DevOps
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 22 12
Rank change year-on-year -3 -10 +1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 3,663 7,800 14,551
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.02% 7.93% 13.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.53% 9.22% 14.63%
Number of salaries quoted 2,594 5,373 8,433
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £61,875
% change year-on-year +8.33% -3.03% +3.13%

All Process and 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 48,641 84,574 99,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.26% 86.00% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,531 59,798 58,397
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps.

Salary trend for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 2025. 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 0 3,320 £70,000 +7.69% 2,671
UK excluding London -9 2,070 £65,000 +8.33% 1,597
Work from Home +4 1,678 £70,000 +7.69% 1,749
London +1 1,429 £82,500 +3.13% 1,193
South East -7 589 £67,500 +9.76% 334
North of England -23 550 £67,500 +12.50% 532
North West -58 303 £69,692 +11.51% 346
South West -5 294 £67,500 +10.20% 191
Midlands -36 260 £60,000 +2.56% 254
West Midlands -23 206 £60,000 - 174
Yorkshire 0 203 £68,000 +13.33% 132
Scotland +18 193 £70,000 +1.45% 107
East of England -3 153 £62,500 +8.70% 127
East Midlands -58 54 £65,000 +13.04% 79
Wales -17 49 £63,250 +15.00% 40
North East +5 44 £65,000 +13.04% 58
Northern Ireland -6 13 £55,000 -13.73% 33
Isle of Man +13 1 - - 2

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 124 (3.39%) Confluence
2 116 (3.17%) Apache Spark
3 101 (2.76%) Apache
3 101 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
4 89 (2.43%) SharePoint
5 75 (2.05%) Oracle Application Server
6 38 (1.04%) nginx
7 25 (0.68%) CMS
7 25 (0.68%) Jupyter
8 23 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
9 15 (0.41%) IIS
10 13 (0.35%) JBoss
11 12 (0.33%) Apache Solr
11 12 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
12 9 (0.25%) Headless CMS
13 8 (0.22%) CICS
13 8 (0.22%) SAS
13 8 (0.22%) Tomcat
14 7 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 5 (0.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 46 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (0.49%) MS Visio
4 16 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 16 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (0.35%) Trello
6 10 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 7 (0.19%) Maya
7 7 (0.19%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 6 (0.16%) Sketch
9 5 (0.14%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.082%) Productboard
11 2 (0.055%) Moqups
11 2 (0.055%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.027%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.027%) OrCAD
12 1 (0.027%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.027%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 79 (2.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.16%) Oracle BPM
4 5 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.11%) Magento
5 4 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.11%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 4 (0.11%) Shopify
6 3 (0.082%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.082%) Orchestrade
7 2 (0.055%) Cloudability
7 2 (0.055%) Endur
7 2 (0.055%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 2 (0.055%) SAP GRC
7 2 (0.055%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 2 (0.055%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.055%) Sprinklr
7 2 (0.055%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.027%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 1,918 (52.36%) Azure
2 1,251 (34.15%) AWS
3 923 (25.20%) Azure DevOps
4 464 (12.67%) GCP
5 432 (11.79%) Serverless
6 325 (8.87%) Power Platform
7 294 (8.03%) GitHub
8 286 (7.81%) SaaS
9 243 (6.63%) AWS Lambda
10 177 (4.83%) Amazon ECS
10 177 (4.83%) PaaS
11 162 (4.42%) Dynamics 365
12 148 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
13 135 (3.69%) Amazon S3
14 130 (3.55%) GitHub Actions
15 129 (3.52%) Azure Data Factory
16 128 (3.49%) Microsoft 365
17 111 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
18 109 (2.98%) Cloud Computing
19 105 (2.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 138 (3.77%) Firewall
2 130 (3.55%) VPN
3 113 (3.08%) TCP/IP
4 83 (2.27%) Network Security
5 62 (1.69%) DNS
6 39 (1.06%) HTTP
7 23 (0.63%) WAN
8 22 (0.60%) SSL
9 20 (0.55%) Internet
10 19 (0.52%) HTTPS
10 19 (0.52%) IPsec
11 17 (0.46%) SAN
12 13 (0.35%) SD-WAN
13 12 (0.33%) LAN
14 11 (0.30%) Intrusion Detection
14 11 (0.30%) Multicast
15 10 (0.27%) Wireless
16 8 (0.22%) DHCP
16 8 (0.22%) VLAN
17 6 (0.16%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 349 (9.53%) SQL Server
2 186 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
3 177 (4.83%) NoSQL
4 171 (4.67%) Power BI
5 165 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
6 107 (2.92%) Relational Database
7 99 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
8 96 (2.62%) MySQL
9 95 (2.59%) MongoDB
10 94 (2.57%) Data Lake
11 90 (2.46%) Azure SQL Database
12 88 (2.40%) Big Data
13 82 (2.24%) Amazon Athena
14 81 (2.21%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 81 (2.21%) Oracle Reports
15 74 (2.02%) Apache Iceberg
16 73 (1.99%) Dremio
17 71 (1.94%) Apache Arrow
17 71 (1.94%) Apache Ignite
18 70 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 495 (13.51%) Git
2 375 (10.24%) Jenkins
3 285 (7.78%) JIRA
4 181 (4.94%) GitLab
5 108 (2.95%) SonarQube
6 106 (2.89%) Artifactory
7 105 (2.87%) Cucumber
8 104 (2.84%) Visual Studio
9 99 (2.70%) Maven
10 70 (1.91%) Robot Framework
10 70 (1.91%) Selenium
11 68 (1.86%) Sonatype Nexus
12 65 (1.77%) JUnit
13 61 (1.67%) Octopus Deploy
14 55 (1.50%) TeamCity
15 52 (1.42%) Postman
16 50 (1.37%) Team Foundation Server
17 41 (1.12%) Bitbucket
18 37 (1.01%) MSBuild
19 35 (0.96%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,119 (30.55%) Social Skills
2 1,093 (29.84%) Finance
3 435 (11.88%) Analytical Skills
4 354 (9.66%) Banking
5 232 (6.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 229 (6.25%) Law
7 177 (4.83%) Public Sector
8 175 (4.78%) Retail
9 143 (3.90%) Front Office
10 115 (3.14%) Telecoms
11 100 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
12 82 (2.24%) Marketing
13 79 (2.16%) Military
14 72 (1.97%) Manufacturing
15 68 (1.86%) Games
16 61 (1.67%) Legal
17 36 (0.98%) Financial Institution
18 35 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
18 35 (0.96%) Tech for Good
19 30 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 744 (20.31%) Senior
2 650 (17.75%) Developer
3 518 (14.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 474 (12.94%) Lead
5 350 (9.56%) Architect
6 296 (8.08%) Software Engineer
7 217 (5.92%) AWS Engineer
8 212 (5.79%) Senior Developer
9 204 (5.57%) Cloud Engineer
10 202 (5.51%) Data Engineer
11 192 (5.24%) AWS DevOps
12 169 (4.61%) Azure Engineer
13 166 (4.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 152 (4.15%) Analyst
15 147 (4.01%) Python Engineer
16 136 (3.71%) Senior DevOps
17 122 (3.33%) .NET Developer
18 103 (2.81%) Senior Software Engineer
19 102 (2.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 102 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 621 (16.95%) .NET
2 368 (10.05%) React
3 262 (7.15%) REST
4 242 (6.61%) HTML
5 234 (6.39%) CSS
6 229 (6.25%) Kafka
7 217 (5.92%) RESTful
8 208 (5.68%) AngularJS
9 198 (5.41%) .NET Framework
10 179 (4.89%) Node.js
11 170 (4.64%) Spring
12 167 (4.56%) .NET Core
13 160 (4.37%) ASP.NET
14 153 (4.18%) Spring Boot
15 116 (3.17%) PySpark
16 111 (3.03%) JSON
17 99 (2.70%) J2EE
18 95 (2.59%) SOAP
19 93 (2.54%) XML
20 84 (2.29%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 242 (6.61%) Cloud Native
2 212 (5.79%) Product Ownership
3 161 (4.40%) Management Information System
4 112 (3.06%) Public Cloud
5 95 (2.59%) Mobile App
6 93 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
7 92 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
8 90 (2.46%) Algorithms
9 83 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
10 77 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
11 75 (2.05%) Security Posture
12 63 (1.72%) Virtual Team
13 52 (1.42%) Data Centre
14 47 (1.28%) Onboarding
15 42 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
16 41 (1.12%) Blockchain
17 40 (1.09%) Data Structures
18 36 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
19 33 (0.90%) e-Learning
20 32 (0.87%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 477 (13.02%) Linux
2 292 (7.97%) Windows
3 90 (2.46%) Unix
4 72 (1.97%) Windows Server
5 71 (1.94%) Android
6 58 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 54 (1.47%) Apple iOS
8 25 (0.68%) VMS
9 23 (0.63%) Ubuntu
10 21 (0.57%) CentOS
11 20 (0.55%) zOS
12 16 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
13 15 (0.41%) Windows 10
14 13 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
15 10 (0.27%) Debian
15 10 (0.27%) Solaris
15 10 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
16 9 (0.25%) Mac OS
17 5 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
18 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,705 (46.55%) Agile
2 1,698 (46.36%) CI/CD
3 841 (22.96%) Software Engineering
4 799 (21.81%) Problem-Solving
5 691 (18.86%) Mentoring
6 637 (17.39%) Microservices
7 577 (15.75%) Infrastructure as Code
8 565 (15.42%) Containerisation
9 451 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
10 446 (12.18%) Test Automation
11 444 (12.12%) Analytics
12 377 (10.29%) Roadmaps
13 356 (9.72%) Coaching
14 326 (8.90%) Computer Science
15 311 (8.49%) Artificial Intelligence
16 297 (8.11%) Continuous Integration
17 293 (8.00%) Scrum
18 288 (7.86%) Technical Leadership
19 287 (7.84%) ITIL
20 286 (7.81%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1,037 (28.31%) Python
2 767 (20.94%) SQL
3 711 (19.41%) JavaScript
4 681 (18.59%) C#
5 645 (17.61%) Java
6 372 (10.16%) PowerShell
7 264 (7.21%) TypeScript
8 261 (7.13%) Bash
9 183 (5.00%) Go
10 70 (1.91%) C++
11 68 (1.86%) PHP
12 61 (1.67%) Bicep
13 52 (1.42%) Kotlin
14 50 (1.37%) T-SQL
15 44 (1.20%) C
16 41 (1.12%) Shell Script
17 36 (0.98%) Apex Code
18 34 (0.93%) Scala
19 26 (0.71%) Objective-C
19 26 (0.71%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 603 (16.46%) Degree
2 379 (10.35%) Security Cleared
3 252 (6.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 230 (6.28%) SC Cleared
5 138 (3.77%) Azure Certification
6 130 (3.55%) AWS Certification
7 112 (3.06%) DBS Check
8 106 (2.89%) Master's Degree
9 81 (2.21%) DV Cleared
10 67 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
11 47 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 34 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
13 33 (0.90%) ISTQB
13 33 (0.90%) PhD
14 30 (0.82%) PMI Certification
15 23 (0.63%) CISSP
16 21 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
17 18 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
18 17 (0.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 16 (0.44%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 337 (9.20%) QA
2 166 (4.53%) GDPR
3 91 (2.48%) Data Quality
4 80 (2.18%) Accessibility
5 73 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 68 (1.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 67 (1.83%) NIST
8 51 (1.39%) HIPAA
9 42 (1.15%) SLA
10 40 (1.09%) PCI DSS
11 25 (0.68%) NCSC
11 25 (0.68%) SOC 2
12 14 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 12207
13 12 (0.33%) PMO
14 11 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.22%) Basel III
15 8 (0.22%) IFRS
15 8 (0.22%) IFRS 9
16 7 (0.19%) Dodd-Frank
16 7 (0.19%) NIST 800
System Software
1 910 (24.84%) Docker
2 81 (2.21%) Active Directory
3 67 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
4 59 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 22 (0.60%) Hyper-V
6 20 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
7 11 (0.30%) vSphere
8 10 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.16%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 5 (0.14%) HDFS
10 5 (0.14%) Postfix
11 3 (0.082%) Dovecot
11 3 (0.082%) Firmware
11 3 (0.082%) RACF
12 2 (0.055%) KVM
12 2 (0.055%) NFS
12 2 (0.055%) Sendmail
13 1 (0.027%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 1 (0.027%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.027%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 992 (27.08%) Kubernetes
2 848 (23.15%) Terraform
3 367 (10.02%) Ansible
4 130 (3.55%) Prometheus
5 125 (3.41%) Grafana
6 55 (1.50%) Progress Chef
7 53 (1.45%) Puppet
8 36 (0.98%) Istio
9 30 (0.82%) Argo
10 26 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
10 26 (0.71%) Nagios
11 13 (0.35%) CASB
11 13 (0.35%) Packer
12 11 (0.30%) AWS Copilot
12 11 (0.30%) Nessus
12 11 (0.30%) QRadar
12 11 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
13 10 (0.27%) Kibana
13 10 (0.27%) Podman
13 10 (0.27%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 768 (20.97%) Microsoft
2 200 (5.46%) Google
3 199 (5.43%) Oracle
4 156 (4.26%) Databricks
5 115 (3.14%) IBM
6 101 (2.76%) Red Hat
7 98 (2.68%) VMware
8 87 (2.38%) ServiceNow
9 76 (2.07%) Salesforce
10 57 (1.56%) SAP
11 45 (1.23%) Splunk
12 39 (1.06%) Cisco
13 33 (0.90%) Atlassian
13 33 (0.90%) OpenAI
14 29 (0.79%) Dynatrace
15 27 (0.74%) Informatica
16 23 (0.63%) MuleSoft
17 22 (0.60%) New Relic
17 22 (0.60%) Xamarin
18 21 (0.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud