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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 20 26
Rank change year-on-year -8 +6 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,395 4,009 7,243
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.75% 9.06% 6.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.52% 9.78% 8.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3,180 2,322 5,253
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% -4.00%

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 67,454 41,012 87,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.86% 92.64% 82.31%
Number of salaries quoted 46,240 21,844 62,402
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 12 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 12 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 -9 3,892 £70,000 -1.75% 1,045
UK excluding London -8 2,605 £65,000 - 836
Work from Home -5 1,555 £67,500 -3.57% 724
London -6 1,438 £82,500 +3.13% 380
North of England -4 932 £69,310 +3.03% 245
South East -14 573 £65,000 - 251
North West -2 502 £70,000 +3.61% 141
South West -12 361 £65,000 - 107
Midlands -18 339 £66,000 +10.00% 104
Yorkshire 0 265 £70,000 - 72
West Midlands -32 191 £65,000 +8.33% 69
North East +11 165 £60,000 -7.69% 37
East of England +2 164 £60,100 -7.54% 71
East Midlands +1 145 £67,750 +20.44% 35
Scotland -3 138 £55,000 -25.42% 35
Wales +4 94 £53,171 -11.38% 26
Northern Ireland -36 8 £73,151 -13.94% 16
Isle of Man +2 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 85 (1.93%) Confluence
2 80 (1.82%) SharePoint
3 58 (1.32%) Apache Spark
4 57 (1.30%) Apache
5 45 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
6 38 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
7 28 (0.64%) CMS
8 25 (0.57%) IIS
9 15 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
10 11 (0.25%) SAS
11 10 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
12 9 (0.20%) OpenStack
12 9 (0.20%) Umbraco
13 8 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
13 8 (0.18%) WordPress
14 7 (0.16%) Jupyter
14 7 (0.16%) nginx
15 6 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 6 (0.14%) Apache Solr
15 6 (0.14%) Moodle
Applications
1 42 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
2 32 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.48%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.32%) PlantUML
5 11 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
7 6 (0.14%) Simulink
8 4 (0.091%) Maya
9 3 (0.068%) Blender
9 3 (0.068%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.068%) Trello
10 1 (0.023%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.023%) EngageOne
10 1 (0.023%) Lightworks
10 1 (0.023%) Notion
10 1 (0.023%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 74 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.25%) SAP ERP
4 7 (0.16%) Endur
5 5 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.11%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.091%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.091%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.068%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.068%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.068%) Magento
7 3 (0.068%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.068%) Shopify
8 2 (0.046%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.046%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.046%) Markit EDM
9 1 (0.023%) Infor M3
9 1 (0.023%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.023%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2,330 (53.01%) Azure
2 1,402 (31.90%) AWS
3 1,155 (26.28%) Azure DevOps
4 492 (11.19%) GCP
5 480 (10.92%) GitHub
6 433 (9.85%) Serverless
7 330 (7.51%) Power Platform
8 276 (6.28%) SaaS
9 256 (5.82%) GitHub Actions
10 225 (5.12%) Amazon S3
11 216 (4.91%) AWS CloudFormation
12 207 (4.71%) AWS Lambda
13 174 (3.96%) PaaS
14 152 (3.46%) Microsoft 365
15 144 (3.28%) Azure AKS
15 144 (3.28%) Entra ID
16 139 (3.16%) Amazon ECS
17 137 (3.12%) Dynamics 365
18 136 (3.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 134 (3.05%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 144 (3.28%) Firewall
2 91 (2.07%) DNS
3 65 (1.48%) Broadband
4 58 (1.32%) TCP/IP
5 51 (1.16%) VPN
6 38 (0.86%) Network Security
7 34 (0.77%) HTTP
8 26 (0.59%) DHCP
8 26 (0.59%) WAN
9 23 (0.52%) LAN
10 12 (0.27%) Internet
11 11 (0.25%) MQTT
12 10 (0.23%) BGP
12 10 (0.23%) SAN
12 10 (0.23%) Wireless
13 9 (0.20%) DMARC
14 8 (0.18%) HTTPS
15 6 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
15 6 (0.14%) OSPF
15 6 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 239 (5.44%) SQL Server
2 200 (4.55%) NoSQL
3 193 (4.39%) MongoDB
4 188 (4.28%) Azure SQL Database
5 187 (4.25%) Power BI
6 143 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
7 103 (2.34%) DynamoDB
8 88 (2.00%) Relational Database
9 82 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
10 81 (1.84%) Data Lake
11 80 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
12 71 (1.62%) MySQL
13 69 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
14 64 (1.46%) Metadata
15 49 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
16 37 (0.84%) BigQuery
17 35 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
17 35 (0.80%) Delta Lake
17 35 (0.80%) Redis
18 34 (0.77%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 465 (10.58%) Git
2 382 (8.69%) Jenkins
3 367 (8.35%) GitLab
4 263 (5.98%) JIRA
5 96 (2.18%) SonarQube
6 81 (1.84%) Selenium
7 79 (1.80%) Cypress.io
8 56 (1.27%) Maven
9 45 (1.02%) Postman
10 33 (0.75%) JUnit
11 32 (0.73%) Bitbucket
11 32 (0.73%) CircleCI
11 32 (0.73%) Cucumber
11 32 (0.73%) TeamCity
12 28 (0.64%) JMeter
13 25 (0.57%) Eclipse
14 24 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
15 21 (0.48%) Visual Studio
16 20 (0.46%) REST Assured
17 18 (0.41%) Jaeger
General
1 912 (20.75%) Finance
2 888 (20.20%) Social Skills
3 340 (7.74%) Analytical Skills
4 291 (6.62%) Public Sector
5 261 (5.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 232 (5.28%) Banking
7 139 (3.16%) Retail
8 123 (2.80%) Law
9 102 (2.32%) Marketing
10 78 (1.77%) Games
11 75 (1.71%) Legal
12 48 (1.09%) Manufacturing
13 46 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
14 45 (1.02%) Advertising
15 44 (1.00%) Telecoms
16 42 (0.96%) Financial Institution
17 41 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
18 33 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
19 31 (0.71%) Billing
20 30 (0.68%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 960 (21.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 873 (19.86%) Senior
3 770 (17.52%) Developer
4 616 (14.02%) Lead
5 360 (8.19%) Architect
6 329 (7.49%) Software Engineer
7 328 (7.46%) Azure Engineer
8 253 (5.76%) Cloud Engineer
9 208 (4.73%) Senior DevOps
10 200 (4.55%) Senior Developer
11 181 (4.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 179 (4.07%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 167 (3.80%) Data Engineer
14 166 (3.78%) Platform Engineer
15 150 (3.41%) AWS Engineer
16 146 (3.32%) Solutions Architect
17 145 (3.30%) .NET Developer
18 142 (3.23%) Java Developer
19 131 (2.98%) Lead DevOps
20 108 (2.46%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 547 (12.45%) .NET
2 388 (8.83%) React
3 279 (6.35%) Node.js
4 277 (6.30%) REST
5 249 (5.67%) RESTful
6 194 (4.41%) ASP.NET
7 184 (4.19%) Spring Boot
8 182 (4.14%) CSS
9 179 (4.07%) .NET Core
10 176 (4.00%) HTML
11 173 (3.94%) Spring
12 157 (3.57%) Kafka
13 152 (3.46%) AngularJS
14 145 (3.30%) ASP.NET Core
15 108 (2.46%) YAML
16 107 (2.43%) SOAP
17 98 (2.23%) OAuth
18 95 (2.16%) Middleware
19 94 (2.14%) PySpark
20 90 (2.05%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 660 (15.02%) Cloud Native
2 290 (6.60%) Product Ownership
3 159 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
4 130 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
5 93 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
6 77 (1.75%) Management Information System
7 76 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
7 76 (1.73%) Onboarding
8 74 (1.68%) Mobile App
9 62 (1.41%) Data Centre
10 57 (1.30%) Public Cloud
11 53 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
12 50 (1.14%) Data Structures
13 49 (1.11%) Algorithms
14 43 (0.98%) Low-Code
15 40 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
16 38 (0.86%) Security Posture
17 36 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
18 29 (0.66%) Enterprise Cloud
18 29 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 440 (10.01%) Linux
2 190 (4.32%) Windows
3 84 (1.91%) Unix
4 72 (1.64%) Windows Server
5 55 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 48 (1.09%) Ubuntu
7 35 (0.80%) VMS
8 34 (0.77%) CentOS
9 33 (0.75%) Android
10 26 (0.59%) Apple iOS
11 9 (0.20%) Debian
11 9 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.091%) Kali Linux
12 4 (0.091%) Rocky
12 4 (0.091%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.068%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.046%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.046%) Embedded Linux
15 1 (0.023%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.023%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,231 (50.76%) CI/CD
2 1,559 (35.47%) Agile
3 1,067 (24.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 793 (18.04%) Continuous Improvement
5 731 (16.63%) Mentoring
6 716 (16.29%) Software Engineering
7 713 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
8 684 (15.56%) AI
9 625 (14.22%) Test Automation
10 584 (13.29%) Containerisation
11 582 (13.24%) Microservices
12 478 (10.88%) Observability
13 466 (10.60%) Full-Stack Development
14 465 (10.58%) Roadmaps
15 456 (10.38%) Platform Engineering
16 435 (9.90%) Analytics
17 429 (9.76%) Scrum
18 393 (8.94%) Technical Leadership
19 303 (6.89%) Stakeholder Management
20 301 (6.85%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,061 (24.14%) Python
2 800 (18.20%) SQL
3 605 (13.77%) Java
4 558 (12.70%) C#
5 500 (11.38%) JavaScript
6 369 (8.40%) Bash
7 332 (7.55%) TypeScript
8 270 (6.14%) PowerShell
9 145 (3.30%) Go
10 129 (2.94%) Bicep
11 123 (2.80%) C++
12 80 (1.82%) Apex Code
13 57 (1.30%) PHP
14 50 (1.14%) Groovy
15 48 (1.09%) SOQL
16 45 (1.02%) Scala
16 45 (1.02%) SOSL
17 43 (0.98%) C
18 41 (0.93%) Kotlin
19 36 (0.82%) Rust
Qualifications
1 641 (14.58%) Security Cleared
2 452 (10.28%) Degree
3 392 (8.92%) SC Cleared
4 175 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 164 (3.73%) DV Cleared
6 105 (2.39%) Azure Certification
7 99 (2.25%) AWS Certification
8 98 (2.23%) Master's Degree
9 54 (1.23%) ISTQB
10 46 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
11 34 (0.77%) DBS Check
12 31 (0.71%) PMI Certification
13 30 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
14 28 (0.64%) CISSP
15 27 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 23 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 23 (0.52%) PhD
16 23 (0.52%) PMP
17 20 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
18 15 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 368 (8.37%) QA
2 164 (3.73%) Data Quality
3 149 (3.39%) Accessibility
4 92 (2.09%) GDPR
5 65 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 56 (1.27%) NIST
7 44 (1.00%) GRC
8 42 (0.96%) WCAG
9 33 (0.75%) PCI DSS
9 33 (0.75%) SOC 2
10 19 (0.43%) SLA
11 16 (0.36%) PMO
12 13 (0.30%) NCSC
13 12 (0.27%) TickIT
14 10 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 8 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
17 6 (0.14%) Solvency II
18 5 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
18 5 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 714 (16.25%) Docker
2 133 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 59 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (0.46%) Firmware
5 20 (0.46%) vSphere
6 18 (0.41%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.11%) iptables
9 5 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.091%) Embedded Firmware
10 4 (0.091%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.068%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.068%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.046%) KVM
13 1 (0.023%) OpenAM
13 1 (0.023%) OpenDJ
13 1 (0.023%) OpenIDM
13 1 (0.023%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,093 (24.87%) Terraform
2 789 (17.95%) Kubernetes
3 394 (8.96%) Ansible
4 220 (5.01%) Grafana
5 181 (4.12%) Prometheus
6 77 (1.75%) Argo
7 49 (1.11%) Puppet
8 40 (0.91%) Nagios
9 32 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
10 30 (0.68%) HP Fortify
11 28 (0.64%) Kibana
12 18 (0.41%) Istio
12 18 (0.41%) Kustomize
13 15 (0.34%) Packer
13 15 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
14 14 (0.32%) Rancher
15 13 (0.30%) Progress Chef
16 12 (0.27%) Proxmox
17 9 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 9 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 829 (18.86%) Microsoft
2 167 (3.80%) Google
3 154 (3.50%) Databricks
4 148 (3.37%) Salesforce
5 100 (2.28%) Splunk
6 99 (2.25%) VMware
7 92 (2.09%) ServiceNow
8 86 (1.96%) Oracle
9 84 (1.91%) Red Hat
10 58 (1.32%) SAP
11 40 (0.91%) MuleSoft
12 38 (0.86%) Dynatrace
13 33 (0.75%) Cisco
14 30 (0.68%) Palo Alto
15 29 (0.66%) OpenAI
16 24 (0.55%) Pega
17 23 (0.52%) Apple
17 23 (0.52%) Facebook
18 20 (0.46%) Foundry
19 19 (0.43%) Adobe