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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 22 23
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 -10
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,431 3,966 5,733
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.98% 7.94% 6.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.81% 8.93% 8.51%
Number of salaries quoted 3,867 2,259 3,874
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 £87,500 £87,500 £86,000
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% -0.79%

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 79,759 44,399 67,357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.20% 88.84% 80.67%
Number of salaries quoted 55,200 25,247 42,330
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 26 August 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 26 August 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 4,696 £70,782 +1.12% 1,172
UK excluding London -2 3,516 £65,000 - 788
Work from Home -2 1,915 £69,306 -0.99% 615
London -11 1,521 £85,000 +6.25% 523
North of England +2 1,244 £67,500 +3.85% 231
South East -10 707 £65,000 +0.78% 152
North West +3 675 £70,000 +7.69% 113
South West +15 522 £72,500 +16.00% 177
Midlands -16 412 £66,750 +2.69% 105
Yorkshire +14 295 £70,000 +12.00% 76
North East +21 274 £60,000 - 46
West Midlands -27 245 £70,000 +7.69% 54
East of England +11 209 £59,450 -8.54% 56
Wales +5 193 £54,500 -0.91% 19
East Midlands +6 167 £62,500 +8.69% 51
Scotland -7 131 £60,000 -12.73% 48
Northern Ireland -1 114 £72,246 -44.43% 15
Isle of Man -1 3 £35,000 -33.33%

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
1 106 (1.95%) Confluence
2 100 (1.84%) Apache Spark
3 95 (1.75%) SharePoint
4 82 (1.51%) Apache
5 45 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
6 39 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
7 30 (0.55%) CMS
7 30 (0.55%) IIS
8 25 (0.46%) OpenStack
9 19 (0.35%) SAS
10 14 (0.26%) Jupyter
10 14 (0.26%) nginx
10 14 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
11 9 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
11 9 (0.17%) Umbraco
11 9 (0.17%) WordPress
12 8 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 8 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
13 7 (0.13%) Camunda
14 6 (0.11%) Anypoint
Applications
1 61 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
2 44 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (0.41%) PlantUML
4 21 (0.39%) Chatbot
4 21 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 20 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
6 18 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 13 (0.24%) Trello
8 7 (0.13%) Simulink
9 4 (0.074%) Maya
10 3 (0.055%) Blender
10 3 (0.055%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.037%) Lightworks
12 1 (0.018%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.018%) Notion
12 1 (0.018%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 77 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.24%) Elite 3E
4 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
4 6 (0.11%) Teamcenter
5 5 (0.092%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.092%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.092%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.074%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.074%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.074%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.074%) Shopify
7 3 (0.055%) Carpe Diem
7 3 (0.055%) Infor SunSystems
7 3 (0.055%) Magento
7 3 (0.055%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (0.055%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.055%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.055%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 2,858 (52.62%) Azure
2 1,756 (32.33%) AWS
3 1,426 (26.26%) Azure DevOps
4 596 (10.97%) GCP
5 540 (9.94%) GitHub
6 479 (8.82%) Serverless
7 444 (8.18%) SaaS
8 386 (7.11%) Power Platform
9 283 (5.21%) GitHub Actions
10 277 (5.10%) AWS CloudFormation
11 223 (4.11%) Amazon S3
12 209 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
12 209 (3.85%) PaaS
13 188 (3.46%) Dynamics 365
14 170 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
15 160 (2.95%) Azure AKS
16 155 (2.85%) Amazon EKS
17 151 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
18 150 (2.76%) Azure Service Bus
19 149 (2.74%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 126 (2.32%) Firewall
2 89 (1.64%) DNS
3 70 (1.29%) VPN
4 64 (1.18%) TCP/IP
5 47 (0.87%) Network Security
6 33 (0.61%) Internet
7 29 (0.53%) Broadband
8 26 (0.48%) HTTP
9 24 (0.44%) DHCP
10 16 (0.29%) MQTT
11 14 (0.26%) LAN
11 14 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
11 14 (0.26%) Wireless
12 13 (0.24%) DMARC
12 13 (0.24%) SAN
12 13 (0.24%) WAN
13 10 (0.18%) BGP
14 9 (0.17%) HTTPS
14 9 (0.17%) VLAN
15 8 (0.15%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 337 (6.21%) SQL Server
2 287 (5.28%) MongoDB
3 283 (5.21%) Azure SQL Database
4 225 (4.14%) Power BI
5 206 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
6 192 (3.54%) NoSQL
7 124 (2.28%) MySQL
8 121 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
9 115 (2.12%) Relational Database
10 100 (1.84%) DynamoDB
11 95 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
11 95 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
12 90 (1.66%) Data Lake
13 73 (1.34%) Metadata
14 60 (1.10%) Redis
15 47 (0.87%) Big Data
16 43 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
17 42 (0.77%) Delta Lake
18 39 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
19 34 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 611 (11.25%) Git
2 405 (7.46%) Jenkins
3 394 (7.25%) GitLab
4 355 (6.54%) JIRA
5 93 (1.71%) Selenium
6 76 (1.40%) SonarQube
7 63 (1.16%) Cypress.io
8 58 (1.07%) Maven
9 56 (1.03%) Postman
10 55 (1.01%) JUnit
11 42 (0.77%) Cucumber
11 42 (0.77%) TeamCity
12 37 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 36 (0.66%) JMeter
14 34 (0.63%) Bitbucket
15 27 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
16 25 (0.46%) REST Assured
17 24 (0.44%) NUnit
18 20 (0.37%) Mockito
18 20 (0.37%) Zephyr
General
1 1,243 (22.89%) Social Skills
2 1,052 (19.37%) Finance
3 456 (8.40%) Public Sector
4 430 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
5 334 (6.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 260 (4.79%) Banking
7 208 (3.83%) Law
8 167 (3.07%) Legal
9 159 (2.93%) Retail
10 91 (1.68%) Marketing
11 63 (1.16%) Financial Institution
11 63 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
12 54 (0.99%) Games
13 53 (0.98%) Manufacturing
14 51 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
15 47 (0.87%) Advertising
15 47 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
16 40 (0.74%) Telecoms
17 39 (0.72%) Aerospace
17 39 (0.72%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,275 (23.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,208 (22.24%) Senior
3 893 (16.44%) Developer
4 720 (13.26%) Lead
5 418 (7.70%) Architect
6 378 (6.96%) Software Engineer
7 343 (6.32%) Azure Engineer
8 295 (5.43%) Senior DevOps
9 284 (5.23%) Cloud Engineer
10 276 (5.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 240 (4.42%) .NET Developer
12 220 (4.05%) Platform Engineer
13 219 (4.03%) Senior Developer
14 199 (3.66%) Data Engineer
15 189 (3.48%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 166 (3.06%) Lead DevOps
17 150 (2.76%) AWS Engineer
18 148 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
19 135 (2.49%) Java Developer
20 127 (2.34%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,332 (24.53%) Terraform
2 747 (13.75%) .NET
3 435 (8.01%) React
4 342 (6.30%) REST
5 340 (6.26%) RESTful
6 333 (6.13%) Node.js
7 307 (5.65%) ASP.NET
8 285 (5.25%) .NET Core
9 249 (4.58%) Spring
9 249 (4.58%) Spring Boot
10 246 (4.53%) CSS
10 246 (4.53%) HTML
11 234 (4.31%) ASP.NET Core
12 218 (4.01%) Kafka
13 169 (3.11%) AngularJS
14 141 (2.60%) Blazor
15 140 (2.58%) Entity Framework
16 124 (2.28%) Middleware
17 106 (1.95%) JSON
18 102 (1.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 964 (17.75%) Cloud Native
2 360 (6.63%) Product Ownership
3 262 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
4 216 (3.98%) Enterprise Software
5 159 (2.93%) Onboarding
6 114 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
7 109 (2.01%) Virtual Team
8 87 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
9 79 (1.45%) Mobile App
10 78 (1.44%) Management Information System
11 75 (1.38%) Data Centre
12 72 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
13 65 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
14 64 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
14 64 (1.18%) Public Cloud
15 52 (0.96%) Data Structures
16 50 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
17 49 (0.90%) AI Agents
18 46 (0.85%) Private Cloud
19 43 (0.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 547 (10.07%) Linux
2 255 (4.70%) Windows
3 100 (1.84%) Unix
4 71 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 70 (1.29%) Windows Server
6 55 (1.01%) CentOS
7 41 (0.75%) Ubuntu
8 39 (0.72%) VMS
9 33 (0.61%) Android
10 19 (0.35%) Apple iOS
11 17 (0.31%) Debian
12 12 (0.22%) Rocky
13 7 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
14 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.092%) Kali Linux
15 5 (0.092%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.074%) Solaris
16 4 (0.074%) Windows Server 2019
17 3 (0.055%) AIX
17 3 (0.055%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,745 (50.54%) CI/CD
2 2,011 (37.03%) Agile
3 1,305 (24.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,045 (19.24%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,012 (18.63%) Mentoring
6 987 (18.17%) Software Engineering
7 952 (17.53%) AI
8 884 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
9 834 (15.36%) Test Automation
10 735 (13.53%) Microservices
11 685 (12.61%) Containerisation
12 615 (11.32%) Platform Engineering
13 594 (10.94%) Observability
14 580 (10.68%) Technical Leadership
15 557 (10.26%) Roadmaps
16 552 (10.16%) Full-Stack Development
17 541 (9.96%) Scrum
18 518 (9.54%) Stakeholder Management
19 481 (8.86%) Analytics
20 388 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,278 (23.53%) Python
2 984 (18.12%) SQL
3 805 (14.82%) C#
4 704 (12.96%) Java
5 662 (12.19%) JavaScript
6 409 (7.53%) TypeScript
7 375 (6.90%) Bash
7 375 (6.90%) PowerShell
8 159 (2.93%) Bicep
9 122 (2.25%) C++
9 122 (2.25%) Go
10 59 (1.09%) PHP
11 52 (0.96%) T-SQL
12 51 (0.94%) C
13 48 (0.88%) Apex Code
14 47 (0.87%) Scala
15 46 (0.85%) Groovy
16 42 (0.77%) Kotlin
17 38 (0.70%) Ruby
17 38 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 955 (17.58%) Security Cleared
2 634 (11.67%) SC Cleared
3 518 (9.54%) Degree
4 277 (5.10%) DV Cleared
5 197 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 162 (2.98%) Azure Certification
7 113 (2.08%) Master's Degree
8 102 (1.88%) AWS Certification
9 78 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
10 76 (1.40%) CISSP
11 69 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
12 66 (1.22%) CISM
13 58 (1.07%) ISTQB
14 57 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
15 40 (0.74%) PMI Certification
16 34 (0.63%) DBS Check
17 28 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 28 (0.52%) PMP
18 24 (0.44%) PhD
19 22 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 549 (10.11%) QA
2 189 (3.48%) Accessibility
2 189 (3.48%) Data Quality
3 121 (2.23%) GDPR
4 101 (1.86%) NIST
5 74 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 61 (1.12%) WCAG
7 49 (0.90%) ISO 22301
8 46 (0.85%) GRC
9 34 (0.63%) PCI DSS
10 30 (0.55%) SLA
11 28 (0.52%) NCSC
11 28 (0.52%) PMO
12 20 (0.37%) SOC 2
13 13 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
14 12 (0.22%) HIPAA
14 12 (0.22%) TickIT
15 11 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
16 10 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 9 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 879 (16.18%) Docker
2 141 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 85 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (0.50%) vSphere
6 24 (0.44%) Hyper-V
7 22 (0.41%) Firmware
8 17 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.13%) Ceph
10 6 (0.11%) KVM
10 6 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.092%) iptables
12 4 (0.074%) NDS
13 3 (0.055%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.055%) Xen
14 2 (0.037%) Embedded Firmware
14 2 (0.037%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.018%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.018%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,000 (18.41%) Kubernetes
2 466 (8.58%) Ansible
3 228 (4.20%) Grafana
4 161 (2.96%) Prometheus
5 80 (1.47%) Argo
6 67 (1.23%) Puppet
7 33 (0.61%) Istio
7 33 (0.61%) Nagios
8 32 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
9 24 (0.44%) Kibana
10 21 (0.39%) HP Fortify
11 20 (0.37%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.24%) Rancher
12 13 (0.24%) ZABBIX
13 12 (0.22%) Packer
13 12 (0.22%) Podman
14 11 (0.20%) logstash
15 10 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
16 9 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 9 (0.17%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,070 (19.70%) Microsoft
2 201 (3.70%) Google
3 184 (3.39%) Databricks
4 124 (2.28%) Salesforce
5 122 (2.25%) Oracle
6 115 (2.12%) VMware
7 92 (1.69%) ServiceNow
8 90 (1.66%) Splunk
9 88 (1.62%) Red Hat
10 72 (1.33%) SAP
11 54 (0.99%) OpenAI
12 51 (0.94%) Cisco
12 51 (0.94%) Pega
13 45 (0.83%) Dynatrace
14 42 (0.77%) Facebook
15 34 (0.63%) AppDynamics
15 34 (0.63%) MuleSoft
15 34 (0.63%) YouTube
16 30 (0.55%) Foundry
17 29 (0.53%) Apple