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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 22 21
Rank change year-on-year -8 -1 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,614 3,775 5,255
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.76% 7.59% 7.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.51% 8.52% 8.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3,829 2,131 3,234
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 £68,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.19% -2.14%
75th Percentile £88,148 £85,725 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 86,265 44,296 59,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.17% 89.00% 82.18%
Number of salaries quoted 59,107 24,598 32,082
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
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 £97,500
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 9 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 9 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 4,838 £70,000 - 4,712
UK excluding London -3 3,591 £65,000 +4.00% 2,364
Work from Home -2 1,899 £69,310 -0.11% 2,135
London -8 1,578 £85,000 +6.25% 2,521
North of England +7 1,286 £67,500 +3.85% 721
North West +7 701 £70,000 +7.69% 382
South East -4 678 £65,000 - 534
South West +26 561 £75,000 +25.00% 258
Midlands -19 459 £62,500 -3.85% 280
North East +22 312 £60,000 +14.29% 119
Yorkshire +19 282 £70,000 +12.00% 224
West Midlands -22 274 £70,000 +7.69% 178
Wales -1 199 £55,000 - 80
East of England +3 194 £55,000 -8.33% 222
East Midlands +9 185 £60,000 +4.35% 102
Scotland -19 118 £62,500 -3.85% 202
Northern Ireland -8 114 £72,246 -31.19% 77
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
1 114 (2.03%) SharePoint
2 113 (2.01%) Apache Spark
3 112 (2.00%) Confluence
4 91 (1.62%) Apache
5 43 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
6 42 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
7 27 (0.48%) CMS
8 24 (0.43%) IIS
9 22 (0.39%) OpenStack
10 18 (0.32%) Jupyter
11 16 (0.29%) nginx
12 12 (0.21%) SAS
12 12 (0.21%) WebLogic
13 11 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 9 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
15 8 (0.14%) CICS
15 8 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
15 8 (0.14%) Umbraco
16 7 (0.12%) Camunda
17 6 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 70 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
2 46 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 34 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
4 31 (0.55%) 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%) Notion
10 3 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.036%) Lightworks
12 1 (0.018%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 89 (1.59%) 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 2,923 (52.07%) Azure
2 1,813 (32.29%) AWS
3 1,486 (26.47%) Azure DevOps
4 628 (11.19%) GCP
5 573 (10.21%) GitHub
6 487 (8.67%) Serverless
7 454 (8.09%) SaaS
8 442 (7.87%) Power Platform
9 312 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
10 295 (5.25%) AWS CloudFormation
11 222 (3.95%) Dynamics 365
12 213 (3.79%) PaaS
13 207 (3.69%) Amazon S3
14 193 (3.44%) AWS Lambda
15 182 (3.24%) Azure Data Factory
16 174 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
17 170 (3.03%) Entra ID
18 168 (2.99%) Azure AKS
19 165 (2.94%) Power Automate
20 163 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 137 (2.44%) Firewall
2 96 (1.71%) DNS
3 90 (1.60%) VPN
4 69 (1.23%) Internet
5 61 (1.09%) TCP/IP
6 47 (0.84%) Network Security
7 26 (0.46%) HTTP
8 23 (0.41%) DHCP
9 16 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (0.27%) DMARC
10 15 (0.27%) MQTT
11 14 (0.25%) Broadband
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
1 357 (6.36%) SQL Server
2 305 (5.43%) Azure SQL Database
3 294 (5.24%) MongoDB
4 247 (4.40%) Power BI
5 227 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
6 193 (3.44%) NoSQL
7 147 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
8 129 (2.30%) MySQL
9 120 (2.14%) Relational Database
10 107 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
11 102 (1.82%) Metadata
12 100 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
13 94 (1.67%) Data Lake
14 92 (1.64%) DynamoDB
15 76 (1.35%) Redis
16 51 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
17 50 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
18 41 (0.73%) Big Data
18 41 (0.73%) Delta Lake
19 35 (0.62%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 678 (12.08%) Git
2 404 (7.20%) GitLab
3 397 (7.07%) Jenkins
4 344 (6.13%) JIRA
5 81 (1.44%) Selenium
6 57 (1.02%) JUnit
7 56 (1.00%) Cypress.io
8 54 (0.96%) TeamCity
9 53 (0.94%) SonarQube
10 51 (0.91%) Maven
11 42 (0.75%) Postman
12 37 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 37 (0.66%) Cucumber
13 31 (0.55%) Claude Code
14 28 (0.50%) Bitbucket
15 26 (0.46%) JMeter
16 24 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
17 22 (0.39%) Mockito
18 19 (0.34%) Subversion
19 18 (0.32%) NUnit
General
1 1,323 (23.57%) Social Skills
2 1,084 (19.31%) Finance
3 564 (10.05%) Public Sector
4 492 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
5 349 (6.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 236 (4.20%) Banking
7 213 (3.79%) Law
8 170 (3.03%) Retail
9 165 (2.94%) Legal
10 79 (1.41%) Financial Institution
11 73 (1.30%) Marketing
12 60 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
13 58 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
14 55 (0.98%) Aerospace
14 55 (0.98%) Manufacturing
15 52 (0.93%) Telecoms
16 50 (0.89%) Back Office
17 49 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
18 40 (0.71%) Advertising
19 31 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,479 (26.34%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,322 (23.55%) Senior
3 855 (15.23%) Developer
4 696 (12.40%) Lead
5 425 (7.57%) Architect
6 381 (6.79%) Software Engineer
7 360 (6.41%) Senior DevOps
8 354 (6.31%) Azure Engineer
9 332 (5.91%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 300 (5.34%) Cloud Engineer
11 243 (4.33%) Platform Engineer
12 242 (4.31%) .NET Developer
13 212 (3.78%) Data Engineer
14 201 (3.58%) Senior Developer
15 188 (3.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 172 (3.06%) Lead DevOps
17 160 (2.85%) AWS Engineer
18 154 (2.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 152 (2.71%) Consultant
20 141 (2.51%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,378 (24.55%) Terraform
2 724 (12.90%) .NET
3 395 (7.04%) React
4 347 (6.18%) REST
5 338 (6.02%) RESTful
6 327 (5.82%) Node.js
7 296 (5.27%) ASP.NET
8 289 (5.15%) Spring
9 283 (5.04%) Spring Boot
10 267 (4.76%) .NET Core
11 237 (4.22%) Kafka
12 232 (4.13%) CSS
13 230 (4.10%) HTML
14 225 (4.01%) ASP.NET Core
15 158 (2.81%) AngularJS
16 133 (2.37%) Entity Framework
17 131 (2.33%) Blazor
18 121 (2.16%) Middleware
19 109 (1.94%) JSON
20 95 (1.69%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1,040 (18.53%) Cloud Native
2 345 (6.15%) Product Ownership
3 269 (4.79%) Distributed Systems
4 257 (4.58%) Enterprise Software
5 162 (2.89%) Onboarding
6 128 (2.28%) Virtual Team
7 119 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
8 106 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
9 90 (1.60%) Management Information System
10 79 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
11 74 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
12 73 (1.30%) AI Agents
13 72 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
14 67 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
15 64 (1.14%) Mobile App
16 62 (1.10%) Public Cloud
17 61 (1.09%) Data Centre
18 53 (0.94%) Data Structures
18 53 (0.94%) Private Cloud
19 52 (0.93%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 603 (10.74%) Linux
2 255 (4.54%) Windows
3 117 (2.08%) Unix
4 68 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 62 (1.10%) Windows Server
6 48 (0.86%) 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 2,886 (51.41%) CI/CD
2 2,053 (36.57%) Agile
3 1,400 (24.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,135 (20.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,112 (19.81%) Mentoring
6 1,035 (18.44%) AI
7 1,016 (18.10%) Software Engineering
8 939 (16.73%) Problem-Solving
9 855 (15.23%) Test Automation
10 749 (13.34%) Containerisation
11 742 (13.22%) Microservices
12 708 (12.61%) Platform Engineering
13 642 (11.44%) Technical Leadership
14 616 (10.97%) Observability
14 616 (10.97%) Stakeholder Management
15 543 (9.67%) Roadmaps
16 519 (9.24%) Scrum
17 511 (9.10%) Analytics
18 497 (8.85%) Full-Stack Development
19 407 (7.25%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,298 (23.12%) Python
2 982 (17.49%) SQL
3 799 (14.23%) C#
4 739 (13.16%) Java
5 657 (11.70%) JavaScript
6 411 (7.32%) TypeScript
7 394 (7.02%) PowerShell
8 392 (6.98%) Bash
9 169 (3.01%) Bicep
10 141 (2.51%) Go
11 116 (2.07%) C++
12 60 (1.07%) Shell Script
13 59 (1.05%) T-SQL
14 51 (0.91%) Scala
15 50 (0.89%) PHP
16 46 (0.82%) C
17 45 (0.80%) Kotlin
18 42 (0.75%) Groovy
19 39 (0.69%) Ruby
20 38 (0.68%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,104 (19.67%) Security Cleared
2 738 (13.15%) SC Cleared
3 499 (8.89%) Degree
4 304 (5.42%) DV Cleared
5 200 (3.56%) Azure Certification
6 182 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 111 (1.98%) AWS Certification
8 97 (1.73%) Master's Degree
9 89 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
10 81 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
11 76 (1.35%) CISSP
12 72 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
13 66 (1.18%) CISM
14 49 (0.87%) ISTQB
15 37 (0.66%) PMI Certification
16 27 (0.48%) PhD
17 26 (0.46%) DBS Check
18 25 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 25 (0.45%) PMP
18 25 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 531 (9.46%) QA
2 222 (3.95%) Data Quality
3 189 (3.37%) Accessibility
4 131 (2.33%) GDPR
5 95 (1.69%) NIST
6 69 (1.23%) 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 28 (0.50%) PMO
13 27 (0.48%) NCSC
14 17 (0.30%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
16 12 (0.21%) HIPAA
17 9 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 9 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 9 (0.16%) NIST 800
18 8 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 955 (17.01%) Docker
2 138 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 82 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (0.48%) vSphere
6 23 (0.41%) 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 1,102 (19.63%) Kubernetes
2 473 (8.43%) Ansible
3 268 (4.77%) Grafana
4 186 (3.31%) Prometheus
5 86 (1.53%) Argo
6 64 (1.14%) Puppet
7 45 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
8 27 (0.48%) Rancher
9 26 (0.46%) Istio
10 25 (0.45%) Kibana
11 23 (0.41%) Nagios
12 22 (0.39%) Progress Chef
13 21 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
14 15 (0.27%) logstash
14 15 (0.27%) Podman
15 14 (0.25%) HP Fortify
15 14 (0.25%) Packer
16 11 (0.20%) Proxmox
17 9 (0.16%) yum
17 9 (0.16%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1,185 (21.11%) Microsoft
2 237 (4.22%) Google
3 178 (3.17%) Databricks
4 133 (2.37%) Oracle
5 118 (2.10%) VMware
6 112 (2.00%) Salesforce
7 99 (1.76%) ServiceNow
8 83 (1.48%) Splunk
9 78 (1.39%) SAP
10 72 (1.28%) Red Hat
11 61 (1.09%) Dynatrace
12 55 (0.98%) 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 27 (0.48%) Foundry
20 23 (0.41%) Apple