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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 22 21
Rank change year-on-year -8 -1 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,589 3,819 5,403
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.81% 7.80% 7.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.59% 8.80% 8.72%
Number of salaries quoted 3,870 2,162 3,423
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 £88,148 £87,500 £87,500
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% -3.85%

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 84,843 43,391 61,954
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.02% 88.66% 81.33%
Number of salaries quoted 58,659 24,441 34,825
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,250
25th Percentile £41,969 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 September 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 September 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 -10 4,828 £72,500 +3.57% 3,954
UK excluding London -4 3,580 £65,000 - 2,266
Work from Home -4 1,899 £69,310 -0.99% 1,897
London -10 1,584 £85,000 +6.25% 1,958
North of England +3 1,277 £68,076 +4.73% 683
South East -7 703 £65,000 - 540
North West +7 701 £70,000 +7.69% 383
South West +23 544 £75,000 +25.00% 271
Midlands -21 445 £65,000 - 275
Yorkshire +17 295 £70,000 +12.00% 192
North East +19 284 £60,000 - 111
West Midlands -28 261 £70,000 +7.69% 163
Wales +1 202 £54,500 -0.91% 61
East of England +2 195 £56,000 -12.16% 184
East Midlands +7 184 £60,000 +4.35% 112
Scotland -23 120 £60,000 -7.69% 173
Northern Ireland -7 114 £72,246 -44.43% 89
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
1 112 (2.00%) SharePoint
2 109 (1.95%) Apache Spark
3 108 (1.93%) Confluence
4 82 (1.47%) Apache
5 45 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
6 42 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
7 30 (0.54%) CMS
8 28 (0.50%) IIS
9 24 (0.43%) OpenStack
10 15 (0.27%) Jupyter
11 13 (0.23%) nginx
11 13 (0.23%) SAS
12 10 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
13 9 (0.16%) Umbraco
14 8 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
14 8 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
14 8 (0.14%) WordPress
15 7 (0.13%) Camunda
16 5 (0.089%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 65 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
2 45 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
4 26 (0.47%) MS Visio
5 25 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 21 (0.38%) PlantUML
7 20 (0.36%) Chatbot
8 13 (0.23%) Trello
9 7 (0.13%) Simulink
10 3 (0.054%) Blender
10 3 (0.054%) Maya
10 3 (0.054%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.036%) Lightworks
12 1 (0.018%) Notion
12 1 (0.018%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 89 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (0.25%) Elite 3E
4 7 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
4 7 (0.13%) Teamcenter
5 6 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
5 6 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
6 5 (0.089%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.089%) Visualfiles
7 4 (0.072%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.072%) Oracle Applications
7 4 (0.072%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.072%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.072%) Shopify
8 3 (0.054%) Carpe Diem
8 3 (0.054%) Distributed Ledger
8 3 (0.054%) Infor SunSystems
8 3 (0.054%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.054%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2,933 (52.48%) Azure
2 1,812 (32.42%) AWS
3 1,488 (26.62%) Azure DevOps
4 616 (11.02%) GCP
5 571 (10.22%) GitHub
6 500 (8.95%) Serverless
7 454 (8.12%) SaaS
8 432 (7.73%) Power Platform
9 308 (5.51%) GitHub Actions
10 284 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
11 223 (3.99%) Dynamics 365
12 217 (3.88%) Amazon S3
13 211 (3.78%) AWS Lambda
14 207 (3.70%) PaaS
15 177 (3.17%) Azure Data Factory
16 176 (3.15%) Entra ID
17 170 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
18 169 (3.02%) Azure AKS
19 168 (3.01%) Amazon EKS
20 159 (2.84%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 134 (2.40%) Firewall
2 93 (1.66%) DNS
3 87 (1.56%) VPN
4 63 (1.13%) Internet
5 61 (1.09%) TCP/IP
6 50 (0.89%) Network Security
7 28 (0.50%) DHCP
8 26 (0.47%) HTTP
9 21 (0.38%) Broadband
10 16 (0.29%) MQTT
10 16 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
11 15 (0.27%) Wireless
12 14 (0.25%) DMARC
13 13 (0.23%) SAN
13 13 (0.23%) WAN
14 12 (0.21%) BGP
15 11 (0.20%) LAN
15 11 (0.20%) SSH
16 9 (0.16%) OSPF
16 9 (0.16%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 356 (6.37%) SQL Server
2 303 (5.42%) Azure SQL Database
3 293 (5.24%) MongoDB
4 247 (4.42%) Power BI
5 222 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
6 203 (3.63%) NoSQL
7 143 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
8 127 (2.27%) MySQL
9 120 (2.15%) Relational Database
10 106 (1.90%) DynamoDB
11 102 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
12 100 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
13 97 (1.74%) Data Lake
13 97 (1.74%) Metadata
14 80 (1.43%) Redis
15 49 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
16 46 (0.82%) Delta Lake
17 44 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
18 41 (0.73%) Big Data
19 38 (0.68%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 688 (12.31%) Git
2 414 (7.41%) Jenkins
3 398 (7.12%) GitLab
4 356 (6.37%) JIRA
5 88 (1.57%) Selenium
6 69 (1.23%) SonarQube
7 61 (1.09%) Cypress.io
8 58 (1.04%) Maven
9 51 (0.91%) JUnit
10 49 (0.88%) TeamCity
11 48 (0.86%) Postman
12 40 (0.72%) Cucumber
13 39 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 29 (0.52%) Bitbucket
15 28 (0.50%) JMeter
15 28 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
16 27 (0.48%) Claude Code
17 20 (0.36%) NUnit
18 18 (0.32%) Subversion
18 18 (0.32%) Zephyr
General
1 1,319 (23.60%) Social Skills
2 1,082 (19.36%) Finance
3 522 (9.34%) Public Sector
4 477 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
5 339 (6.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 245 (4.38%) Banking
7 213 (3.81%) Law
8 173 (3.10%) Retail
9 166 (2.97%) Legal
10 84 (1.50%) Marketing
11 76 (1.36%) Financial Institution
12 59 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
13 57 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
14 54 (0.97%) Manufacturing
15 50 (0.89%) Aerospace
15 50 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
16 49 (0.88%) Telecoms
17 48 (0.86%) Back Office
18 45 (0.81%) Advertising
19 37 (0.66%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,382 (24.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,287 (23.03%) Senior
3 896 (16.03%) Developer
4 714 (12.78%) Lead
5 435 (7.78%) Architect
6 392 (7.01%) Software Engineer
7 353 (6.32%) Azure Engineer
8 317 (5.67%) Senior DevOps
9 300 (5.37%) Cloud Engineer
10 294 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 242 (4.33%) Platform Engineer
12 239 (4.28%) .NET Developer
13 220 (3.94%) Senior Developer
14 217 (3.88%) Data Engineer
15 186 (3.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 170 (3.04%) Lead DevOps
17 155 (2.77%) AWS Engineer
18 148 (2.65%) Solutions Architect
19 139 (2.49%) Consultant
20 133 (2.38%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,381 (24.71%) Terraform
2 732 (13.10%) .NET
3 428 (7.66%) React
4 354 (6.33%) REST
5 337 (6.03%) RESTful
6 332 (5.94%) Node.js
7 296 (5.30%) ASP.NET
8 269 (4.81%) Spring
9 268 (4.80%) .NET Core
10 267 (4.78%) Spring Boot
11 232 (4.15%) CSS
12 231 (4.13%) HTML
13 227 (4.06%) ASP.NET Core
13 227 (4.06%) Kafka
14 172 (3.08%) AngularJS
15 137 (2.45%) Entity Framework
16 135 (2.42%) Blazor
17 123 (2.20%) Middleware
18 119 (2.13%) JSON
19 106 (1.90%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1,023 (18.30%) Cloud Native
2 353 (6.32%) Product Ownership
3 274 (4.90%) Distributed Systems
4 238 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
5 168 (3.01%) Onboarding
6 128 (2.29%) Virtual Team
7 118 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
8 100 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
9 90 (1.61%) Management Information System
10 77 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
11 71 (1.27%) Data Centre
12 70 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
13 68 (1.22%) Mobile App
14 67 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
15 65 (1.16%) Public Cloud
16 64 (1.15%) AI Agents
17 60 (1.07%) Linux Command Line
18 54 (0.97%) Private Cloud
19 50 (0.89%) Data Structures
20 49 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 594 (10.63%) Linux
2 260 (4.65%) Windows
3 108 (1.93%) Unix
4 72 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 68 (1.22%) Windows Server
6 50 (0.89%) CentOS
7 40 (0.72%) Ubuntu
8 38 (0.68%) VMS
9 32 (0.57%) Android
10 16 (0.29%) Debian
11 14 (0.25%) Apple iOS
12 10 (0.18%) Rocky
13 7 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
14 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.089%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.072%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.072%) Solaris
16 4 (0.072%) Windows Server 2019
17 3 (0.054%) AIX
17 3 (0.054%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,869 (51.33%) CI/CD
2 2,038 (36.46%) Agile
3 1,379 (24.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,112 (19.90%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,081 (19.34%) Mentoring
6 1,032 (18.46%) AI
7 1,028 (18.39%) Software Engineering
8 931 (16.66%) Problem-Solving
9 866 (15.49%) Test Automation
10 750 (13.42%) Microservices
11 720 (12.88%) Containerisation
12 692 (12.38%) Platform Engineering
13 623 (11.15%) Observability
14 617 (11.04%) Technical Leadership
15 582 (10.41%) Stakeholder Management
16 574 (10.27%) Roadmaps
17 533 (9.54%) Scrum
18 528 (9.45%) Full-Stack Development
19 513 (9.18%) Analytics
20 404 (7.23%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,328 (23.76%) Python
2 998 (17.86%) SQL
3 815 (14.58%) C#
4 730 (13.06%) Java
5 663 (11.86%) JavaScript
6 430 (7.69%) TypeScript
7 395 (7.07%) PowerShell
8 393 (7.03%) Bash
9 171 (3.06%) Bicep
10 132 (2.36%) Go
11 119 (2.13%) C++
12 55 (0.98%) Groovy
12 55 (0.98%) PHP
13 54 (0.97%) T-SQL
14 53 (0.95%) Scala
15 51 (0.91%) Shell Script
16 46 (0.82%) C
17 45 (0.81%) Kotlin
18 40 (0.72%) Apex Code
19 38 (0.68%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,066 (19.07%) Security Cleared
2 712 (12.74%) SC Cleared
3 512 (9.16%) Degree
4 301 (5.39%) DV Cleared
5 194 (3.47%) Azure Certification
5 194 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 110 (1.97%) AWS Certification
7 101 (1.81%) Master's Degree
8 81 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 77 (1.38%) ITIL Certification
10 76 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
10 76 (1.36%) CISSP
11 67 (1.20%) CISM
12 55 (0.98%) ISTQB
13 37 (0.66%) PMI Certification
14 25 (0.45%) DBS Check
14 25 (0.45%) PhD
15 24 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 24 (0.43%) PMP
16 22 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 556 (9.95%) QA
2 216 (3.86%) Data Quality
3 188 (3.36%) Accessibility
4 124 (2.22%) GDPR
5 97 (1.74%) NIST
6 74 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 62 (1.11%) WCAG
8 49 (0.88%) ISO 22301
9 39 (0.70%) GRC
10 35 (0.63%) SLA
11 28 (0.50%) PCI DSS
11 28 (0.50%) PMO
12 26 (0.47%) NCSC
13 18 (0.32%) SOC 2
14 13 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
15 12 (0.21%) HIPAA
15 12 (0.21%) TickIT
16 10 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
17 9 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 9 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 943 (16.87%) Docker
2 145 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 83 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (0.47%) vSphere
6 20 (0.36%) Firmware
6 20 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 19 (0.34%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.14%) NDS
9 7 (0.13%) Ceph
10 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.089%) KVM
12 4 (0.072%) iptables
12 4 (0.072%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.054%) Xen
14 2 (0.036%) Embedded Firmware
14 2 (0.036%) VMware ESXi
14 2 (0.036%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.018%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.018%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,061 (18.98%) Kubernetes
2 473 (8.46%) Ansible
3 257 (4.60%) Grafana
4 181 (3.24%) Prometheus
5 82 (1.47%) Argo
6 67 (1.20%) Puppet
7 44 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
8 28 (0.50%) Kibana
9 27 (0.48%) Istio
10 26 (0.47%) Rancher
11 25 (0.45%) Nagios
12 23 (0.41%) Progress Chef
13 20 (0.36%) HP Fortify
14 19 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
15 15 (0.27%) logstash
15 15 (0.27%) Packer
16 14 (0.25%) Podman
17 11 (0.20%) Proxmox
17 11 (0.20%) ZABBIX
18 8 (0.14%) yum
Vendors
1 1,166 (20.86%) Microsoft
2 222 (3.97%) Google
3 191 (3.42%) Databricks
4 128 (2.29%) Oracle
5 121 (2.16%) Salesforce
6 117 (2.09%) VMware
7 97 (1.74%) ServiceNow
8 87 (1.56%) Splunk
9 77 (1.38%) SAP
10 76 (1.36%) Red Hat
11 56 (1.00%) Dynatrace
12 55 (0.98%) OpenAI
13 54 (0.97%) Cisco
14 44 (0.79%) Pega
15 41 (0.73%) Facebook
16 40 (0.72%) YouTube
17 38 (0.68%) AppDynamics
18 33 (0.59%) MuleSoft
19 28 (0.50%) Foundry
19 28 (0.50%) IBM