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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 22 19
Rank change year-on-year -9 -3 -6
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,742 3,705 5,259
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.83% 7.53% 7.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.58% 8.47% 9.02%
Number of salaries quoted 3,894 2,130 3,184
10th Percentile £46,000 £46,250 £42,532
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £69,308
Median % change year-on-year - +1.00% -0.99%
75th Percentile £88,148 £85,700 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,125 £106,250
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 87,229 43,738 58,305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.43% 88.90% 82.16%
Number of salaries quoted 59,718 24,553 31,325
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,925
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,243 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,600
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.70% -2.59%

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 15 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 15 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 -10 4,962 £70,000 - 1,292
UK excluding London -2 3,696 £65,000 +4.00% 739
Work from Home -2 1,942 £69,310 -0.63% 867
London -8 1,598 £85,000 +6.25% 665
North of England +5 1,321 £67,500 +3.85% 206
North West +1 719 £69,305 +6.62% 107
South East -2 705 £67,500 +3.85% 192
South West +24 572 £75,000 +25.00% 117
Midlands -15 476 £62,500 -3.85% 102
North East +22 322 £60,000 +20.00% 39
Yorkshire +19 289 £69,655 +9.26% 65
West Midlands -20 288 £70,000 +7.69% 63
East of England +10 204 £55,000 -8.33% 62
Wales -1 203 £55,000 - 25
East Midlands +14 188 £58,000 +0.87% 39
Scotland -22 119 £62,500 -7.41% 37
Northern Ireland -10 114 £72,246 -8.09% 10
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
1 123 (2.14%) SharePoint
2 116 (2.02%) Apache Spark
3 115 (2.00%) Confluence
4 94 (1.64%) Apache
5 45 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
6 41 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
7 26 (0.45%) CMS
8 24 (0.42%) IIS
9 22 (0.38%) OpenStack
10 18 (0.31%) Jupyter
10 18 (0.31%) nginx
11 14 (0.24%) SAS
11 14 (0.24%) WebLogic
12 10 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 8 (0.14%) Camunda
13 8 (0.14%) CICS
13 8 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
13 8 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
13 8 (0.14%) Umbraco
14 6 (0.10%) JBoss
Applications
1 73 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
2 43 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 35 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
4 31 (0.54%) MS Visio
5 29 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 19 (0.33%) PlantUML
7 17 (0.30%) Chatbot
8 15 (0.26%) Trello
9 7 (0.12%) Simulink
10 5 (0.087%) Notion
11 4 (0.070%) Spreadsheet
12 3 (0.052%) Blender
12 3 (0.052%) Maya
13 2 (0.035%) Lightworks
14 1 (0.017%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 90 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.21%) Elite 3E
4 10 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
5 9 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
6 7 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.10%) SAP IBP
7 6 (0.10%) Teamcenter
8 5 (0.087%) Dynamics NAV
8 5 (0.087%) Fidessa
9 4 (0.070%) Distributed Ledger
9 4 (0.070%) Dynamics GP
9 4 (0.070%) NEC Housing
9 4 (0.070%) Oracle Applications
9 4 (0.070%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.070%) Sage 200
9 4 (0.070%) Shopify
10 3 (0.052%) Carpe Diem
10 3 (0.052%) SAP Business One
10 3 (0.052%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2,985 (51.99%) Azure
2 1,861 (32.41%) AWS
3 1,518 (26.44%) Azure DevOps
4 640 (11.15%) GCP
5 592 (10.31%) GitHub
6 496 (8.64%) Serverless
7 467 (8.13%) SaaS
8 462 (8.05%) Power Platform
9 319 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
10 307 (5.35%) AWS CloudFormation
11 232 (4.04%) Dynamics 365
12 223 (3.88%) PaaS
13 212 (3.69%) Amazon S3
14 196 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
15 185 (3.22%) Azure Data Factory
16 177 (3.08%) Power Automate
17 176 (3.07%) Microsoft 365
18 171 (2.98%) Entra ID
19 168 (2.93%) Azure AKS
20 166 (2.89%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 139 (2.42%) Firewall
2 98 (1.71%) DNS
3 93 (1.62%) VPN
4 69 (1.20%) Internet
5 62 (1.08%) TCP/IP
6 44 (0.77%) Network Security
7 26 (0.45%) HTTP
8 23 (0.40%) DHCP
9 17 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (0.26%) DMARC
10 15 (0.26%) MQTT
11 14 (0.24%) Broadband
11 14 (0.24%) Wireless
12 13 (0.23%) SAN
13 12 (0.21%) BGP
13 12 (0.21%) SSH
14 11 (0.19%) WAN
15 9 (0.16%) LAN
15 9 (0.16%) OSPF
15 9 (0.16%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 367 (6.39%) SQL Server
2 309 (5.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 299 (5.21%) MongoDB
4 257 (4.48%) Power BI
5 239 (4.16%) PostgreSQL
6 199 (3.47%) NoSQL
7 153 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
8 131 (2.28%) MySQL
9 126 (2.19%) Relational Database
10 109 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
11 104 (1.81%) Metadata
12 100 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
13 97 (1.69%) Data Lake
14 93 (1.62%) DynamoDB
15 83 (1.45%) Redis
16 54 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
17 51 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
18 42 (0.73%) Big Data
18 42 (0.73%) Delta Lake
19 37 (0.64%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 689 (12.00%) Git
2 412 (7.18%) GitLab
2 412 (7.18%) Jenkins
3 349 (6.08%) JIRA
4 80 (1.39%) Selenium
5 59 (1.03%) JUnit
6 57 (0.99%) Cypress.io
7 56 (0.98%) TeamCity
8 53 (0.92%) SonarQube
9 51 (0.89%) Maven
10 42 (0.73%) Postman
11 41 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 38 (0.66%) Claude Code
12 38 (0.66%) Cucumber
13 27 (0.47%) JMeter
14 26 (0.45%) Bitbucket
15 24 (0.42%) Mockito
16 22 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
17 18 (0.31%) NUnit
18 17 (0.30%) Subversion
General
1 1,363 (23.74%) Social Skills
2 1,105 (19.24%) Finance
3 602 (10.48%) Public Sector
4 505 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
5 361 (6.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 238 (4.14%) Banking
7 217 (3.78%) Law
8 170 (2.96%) Retail
9 168 (2.93%) Legal
10 80 (1.39%) Financial Institution
11 73 (1.27%) Marketing
12 61 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
13 60 (1.04%) Aerospace
14 58 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
15 57 (0.99%) Manufacturing
15 57 (0.99%) Telecoms
16 51 (0.89%) Back Office
17 49 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
18 40 (0.70%) Advertising
19 33 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,532 (26.68%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,385 (24.12%) Senior
3 876 (15.26%) Developer
4 697 (12.14%) Lead
5 422 (7.35%) Architect
6 393 (6.84%) Software Engineer
7 387 (6.74%) Senior DevOps
8 355 (6.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 350 (6.10%) Azure Engineer
10 301 (5.24%) Cloud Engineer
11 248 (4.32%) .NET Developer
12 241 (4.20%) Platform Engineer
13 221 (3.85%) Data Engineer
14 216 (3.76%) Senior Developer
15 186 (3.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 176 (3.07%) Lead DevOps
17 163 (2.84%) AWS Engineer
18 159 (2.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 156 (2.72%) Consultant
20 143 (2.49%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,410 (24.56%) Terraform
2 750 (13.06%) .NET
3 402 (7.00%) React
4 362 (6.30%) REST
5 352 (6.13%) RESTful
6 338 (5.89%) Node.js
7 303 (5.28%) Spring
8 298 (5.19%) ASP.NET
9 297 (5.17%) Spring Boot
10 267 (4.65%) .NET Core
11 246 (4.28%) Kafka
12 237 (4.13%) CSS
13 234 (4.08%) HTML
14 228 (3.97%) ASP.NET Core
15 160 (2.79%) AngularJS
16 136 (2.37%) Entity Framework
17 134 (2.33%) Blazor
18 120 (2.09%) Middleware
19 108 (1.88%) JSON
20 97 (1.69%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1,066 (18.56%) Cloud Native
2 360 (6.27%) Product Ownership
3 275 (4.79%) Distributed Systems
4 263 (4.58%) Enterprise Software
5 166 (2.89%) Onboarding
6 129 (2.25%) Virtual Team
7 121 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
8 107 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
9 91 (1.58%) Management Information System
10 80 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
11 79 (1.38%) AI Agents
12 78 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
13 73 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
14 68 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
15 64 (1.11%) Mobile App
16 61 (1.06%) Public Cloud
17 60 (1.04%) Data Centre
18 54 (0.94%) Private Cloud
19 53 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
19 53 (0.92%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 617 (10.75%) Linux
2 254 (4.42%) Windows
3 116 (2.02%) Unix
4 76 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 62 (1.08%) Windows Server
6 53 (0.92%) CentOS
7 36 (0.63%) Ubuntu
8 32 (0.56%) VMS
9 31 (0.54%) Android
10 15 (0.26%) Rocky
11 14 (0.24%) Debian
12 12 (0.21%) Apple iOS
13 8 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
14 5 (0.087%) macOS
14 5 (0.087%) Windows Server 2016
15 4 (0.070%) Solaris
15 4 (0.070%) Windows Server 2019
16 3 (0.052%) AIX
16 3 (0.052%) Kali Linux
16 3 (0.052%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,982 (51.93%) CI/CD
2 2,097 (36.52%) Agile
3 1,449 (25.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,172 (20.41%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,134 (19.75%) Mentoring
6 1,068 (18.60%) AI
7 1,042 (18.15%) Software Engineering
8 963 (16.77%) Problem-Solving
9 881 (15.34%) Test Automation
10 771 (13.43%) Containerisation
11 763 (13.29%) Microservices
12 734 (12.78%) Platform Engineering
13 672 (11.70%) Technical Leadership
14 647 (11.27%) Stakeholder Management
15 631 (10.99%) Observability
16 552 (9.61%) Roadmaps
17 525 (9.14%) Scrum
18 524 (9.13%) Analytics
19 508 (8.85%) Full-Stack Development
20 410 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,324 (23.06%) Python
2 1,008 (17.55%) SQL
3 824 (14.35%) C#
4 752 (13.10%) Java
5 670 (11.67%) JavaScript
6 426 (7.42%) TypeScript
7 397 (6.91%) PowerShell
8 395 (6.88%) Bash
9 175 (3.05%) Bicep
10 144 (2.51%) Go
11 111 (1.93%) C++
12 62 (1.08%) Shell Script
13 60 (1.04%) T-SQL
14 50 (0.87%) PHP
14 50 (0.87%) Scala
15 49 (0.85%) Kotlin
16 48 (0.84%) C
17 42 (0.73%) Groovy
18 40 (0.70%) Ruby
19 39 (0.68%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,143 (19.91%) Security Cleared
2 766 (13.34%) SC Cleared
3 506 (8.81%) Degree
4 317 (5.52%) DV Cleared
5 208 (3.62%) Azure Certification
6 184 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 114 (1.99%) AWS Certification
8 98 (1.71%) Master's Degree
9 91 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
10 85 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
11 77 (1.34%) CISSP
12 74 (1.29%) ITIL Certification
13 66 (1.15%) CISM
14 50 (0.87%) ISTQB
15 38 (0.66%) PMI Certification
16 27 (0.47%) PhD
16 27 (0.47%) PMP
17 25 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 25 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
18 24 (0.42%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 539 (9.39%) QA
2 228 (3.97%) Data Quality
3 193 (3.36%) Accessibility
4 135 (2.35%) GDPR
5 94 (1.64%) NIST
6 71 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 60 (1.04%) WCAG
8 49 (0.85%) ISO 22301
9 37 (0.64%) SLA
10 32 (0.56%) GRC
11 29 (0.51%) NCSC
11 29 (0.51%) PCI DSS
12 27 (0.47%) PMO
13 18 (0.31%) SOC 2
14 14 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
15 12 (0.21%) HIPAA
16 10 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 10 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 9 (0.16%) ISO 20022
17 9 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 986 (17.17%) Docker
2 139 (2.42%) Active Directory
3 83 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (0.47%) vSphere
6 23 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 19 (0.33%) Firmware
7 19 (0.33%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.14%) NDS
9 7 (0.12%) Ceph
9 7 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.070%) iptables
11 4 (0.070%) KVM
12 2 (0.035%) Embedded Firmware
12 2 (0.035%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.035%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.035%) Xen
13 1 (0.017%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1,152 (20.06%) Kubernetes
2 492 (8.57%) Ansible
3 279 (4.86%) Grafana
4 195 (3.40%) Prometheus
5 83 (1.45%) Argo
6 61 (1.06%) Puppet
7 46 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
8 26 (0.45%) Istio
8 26 (0.45%) Kibana
9 24 (0.42%) Rancher
10 23 (0.40%) Nagios
11 22 (0.38%) Progress Chef
11 22 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
12 16 (0.28%) logstash
12 16 (0.28%) Podman
13 15 (0.26%) Packer
14 14 (0.24%) HP Fortify
15 11 (0.19%) Proxmox
16 9 (0.16%) ZABBIX
17 8 (0.14%) yum
Vendors
1 1,223 (21.30%) Microsoft
2 242 (4.21%) Google
3 183 (3.19%) Databricks
4 139 (2.42%) Oracle
5 119 (2.07%) VMware
6 115 (2.00%) Salesforce
7 100 (1.74%) ServiceNow
8 85 (1.48%) Splunk
9 78 (1.36%) SAP
10 76 (1.32%) Red Hat
11 61 (1.06%) Dynatrace
12 55 (0.96%) OpenAI
13 51 (0.89%) Cisco
14 49 (0.85%) Pega
15 47 (0.82%) YouTube
16 39 (0.68%) Facebook
17 32 (0.56%) MuleSoft
18 31 (0.54%) AppDynamics
19 27 (0.47%) Foundry
20 23 (0.40%) Apple