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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 21 26
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -15
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,872 4,158 7,067
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.00% 8.67% 6.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.80% 9.53% 8.26%
Number of salaries quoted 3,570 2,415 5,122
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 £110,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -3.23%

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 71,660 43,627 85,517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.61% 90.93% 82.16%
Number of salaries quoted 49,530 24,205 60,378
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 £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 6 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 6 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 4,262 £70,000 -3.11% 1,580
UK excluding London -6 2,997 £65,000 - 1,128
Work from Home -2 1,763 £65,576 -6.32% 917
London -6 1,462 £84,500 +5.63% 654
North of England 0 1,085 £69,305 +6.62% 315
South East -11 642 £65,000 - 349
North West +1 591 £70,000 +4.42% 183
South West -2 428 £70,000 +7.69% 138
Midlands -21 358 £65,000 - 134
Yorkshire +9 295 £70,000 - 90
North East +10 199 £60,000 -7.69% 46
West Midlands -31 196 £65,000 - 80
East of England +13 187 £60,000 -7.69% 85
East Midlands +3 161 £65,000 +15.56% 54
Wales +5 140 £53,171 -7.53% 36
Scotland -4 134 £58,565 -16.34% 51
Northern Ireland -31 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 (2.01%) Confluence
2 92 (1.89%) SharePoint
3 65 (1.33%) Apache Spark
4 60 (1.23%) Apache
5 46 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
6 45 (0.92%) 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 (0.18%) Jupyter
14 9 (0.18%) Umbraco
14 9 (0.18%) WordPress
15 8 (0.16%) 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 38 (0.78%) 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 (0.18%) Trello
7 7 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
7 7 (0.14%) Simulink
8 4 (0.082%) 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 (1.68%) 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 (0.082%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.082%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.082%) SAP IBP
6 3 (0.062%) Carpe Diem
6 3 (0.062%) Infor SunSystems
6 3 (0.062%) Magento
6 3 (0.062%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.041%) Adobe Campaign
7 2 (0.041%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.041%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.041%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,586 (53.08%) Azure
2 1,584 (32.51%) AWS
3 1,305 (26.79%) Azure DevOps
4 538 (11.04%) GCP
5 504 (10.34%) GitHub
6 471 (9.67%) Serverless
7 351 (7.20%) Power Platform
8 319 (6.55%) SaaS
9 271 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
10 230 (4.72%) AWS CloudFormation
11 229 (4.70%) Amazon S3
12 210 (4.31%) AWS Lambda
13 204 (4.19%) PaaS
14 163 (3.35%) Azure AKS
15 149 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
15 149 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
16 147 (3.02%) Azure Logic Apps
17 146 (3.00%) Amazon EKS
18 143 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
19 138 (2.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 146 (3.00%) Firewall
2 90 (1.85%) DNS
3 65 (1.33%) VPN
4 64 (1.31%) TCP/IP
5 63 (1.29%) Broadband
6 41 (0.84%) Network Security
7 36 (0.74%) HTTP
8 23 (0.47%) DHCP
8 23 (0.47%) 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 (0.18%) HTTPS
12 9 (0.18%) SAN
13 8 (0.16%) Bluetooth
13 8 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (0.12%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 273 (5.60%) SQL Server
2 265 (5.44%) MongoDB
3 263 (5.40%) Azure SQL Database
4 191 (3.92%) NoSQL
5 187 (3.84%) Power BI
6 172 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
7 106 (2.18%) DynamoDB
8 95 (1.95%) Relational Database
9 92 (1.89%) MySQL
10 88 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
11 85 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
12 78 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
13 75 (1.54%) Data Lake
14 63 (1.29%) Metadata
15 46 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
16 45 (0.92%) 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
1 501 (10.28%) Git
2 409 (8.39%) Jenkins
3 402 (8.25%) GitLab
4 306 (6.28%) JIRA
5 101 (2.07%) SonarQube
6 80 (1.64%) Selenium
7 77 (1.58%) Cypress.io
8 60 (1.23%) Maven
9 44 (0.90%) Postman
10 42 (0.86%) 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 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
17 24 (0.49%) Eclipse
18 23 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
19 22 (0.45%) Visual Studio
20 20 (0.41%) REST Assured
General
1 1,007 (20.67%) Social Skills
2 963 (19.77%) Finance
3 360 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
4 358 (7.35%) Public Sector
5 297 (6.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 239 (4.91%) Banking
7 166 (3.41%) Law
8 154 (3.16%) Retail
9 112 (2.30%) Marketing
10 95 (1.95%) Legal
11 81 (1.66%) Games
12 61 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
13 56 (1.15%) Manufacturing
14 54 (1.11%) Advertising
15 47 (0.96%) Financial Institution
16 45 (0.92%) Telecoms
17 43 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
18 42 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
19 34 (0.70%) Back Office
20 24 (0.49%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1,101 (22.60%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,006 (20.65%) Senior
3 877 (18.00%) Developer
4 671 (13.77%) Lead
5 408 (8.37%) Architect
6 360 (7.39%) Software Engineer
7 337 (6.92%) Azure Engineer
8 260 (5.34%) Cloud Engineer
9 248 (5.09%) Senior DevOps
10 224 (4.60%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 219 (4.50%) .NET Developer
12 210 (4.31%) Senior Developer
13 187 (3.84%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 186 (3.82%) Platform Engineer
15 167 (3.43%) Data Engineer
16 163 (3.35%) AWS Engineer
17 160 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
18 147 (3.02%) Java Developer
19 137 (2.81%) Lead DevOps
20 113 (2.32%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 672 (13.79%) .NET
2 438 (8.99%) React
3 305 (6.26%) Node.js
3 305 (6.26%) RESTful
4 299 (6.14%) REST
5 278 (5.71%) ASP.NET
6 249 (5.11%) .NET Core
7 224 (4.60%) CSS
8 220 (4.52%) HTML
9 219 (4.50%) ASP.NET Core
9 219 (4.50%) Spring Boot
10 207 (4.25%) Spring
11 169 (3.47%) Kafka
12 167 (3.43%) AngularJS
13 128 (2.63%) Blazor
14 125 (2.57%) Entity Framework
15 112 (2.30%) YAML
16 108 (2.22%) Middleware
17 102 (2.09%) SOAP
18 94 (1.93%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 794 (16.30%) Cloud Native
2 314 (6.44%) Product Ownership
3 203 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 149 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
5 104 (2.13%) Onboarding
6 94 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
7 88 (1.81%) Management Information System
8 82 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
9 80 (1.64%) Mobile App
10 70 (1.44%) Public Cloud
11 69 (1.42%) Data Centre
12 62 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
13 58 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
14 51 (1.05%) Data Structures
14 51 (1.05%) Low-Code
15 47 (0.96%) Virtual Team
16 44 (0.90%) Algorithms
16 44 (0.90%) Security Posture
17 40 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
18 36 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 486 (9.98%) Linux
2 225 (4.62%) Windows
3 96 (1.97%) Unix
4 70 (1.44%) Windows Server
5 62 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 50 (1.03%) Ubuntu
7 42 (0.86%) CentOS
8 40 (0.82%) VMS
9 34 (0.70%) Android
10 21 (0.43%) Apple iOS
11 14 (0.29%) Debian
12 6 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 6 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
14 4 (0.082%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.082%) 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 2,480 (50.90%) CI/CD
2 1,810 (37.15%) Agile
3 1,177 (24.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 909 (18.66%) Continuous Improvement
5 845 (17.34%) Mentoring
6 820 (16.83%) Software Engineering
7 777 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
8 776 (15.93%) AI
9 688 (14.12%) Test Automation
10 661 (13.57%) Microservices
11 640 (13.14%) Containerisation
12 557 (11.43%) Full-Stack Development
13 533 (10.94%) Roadmaps
14 514 (10.55%) Observability
15 512 (10.51%) Platform Engineering
16 507 (10.41%) Scrum
17 463 (9.50%) Technical Leadership
18 443 (9.09%) Analytics
19 381 (7.82%) Stakeholder Management
20 316 (6.49%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,137 (23.34%) Python
2 878 (18.02%) SQL
3 692 (14.20%) C#
4 659 (13.53%) Java
5 597 (12.25%) JavaScript
6 390 (8.00%) Bash
7 365 (7.49%) TypeScript
8 306 (6.28%) PowerShell
9 152 (3.12%) Bicep
10 142 (2.91%) Go
11 132 (2.71%) C++
12 77 (1.58%) Apex Code
13 58 (1.19%) PHP
14 51 (1.05%) Groovy
15 48 (0.99%) SOQL
16 47 (0.96%) C
17 45 (0.92%) SOSL
18 40 (0.82%) Rust
19 38 (0.78%) Kotlin
20 37 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 772 (15.85%) Security Cleared
2 487 (10.00%) Degree
3 475 (9.75%) SC Cleared
4 193 (3.96%) DV Cleared
5 181 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 121 (2.48%) Azure Certification
7 108 (2.22%) Master's Degree
8 97 (1.99%) AWS Certification
9 52 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
10 51 (1.05%) ISTQB
10 51 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
11 47 (0.96%) CISSP
12 36 (0.74%) DBS Check
13 35 (0.72%) PMI Certification
14 31 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 28 (0.57%) CISM
16 27 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 27 (0.55%) PMP
17 24 (0.49%) PhD
18 20 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 434 (8.91%) QA
2 161 (3.30%) Accessibility
3 160 (3.28%) Data Quality
4 106 (2.18%) GDPR
5 74 (1.52%) NIST
6 70 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 56 (1.15%) WCAG
8 49 (1.01%) GRC
9 40 (0.82%) PCI DSS
10 31 (0.64%) SOC 2
11 21 (0.43%) PMO
12 20 (0.41%) SLA
13 15 (0.31%) ISO 22301
13 15 (0.31%) NCSC
14 12 (0.25%) TickIT
15 10 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
15 10 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
16 8 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 6 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 6 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 792 (16.26%) Docker
2 131 (2.69%) Active Directory
3 75 (1.54%) 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 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.12%) iptables
11 4 (0.082%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.082%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 4 (0.082%) 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 1,192 (24.47%) Terraform
2 901 (18.49%) Kubernetes
3 432 (8.87%) Ansible
4 229 (4.70%) Grafana
5 175 (3.59%) Prometheus
6 77 (1.58%) Argo
7 60 (1.23%) Puppet
8 39 (0.80%) Nagios
9 31 (0.64%) HP Fortify
10 28 (0.57%) 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 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
19 8 (0.16%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 952 (19.54%) Microsoft
2 187 (3.84%) Google
3 156 (3.20%) Databricks
4 149 (3.06%) Salesforce
5 112 (2.30%) VMware
6 101 (2.07%) ServiceNow
7 100 (2.05%) Splunk
8 92 (1.89%) Oracle
9 82 (1.68%) Red Hat
10 57 (1.17%) SAP
11 55 (1.13%) Pega
12 44 (0.90%) MuleSoft
13 43 (0.88%) Dynatrace
14 41 (0.84%) Cisco
14 41 (0.84%) Facebook
15 37 (0.76%) OpenAI
16 30 (0.62%) Apple
17 29 (0.60%) YouTube
18 26 (0.53%) Foundry
18 26 (0.53%) Palo Alto