DevOps
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 19 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 -7 0
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,122 7,585 16,126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.58% 8.68% 14.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.07% 9.89% 15.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,682 5,353 9,403
10th Percentile £43,899 £41,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,823 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £89,852
90th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -2.44% +2.50%

All Process and 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 51,094 76,717 106,265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.00% 87.74% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 25,702 56,130 62,837
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £34,481
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £45,300
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,984 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.24% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% -9.09% +4.76%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps.

Salary trend for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps over the 6 months to 15 March 2025.

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 15 March 2025. 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 0 3,726 £70,000 +3.70% 3,362
UK excluding London -7 2,324 £65,000 +8.33% 1,594
Work from Home +2 1,977 £70,000 +7.69% 1,810
London 0 1,643 £85,000 +3.03% 1,989
South East -9 570 £67,500 +9.76% 407
North of England -16 552 £67,037 +11.73% 468
South West +2 450 £67,500 +12.50% 221
North West -31 312 £67,037 +6.78% 289
Midlands -29 309 £62,500 +4.17% 203
West Midlands -15 253 £62,500 +4.17% 141
Scotland -5 233 £67,500 -2.80% 147
Yorkshire -7 197 £68,000 +13.33% 129
East of England -8 156 £57,500 -4.17% 105
Wales -7 70 £64,125 +6.88% 31
East Midlands -62 52 £65,000 +8.33% 61
North East -9 43 £65,000 +13.04% 51
Northern Ireland -1 21 £68,404 -2.28% 35
Isle of Man +12 1 - -

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 127 (3.08%) Confluence
2 110 (2.67%) Apache Spark
3 105 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
4 100 (2.43%) Apache
5 97 (2.35%) SharePoint
6 75 (1.82%) Oracle Application Server
7 42 (1.02%) nginx
8 39 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
9 26 (0.63%) Jupyter
10 23 (0.56%) IIS
11 20 (0.49%) CMS
12 13 (0.32%) JBoss
13 12 (0.29%) Apache Solr
13 12 (0.29%) Red Hat Fuse
14 9 (0.22%) OpenStack
14 9 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 9 (0.22%) Tomcat
15 8 (0.19%) CICS
15 8 (0.19%) SAS
16 7 (0.17%) Drupal
Applications
1 50 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (0.51%) Chatbot
4 20 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (0.44%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.32%) Trello
7 11 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 6 (0.15%) Maya
9 4 (0.097%) Simulink
9 4 (0.097%) Sketch
10 3 (0.073%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.073%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 3 (0.073%) OrCAD
10 3 (0.073%) Productboard
11 2 (0.049%) Moqups
11 2 (0.049%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.024%) EngageOne
12 1 (0.024%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 80 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.15%) Oracle BPM
4 5 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.097%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.097%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 3 (0.073%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.073%) Magento
6 3 (0.073%) Orchestrade
7 2 (0.049%) Cloudability
7 2 (0.049%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.049%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.049%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 2 (0.049%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 2 (0.049%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.049%) Shopify
7 2 (0.049%) Sprinklr
7 2 (0.049%) Visualfiles
7 2 (0.049%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.024%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2,325 (56.40%) Azure
2 1,408 (34.16%) AWS
3 1,198 (29.06%) Azure DevOps
4 550 (13.34%) Serverless
5 544 (13.20%) GCP
6 452 (10.97%) Power Platform
7 348 (8.44%) PaaS
8 335 (8.13%) GitHub
9 333 (8.08%) SaaS
10 260 (6.31%) IaaS
11 237 (5.75%) AWS Lambda
12 228 (5.53%) PowerApps
13 211 (5.12%) Power Automate
14 209 (5.07%) Azure Functions
15 204 (4.95%) Azure Logic Apps
16 200 (4.85%) Amazon ECS
17 196 (4.75%) AWS CloudFormation
18 184 (4.46%) Cloud Computing
19 164 (3.98%) Amazon S3
20 155 (3.76%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 186 (4.51%) Broadband
2 155 (3.76%) Firewall
2 155 (3.76%) Network Security
3 75 (1.82%) DNS
4 60 (1.46%) VPN
5 58 (1.41%) TCP/IP
6 46 (1.12%) Internet
7 42 (1.02%) HTTP
8 27 (0.66%) SSL
9 22 (0.53%) HTTPS
9 22 (0.53%) WAN
10 19 (0.46%) IPsec
11 14 (0.34%) Intrusion Detection
12 13 (0.32%) Wireless
13 12 (0.29%) LAN
13 12 (0.29%) SAN
14 11 (0.27%) DHCP
15 10 (0.24%) MQTT
15 10 (0.24%) SD-WAN
16 9 (0.22%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 537 (13.03%) SQL Server
2 188 (4.56%) PostgreSQL
3 187 (4.54%) Data Warehouse
4 173 (4.20%) NoSQL
5 172 (4.17%) Power BI
6 158 (3.83%) Relational Database
7 151 (3.66%) MongoDB
8 149 (3.61%) MySQL
9 139 (3.37%) Azure SQL Database
10 132 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
11 107 (2.60%) Data Lake
12 100 (2.43%) Elasticsearch
13 83 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
14 81 (1.97%) Amazon Athena
15 79 (1.92%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 79 (1.92%) Oracle Reports
16 75 (1.82%) Apache Iceberg
17 73 (1.77%) Dremio
18 71 (1.72%) Apache Arrow
18 71 (1.72%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 615 (14.92%) Git
2 400 (9.70%) Jenkins
3 308 (7.47%) JIRA
4 226 (5.48%) GitLab
5 123 (2.98%) SonarQube
6 119 (2.89%) Artifactory
7 117 (2.84%) Visual Studio
8 89 (2.16%) Maven
9 78 (1.89%) Selenium
10 77 (1.87%) Octopus Deploy
11 70 (1.70%) TeamCity
12 61 (1.48%) Team Foundation Server
13 60 (1.46%) Sonatype Nexus
14 54 (1.31%) Bitbucket
15 47 (1.14%) JUnit
16 46 (1.12%) Postman
17 42 (1.02%) Cucumber
17 42 (1.02%) MSBuild
18 40 (0.97%) Cypress.io
19 37 (0.90%) CircleCI
General
1 1,190 (28.87%) Social Skills
2 1,100 (26.69%) Finance
3 503 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
4 336 (8.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 332 (8.05%) Banking
6 169 (4.10%) Public Sector
7 167 (4.05%) Law
8 162 (3.93%) Front Office
9 150 (3.64%) Retail
10 122 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
11 93 (2.26%) Marketing
12 78 (1.89%) Military
13 74 (1.80%) Manufacturing
14 70 (1.70%) Games
15 68 (1.65%) Legal
16 52 (1.26%) Tech for Good
17 50 (1.21%) Telecoms
18 48 (1.16%) Advertising
19 39 (0.95%) Automotive
20 38 (0.92%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 970 (23.53%) Senior
2 741 (17.98%) Developer
3 607 (14.73%) Lead
4 567 (13.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 336 (8.15%) Architect
6 317 (7.69%) Analyst
6 317 (7.69%) Software Engineer
7 272 (6.60%) Senior Developer
8 237 (5.75%) Cloud Engineer
9 232 (5.63%) AWS Engineer
10 210 (5.09%) Data Engineer
11 204 (4.95%) AWS DevOps
12 181 (4.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 177 (4.29%) Azure Engineer
14 166 (4.03%) Python Engineer
15 165 (4.00%) .NET Developer
16 153 (3.71%) Senior DevOps
17 124 (3.01%) Senior Analyst
17 124 (3.01%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 121 (2.94%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 734 (17.81%) .NET
2 385 (9.34%) React
3 285 (6.91%) CSS
4 283 (6.87%) HTML
5 246 (5.97%) .NET Framework
5 246 (5.97%) AngularJS
6 233 (5.65%) REST
7 227 (5.51%) ASP.NET
8 224 (5.43%) Kafka
9 216 (5.24%) RESTful
10 190 (4.61%) Node.js
11 189 (4.59%) .NET Core
12 146 (3.54%) Spring
13 143 (3.47%) Elastic Stack
14 130 (3.15%) Entity Framework
15 129 (3.13%) JSON
15 129 (3.13%) Spring Boot
16 107 (2.60%) XML
17 103 (2.50%) PySpark
17 103 (2.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 348 (8.44%) Cloud Native
2 238 (5.77%) Product Ownership
3 198 (4.80%) Management Information System
4 163 (3.95%) Data Structures
5 135 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
6 127 (3.08%) Public Cloud
7 112 (2.72%) Private Cloud
8 105 (2.55%) Mobile App
9 100 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
10 90 (2.18%) Cyberattack
11 81 (1.97%) Virtual Team
12 80 (1.94%) Algorithms
13 79 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
13 79 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
14 74 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
15 73 (1.77%) Onboarding
16 72 (1.75%) Security Posture
17 67 (1.63%) Social Media
18 47 (1.14%) Blockchain
19 46 (1.12%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 561 (13.61%) Linux
2 273 (6.62%) Windows
3 103 (2.50%) Unix
4 97 (2.35%) Windows Server
5 94 (2.28%) Android
6 68 (1.65%) Apple iOS
7 53 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 26 (0.63%) CentOS
8 26 (0.63%) VMS
9 21 (0.51%) Ubuntu
10 19 (0.46%) zOS
11 14 (0.34%) Windows 10
12 13 (0.32%) Embedded Linux
13 12 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
14 10 (0.24%) Solaris
15 8 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
16 7 (0.17%) Mac OS
17 6 (0.15%) Debian
18 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
19 4 (0.097%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,920 (46.58%) Agile
2 1,901 (46.12%) CI/CD
3 981 (23.80%) Software Engineering
4 842 (20.43%) Problem-Solving
5 804 (19.51%) Mentoring
6 726 (17.61%) Infrastructure as Code
7 690 (16.74%) Containerisation
8 638 (15.48%) Microservices
9 501 (12.15%) Continuous Improvement
10 454 (11.01%) Continuous Integration
11 425 (10.31%) Roadmaps
12 397 (9.63%) Test Automation
13 384 (9.32%) Analytics
14 366 (8.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 349 (8.47%) SDLC
16 347 (8.42%) Computer Science
17 321 (7.79%) Full-Stack Development
18 308 (7.47%) Scrum
19 306 (7.42%) ITIL
20 304 (7.38%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,161 (28.17%) Python
2 984 (23.87%) SQL
3 772 (18.73%) C#
4 712 (17.27%) JavaScript
5 622 (15.09%) Java
6 362 (8.78%) PowerShell
7 291 (7.06%) Bash
8 270 (6.55%) TypeScript
9 182 (4.42%) Go
10 109 (2.64%) Shell Script
11 102 (2.47%) C++
12 96 (2.33%) PHP
13 90 (2.18%) T-SQL
14 74 (1.80%) Bicep
15 63 (1.53%) C
16 52 (1.26%) Kotlin
17 40 (0.97%) Objective-C
18 33 (0.80%) Ruby
19 31 (0.75%) Scala
20 26 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 591 (14.34%) Degree
2 393 (9.53%) Security Cleared
3 285 (6.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 268 (6.50%) Azure Certification
5 218 (5.29%) SC Cleared
6 146 (3.54%) Master's Degree
7 133 (3.23%) AWS Certification
8 116 (2.81%) DBS Check
9 109 (2.64%) DV Cleared
10 89 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
11 75 (1.82%) LPIC
12 72 (1.75%) RHCSA
13 46 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 32 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
15 31 (0.75%) ISTQB
16 28 (0.68%) PhD
17 27 (0.66%) CISSP
18 26 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 21 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
20 17 (0.41%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 298 (7.23%) QA
2 224 (5.43%) GDPR
3 198 (4.80%) NIST
4 128 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 105 (2.55%) HIPAA
6 90 (2.18%) SOC 2
7 87 (2.11%) Accessibility
8 66 (1.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 61 (1.48%) Data Quality
10 44 (1.07%) SLA
11 39 (0.95%) PCI DSS
12 30 (0.73%) NCSC
13 13 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.22%) PMO
15 8 (0.19%) Basel III
15 8 (0.19%) IFRS
15 8 (0.19%) IFRS 9
16 7 (0.17%) Basel II
16 7 (0.17%) Dodd-Frank
17 6 (0.15%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1,168 (28.34%) Docker
2 113 (2.74%) Active Directory
3 67 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 66 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.44%) Hyper-V
5 18 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (0.24%) Firmware
6 10 (0.24%) vSphere
7 8 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.15%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 5 (0.12%) Postfix
10 3 (0.073%) Dovecot
10 3 (0.073%) Embedded Firmware
10 3 (0.073%) RACF
11 2 (0.049%) KVM
11 2 (0.049%) Sendmail
12 1 (0.024%) Apache Flume
12 1 (0.024%) NDS
12 1 (0.024%) NFS
12 1 (0.024%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1,160 (28.14%) Kubernetes
2 933 (22.63%) Terraform
3 486 (11.79%) Ansible
4 193 (4.68%) Prometheus
5 191 (4.63%) Grafana
6 77 (1.87%) Puppet
7 75 (1.82%) Progress Chef
8 29 (0.70%) Argo
9 27 (0.66%) Nagios
10 25 (0.61%) AWS Copilot
10 25 (0.61%) Istio
11 19 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
11 19 (0.46%) Packer
12 17 (0.41%) CASB
12 17 (0.41%) Red Hat Satellite
13 16 (0.39%) QRadar
14 12 (0.29%) Podman
15 11 (0.27%) Kibana
15 11 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
16 10 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 978 (23.73%) Microsoft
2 209 (5.07%) Google
3 188 (4.56%) Oracle
4 141 (3.42%) Databricks
5 119 (2.89%) VMware
6 101 (2.45%) Red Hat
7 95 (2.30%) IBM
8 92 (2.23%) ServiceNow
9 56 (1.36%) SAP
10 55 (1.33%) Xamarin
11 53 (1.29%) Atlassian
12 44 (1.07%) Dynatrace
13 36 (0.87%) Salesforce
13 36 (0.87%) Splunk
14 34 (0.82%) Cisco
15 24 (0.58%) Citrix
16 20 (0.49%) New Relic
17 19 (0.46%) OpenAI
18 17 (0.41%) Okta
19 15 (0.36%) Adobe