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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 19 24
Rank change year-on-year -21 +5 -12
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,018 3,679 7,199
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.45% 8.65% 7.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.96% 9.32% 8.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2,826 2,558 5,350
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,544 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -3.23%

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 67,443 39,485 82,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.64% 92.88% 85.58%
Number of salaries quoted 41,986 22,655 59,675
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,668 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,599 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,001 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -24 3,477 £72,500 +3.57% 1,422
UK excluding London -30 2,291 £65,000 - 1,010
Work from Home -8 1,483 £70,000 - 798
London -10 1,371 £82,500 - 578
North of England -11 750 £70,000 +3.70% 299
South East -26 482 £65,000 - 303
North West -1 365 £70,400 +1.47% 168
South West -18 341 £60,000 -7.69% 111
Midlands -30 300 £65,750 +9.58% 118
Yorkshire -11 270 £70,000 +2.94% 71
Scotland -8 196 £56,250 -19.64% 63
West Midlands -35 182 £62,500 +4.17% 66
East of England -16 137 £67,500 +3.85% 90
North East +4 115 £55,200 -15.08% 60
East Midlands -12 114 £70,000 +7.69% 52
Wales -13 75 £53,171 -15.94% 29
Northern Ireland -28 17 £73,801 +34.18% 15
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

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 77 (1.92%) SharePoint
2 76 (1.89%) Confluence
3 52 (1.29%) Apache
3 52 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
4 46 (1.14%) Apache Spark
5 43 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
6 31 (0.77%) IIS
7 20 (0.50%) CMS
8 15 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
9 13 (0.32%) OpenStack
9 13 (0.32%) SAS
10 11 (0.27%) Moodle
11 8 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 7 (0.17%) Anypoint
12 7 (0.17%) Apache Solr
12 7 (0.17%) nginx
12 7 (0.17%) Tomcat
13 5 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
13 5 (0.12%) WordPress
14 4 (0.100%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 39 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (0.65%) MS Visio
3 21 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
4 14 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.20%) PlantUML
7 3 (0.075%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.075%) Simulink
7 3 (0.075%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.025%) EngageOne
8 1 (0.025%) Maya
8 1 (0.025%) Sketch
8 1 (0.025%) Trello
Business Applications
1 55 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
3 15 (0.37%) SAP ERP
4 13 (0.32%) Endur
5 8 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
6 7 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
8 5 (0.12%) Visualfiles
9 4 (0.100%) Markit EDM
9 4 (0.100%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.100%) Shopify
10 3 (0.075%) Elite 3E
11 2 (0.050%) Distributed Ledger
11 2 (0.050%) Infor SunSystems
11 2 (0.050%) Magento
11 2 (0.050%) Workday HCM
12 1 (0.025%) Infor M3
12 1 (0.025%) Payment Gateway
12 1 (0.025%) Sage 200
12 1 (0.025%) SAP MII
Cloud Services
1 2,168 (53.96%) Azure
2 1,330 (33.10%) AWS
3 1,047 (26.06%) Azure DevOps
4 521 (12.97%) GitHub
5 470 (11.70%) GCP
6 408 (10.15%) Serverless
7 327 (8.14%) Power Platform
8 284 (7.07%) GitHub Actions
9 259 (6.45%) SaaS
10 224 (5.57%) AWS CloudFormation
11 220 (5.48%) Amazon S3
12 211 (5.25%) AWS Lambda
13 168 (4.18%) Microsoft 365
14 161 (4.01%) Entra ID
15 152 (3.78%) Azure Data Factory
15 152 (3.78%) PaaS
16 139 (3.46%) Amazon EKS
17 136 (3.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 130 (3.24%) Amazon ECS
19 127 (3.16%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 136 (3.38%) Firewall
2 87 (2.17%) DNS
3 63 (1.57%) Broadband
4 59 (1.47%) TCP/IP
5 50 (1.24%) VPN
6 46 (1.14%) Network Security
7 36 (0.90%) HTTP
8 35 (0.87%) WAN
9 25 (0.62%) DHCP
9 25 (0.62%) LAN
10 11 (0.27%) SAN
11 9 (0.22%) SSL
12 8 (0.20%) BGP
12 8 (0.20%) Wireless
13 6 (0.15%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (0.15%) HTTPS
14 5 (0.12%) Internet
14 5 (0.12%) SD-WAN
15 4 (0.100%) AMQP
15 4 (0.100%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 257 (6.40%) SQL Server
2 205 (5.10%) NoSQL
3 184 (4.58%) Power BI
4 150 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
5 115 (2.86%) DynamoDB
6 108 (2.69%) MongoDB
7 101 (2.51%) Azure SQL Database
7 101 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
8 94 (2.34%) Data Lake
9 88 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
10 79 (1.97%) Relational Database
11 68 (1.69%) Metadata
12 65 (1.62%) MySQL
13 52 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
14 40 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
14 40 (1.00%) BigQuery
15 37 (0.92%) Delta Lake
16 34 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 34 (0.85%) Tableau
17 32 (0.80%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 433 (10.78%) Git
2 396 (9.86%) Jenkins
3 351 (8.74%) GitLab
4 258 (6.42%) JIRA
5 105 (2.61%) SonarQube
6 89 (2.22%) Selenium
7 87 (2.17%) Cypress.io
8 62 (1.54%) Maven
9 47 (1.17%) Bitbucket
10 44 (1.10%) Postman
11 43 (1.07%) Cucumber
12 36 (0.90%) CircleCI
13 30 (0.75%) JUnit
13 30 (0.75%) TeamCity
14 25 (0.62%) Eclipse
14 25 (0.62%) JMeter
15 24 (0.60%) Visual Studio
16 23 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
17 20 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
18 19 (0.47%) Jaeger
General
1 919 (22.87%) Finance
2 899 (22.37%) Social Skills
3 378 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
4 244 (6.07%) Public Sector
5 243 (6.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 216 (5.38%) Banking
7 129 (3.21%) Retail
8 128 (3.19%) Law
9 111 (2.76%) Marketing
10 74 (1.84%) Legal
11 72 (1.79%) Games
12 70 (1.74%) Telecoms
13 49 (1.22%) Manufacturing
14 41 (1.02%) Advertising
15 39 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
15 39 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
16 34 (0.85%) Billing
17 33 (0.82%) Financial Institution
18 27 (0.67%) Front Office
19 25 (0.62%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 838 (20.86%) Senior
2 822 (20.46%) DevOps Engineer
3 665 (16.55%) Developer
4 597 (14.86%) Lead
5 346 (8.61%) Architect
6 279 (6.94%) Azure Engineer
7 277 (6.89%) Software Engineer
8 259 (6.45%) Cloud Engineer
9 202 (5.03%) Senior DevOps
10 184 (4.58%) Senior Developer
11 170 (4.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 161 (4.01%) Data Engineer
13 154 (3.83%) Solutions Architect
14 149 (3.71%) AWS Engineer
15 140 (3.48%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 134 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
17 133 (3.31%) Lead DevOps
18 126 (3.14%) Java Developer
19 115 (2.86%) Full-Stack Developer
20 110 (2.74%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 444 (11.05%) .NET
2 347 (8.64%) React
3 268 (6.67%) REST
4 238 (5.92%) RESTful
5 236 (5.87%) Node.js
6 180 (4.48%) Spring Boot
7 161 (4.01%) Kafka
7 161 (4.01%) Spring
8 143 (3.56%) AngularJS
9 140 (3.48%) CSS
10 132 (3.29%) HTML
11 130 (3.24%) SOAP
12 114 (2.84%) OAuth
13 107 (2.66%) .NET Core
14 106 (2.64%) Middleware
15 103 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
16 95 (2.36%) ASP.NET
17 89 (2.22%) .NET Framework
18 87 (2.17%) JSON
19 86 (2.14%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 556 (13.84%) Cloud Native
2 279 (6.94%) Product Ownership
3 139 (3.46%) Distributed Systems
4 122 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
5 97 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
6 79 (1.97%) Management Information System
7 70 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
8 57 (1.42%) Onboarding
9 55 (1.37%) Public Cloud
10 54 (1.34%) Low-Code
10 54 (1.34%) Mobile App
11 52 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
12 48 (1.19%) Algorithms
13 47 (1.17%) Data Centre
14 46 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
15 42 (1.05%) Data Structures
16 33 (0.82%) Security Posture
17 31 (0.77%) AI Agents
18 27 (0.67%) Blockchain
18 27 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 392 (9.76%) Linux
2 200 (4.98%) Windows
3 81 (2.02%) Unix
4 77 (1.92%) Windows Server
5 45 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 34 (0.85%) Ubuntu
7 28 (0.70%) VMS
8 27 (0.67%) Android
8 27 (0.67%) CentOS
9 23 (0.57%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
12 7 (0.17%) Debian
13 6 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.100%) Kali Linux
15 3 (0.075%) Rocky
16 2 (0.050%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.050%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.025%) SUSE
17 1 (0.025%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,056 (51.17%) CI/CD
2 1,436 (35.74%) Agile
3 977 (24.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 756 (18.82%) Continuous Improvement
5 715 (17.79%) Problem-Solving
6 658 (16.38%) Mentoring
7 648 (16.13%) Software Engineering
8 606 (15.08%) AI
9 587 (14.61%) Test Automation
10 563 (14.01%) Containerisation
11 547 (13.61%) Microservices
12 466 (11.60%) Observability
13 440 (10.95%) Roadmaps
14 425 (10.58%) Analytics
15 387 (9.63%) Scrum
16 356 (8.86%) Full-Stack Development
17 353 (8.79%) Platform Engineering
18 337 (8.39%) Technical Leadership
19 315 (7.84%) Data Modelling
20 314 (7.81%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,030 (25.63%) Python
2 735 (18.29%) SQL
3 564 (14.04%) Java
4 430 (10.70%) C#
5 395 (9.83%) JavaScript
6 344 (8.56%) Bash
7 310 (7.72%) TypeScript
8 257 (6.40%) PowerShell
9 161 (4.01%) Go
10 120 (2.99%) Bicep
11 94 (2.34%) C++
12 87 (2.17%) Apex Code
13 53 (1.32%) Groovy
13 53 (1.32%) PHP
14 41 (1.02%) Scala
14 41 (1.02%) SOQL
14 41 (1.02%) SOSL
15 30 (0.75%) Kotlin
16 29 (0.72%) Rust
17 27 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 536 (13.34%) Security Cleared
2 429 (10.68%) Degree
3 317 (7.89%) SC Cleared
4 191 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 136 (3.38%) DV Cleared
6 118 (2.94%) AWS Certification
7 94 (2.34%) Azure Certification
8 82 (2.04%) Master's Degree
9 51 (1.27%) ISTQB
10 44 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
11 34 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
12 33 (0.82%) DBS Check
13 30 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 30 (0.75%) PMI Certification
14 28 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 27 (0.67%) CISSP
16 21 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
16 21 (0.52%) PMP
17 20 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 19 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 335 (8.34%) QA
2 159 (3.96%) Data Quality
3 116 (2.89%) Accessibility
4 109 (2.71%) GDPR
5 79 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 61 (1.52%) NIST
7 47 (1.17%) GRC
8 39 (0.97%) SOC 2
9 34 (0.85%) PCI DSS
10 22 (0.55%) WCAG
11 20 (0.50%) SLA
12 17 (0.42%) NCSC
13 13 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
14 12 (0.30%) PMO
14 12 (0.30%) TickIT
15 8 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 7 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
16 7 (0.17%) Solvency II
17 6 (0.15%) IFRS
System Software
1 709 (17.65%) Docker
2 150 (3.73%) Active Directory
3 48 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.40%) vSphere
6 14 (0.35%) Hyper-V
7 12 (0.30%) Firmware
8 7 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.100%) iptables
9 4 (0.100%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 4 (0.100%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.075%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.075%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.050%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.050%) KVM
11 2 (0.050%) Postfix
11 2 (0.050%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.025%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.025%) OpenAM
12 1 (0.025%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 1,016 (25.29%) Terraform
2 768 (19.11%) Kubernetes
3 370 (9.21%) Ansible
4 230 (5.72%) Grafana
5 188 (4.68%) Prometheus
6 82 (2.04%) Argo
7 49 (1.22%) Puppet
8 42 (1.05%) HP Fortify
9 38 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
10 35 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
11 32 (0.80%) Nagios
12 22 (0.55%) Kibana
13 19 (0.47%) Kustomize
14 17 (0.42%) Rancher
15 16 (0.40%) Progress Chef
16 15 (0.37%) Istio
17 14 (0.35%) Packer
18 11 (0.27%) logstash
19 10 (0.25%) Proxmox
20 9 (0.22%) yum
Vendors
1 754 (18.77%) Microsoft
2 160 (3.98%) Databricks
3 154 (3.83%) Salesforce
4 144 (3.58%) Google
5 93 (2.31%) Oracle
6 84 (2.09%) Splunk
7 82 (2.04%) VMware
8 77 (1.92%) Red Hat
9 70 (1.74%) ServiceNow
10 51 (1.27%) SAP
11 47 (1.17%) MuleSoft
12 34 (0.85%) Palo Alto
13 31 (0.77%) Cisco
14 27 (0.67%) OpenAI
15 25 (0.62%) Dynatrace
15 25 (0.62%) Pega
16 24 (0.60%) Adobe
17 21 (0.52%) CrowdStrike
17 21 (0.52%) Okta
18 19 (0.47%) IBM