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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 21 24
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 -12
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,412 4,049 5,639
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.08% 8.12% 6.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.91% 9.10% 8.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3,863 2,312 3,922
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 £85,000
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% -

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 78,311 44,508 67,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.48% 89.25% 80.98%
Number of salaries quoted 53,938 25,218 43,343
10th Percentile £30,775 £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 £97,250 £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 15 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 15 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 4,679 £70,782 +1.12% 3,717
UK excluding London -3 3,480 £65,000 - 1,899
Work from Home -2 1,929 £69,305 -0.99% 1,736
London -12 1,539 £85,000 +6.25% 2,181
North of England +1 1,232 £67,500 +3.85% 528
South East -11 696 £65,000 +2.36% 487
North West +1 673 £70,000 +7.69% 288
South West +9 505 £70,000 +7.69% 229
Midlands -17 411 £67,500 +3.85% 242
Yorkshire +17 296 £70,000 +9.80% 139
North East +24 263 £60,000 -7.69% 105
West Midlands -21 248 £70,000 +7.69% 156
East of England +18 212 £59,450 -8.54% 135
Wales +10 188 £55,000 - 51
East Midlands +4 162 £64,525 +12.22% 85
Scotland -7 137 £60,000 -14.29% 162
Northern Ireland -1 112 £72,246 -44.43% 71
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
1 109 (2.01%) Confluence
2 97 (1.79%) Apache Spark
3 93 (1.72%) SharePoint
4 81 (1.50%) Apache
5 45 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
6 36 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
7 29 (0.54%) CMS
7 29 (0.54%) IIS
8 23 (0.42%) OpenStack
9 20 (0.37%) SAS
10 14 (0.26%) nginx
10 14 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
11 13 (0.24%) Jupyter
12 9 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
12 9 (0.17%) Umbraco
12 9 (0.17%) WordPress
13 8 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 8 (0.15%) Anypoint
13 8 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
14 7 (0.13%) Camunda
Applications
1 59 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
2 44 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (0.41%) MS Visio
4 21 (0.39%) PlantUML
5 19 (0.35%) 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 (0.055%) 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 78 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.18%) Elite 3E
4 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.092%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.092%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.092%) Teamcenter
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%) Dynamics AX
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 2,864 (52.92%) Azure
2 1,766 (32.63%) AWS
3 1,412 (26.09%) Azure DevOps
4 594 (10.98%) GCP
5 534 (9.87%) GitHub
6 487 (9.00%) Serverless
7 439 (8.11%) SaaS
8 376 (6.95%) Power Platform
9 279 (5.16%) GitHub Actions
10 277 (5.12%) AWS CloudFormation
11 231 (4.27%) Amazon S3
12 213 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
12 213 (3.94%) PaaS
13 186 (3.44%) Dynamics 365
14 168 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
15 158 (2.92%) Azure AKS
16 154 (2.85%) Amazon ECS
17 153 (2.83%) Azure Service Bus
18 149 (2.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 147 (2.72%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 127 (2.35%) Firewall
2 85 (1.57%) DNS
3 67 (1.24%) VPN
4 66 (1.22%) TCP/IP
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 (0.18%) HTTPS
17 9 (0.17%) BGP
18 8 (0.15%) NAS
18 8 (0.15%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 336 (6.21%) SQL Server
2 284 (5.25%) MongoDB
3 274 (5.06%) Azure SQL Database
4 210 (3.88%) Power BI
5 204 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
6 190 (3.51%) NoSQL
7 117 (2.16%) MySQL
8 114 (2.11%) Relational Database
9 111 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
10 103 (1.90%) DynamoDB
11 95 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
12 93 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
13 85 (1.57%) Data Lake
14 65 (1.20%) Metadata
15 59 (1.09%) Redis
16 48 (0.89%) Big Data
17 44 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
18 41 (0.76%) Delta Lake
19 36 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
20 33 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 601 (11.10%) Git
2 407 (7.52%) Jenkins
3 403 (7.45%) GitLab
4 359 (6.63%) JIRA
5 94 (1.74%) Selenium
6 80 (1.48%) SonarQube
7 68 (1.26%) Cypress.io
8 56 (1.03%) Maven
8 56 (1.03%) Postman
9 55 (1.02%) JUnit
10 39 (0.72%) Cucumber
11 37 (0.68%) TeamCity
12 34 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 34 (0.63%) Bitbucket
12 34 (0.63%) JMeter
13 29 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
14 25 (0.46%) NUnit
15 24 (0.44%) REST Assured
16 21 (0.39%) Visual Studio
17 20 (0.37%) CircleCI
General
1 1,223 (22.60%) Social Skills
2 1,052 (19.44%) Finance
3 444 (8.20%) Public Sector
4 428 (7.91%) Analytical Skills
5 327 (6.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 263 (4.86%) Banking
7 204 (3.77%) Law
8 167 (3.09%) Legal
9 159 (2.94%) Retail
10 100 (1.85%) Marketing
11 64 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
12 60 (1.11%) Games
13 58 (1.07%) Manufacturing
14 56 (1.03%) Financial Institution
15 51 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
16 50 (0.92%) Advertising
17 49 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
18 42 (0.78%) Telecoms
19 38 (0.70%) Aerospace
20 33 (0.61%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,241 (22.93%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,198 (22.14%) Senior
3 913 (16.87%) Developer
4 722 (13.34%) Lead
5 421 (7.78%) Architect
6 376 (6.95%) Software Engineer
7 342 (6.32%) Azure Engineer
8 284 (5.25%) Senior DevOps
9 280 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
10 266 (4.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 242 (4.47%) .NET Developer
12 223 (4.12%) Senior Developer
13 217 (4.01%) Platform Engineer
14 197 (3.64%) Data Engineer
15 185 (3.42%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 164 (3.03%) Lead DevOps
17 158 (2.92%) AWS Engineer
18 155 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
19 138 (2.55%) Java Developer
20 128 (2.37%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 747 (13.80%) .NET
2 456 (8.43%) React
3 336 (6.21%) RESTful
4 335 (6.19%) REST
5 332 (6.13%) Node.js
6 302 (5.58%) ASP.NET
7 288 (5.32%) .NET Core
8 246 (4.55%) CSS
9 244 (4.51%) HTML
10 243 (4.49%) Spring Boot
11 239 (4.42%) Spring
12 231 (4.27%) ASP.NET Core
13 214 (3.95%) Kafka
14 169 (3.12%) AngularJS
15 142 (2.62%) Blazor
16 141 (2.61%) Entity Framework
17 128 (2.37%) Middleware
18 105 (1.94%) JSON
19 104 (1.92%) YAML
20 101 (1.87%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 953 (17.61%) Cloud Native
2 358 (6.61%) Product Ownership
3 256 (4.73%) Distributed Systems
4 214 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
5 154 (2.85%) Onboarding
6 118 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
7 103 (1.90%) Virtual Team
8 85 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
9 83 (1.53%) Management Information System
10 77 (1.42%) Mobile App
11 75 (1.39%) Data Centre
12 72 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
13 66 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
14 65 (1.20%) Public Cloud
15 63 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
16 51 (0.94%) Data Structures
17 47 (0.87%) AI Agents
17 47 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
18 46 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
18 46 (0.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 549 (10.14%) Linux
2 262 (4.84%) Windows
3 102 (1.88%) Unix
4 76 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 73 (1.35%) Windows Server
6 54 (1.00%) CentOS
7 43 (0.79%) Ubuntu
8 37 (0.68%) VMS
9 31 (0.57%) Android
10 17 (0.31%) Apple iOS
10 17 (0.31%) Debian
11 11 (0.20%) Rocky
12 8 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
13 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.092%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.074%) Kali Linux
15 4 (0.074%) Solaris
15 4 (0.074%) Windows Server 2019
16 3 (0.055%) AIX
16 3 (0.055%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,731 (50.46%) CI/CD
2 2,007 (37.08%) Agile
3 1,310 (24.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,041 (19.24%) Continuous Improvement
5 998 (18.44%) Mentoring
6 984 (18.18%) Software Engineering
7 938 (17.33%) AI
8 874 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
9 827 (15.28%) Test Automation
10 726 (13.41%) Microservices
11 679 (12.55%) Containerisation
12 612 (11.31%) Platform Engineering
13 590 (10.90%) Observability
14 572 (10.57%) Technical Leadership
15 570 (10.53%) Full-Stack Development
16 568 (10.50%) Roadmaps
17 547 (10.11%) Scrum
18 501 (9.26%) Stakeholder Management
19 474 (8.76%) Analytics
20 389 (7.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,282 (23.69%) Python
2 966 (17.85%) SQL
3 810 (14.97%) C#
4 696 (12.86%) Java
5 668 (12.34%) JavaScript
6 416 (7.69%) TypeScript
7 374 (6.91%) PowerShell
8 371 (6.86%) Bash
9 159 (2.94%) Bicep
10 127 (2.35%) C++
11 123 (2.27%) Go
12 60 (1.11%) PHP
13 57 (1.05%) Apex Code
14 53 (0.98%) C
15 51 (0.94%) T-SQL
16 47 (0.87%) Groovy
17 46 (0.85%) Scala
18 41 (0.76%) Kotlin
19 39 (0.72%) Ruby
20 38 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 934 (17.26%) Security Cleared
2 618 (11.42%) SC Cleared
3 525 (9.70%) Degree
4 267 (4.93%) DV Cleared
5 198 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 152 (2.81%) Azure Certification
7 111 (2.05%) Master's Degree
8 95 (1.76%) AWS Certification
9 80 (1.48%) CISSP
9 80 (1.48%) ITIL Certification
10 66 (1.22%) CISM
11 60 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
12 57 (1.05%) ISTQB
13 49 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
14 41 (0.76%) PMI Certification
15 35 (0.65%) DBS Check
16 29 (0.54%) PMP
17 26 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 23 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 23 (0.42%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 550 (10.16%) QA
2 187 (3.46%) Accessibility
3 180 (3.33%) Data Quality
4 125 (2.31%) GDPR
5 106 (1.96%) NIST
6 73 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 62 (1.15%) WCAG
8 49 (0.91%) ISO 22301
9 46 (0.85%) GRC
10 37 (0.68%) PCI DSS
11 28 (0.52%) PMO
12 26 (0.48%) NCSC
13 25 (0.46%) SLA
14 23 (0.42%) 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 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 9 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 874 (16.15%) Docker
2 142 (2.62%) Active Directory
3 82 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.54%) vSphere
6 23 (0.42%) Firmware
6 23 (0.42%) 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 (0.092%) iptables
11 4 (0.074%) NDS
11 4 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.055%) Embedded Firmware
12 3 (0.055%) Xen
13 2 (0.037%) VMware NSX
14 1 (0.018%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.018%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,316 (24.32%) Terraform
2 992 (18.33%) Kubernetes
3 458 (8.46%) Ansible
4 223 (4.12%) Grafana
5 167 (3.09%) Prometheus
6 79 (1.46%) Argo
7 64 (1.18%) Puppet
8 37 (0.68%) Nagios
9 33 (0.61%) Istio
10 27 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
11 24 (0.44%) Kibana
12 22 (0.41%) HP Fortify
13 17 (0.31%) 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 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
18 8 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 1,057 (19.53%) Microsoft
2 207 (3.82%) Google
3 181 (3.34%) Databricks
4 140 (2.59%) Salesforce
5 119 (2.20%) Oracle
6 114 (2.11%) VMware
7 96 (1.77%) Red Hat
7 96 (1.77%) ServiceNow
7 96 (1.77%) Splunk
8 72 (1.33%) SAP
9 52 (0.96%) OpenAI
10 51 (0.94%) Pega
11 48 (0.89%) Cisco
12 46 (0.85%) Dynatrace
13 42 (0.78%) Facebook
14 40 (0.74%) MuleSoft
15 30 (0.55%) AppDynamics
16 29 (0.54%) Apple
16 29 (0.54%) YouTube
17 28 (0.52%) Foundry