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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 19 25
Rank change year-on-year -12 +6 -13
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,221 3,898 7,136
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.57% 9.08% 7.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.19% 9.73% 8.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,996 2,292 5,295
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% +10.00% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,944 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 68,138 40,050 82,452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.73% 93.30% 84.76%
Number of salaries quoted 44,115 21,094 59,611
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,795 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,648 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.59% +8.45% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -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 May 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 May 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 -12 3,688 £70,039 -3.39% 1,381
UK excluding London -24 2,464 £65,000 - 1,015
Work from Home -7 1,509 £69,310 -0.99% 757
London -8 1,388 £82,500 - 559
North of England -15 846 £70,000 +3.70% 312
South East -12 547 £65,000 - 282
North West -17 428 £70,000 - 181
South West -18 340 £65,000 - 129
Midlands -28 328 £67,250 +12.08% 99
Yorkshire -3 277 £70,000 +2.94% 82
West Midlands -39 189 £62,500 +4.17% 70
Scotland -1 164 £55,000 -26.67% 65
East of England -14 149 £65,000 - 75
North East +9 141 £60,000 -7.69% 52
East Midlands -4 136 £70,000 +7.69% 29
Wales -6 83 £53,050 -11.58% 29
Northern Ireland -36 12 £73,801 +34.18% 39
Isle of Man +2 3 £35,000 -

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 78 (1.85%) SharePoint
2 73 (1.73%) Confluence
3 53 (1.26%) Apache
4 49 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
4 49 (1.16%) Apache Spark
5 37 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
6 28 (0.66%) IIS
7 27 (0.64%) CMS
8 16 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
9 13 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 11 (0.26%) SAS
11 10 (0.24%) Moodle
12 8 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
12 8 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
12 8 (0.19%) Umbraco
13 7 (0.17%) Anypoint
13 7 (0.17%) Apache Solr
14 6 (0.14%) nginx
14 6 (0.14%) WordPress
15 5 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 31 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
3 23 (0.54%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.26%) PlantUML
5 10 (0.24%) Chatbot
5 10 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
6 9 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (0.12%) Simulink
8 3 (0.071%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.047%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.047%) Maya
9 2 (0.047%) Trello
10 1 (0.024%) Blender
10 1 (0.024%) EngageOne
10 1 (0.024%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 64 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.33%) SAP ERP
3 13 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.24%) Endur
4 10 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.12%) Visualfiles
7 4 (0.095%) Markit EDM
7 4 (0.095%) Shopify
8 3 (0.071%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.071%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.071%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.047%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.047%) Fidessa
9 2 (0.047%) Infor SunSystems
9 2 (0.047%) Magento
9 2 (0.047%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.024%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.024%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2,237 (53.00%) Azure
2 1,361 (32.24%) AWS
3 1,089 (25.80%) Azure DevOps
4 483 (11.44%) GitHub
5 478 (11.32%) GCP
6 431 (10.21%) Serverless
7 330 (7.82%) Power Platform
8 263 (6.23%) GitHub Actions
9 257 (6.09%) SaaS
10 227 (5.38%) Amazon S3
11 224 (5.31%) AWS CloudFormation
12 218 (5.16%) AWS Lambda
13 167 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
14 155 (3.67%) PaaS
15 152 (3.60%) Entra ID
16 142 (3.36%) Amazon ECS
17 141 (3.34%) Amazon EKS
18 140 (3.32%) Azure Data Factory
19 133 (3.15%) Azure AKS
20 131 (3.10%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 138 (3.27%) Firewall
2 93 (2.20%) DNS
3 64 (1.52%) Broadband
4 58 (1.37%) TCP/IP
5 47 (1.11%) VPN
6 39 (0.92%) Network Security
7 32 (0.76%) HTTP
8 30 (0.71%) WAN
9 27 (0.64%) DHCP
10 23 (0.54%) LAN
11 11 (0.26%) BGP
12 10 (0.24%) SAN
13 9 (0.21%) Wireless
14 8 (0.19%) Internet
15 7 (0.17%) HTTPS
15 7 (0.17%) MQTT
15 7 (0.17%) NGFW
15 7 (0.17%) OSPF
16 6 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
16 6 (0.14%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 236 (5.59%) SQL Server
2 204 (4.83%) NoSQL
3 185 (4.38%) Power BI
4 151 (3.58%) MongoDB
5 143 (3.39%) Azure SQL Database
6 137 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
7 117 (2.77%) DynamoDB
8 89 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
9 87 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
10 86 (2.04%) Relational Database
11 84 (1.99%) Data Lake
12 67 (1.59%) MySQL
13 66 (1.56%) Metadata
14 62 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
15 44 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
16 42 (1.00%) BigQuery
17 36 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
17 36 (0.85%) Delta Lake
18 32 (0.76%) Big Data
19 31 (0.73%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 462 (10.95%) Git
2 399 (9.45%) Jenkins
3 363 (8.60%) GitLab
4 246 (5.83%) JIRA
5 106 (2.51%) SonarQube
6 88 (2.08%) Cypress.io
7 84 (1.99%) Selenium
8 68 (1.61%) Maven
9 44 (1.04%) Postman
10 37 (0.88%) Bitbucket
10 37 (0.88%) Cucumber
11 36 (0.85%) CircleCI
11 36 (0.85%) TeamCity
12 31 (0.73%) JUnit
13 27 (0.64%) JMeter
14 25 (0.59%) Eclipse
15 23 (0.54%) Visual Studio
15 23 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
16 19 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
16 19 (0.45%) REST Assured
General
1 925 (21.91%) Finance
2 873 (20.68%) Social Skills
3 357 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
4 270 (6.40%) Public Sector
5 245 (5.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 222 (5.26%) Banking
7 132 (3.13%) Retail
8 124 (2.94%) Law
9 102 (2.42%) Marketing
10 77 (1.82%) Games
10 77 (1.82%) Legal
11 45 (1.07%) Telecoms
12 43 (1.02%) Manufacturing
13 42 (1.00%) Advertising
14 41 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
15 40 (0.95%) Financial Institution
16 37 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
17 33 (0.78%) Billing
18 32 (0.76%) Back Office
19 27 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 903 (21.39%) DevOps Engineer
2 866 (20.52%) Senior
3 740 (17.53%) Developer
4 610 (14.45%) Lead
5 350 (8.29%) Architect
6 316 (7.49%) Software Engineer
7 307 (7.27%) Azure Engineer
8 250 (5.92%) Cloud Engineer
9 214 (5.07%) Senior DevOps
10 193 (4.57%) Senior Developer
11 184 (4.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 167 (3.96%) Data Engineer
13 161 (3.81%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 149 (3.53%) Solutions Architect
15 145 (3.44%) AWS Engineer
16 144 (3.41%) Java Developer
17 141 (3.34%) Platform Engineer
18 130 (3.08%) Lead DevOps
19 115 (2.72%) Full-Stack Developer
20 107 (2.53%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 500 (11.85%) .NET
2 365 (8.65%) React
3 276 (6.54%) REST
4 251 (5.95%) Node.js
5 238 (5.64%) RESTful
6 183 (4.34%) Spring Boot
7 166 (3.93%) Spring
8 165 (3.91%) CSS
9 160 (3.79%) HTML
10 159 (3.77%) Kafka
11 158 (3.74%) AngularJS
12 155 (3.67%) ASP.NET
13 152 (3.60%) .NET Core
14 120 (2.84%) SOAP
15 106 (2.51%) ASP.NET Core
16 104 (2.46%) OAuth
17 102 (2.42%) Middleware
18 92 (2.18%) JSON
18 92 (2.18%) YAML
19 91 (2.16%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 568 (13.46%) Cloud Native
2 290 (6.87%) Product Ownership
3 146 (3.46%) Distributed Systems
4 119 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
5 89 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
6 79 (1.87%) Management Information System
7 68 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
8 66 (1.56%) Mobile App
9 62 (1.47%) Onboarding
10 58 (1.37%) Data Centre
11 54 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
12 53 (1.26%) Public Cloud
13 52 (1.23%) Algorithms
14 51 (1.21%) Low-Code
15 50 (1.18%) Data Structures
16 38 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
17 30 (0.71%) Virtual Team
18 29 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
18 29 (0.69%) Security Posture
19 28 (0.66%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 425 (10.07%) Linux
2 190 (4.50%) Windows
3 82 (1.94%) Unix
4 74 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 50 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 41 (0.97%) Ubuntu
7 31 (0.73%) Android
8 29 (0.69%) VMS
9 28 (0.66%) CentOS
10 25 (0.59%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.17%) Debian
13 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (0.095%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.095%) Rocky
15 3 (0.071%) Windows Server 2016
16 2 (0.047%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.047%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.024%) SUSE
17 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,140 (50.70%) CI/CD
2 1,489 (35.28%) Agile
3 1,011 (23.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 758 (17.96%) Continuous Improvement
5 713 (16.89%) Problem-Solving
6 702 (16.63%) Mentoring
7 681 (16.13%) Software Engineering
8 641 (15.19%) AI
9 615 (14.57%) Test Automation
10 560 (13.27%) Microservices
11 550 (13.03%) Containerisation
12 459 (10.87%) Observability
13 439 (10.40%) Roadmaps
14 432 (10.23%) Analytics
15 422 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
16 403 (9.55%) Scrum
17 399 (9.45%) Platform Engineering
18 363 (8.60%) Technical Leadership
19 318 (7.53%) Data Modelling
20 304 (7.20%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,048 (24.83%) Python
2 776 (18.38%) SQL
3 611 (14.48%) Java
4 505 (11.96%) C#
5 467 (11.06%) JavaScript
6 358 (8.48%) Bash
7 325 (7.70%) TypeScript
8 248 (5.88%) PowerShell
9 150 (3.55%) Go
10 118 (2.80%) C++
11 116 (2.75%) Bicep
12 85 (2.01%) Apex Code
13 58 (1.37%) Groovy
14 51 (1.21%) PHP
15 48 (1.14%) Scala
16 46 (1.09%) SOQL
17 44 (1.04%) SOSL
18 37 (0.88%) Kotlin
19 35 (0.83%) C
20 33 (0.78%) Rust
Qualifications
1 596 (14.12%) Security Cleared
2 439 (10.40%) Degree
3 354 (8.39%) SC Cleared
4 175 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 148 (3.51%) DV Cleared
6 112 (2.65%) AWS Certification
7 95 (2.25%) Azure Certification
8 89 (2.11%) Master's Degree
9 56 (1.33%) ISTQB
10 41 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
11 34 (0.81%) DBS Check
12 33 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
13 29 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 29 (0.69%) PMI Certification
14 25 (0.59%) CISSP
15 24 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 22 (0.52%) PhD
17 21 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 20 (0.47%) PMP
19 19 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 340 (8.05%) QA
2 169 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 133 (3.15%) Accessibility
4 96 (2.27%) GDPR
5 73 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 54 (1.28%) NIST
7 46 (1.09%) GRC
8 36 (0.85%) SOC 2
9 33 (0.78%) PCI DSS
10 32 (0.76%) WCAG
11 19 (0.45%) SLA
12 14 (0.33%) PMO
13 12 (0.28%) NCSC
13 12 (0.28%) TickIT
14 10 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 8 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
16 7 (0.17%) Solvency II
17 6 (0.14%) IFRS
18 5 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 707 (16.75%) Docker
2 142 (3.36%) Active Directory
3 53 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.40%) Hyper-V
6 16 (0.38%) vSphere
7 15 (0.36%) Firmware
8 7 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.095%) iptables
9 4 (0.095%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 4 (0.095%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.071%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.071%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.047%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.047%) KVM
11 2 (0.047%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.024%) OpenAM
12 1 (0.024%) OpenDJ
12 1 (0.024%) OpenIDM
12 1 (0.024%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,048 (24.83%) Terraform
2 764 (18.10%) Kubernetes
3 383 (9.07%) Ansible
4 221 (5.24%) Grafana
5 180 (4.26%) Prometheus
6 73 (1.73%) Argo
7 49 (1.16%) Puppet
8 42 (1.00%) HP Fortify
9 37 (0.88%) Nagios
10 34 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
11 27 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
12 26 (0.62%) Kibana
13 18 (0.43%) Kustomize
14 16 (0.38%) Rancher
15 15 (0.36%) Istio
16 14 (0.33%) Packer
17 13 (0.31%) Progress Chef
18 10 (0.24%) logstash
18 10 (0.24%) Proxmox
19 9 (0.21%) yum
Vendors
1 782 (18.53%) Microsoft
2 161 (3.81%) Salesforce
3 158 (3.74%) Databricks
4 157 (3.72%) Google
5 93 (2.20%) Splunk
6 90 (2.13%) VMware
7 85 (2.01%) Oracle
8 83 (1.97%) Red Hat
9 73 (1.73%) ServiceNow
10 52 (1.23%) SAP
11 44 (1.04%) MuleSoft
12 34 (0.81%) Dynatrace
12 34 (0.81%) Palo Alto
13 33 (0.78%) Cisco
14 24 (0.57%) Adobe
14 24 (0.57%) Pega
15 22 (0.52%) OpenAI
16 20 (0.47%) IBM
17 19 (0.45%) Foundry
17 19 (0.45%) SolarWinds