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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 21 24
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 -13
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,193 4,169 5,946
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.11% 8.45% 6.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.93% 9.43% 8.40%
Number of salaries quoted 3,765 2,404 4,165
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,486 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,194 £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 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £104,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year - +5.69% -1.60%

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 74,889 44,229 70,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.63% 89.64% 81.30%
Number of salaries quoted 51,640 25,065 47,390
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -8 4,492 £70,000 - 1,696
UK excluding London -3 3,313 £65,000 - 1,078
Work from Home -2 1,877 £67,500 -3.57% 844
London -13 1,493 £85,000 +6.25% 816
North of England +1 1,166 £68,403 +5.23% 332
South East -8 694 £65,000 +0.78% 286
North West -1 642 £70,000 +7.69% 172
South West +4 469 £70,000 +7.69% 140
Midlands -20 383 £65,000 - 157
Yorkshire +12 293 £70,000 +5.66% 87
North East +17 231 £60,000 -7.69% 75
West Midlands -26 219 £68,403 +5.23% 114
East of England +13 200 £60,000 -7.69% 65
Wales +9 175 £54,500 -5.22% 28
East Midlands +5 163 £65,000 +15.56% 43
Scotland 0 135 £60,000 -14.29% 53
Northern Ireland -7 100 £73,151 -8.56% 28
Isle of Man 0 3 £35,000 -33.33% 1

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
1 101 (1.94%) Confluence
2 89 (1.71%) SharePoint
3 84 (1.62%) Apache Spark
4 70 (1.35%) Apache
5 44 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
6 39 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
7 30 (0.58%) CMS
8 28 (0.54%) IIS
9 22 (0.42%) OpenStack
10 20 (0.39%) SAS
11 14 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
12 12 (0.23%) nginx
13 11 (0.21%) Jupyter
14 10 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
15 9 (0.17%) Umbraco
15 9 (0.17%) WordPress
16 8 (0.15%) Anypoint
16 8 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
17 7 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
18 6 (0.12%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 56 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
2 44 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.39%) PlantUML
4 18 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 14 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
8 12 (0.23%) Trello
9 7 (0.13%) Simulink
10 4 (0.077%) Maya
11 3 (0.058%) Blender
12 2 (0.039%) Lightworks
12 2 (0.039%) Spreadsheet
13 1 (0.019%) Adobe XD
13 1 (0.019%) Notion
13 1 (0.019%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 75 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.15%) Elite 3E
4 7 (0.13%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.096%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.096%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.077%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.077%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.077%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.077%) Shopify
7 3 (0.058%) Carpe Diem
7 3 (0.058%) Endur
7 3 (0.058%) Infor SunSystems
7 3 (0.058%) Magento
7 3 (0.058%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.058%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.058%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.058%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.039%) Oracle Applications
8 2 (0.039%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 2,744 (52.84%) Azure
2 1,707 (32.87%) AWS
3 1,351 (26.02%) Azure DevOps
4 570 (10.98%) GCP
5 509 (9.80%) GitHub
6 469 (9.03%) Serverless
7 410 (7.90%) SaaS
8 357 (6.87%) Power Platform
9 267 (5.14%) GitHub Actions
10 249 (4.79%) AWS CloudFormation
11 224 (4.31%) Amazon S3
12 216 (4.16%) PaaS
13 205 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
14 165 (3.18%) Dynamics 365
15 163 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
16 160 (3.08%) Azure AKS
17 147 (2.83%) Amazon ECS
18 143 (2.75%) Amazon EKS
19 141 (2.72%) Azure Logic Apps
19 141 (2.72%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 133 (2.56%) Firewall
2 89 (1.71%) DNS
3 71 (1.37%) TCP/IP
4 68 (1.31%) VPN
5 43 (0.83%) Broadband
5 43 (0.83%) Network Security
6 35 (0.67%) HTTP
7 33 (0.64%) Internet
8 22 (0.42%) DHCP
9 21 (0.40%) LAN
10 19 (0.37%) WAN
11 16 (0.31%) MQTT
12 14 (0.27%) Wireless
13 13 (0.25%) DMARC
14 11 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
15 10 (0.19%) BGP
15 10 (0.19%) HTTPS
16 9 (0.17%) SAN
17 8 (0.15%) Bluetooth
17 8 (0.15%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 291 (5.60%) SQL Server
2 274 (5.28%) MongoDB
3 263 (5.06%) Azure SQL Database
4 199 (3.83%) Power BI
5 197 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
6 178 (3.43%) NoSQL
7 104 (2.00%) MySQL
8 100 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
9 98 (1.89%) DynamoDB
10 97 (1.87%) Relational Database
11 91 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
12 88 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
13 76 (1.46%) Data Lake
14 60 (1.16%) Metadata
15 57 (1.10%) Redis
16 45 (0.87%) Big Data
17 41 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
18 39 (0.75%) Delta Lake
19 34 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
20 33 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 553 (10.65%) Git
2 408 (7.86%) GitLab
3 407 (7.84%) Jenkins
4 335 (6.45%) JIRA
5 94 (1.81%) Selenium
6 84 (1.62%) SonarQube
7 71 (1.37%) Cypress.io
8 54 (1.04%) Maven
8 54 (1.04%) Postman
9 50 (0.96%) JUnit
10 37 (0.71%) Cucumber
11 35 (0.67%) JMeter
12 34 (0.65%) TeamCity
13 32 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 32 (0.62%) Bitbucket
14 26 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
15 24 (0.46%) CircleCI
15 24 (0.46%) Visual Studio
16 21 (0.40%) REST Assured
17 19 (0.37%) Zephyr
General
1 1,135 (21.86%) Social Skills
2 983 (18.93%) Finance
3 403 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
4 387 (7.45%) Public Sector
5 306 (5.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 250 (4.81%) Banking
7 200 (3.85%) Law
8 160 (3.08%) Retail
9 142 (2.73%) Legal
10 107 (2.06%) Marketing
11 69 (1.33%) Games
12 63 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
13 57 (1.10%) Manufacturing
14 55 (1.06%) Advertising
15 52 (1.00%) Financial Institution
16 51 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
17 46 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
18 43 (0.83%) Telecoms
19 32 (0.62%) Back Office
20 26 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1,192 (22.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,126 (21.68%) Senior
3 881 (16.97%) Developer
4 696 (13.40%) Lead
5 410 (7.90%) Architect
6 360 (6.93%) Software Engineer
7 341 (6.57%) Azure Engineer
8 274 (5.28%) Senior DevOps
9 268 (5.16%) Cloud Engineer
10 251 (4.83%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 226 (4.35%) .NET Developer
12 215 (4.14%) Senior Developer
13 203 (3.91%) Platform Engineer
14 191 (3.68%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 185 (3.56%) Data Engineer
16 166 (3.20%) AWS Engineer
16 166 (3.20%) Solutions Architect
17 151 (2.91%) Lead DevOps
18 133 (2.56%) Java Developer
19 123 (2.37%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 700 (13.48%) .NET
2 450 (8.67%) React
3 319 (6.14%) REST
3 319 (6.14%) RESTful
4 306 (5.89%) Node.js
5 290 (5.58%) ASP.NET
6 261 (5.03%) .NET Core
7 236 (4.54%) CSS
8 235 (4.53%) Spring Boot
9 234 (4.51%) HTML
10 229 (4.41%) Spring
11 224 (4.31%) ASP.NET Core
12 202 (3.89%) Kafka
13 161 (3.10%) AngularJS
14 134 (2.58%) Blazor
14 134 (2.58%) Entity Framework
15 131 (2.52%) Middleware
16 107 (2.06%) YAML
17 105 (2.02%) JSON
18 99 (1.91%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 880 (16.95%) Cloud Native
2 333 (6.41%) Product Ownership
3 238 (4.58%) Distributed Systems
4 188 (3.62%) Enterprise Software
5 140 (2.70%) Onboarding
6 106 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
7 91 (1.75%) Virtual Team
8 87 (1.68%) Management Information System
9 79 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
10 76 (1.46%) Mobile App
11 75 (1.44%) Data Centre
12 68 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
13 65 (1.25%) Public Cloud
14 61 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
15 58 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
16 49 (0.94%) Data Structures
17 46 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
18 45 (0.87%) Low-Code
19 41 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
19 41 (0.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 523 (10.07%) Linux
2 251 (4.83%) Windows
3 97 (1.87%) Unix
4 75 (1.44%) Windows Server
5 74 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 51 (0.98%) CentOS
7 47 (0.91%) Ubuntu
8 37 (0.71%) VMS
9 30 (0.58%) Android
10 17 (0.33%) Apple iOS
10 17 (0.33%) Debian
11 8 (0.15%) Rocky
12 7 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
12 7 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.096%) Windows Server 2019
14 4 (0.077%) Kali Linux
15 3 (0.058%) AIX
16 2 (0.039%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.039%) Mac OS
16 2 (0.039%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,615 (50.36%) CI/CD
2 1,935 (37.26%) Agile
3 1,249 (24.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 994 (19.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 934 (17.99%) Mentoring
6 915 (17.62%) Software Engineering
7 875 (16.85%) AI
8 836 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
9 793 (15.27%) Test Automation
10 705 (13.58%) Microservices
11 657 (12.65%) Containerisation
12 570 (10.98%) Platform Engineering
13 563 (10.84%) Full-Stack Development
14 556 (10.71%) Observability
15 547 (10.53%) Roadmaps
16 537 (10.34%) Scrum
17 519 (9.99%) Technical Leadership
18 458 (8.82%) Analytics
19 453 (8.72%) Stakeholder Management
20 375 (7.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,233 (23.74%) Python
2 918 (17.68%) SQL
3 760 (14.64%) C#
4 669 (12.88%) Java
5 653 (12.57%) JavaScript
6 406 (7.82%) TypeScript
7 368 (7.09%) Bash
8 355 (6.84%) PowerShell
9 157 (3.02%) Bicep
10 127 (2.45%) Go
11 125 (2.41%) C++
12 65 (1.25%) Apex Code
13 63 (1.21%) PHP
14 48 (0.92%) C
14 48 (0.92%) Groovy
15 42 (0.81%) T-SQL
16 40 (0.77%) Scala
17 37 (0.71%) Ruby
17 37 (0.71%) SOQL
18 36 (0.69%) Rust
Qualifications
1 846 (16.29%) Security Cleared
2 553 (10.65%) SC Cleared
3 502 (9.67%) Degree
4 231 (4.45%) DV Cleared
5 190 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 139 (2.68%) Azure Certification
7 109 (2.10%) Master's Degree
8 82 (1.58%) AWS Certification
8 82 (1.58%) ITIL Certification
9 81 (1.56%) CISSP
10 64 (1.23%) CISM
11 60 (1.16%) ISTQB
12 49 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
13 38 (0.73%) DBS Check
14 37 (0.71%) PMI Certification
15 29 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
16 28 (0.54%) PMP
17 25 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 24 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 22 (0.42%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 519 (9.99%) QA
2 172 (3.31%) Accessibility
3 165 (3.18%) Data Quality
4 120 (2.31%) GDPR
5 106 (2.04%) NIST
6 68 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 61 (1.17%) WCAG
8 49 (0.94%) ISO 22301
9 48 (0.92%) GRC
10 40 (0.77%) PCI DSS
11 26 (0.50%) SOC 2
12 25 (0.48%) PMO
13 23 (0.44%) SLA
14 19 (0.37%) NCSC
15 13 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
16 12 (0.23%) TickIT
17 10 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
17 10 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 8 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 8 (0.15%) NIST 800
System Software
1 835 (16.08%) Docker
2 135 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 78 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (0.54%) vSphere
6 23 (0.44%) Hyper-V
7 22 (0.42%) Firmware
8 14 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.13%) Ceph
10 6 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 6 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.077%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.077%) iptables
11 4 (0.077%) KVM
11 4 (0.077%) NDS
12 3 (0.058%) Xen
13 2 (0.039%) VMware ESXi
13 2 (0.039%) VMware NSX
14 1 (0.019%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.019%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,254 (24.15%) Terraform
2 963 (18.54%) Kubernetes
3 446 (8.59%) Ansible
4 233 (4.49%) Grafana
5 177 (3.41%) Prometheus
6 79 (1.52%) Argo
7 61 (1.17%) Puppet
8 39 (0.75%) Nagios
9 31 (0.60%) Istio
10 26 (0.50%) Kibana
11 25 (0.48%) HP Fortify
11 25 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
12 17 (0.33%) Progress Chef
13 14 (0.27%) Podman
13 14 (0.27%) Rancher
14 13 (0.25%) Packer
14 13 (0.25%) ZABBIX
15 10 (0.19%) logstash
15 10 (0.19%) Proxmox
16 9 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 1,000 (19.26%) Microsoft
2 189 (3.64%) Google
3 172 (3.31%) Databricks
4 143 (2.75%) Salesforce
5 111 (2.14%) VMware
6 105 (2.02%) Oracle
7 102 (1.96%) ServiceNow
8 99 (1.91%) Splunk
9 92 (1.77%) Red Hat
10 71 (1.37%) SAP
11 53 (1.02%) Pega
12 48 (0.92%) Dynatrace
13 46 (0.89%) Cisco
14 45 (0.87%) MuleSoft
14 45 (0.87%) OpenAI
15 42 (0.81%) Facebook
16 30 (0.58%) Apple
17 27 (0.52%) YouTube
18 26 (0.50%) Foundry
19 25 (0.48%) AppDynamics