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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 22 24
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 -13
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,056 4,167 6,395
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.05% 8.47% 6.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.86% 9.42% 8.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3,679 2,402 4,553
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,620
Median % change year-on-year - +6.68% -6.26%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £109,875 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year - +6.56% -2.40%

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 73,727 44,243 76,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.60% 89.97% 81.83%
Number of salaries quoted 51,045 24,911 52,533
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.73%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £93,750
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 22 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 22 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 -9 4,360 £70,000 -0.92% 1,657
UK excluding London -4 3,183 £65,000 - 1,084
Work from Home -2 1,850 £67,500 -3.57% 788
London -11 1,475 £85,000 +6.25% 770
North of England +1 1,115 £67,500 +3.85% 324
South East -10 667 £65,000 - 301
North West 0 619 £70,000 +7.69% 173
South West -4 444 £70,000 +2.15% 129
Midlands -22 368 £65,000 - 166
Yorkshire +11 286 £70,000 +1.82% 91
North East +9 210 £60,000 -7.69% 62
West Midlands -25 208 £68,403 +5.23% 115
East of England +21 196 £60,000 -7.69% 63
Wales +9 164 £54,000 -6.09% 27
East Midlands -1 159 £65,000 +13.04% 51
Scotland 0 140 £60,000 -14.29% 60
Northern Ireland -9 98 £73,151 -8.56% 31
Isle of Man +2 3 £35,000 -33.33% 5

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 96 (1.90%) Confluence
2 86 (1.70%) SharePoint
3 78 (1.54%) Apache Spark
4 66 (1.31%) Apache
5 45 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
6 41 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
7 31 (0.61%) CMS
8 30 (0.59%) IIS
9 20 (0.40%) SAS
10 14 (0.28%) 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%) Anypoint
15 8 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
16 7 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
17 6 (0.12%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 56 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
2 42 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.40%) PlantUML
4 19 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 11 (0.22%) Trello
8 10 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
9 7 (0.14%) Simulink
10 4 (0.079%) Maya
11 3 (0.059%) Blender
12 2 (0.040%) Lightworks
12 2 (0.040%) Spreadsheet
13 1 (0.020%) Adobe XD
13 1 (0.020%) Notion
13 1 (0.020%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 76 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.14%) SAP IBP
4 6 (0.12%) Elite 3E
5 5 (0.099%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.099%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.079%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.079%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.079%) Endur
6 4 (0.079%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.079%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.079%) Shopify
7 3 (0.059%) Carpe Diem
7 3 (0.059%) Infor SunSystems
7 3 (0.059%) Magento
7 3 (0.059%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.040%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.040%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.040%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.040%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 2,659 (52.59%) Azure
2 1,656 (32.75%) AWS
3 1,316 (26.03%) Azure DevOps
4 555 (10.98%) GCP
5 496 (9.81%) GitHub
6 462 (9.14%) Serverless
7 404 (7.99%) SaaS
8 351 (6.94%) Power Platform
9 267 (5.28%) GitHub Actions
10 229 (4.53%) AWS CloudFormation
11 222 (4.39%) Amazon S3
12 204 (4.03%) PaaS
13 202 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
14 160 (3.16%) Azure AKS
15 156 (3.09%) Dynamics 365
15 156 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
16 144 (2.85%) Azure Logic Apps
17 142 (2.81%) Amazon ECS
17 142 (2.81%) Amazon EKS
18 138 (2.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 138 (2.73%) Firewall
2 89 (1.76%) DNS
3 66 (1.31%) TCP/IP
4 65 (1.29%) VPN
5 51 (1.01%) Broadband
6 40 (0.79%) Network Security
7 35 (0.69%) HTTP
8 32 (0.63%) Internet
9 22 (0.44%) DHCP
10 20 (0.40%) LAN
11 19 (0.38%) WAN
12 16 (0.32%) MQTT
13 14 (0.28%) 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
1 275 (5.44%) SQL Server
2 269 (5.32%) MongoDB
3 263 (5.20%) Azure SQL Database
4 194 (3.84%) Power BI
5 192 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
6 177 (3.50%) NoSQL
7 101 (2.00%) MySQL
8 97 (1.92%) DynamoDB
9 95 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
10 92 (1.82%) Relational Database
11 91 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
12 81 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
13 74 (1.46%) Data Lake
14 60 (1.19%) Metadata
15 54 (1.07%) Redis
16 43 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
16 43 (0.85%) Big Data
17 37 (0.73%) Delta Lake
18 35 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
19 31 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 519 (10.27%) Git
2 414 (8.19%) GitLab
3 408 (8.07%) Jenkins
4 320 (6.33%) JIRA
5 92 (1.82%) SonarQube
6 88 (1.74%) Selenium
7 73 (1.44%) Cypress.io
8 52 (1.03%) Maven
9 50 (0.99%) Postman
10 47 (0.93%) JUnit
11 36 (0.71%) Cucumber
12 33 (0.65%) JMeter
12 33 (0.65%) TeamCity
13 31 (0.61%) Bitbucket
14 29 (0.57%) CircleCI
15 28 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 28 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
16 23 (0.45%) Visual Studio
17 20 (0.40%) REST Assured
18 18 (0.36%) Eclipse
General
1 1,089 (21.54%) Social Skills
2 966 (19.11%) Finance
3 375 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
4 369 (7.30%) Public Sector
5 301 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 248 (4.91%) Banking
7 197 (3.90%) Law
8 161 (3.18%) Retail
9 138 (2.73%) Legal
10 113 (2.23%) Marketing
11 78 (1.54%) Games
12 59 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
13 57 (1.13%) Manufacturing
14 55 (1.09%) Advertising
15 53 (1.05%) Financial Institution
16 48 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
17 45 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
18 43 (0.85%) Telecoms
19 37 (0.73%) Back Office
20 26 (0.51%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1,153 (22.80%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,093 (21.62%) Senior
3 870 (17.21%) Developer
4 684 (13.53%) Lead
5 416 (8.23%) Architect
6 351 (6.94%) Software Engineer
7 343 (6.78%) Azure Engineer
8 265 (5.24%) Cloud Engineer
8 265 (5.24%) Senior DevOps
9 241 (4.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 221 (4.37%) .NET Developer
11 213 (4.21%) Senior Developer
12 198 (3.92%) Platform Engineer
13 190 (3.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 178 (3.52%) Data Engineer
15 170 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
16 166 (3.28%) AWS Engineer
17 142 (2.81%) Lead DevOps
18 136 (2.69%) Java Developer
19 120 (2.37%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 666 (13.17%) .NET
2 437 (8.64%) React
3 312 (6.17%) RESTful
4 309 (6.11%) REST
5 303 (5.99%) Node.js
6 280 (5.54%) ASP.NET
7 251 (4.96%) .NET Core
8 229 (4.53%) CSS
9 228 (4.51%) Spring Boot
10 226 (4.47%) HTML
11 220 (4.35%) ASP.NET Core
11 220 (4.35%) Spring
12 197 (3.90%) Kafka
13 155 (3.07%) AngularJS
14 133 (2.63%) Middleware
15 130 (2.57%) Blazor
16 128 (2.53%) Entity Framework
17 109 (2.16%) YAML
18 102 (2.02%) SOAP
19 95 (1.88%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 851 (16.83%) Cloud Native
2 331 (6.55%) Product Ownership
3 224 (4.43%) Distributed Systems
4 170 (3.36%) Enterprise Software
5 134 (2.65%) Onboarding
6 97 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
7 87 (1.72%) Management Information System
8 85 (1.68%) Virtual Team
9 82 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
10 78 (1.54%) Mobile App
11 73 (1.44%) Data Centre
12 66 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
13 60 (1.19%) Public Cloud
14 59 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
15 57 (1.13%) Cyber Threat
16 49 (0.97%) Data Structures
17 43 (0.85%) Algorithms
17 43 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
17 43 (0.85%) Low-Code
18 40 (0.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 491 (9.71%) Linux
2 238 (4.71%) Windows
3 88 (1.74%) Unix
4 70 (1.38%) Windows Server
5 68 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 47 (0.93%) CentOS
7 46 (0.91%) Ubuntu
8 38 (0.75%) VMS
9 31 (0.61%) Android
10 18 (0.36%) Apple iOS
11 17 (0.34%) Debian
12 7 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
12 7 (0.14%) Rocky
12 7 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.099%) Windows Server 2019
14 4 (0.079%) Kali Linux
15 3 (0.059%) AIX
16 2 (0.040%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.040%) FreeRTOS
17 1 (0.020%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,540 (50.24%) CI/CD
2 1,873 (37.05%) Agile
3 1,201 (23.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 975 (19.28%) Continuous Improvement
5 904 (17.88%) Mentoring
6 883 (17.46%) Software Engineering
7 831 (16.44%) AI
8 802 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
9 769 (15.21%) Test Automation
10 689 (13.63%) Microservices
11 637 (12.60%) Containerisation
12 554 (10.96%) Full-Stack Development
13 544 (10.76%) Roadmaps
14 543 (10.74%) Platform Engineering
15 530 (10.48%) Observability
16 525 (10.38%) Scrum
17 492 (9.73%) Technical Leadership
18 455 (9.00%) Analytics
19 422 (8.35%) Stakeholder Management
20 365 (7.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,201 (23.75%) Python
2 896 (17.72%) SQL
3 736 (14.56%) C#
4 651 (12.88%) Java
5 634 (12.54%) JavaScript
6 397 (7.85%) TypeScript
7 370 (7.32%) Bash
8 346 (6.84%) PowerShell
9 157 (3.11%) Bicep
10 126 (2.49%) C++
10 126 (2.49%) Go
11 73 (1.44%) Apex Code
12 60 (1.19%) PHP
13 49 (0.97%) C
14 48 (0.95%) Groovy
15 46 (0.91%) SOQL
16 43 (0.85%) SOSL
17 38 (0.75%) Rust
18 37 (0.73%) Scala
18 37 (0.73%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 794 (15.70%) Security Cleared
2 517 (10.23%) SC Cleared
3 498 (9.85%) Degree
4 206 (4.07%) DV Cleared
5 184 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 129 (2.55%) Azure Certification
7 113 (2.23%) Master's Degree
8 82 (1.62%) CISSP
9 81 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
10 75 (1.48%) AWS Certification
11 64 (1.27%) CISM
12 58 (1.15%) ISTQB
13 50 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
14 37 (0.73%) DBS Check
15 36 (0.71%) PMI Certification
16 28 (0.55%) PMP
17 25 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 25 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 23 (0.45%) PhD
19 20 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 499 (9.87%) QA
2 163 (3.22%) Accessibility
3 159 (3.14%) Data Quality
4 114 (2.25%) GDPR
5 105 (2.08%) NIST
6 68 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 60 (1.19%) WCAG
8 50 (0.99%) GRC
9 48 (0.95%) ISO 22301
10 41 (0.81%) PCI DSS
11 29 (0.57%) SOC 2
12 24 (0.47%) PMO
13 20 (0.40%) SLA
14 15 (0.30%) NCSC
15 12 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
15 12 (0.24%) TickIT
16 10 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 8 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
17 8 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 8 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 797 (15.76%) Docker
2 131 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 76 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (0.55%) vSphere
6 23 (0.45%) 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 (0.099%) iptables
12 4 (0.079%) Embedded Firmware
13 3 (0.059%) KVM
13 3 (0.059%) NDS
13 3 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.059%) Xen
14 2 (0.040%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.020%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.020%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.020%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,209 (23.91%) Terraform
2 924 (18.28%) Kubernetes
3 427 (8.45%) Ansible
4 240 (4.75%) Grafana
5 175 (3.46%) Prometheus
6 69 (1.36%) Argo
7 59 (1.17%) Puppet
8 40 (0.79%) Nagios
9 26 (0.51%) HP Fortify
10 25 (0.49%) Kibana
11 23 (0.45%) Istio
12 22 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
13 15 (0.30%) Progress Chef
14 14 (0.28%) Rancher
15 13 (0.26%) Packer
16 12 (0.24%) ZABBIX
17 11 (0.22%) Proxmox
18 10 (0.20%) logstash
19 9 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
20 7 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 966 (19.11%) Microsoft
2 185 (3.66%) Google
3 166 (3.28%) Databricks
4 147 (2.91%) Salesforce
5 109 (2.16%) VMware
6 102 (2.02%) Splunk
7 99 (1.96%) ServiceNow
8 95 (1.88%) Oracle
9 82 (1.62%) Red Hat
10 70 (1.38%) SAP
11 54 (1.07%) Pega
12 46 (0.91%) Cisco
13 45 (0.89%) MuleSoft
14 44 (0.87%) Dynatrace
14 44 (0.87%) OpenAI
15 42 (0.83%) Facebook
16 30 (0.59%) Apple
17 29 (0.57%) YouTube
18 26 (0.51%) Foundry
19 25 (0.49%) Palo Alto