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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 22 20
Rank change year-on-year -8 -2 -7
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,626 3,774 5,296
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.78% 7.60% 7.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.53% 8.54% 8.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3,849 2,136 3,249
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 £88,148 £86,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.80% - -3.10%

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 86,155 44,192 60,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.18% 88.99% 81.99%
Number of salaries quoted 59,150 24,458 32,463
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,325 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,608
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,750
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 8 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 8 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 -11 4,853 £70,000 - 4,566
UK excluding London -1 3,597 £65,500 +4.80% 2,390
Work from Home -1 1,906 £69,310 +1.16% 2,094
London -8 1,587 £85,000 +6.25% 2,356
North of England +6 1,289 £67,500 +3.85% 723
North West +5 701 £70,000 +7.69% 387
South East -7 686 £66,250 +1.92% 531
South West +26 559 £75,000 +25.00% 267
Midlands -18 458 £62,500 -3.85% 289
North East +23 313 £60,000 +14.29% 117
Yorkshire +18 284 £70,000 +7.69% 223
West Midlands -26 274 £70,000 +7.69% 188
Wales 0 197 £55,000 - 86
East of England -1 193 £55,000 -8.33% 219
East Midlands +12 184 £60,000 +4.35% 101
Scotland -23 119 £62,500 -3.85% 207
Northern Ireland -7 114 £72,246 -44.43% 81
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 (2.06%) SharePoint
2 114 (2.03%) Apache Spark
3 113 (2.01%) Confluence
4 89 (1.58%) Apache
5 43 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
5 43 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
6 28 (0.50%) CMS
7 25 (0.44%) IIS
8 22 (0.39%) OpenStack
9 18 (0.32%) Jupyter
10 16 (0.28%) nginx
11 12 (0.21%) SAS
11 12 (0.21%) WebLogic
12 11 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
13 9 (0.16%) Umbraco
14 8 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
15 7 (0.12%) Camunda
15 7 (0.12%) CICS
16 6 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 68 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
2 45 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
4 30 (0.53%) MS Visio
5 29 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 20 (0.36%) PlantUML
7 17 (0.30%) 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 88 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.23%) Elite 3E
4 10 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
5 8 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
6 6 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
6 6 (0.11%) Teamcenter
7 5 (0.089%) Dynamics NAV
7 5 (0.089%) Fidessa
8 4 (0.071%) Dynamics GP
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%) Distributed Ledger
9 3 (0.053%) SAP Business One
9 3 (0.053%) Visualfiles
9 3 (0.053%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2,926 (52.01%) Azure
2 1,819 (32.33%) AWS
3 1,488 (26.45%) Azure DevOps
4 627 (11.14%) GCP
5 574 (10.20%) GitHub
6 487 (8.66%) Serverless
7 459 (8.16%) SaaS
8 442 (7.86%) Power Platform
9 308 (5.47%) GitHub Actions
10 296 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
11 222 (3.95%) Dynamics 365
12 216 (3.84%) PaaS
13 207 (3.68%) Amazon S3
14 194 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
15 182 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
16 173 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
17 168 (2.99%) Azure AKS
17 168 (2.99%) Entra ID
18 166 (2.95%) Power Automate
19 162 (2.88%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 138 (2.45%) Firewall
2 96 (1.71%) DNS
3 90 (1.60%) VPN
4 69 (1.23%) Internet
5 61 (1.08%) TCP/IP
6 47 (0.84%) Network Security
7 26 (0.46%) HTTP
8 23 (0.41%) DHCP
9 16 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (0.27%) Broadband
10 15 (0.27%) DMARC
10 15 (0.27%) MQTT
11 14 (0.25%) Wireless
12 13 (0.23%) SAN
13 12 (0.21%) BGP
14 11 (0.20%) SSH
14 11 (0.20%) WAN
15 9 (0.16%) LAN
15 9 (0.16%) OSPF
15 9 (0.16%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 362 (6.43%) SQL Server
2 305 (5.42%) Azure SQL Database
3 297 (5.28%) MongoDB
4 248 (4.41%) Power BI
5 231 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
6 194 (3.45%) NoSQL
7 148 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
8 129 (2.29%) MySQL
9 119 (2.12%) Relational Database
10 106 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
11 103 (1.83%) Metadata
12 97 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
13 94 (1.67%) Data Lake
14 93 (1.65%) DynamoDB
15 76 (1.35%) Redis
16 52 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
17 50 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
18 41 (0.73%) Big Data
18 41 (0.73%) Delta Lake
19 36 (0.64%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 682 (12.12%) Git
2 403 (7.16%) GitLab
3 391 (6.95%) Jenkins
4 347 (6.17%) JIRA
5 82 (1.46%) Selenium
6 57 (1.01%) JUnit
7 56 (1.00%) Cypress.io
8 54 (0.96%) TeamCity
9 51 (0.91%) Maven
9 51 (0.91%) SonarQube
10 42 (0.75%) Postman
11 36 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 35 (0.62%) Cucumber
13 31 (0.55%) Claude Code
14 28 (0.50%) Bitbucket
15 26 (0.46%) JMeter
15 26 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
16 22 (0.39%) Mockito
17 18 (0.32%) NUnit
17 18 (0.32%) Subversion
General
1 1,322 (23.50%) Social Skills
2 1,087 (19.32%) Finance
3 562 (9.99%) Public Sector
4 491 (8.73%) Analytical Skills
5 348 (6.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 237 (4.21%) Banking
7 213 (3.79%) Law
8 170 (3.02%) Retail
9 164 (2.92%) Legal
10 80 (1.42%) Financial Institution
11 73 (1.30%) Marketing
12 58 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
12 58 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
13 56 (1.00%) Manufacturing
14 55 (0.98%) Aerospace
15 52 (0.92%) Telecoms
16 50 (0.89%) Back Office
17 49 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
18 41 (0.73%) Advertising
19 32 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,477 (26.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,324 (23.53%) Senior
3 862 (15.32%) Developer
4 694 (12.34%) Lead
5 424 (7.54%) Architect
6 386 (6.86%) Software Engineer
7 360 (6.40%) Senior DevOps
8 354 (6.29%) Azure Engineer
9 332 (5.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 300 (5.33%) Cloud Engineer
11 243 (4.32%) .NET Developer
12 242 (4.30%) Platform Engineer
13 213 (3.79%) Data Engineer
14 203 (3.61%) Senior Developer
15 188 (3.34%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 169 (3.00%) Lead DevOps
17 160 (2.84%) AWS Engineer
18 153 (2.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 151 (2.68%) Consultant
20 143 (2.54%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,377 (24.48%) Terraform
2 728 (12.94%) .NET
3 396 (7.04%) React
4 348 (6.19%) REST
5 338 (6.01%) RESTful
6 329 (5.85%) Node.js
7 297 (5.28%) ASP.NET
8 287 (5.10%) Spring
9 281 (4.99%) Spring Boot
10 268 (4.76%) .NET Core
11 236 (4.19%) Kafka
12 233 (4.14%) CSS
13 230 (4.09%) HTML
14 226 (4.02%) ASP.NET Core
15 157 (2.79%) AngularJS
16 133 (2.36%) Entity Framework
17 131 (2.33%) Blazor
18 121 (2.15%) Middleware
19 110 (1.96%) JSON
20 95 (1.69%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1,037 (18.43%) Cloud Native
2 345 (6.13%) Product Ownership
3 270 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
4 254 (4.51%) Enterprise Software
5 162 (2.88%) Onboarding
6 128 (2.28%) Virtual Team
7 120 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
8 105 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
9 90 (1.60%) Management Information System
10 79 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
11 74 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
12 73 (1.30%) AI Agents
13 71 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
14 68 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
15 64 (1.14%) Mobile App
16 62 (1.10%) Public Cloud
17 61 (1.08%) Data Centre
18 53 (0.94%) Data Structures
18 53 (0.94%) Private Cloud
19 51 (0.91%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 604 (10.74%) Linux
2 258 (4.59%) Windows
3 117 (2.08%) Unix
4 68 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 64 (1.14%) Windows Server
6 48 (0.85%) CentOS
7 35 (0.62%) Ubuntu
8 32 (0.57%) VMS
9 31 (0.55%) Android
10 14 (0.25%) Debian
10 14 (0.25%) Rocky
11 12 (0.21%) Apple iOS
12 8 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
13 5 (0.089%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.089%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.071%) Solaris
14 4 (0.071%) Windows Server 2019
15 3 (0.053%) AIX
15 3 (0.053%) Kali Linux
15 3 (0.053%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,889 (51.35%) CI/CD
2 2,054 (36.51%) Agile
3 1,398 (24.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,134 (20.16%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,114 (19.80%) Mentoring
6 1,033 (18.36%) AI
7 1,018 (18.09%) Software Engineering
8 933 (16.58%) Problem-Solving
9 857 (15.23%) Test Automation
10 749 (13.31%) Containerisation
11 743 (13.21%) Microservices
12 707 (12.57%) Platform Engineering
13 639 (11.36%) Technical Leadership
14 619 (11.00%) Observability
15 614 (10.91%) Stakeholder Management
16 548 (9.74%) Roadmaps
17 525 (9.33%) Scrum
18 512 (9.10%) Analytics
19 500 (8.89%) Full-Stack Development
20 405 (7.20%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,298 (23.07%) Python
2 983 (17.47%) SQL
3 808 (14.36%) C#
4 735 (13.06%) Java
5 656 (11.66%) JavaScript
6 412 (7.32%) TypeScript
7 393 (6.99%) PowerShell
8 386 (6.86%) Bash
9 171 (3.04%) Bicep
10 138 (2.45%) Go
11 117 (2.08%) C++
12 59 (1.05%) Shell Script
12 59 (1.05%) T-SQL
13 51 (0.91%) PHP
13 51 (0.91%) Scala
14 46 (0.82%) C
15 45 (0.80%) Kotlin
16 42 (0.75%) Groovy
17 39 (0.69%) Ruby
18 37 (0.66%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,101 (19.57%) Security Cleared
2 743 (13.21%) SC Cleared
3 506 (8.99%) Degree
4 302 (5.37%) DV Cleared
5 200 (3.55%) Azure Certification
6 185 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 110 (1.96%) AWS Certification
8 101 (1.80%) Master's Degree
9 88 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 80 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
11 76 (1.35%) CISSP
12 72 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
13 66 (1.17%) CISM
14 49 (0.87%) ISTQB
15 37 (0.66%) PMI Certification
16 28 (0.50%) PhD
17 26 (0.46%) DBS Check
17 26 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
18 25 (0.44%) PMP
19 24 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 535 (9.51%) QA
2 218 (3.87%) Data Quality
3 188 (3.34%) Accessibility
4 131 (2.33%) GDPR
5 95 (1.69%) NIST
6 70 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 60 (1.07%) WCAG
8 49 (0.87%) ISO 22301
9 36 (0.64%) SLA
10 32 (0.57%) GRC
11 29 (0.52%) PCI DSS
12 27 (0.48%) NCSC
12 27 (0.48%) PMO
13 17 (0.30%) SOC 2
14 14 (0.25%) 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
1 951 (16.90%) Docker
2 137 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 81 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (0.48%) vSphere
6 24 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
7 19 (0.34%) Firmware
7 19 (0.34%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.14%) NDS
9 7 (0.12%) Ceph
10 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.071%) iptables
11 4 (0.071%) KVM
11 4 (0.071%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.036%) Embedded Firmware
12 2 (0.036%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.036%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.036%) Xen
13 1 (0.018%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1,097 (19.50%) Kubernetes
2 468 (8.32%) Ansible
3 267 (4.75%) Grafana
4 187 (3.32%) Prometheus
5 86 (1.53%) Argo
6 62 (1.10%) Puppet
7 45 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
8 26 (0.46%) Istio
8 26 (0.46%) Rancher
9 23 (0.41%) 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 9 (0.16%) ZABBIX
17 8 (0.14%) yum
Vendors
1 1,187 (21.10%) Microsoft
2 235 (4.18%) Google
3 180 (3.20%) Databricks
4 131 (2.33%) Oracle
5 118 (2.10%) VMware
6 111 (1.97%) Salesforce
7 98 (1.74%) ServiceNow
8 83 (1.48%) Splunk
9 77 (1.37%) SAP
10 72 (1.28%) Red Hat
11 61 (1.08%) Dynatrace
12 54 (0.96%) OpenAI
13 50 (0.89%) 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 26 (0.46%) Foundry
20 23 (0.41%) Apple