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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 19 26
Rank change year-on-year -10 +7 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,305 3,947 7,187
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.62% 9.07% 7.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.26% 9.73% 8.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3,095 2,317 5,267
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,486 £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 £86,125 £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 68,780 40,561 85,340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.82% 93.18% 83.19%
Number of salaries quoted 44,959 21,364 61,218
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £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 £77,750 £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 3 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 3 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 3,804 £70,000 -2.45% 1,563
UK excluding London -19 2,539 £65,000 - 1,082
Work from Home -5 1,532 £69,305 -0.99% 973
London -8 1,413 £82,500 +3.13% 672
North of England -15 897 £70,000 +3.70% 318
South East -15 562 £65,000 - 266
North West -14 472 £70,000 +0.89% 177
South West -17 354 £65,000 - 150
Midlands -30 333 £67,500 +12.50% 135
Yorkshire -4 270 £70,000 - 88
West Midlands -42 191 £65,000 +8.33% 94
East of England -5 159 £62,500 -3.85% 80
North East +8 155 £60,000 -7.69% 54
Scotland -3 145 £55,000 -25.42% 59
East Midlands +5 139 £70,000 +21.74% 41
Wales -6 83 £53,100 -11.50% 40
Northern Ireland -37 10 £73,151 +4.50% 49
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 80 (1.86%) Confluence
2 78 (1.81%) SharePoint
3 55 (1.28%) Apache
4 53 (1.23%) Apache Spark
5 47 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
6 38 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
7 28 (0.65%) CMS
8 25 (0.58%) IIS
9 16 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
10 11 (0.26%) OpenStack
10 11 (0.26%) 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 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
2 32 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 13 (0.30%) PlantUML
5 12 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
8 6 (0.14%) Simulink
9 4 (0.093%) Maya
10 3 (0.070%) Blender
10 3 (0.070%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.046%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.046%) Trello
12 1 (0.023%) EngageOne
12 1 (0.023%) Lightworks
12 1 (0.023%) Notion
12 1 (0.023%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 71 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.30%) SAP ERP
4 8 (0.19%) Endur
5 6 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.12%) Visualfiles
7 4 (0.093%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.070%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.070%) Magento
8 3 (0.070%) Markit EDM
8 3 (0.070%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.070%) Shopify
9 2 (0.046%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.046%) Fidessa
9 2 (0.046%) Infor SunSystems
10 1 (0.023%) Aladdin
10 1 (0.023%) SAP IBP
10 1 (0.023%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 2,270 (52.73%) Azure
2 1,382 (32.10%) AWS
3 1,111 (25.81%) Azure DevOps
4 482 (11.20%) GCP
5 475 (11.03%) GitHub
6 429 (9.97%) Serverless
7 329 (7.64%) Power Platform
8 264 (6.13%) SaaS
9 254 (5.90%) GitHub Actions
10 227 (5.27%) Amazon S3
11 220 (5.11%) AWS CloudFormation
12 211 (4.90%) AWS Lambda
13 164 (3.81%) PaaS
14 160 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
15 147 (3.41%) Entra ID
16 140 (3.25%) Amazon EKS
17 138 (3.21%) Azure AKS
18 136 (3.16%) Amazon ECS
19 135 (3.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 134 (3.11%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 142 (3.30%) Firewall
2 92 (2.14%) DNS
3 65 (1.51%) Broadband
4 58 (1.35%) TCP/IP
5 48 (1.11%) VPN
6 37 (0.86%) Network Security
7 34 (0.79%) HTTP
8 27 (0.63%) DHCP
8 27 (0.63%) WAN
9 23 (0.53%) LAN
10 11 (0.26%) MQTT
11 10 (0.23%) BGP
11 10 (0.23%) SAN
11 10 (0.23%) Wireless
12 8 (0.19%) HTTPS
12 8 (0.19%) Internet
13 7 (0.16%) DMARC
14 6 (0.14%) NGFW
14 6 (0.14%) VXLAN
14 6 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 240 (5.57%) SQL Server
2 201 (4.67%) NoSQL
3 186 (4.32%) Power BI
4 167 (3.88%) MongoDB
5 164 (3.81%) Azure SQL Database
6 141 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
7 110 (2.56%) DynamoDB
8 88 (2.04%) Relational Database
9 84 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
10 83 (1.93%) Data Lake
11 81 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
12 67 (1.56%) MySQL
13 64 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
13 64 (1.49%) Metadata
14 48 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
15 38 (0.88%) BigQuery
16 33 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
16 33 (0.77%) Delta Lake
17 32 (0.74%) Big Data
18 30 (0.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 460 (10.69%) Git
2 390 (9.06%) Jenkins
3 366 (8.50%) GitLab
4 251 (5.83%) JIRA
5 98 (2.28%) SonarQube
6 81 (1.88%) Cypress.io
7 78 (1.81%) Selenium
8 61 (1.42%) Maven
9 45 (1.05%) Postman
10 36 (0.84%) Cucumber
11 35 (0.81%) Bitbucket
12 33 (0.77%) CircleCI
12 33 (0.77%) JUnit
12 33 (0.77%) TeamCity
13 26 (0.60%) Eclipse
13 26 (0.60%) JMeter
14 24 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
15 21 (0.49%) Visual Studio
16 20 (0.46%) REST Assured
17 18 (0.42%) Jaeger
General
1 923 (21.44%) Finance
2 884 (20.53%) Social Skills
3 353 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
4 280 (6.50%) Public Sector
5 252 (5.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 232 (5.39%) Banking
7 135 (3.14%) Retail
8 126 (2.93%) Law
9 101 (2.35%) Marketing
10 78 (1.81%) Legal
11 74 (1.72%) Games
12 46 (1.07%) Manufacturing
13 45 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
13 45 (1.05%) Telecoms
14 43 (1.00%) Advertising
15 40 (0.93%) Financial Institution
16 35 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
17 33 (0.77%) Billing
18 31 (0.72%) Back Office
18 31 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 940 (21.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 871 (20.23%) Senior
3 754 (17.51%) Developer
4 611 (14.19%) Lead
5 351 (8.15%) Architect
6 327 (7.60%) Software Engineer
7 323 (7.50%) Azure Engineer
8 250 (5.81%) Cloud Engineer
9 216 (5.02%) Senior DevOps
10 194 (4.51%) Senior Developer
11 187 (4.34%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 174 (4.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 167 (3.88%) Data Engineer
14 153 (3.55%) AWS Engineer
15 149 (3.46%) Platform Engineer
16 145 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
17 144 (3.34%) Java Developer
18 138 (3.21%) Lead DevOps
19 123 (2.86%) .NET Developer
20 108 (2.51%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 520 (12.08%) .NET
2 374 (8.69%) React
3 280 (6.50%) REST
4 266 (6.18%) Node.js
5 238 (5.53%) RESTful
6 183 (4.25%) Spring Boot
7 170 (3.95%) CSS
8 169 (3.93%) Spring
9 168 (3.90%) ASP.NET
10 166 (3.86%) HTML
11 160 (3.72%) .NET Core
12 156 (3.62%) Kafka
13 153 (3.55%) AngularJS
14 120 (2.79%) ASP.NET Core
15 113 (2.62%) SOAP
16 103 (2.39%) YAML
17 102 (2.37%) OAuth
18 99 (2.30%) Middleware
19 95 (2.21%) PySpark
20 92 (2.14%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 612 (14.22%) Cloud Native
2 289 (6.71%) Product Ownership
3 153 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
4 120 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
5 88 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
6 78 (1.81%) Management Information System
7 72 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
8 66 (1.53%) Mobile App
8 66 (1.53%) Onboarding
9 60 (1.39%) Data Centre
10 54 (1.25%) Public Cloud
11 53 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
12 52 (1.21%) Algorithms
12 52 (1.21%) Data Structures
13 50 (1.16%) Low-Code
14 36 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
15 35 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
16 34 (0.79%) Security Posture
17 30 (0.70%) Virtual Team
18 28 (0.65%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 428 (9.94%) Linux
2 183 (4.25%) Windows
3 85 (1.97%) Unix
4 70 (1.63%) Windows Server
5 54 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 45 (1.05%) Ubuntu
7 33 (0.77%) VMS
8 32 (0.74%) CentOS
9 30 (0.70%) Android
10 25 (0.58%) Apple iOS
11 9 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
12 8 (0.19%) Debian
13 4 (0.093%) Kali Linux
13 4 (0.093%) Rocky
13 4 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.046%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.046%) Embedded Linux
14 2 (0.046%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.023%) SUSE
15 1 (0.023%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,187 (50.80%) CI/CD
2 1,512 (35.12%) Agile
3 1,043 (24.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 775 (18.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 718 (16.68%) Problem-Solving
6 714 (16.59%) Mentoring
7 695 (16.14%) Software Engineering
8 662 (15.38%) AI
9 621 (14.43%) Test Automation
10 570 (13.24%) Containerisation
11 565 (13.12%) Microservices
12 463 (10.75%) Observability
13 449 (10.43%) Roadmaps
14 436 (10.13%) Full-Stack Development
15 431 (10.01%) Platform Engineering
16 430 (9.99%) Analytics
17 414 (9.62%) Scrum
18 376 (8.73%) Technical Leadership
19 312 (7.25%) Data Modelling
20 295 (6.85%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,063 (24.69%) Python
2 790 (18.35%) SQL
3 604 (14.03%) Java
4 527 (12.24%) C#
5 485 (11.27%) JavaScript
6 361 (8.39%) Bash
7 330 (7.67%) TypeScript
8 267 (6.20%) PowerShell
9 145 (3.37%) Go
10 125 (2.90%) C++
11 122 (2.83%) Bicep
12 82 (1.90%) Apex Code
13 58 (1.35%) PHP
14 52 (1.21%) Groovy
15 47 (1.09%) SOQL
16 45 (1.05%) Scala
17 44 (1.02%) SOSL
18 42 (0.98%) C
19 39 (0.91%) Kotlin
20 34 (0.79%) Rust
Qualifications
1 623 (14.47%) Security Cleared
2 439 (10.20%) Degree
3 373 (8.66%) SC Cleared
4 170 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 162 (3.76%) DV Cleared
6 104 (2.42%) AWS Certification
7 102 (2.37%) Azure Certification
8 90 (2.09%) Master's Degree
9 50 (1.16%) ISTQB
10 43 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 35 (0.81%) DBS Check
12 32 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
13 29 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 29 (0.67%) PMI Certification
14 27 (0.63%) CISSP
15 23 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 21 (0.49%) PhD
17 20 (0.46%) PMP
18 18 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
19 15 (0.35%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 352 (8.18%) QA
2 171 (3.97%) Data Quality
3 141 (3.28%) Accessibility
4 90 (2.09%) GDPR
5 64 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 56 (1.30%) NIST
7 45 (1.05%) GRC
8 36 (0.84%) WCAG
9 33 (0.77%) SOC 2
10 31 (0.72%) PCI DSS
11 18 (0.42%) SLA
12 16 (0.37%) PMO
13 12 (0.28%) TickIT
14 11 (0.26%) NCSC
15 9 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.21%) 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
1 704 (16.35%) Docker
2 136 (3.16%) Active Directory
3 55 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.44%) Firmware
6 17 (0.39%) Hyper-V
6 17 (0.39%) vSphere
7 7 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.12%) iptables
9 4 (0.093%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 4 (0.093%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.070%) Embedded Firmware
10 3 (0.070%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.070%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.046%) KVM
12 1 (0.023%) OpenAM
12 1 (0.023%) OpenDJ
12 1 (0.023%) OpenIDM
12 1 (0.023%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,072 (24.90%) Terraform
2 772 (17.93%) Kubernetes
3 383 (8.90%) Ansible
4 220 (5.11%) Grafana
5 179 (4.16%) Prometheus
6 76 (1.77%) Argo
7 49 (1.14%) Puppet
8 37 (0.86%) Nagios
9 34 (0.79%) HP Fortify
9 34 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
10 27 (0.63%) Kibana
11 20 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
12 18 (0.42%) Istio
12 18 (0.42%) Kustomize
13 15 (0.35%) Packer
14 14 (0.33%) Rancher
15 12 (0.28%) Progress Chef
16 11 (0.26%) Proxmox
17 9 (0.21%) logstash
18 8 (0.19%) yum
Vendors
1 799 (18.56%) Microsoft
2 160 (3.72%) Google
3 156 (3.62%) Salesforce
4 153 (3.55%) Databricks
5 95 (2.21%) Splunk
6 92 (2.14%) VMware
7 85 (1.97%) Oracle
8 82 (1.90%) ServiceNow
9 80 (1.86%) Red Hat
10 55 (1.28%) SAP
11 41 (0.95%) MuleSoft
12 34 (0.79%) Dynatrace
13 33 (0.77%) Cisco
14 30 (0.70%) Palo Alto
15 24 (0.56%) OpenAI
16 23 (0.53%) Pega
17 22 (0.51%) Adobe
18 19 (0.44%) Apple
18 19 (0.44%) Foundry
18 19 (0.44%) SolarWinds