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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 21 26
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,466 4,040 7,259
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.77% 9.03% 6.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.54% 9.77% 8.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3,246 2,336 5,247
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £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 £87,625 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,625 £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 68,264 41,362 89,059
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.88% 92.48% 81.88%
Number of salaries quoted 46,974 22,138 63,125
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £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 £91,991
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 18 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 18 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 3,962 £70,000 -1.41% 988
UK excluding London -9 2,678 £65,000 - 832
Work from Home -3 1,571 £67,500 -3.57% 590
London -6 1,435 £82,500 +3.13% 363
North of England -2 967 £69,310 +3.39% 249
South East -14 587 £65,000 - 242
North West -3 526 £70,000 +3.70% 142
South West -10 379 £66,250 +1.92% 91
Midlands -26 336 £65,000 +8.33% 97
Yorkshire +1 269 £70,000 - 66
West Midlands -31 186 £65,000 +8.33% 57
East of England +1 173 £60,000 -7.69% 65
North East +11 172 £60,000 -7.69% 45
East Midlands 0 147 £67,500 +14.89% 40
Scotland -5 133 £55,000 -26.67% 34
Wales +1 99 £53,171 -11.38% 25
Northern Ireland -37 8 £73,151 -13.94% 50
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 88 (1.97%) Confluence
2 83 (1.86%) SharePoint
3 60 (1.34%) Apache Spark
4 58 (1.30%) Apache
5 45 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
6 40 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
7 28 (0.63%) CMS
8 26 (0.58%) IIS
9 15 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
10 12 (0.27%) SAS
11 10 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
12 9 (0.20%) OpenStack
12 9 (0.20%) Umbraco
12 9 (0.20%) WordPress
13 8 (0.18%) Jupyter
13 8 (0.18%) nginx
13 8 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
14 7 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 6 (0.13%) Apache Solr
15 6 (0.13%) Moodle
Applications
1 43 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
2 34 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.43%) MS Visio
4 16 (0.36%) PlantUML
5 11 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.16%) Simulink
8 6 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
9 4 (0.090%) Maya
9 4 (0.090%) Trello
10 3 (0.067%) Blender
10 3 (0.067%) 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 74 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.20%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.13%) Endur
5 5 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.11%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.090%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.090%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.067%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.067%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.067%) Magento
7 3 (0.067%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.067%) Shopify
8 2 (0.045%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.045%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.045%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.045%) SAP IBP
9 1 (0.022%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.022%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.022%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 2,368 (53.02%) Azure
2 1,429 (32.00%) AWS
3 1,184 (26.51%) Azure DevOps
4 493 (11.04%) GCP
5 476 (10.66%) GitHub
6 434 (9.72%) Serverless
7 338 (7.57%) Power Platform
8 280 (6.27%) SaaS
9 253 (5.67%) GitHub Actions
10 218 (4.88%) Amazon S3
11 215 (4.81%) AWS CloudFormation
12 202 (4.52%) AWS Lambda
13 178 (3.99%) PaaS
14 151 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
15 148 (3.31%) Azure AKS
16 141 (3.16%) Dynamics 365
17 140 (3.13%) Entra ID
18 139 (3.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 136 (3.05%) Amazon ECS
20 134 (3.00%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 144 (3.22%) Firewall
2 90 (2.02%) DNS
3 67 (1.50%) Broadband
4 57 (1.28%) TCP/IP
5 55 (1.23%) VPN
6 39 (0.87%) Network Security
7 34 (0.76%) HTTP
8 26 (0.58%) DHCP
9 25 (0.56%) WAN
10 22 (0.49%) LAN
11 12 (0.27%) Internet
12 11 (0.25%) DMARC
12 11 (0.25%) MQTT
13 10 (0.22%) BGP
13 10 (0.22%) SAN
13 10 (0.22%) Wireless
14 8 (0.18%) HTTPS
15 6 (0.13%) Bluetooth
15 6 (0.13%) Cisco ASA
15 6 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 246 (5.51%) SQL Server
2 205 (4.59%) Azure SQL Database
2 205 (4.59%) MongoDB
3 199 (4.46%) NoSQL
4 190 (4.25%) Power BI
5 147 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
6 102 (2.28%) DynamoDB
7 91 (2.04%) Relational Database
8 82 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
9 81 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
10 80 (1.79%) Data Lake
11 77 (1.72%) MySQL
12 71 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
13 58 (1.30%) Metadata
14 51 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
15 39 (0.87%) Redis
16 37 (0.83%) BigQuery
17 36 (0.81%) Big Data
18 35 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
19 34 (0.76%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 471 (10.55%) Git
2 383 (8.58%) Jenkins
3 375 (8.40%) GitLab
4 274 (6.14%) JIRA
5 95 (2.13%) SonarQube
6 83 (1.86%) Selenium
7 81 (1.81%) Cypress.io
8 57 (1.28%) Maven
9 46 (1.03%) Postman
10 36 (0.81%) JUnit
11 33 (0.74%) CircleCI
12 32 (0.72%) Cucumber
13 31 (0.69%) Bitbucket
13 31 (0.69%) TeamCity
14 30 (0.67%) JMeter
15 25 (0.56%) Eclipse
16 24 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
17 21 (0.47%) REST Assured
17 21 (0.47%) Visual Studio
18 18 (0.40%) Jaeger
General
1 915 (20.49%) Finance
2 906 (20.29%) Social Skills
3 340 (7.61%) Analytical Skills
4 296 (6.63%) Public Sector
5 274 (6.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 230 (5.15%) Banking
7 139 (3.11%) Retail
8 125 (2.80%) Law
9 99 (2.22%) Marketing
10 79 (1.77%) Games
11 75 (1.68%) Legal
12 50 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
13 48 (1.07%) Manufacturing
14 45 (1.01%) Advertising
15 44 (0.99%) Telecoms
16 42 (0.94%) Financial Institution
17 39 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
18 35 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
19 30 (0.67%) Back Office
20 29 (0.65%) Billing
Job Titles
1 976 (21.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 876 (19.61%) Senior
3 793 (17.76%) Developer
4 624 (13.97%) Lead
5 372 (8.33%) Architect
6 334 (7.48%) Software Engineer
7 331 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
8 257 (5.75%) Cloud Engineer
9 208 (4.66%) Senior DevOps
10 202 (4.52%) Senior Developer
11 182 (4.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 181 (4.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 170 (3.81%) Platform Engineer
14 163 (3.65%) Data Engineer
15 159 (3.56%) AWS Engineer
16 156 (3.49%) .NET Developer
17 149 (3.34%) Solutions Architect
18 145 (3.25%) Java Developer
19 129 (2.89%) Lead DevOps
20 112 (2.51%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 575 (12.88%) .NET
2 392 (8.78%) React
3 285 (6.38%) Node.js
4 279 (6.25%) REST
5 258 (5.78%) RESTful
6 211 (4.72%) ASP.NET
7 193 (4.32%) .NET Core
8 190 (4.25%) CSS
8 190 (4.25%) Spring Boot
9 185 (4.14%) HTML
10 179 (4.01%) Spring
11 158 (3.54%) ASP.NET Core
12 157 (3.52%) AngularJS
13 156 (3.49%) Kafka
14 110 (2.46%) YAML
15 104 (2.33%) SOAP
16 97 (2.17%) Entity Framework
17 96 (2.15%) Middleware
18 94 (2.10%) OAuth
19 92 (2.06%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 695 (15.56%) Cloud Native
2 289 (6.47%) Product Ownership
3 166 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
4 131 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
5 91 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
6 80 (1.79%) Onboarding
7 78 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 77 (1.72%) Management Information System
8 77 (1.72%) Mobile App
9 62 (1.39%) Data Centre
10 57 (1.28%) Public Cloud
11 56 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
12 52 (1.16%) Data Structures
13 48 (1.07%) Algorithms
14 43 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
14 43 (0.96%) Low-Code
15 40 (0.90%) Security Posture
16 37 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
17 32 (0.72%) Virtual Team
18 31 (0.69%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 440 (9.85%) Linux
2 199 (4.46%) Windows
3 84 (1.88%) Unix
4 75 (1.68%) Windows Server
5 54 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 49 (1.10%) Ubuntu
7 36 (0.81%) VMS
8 33 (0.74%) Android
8 33 (0.74%) CentOS
9 26 (0.58%) Apple iOS
10 10 (0.22%) Debian
11 9 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.090%) Kali Linux
12 4 (0.090%) Rocky
12 4 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.090%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.045%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.045%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.022%) SUSE
14 1 (0.022%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,269 (50.81%) CI/CD
2 1,590 (35.60%) Agile
3 1,080 (24.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 816 (18.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 744 (16.66%) Mentoring
6 734 (16.44%) Software Engineering
7 717 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
8 696 (15.58%) AI
9 627 (14.04%) Test Automation
10 597 (13.37%) Microservices
11 593 (13.28%) Containerisation
12 488 (10.93%) Full-Stack Development
13 486 (10.88%) Roadmaps
14 478 (10.70%) Observability
15 464 (10.39%) Platform Engineering
16 447 (10.01%) Scrum
17 433 (9.70%) Analytics
18 404 (9.05%) Technical Leadership
19 323 (7.23%) Stakeholder Management
20 290 (6.49%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,056 (23.65%) Python
2 816 (18.27%) SQL
3 610 (13.66%) Java
4 584 (13.08%) C#
5 513 (11.49%) JavaScript
6 372 (8.33%) Bash
7 337 (7.55%) TypeScript
8 276 (6.18%) PowerShell
9 140 (3.13%) Go
10 137 (3.07%) Bicep
11 126 (2.82%) C++
12 78 (1.75%) Apex Code
13 58 (1.30%) PHP
14 49 (1.10%) Groovy
15 48 (1.07%) SOQL
16 45 (1.01%) C
16 45 (1.01%) SOSL
17 43 (0.96%) Kotlin
18 39 (0.87%) Rust
18 39 (0.87%) Scala
Qualifications
1 667 (14.94%) Security Cleared
2 459 (10.28%) Degree
3 414 (9.27%) SC Cleared
4 174 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 159 (3.56%) DV Cleared
6 107 (2.40%) Azure Certification
7 98 (2.19%) AWS Certification
7 98 (2.19%) Master's Degree
8 54 (1.21%) ISTQB
9 50 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
10 34 (0.76%) DBS Check
11 31 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
12 30 (0.67%) PMI Certification
13 28 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 27 (0.60%) CISSP
15 23 (0.52%) PhD
15 23 (0.52%) PMP
16 22 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 19 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
18 15 (0.34%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 383 (8.58%) QA
2 157 (3.52%) Data Quality
3 155 (3.47%) Accessibility
4 94 (2.10%) GDPR
5 66 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 53 (1.19%) NIST
7 49 (1.10%) WCAG
8 43 (0.96%) GRC
9 35 (0.78%) PCI DSS
10 32 (0.72%) SOC 2
11 20 (0.45%) SLA
12 19 (0.43%) PMO
13 14 (0.31%) NCSC
14 12 (0.27%) 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
1 729 (16.32%) Docker
2 133 (2.98%) Active Directory
3 62 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (0.49%) vSphere
6 20 (0.45%) Firmware
7 19 (0.43%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
8 7 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.11%) iptables
10 4 (0.090%) Embedded Firmware
10 4 (0.090%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.067%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.067%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.045%) KVM
13 1 (0.022%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.022%) OpenAM
13 1 (0.022%) OpenIDM
13 1 (0.022%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,102 (24.68%) Terraform
2 804 (18.00%) Kubernetes
3 395 (8.84%) Ansible
4 224 (5.02%) Grafana
5 186 (4.16%) Prometheus
6 75 (1.68%) Argo
7 47 (1.05%) Puppet
8 38 (0.85%) Nagios
9 32 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
10 29 (0.65%) HP Fortify
10 29 (0.65%) Kibana
11 20 (0.45%) Istio
12 18 (0.40%) Kustomize
13 15 (0.34%) Packer
14 13 (0.29%) Progress Chef
14 13 (0.29%) Proxmox
15 12 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
16 11 (0.25%) Rancher
17 9 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 9 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 858 (19.21%) Microsoft
2 170 (3.81%) Google
3 156 (3.49%) Databricks
4 144 (3.22%) Salesforce
5 102 (2.28%) VMware
6 101 (2.26%) Splunk
7 94 (2.10%) ServiceNow
8 84 (1.88%) Oracle
9 81 (1.81%) Red Hat
10 56 (1.25%) SAP
11 42 (0.94%) MuleSoft
12 40 (0.90%) Dynatrace
13 35 (0.78%) Cisco
14 30 (0.67%) OpenAI
15 29 (0.65%) Palo Alto
16 27 (0.60%) Pega
17 26 (0.58%) Facebook
18 24 (0.54%) Apple
19 21 (0.47%) Foundry
20 20 (0.45%) YouTube