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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 19 26
Rank change year-on-year -11 +7 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,286 3,879 7,128
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.61% 9.13% 7.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.24% 9.78% 8.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3,068 2,265 5,263
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,486 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,991 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.77% +10.76% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,944 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 68,715 39,643 83,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.91% 93.27% 84.01%
Number of salaries quoted 44,731 20,766 60,219
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,839 £41,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,375 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% +6.14% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% -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 27 May 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 27 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 -13 3,757 £70,000 -3.45% 1,349
UK excluding London -20 2,521 £65,000 - 951
Work from Home -7 1,540 £69,310 -0.99% 752
London -8 1,399 £82,500 - 571
North of England -13 867 £70,000 +3.23% 300
South East -13 561 £65,000 - 255
North West -17 448 £70,000 - 168
South West -13 349 £65,000 - 125
Midlands -28 337 £67,500 +12.50% 108
Yorkshire -5 274 £70,000 - 85
West Midlands -37 192 £62,500 +4.17% 76
Scotland -1 165 £55,000 -25.42% 50
East of England -14 154 £65,000 - 68
North East +8 145 £60,000 -7.69% 50
East Midlands -3 142 £70,000 +7.69% 32
Wales -5 82 £53,000 -11.67% 31
Northern Ireland -37 11 £73,151 +33.00% 27
Isle of Man +2 3 £35,000 -

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 78 (1.82%) SharePoint
2 75 (1.75%) Confluence
3 54 (1.26%) Apache
4 48 (1.12%) Apache Spark
5 46 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
6 37 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
7 28 (0.65%) CMS
7 28 (0.65%) IIS
8 16 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
9 12 (0.28%) OpenStack
10 11 (0.26%) SAS
11 10 (0.23%) Moodle
12 9 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
12 9 (0.21%) Umbraco
13 8 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
14 7 (0.16%) Anypoint
14 7 (0.16%) Apache Solr
15 6 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 6 (0.14%) nginx
15 6 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 33 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
3 26 (0.61%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.28%) PlantUML
5 11 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
8 6 (0.14%) Simulink
9 3 (0.070%) Maya
9 3 (0.070%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.047%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.047%) Blender
10 2 (0.047%) Trello
11 1 (0.023%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.023%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.023%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 69 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.30%) SAP ERP
4 10 (0.23%) Endur
4 10 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.12%) Visualfiles
7 4 (0.093%) Markit EDM
7 4 (0.093%) Shopify
8 3 (0.070%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.070%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.070%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.047%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.047%) Fidessa
9 2 (0.047%) Infor SunSystems
9 2 (0.047%) Magento
10 1 (0.023%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.023%) Sage 200
10 1 (0.023%) SAP MII
Cloud Services
1 2,281 (53.22%) Azure
2 1,386 (32.34%) AWS
3 1,119 (26.11%) Azure DevOps
4 500 (11.67%) GitHub
5 484 (11.29%) GCP
6 428 (9.99%) Serverless
7 336 (7.84%) Power Platform
8 270 (6.30%) GitHub Actions
9 260 (6.07%) SaaS
10 228 (5.32%) Amazon S3
11 224 (5.23%) AWS CloudFormation
12 213 (4.97%) AWS Lambda
13 167 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
14 162 (3.78%) PaaS
15 153 (3.57%) Entra ID
16 141 (3.29%) Amazon EKS
17 140 (3.27%) Azure Data Factory
18 139 (3.24%) Azure AKS
19 136 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
20 135 (3.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 139 (3.24%) Firewall
2 93 (2.17%) DNS
3 64 (1.49%) Broadband
4 58 (1.35%) TCP/IP
5 47 (1.10%) VPN
6 38 (0.89%) Network Security
7 35 (0.82%) HTTP
8 28 (0.65%) WAN
9 27 (0.63%) DHCP
10 23 (0.54%) LAN
11 10 (0.23%) BGP
11 10 (0.23%) MQTT
11 10 (0.23%) SAN
11 10 (0.23%) Wireless
12 8 (0.19%) Internet
13 7 (0.16%) DMARC
13 7 (0.16%) HTTPS
14 6 (0.14%) Bluetooth
14 6 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (0.14%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 246 (5.74%) SQL Server
2 203 (4.74%) NoSQL
3 189 (4.41%) Power BI
4 160 (3.73%) MongoDB
5 153 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
6 144 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
7 113 (2.64%) DynamoDB
8 89 (2.08%) Relational Database
9 88 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
10 87 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
11 85 (1.98%) Data Lake
12 68 (1.59%) MySQL
13 67 (1.56%) Metadata
14 63 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
15 44 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
16 39 (0.91%) BigQuery
17 36 (0.84%) Delta Lake
18 33 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
19 32 (0.75%) Redis
20 31 (0.72%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 471 (10.99%) Git
2 399 (9.31%) Jenkins
3 367 (8.56%) GitLab
4 251 (5.86%) JIRA
5 101 (2.36%) SonarQube
6 84 (1.96%) Cypress.io
7 81 (1.89%) Selenium
8 64 (1.49%) Maven
9 44 (1.03%) Postman
10 37 (0.86%) Cucumber
11 36 (0.84%) Bitbucket
11 36 (0.84%) CircleCI
12 35 (0.82%) TeamCity
13 33 (0.77%) JUnit
14 28 (0.65%) JMeter
15 25 (0.58%) Eclipse
16 24 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
17 23 (0.54%) Visual Studio
18 20 (0.47%) REST Assured
19 19 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 942 (21.98%) Finance
2 898 (20.95%) Social Skills
3 365 (8.52%) Analytical Skills
4 280 (6.53%) Public Sector
5 248 (5.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 229 (5.34%) Banking
7 136 (3.17%) Retail
8 124 (2.89%) Law
9 104 (2.43%) Marketing
10 80 (1.87%) Legal
11 76 (1.77%) Games
12 47 (1.10%) Manufacturing
13 45 (1.05%) Telecoms
14 43 (1.00%) Advertising
15 40 (0.93%) Financial Institution
16 39 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
17 35 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
18 34 (0.79%) Billing
19 31 (0.72%) Back Office
19 31 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 920 (21.47%) DevOps Engineer
2 882 (20.58%) Senior
3 753 (17.57%) Developer
4 610 (14.23%) Lead
5 352 (8.21%) Architect
6 323 (7.54%) Software Engineer
7 317 (7.40%) Azure Engineer
8 260 (6.07%) Cloud Engineer
9 218 (5.09%) Senior DevOps
10 194 (4.53%) Senior Developer
11 188 (4.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 166 (3.87%) Data Engineer
13 164 (3.83%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 150 (3.50%) AWS Engineer
14 150 (3.50%) Solutions Architect
15 145 (3.38%) Java Developer
16 144 (3.36%) Platform Engineer
17 130 (3.03%) Lead DevOps
18 115 (2.68%) .NET Developer
19 113 (2.64%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 520 (12.13%) .NET
2 374 (8.73%) React
3 281 (6.56%) REST
4 263 (6.14%) Node.js
5 248 (5.79%) RESTful
6 187 (4.36%) Spring Boot
7 172 (4.01%) Spring
8 170 (3.97%) CSS
9 166 (3.87%) HTML
10 164 (3.83%) ASP.NET
11 159 (3.71%) Kafka
12 157 (3.66%) .NET Core
13 154 (3.59%) AngularJS
14 119 (2.78%) SOAP
15 117 (2.73%) ASP.NET Core
16 110 (2.57%) OAuth
17 103 (2.40%) YAML
18 102 (2.38%) Middleware
19 94 (2.19%) JSON
20 93 (2.17%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 596 (13.91%) Cloud Native
2 295 (6.88%) Product Ownership
3 149 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
4 123 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
5 89 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
6 81 (1.89%) Management Information System
7 70 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
8 68 (1.59%) Onboarding
9 63 (1.47%) Mobile App
10 59 (1.38%) Data Centre
11 55 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
12 53 (1.24%) Public Cloud
13 51 (1.19%) Algorithms
14 50 (1.17%) Data Structures
15 49 (1.14%) Low-Code
16 38 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
17 34 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
18 31 (0.72%) Virtual Team
19 30 (0.70%) Security Posture
20 28 (0.65%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 432 (10.08%) Linux
2 192 (4.48%) Windows
3 83 (1.94%) Unix
4 75 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 53 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 43 (1.00%) Ubuntu
7 31 (0.72%) CentOS
8 30 (0.70%) Android
9 29 (0.68%) VMS
10 25 (0.58%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.16%) Debian
13 4 (0.093%) Kali Linux
13 4 (0.093%) Rocky
13 4 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.047%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.047%) Embedded Linux
14 2 (0.047%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.023%) SUSE
15 1 (0.023%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,196 (51.24%) CI/CD
2 1,523 (35.53%) Agile
3 1,045 (24.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 778 (18.15%) Continuous Improvement
5 725 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
6 717 (16.73%) Mentoring
7 692 (16.15%) Software Engineering
8 661 (15.42%) AI
9 637 (14.86%) Test Automation
10 575 (13.42%) Containerisation
11 573 (13.37%) Microservices
12 472 (11.01%) Observability
13 450 (10.50%) Roadmaps
14 435 (10.15%) Analytics
15 434 (10.13%) Full-Stack Development
16 419 (9.78%) Platform Engineering
17 408 (9.52%) Scrum
18 376 (8.77%) Technical Leadership
19 321 (7.49%) Data Modelling
20 308 (7.19%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,072 (25.01%) Python
2 792 (18.48%) SQL
3 618 (14.42%) Java
4 521 (12.16%) C#
5 485 (11.32%) JavaScript
6 365 (8.52%) Bash
7 328 (7.65%) TypeScript
8 269 (6.28%) PowerShell
9 149 (3.48%) Go
10 123 (2.87%) C++
11 121 (2.82%) Bicep
12 85 (1.98%) Apex Code
13 53 (1.24%) Groovy
13 53 (1.24%) PHP
14 47 (1.10%) Scala
15 46 (1.07%) SOQL
16 44 (1.03%) SOSL
17 38 (0.89%) C
18 37 (0.86%) Kotlin
19 34 (0.79%) Rust
Qualifications
1 617 (14.40%) Security Cleared
2 442 (10.31%) Degree
3 366 (8.54%) SC Cleared
4 174 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 160 (3.73%) DV Cleared
6 108 (2.52%) AWS Certification
7 97 (2.26%) Azure Certification
8 89 (2.08%) Master's Degree
9 52 (1.21%) ISTQB
10 40 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
11 35 (0.82%) DBS Check
12 32 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
13 30 (0.70%) PMI Certification
14 29 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 26 (0.61%) CISSP
16 24 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 20 (0.47%) PMP
18 19 (0.44%) PhD
19 18 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
19 18 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 351 (8.19%) QA
2 172 (4.01%) Data Quality
3 138 (3.22%) Accessibility
4 93 (2.17%) GDPR
5 70 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 56 (1.31%) NIST
7 46 (1.07%) GRC
8 34 (0.79%) SOC 2
9 33 (0.77%) PCI DSS
9 33 (0.77%) WCAG
10 18 (0.42%) SLA
11 14 (0.33%) PMO
12 12 (0.28%) NCSC
12 12 (0.28%) TickIT
13 10 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 8 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
15 6 (0.14%) Solvency II
16 5 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 5 (0.12%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 719 (16.78%) Docker
2 144 (3.36%) Active Directory
3 53 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.42%) Firmware
6 17 (0.40%) Hyper-V
7 16 (0.37%) vSphere
8 7 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.093%) iptables
9 4 (0.093%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 4 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.093%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.070%) Embedded Firmware
10 3 (0.070%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.047%) KVM
11 2 (0.047%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.023%) OpenAM
12 1 (0.023%) OpenDJ
12 1 (0.023%) OpenIDM
12 1 (0.023%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,079 (25.17%) Terraform
2 781 (18.22%) Kubernetes
3 386 (9.01%) Ansible
4 227 (5.30%) Grafana
5 186 (4.34%) Prometheus
6 77 (1.80%) Argo
7 49 (1.14%) Puppet
8 37 (0.86%) HP Fortify
8 37 (0.86%) Nagios
9 35 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
10 27 (0.63%) Kibana
11 26 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
12 18 (0.42%) Kustomize
13 17 (0.40%) Istio
14 16 (0.37%) Rancher
15 14 (0.33%) Packer
16 12 (0.28%) Progress Chef
17 10 (0.23%) logstash
17 10 (0.23%) Proxmox
18 9 (0.21%) yum
Vendors
1 806 (18.81%) Microsoft
2 162 (3.78%) Salesforce
3 158 (3.69%) Google
4 156 (3.64%) Databricks
5 94 (2.19%) Splunk
6 90 (2.10%) VMware
7 86 (2.01%) Oracle
8 82 (1.91%) Red Hat
9 76 (1.77%) ServiceNow
10 52 (1.21%) SAP
11 42 (0.98%) MuleSoft
12 33 (0.77%) Cisco
12 33 (0.77%) Dynatrace
13 32 (0.75%) Palo Alto
14 24 (0.56%) Adobe
14 24 (0.56%) OpenAI
14 24 (0.56%) Pega
15 20 (0.47%) IBM
16 19 (0.44%) SolarWinds
17 18 (0.42%) Foundry