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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 21 24
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 -13
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,248 4,176 5,933
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.10% 8.45% 6.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.93% 9.43% 8.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3,802 2,402 4,159
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,486 £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 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £61,750
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -1.20%

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 75,768 44,292 70,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.64% 89.63% 81.31%
Number of salaries quoted 52,326 25,118 47,262
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,886
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 31 July 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 31 July 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 4,539 £70,000 - 1,798
UK excluding London -2 3,352 £65,000 - 1,109
Work from Home -1 1,892 £67,500 -3.57% 919
London -13 1,507 £85,000 +6.25% 902
North of England +1 1,180 £67,500 +3.85% 328
South East -9 699 £65,000 +2.36% 298
North West -2 650 £70,000 +7.69% 171
South West +6 477 £70,000 +7.69% 154
Midlands -24 388 £66,000 +1.54% 162
Yorkshire +14 298 £70,000 +7.69% 95
North East +15 232 £60,000 -7.69% 64
West Midlands -26 222 £69,306 +6.62% 122
East of England +15 201 £60,000 -7.69% 61
Wales +10 177 £54,500 -5.22% 34
East Midlands +4 165 £65,000 +15.56% 40
Scotland -3 138 £60,000 -14.29% 59
Northern Ireland -6 101 £72,500 -9.38% 26
Isle of Man 0 3 £35,000 -33.33% 1

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
1 104 (1.98%) Confluence
2 90 (1.71%) SharePoint
3 86 (1.64%) Apache Spark
4 73 (1.39%) Apache
5 45 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
6 39 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
7 29 (0.55%) IIS
8 28 (0.53%) CMS
9 22 (0.42%) OpenStack
10 20 (0.38%) SAS
11 14 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
12 12 (0.23%) nginx
13 11 (0.21%) Jupyter
14 9 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
14 9 (0.17%) Umbraco
14 9 (0.17%) WordPress
15 8 (0.15%) Anypoint
15 8 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
16 7 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
17 6 (0.11%) Camunda
Applications
1 56 (1.07%) Microsoft Project
2 44 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.38%) PlantUML
4 19 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 14 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
8 12 (0.23%) Trello
9 7 (0.13%) Simulink
10 4 (0.076%) Maya
11 3 (0.057%) Blender
12 2 (0.038%) Lightworks
12 2 (0.038%) Spreadsheet
13 1 (0.019%) Adobe XD
13 1 (0.019%) Notion
13 1 (0.019%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 77 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.15%) Elite 3E
4 7 (0.13%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.095%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.095%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.076%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.076%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.076%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.076%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.076%) Shopify
7 3 (0.057%) Carpe Diem
7 3 (0.057%) Endur
7 3 (0.057%) Infor SunSystems
7 3 (0.057%) Magento
7 3 (0.057%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.057%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.057%) SAP Business One
7 3 (0.057%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.038%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 2,767 (52.72%) Azure
2 1,728 (32.93%) AWS
3 1,364 (25.99%) Azure DevOps
4 574 (10.94%) GCP
5 512 (9.76%) GitHub
6 472 (8.99%) Serverless
7 414 (7.89%) SaaS
8 360 (6.86%) Power Platform
9 271 (5.16%) GitHub Actions
10 255 (4.86%) AWS CloudFormation
11 225 (4.29%) Amazon S3
12 216 (4.12%) PaaS
13 207 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
14 167 (3.18%) Dynamics 365
14 167 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
15 158 (3.01%) Azure AKS
16 155 (2.95%) Amazon ECS
17 144 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 142 (2.71%) Azure Service Bus
19 141 (2.69%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 132 (2.52%) Firewall
2 87 (1.66%) DNS
3 72 (1.37%) TCP/IP
4 65 (1.24%) VPN
5 46 (0.88%) Network Security
6 43 (0.82%) Broadband
7 33 (0.63%) HTTP
7 33 (0.63%) Internet
8 22 (0.42%) DHCP
9 21 (0.40%) LAN
10 18 (0.34%) WAN
11 16 (0.30%) MQTT
12 14 (0.27%) Wireless
13 13 (0.25%) DMARC
14 11 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
15 10 (0.19%) BGP
15 10 (0.19%) HTTPS
15 10 (0.19%) SAN
16 8 (0.15%) Bluetooth
16 8 (0.15%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 299 (5.70%) SQL Server
2 275 (5.24%) MongoDB
3 266 (5.07%) Azure SQL Database
4 200 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
4 200 (3.81%) Power BI
5 179 (3.41%) NoSQL
6 108 (2.06%) MySQL
7 103 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
8 101 (1.92%) Relational Database
9 100 (1.91%) DynamoDB
10 95 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
11 91 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
12 78 (1.49%) Data Lake
13 60 (1.14%) Metadata
14 59 (1.12%) Redis
15 46 (0.88%) Big Data
16 42 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
17 40 (0.76%) Delta Lake
18 34 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
19 33 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 564 (10.75%) Git
2 412 (7.85%) GitLab
3 407 (7.76%) Jenkins
4 339 (6.46%) JIRA
5 94 (1.79%) Selenium
6 84 (1.60%) SonarQube
7 72 (1.37%) Cypress.io
8 56 (1.07%) Maven
9 54 (1.03%) Postman
10 53 (1.01%) JUnit
11 38 (0.72%) Cucumber
12 34 (0.65%) JMeter
12 34 (0.65%) TeamCity
13 32 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 32 (0.61%) Bitbucket
14 26 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
15 24 (0.46%) CircleCI
15 24 (0.46%) Visual Studio
16 23 (0.44%) REST Assured
17 20 (0.38%) NUnit
General
1 1,158 (22.07%) Social Skills
2 997 (19.00%) Finance
3 413 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
4 393 (7.49%) Public Sector
5 306 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 252 (4.80%) Banking
7 201 (3.83%) Law
8 160 (3.05%) Retail
9 144 (2.74%) Legal
10 108 (2.06%) Marketing
11 69 (1.31%) Games
12 63 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
13 58 (1.11%) Manufacturing
14 56 (1.07%) Advertising
15 53 (1.01%) Financial Institution
16 51 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
17 47 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
18 41 (0.78%) Telecoms
19 32 (0.61%) Back Office
20 26 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1,201 (22.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,140 (21.72%) Senior
3 890 (16.96%) Developer
4 703 (13.40%) Lead
5 413 (7.87%) Architect
6 361 (6.88%) Software Engineer
7 342 (6.52%) Azure Engineer
8 276 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
9 273 (5.20%) Senior DevOps
10 251 (4.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 231 (4.40%) .NET Developer
12 219 (4.17%) Senior Developer
13 207 (3.94%) Platform Engineer
14 190 (3.62%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 190 (3.62%) Data Engineer
15 166 (3.16%) AWS Engineer
16 165 (3.14%) Solutions Architect
17 155 (2.95%) Lead DevOps
18 135 (2.57%) Java Developer
19 126 (2.40%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 707 (13.47%) .NET
2 455 (8.67%) React
3 329 (6.27%) RESTful
4 325 (6.19%) REST
5 309 (5.89%) Node.js
6 292 (5.56%) ASP.NET
7 266 (5.07%) .NET Core
8 239 (4.55%) CSS
9 237 (4.52%) HTML
9 237 (4.52%) Spring Boot
10 233 (4.44%) Spring
11 225 (4.29%) ASP.NET Core
12 206 (3.93%) Kafka
13 167 (3.18%) AngularJS
14 137 (2.61%) Blazor
15 136 (2.59%) Entity Framework
16 131 (2.50%) Middleware
17 106 (2.02%) JSON
17 106 (2.02%) YAML
18 100 (1.91%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 889 (16.94%) Cloud Native
2 336 (6.40%) Product Ownership
3 247 (4.71%) Distributed Systems
4 189 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
5 141 (2.69%) Onboarding
6 110 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
7 91 (1.73%) Virtual Team
8 87 (1.66%) Management Information System
9 79 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
10 77 (1.47%) Mobile App
11 75 (1.43%) Data Centre
12 70 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
13 63 (1.20%) Public Cloud
14 62 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
15 60 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
16 49 (0.93%) Data Structures
17 47 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
18 45 (0.86%) Low-Code
19 41 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
19 41 (0.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 535 (10.19%) Linux
2 254 (4.84%) Windows
3 101 (1.92%) Unix
4 76 (1.45%) Windows Server
5 74 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 52 (0.99%) CentOS
7 47 (0.90%) Ubuntu
8 37 (0.71%) VMS
9 30 (0.57%) Android
10 18 (0.34%) Debian
11 17 (0.32%) Apple iOS
12 8 (0.15%) Rocky
13 7 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
13 7 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
15 4 (0.076%) Kali Linux
16 3 (0.057%) AIX
16 3 (0.057%) Mac OS
17 2 (0.038%) Amazon Linux
17 2 (0.038%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,641 (50.32%) CI/CD
2 1,952 (37.20%) Agile
3 1,265 (24.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,002 (19.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 945 (18.01%) Mentoring
6 928 (17.68%) Software Engineering
7 889 (16.94%) AI
8 846 (16.12%) Problem-Solving
9 800 (15.24%) Test Automation
10 715 (13.62%) Microservices
11 665 (12.67%) Containerisation
12 578 (11.01%) Platform Engineering
13 566 (10.79%) Observability
14 564 (10.75%) Full-Stack Development
15 557 (10.61%) Roadmaps
16 539 (10.27%) Scrum
17 529 (10.08%) Technical Leadership
18 463 (8.82%) Stakeholder Management
19 461 (8.78%) Analytics
20 381 (7.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,239 (23.61%) Python
2 933 (17.78%) SQL
3 768 (14.63%) C#
4 676 (12.88%) Java
5 656 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 410 (7.81%) TypeScript
7 371 (7.07%) Bash
8 358 (6.82%) PowerShell
9 158 (3.01%) Bicep
10 125 (2.38%) C++
10 125 (2.38%) Go
11 65 (1.24%) Apex Code
11 65 (1.24%) PHP
12 49 (0.93%) C
12 49 (0.93%) Groovy
13 43 (0.82%) T-SQL
14 41 (0.78%) Scala
15 37 (0.71%) Ruby
15 37 (0.71%) Rust
15 37 (0.71%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 855 (16.29%) Security Cleared
2 560 (10.67%) SC Cleared
3 503 (9.58%) Degree
4 236 (4.50%) DV Cleared
5 191 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 139 (2.65%) Azure Certification
7 110 (2.10%) Master's Degree
8 82 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
9 81 (1.54%) AWS Certification
9 81 (1.54%) CISSP
10 64 (1.22%) CISM
11 59 (1.12%) ISTQB
12 50 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
13 39 (0.74%) DBS Check
14 37 (0.71%) PMI Certification
15 33 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
16 28 (0.53%) PMP
17 25 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 24 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 22 (0.42%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 524 (9.98%) QA
2 174 (3.32%) Accessibility
3 167 (3.18%) Data Quality
4 120 (2.29%) GDPR
5 106 (2.02%) NIST
6 70 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 61 (1.16%) WCAG
8 49 (0.93%) ISO 22301
9 48 (0.91%) GRC
10 41 (0.78%) PCI DSS
11 25 (0.48%) PMO
11 25 (0.48%) SOC 2
12 23 (0.44%) SLA
13 19 (0.36%) NCSC
14 13 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
15 12 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
15 12 (0.23%) TickIT
16 10 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 9 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 8 (0.15%) NIST 800
System Software
1 851 (16.22%) Docker
2 134 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 79 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (0.53%) vSphere
6 24 (0.46%) Hyper-V
7 22 (0.42%) Firmware
8 14 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.13%) Ceph
10 6 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.095%) KVM
12 4 (0.076%) Embedded Firmware
12 4 (0.076%) iptables
12 4 (0.076%) NDS
13 3 (0.057%) Xen
14 2 (0.038%) VMware ESXi
14 2 (0.038%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.019%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.019%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,272 (24.24%) Terraform
2 970 (18.48%) Kubernetes
3 450 (8.57%) Ansible
4 232 (4.42%) Grafana
5 175 (3.33%) Prometheus
6 79 (1.51%) Argo
7 62 (1.18%) Puppet
8 41 (0.78%) Nagios
9 31 (0.59%) Istio
10 26 (0.50%) Kibana
10 26 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
11 25 (0.48%) HP Fortify
12 16 (0.30%) Progress Chef
13 14 (0.27%) Podman
13 14 (0.27%) Rancher
14 13 (0.25%) ZABBIX
15 12 (0.23%) Packer
16 11 (0.21%) logstash
17 9 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
17 9 (0.17%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,013 (19.30%) Microsoft
2 195 (3.72%) Google
3 174 (3.32%) Databricks
4 145 (2.76%) Salesforce
5 112 (2.13%) VMware
6 106 (2.02%) Oracle
7 102 (1.94%) Splunk
8 100 (1.91%) ServiceNow
9 93 (1.77%) Red Hat
10 73 (1.39%) SAP
11 53 (1.01%) Pega
12 48 (0.91%) Dynatrace
13 47 (0.90%) Cisco
14 45 (0.86%) OpenAI
15 44 (0.84%) MuleSoft
16 42 (0.80%) Facebook
17 30 (0.57%) Apple
18 27 (0.51%) AppDynamics
18 27 (0.51%) YouTube
19 26 (0.50%) Foundry