354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.67% 90.86% 82.18%
Number of salaries quoted 49,673 24,244 60,243
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% - -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 7 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 7 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 -9 4,292 £70,000 -2.78% 1,683
UK excluding London -6 3,035 £65,000 - 1,417
Work from Home -2 1,789 £65,000 -7.14% 1,539
London -6 1,472 £83,500 +4.38% 582
North of England 0 1,089 £69,305 +6.62% 378
South East -10 647 £65,000 - 372
North West +1 593 £70,000 +4.42% 205
South West -2 433 £70,000 +7.69% 161
Midlands -23 361 £65,000 - 176
Yorkshire +9 296 £70,000 - 108
North East +11 200 £60,000 -7.69% 68
West Midlands -32 199 £65,000 - 98
East of England +13 190 £60,000 -7.69% 130
East Midlands +4 161 £65,000 +15.56% 77
Wales +6 143 £53,171 -7.53% 58
Scotland -6 135 £58,033 -17.10% 91
Northern Ireland -21 43 £73,151 -8.56% 78
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 98 (1.99%) Confluence
2 92 (1.87%) SharePoint
3 65 (1.32%) Apache Spark
4 60 (1.22%) Apache
5 46 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
6 45 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
7 31 (0.63%) IIS
8 30 (0.61%) CMS
9 19 (0.39%) SAS
10 15 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
11 12 (0.24%) OpenStack
12 11 (0.22%) nginx
13 10 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
14 9 (0.18%) Jupyter
14 9 (0.18%) Umbraco
14 9 (0.18%) WordPress
15 8 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
16 7 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
17 6 (0.12%) Anypoint
17 6 (0.12%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 53 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
2 38 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.41%) PlantUML
4 19 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (0.24%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.18%) Trello
8 7 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
8 7 (0.14%) Simulink
9 4 (0.081%) Maya
10 3 (0.061%) Blender
10 3 (0.061%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.041%) Lightworks
12 1 (0.020%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.020%) EngageOne
12 1 (0.020%) Notion
12 1 (0.020%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 82 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.12%) Elite 3E
3 6 (0.12%) Endur
3 6 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
4 5 (0.10%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.10%) SAP IBP
4 5 (0.10%) Visualfiles
5 4 (0.081%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.061%) Carpe Diem
6 3 (0.061%) Infor SunSystems
6 3 (0.061%) Magento
6 3 (0.061%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.061%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.041%) Adobe Campaign
7 2 (0.041%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.041%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 2 (0.041%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,615 (53.16%) Azure
2 1,605 (32.63%) AWS
3 1,314 (26.71%) Azure DevOps
4 544 (11.06%) GCP
5 505 (10.27%) GitHub
6 475 (9.66%) Serverless
7 351 (7.14%) Power Platform
8 334 (6.79%) SaaS
9 271 (5.51%) GitHub Actions
10 234 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
11 230 (4.68%) Amazon S3
12 212 (4.31%) AWS Lambda
13 204 (4.15%) PaaS
14 161 (3.27%) Azure AKS
15 150 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
16 149 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
16 149 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
17 146 (2.97%) Amazon EKS
18 143 (2.91%) Amazon ECS
19 138 (2.81%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 146 (2.97%) Firewall
2 91 (1.85%) DNS
3 66 (1.34%) VPN
4 64 (1.30%) TCP/IP
5 63 (1.28%) Broadband
6 41 (0.83%) Network Security
7 36 (0.73%) HTTP
8 23 (0.47%) DHCP
8 23 (0.47%) Internet
9 22 (0.45%) LAN
9 22 (0.45%) WAN
10 13 (0.26%) DMARC
10 13 (0.26%) MQTT
10 13 (0.26%) Wireless
11 10 (0.20%) BGP
12 9 (0.18%) HTTPS
12 9 (0.18%) SAN
13 8 (0.16%) Bluetooth
13 8 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (0.12%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 273 (5.55%) MongoDB
2 272 (5.53%) SQL Server
3 269 (5.47%) Azure SQL Database
4 194 (3.94%) NoSQL
5 187 (3.80%) Power BI
6 173 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
7 106 (2.15%) DynamoDB
8 95 (1.93%) Relational Database
9 92 (1.87%) MySQL
10 88 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
11 85 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
12 79 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
13 74 (1.50%) Data Lake
14 63 (1.28%) Metadata
15 46 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
16 45 (0.91%) Redis
17 37 (0.75%) Delta Lake
18 36 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
18 36 (0.73%) Big Data
19 33 (0.67%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 503 (10.23%) Git
2 410 (8.34%) Jenkins
3 402 (8.17%) GitLab
4 309 (6.28%) JIRA
5 102 (2.07%) SonarQube
6 80 (1.63%) Selenium
7 77 (1.57%) Cypress.io
8 61 (1.24%) Maven
9 44 (0.89%) Postman
10 42 (0.85%) JUnit
11 37 (0.75%) Cucumber
12 35 (0.71%) Bitbucket
13 33 (0.67%) CircleCI
14 32 (0.65%) TeamCity
15 31 (0.63%) JMeter
16 25 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
17 24 (0.49%) Eclipse
18 23 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
19 22 (0.45%) Visual Studio
20 20 (0.41%) REST Assured
General
1 1,021 (20.76%) Social Skills
2 971 (19.74%) Finance
3 361 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
4 358 (7.28%) Public Sector
5 297 (6.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 242 (4.92%) Banking
7 181 (3.68%) Law
8 157 (3.19%) Retail
9 113 (2.30%) Marketing
10 101 (2.05%) Legal
11 83 (1.69%) Games
12 62 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
13 56 (1.14%) Manufacturing
14 55 (1.12%) Advertising
15 48 (0.98%) Financial Institution
16 45 (0.91%) Telecoms
17 43 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
18 42 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
19 34 (0.69%) Back Office
20 26 (0.53%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1,105 (22.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,018 (20.70%) Senior
3 885 (17.99%) Developer
4 673 (13.68%) Lead
5 411 (8.36%) Architect
6 364 (7.40%) Software Engineer
7 336 (6.83%) Azure Engineer
8 262 (5.33%) Cloud Engineer
9 249 (5.06%) Senior DevOps
10 225 (4.57%) .NET Developer
10 225 (4.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 212 (4.31%) Senior Developer
12 188 (3.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 186 (3.78%) Platform Engineer
14 167 (3.39%) Data Engineer
15 164 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
16 160 (3.25%) Solutions Architect
17 147 (2.99%) Java Developer
18 137 (2.79%) Lead DevOps
19 113 (2.30%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 679 (13.80%) .NET
2 442 (8.99%) React
3 311 (6.32%) RESTful
4 307 (6.24%) Node.js
5 300 (6.10%) REST
6 284 (5.77%) ASP.NET
7 255 (5.18%) .NET Core
8 227 (4.61%) CSS
9 225 (4.57%) ASP.NET Core
10 223 (4.53%) HTML
11 221 (4.49%) Spring Boot
12 209 (4.25%) Spring
13 172 (3.50%) Kafka
14 167 (3.39%) AngularJS
15 131 (2.66%) Blazor
16 128 (2.60%) Entity Framework
17 117 (2.38%) Middleware
18 112 (2.28%) YAML
19 103 (2.09%) SOAP
20 93 (1.89%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 805 (16.37%) Cloud Native
2 313 (6.36%) Product Ownership
3 204 (4.15%) Distributed Systems
4 151 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
5 104 (2.11%) Onboarding
6 95 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
7 88 (1.79%) Management Information System
8 83 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
9 81 (1.65%) Mobile App
10 70 (1.42%) Public Cloud
11 69 (1.40%) Data Centre
12 63 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
13 60 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
14 53 (1.08%) Virtual Team
15 51 (1.04%) Data Structures
15 51 (1.04%) Low-Code
16 44 (0.89%) Algorithms
16 44 (0.89%) Security Posture
17 41 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
18 37 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 487 (9.90%) Linux
2 228 (4.64%) Windows
3 96 (1.95%) Unix
4 72 (1.46%) Windows Server
5 63 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 50 (1.02%) Ubuntu
7 42 (0.85%) CentOS
8 40 (0.81%) VMS
9 35 (0.71%) Android
10 21 (0.43%) Apple iOS
11 15 (0.30%) Debian
12 7 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
13 6 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
14 5 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
14 5 (0.10%) Rocky
15 4 (0.081%) Kali Linux
16 3 (0.061%) AIX
17 2 (0.041%) Amazon Linux
17 2 (0.041%) FreeRTOS
18 1 (0.020%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,497 (50.76%) CI/CD
2 1,833 (37.26%) Agile
3 1,182 (24.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 921 (18.72%) Continuous Improvement
5 854 (17.36%) Mentoring
6 831 (16.89%) Software Engineering
7 783 (15.92%) Problem-Solving
8 782 (15.90%) AI
9 705 (14.33%) Test Automation
10 668 (13.58%) Microservices
11 643 (13.07%) Containerisation
12 565 (11.49%) Full-Stack Development
13 536 (10.90%) Roadmaps
14 519 (10.55%) Observability
15 514 (10.45%) Platform Engineering
16 508 (10.33%) Scrum
17 466 (9.47%) Technical Leadership
18 449 (9.13%) Analytics
19 383 (7.79%) Stakeholder Management
20 320 (6.51%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,155 (23.48%) Python
2 890 (18.09%) SQL
3 707 (14.37%) C#
4 663 (13.48%) Java
5 608 (12.36%) JavaScript
6 394 (8.01%) Bash
7 371 (7.54%) TypeScript
8 315 (6.40%) PowerShell
9 154 (3.13%) Bicep
10 142 (2.89%) Go
11 132 (2.68%) C++
12 77 (1.57%) Apex Code
13 59 (1.20%) PHP
14 52 (1.06%) Groovy
15 48 (0.98%) SOQL
16 47 (0.96%) C
17 45 (0.91%) SOSL
18 40 (0.81%) Rust
19 38 (0.77%) Kotlin
20 37 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 778 (15.82%) Security Cleared
2 489 (9.94%) Degree
3 479 (9.74%) SC Cleared
4 196 (3.98%) DV Cleared
5 182 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 123 (2.50%) Azure Certification
7 109 (2.22%) Master's Degree
8 97 (1.97%) AWS Certification
9 60 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
10 56 (1.14%) CISSP
11 52 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
12 51 (1.04%) ISTQB
13 37 (0.75%) CISM
14 36 (0.73%) DBS Check
15 35 (0.71%) PMI Certification
16 31 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 27 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 27 (0.55%) PMP
18 25 (0.51%) PhD
19 20 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 440 (8.94%) QA
2 161 (3.27%) Accessibility
3 160 (3.25%) Data Quality
4 108 (2.20%) GDPR
5 83 (1.69%) NIST
6 70 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 56 (1.14%) WCAG
8 49 (1.00%) GRC
9 43 (0.87%) PCI DSS
10 31 (0.63%) SOC 2
11 24 (0.49%) ISO 22301
12 21 (0.43%) PMO
13 20 (0.41%) SLA
14 15 (0.30%) NCSC
15 12 (0.24%) TickIT
16 10 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
16 10 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
17 8 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 6 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 6 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 798 (16.22%) Docker
2 133 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 76 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.59%) vSphere
6 21 (0.43%) Firmware
7 20 (0.41%) Hyper-V
8 13 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.12%) iptables
11 5 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 4 (0.081%) Embedded Firmware
12 4 (0.081%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.061%) KVM
13 3 (0.061%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.061%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.041%) Xen
15 1 (0.020%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.020%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,200 (24.40%) Terraform
2 909 (18.48%) Kubernetes
3 437 (8.88%) Ansible
4 234 (4.76%) Grafana
5 180 (3.66%) Prometheus
6 79 (1.61%) Argo
7 60 (1.22%) Puppet
8 39 (0.79%) Nagios
9 31 (0.63%) HP Fortify
10 28 (0.57%) Kibana
11 22 (0.45%) Istio
11 22 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
12 16 (0.33%) Rancher
13 15 (0.30%) Packer
14 14 (0.28%) Progress Chef
15 13 (0.26%) Kustomize
15 13 (0.26%) Proxmox
16 10 (0.20%) logstash
17 9 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
17 9 (0.18%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 959 (19.50%) Microsoft
2 189 (3.84%) Google
3 159 (3.23%) Databricks
4 150 (3.05%) Salesforce
5 113 (2.30%) VMware
6 103 (2.09%) ServiceNow
7 100 (2.03%) Splunk
8 92 (1.87%) Oracle
9 82 (1.67%) Red Hat
10 58 (1.18%) SAP
11 55 (1.12%) Pega
12 45 (0.91%) MuleSoft
13 43 (0.87%) Dynatrace
13 43 (0.87%) Facebook
14 42 (0.85%) Cisco
15 37 (0.75%) OpenAI
16 31 (0.63%) Apple
17 30 (0.61%) YouTube
18 26 (0.53%) Foundry
18 26 (0.53%) Palo Alto