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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 21 26
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,534 4,047 7,232
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.82% 9.02% 6.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.60% 9.75% 8.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,301 2,347 5,218
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,486 £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 £87,500 £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 68,746 41,496 89,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.03% 92.46% 81.73%
Number of salaries quoted 47,319 22,262 63,244
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 20 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 20 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 -9 4,024 £70,000 -1.75% 1,022
UK excluding London -7 2,716 £65,000 - 868
Work from Home -3 1,604 £67,500 -3.57% 607
London -6 1,453 £82,500 +3.13% 385
North of England -2 988 £69,310 +3.39% 248
South East -12 599 £65,000 - 270
North West -2 538 £70,000 +3.70% 138
South West -9 386 £67,950 +4.54% 96
Midlands -21 336 £65,500 +9.17% 100
Yorkshire +2 274 £70,000 - 74
West Midlands -35 187 £65,000 +6.12% 60
North East +9 176 £60,000 -7.69% 42
East of England +4 175 £60,000 -7.69% 63
East Midlands -1 146 £67,500 +17.39% 40
Scotland -10 126 £56,250 -22.41% 33
Wales +1 102 £53,171 -11.38% 27
Northern Ireland -35 8 £73,151 -20.92% 54
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 91 (2.01%) Confluence
2 83 (1.83%) SharePoint
3 61 (1.35%) Apache Spark
4 58 (1.28%) Apache
5 44 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
6 41 (0.90%) 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%) OpenStack
11 10 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
12 9 (0.20%) nginx
12 9 (0.20%) Umbraco
12 9 (0.20%) WordPress
13 8 (0.18%) Jupyter
13 8 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
14 7 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 6 (0.13%) Apache Solr
15 6 (0.13%) Moodle
Applications
1 46 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
2 34 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.44%) MS Visio
4 16 (0.35%) PlantUML
5 11 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.15%) Simulink
8 6 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
8 6 (0.13%) Trello
9 4 (0.088%) Maya
10 3 (0.066%) Blender
10 3 (0.066%) 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 76 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.18%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.13%) Endur
5 5 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.11%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.088%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.088%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.066%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.066%) Magento
7 3 (0.066%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.044%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.044%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.044%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 2 (0.044%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.044%) Shopify
9 1 (0.022%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.022%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.022%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 2,388 (52.67%) Azure
2 1,454 (32.07%) AWS
3 1,200 (26.47%) Azure DevOps
4 500 (11.03%) GCP
5 477 (10.52%) GitHub
6 443 (9.77%) Serverless
7 337 (7.43%) Power Platform
8 282 (6.22%) SaaS
9 253 (5.58%) GitHub Actions
10 219 (4.83%) Amazon S3
11 215 (4.74%) AWS CloudFormation
12 203 (4.48%) AWS Lambda
13 180 (3.97%) PaaS
14 150 (3.31%) Azure AKS
15 149 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
16 144 (3.18%) Dynamics 365
17 140 (3.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 136 (3.00%) Amazon EKS
18 136 (3.00%) Entra ID
19 135 (2.98%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 143 (3.15%) Firewall
2 89 (1.96%) DNS
3 68 (1.50%) Broadband
4 57 (1.26%) TCP/IP
5 56 (1.24%) VPN
6 41 (0.90%) Network Security
7 33 (0.73%) HTTP
8 26 (0.57%) DHCP
9 24 (0.53%) WAN
10 22 (0.49%) LAN
11 18 (0.40%) Internet
12 12 (0.26%) DMARC
12 12 (0.26%) MQTT
13 10 (0.22%) BGP
13 10 (0.22%) Wireless
14 9 (0.20%) SAN
15 8 (0.18%) HTTPS
16 6 (0.13%) Cisco ASA
16 6 (0.13%) OSPF
16 6 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 248 (5.47%) SQL Server
2 220 (4.85%) MongoDB
3 216 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 201 (4.43%) NoSQL
5 186 (4.10%) Power BI
6 151 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
7 102 (2.25%) DynamoDB
8 92 (2.03%) Relational Database
9 81 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
10 80 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
11 79 (1.74%) MySQL
12 78 (1.72%) Data Lake
13 75 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
14 59 (1.30%) Metadata
15 50 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
16 39 (0.86%) Redis
17 37 (0.82%) Big Data
17 37 (0.82%) BigQuery
17 37 (0.82%) Delta Lake
18 34 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 481 (10.61%) Git
2 381 (8.40%) Jenkins
3 379 (8.36%) GitLab
4 283 (6.24%) JIRA
5 96 (2.12%) SonarQube
6 84 (1.85%) Selenium
7 81 (1.79%) Cypress.io
8 57 (1.26%) Maven
9 48 (1.06%) Postman
10 37 (0.82%) JUnit
11 35 (0.77%) Cucumber
12 33 (0.73%) Bitbucket
12 33 (0.73%) CircleCI
13 32 (0.71%) TeamCity
14 30 (0.66%) JMeter
15 26 (0.57%) Eclipse
16 24 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
17 22 (0.49%) Visual Studio
18 21 (0.46%) REST Assured
19 18 (0.40%) Jaeger
General
1 918 (20.25%) Social Skills
2 917 (20.22%) Finance
3 337 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
4 303 (6.68%) Public Sector
5 279 (6.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 232 (5.12%) Banking
7 144 (3.18%) Retail
8 129 (2.85%) Law
9 101 (2.23%) Marketing
10 81 (1.79%) Games
11 77 (1.70%) Legal
12 52 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
13 50 (1.10%) Manufacturing
14 48 (1.06%) Advertising
15 46 (1.01%) Telecoms
16 43 (0.95%) Financial Institution
17 41 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
18 35 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
19 31 (0.68%) Back Office
20 29 (0.64%) Billing
Job Titles
1 990 (21.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 890 (19.63%) Senior
3 808 (17.82%) Developer
4 637 (14.05%) Lead
5 386 (8.51%) Architect
6 341 (7.52%) Software Engineer
7 328 (7.23%) Azure Engineer
8 255 (5.62%) Cloud Engineer
9 213 (4.70%) Senior DevOps
10 200 (4.41%) Senior Developer
11 186 (4.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 181 (3.99%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 173 (3.82%) Platform Engineer
14 170 (3.75%) .NET Developer
15 163 (3.60%) Data Engineer
16 161 (3.55%) AWS Engineer
17 159 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
18 145 (3.20%) Java Developer
19 130 (2.87%) Lead DevOps
20 110 (2.43%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 594 (13.10%) .NET
2 402 (8.87%) React
3 292 (6.44%) Node.js
4 282 (6.22%) REST
5 268 (5.91%) RESTful
6 226 (4.98%) ASP.NET
7 207 (4.57%) .NET Core
8 197 (4.34%) CSS
9 194 (4.28%) Spring Boot
10 192 (4.23%) HTML
11 184 (4.06%) Spring
12 171 (3.77%) ASP.NET Core
13 159 (3.51%) Kafka
14 158 (3.48%) AngularJS
15 109 (2.40%) YAML
16 103 (2.27%) SOAP
17 102 (2.25%) Entity Framework
18 100 (2.21%) Blazor
19 95 (2.10%) Middleware
20 93 (2.05%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 704 (15.53%) Cloud Native
2 293 (6.46%) Product Ownership
3 173 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
4 132 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
5 92 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
6 88 (1.94%) Onboarding
7 80 (1.76%) Mobile App
8 79 (1.74%) Management Information System
9 78 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
10 64 (1.41%) Data Centre
11 61 (1.35%) Public Cloud
12 57 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
13 52 (1.15%) Data Structures
14 48 (1.06%) Algorithms
15 46 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
16 45 (0.99%) Low-Code
17 43 (0.95%) Security Posture
18 35 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
19 33 (0.73%) Virtual Team
20 31 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 452 (9.97%) Linux
2 206 (4.54%) Windows
3 86 (1.90%) Unix
4 72 (1.59%) Windows Server
5 53 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 49 (1.08%) Ubuntu
7 37 (0.82%) VMS
8 34 (0.75%) Android
9 32 (0.71%) CentOS
10 25 (0.55%) Apple iOS
11 11 (0.24%) Debian
12 8 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
13 4 (0.088%) Kali Linux
13 4 (0.088%) Rocky
13 4 (0.088%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.066%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.044%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.044%) Embedded Linux
16 1 (0.022%) SUSE
16 1 (0.022%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,303 (50.79%) CI/CD
2 1,630 (35.95%) Agile
3 1,089 (24.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 827 (18.24%) Continuous Improvement
5 763 (16.83%) Mentoring
6 750 (16.54%) Software Engineering
7 714 (15.75%) Problem-Solving
8 713 (15.73%) AI
9 631 (13.92%) Test Automation
10 609 (13.43%) Microservices
11 599 (13.21%) Containerisation
12 501 (11.05%) Full-Stack Development
13 500 (11.03%) Roadmaps
14 478 (10.54%) Observability
15 466 (10.28%) Platform Engineering
16 458 (10.10%) Scrum
17 437 (9.64%) Analytics
18 418 (9.22%) Technical Leadership
19 336 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
20 296 (6.53%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,073 (23.67%) Python
2 826 (18.22%) SQL
3 624 (13.76%) Java
4 603 (13.30%) C#
5 531 (11.71%) JavaScript
6 377 (8.31%) Bash
7 342 (7.54%) TypeScript
8 280 (6.18%) PowerShell
9 140 (3.09%) Bicep
10 138 (3.04%) Go
11 126 (2.78%) C++
12 77 (1.70%) Apex Code
13 57 (1.26%) PHP
14 48 (1.06%) Groovy
14 48 (1.06%) SOQL
15 45 (0.99%) C
15 45 (0.99%) SOSL
16 43 (0.95%) Kotlin
17 38 (0.84%) Rust
17 38 (0.84%) Scala
Qualifications
1 685 (15.11%) Security Cleared
2 468 (10.32%) Degree
3 425 (9.37%) SC Cleared
4 177 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 161 (3.55%) DV Cleared
6 111 (2.45%) Azure Certification
7 102 (2.25%) Master's Degree
8 99 (2.18%) AWS Certification
9 55 (1.21%) ISTQB
10 53 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
11 34 (0.75%) DBS Check
12 30 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
12 30 (0.66%) PMI Certification
13 29 (0.64%) 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 20 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
18 15 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 395 (8.71%) QA
2 157 (3.46%) Data Quality
3 156 (3.44%) Accessibility
4 94 (2.07%) GDPR
5 66 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 55 (1.21%) NIST
7 50 (1.10%) WCAG
8 45 (0.99%) GRC
9 36 (0.79%) PCI DSS
10 32 (0.71%) SOC 2
11 21 (0.46%) SLA
12 19 (0.42%) PMO
13 14 (0.31%) NCSC
14 12 (0.26%) 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
1 739 (16.30%) Docker
2 129 (2.85%) Active Directory
3 65 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (0.55%) vSphere
6 20 (0.44%) Firmware
7 19 (0.42%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.13%) iptables
10 6 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.088%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.088%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.066%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.066%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.044%) 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 1,108 (24.44%) Terraform
2 823 (18.15%) Kubernetes
3 400 (8.82%) Ansible
4 223 (4.92%) Grafana
5 182 (4.01%) Prometheus
6 77 (1.70%) Argo
7 50 (1.10%) Puppet
8 38 (0.84%) Nagios
9 30 (0.66%) Kibana
9 30 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
10 28 (0.62%) HP Fortify
11 20 (0.44%) Istio
12 18 (0.40%) Kustomize
13 15 (0.33%) Packer
14 13 (0.29%) Progress Chef
14 13 (0.29%) Proxmox
14 13 (0.29%) Rancher
15 9 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 9 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
15 9 (0.20%) logstash
Vendors
1 870 (19.19%) Microsoft
2 176 (3.88%) Google
3 158 (3.48%) Databricks
4 146 (3.22%) Salesforce
5 104 (2.29%) VMware
6 100 (2.21%) Splunk
7 98 (2.16%) ServiceNow
8 83 (1.83%) Oracle
9 80 (1.76%) Red Hat
10 57 (1.26%) SAP
11 44 (0.97%) MuleSoft
12 40 (0.88%) Dynatrace
13 36 (0.79%) Cisco
14 35 (0.77%) Pega
15 32 (0.71%) OpenAI
16 29 (0.64%) Facebook
17 28 (0.62%) Palo Alto
18 25 (0.55%) Apple
19 22 (0.49%) Foundry
19 22 (0.49%) YouTube