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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 21 26
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -15
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,946 4,167 7,022
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.07% 8.66% 6.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.88% 9.53% 8.30%
Number of salaries quoted 3,606 2,421 5,077
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,875 £41,250
25th Percentile £54,468 £56,250 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,211
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -2.83%

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 71,935 43,736 84,643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.79% 90.86% 82.47%
Number of salaries quoted 49,710 24,302 59,641
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,068 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.14% - -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 8 July 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 July 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 4,303 £70,000 -2.77% 1,395
UK excluding London -6 3,063 £65,000 - 1,106
Work from Home -2 1,811 £65,576 -6.32% 932
London -7 1,469 £84,000 +5.00% 520
North of England +1 1,090 £69,305 +6.62% 325
South East -10 652 £65,000 - 297
North West 0 593 £70,000 +4.42% 187
South West -1 435 £70,000 +4.85% 127
Midlands -25 364 £65,000 - 139
Yorkshire +8 297 £70,000 - 89
North East +12 200 £60,000 -7.69% 51
West Midlands -27 200 £65,000 - 80
East of England +9 192 £60,000 -7.69% 95
East Midlands +2 163 £65,000 +15.56% 58
Wales +4 145 £53,171 -7.53% 40
Scotland -8 134 £58,033 -17.10% 60
Northern Ireland -19 57 £73,151 -8.56% 46
Isle of Man +2 3 £35,000 -33.33% 2

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 98 (1.98%) Confluence
2 92 (1.86%) SharePoint
3 66 (1.33%) Apache Spark
4 61 (1.23%) Apache
5 46 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
6 45 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
7 31 (0.63%) IIS
8 30 (0.61%) CMS
9 19 (0.38%) SAS
10 15 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
11 12 (0.24%) OpenStack
12 11 (0.22%) nginx
13 10 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
14 9 (0.18%) Jupyter
14 9 (0.18%) Umbraco
14 9 (0.18%) WordPress
15 8 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
16 7 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
17 6 (0.12%) Apache Solr
17 6 (0.12%) Moodle
Applications
1 54 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
2 37 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.40%) PlantUML
4 18 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (0.24%) Chatbot
7 10 (0.20%) Trello
8 8 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
9 7 (0.14%) Simulink
10 4 (0.081%) Maya
11 3 (0.061%) Blender
11 3 (0.061%) Spreadsheet
12 2 (0.040%) Lightworks
13 1 (0.020%) Adobe XD
13 1 (0.020%) EngageOne
13 1 (0.020%) Notion
13 1 (0.020%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 82 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.12%) Elite 3E
3 6 (0.12%) Endur
3 6 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.10%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.10%) SAP IBP
4 5 (0.10%) Visualfiles
5 4 (0.081%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.081%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.061%) Carpe Diem
6 3 (0.061%) Infor SunSystems
6 3 (0.061%) Magento
6 3 (0.061%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.061%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.040%) Adobe Campaign
7 2 (0.040%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.040%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 2 (0.040%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,624 (53.05%) Azure
2 1,617 (32.69%) AWS
3 1,315 (26.59%) Azure DevOps
4 549 (11.10%) GCP
5 505 (10.21%) GitHub
6 477 (9.64%) Serverless
7 351 (7.10%) Power Platform
8 348 (7.04%) SaaS
9 271 (5.48%) GitHub Actions
10 235 (4.75%) AWS CloudFormation
11 231 (4.67%) Amazon S3
12 214 (4.33%) AWS Lambda
13 204 (4.12%) PaaS
14 160 (3.23%) Azure AKS
15 149 (3.01%) Azure Logic Apps
15 149 (3.01%) Dynamics 365
15 149 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
16 146 (2.95%) Amazon EKS
17 144 (2.91%) Amazon ECS
18 139 (2.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 147 (2.97%) Firewall
2 92 (1.86%) DNS
3 66 (1.33%) VPN
4 63 (1.27%) Broadband
4 63 (1.27%) TCP/IP
5 41 (0.83%) Network Security
6 37 (0.75%) HTTP
7 23 (0.47%) DHCP
7 23 (0.47%) Internet
8 21 (0.42%) LAN
8 21 (0.42%) WAN
9 15 (0.30%) MQTT
10 14 (0.28%) Wireless
11 13 (0.26%) DMARC
12 10 (0.20%) BGP
12 10 (0.20%) HTTPS
13 9 (0.18%) SAN
13 9 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
14 8 (0.16%) Bluetooth
15 7 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 273 (5.52%) MongoDB
2 272 (5.50%) SQL Server
3 267 (5.40%) Azure SQL Database
4 195 (3.94%) NoSQL
5 188 (3.80%) Power BI
6 175 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
7 107 (2.16%) DynamoDB
8 96 (1.94%) Relational Database
9 93 (1.88%) MySQL
10 87 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
11 85 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
12 79 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
13 73 (1.48%) Data Lake
14 64 (1.29%) Metadata
15 47 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
16 45 (0.91%) Redis
17 37 (0.75%) Big Data
18 36 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
18 36 (0.73%) Delta Lake
19 32 (0.65%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 504 (10.19%) Git
2 411 (8.31%) Jenkins
3 404 (8.17%) GitLab
4 312 (6.31%) JIRA
5 102 (2.06%) SonarQube
6 82 (1.66%) Selenium
7 79 (1.60%) Cypress.io
8 61 (1.23%) Maven
9 45 (0.91%) Postman
10 44 (0.89%) JUnit
11 37 (0.75%) Cucumber
12 35 (0.71%) Bitbucket
13 33 (0.67%) CircleCI
14 31 (0.63%) JMeter
14 31 (0.63%) TeamCity
15 25 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
16 23 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 22 (0.44%) Eclipse
17 22 (0.44%) Visual Studio
18 21 (0.42%) REST Assured
General
1 1,035 (20.93%) Social Skills
2 971 (19.63%) Finance
3 362 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
4 360 (7.28%) Public Sector
5 298 (6.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 241 (4.87%) Banking
7 195 (3.94%) Law
8 157 (3.17%) Retail
9 113 (2.28%) Marketing
10 110 (2.22%) Legal
11 83 (1.68%) Games
12 62 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
13 57 (1.15%) Manufacturing
14 55 (1.11%) Advertising
15 48 (0.97%) Financial Institution
16 44 (0.89%) Telecoms
17 42 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
17 42 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
18 34 (0.69%) Back Office
19 26 (0.53%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1,105 (22.34%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,031 (20.85%) Senior
3 885 (17.89%) Developer
4 678 (13.71%) Lead
5 411 (8.31%) Architect
6 366 (7.40%) Software Engineer
7 340 (6.87%) Azure Engineer
8 266 (5.38%) Cloud Engineer
9 249 (5.03%) Senior DevOps
10 225 (4.55%) .NET Developer
10 225 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 212 (4.29%) Senior Developer
12 190 (3.84%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 186 (3.76%) Platform Engineer
14 168 (3.40%) Data Engineer
15 164 (3.32%) AWS Engineer
16 159 (3.21%) Solutions Architect
17 147 (2.97%) Java Developer
18 138 (2.79%) Lead DevOps
19 112 (2.26%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 676 (13.67%) .NET
2 444 (8.98%) React
3 310 (6.27%) Node.js
3 310 (6.27%) RESTful
4 302 (6.11%) REST
5 284 (5.74%) ASP.NET
6 255 (5.16%) .NET Core
7 227 (4.59%) CSS
8 226 (4.57%) Spring Boot
9 225 (4.55%) ASP.NET Core
10 223 (4.51%) HTML
11 214 (4.33%) Spring
12 175 (3.54%) Kafka
13 168 (3.40%) AngularJS
14 131 (2.65%) Blazor
15 128 (2.59%) Entity Framework
16 121 (2.45%) Middleware
17 112 (2.26%) YAML
18 103 (2.08%) SOAP
19 94 (1.90%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 807 (16.32%) Cloud Native
2 313 (6.33%) Product Ownership
3 206 (4.16%) Distributed Systems
4 152 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
5 104 (2.10%) Onboarding
6 96 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
7 87 (1.76%) Management Information System
8 82 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
8 82 (1.66%) Mobile App
9 70 (1.42%) Public Cloud
10 69 (1.40%) Data Centre
11 63 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
12 61 (1.23%) Virtual Team
13 59 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
14 51 (1.03%) Low-Code
15 48 (0.97%) Data Structures
16 44 (0.89%) Security Posture
17 43 (0.87%) Algorithms
18 41 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
19 37 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 489 (9.89%) Linux
2 227 (4.59%) Windows
3 96 (1.94%) Unix
4 71 (1.44%) Windows Server
5 62 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 50 (1.01%) Ubuntu
7 42 (0.85%) CentOS
8 40 (0.81%) VMS
9 35 (0.71%) Android
10 21 (0.42%) Apple iOS
11 15 (0.30%) Debian
12 7 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
13 6 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
13 6 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
14 5 (0.10%) Rocky
15 4 (0.081%) Kali Linux
16 3 (0.061%) AIX
17 2 (0.040%) Amazon Linux
17 2 (0.040%) FreeRTOS
18 1 (0.020%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,513 (50.81%) CI/CD
2 1,847 (37.34%) Agile
3 1,190 (24.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 934 (18.88%) Continuous Improvement
5 864 (17.47%) Mentoring
6 844 (17.06%) Software Engineering
7 789 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
8 786 (15.89%) AI
9 723 (14.62%) Test Automation
10 669 (13.53%) Microservices
11 646 (13.06%) Containerisation
12 566 (11.44%) Full-Stack Development
13 538 (10.88%) Roadmaps
14 519 (10.49%) Platform Engineering
15 518 (10.47%) Observability
16 512 (10.35%) Scrum
17 468 (9.46%) Technical Leadership
18 450 (9.10%) Analytics
19 386 (7.80%) Stakeholder Management
20 322 (6.51%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,173 (23.72%) Python
2 889 (17.97%) SQL
3 716 (14.48%) C#
4 669 (13.53%) Java
5 620 (12.54%) JavaScript
6 394 (7.97%) Bash
7 381 (7.70%) TypeScript
8 325 (6.57%) PowerShell
9 154 (3.11%) Bicep
10 143 (2.89%) Go
11 134 (2.71%) C++
12 77 (1.56%) Apex Code
13 59 (1.19%) PHP
14 53 (1.07%) Groovy
15 48 (0.97%) C
15 48 (0.97%) SOQL
16 45 (0.91%) SOSL
17 41 (0.83%) Rust
18 39 (0.79%) Kotlin
19 37 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 783 (15.83%) Security Cleared
2 488 (9.87%) Degree
3 483 (9.77%) SC Cleared
4 197 (3.98%) DV Cleared
5 182 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 123 (2.49%) Azure Certification
7 110 (2.22%) Master's Degree
8 97 (1.96%) AWS Certification
9 65 (1.31%) ITIL Certification
10 61 (1.23%) CISSP
11 53 (1.07%) ISTQB
12 51 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
13 42 (0.85%) CISM
14 36 (0.73%) DBS Check
14 36 (0.73%) PMI Certification
15 31 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 28 (0.57%) PMP
17 27 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 25 (0.51%) PhD
19 20 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 454 (9.18%) QA
2 161 (3.26%) Accessibility
2 161 (3.26%) Data Quality
3 110 (2.22%) GDPR
4 88 (1.78%) NIST
5 71 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 57 (1.15%) WCAG
7 49 (0.99%) GRC
8 43 (0.87%) PCI DSS
9 31 (0.63%) SOC 2
10 29 (0.59%) ISO 22301
11 22 (0.44%) PMO
12 19 (0.38%) SLA
13 15 (0.30%) NCSC
14 12 (0.24%) TickIT
15 10 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
15 10 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
16 8 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 6 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 6 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 804 (16.26%) Docker
2 133 (2.69%) Active Directory
3 76 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.59%) vSphere
6 22 (0.44%) Firmware
7 20 (0.40%) Hyper-V
8 13 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.12%) iptables
11 5 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 4 (0.081%) Embedded Firmware
12 4 (0.081%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.061%) KVM
13 3 (0.061%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.061%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.040%) Xen
15 1 (0.020%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.020%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,207 (24.40%) Terraform
2 914 (18.48%) Kubernetes
3 440 (8.90%) Ansible
4 233 (4.71%) Grafana
5 180 (3.64%) Prometheus
6 79 (1.60%) Argo
7 61 (1.23%) Puppet
8 39 (0.79%) Nagios
9 31 (0.63%) HP Fortify
10 27 (0.55%) Kibana
11 22 (0.44%) Istio
11 22 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
12 16 (0.32%) Rancher
13 15 (0.30%) Packer
14 14 (0.28%) Progress Chef
15 13 (0.26%) Kustomize
15 13 (0.26%) Proxmox
16 10 (0.20%) logstash
17 9 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
17 9 (0.18%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 961 (19.43%) Microsoft
2 191 (3.86%) Google
3 159 (3.21%) Databricks
4 151 (3.05%) Salesforce
5 113 (2.28%) VMware
6 100 (2.02%) ServiceNow
6 100 (2.02%) Splunk
7 93 (1.88%) Oracle
8 81 (1.64%) Red Hat
9 60 (1.21%) SAP
10 55 (1.11%) Pega
11 45 (0.91%) MuleSoft
12 43 (0.87%) Dynatrace
12 43 (0.87%) Facebook
13 42 (0.85%) Cisco
14 38 (0.77%) OpenAI
15 31 (0.63%) Apple
16 30 (0.61%) YouTube
17 26 (0.53%) Foundry
17 26 (0.53%) Palo Alto