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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 19 26
Rank change year-on-year -10 +7 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,305 3,957 7,183
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.62% 9.05% 7.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.26% 9.71% 8.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,099 2,323 5,264
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,486 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £88,750 £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% -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 68,751 40,768 85,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.84% 93.20% 83.29%
Number of salaries quoted 44,945 21,478 61,112
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,625 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -13 3,810 £70,000 -2.27% 1,580
UK excluding London -19 2,543 £65,000 - 1,078
Work from Home -7 1,531 £69,310 -0.99% 857
London -9 1,411 £82,500 +3.13% 690
North of England -14 901 £70,000 +3.70% 328
South East -12 565 £65,000 - 264
North West -16 471 £70,000 +0.89% 185
South West -15 352 £65,000 - 142
Midlands -30 333 £67,500 +12.50% 129
Yorkshire -3 273 £70,000 - 89
West Midlands -45 190 £65,000 +8.33% 90
East of England -4 161 £62,500 -3.85% 81
North East +11 157 £60,000 -7.69% 55
Scotland -3 145 £55,000 -25.42% 67
East Midlands +1 140 £70,000 +21.74% 39
Wales -4 80 £53,000 -11.67% 38
Northern Ireland -38 10 £73,151 +33.00% 46
Isle of Man +3 3 £35,000 -33.33%

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 79 (1.84%) Confluence
2 76 (1.77%) SharePoint
3 56 (1.30%) Apache
4 52 (1.21%) Apache Spark
5 49 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
6 37 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
7 28 (0.65%) CMS
8 26 (0.60%) IIS
9 16 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
10 11 (0.26%) OpenStack
10 11 (0.26%) SAS
11 9 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
11 9 (0.21%) Umbraco
12 8 (0.19%) Moodle
12 8 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
13 7 (0.16%) Apache Solr
13 7 (0.16%) Jupyter
13 7 (0.16%) nginx
13 7 (0.16%) WordPress
14 6 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 33 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
3 25 (0.58%) MS Visio
4 13 (0.30%) PlantUML
5 12 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
8 6 (0.14%) Simulink
9 3 (0.070%) Maya
9 3 (0.070%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.046%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.046%) Blender
10 2 (0.046%) Trello
11 1 (0.023%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.023%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.023%) Notion
11 1 (0.023%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 71 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.30%) SAP ERP
4 9 (0.21%) Endur
5 6 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.12%) Visualfiles
7 4 (0.093%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.070%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.070%) Magento
8 3 (0.070%) Markit EDM
8 3 (0.070%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.070%) Shopify
9 2 (0.046%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.046%) Fidessa
9 2 (0.046%) Infor SunSystems
10 1 (0.023%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.023%) SAP FI
10 1 (0.023%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 2,269 (52.71%) Azure
2 1,381 (32.08%) AWS
3 1,108 (25.74%) Azure DevOps
4 481 (11.17%) GCP
5 475 (11.03%) GitHub
6 429 (9.97%) Serverless
7 326 (7.57%) Power Platform
8 263 (6.11%) SaaS
9 256 (5.95%) GitHub Actions
10 230 (5.34%) Amazon S3
11 222 (5.16%) AWS CloudFormation
12 213 (4.95%) AWS Lambda
13 160 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
13 160 (3.72%) PaaS
14 147 (3.41%) Entra ID
15 140 (3.25%) Amazon EKS
16 138 (3.21%) Amazon ECS
17 137 (3.18%) Azure AKS
18 135 (3.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 134 (3.11%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 141 (3.28%) Firewall
2 92 (2.14%) DNS
3 65 (1.51%) Broadband
4 59 (1.37%) TCP/IP
5 46 (1.07%) VPN
6 37 (0.86%) Network Security
7 35 (0.81%) HTTP
8 27 (0.63%) DHCP
8 27 (0.63%) WAN
9 23 (0.53%) LAN
10 11 (0.26%) MQTT
11 10 (0.23%) BGP
11 10 (0.23%) SAN
11 10 (0.23%) Wireless
12 8 (0.19%) HTTPS
12 8 (0.19%) Internet
13 7 (0.16%) DMARC
14 6 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (0.14%) OSPF
14 6 (0.14%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 242 (5.62%) SQL Server
2 202 (4.69%) NoSQL
3 185 (4.30%) Power BI
4 167 (3.88%) MongoDB
5 160 (3.72%) Azure SQL Database
6 142 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
7 112 (2.60%) DynamoDB
8 88 (2.04%) Relational Database
9 85 (1.97%) Data Lake
10 84 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
11 80 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
12 68 (1.58%) MySQL
13 66 (1.53%) Metadata
14 64 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
15 49 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
16 38 (0.88%) BigQuery
17 36 (0.84%) Delta Lake
18 34 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
19 32 (0.74%) Big Data
20 30 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 465 (10.80%) Git
2 389 (9.04%) Jenkins
3 365 (8.48%) GitLab
4 250 (5.81%) JIRA
5 100 (2.32%) SonarQube
6 83 (1.93%) Cypress.io
7 78 (1.81%) Selenium
8 64 (1.49%) Maven
9 45 (1.05%) Postman
10 36 (0.84%) Cucumber
11 35 (0.81%) Bitbucket
12 34 (0.79%) TeamCity
13 33 (0.77%) CircleCI
13 33 (0.77%) JUnit
14 26 (0.60%) Eclipse
15 25 (0.58%) JMeter
16 24 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
17 22 (0.51%) Visual Studio
18 20 (0.46%) REST Assured
19 18 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 921 (21.39%) Finance
2 882 (20.49%) Social Skills
3 353 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
4 282 (6.55%) Public Sector
5 250 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 231 (5.37%) Banking
7 135 (3.14%) Retail
8 125 (2.90%) Law
9 101 (2.35%) Marketing
10 79 (1.84%) Legal
11 74 (1.72%) Games
12 46 (1.07%) Manufacturing
13 43 (1.00%) Advertising
13 43 (1.00%) Telecoms
14 42 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
15 40 (0.93%) Financial Institution
16 35 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
17 33 (0.77%) Billing
18 31 (0.72%) Back Office
19 30 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 938 (21.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 872 (20.26%) Senior
3 758 (17.61%) Developer
4 616 (14.31%) Lead
5 347 (8.06%) Architect
6 324 (7.53%) Software Engineer
7 318 (7.39%) Azure Engineer
8 252 (5.85%) Cloud Engineer
9 219 (5.09%) Senior DevOps
10 196 (4.55%) Senior Developer
11 190 (4.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 170 (3.95%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 169 (3.93%) Data Engineer
14 153 (3.55%) AWS Engineer
15 150 (3.48%) Platform Engineer
16 145 (3.37%) Java Developer
17 144 (3.34%) Solutions Architect
18 137 (3.18%) Lead DevOps
19 123 (2.86%) .NET Developer
20 110 (2.56%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 521 (12.10%) .NET
2 375 (8.71%) React
3 281 (6.53%) REST
4 267 (6.20%) Node.js
5 240 (5.57%) RESTful
6 184 (4.27%) Spring Boot
7 172 (4.00%) CSS
8 169 (3.93%) ASP.NET
8 169 (3.93%) Spring
9 168 (3.90%) HTML
10 161 (3.74%) .NET Core
11 157 (3.65%) Kafka
12 156 (3.62%) AngularJS
13 122 (2.83%) ASP.NET Core
14 114 (2.65%) SOAP
15 102 (2.37%) OAuth
15 102 (2.37%) YAML
16 98 (2.28%) Middleware
17 97 (2.25%) PySpark
18 91 (2.11%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 609 (14.15%) Cloud Native
2 290 (6.74%) Product Ownership
3 152 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
4 120 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
5 87 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
6 79 (1.84%) Management Information System
7 73 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
8 66 (1.53%) Mobile App
8 66 (1.53%) Onboarding
9 60 (1.39%) Data Centre
10 53 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
11 52 (1.21%) Public Cloud
12 51 (1.18%) Algorithms
12 51 (1.18%) Data Structures
13 50 (1.16%) Low-Code
14 36 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
15 35 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
16 33 (0.77%) Security Posture
17 31 (0.72%) Virtual Team
18 29 (0.67%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 430 (9.99%) Linux
2 184 (4.27%) Windows
3 83 (1.93%) Unix
4 71 (1.65%) Windows Server
5 53 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 45 (1.05%) Ubuntu
7 31 (0.72%) CentOS
8 30 (0.70%) Android
9 29 (0.67%) VMS
10 25 (0.58%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.19%) Debian
11 8 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.093%) Kali Linux
12 4 (0.093%) Rocky
12 4 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.046%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.046%) Embedded Linux
13 2 (0.046%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.023%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.023%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,183 (50.71%) CI/CD
2 1,512 (35.12%) Agile
3 1,039 (24.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 776 (18.03%) Continuous Improvement
5 718 (16.68%) Problem-Solving
6 716 (16.63%) Mentoring
7 695 (16.14%) Software Engineering
8 661 (15.35%) AI
9 622 (14.45%) Test Automation
10 569 (13.22%) Containerisation
11 567 (13.17%) Microservices
12 460 (10.69%) Observability
13 451 (10.48%) Roadmaps
14 440 (10.22%) Full-Stack Development
15 433 (10.06%) Analytics
16 432 (10.03%) Platform Engineering
17 413 (9.59%) Scrum
18 377 (8.76%) Technical Leadership
19 314 (7.29%) Data Modelling
20 296 (6.88%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,065 (24.74%) Python
2 790 (18.35%) SQL
3 606 (14.08%) Java
4 528 (12.26%) C#
5 487 (11.31%) JavaScript
6 364 (8.46%) Bash
7 330 (7.67%) TypeScript
8 264 (6.13%) PowerShell
9 145 (3.37%) Go
10 126 (2.93%) C++
11 119 (2.76%) Bicep
12 82 (1.90%) Apex Code
13 57 (1.32%) PHP
14 54 (1.25%) Groovy
15 47 (1.09%) SOQL
16 46 (1.07%) Scala
17 44 (1.02%) SOSL
18 42 (0.98%) C
19 39 (0.91%) Kotlin
20 34 (0.79%) Rust
Qualifications
1 620 (14.40%) Security Cleared
2 440 (10.22%) Degree
3 370 (8.59%) SC Cleared
4 170 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 165 (3.83%) DV Cleared
6 105 (2.44%) AWS Certification
7 98 (2.28%) Azure Certification
8 92 (2.14%) Master's Degree
9 50 (1.16%) ISTQB
10 41 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
11 35 (0.81%) DBS Check
12 32 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
13 30 (0.70%) PMI Certification
14 29 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 27 (0.63%) CISSP
16 23 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 21 (0.49%) PhD
18 20 (0.46%) PMP
19 18 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
20 15 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 352 (8.18%) QA
2 173 (4.02%) Data Quality
3 139 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 89 (2.07%) GDPR
5 65 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 56 (1.30%) NIST
7 46 (1.07%) GRC
8 36 (0.84%) WCAG
9 33 (0.77%) SOC 2
10 32 (0.74%) PCI DSS
11 19 (0.44%) SLA
12 15 (0.35%) PMO
13 12 (0.28%) TickIT
14 11 (0.26%) NCSC
15 9 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
16 8 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 8 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
17 6 (0.14%) Solvency II
18 5 (0.12%) IFRS
18 5 (0.12%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 706 (16.40%) Docker
2 135 (3.14%) Active Directory
3 53 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.44%) Firmware
6 17 (0.39%) Hyper-V
7 15 (0.35%) vSphere
8 7 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.12%) iptables
10 4 (0.093%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 4 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.070%) Embedded Firmware
11 3 (0.070%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.070%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.046%) KVM
12 2 (0.046%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.023%) OpenAM
13 1 (0.023%) OpenDJ
13 1 (0.023%) OpenIDM
13 1 (0.023%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,070 (24.85%) Terraform
2 770 (17.89%) Kubernetes
3 385 (8.94%) Ansible
4 220 (5.11%) Grafana
5 179 (4.16%) Prometheus
6 76 (1.77%) Argo
7 49 (1.14%) Puppet
8 36 (0.84%) HP Fortify
8 36 (0.84%) Nagios
9 35 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
10 27 (0.63%) Kibana
11 20 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
12 18 (0.42%) Istio
12 18 (0.42%) Kustomize
13 14 (0.33%) Packer
13 14 (0.33%) Rancher
14 12 (0.28%) Progress Chef
15 11 (0.26%) Proxmox
16 9 (0.21%) logstash
17 8 (0.19%) yum
Vendors
1 799 (18.56%) Microsoft
2 160 (3.72%) Google
3 155 (3.60%) Salesforce
4 154 (3.58%) Databricks
5 94 (2.18%) Splunk
6 89 (2.07%) VMware
7 84 (1.95%) Oracle
8 81 (1.88%) Red Hat
9 80 (1.86%) ServiceNow
10 55 (1.28%) SAP
11 42 (0.98%) MuleSoft
12 33 (0.77%) Cisco
12 33 (0.77%) Dynatrace
13 30 (0.70%) Palo Alto
14 25 (0.58%) OpenAI
15 23 (0.53%) Pega
16 22 (0.51%) Adobe
17 19 (0.44%) Apple
17 19 (0.44%) SolarWinds
18 18 (0.42%) Foundry