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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 21 26
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,560 4,050 7,235
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.84% 9.01% 6.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.61% 9.75% 8.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,327 2,351 5,222
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,486 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £88,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
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 68,936 41,540 89,299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.11% 92.39% 81.68%
Number of salaries quoted 47,487 22,330 63,275
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,824 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,000
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 21 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 21 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 4,044 £70,000 -2.10% 979
UK excluding London -6 2,738 £65,000 - 844
Work from Home -2 1,624 £67,500 -3.57% 587
London -6 1,454 £82,500 +3.13% 361
North of England -1 997 £69,310 +3.39% 246
South East -12 601 £65,000 - 257
North West -3 544 £70,000 +3.70% 139
South West -7 388 £69,200 +6.46% 93
Midlands -22 338 £65,500 +6.94% 97
Yorkshire +2 275 £70,000 - 71
West Midlands -34 188 £65,000 +4.00% 57
East of England +6 179 £60,000 -7.69% 60
North East +12 178 £60,000 -7.69% 38
East Midlands -1 147 £66,750 +16.09% 40
Scotland -10 127 £55,000 -25.42% 32
Wales -3 104 £53,171 -11.38% 29
Northern Ireland -33 8 £73,151 -20.92% 51
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 91 (2.00%) Confluence
2 84 (1.84%) SharePoint
3 61 (1.34%) Apache Spark
4 58 (1.27%) Apache
5 44 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
6 41 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
7 28 (0.61%) CMS
8 27 (0.59%) IIS
9 15 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
10 13 (0.29%) SAS
11 10 (0.22%) OpenStack
11 10 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
12 9 (0.20%) nginx
12 9 (0.20%) Umbraco
12 9 (0.20%) WordPress
13 8 (0.18%) Jupyter
13 8 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
14 7 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 6 (0.13%) Apache Solr
15 6 (0.13%) Moodle
Applications
1 46 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
2 34 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.44%) MS Visio
4 16 (0.35%) PlantUML
5 11 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.15%) Simulink
8 6 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
8 6 (0.13%) Trello
9 4 (0.088%) Maya
10 3 (0.066%) Blender
10 3 (0.066%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.022%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.022%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.022%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.022%) Notion
11 1 (0.022%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 77 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.18%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.13%) Endur
5 5 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.11%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.088%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.088%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.088%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.066%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.066%) Magento
7 3 (0.066%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.044%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.044%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.044%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 2 (0.044%) Shopify
9 1 (0.022%) Aladdin
9 1 (0.022%) Infor M3
9 1 (0.022%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 2,405 (52.74%) Azure
2 1,462 (32.06%) AWS
3 1,212 (26.58%) Azure DevOps
4 503 (11.03%) GCP
5 480 (10.53%) GitHub
6 445 (9.76%) Serverless
7 341 (7.48%) Power Platform
8 284 (6.23%) SaaS
9 254 (5.57%) GitHub Actions
10 220 (4.82%) Amazon S3
11 216 (4.74%) AWS CloudFormation
12 204 (4.47%) AWS Lambda
13 181 (3.97%) PaaS
14 151 (3.31%) Azure AKS
15 150 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
16 145 (3.18%) Dynamics 365
17 140 (3.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 137 (3.00%) Amazon EKS
18 137 (3.00%) Entra ID
19 136 (2.98%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 143 (3.14%) Firewall
2 89 (1.95%) DNS
3 68 (1.49%) Broadband
4 57 (1.25%) TCP/IP
5 56 (1.23%) VPN
6 41 (0.90%) Network Security
7 33 (0.72%) HTTP
8 26 (0.57%) DHCP
9 24 (0.53%) WAN
10 22 (0.48%) LAN
11 18 (0.39%) Internet
12 12 (0.26%) DMARC
12 12 (0.26%) MQTT
13 10 (0.22%) BGP
13 10 (0.22%) Wireless
14 9 (0.20%) SAN
15 8 (0.18%) HTTPS
16 6 (0.13%) Bluetooth
16 6 (0.13%) OSPF
16 6 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 251 (5.50%) SQL Server
2 226 (4.96%) MongoDB
3 222 (4.87%) Azure SQL Database
4 201 (4.41%) NoSQL
5 187 (4.10%) Power BI
6 153 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
7 103 (2.26%) DynamoDB
8 93 (2.04%) Relational Database
9 81 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
10 80 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
11 79 (1.73%) MySQL
12 78 (1.71%) Data Lake
13 76 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
14 59 (1.29%) Metadata
15 50 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
16 40 (0.88%) Redis
17 37 (0.81%) Big Data
17 37 (0.81%) BigQuery
17 37 (0.81%) Delta Lake
18 34 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 482 (10.57%) Git
2 384 (8.42%) Jenkins
3 380 (8.33%) GitLab
4 284 (6.23%) JIRA
5 97 (2.13%) SonarQube
6 84 (1.84%) Selenium
7 82 (1.80%) Cypress.io
8 58 (1.27%) Maven
9 48 (1.05%) Postman
10 37 (0.81%) JUnit
11 35 (0.77%) Cucumber
12 34 (0.75%) Bitbucket
13 33 (0.72%) CircleCI
13 33 (0.72%) TeamCity
14 30 (0.66%) JMeter
15 26 (0.57%) Eclipse
16 24 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
17 23 (0.50%) Visual Studio
18 21 (0.46%) REST Assured
19 18 (0.39%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 925 (20.29%) Social Skills
2 919 (20.15%) Finance
3 337 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
4 303 (6.64%) Public Sector
5 280 (6.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 233 (5.11%) Banking
7 146 (3.20%) Retail
8 130 (2.85%) Law
9 103 (2.26%) Marketing
10 82 (1.80%) Games
11 78 (1.71%) Legal
12 52 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
13 50 (1.10%) Manufacturing
14 48 (1.05%) Advertising
15 46 (1.01%) Telecoms
16 44 (0.96%) Financial Institution
17 41 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
18 35 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
19 32 (0.70%) Back Office
20 29 (0.64%) Billing
Job Titles
1 998 (21.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 891 (19.54%) Senior
3 816 (17.89%) Developer
4 639 (14.01%) Lead
5 388 (8.51%) Architect
6 342 (7.50%) Software Engineer
7 329 (7.21%) Azure Engineer
8 254 (5.57%) Cloud Engineer
9 212 (4.65%) Senior DevOps
10 201 (4.41%) Senior Developer
11 186 (4.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 182 (3.99%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 176 (3.86%) .NET Developer
14 174 (3.82%) Platform Engineer
15 163 (3.57%) Data Engineer
16 161 (3.53%) AWS Engineer
17 159 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
18 146 (3.20%) Java Developer
19 131 (2.87%) Lead DevOps
20 110 (2.41%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 602 (13.20%) .NET
2 403 (8.84%) React
3 293 (6.43%) Node.js
4 283 (6.21%) REST
5 271 (5.94%) RESTful
6 232 (5.09%) ASP.NET
7 213 (4.67%) .NET Core
8 200 (4.39%) CSS
9 195 (4.28%) HTML
9 195 (4.28%) Spring Boot
10 185 (4.06%) Spring
11 177 (3.88%) ASP.NET Core
12 162 (3.55%) Kafka
13 159 (3.49%) AngularJS
14 111 (2.43%) YAML
15 105 (2.30%) Entity Framework
16 103 (2.26%) SOAP
17 102 (2.24%) Blazor
18 95 (2.08%) Middleware
19 93 (2.04%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 709 (15.55%) Cloud Native
2 294 (6.45%) Product Ownership
3 174 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
4 133 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
5 92 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
6 88 (1.93%) Onboarding
7 80 (1.75%) Management Information System
7 80 (1.75%) Mobile App
8 78 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
9 64 (1.40%) Data Centre
10 62 (1.36%) Public Cloud
11 57 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
12 52 (1.14%) Data Structures
13 48 (1.05%) Algorithms
14 47 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
15 46 (1.01%) Low-Code
16 43 (0.94%) Security Posture
17 35 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
18 33 (0.72%) Virtual Team
19 31 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 454 (9.96%) Linux
2 208 (4.56%) Windows
3 87 (1.91%) Unix
4 72 (1.58%) Windows Server
5 53 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 49 (1.07%) Ubuntu
7 37 (0.81%) VMS
8 34 (0.75%) Android
9 32 (0.70%) CentOS
10 25 (0.55%) Apple iOS
11 11 (0.24%) Debian
12 8 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
13 4 (0.088%) Kali Linux
13 4 (0.088%) Rocky
13 4 (0.088%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.066%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.044%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.044%) Embedded Linux
16 1 (0.022%) AIX
16 1 (0.022%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,315 (50.77%) CI/CD
2 1,644 (36.05%) Agile
3 1,093 (23.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 832 (18.25%) Continuous Improvement
5 768 (16.84%) Mentoring
6 754 (16.54%) Software Engineering
7 719 (15.77%) Problem-Solving
8 716 (15.70%) AI
9 633 (13.88%) Test Automation
10 613 (13.44%) Microservices
11 601 (13.18%) Containerisation
12 507 (11.12%) Full-Stack Development
13 500 (10.96%) Roadmaps
14 479 (10.50%) Observability
15 469 (10.29%) Platform Engineering
16 462 (10.13%) Scrum
17 439 (9.63%) Analytics
18 420 (9.21%) Technical Leadership
19 337 (7.39%) Stakeholder Management
20 296 (6.49%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,077 (23.62%) Python
2 834 (18.29%) SQL
3 627 (13.75%) Java
4 611 (13.40%) C#
5 535 (11.73%) JavaScript
6 382 (8.38%) Bash
7 343 (7.52%) TypeScript
8 283 (6.21%) PowerShell
9 142 (3.11%) Bicep
10 138 (3.03%) Go
11 126 (2.76%) C++
12 77 (1.69%) Apex Code
13 56 (1.23%) PHP
14 49 (1.07%) Groovy
15 48 (1.05%) SOQL
16 45 (0.99%) C
16 45 (0.99%) SOSL
17 43 (0.94%) Kotlin
18 38 (0.83%) Rust
18 38 (0.83%) Scala
Qualifications
1 686 (15.04%) Security Cleared
2 468 (10.26%) Degree
3 426 (9.34%) SC Cleared
4 177 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 161 (3.53%) DV Cleared
6 111 (2.43%) Azure Certification
7 102 (2.24%) Master's Degree
8 100 (2.19%) AWS Certification
9 55 (1.21%) ISTQB
10 53 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
11 34 (0.75%) DBS Check
12 31 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
13 30 (0.66%) PMI Certification
14 29 (0.64%) CISSP
15 28 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 24 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 23 (0.50%) PhD
17 23 (0.50%) PMP
18 20 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
19 15 (0.33%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 396 (8.68%) QA
2 157 (3.44%) Data Quality
3 156 (3.42%) Accessibility
4 94 (2.06%) GDPR
5 67 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 55 (1.21%) NIST
7 50 (1.10%) WCAG
8 45 (0.99%) GRC
9 36 (0.79%) PCI DSS
10 32 (0.70%) SOC 2
11 21 (0.46%) SLA
12 19 (0.42%) PMO
13 14 (0.31%) NCSC
14 12 (0.26%) TickIT
15 10 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
16 9 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 9 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
17 6 (0.13%) Solvency II
18 5 (0.11%) IFRS
18 5 (0.11%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 743 (16.29%) Docker
2 129 (2.83%) Active Directory
3 65 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (0.55%) vSphere
6 20 (0.44%) Firmware
7 19 (0.42%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.13%) iptables
10 6 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.088%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.088%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.066%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.066%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.044%) KVM
14 1 (0.022%) OpenAM
14 1 (0.022%) OpenDJ
14 1 (0.022%) OpenIDM
14 1 (0.022%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,111 (24.36%) Terraform
2 828 (18.16%) Kubernetes
3 401 (8.79%) Ansible
4 225 (4.93%) Grafana
5 183 (4.01%) Prometheus
6 78 (1.71%) Argo
7 50 (1.10%) Puppet
8 38 (0.83%) Nagios
9 30 (0.66%) Kibana
9 30 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
10 29 (0.64%) HP Fortify
11 20 (0.44%) Istio
12 18 (0.39%) Kustomize
13 15 (0.33%) Packer
14 13 (0.29%) Progress Chef
14 13 (0.29%) Proxmox
14 13 (0.29%) Rancher
15 9 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
15 9 (0.20%) logstash
15 9 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 880 (19.30%) Microsoft
2 177 (3.88%) Google
3 158 (3.46%) Databricks
4 147 (3.22%) Salesforce
5 104 (2.28%) VMware
6 100 (2.19%) Splunk
7 98 (2.15%) ServiceNow
8 84 (1.84%) Oracle
9 80 (1.75%) Red Hat
10 58 (1.27%) SAP
11 44 (0.96%) MuleSoft
12 40 (0.88%) Dynatrace
13 36 (0.79%) Cisco
13 36 (0.79%) Pega
14 32 (0.70%) OpenAI
15 31 (0.68%) Facebook
16 28 (0.61%) Palo Alto
17 26 (0.57%) Apple
18 23 (0.50%) Foundry
18 23 (0.50%) YouTube