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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 22 24
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 -13
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,026 4,168 6,689
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.06% 8.50% 6.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.87% 9.44% 8.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3,662 2,409 4,812
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,950 £42,500
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 £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year - +7.44% -3.20%

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 73,194 44,164 80,263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.69% 90.07% 82.10%
Number of salaries quoted 50,654 24,819 55,696
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,888 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% +3.43% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,840 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £92,500
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 18 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 18 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 4,349 £70,000 -2.10% 1,102
UK excluding London -5 3,138 £65,000 - 808
Work from Home -1 1,826 £67,500 -3.57% 568
London -10 1,488 £85,000 +6.25% 452
North of England +1 1,107 £67,500 +3.85% 232
South East -12 655 £65,000 - 239
North West +2 612 £70,000 +7.69% 128
South West -2 440 £70,000 +7.69% 110
Midlands -21 365 £65,000 - 121
Yorkshire +11 291 £70,000 - 56
West Midlands -32 205 £65,000 - 88
North East +8 204 £60,000 -7.69% 50
East of England +16 197 £60,000 -7.69% 50
Wales +7 160 £53,171 -7.53% 25
East Midlands +9 159 £65,000 +15.56% 33
Scotland -4 139 £60,000 -14.29% 33
Northern Ireland -11 83 £72,500 -9.38% 17
Isle of Man +2 3 £35,000 -33.33% 5

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 (1.91%) Confluence
2 87 (1.73%) SharePoint
3 74 (1.47%) Apache Spark
4 64 (1.27%) Apache
5 44 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
6 42 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
7 31 (0.62%) CMS
7 31 (0.62%) IIS
8 20 (0.40%) SAS
9 15 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
10 12 (0.24%) nginx
10 12 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 10 (0.20%) Jupyter
11 10 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
12 9 (0.18%) Umbraco
12 9 (0.18%) WordPress
13 8 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
14 7 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 7 (0.14%) Anypoint
15 6 (0.12%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 57 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
2 41 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.40%) PlantUML
4 19 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 11 (0.22%) Trello
8 9 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
9 7 (0.14%) Simulink
10 4 (0.080%) Maya
11 3 (0.060%) Blender
12 2 (0.040%) Lightworks
12 2 (0.040%) Spreadsheet
13 1 (0.020%) Adobe XD
13 1 (0.020%) Notion
13 1 (0.020%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 78 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.12%) Elite 3E
3 6 (0.12%) SAP IBP
4 5 (0.099%) Endur
4 5 (0.099%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.099%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.099%) Visualfiles
5 4 (0.080%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.080%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.080%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.080%) Shopify
6 3 (0.060%) Carpe Diem
6 3 (0.060%) Infor SunSystems
6 3 (0.060%) Magento
6 3 (0.060%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.040%) Adobe Campaign
7 2 (0.040%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.040%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 2 (0.040%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 2,647 (52.67%) Azure
2 1,655 (32.93%) AWS
3 1,314 (26.14%) Azure DevOps
4 550 (10.94%) GCP
5 501 (9.97%) GitHub
6 471 (9.37%) Serverless
7 382 (7.60%) SaaS
8 348 (6.92%) Power Platform
9 269 (5.35%) GitHub Actions
10 233 (4.64%) AWS CloudFormation
11 229 (4.56%) Amazon S3
12 211 (4.20%) AWS Lambda
13 202 (4.02%) PaaS
14 161 (3.20%) Azure AKS
15 153 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
16 151 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
17 146 (2.90%) Azure Logic Apps
18 144 (2.87%) Amazon ECS
19 142 (2.83%) Amazon EKS
20 140 (2.79%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 138 (2.75%) Firewall
2 89 (1.77%) DNS
3 63 (1.25%) TCP/IP
3 63 (1.25%) VPN
4 57 (1.13%) Broadband
5 39 (0.78%) Network Security
6 35 (0.70%) HTTP
7 32 (0.64%) Internet
8 22 (0.44%) DHCP
9 20 (0.40%) LAN
10 19 (0.38%) WAN
11 16 (0.32%) MQTT
12 14 (0.28%) Wireless
13 13 (0.26%) DMARC
14 10 (0.20%) BGP
14 10 (0.20%) HTTPS
14 10 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (0.16%) Bluetooth
15 8 (0.16%) ZigBee
16 7 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 270 (5.37%) MongoDB
1 270 (5.37%) SQL Server
2 263 (5.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 188 (3.74%) Power BI
4 187 (3.72%) NoSQL
5 186 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
6 105 (2.09%) DynamoDB
7 97 (1.93%) MySQL
8 94 (1.87%) Relational Database
9 93 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
10 89 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
11 81 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
12 77 (1.53%) Data Lake
13 58 (1.15%) Metadata
14 52 (1.03%) Redis
15 46 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
16 41 (0.82%) Big Data
17 37 (0.74%) Delta Lake
18 35 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
19 31 (0.62%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 518 (10.31%) Git
2 414 (8.24%) GitLab
3 410 (8.16%) Jenkins
4 321 (6.39%) JIRA
5 95 (1.89%) SonarQube
6 87 (1.73%) Selenium
7 76 (1.51%) Cypress.io
8 56 (1.11%) Maven
9 51 (1.01%) Postman
10 46 (0.92%) JUnit
11 36 (0.72%) Cucumber
12 33 (0.66%) JMeter
13 32 (0.64%) TeamCity
14 31 (0.62%) CircleCI
15 30 (0.60%) Bitbucket
16 28 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 27 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
18 23 (0.46%) Visual Studio
19 20 (0.40%) REST Assured
20 19 (0.38%) Eclipse
General
1 1,075 (21.39%) Social Skills
2 956 (19.02%) Finance
3 371 (7.38%) Public Sector
4 369 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
5 304 (6.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 246 (4.89%) Banking
7 195 (3.88%) Law
8 158 (3.14%) Retail
9 123 (2.45%) Legal
10 117 (2.33%) Marketing
11 80 (1.59%) Games
12 60 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
13 57 (1.13%) Manufacturing
14 55 (1.09%) Advertising
15 51 (1.01%) Financial Institution
16 46 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
16 46 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
17 42 (0.84%) Telecoms
18 36 (0.72%) Back Office
19 26 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1,143 (22.74%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,076 (21.41%) Senior
3 873 (17.37%) Developer
4 677 (13.47%) Lead
5 419 (8.34%) Architect
6 356 (7.08%) Software Engineer
7 345 (6.86%) Azure Engineer
8 262 (5.21%) Cloud Engineer
8 262 (5.21%) Senior DevOps
9 238 (4.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 218 (4.34%) .NET Developer
11 213 (4.24%) Senior Developer
12 193 (3.84%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 191 (3.80%) Platform Engineer
14 174 (3.46%) Data Engineer
15 173 (3.44%) Solutions Architect
16 166 (3.30%) AWS Engineer
17 142 (2.83%) Java Developer
18 140 (2.79%) Lead DevOps
19 120 (2.39%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 666 (13.25%) .NET
2 440 (8.75%) React
3 312 (6.21%) RESTful
4 309 (6.15%) Node.js
5 306 (6.09%) REST
6 280 (5.57%) ASP.NET
7 248 (4.93%) .NET Core
8 231 (4.60%) CSS
9 228 (4.54%) HTML
10 226 (4.50%) Spring Boot
11 220 (4.38%) ASP.NET Core
12 216 (4.30%) Spring
13 187 (3.72%) Kafka
14 161 (3.20%) AngularJS
15 132 (2.63%) Middleware
16 129 (2.57%) Entity Framework
17 127 (2.53%) Blazor
18 110 (2.19%) YAML
19 105 (2.09%) SOAP
20 97 (1.93%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 843 (16.77%) Cloud Native
2 325 (6.47%) Product Ownership
3 222 (4.42%) Distributed Systems
4 164 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
5 133 (2.65%) Onboarding
6 96 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
7 90 (1.79%) Management Information System
8 81 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
9 80 (1.59%) Mobile App
10 72 (1.43%) Data Centre
10 72 (1.43%) Virtual Team
11 62 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
12 60 (1.19%) Public Cloud
13 59 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
14 52 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
15 50 (0.99%) Data Structures
16 44 (0.88%) Low-Code
17 42 (0.84%) Algorithms
17 42 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
18 41 (0.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 487 (9.69%) Linux
2 232 (4.62%) Windows
3 92 (1.83%) Unix
4 69 (1.37%) Windows Server
5 67 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 47 (0.94%) CentOS
7 46 (0.92%) Ubuntu
8 38 (0.76%) VMS
9 31 (0.62%) Android
10 18 (0.36%) Apple iOS
11 16 (0.32%) Debian
12 7 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
12 7 (0.14%) Rocky
12 7 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.099%) Windows Server 2019
14 4 (0.080%) Kali Linux
15 3 (0.060%) AIX
16 2 (0.040%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.040%) FreeRTOS
17 1 (0.020%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,529 (50.32%) CI/CD
2 1,876 (37.33%) Agile
3 1,203 (23.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 954 (18.98%) Continuous Improvement
5 891 (17.73%) Mentoring
6 870 (17.31%) Software Engineering
7 824 (16.39%) AI
8 797 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
9 752 (14.96%) Test Automation
10 687 (13.67%) Microservices
11 642 (12.77%) Containerisation
12 556 (11.06%) Full-Stack Development
13 552 (10.98%) Roadmaps
14 532 (10.58%) Platform Engineering
15 529 (10.53%) Scrum
16 526 (10.47%) Observability
17 491 (9.77%) Technical Leadership
18 457 (9.09%) Analytics
19 413 (8.22%) Stakeholder Management
20 343 (6.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,190 (23.68%) Python
2 894 (17.79%) SQL
3 722 (14.37%) C#
4 658 (13.09%) Java
5 624 (12.42%) JavaScript
6 392 (7.80%) TypeScript
7 378 (7.52%) Bash
8 333 (6.63%) PowerShell
9 155 (3.08%) Bicep
10 133 (2.65%) Go
11 129 (2.57%) C++
12 75 (1.49%) Apex Code
13 61 (1.21%) PHP
14 50 (0.99%) Groovy
15 49 (0.97%) C
16 47 (0.94%) SOQL
17 44 (0.88%) SOSL
18 40 (0.80%) Rust
19 38 (0.76%) Kotlin
20 37 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 791 (15.74%) Security Cleared
2 511 (10.17%) SC Cleared
3 505 (10.05%) Degree
4 204 (4.06%) DV Cleared
5 189 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 126 (2.51%) Azure Certification
7 117 (2.33%) Master's Degree
8 83 (1.65%) AWS Certification
9 79 (1.57%) CISSP
9 79 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
10 60 (1.19%) CISM
11 57 (1.13%) ISTQB
12 48 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
13 37 (0.74%) DBS Check
13 37 (0.74%) PMI Certification
14 29 (0.58%) PMP
15 27 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 25 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 25 (0.50%) PhD
17 20 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 480 (9.55%) QA
2 164 (3.26%) Accessibility
3 157 (3.12%) Data Quality
4 112 (2.23%) GDPR
5 102 (2.03%) NIST
6 69 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 61 (1.21%) WCAG
8 52 (1.03%) GRC
9 44 (0.88%) ISO 22301
10 41 (0.82%) PCI DSS
11 29 (0.58%) SOC 2
12 24 (0.48%) PMO
13 19 (0.38%) SLA
14 15 (0.30%) NCSC
15 12 (0.24%) TickIT
16 11 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
17 10 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 8 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
18 8 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 8 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 799 (15.90%) Docker
2 130 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 76 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (0.56%) vSphere
6 23 (0.46%) Firmware
7 20 (0.40%) Hyper-V
8 13 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 5 (0.099%) iptables
12 4 (0.080%) Embedded Firmware
13 3 (0.060%) KVM
13 3 (0.060%) NDS
13 3 (0.060%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.060%) Xen
14 2 (0.040%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.020%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.020%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.020%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,211 (24.09%) Terraform
2 924 (18.38%) Kubernetes
3 430 (8.56%) Ansible
4 236 (4.70%) Grafana
5 177 (3.52%) Prometheus
6 75 (1.49%) Argo
7 58 (1.15%) Puppet
8 40 (0.80%) Nagios
9 28 (0.56%) HP Fortify
10 26 (0.52%) Kibana
11 23 (0.46%) Istio
12 21 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
13 15 (0.30%) Progress Chef
14 14 (0.28%) Rancher
15 13 (0.26%) Packer
16 11 (0.22%) Proxmox
16 11 (0.22%) ZABBIX
17 10 (0.20%) logstash
18 9 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
18 9 (0.18%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 957 (19.04%) Microsoft
2 187 (3.72%) Google
3 165 (3.28%) Databricks
4 151 (3.00%) Salesforce
5 109 (2.17%) VMware
6 102 (2.03%) Splunk
7 100 (1.99%) ServiceNow
8 96 (1.91%) Oracle
9 82 (1.63%) Red Hat
10 68 (1.35%) SAP
11 54 (1.07%) Pega
12 45 (0.90%) Cisco
12 45 (0.90%) MuleSoft
13 44 (0.88%) Dynatrace
14 42 (0.84%) Facebook
14 42 (0.84%) OpenAI
15 30 (0.60%) Apple
16 29 (0.58%) YouTube
17 27 (0.54%) Foundry
18 24 (0.48%) Palo Alto