DevOps Job Trends

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 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 21 13
Rank change year-on-year -5 -8 0
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 3,542 5,015 6,397
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.77% 7.45% 12.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.81% 8.98% 12.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2,265 2,998 5,201
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,456 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,308 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -0.99% -
75th Percentile £85,700 £87,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,250 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £63,500 £63,040
% change year-on-year -1.57% +0.73% +2.59%

All Process and 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 45,363 55,823 49,524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.65% 82.88% 93.86%
Number of salaries quoted 26,894 29,023 37,931
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,532 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.04% +2.86% -

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 12 November 2025.

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 12 November 2025. 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 3,085 £70,000 - 2,757
UK excluding London -7 1,984 £62,500 -1.57% 1,585
Work from Home -5 1,483 £70,000 +3.70% 1,604
London -3 1,325 £80,000 -3.03% 1,401
North of England -18 651 £65,000 +4.00% 448
South East -18 450 £64,250 -4.31% 467
North West -8 435 £65,000 +4.00% 297
Midlands +6 303 £65,000 +4.00% 208
Scotland -11 236 £67,500 +8.00% 103
West Midlands +7 231 £65,000 - 147
South West -22 167 £60,000 -7.69% 180
Yorkshire -19 159 £62,500 +4.17% 110
East of England -23 106 £65,000 +30.00% 118
East Midlands -1 70 £57,500 -4.17% 60
Wales -5 62 £55,916 -2.76% 53
North East -7 59 £50,000 -11.48% 42
Northern Ireland +8 19 £75,509 +8.95% 33
Isle of Man +7 1 £52,500 +45.83%

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
1 123 (3.47%) Confluence
2 82 (2.32%) Apache Spark
3 64 (1.81%) Apache
4 56 (1.58%) SharePoint
5 53 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
6 41 (1.16%) IIS
7 34 (0.96%) nginx
8 33 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
9 25 (0.71%) CMS
10 14 (0.40%) Appian
11 12 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 7 (0.20%) JBoss
13 6 (0.17%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.14%) Tomcat
14 5 (0.14%) WebSphere
15 4 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
15 4 (0.11%) Camunda
15 4 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
15 4 (0.11%) Traefik
Applications
1 49 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
4 11 (0.31%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.23%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 5 (0.14%) Trello
7 4 (0.11%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.11%) PlantUML
7 4 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.085%) Siemens NX
8 3 (0.085%) S-PLUS
9 2 (0.056%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.056%) Sketch
10 1 (0.028%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.028%) Maya
10 1 (0.028%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 74 (2.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
3 26 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
5 12 (0.34%) Shopify
6 8 (0.23%) SAP FS
7 7 (0.20%) Endur
8 6 (0.17%) Teamcenter
9 5 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
10 4 (0.11%) SAP IBP
10 4 (0.11%) SAP MII
10 4 (0.11%) SAP MM
10 4 (0.11%) SAP PP
11 3 (0.085%) Dynamics AX
12 2 (0.056%) Aladdin
12 2 (0.056%) Elite 3E
12 2 (0.056%) Markit EDM
12 2 (0.056%) Oracle BPM
12 2 (0.056%) Salesforce CRM
12 2 (0.056%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 1,913 (54.01%) Azure
2 1,194 (33.71%) AWS
3 985 (27.81%) Azure DevOps
4 468 (13.21%) GitHub
5 396 (11.18%) GCP
6 339 (9.57%) Power Platform
7 298 (8.41%) Serverless
8 295 (8.33%) SaaS
9 215 (6.07%) GitHub Actions
10 186 (5.25%) PaaS
11 157 (4.43%) AWS CloudFormation
12 156 (4.40%) Amazon S3
13 153 (4.32%) Dynamics 365
14 145 (4.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 136 (3.84%) AWS Lambda
16 133 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
17 121 (3.42%) Entra ID
18 120 (3.39%) Amazon EKS
19 109 (3.08%) Amazon ECS
20 103 (2.91%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 252 (7.11%) VPN
2 198 (5.59%) Cisco IOS
3 136 (3.84%) Firewall
4 105 (2.96%) DNS
5 68 (1.92%) TCP/IP
6 62 (1.75%) WAN
7 54 (1.52%) Network Security
8 48 (1.36%) LAN
9 45 (1.27%) HTTP
10 29 (0.82%) DHCP
10 29 (0.82%) SSH
11 28 (0.79%) SMTP
12 25 (0.71%) FTP
13 22 (0.62%) Broadband
13 22 (0.62%) SAN
13 22 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
14 20 (0.56%) BGP
15 14 (0.40%) SD-WAN
15 14 (0.40%) Wireless
16 13 (0.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 315 (8.89%) SQL Server
2 193 (5.45%) Power BI
3 164 (4.63%) NoSQL
4 158 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
5 142 (4.01%) PostgreSQL
6 112 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
7 100 (2.82%) Relational Database
8 80 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
9 71 (2.00%) Big Data
10 70 (1.98%) Data Lake
11 66 (1.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 57 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
12 57 (1.61%) MongoDB
13 54 (1.52%) Tableau
14 53 (1.50%) DynamoDB
15 52 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
15 52 (1.47%) MySQL
16 49 (1.38%) Metadata
17 40 (1.13%) Hadoop
18 38 (1.07%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 420 (11.86%) Git
2 342 (9.66%) Jenkins
3 291 (8.22%) JIRA
4 190 (5.36%) GitLab
5 99 (2.80%) Selenium
6 52 (1.47%) SonarQube
7 51 (1.44%) TeamCity
8 50 (1.41%) Octopus Deploy
9 44 (1.24%) Cucumber
10 43 (1.21%) Cypress.io
11 42 (1.19%) Bitbucket
12 38 (1.07%) Vagrant
13 37 (1.04%) JUnit
14 34 (0.96%) Postman
15 31 (0.88%) JMeter
16 29 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
17 28 (0.79%) Snyk
17 28 (0.79%) Visual Studio
18 27 (0.76%) Robot Framework
19 26 (0.73%) Artifactory
General
1 967 (27.30%) Social Skills
2 895 (25.27%) Finance
3 542 (15.30%) Analytical Skills
4 411 (11.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 264 (7.45%) Law
6 183 (5.17%) Public Sector
7 170 (4.80%) Banking
8 157 (4.43%) Retail
9 149 (4.21%) Marketing
10 75 (2.12%) Games
11 72 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
12 60 (1.69%) Financial Institution
12 60 (1.69%) Legal
13 58 (1.64%) Manufacturing
14 48 (1.36%) Back Office
15 46 (1.30%) Telecoms
16 41 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
17 35 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
18 32 (0.90%) Front Office
19 28 (0.79%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 634 (17.90%) Senior
2 596 (16.83%) Developer
3 476 (13.44%) Lead
4 460 (12.99%) DevOps Engineer
5 317 (8.95%) Architect
6 288 (8.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 243 (6.86%) Software Engineer
8 186 (5.25%) Cloud Engineer
9 174 (4.91%) Senior Developer
10 148 (4.18%) Analyst
11 137 (3.87%) Data Engineer
12 134 (3.78%) Azure Engineer
13 133 (3.75%) Solutions Architect
14 126 (3.56%) Platform Engineer
15 112 (3.16%) AWS Engineer
16 99 (2.80%) Full-Stack Developer
17 92 (2.60%) Senior DevOps
18 88 (2.48%) .NET Developer
19 82 (2.32%) AWS DevOps
20 80 (2.26%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 546 (15.42%) .NET
2 339 (9.57%) React
3 259 (7.31%) Elastic Stack
4 222 (6.27%) RESTful
5 214 (6.04%) REST
6 176 (4.97%) Kafka
7 164 (4.63%) CSS
8 163 (4.60%) HTML
9 142 (4.01%) .NET Framework
10 137 (3.87%) Spring
11 132 (3.73%) Node.js
12 129 (3.64%) AngularJS
13 121 (3.42%) Spring Boot
14 102 (2.88%) .NET Core
15 97 (2.74%) Middleware
16 95 (2.68%) YAML
17 84 (2.37%) ASP.NET
18 81 (2.29%) JSON
19 73 (2.06%) SOAP
20 67 (1.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 486 (13.72%) Cloud Native
2 267 (7.54%) Product Ownership
3 193 (5.45%) Cyberattack
4 128 (3.61%) Management Information System
5 118 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
6 105 (2.96%) Hybrid Cloud
7 96 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
8 94 (2.65%) Onboarding
9 89 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
10 63 (1.78%) Data Centre
10 63 (1.78%) Public Cloud
11 59 (1.67%) Algorithms
12 50 (1.41%) e-Learning
12 50 (1.41%) Security Posture
13 47 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
13 47 (1.33%) Mobile App
14 46 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
14 46 (1.30%) Virtual Team
15 45 (1.27%) Low-Code
16 38 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 568 (16.04%) Linux
2 471 (13.30%) Windows
3 218 (6.15%) Android
4 84 (2.37%) Windows Server
5 66 (1.86%) VMS
6 63 (1.78%) Unix
7 51 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 30 (0.85%) Ubuntu
9 24 (0.68%) Apple iOS
10 23 (0.65%) Amazon Linux
10 23 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
11 18 (0.51%) Debian
12 17 (0.48%) CentOS
13 13 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
14 7 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
15 6 (0.17%) Mac OS
16 2 (0.056%) AIX
16 2 (0.056%) Solaris
16 2 (0.056%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 2 (0.056%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,727 (48.76%) CI/CD
2 1,521 (42.94%) Agile
3 914 (25.80%) Problem-Solving
4 755 (21.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 599 (16.91%) Mentoring
6 598 (16.88%) Continuous Improvement
7 549 (15.50%) AI
8 534 (15.08%) Software Engineering
9 520 (14.68%) Test Automation
10 497 (14.03%) Microservices
11 485 (13.69%) Containerisation
12 420 (11.86%) Platform Engineering
13 391 (11.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 389 (10.98%) Roadmaps
15 371 (10.47%) Analytics
16 343 (9.68%) Scrum
17 336 (9.49%) Computer Science
18 331 (9.35%) Coaching
19 310 (8.75%) SDLC
20 309 (8.72%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 1,181 (33.34%) Python
2 765 (21.60%) SQL
3 604 (17.05%) PowerShell
4 542 (15.30%) C#
5 456 (12.87%) Bash
6 432 (12.20%) Java
7 359 (10.14%) JavaScript
8 259 (7.31%) TypeScript
9 124 (3.50%) Bicep
10 107 (3.02%) Go
11 67 (1.89%) T-SQL
12 60 (1.69%) Groovy
13 53 (1.50%) Apex Code
14 45 (1.27%) PHP
15 44 (1.24%) C++
15 44 (1.24%) Shell Script
16 36 (1.02%) Scala
17 34 (0.96%) PL/SQL
18 33 (0.93%) Perl
19 22 (0.62%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 488 (13.78%) Degree
2 359 (10.14%) Security Cleared
3 259 (7.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 257 (7.26%) SC Cleared
5 180 (5.08%) Azure Certification
6 128 (3.61%) Master's Degree
7 124 (3.50%) AWS Certification
8 94 (2.65%) DV Cleared
9 72 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
10 50 (1.41%) ISTQB
11 47 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 40 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
13 38 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
14 34 (0.96%) PhD
15 29 (0.82%) CISSP
16 27 (0.76%) CCNP
17 25 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
18 23 (0.65%) Chartered Engineer
18 23 (0.65%) ISEB
19 22 (0.62%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 355 (10.02%) QA
2 139 (3.92%) GDPR
3 135 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 97 (2.74%) Accessibility
5 89 (2.51%) Data Quality
6 83 (2.34%) NIST
7 42 (1.19%) NCSC
8 31 (0.88%) SLA
9 29 (0.82%) PMO
10 28 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 26 (0.73%) PCI DSS
12 23 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 12207
13 20 (0.56%) HIPAA
14 18 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
14 18 (0.51%) ISO 9001
15 16 (0.45%) SOC 2
16 15 (0.42%) WCAG
17 12 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 11 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
19 8 (0.23%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 854 (24.11%) Docker
2 218 (6.15%) vSphere
3 200 (5.65%) Hyper-V
4 195 (5.51%) VMware NSX
5 148 (4.18%) Active Directory
6 85 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
7 58 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
8 25 (0.71%) DFS Replication
9 19 (0.54%) NFS
9 19 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
10 18 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
11 14 (0.40%) Postfix
12 10 (0.28%) Squid
13 9 (0.25%) Dovecot
13 9 (0.25%) HDFS
14 7 (0.20%) Firmware
15 5 (0.14%) Kamailio
16 4 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
17 3 (0.085%) RACF
18 2 (0.056%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 1,048 (29.59%) Terraform
2 762 (21.51%) Kubernetes
3 537 (15.16%) Ansible
4 225 (6.35%) Grafana
5 199 (5.62%) Prometheus
6 44 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
7 36 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
8 32 (0.90%) Argo
9 18 (0.51%) Puppet
9 18 (0.51%) SCCM
10 17 (0.48%) Kibana
11 16 (0.45%) Progress Chef
12 14 (0.40%) Red Hat Satellite
13 12 (0.34%) AWS Copilot
13 12 (0.34%) vCenter Server
14 10 (0.28%) Nessus
15 9 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
15 9 (0.25%) Proxmox
16 8 (0.23%) Kubeflow
17 6 (0.17%) Rancher
Vendors
1 712 (20.10%) Microsoft
2 271 (7.65%) Splunk
3 262 (7.40%) Cisco
4 204 (5.76%) Juniper
5 201 (5.67%) 3PAR
6 143 (4.04%) Databricks
7 137 (3.87%) Google
8 122 (3.44%) VMware
9 120 (3.39%) Salesforce
10 115 (3.25%) Oracle
11 97 (2.74%) ServiceNow
12 93 (2.63%) Red Hat
13 61 (1.72%) IBM
14 60 (1.69%) SAP
15 44 (1.24%) Guidewire
16 36 (1.02%) OpenAI
16 36 (1.02%) SolarWinds
17 27 (0.76%) Palo Alto
18 25 (0.71%) Commvault
19 24 (0.68%) Fortinet