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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 20 26
Rank change year-on-year -8 +6 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,381 4,006 7,219
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.74% 9.06% 6.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.51% 9.78% 8.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3,163 2,325 5,245
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,441 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £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 £88,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £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 67,331 40,980 87,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.88% 92.69% 82.42%
Number of salaries quoted 46,057 21,831 62,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 11 June 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 11 June 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 3,880 £70,000 -2.10% 1,157
UK excluding London -10 2,602 £65,000 - 890
Work from Home -5 1,550 £67,500 -3.57% 781
London -6 1,430 £82,500 +3.13% 428
North of England -2 926 £69,655 +3.19% 253
South East -12 576 £65,000 - 274
North West -4 494 £70,000 +3.61% 147
South West -14 361 £65,000 - 108
Midlands -19 342 £65,500 +9.17% 105
Yorkshire -3 267 £70,000 - 73
West Midlands -27 194 £65,000 +8.33% 69
North East +10 165 £60,000 -7.69% 38
East of England -5 160 £60,100 -7.54% 78
East Midlands +5 145 £67,750 +23.18% 36
Scotland -3 137 £55,000 -25.42% 44
Wales +2 96 £53,171 -11.38% 25
Northern Ireland -37 8 £73,151 -13.94% 20
Isle of Man +2 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 85 (1.94%) Confluence
2 82 (1.87%) SharePoint
3 55 (1.26%) Apache
3 55 (1.26%) Apache Spark
4 46 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
5 39 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
6 29 (0.66%) CMS
7 25 (0.57%) IIS
8 15 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
9 11 (0.25%) SAS
10 10 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
11 9 (0.21%) OpenStack
11 9 (0.21%) Umbraco
12 8 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
13 7 (0.16%) Jupyter
13 7 (0.16%) nginx
13 7 (0.16%) WordPress
14 6 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 6 (0.14%) Apache Solr
14 6 (0.14%) Moodle
Applications
1 40 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
2 32 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (0.52%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.32%) PlantUML
5 11 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
8 6 (0.14%) Simulink
9 4 (0.091%) Maya
10 3 (0.068%) Blender
10 3 (0.068%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.068%) Trello
11 1 (0.023%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.023%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.023%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.023%) Notion
11 1 (0.023%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 72 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.30%) SAP ERP
4 7 (0.16%) Endur
5 5 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.11%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.091%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.091%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.068%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.068%) Magento
7 3 (0.068%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.068%) Shopify
8 2 (0.046%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.046%) Fidessa
8 2 (0.046%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.046%) Markit EDM
9 1 (0.023%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.023%) SAP FI
9 1 (0.023%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 2,329 (53.16%) Azure
2 1,398 (31.91%) AWS
3 1,150 (26.25%) Azure DevOps
4 494 (11.28%) GCP
5 480 (10.96%) GitHub
6 430 (9.82%) Serverless
7 330 (7.53%) Power Platform
8 274 (6.25%) SaaS
9 256 (5.84%) GitHub Actions
10 222 (5.07%) Amazon S3
11 219 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
12 205 (4.68%) AWS Lambda
13 176 (4.02%) PaaS
14 157 (3.58%) Microsoft 365
15 147 (3.36%) Entra ID
16 145 (3.31%) Azure AKS
17 137 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
18 134 (3.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 134 (3.06%) Amazon EKS
18 134 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 144 (3.29%) Firewall
2 91 (2.08%) DNS
3 65 (1.48%) Broadband
4 58 (1.32%) TCP/IP
5 52 (1.19%) VPN
6 38 (0.87%) Network Security
7 34 (0.78%) HTTP
8 26 (0.59%) DHCP
8 26 (0.59%) WAN
9 23 (0.52%) LAN
10 11 (0.25%) Internet
10 11 (0.25%) MQTT
11 10 (0.23%) BGP
11 10 (0.23%) SAN
11 10 (0.23%) Wireless
12 9 (0.21%) DMARC
13 8 (0.18%) HTTPS
14 6 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (0.14%) OSPF
14 6 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 239 (5.46%) SQL Server
2 199 (4.54%) NoSQL
3 189 (4.31%) MongoDB
4 187 (4.27%) Power BI
5 184 (4.20%) Azure SQL Database
6 140 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
7 103 (2.35%) DynamoDB
8 90 (2.05%) Relational Database
9 82 (1.87%) Data Lake
10 80 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
10 80 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
11 70 (1.60%) MySQL
12 67 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
13 64 (1.46%) Metadata
14 49 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
15 38 (0.87%) BigQuery
16 34 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
16 34 (0.78%) Redis
17 33 (0.75%) Delta Lake
18 32 (0.73%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 464 (10.59%) Git
2 386 (8.81%) Jenkins
3 369 (8.42%) GitLab
4 262 (5.98%) JIRA
5 96 (2.19%) SonarQube
6 81 (1.85%) Selenium
7 80 (1.83%) Cypress.io
8 57 (1.30%) Maven
9 45 (1.03%) Postman
10 34 (0.78%) Bitbucket
10 34 (0.78%) Cucumber
11 33 (0.75%) JUnit
12 32 (0.73%) CircleCI
12 32 (0.73%) TeamCity
13 28 (0.64%) JMeter
14 25 (0.57%) Eclipse
15 24 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
16 21 (0.48%) Visual Studio
17 20 (0.46%) REST Assured
18 18 (0.41%) Jaeger
General
1 911 (20.79%) Finance
2 895 (20.43%) Social Skills
3 344 (7.85%) Analytical Skills
4 295 (6.73%) Public Sector
5 266 (6.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 231 (5.27%) Banking
7 136 (3.10%) Retail
8 125 (2.85%) Law
9 101 (2.31%) Marketing
10 77 (1.76%) Games
11 76 (1.73%) Legal
12 48 (1.10%) Manufacturing
13 46 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
14 45 (1.03%) Advertising
14 45 (1.03%) Telecoms
15 42 (0.96%) Financial Institution
16 39 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
17 34 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
18 31 (0.71%) Billing
19 30 (0.68%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 960 (21.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 876 (20.00%) Senior
3 764 (17.44%) Developer
4 610 (13.92%) Lead
5 358 (8.17%) Architect
6 329 (7.51%) Azure Engineer
7 326 (7.44%) Software Engineer
8 254 (5.80%) Cloud Engineer
9 210 (4.79%) Senior DevOps
10 201 (4.59%) Senior Developer
11 182 (4.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 179 (4.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 166 (3.79%) Data Engineer
14 162 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
15 151 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
16 146 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
17 140 (3.20%) .NET Developer
17 140 (3.20%) Java Developer
18 130 (2.97%) Lead DevOps
19 107 (2.44%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 544 (12.42%) .NET
2 383 (8.74%) React
3 277 (6.32%) Node.js
3 277 (6.32%) REST
4 246 (5.62%) RESTful
5 189 (4.31%) ASP.NET
6 181 (4.13%) CSS
6 181 (4.13%) Spring Boot
7 176 (4.02%) HTML
8 174 (3.97%) .NET Core
9 169 (3.86%) Spring
10 156 (3.56%) Kafka
11 152 (3.47%) AngularJS
12 140 (3.20%) ASP.NET Core
13 108 (2.47%) SOAP
13 108 (2.47%) YAML
14 98 (2.24%) OAuth
15 95 (2.17%) Middleware
16 93 (2.12%) PySpark
17 90 (2.05%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 656 (14.97%) Cloud Native
2 290 (6.62%) Product Ownership
3 156 (3.56%) Distributed Systems
4 129 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
5 95 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
6 78 (1.78%) Management Information System
7 75 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
7 75 (1.71%) Mobile App
7 75 (1.71%) Onboarding
8 62 (1.42%) Data Centre
9 56 (1.28%) Public Cloud
10 52 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
11 50 (1.14%) Algorithms
11 50 (1.14%) Data Structures
12 44 (1.00%) Low-Code
13 40 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
14 38 (0.87%) Security Posture
15 36 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
16 29 (0.66%) Enterprise Cloud
16 29 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 438 (10.00%) Linux
2 191 (4.36%) Windows
3 85 (1.94%) Unix
4 74 (1.69%) Windows Server
5 55 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 48 (1.10%) Ubuntu
7 35 (0.80%) VMS
8 33 (0.75%) Android
8 33 (0.75%) CentOS
9 26 (0.59%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.21%) Debian
10 9 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.091%) Kali Linux
11 4 (0.091%) Rocky
11 4 (0.091%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.068%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.046%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.046%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.023%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.023%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,224 (50.76%) CI/CD
2 1,550 (35.38%) Agile
3 1,064 (24.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 791 (18.06%) Continuous Improvement
5 728 (16.62%) Mentoring
6 717 (16.37%) Problem-Solving
7 705 (16.09%) Software Engineering
8 682 (15.57%) AI
9 621 (14.17%) Test Automation
10 584 (13.33%) Containerisation
11 577 (13.17%) Microservices
12 476 (10.87%) Observability
13 466 (10.64%) Roadmaps
14 458 (10.45%) Full-Stack Development
15 449 (10.25%) Platform Engineering
16 437 (9.97%) Analytics
17 427 (9.75%) Scrum
18 391 (8.92%) Technical Leadership
19 305 (6.96%) Stakeholder Management
20 300 (6.85%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,064 (24.29%) Python
2 799 (18.24%) SQL
3 602 (13.74%) Java
4 556 (12.69%) C#
5 498 (11.37%) JavaScript
6 366 (8.35%) Bash
7 331 (7.56%) TypeScript
8 273 (6.23%) PowerShell
9 144 (3.29%) Go
10 131 (2.99%) Bicep
11 124 (2.83%) C++
12 80 (1.83%) Apex Code
13 57 (1.30%) PHP
14 49 (1.12%) Groovy
15 48 (1.10%) SOQL
16 45 (1.03%) SOSL
17 44 (1.00%) Scala
18 43 (0.98%) C
19 41 (0.94%) Kotlin
20 35 (0.80%) Rust
Qualifications
1 636 (14.52%) Security Cleared
2 451 (10.29%) Degree
3 388 (8.86%) SC Cleared
4 174 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 162 (3.70%) DV Cleared
6 106 (2.42%) Azure Certification
7 100 (2.28%) AWS Certification
8 97 (2.21%) Master's Degree
9 53 (1.21%) ISTQB
10 47 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
11 34 (0.78%) DBS Check
12 30 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
12 30 (0.68%) PMI Certification
13 28 (0.64%) CISSP
14 27 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 24 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 23 (0.52%) PhD
16 23 (0.52%) PMP
17 19 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
18 15 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 368 (8.40%) QA
2 167 (3.81%) Data Quality
3 149 (3.40%) Accessibility
4 94 (2.15%) GDPR
5 66 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 57 (1.30%) NIST
7 45 (1.03%) GRC
8 42 (0.96%) WCAG
9 34 (0.78%) PCI DSS
9 34 (0.78%) SOC 2
10 19 (0.43%) SLA
11 16 (0.37%) PMO
12 12 (0.27%) NCSC
12 12 (0.27%) TickIT
13 9 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 8 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
15 6 (0.14%) Solvency II
16 5 (0.11%) IFRS
16 5 (0.11%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 715 (16.32%) Docker
2 137 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 59 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (0.46%) vSphere
6 19 (0.43%) Firmware
7 18 (0.41%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.11%) iptables
9 5 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.091%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.068%) Embedded Firmware
11 3 (0.068%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.068%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.046%) KVM
13 1 (0.023%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.023%) OpenAM
13 1 (0.023%) OpenIDM
13 1 (0.023%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,092 (24.93%) Terraform
2 789 (18.01%) Kubernetes
3 391 (8.92%) Ansible
4 219 (5.00%) Grafana
5 180 (4.11%) Prometheus
6 77 (1.76%) Argo
7 48 (1.10%) Puppet
8 39 (0.89%) Nagios
9 34 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
10 30 (0.68%) HP Fortify
11 28 (0.64%) Kibana
12 18 (0.41%) Istio
12 18 (0.41%) Kustomize
13 17 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
14 15 (0.34%) Packer
15 14 (0.32%) Rancher
16 13 (0.30%) Progress Chef
17 11 (0.25%) Proxmox
18 9 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 9 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 831 (18.97%) Microsoft
2 166 (3.79%) Google
3 153 (3.49%) Databricks
4 149 (3.40%) Salesforce
5 99 (2.26%) Splunk
5 99 (2.26%) VMware
6 90 (2.05%) ServiceNow
7 85 (1.94%) Oracle
8 83 (1.89%) Red Hat
9 58 (1.32%) SAP
10 40 (0.91%) MuleSoft
11 38 (0.87%) Dynatrace
12 33 (0.75%) Cisco
13 30 (0.68%) Palo Alto
14 29 (0.66%) OpenAI
15 24 (0.55%) Pega
16 21 (0.48%) Apple
16 21 (0.48%) Facebook
17 20 (0.46%) Foundry
18 19 (0.43%) SolarWinds