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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 21 26
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,813 4,111 7,124
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.98% 8.76% 6.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.78% 9.60% 8.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3,515 2,394 5,164
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £50,083
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
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 71,035 42,845 86,740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.51% 91.34% 82.14%
Number of salaries quoted 49,086 23,535 61,317
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.00% - -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 2 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 2 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 -9 4,215 £70,000 -2.78% 1,636
UK excluding London -6 2,940 £65,000 - 1,161
Work from Home -1 1,732 £67,500 -3.57% 940
London -8 1,466 £85,000 +6.25% 675
North of England +1 1,066 £69,305 +4.98% 325
South East -12 629 £65,000 - 359
North West -1 580 £70,000 +4.42% 189
South West -5 417 £70,000 +7.69% 146
Midlands -26 354 £65,000 - 133
Yorkshire +6 291 £70,000 - 92
West Midlands -32 196 £66,250 +1.92% 79
North East +6 195 £60,000 -7.69% 48
East of England +7 184 £60,000 -7.69% 88
East Midlands +7 157 £65,000 +13.04% 54
Scotland -5 134 £58,565 -17.80% 52
Wales +5 133 £53,171 -7.53% 35
Northern Ireland -27 29 £73,151 -8.56% 44
Isle of Man +2 3 £35,000 -33.33% 2

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 97 (2.02%) Confluence
2 93 (1.93%) SharePoint
3 64 (1.33%) Apache Spark
4 60 (1.25%) Apache
5 46 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
5 46 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
6 30 (0.62%) CMS
6 30 (0.62%) IIS
7 16 (0.33%) SAS
8 15 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
9 11 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 10 (0.21%) nginx
10 10 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
11 9 (0.19%) Jupyter
11 9 (0.19%) Umbraco
11 9 (0.19%) WordPress
12 8 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
13 7 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 6 (0.12%) Apache Solr
14 6 (0.12%) Moodle
Applications
1 52 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
2 37 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.39%) MS Visio
3 19 (0.39%) PlantUML
4 13 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.21%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.17%) Trello
7 7 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
7 7 (0.15%) Simulink
8 4 (0.083%) Maya
9 3 (0.062%) Blender
9 3 (0.062%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.042%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.021%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.021%) Notion
11 1 (0.021%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 82 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.12%) Elite 3E
3 6 (0.12%) Endur
3 6 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
4 5 (0.10%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.10%) Visualfiles
5 4 (0.083%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.083%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.083%) SAP IBP
6 3 (0.062%) Carpe Diem
6 3 (0.062%) Infor SunSystems
6 3 (0.062%) Magento
7 2 (0.042%) Adobe Campaign
7 2 (0.042%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.042%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.042%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.042%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,538 (52.73%) Azure
2 1,558 (32.37%) AWS
3 1,280 (26.59%) Azure DevOps
4 530 (11.01%) GCP
5 497 (10.33%) GitHub
6 466 (9.68%) Serverless
7 349 (7.25%) Power Platform
8 317 (6.59%) SaaS
9 269 (5.59%) GitHub Actions
10 227 (4.72%) AWS CloudFormation
11 225 (4.67%) Amazon S3
12 208 (4.32%) AWS Lambda
13 202 (4.20%) PaaS
14 160 (3.32%) Azure AKS
15 148 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
15 148 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
16 147 (3.05%) Amazon EKS
17 146 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
18 143 (2.97%) Amazon ECS
19 139 (2.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 144 (2.99%) Firewall
2 86 (1.79%) DNS
3 63 (1.31%) Broadband
4 62 (1.29%) VPN
5 60 (1.25%) TCP/IP
6 41 (0.85%) Network Security
7 35 (0.73%) HTTP
8 23 (0.48%) DHCP
8 23 (0.48%) WAN
9 22 (0.46%) LAN
10 21 (0.44%) Internet
11 13 (0.27%) DMARC
11 13 (0.27%) MQTT
12 12 (0.25%) Wireless
13 10 (0.21%) BGP
13 10 (0.21%) SAN
14 8 (0.17%) HTTPS
15 7 (0.15%) Bluetooth
15 7 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
16 6 (0.12%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 267 (5.55%) SQL Server
2 252 (5.24%) Azure SQL Database
2 252 (5.24%) MongoDB
3 188 (3.91%) NoSQL
4 187 (3.89%) Power BI
5 168 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
6 104 (2.16%) DynamoDB
7 95 (1.97%) Relational Database
8 89 (1.85%) MySQL
9 84 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
9 84 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
10 79 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
11 75 (1.56%) Data Lake
12 64 (1.33%) Metadata
13 47 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
14 44 (0.91%) Redis
15 37 (0.77%) Delta Lake
16 36 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
16 36 (0.75%) Big Data
17 35 (0.73%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 495 (10.28%) Git
2 403 (8.37%) Jenkins
3 394 (8.19%) GitLab
4 301 (6.25%) JIRA
5 100 (2.08%) SonarQube
6 76 (1.58%) Selenium
7 75 (1.56%) Cypress.io
8 58 (1.21%) Maven
9 44 (0.91%) Postman
10 38 (0.79%) JUnit
11 37 (0.77%) Cucumber
12 35 (0.73%) Bitbucket
13 34 (0.71%) CircleCI
14 33 (0.69%) TeamCity
15 31 (0.64%) JMeter
16 25 (0.52%) Eclipse
16 25 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
17 22 (0.46%) Visual Studio
18 20 (0.42%) REST Assured
19 19 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 981 (20.38%) Social Skills
2 958 (19.90%) Finance
3 351 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
4 345 (7.17%) Public Sector
5 291 (6.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 240 (4.99%) Banking
7 164 (3.41%) Law
8 151 (3.14%) Retail
9 109 (2.26%) Marketing
10 93 (1.93%) Legal
11 82 (1.70%) Games
12 59 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
13 55 (1.14%) Manufacturing
14 53 (1.10%) Advertising
15 46 (0.96%) Financial Institution
15 46 (0.96%) Telecoms
16 42 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
17 39 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
18 34 (0.71%) Back Office
19 24 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1,091 (22.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 988 (20.53%) Senior
3 860 (17.87%) Developer
4 668 (13.88%) Lead
5 405 (8.41%) Architect
6 356 (7.40%) Software Engineer
7 339 (7.04%) Azure Engineer
8 261 (5.42%) Cloud Engineer
9 247 (5.13%) Senior DevOps
10 222 (4.61%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 208 (4.32%) Senior Developer
12 207 (4.30%) .NET Developer
13 188 (3.91%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 186 (3.86%) Platform Engineer
15 167 (3.47%) Data Engineer
16 163 (3.39%) AWS Engineer
17 161 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
18 147 (3.05%) Java Developer
19 136 (2.83%) Lead DevOps
20 110 (2.29%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 650 (13.51%) .NET
2 427 (8.87%) React
3 302 (6.27%) Node.js
4 295 (6.13%) REST
5 294 (6.11%) RESTful
6 265 (5.51%) ASP.NET
7 240 (4.99%) .NET Core
8 217 (4.51%) CSS
9 213 (4.43%) HTML
10 211 (4.38%) Spring Boot
11 208 (4.32%) ASP.NET Core
12 198 (4.11%) Spring
13 168 (3.49%) Kafka
14 162 (3.37%) AngularJS
15 121 (2.51%) Blazor
16 120 (2.49%) Entity Framework
17 112 (2.33%) YAML
18 109 (2.26%) Middleware
19 102 (2.12%) SOAP
20 93 (1.93%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 772 (16.04%) Cloud Native
2 307 (6.38%) Product Ownership
3 193 (4.01%) Distributed Systems
4 146 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
5 96 (1.99%) Onboarding
6 95 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
7 85 (1.77%) Management Information System
8 81 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
8 81 (1.68%) Mobile App
9 69 (1.43%) Public Cloud
10 67 (1.39%) Data Centre
11 61 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
12 56 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
13 52 (1.08%) Data Structures
14 49 (1.02%) Low-Code
15 47 (0.98%) Virtual Team
16 45 (0.93%) Security Posture
17 44 (0.91%) Algorithms
18 40 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
19 34 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 477 (9.91%) Linux
2 223 (4.63%) Windows
3 93 (1.93%) Unix
4 71 (1.48%) Windows Server
5 58 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 49 (1.02%) Ubuntu
7 40 (0.83%) VMS
8 37 (0.77%) CentOS
9 35 (0.73%) Android
10 22 (0.46%) Apple iOS
11 13 (0.27%) Debian
12 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.083%) Embedded Linux
14 4 (0.083%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.083%) Rocky
15 2 (0.042%) AIX
15 2 (0.042%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.042%) Windows Server 2012
16 1 (0.021%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,443 (50.76%) CI/CD
2 1,768 (36.73%) Agile
3 1,168 (24.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 895 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
5 828 (17.20%) Mentoring
6 807 (16.77%) Software Engineering
7 762 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
8 760 (15.79%) AI
9 682 (14.17%) Test Automation
10 648 (13.46%) Microservices
11 628 (13.05%) Containerisation
12 540 (11.22%) Full-Stack Development
13 526 (10.93%) Roadmaps
14 509 (10.58%) Platform Engineering
15 505 (10.49%) Observability
16 495 (10.28%) Scrum
17 453 (9.41%) Technical Leadership
18 444 (9.23%) Analytics
19 368 (7.65%) Stakeholder Management
20 311 (6.46%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,121 (23.29%) Python
2 861 (17.89%) SQL
3 671 (13.94%) C#
4 647 (13.44%) Java
5 584 (12.13%) JavaScript
6 389 (8.08%) Bash
7 359 (7.46%) TypeScript
8 306 (6.36%) PowerShell
9 151 (3.14%) Bicep
10 143 (2.97%) Go
11 131 (2.72%) C++
12 76 (1.58%) Apex Code
13 58 (1.21%) PHP
14 49 (1.02%) Groovy
15 48 (1.00%) SOQL
16 46 (0.96%) C
17 45 (0.93%) SOSL
18 40 (0.83%) Rust
19 39 (0.81%) Kotlin
20 36 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 757 (15.73%) Security Cleared
2 477 (9.91%) Degree
3 466 (9.68%) SC Cleared
4 181 (3.76%) DV Cleared
5 178 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 120 (2.49%) Azure Certification
7 106 (2.20%) Master's Degree
8 95 (1.97%) AWS Certification
9 53 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
10 50 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
11 49 (1.02%) ISTQB
12 45 (0.93%) CISSP
13 35 (0.73%) DBS Check
14 34 (0.71%) PMI Certification
15 30 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 26 (0.54%) CISM
16 26 (0.54%) PMP
17 25 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 24 (0.50%) PhD
19 20 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 426 (8.85%) QA
2 162 (3.37%) Data Quality
3 158 (3.28%) Accessibility
4 102 (2.12%) GDPR
5 71 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 71 (1.48%) NIST
6 53 (1.10%) WCAG
7 47 (0.98%) GRC
8 38 (0.79%) PCI DSS
9 32 (0.66%) SOC 2
10 21 (0.44%) PMO
11 20 (0.42%) SLA
12 15 (0.31%) ISO 22301
12 15 (0.31%) NCSC
13 12 (0.25%) TickIT
14 10 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
16 8 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 6 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 6 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 772 (16.04%) Docker
2 133 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 74 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.60%) vSphere
6 21 (0.44%) Firmware
7 19 (0.39%) Hyper-V
8 13 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.12%) iptables
11 5 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.083%) Embedded Firmware
12 4 (0.083%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.062%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.042%) KVM
15 1 (0.021%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.021%) QEMU
15 1 (0.021%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,174 (24.39%) Terraform
2 880 (18.28%) Kubernetes
3 422 (8.77%) Ansible
4 228 (4.74%) Grafana
5 175 (3.64%) Prometheus
6 77 (1.60%) Argo
7 58 (1.21%) Puppet
8 39 (0.81%) Nagios
9 30 (0.62%) HP Fortify
10 29 (0.60%) Kibana
11 24 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
12 21 (0.44%) Istio
13 15 (0.31%) Packer
13 15 (0.31%) Rancher
14 14 (0.29%) Progress Chef
15 13 (0.27%) Proxmox
16 12 (0.25%) Kustomize
17 10 (0.21%) logstash
18 9 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
19 8 (0.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 932 (19.36%) Microsoft
2 182 (3.78%) Google
3 156 (3.24%) Databricks
4 148 (3.08%) Salesforce
5 111 (2.31%) VMware
6 101 (2.10%) ServiceNow
7 97 (2.02%) Splunk
8 89 (1.85%) Oracle
9 81 (1.68%) Red Hat
10 56 (1.16%) SAP
11 55 (1.14%) Pega
12 45 (0.93%) MuleSoft
13 42 (0.87%) Dynatrace
14 39 (0.81%) Cisco
14 39 (0.81%) Facebook
15 36 (0.75%) OpenAI
16 29 (0.60%) Apple
17 28 (0.58%) YouTube
18 27 (0.56%) Palo Alto
19 26 (0.54%) Foundry