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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 21 25
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,974 4,195 7,032
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.09% 8.61% 6.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.89% 9.50% 8.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,619 2,437 5,091
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,138 £41,250
25th Percentile £54,468 £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 £110,000 £100,750
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 72,161 44,144 84,574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.86% 90.58% 82.41%
Number of salaries quoted 49,802 24,628 59,539
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £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 9 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 9 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 4,330 £70,000 -2.77% 1,575
UK excluding London -5 3,075 £65,000 - 1,176
Work from Home -2 1,814 £65,000 -7.14% 797
London -7 1,484 £85,000 +6.25% 621
North of England +1 1,094 £69,305 +6.62% 333
South East -8 653 £65,000 - 297
North West +1 598 £70,000 +4.42% 189
South West -3 438 £70,000 +7.69% 197
Midlands -22 369 £65,000 - 138
Yorkshire +8 296 £70,000 - 89
West Midlands -31 203 £65,000 - 90
North East +9 200 £60,000 -7.69% 56
East of England +11 191 £60,000 -7.69% 87
East Midlands +7 165 £65,000 +15.56% 47
Wales +5 146 £53,171 -7.53% 42
Scotland -8 134 £58,033 -17.10% 56
Northern Ireland -19 57 £73,151 -8.56% 45
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
1 100 (2.01%) Confluence
2 91 (1.83%) SharePoint
3 67 (1.35%) Apache Spark
4 63 (1.27%) Apache
5 45 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
6 44 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
7 30 (0.60%) CMS
7 30 (0.60%) IIS
8 20 (0.40%) SAS
9 15 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
10 12 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 11 (0.22%) nginx
12 10 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
13 9 (0.18%) Jupyter
13 9 (0.18%) Umbraco
13 9 (0.18%) WordPress
14 8 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
15 7 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 6 (0.12%) Anypoint
16 6 (0.12%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 57 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
2 39 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.40%) MS Visio
3 20 (0.40%) PlantUML
4 15 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (0.20%) Trello
7 7 (0.14%) Simulink
8 4 (0.080%) Maya
9 3 (0.060%) Blender
9 3 (0.060%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.040%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.020%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.020%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.020%) Notion
11 1 (0.020%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 83 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.12%) Elite 3E
3 6 (0.12%) Endur
4 5 (0.10%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.10%) SAP IBP
4 5 (0.10%) Visualfiles
5 4 (0.080%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.080%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.060%) Carpe Diem
6 3 (0.060%) Infor SunSystems
6 3 (0.060%) Magento
6 3 (0.060%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.060%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.040%) Adobe Campaign
7 2 (0.040%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.040%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.040%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,636 (53.00%) Azure
2 1,635 (32.87%) AWS
3 1,318 (26.50%) Azure DevOps
4 551 (11.08%) GCP
5 508 (10.21%) GitHub
6 481 (9.67%) Serverless
7 353 (7.10%) Power Platform
8 351 (7.06%) SaaS
9 273 (5.49%) GitHub Actions
10 237 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
11 231 (4.64%) Amazon S3
12 215 (4.32%) AWS Lambda
13 205 (4.12%) PaaS
14 161 (3.24%) Azure AKS
15 152 (3.06%) Azure Logic Apps
16 150 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
17 148 (2.98%) Dynamics 365
18 147 (2.96%) Amazon EKS
19 144 (2.90%) Amazon ECS
20 139 (2.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 147 (2.96%) Firewall
2 93 (1.87%) DNS
3 67 (1.35%) VPN
4 64 (1.29%) TCP/IP
5 63 (1.27%) Broadband
6 41 (0.82%) Network Security
7 37 (0.74%) HTTP
8 30 (0.60%) Internet
9 23 (0.46%) DHCP
10 21 (0.42%) LAN
10 21 (0.42%) WAN
11 15 (0.30%) MQTT
12 14 (0.28%) Wireless
13 13 (0.26%) DMARC
14 10 (0.20%) BGP
14 10 (0.20%) HTTPS
15 9 (0.18%) SAN
15 9 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (0.16%) Bluetooth
17 7 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 272 (5.47%) MongoDB
1 272 (5.47%) SQL Server
2 266 (5.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 197 (3.96%) NoSQL
4 191 (3.84%) Power BI
5 175 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
6 107 (2.15%) DynamoDB
7 95 (1.91%) Relational Database
8 93 (1.87%) MySQL
9 89 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
10 86 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
11 80 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
12 74 (1.49%) Data Lake
13 61 (1.23%) Metadata
14 46 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
15 45 (0.90%) Redis
16 40 (0.80%) Big Data
17 35 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
17 35 (0.70%) Delta Lake
18 32 (0.64%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 507 (10.19%) Git
2 417 (8.38%) Jenkins
3 408 (8.20%) GitLab
4 317 (6.37%) JIRA
5 103 (2.07%) SonarQube
6 84 (1.69%) Selenium
7 79 (1.59%) Cypress.io
8 61 (1.23%) Maven
9 47 (0.94%) Postman
10 44 (0.88%) JUnit
11 39 (0.78%) Cucumber
12 35 (0.70%) Bitbucket
13 34 (0.68%) JMeter
14 33 (0.66%) CircleCI
15 32 (0.64%) TeamCity
16 25 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
17 23 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 22 (0.44%) Eclipse
19 21 (0.42%) REST Assured
19 21 (0.42%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,041 (20.93%) Social Skills
2 979 (19.68%) Finance
3 365 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
4 361 (7.26%) Public Sector
5 301 (6.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 242 (4.87%) Banking
7 196 (3.94%) Law
8 158 (3.18%) Retail
9 114 (2.29%) Marketing
10 109 (2.19%) Legal
11 83 (1.67%) Games
12 62 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
13 57 (1.15%) Advertising
14 56 (1.13%) Manufacturing
15 49 (0.99%) Financial Institution
16 43 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
16 43 (0.86%) Telecoms
17 42 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
18 35 (0.70%) Back Office
19 26 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1,108 (22.28%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,044 (20.99%) Senior
3 882 (17.73%) Developer
4 678 (13.63%) Lead
5 419 (8.42%) Architect
6 370 (7.44%) Software Engineer
7 342 (6.88%) Azure Engineer
8 268 (5.39%) Cloud Engineer
9 249 (5.01%) Senior DevOps
10 225 (4.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 223 (4.48%) .NET Developer
12 211 (4.24%) Senior Developer
13 191 (3.84%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 188 (3.78%) Platform Engineer
15 170 (3.42%) Data Engineer
16 167 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
17 164 (3.30%) AWS Engineer
18 146 (2.94%) Java Developer
19 140 (2.81%) Lead DevOps
20 114 (2.29%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 675 (13.57%) .NET
2 441 (8.87%) React
3 309 (6.21%) Node.js
3 309 (6.21%) RESTful
4 302 (6.07%) REST
5 283 (5.69%) ASP.NET
6 253 (5.09%) .NET Core
7 227 (4.56%) CSS
7 227 (4.56%) Spring Boot
8 223 (4.48%) ASP.NET Core
8 223 (4.48%) HTML
9 215 (4.32%) Spring
10 177 (3.56%) Kafka
11 168 (3.38%) AngularJS
12 130 (2.61%) Blazor
13 128 (2.57%) Entity Framework
14 121 (2.43%) Middleware
15 112 (2.25%) YAML
16 104 (2.09%) SOAP
17 94 (1.89%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 817 (16.43%) Cloud Native
2 317 (6.37%) Product Ownership
3 206 (4.14%) Distributed Systems
4 156 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
5 116 (2.33%) Onboarding
6 97 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
7 88 (1.77%) Management Information System
8 83 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
9 81 (1.63%) Mobile App
10 70 (1.41%) Data Centre
10 70 (1.41%) Public Cloud
11 62 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
12 61 (1.23%) Virtual Team
13 60 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
14 50 (1.01%) Low-Code
15 48 (0.97%) Data Structures
16 44 (0.88%) Security Posture
17 43 (0.86%) Algorithms
18 42 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
19 38 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 493 (9.91%) Linux
2 233 (4.68%) Windows
3 97 (1.95%) Unix
4 72 (1.45%) Windows Server
5 62 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 49 (0.99%) Ubuntu
7 42 (0.84%) CentOS
8 40 (0.80%) VMS
9 33 (0.66%) Android
10 20 (0.40%) Apple iOS
11 15 (0.30%) Debian
12 7 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
13 6 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
13 6 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
14 5 (0.10%) Rocky
15 4 (0.080%) Kali Linux
16 3 (0.060%) AIX
17 2 (0.040%) Amazon Linux
17 2 (0.040%) FreeRTOS
18 1 (0.020%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,531 (50.88%) CI/CD
2 1,857 (37.33%) Agile
3 1,203 (24.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 938 (18.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 869 (17.47%) Mentoring
6 850 (17.09%) Software Engineering
7 796 (16.00%) AI
8 795 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
9 729 (14.66%) Test Automation
10 671 (13.49%) Microservices
11 652 (13.11%) Containerisation
12 563 (11.32%) Full-Stack Development
13 549 (11.04%) Roadmaps
14 525 (10.55%) Platform Engineering
15 517 (10.39%) Observability
16 514 (10.33%) Scrum
17 469 (9.43%) Technical Leadership
18 458 (9.21%) Analytics
19 394 (7.92%) Stakeholder Management
20 330 (6.63%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,184 (23.80%) Python
2 889 (17.87%) SQL
3 715 (14.37%) C#
4 677 (13.61%) Java
5 617 (12.40%) JavaScript
6 397 (7.98%) Bash
7 381 (7.66%) TypeScript
8 328 (6.59%) PowerShell
9 154 (3.10%) Bicep
10 147 (2.96%) Go
11 134 (2.69%) C++
12 77 (1.55%) Apex Code
13 59 (1.19%) PHP
14 54 (1.09%) Groovy
15 48 (0.97%) C
15 48 (0.97%) SOQL
16 45 (0.90%) SOSL
17 42 (0.84%) Rust
18 39 (0.78%) Kotlin
19 37 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 793 (15.94%) Security Cleared
2 497 (9.99%) Degree
3 486 (9.77%) SC Cleared
4 206 (4.14%) DV Cleared
5 186 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 124 (2.49%) Azure Certification
7 111 (2.23%) Master's Degree
8 99 (1.99%) AWS Certification
9 65 (1.31%) ITIL Certification
10 63 (1.27%) CISSP
11 56 (1.13%) ISTQB
12 51 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
13 44 (0.88%) CISM
14 36 (0.72%) DBS Check
14 36 (0.72%) PMI Certification
15 31 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 29 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 28 (0.56%) PMP
18 25 (0.50%) PhD
19 20 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 460 (9.25%) QA
2 162 (3.26%) Accessibility
3 161 (3.24%) Data Quality
4 113 (2.27%) GDPR
5 90 (1.81%) NIST
6 72 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 57 (1.15%) WCAG
8 51 (1.03%) GRC
9 43 (0.86%) PCI DSS
10 31 (0.62%) SOC 2
11 29 (0.58%) ISO 22301
12 23 (0.46%) PMO
13 20 (0.40%) SLA
14 15 (0.30%) NCSC
15 12 (0.24%) TickIT
16 10 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
16 10 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
17 9 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 6 (0.12%) ISO 9001
18 6 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 805 (16.18%) Docker
2 133 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 77 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.58%) vSphere
6 22 (0.44%) Firmware
7 20 (0.40%) Hyper-V
8 13 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.12%) iptables
11 5 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 4 (0.080%) Embedded Firmware
12 4 (0.080%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.060%) KVM
13 3 (0.060%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.040%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.040%) Xen
15 1 (0.020%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.020%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,219 (24.51%) Terraform
2 918 (18.46%) Kubernetes
3 446 (8.97%) Ansible
4 236 (4.74%) Grafana
5 181 (3.64%) Prometheus
6 79 (1.59%) Argo
7 62 (1.25%) Puppet
8 39 (0.78%) Nagios
9 31 (0.62%) HP Fortify
10 28 (0.56%) Kibana
11 22 (0.44%) Istio
11 22 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
12 16 (0.32%) Rancher
13 15 (0.30%) Packer
14 14 (0.28%) Progress Chef
15 13 (0.26%) Kustomize
15 13 (0.26%) Proxmox
16 11 (0.22%) logstash
17 9 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
17 9 (0.18%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 960 (19.30%) Microsoft
2 190 (3.82%) Google
3 160 (3.22%) Databricks
4 152 (3.06%) Salesforce
5 114 (2.29%) VMware
6 101 (2.03%) ServiceNow
7 100 (2.01%) Splunk
8 95 (1.91%) Oracle
9 80 (1.61%) Red Hat
10 64 (1.29%) SAP
11 56 (1.13%) Pega
12 45 (0.90%) MuleSoft
13 43 (0.86%) Cisco
13 43 (0.86%) Dynatrace
13 43 (0.86%) Facebook
14 38 (0.76%) OpenAI
15 31 (0.62%) Apple
16 30 (0.60%) YouTube
17 26 (0.52%) Foundry
17 26 (0.52%) Palo Alto