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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 21 25
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 -15
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,977 4,203 6,850
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.04% 8.55% 6.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.83% 9.49% 8.26%
Number of salaries quoted 3,627 2,432 4,944
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,023 £42,279
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £50,844
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 72,823 44,302 82,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.72% 90.16% 82.12%
Number of salaries quoted 50,276 24,855 57,929
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,201 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.89% +4.00% -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £92,500
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 16 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 16 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 -9 4,309 £70,000 -2.10% 1,193
UK excluding London -5 3,107 £65,000 - 916
Work from Home -2 1,815 £65,576 -6.32% 635
London -9 1,476 £85,000 +6.25% 459
North of England +1 1,089 £67,500 +3.85% 250
South East -12 651 £65,000 - 257
North West 0 599 £70,000 +7.69% 153
South West -6 431 £70,000 +7.69% 133
Midlands -25 371 £65,000 - 133
Yorkshire +11 289 £70,000 - 51
West Midlands -31 205 £65,000 - 95
North East +8 201 £60,000 -7.69% 47
East of England +13 194 £60,000 -7.69% 58
East Midlands +4 165 £65,000 +15.56% 38
Wales +7 160 £53,171 -7.53% 28
Scotland -3 136 £60,000 -14.29% 39
Northern Ireland -10 83 £72,500 -9.38% 37
Isle of Man +2 3 £35,000 -33.33% 5

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 96 (1.93%) Confluence
2 87 (1.75%) SharePoint
3 73 (1.47%) Apache Spark
4 63 (1.27%) Apache
5 44 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
6 42 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
7 31 (0.62%) CMS
7 31 (0.62%) IIS
8 20 (0.40%) SAS
9 15 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
10 12 (0.24%) nginx
10 12 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 10 (0.20%) Jupyter
11 10 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
12 9 (0.18%) Umbraco
12 9 (0.18%) WordPress
13 8 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
14 7 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 7 (0.14%) Anypoint
15 6 (0.12%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 57 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
2 41 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.40%) PlantUML
4 19 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 11 (0.22%) Trello
8 9 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
9 7 (0.14%) Simulink
10 4 (0.080%) Maya
11 3 (0.060%) Blender
12 2 (0.040%) Lightworks
12 2 (0.040%) Spreadsheet
13 1 (0.020%) Adobe XD
13 1 (0.020%) Notion
13 1 (0.020%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 79 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.12%) Elite 3E
3 6 (0.12%) SAP IBP
4 5 (0.10%) Endur
4 5 (0.10%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.10%) Visualfiles
5 4 (0.080%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.080%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.080%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.080%) Shopify
6 3 (0.060%) Carpe Diem
6 3 (0.060%) Infor SunSystems
6 3 (0.060%) Magento
6 3 (0.060%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.040%) Adobe Campaign
7 2 (0.040%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.040%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.040%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 2,630 (52.84%) Azure
2 1,625 (32.65%) AWS
3 1,316 (26.44%) Azure DevOps
4 541 (10.87%) GCP
5 503 (10.11%) GitHub
6 468 (9.40%) Serverless
7 378 (7.59%) SaaS
8 348 (6.99%) Power Platform
9 273 (5.49%) GitHub Actions
10 228 (4.58%) AWS CloudFormation
11 224 (4.50%) Amazon S3
12 207 (4.16%) AWS Lambda
13 201 (4.04%) PaaS
14 162 (3.25%) Azure AKS
15 151 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
16 149 (2.99%) Azure Logic Apps
17 148 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
18 142 (2.85%) Amazon EKS
19 139 (2.79%) Amazon ECS
19 139 (2.79%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 139 (2.79%) Firewall
2 88 (1.77%) DNS
3 65 (1.31%) VPN
4 63 (1.27%) TCP/IP
5 57 (1.15%) Broadband
6 39 (0.78%) Network Security
7 35 (0.70%) HTTP
8 32 (0.64%) Internet
9 22 (0.44%) DHCP
10 20 (0.40%) LAN
11 19 (0.38%) WAN
12 16 (0.32%) MQTT
13 14 (0.28%) Wireless
14 13 (0.26%) DMARC
15 10 (0.20%) BGP
15 10 (0.20%) HTTPS
15 10 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (0.16%) Bluetooth
16 8 (0.16%) ZigBee
17 7 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 270 (5.42%) SQL Server
2 268 (5.38%) MongoDB
3 263 (5.28%) Azure SQL Database
4 188 (3.78%) Power BI
5 186 (3.74%) NoSQL
6 183 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
7 103 (2.07%) DynamoDB
8 94 (1.89%) MySQL
9 92 (1.85%) Relational Database
10 91 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
11 87 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
12 77 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
13 75 (1.51%) Data Lake
14 57 (1.15%) Metadata
15 51 (1.02%) Redis
16 46 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
17 40 (0.80%) Big Data
18 37 (0.74%) Delta Lake
19 35 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
20 31 (0.62%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 512 (10.29%) Git
2 409 (8.22%) GitLab
3 406 (8.16%) Jenkins
4 318 (6.39%) JIRA
5 95 (1.91%) SonarQube
6 84 (1.69%) Selenium
7 77 (1.55%) Cypress.io
8 56 (1.13%) Maven
9 50 (1.00%) Postman
10 46 (0.92%) JUnit
11 37 (0.74%) Cucumber
12 33 (0.66%) JMeter
13 32 (0.64%) TeamCity
14 31 (0.62%) CircleCI
15 30 (0.60%) Bitbucket
16 26 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 26 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
17 22 (0.44%) Visual Studio
18 20 (0.40%) REST Assured
19 19 (0.38%) Eclipse
General
1 1,055 (21.20%) Social Skills
2 952 (19.13%) Finance
3 365 (7.33%) Public Sector
4 361 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
5 301 (6.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 243 (4.88%) Banking
7 192 (3.86%) Law
8 159 (3.19%) Retail
9 122 (2.45%) Legal
10 117 (2.35%) Marketing
11 81 (1.63%) Games
12 60 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
13 56 (1.13%) Manufacturing
14 55 (1.11%) Advertising
15 51 (1.02%) Financial Institution
16 46 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
17 45 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
18 42 (0.84%) Telecoms
19 36 (0.72%) Back Office
20 26 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1,126 (22.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,074 (21.58%) Senior
3 872 (17.52%) Developer
4 668 (13.42%) Lead
5 410 (8.24%) Architect
6 356 (7.15%) Software Engineer
7 346 (6.95%) Azure Engineer
8 264 (5.30%) Senior DevOps
9 258 (5.18%) Cloud Engineer
10 238 (4.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 219 (4.40%) .NET Developer
12 214 (4.30%) Senior Developer
13 194 (3.90%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 189 (3.80%) Platform Engineer
15 173 (3.48%) Data Engineer
16 170 (3.42%) Solutions Architect
17 161 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
18 142 (2.85%) Java Developer
19 136 (2.73%) Lead DevOps
20 118 (2.37%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 662 (13.30%) .NET
2 435 (8.74%) React
3 309 (6.21%) RESTful
4 307 (6.17%) REST
5 305 (6.13%) Node.js
6 281 (5.65%) ASP.NET
7 244 (4.90%) .NET Core
8 230 (4.62%) CSS
9 226 (4.54%) HTML
10 222 (4.46%) ASP.NET Core
10 222 (4.46%) Spring Boot
11 213 (4.28%) Spring
12 184 (3.70%) Kafka
13 159 (3.19%) AngularJS
14 132 (2.65%) Middleware
15 129 (2.59%) Entity Framework
16 126 (2.53%) Blazor
17 111 (2.23%) YAML
18 104 (2.09%) SOAP
19 97 (1.95%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 831 (16.70%) Cloud Native
2 324 (6.51%) Product Ownership
3 219 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
4 160 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
5 128 (2.57%) Onboarding
6 94 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
7 89 (1.79%) Management Information System
8 80 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
8 80 (1.61%) Mobile App
9 73 (1.47%) Virtual Team
10 70 (1.41%) Data Centre
11 62 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
12 60 (1.21%) Public Cloud
13 58 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
14 51 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
15 49 (0.98%) Data Structures
16 45 (0.90%) Low-Code
17 43 (0.86%) Algorithms
18 42 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
19 41 (0.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 480 (9.64%) Linux
2 230 (4.62%) Windows
3 90 (1.81%) Unix
4 69 (1.39%) Windows Server
5 65 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 46 (0.92%) Ubuntu
7 43 (0.86%) CentOS
8 39 (0.78%) VMS
9 32 (0.64%) Android
10 19 (0.38%) Apple iOS
11 16 (0.32%) Debian
12 7 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
12 7 (0.14%) Rocky
12 7 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
14 4 (0.080%) Kali Linux
15 3 (0.060%) AIX
16 2 (0.040%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.040%) FreeRTOS
17 1 (0.020%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,507 (50.37%) CI/CD
2 1,854 (37.25%) Agile
3 1,186 (23.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 942 (18.93%) Continuous Improvement
5 879 (17.66%) Mentoring
6 859 (17.26%) Software Engineering
7 814 (16.36%) AI
8 783 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
9 752 (15.11%) Test Automation
10 673 (13.52%) Microservices
11 629 (12.64%) Containerisation
12 554 (11.13%) Full-Stack Development
13 545 (10.95%) Roadmaps
14 525 (10.55%) Platform Engineering
15 523 (10.51%) Scrum
16 522 (10.49%) Observability
17 484 (9.72%) Technical Leadership
18 458 (9.20%) Analytics
19 398 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
20 342 (6.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,178 (23.67%) Python
2 890 (17.88%) SQL
3 721 (14.49%) C#
4 651 (13.08%) Java
5 622 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 389 (7.82%) TypeScript
7 374 (7.51%) Bash
8 333 (6.69%) PowerShell
9 156 (3.13%) Bicep
10 135 (2.71%) Go
11 130 (2.61%) C++
12 75 (1.51%) Apex Code
13 59 (1.19%) PHP
14 50 (1.00%) Groovy
15 49 (0.98%) C
16 47 (0.94%) SOQL
17 44 (0.88%) SOSL
18 41 (0.82%) Rust
19 38 (0.76%) Kotlin
20 36 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 773 (15.53%) Security Cleared
2 500 (10.05%) Degree
2 500 (10.05%) SC Cleared
3 196 (3.94%) DV Cleared
4 186 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 126 (2.53%) Azure Certification
6 116 (2.33%) Master's Degree
7 85 (1.71%) AWS Certification
8 79 (1.59%) CISSP
8 79 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
9 60 (1.21%) CISM
10 56 (1.13%) ISTQB
11 49 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
12 37 (0.74%) PMI Certification
13 36 (0.72%) DBS Check
14 29 (0.58%) PMP
15 27 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 26 (0.52%) PhD
17 25 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 19 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 475 (9.54%) QA
2 163 (3.28%) Accessibility
3 157 (3.15%) Data Quality
4 112 (2.25%) GDPR
5 103 (2.07%) NIST
6 70 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 60 (1.21%) WCAG
8 52 (1.04%) GRC
9 44 (0.88%) ISO 22301
10 40 (0.80%) PCI DSS
11 30 (0.60%) SOC 2
12 22 (0.44%) PMO
13 19 (0.38%) SLA
14 15 (0.30%) NCSC
15 12 (0.24%) TickIT
16 11 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
17 10 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 8 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
18 8 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 8 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 787 (15.81%) Docker
2 130 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 76 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (0.56%) vSphere
6 23 (0.46%) Firmware
7 20 (0.40%) Hyper-V
8 13 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 5 (0.10%) iptables
12 4 (0.080%) Embedded Firmware
13 3 (0.060%) KVM
13 3 (0.060%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.060%) Xen
14 2 (0.040%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.020%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.020%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.020%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,194 (23.99%) Terraform
2 908 (18.24%) Kubernetes
3 418 (8.40%) Ansible
4 234 (4.70%) Grafana
5 175 (3.52%) Prometheus
6 74 (1.49%) Argo
7 58 (1.17%) Puppet
8 38 (0.76%) Nagios
9 28 (0.56%) HP Fortify
10 26 (0.52%) Kibana
11 22 (0.44%) Istio
12 21 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
13 14 (0.28%) Rancher
14 13 (0.26%) Packer
14 13 (0.26%) Progress Chef
14 13 (0.26%) Proxmox
15 11 (0.22%) ZABBIX
16 10 (0.20%) logstash
17 9 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
18 8 (0.16%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 951 (19.11%) Microsoft
2 184 (3.70%) Google
3 165 (3.32%) Databricks
4 152 (3.05%) Salesforce
5 111 (2.23%) VMware
6 100 (2.01%) ServiceNow
7 99 (1.99%) Splunk
8 92 (1.85%) Oracle
9 80 (1.61%) Red Hat
10 67 (1.35%) SAP
11 54 (1.08%) Pega
12 45 (0.90%) MuleSoft
13 44 (0.88%) Cisco
13 44 (0.88%) Dynatrace
14 42 (0.84%) Facebook
14 42 (0.84%) OpenAI
15 30 (0.60%) Apple
16 29 (0.58%) YouTube
17 27 (0.54%) Foundry
18 25 (0.50%) Palo Alto