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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 21 24
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 -12
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,378 4,105 5,718
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.06% 8.22% 6.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.89% 9.20% 8.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3,847 2,330 3,951
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £86,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +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 78,044 44,596 67,662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.46% 89.30% 81.10%
Number of salaries quoted 53,720 25,240 43,624
10th Percentile £30,773 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,237 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,773 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.13% -4.45% -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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -8 4,654 £70,400 +0.57% 2,458
UK excluding London -3 3,457 £65,000 - 1,380
Work from Home -1 1,924 £69,305 -0.99% 1,156
London -12 1,533 £85,000 +6.25% 1,321
North of England +2 1,226 £67,500 +3.85% 387
South East -11 691 £65,000 +2.36% 379
North West -1 671 £70,000 +7.69% 198
South West +8 502 £70,000 +7.69% 182
Midlands -21 405 £67,500 +3.85% 184
Yorkshire +16 295 £70,000 +12.00% 111
North East +24 260 £60,000 -7.69% 80
West Midlands -23 242 £69,310 +6.63% 119
East of England +19 212 £59,450 -8.54% 78
Wales +9 188 £55,000 -4.35% 46
East Midlands +4 162 £64,525 +12.22% 64
Scotland -2 134 £60,000 -14.29% 95
Northern Ireland -2 109 £72,500 -44.23% 33
Isle of Man 0 3 £35,000 -33.33% 3

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
1 108 (2.01%) Confluence
2 95 (1.77%) Apache Spark
3 92 (1.71%) SharePoint
4 79 (1.47%) Apache
5 44 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
6 36 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
7 29 (0.54%) CMS
8 28 (0.52%) IIS
9 23 (0.43%) OpenStack
10 20 (0.37%) SAS
11 14 (0.26%) nginx
11 14 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
12 12 (0.22%) Jupyter
13 9 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
13 9 (0.17%) Umbraco
13 9 (0.17%) WordPress
14 8 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 8 (0.15%) Anypoint
14 8 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
15 7 (0.13%) Camunda
Applications
1 59 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
2 44 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (0.41%) MS Visio
3 22 (0.41%) PlantUML
4 17 (0.32%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.24%) Trello
7 7 (0.13%) Simulink
8 4 (0.074%) Maya
9 3 (0.056%) Blender
9 3 (0.056%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.037%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.019%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.019%) Notion
11 1 (0.019%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 77 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.19%) Elite 3E
4 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.093%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.093%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.093%) Teamcenter
5 5 (0.093%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.074%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.074%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.074%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.074%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.074%) Shopify
7 3 (0.056%) Carpe Diem
7 3 (0.056%) Infor SunSystems
7 3 (0.056%) Magento
7 3 (0.056%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (0.056%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.056%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 2,849 (52.98%) Azure
2 1,762 (32.76%) AWS
3 1,405 (26.12%) Azure DevOps
4 597 (11.10%) GCP
5 529 (9.84%) GitHub
6 480 (8.93%) Serverless
7 429 (7.98%) SaaS
8 371 (6.90%) Power Platform
9 279 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
10 274 (5.09%) AWS CloudFormation
11 228 (4.24%) Amazon S3
12 217 (4.03%) PaaS
13 210 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
14 178 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
15 167 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
16 156 (2.90%) Amazon ECS
17 155 (2.88%) Azure AKS
18 151 (2.81%) Azure Service Bus
19 145 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 144 (2.68%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 127 (2.36%) Firewall
2 88 (1.64%) DNS
3 73 (1.36%) TCP/IP
4 66 (1.23%) VPN
5 44 (0.82%) Network Security
6 36 (0.67%) Broadband
7 33 (0.61%) Internet
8 31 (0.58%) HTTP
9 23 (0.43%) DHCP
10 19 (0.35%) LAN
11 18 (0.33%) WAN
12 16 (0.30%) MQTT
13 14 (0.26%) Wireless
14 13 (0.24%) DMARC
14 13 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
15 11 (0.20%) SAN
16 10 (0.19%) HTTPS
17 9 (0.17%) BGP
18 8 (0.15%) NAS
18 8 (0.15%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 325 (6.04%) SQL Server
2 280 (5.21%) MongoDB
3 272 (5.06%) Azure SQL Database
4 206 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
4 206 (3.83%) Power BI
5 185 (3.44%) NoSQL
6 113 (2.10%) MySQL
7 111 (2.06%) Relational Database
8 108 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
9 100 (1.86%) DynamoDB
10 98 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
11 94 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
12 82 (1.52%) Data Lake
13 63 (1.17%) Metadata
13 63 (1.17%) Redis
14 47 (0.87%) Big Data
15 43 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
16 41 (0.76%) Delta Lake
17 36 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
18 33 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 591 (10.99%) Git
2 407 (7.57%) Jenkins
3 398 (7.40%) GitLab
4 359 (6.68%) JIRA
5 95 (1.77%) Selenium
6 80 (1.49%) SonarQube
7 68 (1.26%) Cypress.io
8 56 (1.04%) JUnit
8 56 (1.04%) Maven
8 56 (1.04%) Postman
9 39 (0.73%) Cucumber
10 36 (0.67%) TeamCity
11 34 (0.63%) Bitbucket
11 34 (0.63%) JMeter
12 33 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 28 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
14 25 (0.46%) NUnit
15 23 (0.43%) REST Assured
16 21 (0.39%) Visual Studio
17 20 (0.37%) CircleCI
General
1 1,211 (22.52%) Social Skills
2 1,043 (19.39%) Finance
3 440 (8.18%) Public Sector
4 422 (7.85%) Analytical Skills
5 331 (6.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 255 (4.74%) Banking
7 205 (3.81%) Law
8 161 (2.99%) Legal
9 159 (2.96%) Retail
10 101 (1.88%) Marketing
11 65 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
12 60 (1.12%) Games
13 58 (1.08%) Manufacturing
14 55 (1.02%) Financial Institution
15 51 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
16 50 (0.93%) Advertising
17 49 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
18 44 (0.82%) Telecoms
19 37 (0.69%) Aerospace
20 32 (0.60%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,234 (22.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,188 (22.09%) Senior
3 906 (16.85%) Developer
4 720 (13.39%) Lead
5 422 (7.85%) Architect
6 372 (6.92%) Software Engineer
7 339 (6.30%) Azure Engineer
8 282 (5.24%) Senior DevOps
9 276 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
10 264 (4.91%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 238 (4.43%) .NET Developer
12 221 (4.11%) Senior Developer
13 220 (4.09%) Platform Engineer
14 196 (3.64%) Data Engineer
15 185 (3.44%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 160 (2.98%) Lead DevOps
17 159 (2.96%) AWS Engineer
18 156 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
19 137 (2.55%) Java Developer
20 129 (2.40%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 739 (13.74%) .NET
2 453 (8.42%) React
3 334 (6.21%) RESTful
4 333 (6.19%) REST
5 326 (6.06%) Node.js
6 298 (5.54%) ASP.NET
7 286 (5.32%) .NET Core
8 243 (4.52%) CSS
9 241 (4.48%) HTML
9 241 (4.48%) Spring Boot
10 237 (4.41%) Spring
11 230 (4.28%) ASP.NET Core
12 210 (3.90%) Kafka
13 168 (3.12%) AngularJS
14 141 (2.62%) Blazor
15 140 (2.60%) Entity Framework
16 128 (2.38%) Middleware
17 105 (1.95%) YAML
18 104 (1.93%) JSON
19 99 (1.84%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 946 (17.59%) Cloud Native
2 349 (6.49%) Product Ownership
3 252 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
4 209 (3.89%) Enterprise Software
5 152 (2.83%) Onboarding
6 116 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
7 99 (1.84%) Virtual Team
8 85 (1.58%) Management Information System
9 81 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
10 76 (1.41%) Mobile App
11 75 (1.39%) Data Centre
12 71 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
13 65 (1.21%) Public Cloud
14 63 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
14 63 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
15 50 (0.93%) Data Structures
16 46 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
17 45 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
18 44 (0.82%) AI Agents
19 42 (0.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 546 (10.15%) Linux
2 259 (4.82%) Windows
3 105 (1.95%) Unix
4 75 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 72 (1.34%) Windows Server
6 52 (0.97%) CentOS
7 43 (0.80%) Ubuntu
8 37 (0.69%) VMS
9 31 (0.58%) Android
10 17 (0.32%) Apple iOS
10 17 (0.32%) Debian
11 11 (0.20%) Rocky
12 8 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
13 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.093%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.074%) Kali Linux
15 4 (0.074%) Solaris
15 4 (0.074%) Windows Server 2019
16 3 (0.056%) AIX
16 3 (0.056%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,708 (50.35%) CI/CD
2 2,005 (37.28%) Agile
3 1,302 (24.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,026 (19.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 986 (18.33%) Mentoring
6 969 (18.02%) Software Engineering
7 929 (17.27%) AI
8 860 (15.99%) Problem-Solving
9 820 (15.25%) Test Automation
10 728 (13.54%) Microservices
11 683 (12.70%) Containerisation
12 614 (11.42%) Platform Engineering
13 591 (10.99%) Observability
14 569 (10.58%) Roadmaps
15 567 (10.54%) Full-Stack Development
16 566 (10.52%) Technical Leadership
17 542 (10.08%) Scrum
18 496 (9.22%) Stakeholder Management
19 469 (8.72%) Analytics
20 386 (7.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,267 (23.56%) Python
2 957 (17.79%) SQL
3 795 (14.78%) C#
4 697 (12.96%) Java
5 663 (12.33%) JavaScript
6 414 (7.70%) TypeScript
7 365 (6.79%) PowerShell
8 363 (6.75%) Bash
9 156 (2.90%) Bicep
10 127 (2.36%) C++
11 124 (2.31%) Go
12 60 (1.12%) PHP
13 57 (1.06%) Apex Code
14 52 (0.97%) C
15 49 (0.91%) T-SQL
16 47 (0.87%) Groovy
17 46 (0.86%) Scala
18 42 (0.78%) Kotlin
19 40 (0.74%) Ruby
20 37 (0.69%) Rust
Qualifications
1 931 (17.31%) Security Cleared
2 616 (11.45%) SC Cleared
3 525 (9.76%) Degree
4 257 (4.78%) DV Cleared
5 195 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 148 (2.75%) Azure Certification
7 110 (2.05%) Master's Degree
8 93 (1.73%) AWS Certification
9 83 (1.54%) CISSP
10 80 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
11 66 (1.23%) CISM
12 59 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
13 58 (1.08%) ISTQB
14 49 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
15 40 (0.74%) PMI Certification
16 37 (0.69%) DBS Check
17 28 (0.52%) PMP
18 24 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 23 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 23 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 539 (10.02%) QA
2 188 (3.50%) Accessibility
3 177 (3.29%) Data Quality
4 124 (2.31%) GDPR
5 107 (1.99%) NIST
6 73 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 62 (1.15%) WCAG
8 49 (0.91%) ISO 22301
9 47 (0.87%) GRC
10 37 (0.69%) PCI DSS
11 28 (0.52%) PMO
12 26 (0.48%) NCSC
13 25 (0.46%) SLA
14 23 (0.43%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
16 12 (0.22%) TickIT
17 11 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
18 10 (0.19%) HIPAA
18 10 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 9 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 870 (16.18%) Docker
2 139 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 82 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.54%) vSphere
6 23 (0.43%) Firmware
6 23 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 15 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.13%) Ceph
9 6 (0.11%) KVM
9 6 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.093%) iptables
11 4 (0.074%) NDS
11 4 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.056%) Embedded Firmware
12 3 (0.056%) Xen
13 2 (0.037%) VMware NSX
14 1 (0.019%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.019%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,300 (24.17%) Terraform
2 981 (18.24%) Kubernetes
3 453 (8.42%) Ansible
4 222 (4.13%) Grafana
5 167 (3.11%) Prometheus
6 78 (1.45%) Argo
7 64 (1.19%) Puppet
8 36 (0.67%) Nagios
9 32 (0.60%) Istio
10 27 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
11 24 (0.45%) Kibana
12 22 (0.41%) HP Fortify
13 17 (0.32%) Progress Chef
14 13 (0.24%) Rancher
14 13 (0.24%) ZABBIX
15 12 (0.22%) Packer
15 12 (0.22%) Podman
16 11 (0.20%) logstash
17 9 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
18 8 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 1,042 (19.38%) Microsoft
2 216 (4.02%) Google
3 181 (3.37%) Databricks
4 141 (2.62%) Salesforce
5 117 (2.18%) Oracle
6 113 (2.10%) VMware
7 98 (1.82%) ServiceNow
8 94 (1.75%) Red Hat
9 93 (1.73%) Splunk
10 72 (1.34%) SAP
11 51 (0.95%) Pega
12 49 (0.91%) OpenAI
13 48 (0.89%) Cisco
14 46 (0.86%) Dynatrace
15 42 (0.78%) Facebook
16 41 (0.76%) MuleSoft
17 30 (0.56%) AppDynamics
18 29 (0.54%) Apple
19 28 (0.52%) Foundry
20 27 (0.50%) YouTube