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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 21 26
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,670 4,058 7,115
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.90% 8.91% 6.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.68% 9.67% 8.20%
Number of salaries quoted 3,418 2,354 5,164
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,913 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,525
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 69,907 41,954 86,795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.40% 92.11% 82.23%
Number of salaries quoted 48,219 22,640 61,471
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £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 £53,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.00% - -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 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 27 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 4,120 £70,000 -2.10% 1,127
UK excluding London -6 2,821 £65,000 - 888
Work from Home -1 1,667 £67,500 -3.57% 628
London -6 1,462 £83,500 +4.38% 447
North of England 0 1,030 £69,305 +3.38% 246
South East -13 612 £65,000 - 286
North West -1 560 £70,000 +4.42% 136
South West -7 403 £70,000 +7.69% 109
Midlands -25 343 £65,000 - 101
Yorkshire +2 281 £70,000 - 68
West Midlands -34 191 £65,000 - 62
North East +10 189 £60,000 -7.69% 45
East of England +9 179 £60,000 -7.69% 71
East Midlands -1 150 £65,000 +13.04% 39
Scotland -8 131 £57,500 -19.30% 38
Wales +2 121 £53,171 -11.38% 32
Northern Ireland -36 7 £73,151 -20.92% 28
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 96 (2.06%) Confluence
2 89 (1.91%) SharePoint
3 64 (1.37%) Apache Spark
4 61 (1.31%) Apache
5 46 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
6 45 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
7 30 (0.64%) IIS
8 29 (0.62%) CMS
9 15 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
9 15 (0.32%) SAS
10 10 (0.21%) nginx
10 10 (0.21%) OpenStack
10 10 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
11 9 (0.19%) Jupyter
11 9 (0.19%) Umbraco
11 9 (0.19%) WordPress
12 8 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
13 7 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 6 (0.13%) Apache Solr
14 6 (0.13%) Moodle
Applications
1 51 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
2 36 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.43%) MS Visio
4 18 (0.39%) PlantUML
5 13 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
7 7 (0.15%) Simulink
7 7 (0.15%) Trello
8 4 (0.086%) Maya
9 3 (0.064%) Blender
9 3 (0.064%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.021%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
10 1 (0.021%) Lightworks
10 1 (0.021%) Notion
10 1 (0.021%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 79 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.13%) Endur
3 6 (0.13%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
4 5 (0.11%) Elite 3E
4 5 (0.11%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.11%) Visualfiles
5 4 (0.086%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.064%) Infor SunSystems
6 3 (0.064%) Magento
6 3 (0.064%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.043%) Carpe Diem
7 2 (0.043%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.043%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 2 (0.043%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.043%) Shopify
8 1 (0.021%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 2,464 (52.76%) Azure
2 1,504 (32.21%) AWS
3 1,246 (26.68%) Azure DevOps
4 517 (11.07%) GCP
5 493 (10.56%) GitHub
6 462 (9.89%) Serverless
7 347 (7.43%) Power Platform
8 287 (6.15%) SaaS
9 264 (5.65%) GitHub Actions
10 227 (4.86%) Amazon S3
11 220 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
12 210 (4.50%) AWS Lambda
13 193 (4.13%) PaaS
14 158 (3.38%) Azure AKS
15 148 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
15 148 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
16 144 (3.08%) Amazon ECS
16 144 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
17 142 (3.04%) Azure Logic Apps
18 141 (3.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 142 (3.04%) Firewall
2 87 (1.86%) DNS
3 63 (1.35%) Broadband
4 61 (1.31%) VPN
5 58 (1.24%) TCP/IP
6 40 (0.86%) Network Security
7 34 (0.73%) HTTP
8 24 (0.51%) DHCP
9 23 (0.49%) WAN
10 22 (0.47%) LAN
11 20 (0.43%) Internet
12 13 (0.28%) DMARC
13 12 (0.26%) MQTT
14 11 (0.24%) Wireless
15 10 (0.21%) BGP
16 9 (0.19%) SAN
17 8 (0.17%) HTTPS
18 7 (0.15%) Bluetooth
18 7 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
19 6 (0.13%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 263 (5.63%) SQL Server
2 233 (4.99%) MongoDB
3 232 (4.97%) Azure SQL Database
4 192 (4.11%) NoSQL
5 188 (4.03%) Power BI
6 163 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
7 106 (2.27%) DynamoDB
8 92 (1.97%) Relational Database
9 87 (1.86%) MySQL
10 83 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
11 81 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
12 79 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
13 78 (1.67%) Data Lake
14 62 (1.33%) Metadata
15 49 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
16 43 (0.92%) Redis
17 38 (0.81%) Delta Lake
18 36 (0.77%) Big Data
18 36 (0.77%) BigQuery
19 35 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 494 (10.58%) Git
2 398 (8.52%) Jenkins
3 390 (8.35%) GitLab
4 295 (6.32%) JIRA
5 100 (2.14%) SonarQube
6 81 (1.73%) Selenium
7 79 (1.69%) Cypress.io
8 59 (1.26%) Maven
9 46 (0.99%) Postman
10 38 (0.81%) JUnit
11 37 (0.79%) Cucumber
12 35 (0.75%) Bitbucket
13 34 (0.73%) CircleCI
13 34 (0.73%) TeamCity
14 30 (0.64%) JMeter
15 26 (0.56%) Eclipse
16 25 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
17 23 (0.49%) Visual Studio
18 21 (0.45%) REST Assured
19 19 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 955 (20.45%) Social Skills
2 937 (20.06%) Finance
3 348 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
4 324 (6.94%) Public Sector
5 290 (6.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 242 (5.18%) Banking
7 149 (3.19%) Retail
8 139 (2.98%) Law
9 104 (2.23%) Marketing
10 81 (1.73%) Games
10 81 (1.73%) Legal
11 58 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
12 52 (1.11%) Manufacturing
13 49 (1.05%) Advertising
14 46 (0.99%) Telecoms
15 45 (0.96%) Financial Institution
16 44 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
17 38 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
18 34 (0.73%) Back Office
19 26 (0.56%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,044 (22.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 933 (19.98%) Senior
3 837 (17.92%) Developer
4 651 (13.94%) Lead
5 400 (8.57%) Architect
6 350 (7.49%) Software Engineer
7 335 (7.17%) Azure Engineer
8 251 (5.37%) Cloud Engineer
9 227 (4.86%) Senior DevOps
10 204 (4.37%) Senior Developer
11 202 (4.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 186 (3.98%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 184 (3.94%) .NET Developer
14 177 (3.79%) Platform Engineer
15 168 (3.60%) Data Engineer
16 162 (3.47%) AWS Engineer
17 161 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
18 147 (3.15%) Java Developer
19 132 (2.83%) Lead DevOps
20 109 (2.33%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 624 (13.36%) .NET
2 416 (8.91%) React
3 296 (6.34%) Node.js
4 288 (6.17%) REST
5 280 (6.00%) RESTful
6 242 (5.18%) ASP.NET
7 218 (4.67%) .NET Core
8 207 (4.43%) CSS
9 205 (4.39%) Spring Boot
10 203 (4.35%) HTML
11 193 (4.13%) Spring
12 186 (3.98%) ASP.NET Core
13 164 (3.51%) Kafka
14 160 (3.43%) AngularJS
15 111 (2.38%) YAML
16 110 (2.36%) Entity Framework
17 108 (2.31%) Blazor
18 104 (2.23%) SOAP
19 95 (2.03%) Middleware
20 94 (2.01%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 750 (16.06%) Cloud Native
2 303 (6.49%) Product Ownership
3 188 (4.03%) Distributed Systems
4 141 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
5 93 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
5 93 (1.99%) Onboarding
6 84 (1.80%) Management Information System
7 79 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 79 (1.69%) Mobile App
8 67 (1.43%) Public Cloud
9 65 (1.39%) Data Centre
10 59 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
11 52 (1.11%) Data Structures
12 50 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
13 49 (1.05%) Low-Code
14 46 (0.99%) Algorithms
15 44 (0.94%) Security Posture
16 39 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
17 38 (0.81%) Virtual Team
18 33 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 461 (9.87%) Linux
2 216 (4.63%) Windows
3 86 (1.84%) Unix
4 71 (1.52%) Windows Server
5 55 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 49 (1.05%) Ubuntu
7 40 (0.86%) VMS
8 35 (0.75%) CentOS
9 32 (0.69%) Android
10 22 (0.47%) Apple iOS
11 12 (0.26%) Debian
12 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.086%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.086%) Rocky
15 3 (0.064%) Embedded Linux
16 2 (0.043%) AIX
16 2 (0.043%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.043%) Windows Server 2012
17 1 (0.021%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,387 (51.11%) CI/CD
2 1,691 (36.21%) Agile
3 1,129 (24.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 853 (18.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 790 (16.92%) Mentoring
6 775 (16.60%) Software Engineering
7 743 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
8 738 (15.80%) AI
9 641 (13.73%) Test Automation
10 635 (13.60%) Microservices
11 612 (13.10%) Containerisation
12 519 (11.11%) Roadmaps
13 515 (11.03%) Full-Stack Development
14 495 (10.60%) Observability
15 490 (10.49%) Platform Engineering
16 484 (10.36%) Scrum
17 440 (9.42%) Analytics
17 440 (9.42%) Technical Leadership
18 363 (7.77%) Stakeholder Management
19 303 (6.49%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,090 (23.34%) Python
2 846 (18.12%) SQL
3 637 (13.64%) Java
4 630 (13.49%) C#
5 552 (11.82%) JavaScript
6 383 (8.20%) Bash
7 349 (7.47%) TypeScript
8 293 (6.27%) PowerShell
9 149 (3.19%) Bicep
10 140 (3.00%) Go
11 131 (2.81%) C++
12 77 (1.65%) Apex Code
13 59 (1.26%) PHP
14 49 (1.05%) Groovy
15 48 (1.03%) SOQL
16 46 (0.99%) C
17 45 (0.96%) SOSL
18 41 (0.88%) Kotlin
19 39 (0.84%) Rust
20 35 (0.75%) Scala
Qualifications
1 727 (15.57%) Security Cleared
2 479 (10.26%) Degree
3 453 (9.70%) SC Cleared
4 177 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 171 (3.66%) DV Cleared
6 119 (2.55%) Azure Certification
7 105 (2.25%) Master's Degree
8 95 (2.03%) AWS Certification
9 55 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
10 52 (1.11%) ISTQB
11 35 (0.75%) DBS Check
11 35 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
12 31 (0.66%) PMI Certification
13 30 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 30 (0.64%) CISSP
14 25 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 24 (0.51%) PhD
15 24 (0.51%) PMP
16 20 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
17 15 (0.32%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 411 (8.80%) QA
2 160 (3.43%) Data Quality
3 158 (3.38%) Accessibility
4 100 (2.14%) GDPR
5 69 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 56 (1.20%) NIST
7 52 (1.11%) WCAG
8 47 (1.01%) GRC
9 37 (0.79%) PCI DSS
10 31 (0.66%) SOC 2
11 21 (0.45%) PMO
11 21 (0.45%) SLA
12 14 (0.30%) NCSC
13 12 (0.26%) TickIT
14 10 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 9 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
16 6 (0.13%) Solvency II
17 5 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 5 (0.11%) IFRS
System Software
1 760 (16.27%) Docker
2 130 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 72 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.62%) vSphere
6 20 (0.43%) Firmware
7 19 (0.41%) Hyper-V
8 13 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.13%) iptables
11 5 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.086%) Embedded Firmware
12 4 (0.086%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.064%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.064%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.043%) KVM
15 1 (0.021%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.021%) QEMU
15 1 (0.021%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,150 (24.63%) Terraform
2 851 (18.22%) Kubernetes
3 409 (8.76%) Ansible
4 226 (4.84%) Grafana
5 174 (3.73%) Prometheus
6 74 (1.58%) Argo
7 53 (1.13%) Puppet
8 39 (0.84%) Nagios
9 30 (0.64%) HP Fortify
10 29 (0.62%) Kibana
11 25 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
12 21 (0.45%) Istio
13 15 (0.32%) Packer
14 14 (0.30%) Rancher
15 13 (0.28%) Progress Chef
15 13 (0.28%) Proxmox
16 12 (0.26%) Kustomize
17 10 (0.21%) logstash
18 9 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
19 8 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 903 (19.34%) Microsoft
2 171 (3.66%) Google
3 157 (3.36%) Databricks
4 147 (3.15%) Salesforce
5 110 (2.36%) VMware
6 100 (2.14%) ServiceNow
7 98 (2.10%) Splunk
8 88 (1.88%) Oracle
9 81 (1.73%) Red Hat
10 57 (1.22%) SAP
11 47 (1.01%) Pega
12 44 (0.94%) MuleSoft
13 41 (0.88%) Dynatrace
14 38 (0.81%) Cisco
15 33 (0.71%) OpenAI
16 32 (0.69%) Facebook
17 27 (0.58%) Palo Alto
18 26 (0.56%) Apple
19 25 (0.54%) Foundry
20 24 (0.51%) YouTube