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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 21 24
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 -13
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,189 4,170 6,021
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.11% 8.46% 6.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.93% 9.43% 8.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3,764 2,404 4,259
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,486 £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 £107,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year - +5.69% -1.60%

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 74,833 44,225 71,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.64% 89.70% 81.44%
Number of salaries quoted 51,638 25,059 48,434
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.66%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 28 July 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 28 July 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 4,483 £70,000 - 1,701
UK excluding London -4 3,294 £65,000 - 1,103
Work from Home -2 1,877 £67,500 -3.57% 851
London -12 1,501 £85,000 +6.25% 794
North of England +1 1,161 £69,305 +6.62% 337
South East -10 682 £65,000 +0.78% 293
North West -1 641 £70,000 +7.69% 179
South West +3 469 £70,000 +7.69% 153
Midlands -21 379 £65,500 +0.77% 160
Yorkshire +11 293 £70,000 +3.70% 83
North East +14 227 £60,000 -7.69% 77
West Midlands -26 216 £69,306 +6.62% 115
East of England +17 200 £60,000 -7.69% 64
Wales +9 175 £54,500 -5.22% 28
East Midlands +4 162 £65,000 +15.56% 45
Scotland -3 137 £60,000 -14.29% 57
Northern Ireland -8 100 £73,151 -8.56% 25
Isle of Man +2 3 £35,000 -33.33% 1

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 97 (1.87%) Confluence
2 90 (1.73%) SharePoint
3 85 (1.64%) Apache Spark
4 71 (1.37%) Apache
5 45 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
6 40 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
7 31 (0.60%) CMS
8 28 (0.54%) IIS
9 22 (0.42%) OpenStack
10 20 (0.39%) SAS
11 14 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
12 12 (0.23%) nginx
13 11 (0.21%) Jupyter
14 10 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
15 9 (0.17%) Umbraco
15 9 (0.17%) WordPress
16 8 (0.15%) Anypoint
16 8 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
17 7 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
18 6 (0.12%) Camunda
Applications
1 56 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
2 44 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.39%) PlantUML
4 18 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 13 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
8 12 (0.23%) Trello
9 7 (0.13%) Simulink
10 4 (0.077%) Maya
11 3 (0.058%) Blender
12 2 (0.039%) Lightworks
12 2 (0.039%) Spreadsheet
13 1 (0.019%) Adobe XD
13 1 (0.019%) Notion
13 1 (0.019%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 76 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.15%) Elite 3E
4 7 (0.13%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.096%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.096%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.077%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.077%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.077%) Endur
6 4 (0.077%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.077%) Shopify
7 3 (0.058%) Carpe Diem
7 3 (0.058%) Infor SunSystems
7 3 (0.058%) Magento
7 3 (0.058%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.058%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.039%) Oracle Applications
8 2 (0.039%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.039%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.039%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,741 (52.82%) Azure
2 1,706 (32.88%) AWS
3 1,352 (26.06%) Azure DevOps
4 569 (10.97%) GCP
5 509 (9.81%) GitHub
6 469 (9.04%) Serverless
7 407 (7.84%) SaaS
8 362 (6.98%) Power Platform
9 267 (5.15%) GitHub Actions
10 245 (4.72%) AWS CloudFormation
11 225 (4.34%) Amazon S3
12 212 (4.09%) PaaS
13 206 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
14 167 (3.22%) Dynamics 365
15 162 (3.12%) Azure AKS
16 161 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
17 146 (2.81%) Amazon ECS
18 142 (2.74%) Azure Logic Apps
19 141 (2.72%) Amazon EKS
19 141 (2.72%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 134 (2.58%) Firewall
2 88 (1.70%) DNS
3 69 (1.33%) TCP/IP
4 66 (1.27%) VPN
5 44 (0.85%) Broadband
5 44 (0.85%) Network Security
6 35 (0.67%) HTTP
7 33 (0.64%) Internet
8 22 (0.42%) DHCP
9 20 (0.39%) LAN
10 18 (0.35%) WAN
11 16 (0.31%) MQTT
12 14 (0.27%) Wireless
13 13 (0.25%) DMARC
14 11 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
15 10 (0.19%) BGP
15 10 (0.19%) HTTPS
16 9 (0.17%) SAN
17 8 (0.15%) Bluetooth
17 8 (0.15%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 289 (5.57%) SQL Server
2 274 (5.28%) MongoDB
3 264 (5.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 201 (3.87%) Power BI
5 198 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
6 179 (3.45%) NoSQL
7 107 (2.06%) MySQL
8 102 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
9 99 (1.91%) DynamoDB
10 96 (1.85%) Relational Database
11 91 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
12 86 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
13 76 (1.46%) Data Lake
14 61 (1.18%) Metadata
15 56 (1.08%) Redis
16 45 (0.87%) Big Data
17 42 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
18 39 (0.75%) Delta Lake
19 35 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
20 33 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 551 (10.62%) Git
2 410 (7.90%) GitLab
3 407 (7.84%) Jenkins
4 330 (6.36%) JIRA
5 93 (1.79%) Selenium
6 86 (1.66%) SonarQube
7 73 (1.41%) Cypress.io
8 55 (1.06%) Maven
9 54 (1.04%) Postman
10 51 (0.98%) JUnit
11 37 (0.71%) Cucumber
12 35 (0.67%) JMeter
13 33 (0.64%) TeamCity
14 32 (0.62%) Bitbucket
15 31 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 26 (0.50%) CircleCI
16 26 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
17 24 (0.46%) Visual Studio
18 21 (0.40%) REST Assured
19 19 (0.37%) Zephyr
General
1 1,135 (21.87%) Social Skills
2 980 (18.89%) Finance
3 404 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
4 392 (7.55%) Public Sector
5 307 (5.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 247 (4.76%) Banking
7 199 (3.84%) Law
8 159 (3.06%) Retail
9 141 (2.72%) Legal
10 109 (2.10%) Marketing
11 70 (1.35%) Games
12 63 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
13 57 (1.10%) Manufacturing
14 54 (1.04%) Advertising
15 51 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
15 51 (0.98%) Financial Institution
16 47 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
17 42 (0.81%) Telecoms
18 31 (0.60%) Back Office
19 26 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1,188 (22.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,127 (21.72%) Senior
3 884 (17.04%) Developer
4 699 (13.47%) Lead
5 416 (8.02%) Architect
6 356 (6.86%) Software Engineer
7 342 (6.59%) Azure Engineer
8 274 (5.28%) Senior DevOps
9 270 (5.20%) Cloud Engineer
10 251 (4.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 226 (4.36%) .NET Developer
12 216 (4.16%) Senior Developer
13 202 (3.89%) Platform Engineer
14 191 (3.68%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 187 (3.60%) Data Engineer
16 168 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
17 165 (3.18%) AWS Engineer
18 150 (2.89%) Lead DevOps
19 135 (2.60%) Java Developer
20 123 (2.37%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 695 (13.39%) .NET
2 447 (8.61%) React
3 321 (6.19%) RESTful
4 320 (6.17%) REST
5 309 (5.95%) Node.js
6 289 (5.57%) ASP.NET
7 262 (5.05%) .NET Core
8 238 (4.59%) Spring Boot
9 237 (4.57%) CSS
10 234 (4.51%) HTML
11 231 (4.45%) Spring
12 223 (4.30%) ASP.NET Core
13 204 (3.93%) Kafka
14 161 (3.10%) AngularJS
15 134 (2.58%) Entity Framework
16 133 (2.56%) Blazor
17 132 (2.54%) Middleware
18 106 (2.04%) YAML
19 103 (1.98%) JSON
20 100 (1.93%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 880 (16.96%) Cloud Native
2 331 (6.38%) Product Ownership
3 238 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
4 183 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
5 140 (2.70%) Onboarding
6 104 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
7 90 (1.73%) Virtual Team
8 86 (1.66%) Management Information System
9 78 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
10 77 (1.48%) Mobile App
11 75 (1.45%) Data Centre
12 68 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
13 63 (1.21%) Public Cloud
14 60 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
14 60 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
15 50 (0.96%) Data Structures
16 46 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
17 43 (0.83%) Low-Code
18 42 (0.81%) Security Posture
19 41 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 519 (10.00%) Linux
2 246 (4.74%) Windows
3 95 (1.83%) Unix
4 74 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 73 (1.41%) Windows Server
6 51 (0.98%) CentOS
7 47 (0.91%) Ubuntu
8 37 (0.71%) VMS
9 30 (0.58%) Android
10 18 (0.35%) Debian
11 17 (0.33%) Apple iOS
12 8 (0.15%) Rocky
13 7 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
13 7 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.096%) Windows Server 2019
15 4 (0.077%) Kali Linux
16 3 (0.058%) AIX
17 2 (0.039%) Amazon Linux
17 2 (0.039%) Mac OS
17 2 (0.039%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,615 (50.40%) CI/CD
2 1,930 (37.19%) Agile
3 1,245 (23.99%) Infrastructure as Code
4 992 (19.12%) Continuous Improvement
5 933 (17.98%) Mentoring
6 911 (17.56%) Software Engineering
7 868 (16.73%) AI
8 830 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
9 793 (15.28%) Test Automation
10 708 (13.64%) Microservices
11 660 (12.72%) Containerisation
12 564 (10.87%) Platform Engineering
13 562 (10.83%) Full-Stack Development
14 548 (10.56%) Observability
14 548 (10.56%) Roadmaps
15 534 (10.29%) Scrum
16 519 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
17 463 (8.92%) Analytics
18 446 (8.60%) Stakeholder Management
19 375 (7.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,232 (23.74%) Python
2 923 (17.79%) SQL
3 754 (14.53%) C#
4 668 (12.87%) Java
5 655 (12.62%) JavaScript
6 406 (7.82%) TypeScript
7 370 (7.13%) Bash
8 356 (6.86%) PowerShell
9 157 (3.03%) Bicep
10 127 (2.45%) Go
11 126 (2.43%) C++
12 67 (1.29%) Apex Code
13 64 (1.23%) PHP
14 49 (0.94%) Groovy
15 48 (0.93%) C
16 42 (0.81%) T-SQL
17 40 (0.77%) Scala
18 38 (0.73%) SOQL
19 37 (0.71%) Rust
20 36 (0.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 846 (16.30%) Security Cleared
2 553 (10.66%) SC Cleared
3 505 (9.73%) Degree
4 231 (4.45%) DV Cleared
5 191 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 139 (2.68%) Azure Certification
7 111 (2.14%) Master's Degree
8 82 (1.58%) AWS Certification
8 82 (1.58%) CISSP
8 82 (1.58%) ITIL Certification
9 65 (1.25%) CISM
10 60 (1.16%) ISTQB
11 50 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
12 38 (0.73%) DBS Check
13 37 (0.71%) PMI Certification
14 28 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
14 28 (0.54%) PMP
15 25 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 25 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 23 (0.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 518 (9.98%) QA
2 173 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 168 (3.24%) Data Quality
4 120 (2.31%) GDPR
5 107 (2.06%) NIST
6 68 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 61 (1.18%) WCAG
8 49 (0.94%) ISO 22301
9 48 (0.93%) GRC
10 41 (0.79%) PCI DSS
11 27 (0.52%) SOC 2
12 25 (0.48%) PMO
13 21 (0.40%) SLA
14 19 (0.37%) NCSC
15 12 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
15 12 (0.23%) TickIT
16 10 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
16 10 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 8 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 8 (0.15%) NIST 800
System Software
1 836 (16.11%) Docker
2 133 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 78 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (0.54%) vSphere
6 22 (0.42%) Firmware
6 22 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 13 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.13%) Ceph
9 6 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 6 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.096%) iptables
11 4 (0.077%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.077%) KVM
11 4 (0.077%) NDS
12 3 (0.058%) Xen
13 2 (0.039%) VMware ESXi
13 2 (0.039%) VMware NSX
14 1 (0.019%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.019%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,243 (23.95%) Terraform
2 961 (18.52%) Kubernetes
3 448 (8.63%) Ansible
4 234 (4.51%) Grafana
5 179 (3.45%) Prometheus
6 79 (1.52%) Argo
7 61 (1.18%) Puppet
8 39 (0.75%) Nagios
9 30 (0.58%) Istio
10 26 (0.50%) HP Fortify
10 26 (0.50%) Kibana
10 26 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
11 17 (0.33%) Progress Chef
12 14 (0.27%) Podman
12 14 (0.27%) Rancher
13 13 (0.25%) Packer
13 13 (0.25%) ZABBIX
14 10 (0.19%) logstash
14 10 (0.19%) Proxmox
15 9 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 1,002 (19.31%) Microsoft
2 189 (3.64%) Google
3 173 (3.33%) Databricks
4 146 (2.81%) Salesforce
5 110 (2.12%) VMware
6 106 (2.04%) Oracle
7 103 (1.98%) ServiceNow
8 100 (1.93%) Splunk
9 92 (1.77%) Red Hat
10 71 (1.37%) SAP
11 53 (1.02%) Pega
12 48 (0.93%) Dynatrace
13 46 (0.89%) Cisco
14 45 (0.87%) MuleSoft
15 44 (0.85%) OpenAI
16 42 (0.81%) Facebook
17 30 (0.58%) Apple
18 27 (0.52%) YouTube
19 26 (0.50%) Foundry
20 25 (0.48%) AppDynamics