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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 23 21
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,500 3,882 5,551
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.87% 7.81% 7.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.67% 8.82% 8.76%
Number of salaries quoted 3,879 2,205 3,550
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 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -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 82,520 44,009 63,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.04% 88.59% 80.80%
Number of salaries quoted 57,449 24,888 36,814
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,288 £95,000
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 10 September 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 10 September 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 4,735 £71,250 -1.38% 3,399
UK excluding London -4 3,556 £65,000 - 1,805
Work from Home -3 1,920 £69,306 -0.99% 1,574
London -11 1,535 £85,000 +6.25% 1,957
North of England +3 1,242 £68,000 +4.62% 512
South East -8 708 £65,000 - 424
North West +4 684 £70,000 +7.69% 283
South West +22 529 £73,000 +21.67% 250
Midlands -16 440 £65,000 - 215
Yorkshire +14 286 £70,000 +7.69% 146
North East +19 272 £60,000 +4.35% 87
West Midlands -21 257 £70,000 +7.69% 137
East of England +7 206 £59,450 -8.54% 153
Wales 0 199 £54,000 -1.82% 41
East Midlands +5 183 £60,000 +4.35% 78
Scotland -6 137 £60,000 -11.11% 164
Northern Ireland -3 114 £72,246 -44.43% 63
Isle of Man +1 3 £35,000 -33.33%

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
1 108 (1.96%) SharePoint
2 106 (1.93%) Confluence
3 104 (1.89%) Apache Spark
4 85 (1.55%) Apache
5 44 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
6 40 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
7 31 (0.56%) CMS
8 30 (0.55%) IIS
9 27 (0.49%) OpenStack
10 17 (0.31%) SAS
11 14 (0.25%) Jupyter
11 14 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
12 13 (0.24%) nginx
13 9 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
13 9 (0.16%) Umbraco
13 9 (0.16%) WordPress
14 8 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
15 7 (0.13%) Camunda
16 6 (0.11%) Anypoint
Applications
1 63 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
2 46 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (0.42%) Chatbot
4 22 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
5 21 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 21 (0.38%) PlantUML
6 19 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 13 (0.24%) Trello
8 7 (0.13%) Simulink
9 3 (0.055%) Blender
9 3 (0.055%) Maya
9 3 (0.055%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.036%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.018%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.018%) Notion
11 1 (0.018%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 80 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.27%) Elite 3E
4 7 (0.13%) Teamcenter
5 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
6 5 (0.091%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.091%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.091%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.091%) Visualfiles
7 4 (0.073%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.073%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.073%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.055%) Carpe Diem
8 3 (0.055%) Infor SunSystems
8 3 (0.055%) Oracle Applications
8 3 (0.055%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.055%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.055%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.055%) Shopify
9 2 (0.036%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 2,884 (52.44%) Azure
2 1,767 (32.13%) AWS
3 1,457 (26.49%) Azure DevOps
4 602 (10.95%) GCP
5 547 (9.95%) GitHub
6 483 (8.78%) Serverless
7 439 (7.98%) SaaS
8 404 (7.35%) Power Platform
9 290 (5.27%) GitHub Actions
10 278 (5.05%) AWS CloudFormation
11 219 (3.98%) Amazon S3
12 207 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
13 200 (3.64%) Dynamics 365
14 198 (3.60%) PaaS
15 171 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
16 167 (3.04%) Azure Data Factory
17 164 (2.98%) Amazon EKS
18 163 (2.96%) Azure AKS
19 162 (2.95%) Entra ID
20 152 (2.76%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 125 (2.27%) Firewall
2 90 (1.64%) DNS
3 77 (1.40%) VPN
4 61 (1.11%) TCP/IP
5 48 (0.87%) Network Security
6 33 (0.60%) Internet
7 27 (0.49%) Broadband
7 27 (0.49%) HTTP
8 25 (0.45%) DHCP
9 16 (0.29%) MQTT
10 14 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (0.25%) Wireless
11 13 (0.24%) DMARC
12 12 (0.22%) BGP
12 12 (0.22%) SAN
12 12 (0.22%) WAN
13 11 (0.20%) LAN
13 11 (0.20%) SSH
14 8 (0.15%) VLAN
14 8 (0.15%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 343 (6.24%) SQL Server
2 294 (5.35%) Azure SQL Database
2 294 (5.35%) MongoDB
3 234 (4.25%) Power BI
4 218 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
5 195 (3.55%) NoSQL
6 134 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
7 127 (2.31%) MySQL
8 118 (2.15%) Relational Database
9 102 (1.85%) DynamoDB
10 97 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
11 95 (1.73%) Data Lake
12 94 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
13 84 (1.53%) Metadata
14 66 (1.20%) Redis
15 46 (0.84%) Big Data
16 44 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
16 44 (0.80%) Delta Lake
17 42 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
18 36 (0.65%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 627 (11.40%) Git
2 408 (7.42%) Jenkins
3 400 (7.27%) GitLab
4 358 (6.51%) JIRA
5 95 (1.73%) Selenium
6 76 (1.38%) SonarQube
7 65 (1.18%) Cypress.io
8 59 (1.07%) Maven
9 56 (1.02%) Postman
10 55 (1.00%) JUnit
11 43 (0.78%) TeamCity
12 42 (0.76%) Cucumber
13 37 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 34 (0.62%) JMeter
15 31 (0.56%) Bitbucket
16 27 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
17 24 (0.44%) Claude Code
17 24 (0.44%) REST Assured
18 23 (0.42%) NUnit
19 21 (0.38%) Zephyr
General
1 1,266 (23.02%) Social Skills
2 1,063 (19.33%) Finance
3 482 (8.76%) Public Sector
4 435 (7.91%) Analytical Skills
5 346 (6.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 252 (4.58%) Banking
7 214 (3.89%) Law
8 172 (3.13%) Legal
9 166 (3.02%) Retail
10 93 (1.69%) Marketing
11 68 (1.24%) Financial Institution
12 58 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
13 53 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
14 51 (0.93%) Manufacturing
15 49 (0.89%) Games
16 47 (0.85%) Advertising
16 47 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
17 45 (0.82%) Aerospace
18 44 (0.80%) Telecoms
19 40 (0.73%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,305 (23.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,256 (22.84%) Senior
3 899 (16.35%) Developer
4 723 (13.15%) Lead
5 422 (7.67%) Architect
6 388 (7.05%) Software Engineer
7 341 (6.20%) Azure Engineer
8 308 (5.60%) Senior DevOps
9 286 (5.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 285 (5.18%) Cloud Engineer
11 244 (4.44%) .NET Developer
12 232 (4.22%) Platform Engineer
13 221 (4.02%) Senior Developer
14 211 (3.84%) Data Engineer
15 183 (3.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 170 (3.09%) Lead DevOps
17 148 (2.69%) AWS Engineer
18 143 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
19 132 (2.40%) Java Developer
20 130 (2.36%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,347 (24.49%) Terraform
2 739 (13.44%) .NET
3 434 (7.89%) React
4 350 (6.36%) REST
5 346 (6.29%) RESTful
6 334 (6.07%) Node.js
7 308 (5.60%) ASP.NET
8 281 (5.11%) .NET Core
9 262 (4.76%) Spring
10 260 (4.73%) Spring Boot
11 243 (4.42%) CSS
11 243 (4.42%) HTML
12 236 (4.29%) ASP.NET Core
13 220 (4.00%) Kafka
14 166 (3.02%) AngularJS
15 143 (2.60%) Entity Framework
16 141 (2.56%) Blazor
17 120 (2.18%) Middleware
18 116 (2.11%) JSON
19 101 (1.84%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 989 (17.98%) Cloud Native
2 369 (6.71%) Product Ownership
3 261 (4.75%) Distributed Systems
4 223 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
5 163 (2.96%) Onboarding
6 119 (2.16%) Virtual Team
7 113 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
8 93 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
9 83 (1.51%) Management Information System
10 76 (1.38%) Mobile App
11 75 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
12 74 (1.35%) Data Centre
13 67 (1.22%) Public Cloud
13 67 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
14 65 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
15 53 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
16 52 (0.95%) AI Agents
17 51 (0.93%) Private Cloud
18 50 (0.91%) Data Structures
19 44 (0.80%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 555 (10.09%) Linux
2 256 (4.65%) Windows
3 99 (1.80%) Unix
4 69 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 67 (1.22%) Windows Server
6 53 (0.96%) CentOS
7 41 (0.75%) Ubuntu
8 40 (0.73%) VMS
9 33 (0.60%) Android
10 19 (0.35%) Apple iOS
11 17 (0.31%) Debian
12 11 (0.20%) Rocky
13 7 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
14 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.091%) Kali Linux
15 5 (0.091%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.073%) Solaris
16 4 (0.073%) Windows Server 2019
17 3 (0.055%) AIX
17 3 (0.055%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,793 (50.78%) CI/CD
2 2,031 (36.93%) Agile
3 1,316 (23.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,080 (19.64%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,030 (18.73%) Mentoring
6 1,013 (18.42%) Software Engineering
7 986 (17.93%) AI
8 896 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
9 857 (15.58%) Test Automation
10 736 (13.38%) Microservices
11 691 (12.56%) Containerisation
12 640 (11.64%) Platform Engineering
13 616 (11.20%) Observability
14 601 (10.93%) Technical Leadership
15 580 (10.55%) Roadmaps
16 553 (10.05%) Scrum
17 543 (9.87%) Full-Stack Development
18 542 (9.85%) Stakeholder Management
19 495 (9.00%) Analytics
20 396 (7.20%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,297 (23.58%) Python
2 990 (18.00%) SQL
3 809 (14.71%) C#
4 717 (13.04%) Java
5 672 (12.22%) JavaScript
6 419 (7.62%) TypeScript
7 379 (6.89%) Bash
7 379 (6.89%) PowerShell
8 157 (2.85%) Bicep
9 131 (2.38%) Go
10 120 (2.18%) C++
11 57 (1.04%) PHP
12 51 (0.93%) T-SQL
13 49 (0.89%) C
13 49 (0.89%) Groovy
13 49 (0.89%) Scala
14 43 (0.78%) Apex Code
14 43 (0.78%) Kotlin
15 39 (0.71%) Rust
16 38 (0.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,004 (18.25%) Security Cleared
2 666 (12.11%) SC Cleared
3 513 (9.33%) Degree
4 286 (5.20%) DV Cleared
5 193 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 166 (3.02%) Azure Certification
7 107 (1.95%) Master's Degree
8 104 (1.89%) AWS Certification
9 77 (1.40%) CISSP
9 77 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
10 71 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
11 67 (1.22%) CISM
12 63 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
13 60 (1.09%) ISTQB
14 38 (0.69%) PMI Certification
15 31 (0.56%) DBS Check
16 27 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 26 (0.47%) PMP
18 25 (0.45%) PhD
19 23 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 561 (10.20%) QA
2 200 (3.64%) Data Quality
3 196 (3.56%) Accessibility
4 126 (2.29%) GDPR
5 99 (1.80%) NIST
6 74 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 63 (1.15%) WCAG
8 49 (0.89%) GRC
8 49 (0.89%) ISO 22301
9 33 (0.60%) PCI DSS
9 33 (0.60%) SLA
10 28 (0.51%) NCSC
11 27 (0.49%) PMO
12 19 (0.35%) SOC 2
13 13 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
14 12 (0.22%) HIPAA
14 12 (0.22%) TickIT
15 11 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
16 10 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 9 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 893 (16.24%) Docker
2 144 (2.62%) Active Directory
3 83 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (0.47%) vSphere
6 21 (0.38%) Hyper-V
7 20 (0.36%) Firmware
8 17 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.13%) Ceph
9 7 (0.13%) NDS
10 6 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.091%) KVM
12 4 (0.073%) iptables
13 3 (0.055%) Xen
14 2 (0.036%) Embedded Firmware
14 2 (0.036%) VMware ESXi
14 2 (0.036%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.018%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.018%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,024 (18.62%) Kubernetes
2 461 (8.38%) Ansible
3 235 (4.27%) Grafana
4 166 (3.02%) Prometheus
5 81 (1.47%) Argo
6 68 (1.24%) Puppet
7 37 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
8 33 (0.60%) Istio
9 28 (0.51%) Nagios
10 26 (0.47%) Kibana
11 21 (0.38%) HP Fortify
12 19 (0.35%) Progress Chef
13 18 (0.33%) Rancher
14 14 (0.25%) Podman
14 14 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
15 12 (0.22%) logstash
15 12 (0.22%) Packer
15 12 (0.22%) ZABBIX
16 10 (0.18%) Proxmox
17 9 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 1,105 (20.09%) Microsoft
2 203 (3.69%) Google
3 186 (3.38%) Databricks
4 125 (2.27%) Oracle
5 123 (2.24%) Salesforce
6 115 (2.09%) VMware
7 93 (1.69%) ServiceNow
8 90 (1.64%) Splunk
9 82 (1.49%) Red Hat
10 75 (1.36%) SAP
11 56 (1.02%) OpenAI
12 55 (1.00%) Cisco
13 51 (0.93%) Pega
14 45 (0.82%) Dynatrace
15 42 (0.76%) Facebook
16 37 (0.67%) AppDynamics
17 35 (0.64%) YouTube
18 34 (0.62%) MuleSoft
19 31 (0.56%) Foundry
20 29 (0.53%) Apple