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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 20 23
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 -11
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,350 4,159 5,803
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.11% 8.39% 6.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.95% 9.38% 8.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3,852 2,377 3,995
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 £61,500
% change year-on-year - +5.69% -1.60%

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 76,965 44,351 67,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.55% 89.45% 81.04%
Number of salaries quoted 53,101 25,205 44,372
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.82% -2.50% -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 6 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 6 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 -8 4,624 £70,039 +0.06% 2,468
UK excluding London -2 3,430 £65,000 - 1,364
Work from Home -2 1,922 £67,500 -3.57% 1,157
London -13 1,529 £85,000 +6.25% 1,330
North of England +2 1,206 £67,500 +3.85% 396
South East -11 699 £65,000 +2.36% 367
North West 0 665 £70,000 +7.69% 201
South West +8 495 £70,000 +7.69% 166
Midlands -19 400 £67,500 +3.85% 194
Yorkshire +14 293 £70,000 +7.69% 121
North East +19 248 £60,000 -7.69% 76
West Midlands -24 235 £69,308 +6.63% 130
East of England +13 209 £59,450 -8.54% 79
Wales +8 183 £55,000 -4.35% 42
East Midlands +9 164 £65,000 +15.56% 64
Scotland -1 138 £60,000 -11.11% 84
Northern Ireland -3 109 £72,500 -44.23% 40
Isle of Man 0 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
1 108 (2.02%) Confluence
2 92 (1.72%) SharePoint
3 90 (1.68%) Apache Spark
4 75 (1.40%) Apache
5 45 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
6 39 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
7 28 (0.52%) CMS
7 28 (0.52%) IIS
8 22 (0.41%) OpenStack
9 21 (0.39%) SAS
10 14 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
11 12 (0.22%) Jupyter
11 12 (0.22%) nginx
12 9 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
12 9 (0.17%) Umbraco
12 9 (0.17%) WordPress
13 8 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 8 (0.15%) Anypoint
13 8 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
14 6 (0.11%) Camunda
Applications
1 56 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
2 42 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.39%) PlantUML
4 18 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.28%) Chatbot
6 15 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
7 12 (0.22%) 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 78 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.17%) Elite 3E
4 7 (0.13%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.093%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.093%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.093%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.075%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.075%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.075%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.075%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.075%) Shopify
6 4 (0.075%) Teamcenter
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%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.056%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 2,827 (52.84%) Azure
2 1,758 (32.86%) AWS
3 1,385 (25.89%) Azure DevOps
4 597 (11.16%) GCP
5 525 (9.81%) GitHub
6 482 (9.01%) Serverless
7 427 (7.98%) SaaS
8 370 (6.92%) Power Platform
9 277 (5.18%) GitHub Actions
10 264 (4.93%) AWS CloudFormation
11 230 (4.30%) Amazon S3
12 216 (4.04%) PaaS
13 208 (3.89%) AWS Lambda
14 178 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
15 170 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
16 157 (2.93%) Azure AKS
17 156 (2.92%) Amazon ECS
18 147 (2.75%) Azure Service Bus
19 146 (2.73%) Amazon EKS
20 145 (2.71%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 128 (2.39%) Firewall
2 89 (1.66%) DNS
3 75 (1.40%) TCP/IP
4 66 (1.23%) VPN
5 47 (0.88%) Network Security
6 42 (0.79%) Broadband
7 33 (0.62%) HTTP
7 33 (0.62%) Internet
8 23 (0.43%) DHCP
9 21 (0.39%) LAN
10 18 (0.34%) WAN
11 16 (0.30%) MQTT
12 14 (0.26%) Wireless
13 13 (0.24%) DMARC
13 13 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
14 12 (0.22%) SAN
15 10 (0.19%) HTTPS
16 8 (0.15%) BGP
16 8 (0.15%) NAS
16 8 (0.15%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 316 (5.91%) SQL Server
2 277 (5.18%) MongoDB
3 268 (5.01%) Azure SQL Database
4 204 (3.81%) Power BI
5 202 (3.78%) PostgreSQL
6 181 (3.38%) NoSQL
7 111 (2.07%) MySQL
8 107 (2.00%) Relational Database
9 106 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
10 99 (1.85%) DynamoDB
11 95 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
12 94 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
13 79 (1.48%) Data Lake
14 62 (1.16%) Metadata
15 61 (1.14%) Redis
16 45 (0.84%) Big Data
17 42 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
18 41 (0.77%) Delta Lake
19 36 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
20 32 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 583 (10.90%) Git
2 414 (7.74%) GitLab
3 410 (7.66%) Jenkins
4 348 (6.50%) JIRA
5 96 (1.79%) Selenium
6 86 (1.61%) SonarQube
7 72 (1.35%) Cypress.io
8 56 (1.05%) Maven
8 56 (1.05%) Postman
9 55 (1.03%) JUnit
10 38 (0.71%) Cucumber
11 37 (0.69%) TeamCity
12 34 (0.64%) JMeter
13 33 (0.62%) Bitbucket
14 32 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 28 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
16 24 (0.45%) NUnit
17 23 (0.43%) CircleCI
17 23 (0.43%) REST Assured
17 23 (0.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,205 (22.52%) Social Skills
2 1,032 (19.29%) Finance
3 422 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
4 411 (7.68%) Public Sector
5 328 (6.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 257 (4.80%) Banking
7 205 (3.83%) Law
8 164 (3.07%) Retail
9 157 (2.93%) Legal
10 110 (2.06%) Marketing
11 68 (1.27%) Games
12 65 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
13 59 (1.10%) Manufacturing
14 56 (1.05%) Financial Institution
15 53 (0.99%) Advertising
16 52 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
17 47 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
18 43 (0.80%) Telecoms
19 34 (0.64%) Aerospace
19 34 (0.64%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,227 (22.93%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,173 (21.93%) Senior
3 905 (16.92%) Developer
4 718 (13.42%) Lead
5 420 (7.85%) Architect
6 373 (6.97%) Software Engineer
7 338 (6.32%) Azure Engineer
8 279 (5.21%) Senior DevOps
9 277 (5.18%) Cloud Engineer
10 259 (4.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 235 (4.39%) .NET Developer
12 224 (4.19%) Senior Developer
13 213 (3.98%) Platform Engineer
14 190 (3.55%) Data Engineer
15 188 (3.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 164 (3.07%) AWS Engineer
17 163 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
18 159 (2.97%) Lead DevOps
19 135 (2.52%) Java Developer
20 129 (2.41%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 729 (13.63%) .NET
2 458 (8.56%) React
3 338 (6.32%) REST
4 334 (6.24%) RESTful
5 317 (5.93%) Node.js
6 297 (5.55%) ASP.NET
7 278 (5.20%) .NET Core
8 245 (4.58%) CSS
9 243 (4.54%) HTML
10 240 (4.49%) Spring Boot
11 237 (4.43%) Spring
12 228 (4.26%) ASP.NET Core
13 207 (3.87%) Kafka
14 170 (3.18%) AngularJS
15 138 (2.58%) Blazor
15 138 (2.58%) Entity Framework
16 132 (2.47%) Middleware
17 106 (1.98%) JSON
17 106 (1.98%) YAML
18 101 (1.89%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 923 (17.25%) Cloud Native
2 348 (6.50%) Product Ownership
3 251 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
4 199 (3.72%) Enterprise Software
5 147 (2.75%) Onboarding
6 115 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
7 95 (1.78%) Virtual Team
8 88 (1.64%) Management Information System
9 80 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
10 76 (1.42%) Mobile App
11 75 (1.40%) Data Centre
12 71 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
13 64 (1.20%) Public Cloud
14 63 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
15 61 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
16 50 (0.93%) Data Structures
17 46 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
18 45 (0.84%) Low-Code
19 44 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
20 41 (0.77%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 547 (10.22%) Linux
2 260 (4.86%) Windows
3 105 (1.96%) Unix
4 77 (1.44%) Windows Server
5 76 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 53 (0.99%) CentOS
7 46 (0.86%) Ubuntu
8 37 (0.69%) VMS
9 31 (0.58%) Android
10 18 (0.34%) Debian
11 17 (0.32%) Apple iOS
12 10 (0.19%) Rocky
13 8 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
14 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.093%) Mac OS
15 5 (0.093%) Windows Server 2019
16 4 (0.075%) Kali Linux
17 3 (0.056%) AIX
17 3 (0.056%) Solaris
18 2 (0.037%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,700 (50.47%) CI/CD
2 1,995 (37.29%) Agile
3 1,289 (24.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,038 (19.40%) Continuous Improvement
5 973 (18.19%) Mentoring
6 963 (18.00%) Software Engineering
7 911 (17.03%) AI
8 865 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
9 826 (15.44%) Test Automation
10 725 (13.55%) Microservices
11 681 (12.73%) Containerisation
12 594 (11.10%) Platform Engineering
13 580 (10.84%) Observability
14 572 (10.69%) Full-Stack Development
15 565 (10.56%) Roadmaps
16 547 (10.22%) Scrum
17 546 (10.21%) Technical Leadership
18 479 (8.95%) Stakeholder Management
19 466 (8.71%) Analytics
20 386 (7.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,261 (23.57%) Python
2 945 (17.66%) SQL
3 787 (14.71%) C#
4 690 (12.90%) Java
5 671 (12.54%) JavaScript
6 416 (7.78%) TypeScript
7 371 (6.93%) Bash
8 368 (6.88%) PowerShell
9 156 (2.92%) Bicep
10 126 (2.36%) C++
10 126 (2.36%) Go
11 67 (1.25%) Apex Code
12 63 (1.18%) PHP
13 50 (0.93%) C
14 48 (0.90%) Groovy
15 46 (0.86%) T-SQL
16 42 (0.79%) Scala
17 39 (0.73%) Ruby
18 38 (0.71%) Rust
19 37 (0.69%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 895 (16.73%) Security Cleared
2 590 (11.03%) SC Cleared
3 516 (9.64%) Degree
4 249 (4.65%) DV Cleared
5 192 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 146 (2.73%) Azure Certification
7 110 (2.06%) Master's Degree
8 90 (1.68%) AWS Certification
9 82 (1.53%) CISSP
9 82 (1.53%) ITIL Certification
10 65 (1.21%) CISM
11 58 (1.08%) ISTQB
12 50 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
13 45 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
14 40 (0.75%) PMI Certification
15 39 (0.73%) DBS Check
16 28 (0.52%) PMP
17 26 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 23 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 23 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 541 (10.11%) QA
2 183 (3.42%) Accessibility
3 170 (3.18%) Data Quality
4 125 (2.34%) GDPR
5 106 (1.98%) NIST
6 73 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 63 (1.18%) WCAG
8 49 (0.92%) ISO 22301
9 48 (0.90%) GRC
10 39 (0.73%) PCI DSS
11 26 (0.49%) PMO
12 25 (0.47%) SLA
12 25 (0.47%) SOC 2
13 23 (0.43%) NCSC
14 13 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
15 12 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
15 12 (0.22%) TickIT
16 10 (0.19%) HIPAA
16 10 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 9 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 867 (16.21%) Docker
2 138 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 83 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.54%) vSphere
6 25 (0.47%) Hyper-V
7 23 (0.43%) Firmware
8 14 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.13%) Ceph
10 6 (0.11%) KVM
10 6 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.093%) iptables
12 4 (0.075%) Embedded Firmware
12 4 (0.075%) NDS
13 3 (0.056%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.056%) Xen
14 2 (0.037%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.019%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.019%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,293 (24.17%) Terraform
2 988 (18.47%) Kubernetes
3 454 (8.49%) Ansible
4 234 (4.37%) Grafana
5 173 (3.23%) Prometheus
6 80 (1.50%) Argo
7 64 (1.20%) Puppet
8 40 (0.75%) Nagios
9 32 (0.60%) Istio
10 28 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
11 25 (0.47%) Kibana
12 24 (0.45%) HP Fortify
13 17 (0.32%) Progress Chef
14 14 (0.26%) Rancher
15 13 (0.24%) Podman
15 13 (0.24%) ZABBIX
16 12 (0.22%) Packer
17 11 (0.21%) logstash
18 9 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
18 9 (0.17%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,044 (19.51%) Microsoft
2 209 (3.91%) Google
3 176 (3.29%) Databricks
4 149 (2.79%) Salesforce
5 115 (2.15%) VMware
6 111 (2.07%) Oracle
7 102 (1.91%) Splunk
8 101 (1.89%) ServiceNow
9 96 (1.79%) Red Hat
10 73 (1.36%) SAP
11 53 (0.99%) Pega
12 49 (0.92%) Dynatrace
13 45 (0.84%) Cisco
13 45 (0.84%) OpenAI
14 44 (0.82%) MuleSoft
15 42 (0.79%) Facebook
16 30 (0.56%) Apple
17 28 (0.52%) AppDynamics
17 28 (0.52%) Foundry
18 27 (0.50%) YouTube