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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 21 26
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,492 4,055 7,261
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.78% 9.04% 6.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.56% 9.78% 8.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3,266 2,350 5,245
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,394 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,875 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 68,493 41,477 89,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.95% 92.48% 81.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,109 22,216 63,180
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 19 June 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 19 June 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 3,985 £70,000 -1.75% 1,114
UK excluding London -8 2,695 £65,000 - 884
Work from Home -3 1,589 £67,500 -3.57% 645
London -7 1,444 £82,500 +3.13% 433
North of England -2 976 £69,310 +3.39% 268
South East -12 593 £65,000 - 277
North West -2 529 £70,000 +3.70% 156
South West -9 379 £68,400 +5.23% 111
Midlands -24 334 £65,500 +9.17% 98
Yorkshire +2 273 £70,000 - 76
West Midlands -32 185 £65,000 +8.33% 61
East of England +5 175 £60,000 -7.69% 62
North East +13 174 £60,000 -7.69% 42
East Midlands 0 146 £67,500 +14.89% 37
Scotland -3 133 £55,000 -24.14% 42
Wales -1 101 £53,171 -11.38% 28
Northern Ireland -35 8 £73,151 -13.94% 21
Isle of Man +2 3 £35,000 -33.33%

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 89 (1.98%) Confluence
2 82 (1.83%) SharePoint
3 60 (1.34%) Apache Spark
4 58 (1.29%) Apache
5 44 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
6 41 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
7 28 (0.62%) CMS
8 27 (0.60%) IIS
9 15 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
10 13 (0.29%) SAS
11 10 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
12 9 (0.20%) OpenStack
12 9 (0.20%) Umbraco
12 9 (0.20%) WordPress
13 8 (0.18%) Jupyter
13 8 (0.18%) nginx
13 8 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
14 7 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 6 (0.13%) Apache Solr
15 6 (0.13%) Moodle
Applications
1 45 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
2 34 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.42%) MS Visio
4 16 (0.36%) PlantUML
5 11 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.16%) Simulink
8 6 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
8 6 (0.13%) Trello
9 4 (0.089%) Maya
10 3 (0.067%) Blender
10 3 (0.067%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.022%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.022%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.022%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.022%) Notion
11 1 (0.022%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 75 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.20%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.13%) Endur
5 5 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.11%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.089%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.089%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.067%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.067%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.067%) Magento
7 3 (0.067%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.045%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.045%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.045%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.045%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.045%) Shopify
9 1 (0.022%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.022%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.022%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 2,378 (52.94%) Azure
2 1,435 (31.95%) AWS
3 1,198 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
4 493 (10.98%) GCP
5 479 (10.66%) GitHub
6 437 (9.73%) Serverless
7 335 (7.46%) Power Platform
8 276 (6.14%) SaaS
9 254 (5.65%) GitHub Actions
10 217 (4.83%) Amazon S3
11 212 (4.72%) AWS CloudFormation
12 201 (4.47%) AWS Lambda
13 180 (4.01%) PaaS
14 149 (3.32%) Azure AKS
15 148 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
16 143 (3.18%) Dynamics 365
17 139 (3.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 138 (3.07%) Entra ID
19 136 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
20 134 (2.98%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 144 (3.21%) Firewall
2 90 (2.00%) DNS
3 67 (1.49%) Broadband
4 57 (1.27%) TCP/IP
5 56 (1.25%) VPN
6 39 (0.87%) Network Security
7 34 (0.76%) HTTP
8 26 (0.58%) DHCP
9 25 (0.56%) WAN
10 22 (0.49%) LAN
11 18 (0.40%) Internet
12 11 (0.24%) DMARC
12 11 (0.24%) MQTT
13 10 (0.22%) BGP
13 10 (0.22%) SAN
13 10 (0.22%) Wireless
14 8 (0.18%) HTTPS
15 6 (0.13%) Cisco ASA
15 6 (0.13%) OSPF
15 6 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 245 (5.45%) SQL Server
2 214 (4.76%) MongoDB
3 211 (4.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 199 (4.43%) NoSQL
5 186 (4.14%) Power BI
6 147 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
7 101 (2.25%) DynamoDB
8 91 (2.03%) Relational Database
9 82 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
10 79 (1.76%) Data Lake
11 78 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
12 76 (1.69%) MySQL
13 72 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
14 58 (1.29%) Metadata
15 50 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
16 39 (0.87%) Redis
17 37 (0.82%) Big Data
17 37 (0.82%) BigQuery
18 35 (0.78%) Delta Lake
19 34 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 471 (10.49%) Git
2 381 (8.48%) Jenkins
3 373 (8.30%) GitLab
4 277 (6.17%) JIRA
5 94 (2.09%) SonarQube
6 83 (1.85%) Selenium
7 80 (1.78%) Cypress.io
8 56 (1.25%) Maven
9 47 (1.05%) Postman
10 36 (0.80%) JUnit
11 32 (0.71%) CircleCI
11 32 (0.71%) Cucumber
12 31 (0.69%) Bitbucket
12 31 (0.69%) TeamCity
13 30 (0.67%) JMeter
14 25 (0.56%) Eclipse
15 24 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
16 22 (0.49%) Visual Studio
17 21 (0.47%) REST Assured
18 18 (0.40%) Jaeger
General
1 917 (20.41%) Finance
2 910 (20.26%) Social Skills
3 336 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
4 297 (6.61%) Public Sector
5 275 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 230 (5.12%) Banking
7 141 (3.14%) Retail
8 126 (2.80%) Law
9 100 (2.23%) Marketing
10 80 (1.78%) Games
11 75 (1.67%) Legal
12 52 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
13 48 (1.07%) Manufacturing
14 47 (1.05%) Advertising
15 46 (1.02%) Telecoms
16 42 (0.93%) Financial Institution
17 40 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
18 35 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
19 30 (0.67%) Back Office
20 29 (0.65%) Billing
Job Titles
1 984 (21.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 886 (19.72%) Senior
3 799 (17.79%) Developer
4 626 (13.94%) Lead
5 377 (8.39%) Architect
6 334 (7.44%) Software Engineer
7 331 (7.37%) Azure Engineer
8 257 (5.72%) Cloud Engineer
9 211 (4.70%) Senior DevOps
10 200 (4.45%) Senior Developer
11 184 (4.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 182 (4.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 172 (3.83%) Platform Engineer
14 166 (3.70%) .NET Developer
15 163 (3.63%) Data Engineer
16 160 (3.56%) AWS Engineer
17 154 (3.43%) Solutions Architect
18 144 (3.21%) Java Developer
19 129 (2.87%) Lead DevOps
20 110 (2.45%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 584 (13.00%) .NET
2 398 (8.86%) React
3 289 (6.43%) Node.js
4 279 (6.21%) REST
5 262 (5.83%) RESTful
6 220 (4.90%) ASP.NET
7 201 (4.47%) .NET Core
8 195 (4.34%) CSS
9 190 (4.23%) HTML
9 190 (4.23%) Spring Boot
10 180 (4.01%) Spring
11 167 (3.72%) ASP.NET Core
12 156 (3.47%) AngularJS
13 154 (3.43%) Kafka
14 110 (2.45%) YAML
15 104 (2.32%) SOAP
16 101 (2.25%) Entity Framework
17 97 (2.16%) Blazor
18 95 (2.11%) Middleware
19 94 (2.09%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 699 (15.56%) Cloud Native
2 290 (6.46%) Product Ownership
3 168 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
4 132 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
5 92 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
6 87 (1.94%) Onboarding
7 79 (1.76%) Mobile App
8 78 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
8 78 (1.74%) Management Information System
9 62 (1.38%) Data Centre
10 58 (1.29%) Public Cloud
11 56 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
12 52 (1.16%) Data Structures
13 48 (1.07%) Algorithms
14 46 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
15 44 (0.98%) Low-Code
16 41 (0.91%) Security Posture
17 36 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
18 32 (0.71%) Virtual Team
19 31 (0.69%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 439 (9.77%) Linux
2 203 (4.52%) Windows
3 83 (1.85%) Unix
4 74 (1.65%) Windows Server
5 53 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 47 (1.05%) Ubuntu
7 37 (0.82%) VMS
8 34 (0.76%) Android
9 32 (0.71%) CentOS
10 25 (0.56%) Apple iOS
11 9 (0.20%) Debian
11 9 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.089%) Kali Linux
12 4 (0.089%) Rocky
12 4 (0.089%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.089%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.045%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.045%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.022%) AIX
14 1 (0.022%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,281 (50.78%) CI/CD
2 1,607 (35.77%) Agile
3 1,085 (24.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 820 (18.25%) Continuous Improvement
5 756 (16.83%) Mentoring
6 736 (16.38%) Software Engineering
7 716 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
8 707 (15.74%) AI
9 625 (13.91%) Test Automation
10 597 (13.29%) Microservices
11 593 (13.20%) Containerisation
12 495 (11.02%) Full-Stack Development
13 494 (11.00%) Roadmaps
14 481 (10.71%) Observability
15 465 (10.35%) Platform Engineering
16 448 (9.97%) Scrum
17 439 (9.77%) Analytics
18 411 (9.15%) Technical Leadership
19 328 (7.30%) Stakeholder Management
20 292 (6.50%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,064 (23.69%) Python
2 822 (18.30%) SQL
3 611 (13.60%) Java
4 593 (13.20%) C#
5 524 (11.67%) JavaScript
6 371 (8.26%) Bash
7 337 (7.50%) TypeScript
8 279 (6.21%) PowerShell
9 139 (3.09%) Bicep
9 139 (3.09%) Go
10 127 (2.83%) C++
11 78 (1.74%) Apex Code
12 56 (1.25%) PHP
13 48 (1.07%) Groovy
13 48 (1.07%) SOQL
14 45 (1.00%) C
14 45 (1.00%) SOSL
15 43 (0.96%) Kotlin
16 38 (0.85%) Rust
16 38 (0.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 670 (14.92%) Security Cleared
2 464 (10.33%) Degree
3 417 (9.28%) SC Cleared
4 175 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 159 (3.54%) DV Cleared
6 108 (2.40%) Azure Certification
7 101 (2.25%) Master's Degree
8 99 (2.20%) AWS Certification
9 54 (1.20%) ISTQB
10 51 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
11 34 (0.76%) DBS Check
12 30 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
12 30 (0.67%) PMI Certification
13 28 (0.62%) CISSP
14 27 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 24 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 23 (0.51%) PhD
16 23 (0.51%) PMP
17 19 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
18 15 (0.33%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 387 (8.62%) QA
2 157 (3.50%) Data Quality
3 155 (3.45%) Accessibility
4 94 (2.09%) GDPR
5 66 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 55 (1.22%) NIST
7 49 (1.09%) WCAG
8 44 (0.98%) GRC
9 35 (0.78%) PCI DSS
10 32 (0.71%) SOC 2
11 20 (0.45%) SLA
12 19 (0.42%) PMO
13 14 (0.31%) NCSC
14 12 (0.27%) TickIT
15 10 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
16 9 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 9 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
17 6 (0.13%) Solvency II
18 5 (0.11%) IFRS
18 5 (0.11%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 729 (16.23%) Docker
2 132 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 64 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (0.51%) vSphere
6 20 (0.45%) Firmware
7 19 (0.42%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
9 7 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.11%) iptables
11 4 (0.089%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.089%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.067%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.067%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.045%) KVM
14 1 (0.022%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.022%) OpenAM
14 1 (0.022%) OpenIDM
14 1 (0.022%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,107 (24.64%) Terraform
2 809 (18.01%) Kubernetes
3 394 (8.77%) Ansible
4 223 (4.96%) Grafana
5 184 (4.10%) Prometheus
6 75 (1.67%) Argo
7 47 (1.05%) Puppet
8 38 (0.85%) Nagios
9 31 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
10 29 (0.65%) Kibana
11 28 (0.62%) HP Fortify
12 20 (0.45%) Istio
13 18 (0.40%) Kustomize
14 15 (0.33%) Packer
15 13 (0.29%) Progress Chef
15 13 (0.29%) Proxmox
16 11 (0.24%) Rancher
16 11 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
17 9 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 9 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 866 (19.28%) Microsoft
2 173 (3.85%) Google
3 157 (3.50%) Databricks
4 144 (3.21%) Salesforce
5 104 (2.32%) VMware
6 100 (2.23%) Splunk
7 96 (2.14%) ServiceNow
8 85 (1.89%) Oracle
9 80 (1.78%) Red Hat
10 58 (1.29%) SAP
11 42 (0.93%) MuleSoft
12 40 (0.89%) Dynatrace
13 35 (0.78%) Cisco
14 31 (0.69%) Pega
15 30 (0.67%) OpenAI
16 29 (0.65%) Palo Alto
17 28 (0.62%) Facebook
18 25 (0.56%) Apple
19 22 (0.49%) Foundry
20 21 (0.47%) YouTube