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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 19 26
Rank change year-on-year -11 +7 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,243 3,905 7,140
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.57% 9.11% 7.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.20% 9.77% 8.60%
Number of salaries quoted 3,021 2,288 5,279
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,873 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +10.57% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,250 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 68,421 39,984 83,066
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.77% 93.29% 84.23%
Number of salaries quoted 44,440 20,998 60,038
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,913 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% -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 25 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 25 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 -12 3,712 £70,000 -3.45% 1,237
UK excluding London -23 2,485 £65,000 - 922
Work from Home -7 1,515 £69,310 -0.99% 675
London -9 1,389 £82,500 - 505
North of England -14 853 £70,000 +3.70% 286
South East -13 557 £65,000 - 254
North West -17 432 £70,000 +0.44% 161
South West -17 344 £65,000 - 125
Midlands -26 330 £67,500 +12.50% 95
Yorkshire -3 278 £70,000 - 79
West Midlands -38 189 £62,500 +4.17% 66
Scotland 0 164 £55,000 -26.67% 47
East of England -14 149 £65,000 - 61
North East +8 143 £60,000 -7.69% 49
East Midlands -1 138 £70,000 +7.69% 29
Wales -3 82 £53,000 -11.67% 27
Northern Ireland -39 11 £73,151 +33.00% 41
Isle of Man +2 3 £35,000 -

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 78 (1.84%) SharePoint
2 74 (1.74%) Confluence
3 56 (1.32%) Apache
4 51 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 50 (1.18%) Apache Spark
6 37 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
7 29 (0.68%) IIS
8 27 (0.64%) CMS
9 16 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
10 13 (0.31%) OpenStack
11 11 (0.26%) SAS
12 10 (0.24%) Moodle
13 9 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
14 8 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
14 8 (0.19%) Umbraco
15 7 (0.16%) Anypoint
15 7 (0.16%) Apache Solr
16 6 (0.14%) nginx
16 6 (0.14%) WordPress
17 5 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 34 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
3 24 (0.57%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.26%) PlantUML
5 10 (0.24%) Chatbot
6 9 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
7 6 (0.14%) Simulink
8 3 (0.071%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.047%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.047%) Maya
9 2 (0.047%) Trello
10 1 (0.024%) Blender
10 1 (0.024%) EngageOne
10 1 (0.024%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 65 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.33%) SAP ERP
3 13 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.24%) Endur
4 10 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.12%) Visualfiles
7 4 (0.094%) Markit EDM
7 4 (0.094%) Shopify
8 3 (0.071%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.071%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.071%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.047%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.047%) Fidessa
9 2 (0.047%) Infor SunSystems
9 2 (0.047%) Magento
10 1 (0.024%) Infor M3
10 1 (0.024%) Sage 200
10 1 (0.024%) SAP MII
Cloud Services
1 2,247 (52.96%) Azure
2 1,370 (32.29%) AWS
3 1,095 (25.81%) Azure DevOps
4 483 (11.38%) GitHub
5 477 (11.24%) GCP
6 432 (10.18%) Serverless
7 333 (7.85%) Power Platform
8 264 (6.22%) GitHub Actions
9 256 (6.03%) SaaS
10 230 (5.42%) Amazon S3
11 226 (5.33%) AWS CloudFormation
12 217 (5.11%) AWS Lambda
13 167 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
14 158 (3.72%) PaaS
15 152 (3.58%) Entra ID
16 141 (3.32%) Azure Data Factory
17 140 (3.30%) Amazon ECS
18 139 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
19 134 (3.16%) Azure AKS
20 133 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 141 (3.32%) Firewall
2 93 (2.19%) DNS
3 64 (1.51%) Broadband
4 58 (1.37%) TCP/IP
5 48 (1.13%) VPN
6 39 (0.92%) Network Security
7 32 (0.75%) HTTP
8 30 (0.71%) WAN
9 28 (0.66%) DHCP
10 23 (0.54%) LAN
11 11 (0.26%) BGP
12 10 (0.24%) SAN
12 10 (0.24%) Wireless
13 8 (0.19%) Internet
13 8 (0.19%) MQTT
14 7 (0.16%) HTTPS
14 7 (0.16%) NGFW
14 7 (0.16%) OSPF
15 6 (0.14%) Bluetooth
15 6 (0.14%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 241 (5.68%) SQL Server
2 204 (4.81%) NoSQL
3 188 (4.43%) Power BI
4 152 (3.58%) MongoDB
5 146 (3.44%) Azure SQL Database
6 137 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
7 117 (2.76%) DynamoDB
8 88 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
8 88 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
9 87 (2.05%) Relational Database
10 86 (2.03%) Data Lake
11 67 (1.58%) Metadata
12 66 (1.56%) MySQL
13 61 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
14 46 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
15 40 (0.94%) BigQuery
16 36 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
16 36 (0.85%) Delta Lake
17 33 (0.78%) Big Data
18 30 (0.71%) Redis
Development Applications
1 470 (11.08%) Git
2 404 (9.52%) Jenkins
3 370 (8.72%) GitLab
4 246 (5.80%) JIRA
5 105 (2.47%) SonarQube
6 87 (2.05%) Cypress.io
7 84 (1.98%) Selenium
8 67 (1.58%) Maven
9 45 (1.06%) Postman
10 37 (0.87%) Bitbucket
10 37 (0.87%) Cucumber
11 36 (0.85%) CircleCI
12 35 (0.82%) TeamCity
13 31 (0.73%) JUnit
14 27 (0.64%) JMeter
15 25 (0.59%) Eclipse
16 23 (0.54%) Visual Studio
16 23 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
17 20 (0.47%) REST Assured
18 19 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 928 (21.87%) Finance
2 880 (20.74%) Social Skills
3 363 (8.56%) Analytical Skills
4 275 (6.48%) Public Sector
5 245 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 222 (5.23%) Banking
7 134 (3.16%) Retail
8 124 (2.92%) Law
9 103 (2.43%) Marketing
10 77 (1.81%) Games
11 75 (1.77%) Legal
12 45 (1.06%) Manufacturing
13 44 (1.04%) Telecoms
14 42 (0.99%) Advertising
15 40 (0.94%) Financial Institution
16 39 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
17 36 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
18 33 (0.78%) Billing
19 31 (0.73%) Back Office
20 30 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 907 (21.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 868 (20.46%) Senior
3 737 (17.37%) Developer
4 611 (14.40%) Lead
5 352 (8.30%) Architect
6 320 (7.54%) Software Engineer
7 315 (7.42%) Azure Engineer
8 255 (6.01%) Cloud Engineer
9 214 (5.04%) Senior DevOps
10 193 (4.55%) Senior Developer
11 184 (4.34%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 169 (3.98%) Data Engineer
13 164 (3.87%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 151 (3.56%) Solutions Architect
15 148 (3.49%) AWS Engineer
16 146 (3.44%) Platform Engineer
17 143 (3.37%) Java Developer
18 130 (3.06%) Lead DevOps
19 114 (2.69%) Full-Stack Developer
20 106 (2.50%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 505 (11.90%) .NET
2 364 (8.58%) React
3 276 (6.50%) REST
4 251 (5.92%) Node.js
5 238 (5.61%) RESTful
6 182 (4.29%) Spring Boot
7 165 (3.89%) Spring
8 164 (3.87%) CSS
9 159 (3.75%) HTML
10 157 (3.70%) AngularJS
10 157 (3.70%) ASP.NET
10 157 (3.70%) Kafka
11 153 (3.61%) .NET Core
12 120 (2.83%) SOAP
13 108 (2.55%) ASP.NET Core
14 105 (2.47%) OAuth
15 100 (2.36%) Middleware
16 97 (2.29%) YAML
17 93 (2.19%) JSON
17 93 (2.19%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 580 (13.67%) Cloud Native
2 289 (6.81%) Product Ownership
3 146 (3.44%) Distributed Systems
4 119 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
5 89 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
6 82 (1.93%) Management Information System
7 68 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
8 65 (1.53%) Onboarding
9 63 (1.48%) Mobile App
10 59 (1.39%) Data Centre
11 55 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
12 53 (1.25%) Public Cloud
13 52 (1.23%) Algorithms
14 51 (1.20%) Data Structures
15 49 (1.15%) Low-Code
16 38 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
17 31 (0.73%) Virtual Team
18 29 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
18 29 (0.68%) Security Posture
19 28 (0.66%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 431 (10.16%) Linux
2 192 (4.53%) Windows
3 83 (1.96%) Unix
4 76 (1.79%) Windows Server
5 52 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 42 (0.99%) Ubuntu
7 30 (0.71%) Android
7 30 (0.71%) VMS
8 29 (0.68%) CentOS
9 25 (0.59%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (0.16%) Debian
12 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
13 4 (0.094%) Kali Linux
13 4 (0.094%) Rocky
14 3 (0.071%) Windows Server 2016
15 2 (0.047%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.047%) Embedded Linux
16 1 (0.024%) SUSE
16 1 (0.024%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,159 (50.88%) CI/CD
2 1,501 (35.38%) Agile
3 1,022 (24.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 767 (18.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 721 (16.99%) Problem-Solving
6 706 (16.64%) Mentoring
7 686 (16.17%) Software Engineering
8 642 (15.13%) AI
9 623 (14.68%) Test Automation
10 561 (13.22%) Microservices
11 559 (13.17%) Containerisation
12 467 (11.01%) Observability
13 441 (10.39%) Roadmaps
14 435 (10.25%) Analytics
15 422 (9.95%) Full-Stack Development
16 407 (9.59%) Platform Engineering
17 403 (9.50%) Scrum
18 369 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
19 322 (7.59%) Data Modelling
20 305 (7.19%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,063 (25.05%) Python
2 781 (18.41%) SQL
3 614 (14.47%) Java
4 507 (11.95%) C#
5 467 (11.01%) JavaScript
6 368 (8.67%) Bash
7 321 (7.57%) TypeScript
8 260 (6.13%) PowerShell
9 149 (3.51%) Go
10 121 (2.85%) C++
11 116 (2.73%) Bicep
12 85 (2.00%) Apex Code
13 57 (1.34%) Groovy
14 52 (1.23%) PHP
15 47 (1.11%) Scala
16 46 (1.08%) SOQL
17 44 (1.04%) SOSL
18 38 (0.90%) C
19 37 (0.87%) Kotlin
20 34 (0.80%) Rust
Qualifications
1 608 (14.33%) Security Cleared
2 440 (10.37%) Degree
3 362 (8.53%) SC Cleared
4 174 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 151 (3.56%) DV Cleared
6 111 (2.62%) AWS Certification
7 96 (2.26%) Azure Certification
8 89 (2.10%) Master's Degree
9 52 (1.23%) ISTQB
10 40 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
11 34 (0.80%) DBS Check
12 33 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
13 30 (0.71%) PMI Certification
14 29 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 26 (0.61%) CISSP
16 24 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 21 (0.49%) PhD
18 20 (0.47%) PMP
19 19 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
19 19 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 343 (8.08%) QA
2 170 (4.01%) Data Quality
3 134 (3.16%) Accessibility
4 96 (2.26%) GDPR
5 73 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 54 (1.27%) NIST
7 46 (1.08%) GRC
8 36 (0.85%) SOC 2
9 33 (0.78%) PCI DSS
10 31 (0.73%) WCAG
11 19 (0.45%) SLA
12 14 (0.33%) PMO
13 12 (0.28%) NCSC
13 12 (0.28%) TickIT
14 10 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 8 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
16 7 (0.16%) Solvency II
17 6 (0.14%) IFRS
18 5 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 715 (16.85%) Docker
2 143 (3.37%) Active Directory
3 53 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.42%) Firmware
6 17 (0.40%) Hyper-V
7 16 (0.38%) vSphere
8 7 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.094%) iptables
9 4 (0.094%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 4 (0.094%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.094%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.071%) Embedded Firmware
10 3 (0.071%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.047%) KVM
11 2 (0.047%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.024%) OpenAM
12 1 (0.024%) OpenDJ
12 1 (0.024%) OpenIDM
12 1 (0.024%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,059 (24.96%) Terraform
2 769 (18.12%) Kubernetes
3 387 (9.12%) Ansible
4 229 (5.40%) Grafana
5 188 (4.43%) Prometheus
6 76 (1.79%) Argo
7 50 (1.18%) Puppet
8 41 (0.97%) HP Fortify
9 37 (0.87%) Nagios
10 34 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
11 26 (0.61%) Kibana
11 26 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
12 18 (0.42%) Kustomize
13 16 (0.38%) Istio
13 16 (0.38%) Rancher
14 14 (0.33%) Packer
15 13 (0.31%) Progress Chef
16 10 (0.24%) logstash
16 10 (0.24%) Proxmox
17 9 (0.21%) yum
Vendors
1 789 (18.60%) Microsoft
2 162 (3.82%) Salesforce
3 158 (3.72%) Databricks
4 156 (3.68%) Google
5 94 (2.22%) Splunk
6 90 (2.12%) VMware
7 84 (1.98%) Oracle
7 84 (1.98%) Red Hat
8 73 (1.72%) ServiceNow
9 52 (1.23%) SAP
10 43 (1.01%) MuleSoft
11 34 (0.80%) Dynatrace
11 34 (0.80%) Palo Alto
12 33 (0.78%) Cisco
13 24 (0.57%) Pega
14 23 (0.54%) Adobe
15 22 (0.52%) OpenAI
16 20 (0.47%) IBM
17 19 (0.45%) SolarWinds
18 18 (0.42%) Foundry