DevOps Job Trends

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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 21 13
Rank change year-on-year -8 -8 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 3,331 5,191 6,098
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.17% 7.77% 11.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.29% 9.12% 12.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,277 3,164 5,007
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,308 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -0.99% -
75th Percentile £85,700 £87,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - - +1.63%

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 45,707 56,896 47,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.68% 85.15% 93.78%
Number of salaries quoted 27,910 29,661 36,781
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,001 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,439 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.75% +3.69% -0.94%

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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 2,850 £70,000 - 1,441
UK excluding London -18 1,785 £62,500 - 1,215
Work from Home -7 1,327 £68,958 +2.16% 783
London -2 1,308 £80,000 -3.03% 612
North of England -26 470 £62,750 +3.72% 220
South East -28 418 £65,000 -2.47% 508
Midlands -1 290 £63,500 -2.14% 135
Scotland -4 246 £67,250 +12.08% 96
North West -21 236 £65,000 +4.00% 99
West Midlands +10 226 £65,000 - 88
South West -26 182 £60,000 -7.69% 154
Yorkshire -9 171 £60,000 - 82
East of England -27 97 £65,000 +30.00% 78
Wales -6 68 £57,500 +4.55% 43
North East 0 65 £50,000 -13.74% 40
East Midlands -13 61 £60,000 - 44
Northern Ireland +7 22 £77,217 +11.41% 9
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

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
1 109 (3.27%) Confluence
2 75 (2.25%) Apache Spark
3 58 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
3 58 (1.74%) SharePoint
4 57 (1.71%) Apache
5 41 (1.23%) IIS
6 30 (0.90%) nginx
7 28 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
8 25 (0.75%) CMS
9 14 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 12 (0.36%) Appian
11 7 (0.21%) OpenStack
11 7 (0.21%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 5 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
12 5 (0.15%) Camunda
12 5 (0.15%) JBoss
12 5 (0.15%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
14 3 (0.090%) Jupyter
Applications
1 53 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
4 13 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 6 (0.18%) Trello
7 4 (0.12%) PlantUML
7 4 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.090%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.090%) Siemens NX
8 3 (0.090%) S-PLUS
9 2 (0.060%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.060%) Sketch
10 1 (0.030%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.030%) Maya
10 1 (0.030%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 65 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.96%) Oracle ERP
3 24 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
5 10 (0.30%) Shopify
6 9 (0.27%) SAP FS
7 8 (0.24%) Endur
8 6 (0.18%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
9 4 (0.12%) SAP IBP
9 4 (0.12%) SAP MII
9 4 (0.12%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.12%) SAP PP
10 3 (0.090%) SAP CX
10 3 (0.090%) SAP ERP
11 2 (0.060%) Dynamics AX
11 2 (0.060%) Markit EDM
11 2 (0.060%) Oracle BPM
11 2 (0.060%) Salesforce CRM
11 2 (0.060%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,956 (58.72%) Azure
2 1,171 (35.15%) AWS
3 1,007 (30.23%) Azure DevOps
4 495 (14.86%) GitHub
5 397 (11.92%) GCP
6 340 (10.21%) Power Platform
7 310 (9.31%) SaaS
8 298 (8.95%) Serverless
9 242 (7.27%) GitHub Actions
10 189 (5.67%) PaaS
11 162 (4.86%) AWS CloudFormation
12 148 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
13 146 (4.38%) Amazon S3
14 135 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
15 133 (3.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 133 (3.99%) Entra ID
16 129 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
17 111 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
18 108 (3.24%) Amazon ECS
18 108 (3.24%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 129 (3.87%) Firewall
2 101 (3.03%) DNS
3 65 (1.95%) TCP/IP
4 61 (1.83%) VPN
5 58 (1.74%) WAN
6 53 (1.59%) Network Security
7 42 (1.26%) LAN
8 41 (1.23%) HTTP
9 29 (0.87%) DHCP
10 23 (0.69%) SAN
11 22 (0.66%) SSH
11 22 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
12 20 (0.60%) FTP
12 20 (0.60%) SMTP
13 19 (0.57%) Broadband
14 17 (0.51%) BGP
15 16 (0.48%) SD-WAN
16 14 (0.42%) Wireless
17 13 (0.39%) VLAN
18 12 (0.36%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 334 (10.03%) SQL Server
2 198 (5.94%) Power BI
3 161 (4.83%) Data Warehouse
4 157 (4.71%) NoSQL
5 146 (4.38%) PostgreSQL
6 101 (3.03%) Relational Database
7 97 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
8 86 (2.58%) Azure SQL Database
9 72 (2.16%) Data Lake
10 67 (2.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 63 (1.89%) Big Data
12 60 (1.80%) Tableau
13 57 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
14 55 (1.65%) MySQL
15 54 (1.62%) DynamoDB
15 54 (1.62%) MongoDB
16 50 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
17 48 (1.44%) Metadata
18 42 (1.26%) BigQuery
19 41 (1.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 426 (12.79%) Git
2 354 (10.63%) Jenkins
3 290 (8.71%) JIRA
4 196 (5.88%) GitLab
5 92 (2.76%) Selenium
6 55 (1.65%) SonarQube
7 53 (1.59%) Cypress.io
8 48 (1.44%) Bitbucket
8 48 (1.44%) Octopus Deploy
8 48 (1.44%) TeamCity
9 35 (1.05%) Cucumber
10 33 (0.99%) JMeter
10 33 (0.99%) Postman
11 30 (0.90%) Vagrant
12 29 (0.87%) JUnit
12 29 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
13 27 (0.81%) Oracle Forms
14 26 (0.78%) Artifactory
14 26 (0.78%) Visual Studio
15 23 (0.69%) Snyk
General
1 967 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 883 (26.51%) Finance
3 361 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
4 240 (7.21%) Law
5 185 (5.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 163 (4.89%) Banking
7 154 (4.62%) Retail
8 151 (4.53%) Marketing
9 150 (4.50%) Public Sector
10 72 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
11 70 (2.10%) Games
12 65 (1.95%) Manufacturing
13 61 (1.83%) Telecoms
14 60 (1.80%) Financial Institution
15 54 (1.62%) Legal
16 44 (1.32%) Back Office
17 42 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
18 35 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
19 30 (0.90%) Front Office
20 26 (0.78%) Police
Job Titles
1 639 (19.18%) Senior
2 604 (18.13%) Developer
3 469 (14.08%) Lead
4 433 (13.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 313 (9.40%) Architect
6 235 (7.05%) Software Engineer
7 192 (5.76%) Cloud Engineer
8 170 (5.10%) Senior Developer
9 144 (4.32%) Data Engineer
10 141 (4.23%) Analyst
11 138 (4.14%) Solutions Architect
12 137 (4.11%) Azure Engineer
13 130 (3.90%) Platform Engineer
14 111 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
15 97 (2.91%) AWS Engineer
16 91 (2.73%) Senior DevOps
17 89 (2.67%) .NET Developer
18 88 (2.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 80 (2.40%) Support Engineer
20 76 (2.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 547 (16.42%) .NET
2 343 (10.30%) React
3 226 (6.78%) RESTful
4 215 (6.45%) REST
5 176 (5.28%) CSS
5 176 (5.28%) HTML
6 159 (4.77%) Kafka
7 140 (4.20%) .NET Framework
7 140 (4.20%) Node.js
8 136 (4.08%) AngularJS
9 125 (3.75%) Spring
10 116 (3.48%) Spring Boot
11 114 (3.42%) .NET Core
12 103 (3.09%) Middleware
13 91 (2.73%) YAML
14 89 (2.67%) ASP.NET
15 79 (2.37%) JSON
15 79 (2.37%) SOAP
16 72 (2.16%) OAuth
17 70 (2.10%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 500 (15.01%) Cloud Native
2 253 (7.60%) Product Ownership
3 123 (3.69%) Distributed Systems
4 117 (3.51%) Management Information System
5 110 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
6 94 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
7 87 (2.61%) Onboarding
8 74 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
9 59 (1.77%) Public Cloud
10 58 (1.74%) Algorithms
10 58 (1.74%) Data Centre
11 49 (1.47%) Mobile App
11 49 (1.47%) Security Posture
12 48 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
13 46 (1.38%) Low-Code
14 45 (1.35%) Virtual Team
15 44 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
16 39 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
17 35 (1.05%) IoT
18 31 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 353 (10.60%) Linux
2 266 (7.99%) Windows
3 78 (2.34%) Windows Server
4 64 (1.92%) Unix
5 62 (1.86%) VMS
6 39 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 31 (0.93%) Android
8 26 (0.78%) Ubuntu
9 24 (0.72%) Apple iOS
10 23 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
11 18 (0.54%) Amazon Linux
12 17 (0.51%) Debian
13 15 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
14 11 (0.33%) CentOS
15 7 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
16 4 (0.12%) Mac OS
17 3 (0.090%) Windows 10
18 2 (0.060%) AIX
18 2 (0.060%) Solaris
18 2 (0.060%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,752 (52.60%) CI/CD
2 1,496 (44.91%) Agile
3 755 (22.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 733 (22.01%) Problem-Solving
5 616 (18.49%) Continuous Improvement
6 590 (17.71%) Mentoring
7 555 (16.66%) AI
8 525 (15.76%) Software Engineering
9 503 (15.10%) Microservices
10 500 (15.01%) Test Automation
11 474 (14.23%) Containerisation
12 376 (11.29%) Analytics
13 372 (11.17%) Roadmaps
14 338 (10.15%) Observability
15 337 (10.12%) Scrum
16 334 (10.03%) Computer Science
17 326 (9.79%) Coaching
18 301 (9.04%) SDLC
19 288 (8.65%) Full-Stack Development
20 279 (8.38%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 979 (29.39%) Python
2 773 (23.21%) SQL
3 547 (16.42%) C#
4 415 (12.46%) Java
5 409 (12.28%) PowerShell
6 379 (11.38%) JavaScript
7 274 (8.23%) Bash
8 269 (8.08%) TypeScript
9 133 (3.99%) Bicep
10 114 (3.42%) Go
11 66 (1.98%) T-SQL
12 56 (1.68%) Groovy
13 55 (1.65%) Apex Code
14 46 (1.38%) Shell Script
15 44 (1.32%) C++
16 37 (1.11%) PHP
17 36 (1.08%) PL/SQL
18 34 (1.02%) Scala
19 30 (0.90%) Perl
20 24 (0.72%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 488 (14.65%) Degree
2 358 (10.75%) Security Cleared
3 261 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 256 (7.69%) SC Cleared
5 164 (4.92%) Azure Certification
6 121 (3.63%) AWS Certification
7 119 (3.57%) Master's Degree
8 89 (2.67%) DV Cleared
9 69 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
10 55 (1.65%) ISTQB
11 46 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 40 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
12 40 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
13 35 (1.05%) PhD
14 31 (0.93%) CISSP
15 27 (0.81%) CCNP
16 26 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
17 24 (0.72%) Chartered Engineer
18 22 (0.66%) PMI Certification
18 22 (0.66%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 363 (10.90%) QA
2 129 (3.87%) GDPR
3 128 (3.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 104 (3.12%) Accessibility
5 88 (2.64%) Data Quality
6 78 (2.34%) NIST
7 41 (1.23%) NCSC
8 34 (1.02%) SLA
9 27 (0.81%) PCI DSS
9 27 (0.81%) PMO
10 24 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 23 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 20 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
13 19 (0.57%) SOC 2
14 18 (0.54%) ISO 9001
15 16 (0.48%) WCAG
16 15 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 15 (0.45%) HIPAA
17 10 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
18 9 (0.27%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 662 (19.87%) Docker
2 147 (4.41%) Active Directory
3 73 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (0.72%) vSphere
6 20 (0.60%) DFS Replication
7 19 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (0.42%) NFS
10 11 (0.33%) Postfix
11 9 (0.27%) HDFS
11 9 (0.27%) Hyper-V
12 7 (0.21%) Dovecot
12 7 (0.21%) Firmware
12 7 (0.21%) Squid
13 5 (0.15%) Kamailio
14 4 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
15 3 (0.090%) vCloud
16 2 (0.060%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 853 (25.61%) Terraform
2 746 (22.40%) Kubernetes
3 328 (9.85%) Ansible
4 218 (6.54%) Grafana
5 189 (5.67%) Prometheus
6 43 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
6 43 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
7 35 (1.05%) Argo
8 21 (0.63%) Puppet
9 18 (0.54%) SCCM
10 16 (0.48%) Progress Chef
11 14 (0.42%) Kibana
12 13 (0.39%) Red Hat Satellite
13 12 (0.36%) AWS Copilot
13 12 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
13 12 (0.36%) vCenter Server
14 9 (0.27%) HP Fortify
15 8 (0.24%) Kubeflow
15 8 (0.24%) Nessus
15 8 (0.24%) Rancher
Vendors
1 716 (21.50%) Microsoft
2 145 (4.35%) Databricks
3 133 (3.99%) Google
4 123 (3.69%) Oracle
5 121 (3.63%) Salesforce
6 106 (3.18%) VMware
7 88 (2.64%) ServiceNow
8 77 (2.31%) Splunk
9 72 (2.16%) Red Hat
10 65 (1.95%) SAP
11 59 (1.77%) Cisco
12 43 (1.29%) Guidewire
13 39 (1.17%) OpenAI
14 33 (0.99%) Palo Alto
15 32 (0.96%) SolarWinds
16 29 (0.87%) IBM
17 27 (0.81%) Fortinet
18 26 (0.78%) MuleSoft
19 21 (0.63%) Foundry
20 20 (0.60%) Dynatrace