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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 18 25
Rank change year-on-year -13 +7 -13
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,217 4,061 7,128
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.57% 9.21% 7.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.21% 9.87% 8.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,989 2,460 5,291
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £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 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £101,250
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 67,959 41,142 82,492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.66% 93.29% 84.82%
Number of salaries quoted 43,928 22,326 59,700
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,269 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.97% +5.94% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -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 20 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 20 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 -14 3,673 £70,313 +0.09% 1,222
UK excluding London -24 2,465 £65,000 - 918
Work from Home -8 1,515 £69,310 -0.99% 656
London -8 1,387 £82,500 +2.48% 474
North of England -15 837 £70,000 +4.42% 267
South East -16 542 £65,000 - 286
North West -16 421 £70,000 +0.89% 148
South West -18 341 £65,000 - 112
Midlands -29 327 £67,500 +12.50% 97
Yorkshire -4 276 £70,000 +3.32% 73
West Midlands -41 186 £62,500 +4.17% 64
Scotland -2 174 £55,000 -23.60% 54
East of England -15 150 £65,000 - 78
North East +8 140 £60,000 -7.69% 49
East Midlands 0 137 £70,000 +16.67% 33
Wales -2 85 £53,135 -13.25% 30
Northern Ireland -35 13 £73,801 +34.18% 12
Isle of Man +4 3 £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 (1.83%) SharePoint
2 72 (1.71%) Confluence
3 52 (1.23%) Apache
4 49 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
5 48 (1.14%) Apache Spark
6 36 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
7 29 (0.69%) IIS
8 26 (0.62%) CMS
9 16 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
10 13 (0.31%) OpenStack
11 11 (0.26%) Moodle
11 11 (0.26%) SAS
12 8 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
13 7 (0.17%) Anypoint
13 7 (0.17%) Apache Solr
13 7 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
13 7 (0.17%) Umbraco
13 7 (0.17%) WordPress
14 6 (0.14%) nginx
14 6 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 32 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
3 22 (0.52%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.26%) PlantUML
5 10 (0.24%) Chatbot
5 10 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
6 9 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (0.12%) Simulink
8 3 (0.071%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.071%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.047%) Trello
10 1 (0.024%) EngageOne
10 1 (0.024%) Maya
10 1 (0.024%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 64 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.33%) SAP ERP
3 12 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
3 12 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.24%) Endur
5 7 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.12%) Visualfiles
7 4 (0.095%) Markit EDM
7 4 (0.095%) Shopify
8 3 (0.071%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.071%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.071%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.047%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.047%) Fidessa
9 2 (0.047%) Infor SunSystems
9 2 (0.047%) Magento
9 2 (0.047%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.024%) Sage 200
10 1 (0.024%) SAP MII
Cloud Services
1 2,241 (53.14%) Azure
2 1,358 (32.20%) AWS
3 1,095 (25.97%) Azure DevOps
4 490 (11.62%) GitHub
5 475 (11.26%) GCP
6 429 (10.17%) Serverless
7 332 (7.87%) Power Platform
8 268 (6.36%) GitHub Actions
9 254 (6.02%) SaaS
10 227 (5.38%) Amazon S3
11 224 (5.31%) AWS CloudFormation
12 219 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
13 167 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
14 156 (3.70%) PaaS
15 154 (3.65%) Entra ID
16 144 (3.41%) Azure Data Factory
17 140 (3.32%) Amazon EKS
18 138 (3.27%) Amazon ECS
19 133 (3.15%) Azure AKS
20 130 (3.08%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 138 (3.27%) Firewall
2 92 (2.18%) DNS
3 64 (1.52%) Broadband
4 58 (1.38%) TCP/IP
5 47 (1.11%) VPN
6 39 (0.92%) Network Security
7 32 (0.76%) HTTP
8 30 (0.71%) WAN
9 27 (0.64%) DHCP
10 23 (0.55%) LAN
11 11 (0.26%) BGP
12 9 (0.21%) SAN
12 9 (0.21%) Wireless
13 8 (0.19%) Internet
14 7 (0.17%) HTTPS
14 7 (0.17%) MQTT
14 7 (0.17%) NGFW
14 7 (0.17%) OSPF
15 6 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
15 6 (0.14%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 240 (5.69%) SQL Server
2 203 (4.81%) NoSQL
3 188 (4.46%) Power BI
4 151 (3.58%) MongoDB
5 143 (3.39%) Azure SQL Database
6 135 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
7 116 (2.75%) DynamoDB
8 92 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
9 88 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
10 86 (2.04%) Relational Database
11 84 (1.99%) Data Lake
12 66 (1.57%) Metadata
12 66 (1.57%) MySQL
13 61 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
14 43 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
14 43 (1.02%) BigQuery
15 36 (0.85%) Delta Lake
16 35 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
17 33 (0.78%) Big Data
17 33 (0.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 459 (10.88%) Git
2 398 (9.44%) Jenkins
3 363 (8.61%) GitLab
4 247 (5.86%) JIRA
5 104 (2.47%) SonarQube
6 87 (2.06%) Cypress.io
7 84 (1.99%) Selenium
8 67 (1.59%) Maven
9 44 (1.04%) Postman
10 38 (0.90%) Bitbucket
11 36 (0.85%) CircleCI
11 36 (0.85%) Cucumber
12 34 (0.81%) TeamCity
13 29 (0.69%) JUnit
14 26 (0.62%) JMeter
15 25 (0.59%) Eclipse
16 23 (0.55%) Visual Studio
17 22 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
18 20 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
19 19 (0.45%) REST Assured
General
1 935 (22.17%) Finance
2 873 (20.70%) Social Skills
3 358 (8.49%) Analytical Skills
4 268 (6.36%) Public Sector
5 242 (5.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 221 (5.24%) Banking
7 131 (3.11%) Retail
8 122 (2.89%) Law
9 103 (2.44%) Marketing
10 78 (1.85%) Legal
11 77 (1.83%) Games
12 46 (1.09%) Telecoms
13 44 (1.04%) Manufacturing
14 42 (1.00%) Advertising
15 41 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
16 38 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
17 37 (0.88%) Financial Institution
18 34 (0.81%) Billing
19 29 (0.69%) Back Office
20 28 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 901 (21.37%) DevOps Engineer
2 865 (20.51%) Senior
3 731 (17.33%) Developer
4 609 (14.44%) Lead
5 354 (8.39%) Architect
6 311 (7.37%) Software Engineer
7 309 (7.33%) Azure Engineer
8 251 (5.95%) Cloud Engineer
9 212 (5.03%) Senior DevOps
10 189 (4.48%) Senior Developer
11 182 (4.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 167 (3.96%) Data Engineer
13 163 (3.87%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 154 (3.65%) Solutions Architect
15 146 (3.46%) AWS Engineer
16 141 (3.34%) Java Developer
17 140 (3.32%) Platform Engineer
18 128 (3.04%) Lead DevOps
19 114 (2.70%) Full-Stack Developer
20 109 (2.58%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 498 (11.81%) .NET
2 361 (8.56%) React
3 273 (6.47%) REST
4 245 (5.81%) Node.js
5 242 (5.74%) RESTful
6 179 (4.24%) Spring Boot
7 162 (3.84%) CSS
7 162 (3.84%) Spring
8 158 (3.75%) Kafka
9 157 (3.72%) HTML
10 155 (3.68%) AngularJS
11 152 (3.60%) ASP.NET
12 151 (3.58%) .NET Core
13 121 (2.87%) SOAP
14 107 (2.54%) OAuth
15 105 (2.49%) ASP.NET Core
16 103 (2.44%) Middleware
17 92 (2.18%) JSON
17 92 (2.18%) PySpark
18 90 (2.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 572 (13.56%) Cloud Native
2 290 (6.88%) Product Ownership
3 144 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
4 123 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
5 90 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
6 79 (1.87%) Management Information System
7 68 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
8 66 (1.57%) Mobile App
9 62 (1.47%) Onboarding
10 58 (1.38%) Data Centre
11 55 (1.30%) Public Cloud
12 54 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
13 51 (1.21%) Low-Code
14 50 (1.19%) Algorithms
15 49 (1.16%) Data Structures
16 38 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
17 31 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
18 30 (0.71%) Security Posture
18 30 (0.71%) Virtual Team
19 28 (0.66%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 426 (10.10%) Linux
2 192 (4.55%) Windows
3 82 (1.94%) Unix
4 74 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 49 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 41 (0.97%) Ubuntu
7 31 (0.74%) Android
8 30 (0.71%) VMS
9 28 (0.66%) CentOS
10 25 (0.59%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.17%) Debian
13 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (0.095%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.095%) Rocky
15 3 (0.071%) Windows Server 2016
16 2 (0.047%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.047%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.024%) SUSE
17 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,127 (50.44%) CI/CD
2 1,495 (35.45%) Agile
3 1,009 (23.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 760 (18.02%) Continuous Improvement
5 715 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
6 702 (16.65%) Mentoring
7 677 (16.05%) Software Engineering
8 648 (15.37%) AI
9 616 (14.61%) Test Automation
10 555 (13.16%) Microservices
11 547 (12.97%) Containerisation
12 467 (11.07%) Observability
13 438 (10.39%) Roadmaps
14 431 (10.22%) Analytics
15 420 (9.96%) Full-Stack Development
16 402 (9.53%) Scrum
17 397 (9.41%) Platform Engineering
18 365 (8.66%) Technical Leadership
19 320 (7.59%) Data Modelling
20 311 (7.37%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,050 (24.90%) Python
2 776 (18.40%) SQL
3 603 (14.30%) Java
4 499 (11.83%) C#
5 462 (10.96%) JavaScript
6 360 (8.54%) Bash
7 322 (7.64%) TypeScript
8 252 (5.98%) PowerShell
9 150 (3.56%) Go
10 116 (2.75%) C++
11 115 (2.73%) Bicep
12 85 (2.02%) Apex Code
13 58 (1.38%) Groovy
14 52 (1.23%) PHP
15 48 (1.14%) Scala
16 44 (1.04%) SOQL
16 44 (1.04%) SOSL
17 36 (0.85%) Kotlin
18 35 (0.83%) C
19 33 (0.78%) Rust
Qualifications
1 598 (14.18%) Security Cleared
2 431 (10.22%) Degree
3 354 (8.39%) SC Cleared
4 174 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 148 (3.51%) DV Cleared
6 115 (2.73%) AWS Certification
7 98 (2.32%) Azure Certification
8 88 (2.09%) Master's Degree
9 56 (1.33%) ISTQB
10 43 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
11 34 (0.81%) DBS Check
11 34 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
12 29 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 29 (0.69%) PMI Certification
13 26 (0.62%) CISSP
14 24 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 21 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 20 (0.47%) PhD
16 20 (0.47%) PMP
17 19 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 338 (8.02%) QA
2 170 (4.03%) Data Quality
3 130 (3.08%) Accessibility
4 96 (2.28%) GDPR
5 73 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 55 (1.30%) NIST
7 46 (1.09%) GRC
8 36 (0.85%) SOC 2
9 32 (0.76%) PCI DSS
10 31 (0.74%) WCAG
11 20 (0.47%) SLA
12 14 (0.33%) PMO
13 13 (0.31%) NCSC
14 12 (0.28%) TickIT
15 11 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
16 8 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
17 7 (0.17%) Solvency II
18 6 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 6 (0.14%) IFRS
18 6 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 707 (16.77%) Docker
2 144 (3.41%) Active Directory
3 51 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.40%) Hyper-V
6 16 (0.38%) vSphere
7 15 (0.36%) Firmware
8 7 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.095%) iptables
9 4 (0.095%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 4 (0.095%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.071%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.071%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.047%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.047%) KVM
11 2 (0.047%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.024%) OpenAM
12 1 (0.024%) OpenDJ
12 1 (0.024%) OpenIDM
12 1 (0.024%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,049 (24.88%) Terraform
2 766 (18.16%) Kubernetes
3 379 (8.99%) Ansible
4 217 (5.15%) Grafana
5 179 (4.24%) Prometheus
6 73 (1.73%) Argo
7 49 (1.16%) Puppet
8 42 (1.00%) HP Fortify
9 37 (0.88%) Nagios
10 34 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
11 30 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
12 25 (0.59%) Kibana
13 18 (0.43%) Kustomize
14 16 (0.38%) Rancher
15 15 (0.36%) Istio
16 14 (0.33%) Packer
17 13 (0.31%) Progress Chef
18 11 (0.26%) logstash
19 10 (0.24%) Proxmox
20 9 (0.21%) yum
Vendors
1 786 (18.64%) Microsoft
2 161 (3.82%) Salesforce
3 159 (3.77%) Databricks
3 159 (3.77%) Google
4 90 (2.13%) Splunk
5 88 (2.09%) VMware
6 83 (1.97%) Red Hat
7 81 (1.92%) Oracle
8 70 (1.66%) ServiceNow
9 51 (1.21%) SAP
10 44 (1.04%) MuleSoft
11 35 (0.83%) Palo Alto
12 33 (0.78%) Cisco
12 33 (0.78%) Dynatrace
13 25 (0.59%) Adobe
14 24 (0.57%) Pega
15 22 (0.52%) OpenAI
16 20 (0.47%) IBM
17 19 (0.45%) Foundry
17 19 (0.45%) SolarWinds