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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 21 25
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,991 4,227 6,873
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.06% 8.58% 6.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.85% 9.51% 8.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3,631 2,461 4,947
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,750 £42,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,196
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £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 72,820 44,444 83,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.76% 90.26% 82.20%
Number of salaries quoted 50,274 24,878 58,156
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £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 £98,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 13 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 13 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 -7 4,341 £70,000 -2.77% 1,690
UK excluding London -5 3,087 £65,000 - 1,200
Work from Home -2 1,808 £67,500 -3.57% 833
London -8 1,487 £85,000 +6.25% 749
North of England +2 1,095 £69,305 +6.62% 322
South East -9 658 £65,000 - 293
North West -1 599 £70,000 +7.69% 182
South West -4 438 £70,000 +7.69% 248
Midlands -25 370 £65,000 - 148
Yorkshire +7 292 £70,000 - 82
North East +7 204 £60,000 -7.69% 59
West Midlands -32 203 £65,000 - 97
East of England +9 191 £60,000 -7.69% 77
East Midlands +5 166 £65,000 +18.18% 50
Wales +6 152 £53,171 -9.50% 35
Scotland -4 134 £59,283 -15.31% 53
Northern Ireland -18 56 £72,500 -9.38% 43
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
1 101 (2.02%) Confluence
2 91 (1.82%) SharePoint
3 69 (1.38%) Apache Spark
4 66 (1.32%) Apache
5 46 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
6 44 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
7 31 (0.62%) IIS
8 29 (0.58%) CMS
9 21 (0.42%) SAS
10 15 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
11 13 (0.26%) OpenStack
12 12 (0.24%) nginx
13 10 (0.20%) Jupyter
13 10 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
14 9 (0.18%) Umbraco
14 9 (0.18%) WordPress
15 8 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
16 7 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 7 (0.14%) Anypoint
17 6 (0.12%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 57 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
2 40 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.40%) MS Visio
3 20 (0.40%) PlantUML
4 15 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.28%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (0.20%) Trello
7 7 (0.14%) Simulink
8 4 (0.080%) Maya
9 3 (0.060%) Blender
9 3 (0.060%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.040%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.020%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.020%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.020%) Notion
11 1 (0.020%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 81 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.12%) Elite 3E
3 6 (0.12%) Endur
3 6 (0.12%) SAP IBP
4 5 (0.10%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.10%) Visualfiles
5 4 (0.080%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.080%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.060%) Carpe Diem
6 3 (0.060%) Infor SunSystems
6 3 (0.060%) Magento
6 3 (0.060%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.040%) Adobe Campaign
7 2 (0.040%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.040%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.040%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 2 (0.040%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,641 (52.92%) Azure
2 1,638 (32.82%) AWS
3 1,318 (26.41%) Azure DevOps
4 557 (11.16%) GCP
5 506 (10.14%) GitHub
6 473 (9.48%) Serverless
7 357 (7.15%) SaaS
8 353 (7.07%) Power Platform
9 269 (5.39%) GitHub Actions
10 231 (4.63%) AWS CloudFormation
11 227 (4.55%) Amazon S3
12 206 (4.13%) AWS Lambda
13 205 (4.11%) PaaS
14 163 (3.27%) Azure AKS
15 151 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
15 151 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
16 148 (2.97%) Dynamics 365
17 146 (2.93%) Amazon EKS
18 141 (2.83%) Azure Service Bus
19 137 (2.74%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 147 (2.95%) Firewall
2 93 (1.86%) DNS
3 66 (1.32%) VPN
4 64 (1.28%) TCP/IP
5 57 (1.14%) Broadband
6 39 (0.78%) Network Security
7 37 (0.74%) HTTP
8 34 (0.68%) Internet
9 22 (0.44%) DHCP
10 21 (0.42%) LAN
11 20 (0.40%) WAN
12 16 (0.32%) MQTT
13 15 (0.30%) Wireless
14 13 (0.26%) DMARC
15 10 (0.20%) BGP
15 10 (0.20%) HTTPS
15 10 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (0.16%) Bluetooth
16 8 (0.16%) ZigBee
17 7 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 271 (5.43%) SQL Server
2 270 (5.41%) MongoDB
3 266 (5.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 191 (3.83%) Power BI
5 190 (3.81%) NoSQL
6 178 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
7 103 (2.06%) DynamoDB
8 95 (1.90%) MySQL
9 91 (1.82%) Relational Database
10 88 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
10 88 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
11 77 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
12 75 (1.50%) Data Lake
13 66 (1.32%) Metadata
14 47 (0.94%) Redis
15 46 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
16 41 (0.82%) Big Data
17 36 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
18 35 (0.70%) Delta Lake
19 32 (0.64%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 512 (10.26%) Git
2 416 (8.34%) Jenkins
3 409 (8.19%) GitLab
4 320 (6.41%) JIRA
5 100 (2.00%) SonarQube
6 85 (1.70%) Selenium
7 75 (1.50%) Cypress.io
8 58 (1.16%) Maven
9 48 (0.96%) Postman
10 45 (0.90%) JUnit
11 39 (0.78%) Cucumber
12 34 (0.68%) Bitbucket
12 34 (0.68%) JMeter
13 32 (0.64%) CircleCI
13 32 (0.64%) TeamCity
14 26 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 25 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
16 21 (0.42%) Eclipse
16 21 (0.42%) REST Assured
17 20 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,046 (20.96%) Social Skills
2 977 (19.58%) Finance
3 369 (7.39%) Public Sector
4 365 (7.31%) Analytical Skills
5 300 (6.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 241 (4.83%) Banking
7 198 (3.97%) Law
8 161 (3.23%) Retail
9 117 (2.34%) Marketing
10 111 (2.22%) Legal
11 82 (1.64%) Games
12 63 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
13 57 (1.14%) Manufacturing
14 56 (1.12%) Advertising
15 50 (1.00%) Financial Institution
16 45 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
17 44 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
17 44 (0.88%) Telecoms
18 36 (0.72%) Back Office
19 26 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1,124 (22.52%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,060 (21.24%) Senior
3 874 (17.51%) Developer
4 678 (13.58%) Lead
5 431 (8.64%) Architect
6 364 (7.29%) Software Engineer
7 345 (6.91%) Azure Engineer
8 265 (5.31%) Cloud Engineer
9 257 (5.15%) Senior DevOps
10 232 (4.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 219 (4.39%) .NET Developer
12 214 (4.29%) Senior Developer
13 194 (3.89%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 193 (3.87%) Platform Engineer
15 174 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
16 172 (3.45%) Data Engineer
17 162 (3.25%) AWS Engineer
18 142 (2.85%) Java Developer
19 140 (2.81%) Lead DevOps
20 118 (2.36%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 667 (13.36%) .NET
2 431 (8.64%) React
3 308 (6.17%) REST
4 307 (6.15%) RESTful
5 304 (6.09%) Node.js
6 279 (5.59%) ASP.NET
7 247 (4.95%) .NET Core
8 229 (4.59%) Spring Boot
9 228 (4.57%) CSS
10 224 (4.49%) HTML
11 220 (4.41%) ASP.NET Core
12 218 (4.37%) Spring
13 184 (3.69%) Kafka
14 158 (3.17%) AngularJS
15 127 (2.54%) Entity Framework
16 125 (2.50%) Blazor
17 121 (2.42%) Middleware
18 112 (2.24%) YAML
19 105 (2.10%) SOAP
20 95 (1.90%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 834 (16.71%) Cloud Native
2 322 (6.45%) Product Ownership
3 214 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
4 157 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
5 128 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 97 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
7 90 (1.80%) Management Information System
8 82 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
8 82 (1.64%) Mobile App
9 71 (1.42%) Public Cloud
10 70 (1.40%) Data Centre
11 63 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
12 62 (1.24%) Virtual Team
13 61 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
14 50 (1.00%) Data Structures
15 48 (0.96%) Low-Code
16 44 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
17 42 (0.84%) Algorithms
17 42 (0.84%) Security Posture
18 39 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 494 (9.90%) Linux
2 236 (4.73%) Windows
3 91 (1.82%) Unix
4 71 (1.42%) Windows Server
5 65 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 49 (0.98%) Ubuntu
7 43 (0.86%) CentOS
8 39 (0.78%) VMS
9 33 (0.66%) Android
10 20 (0.40%) Apple iOS
11 16 (0.32%) Debian
12 7 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
12 7 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
13 6 (0.12%) Rocky
14 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
15 4 (0.080%) Kali Linux
16 3 (0.060%) AIX
17 2 (0.040%) Amazon Linux
17 2 (0.040%) FreeRTOS
18 1 (0.020%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,541 (50.91%) CI/CD
2 1,867 (37.41%) Agile
3 1,205 (24.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 952 (19.07%) Continuous Improvement
5 875 (17.53%) Mentoring
6 854 (17.11%) Software Engineering
7 807 (16.17%) AI
8 796 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
9 733 (14.69%) Test Automation
10 676 (13.54%) Microservices
11 647 (12.96%) Containerisation
12 555 (11.12%) Full-Stack Development
13 548 (10.98%) Roadmaps
14 534 (10.70%) Platform Engineering
15 521 (10.44%) Observability
16 515 (10.32%) Scrum
17 481 (9.64%) Technical Leadership
18 464 (9.30%) Analytics
19 398 (7.97%) Stakeholder Management
20 331 (6.63%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,186 (23.76%) Python
2 888 (17.79%) SQL
3 711 (14.25%) C#
4 674 (13.50%) Java
5 612 (12.26%) JavaScript
6 390 (7.81%) Bash
7 378 (7.57%) TypeScript
8 330 (6.61%) PowerShell
9 156 (3.13%) Bicep
10 143 (2.87%) Go
11 134 (2.68%) C++
12 78 (1.56%) Apex Code
13 59 (1.18%) PHP
14 51 (1.02%) Groovy
15 49 (0.98%) C
16 48 (0.96%) SOQL
17 45 (0.90%) SOSL
18 41 (0.82%) Rust
19 37 (0.74%) Kotlin
20 36 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 805 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 506 (10.14%) Degree
3 498 (9.98%) SC Cleared
4 207 (4.15%) DV Cleared
5 189 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 123 (2.46%) Azure Certification
7 114 (2.28%) Master's Degree
8 89 (1.78%) AWS Certification
9 65 (1.30%) CISSP
10 62 (1.24%) ITIL Certification
11 57 (1.14%) ISTQB
12 49 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
13 46 (0.92%) CISM
14 37 (0.74%) PMI Certification
15 36 (0.72%) DBS Check
16 29 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 28 (0.56%) PMP
18 27 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 25 (0.50%) PhD
20 20 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 464 (9.30%) QA
2 163 (3.27%) Accessibility
2 163 (3.27%) Data Quality
3 114 (2.28%) GDPR
4 90 (1.80%) NIST
5 71 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 58 (1.16%) WCAG
7 52 (1.04%) GRC
8 43 (0.86%) PCI DSS
9 30 (0.60%) SOC 2
10 29 (0.58%) ISO 22301
11 23 (0.46%) PMO
12 20 (0.40%) SLA
13 16 (0.32%) NCSC
14 12 (0.24%) TickIT
15 11 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
16 10 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
16 10 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 8 (0.16%) NIST 800
18 7 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 796 (15.95%) Docker
2 132 (2.64%) Active Directory
3 77 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.58%) vSphere
6 23 (0.46%) Firmware
7 20 (0.40%) Hyper-V
8 13 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 5 (0.10%) iptables
12 4 (0.080%) Embedded Firmware
13 3 (0.060%) KVM
13 3 (0.060%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.060%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.060%) Xen
14 2 (0.040%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.020%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.020%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,221 (24.46%) Terraform
2 927 (18.57%) Kubernetes
3 441 (8.84%) Ansible
4 239 (4.79%) Grafana
5 176 (3.53%) Prometheus
6 76 (1.52%) Argo
7 62 (1.24%) Puppet
8 39 (0.78%) Nagios
9 29 (0.58%) Kibana
10 28 (0.56%) HP Fortify
11 23 (0.46%) Istio
12 21 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
13 18 (0.36%) Rancher
14 15 (0.30%) Packer
15 13 (0.26%) Progress Chef
15 13 (0.26%) Proxmox
16 11 (0.22%) logstash
16 11 (0.22%) ZABBIX
17 9 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
17 9 (0.18%) yum
Vendors
1 959 (19.21%) Microsoft
2 194 (3.89%) Google
3 160 (3.21%) Databricks
4 155 (3.11%) Salesforce
5 112 (2.24%) VMware
6 102 (2.04%) ServiceNow
7 100 (2.00%) Splunk
8 95 (1.90%) Oracle
9 81 (1.62%) Red Hat
10 66 (1.32%) SAP
11 55 (1.10%) Pega
12 46 (0.92%) MuleSoft
13 44 (0.88%) Cisco
14 43 (0.86%) Dynatrace
15 42 (0.84%) Facebook
16 40 (0.80%) OpenAI
17 30 (0.60%) Apple
17 30 (0.60%) YouTube
18 26 (0.52%) Foundry
19 25 (0.50%) Palo Alto