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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 21 23
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 -11
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,416 4,016 5,663
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.03% 8.05% 6.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.87% 9.03% 8.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,863 2,288 3,869
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 £86,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +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 78,861 44,450 67,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.27% 89.12% 80.81%
Number of salaries quoted 54,468 25,168 42,663
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 21 August 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 21 August 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 4,683 £70,450 +0.64% 1,148
UK excluding London -3 3,505 £65,000 - 900
Work from Home -2 1,919 £69,306 -0.99% 641
London -12 1,523 £85,000 +6.25% 455
North of England +4 1,242 £67,500 +3.85% 245
South East -10 702 £65,000 +1.56% 290
North West +5 681 £70,000 +7.69% 131
South West +15 513 £70,000 +7.69% 127
Midlands -17 412 £67,500 +3.85% 122
Yorkshire +16 292 £70,000 +12.00% 69
North East +25 269 £60,000 -7.69% 48
West Midlands -25 245 £70,000 +7.69% 80
East of England +11 209 £59,450 -8.54% 54
Wales +7 190 £55,000 - 28
East Midlands +4 167 £63,000 +9.56% 42
Scotland -4 137 £60,000 -14.29% 40
Northern Ireland +1 114 £72,246 -44.43% 8
Isle of Man 0 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 (1.99%) Confluence
2 98 (1.81%) Apache Spark
3 95 (1.75%) SharePoint
4 81 (1.50%) Apache
5 45 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
6 39 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
7 30 (0.55%) CMS
8 29 (0.54%) IIS
9 23 (0.42%) OpenStack
10 19 (0.35%) SAS
11 14 (0.26%) Jupyter
11 14 (0.26%) nginx
11 14 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
12 9 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
12 9 (0.17%) Umbraco
12 9 (0.17%) WordPress
13 8 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 8 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
14 7 (0.13%) Anypoint
14 7 (0.13%) Camunda
Applications
1 61 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
2 44 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.39%) MS Visio
3 21 (0.39%) PlantUML
4 19 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 19 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
5 18 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.24%) Trello
7 7 (0.13%) Simulink
8 4 (0.074%) Maya
9 3 (0.055%) Blender
9 3 (0.055%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.037%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.018%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.018%) Notion
11 1 (0.018%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 77 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.20%) Elite 3E
4 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
4 6 (0.11%) Teamcenter
5 5 (0.092%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.092%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.092%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.092%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (0.092%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.074%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.074%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.074%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.074%) Shopify
7 3 (0.055%) Infor SunSystems
7 3 (0.055%) Magento
7 3 (0.055%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (0.055%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.055%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.055%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 2,848 (52.58%) Azure
2 1,760 (32.50%) AWS
3 1,419 (26.20%) Azure DevOps
4 590 (10.89%) GCP
5 540 (9.97%) GitHub
6 486 (8.97%) Serverless
7 442 (8.16%) SaaS
8 384 (7.09%) Power Platform
9 282 (5.21%) GitHub Actions
10 279 (5.15%) AWS CloudFormation
11 229 (4.23%) Amazon S3
12 212 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
13 211 (3.90%) PaaS
14 186 (3.43%) Dynamics 365
15 167 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
16 158 (2.92%) Azure AKS
17 153 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
17 153 (2.82%) Azure Service Bus
18 152 (2.81%) Amazon EKS
19 149 (2.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 125 (2.31%) Firewall
2 87 (1.61%) DNS
3 68 (1.26%) VPN
4 63 (1.16%) TCP/IP
5 47 (0.87%) Network Security
6 36 (0.66%) Broadband
7 33 (0.61%) Internet
8 26 (0.48%) HTTP
9 24 (0.44%) DHCP
10 18 (0.33%) LAN
11 16 (0.30%) MQTT
11 16 (0.30%) WAN
12 13 (0.24%) DMARC
12 13 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
12 13 (0.24%) Wireless
13 12 (0.22%) SAN
14 9 (0.17%) BGP
14 9 (0.17%) HTTPS
15 8 (0.15%) NAS
15 8 (0.15%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 342 (6.31%) SQL Server
2 289 (5.34%) MongoDB
3 281 (5.19%) Azure SQL Database
4 219 (4.04%) Power BI
5 206 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
6 192 (3.55%) NoSQL
7 118 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
7 118 (2.18%) MySQL
8 113 (2.09%) Relational Database
9 103 (1.90%) DynamoDB
10 97 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
11 96 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
12 89 (1.64%) Data Lake
13 67 (1.24%) Metadata
14 61 (1.13%) Redis
15 47 (0.87%) Big Data
16 44 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
17 41 (0.76%) Delta Lake
18 38 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
19 32 (0.59%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 610 (11.26%) Git
2 411 (7.59%) Jenkins
3 402 (7.42%) GitLab
4 356 (6.57%) JIRA
5 91 (1.68%) Selenium
6 82 (1.51%) SonarQube
7 64 (1.18%) Cypress.io
8 56 (1.03%) Maven
8 56 (1.03%) Postman
9 54 (1.00%) JUnit
10 42 (0.78%) Cucumber
11 40 (0.74%) TeamCity
12 36 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 36 (0.66%) JMeter
13 33 (0.61%) Bitbucket
14 27 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
15 25 (0.46%) NUnit
15 25 (0.46%) REST Assured
16 20 (0.37%) Mockito
16 20 (0.37%) Zephyr
General
1 1,240 (22.90%) Social Skills
2 1,052 (19.42%) Finance
3 451 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 427 (7.88%) Analytical Skills
5 336 (6.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 263 (4.86%) Banking
7 207 (3.82%) Law
8 169 (3.12%) Legal
9 161 (2.97%) Retail
10 99 (1.83%) Marketing
11 63 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
12 60 (1.11%) Games
13 59 (1.09%) Financial Institution
14 54 (1.00%) Manufacturing
15 50 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
16 48 (0.89%) Advertising
17 47 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
18 38 (0.70%) Aerospace
18 38 (0.70%) Telecoms
19 36 (0.66%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,266 (23.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,193 (22.03%) Senior
3 900 (16.62%) Developer
4 717 (13.24%) Lead
5 417 (7.70%) Architect
6 374 (6.91%) Software Engineer
7 341 (6.30%) Azure Engineer
8 293 (5.41%) Senior DevOps
9 280 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
10 275 (5.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 241 (4.45%) .NET Developer
12 219 (4.04%) Platform Engineer
13 218 (4.03%) Senior Developer
14 198 (3.66%) Data Engineer
15 188 (3.47%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 163 (3.01%) Lead DevOps
17 156 (2.88%) AWS Engineer
18 150 (2.77%) Solutions Architect
19 134 (2.47%) Java Developer
20 124 (2.29%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,327 (24.50%) Terraform
2 749 (13.83%) .NET
3 447 (8.25%) React
4 342 (6.31%) REST
5 339 (6.26%) RESTful
6 338 (6.24%) Node.js
7 308 (5.69%) ASP.NET
8 289 (5.34%) .NET Core
9 246 (4.54%) CSS
9 246 (4.54%) Spring Boot
10 245 (4.52%) HTML
11 244 (4.51%) Spring
12 232 (4.28%) ASP.NET Core
13 213 (3.93%) Kafka
14 167 (3.08%) AngularJS
15 143 (2.64%) Blazor
15 143 (2.64%) Entity Framework
16 124 (2.29%) Middleware
17 105 (1.94%) JSON
18 102 (1.88%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 960 (17.73%) Cloud Native
2 355 (6.55%) Product Ownership
3 258 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 212 (3.91%) Enterprise Software
5 158 (2.92%) Onboarding
6 113 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
7 105 (1.94%) Virtual Team
8 85 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
9 80 (1.48%) Management Information System
10 77 (1.42%) Data Centre
10 77 (1.42%) Mobile App
11 72 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
12 64 (1.18%) Public Cloud
13 63 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
13 63 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
14 53 (0.98%) Data Structures
15 48 (0.89%) AI Agents
15 48 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
16 45 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
17 43 (0.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 543 (10.03%) Linux
2 256 (4.73%) Windows
3 99 (1.83%) Unix
4 75 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 72 (1.33%) Windows Server
6 56 (1.03%) CentOS
7 42 (0.78%) Ubuntu
8 38 (0.70%) VMS
9 31 (0.57%) Android
10 17 (0.31%) Apple iOS
10 17 (0.31%) Debian
11 11 (0.20%) Rocky
12 7 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
13 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.092%) Kali Linux
14 5 (0.092%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.074%) Solaris
15 4 (0.074%) Windows Server 2019
16 3 (0.055%) AIX
16 3 (0.055%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,736 (50.52%) CI/CD
2 2,011 (37.13%) Agile
3 1,311 (24.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,042 (19.24%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,004 (18.54%) Mentoring
6 982 (18.13%) Software Engineering
7 937 (17.30%) AI
8 882 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
9 827 (15.27%) Test Automation
10 733 (13.53%) Microservices
11 681 (12.57%) Containerisation
12 615 (11.36%) Platform Engineering
13 590 (10.89%) Observability
14 569 (10.51%) Technical Leadership
15 563 (10.40%) Roadmaps
16 560 (10.34%) Full-Stack Development
17 544 (10.04%) Scrum
18 513 (9.47%) Stakeholder Management
19 476 (8.79%) Analytics
20 388 (7.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,277 (23.58%) Python
2 980 (18.09%) SQL
3 811 (14.97%) C#
4 699 (12.91%) Java
5 663 (12.24%) JavaScript
6 418 (7.72%) TypeScript
7 376 (6.94%) PowerShell
8 372 (6.87%) Bash
9 158 (2.92%) Bicep
10 124 (2.29%) C++
11 120 (2.22%) Go
12 57 (1.05%) PHP
13 56 (1.03%) Apex Code
14 52 (0.96%) C
14 52 (0.96%) T-SQL
15 47 (0.87%) Scala
16 45 (0.83%) Groovy
17 43 (0.79%) Kotlin
18 38 (0.70%) Ruby
18 38 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 948 (17.50%) Security Cleared
2 628 (11.60%) SC Cleared
3 521 (9.62%) Degree
4 274 (5.06%) DV Cleared
5 199 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 157 (2.90%) Azure Certification
7 112 (2.07%) Master's Degree
8 99 (1.83%) AWS Certification
9 78 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
10 77 (1.42%) CISSP
11 66 (1.22%) CISM
12 65 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
13 57 (1.05%) ISTQB
14 54 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
15 41 (0.76%) PMI Certification
16 34 (0.63%) DBS Check
17 29 (0.54%) PMP
18 28 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 23 (0.42%) PhD
20 22 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 549 (10.14%) QA
2 186 (3.43%) Accessibility
3 184 (3.40%) Data Quality
4 121 (2.23%) GDPR
5 103 (1.90%) NIST
6 74 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 61 (1.13%) WCAG
8 49 (0.90%) ISO 22301
9 46 (0.85%) GRC
10 35 (0.65%) PCI DSS
11 28 (0.52%) PMO
11 28 (0.52%) SLA
12 27 (0.50%) NCSC
13 20 (0.37%) SOC 2
14 13 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
15 12 (0.22%) HIPAA
15 12 (0.22%) TickIT
16 10 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 10 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
17 9 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 883 (16.30%) Docker
2 141 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 84 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.54%) vSphere
6 23 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 22 (0.41%) Firmware
8 16 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.13%) Ceph
10 6 (0.11%) KVM
10 6 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.092%) iptables
12 4 (0.074%) NDS
12 4 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.055%) Xen
14 2 (0.037%) Embedded Firmware
14 2 (0.037%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.018%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.018%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,000 (18.46%) Kubernetes
2 466 (8.60%) Ansible
3 225 (4.15%) Grafana
4 163 (3.01%) Prometheus
5 80 (1.48%) Argo
6 67 (1.24%) Puppet
7 36 (0.66%) Nagios
8 33 (0.61%) Istio
9 30 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
10 24 (0.44%) Kibana
11 21 (0.39%) HP Fortify
12 20 (0.37%) Progress Chef
13 13 (0.24%) Rancher
13 13 (0.24%) ZABBIX
14 12 (0.22%) Packer
14 12 (0.22%) Podman
15 11 (0.20%) logstash
16 10 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
17 8 (0.15%) Check_MK
17 8 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 1,061 (19.59%) Microsoft
2 204 (3.77%) Google
3 182 (3.36%) Databricks
4 134 (2.47%) Salesforce
5 122 (2.25%) Oracle
6 116 (2.14%) VMware
7 95 (1.75%) Splunk
8 93 (1.72%) ServiceNow
9 92 (1.70%) Red Hat
10 72 (1.33%) SAP
11 53 (0.98%) OpenAI
12 51 (0.94%) Pega
13 50 (0.92%) Cisco
14 46 (0.85%) Dynatrace
15 42 (0.78%) Facebook
16 37 (0.68%) MuleSoft
17 32 (0.59%) AppDynamics
17 32 (0.59%) YouTube
18 29 (0.54%) Apple
19 27 (0.50%) Foundry