DevOps
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -12 +3 -3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 6,539 10,596 27,301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.24% 13.13% 15.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.84% 13.77% 16.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4,271 7,069 12,904
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,125 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,258 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.60% +4.17% +9.09%

All Process and 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 73,969 76,929 168,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.84% 95.34% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 48,628 50,249 85,709
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps.

Salary trend for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 5,743 £67,500 -3.57% 649
UK excluding London -11 4,373 £61,500 -1.60% 523
Work from Home -11 2,476 £65,000 -7.14% 473
London -9 1,834 £82,500 +3.13% 253
North of England -6 1,335 £62,500 - 148
South East -4 1,104 £62,500 -3.85% 120
North West -5 893 £65,000 -0.54% 98
South West -10 659 £62,500 - 71
Midlands -21 580 £60,000 - 62
Yorkshire -11 369 £60,000 - 37
West Midlands -21 365 £60,000 +4.35% 48
Scotland -31 362 £68,250 +9.20% 53
East Midlands -18 215 £57,500 -11.54% 14
East of England -33 160 £52,500 -16.00% 31
Wales -5 123 £50,000 +5.26% 10
North East -6 73 £55,000 -8.33% 14
Northern Ireland -5 50 £67,500 -8.47% 41
Isle of Man - 3 - - 2

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 214 (3.27%) ArcGIS
1 214 (3.27%) GeoServer
2 173 (2.65%) Confluence
3 133 (2.03%) SharePoint
4 121 (1.85%) IIS
5 107 (1.64%) CMS
6 91 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
7 87 (1.33%) Apache Spark
8 82 (1.25%) Apache
9 71 (1.09%) Umbraco
10 67 (1.02%) nginx
11 47 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
12 35 (0.54%) Sitecore CMS
13 30 (0.46%) Headless CMS
13 30 (0.46%) Kentico
14 29 (0.44%) WordPress
15 26 (0.40%) OpenStack
16 24 (0.37%) Drupal
17 18 (0.28%) JBoss
18 17 (0.26%) Jupyter
Applications
1 69 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
2 65 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 37 (0.57%) MS Visio
4 33 (0.50%) Simulink
5 26 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 26 (0.40%) Photoshop
6 25 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
7 18 (0.28%) Trello
8 14 (0.21%) Sketch
9 11 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
10 9 (0.14%) Adobe XD
11 7 (0.11%) UserZoom
12 4 (0.061%) Chatbot
13 3 (0.046%) S-PLUS
14 2 (0.031%) Notion
15 1 (0.015%) Adobe Illustrator
15 1 (0.015%) AutoCAD
15 1 (0.015%) Revit
15 1 (0.015%) SketchUp
15 1 (0.015%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 124 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
3 24 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 18 (0.28%) SDL Web 8
5 15 (0.23%) Ripple
6 13 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
7 11 (0.17%) Magento
8 10 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
9 8 (0.12%) Shopify
10 7 (0.11%) Temenos T24
11 6 (0.092%) SAP S/4HANA
12 4 (0.061%) Elite 3E
12 4 (0.061%) Oracle EBS
12 4 (0.061%) Salesforce CRM
13 3 (0.046%) Endur
13 3 (0.046%) Oracle Applications
13 3 (0.046%) Primavera
14 2 (0.031%) BambooHR
14 2 (0.031%) CiviCRM
14 2 (0.031%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3,838 (58.69%) Azure
2 2,561 (39.17%) AWS
3 1,934 (29.58%) Azure DevOps
4 730 (11.16%) GCP
5 553 (8.46%) Power Platform
6 528 (8.07%) Serverless
7 418 (6.39%) SaaS
8 364 (5.57%) GitHub
9 290 (4.43%) PaaS
10 277 (4.24%) Dynamics 365
11 272 (4.16%) IBM Cloud
12 270 (4.13%) Azure Service Bus
13 262 (4.01%) Azure Logic Apps
14 258 (3.95%) Amazon S3
15 245 (3.75%) IaaS
16 243 (3.72%) Azure Functions
17 219 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
18 193 (2.95%) AWS CloudFormation
19 182 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
19 182 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 217 (3.32%) Firewall
2 192 (2.94%) DNS
3 108 (1.65%) Network Security
4 80 (1.22%) WAN
5 77 (1.18%) DHCP
6 76 (1.16%) VPN
7 66 (1.01%) TCP/IP
8 64 (0.98%) HTTP
9 52 (0.80%) LAN
10 28 (0.43%) SD-WAN
11 26 (0.40%) SSL
12 25 (0.38%) Internet
13 22 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
14 21 (0.32%) 5G
15 19 (0.29%) MQTT
16 15 (0.23%) BGP
16 15 (0.23%) SNMP
17 14 (0.21%) MPLS
18 13 (0.20%) HTTPS
19 12 (0.18%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 767 (11.73%) SQL Server
2 608 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
3 414 (6.33%) NoSQL
4 337 (5.15%) Relational Database
5 334 (5.11%) Data Warehouse
6 327 (5.00%) Power BI
7 317 (4.85%) MongoDB
8 256 (3.91%) BigQuery
9 237 (3.62%) Looker
10 232 (3.55%) Amazon RDS
11 220 (3.36%) GIS
12 216 (3.30%) Big Data
13 214 (3.27%) QGIS
14 180 (2.75%) MySQL
15 178 (2.72%) Azure SQL Database
16 161 (2.46%) Data Lake
17 139 (2.13%) DB2
18 132 (2.02%) DynamoDB
19 103 (1.58%) Redis
20 94 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 848 (12.97%) Git
2 509 (7.78%) Jenkins
3 473 (7.23%) JIRA
4 256 (3.91%) GitLab
5 248 (3.79%) Visual Studio
6 105 (1.61%) Selenium
7 91 (1.39%) Team Foundation Server
8 86 (1.32%) Bitbucket
9 85 (1.30%) Postman
10 75 (1.15%) TeamCity
11 74 (1.13%) NUnit
11 74 (1.13%) SonarQube
12 69 (1.06%) Cypress.io
13 67 (1.02%) Octopus Deploy
14 54 (0.83%) CircleCI
15 53 (0.81%) Gatling
16 52 (0.80%) Jasmine
17 50 (0.76%) SpecFlow
18 46 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
19 42 (0.64%) Artifactory
General
1 1,462 (22.36%) Social Skills
2 1,057 (16.16%) Finance
3 617 (9.44%) Analytical Skills
4 495 (7.57%) Public Sector
5 372 (5.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 246 (3.76%) Law
7 206 (3.15%) Banking
8 199 (3.04%) Retail
9 188 (2.88%) Marketing
10 158 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
11 128 (1.96%) Aerospace
12 112 (1.71%) Legal
13 108 (1.65%) Billing
14 78 (1.19%) Games
15 75 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
16 74 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
17 67 (1.02%) Manufacturing
18 63 (0.96%) Electronics
18 63 (0.96%) Telecoms
19 62 (0.95%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,607 (24.58%) Developer
2 1,403 (21.46%) Senior
3 968 (14.80%) DevOps Engineer
4 720 (11.01%) Lead
5 697 (10.66%) Software Engineer
6 686 (10.49%) Architect
7 425 (6.50%) Senior Developer
8 380 (5.81%) .NET Developer
9 371 (5.67%) Full Stack Developer
10 357 (5.46%) Data Engineer
11 317 (4.85%) Azure Engineer
12 293 (4.48%) Platform Engineer
13 290 (4.43%) Senior DevOps
14 280 (4.28%) Software Developer
15 273 (4.17%) C# Developer
16 262 (4.01%) AWS Engineer
17 256 (3.91%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 250 (3.82%) Cloud Engineer
19 244 (3.73%) Senior Software Engineer
20 232 (3.55%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,591 (24.33%) .NET
2 965 (14.76%) React
3 806 (12.33%) CSS
4 635 (9.71%) HTML
5 596 (9.11%) .NET Core
6 567 (8.67%) AngularJS
7 520 (7.95%) ASP.NET
8 491 (7.51%) Node.js
9 461 (7.05%) REST
10 413 (6.32%) Web Services
11 411 (6.29%) .NET Framework
12 327 (5.00%) RESTful
13 322 (4.92%) Vue
14 269 (4.11%) jQuery
15 250 (3.82%) Kafka
16 241 (3.69%) Entity Framework
17 236 (3.61%) JSON
18 220 (3.36%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 215 (3.29%) PostGIS
20 214 (3.27%) Leaflet
Miscellaneous
1 360 (5.51%) Product Ownership
2 358 (5.47%) Hybrid Cloud
3 321 (4.91%) Cloud Native
4 310 (4.74%) Blockchain
5 303 (4.63%) Self-Motivation
6 243 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
7 220 (3.36%) Public Cloud
8 215 (3.29%) Management Information System
9 208 (3.18%) Data Structures
10 189 (2.89%) Algorithms
11 143 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
12 140 (2.14%) Data Centre
13 129 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
14 118 (1.80%) Mobile App
15 112 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
16 109 (1.67%) e-Learning
17 108 (1.65%) IoT
18 105 (1.61%) Hedge funds
19 90 (1.38%) Onboarding
20 76 (1.16%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 993 (15.19%) Linux
2 631 (9.65%) Windows
3 183 (2.80%) Windows Server
4 181 (2.77%) Android
5 175 (2.68%) Apple iOS
6 90 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 88 (1.35%) Unix
8 67 (1.02%) CentOS
9 59 (0.90%) Debian
10 50 (0.76%) Ubuntu
11 46 (0.70%) Alpine Linux
11 46 (0.70%) VMS
12 44 (0.67%) Windows 10
13 38 (0.58%) Embedded Linux
13 38 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
14 31 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
15 11 (0.17%) AIX
15 11 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
16 9 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
17 8 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,145 (48.10%) Agile
2 2,139 (32.71%) CI/CD
3 1,376 (21.04%) Software Engineering
4 1,302 (19.91%) Problem-Solving
5 1,024 (15.66%) Mentoring
6 922 (14.10%) Infrastructure as Code
7 812 (12.42%) Scrum
8 744 (11.38%) Full Stack Development
9 718 (10.98%) Containerisation
10 680 (10.40%) Continuous Integration
11 661 (10.11%) Artificial Intelligence
12 642 (9.82%) Test Automation
13 640 (9.79%) Microservices
14 530 (8.11%) Analytics
15 524 (8.01%) Web Development
16 521 (7.97%) Roadmaps
17 519 (7.94%) SDLC
18 515 (7.88%) Computer Science
19 512 (7.83%) Platform Engineering
20 506 (7.74%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,729 (26.44%) Python
2 1,610 (24.62%) C#
3 1,432 (21.90%) JavaScript
4 1,334 (20.40%) SQL
5 949 (14.51%) Java
6 589 (9.01%) PowerShell
7 420 (6.42%) TypeScript
8 375 (5.73%) Bash
9 207 (3.17%) Go
10 182 (2.78%) T-SQL
11 175 (2.68%) PHP
12 173 (2.65%) C++
13 155 (2.37%) Bicep
14 108 (1.65%) C
15 105 (1.61%) Scala
16 90 (1.38%) Shell Script
17 73 (1.12%) VB.NET
18 65 (0.99%) Ruby
19 64 (0.98%) Kotlin
20 55 (0.84%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,067 (16.32%) Security Cleared
2 844 (12.91%) Degree
3 768 (11.74%) SC Cleared
4 395 (6.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 247 (3.78%) DV Cleared
6 235 (3.59%) Azure Certification
7 143 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 130 (1.99%) AWS Certification
9 121 (1.85%) Master's Degree
10 94 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
11 48 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
12 47 (0.72%) CCNA
13 42 (0.64%) CISSP
14 41 (0.63%) MCSE
15 40 (0.61%) MCSA
15 40 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
16 33 (0.50%) ISTQB
17 32 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 32 (0.49%) PMI Certification
18 28 (0.43%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 488 (7.46%) QA
2 240 (3.67%) GDPR
3 152 (2.32%) Data Quality
4 106 (1.62%) Accessibility
5 68 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 33 (0.50%) PMO
7 30 (0.46%) NIST
8 25 (0.38%) HIPAA
8 25 (0.38%) SLA
9 20 (0.31%) NCSC
9 20 (0.31%) PCI DSS
10 16 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
11 12 (0.18%) SOC 2
12 9 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.12%) ISO 9001
14 7 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
14 7 (0.11%) WCAG
15 6 (0.092%) ISO 13485
15 6 (0.092%) MiFID
15 6 (0.092%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1,137 (17.39%) Docker
2 263 (4.02%) Active Directory
3 154 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
4 151 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 72 (1.10%) Hyper-V
6 46 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
7 28 (0.43%) XenApp
8 25 (0.38%) XenDesktop
9 17 (0.26%) Firmware
9 17 (0.26%) NFS
9 17 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
10 12 (0.18%) VMware NSX
11 11 (0.17%) IAG
11 11 (0.17%) vSphere
12 10 (0.15%) KVM
13 9 (0.14%) pfSense
14 8 (0.12%) Varnish
15 7 (0.11%) Xen
16 6 (0.092%) Apache ZooKeeper
17 4 (0.061%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 1,421 (21.73%) Terraform
2 1,416 (21.65%) Kubernetes
3 625 (9.56%) Ansible
4 271 (4.14%) Prometheus
5 186 (2.84%) Puppet
6 161 (2.46%) Grafana
7 90 (1.38%) Progress Chef
8 46 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
9 42 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 41 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
11 34 (0.52%) ZABBIX
12 29 (0.44%) Kibana
13 28 (0.43%) Packer
14 27 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
15 26 (0.40%) Istio
16 23 (0.35%) Nagios
17 22 (0.34%) SCOM
18 21 (0.32%) WSUS
19 20 (0.31%) HAProxy
20 19 (0.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1,330 (20.34%) Microsoft
2 405 (6.19%) Google
3 360 (5.51%) Red Hat
4 298 (4.56%) IBM
5 215 (3.29%) ESRI
6 201 (3.07%) Databricks
7 191 (2.92%) VMware
8 177 (2.71%) Oracle
9 120 (1.84%) ServiceNow
10 115 (1.76%) Dynatrace
11 91 (1.39%) Cisco
12 72 (1.10%) Splunk
13 63 (0.96%) SAP
14 58 (0.89%) Atlassian
15 52 (0.80%) Salesforce
16 47 (0.72%) Sitecore
17 46 (0.70%) Citrix
18 44 (0.67%) Adobe
19 39 (0.60%) Informatica
20 32 (0.49%) Xilinx