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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 21 24
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 -12
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,423 4,000 5,648
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.04% 8.02% 6.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.88% 8.99% 8.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3,867 2,288 3,875
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 £87,125 £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 78,808 44,479 67,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.30% 89.14% 80.83%
Number of salaries quoted 54,325 25,171 42,850
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 £97,250 £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 20 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 20 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 4,690 £70,400 +0.57% 1,624
UK excluding London -2 3,510 £65,000 - 1,104
Work from Home -2 1,919 £69,306 -0.99% 819
London -11 1,525 £85,000 +6.25% 780
North of England +4 1,247 £67,500 +3.85% 285
South East -12 702 £65,000 +1.56% 327
North West +4 680 £70,000 +7.69% 152
South West +16 510 £70,000 +7.69% 150
Midlands -17 414 £67,500 +3.85% 138
Yorkshire +17 296 £70,000 +12.00% 78
North East +25 271 £60,000 -7.69% 56
West Midlands -23 246 £70,000 +7.69% 90
East of England +16 210 £59,450 -8.54% 87
Wales +6 190 £55,000 - 27
East Midlands +4 168 £63,500 +10.43% 48
Scotland -4 137 £60,000 -14.29% 87
Northern Ireland +2 114 £72,246 -44.43% 13
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 (1.49%) Apache
5 45 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
6 39 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
7 30 (0.55%) CMS
8 29 (0.53%) IIS
9 23 (0.42%) OpenStack
10 20 (0.37%) 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 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
2 44 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (0.41%) MS Visio
3 22 (0.41%) 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 10 (0.18%) Elite 3E
4 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
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%) Teamcenter
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 2,854 (52.63%) Azure
2 1,769 (32.62%) AWS
3 1,419 (26.17%) Azure DevOps
4 594 (10.95%) GCP
5 540 (9.96%) GitHub
6 488 (9.00%) Serverless
7 444 (8.19%) SaaS
8 380 (7.01%) Power Platform
9 282 (5.20%) GitHub Actions
10 281 (5.18%) AWS CloudFormation
11 229 (4.22%) Amazon S3
12 212 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
12 212 (3.91%) PaaS
13 186 (3.43%) Dynamics 365
14 169 (3.12%) Microsoft 365
15 158 (2.91%) Azure AKS
16 154 (2.84%) Amazon ECS
17 153 (2.82%) Azure Service Bus
18 151 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
19 150 (2.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 127 (2.34%) Firewall
2 89 (1.64%) DNS
3 68 (1.25%) VPN
4 65 (1.20%) TCP/IP
5 47 (0.87%) Network Security
6 36 (0.66%) Broadband
7 33 (0.61%) Internet
8 29 (0.53%) 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
1 340 (6.27%) SQL Server
2 288 (5.31%) MongoDB
3 280 (5.16%) Azure SQL Database
4 215 (3.96%) Power BI
5 205 (3.78%) PostgreSQL
6 191 (3.52%) NoSQL
7 118 (2.18%) MySQL
8 114 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
9 113 (2.08%) Relational Database
10 102 (1.88%) DynamoDB
11 96 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
12 95 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
13 89 (1.64%) Data Lake
14 66 (1.22%) Metadata
15 61 (1.12%) Redis
16 48 (0.89%) Big Data
17 45 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
18 41 (0.76%) Delta Lake
19 38 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
20 32 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 609 (11.23%) Git
2 413 (7.62%) Jenkins
3 403 (7.43%) GitLab
4 357 (6.58%) JIRA
5 92 (1.70%) Selenium
6 82 (1.51%) SonarQube
7 64 (1.18%) Cypress.io
8 57 (1.05%) Postman
9 55 (1.01%) JUnit
9 55 (1.01%) Maven
10 41 (0.76%) 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 1,238 (22.83%) Social Skills
2 1,054 (19.44%) Finance
3 451 (8.32%) Public Sector
4 427 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
5 336 (6.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 262 (4.83%) Banking
7 206 (3.80%) Law
8 163 (3.01%) Legal
9 161 (2.97%) Retail
10 99 (1.83%) Marketing
11 63 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
12 61 (1.12%) Games
13 59 (1.09%) Financial Institution
14 55 (1.01%) Manufacturing
15 49 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
16 48 (0.89%) Advertising
16 48 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
17 40 (0.74%) Telecoms
18 38 (0.70%) Aerospace
19 36 (0.66%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,265 (23.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,194 (22.02%) Senior
3 900 (16.60%) Developer
4 720 (13.28%) Lead
5 420 (7.74%) Architect
6 375 (6.91%) Software Engineer
7 342 (6.31%) Azure Engineer
8 294 (5.42%) Senior DevOps
9 279 (5.14%) Cloud Engineer
10 276 (5.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 241 (4.44%) .NET Developer
12 218 (4.02%) Platform Engineer
12 218 (4.02%) Senior Developer
13 197 (3.63%) Data Engineer
14 189 (3.49%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 162 (2.99%) Lead DevOps
16 157 (2.90%) AWS Engineer
17 152 (2.80%) Solutions Architect
18 135 (2.49%) Java Developer
19 126 (2.32%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,331 (24.54%) Terraform
2 747 (13.77%) .NET
3 450 (8.30%) React
4 339 (6.25%) RESTful
5 337 (6.21%) Node.js
5 337 (6.21%) REST
6 306 (5.64%) ASP.NET
7 288 (5.31%) .NET Core
8 247 (4.55%) CSS
9 246 (4.54%) HTML
9 246 (4.54%) Spring Boot
10 244 (4.50%) Spring
11 232 (4.28%) ASP.NET Core
12 213 (3.93%) Kafka
13 168 (3.10%) AngularJS
14 143 (2.64%) Blazor
14 143 (2.64%) Entity Framework
15 124 (2.29%) Middleware
16 104 (1.92%) JSON
17 103 (1.90%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 962 (17.74%) Cloud Native
2 356 (6.56%) Product Ownership
3 261 (4.81%) Distributed Systems
4 212 (3.91%) Enterprise Software
5 156 (2.88%) Onboarding
6 113 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
7 105 (1.94%) Virtual Team
8 85 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
9 81 (1.49%) Management Information System
10 77 (1.42%) Data Centre
10 77 (1.42%) Mobile App
11 72 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
12 65 (1.20%) 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%) Security Posture
17 44 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 548 (10.11%) Linux
2 259 (4.78%) 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 (0.77%) 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 2,739 (50.51%) CI/CD
2 2,011 (37.08%) Agile
3 1,316 (24.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,045 (19.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,004 (18.51%) Mentoring
6 980 (18.07%) Software Engineering
7 940 (17.33%) AI
8 883 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
9 829 (15.29%) Test Automation
10 735 (13.55%) Microservices
11 683 (12.59%) Containerisation
12 614 (11.32%) Platform Engineering
13 590 (10.88%) Observability
14 573 (10.57%) Technical Leadership
15 563 (10.38%) Full-Stack Development
15 563 (10.38%) Roadmaps
16 543 (10.01%) Scrum
17 514 (9.48%) Stakeholder Management
18 476 (8.78%) Analytics
19 387 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,282 (23.64%) Python
2 974 (17.96%) SQL
3 812 (14.97%) C#
4 702 (12.94%) Java
5 663 (12.23%) JavaScript
6 418 (7.71%) TypeScript
7 377 (6.95%) PowerShell
8 374 (6.90%) Bash
9 158 (2.91%) Bicep
10 126 (2.32%) C++
11 123 (2.27%) Go
12 57 (1.05%) PHP
13 56 (1.03%) Apex Code
14 52 (0.96%) C
15 51 (0.94%) T-SQL
16 46 (0.85%) Scala
17 45 (0.83%) Groovy
18 43 (0.79%) Kotlin
19 39 (0.72%) Rust
20 38 (0.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 946 (17.44%) Security Cleared
2 626 (11.54%) SC Cleared
3 523 (9.64%) Degree
4 274 (5.05%) DV Cleared
5 199 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 158 (2.91%) Azure Certification
7 114 (2.10%) 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 63 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
13 58 (1.07%) ISTQB
14 55 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
15 41 (0.76%) PMI Certification
16 35 (0.65%) DBS Check
17 29 (0.53%) PMP
18 28 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 24 (0.44%) PhD
20 22 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 551 (10.16%) QA
2 186 (3.43%) Accessibility
3 184 (3.39%) Data Quality
4 122 (2.25%) GDPR
5 104 (1.92%) NIST
6 74 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 61 (1.12%) WCAG
8 49 (0.90%) ISO 22301
9 46 (0.85%) GRC
10 36 (0.66%) PCI DSS
11 29 (0.53%) SLA
12 28 (0.52%) PMO
13 27 (0.50%) NCSC
14 21 (0.39%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
16 12 (0.22%) HIPAA
16 12 (0.22%) TickIT
17 10 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 10 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
18 9 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 883 (16.28%) Docker
2 141 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 85 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 30 (0.55%) 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 1,001 (18.46%) Kubernetes
2 469 (8.65%) Ansible
3 226 (4.17%) Grafana
4 164 (3.02%) 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%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 8 (0.15%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,061 (19.56%) Microsoft
2 204 (3.76%) Google
3 182 (3.36%) Databricks
4 135 (2.49%) Salesforce
5 121 (2.23%) Oracle
6 117 (2.16%) VMware
7 95 (1.75%) Splunk
8 94 (1.73%) ServiceNow
9 92 (1.70%) Red Hat
10 72 (1.33%) SAP
11 52 (0.96%) OpenAI
12 51 (0.94%) Cisco
12 51 (0.94%) Pega
13 46 (0.85%) Dynatrace
14 42 (0.77%) Facebook
15 37 (0.68%) MuleSoft
16 32 (0.59%) AppDynamics
16 32 (0.59%) YouTube
17 29 (0.53%) Apple
18 27 (0.50%) Foundry