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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 22 20
Rank change year-on-year -8 -2 -7
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,645 3,767 5,283
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.77% 7.60% 7.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.52% 8.54% 8.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3,863 2,132 3,239
10th Percentile £45,031 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year - +2.94% -2.86%
75th Percentile £88,148 £86,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +5.60% - -2.34%

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 86,526 44,119 60,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.14% 89.04% 81.91%
Number of salaries quoted 59,327 24,381 32,429
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 6 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 6 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 -11 4,873 £70,200 +0.29% 5,333
UK excluding London -3 3,607 £66,000 +5.60% 3,289
Work from Home -2 1,923 £69,310 +1.15% 2,866
London -9 1,597 £85,000 +6.25% 2,509
North of England +7 1,292 £67,500 +3.85% 895
North West +6 708 £70,000 +7.69% 461
South East -3 696 £65,000 +0.39% 749
South West +22 556 £75,000 +25.00% 377
Midlands -20 457 £65,000 - 407
North East +24 309 £60,000 +11.63% 159
Yorkshire +19 284 £70,000 +12.00% 281
West Midlands -24 274 £70,000 +7.69% 247
Wales -1 196 £55,000 - 162
East of England +6 195 £55,000 -8.33% 335
East Midlands +11 183 £60,000 +4.35% 160
Scotland -25 119 £62,500 -3.85% 298
Northern Ireland -13 114 £72,246 -44.43% 86
Isle of Man 0 3 £35,000 -33.33% 3

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
1 116 (2.05%) SharePoint
2 115 (2.04%) Apache Spark
3 113 (2.00%) Confluence
4 89 (1.58%) Apache
5 43 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
5 43 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
6 29 (0.51%) CMS
7 27 (0.48%) IIS
8 23 (0.41%) OpenStack
9 18 (0.32%) Jupyter
10 16 (0.28%) nginx
11 12 (0.21%) SAS
12 11 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 10 (0.18%) WebLogic
14 9 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
14 9 (0.16%) Umbraco
15 8 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
16 7 (0.12%) Camunda
16 7 (0.12%) CICS
17 6 (0.11%) JBoss
Applications
1 70 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
2 47 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
4 30 (0.53%) MS Visio
5 29 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 21 (0.37%) PlantUML
7 19 (0.34%) Chatbot
8 14 (0.25%) Trello
9 7 (0.12%) Simulink
10 3 (0.053%) Blender
10 3 (0.053%) Maya
10 3 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.035%) Lightworks
11 2 (0.035%) Notion
12 1 (0.018%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 87 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.23%) Elite 3E
4 9 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
5 8 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
6 6 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
6 6 (0.11%) Teamcenter
7 5 (0.089%) Dynamics NAV
7 5 (0.089%) Fidessa
8 4 (0.071%) NEC Housing
8 4 (0.071%) Oracle Applications
8 4 (0.071%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.071%) Shopify
9 3 (0.053%) Carpe Diem
9 3 (0.053%) Distributed Ledger
9 3 (0.053%) Dynamics GP
9 3 (0.053%) Sage 200
9 3 (0.053%) SAP Business One
9 3 (0.053%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2,941 (52.10%) Azure
2 1,824 (32.31%) AWS
3 1,491 (26.41%) Azure DevOps
4 630 (11.16%) GCP
5 574 (10.17%) GitHub
6 490 (8.68%) Serverless
7 460 (8.15%) SaaS
8 439 (7.78%) Power Platform
9 306 (5.42%) GitHub Actions
10 297 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
11 220 (3.90%) Dynamics 365
12 216 (3.83%) PaaS
13 208 (3.68%) Amazon S3
14 196 (3.47%) AWS Lambda
15 182 (3.22%) Azure Data Factory
16 174 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
17 172 (3.05%) Entra ID
18 170 (3.01%) Azure AKS
19 163 (2.89%) Power Automate
20 161 (2.85%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 140 (2.48%) Firewall
2 98 (1.74%) DNS
3 92 (1.63%) VPN
4 70 (1.24%) Internet
5 63 (1.12%) TCP/IP
6 50 (0.89%) Network Security
7 26 (0.46%) HTTP
8 25 (0.44%) DHCP
9 16 (0.28%) MQTT
9 16 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (0.27%) Broadband
10 15 (0.27%) DMARC
10 15 (0.27%) Wireless
11 13 (0.23%) SAN
12 12 (0.21%) BGP
13 11 (0.19%) SSH
13 11 (0.19%) WAN
14 9 (0.16%) LAN
14 9 (0.16%) OSPF
14 9 (0.16%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 361 (6.40%) SQL Server
2 305 (5.40%) Azure SQL Database
3 296 (5.24%) MongoDB
4 247 (4.38%) Power BI
5 232 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
6 194 (3.44%) NoSQL
7 149 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
8 128 (2.27%) MySQL
9 120 (2.13%) Relational Database
10 106 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
11 103 (1.82%) Metadata
12 99 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
13 95 (1.68%) Data Lake
14 93 (1.65%) DynamoDB
15 78 (1.38%) Redis
16 51 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
17 49 (0.87%) Amazon Athena
18 42 (0.74%) Big Data
18 42 (0.74%) Delta Lake
19 36 (0.64%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 682 (12.08%) Git
2 403 (7.14%) GitLab
3 393 (6.96%) Jenkins
4 352 (6.24%) JIRA
5 84 (1.49%) Selenium
6 56 (0.99%) Cypress.io
7 54 (0.96%) JUnit
8 53 (0.94%) TeamCity
9 51 (0.90%) Maven
10 50 (0.89%) SonarQube
11 42 (0.74%) Postman
12 37 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 35 (0.62%) Cucumber
14 30 (0.53%) Claude Code
15 28 (0.50%) Bitbucket
16 26 (0.46%) JMeter
16 26 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
17 19 (0.34%) Mockito
18 18 (0.32%) NUnit
18 18 (0.32%) Subversion
General
1 1,335 (23.65%) Social Skills
2 1,089 (19.29%) Finance
3 561 (9.94%) Public Sector
4 497 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
5 345 (6.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 239 (4.23%) Banking
7 211 (3.74%) Law
8 170 (3.01%) Retail
9 163 (2.89%) Legal
10 78 (1.38%) Financial Institution
11 73 (1.29%) Marketing
12 58 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
13 57 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
14 56 (0.99%) Aerospace
15 55 (0.97%) Manufacturing
16 53 (0.94%) Telecoms
17 49 (0.87%) Back Office
17 49 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
18 42 (0.74%) Advertising
19 32 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,467 (25.99%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,327 (23.51%) Senior
3 867 (15.36%) Developer
4 701 (12.42%) Lead
5 429 (7.60%) Architect
6 386 (6.84%) Software Engineer
7 359 (6.36%) Azure Engineer
8 356 (6.31%) Senior DevOps
9 327 (5.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 307 (5.44%) Cloud Engineer
11 246 (4.36%) Platform Engineer
12 243 (4.30%) .NET Developer
13 214 (3.79%) Data Engineer
14 207 (3.67%) Senior Developer
15 191 (3.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 172 (3.05%) Lead DevOps
17 160 (2.83%) AWS Engineer
18 151 (2.67%) Consultant
18 151 (2.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 141 (2.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,393 (24.68%) Terraform
2 729 (12.91%) .NET
3 402 (7.12%) React
4 346 (6.13%) REST
5 338 (5.99%) RESTful
6 329 (5.83%) Node.js
7 299 (5.30%) ASP.NET
8 285 (5.05%) Spring
9 279 (4.94%) Spring Boot
10 268 (4.75%) .NET Core
11 238 (4.22%) Kafka
12 232 (4.11%) CSS
13 229 (4.06%) HTML
14 228 (4.04%) ASP.NET Core
15 155 (2.75%) AngularJS
16 134 (2.37%) Entity Framework
17 131 (2.32%) Blazor
18 123 (2.18%) Middleware
19 113 (2.00%) JSON
20 97 (1.72%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1,042 (18.46%) Cloud Native
2 345 (6.11%) Product Ownership
3 273 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
4 254 (4.50%) Enterprise Software
5 165 (2.92%) Onboarding
6 129 (2.29%) Virtual Team
7 122 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
8 105 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
9 91 (1.61%) Management Information System
10 79 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
11 74 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
12 73 (1.29%) AI Agents
13 71 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
14 68 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
15 65 (1.15%) Data Centre
15 65 (1.15%) Mobile App
16 64 (1.13%) Public Cloud
17 53 (0.94%) Private Cloud
18 52 (0.92%) Data Structures
19 51 (0.90%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 612 (10.84%) Linux
2 263 (4.66%) Windows
3 117 (2.07%) Unix
4 71 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 67 (1.19%) Windows Server
6 50 (0.89%) CentOS
7 36 (0.64%) Ubuntu
8 33 (0.58%) VMS
9 31 (0.55%) Android
10 15 (0.27%) Debian
11 14 (0.25%) Rocky
12 12 (0.21%) Apple iOS
13 7 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
14 5 (0.089%) Mac OS
14 5 (0.089%) Windows Server 2016
15 4 (0.071%) Solaris
15 4 (0.071%) Windows Server 2019
16 3 (0.053%) AIX
16 3 (0.053%) Kali Linux
16 3 (0.053%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,895 (51.28%) CI/CD
2 2,059 (36.47%) Agile
3 1,409 (24.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,139 (20.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,117 (19.79%) Mentoring
6 1,038 (18.39%) AI
7 1,023 (18.12%) Software Engineering
8 947 (16.78%) Problem-Solving
9 858 (15.20%) Test Automation
10 751 (13.30%) Containerisation
11 745 (13.20%) Microservices
12 709 (12.56%) Platform Engineering
13 638 (11.30%) Technical Leadership
14 624 (11.05%) Observability
15 616 (10.91%) Stakeholder Management
16 556 (9.85%) Roadmaps
17 526 (9.32%) Scrum
18 516 (9.14%) Analytics
19 499 (8.84%) Full-Stack Development
20 405 (7.17%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,310 (23.21%) Python
2 984 (17.43%) SQL
3 808 (14.31%) C#
4 737 (13.06%) Java
5 657 (11.64%) JavaScript
6 414 (7.33%) TypeScript
7 398 (7.05%) PowerShell
8 388 (6.87%) Bash
9 172 (3.05%) Bicep
10 137 (2.43%) Go
11 119 (2.11%) C++
12 59 (1.05%) Shell Script
13 56 (0.99%) T-SQL
14 52 (0.92%) PHP
14 52 (0.92%) Scala
15 47 (0.83%) C
16 44 (0.78%) Kotlin
17 42 (0.74%) Groovy
18 39 (0.69%) Ruby
19 36 (0.64%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,095 (19.40%) Security Cleared
2 744 (13.18%) SC Cleared
3 509 (9.02%) Degree
4 303 (5.37%) DV Cleared
5 204 (3.61%) Azure Certification
6 189 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 111 (1.97%) AWS Certification
8 99 (1.75%) Master's Degree
9 88 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 80 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
11 76 (1.35%) CISSP
12 71 (1.26%) ITIL Certification
13 67 (1.19%) CISM
14 50 (0.89%) ISTQB
15 38 (0.67%) PMI Certification
16 27 (0.48%) PhD
17 26 (0.46%) DBS Check
17 26 (0.46%) PMP
17 26 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
18 24 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 538 (9.53%) QA
2 218 (3.86%) Data Quality
3 189 (3.35%) Accessibility
4 132 (2.34%) GDPR
5 96 (1.70%) NIST
6 74 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 61 (1.08%) WCAG
8 49 (0.87%) ISO 22301
9 35 (0.62%) GRC
9 35 (0.62%) SLA
10 31 (0.55%) PCI DSS
11 27 (0.48%) PMO
12 26 (0.46%) NCSC
13 17 (0.30%) SOC 2
14 15 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
15 12 (0.21%) HIPAA
16 9 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 9 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 9 (0.16%) NIST 800
17 8 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 957 (16.95%) Docker
2 142 (2.52%) Active Directory
3 82 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 44 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (0.48%) vSphere
6 24 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
7 20 (0.35%) Firmware
8 19 (0.34%) Hyper-V
9 8 (0.14%) NDS
10 7 (0.12%) Ceph
11 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.071%) iptables
12 4 (0.071%) KVM
12 4 (0.071%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.053%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.035%) Embedded Firmware
14 2 (0.035%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.035%) Xen
15 1 (0.018%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1,098 (19.45%) Kubernetes
2 477 (8.45%) Ansible
3 267 (4.73%) Grafana
4 186 (3.29%) Prometheus
5 87 (1.54%) Argo
6 63 (1.12%) Puppet
7 46 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
8 26 (0.46%) Istio
8 26 (0.46%) Rancher
9 24 (0.43%) Nagios
10 22 (0.39%) Kibana
10 22 (0.39%) Progress Chef
11 20 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
12 15 (0.27%) Packer
12 15 (0.27%) Podman
13 14 (0.25%) HP Fortify
14 13 (0.23%) logstash
15 11 (0.19%) Proxmox
16 10 (0.18%) ZABBIX
17 8 (0.14%) yum
Vendors
1 1,191 (21.10%) Microsoft
2 236 (4.18%) Google
3 183 (3.24%) Databricks
4 130 (2.30%) Oracle
5 119 (2.11%) VMware
6 112 (1.98%) Salesforce
7 100 (1.77%) ServiceNow
8 82 (1.45%) Splunk
9 77 (1.36%) SAP
10 73 (1.29%) Red Hat
11 62 (1.10%) Dynatrace
12 55 (0.97%) OpenAI
13 52 (0.92%) Cisco
14 47 (0.83%) Pega
15 44 (0.78%) YouTube
16 39 (0.69%) Facebook
17 32 (0.57%) MuleSoft
18 29 (0.51%) AppDynamics
19 28 (0.50%) Foundry
20 23 (0.41%) Apple