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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 20 26
Rank change year-on-year -8 +6 -13
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,308 3,982 7,170
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.65% 9.09% 6.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.33% 9.77% 8.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3,091 2,331 5,233
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £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 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 68,040 40,758 85,662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.42% 93.05% 83.05%
Number of salaries quoted 45,181 21,501 61,227
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -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 5 June 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 June 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 -11 3,812 £70,000 -2.27% 1,672
UK excluding London -13 2,537 £65,000 - 1,115
Work from Home -6 1,510 £69,305 -0.99% 1,069
London -7 1,416 £82,500 +3.13% 721
North of England -7 902 £70,000 +3.70% 337
South East -13 564 £65,000 - 297
North West -13 475 £70,000 +0.89% 194
South West -14 352 £65,000 - 137
Midlands -27 333 £67,500 +12.50% 139
Yorkshire -3 270 £70,000 - 99
West Midlands -40 191 £64,250 +7.08% 99
East of England -10 159 £61,300 -5.69% 83
North East +6 157 £60,000 -7.69% 45
East Midlands +1 139 £70,000 +27.27% 40
Scotland -4 136 £55,000 -26.67% 63
Wales -2 86 £53,135 -11.44% 33
Northern Ireland -37 9 £72,500 +3.57% 43
Isle of Man +2 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 81 (1.88%) Confluence
2 77 (1.79%) SharePoint
3 55 (1.28%) Apache
4 54 (1.25%) Apache Spark
5 47 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
6 38 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
7 28 (0.65%) CMS
8 25 (0.58%) IIS
9 16 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
10 11 (0.26%) OpenStack
10 11 (0.26%) SAS
11 9 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
11 9 (0.21%) Umbraco
12 8 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
13 7 (0.16%) Apache Solr
13 7 (0.16%) Jupyter
13 7 (0.16%) Moodle
13 7 (0.16%) nginx
13 7 (0.16%) WordPress
14 6 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 35 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
2 32 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 13 (0.30%) PlantUML
5 12 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
8 6 (0.14%) Simulink
9 4 (0.093%) Maya
10 3 (0.070%) Blender
10 3 (0.070%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.046%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.046%) Trello
12 1 (0.023%) EngageOne
12 1 (0.023%) Lightworks
12 1 (0.023%) Notion
12 1 (0.023%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 70 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.30%) SAP ERP
4 8 (0.19%) Endur
5 6 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.12%) Visualfiles
7 4 (0.093%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.093%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.070%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.070%) Magento
8 3 (0.070%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.070%) Shopify
9 2 (0.046%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.046%) Fidessa
9 2 (0.046%) Infor SunSystems
9 2 (0.046%) Markit EDM
10 1 (0.023%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.023%) SAP FI
10 1 (0.023%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 2,258 (52.41%) Azure
2 1,380 (32.03%) AWS
3 1,106 (25.67%) Azure DevOps
4 482 (11.19%) GCP
5 469 (10.89%) GitHub
6 436 (10.12%) Serverless
7 324 (7.52%) Power Platform
8 268 (6.22%) SaaS
9 253 (5.87%) GitHub Actions
10 228 (5.29%) Amazon S3
11 219 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
12 213 (4.94%) AWS Lambda
13 169 (3.92%) PaaS
14 157 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
15 147 (3.41%) Entra ID
16 141 (3.27%) Azure AKS
17 139 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
18 135 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
19 134 (3.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 132 (3.06%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 142 (3.30%) Firewall
2 92 (2.14%) DNS
3 65 (1.51%) Broadband
4 58 (1.35%) TCP/IP
5 48 (1.11%) VPN
6 37 (0.86%) Network Security
7 34 (0.79%) HTTP
8 27 (0.63%) DHCP
8 27 (0.63%) WAN
9 23 (0.53%) LAN
10 11 (0.26%) MQTT
11 10 (0.23%) BGP
11 10 (0.23%) SAN
11 10 (0.23%) Wireless
12 8 (0.19%) HTTPS
12 8 (0.19%) Internet
13 7 (0.16%) DMARC
14 6 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (0.14%) OSPF
14 6 (0.14%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 235 (5.45%) SQL Server
2 201 (4.67%) NoSQL
3 184 (4.27%) Power BI
4 169 (3.92%) MongoDB
5 165 (3.83%) Azure SQL Database
6 142 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
7 109 (2.53%) DynamoDB
8 89 (2.07%) Relational Database
9 82 (1.90%) Data Lake
10 81 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
11 79 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
12 71 (1.65%) MySQL
13 64 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
14 63 (1.46%) Metadata
15 48 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
16 38 (0.88%) BigQuery
17 34 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
17 34 (0.79%) Delta Lake
18 32 (0.74%) Big Data
18 32 (0.74%) Redis
Development Applications
1 459 (10.65%) Git
2 389 (9.03%) Jenkins
3 368 (8.54%) GitLab
4 253 (5.87%) JIRA
5 98 (2.27%) SonarQube
6 82 (1.90%) Cypress.io
7 81 (1.88%) Selenium
8 61 (1.42%) Maven
9 45 (1.04%) Postman
10 35 (0.81%) Cucumber
11 34 (0.79%) JUnit
12 33 (0.77%) Bitbucket
12 33 (0.77%) CircleCI
13 32 (0.74%) TeamCity
14 27 (0.63%) Eclipse
15 26 (0.60%) JMeter
16 24 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
17 21 (0.49%) Visual Studio
18 20 (0.46%) REST Assured
19 18 (0.42%) Jaeger
General
1 907 (21.05%) Finance
2 879 (20.40%) Social Skills
3 348 (8.08%) Analytical Skills
4 281 (6.52%) Public Sector
5 253 (5.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 232 (5.39%) Banking
7 135 (3.13%) Retail
8 125 (2.90%) Law
9 100 (2.32%) Marketing
10 77 (1.79%) Legal
11 74 (1.72%) Games
12 46 (1.07%) Manufacturing
13 45 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
13 45 (1.04%) Telecoms
14 43 (1.00%) Advertising
15 40 (0.93%) Financial Institution
16 36 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
17 33 (0.77%) Billing
18 31 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
19 30 (0.70%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 945 (21.94%) DevOps Engineer
2 869 (20.17%) Senior
3 746 (17.32%) Developer
4 607 (14.09%) Lead
5 356 (8.26%) Architect
6 326 (7.57%) Software Engineer
7 324 (7.52%) Azure Engineer
8 249 (5.78%) Cloud Engineer
9 213 (4.94%) Senior DevOps
10 194 (4.50%) Senior Developer
11 185 (4.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 176 (4.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 167 (3.88%) Data Engineer
14 154 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
15 150 (3.48%) AWS Engineer
16 146 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
17 143 (3.32%) Java Developer
18 135 (3.13%) Lead DevOps
19 122 (2.83%) .NET Developer
20 110 (2.55%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 518 (12.02%) .NET
2 371 (8.61%) React
3 277 (6.43%) REST
4 270 (6.27%) Node.js
5 235 (5.45%) RESTful
6 184 (4.27%) Spring Boot
7 171 (3.97%) CSS
8 170 (3.95%) Spring
9 167 (3.88%) ASP.NET
10 166 (3.85%) HTML
11 157 (3.64%) .NET Core
12 154 (3.57%) Kafka
13 152 (3.53%) AngularJS
14 119 (2.76%) ASP.NET Core
15 108 (2.51%) SOAP
16 103 (2.39%) YAML
17 97 (2.25%) Middleware
17 97 (2.25%) OAuth
18 96 (2.23%) PySpark
19 90 (2.09%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 619 (14.37%) Cloud Native
2 288 (6.69%) Product Ownership
3 152 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
4 122 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
5 91 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
6 78 (1.81%) Management Information System
7 74 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 67 (1.56%) Onboarding
9 66 (1.53%) Mobile App
10 60 (1.39%) Data Centre
11 55 (1.28%) Public Cloud
12 53 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
13 52 (1.21%) Data Structures
14 50 (1.16%) Algorithms
15 46 (1.07%) Low-Code
16 36 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
17 34 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
17 34 (0.79%) Security Posture
18 30 (0.70%) Virtual Team
19 28 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 430 (9.98%) Linux
2 183 (4.25%) Windows
3 85 (1.97%) Unix
4 70 (1.62%) Windows Server
5 54 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 47 (1.09%) Ubuntu
7 33 (0.77%) CentOS
7 33 (0.77%) VMS
8 30 (0.70%) Android
9 25 (0.58%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.19%) Debian
12 4 (0.093%) Kali Linux
12 4 (0.093%) Rocky
12 4 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.046%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.046%) Embedded Linux
13 2 (0.046%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.023%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.023%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,175 (50.49%) CI/CD
2 1,508 (35.00%) Agile
3 1,046 (24.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 773 (17.94%) Continuous Improvement
5 715 (16.60%) Mentoring
5 715 (16.60%) Problem-Solving
6 693 (16.09%) Software Engineering
7 662 (15.37%) AI
8 617 (14.32%) Test Automation
9 573 (13.30%) Containerisation
10 570 (13.23%) Microservices
11 460 (10.68%) Observability
12 453 (10.52%) Roadmaps
13 439 (10.19%) Platform Engineering
14 438 (10.17%) Full-Stack Development
15 428 (9.94%) Analytics
16 417 (9.68%) Scrum
17 380 (8.82%) Technical Leadership
18 305 (7.08%) Data Modelling
19 286 (6.64%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1,056 (24.51%) Python
2 779 (18.08%) SQL
3 600 (13.93%) Java
4 521 (12.09%) C#
5 481 (11.17%) JavaScript
6 363 (8.43%) Bash
7 330 (7.66%) TypeScript
8 266 (6.17%) PowerShell
9 144 (3.34%) Go
10 125 (2.90%) C++
11 122 (2.83%) Bicep
12 80 (1.86%) Apex Code
13 57 (1.32%) PHP
14 53 (1.23%) Groovy
15 47 (1.09%) SOQL
16 46 (1.07%) Scala
17 44 (1.02%) SOSL
18 43 (1.00%) C
19 39 (0.91%) Kotlin
20 34 (0.79%) Rust
Qualifications
1 629 (14.60%) Security Cleared
2 443 (10.28%) Degree
3 380 (8.82%) SC Cleared
4 171 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 161 (3.74%) DV Cleared
6 103 (2.39%) AWS Certification
6 103 (2.39%) Azure Certification
7 94 (2.18%) Master's Degree
8 51 (1.18%) ISTQB
9 45 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
10 35 (0.81%) DBS Check
11 32 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
12 30 (0.70%) PMI Certification
13 29 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 28 (0.65%) CISSP
15 23 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 22 (0.51%) PhD
17 21 (0.49%) PMP
18 19 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
19 16 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 353 (8.19%) QA
2 168 (3.90%) Data Quality
3 144 (3.34%) Accessibility
4 91 (2.11%) GDPR
5 63 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 56 (1.30%) NIST
7 45 (1.04%) GRC
8 38 (0.88%) WCAG
9 33 (0.77%) SOC 2
10 31 (0.72%) PCI DSS
11 18 (0.42%) SLA
12 16 (0.37%) PMO
13 12 (0.28%) TickIT
14 11 (0.26%) NCSC
15 9 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 8 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
17 6 (0.14%) Solvency II
18 5 (0.12%) IFRS
18 5 (0.12%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 708 (16.43%) Docker
2 135 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 55 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.44%) Firmware
6 17 (0.39%) Hyper-V
6 17 (0.39%) vSphere
7 7 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.12%) iptables
9 4 (0.093%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 4 (0.093%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.070%) Embedded Firmware
10 3 (0.070%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.070%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.046%) KVM
12 1 (0.023%) OpenAM
12 1 (0.023%) OpenDJ
12 1 (0.023%) OpenIDM
12 1 (0.023%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,071 (24.86%) Terraform
2 774 (17.97%) Kubernetes
3 387 (8.98%) Ansible
4 216 (5.01%) Grafana
5 175 (4.06%) Prometheus
6 76 (1.76%) Argo
7 49 (1.14%) Puppet
8 38 (0.88%) Nagios
9 35 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
10 34 (0.79%) HP Fortify
11 27 (0.63%) Kibana
12 18 (0.42%) Istio
12 18 (0.42%) Kustomize
13 17 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
14 15 (0.35%) Packer
15 14 (0.32%) Rancher
16 13 (0.30%) Progress Chef
17 11 (0.26%) Proxmox
18 8 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 8 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 795 (18.45%) Microsoft
2 160 (3.71%) Google
3 153 (3.55%) Databricks
3 153 (3.55%) Salesforce
4 96 (2.23%) Splunk
5 92 (2.14%) VMware
6 85 (1.97%) Oracle
6 85 (1.97%) ServiceNow
7 83 (1.93%) Red Hat
8 56 (1.30%) SAP
9 40 (0.93%) MuleSoft
10 35 (0.81%) Dynatrace
11 33 (0.77%) Cisco
12 30 (0.70%) Palo Alto
13 25 (0.58%) OpenAI
14 23 (0.53%) Pega
15 21 (0.49%) Adobe
16 19 (0.44%) Apple
16 19 (0.44%) Foundry
16 19 (0.44%) SolarWinds