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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 22 20
Rank change year-on-year -8 -2 -7
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,599 3,807 5,436
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.76% 7.67% 7.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.52% 8.64% 8.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3,857 2,160 3,351
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year - +2.94% -2.86%
75th Percentile £88,148 £86,438 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £64,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +0.78% +3.20% -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 85,859 44,048 62,135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.06% 88.76% 81.73%
Number of salaries quoted 59,233 24,687 33,999
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,090
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 27 September 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 27 September 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 -10 4,836 £71,991 +2.84% 3,842
UK excluding London -3 3,585 £65,000 +0.78% 2,102
Work from Home -5 1,894 £69,310 -0.11% 1,803
London -9 1,584 £85,000 +6.25% 1,874
North of England +5 1,286 £67,500 +3.85% 657
North West +5 708 £70,000 +7.69% 361
South East -5 698 £65,000 - 440
South West +22 549 £75,000 +25.00% 270
Midlands -22 445 £65,000 - 259
North East +21 294 £60,000 +9.09% 99
Yorkshire +18 290 £70,000 +7.69% 201
West Midlands -28 263 £70,000 +7.69% 156
Wales 0 204 £55,000 - 72
East of England 0 196 £55,000 -12.00% 175
East Midlands +5 182 £60,000 +4.35% 103
Scotland -22 115 £60,000 -7.34% 160
Northern Ireland -9 114 £72,246 -44.43% 82
Isle of Man +1 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 (2.04%) SharePoint
2 109 (1.95%) Apache Spark
3 107 (1.91%) Confluence
4 84 (1.50%) Apache
5 46 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
6 42 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
7 30 (0.54%) CMS
8 27 (0.48%) IIS
9 23 (0.41%) OpenStack
10 16 (0.29%) Jupyter
11 14 (0.25%) nginx
12 12 (0.21%) SAS
13 10 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 9 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
14 9 (0.16%) Umbraco
15 8 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
15 8 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
15 8 (0.14%) WordPress
16 7 (0.13%) Camunda
16 7 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 67 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
2 45 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
4 28 (0.50%) MS Visio
5 25 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 21 (0.38%) PlantUML
7 19 (0.34%) Chatbot
8 13 (0.23%) Trello
9 7 (0.13%) Simulink
10 3 (0.054%) Blender
10 3 (0.054%) Maya
10 3 (0.054%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.036%) Lightworks
12 1 (0.018%) Notion
12 1 (0.018%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 88 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (0.25%) Elite 3E
4 7 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
4 7 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
4 7 (0.13%) Teamcenter
5 6 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
5 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
6 5 (0.089%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.089%) Oracle Applications
6 5 (0.089%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.071%) Distributed Ledger
7 4 (0.071%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.071%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.071%) Shopify
7 4 (0.071%) Visualfiles
8 3 (0.054%) Carpe Diem
8 3 (0.054%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.054%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.054%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2,933 (52.38%) Azure
2 1,826 (32.61%) AWS
3 1,484 (26.50%) Azure DevOps
4 624 (11.14%) GCP
5 569 (10.16%) GitHub
6 495 (8.84%) Serverless
7 453 (8.09%) SaaS
8 433 (7.73%) Power Platform
9 303 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
10 288 (5.14%) AWS CloudFormation
11 225 (4.02%) Dynamics 365
12 213 (3.80%) Amazon S3
13 206 (3.68%) AWS Lambda
13 206 (3.68%) PaaS
14 179 (3.20%) Azure Data Factory
15 175 (3.13%) Entra ID
15 175 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
16 172 (3.07%) Amazon EKS
17 166 (2.96%) Azure AKS
18 160 (2.86%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 134 (2.39%) Firewall
2 93 (1.66%) DNS
3 88 (1.57%) VPN
4 71 (1.27%) Internet
5 62 (1.11%) TCP/IP
6 50 (0.89%) Network Security
7 27 (0.48%) DHCP
8 26 (0.46%) HTTP
9 16 (0.29%) MQTT
9 16 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (0.27%) Broadband
10 15 (0.27%) DMARC
10 15 (0.27%) Wireless
11 13 (0.23%) SAN
11 13 (0.23%) WAN
12 12 (0.21%) BGP
13 11 (0.20%) LAN
13 11 (0.20%) SSH
14 9 (0.16%) OSPF
14 9 (0.16%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 356 (6.36%) SQL Server
2 303 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 296 (5.29%) MongoDB
4 245 (4.38%) Power BI
5 228 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
6 198 (3.54%) NoSQL
7 142 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
8 127 (2.27%) MySQL
9 123 (2.20%) Relational Database
10 102 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
11 101 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
12 99 (1.77%) DynamoDB
13 98 (1.75%) Metadata
14 96 (1.71%) Data Lake
15 80 (1.43%) Redis
16 48 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
17 46 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
18 42 (0.75%) Delta Lake
19 39 (0.70%) Big Data
19 39 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 698 (12.47%) Git
2 406 (7.25%) Jenkins
3 399 (7.13%) GitLab
4 355 (6.34%) JIRA
5 89 (1.59%) Selenium
6 59 (1.05%) SonarQube
7 57 (1.02%) Cypress.io
8 54 (0.96%) Maven
9 52 (0.93%) JUnit
10 50 (0.89%) TeamCity
11 47 (0.84%) Postman
12 42 (0.75%) Cucumber
13 39 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 29 (0.52%) Bitbucket
15 28 (0.50%) Claude Code
15 28 (0.50%) JMeter
16 27 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
17 20 (0.36%) NUnit
18 18 (0.32%) REST Assured
18 18 (0.32%) Subversion
General
1 1,331 (23.77%) Social Skills
2 1,088 (19.43%) Finance
3 544 (9.72%) Public Sector
4 488 (8.72%) Analytical Skills
5 339 (6.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 245 (4.38%) Banking
7 212 (3.79%) Law
8 174 (3.11%) Retail
9 167 (2.98%) Legal
10 78 (1.39%) Marketing
11 77 (1.38%) Financial Institution
12 58 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
13 57 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
14 53 (0.95%) Manufacturing
15 51 (0.91%) Aerospace
16 50 (0.89%) Telecoms
17 49 (0.88%) Back Office
18 48 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
19 43 (0.77%) Advertising
20 29 (0.52%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,409 (25.17%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,302 (23.25%) Senior
3 893 (15.95%) Developer
4 709 (12.66%) Lead
5 423 (7.55%) Architect
6 391 (6.98%) Software Engineer
7 347 (6.20%) Azure Engineer
8 331 (5.91%) Senior DevOps
9 308 (5.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 305 (5.45%) Cloud Engineer
11 242 (4.32%) Platform Engineer
12 239 (4.27%) .NET Developer
13 217 (3.88%) Senior Developer
14 215 (3.84%) Data Engineer
15 183 (3.27%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 170 (3.04%) Lead DevOps
17 156 (2.79%) AWS Engineer
18 142 (2.54%) Consultant
18 142 (2.54%) Solutions Architect
19 136 (2.43%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,380 (24.65%) Terraform
2 729 (13.02%) .NET
3 424 (7.57%) React
4 356 (6.36%) REST
5 345 (6.16%) RESTful
6 333 (5.95%) Node.js
7 296 (5.29%) ASP.NET
8 283 (5.05%) Spring
9 277 (4.95%) Spring Boot
10 268 (4.79%) .NET Core
11 239 (4.27%) Kafka
12 234 (4.18%) CSS
13 233 (4.16%) HTML
14 227 (4.05%) ASP.NET Core
15 167 (2.98%) AngularJS
16 135 (2.41%) Entity Framework
17 133 (2.38%) Blazor
18 126 (2.25%) Middleware
19 121 (2.16%) JSON
20 100 (1.79%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1,030 (18.40%) Cloud Native
2 344 (6.14%) Product Ownership
3 277 (4.95%) Distributed Systems
4 243 (4.34%) Enterprise Software
5 168 (3.00%) Onboarding
6 129 (2.30%) Virtual Team
7 119 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
8 104 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
9 89 (1.59%) Management Information System
10 78 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
11 72 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
12 68 (1.21%) Data Centre
12 68 (1.21%) Mobile App
13 67 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
13 67 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
14 65 (1.16%) AI Agents
15 62 (1.11%) Public Cloud
16 52 (0.93%) Data Structures
16 52 (0.93%) Private Cloud
17 49 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 602 (10.75%) Linux
2 261 (4.66%) Windows
3 111 (1.98%) Unix
4 69 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 67 (1.20%) Windows Server
6 49 (0.88%) CentOS
7 39 (0.70%) Ubuntu
8 35 (0.63%) VMS
9 31 (0.55%) Android
10 15 (0.27%) Debian
11 13 (0.23%) Apple iOS
12 10 (0.18%) Rocky
13 7 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
14 5 (0.089%) Mac OS
14 5 (0.089%) Windows Server 2016
15 4 (0.071%) Kali Linux
15 4 (0.071%) Solaris
15 4 (0.071%) Windows Server 2019
16 3 (0.054%) AIX
16 3 (0.054%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,885 (51.53%) CI/CD
2 2,047 (36.56%) Agile
3 1,392 (24.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,117 (19.95%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,107 (19.77%) Mentoring
6 1,031 (18.41%) AI
7 1,028 (18.36%) Software Engineering
8 931 (16.63%) Problem-Solving
9 867 (15.48%) Test Automation
10 758 (13.54%) Microservices
11 746 (13.32%) Containerisation
12 702 (12.54%) Platform Engineering
13 623 (11.13%) Technical Leadership
14 621 (11.09%) Observability
15 593 (10.59%) Stakeholder Management
16 566 (10.11%) Roadmaps
17 527 (9.41%) Scrum
18 520 (9.29%) Full-Stack Development
19 510 (9.11%) Analytics
20 405 (7.23%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,317 (23.52%) Python
2 992 (17.72%) SQL
3 811 (14.48%) C#
4 746 (13.32%) Java
5 663 (11.84%) JavaScript
6 423 (7.55%) TypeScript
7 397 (7.09%) PowerShell
8 388 (6.93%) Bash
9 168 (3.00%) Bicep
10 134 (2.39%) Go
11 123 (2.20%) C++
12 59 (1.05%) Shell Script
13 55 (0.98%) PHP
14 54 (0.96%) T-SQL
15 50 (0.89%) Scala
16 48 (0.86%) Groovy
17 46 (0.82%) C
18 45 (0.80%) Kotlin
19 39 (0.70%) Ruby
19 39 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,076 (19.22%) Security Cleared
2 722 (12.90%) SC Cleared
3 512 (9.14%) Degree
4 299 (5.34%) DV Cleared
5 194 (3.46%) Azure Certification
6 190 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 109 (1.95%) AWS Certification
8 99 (1.77%) Master's Degree
9 83 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
10 79 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
11 76 (1.36%) CISSP
12 73 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
13 67 (1.20%) CISM
14 55 (0.98%) ISTQB
15 37 (0.66%) PMI Certification
16 26 (0.46%) PhD
17 25 (0.45%) PMP
18 24 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 24 (0.43%) DBS Check
19 23 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 553 (9.88%) QA
2 215 (3.84%) Data Quality
3 189 (3.38%) Accessibility
4 131 (2.34%) GDPR
5 97 (1.73%) NIST
6 76 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 61 (1.09%) WCAG
8 49 (0.88%) ISO 22301
9 38 (0.68%) GRC
10 35 (0.63%) SLA
11 29 (0.52%) PCI DSS
12 27 (0.48%) PMO
13 26 (0.46%) NCSC
14 19 (0.34%) SOC 2
15 15 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
16 12 (0.21%) HIPAA
16 12 (0.21%) TickIT
17 10 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
18 9 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 9 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 956 (17.07%) Docker
2 143 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 81 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (0.45%) vSphere
6 20 (0.36%) Firmware
6 20 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 19 (0.34%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.14%) NDS
9 7 (0.13%) Ceph
10 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.089%) KVM
12 4 (0.071%) iptables
13 3 (0.054%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.054%) Xen
14 2 (0.036%) Embedded Firmware
14 2 (0.036%) VMware ESXi
14 2 (0.036%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.018%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.018%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,087 (19.41%) Kubernetes
2 473 (8.45%) Ansible
3 257 (4.59%) Grafana
4 181 (3.23%) Prometheus
5 82 (1.46%) Argo
6 65 (1.16%) Puppet
7 46 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
8 27 (0.48%) Istio
8 27 (0.48%) Kibana
9 26 (0.46%) Rancher
10 24 (0.43%) Nagios
11 22 (0.39%) Progress Chef
12 21 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
13 16 (0.29%) HP Fortify
13 16 (0.29%) Packer
14 15 (0.27%) logstash
15 14 (0.25%) Podman
16 11 (0.20%) Proxmox
17 10 (0.18%) ZABBIX
18 8 (0.14%) yum
Vendors
1 1,177 (21.02%) Microsoft
2 232 (4.14%) Google
3 183 (3.27%) Databricks
4 129 (2.30%) Oracle
5 117 (2.09%) VMware
6 113 (2.02%) Salesforce
7 95 (1.70%) ServiceNow
8 81 (1.45%) Splunk
9 76 (1.36%) SAP
10 72 (1.29%) Red Hat
11 58 (1.04%) Dynatrace
12 55 (0.98%) OpenAI
13 52 (0.93%) Cisco
14 46 (0.82%) Pega
15 41 (0.73%) YouTube
16 40 (0.71%) Facebook
17 38 (0.68%) AppDynamics
18 32 (0.57%) MuleSoft
19 30 (0.54%) Foundry
20 28 (0.50%) IBM