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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 18 25
Rank change year-on-year -14 +7 -13
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,161 4,025 7,116
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.58% 9.25% 7.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.20% 9.91% 8.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,959 2,461 5,294
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £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 £114,250 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -2.76%

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 67,106 40,605 82,127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.79% 93.31% 85.17%
Number of salaries quoted 43,167 22,159 59,545
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £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 15 May 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Top 19 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 15 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 -15 3,618 £70,313 +0.45% 1,430
UK excluding London -27 2,406 £65,000 - 999
Work from Home -9 1,516 £69,310 -0.99% 1,097
London -10 1,389 £82,500 - 581
North of England -15 816 £70,000 +3.70% 300
South East -16 524 £65,000 - 304
North West -17 407 £70,000 +0.44% 161
South West -17 333 £62,500 -3.85% 123
Midlands -37 316 £67,500 +12.50% 106
Yorkshire -8 273 £70,000 +3.32% 83
West Midlands -44 183 £62,500 +4.17% 62
Scotland -8 174 £55,000 -21.43% 56
East of England -8 148 £65,000 - 79
North East +9 136 £60,000 -7.69% 58
East Midlands -8 129 £70,000 +7.69% 44
Wales -6 87 £53,171 -3.33% 29
Northern Ireland -32 13 £73,801 +34.18% 15
Isle of Man +4 2 £35,000 -
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 (1.85%) SharePoint
2 74 (1.78%) Confluence
3 50 (1.20%) Apache
4 49 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
5 43 (1.03%) Apache Spark
6 36 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
7 30 (0.72%) IIS
8 24 (0.58%) CMS
9 16 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
10 13 (0.31%) OpenStack
11 12 (0.29%) SAS
12 11 (0.26%) Moodle
13 7 (0.17%) Anypoint
13 7 (0.17%) Apache Solr
13 7 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
13 7 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
13 7 (0.17%) WordPress
14 6 (0.14%) nginx
14 6 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 6 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 34 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
3 23 (0.55%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.24%) PlantUML
6 9 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.096%) Simulink
8 3 (0.072%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.072%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.072%) Trello
9 1 (0.024%) EngageOne
9 1 (0.024%) Maya
9 1 (0.024%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 62 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.36%) SAP ERP
3 12 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
3 12 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.26%) Endur
5 7 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
7 5 (0.12%) Visualfiles
8 4 (0.096%) Markit EDM
8 4 (0.096%) Shopify
9 3 (0.072%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.072%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.048%) Distributed Ledger
10 2 (0.048%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.048%) Fidessa
10 2 (0.048%) Infor SunSystems
10 2 (0.048%) Magento
10 2 (0.048%) Workday HCM
11 1 (0.024%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 1 (0.024%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2,223 (53.42%) Azure
2 1,333 (32.04%) AWS
3 1,091 (26.22%) Azure DevOps
4 487 (11.70%) GitHub
5 467 (11.22%) GCP
6 420 (10.09%) Serverless
7 332 (7.98%) Power Platform
8 269 (6.46%) GitHub Actions
9 255 (6.13%) SaaS
10 222 (5.34%) AWS CloudFormation
11 220 (5.29%) Amazon S3
12 212 (5.09%) AWS Lambda
13 169 (4.06%) Microsoft 365
14 158 (3.80%) PaaS
15 153 (3.68%) Entra ID
16 141 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
17 138 (3.32%) Amazon EKS
18 134 (3.22%) Amazon ECS
19 130 (3.12%) Azure AKS
19 130 (3.12%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 139 (3.34%) Firewall
2 92 (2.21%) DNS
3 64 (1.54%) Broadband
4 58 (1.39%) TCP/IP
5 48 (1.15%) VPN
6 41 (0.99%) Network Security
7 32 (0.77%) HTTP
7 32 (0.77%) WAN
8 26 (0.62%) DHCP
9 24 (0.58%) LAN
10 11 (0.26%) BGP
11 9 (0.22%) SAN
12 8 (0.19%) Internet
12 8 (0.19%) Wireless
13 7 (0.17%) NGFW
13 7 (0.17%) OSPF
14 6 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (0.14%) HTTPS
14 6 (0.14%) SD-WAN
14 6 (0.14%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 240 (5.77%) SQL Server
2 200 (4.81%) NoSQL
3 185 (4.45%) Power BI
4 149 (3.58%) MongoDB
5 144 (3.46%) Azure SQL Database
6 136 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
7 112 (2.69%) DynamoDB
8 88 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
9 87 (2.09%) Data Lake
10 86 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
11 84 (2.02%) Relational Database
12 64 (1.54%) Metadata
12 64 (1.54%) MySQL
13 61 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
14 42 (1.01%) BigQuery
15 41 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
16 34 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
16 34 (0.82%) Delta Lake
17 31 (0.75%) Redis
17 31 (0.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 455 (10.93%) Git
2 396 (9.52%) Jenkins
3 361 (8.68%) GitLab
4 254 (6.10%) JIRA
5 104 (2.50%) SonarQube
6 88 (2.11%) Cypress.io
7 85 (2.04%) Selenium
8 67 (1.61%) Maven
9 44 (1.06%) Postman
10 40 (0.96%) Bitbucket
11 36 (0.87%) CircleCI
11 36 (0.87%) Cucumber
12 34 (0.82%) TeamCity
13 29 (0.70%) JUnit
14 27 (0.65%) JMeter
15 25 (0.60%) Eclipse
16 23 (0.55%) Visual Studio
17 22 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
18 20 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
19 18 (0.43%) REST Assured
General
1 927 (22.28%) Finance
2 874 (21.00%) Social Skills
3 364 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
4 265 (6.37%) Public Sector
5 245 (5.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 221 (5.31%) Banking
7 128 (3.08%) Retail
8 126 (3.03%) Law
9 103 (2.48%) Marketing
10 79 (1.90%) Legal
11 77 (1.85%) Games
12 52 (1.25%) Telecoms
13 46 (1.11%) Manufacturing
14 43 (1.03%) Advertising
15 41 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
16 39 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
17 37 (0.89%) Financial Institution
18 34 (0.82%) Billing
19 29 (0.70%) Back Office
20 28 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 872 (20.96%) DevOps Engineer
2 859 (20.64%) Senior
3 725 (17.42%) Developer
4 607 (14.59%) Lead
5 347 (8.34%) Architect
6 306 (7.35%) Software Engineer
7 295 (7.09%) Azure Engineer
8 244 (5.86%) Cloud Engineer
9 210 (5.05%) Senior DevOps
10 187 (4.49%) Senior Developer
11 180 (4.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 164 (3.94%) Data Engineer
13 156 (3.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 153 (3.68%) Solutions Architect
15 145 (3.48%) AWS Engineer
16 142 (3.41%) Platform Engineer
17 139 (3.34%) Java Developer
18 128 (3.08%) Lead DevOps
19 116 (2.79%) Full-Stack Developer
20 110 (2.64%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 499 (11.99%) .NET
2 364 (8.75%) React
3 271 (6.51%) REST
4 245 (5.89%) Node.js
5 242 (5.82%) RESTful
6 180 (4.33%) Spring Boot
7 163 (3.92%) CSS
8 162 (3.89%) Spring
9 158 (3.80%) HTML
10 155 (3.73%) Kafka
11 154 (3.70%) AngularJS
12 151 (3.63%) .NET Core
12 151 (3.63%) ASP.NET
13 123 (2.96%) SOAP
14 107 (2.57%) OAuth
15 105 (2.52%) Middleware
16 102 (2.45%) ASP.NET Core
17 91 (2.19%) JSON
18 90 (2.16%) Elastic Stack
19 89 (2.14%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 563 (13.53%) Cloud Native
2 287 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 143 (3.44%) Distributed Systems
4 122 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
5 93 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
6 79 (1.90%) Management Information System
7 68 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
8 64 (1.54%) Mobile App
9 60 (1.44%) Onboarding
10 56 (1.35%) Data Centre
11 54 (1.30%) Public Cloud
11 54 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
12 53 (1.27%) Low-Code
13 48 (1.15%) Algorithms
14 47 (1.13%) Data Structures
15 40 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
16 32 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
17 30 (0.72%) Security Posture
18 29 (0.70%) Virtual Team
19 27 (0.65%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 419 (10.07%) Linux
2 196 (4.71%) Windows
3 81 (1.95%) Unix
4 75 (1.80%) Windows Server
5 48 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (0.96%) Ubuntu
7 31 (0.75%) Android
7 31 (0.75%) VMS
8 28 (0.67%) CentOS
9 24 (0.58%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (0.17%) Debian
12 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
13 4 (0.096%) Kali Linux
13 4 (0.096%) Rocky
13 4 (0.096%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.048%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.048%) Embedded Linux
15 1 (0.024%) SUSE
15 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,107 (50.64%) CI/CD
2 1,494 (35.90%) Agile
3 997 (23.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 757 (18.19%) Continuous Improvement
5 711 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
6 696 (16.73%) Mentoring
7 672 (16.15%) Software Engineering
8 643 (15.45%) AI
9 614 (14.76%) Test Automation
10 556 (13.36%) Microservices
11 546 (13.12%) Containerisation
12 459 (11.03%) Observability
13 438 (10.53%) Roadmaps
14 432 (10.38%) Analytics
15 422 (10.14%) Full-Stack Development
16 405 (9.73%) Scrum
17 387 (9.30%) Platform Engineering
18 351 (8.44%) Technical Leadership
19 315 (7.57%) Data Modelling
20 313 (7.52%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,043 (25.07%) Python
2 778 (18.70%) SQL
3 597 (14.35%) Java
4 494 (11.87%) C#
5 453 (10.89%) JavaScript
6 355 (8.53%) Bash
7 319 (7.67%) TypeScript
8 254 (6.10%) PowerShell
9 152 (3.65%) Go
10 116 (2.79%) Bicep
11 110 (2.64%) C++
12 85 (2.04%) Apex Code
13 58 (1.39%) Groovy
14 51 (1.23%) PHP
15 43 (1.03%) Scala
15 43 (1.03%) SOQL
15 43 (1.03%) SOSL
16 34 (0.82%) Kotlin
17 32 (0.77%) Rust
18 30 (0.72%) C
Qualifications
1 581 (13.96%) Security Cleared
2 434 (10.43%) Degree
3 341 (8.20%) SC Cleared
4 183 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 144 (3.46%) DV Cleared
6 113 (2.72%) AWS Certification
7 95 (2.28%) Azure Certification
8 86 (2.07%) Master's Degree
9 55 (1.32%) ISTQB
10 44 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
11 33 (0.79%) DBS Check
11 33 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
12 30 (0.72%) PMI Certification
13 29 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 25 (0.60%) CISSP
15 24 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 22 (0.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 21 (0.50%) PMP
18 20 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
18 20 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 337 (8.10%) QA
2 163 (3.92%) Data Quality
3 128 (3.08%) Accessibility
4 98 (2.36%) GDPR
5 76 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 56 (1.35%) NIST
7 46 (1.11%) GRC
8 37 (0.89%) SOC 2
9 32 (0.77%) PCI DSS
10 28 (0.67%) WCAG
11 21 (0.50%) SLA
12 14 (0.34%) NCSC
12 14 (0.34%) PMO
13 12 (0.29%) TickIT
14 11 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
16 7 (0.17%) Solvency II
17 6 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 6 (0.14%) IFRS
17 6 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 699 (16.80%) Docker
2 144 (3.46%) Active Directory
3 52 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.43%) Hyper-V
6 16 (0.38%) vSphere
7 14 (0.34%) Firmware
8 7 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.096%) iptables
9 4 (0.096%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 4 (0.096%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.072%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.072%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.048%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.048%) KVM
11 2 (0.048%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.024%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.024%) OpenAM
12 1 (0.024%) OpenDJ
12 1 (0.024%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 1,031 (24.78%) Terraform
2 758 (18.22%) Kubernetes
3 373 (8.96%) Ansible
4 216 (5.19%) Grafana
5 178 (4.28%) Prometheus
6 73 (1.75%) Argo
7 48 (1.15%) Puppet
8 42 (1.01%) HP Fortify
9 37 (0.89%) Nagios
10 34 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
11 31 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
12 25 (0.60%) Kibana
13 18 (0.43%) Kustomize
14 16 (0.38%) Rancher
15 14 (0.34%) Istio
15 14 (0.34%) Packer
15 14 (0.34%) Progress Chef
16 11 (0.26%) logstash
17 10 (0.24%) Proxmox
18 9 (0.22%) yum
Vendors
1 786 (18.89%) Microsoft
2 158 (3.80%) Salesforce
3 156 (3.75%) Databricks
3 156 (3.75%) Google
4 91 (2.19%) Splunk
5 88 (2.11%) VMware
6 81 (1.95%) Oracle
6 81 (1.95%) Red Hat
7 69 (1.66%) ServiceNow
8 53 (1.27%) SAP
9 45 (1.08%) MuleSoft
10 36 (0.87%) Palo Alto
11 32 (0.77%) Cisco
12 31 (0.75%) Dynatrace
13 25 (0.60%) Adobe
14 24 (0.58%) OpenAI
14 24 (0.58%) Pega
15 20 (0.48%) IBM
16 19 (0.46%) Foundry
16 19 (0.46%) SolarWinds