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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 21 24
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 -12
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,382 4,089 5,692
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.06% 8.19% 6.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.89% 9.18% 8.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,841 2,322 3,929
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 £85,420
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +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 78,105 44,566 67,543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.45% 89.27% 81.06%
Number of salaries quoted 53,741 25,228 43,541
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,575 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,683 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.35% -4.63% -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 14 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 14 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 -8 4,656 £70,400 +0.57% 2,445
UK excluding London -3 3,464 £65,000 - 1,360
Work from Home -2 1,918 £69,305 -0.99% 1,160
London -12 1,530 £85,000 +6.25% 1,323
North of England 0 1,232 £67,500 +3.85% 378
South East -11 689 £65,000 +2.36% 383
North West +1 674 £70,000 +7.69% 197
South West +8 502 £70,000 +7.69% 174
Midlands -17 408 £67,500 +3.85% 185
Yorkshire +15 296 £70,000 +9.80% 111
North East +24 262 £60,000 -7.69% 72
West Midlands -22 245 £70,000 +7.69% 118
East of England +16 212 £59,450 -8.54% 75
Wales +8 187 £55,000 -2.22% 44
East Midlands +2 162 £64,525 +12.22% 66
Scotland -6 135 £60,000 -14.29% 98
Northern Ireland -1 112 £72,246 -44.43% 28
Isle of Man 0 3 £35,000 -33.33% 3

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
1 108 (2.01%) Confluence
2 96 (1.78%) Apache Spark
3 92 (1.71%) SharePoint
4 80 (1.49%) Apache
5 45 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
6 36 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
7 29 (0.54%) CMS
8 28 (0.52%) IIS
9 23 (0.43%) OpenStack
10 20 (0.37%) SAS
11 14 (0.26%) nginx
11 14 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
12 13 (0.24%) Jupyter
13 9 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
13 9 (0.17%) Umbraco
13 9 (0.17%) WordPress
14 8 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 8 (0.15%) Anypoint
14 8 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
15 7 (0.13%) Camunda
Applications
1 58 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
2 44 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (0.41%) MS Visio
4 21 (0.39%) PlantUML
5 17 (0.32%) Chatbot
6 16 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
6 16 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 13 (0.24%) Trello
8 7 (0.13%) Simulink
9 4 (0.074%) Maya
10 3 (0.056%) Blender
10 3 (0.056%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.037%) Lightworks
12 1 (0.019%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.019%) Notion
12 1 (0.019%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 77 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.19%) Elite 3E
4 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.093%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.093%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.093%) Teamcenter
5 5 (0.093%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.074%) Dynamics AX
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 (0.056%) Infor SunSystems
7 3 (0.056%) Magento
7 3 (0.056%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (0.056%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.056%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.056%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 2,847 (52.90%) Azure
2 1,756 (32.63%) AWS
3 1,405 (26.11%) Azure DevOps
4 588 (10.93%) GCP
5 528 (9.81%) GitHub
6 484 (8.99%) Serverless
7 437 (8.12%) SaaS
8 372 (6.91%) Power Platform
9 275 (5.11%) AWS CloudFormation
9 275 (5.11%) GitHub Actions
10 231 (4.29%) Amazon S3
11 213 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
12 212 (3.94%) PaaS
13 183 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
14 167 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
15 156 (2.90%) Azure AKS
16 153 (2.84%) Amazon ECS
16 153 (2.84%) Azure Service Bus
17 147 (2.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 146 (2.71%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 125 (2.32%) Firewall
2 85 (1.58%) DNS
3 66 (1.23%) TCP/IP
4 65 (1.21%) VPN
5 46 (0.85%) Network Security
6 36 (0.67%) Broadband
7 33 (0.61%) Internet
8 29 (0.54%) HTTP
9 22 (0.41%) DHCP
10 19 (0.35%) LAN
11 18 (0.33%) WAN
12 16 (0.30%) MQTT
13 14 (0.26%) Wireless
14 13 (0.24%) DMARC
14 13 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
15 11 (0.20%) SAN
16 10 (0.19%) HTTPS
17 9 (0.17%) BGP
18 8 (0.15%) NAS
18 8 (0.15%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 331 (6.15%) SQL Server
2 282 (5.24%) MongoDB
3 272 (5.05%) Azure SQL Database
4 207 (3.85%) Power BI
5 202 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
6 187 (3.47%) NoSQL
7 113 (2.10%) MySQL
7 113 (2.10%) Relational Database
8 109 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
9 103 (1.91%) DynamoDB
10 94 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
11 93 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
12 83 (1.54%) Data Lake
13 64 (1.19%) Metadata
14 58 (1.08%) Redis
15 48 (0.89%) Big Data
16 44 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
17 41 (0.76%) Delta Lake
18 36 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
19 33 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 594 (11.04%) Git
2 404 (7.51%) Jenkins
3 398 (7.40%) GitLab
4 359 (6.67%) JIRA
5 94 (1.75%) Selenium
6 80 (1.49%) SonarQube
7 68 (1.26%) Cypress.io
8 56 (1.04%) Maven
8 56 (1.04%) Postman
9 55 (1.02%) JUnit
10 39 (0.72%) Cucumber
11 37 (0.69%) TeamCity
12 34 (0.63%) Bitbucket
12 34 (0.63%) JMeter
13 33 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 29 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
15 25 (0.46%) NUnit
16 24 (0.45%) REST Assured
17 21 (0.39%) Visual Studio
18 20 (0.37%) CircleCI
General
1 1,213 (22.54%) Social Skills
2 1,046 (19.44%) Finance
3 441 (8.19%) Public Sector
4 424 (7.88%) Analytical Skills
5 327 (6.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 259 (4.81%) Banking
7 205 (3.81%) Law
8 167 (3.10%) Legal
9 158 (2.94%) Retail
10 101 (1.88%) Marketing
11 63 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
12 60 (1.11%) Games
13 59 (1.10%) Manufacturing
14 56 (1.04%) Financial Institution
15 51 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
16 50 (0.93%) Advertising
17 49 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
18 42 (0.78%) Telecoms
19 38 (0.71%) Aerospace
20 33 (0.61%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,231 (22.87%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,189 (22.09%) Senior
3 906 (16.83%) Developer
4 716 (13.30%) Lead
5 419 (7.79%) Architect
6 374 (6.95%) Software Engineer
7 341 (6.34%) Azure Engineer
8 281 (5.22%) Senior DevOps
9 279 (5.18%) Cloud Engineer
10 264 (4.91%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 240 (4.46%) .NET Developer
12 222 (4.12%) Senior Developer
13 217 (4.03%) Platform Engineer
14 196 (3.64%) Data Engineer
15 185 (3.44%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 160 (2.97%) AWS Engineer
16 160 (2.97%) Lead DevOps
17 154 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
18 137 (2.55%) Java Developer
19 128 (2.38%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 743 (13.81%) .NET
2 454 (8.44%) React
3 335 (6.22%) RESTful
4 334 (6.21%) REST
5 327 (6.08%) Node.js
6 301 (5.59%) ASP.NET
7 287 (5.33%) .NET Core
8 245 (4.55%) CSS
9 243 (4.52%) HTML
10 240 (4.46%) Spring Boot
11 236 (4.38%) Spring
12 230 (4.27%) ASP.NET Core
13 212 (3.94%) Kafka
14 169 (3.14%) AngularJS
15 141 (2.62%) Blazor
16 140 (2.60%) Entity Framework
17 128 (2.38%) Middleware
18 105 (1.95%) JSON
19 104 (1.93%) YAML
20 99 (1.84%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 947 (17.60%) Cloud Native
2 354 (6.58%) Product Ownership
3 253 (4.70%) Distributed Systems
4 212 (3.94%) Enterprise Software
5 154 (2.86%) Onboarding
6 117 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
7 102 (1.90%) Virtual Team
8 84 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
9 83 (1.54%) Management Information System
10 77 (1.43%) Mobile App
11 75 (1.39%) Data Centre
12 72 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
13 65 (1.21%) Public Cloud
14 64 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
15 63 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
16 50 (0.93%) Data Structures
17 46 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
17 46 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
18 45 (0.84%) AI Agents
18 45 (0.84%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 541 (10.05%) Linux
2 261 (4.85%) Windows
3 100 (1.86%) Unix
4 75 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 73 (1.36%) Windows Server
6 52 (0.97%) CentOS
7 43 (0.80%) Ubuntu
8 37 (0.69%) VMS
9 31 (0.58%) Android
10 17 (0.32%) Apple iOS
10 17 (0.32%) Debian
11 11 (0.20%) Rocky
12 8 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
13 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.093%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.074%) Kali Linux
15 4 (0.074%) Solaris
15 4 (0.074%) Windows Server 2019
16 3 (0.056%) AIX
16 3 (0.056%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,709 (50.33%) CI/CD
2 2,003 (37.22%) Agile
3 1,300 (24.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,034 (19.21%) Continuous Improvement
5 990 (18.39%) Mentoring
6 979 (18.19%) Software Engineering
7 932 (17.32%) AI
8 864 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
9 825 (15.33%) Test Automation
10 723 (13.43%) Microservices
11 673 (12.50%) Containerisation
12 611 (11.35%) Platform Engineering
13 586 (10.89%) Observability
14 567 (10.54%) Full-Stack Development
15 566 (10.52%) Roadmaps
16 565 (10.50%) Technical Leadership
17 545 (10.13%) Scrum
18 496 (9.22%) Stakeholder Management
19 472 (8.77%) Analytics
20 389 (7.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,270 (23.60%) Python
2 961 (17.86%) SQL
3 802 (14.90%) C#
4 693 (12.88%) Java
5 664 (12.34%) JavaScript
6 415 (7.71%) TypeScript
7 371 (6.89%) PowerShell
8 365 (6.78%) Bash
9 158 (2.94%) Bicep
10 127 (2.36%) C++
11 121 (2.25%) Go
12 60 (1.11%) PHP
13 58 (1.08%) Apex Code
14 53 (0.98%) C
15 50 (0.93%) T-SQL
16 47 (0.87%) Groovy
17 46 (0.85%) Scala
18 41 (0.76%) Kotlin
19 39 (0.72%) Ruby
20 37 (0.69%) Rust
Qualifications
1 926 (17.21%) Security Cleared
2 612 (11.37%) SC Cleared
3 522 (9.70%) Degree
4 259 (4.81%) DV Cleared
5 195 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 149 (2.77%) Azure Certification
7 111 (2.06%) Master's Degree
8 94 (1.75%) AWS Certification
9 80 (1.49%) CISSP
9 80 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
10 66 (1.23%) CISM
11 60 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
12 57 (1.06%) ISTQB
13 49 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
14 40 (0.74%) PMI Certification
15 35 (0.65%) DBS Check
16 28 (0.52%) PMP
17 26 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 23 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 23 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 545 (10.13%) QA
2 188 (3.49%) Accessibility
3 178 (3.31%) Data Quality
4 125 (2.32%) GDPR
5 106 (1.97%) NIST
6 72 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 62 (1.15%) WCAG
8 49 (0.91%) ISO 22301
9 46 (0.85%) GRC
10 37 (0.69%) PCI DSS
11 28 (0.52%) PMO
12 26 (0.48%) NCSC
13 25 (0.46%) SLA
14 23 (0.43%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
16 12 (0.22%) HIPAA
16 12 (0.22%) TickIT
17 11 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
18 10 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 9 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 865 (16.07%) Docker
2 141 (2.62%) Active Directory
3 82 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.54%) vSphere
6 23 (0.43%) Firmware
6 23 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 16 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.13%) Ceph
9 6 (0.11%) KVM
9 6 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.093%) iptables
11 4 (0.074%) NDS
11 4 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.056%) Embedded Firmware
12 3 (0.056%) Xen
13 2 (0.037%) VMware NSX
14 1 (0.019%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.019%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,303 (24.21%) Terraform
2 977 (18.15%) Kubernetes
3 450 (8.36%) Ansible
4 220 (4.09%) Grafana
5 165 (3.07%) Prometheus
6 79 (1.47%) Argo
7 64 (1.19%) Puppet
8 36 (0.67%) Nagios
9 33 (0.61%) Istio
10 27 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
11 24 (0.45%) Kibana
12 22 (0.41%) HP Fortify
13 17 (0.32%) Progress Chef
14 13 (0.24%) Rancher
14 13 (0.24%) ZABBIX
15 12 (0.22%) Packer
15 12 (0.22%) Podman
16 11 (0.20%) logstash
17 10 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
18 8 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 1,047 (19.45%) Microsoft
2 207 (3.85%) Google
3 181 (3.36%) Databricks
4 141 (2.62%) Salesforce
5 118 (2.19%) Oracle
6 113 (2.10%) VMware
7 96 (1.78%) ServiceNow
8 95 (1.77%) Red Hat
9 94 (1.75%) Splunk
10 72 (1.34%) SAP
11 51 (0.95%) Pega
12 49 (0.91%) OpenAI
13 48 (0.89%) Cisco
14 46 (0.85%) Dynatrace
15 42 (0.78%) Facebook
16 41 (0.76%) MuleSoft
17 30 (0.56%) AppDynamics
18 29 (0.54%) Apple
18 29 (0.54%) YouTube
19 28 (0.52%) Foundry