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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 19 26
Rank change year-on-year -10 +7 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,335 3,973 7,156
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.66% 9.08% 7.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.30% 9.75% 8.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3,120 2,332 5,251
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,418 £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 £111,250 £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 68,860 40,768 84,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.96% 93.19% 83.65%
Number of salaries quoted 45,013 21,524 60,756
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,228
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,750 £39,885
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 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% -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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -13 3,835 £70,000 -2.77% 814
UK excluding London -18 2,557 £65,000 - 697
Work from Home -5 1,546 £69,310 -0.99% 467
London -9 1,422 £82,500 +3.13% 282
North of England -14 902 £70,000 +3.70% 201
South East -14 569 £65,000 - 206
North West -15 472 £70,000 +0.89% 118
South West -11 354 £65,000 - 90
Midlands -30 337 £67,500 +12.50% 89
Yorkshire 0 274 £70,000 - 50
West Midlands -40 191 £64,250 +7.08% 60
East of England -7 162 £62,500 -3.85% 58
North East +5 156 £60,000 -7.69% 35
Scotland -4 146 £55,000 -24.14% 36
East Midlands +3 143 £70,000 +27.27% 29
Wales -7 81 £53,000 -11.67% 22
Northern Ireland -39 10 £73,151 +33.00% 8
Isle of Man +3 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 79 (1.82%) Confluence
2 78 (1.80%) SharePoint
3 57 (1.31%) Apache
4 53 (1.22%) Apache Spark
5 50 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
6 37 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
7 28 (0.65%) CMS
8 27 (0.62%) IIS
9 16 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
10 11 (0.25%) OpenStack
10 11 (0.25%) SAS
11 9 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
11 9 (0.21%) Umbraco
12 8 (0.18%) Moodle
12 8 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
13 7 (0.16%) Apache Solr
13 7 (0.16%) Jupyter
13 7 (0.16%) nginx
13 7 (0.16%) WordPress
14 6 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 33 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 33 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
2 26 (0.60%) MS Visio
3 12 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (0.28%) PlantUML
4 10 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (0.14%) Simulink
7 3 (0.069%) Maya
7 3 (0.069%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.046%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.046%) Blender
8 2 (0.046%) Trello
9 1 (0.023%) EngageOne
9 1 (0.023%) Lightworks
9 1 (0.023%) Notion
9 1 (0.023%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 73 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.30%) SAP ERP
4 10 (0.23%) Endur
5 7 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
7 5 (0.12%) Visualfiles
8 4 (0.092%) Dynamics NAV
8 4 (0.092%) Shopify
9 3 (0.069%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.069%) Magento
9 3 (0.069%) Markit EDM
9 3 (0.069%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.046%) Distributed Ledger
10 2 (0.046%) Fidessa
10 2 (0.046%) Infor SunSystems
11 1 (0.023%) Oracle Applications
11 1 (0.023%) SAP FI
11 1 (0.023%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 2,292 (52.87%) Azure
2 1,394 (32.16%) AWS
3 1,123 (25.91%) Azure DevOps
4 487 (11.23%) GCP
5 483 (11.14%) GitHub
6 435 (10.03%) Serverless
7 334 (7.70%) Power Platform
8 266 (6.14%) SaaS
9 261 (6.02%) GitHub Actions
10 231 (5.33%) Amazon S3
11 224 (5.17%) AWS CloudFormation
12 214 (4.94%) AWS Lambda
13 166 (3.83%) Microsoft 365
14 162 (3.74%) PaaS
15 151 (3.48%) Entra ID
16 141 (3.25%) Amazon EKS
17 139 (3.21%) Azure AKS
18 138 (3.18%) Amazon ECS
19 137 (3.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 135 (3.11%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 141 (3.25%) Firewall
2 93 (2.15%) DNS
3 65 (1.50%) Broadband
4 59 (1.36%) TCP/IP
5 47 (1.08%) VPN
6 39 (0.90%) Network Security
7 35 (0.81%) HTTP
8 28 (0.65%) WAN
9 27 (0.62%) DHCP
10 23 (0.53%) LAN
11 11 (0.25%) MQTT
12 10 (0.23%) BGP
12 10 (0.23%) SAN
12 10 (0.23%) Wireless
13 8 (0.18%) HTTPS
13 8 (0.18%) Internet
14 7 (0.16%) DMARC
15 6 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
15 6 (0.14%) OSPF
15 6 (0.14%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 245 (5.65%) SQL Server
2 206 (4.75%) NoSQL
3 188 (4.34%) Power BI
4 168 (3.88%) MongoDB
5 162 (3.74%) Azure SQL Database
6 143 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
7 113 (2.61%) DynamoDB
8 90 (2.08%) Relational Database
9 89 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
10 87 (2.01%) Data Lake
11 81 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
12 69 (1.59%) MySQL
13 66 (1.52%) Metadata
14 64 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
15 49 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
16 38 (0.88%) BigQuery
17 36 (0.83%) Delta Lake
18 35 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
19 33 (0.76%) Big Data
20 32 (0.74%) Redis
Development Applications
1 471 (10.87%) Git
2 394 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 368 (8.49%) GitLab
4 252 (5.81%) JIRA
5 100 (2.31%) SonarQube
6 84 (1.94%) Cypress.io
7 80 (1.85%) Selenium
8 64 (1.48%) Maven
9 46 (1.06%) Postman
10 38 (0.88%) Cucumber
11 36 (0.83%) CircleCI
12 35 (0.81%) Bitbucket
13 34 (0.78%) TeamCity
14 33 (0.76%) JUnit
15 26 (0.60%) Eclipse
16 25 (0.58%) JMeter
17 24 (0.55%) Visual Studio
17 24 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
18 20 (0.46%) REST Assured
19 18 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 928 (21.41%) Finance
2 899 (20.74%) Social Skills
3 358 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
4 282 (6.51%) Public Sector
5 251 (5.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 234 (5.40%) Banking
7 137 (3.16%) Retail
8 125 (2.88%) Law
9 103 (2.38%) Marketing
10 80 (1.85%) Legal
11 74 (1.71%) Games
12 46 (1.06%) Manufacturing
13 44 (1.01%) Advertising
13 44 (1.01%) Telecoms
14 43 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
15 40 (0.92%) Financial Institution
16 35 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
17 34 (0.78%) Billing
18 31 (0.72%) Back Office
18 31 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 933 (21.52%) DevOps Engineer
2 880 (20.30%) Senior
3 769 (17.74%) Developer
4 616 (14.21%) Lead
5 352 (8.12%) Architect
6 325 (7.50%) Software Engineer
7 316 (7.29%) Azure Engineer
8 255 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
9 220 (5.07%) Senior DevOps
10 199 (4.59%) Senior Developer
11 191 (4.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 170 (3.92%) Data Engineer
13 168 (3.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 153 (3.53%) AWS Engineer
15 151 (3.48%) Platform Engineer
16 148 (3.41%) Solutions Architect
17 146 (3.37%) Java Developer
18 133 (3.07%) Lead DevOps
19 124 (2.86%) .NET Developer
20 113 (2.61%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 526 (12.13%) .NET
2 381 (8.79%) React
3 283 (6.53%) REST
4 268 (6.18%) Node.js
5 246 (5.67%) RESTful
6 185 (4.27%) Spring Boot
7 174 (4.01%) CSS
8 171 (3.94%) Spring
9 170 (3.92%) ASP.NET
9 170 (3.92%) HTML
10 162 (3.74%) .NET Core
11 161 (3.71%) Kafka
12 156 (3.60%) AngularJS
13 122 (2.81%) ASP.NET Core
14 114 (2.63%) SOAP
15 104 (2.40%) YAML
16 103 (2.38%) OAuth
17 100 (2.31%) Middleware
18 97 (2.24%) PySpark
19 91 (2.10%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 608 (14.03%) Cloud Native
2 292 (6.74%) Product Ownership
3 154 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
4 122 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
5 88 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
6 82 (1.89%) Management Information System
7 73 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
8 68 (1.57%) Mobile App
9 67 (1.55%) Onboarding
10 60 (1.38%) Data Centre
11 53 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
12 52 (1.20%) Data Structures
12 52 (1.20%) Public Cloud
13 51 (1.18%) Algorithms
14 49 (1.13%) Low-Code
15 36 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
16 35 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
17 33 (0.76%) Security Posture
18 31 (0.72%) Virtual Team
19 28 (0.65%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 437 (10.08%) Linux
2 191 (4.41%) Windows
3 83 (1.91%) Unix
4 74 (1.71%) Windows Server
5 53 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 45 (1.04%) Ubuntu
7 32 (0.74%) Android
8 31 (0.72%) CentOS
8 31 (0.72%) VMS
9 26 (0.60%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.18%) Debian
10 8 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.092%) Kali Linux
11 4 (0.092%) Rocky
11 4 (0.092%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.046%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.046%) Embedded Linux
12 2 (0.046%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.023%) SUSE
13 1 (0.023%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,203 (50.82%) CI/CD
2 1,530 (35.29%) Agile
3 1,051 (24.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 782 (18.04%) Continuous Improvement
5 726 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
6 721 (16.63%) Mentoring
7 701 (16.17%) Software Engineering
8 670 (15.46%) AI
9 628 (14.49%) Test Automation
10 579 (13.36%) Containerisation
11 576 (13.29%) Microservices
12 465 (10.73%) Observability
13 454 (10.47%) Roadmaps
14 445 (10.27%) Full-Stack Development
15 439 (10.13%) Analytics
16 430 (9.92%) Platform Engineering
17 420 (9.69%) Scrum
18 379 (8.74%) Technical Leadership
19 317 (7.31%) Data Modelling
20 297 (6.85%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,074 (24.78%) Python
2 801 (18.48%) SQL
3 612 (14.12%) Java
4 533 (12.30%) C#
5 490 (11.30%) JavaScript
6 367 (8.47%) Bash
7 337 (7.77%) TypeScript
8 269 (6.21%) PowerShell
9 147 (3.39%) Go
10 128 (2.95%) C++
11 120 (2.77%) Bicep
12 82 (1.89%) Apex Code
13 58 (1.34%) PHP
14 54 (1.25%) Groovy
15 47 (1.08%) Scala
15 47 (1.08%) SOQL
16 44 (1.01%) SOSL
17 43 (0.99%) C
18 39 (0.90%) Kotlin
19 34 (0.78%) Rust
Qualifications
1 624 (14.39%) Security Cleared
2 447 (10.31%) Degree
3 373 (8.60%) SC Cleared
4 174 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 164 (3.78%) DV Cleared
6 107 (2.47%) AWS Certification
7 100 (2.31%) Azure Certification
8 93 (2.15%) Master's Degree
9 52 (1.20%) ISTQB
10 41 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
11 35 (0.81%) DBS Check
12 32 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
13 30 (0.69%) PMI Certification
14 29 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 27 (0.62%) CISSP
16 24 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 21 (0.48%) PhD
18 20 (0.46%) PMP
19 18 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
20 17 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 356 (8.21%) QA
2 174 (4.01%) Data Quality
3 141 (3.25%) Accessibility
4 91 (2.10%) GDPR
5 68 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 56 (1.29%) NIST
7 46 (1.06%) GRC
8 36 (0.83%) WCAG
9 34 (0.78%) SOC 2
10 33 (0.76%) PCI DSS
11 20 (0.46%) SLA
12 15 (0.35%) PMO
13 12 (0.28%) TickIT
14 11 (0.25%) NCSC
15 9 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
16 8 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 8 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
17 6 (0.14%) Solvency II
18 5 (0.12%) IFRS
18 5 (0.12%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 718 (16.56%) Docker
2 139 (3.21%) Active Directory
3 52 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.44%) Firmware
6 17 (0.39%) Hyper-V
7 16 (0.37%) vSphere
8 7 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.12%) iptables
10 4 (0.092%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 4 (0.092%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.092%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.069%) Embedded Firmware
11 3 (0.069%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.046%) KVM
12 2 (0.046%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.023%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.023%) OpenAM
13 1 (0.023%) OpenIDM
13 1 (0.023%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,076 (24.82%) Terraform
2 782 (18.04%) Kubernetes
3 387 (8.93%) Ansible
4 222 (5.12%) Grafana
5 180 (4.15%) Prometheus
6 76 (1.75%) Argo
7 49 (1.13%) Puppet
8 37 (0.85%) Nagios
9 36 (0.83%) HP Fortify
9 36 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
10 27 (0.62%) Kibana
11 21 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
12 18 (0.42%) Istio
12 18 (0.42%) Kustomize
13 14 (0.32%) Packer
13 14 (0.32%) Rancher
14 12 (0.28%) Progress Chef
15 11 (0.25%) Proxmox
16 9 (0.21%) logstash
17 8 (0.18%) yum
Vendors
1 812 (18.73%) Microsoft
2 160 (3.69%) Google
3 157 (3.62%) Salesforce
4 155 (3.58%) Databricks
5 95 (2.19%) Splunk
6 89 (2.05%) VMware
7 84 (1.94%) Oracle
8 81 (1.87%) Red Hat
9 80 (1.85%) ServiceNow
10 55 (1.27%) SAP
11 42 (0.97%) MuleSoft
12 33 (0.76%) Dynatrace
13 32 (0.74%) Cisco
14 31 (0.72%) Palo Alto
15 25 (0.58%) OpenAI
16 23 (0.53%) Adobe
16 23 (0.53%) Pega
17 19 (0.44%) Apple
17 19 (0.44%) SolarWinds
18 18 (0.42%) Foundry