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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 23 21
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,478 3,891 5,592
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.83% 7.83% 7.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.61% 8.84% 8.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3,867 2,200 3,581
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £86,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%

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 82,871 44,018 63,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.00% 88.61% 80.87%
Number of salaries quoted 57,674 24,857 36,941
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -3.67%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 4,721 £70,966 -1.44% 2,568
UK excluding London -6 3,539 £65,000 - 1,465
Work from Home -4 1,906 £69,306 -0.99% 1,252
London -11 1,532 £85,000 +6.25% 1,368
North of England +4 1,240 £67,500 +3.85% 417
South East -9 706 £65,000 - 365
North West +5 684 £70,000 +7.69% 220
South West +24 529 £73,000 +19.18% 211
Midlands -18 433 £65,000 - 182
Yorkshire +11 284 £70,000 +7.69% 119
North East +20 272 £60,000 +4.35% 81
West Midlands -24 251 £70,000 +7.69% 110
East of England +6 206 £59,450 -8.54% 118
Wales -2 199 £54,000 -1.82% 41
East Midlands +2 182 £60,000 +4.35% 72
Scotland -5 131 £60,000 -11.11% 113
Northern Ireland -2 114 £72,246 -44.43% 33
Isle of Man +1 3 £35,000 -33.33% 1

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
1 110 (2.01%) SharePoint
2 105 (1.92%) Confluence
3 104 (1.90%) Apache Spark
4 84 (1.53%) Apache
5 43 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
6 40 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
7 30 (0.55%) CMS
7 30 (0.55%) IIS
8 27 (0.49%) OpenStack
9 16 (0.29%) SAS
10 14 (0.26%) Jupyter
11 13 (0.24%) nginx
12 12 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
13 9 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
13 9 (0.16%) Umbraco
13 9 (0.16%) WordPress
14 8 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
15 7 (0.13%) Camunda
16 6 (0.11%) Anypoint
Applications
1 64 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
2 46 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (0.40%) Chatbot
3 22 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (0.38%) MS Visio
4 21 (0.38%) PlantUML
5 19 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.24%) Trello
7 7 (0.13%) Simulink
8 3 (0.055%) Blender
8 3 (0.055%) Maya
8 3 (0.055%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.037%) Lightworks
10 1 (0.018%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.018%) Notion
10 1 (0.018%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 83 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.27%) Elite 3E
4 7 (0.13%) Teamcenter
5 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
6 5 (0.091%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.091%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.091%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.091%) Visualfiles
7 4 (0.073%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.073%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.073%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.055%) Carpe Diem
8 3 (0.055%) Infor SunSystems
8 3 (0.055%) Oracle Applications
8 3 (0.055%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.055%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.055%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.055%) Shopify
9 2 (0.037%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 2,869 (52.37%) Azure
2 1,765 (32.22%) AWS
3 1,450 (26.47%) Azure DevOps
4 594 (10.84%) GCP
5 546 (9.97%) GitHub
6 489 (8.93%) Serverless
7 438 (8.00%) SaaS
8 405 (7.39%) Power Platform
9 290 (5.29%) GitHub Actions
10 275 (5.02%) AWS CloudFormation
11 218 (3.98%) Amazon S3
12 209 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
13 203 (3.71%) Dynamics 365
14 198 (3.61%) PaaS
15 171 (3.12%) Microsoft 365
16 165 (3.01%) Amazon EKS
16 165 (3.01%) Azure Data Factory
17 162 (2.96%) Azure AKS
18 160 (2.92%) Entra ID
19 152 (2.77%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 124 (2.26%) Firewall
2 89 (1.62%) DNS
3 76 (1.39%) VPN
4 60 (1.10%) TCP/IP
5 48 (0.88%) Network Security
6 33 (0.60%) Internet
7 27 (0.49%) HTTP
8 25 (0.46%) DHCP
9 22 (0.40%) Broadband
10 16 (0.29%) MQTT
11 14 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
11 14 (0.26%) Wireless
12 13 (0.24%) DMARC
13 12 (0.22%) BGP
13 12 (0.22%) SAN
13 12 (0.22%) WAN
14 11 (0.20%) LAN
14 11 (0.20%) SSH
15 8 (0.15%) VLAN
15 8 (0.15%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 344 (6.28%) SQL Server
2 293 (5.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 292 (5.33%) MongoDB
4 233 (4.25%) Power BI
5 218 (3.98%) PostgreSQL
6 196 (3.58%) NoSQL
7 136 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
8 126 (2.30%) MySQL
9 118 (2.15%) Relational Database
10 101 (1.84%) DynamoDB
11 98 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
12 96 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
13 95 (1.73%) Data Lake
14 83 (1.52%) Metadata
15 69 (1.26%) Redis
16 45 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
16 45 (0.82%) Big Data
17 44 (0.80%) Delta Lake
18 42 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
19 36 (0.66%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 629 (11.48%) Git
2 403 (7.36%) Jenkins
3 391 (7.14%) GitLab
4 355 (6.48%) JIRA
5 91 (1.66%) Selenium
6 69 (1.26%) SonarQube
7 61 (1.11%) Cypress.io
8 58 (1.06%) Maven
9 54 (0.99%) JUnit
10 53 (0.97%) Postman
11 43 (0.78%) TeamCity
12 40 (0.73%) Cucumber
13 37 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 31 (0.57%) Bitbucket
14 31 (0.57%) JMeter
15 27 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
16 25 (0.46%) Claude Code
17 22 (0.40%) NUnit
17 22 (0.40%) REST Assured
18 20 (0.37%) Zephyr
General
1 1,260 (23.00%) Social Skills
2 1,059 (19.33%) Finance
3 480 (8.76%) Public Sector
4 434 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
5 337 (6.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 248 (4.53%) Banking
7 211 (3.85%) Law
8 170 (3.10%) Legal
9 167 (3.05%) Retail
10 87 (1.59%) Marketing
11 68 (1.24%) Financial Institution
12 58 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
13 53 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
14 51 (0.93%) Manufacturing
15 48 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
16 47 (0.86%) Advertising
17 46 (0.84%) Aerospace
18 44 (0.80%) Telecoms
19 41 (0.75%) Games
20 40 (0.73%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,310 (23.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,254 (22.89%) Senior
3 897 (16.37%) Developer
4 718 (13.11%) Lead
5 416 (7.59%) Architect
6 387 (7.06%) Software Engineer
7 342 (6.24%) Azure Engineer
8 310 (5.66%) Senior DevOps
9 288 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 285 (5.20%) Cloud Engineer
11 244 (4.45%) .NET Developer
12 229 (4.18%) Platform Engineer
13 222 (4.05%) Senior Developer
14 210 (3.83%) Data Engineer
15 184 (3.36%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 171 (3.12%) Lead DevOps
17 151 (2.76%) AWS Engineer
18 141 (2.57%) Solutions Architect
19 131 (2.39%) Java Developer
20 129 (2.35%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,344 (24.53%) Terraform
2 738 (13.47%) .NET
3 436 (7.96%) React
4 343 (6.26%) REST
5 341 (6.22%) RESTful
6 333 (6.08%) Node.js
7 307 (5.60%) ASP.NET
8 279 (5.09%) .NET Core
9 263 (4.80%) Spring
10 260 (4.75%) Spring Boot
11 241 (4.40%) CSS
11 241 (4.40%) HTML
12 234 (4.27%) ASP.NET Core
13 224 (4.09%) Kafka
14 164 (2.99%) AngularJS
15 141 (2.57%) Blazor
15 141 (2.57%) Entity Framework
16 119 (2.17%) JSON
16 119 (2.17%) Middleware
17 100 (1.83%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 991 (18.09%) Cloud Native
2 357 (6.52%) Product Ownership
3 263 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
4 222 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
5 162 (2.96%) Onboarding
6 120 (2.19%) Virtual Team
7 114 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
8 92 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
9 84 (1.53%) Management Information System
10 75 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
11 74 (1.35%) Data Centre
11 74 (1.35%) Mobile App
12 67 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
13 66 (1.20%) Public Cloud
14 65 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
15 53 (0.97%) AI Agents
16 51 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
17 50 (0.91%) Data Structures
17 50 (0.91%) Private Cloud
18 44 (0.80%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 553 (10.09%) Linux
2 256 (4.67%) Windows
3 99 (1.81%) Unix
4 69 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 66 (1.20%) Windows Server
6 52 (0.95%) CentOS
7 41 (0.75%) Ubuntu
8 40 (0.73%) VMS
9 32 (0.58%) Android
10 17 (0.31%) Apple iOS
10 17 (0.31%) Debian
11 11 (0.20%) Rocky
12 7 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
13 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.091%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.073%) Kali Linux
15 4 (0.073%) Solaris
15 4 (0.073%) Windows Server 2019
16 3 (0.055%) AIX
16 3 (0.055%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,777 (50.69%) CI/CD
2 2,013 (36.75%) Agile
3 1,312 (23.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,068 (19.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,031 (18.82%) Mentoring
6 1,012 (18.47%) Software Engineering
7 987 (18.02%) AI
8 894 (16.32%) Problem-Solving
9 849 (15.50%) Test Automation
10 734 (13.40%) Microservices
11 685 (12.50%) Containerisation
12 641 (11.70%) Platform Engineering
13 613 (11.19%) Observability
14 599 (10.93%) Technical Leadership
15 575 (10.50%) Roadmaps
16 543 (9.91%) Stakeholder Management
17 542 (9.89%) Scrum
18 539 (9.84%) Full-Stack Development
19 490 (8.94%) Analytics
20 400 (7.30%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,291 (23.57%) Python
2 984 (17.96%) SQL
3 810 (14.79%) C#
4 713 (13.02%) Java
5 671 (12.25%) JavaScript
6 420 (7.67%) TypeScript
7 379 (6.92%) Bash
7 379 (6.92%) PowerShell
8 155 (2.83%) Bicep
9 130 (2.37%) Go
10 119 (2.17%) C++
11 57 (1.04%) PHP
12 51 (0.93%) Groovy
12 51 (0.93%) T-SQL
13 49 (0.89%) C
13 49 (0.89%) Scala
14 43 (0.78%) Kotlin
15 39 (0.71%) Ruby
16 38 (0.69%) Apex Code
16 38 (0.69%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,007 (18.38%) Security Cleared
2 669 (12.21%) SC Cleared
3 509 (9.29%) Degree
4 286 (5.22%) DV Cleared
5 191 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 166 (3.03%) Azure Certification
7 105 (1.92%) Master's Degree
8 102 (1.86%) AWS Certification
9 77 (1.41%) CISSP
10 76 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
11 71 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
12 67 (1.22%) CISM
13 65 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
14 60 (1.10%) ISTQB
15 37 (0.68%) PMI Certification
16 29 (0.53%) DBS Check
17 26 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 25 (0.46%) PMP
19 24 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
19 24 (0.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 553 (10.09%) QA
2 200 (3.65%) Data Quality
3 195 (3.56%) Accessibility
4 126 (2.30%) GDPR
5 99 (1.81%) NIST
6 75 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 64 (1.17%) WCAG
8 49 (0.89%) ISO 22301
9 47 (0.86%) GRC
10 34 (0.62%) SLA
11 33 (0.60%) PCI DSS
12 27 (0.49%) NCSC
13 26 (0.47%) PMO
14 19 (0.35%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
16 12 (0.22%) HIPAA
16 12 (0.22%) TickIT
17 10 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 10 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
18 9 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 896 (16.36%) Docker
2 143 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 84 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 39 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (0.49%) vSphere
6 21 (0.38%) Hyper-V
7 20 (0.37%) Firmware
8 17 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.13%) Ceph
9 7 (0.13%) NDS
10 6 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.091%) KVM
12 4 (0.073%) iptables
13 3 (0.055%) Xen
14 2 (0.037%) Embedded Firmware
14 2 (0.037%) VMware ESXi
14 2 (0.037%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.018%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.018%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,020 (18.62%) Kubernetes
2 457 (8.34%) Ansible
3 234 (4.27%) Grafana
4 169 (3.09%) Prometheus
5 81 (1.48%) Argo
6 67 (1.22%) Puppet
7 37 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
8 33 (0.60%) Istio
9 27 (0.49%) Nagios
10 26 (0.47%) Kibana
11 21 (0.38%) Progress Chef
11 21 (0.38%) Rancher
12 19 (0.35%) HP Fortify
13 14 (0.26%) Packer
13 14 (0.26%) Podman
13 14 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
14 12 (0.22%) logstash
14 12 (0.22%) ZABBIX
15 10 (0.18%) Proxmox
16 8 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 1,102 (20.12%) Microsoft
2 198 (3.61%) Google
3 185 (3.38%) Databricks
4 124 (2.26%) Oracle
5 117 (2.14%) Salesforce
6 116 (2.12%) VMware
7 95 (1.73%) ServiceNow
8 84 (1.53%) Splunk
9 81 (1.48%) Red Hat
10 76 (1.39%) SAP
11 56 (1.02%) Cisco
11 56 (1.02%) OpenAI
12 48 (0.88%) Dynatrace
12 48 (0.88%) Pega
13 42 (0.77%) Facebook
14 37 (0.68%) YouTube
15 36 (0.66%) AppDynamics
16 34 (0.62%) MuleSoft
17 29 (0.53%) Foundry
18 28 (0.51%) Apple