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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 20 24
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 -12
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,354 4,137 5,735
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.04% 8.31% 6.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.86% 9.31% 8.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,841 2,358 3,957
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £86,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +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 78,019 44,452 67,790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.52% 89.29% 81.16%
Number of salaries quoted 53,759 25,267 43,796
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.58% -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 11 August 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 11 August 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 4,629 £70,239 +0.34% 2,456
UK excluding London -3 3,435 £65,000 - 1,366
Work from Home -2 1,915 £68,000 -2.86% 1,123
London -11 1,530 £85,000 +6.25% 1,324
North of England +2 1,221 £67,500 +3.85% 384
South East -10 690 £65,000 +3.17% 382
North West 0 670 £70,000 +7.69% 196
South West +6 494 £70,000 +7.69% 167
Midlands -19 401 £67,500 +3.85% 189
Yorkshire +12 294 £70,000 +7.69% 108
North East +20 257 £60,000 -7.69% 82
West Midlands -23 238 £70,000 +7.69% 124
East of England +7 209 £59,450 -8.54% 78
Wales +9 186 £55,000 -2.22% 44
East Midlands +4 162 £64,525 +12.22% 65
Scotland -5 135 £60,000 -14.29% 90
Northern Ireland -3 109 £72,500 -44.23% 36
Isle of Man -1 3 £35,000 -33.33% 3

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
1 109 (2.04%) Confluence
2 95 (1.77%) Apache Spark
3 92 (1.72%) SharePoint
4 79 (1.48%) Apache
5 44 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
6 37 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
7 28 (0.52%) CMS
8 27 (0.50%) IIS
9 22 (0.41%) OpenStack
10 21 (0.39%) SAS
11 14 (0.26%) nginx
11 14 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
12 12 (0.22%) Jupyter
13 9 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
13 9 (0.17%) Umbraco
13 9 (0.17%) WordPress
14 8 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 8 (0.15%) Anypoint
14 8 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
15 7 (0.13%) Camunda
Applications
1 57 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
2 43 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (0.41%) PlantUML
4 21 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.32%) Chatbot
6 16 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
6 16 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 13 (0.24%) Trello
8 7 (0.13%) Simulink
9 4 (0.075%) Maya
10 3 (0.056%) Blender
10 3 (0.056%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.037%) Lightworks
12 1 (0.019%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.019%) Notion
12 1 (0.019%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 77 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.19%) Elite 3E
4 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.093%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.093%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.093%) Teamcenter
5 5 (0.093%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.075%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.075%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.075%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.075%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.075%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.075%) Shopify
7 3 (0.056%) Carpe Diem
7 3 (0.056%) Infor SunSystems
7 3 (0.056%) Magento
7 3 (0.056%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (0.056%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.056%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 2,835 (52.95%) Azure
2 1,757 (32.82%) AWS
3 1,398 (26.11%) Azure DevOps
4 595 (11.11%) GCP
5 528 (9.86%) GitHub
6 484 (9.04%) Serverless
7 430 (8.03%) SaaS
8 370 (6.91%) Power Platform
9 277 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
10 271 (5.06%) AWS CloudFormation
11 230 (4.30%) Amazon S3
12 218 (4.07%) PaaS
13 211 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
14 176 (3.29%) Dynamics 365
15 171 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
16 159 (2.97%) Amazon ECS
17 158 (2.95%) Azure AKS
18 149 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
19 147 (2.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 144 (2.69%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 128 (2.39%) Firewall
2 88 (1.64%) DNS
3 73 (1.36%) TCP/IP
4 66 (1.23%) VPN
5 47 (0.88%) Network Security
6 36 (0.67%) Broadband
7 33 (0.62%) Internet
8 31 (0.58%) HTTP
9 23 (0.43%) DHCP
10 19 (0.35%) LAN
11 18 (0.34%) WAN
12 16 (0.30%) MQTT
13 13 (0.24%) DMARC
13 13 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
13 13 (0.24%) Wireless
14 11 (0.21%) SAN
15 10 (0.19%) HTTPS
16 9 (0.17%) BGP
17 8 (0.15%) NAS
17 8 (0.15%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 319 (5.96%) SQL Server
2 279 (5.21%) MongoDB
3 272 (5.08%) Azure SQL Database
4 206 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
5 204 (3.81%) Power BI
6 187 (3.49%) NoSQL
7 113 (2.11%) MySQL
8 110 (2.05%) Relational Database
9 107 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
10 101 (1.89%) DynamoDB
11 97 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
12 94 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
13 82 (1.53%) Data Lake
14 65 (1.21%) Metadata
15 63 (1.18%) Redis
16 47 (0.88%) Big Data
17 44 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
18 41 (0.77%) Delta Lake
19 36 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
20 32 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 588 (10.98%) Git
2 405 (7.56%) Jenkins
3 402 (7.51%) GitLab
4 356 (6.65%) JIRA
5 96 (1.79%) Selenium
6 80 (1.49%) SonarQube
7 71 (1.33%) Cypress.io
8 58 (1.08%) Maven
9 56 (1.05%) Postman
10 55 (1.03%) JUnit
11 38 (0.71%) Cucumber
12 36 (0.67%) TeamCity
13 34 (0.64%) Bitbucket
13 34 (0.64%) JMeter
14 33 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 28 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
16 25 (0.47%) NUnit
17 23 (0.43%) REST Assured
18 21 (0.39%) Visual Studio
19 20 (0.37%) CircleCI
General
1 1,203 (22.47%) Social Skills
2 1,038 (19.39%) Finance
3 427 (7.98%) Public Sector
4 419 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
5 324 (6.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 254 (4.74%) Banking
7 207 (3.87%) Law
8 160 (2.99%) Legal
8 160 (2.99%) Retail
9 102 (1.91%) Marketing
10 62 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
11 60 (1.12%) Games
12 58 (1.08%) Manufacturing
13 56 (1.05%) Financial Institution
14 51 (0.95%) Advertising
15 50 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
16 47 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
17 44 (0.82%) Telecoms
18 36 (0.67%) Aerospace
19 33 (0.62%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,226 (22.90%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,180 (22.04%) Senior
3 910 (17.00%) Developer
4 718 (13.41%) Lead
5 417 (7.79%) Architect
6 372 (6.95%) Software Engineer
7 339 (6.33%) Azure Engineer
8 280 (5.23%) Senior DevOps
9 275 (5.14%) Cloud Engineer
10 262 (4.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 236 (4.41%) .NET Developer
12 225 (4.20%) Senior Developer
13 217 (4.05%) Platform Engineer
14 193 (3.60%) Data Engineer
15 188 (3.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 161 (3.01%) Lead DevOps
17 160 (2.99%) AWS Engineer
18 156 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
19 139 (2.60%) Java Developer
20 128 (2.39%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 733 (13.69%) .NET
2 458 (8.55%) React
3 338 (6.31%) RESTful
4 331 (6.18%) REST
5 322 (6.01%) Node.js
6 296 (5.53%) ASP.NET
7 281 (5.25%) .NET Core
8 246 (4.59%) CSS
9 245 (4.58%) Spring Boot
10 244 (4.56%) HTML
11 241 (4.50%) Spring
12 230 (4.30%) ASP.NET Core
13 209 (3.90%) Kafka
14 172 (3.21%) AngularJS
15 139 (2.60%) Entity Framework
16 138 (2.58%) Blazor
17 129 (2.41%) Middleware
18 106 (1.98%) YAML
19 105 (1.96%) JSON
20 100 (1.87%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 939 (17.54%) Cloud Native
2 348 (6.50%) Product Ownership
3 253 (4.73%) Distributed Systems
4 208 (3.88%) Enterprise Software
5 152 (2.84%) Onboarding
6 114 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
7 98 (1.83%) Virtual Team
8 89 (1.66%) Management Information System
9 82 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
10 76 (1.42%) Mobile App
11 74 (1.38%) Data Centre
12 70 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
13 64 (1.20%) Public Cloud
14 63 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
14 63 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
15 49 (0.92%) Data Structures
16 46 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
17 44 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
18 43 (0.80%) AI Agents
18 43 (0.80%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 547 (10.22%) Linux
2 259 (4.84%) Windows
3 107 (2.00%) Unix
4 75 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 73 (1.36%) Windows Server
6 53 (0.99%) CentOS
7 44 (0.82%) Ubuntu
8 37 (0.69%) VMS
9 31 (0.58%) Android
10 18 (0.34%) Debian
11 17 (0.32%) Apple iOS
12 11 (0.21%) Rocky
13 8 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
14 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.093%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.075%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.075%) Solaris
16 4 (0.075%) Windows Server 2019
17 3 (0.056%) AIX
17 3 (0.056%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,696 (50.35%) CI/CD
2 1,998 (37.32%) Agile
3 1,296 (24.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,028 (19.20%) Continuous Improvement
5 983 (18.36%) Mentoring
6 965 (18.02%) Software Engineering
7 922 (17.22%) AI
8 859 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
9 819 (15.30%) Test Automation
10 728 (13.60%) Microservices
11 683 (12.76%) Containerisation
12 607 (11.34%) Platform Engineering
13 584 (10.91%) Observability
14 570 (10.65%) Full-Stack Development
15 564 (10.53%) Roadmaps
16 555 (10.37%) Technical Leadership
17 543 (10.14%) Scrum
18 486 (9.08%) Stakeholder Management
19 470 (8.78%) Analytics
20 387 (7.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,258 (23.50%) Python
2 956 (17.86%) SQL
3 789 (14.74%) C#
4 700 (13.07%) Java
5 667 (12.46%) JavaScript
6 418 (7.81%) TypeScript
7 367 (6.85%) PowerShell
8 364 (6.80%) Bash
9 155 (2.90%) Bicep
10 125 (2.33%) C++
11 124 (2.32%) Go
12 61 (1.14%) PHP
13 58 (1.08%) Apex Code
14 51 (0.95%) C
15 48 (0.90%) Groovy
16 47 (0.88%) T-SQL
17 45 (0.84%) Scala
18 40 (0.75%) Kotlin
18 40 (0.75%) Ruby
19 38 (0.71%) Rust
Qualifications
1 909 (16.98%) Security Cleared
2 601 (11.23%) SC Cleared
3 519 (9.69%) Degree
4 253 (4.73%) DV Cleared
5 193 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 149 (2.78%) Azure Certification
7 110 (2.05%) Master's Degree
8 94 (1.76%) AWS Certification
9 82 (1.53%) CISSP
9 82 (1.53%) ITIL Certification
10 65 (1.21%) CISM
11 57 (1.06%) ISTQB
12 56 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
13 50 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
14 41 (0.77%) PMI Certification
15 37 (0.69%) DBS Check
16 28 (0.52%) PMP
17 25 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 24 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 23 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 538 (10.05%) QA
2 188 (3.51%) Accessibility
3 177 (3.31%) Data Quality
4 125 (2.33%) GDPR
5 107 (2.00%) NIST
6 72 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 62 (1.16%) WCAG
8 49 (0.92%) ISO 22301
9 46 (0.86%) GRC
10 37 (0.69%) PCI DSS
11 27 (0.50%) PMO
12 25 (0.47%) SLA
13 24 (0.45%) NCSC
14 23 (0.43%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
16 12 (0.22%) TickIT
17 11 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
18 10 (0.19%) HIPAA
18 10 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 9 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 871 (16.27%) Docker
2 140 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 82 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.54%) vSphere
6 23 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 22 (0.41%) Firmware
8 15 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.13%) Ceph
10 6 (0.11%) iptables
10 6 (0.11%) KVM
10 6 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.075%) NDS
11 4 (0.075%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.056%) Embedded Firmware
12 3 (0.056%) Xen
13 2 (0.037%) VMware NSX
14 1 (0.019%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.019%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,293 (24.15%) Terraform
2 983 (18.36%) Kubernetes
3 452 (8.44%) Ansible
4 227 (4.24%) Grafana
5 169 (3.16%) Prometheus
6 78 (1.46%) Argo
7 64 (1.20%) Puppet
8 37 (0.69%) Nagios
9 32 (0.60%) Istio
10 28 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
11 25 (0.47%) Kibana
12 24 (0.45%) HP Fortify
13 18 (0.34%) Progress Chef
14 13 (0.24%) Packer
14 13 (0.24%) Rancher
14 13 (0.24%) ZABBIX
15 12 (0.22%) Podman
16 11 (0.21%) logstash
17 9 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
18 8 (0.15%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,039 (19.41%) Microsoft
2 213 (3.98%) Google
3 180 (3.36%) Databricks
4 142 (2.65%) Salesforce
5 115 (2.15%) Oracle
6 113 (2.11%) VMware
7 99 (1.85%) ServiceNow
8 96 (1.79%) Red Hat
9 95 (1.77%) Splunk
10 72 (1.34%) SAP
11 51 (0.95%) Pega
12 48 (0.90%) Cisco
12 48 (0.90%) Dynatrace
12 48 (0.90%) OpenAI
13 42 (0.78%) Facebook
14 41 (0.77%) MuleSoft
15 30 (0.56%) Apple
16 29 (0.54%) AppDynamics
17 28 (0.52%) Foundry
18 27 (0.50%) YouTube