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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 18 24
Rank change year-on-year -22 +6 -12
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 3,958 3,652 7,206
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.45% 8.69% 7.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.93% 9.36% 8.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,788 2,592 5,368
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,208 £55,000 £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 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -2.44%

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 66,694 39,010 81,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.98% 92.82% 85.70%
Number of salaries quoted 41,292 22,669 59,633
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -24 3,414 £71,750 +2.50% 1,228
UK excluding London -29 2,267 £65,000 - 965
Work from Home -8 1,480 £70,000 - 931
London -10 1,339 £82,500 - 442
North of England -10 729 £70,000 +3.70% 274
South East -33 478 £65,000 - 288
North West -2 347 £70,000 +0.89% 148
South West -13 345 £60,000 -11.11% 120
Midlands -26 297 £65,500 +9.17% 127
Yorkshire -13 275 £70,000 +3.32% 66
Scotland -5 203 £56,250 -19.64% 40
West Midlands -33 190 £62,500 +4.17% 70
East of England -37 133 £67,500 +5.88% 83
North East -1 107 £55,000 -15.38% 60
East Midlands -19 103 £70,000 +7.69% 56
Wales -13 72 £53,135 -15.99% 26
Northern Ireland -34 17 £84,401 +53.46% 24
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

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 78 (1.97%) Confluence
2 76 (1.92%) SharePoint
3 54 (1.36%) Apache
4 52 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
5 44 (1.11%) Apache Spark
6 42 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
7 33 (0.83%) IIS
8 17 (0.43%) CMS
9 14 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
10 13 (0.33%) SAS
11 12 (0.30%) OpenStack
12 11 (0.28%) Moodle
13 8 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 8 (0.20%) Tomcat
14 7 (0.18%) Anypoint
14 7 (0.18%) nginx
15 6 (0.15%) Apache Solr
16 5 (0.13%) Appian
16 5 (0.13%) WordPress
17 4 (0.10%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 38 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (0.71%) MS Visio
3 21 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
4 14 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.20%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.18%) PlantUML
8 3 (0.076%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.051%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.025%) EngageOne
10 1 (0.025%) Maya
10 1 (0.025%) Simulink
10 1 (0.025%) Sketch
10 1 (0.025%) Trello
Business Applications
1 54 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
3 15 (0.38%) SAP ERP
4 14 (0.35%) Endur
5 7 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
6 6 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
7 5 (0.13%) Visualfiles
8 4 (0.10%) Markit EDM
8 4 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.10%) Shopify
9 3 (0.076%) Elite 3E
10 2 (0.051%) Distributed Ledger
10 2 (0.051%) Infor SunSystems
10 2 (0.051%) Magento
10 2 (0.051%) Workday HCM
11 1 (0.025%) Dynamics NAV
11 1 (0.025%) SAP FS
11 1 (0.025%) SAP MII
11 1 (0.025%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2,133 (53.89%) Azure
2 1,333 (33.68%) AWS
3 1,027 (25.95%) Azure DevOps
4 527 (13.31%) GitHub
5 471 (11.90%) GCP
6 415 (10.49%) Serverless
7 316 (7.98%) Power Platform
8 287 (7.25%) GitHub Actions
9 257 (6.49%) SaaS
10 224 (5.66%) AWS CloudFormation
11 220 (5.56%) Amazon S3
12 219 (5.53%) AWS Lambda
13 163 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
14 157 (3.97%) Entra ID
15 153 (3.87%) PaaS
16 148 (3.74%) Azure Data Factory
17 143 (3.61%) Amazon EKS
18 138 (3.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 129 (3.26%) Amazon ECS
20 122 (3.08%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 138 (3.49%) Firewall
2 86 (2.17%) DNS
3 59 (1.49%) Broadband
3 59 (1.49%) TCP/IP
4 50 (1.26%) VPN
5 46 (1.16%) Network Security
6 38 (0.96%) WAN
7 36 (0.91%) HTTP
8 26 (0.66%) LAN
9 24 (0.61%) DHCP
10 10 (0.25%) SAN
11 9 (0.23%) BGP
11 9 (0.23%) SSL
11 9 (0.23%) Wireless
12 6 (0.15%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (0.15%) HTTPS
12 6 (0.15%) Internet
12 6 (0.15%) SD-WAN
13 5 (0.13%) MPLS
14 4 (0.10%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 262 (6.62%) SQL Server
2 206 (5.20%) NoSQL
3 180 (4.55%) Power BI
4 146 (3.69%) PostgreSQL
5 116 (2.93%) DynamoDB
6 101 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
7 98 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
8 96 (2.43%) MongoDB
9 92 (2.32%) Data Lake
10 86 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
11 77 (1.95%) Relational Database
12 67 (1.69%) Metadata
13 60 (1.52%) MySQL
14 54 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
15 40 (1.01%) BigQuery
16 39 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
17 37 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 36 (0.91%) Delta Lake
19 35 (0.88%) Tableau
20 33 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 427 (10.79%) Git
2 390 (9.85%) Jenkins
3 335 (8.46%) GitLab
4 258 (6.52%) JIRA
5 105 (2.65%) SonarQube
6 90 (2.27%) Selenium
7 89 (2.25%) Cypress.io
8 60 (1.52%) Maven
9 48 (1.21%) Bitbucket
10 44 (1.11%) Postman
11 43 (1.09%) Cucumber
12 34 (0.86%) CircleCI
13 30 (0.76%) TeamCity
14 29 (0.73%) JUnit
15 27 (0.68%) Visual Studio
16 25 (0.63%) JMeter
17 24 (0.61%) Eclipse
17 24 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
18 21 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
19 20 (0.51%) Subversion
General
1 908 (22.94%) Finance
1 908 (22.94%) Social Skills
2 383 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
3 243 (6.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 240 (6.06%) Public Sector
5 214 (5.41%) Banking
6 133 (3.36%) Law
7 127 (3.21%) Retail
8 111 (2.80%) Marketing
9 75 (1.89%) Legal
10 73 (1.84%) Telecoms
11 71 (1.79%) Games
12 49 (1.24%) Manufacturing
13 41 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
14 40 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
15 39 (0.99%) Advertising
16 35 (0.88%) Financial Institution
17 34 (0.86%) Billing
18 28 (0.71%) Front Office
19 26 (0.66%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 832 (21.02%) Senior
2 785 (19.83%) DevOps Engineer
3 658 (16.62%) Developer
4 581 (14.68%) Lead
5 344 (8.69%) Architect
6 284 (7.18%) Software Engineer
7 268 (6.77%) Azure Engineer
8 257 (6.49%) Cloud Engineer
9 192 (4.85%) Senior DevOps
10 179 (4.52%) Senior Developer
11 160 (4.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 159 (4.02%) Data Engineer
13 151 (3.82%) Solutions Architect
14 148 (3.74%) AWS Engineer
15 130 (3.28%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 128 (3.23%) Lead DevOps
16 128 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
17 121 (3.06%) Java Developer
18 114 (2.88%) Full-Stack Developer
19 107 (2.70%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 442 (11.17%) .NET
2 351 (8.87%) React
3 263 (6.64%) REST
4 241 (6.09%) RESTful
5 230 (5.81%) Node.js
6 183 (4.62%) Spring Boot
7 166 (4.19%) Spring
8 159 (4.02%) Kafka
9 147 (3.71%) AngularJS
10 144 (3.64%) CSS
11 136 (3.44%) HTML
12 128 (3.23%) SOAP
13 116 (2.93%) OAuth
14 111 (2.80%) Middleware
15 109 (2.75%) .NET Core
16 103 (2.60%) Elastic Stack
17 93 (2.35%) ASP.NET
18 91 (2.30%) .NET Framework
19 85 (2.15%) Lightning Web Components
19 85 (2.15%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 540 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 273 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 140 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
4 118 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
5 96 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
6 81 (2.05%) Management Information System
7 69 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
8 58 (1.47%) Mobile App
8 58 (1.47%) Public Cloud
9 55 (1.39%) Low-Code
10 53 (1.34%) Onboarding
10 53 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
11 47 (1.19%) Data Centre
12 45 (1.14%) Algorithms
12 45 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
13 37 (0.93%) Data Structures
14 35 (0.88%) Security Posture
15 31 (0.78%) AI Agents
16 26 (0.66%) Blockchain
16 26 (0.66%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 385 (9.73%) Linux
2 205 (5.18%) Windows
3 80 (2.02%) Windows Server
4 77 (1.95%) Unix
5 42 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 33 (0.83%) Ubuntu
7 30 (0.76%) Android
8 28 (0.71%) VMS
9 26 (0.66%) CentOS
10 25 (0.63%) Apple iOS
11 11 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
12 9 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
13 7 (0.18%) Debian
13 7 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.10%) Kali Linux
15 2 (0.051%) Embedded Linux
15 2 (0.051%) Rocky
16 1 (0.025%) Mac OS
16 1 (0.025%) SUSE
16 1 (0.025%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,017 (50.96%) CI/CD
2 1,449 (36.61%) Agile
3 957 (24.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 752 (19.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 719 (18.17%) Problem-Solving
6 645 (16.30%) Software Engineering
7 643 (16.25%) Mentoring
8 588 (14.86%) AI
9 576 (14.55%) Test Automation
10 562 (14.20%) Containerisation
11 540 (13.64%) Microservices
12 458 (11.57%) Observability
13 436 (11.02%) Roadmaps
14 413 (10.43%) Analytics
15 387 (9.78%) Scrum
16 354 (8.94%) Full-Stack Development
17 333 (8.41%) Platform Engineering
18 325 (8.21%) Technical Leadership
19 316 (7.98%) Coaching
20 308 (7.78%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,021 (25.80%) Python
2 732 (18.49%) SQL
3 557 (14.07%) Java
4 431 (10.89%) C#
5 399 (10.08%) JavaScript
6 335 (8.46%) Bash
7 308 (7.78%) TypeScript
8 260 (6.57%) PowerShell
9 163 (4.12%) Go
10 121 (3.06%) Bicep
11 92 (2.32%) C++
12 88 (2.22%) Apex Code
13 53 (1.34%) Groovy
13 53 (1.34%) PHP
14 40 (1.01%) SOQL
14 40 (1.01%) SOSL
15 39 (0.99%) Scala
16 30 (0.76%) T-SQL
17 29 (0.73%) Kotlin
18 28 (0.71%) Rust
Qualifications
1 517 (13.06%) Security Cleared
2 435 (10.99%) Degree
3 298 (7.53%) SC Cleared
4 201 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 138 (3.49%) DV Cleared
6 123 (3.11%) AWS Certification
7 95 (2.40%) Azure Certification
8 83 (2.10%) Master's Degree
9 51 (1.29%) ISTQB
10 43 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
11 34 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
12 32 (0.81%) DBS Check
13 31 (0.78%) PMI Certification
14 30 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 29 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 29 (0.73%) CISSP
16 24 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
17 22 (0.56%) PMP
18 20 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
18 20 (0.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 325 (8.21%) QA
2 149 (3.76%) Data Quality
3 115 (2.91%) Accessibility
4 114 (2.88%) GDPR
5 84 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 65 (1.64%) NIST
7 46 (1.16%) GRC
8 38 (0.96%) SOC 2
9 35 (0.88%) PCI DSS
10 22 (0.56%) SLA
11 21 (0.53%) WCAG
12 19 (0.48%) NCSC
13 14 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
14 12 (0.30%) PMO
15 11 (0.28%) TickIT
16 9 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 9 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 12207
17 7 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 7 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
18 6 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 705 (17.81%) Docker
2 143 (3.61%) Active Directory
3 45 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.38%) vSphere
6 11 (0.28%) Firmware
6 11 (0.28%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.10%) iptables
8 4 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.076%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.076%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.076%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.076%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.051%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.051%) KVM
10 2 (0.051%) Postfix
11 1 (0.025%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.025%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.025%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 984 (24.86%) Terraform
2 754 (19.05%) Kubernetes
3 372 (9.40%) Ansible
4 232 (5.86%) Grafana
5 187 (4.72%) Prometheus
6 80 (2.02%) Argo
7 45 (1.14%) Puppet
8 42 (1.06%) HP Fortify
9 39 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
10 35 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
11 31 (0.78%) Nagios
12 22 (0.56%) Kibana
13 19 (0.48%) Kustomize
14 17 (0.43%) Progress Chef
14 17 (0.43%) Rancher
15 14 (0.35%) Istio
16 13 (0.33%) Packer
17 11 (0.28%) logstash
18 10 (0.25%) Proxmox
19 9 (0.23%) yum
Vendors
1 746 (18.85%) Microsoft
2 155 (3.92%) Databricks
2 155 (3.92%) Salesforce
3 143 (3.61%) Google
4 98 (2.48%) Oracle
5 86 (2.17%) Splunk
6 78 (1.97%) VMware
7 74 (1.87%) Red Hat
8 68 (1.72%) ServiceNow
9 47 (1.19%) MuleSoft
9 47 (1.19%) SAP
10 36 (0.91%) Palo Alto
11 34 (0.86%) Cisco
12 26 (0.66%) OpenAI
13 25 (0.63%) Dynatrace
13 25 (0.63%) Pega
14 23 (0.58%) Adobe
15 21 (0.53%) CrowdStrike
16 20 (0.51%) Okta
17 19 (0.48%) IBM