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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 22 21
Rank change year-on-year -7 -1 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,479 3,848 5,490
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.90% 7.83% 7.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.72% 8.85% 8.74%
Number of salaries quoted 3,877 2,171 3,562
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 £87,500 £86,188
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £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 81,553 43,498 62,779
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.98% 88.46% 80.40%
Number of salaries quoted 56,728 24,515 37,208
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,056
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,200
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.00% -4.22%

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 8 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 8 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 -9 4,726 £71,991 -0.36% 3,653
UK excluding London -2 3,539 £65,000 - 1,922
Work from Home -2 1,916 £69,306 -0.99% 3,185
London -11 1,539 £85,000 +6.25% 2,124
North of England +3 1,234 £68,724 +5.73% 535
South East -10 713 £65,000 - 440
North West +4 679 £70,000 +7.69% 294
South West +21 523 £73,000 +16.80% 274
Midlands -11 435 £65,000 - 216
Yorkshire +13 285 £70,000 +12.00% 151
North East +20 270 £60,000 - 94
West Midlands -21 255 £70,000 +7.69% 133
East of England +8 206 £59,450 -8.54% 187
Wales +4 197 £54,500 -0.91% 42
East Midlands +3 180 £60,000 +4.35% 83
Scotland -6 135 £60,000 -11.11% 173
Northern Ireland -2 114 £72,246 -44.43% 72
Isle of Man +1 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
1 106 (1.93%) Confluence
1 106 (1.93%) SharePoint
2 105 (1.92%) Apache Spark
3 84 (1.53%) Apache
4 44 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
5 40 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
6 31 (0.57%) CMS
7 30 (0.55%) IIS
8 27 (0.49%) OpenStack
9 17 (0.31%) SAS
10 14 (0.26%) Jupyter
10 14 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
11 13 (0.24%) nginx
12 9 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
12 9 (0.16%) Umbraco
12 9 (0.16%) WordPress
13 8 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
14 7 (0.13%) Camunda
15 6 (0.11%) Anypoint
Applications
1 63 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
2 45 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (0.40%) Chatbot
4 21 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (0.38%) MS Visio
4 21 (0.38%) PlantUML
5 18 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.24%) Trello
7 7 (0.13%) Simulink
8 3 (0.055%) Blender
8 3 (0.055%) Maya
8 3 (0.055%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.037%) Lightworks
10 1 (0.018%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.018%) Notion
10 1 (0.018%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 82 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.27%) Elite 3E
4 7 (0.13%) Teamcenter
5 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
6 5 (0.091%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.091%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.091%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.091%) Visualfiles
7 4 (0.073%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.073%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.073%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.055%) Carpe Diem
8 3 (0.055%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.055%) Infor SunSystems
8 3 (0.055%) Oracle Applications
8 3 (0.055%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.055%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.055%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.055%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,878 (52.53%) Azure
2 1,756 (32.05%) AWS
3 1,457 (26.59%) Azure DevOps
4 600 (10.95%) GCP
5 544 (9.93%) GitHub
6 478 (8.72%) Serverless
7 437 (7.98%) SaaS
8 404 (7.37%) Power Platform
9 287 (5.24%) GitHub Actions
10 277 (5.06%) AWS CloudFormation
11 216 (3.94%) Amazon S3
12 204 (3.72%) AWS Lambda
13 201 (3.67%) Dynamics 365
14 198 (3.61%) PaaS
15 170 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
16 164 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
16 164 (2.99%) Azure AKS
17 162 (2.96%) Azure Data Factory
18 158 (2.88%) Entra ID
19 149 (2.72%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 123 (2.24%) Firewall
2 88 (1.61%) DNS
3 77 (1.41%) VPN
4 61 (1.11%) TCP/IP
5 46 (0.84%) Network Security
6 33 (0.60%) Internet
7 29 (0.53%) Broadband
8 26 (0.47%) HTTP
9 24 (0.44%) DHCP
10 16 (0.29%) MQTT
11 14 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
11 14 (0.26%) Wireless
12 13 (0.24%) DMARC
13 12 (0.22%) BGP
13 12 (0.22%) SAN
13 12 (0.22%) WAN
14 11 (0.20%) LAN
14 11 (0.20%) SSH
15 8 (0.15%) VLAN
15 8 (0.15%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 344 (6.28%) SQL Server
2 294 (5.37%) Azure SQL Database
3 291 (5.31%) MongoDB
4 235 (4.29%) Power BI
5 213 (3.89%) PostgreSQL
6 195 (3.56%) NoSQL
7 134 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
8 124 (2.26%) MySQL
9 114 (2.08%) Relational Database
10 102 (1.86%) DynamoDB
11 96 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
11 96 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
12 93 (1.70%) Data Lake
13 83 (1.51%) Metadata
14 64 (1.17%) Redis
15 46 (0.84%) Big Data
16 45 (0.82%) Delta Lake
17 41 (0.75%) Amazon Athena
18 39 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
19 36 (0.66%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 621 (11.33%) Git
2 409 (7.46%) Jenkins
3 404 (7.37%) GitLab
4 357 (6.52%) JIRA
5 94 (1.72%) Selenium
6 76 (1.39%) SonarQube
7 64 (1.17%) Cypress.io
8 58 (1.06%) Maven
9 57 (1.04%) Postman
10 54 (0.99%) JUnit
11 43 (0.78%) TeamCity
12 40 (0.73%) Cucumber
13 37 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 34 (0.62%) JMeter
15 31 (0.57%) Bitbucket
16 27 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
17 25 (0.46%) REST Assured
18 24 (0.44%) Claude Code
19 23 (0.42%) NUnit
20 21 (0.38%) Zephyr
General
1 1,264 (23.07%) Social Skills
2 1,059 (19.33%) Finance
3 475 (8.67%) Public Sector
4 428 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
5 344 (6.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 253 (4.62%) Banking
7 213 (3.89%) Law
8 171 (3.12%) Legal
9 165 (3.01%) Retail
10 96 (1.75%) Marketing
11 68 (1.24%) Financial Institution
12 61 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
13 54 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
14 52 (0.95%) Manufacturing
15 51 (0.93%) Games
16 48 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
17 47 (0.86%) Advertising
18 42 (0.77%) Telecoms
19 40 (0.73%) Back Office
20 39 (0.71%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,295 (23.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,251 (22.83%) Senior
3 891 (16.26%) Developer
4 723 (13.20%) Lead
5 423 (7.72%) Architect
6 386 (7.05%) Software Engineer
7 342 (6.24%) Azure Engineer
8 308 (5.62%) Senior DevOps
9 288 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
10 286 (5.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 244 (4.45%) .NET Developer
12 232 (4.23%) Platform Engineer
13 220 (4.02%) Senior Developer
14 207 (3.78%) Data Engineer
15 184 (3.36%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 171 (3.12%) Lead DevOps
17 149 (2.72%) AWS Engineer
18 144 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
19 128 (2.34%) Java Developer
20 127 (2.32%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,343 (24.51%) Terraform
2 741 (13.52%) .NET
3 432 (7.88%) React
4 351 (6.41%) REST
5 342 (6.24%) RESTful
6 330 (6.02%) Node.js
7 308 (5.62%) ASP.NET
8 281 (5.13%) .NET Core
9 255 (4.65%) Spring
10 253 (4.62%) Spring Boot
11 243 (4.44%) CSS
11 243 (4.44%) HTML
12 236 (4.31%) ASP.NET Core
13 219 (4.00%) Kafka
14 164 (2.99%) AngularJS
15 143 (2.61%) Entity Framework
16 141 (2.57%) Blazor
17 121 (2.21%) Middleware
18 113 (2.06%) JSON
19 101 (1.84%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 976 (17.81%) Cloud Native
2 370 (6.75%) Product Ownership
3 259 (4.73%) Distributed Systems
4 218 (3.98%) Enterprise Software
5 161 (2.94%) Onboarding
6 112 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
6 112 (2.04%) Virtual Team
7 93 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
8 82 (1.50%) Management Information System
9 76 (1.39%) Mobile App
10 74 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
11 73 (1.33%) Data Centre
12 65 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
12 65 (1.19%) Public Cloud
12 65 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
13 53 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
14 51 (0.93%) Data Structures
15 50 (0.91%) Private Cloud
16 49 (0.89%) AI Agents
17 43 (0.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 547 (9.98%) Linux
2 256 (4.67%) Windows
3 97 (1.77%) Unix
4 68 (1.24%) Windows Server
5 67 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 53 (0.97%) CentOS
7 41 (0.75%) Ubuntu
8 40 (0.73%) VMS
9 33 (0.60%) Android
10 19 (0.35%) Apple iOS
11 17 (0.31%) Debian
12 11 (0.20%) Rocky
13 7 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
14 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.091%) Kali Linux
15 5 (0.091%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.073%) Solaris
16 4 (0.073%) Windows Server 2019
17 3 (0.055%) AIX
17 3 (0.055%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,778 (50.70%) CI/CD
2 2,021 (36.89%) Agile
3 1,310 (23.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,076 (19.64%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,022 (18.65%) Mentoring
6 1,005 (18.34%) Software Engineering
7 973 (17.76%) AI
8 892 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
9 851 (15.53%) Test Automation
10 731 (13.34%) Microservices
11 688 (12.56%) Containerisation
12 639 (11.66%) Platform Engineering
13 615 (11.22%) Observability
14 592 (10.80%) Technical Leadership
15 581 (10.60%) Roadmaps
16 550 (10.04%) Scrum
17 539 (9.84%) Full-Stack Development
18 538 (9.82%) Stakeholder Management
19 491 (8.96%) Analytics
20 388 (7.08%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,285 (23.45%) Python
2 987 (18.01%) SQL
3 810 (14.78%) C#
4 704 (12.85%) Java
5 669 (12.21%) JavaScript
6 413 (7.54%) TypeScript
7 377 (6.88%) Bash
8 376 (6.86%) PowerShell
9 156 (2.85%) Bicep
10 127 (2.32%) Go
11 118 (2.15%) C++
12 57 (1.04%) PHP
13 51 (0.93%) T-SQL
14 49 (0.89%) C
14 49 (0.89%) Groovy
14 49 (0.89%) Scala
15 47 (0.86%) Apex Code
16 41 (0.75%) Kotlin
17 38 (0.69%) Ruby
17 38 (0.69%) Rust
Qualifications
1 981 (17.90%) Security Cleared
2 654 (11.94%) SC Cleared
3 512 (9.34%) Degree
4 279 (5.09%) DV Cleared
5 193 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 165 (3.01%) Azure Certification
7 107 (1.95%) Master's Degree
8 104 (1.90%) AWS Certification
9 77 (1.41%) CISSP
9 77 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
10 71 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
11 67 (1.22%) CISM
12 63 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
13 59 (1.08%) ISTQB
14 39 (0.71%) PMI Certification
15 31 (0.57%) DBS Check
16 28 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 27 (0.49%) PMP
18 25 (0.46%) PhD
19 22 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 558 (10.18%) QA
2 199 (3.63%) Data Quality
3 193 (3.52%) Accessibility
4 126 (2.30%) GDPR
5 100 (1.83%) NIST
6 73 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 63 (1.15%) WCAG
8 49 (0.89%) ISO 22301
9 47 (0.86%) GRC
10 34 (0.62%) PCI DSS
11 32 (0.58%) SLA
12 28 (0.51%) NCSC
13 27 (0.49%) PMO
14 20 (0.37%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
16 12 (0.22%) HIPAA
16 12 (0.22%) TickIT
17 11 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
18 10 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 9 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 888 (16.21%) Docker
2 141 (2.57%) Active Directory
3 82 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (0.46%) vSphere
6 21 (0.38%) Hyper-V
7 20 (0.37%) Firmware
8 17 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.13%) Ceph
10 6 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.091%) KVM
11 5 (0.091%) NDS
12 4 (0.073%) iptables
13 3 (0.055%) Xen
14 2 (0.037%) Embedded Firmware
14 2 (0.037%) VMware ESXi
14 2 (0.037%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.018%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.018%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,020 (18.62%) Kubernetes
2 457 (8.34%) Ansible
3 232 (4.23%) Grafana
4 166 (3.03%) Prometheus
5 80 (1.46%) Argo
6 67 (1.22%) Puppet
7 37 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
8 33 (0.60%) Istio
9 29 (0.53%) Nagios
10 24 (0.44%) Kibana
11 21 (0.38%) HP Fortify
12 19 (0.35%) Progress Chef
13 17 (0.31%) Rancher
14 14 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
15 12 (0.22%) Packer
15 12 (0.22%) Podman
15 12 (0.22%) ZABBIX
16 11 (0.20%) logstash
17 10 (0.18%) Proxmox
18 9 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 1,098 (20.04%) Microsoft
2 204 (3.72%) Google
3 187 (3.41%) Databricks
4 127 (2.32%) Salesforce
5 123 (2.24%) Oracle
6 114 (2.08%) VMware
7 94 (1.72%) ServiceNow
8 91 (1.66%) Splunk
9 82 (1.50%) Red Hat
10 75 (1.37%) SAP
11 56 (1.02%) OpenAI
12 54 (0.99%) Cisco
13 51 (0.93%) Pega
14 46 (0.84%) Dynatrace
15 42 (0.77%) Facebook
16 35 (0.64%) AppDynamics
16 35 (0.64%) YouTube
17 34 (0.62%) MuleSoft
18 31 (0.57%) Foundry
19 29 (0.53%) Apple