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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 18 25
Rank change year-on-year -14 +7 -13
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,167 4,024 7,114
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.59% 9.27% 7.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.22% 9.93% 8.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,955 2,462 5,291
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,025 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £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 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -2.83%

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 66,963 40,520 82,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.84% 93.32% 85.21%
Number of salaries quoted 43,068 22,234 59,552
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,938 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £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 14 May 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Top 19 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 May 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 -15 3,622 £70,079 +0.11% 1,395
UK excluding London -23 2,422 £65,000 - 982
Work from Home -7 1,529 £69,310 -0.99% 740
London -10 1,386 £82,500 - 558
North of England -14 821 £70,000 +3.70% 278
South East -17 523 £65,000 - 314
North West -18 408 £70,000 - 150
South West -15 335 £62,500 -3.85% 118
Midlands -37 318 £65,500 +9.17% 103
Yorkshire -8 275 £70,000 +3.70% 70
Scotland -9 185 £55,000 -21.43% 53
West Midlands -43 185 £62,500 +4.17% 60
East of England -11 148 £65,000 - 85
North East +12 138 £60,000 -7.69% 60
East Midlands -11 129 £70,000 +7.69% 43
Wales -4 84 £53,100 -3.45% 26
Northern Ireland -33 13 £73,801 +34.18% 18
Isle of Man +4 2 £35,000 -
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 77 (1.85%) SharePoint
2 74 (1.78%) Confluence
3 51 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
4 50 (1.20%) Apache
5 44 (1.06%) Apache Spark
6 36 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
7 30 (0.72%) IIS
8 24 (0.58%) CMS
9 16 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
10 13 (0.31%) OpenStack
11 12 (0.29%) SAS
12 11 (0.26%) Moodle
13 7 (0.17%) Anypoint
13 7 (0.17%) Apache Solr
13 7 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 7 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
13 7 (0.17%) WordPress
14 6 (0.14%) nginx
14 6 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
14 6 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 35 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
3 23 (0.55%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.24%) PlantUML
6 9 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.096%) Simulink
8 3 (0.072%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.072%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.072%) Trello
9 1 (0.024%) EngageOne
9 1 (0.024%) Maya
9 1 (0.024%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 61 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.36%) SAP ERP
3 14 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
4 12 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
5 11 (0.26%) Endur
6 6 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
6 6 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.12%) Visualfiles
8 4 (0.096%) Markit EDM
8 4 (0.096%) Shopify
9 3 (0.072%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.072%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.048%) Distributed Ledger
10 2 (0.048%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.048%) Fidessa
10 2 (0.048%) Infor SunSystems
10 2 (0.048%) Magento
10 2 (0.048%) Workday HCM
11 1 (0.024%) Sage 200
11 1 (0.024%) SAP MII
Cloud Services
1 2,239 (53.73%) Azure
2 1,339 (32.13%) AWS
3 1,102 (26.45%) Azure DevOps
4 499 (11.98%) GitHub
5 472 (11.33%) GCP
6 418 (10.03%) Serverless
7 337 (8.09%) Power Platform
8 275 (6.60%) GitHub Actions
9 256 (6.14%) SaaS
10 219 (5.26%) Amazon S3
10 219 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
11 210 (5.04%) AWS Lambda
12 168 (4.03%) Microsoft 365
13 159 (3.82%) PaaS
14 153 (3.67%) Entra ID
15 146 (3.50%) Azure Data Factory
16 136 (3.26%) Amazon EKS
17 134 (3.22%) Amazon ECS
18 132 (3.17%) Azure AKS
18 132 (3.17%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 141 (3.38%) Firewall
2 95 (2.28%) DNS
3 63 (1.51%) Broadband
4 61 (1.46%) TCP/IP
5 48 (1.15%) VPN
6 41 (0.98%) Network Security
7 35 (0.84%) HTTP
8 32 (0.77%) WAN
9 26 (0.62%) DHCP
10 24 (0.58%) LAN
11 11 (0.26%) BGP
12 10 (0.24%) SAN
13 8 (0.19%) Internet
13 8 (0.19%) Wireless
14 7 (0.17%) NGFW
14 7 (0.17%) OSPF
15 6 (0.14%) HTTPS
15 6 (0.14%) SD-WAN
15 6 (0.14%) SSL
15 6 (0.14%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (5.86%) SQL Server
2 201 (4.82%) NoSQL
3 190 (4.56%) Power BI
4 148 (3.55%) MongoDB
5 142 (3.41%) Azure SQL Database
6 139 (3.34%) PostgreSQL
7 111 (2.66%) DynamoDB
8 92 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
9 88 (2.11%) Data Lake
10 85 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
10 85 (2.04%) Relational Database
11 65 (1.56%) Metadata
12 64 (1.54%) MySQL
13 61 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
14 42 (1.01%) BigQuery
15 41 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
16 34 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
16 34 (0.82%) Delta Lake
17 32 (0.77%) Tableau
18 31 (0.74%) Redis
Development Applications
1 457 (10.97%) Git
2 401 (9.62%) Jenkins
3 364 (8.74%) GitLab
4 256 (6.14%) JIRA
5 105 (2.52%) SonarQube
6 87 (2.09%) Cypress.io
7 83 (1.99%) Selenium
8 67 (1.61%) Maven
9 43 (1.03%) Postman
10 41 (0.98%) Bitbucket
11 36 (0.86%) CircleCI
11 36 (0.86%) Cucumber
12 33 (0.79%) TeamCity
13 28 (0.67%) JUnit
14 27 (0.65%) JMeter
15 25 (0.60%) Eclipse
16 23 (0.55%) Visual Studio
17 22 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
18 21 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
19 18 (0.43%) Jaeger
General
1 937 (22.49%) Finance
2 884 (21.21%) Social Skills
3 369 (8.86%) Analytical Skills
4 263 (6.31%) Public Sector
5 242 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 219 (5.26%) Banking
7 129 (3.10%) Law
8 126 (3.02%) Retail
9 105 (2.52%) Marketing
10 79 (1.90%) Legal
11 77 (1.85%) Games
12 57 (1.37%) Telecoms
13 47 (1.13%) Manufacturing
14 42 (1.01%) Advertising
15 41 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
16 39 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
17 35 (0.84%) Financial Institution
18 34 (0.82%) Billing
19 28 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
20 27 (0.65%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 876 (21.02%) DevOps Engineer
2 861 (20.66%) Senior
3 728 (17.47%) Developer
4 609 (14.61%) Lead
5 349 (8.38%) Architect
6 301 (7.22%) Software Engineer
7 294 (7.06%) Azure Engineer
8 247 (5.93%) Cloud Engineer
9 209 (5.02%) Senior DevOps
10 186 (4.46%) Senior Developer
11 179 (4.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 166 (3.98%) Data Engineer
13 155 (3.72%) Solutions Architect
14 154 (3.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 144 (3.46%) AWS Engineer
16 141 (3.38%) Platform Engineer
17 140 (3.36%) Java Developer
18 131 (3.14%) Lead DevOps
19 119 (2.86%) Full-Stack Developer
20 109 (2.62%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 499 (11.98%) .NET
2 366 (8.78%) React
3 273 (6.55%) REST
4 245 (5.88%) Node.js
5 244 (5.86%) RESTful
6 178 (4.27%) Spring Boot
7 163 (3.91%) CSS
8 160 (3.84%) Spring
9 158 (3.79%) HTML
10 153 (3.67%) AngularJS
11 151 (3.62%) .NET Core
11 151 (3.62%) Kafka
12 149 (3.58%) ASP.NET
13 126 (3.02%) SOAP
14 109 (2.62%) OAuth
15 104 (2.50%) Middleware
16 100 (2.40%) ASP.NET Core
17 94 (2.26%) Elastic Stack
18 92 (2.21%) JSON
19 89 (2.14%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 561 (13.46%) Cloud Native
2 288 (6.91%) Product Ownership
3 139 (3.34%) Distributed Systems
4 123 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
5 92 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
6 79 (1.90%) Management Information System
7 68 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
8 64 (1.54%) Mobile App
9 59 (1.42%) Onboarding
10 56 (1.34%) Data Centre
11 55 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
12 54 (1.30%) Low-Code
12 54 (1.30%) Public Cloud
13 48 (1.15%) Algorithms
14 47 (1.13%) Data Structures
15 40 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
16 32 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
17 30 (0.72%) Security Posture
18 29 (0.70%) Virtual Team
19 27 (0.65%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 416 (9.98%) Linux
2 197 (4.73%) Windows
3 81 (1.94%) Unix
4 75 (1.80%) Windows Server
5 48 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (0.94%) Ubuntu
7 31 (0.74%) Android
8 29 (0.70%) VMS
9 28 (0.67%) CentOS
10 24 (0.58%) Apple iOS
11 9 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.17%) Debian
13 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (0.096%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.096%) Rocky
14 4 (0.096%) Windows Server 2016
15 2 (0.048%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.048%) Embedded Linux
16 1 (0.024%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,113 (50.71%) CI/CD
2 1,499 (35.97%) Agile
3 1,003 (24.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 756 (18.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 717 (17.21%) Problem-Solving
6 696 (16.70%) Mentoring
7 668 (16.03%) Software Engineering
8 646 (15.50%) AI
9 613 (14.71%) Test Automation
10 552 (13.25%) Containerisation
11 551 (13.22%) Microservices
12 465 (11.16%) Observability
13 439 (10.54%) Roadmaps
14 435 (10.44%) Analytics
15 423 (10.15%) Full-Stack Development
16 403 (9.67%) Scrum
17 388 (9.31%) Platform Engineering
18 351 (8.42%) Technical Leadership
19 321 (7.70%) Coaching
20 320 (7.68%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,055 (25.32%) Python
2 783 (18.79%) SQL
3 594 (14.25%) Java
4 495 (11.88%) C#
5 452 (10.85%) JavaScript
6 356 (8.54%) Bash
7 316 (7.58%) TypeScript
8 255 (6.12%) PowerShell
9 156 (3.74%) Go
10 117 (2.81%) Bicep
11 109 (2.62%) C++
12 86 (2.06%) Apex Code
13 58 (1.39%) Groovy
14 51 (1.22%) PHP
15 44 (1.06%) Scala
16 43 (1.03%) SOQL
16 43 (1.03%) SOSL
17 34 (0.82%) Kotlin
18 32 (0.77%) Rust
19 30 (0.72%) C
Qualifications
1 581 (13.94%) Security Cleared
2 437 (10.49%) Degree
3 344 (8.26%) SC Cleared
4 186 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 144 (3.46%) DV Cleared
6 115 (2.76%) AWS Certification
7 94 (2.26%) Azure Certification
8 85 (2.04%) Master's Degree
9 54 (1.30%) ISTQB
10 43 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
11 33 (0.79%) DBS Check
11 33 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
12 30 (0.72%) PMI Certification
13 29 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 26 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 25 (0.60%) CISSP
16 21 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 21 (0.50%) PMP
17 20 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
17 20 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 336 (8.06%) QA
2 163 (3.91%) Data Quality
3 128 (3.07%) Accessibility
4 99 (2.38%) GDPR
5 75 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 55 (1.32%) NIST
7 46 (1.10%) GRC
8 37 (0.89%) SOC 2
9 32 (0.77%) PCI DSS
10 28 (0.67%) WCAG
11 20 (0.48%) SLA
12 14 (0.34%) NCSC
12 14 (0.34%) PMO
13 12 (0.29%) TickIT
14 11 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
16 7 (0.17%) Solvency II
17 6 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 6 (0.14%) IFRS
17 6 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 705 (16.92%) Docker
2 144 (3.46%) Active Directory
3 52 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.41%) Hyper-V
5 17 (0.41%) vSphere
6 14 (0.34%) Firmware
7 7 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.096%) iptables
8 4 (0.096%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 4 (0.096%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.072%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.072%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.048%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.048%) KVM
10 2 (0.048%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.024%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.024%) OpenAM
11 1 (0.024%) OpenDJ
11 1 (0.024%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 1,038 (24.91%) Terraform
2 760 (18.24%) Kubernetes
3 376 (9.02%) Ansible
4 222 (5.33%) Grafana
5 184 (4.42%) Prometheus
6 75 (1.80%) Argo
7 48 (1.15%) Puppet
8 42 (1.01%) HP Fortify
9 37 (0.89%) Nagios
10 34 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
11 33 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
12 25 (0.60%) Kibana
13 18 (0.43%) Kustomize
14 16 (0.38%) Rancher
15 14 (0.34%) Istio
15 14 (0.34%) Packer
15 14 (0.34%) Progress Chef
16 11 (0.26%) logstash
17 10 (0.24%) Proxmox
18 9 (0.22%) yum
Vendors
1 790 (18.96%) Microsoft
2 158 (3.79%) Salesforce
3 156 (3.74%) Databricks
3 156 (3.74%) Google
4 90 (2.16%) Splunk
5 89 (2.14%) VMware
6 83 (1.99%) Oracle
7 81 (1.94%) Red Hat
8 68 (1.63%) ServiceNow
9 53 (1.27%) SAP
10 45 (1.08%) MuleSoft
11 36 (0.86%) Palo Alto
12 32 (0.77%) Cisco
13 31 (0.74%) Dynatrace
14 25 (0.60%) Adobe
14 25 (0.60%) OpenAI
15 24 (0.58%) Pega
16 20 (0.48%) IBM
16 20 (0.48%) Okta
17 19 (0.46%) CrowdStrike