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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 18 25
Rank change year-on-year -14 +7 -13
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,127 4,024 7,114
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.59% 9.27% 7.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.21% 9.93% 8.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,925 2,462 5,291
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,025 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £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 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -2.83%

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 66,447 40,520 82,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.89% 93.32% 85.21%
Number of salaries quoted 42,708 22,234 59,552
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,938 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -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 13 May 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Top 19 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 13 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 -15 3,588 £70,079 +0.11% 1,327
UK excluding London -26 2,400 £65,000 - 961
Work from Home -8 1,511 £69,310 -0.99% 726
London -9 1,373 £82,500 - 519
North of England -14 815 £70,000 +3.70% 267
South East -18 515 £65,000 - 307
North West -18 406 £70,000 - 141
South West -16 334 £62,500 -3.85% 116
Midlands -37 314 £65,500 +9.17% 114
Yorkshire -9 272 £70,000 +3.70% 68
Scotland -8 185 £55,000 -21.43% 49
West Midlands -43 182 £62,500 +4.17% 62
East of England -9 147 £65,000 - 77
North East +11 137 £60,000 -7.69% 60
East Midlands -12 128 £70,000 +7.69% 52
Wales -6 82 £53,100 -3.45% 30
Northern Ireland -35 13 £73,801 +34.18% 16
Isle of Man +4 2 £35,000 - 1
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

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 77 (1.87%) SharePoint
2 72 (1.74%) Confluence
3 51 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
4 50 (1.21%) Apache
5 42 (1.02%) Apache Spark
6 36 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
7 30 (0.73%) IIS
8 24 (0.58%) CMS
9 16 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
10 13 (0.31%) OpenStack
11 12 (0.29%) SAS
12 11 (0.27%) Moodle
13 7 (0.17%) Anypoint
13 7 (0.17%) Apache Solr
13 7 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 7 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
13 7 (0.17%) WordPress
14 6 (0.15%) nginx
14 6 (0.15%) Umbraco
15 5 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 35 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
3 23 (0.56%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.24%) PlantUML
6 9 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.097%) Simulink
8 3 (0.073%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.073%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.073%) Trello
9 1 (0.024%) EngageOne
9 1 (0.024%) Maya
9 1 (0.024%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 61 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.36%) SAP ERP
3 14 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
4 11 (0.27%) Endur
5 10 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
6 6 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
6 6 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.12%) Visualfiles
8 4 (0.097%) Markit EDM
8 4 (0.097%) Shopify
9 3 (0.073%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.073%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.048%) Distributed Ledger
10 2 (0.048%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.048%) Fidessa
10 2 (0.048%) Infor SunSystems
10 2 (0.048%) Magento
10 2 (0.048%) Workday HCM
11 1 (0.024%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 1 (0.024%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2,219 (53.77%) Azure
2 1,329 (32.20%) AWS
3 1,091 (26.44%) Azure DevOps
4 499 (12.09%) GitHub
5 468 (11.34%) GCP
6 415 (10.06%) Serverless
7 337 (8.17%) Power Platform
8 275 (6.66%) GitHub Actions
9 253 (6.13%) SaaS
10 219 (5.31%) Amazon S3
10 219 (5.31%) AWS CloudFormation
11 210 (5.09%) AWS Lambda
12 168 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
13 158 (3.83%) PaaS
14 153 (3.71%) Entra ID
15 145 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
16 133 (3.22%) Amazon EKS
17 132 (3.20%) Amazon ECS
18 131 (3.17%) Azure AKS
19 130 (3.15%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 137 (3.32%) Firewall
2 91 (2.20%) DNS
3 63 (1.53%) Broadband
4 61 (1.48%) TCP/IP
5 48 (1.16%) VPN
6 41 (0.99%) Network Security
7 35 (0.85%) HTTP
8 32 (0.78%) WAN
9 26 (0.63%) DHCP
10 24 (0.58%) LAN
11 10 (0.24%) SAN
12 8 (0.19%) Internet
12 8 (0.19%) Wireless
13 7 (0.17%) BGP
14 6 (0.15%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (0.15%) HTTPS
14 6 (0.15%) SD-WAN
14 6 (0.15%) SSL
15 4 (0.097%) Bluetooth
15 4 (0.097%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (5.91%) SQL Server
2 200 (4.85%) NoSQL
3 190 (4.60%) Power BI
4 148 (3.59%) MongoDB
5 137 (3.32%) Azure SQL Database
6 136 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
7 111 (2.69%) DynamoDB
8 92 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
9 88 (2.13%) Data Lake
10 85 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
11 83 (2.01%) Relational Database
12 65 (1.57%) Metadata
13 64 (1.55%) MySQL
14 61 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
15 42 (1.02%) BigQuery
16 41 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
17 34 (0.82%) Delta Lake
18 33 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
19 32 (0.78%) Tableau
20 31 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 449 (10.88%) Git
2 397 (9.62%) Jenkins
3 361 (8.75%) GitLab
4 253 (6.13%) JIRA
5 105 (2.54%) SonarQube
6 86 (2.08%) Cypress.io
7 81 (1.96%) Selenium
8 67 (1.62%) Maven
9 43 (1.04%) Postman
10 41 (0.99%) Bitbucket
11 36 (0.87%) CircleCI
11 36 (0.87%) Cucumber
12 32 (0.78%) TeamCity
13 26 (0.63%) JUnit
14 25 (0.61%) Eclipse
14 25 (0.61%) JMeter
15 23 (0.56%) Visual Studio
16 22 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
17 21 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
18 18 (0.44%) Jaeger
General
1 928 (22.49%) Finance
2 873 (21.15%) Social Skills
3 366 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
4 253 (6.13%) Public Sector
5 240 (5.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 215 (5.21%) Banking
7 127 (3.08%) Law
8 124 (3.00%) Retail
9 105 (2.54%) Marketing
10 78 (1.89%) Legal
11 77 (1.87%) Games
12 57 (1.38%) Telecoms
13 47 (1.14%) Manufacturing
14 42 (1.02%) Advertising
15 40 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
16 39 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
17 34 (0.82%) Billing
18 33 (0.80%) Financial Institution
19 27 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
20 26 (0.63%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 868 (21.03%) DevOps Engineer
2 846 (20.50%) Senior
3 726 (17.59%) Developer
4 604 (14.64%) Lead
5 348 (8.43%) Architect
6 293 (7.10%) Azure Engineer
7 289 (7.00%) Software Engineer
8 247 (5.98%) Cloud Engineer
9 207 (5.02%) Senior DevOps
10 186 (4.51%) Senior Developer
11 177 (4.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 165 (4.00%) Data Engineer
13 154 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
14 153 (3.71%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 143 (3.46%) AWS Engineer
16 140 (3.39%) Platform Engineer
17 138 (3.34%) Java Developer
18 131 (3.17%) Lead DevOps
19 117 (2.83%) Full-Stack Developer
20 108 (2.62%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 490 (11.87%) .NET
2 363 (8.80%) React
3 270 (6.54%) REST
4 245 (5.94%) Node.js
5 241 (5.84%) RESTful
6 176 (4.26%) Spring Boot
7 163 (3.95%) CSS
8 158 (3.83%) Spring
9 156 (3.78%) HTML
10 152 (3.68%) AngularJS
11 150 (3.63%) Kafka
12 148 (3.59%) .NET Core
13 147 (3.56%) ASP.NET
14 126 (3.05%) SOAP
15 109 (2.64%) OAuth
16 104 (2.52%) Middleware
17 100 (2.42%) ASP.NET Core
18 94 (2.28%) Elastic Stack
19 90 (2.18%) JSON
20 88 (2.13%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 557 (13.50%) Cloud Native
2 286 (6.93%) Product Ownership
3 139 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
4 122 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
5 84 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
6 79 (1.91%) Management Information System
7 68 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
8 62 (1.50%) Mobile App
9 57 (1.38%) Onboarding
10 54 (1.31%) Low-Code
10 54 (1.31%) Public Cloud
11 53 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
12 52 (1.26%) Data Centre
13 48 (1.16%) Algorithms
14 46 (1.11%) Data Structures
15 40 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
16 31 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
17 30 (0.73%) Security Posture
18 28 (0.68%) Virtual Team
19 27 (0.65%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 413 (10.01%) Linux
2 196 (4.75%) Windows
3 81 (1.96%) Unix
4 74 (1.79%) Windows Server
5 47 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (0.92%) Ubuntu
7 31 (0.75%) Android
8 29 (0.70%) VMS
9 27 (0.65%) CentOS
10 24 (0.58%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.17%) Debian
13 6 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (0.097%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.097%) Rocky
14 4 (0.097%) Windows Server 2016
15 2 (0.048%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.048%) Embedded Linux
16 1 (0.024%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,085 (50.52%) CI/CD
2 1,485 (35.98%) Agile
3 993 (24.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 750 (18.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 714 (17.30%) Problem-Solving
6 679 (16.45%) Mentoring
7 654 (15.85%) Software Engineering
8 641 (15.53%) AI
9 602 (14.59%) Test Automation
10 547 (13.25%) Containerisation
11 542 (13.13%) Microservices
12 462 (11.19%) Observability
13 437 (10.59%) Roadmaps
14 430 (10.42%) Analytics
15 413 (10.01%) Full-Stack Development
16 399 (9.67%) Scrum
17 380 (9.21%) Platform Engineering
18 347 (8.41%) Technical Leadership
19 320 (7.75%) Data Modelling
20 310 (7.51%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,045 (25.32%) Python
2 775 (18.78%) SQL
3 581 (14.08%) Java
4 487 (11.80%) C#
5 442 (10.71%) JavaScript
6 354 (8.58%) Bash
7 313 (7.58%) TypeScript
8 253 (6.13%) PowerShell
9 155 (3.76%) Go
10 117 (2.83%) Bicep
11 104 (2.52%) C++
12 86 (2.08%) Apex Code
13 58 (1.41%) Groovy
14 50 (1.21%) PHP
15 43 (1.04%) Scala
15 43 (1.04%) SOQL
15 43 (1.04%) SOSL
16 34 (0.82%) Kotlin
17 31 (0.75%) Rust
18 30 (0.73%) C
Qualifications
1 571 (13.84%) Security Cleared
2 431 (10.44%) Degree
3 339 (8.21%) SC Cleared
4 184 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 144 (3.49%) DV Cleared
6 114 (2.76%) AWS Certification
7 93 (2.25%) Azure Certification
8 82 (1.99%) Master's Degree
9 51 (1.24%) ISTQB
10 43 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
11 33 (0.80%) DBS Check
11 33 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
12 30 (0.73%) PMI Certification
13 29 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 26 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 25 (0.61%) CISSP
16 21 (0.51%) PMP
17 20 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
17 20 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 19 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 335 (8.12%) QA
2 163 (3.95%) Data Quality
3 124 (3.00%) Accessibility
4 99 (2.40%) GDPR
5 75 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 55 (1.33%) NIST
7 46 (1.11%) GRC
8 37 (0.90%) SOC 2
9 32 (0.78%) PCI DSS
10 28 (0.68%) WCAG
11 20 (0.48%) SLA
12 14 (0.34%) NCSC
13 13 (0.31%) PMO
14 12 (0.29%) TickIT
15 11 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
16 8 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
17 7 (0.17%) Solvency II
18 6 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 6 (0.15%) IFRS
18 6 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 697 (16.89%) Docker
2 144 (3.49%) Active Directory
3 52 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.41%) Hyper-V
5 17 (0.41%) vSphere
6 14 (0.34%) Firmware
7 7 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.097%) iptables
8 4 (0.097%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 4 (0.097%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.073%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.073%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.048%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.048%) KVM
10 2 (0.048%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.024%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.024%) OpenAM
11 1 (0.024%) OpenDJ
11 1 (0.024%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 1,032 (25.01%) Terraform
2 751 (18.20%) Kubernetes
3 374 (9.06%) Ansible
4 221 (5.35%) Grafana
5 184 (4.46%) Prometheus
6 75 (1.82%) Argo
7 47 (1.14%) Puppet
8 42 (1.02%) HP Fortify
9 36 (0.87%) Nagios
10 34 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
11 33 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
12 23 (0.56%) Kibana
13 18 (0.44%) Kustomize
14 16 (0.39%) Rancher
15 14 (0.34%) Istio
15 14 (0.34%) Packer
15 14 (0.34%) Progress Chef
16 11 (0.27%) logstash
17 10 (0.24%) Proxmox
18 9 (0.22%) yum
Vendors
1 788 (19.09%) Microsoft
2 158 (3.83%) Salesforce
3 156 (3.78%) Google
4 155 (3.76%) Databricks
5 89 (2.16%) VMware
6 87 (2.11%) Splunk
7 82 (1.99%) Oracle
8 81 (1.96%) Red Hat
9 68 (1.65%) ServiceNow
10 51 (1.24%) SAP
11 45 (1.09%) MuleSoft
12 32 (0.78%) Cisco
12 32 (0.78%) Palo Alto
13 29 (0.70%) Dynatrace
14 25 (0.61%) Adobe
14 25 (0.61%) OpenAI
15 24 (0.58%) Pega
16 20 (0.48%) IBM
16 20 (0.48%) Okta
17 19 (0.46%) CrowdStrike