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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 22 21
Rank change year-on-year -8 -1 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,535 3,873 5,507
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.80% 7.84% 7.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.57% 8.83% 8.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3,872 2,203 3,512
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,607
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £88,148 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%

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 84,196 43,853 63,499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.06% 88.72% 81.26%
Number of salaries quoted 58,302 24,746 35,929
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 September 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 September 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 -10 4,776 £71,991 +2.41% 4,491
UK excluding London -5 3,551 £65,000 - 2,487
Work from Home -4 1,900 £69,310 -0.99% 2,059
London -10 1,569 £85,000 +6.25% 2,288
North of England +1 1,263 £67,750 +4.23% 754
South East -6 700 £65,000 - 572
North West +5 692 £70,000 +7.69% 432
South West +23 537 £75,000 +22.45% 298
Midlands -21 437 £65,000 - 300
Yorkshire +15 292 £70,000 +12.00% 201
North East +16 282 £60,000 - 124
West Midlands -25 254 £70,000 +7.69% 173
Wales +2 203 £54,500 -0.91% 70
East of England +4 193 £57,500 -11.54% 201
East Midlands +2 183 £60,000 +4.35% 127
Scotland -16 124 £60,000 -9.43% 206
Northern Ireland -1 114 £72,246 -44.43% 93
Isle of Man +1 3 £35,000 -33.33% 5

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
1 111 (2.01%) SharePoint
2 107 (1.93%) Apache Spark
3 106 (1.92%) Confluence
4 83 (1.50%) Apache
5 43 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
6 42 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
7 30 (0.54%) CMS
8 29 (0.52%) IIS
9 25 (0.45%) OpenStack
10 15 (0.27%) Jupyter
10 15 (0.27%) nginx
11 14 (0.25%) SAS
12 10 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 10 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
13 9 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
13 9 (0.16%) Umbraco
13 9 (0.16%) WordPress
14 8 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
15 7 (0.13%) Camunda
16 5 (0.090%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 64 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
2 46 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
4 25 (0.45%) MS Visio
5 23 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 21 (0.38%) PlantUML
7 20 (0.36%) Chatbot
8 13 (0.23%) Trello
9 7 (0.13%) Simulink
10 3 (0.054%) Blender
10 3 (0.054%) Maya
10 3 (0.054%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.036%) Lightworks
12 1 (0.018%) Notion
12 1 (0.018%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 90 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (0.25%) Elite 3E
4 7 (0.13%) Teamcenter
5 6 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
6 5 (0.090%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.090%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.090%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.090%) Visualfiles
7 4 (0.072%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.072%) Oracle Applications
7 4 (0.072%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.072%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.072%) Shopify
8 3 (0.054%) Carpe Diem
8 3 (0.054%) Infor SunSystems
8 3 (0.054%) Magento
8 3 (0.054%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.054%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2,891 (52.23%) Azure
2 1,784 (32.23%) AWS
3 1,465 (26.47%) Azure DevOps
4 607 (10.97%) GCP
5 560 (10.12%) GitHub
6 496 (8.96%) Serverless
7 450 (8.13%) SaaS
8 425 (7.68%) Power Platform
9 300 (5.42%) GitHub Actions
10 285 (5.15%) AWS CloudFormation
11 220 (3.97%) Dynamics 365
12 219 (3.96%) Amazon S3
13 211 (3.81%) AWS Lambda
14 201 (3.63%) PaaS
15 174 (3.14%) Azure Data Factory
16 167 (3.02%) Amazon EKS
17 166 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
18 165 (2.98%) Azure AKS
18 165 (2.98%) Entra ID
19 157 (2.84%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 128 (2.31%) Firewall
2 92 (1.66%) DNS
3 83 (1.50%) VPN
4 60 (1.08%) TCP/IP
5 47 (0.85%) Network Security
6 43 (0.78%) Internet
7 28 (0.51%) DHCP
8 26 (0.47%) HTTP
9 21 (0.38%) Broadband
10 16 (0.29%) MQTT
11 15 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
12 14 (0.25%) Wireless
13 13 (0.23%) DMARC
13 13 (0.23%) SAN
13 13 (0.23%) WAN
14 12 (0.22%) BGP
15 11 (0.20%) LAN
15 11 (0.20%) SSH
16 10 (0.18%) VLAN
17 9 (0.16%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 355 (6.41%) SQL Server
2 301 (5.44%) Azure SQL Database
3 293 (5.29%) MongoDB
4 243 (4.39%) Power BI
5 217 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
6 200 (3.61%) NoSQL
7 143 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
8 127 (2.29%) MySQL
9 118 (2.13%) Relational Database
10 107 (1.93%) DynamoDB
11 99 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
12 98 (1.77%) Data Lake
12 98 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
13 90 (1.63%) Metadata
14 75 (1.36%) Redis
15 49 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
16 45 (0.81%) Delta Lake
17 44 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
18 42 (0.76%) Big Data
19 38 (0.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 661 (11.94%) Git
2 407 (7.35%) Jenkins
3 397 (7.17%) GitLab
4 353 (6.38%) JIRA
5 90 (1.63%) Selenium
6 70 (1.26%) SonarQube
7 63 (1.14%) Cypress.io
8 59 (1.07%) Maven
9 51 (0.92%) JUnit
9 51 (0.92%) Postman
10 49 (0.89%) TeamCity
11 41 (0.74%) Cucumber
12 38 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 31 (0.56%) JMeter
14 28 (0.51%) Bitbucket
15 27 (0.49%) Claude Code
15 27 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
16 21 (0.38%) NUnit
16 21 (0.38%) REST Assured
17 18 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,301 (23.50%) Social Skills
2 1,069 (19.31%) Finance
3 510 (9.21%) Public Sector
4 454 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
5 340 (6.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 246 (4.44%) Banking
7 215 (3.88%) Law
8 172 (3.11%) Retail
9 171 (3.09%) Legal
10 85 (1.54%) Marketing
11 75 (1.36%) Financial Institution
12 59 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
13 55 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
14 52 (0.94%) Manufacturing
15 50 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
16 48 (0.87%) Aerospace
17 47 (0.85%) Back Office
18 46 (0.83%) Telecoms
19 45 (0.81%) Advertising
20 38 (0.69%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,339 (24.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,269 (22.93%) Senior
3 896 (16.19%) Developer
4 711 (12.85%) Lead
5 428 (7.73%) Architect
6 393 (7.10%) Software Engineer
7 346 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
8 312 (5.64%) Senior DevOps
9 297 (5.37%) Cloud Engineer
10 288 (5.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 242 (4.37%) .NET Developer
12 237 (4.28%) Platform Engineer
13 219 (3.96%) Senior Developer
14 218 (3.94%) Data Engineer
15 181 (3.27%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 167 (3.02%) Lead DevOps
17 151 (2.73%) AWS Engineer
18 144 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
19 139 (2.51%) Consultant
20 131 (2.37%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,359 (24.55%) Terraform
2 734 (13.26%) .NET
3 427 (7.71%) React
4 348 (6.29%) REST
5 339 (6.12%) RESTful
6 332 (6.00%) Node.js
7 299 (5.40%) ASP.NET
8 270 (4.88%) .NET Core
9 261 (4.72%) Spring
10 260 (4.70%) Spring Boot
11 235 (4.25%) CSS
12 234 (4.23%) HTML
13 229 (4.14%) ASP.NET Core
14 223 (4.03%) Kafka
15 173 (3.13%) AngularJS
16 138 (2.49%) Entity Framework
17 136 (2.46%) Blazor
18 119 (2.15%) Middleware
19 116 (2.10%) JSON
20 104 (1.88%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1,015 (18.34%) Cloud Native
2 356 (6.43%) Product Ownership
3 269 (4.86%) Distributed Systems
4 232 (4.19%) Enterprise Software
5 167 (3.02%) Onboarding
6 128 (2.31%) Virtual Team
7 114 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
8 95 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
9 85 (1.54%) Management Information System
10 75 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
11 71 (1.28%) Data Centre
12 70 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
13 69 (1.25%) Mobile App
14 67 (1.21%) Cyber Threat
15 65 (1.17%) Public Cloud
16 63 (1.14%) AI Agents
17 53 (0.96%) Private Cloud
18 49 (0.89%) Data Structures
18 49 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
19 46 (0.83%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 575 (10.39%) Linux
2 259 (4.68%) Windows
3 105 (1.90%) Unix
4 71 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 69 (1.25%) Windows Server
6 52 (0.94%) CentOS
7 41 (0.74%) Ubuntu
8 38 (0.69%) VMS
9 32 (0.58%) Android
10 16 (0.29%) Debian
11 15 (0.27%) Apple iOS
12 11 (0.20%) Rocky
13 7 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
14 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.090%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.072%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.072%) Solaris
16 4 (0.072%) Windows Server 2019
17 3 (0.054%) AIX
17 3 (0.054%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,824 (51.02%) CI/CD
2 2,030 (36.68%) Agile
3 1,340 (24.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,090 (19.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,057 (19.10%) Mentoring
6 1,023 (18.48%) AI
7 1,021 (18.45%) Software Engineering
8 923 (16.68%) Problem-Solving
9 862 (15.57%) Test Automation
10 739 (13.35%) Microservices
11 689 (12.45%) Containerisation
12 664 (12.00%) Platform Engineering
13 617 (11.15%) Observability
14 614 (11.09%) Technical Leadership
15 568 (10.26%) Roadmaps
16 567 (10.24%) Stakeholder Management
17 531 (9.59%) Full-Stack Development
18 529 (9.56%) Scrum
19 501 (9.05%) Analytics
20 402 (7.26%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,313 (23.72%) Python
2 996 (17.99%) SQL
3 816 (14.74%) C#
4 725 (13.10%) Java
5 668 (12.07%) JavaScript
6 429 (7.75%) TypeScript
7 387 (6.99%) PowerShell
8 386 (6.97%) Bash
9 163 (2.94%) Bicep
10 130 (2.35%) Go
11 120 (2.17%) C++
12 56 (1.01%) PHP
13 54 (0.98%) T-SQL
14 53 (0.96%) Groovy
15 51 (0.92%) Scala
16 50 (0.90%) C
17 45 (0.81%) Kotlin
18 40 (0.72%) Apex Code
19 38 (0.69%) Ruby
19 38 (0.69%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,047 (18.92%) Security Cleared
2 702 (12.68%) SC Cleared
3 511 (9.23%) Degree
4 296 (5.35%) DV Cleared
5 193 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 183 (3.31%) Azure Certification
7 111 (2.01%) AWS Certification
8 101 (1.82%) Master's Degree
9 79 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
10 78 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
11 77 (1.39%) CISSP
12 73 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
13 67 (1.21%) CISM
14 57 (1.03%) ISTQB
15 35 (0.63%) PMI Certification
16 26 (0.47%) DBS Check
17 25 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 25 (0.45%) PhD
18 22 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
18 22 (0.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 555 (10.03%) QA
2 211 (3.81%) Data Quality
3 190 (3.43%) Accessibility
4 125 (2.26%) GDPR
5 99 (1.79%) NIST
6 74 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 63 (1.14%) WCAG
8 49 (0.89%) ISO 22301
9 42 (0.76%) GRC
10 35 (0.63%) SLA
11 28 (0.51%) NCSC
11 28 (0.51%) PCI DSS
11 28 (0.51%) PMO
12 18 (0.33%) SOC 2
13 12 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.22%) HIPAA
13 12 (0.22%) TickIT
14 10 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
15 9 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 9 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 908 (16.40%) Docker
2 146 (2.64%) Active Directory
3 84 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (0.47%) vSphere
6 21 (0.38%) Hyper-V
7 20 (0.36%) Firmware
8 18 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.14%) NDS
10 7 (0.13%) Ceph
11 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.090%) KVM
12 5 (0.090%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 4 (0.072%) iptables
14 3 (0.054%) Xen
15 2 (0.036%) Embedded Firmware
15 2 (0.036%) VMware ESXi
15 2 (0.036%) VMware NSX
16 1 (0.018%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 1 (0.018%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,034 (18.68%) Kubernetes
2 464 (8.38%) Ansible
3 240 (4.34%) Grafana
4 172 (3.11%) Prometheus
5 82 (1.48%) Argo
6 66 (1.19%) Puppet
7 41 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
8 27 (0.49%) Istio
8 27 (0.49%) Kibana
8 27 (0.49%) Nagios
9 22 (0.40%) Progress Chef
9 22 (0.40%) Rancher
10 21 (0.38%) HP Fortify
11 15 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
12 14 (0.25%) logstash
12 14 (0.25%) Packer
12 14 (0.25%) Podman
13 12 (0.22%) Proxmox
14 11 (0.20%) ZABBIX
15 8 (0.14%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 1,138 (20.56%) Microsoft
2 211 (3.81%) Google
3 185 (3.34%) Databricks
4 128 (2.31%) Oracle
5 119 (2.15%) Salesforce
6 117 (2.11%) VMware
7 94 (1.70%) ServiceNow
8 87 (1.57%) Splunk
9 79 (1.43%) Red Hat
10 77 (1.39%) SAP
11 56 (1.01%) OpenAI
12 52 (0.94%) Cisco
13 45 (0.81%) Dynatrace
14 44 (0.79%) Pega
15 42 (0.76%) Facebook
16 38 (0.69%) AppDynamics
16 38 (0.69%) YouTube
17 33 (0.60%) MuleSoft
18 30 (0.54%) Foundry
19 28 (0.51%) IBM