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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 21 24
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 -12
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,429 3,998 5,659
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.05% 8.01% 6.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.89% 8.98% 8.41%
Number of salaries quoted 3,871 2,288 3,885
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,420
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +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 78,774 44,506 67,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.34% 89.17% 80.88%
Number of salaries quoted 54,302 25,213 43,010
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 19 August 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 19 August 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 4,695 £70,400 +0.57% 2,342
UK excluding London -2 3,513 £65,000 - 1,435
Work from Home -2 1,928 £69,306 -0.99% 1,182
London -12 1,523 £85,000 +6.25% 1,249
North of England +3 1,247 £67,500 +3.85% 401
South East -10 703 £65,000 +1.56% 385
North West +5 678 £70,000 +7.69% 220
South West +17 510 £70,000 +7.69% 183
Midlands -16 416 £67,500 +3.85% 170
Yorkshire +20 299 £70,000 +12.00% 102
North East +22 270 £60,000 -7.69% 85
West Midlands -22 246 £70,000 +7.69% 111
East of England +17 211 £59,450 -8.54% 114
Wales +7 190 £55,000 - 30
East Midlands +2 169 £63,500 +10.43% 58
Scotland -6 136 £60,000 -14.29% 118
Northern Ireland -2 114 £72,246 -44.43% 45
Isle of Man 0 3 £35,000 -33.33% 1

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
1 107 (1.97%) Confluence
2 97 (1.79%) Apache Spark
3 95 (1.75%) SharePoint
4 80 (1.47%) Apache
5 44 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
6 38 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
7 30 (0.55%) CMS
8 29 (0.53%) IIS
9 23 (0.42%) OpenStack
10 20 (0.37%) SAS
11 14 (0.26%) nginx
11 14 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
12 13 (0.24%) Jupyter
13 9 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
13 9 (0.17%) Umbraco
13 9 (0.17%) WordPress
14 8 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 8 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
15 7 (0.13%) Anypoint
15 7 (0.13%) Camunda
Applications
1 61 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
2 43 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (0.41%) MS Visio
3 22 (0.41%) PlantUML
4 19 (0.35%) Chatbot
5 18 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
6 17 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 13 (0.24%) Trello
8 7 (0.13%) Simulink
9 4 (0.074%) Maya
10 3 (0.055%) Blender
10 3 (0.055%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.037%) Lightworks
12 1 (0.018%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.018%) Notion
12 1 (0.018%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 77 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.18%) Elite 3E
4 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.092%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.092%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.092%) Teamcenter
5 5 (0.092%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.074%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.074%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.074%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.074%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.074%) Shopify
7 3 (0.055%) Carpe Diem
7 3 (0.055%) Infor SunSystems
7 3 (0.055%) Magento
7 3 (0.055%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (0.055%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.055%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 2,857 (52.62%) Azure
2 1,775 (32.69%) AWS
3 1,415 (26.06%) Azure DevOps
4 596 (10.98%) GCP
5 542 (9.98%) GitHub
6 490 (9.03%) Serverless
7 444 (8.18%) SaaS
8 375 (6.91%) Power Platform
9 284 (5.23%) GitHub Actions
10 281 (5.18%) AWS CloudFormation
11 229 (4.22%) Amazon S3
12 213 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
13 212 (3.90%) PaaS
14 186 (3.43%) Dynamics 365
15 169 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
16 159 (2.93%) Azure AKS
17 155 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
18 152 (2.80%) Azure Service Bus
19 151 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
20 149 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 129 (2.38%) Firewall
2 90 (1.66%) DNS
3 68 (1.25%) VPN
4 66 (1.22%) TCP/IP
5 47 (0.87%) Network Security
6 36 (0.66%) Broadband
7 33 (0.61%) Internet
8 29 (0.53%) HTTP
9 24 (0.44%) DHCP
10 18 (0.33%) LAN
11 16 (0.29%) MQTT
11 16 (0.29%) WAN
12 13 (0.24%) DMARC
12 13 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
12 13 (0.24%) Wireless
13 12 (0.22%) SAN
14 10 (0.18%) HTTPS
15 9 (0.17%) BGP
16 8 (0.15%) NAS
16 8 (0.15%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 338 (6.23%) SQL Server
2 286 (5.27%) MongoDB
3 278 (5.12%) Azure SQL Database
4 212 (3.90%) Power BI
5 205 (3.78%) PostgreSQL
6 189 (3.48%) NoSQL
7 119 (2.19%) MySQL
8 113 (2.08%) Relational Database
9 110 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
10 102 (1.88%) DynamoDB
11 95 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
12 94 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
13 87 (1.60%) Data Lake
14 66 (1.22%) Metadata
15 59 (1.09%) Redis
16 48 (0.88%) Big Data
17 45 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
18 41 (0.76%) Delta Lake
19 37 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
20 32 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 605 (11.14%) Git
2 416 (7.66%) Jenkins
3 407 (7.50%) GitLab
4 357 (6.58%) JIRA
5 93 (1.71%) Selenium
6 83 (1.53%) SonarQube
7 66 (1.22%) Cypress.io
8 56 (1.03%) Maven
8 56 (1.03%) Postman
9 55 (1.01%) JUnit
10 40 (0.74%) Cucumber
10 40 (0.74%) TeamCity
11 37 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 35 (0.64%) JMeter
13 34 (0.63%) Bitbucket
14 27 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
15 25 (0.46%) NUnit
15 25 (0.46%) REST Assured
16 20 (0.37%) Mockito
17 19 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,235 (22.75%) Social Skills
2 1,054 (19.41%) Finance
3 452 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 427 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
5 335 (6.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 260 (4.79%) Banking
7 206 (3.79%) Law
8 166 (3.06%) Legal
9 161 (2.97%) Retail
10 99 (1.82%) Marketing
11 62 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
12 61 (1.12%) Games
13 59 (1.09%) Financial Institution
14 56 (1.03%) Manufacturing
15 49 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
16 48 (0.88%) Advertising
16 48 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
17 41 (0.76%) Telecoms
18 38 (0.70%) Aerospace
19 36 (0.66%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,264 (23.28%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,198 (22.07%) Senior
3 903 (16.63%) Developer
4 724 (13.34%) Lead
5 424 (7.81%) Architect
6 377 (6.94%) Software Engineer
7 342 (6.30%) Azure Engineer
8 293 (5.40%) Senior DevOps
9 279 (5.14%) Cloud Engineer
10 275 (5.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 241 (4.44%) .NET Developer
12 220 (4.05%) Senior Developer
13 218 (4.02%) Platform Engineer
14 195 (3.59%) Data Engineer
15 188 (3.46%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 163 (3.00%) Lead DevOps
17 158 (2.91%) AWS Engineer
18 154 (2.84%) Solutions Architect
19 134 (2.47%) Java Developer
20 127 (2.34%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 747 (13.76%) .NET
2 453 (8.34%) React
3 338 (6.23%) RESTful
4 337 (6.21%) REST
5 334 (6.15%) Node.js
6 305 (5.62%) ASP.NET
7 289 (5.32%) .NET Core
8 247 (4.55%) CSS
8 247 (4.55%) Spring Boot
9 246 (4.53%) HTML
10 244 (4.49%) Spring
11 232 (4.27%) ASP.NET Core
12 213 (3.92%) Kafka
13 168 (3.09%) AngularJS
14 143 (2.63%) Entity Framework
15 142 (2.62%) Blazor
16 124 (2.28%) Middleware
17 104 (1.92%) JSON
17 104 (1.92%) YAML
18 103 (1.90%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 962 (17.72%) Cloud Native
2 357 (6.58%) Product Ownership
3 259 (4.77%) Distributed Systems
4 215 (3.96%) Enterprise Software
5 156 (2.87%) Onboarding
6 115 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
7 103 (1.90%) Virtual Team
8 85 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
9 83 (1.53%) Management Information System
10 77 (1.42%) Data Centre
10 77 (1.42%) Mobile App
11 72 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
12 65 (1.20%) Public Cloud
13 64 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
13 64 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
14 51 (0.94%) Data Structures
15 48 (0.88%) AI Agents
15 48 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
16 45 (0.83%) Security Posture
17 44 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 550 (10.13%) Linux
2 260 (4.79%) Windows
3 102 (1.88%) Unix
4 75 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 72 (1.33%) Windows Server
6 56 (1.03%) CentOS
7 42 (0.77%) Ubuntu
8 38 (0.70%) VMS
9 31 (0.57%) Android
10 17 (0.31%) Apple iOS
10 17 (0.31%) Debian
11 11 (0.20%) Rocky
12 7 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
13 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.092%) Kali Linux
14 5 (0.092%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.074%) Solaris
15 4 (0.074%) Windows Server 2019
16 3 (0.055%) AIX
16 3 (0.055%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,744 (50.54%) CI/CD
2 2,017 (37.15%) Agile
3 1,321 (24.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,046 (19.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,003 (18.47%) Mentoring
6 982 (18.09%) Software Engineering
7 939 (17.30%) AI
8 883 (16.26%) Problem-Solving
9 834 (15.36%) Test Automation
10 733 (13.50%) Microservices
11 688 (12.67%) Containerisation
12 614 (11.31%) Platform Engineering
13 591 (10.89%) Observability
14 576 (10.61%) Technical Leadership
15 565 (10.41%) Full-Stack Development
16 563 (10.37%) Roadmaps
17 543 (10.00%) Scrum
18 512 (9.43%) Stakeholder Management
19 474 (8.73%) Analytics
20 389 (7.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,281 (23.60%) Python
2 969 (17.85%) SQL
3 811 (14.94%) C#
4 702 (12.93%) Java
5 666 (12.27%) JavaScript
6 415 (7.64%) TypeScript
7 378 (6.96%) PowerShell
8 377 (6.94%) Bash
9 159 (2.93%) Bicep
10 128 (2.36%) C++
11 123 (2.27%) Go
12 59 (1.09%) PHP
13 56 (1.03%) Apex Code
14 53 (0.98%) C
15 51 (0.94%) T-SQL
16 46 (0.85%) Groovy
17 45 (0.83%) Scala
18 40 (0.74%) Kotlin
18 40 (0.74%) Rust
19 38 (0.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 948 (17.46%) Security Cleared
2 626 (11.53%) SC Cleared
3 523 (9.63%) Degree
4 276 (5.08%) DV Cleared
5 197 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 156 (2.87%) Azure Certification
7 114 (2.10%) Master's Degree
8 99 (1.82%) AWS Certification
9 79 (1.46%) CISSP
9 79 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
10 66 (1.22%) CISM
11 62 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
12 57 (1.05%) ISTQB
13 54 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
14 41 (0.76%) PMI Certification
15 36 (0.66%) DBS Check
16 29 (0.53%) PMP
17 28 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 24 (0.44%) PhD
19 23 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 550 (10.13%) QA
2 187 (3.44%) Accessibility
3 180 (3.32%) Data Quality
4 125 (2.30%) GDPR
5 104 (1.92%) NIST
6 74 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 62 (1.14%) WCAG
8 49 (0.90%) ISO 22301
9 46 (0.85%) GRC
10 37 (0.68%) PCI DSS
11 29 (0.53%) SLA
12 28 (0.52%) PMO
13 27 (0.50%) NCSC
14 23 (0.42%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
16 12 (0.22%) HIPAA
16 12 (0.22%) TickIT
17 10 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 10 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
18 9 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 884 (16.28%) Docker
2 141 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 85 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 30 (0.55%) vSphere
6 23 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 22 (0.41%) Firmware
8 16 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.13%) Ceph
10 6 (0.11%) KVM
10 6 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.092%) iptables
12 4 (0.074%) NDS
12 4 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.055%) Xen
14 2 (0.037%) Embedded Firmware
14 2 (0.037%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.018%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.018%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,333 (24.55%) Terraform
2 1,002 (18.46%) Kubernetes
3 471 (8.68%) Ansible
4 227 (4.18%) Grafana
5 165 (3.04%) Prometheus
6 80 (1.47%) Argo
7 67 (1.23%) Puppet
8 36 (0.66%) Nagios
9 33 (0.61%) Istio
10 30 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
11 24 (0.44%) Kibana
12 22 (0.41%) HP Fortify
13 20 (0.37%) Progress Chef
14 13 (0.24%) Rancher
14 13 (0.24%) ZABBIX
15 12 (0.22%) Packer
15 12 (0.22%) Podman
16 11 (0.20%) logstash
16 11 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
17 8 (0.15%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,057 (19.47%) Microsoft
2 207 (3.81%) Google
3 179 (3.30%) Databricks
4 135 (2.49%) Salesforce
5 121 (2.23%) Oracle
6 117 (2.16%) VMware
7 95 (1.75%) ServiceNow
7 95 (1.75%) Splunk
8 93 (1.71%) Red Hat
9 71 (1.31%) SAP
10 52 (0.96%) Cisco
10 52 (0.96%) OpenAI
11 50 (0.92%) Pega
12 46 (0.85%) Dynatrace
13 42 (0.77%) Facebook
14 37 (0.68%) MuleSoft
15 31 (0.57%) AppDynamics
15 31 (0.57%) YouTube
16 29 (0.53%) Apple
17 27 (0.50%) Foundry