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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 21 26
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -15
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,841 4,157 7,078
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.98% 8.68% 6.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.77% 9.55% 8.25%
Number of salaries quoted 3,543 2,417 5,133
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £50,500
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 £110,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -2.83%

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 71,495 43,542 85,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.57% 90.95% 82.13%
Number of salaries quoted 49,394 24,103 60,537
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.72%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% - -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 5 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 5 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 4,235 £70,000 -3.45% 1,580
UK excluding London -6 2,969 £65,000 - 1,128
Work from Home -2 1,750 £67,490 -3.59% 917
London -7 1,460 £85,000 +6.25% 654
North of England +1 1,077 £69,305 +6.62% 315
South East -10 636 £65,000 - 349
North West -1 586 £70,000 +4.42% 183
South West -3 424 £70,000 +7.69% 138
Midlands -20 353 £65,000 - 134
Yorkshire +7 293 £70,000 - 90
North East +11 198 £60,000 -7.69% 46
West Midlands -33 194 £65,000 - 80
East of England +8 185 £60,000 -7.69% 85
East Midlands 0 158 £65,000 +15.56% 54
Wales +4 137 £53,171 -7.53% 36
Scotland -4 134 £58,565 -16.34% 51
Northern Ireland -32 29 £73,151 -8.56% 42
Isle of Man +2 3 £35,000 -33.33% 2

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 98 (2.02%) Confluence
2 92 (1.90%) SharePoint
3 65 (1.34%) Apache Spark
4 60 (1.24%) Apache
5 46 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
6 45 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
7 31 (0.64%) IIS
8 30 (0.62%) CMS
9 18 (0.37%) SAS
10 15 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
11 12 (0.25%) OpenStack
12 11 (0.23%) nginx
13 10 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
14 9 (0.19%) Jupyter
14 9 (0.19%) Umbraco
14 9 (0.19%) WordPress
15 8 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
16 7 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
17 6 (0.12%) Apache Solr
17 6 (0.12%) Moodle
Applications
1 53 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
2 37 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.39%) MS Visio
3 19 (0.39%) PlantUML
4 13 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.25%) Chatbot
6 9 (0.19%) Trello
7 7 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
7 7 (0.14%) Simulink
8 4 (0.083%) Maya
9 3 (0.062%) Blender
9 3 (0.062%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.041%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.021%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.021%) Notion
11 1 (0.021%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 82 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.12%) Elite 3E
3 6 (0.12%) Endur
3 6 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
4 5 (0.10%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.10%) Visualfiles
5 4 (0.083%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.083%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.083%) SAP IBP
6 3 (0.062%) Carpe Diem
6 3 (0.062%) Infor SunSystems
6 3 (0.062%) Magento
7 2 (0.041%) Adobe Campaign
7 2 (0.041%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.041%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.041%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.041%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,569 (53.07%) Azure
2 1,576 (32.56%) AWS
3 1,291 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
4 536 (11.07%) GCP
5 502 (10.37%) GitHub
6 469 (9.69%) Serverless
7 351 (7.25%) Power Platform
8 316 (6.53%) SaaS
9 270 (5.58%) GitHub Actions
10 228 (4.71%) Amazon S3
10 228 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
11 209 (4.32%) AWS Lambda
12 204 (4.21%) PaaS
13 163 (3.37%) Azure AKS
14 149 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
14 149 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
15 147 (3.04%) Azure Logic Apps
16 146 (3.02%) Amazon EKS
17 143 (2.95%) Amazon ECS
18 138 (2.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 145 (3.00%) Firewall
2 89 (1.84%) DNS
3 65 (1.34%) VPN
4 64 (1.32%) TCP/IP
5 63 (1.30%) Broadband
6 41 (0.85%) Network Security
7 35 (0.72%) HTTP
8 23 (0.48%) DHCP
9 22 (0.45%) Internet
9 22 (0.45%) LAN
9 22 (0.45%) WAN
10 13 (0.27%) DMARC
10 13 (0.27%) MQTT
10 13 (0.27%) Wireless
11 10 (0.21%) BGP
12 9 (0.19%) SAN
13 8 (0.17%) Bluetooth
13 8 (0.17%) HTTPS
13 8 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (0.12%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 270 (5.58%) SQL Server
2 258 (5.33%) MongoDB
3 255 (5.27%) Azure SQL Database
4 191 (3.95%) NoSQL
5 187 (3.86%) Power BI
6 172 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
7 106 (2.19%) DynamoDB
8 95 (1.96%) Relational Database
9 92 (1.90%) MySQL
10 86 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
11 85 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
12 77 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
13 75 (1.55%) Data Lake
14 63 (1.30%) Metadata
15 46 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
16 45 (0.93%) Redis
17 37 (0.76%) Delta Lake
18 36 (0.74%) Big Data
19 35 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
20 34 (0.70%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 499 (10.31%) Git
2 407 (8.41%) Jenkins
3 399 (8.24%) GitLab
4 304 (6.28%) JIRA
5 101 (2.09%) SonarQube
6 80 (1.65%) Selenium
7 77 (1.59%) Cypress.io
8 59 (1.22%) Maven
9 44 (0.91%) Postman
10 40 (0.83%) JUnit
11 37 (0.76%) Cucumber
12 35 (0.72%) Bitbucket
13 33 (0.68%) CircleCI
14 32 (0.66%) TeamCity
15 31 (0.64%) JMeter
16 25 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
17 24 (0.50%) Eclipse
18 22 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 22 (0.45%) Visual Studio
19 20 (0.41%) REST Assured
General
1 1,003 (20.72%) Social Skills
2 958 (19.79%) Finance
3 357 (7.37%) Public Sector
4 356 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
5 297 (6.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 239 (4.94%) Banking
7 166 (3.43%) Law
8 154 (3.18%) Retail
9 109 (2.25%) Marketing
10 95 (1.96%) Legal
11 82 (1.69%) Games
12 61 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
13 55 (1.14%) Manufacturing
14 53 (1.09%) Advertising
15 47 (0.97%) Financial Institution
16 45 (0.93%) Telecoms
17 43 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
18 41 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
19 34 (0.70%) Back Office
20 24 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1,090 (22.52%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,000 (20.66%) Senior
3 867 (17.91%) Developer
4 672 (13.88%) Lead
5 407 (8.41%) Architect
6 359 (7.42%) Software Engineer
7 338 (6.98%) Azure Engineer
8 258 (5.33%) Cloud Engineer
9 245 (5.06%) Senior DevOps
10 221 (4.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 210 (4.34%) .NET Developer
12 209 (4.32%) Senior Developer
13 188 (3.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 185 (3.82%) Platform Engineer
15 167 (3.45%) Data Engineer
16 161 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
17 160 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
18 147 (3.04%) Java Developer
19 137 (2.83%) Lead DevOps
20 113 (2.33%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 660 (13.63%) .NET
2 434 (8.97%) React
3 304 (6.28%) Node.js
4 301 (6.22%) RESTful
5 298 (6.16%) REST
6 269 (5.56%) ASP.NET
7 241 (4.98%) .NET Core
8 218 (4.50%) CSS
9 215 (4.44%) Spring Boot
10 214 (4.42%) HTML
11 210 (4.34%) ASP.NET Core
12 201 (4.15%) Spring
13 169 (3.49%) Kafka
14 165 (3.41%) AngularJS
15 124 (2.56%) Blazor
16 120 (2.48%) Entity Framework
17 111 (2.29%) YAML
18 108 (2.23%) Middleware
19 102 (2.11%) SOAP
20 94 (1.94%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 790 (16.32%) Cloud Native
2 313 (6.47%) Product Ownership
3 201 (4.15%) Distributed Systems
4 148 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
5 103 (2.13%) Onboarding
6 94 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
7 88 (1.82%) Management Information System
8 81 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
9 80 (1.65%) Mobile App
10 70 (1.45%) Public Cloud
11 68 (1.40%) Data Centre
12 61 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
13 57 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
14 51 (1.05%) Data Structures
14 51 (1.05%) Low-Code
15 47 (0.97%) Virtual Team
16 44 (0.91%) Algorithms
16 44 (0.91%) Security Posture
17 40 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
18 36 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 484 (10.00%) Linux
2 225 (4.65%) Windows
3 95 (1.96%) Unix
4 70 (1.45%) Windows Server
5 61 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 50 (1.03%) Ubuntu
7 41 (0.85%) CentOS
8 39 (0.81%) VMS
9 34 (0.70%) Android
10 21 (0.43%) Apple iOS
11 13 (0.27%) Debian
12 6 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 6 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
14 4 (0.083%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.083%) Rocky
15 3 (0.062%) AIX
16 2 (0.041%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.041%) FreeRTOS
17 1 (0.021%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,465 (50.92%) CI/CD
2 1,795 (37.08%) Agile
3 1,174 (24.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 904 (18.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 842 (17.39%) Mentoring
6 816 (16.86%) Software Engineering
7 771 (15.93%) Problem-Solving
8 768 (15.86%) AI
9 683 (14.11%) Test Automation
10 657 (13.57%) Microservices
11 634 (13.10%) Containerisation
12 546 (11.28%) Full-Stack Development
13 531 (10.97%) Roadmaps
14 511 (10.56%) Observability
14 511 (10.56%) Platform Engineering
15 503 (10.39%) Scrum
16 462 (9.54%) Technical Leadership
17 441 (9.11%) Analytics
18 378 (7.81%) Stakeholder Management
19 314 (6.49%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,132 (23.38%) Python
2 866 (17.89%) SQL
3 680 (14.05%) C#
4 652 (13.47%) Java
5 589 (12.17%) JavaScript
6 389 (8.04%) Bash
7 363 (7.50%) TypeScript
8 306 (6.32%) PowerShell
9 152 (3.14%) Bicep
10 142 (2.93%) Go
11 132 (2.73%) C++
12 77 (1.59%) Apex Code
13 57 (1.18%) PHP
14 50 (1.03%) Groovy
15 48 (0.99%) SOQL
16 47 (0.97%) C
17 45 (0.93%) SOSL
18 40 (0.83%) Rust
19 38 (0.78%) Kotlin
20 36 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 765 (15.80%) Security Cleared
2 486 (10.04%) Degree
3 473 (9.77%) SC Cleared
4 186 (3.84%) DV Cleared
5 181 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 121 (2.50%) Azure Certification
7 108 (2.23%) Master's Degree
8 97 (2.00%) AWS Certification
9 52 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
10 51 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
11 50 (1.03%) ISTQB
12 47 (0.97%) CISSP
13 36 (0.74%) DBS Check
14 35 (0.72%) PMI Certification
15 31 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 28 (0.58%) CISM
17 27 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 27 (0.56%) PMP
18 24 (0.50%) PhD
19 20 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 432 (8.92%) QA
2 160 (3.31%) Accessibility
2 160 (3.31%) Data Quality
3 106 (2.19%) GDPR
4 74 (1.53%) NIST
5 70 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 56 (1.16%) WCAG
7 49 (1.01%) GRC
8 39 (0.81%) PCI DSS
9 31 (0.64%) SOC 2
10 21 (0.43%) PMO
11 20 (0.41%) SLA
12 15 (0.31%) ISO 22301
12 15 (0.31%) NCSC
13 12 (0.25%) TickIT
14 10 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
16 8 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 6 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 6 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 783 (16.17%) Docker
2 131 (2.71%) Active Directory
3 75 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.60%) vSphere
6 21 (0.43%) Firmware
7 20 (0.41%) Hyper-V
8 13 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.12%) iptables
11 4 (0.083%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.083%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 4 (0.083%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.062%) KVM
12 3 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.062%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.021%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.021%) QEMU
13 1 (0.021%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,182 (24.42%) Terraform
2 893 (18.45%) Kubernetes
3 426 (8.80%) Ansible
4 227 (4.69%) Grafana
5 173 (3.57%) Prometheus
6 77 (1.59%) Argo
7 59 (1.22%) Puppet
8 39 (0.81%) Nagios
9 31 (0.64%) HP Fortify
10 28 (0.58%) Kibana
11 22 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
12 21 (0.43%) Istio
13 15 (0.31%) Packer
13 15 (0.31%) Rancher
14 14 (0.29%) Progress Chef
15 13 (0.27%) Proxmox
16 12 (0.25%) Kustomize
17 10 (0.21%) logstash
18 9 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
19 8 (0.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 940 (19.42%) Microsoft
2 185 (3.82%) Google
3 156 (3.22%) Databricks
4 149 (3.08%) Salesforce
5 112 (2.31%) VMware
6 101 (2.09%) ServiceNow
7 98 (2.02%) Splunk
8 92 (1.90%) Oracle
9 82 (1.69%) Red Hat
10 57 (1.18%) SAP
11 55 (1.14%) Pega
12 44 (0.91%) MuleSoft
13 43 (0.89%) Dynatrace
14 41 (0.85%) Cisco
15 40 (0.83%) Facebook
16 37 (0.76%) OpenAI
17 30 (0.62%) Apple
18 28 (0.58%) YouTube
19 26 (0.54%) Foundry
19 26 (0.54%) Palo Alto