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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 22 20
Rank change year-on-year -8 -2 -7
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,617 3,783 5,342
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.76% 7.62% 7.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.50% 8.55% 8.79%
Number of salaries quoted 3,841 2,145 3,285
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year - +2.94% -2.86%
75th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.80% - -3.85%

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 86,353 44,239 60,788
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.12% 89.09% 81.92%
Number of salaries quoted 59,227 24,477 32,914
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,430
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -7.45% -0.95%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -10 4,848 £70,000 - 5,186
UK excluding London -4 3,596 £65,500 +4.80% 3,225
Work from Home -2 1,912 £69,310 +1.15% 2,924
London -10 1,584 £85,000 +6.25% 2,380
North of England +7 1,295 £67,500 +3.85% 924
North West +5 712 £70,000 +7.69% 485
South East -4 696 £65,000 +0.78% 682
South West +23 547 £75,000 +25.00% 392
Midlands -23 449 £62,500 -3.85% 408
North East +22 307 £60,000 +11.63% 155
Yorkshire +14 285 £70,000 +12.00% 292
West Midlands -25 267 £70,000 +7.69% 236
Wales 0 198 £55,000 - 143
East of England +7 195 £55,000 -10.20% 324
East Midlands +10 182 £60,000 +4.35% 172
Scotland -24 118 £62,500 -3.85% 296
Northern Ireland -10 114 £72,246 -44.43% 76
Isle of Man 0 3 £35,000 -33.33% 3

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
1 116 (2.07%) SharePoint
2 113 (2.01%) Confluence
3 112 (1.99%) Apache Spark
4 85 (1.51%) Apache
5 42 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
5 42 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
6 31 (0.55%) CMS
7 27 (0.48%) IIS
8 23 (0.41%) OpenStack
9 17 (0.30%) Jupyter
10 16 (0.28%) nginx
11 12 (0.21%) SAS
12 11 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 10 (0.18%) Umbraco
13 10 (0.18%) WebLogic
14 9 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
15 8 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
15 8 (0.14%) WordPress
16 7 (0.12%) Camunda
16 7 (0.12%) CICS
Applications
1 69 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
2 48 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
4 30 (0.53%) MS Visio
5 29 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 21 (0.37%) PlantUML
7 19 (0.34%) Chatbot
8 14 (0.25%) Trello
9 7 (0.12%) Simulink
10 3 (0.053%) Blender
10 3 (0.053%) Maya
10 3 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.036%) Lightworks
11 2 (0.036%) Notion
12 1 (0.018%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 87 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.23%) Elite 3E
4 9 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
5 8 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
6 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
6 6 (0.11%) Teamcenter
7 5 (0.089%) Dynamics NAV
7 5 (0.089%) Fidessa
7 5 (0.089%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.071%) Distributed Ledger
8 4 (0.071%) NEC Housing
8 4 (0.071%) Oracle Applications
8 4 (0.071%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.071%) Shopify
9 3 (0.053%) Carpe Diem
9 3 (0.053%) Dynamics GP
9 3 (0.053%) SAP Business One
9 3 (0.053%) Visualfiles
9 3 (0.053%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2,930 (52.16%) Azure
2 1,812 (32.26%) AWS
3 1,490 (26.53%) Azure DevOps
4 624 (11.11%) GCP
5 571 (10.17%) GitHub
6 482 (8.58%) Serverless
7 455 (8.10%) SaaS
8 437 (7.78%) Power Platform
9 304 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
10 294 (5.23%) AWS CloudFormation
11 220 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
12 212 (3.77%) PaaS
13 204 (3.63%) Amazon S3
14 192 (3.42%) AWS Lambda
15 181 (3.22%) Azure Data Factory
16 176 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
17 170 (3.03%) Entra ID
18 167 (2.97%) Azure AKS
19 161 (2.87%) Power Automate
20 160 (2.85%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 138 (2.46%) Firewall
2 96 (1.71%) DNS
3 91 (1.62%) VPN
4 70 (1.25%) Internet
5 63 (1.12%) TCP/IP
6 49 (0.87%) Network Security
7 25 (0.45%) DHCP
7 25 (0.45%) HTTP
8 16 (0.28%) MQTT
8 16 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
9 15 (0.27%) Broadband
9 15 (0.27%) DMARC
9 15 (0.27%) Wireless
10 13 (0.23%) SAN
11 12 (0.21%) BGP
12 11 (0.20%) SSH
12 11 (0.20%) WAN
13 9 (0.16%) LAN
13 9 (0.16%) OSPF
13 9 (0.16%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 359 (6.39%) SQL Server
2 303 (5.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 296 (5.27%) MongoDB
4 247 (4.40%) Power BI
5 232 (4.13%) PostgreSQL
6 192 (3.42%) NoSQL
7 147 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
8 128 (2.28%) MySQL
9 120 (2.14%) Relational Database
10 103 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
11 101 (1.80%) Metadata
12 99 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
13 95 (1.69%) Data Lake
14 92 (1.64%) DynamoDB
15 78 (1.39%) Redis
16 49 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
17 46 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
18 42 (0.75%) Big Data
18 42 (0.75%) Delta Lake
19 36 (0.64%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 681 (12.12%) Git
2 400 (7.12%) GitLab
3 391 (6.96%) Jenkins
4 351 (6.25%) JIRA
5 83 (1.48%) Selenium
6 56 (1.00%) Cypress.io
7 54 (0.96%) JUnit
8 52 (0.93%) TeamCity
9 51 (0.91%) Maven
10 50 (0.89%) SonarQube
11 42 (0.75%) Postman
12 37 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 35 (0.62%) Cucumber
14 30 (0.53%) Claude Code
15 28 (0.50%) Bitbucket
16 26 (0.46%) JMeter
16 26 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
17 19 (0.34%) Mockito
18 18 (0.32%) NUnit
18 18 (0.32%) Subversion
General
1 1,326 (23.61%) Social Skills
2 1,080 (19.23%) Finance
3 553 (9.85%) Public Sector
4 494 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
5 341 (6.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 239 (4.25%) Banking
7 211 (3.76%) Law
8 171 (3.04%) Retail
9 163 (2.90%) Legal
10 78 (1.39%) Financial Institution
11 74 (1.32%) Marketing
12 58 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
13 57 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
14 54 (0.96%) Aerospace
14 54 (0.96%) Manufacturing
15 53 (0.94%) Telecoms
16 49 (0.87%) Back Office
17 48 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
18 42 (0.75%) Advertising
19 31 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,461 (26.01%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,323 (23.55%) Senior
3 864 (15.38%) Developer
4 692 (12.32%) Lead
5 422 (7.51%) Architect
6 386 (6.87%) Software Engineer
7 359 (6.39%) Azure Engineer
8 357 (6.36%) Senior DevOps
9 329 (5.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 307 (5.47%) Cloud Engineer
11 246 (4.38%) Platform Engineer
12 242 (4.31%) .NET Developer
13 212 (3.77%) Data Engineer
14 208 (3.70%) Senior Developer
15 191 (3.40%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 169 (3.01%) Lead DevOps
17 160 (2.85%) AWS Engineer
18 151 (2.69%) Consultant
19 147 (2.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
20 141 (2.51%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,380 (24.57%) Terraform
2 725 (12.91%) .NET
3 401 (7.14%) React
4 344 (6.12%) REST
5 339 (6.04%) RESTful
6 328 (5.84%) Node.js
7 298 (5.31%) ASP.NET
8 284 (5.06%) Spring
9 278 (4.95%) Spring Boot
10 268 (4.77%) .NET Core
11 237 (4.22%) Kafka
12 232 (4.13%) CSS
13 230 (4.09%) HTML
14 227 (4.04%) ASP.NET Core
15 153 (2.72%) AngularJS
16 134 (2.39%) Entity Framework
17 131 (2.33%) Blazor
18 122 (2.17%) Middleware
19 112 (1.99%) JSON
20 96 (1.71%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1,033 (18.39%) Cloud Native
2 342 (6.09%) Product Ownership
3 268 (4.77%) Distributed Systems
4 250 (4.45%) Enterprise Software
5 164 (2.92%) Onboarding
6 129 (2.30%) Virtual Team
7 121 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
8 105 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
9 90 (1.60%) Management Information System
10 79 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
11 74 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
12 72 (1.28%) AI Agents
13 70 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
14 68 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
15 65 (1.16%) Mobile App
16 64 (1.14%) Data Centre
17 63 (1.12%) Public Cloud
18 53 (0.94%) Private Cloud
19 50 (0.89%) Data Structures
19 50 (0.89%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 610 (10.86%) Linux
2 260 (4.63%) Windows
3 117 (2.08%) Unix
4 71 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 67 (1.19%) Windows Server
6 50 (0.89%) CentOS
7 37 (0.66%) Ubuntu
8 33 (0.59%) VMS
9 31 (0.55%) Android
10 15 (0.27%) Debian
11 14 (0.25%) Rocky
12 12 (0.21%) Apple iOS
13 7 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
14 5 (0.089%) Mac OS
14 5 (0.089%) Windows Server 2016
15 4 (0.071%) Solaris
15 4 (0.071%) Windows Server 2019
16 3 (0.053%) AIX
16 3 (0.053%) Kali Linux
16 3 (0.053%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,877 (51.22%) CI/CD
2 2,045 (36.41%) Agile
3 1,398 (24.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,132 (20.15%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,115 (19.85%) Mentoring
6 1,035 (18.43%) AI
7 1,017 (18.11%) Software Engineering
8 941 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
9 853 (15.19%) Test Automation
10 745 (13.26%) Containerisation
11 741 (13.19%) Microservices
12 707 (12.59%) Platform Engineering
13 629 (11.20%) Technical Leadership
14 617 (10.98%) Observability
15 612 (10.90%) Stakeholder Management
16 548 (9.76%) Roadmaps
17 528 (9.40%) Scrum
18 514 (9.15%) Analytics
19 499 (8.88%) Full-Stack Development
20 405 (7.21%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,304 (23.22%) Python
2 979 (17.43%) SQL
3 805 (14.33%) C#
4 734 (13.07%) Java
5 657 (11.70%) JavaScript
6 412 (7.33%) TypeScript
7 399 (7.10%) PowerShell
8 390 (6.94%) Bash
9 169 (3.01%) Bicep
10 136 (2.42%) Go
11 119 (2.12%) C++
12 59 (1.05%) Shell Script
13 55 (0.98%) T-SQL
14 52 (0.93%) PHP
15 50 (0.89%) Scala
16 47 (0.84%) C
17 43 (0.77%) Kotlin
18 42 (0.75%) Groovy
19 39 (0.69%) Ruby
20 36 (0.64%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1,082 (19.26%) Security Cleared
2 734 (13.07%) SC Cleared
3 507 (9.03%) Degree
4 302 (5.38%) DV Cleared
5 201 (3.58%) Azure Certification
6 189 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 110 (1.96%) AWS Certification
8 99 (1.76%) Master's Degree
9 87 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
10 80 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
11 76 (1.35%) CISSP
12 71 (1.26%) ITIL Certification
13 67 (1.19%) CISM
14 50 (0.89%) ISTQB
15 38 (0.68%) PMI Certification
16 27 (0.48%) PhD
17 26 (0.46%) DBS Check
17 26 (0.46%) PMP
18 24 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 24 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 538 (9.58%) QA
2 215 (3.83%) Data Quality
3 190 (3.38%) Accessibility
4 130 (2.31%) GDPR
5 96 (1.71%) NIST
6 74 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 61 (1.09%) WCAG
8 49 (0.87%) ISO 22301
9 35 (0.62%) GRC
9 35 (0.62%) SLA
10 31 (0.55%) PCI DSS
11 27 (0.48%) PMO
12 26 (0.46%) NCSC
13 17 (0.30%) SOC 2
14 15 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
15 12 (0.21%) HIPAA
16 9 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 9 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 9 (0.16%) NIST 800
17 8 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 953 (16.97%) Docker
2 142 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 82 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (0.48%) vSphere
6 24 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
7 20 (0.36%) Firmware
8 19 (0.34%) Hyper-V
9 8 (0.14%) NDS
10 7 (0.12%) Ceph
11 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.071%) iptables
12 4 (0.071%) KVM
12 4 (0.071%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.053%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.036%) Embedded Firmware
14 2 (0.036%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.036%) Xen
15 1 (0.018%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1,094 (19.48%) Kubernetes
2 472 (8.40%) Ansible
3 261 (4.65%) Grafana
4 183 (3.26%) Prometheus
5 85 (1.51%) Argo
6 63 (1.12%) Puppet
7 46 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
8 26 (0.46%) Istio
8 26 (0.46%) Rancher
9 24 (0.43%) Nagios
10 22 (0.39%) Kibana
10 22 (0.39%) Progress Chef
11 20 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
12 15 (0.27%) Podman
13 14 (0.25%) HP Fortify
14 13 (0.23%) logstash
14 13 (0.23%) Packer
15 11 (0.20%) Proxmox
16 10 (0.18%) ZABBIX
17 8 (0.14%) yum
Vendors
1 1,184 (21.08%) Microsoft
2 234 (4.17%) Google
3 182 (3.24%) Databricks
4 128 (2.28%) Oracle
5 119 (2.12%) VMware
6 111 (1.98%) Salesforce
7 99 (1.76%) ServiceNow
8 82 (1.46%) Splunk
9 76 (1.35%) SAP
10 74 (1.32%) Red Hat
11 60 (1.07%) Dynatrace
12 55 (0.98%) OpenAI
13 52 (0.93%) Cisco
14 47 (0.84%) Pega
15 44 (0.78%) YouTube
16 39 (0.69%) Facebook
17 32 (0.57%) MuleSoft
18 29 (0.52%) AppDynamics
19 28 (0.50%) Foundry
20 23 (0.41%) Apple