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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 22 21
Rank change year-on-year -7 -1 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,424 3,875 5,473
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.78% 7.84% 7.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.56% 8.84% 8.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3,810 2,188 3,540
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 £88,148 £87,500 £86,250
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 82,630 43,847 63,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.77% 88.67% 80.95%
Number of salaries quoted 57,445 24,695 36,468
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £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% -2.78%

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 14 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 14 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 -10 4,670 £71,991 +1.40% 4,276
UK excluding London -5 3,491 £65,000 - 2,217
Work from Home -3 1,881 £69,310 -0.99% 3,191
London -9 1,521 £85,000 +6.25% 2,425
North of England +3 1,235 £68,724 +5.73% 643
South East -9 692 £65,000 - 504
North West +5 678 £70,000 +7.69% 355
South West +22 526 £73,000 +21.67% 286
Midlands -19 427 £65,500 +0.77% 252
Yorkshire +16 285 £70,000 +7.69% 181
North East +21 272 £60,000 +4.35% 113
West Midlands -24 247 £70,000 +7.69% 159
Wales +1 198 £54,500 -0.91% 51
East of England +4 194 £57,500 -11.54% 197
East Midlands +5 180 £60,000 +4.35% 92
Scotland -14 124 £60,000 -11.11% 217
Northern Ireland -4 114 £72,246 -44.43% 81
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 (2.03%) SharePoint
2 105 (1.94%) Confluence
3 104 (1.92%) Apache Spark
4 80 (1.47%) Apache
5 41 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
6 40 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
7 30 (0.55%) IIS
8 28 (0.52%) CMS
9 26 (0.48%) OpenStack
10 15 (0.28%) SAS
11 14 (0.26%) Jupyter
12 13 (0.24%) nginx
13 10 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
14 9 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 9 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
14 9 (0.17%) WordPress
15 8 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
15 8 (0.15%) Umbraco
16 7 (0.13%) Camunda
17 5 (0.092%) Anypoint
Applications
1 62 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
2 44 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 24 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (0.39%) Chatbot
4 21 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (0.39%) MS Visio
4 21 (0.39%) PlantUML
5 13 (0.24%) Trello
6 7 (0.13%) Simulink
7 3 (0.055%) Blender
7 3 (0.055%) Maya
7 3 (0.055%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.037%) Lightworks
9 1 (0.018%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.018%) Notion
9 1 (0.018%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.018%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 83 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.28%) Elite 3E
4 7 (0.13%) Teamcenter
5 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
6 5 (0.092%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.092%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.092%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.092%) Visualfiles
7 4 (0.074%) Dynamics AX
7 4 (0.074%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.074%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.074%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.055%) Carpe Diem
8 3 (0.055%) Distributed Ledger
8 3 (0.055%) Infor SunSystems
8 3 (0.055%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.055%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.055%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.055%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,823 (52.05%) Azure
2 1,736 (32.01%) AWS
3 1,431 (26.38%) Azure DevOps
4 584 (10.77%) GCP
5 537 (9.90%) GitHub
6 484 (8.92%) Serverless
7 438 (8.08%) SaaS
8 404 (7.45%) Power Platform
9 287 (5.29%) GitHub Actions
10 269 (4.96%) AWS CloudFormation
11 214 (3.95%) Amazon S3
12 209 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
13 206 (3.80%) Dynamics 365
14 198 (3.65%) PaaS
15 171 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
16 164 (3.02%) Amazon EKS
17 163 (3.01%) Azure Data Factory
18 160 (2.95%) Azure AKS
19 159 (2.93%) Entra ID
20 152 (2.80%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 120 (2.21%) Firewall
2 87 (1.60%) DNS
3 75 (1.38%) VPN
4 59 (1.09%) TCP/IP
5 47 (0.87%) Network Security
6 33 (0.61%) Internet
7 27 (0.50%) HTTP
8 25 (0.46%) DHCP
9 22 (0.41%) 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%) SAN
13 12 (0.22%) WAN
14 11 (0.20%) BGP
14 11 (0.20%) LAN
14 11 (0.20%) SSH
15 8 (0.15%) VLAN
15 8 (0.15%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 339 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 288 (5.31%) Azure SQL Database
3 285 (5.25%) MongoDB
4 232 (4.28%) Power BI
5 207 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
6 193 (3.56%) NoSQL
7 137 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
8 119 (2.19%) MySQL
9 114 (2.10%) Relational Database
10 104 (1.92%) DynamoDB
11 95 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
11 95 (1.75%) Data Lake
11 95 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
12 83 (1.53%) Metadata
13 71 (1.31%) Redis
14 49 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
15 44 (0.81%) Delta Lake
16 43 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
16 43 (0.79%) Big Data
17 36 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 628 (11.58%) Git
2 396 (7.30%) Jenkins
3 380 (7.01%) GitLab
4 351 (6.47%) JIRA
5 90 (1.66%) Selenium
6 69 (1.27%) SonarQube
7 62 (1.14%) Cypress.io
8 58 (1.07%) Maven
9 52 (0.96%) JUnit
9 52 (0.96%) Postman
10 45 (0.83%) TeamCity
11 40 (0.74%) Cucumber
12 36 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 31 (0.57%) JMeter
14 26 (0.48%) Bitbucket
14 26 (0.48%) Claude Code
14 26 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
15 21 (0.39%) REST Assured
16 20 (0.37%) NUnit
17 19 (0.35%) Zephyr
General
1 1,256 (23.16%) Social Skills
2 1,049 (19.34%) Finance
3 475 (8.76%) Public Sector
4 432 (7.96%) Analytical Skills
5 333 (6.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 245 (4.52%) Banking
7 213 (3.93%) Law
8 169 (3.12%) Legal
9 166 (3.06%) Retail
10 85 (1.57%) Marketing
11 71 (1.31%) Financial Institution
12 57 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
13 53 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
14 50 (0.92%) Manufacturing
15 48 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
16 47 (0.87%) Aerospace
17 46 (0.85%) Advertising
18 43 (0.79%) Back Office
19 42 (0.77%) Telecoms
20 39 (0.72%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,308 (24.12%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,245 (22.95%) Senior
3 880 (16.22%) Developer
4 704 (12.98%) Lead
5 415 (7.65%) Architect
6 386 (7.12%) Software Engineer
7 338 (6.23%) Azure Engineer
8 311 (5.73%) Senior DevOps
9 289 (5.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 284 (5.24%) Cloud Engineer
11 238 (4.39%) .NET Developer
12 230 (4.24%) Platform Engineer
13 216 (3.98%) Senior Developer
14 209 (3.85%) Data Engineer
15 182 (3.36%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 165 (3.04%) Lead DevOps
17 148 (2.73%) AWS Engineer
18 140 (2.58%) Solutions Architect
19 129 (2.38%) Java Developer
20 128 (2.36%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,319 (24.32%) Terraform
2 720 (13.27%) .NET
3 422 (7.78%) React
4 334 (6.16%) REST
5 330 (6.08%) Node.js
6 328 (6.05%) RESTful
7 298 (5.49%) ASP.NET
8 269 (4.96%) .NET Core
9 256 (4.72%) Spring
10 254 (4.68%) Spring Boot
11 233 (4.30%) CSS
11 233 (4.30%) HTML
12 228 (4.20%) ASP.NET Core
13 222 (4.09%) Kafka
14 165 (3.04%) AngularJS
15 137 (2.53%) Entity Framework
16 136 (2.51%) Blazor
17 117 (2.16%) Middleware
18 114 (2.10%) JSON
19 101 (1.86%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 983 (18.12%) Cloud Native
2 351 (6.47%) Product Ownership
3 259 (4.78%) Distributed Systems
4 218 (4.02%) Enterprise Software
5 161 (2.97%) Onboarding
6 120 (2.21%) Virtual Team
7 114 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
8 91 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
9 83 (1.53%) Management Information System
10 75 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
11 73 (1.35%) Data Centre
12 69 (1.27%) Mobile App
13 65 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
14 64 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
14 64 (1.18%) Public Cloud
15 55 (1.01%) AI Agents
16 51 (0.94%) Private Cloud
17 50 (0.92%) Data Structures
18 48 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
19 43 (0.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 548 (10.10%) Linux
2 250 (4.61%) Windows
3 97 (1.79%) Unix
4 69 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 64 (1.18%) Windows Server
6 51 (0.94%) CentOS
7 40 (0.74%) Ubuntu
7 40 (0.74%) VMS
8 30 (0.55%) Android
9 17 (0.31%) Debian
10 14 (0.26%) Apple iOS
11 11 (0.20%) Rocky
12 7 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
13 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.092%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.074%) Kali Linux
15 4 (0.074%) Solaris
15 4 (0.074%) Windows Server 2019
16 3 (0.055%) AIX
16 3 (0.055%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,732 (50.37%) CI/CD
2 1,985 (36.60%) Agile
3 1,283 (23.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,061 (19.56%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,023 (18.86%) Mentoring
6 1,002 (18.47%) Software Engineering
7 984 (18.14%) AI
8 895 (16.50%) Problem-Solving
9 839 (15.47%) Test Automation
10 721 (13.29%) Microservices
11 667 (12.30%) Containerisation
12 633 (11.67%) Platform Engineering
13 598 (11.03%) Observability
14 591 (10.90%) Technical Leadership
15 569 (10.49%) Roadmaps
16 540 (9.96%) Stakeholder Management
17 526 (9.70%) Full-Stack Development
17 526 (9.70%) Scrum
18 482 (8.89%) Analytics
19 391 (7.21%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,274 (23.49%) Python
2 969 (17.87%) SQL
3 797 (14.69%) C#
4 710 (13.09%) Java
5 656 (12.09%) JavaScript
6 421 (7.76%) TypeScript
7 375 (6.91%) PowerShell
8 374 (6.90%) Bash
9 152 (2.80%) Bicep
10 131 (2.42%) Go
11 119 (2.19%) C++
12 53 (0.98%) PHP
13 51 (0.94%) Groovy
13 51 (0.94%) T-SQL
14 50 (0.92%) Scala
15 49 (0.90%) C
16 44 (0.81%) Kotlin
17 39 (0.72%) Ruby
18 38 (0.70%) Apex Code
19 37 (0.68%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,006 (18.55%) Security Cleared
2 670 (12.35%) SC Cleared
3 504 (9.29%) Degree
4 282 (5.20%) DV Cleared
5 189 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 168 (3.10%) Azure Certification
7 103 (1.90%) AWS Certification
7 103 (1.90%) Master's Degree
8 77 (1.42%) ITIL Certification
9 76 (1.40%) CISSP
10 72 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
11 67 (1.24%) CISM
12 66 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
13 60 (1.11%) ISTQB
14 36 (0.66%) PMI Certification
15 28 (0.52%) DBS Check
16 25 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 24 (0.44%) PhD
18 23 (0.42%) PMP
19 22 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 547 (10.08%) QA
2 200 (3.69%) Data Quality
3 191 (3.52%) Accessibility
4 119 (2.19%) GDPR
5 99 (1.83%) NIST
6 70 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 61 (1.12%) WCAG
8 49 (0.90%) ISO 22301
9 42 (0.77%) GRC
10 34 (0.63%) SLA
11 30 (0.55%) PCI DSS
12 27 (0.50%) NCSC
12 27 (0.50%) PMO
13 17 (0.31%) SOC 2
14 12 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
14 12 (0.22%) HIPAA
14 12 (0.22%) TickIT
15 10 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
16 9 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 9 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 884 (16.30%) Docker
2 143 (2.64%) Active Directory
3 83 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 39 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (0.50%) vSphere
6 21 (0.39%) Hyper-V
7 19 (0.35%) 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 (0.092%) KVM
12 4 (0.074%) iptables
13 3 (0.055%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.055%) Xen
14 2 (0.037%) Embedded Firmware
14 2 (0.037%) VMware ESXi
15 1 (0.018%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.018%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,007 (18.57%) Kubernetes
2 450 (8.30%) Ansible
3 232 (4.28%) Grafana
4 167 (3.08%) Prometheus
5 80 (1.47%) Argo
6 67 (1.24%) Puppet
7 37 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
8 33 (0.61%) Istio
9 27 (0.50%) Nagios
10 26 (0.48%) Kibana
11 21 (0.39%) Progress Chef
11 21 (0.39%) Rancher
12 20 (0.37%) HP Fortify
13 14 (0.26%) Packer
13 14 (0.26%) Podman
13 14 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
14 13 (0.24%) logstash
15 12 (0.22%) ZABBIX
16 10 (0.18%) Proxmox
17 8 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 1,089 (20.08%) Microsoft
2 193 (3.56%) Google
3 183 (3.37%) Databricks
4 124 (2.29%) Oracle
5 116 (2.14%) Salesforce
6 115 (2.12%) VMware
7 93 (1.71%) ServiceNow
8 84 (1.55%) Splunk
9 80 (1.47%) Red Hat
10 75 (1.38%) SAP
11 56 (1.03%) OpenAI
12 52 (0.96%) Cisco
13 45 (0.83%) Dynatrace
14 44 (0.81%) Pega
15 42 (0.77%) Facebook
16 37 (0.68%) YouTube
17 36 (0.66%) AppDynamics
18 33 (0.61%) MuleSoft
19 28 (0.52%) Foundry
20 27 (0.50%) IBM