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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 20 26
Rank change year-on-year -8 +6 -13
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,333 4,021 7,197
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.71% 9.09% 6.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.47% 9.80% 8.26%
Number of salaries quoted 3,119 2,341 5,223
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,486 £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 £88,750 £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 66,949 41,023 87,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.83% 92.72% 82.59%
Number of salaries quoted 45,661 21,815 61,905
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 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.89% +0.11% -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 9 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 9 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 3,837 £70,000 -2.45% 1,217
UK excluding London -11 2,551 £65,000 - 930
Work from Home -5 1,518 £69,305 -0.99% 973
London -6 1,432 £82,500 +3.13% 449
North of England -4 917 £70,000 +3.70% 277
South East -13 566 £65,000 - 270
North West -4 484 £70,000 +0.89% 169
South West -17 349 £65,000 - 116
Midlands -19 333 £66,000 +10.00% 109
Yorkshire 0 271 £70,000 - 72
West Midlands -32 192 £64,250 +7.08% 72
North East +9 162 £60,000 -7.69% 39
East of England -4 155 £60,100 -7.54% 73
East Midlands -1 138 £69,000 +25.45% 37
Scotland -3 134 £55,000 -26.67% 49
Wales +2 93 £53,171 -11.38% 25
Northern Ireland -39 8 £73,151 +4.50% 25
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 83 (1.92%) Confluence
2 77 (1.78%) SharePoint
3 56 (1.29%) Apache
4 55 (1.27%) Apache Spark
5 48 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
6 37 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
7 29 (0.67%) CMS
8 25 (0.58%) IIS
9 16 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
10 11 (0.25%) OpenStack
10 11 (0.25%) SAS
11 10 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
12 9 (0.21%) Umbraco
13 8 (0.18%) nginx
13 8 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
14 7 (0.16%) Apache Solr
14 7 (0.16%) Jupyter
14 7 (0.16%) WordPress
15 6 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 6 (0.14%) Moodle
Applications
1 38 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
2 33 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.32%) PlantUML
5 13 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
8 6 (0.14%) Simulink
9 4 (0.092%) Maya
10 3 (0.069%) Blender
10 3 (0.069%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.046%) Trello
12 1 (0.023%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.023%) EngageOne
12 1 (0.023%) Lightworks
12 1 (0.023%) Notion
12 1 (0.023%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 71 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.30%) SAP ERP
4 7 (0.16%) Endur
5 5 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.12%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.092%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.092%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.069%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.069%) Magento
7 3 (0.069%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.069%) 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 2,283 (52.69%) Azure
2 1,388 (32.03%) AWS
3 1,121 (25.87%) Azure DevOps
4 487 (11.24%) GCP
5 475 (10.96%) GitHub
6 438 (10.11%) Serverless
7 325 (7.50%) Power Platform
8 268 (6.19%) SaaS
9 257 (5.93%) GitHub Actions
10 229 (5.29%) Amazon S3
11 222 (5.12%) AWS CloudFormation
12 212 (4.89%) AWS Lambda
13 171 (3.95%) PaaS
14 154 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
15 145 (3.35%) Entra ID
16 142 (3.28%) Azure AKS
17 140 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
18 138 (3.18%) Amazon EKS
19 135 (3.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 130 (3.00%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 142 (3.28%) Firewall
2 90 (2.08%) DNS
3 65 (1.50%) Broadband
4 57 (1.32%) TCP/IP
5 48 (1.11%) VPN
6 37 (0.85%) Network Security
7 34 (0.78%) HTTP
8 26 (0.60%) DHCP
8 26 (0.60%) WAN
9 23 (0.53%) LAN
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
12 9 (0.21%) Internet
13 8 (0.18%) HTTPS
14 6 (0.14%) Bluetooth
14 6 (0.14%) OSPF
14 6 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 237 (5.47%) SQL Server
2 202 (4.66%) NoSQL
3 187 (4.32%) Power BI
4 171 (3.95%) MongoDB
5 168 (3.88%) Azure SQL Database
6 142 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
7 109 (2.52%) DynamoDB
8 90 (2.08%) Relational Database
9 83 (1.92%) Data Lake
10 80 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
10 80 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
11 71 (1.64%) MySQL
12 63 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
12 63 (1.45%) Metadata
13 48 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
14 39 (0.90%) BigQuery
15 34 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
15 34 (0.78%) Delta Lake
16 32 (0.74%) Big Data
16 32 (0.74%) Redis
Development Applications
1 464 (10.71%) Git
2 388 (8.95%) Jenkins
3 366 (8.45%) GitLab
4 260 (6.00%) JIRA
5 97 (2.24%) SonarQube
6 82 (1.89%) Cypress.io
7 80 (1.85%) Selenium
8 60 (1.38%) Maven
9 45 (1.04%) Postman
10 34 (0.78%) Cucumber
11 33 (0.76%) Bitbucket
11 33 (0.76%) JUnit
12 32 (0.74%) CircleCI
13 31 (0.72%) TeamCity
14 26 (0.60%) Eclipse
14 26 (0.60%) JMeter
15 24 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
16 21 (0.48%) Visual Studio
17 19 (0.44%) REST Assured
18 18 (0.42%) Jaeger
General
1 907 (20.93%) Finance
2 882 (20.36%) Social Skills
3 343 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
4 290 (6.69%) Public Sector
5 259 (5.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 232 (5.35%) Banking
7 136 (3.14%) Retail
8 124 (2.86%) Law
9 98 (2.26%) Marketing
10 77 (1.78%) Legal
11 75 (1.73%) Games
12 47 (1.08%) Manufacturing
13 45 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
13 45 (1.04%) Telecoms
14 43 (0.99%) Advertising
15 41 (0.95%) Financial Institution
16 38 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
17 33 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
18 32 (0.74%) Billing
19 30 (0.69%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 949 (21.90%) DevOps Engineer
2 866 (19.99%) Senior
3 749 (17.29%) Developer
4 609 (14.05%) Lead
5 358 (8.26%) Architect
6 325 (7.50%) Software Engineer
7 322 (7.43%) Azure Engineer
8 251 (5.79%) Cloud Engineer
9 209 (4.82%) Senior DevOps
10 196 (4.52%) Senior Developer
11 182 (4.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 174 (4.02%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 170 (3.92%) Data Engineer
14 158 (3.65%) Platform Engineer
15 151 (3.48%) AWS Engineer
16 146 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
17 143 (3.30%) Java Developer
18 133 (3.07%) Lead DevOps
19 127 (2.93%) .NET Developer
20 110 (2.54%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 524 (12.09%) .NET
2 377 (8.70%) React
3 276 (6.37%) REST
4 274 (6.32%) Node.js
5 243 (5.61%) RESTful
6 185 (4.27%) Spring Boot
7 173 (3.99%) CSS
8 172 (3.97%) ASP.NET
9 171 (3.95%) Spring
10 168 (3.88%) HTML
11 160 (3.69%) .NET Core
12 155 (3.58%) Kafka
13 153 (3.53%) AngularJS
14 124 (2.86%) ASP.NET Core
15 107 (2.47%) SOAP
16 106 (2.45%) YAML
17 99 (2.28%) OAuth
18 97 (2.24%) Middleware
19 96 (2.22%) PySpark
20 90 (2.08%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 639 (14.75%) Cloud Native
2 289 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 159 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
4 123 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
5 90 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
6 79 (1.82%) Management Information System
7 74 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
8 71 (1.64%) Mobile App
9 70 (1.62%) Onboarding
10 61 (1.41%) Data Centre
11 54 (1.25%) Public Cloud
12 52 (1.20%) Data Structures
12 52 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
13 50 (1.15%) Algorithms
14 44 (1.02%) Low-Code
15 35 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
15 35 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
15 35 (0.81%) Security Posture
16 29 (0.67%) Enterprise Cloud
16 29 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 433 (9.99%) Linux
2 184 (4.25%) Windows
3 85 (1.96%) Unix
4 73 (1.68%) Windows Server
5 54 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 47 (1.08%) Ubuntu
7 33 (0.76%) CentOS
7 33 (0.76%) VMS
8 32 (0.74%) Android
9 26 (0.60%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.18%) Debian
12 4 (0.092%) Kali Linux
12 4 (0.092%) Rocky
12 4 (0.092%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.069%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.046%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.046%) Embedded Linux
15 1 (0.023%) SUSE
15 1 (0.023%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,197 (50.70%) CI/CD
2 1,530 (35.31%) Agile
3 1,053 (24.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 782 (18.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 720 (16.62%) Mentoring
6 714 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
7 702 (16.20%) Software Engineering
8 669 (15.44%) AI
9 621 (14.33%) Test Automation
10 579 (13.36%) Microservices
11 578 (13.34%) Containerisation
12 469 (10.82%) Observability
13 458 (10.57%) Roadmaps
14 446 (10.29%) Platform Engineering
15 442 (10.20%) Full-Stack Development
16 432 (9.97%) Analytics
17 422 (9.74%) Scrum
18 387 (8.93%) Technical Leadership
19 304 (7.02%) Data Modelling
20 298 (6.88%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1,058 (24.42%) Python
2 783 (18.07%) SQL
3 600 (13.85%) Java
4 526 (12.14%) C#
5 480 (11.08%) JavaScript
6 364 (8.40%) Bash
7 329 (7.59%) TypeScript
8 266 (6.14%) PowerShell
9 145 (3.35%) Go
10 124 (2.86%) Bicep
10 124 (2.86%) C++
11 79 (1.82%) Apex Code
12 58 (1.34%) PHP
13 52 (1.20%) Groovy
14 47 (1.08%) SOQL
15 46 (1.06%) Scala
16 44 (1.02%) SOSL
17 43 (0.99%) C
18 40 (0.92%) Kotlin
19 34 (0.78%) Rust
Qualifications
1 628 (14.49%) Security Cleared
2 445 (10.27%) Degree
3 379 (8.75%) SC Cleared
4 172 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 161 (3.72%) DV Cleared
6 104 (2.40%) AWS Certification
7 103 (2.38%) Azure Certification
8 95 (2.19%) Master's Degree
9 51 (1.18%) ISTQB
10 44 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
11 34 (0.78%) DBS Check
12 32 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
13 31 (0.72%) PMI Certification
14 29 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 29 (0.67%) CISSP
15 24 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 23 (0.53%) PMP
17 22 (0.51%) PhD
18 19 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
19 16 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 359 (8.29%) QA
2 170 (3.92%) Data Quality
3 146 (3.37%) Accessibility
4 93 (2.15%) GDPR
5 63 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 56 (1.29%) NIST
7 45 (1.04%) GRC
8 40 (0.92%) WCAG
9 33 (0.76%) SOC 2
10 31 (0.72%) PCI DSS
11 18 (0.42%) SLA
12 16 (0.37%) PMO
13 12 (0.28%) TickIT
14 11 (0.25%) NCSC
15 9 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 8 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
17 6 (0.14%) Solvency II
18 5 (0.12%) IFRS
18 5 (0.12%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 709 (16.36%) Docker
2 133 (3.07%) Active Directory
3 57 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.42%) Firmware
5 18 (0.42%) Hyper-V
6 17 (0.39%) vSphere
7 7 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.12%) iptables
9 4 (0.092%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 4 (0.092%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.069%) Embedded Firmware
10 3 (0.069%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.069%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.069%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.046%) KVM
12 1 (0.023%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.023%) OpenAM
12 1 (0.023%) OpenIDM
12 1 (0.023%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,077 (24.86%) Terraform
2 777 (17.93%) Kubernetes
3 386 (8.91%) Ansible
4 216 (4.98%) Grafana
5 177 (4.08%) Prometheus
6 76 (1.75%) Argo
7 48 (1.11%) Puppet
8 39 (0.90%) Nagios
9 34 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
10 33 (0.76%) HP Fortify
11 28 (0.65%) Kibana
12 18 (0.42%) Istio
12 18 (0.42%) Kustomize
13 17 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
14 15 (0.35%) 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
19 8 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 801 (18.49%) Microsoft
2 164 (3.78%) Google
3 155 (3.58%) Databricks
4 149 (3.44%) Salesforce
5 96 (2.22%) Splunk
5 96 (2.22%) VMware
6 87 (2.01%) ServiceNow
7 84 (1.94%) Oracle
8 83 (1.92%) Red Hat
9 58 (1.34%) SAP
10 40 (0.92%) MuleSoft
11 38 (0.88%) Dynatrace
12 33 (0.76%) Cisco
13 30 (0.69%) Palo Alto
14 25 (0.58%) OpenAI
15 24 (0.55%) Pega
16 20 (0.46%) Adobe
16 20 (0.46%) Apple
17 19 (0.44%) Foundry
17 19 (0.44%) SolarWinds