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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 18 25
Rank change year-on-year -13 +7 -13
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,200 4,069 7,122
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.58% 9.21% 7.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.22% 9.87% 8.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,986 2,488 5,290
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,175 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,175 £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 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -2.76%

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 67,556 41,227 82,428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.64% 93.27% 84.88%
Number of salaries quoted 43,655 22,384 59,687
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,475 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.05% +4.95% -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 18 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 18 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 3,650 £70,196 +0.28% 1,357
UK excluding London -25 2,438 £65,000 - 965
Work from Home -6 1,527 £69,310 -0.99% 1,090
London -9 1,392 £82,500 - 547
North of England -15 827 £70,000 +4.06% 280
South East -12 533 £65,000 - 300
North West -17 416 £70,000 +0.89% 152
South West -18 338 £65,000 - 126
Midlands -28 319 £67,500 +12.50% 101
Yorkshire -7 275 £70,000 +3.32% 78
West Midlands -46 183 £63,000 +5.00% 62
Scotland -3 175 £55,000 -21.43% 53
East of England -11 149 £65,000 - 78
North East +9 136 £60,000 -7.69% 53
East Midlands -4 132 £70,000 +16.67% 39
Wales -1 89 £53,171 -11.38% 28
Northern Ireland -36 13 £73,801 +34.18% 15
Isle of Man +4 2 £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 78 (1.86%) SharePoint
2 74 (1.76%) Confluence
3 51 (1.21%) Apache
4 50 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
5 43 (1.02%) Apache Spark
6 36 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
7 30 (0.71%) IIS
8 25 (0.60%) 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%) WordPress
14 6 (0.14%) nginx
14 6 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 6 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 34 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
3 23 (0.55%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (0.24%) Chatbot
5 10 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.24%) PlantUML
6 5 (0.12%) Simulink
7 3 (0.071%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.071%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.048%) Trello
9 1 (0.024%) EngageOne
9 1 (0.024%) Maya
9 1 (0.024%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 63 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.36%) SAP ERP
3 12 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
3 12 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.26%) Endur
5 7 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
7 5 (0.12%) Visualfiles
8 4 (0.095%) Markit EDM
8 4 (0.095%) Shopify
9 3 (0.071%) Dynamics NAV
9 3 (0.071%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.071%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.048%) Distributed Ledger
10 2 (0.048%) Fidessa
10 2 (0.048%) Infor SunSystems
10 2 (0.048%) Magento
10 2 (0.048%) Workday HCM
11 1 (0.024%) Sage 200
11 1 (0.024%) SAP MII
Cloud Services
1 2,237 (53.26%) Azure
2 1,343 (31.98%) AWS
3 1,097 (26.12%) Azure DevOps
4 492 (11.71%) GitHub
5 471 (11.21%) GCP
6 424 (10.10%) Serverless
7 333 (7.93%) Power Platform
8 270 (6.43%) GitHub Actions
9 255 (6.07%) SaaS
10 224 (5.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 223 (5.31%) Amazon S3
12 215 (5.12%) AWS Lambda
13 169 (4.02%) Microsoft 365
14 158 (3.76%) PaaS
15 156 (3.71%) Entra ID
16 142 (3.38%) Azure Data Factory
17 138 (3.29%) Amazon EKS
18 134 (3.19%) Amazon ECS
19 132 (3.14%) Azure AKS
20 131 (3.12%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 141 (3.36%) Firewall
2 93 (2.21%) DNS
3 64 (1.52%) Broadband
4 58 (1.38%) TCP/IP
5 48 (1.14%) VPN
6 41 (0.98%) Network Security
7 32 (0.76%) HTTP
7 32 (0.76%) WAN
8 27 (0.64%) DHCP
9 24 (0.57%) LAN
10 11 (0.26%) BGP
11 9 (0.21%) SAN
11 9 (0.21%) Wireless
12 8 (0.19%) Internet
13 7 (0.17%) NGFW
13 7 (0.17%) OSPF
14 6 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (0.14%) MQTT
14 6 (0.14%) SD-WAN
14 6 (0.14%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (5.81%) SQL Server
2 201 (4.79%) NoSQL
3 186 (4.43%) Power BI
4 151 (3.60%) MongoDB
5 143 (3.40%) Azure SQL Database
6 135 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
7 113 (2.69%) DynamoDB
8 89 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
9 87 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
10 86 (2.05%) Data Lake
11 83 (1.98%) Relational Database
12 64 (1.52%) Metadata
12 64 (1.52%) MySQL
13 61 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
14 44 (1.05%) BigQuery
15 41 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
16 34 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
16 34 (0.81%) Delta Lake
17 31 (0.74%) Big Data
17 31 (0.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 459 (10.93%) Git
2 396 (9.43%) Jenkins
3 363 (8.64%) GitLab
4 250 (5.95%) JIRA
5 104 (2.48%) SonarQube
6 88 (2.10%) Cypress.io
7 84 (2.00%) Selenium
8 67 (1.60%) Maven
9 44 (1.05%) Postman
10 40 (0.95%) Bitbucket
11 37 (0.88%) CircleCI
12 36 (0.86%) Cucumber
13 34 (0.81%) TeamCity
14 29 (0.69%) JUnit
15 26 (0.62%) JMeter
16 25 (0.60%) Eclipse
17 23 (0.55%) Visual Studio
18 22 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
19 20 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
20 19 (0.45%) REST Assured
General
1 935 (22.26%) Finance
2 878 (20.90%) Social Skills
3 364 (8.67%) Analytical Skills
4 268 (6.38%) Public Sector
5 244 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 222 (5.29%) Banking
7 131 (3.12%) Retail
8 124 (2.95%) Law
9 104 (2.48%) Marketing
10 78 (1.86%) Legal
11 77 (1.83%) Games
12 49 (1.17%) Telecoms
13 46 (1.10%) Manufacturing
14 43 (1.02%) Advertising
15 41 (0.98%) 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 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 885 (21.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 867 (20.64%) Senior
3 731 (17.40%) Developer
4 612 (14.57%) Lead
5 350 (8.33%) Architect
6 311 (7.40%) Software Engineer
7 301 (7.17%) Azure Engineer
8 248 (5.90%) Cloud Engineer
9 212 (5.05%) Senior DevOps
10 190 (4.52%) Senior Developer
11 182 (4.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 166 (3.95%) Data Engineer
13 159 (3.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 154 (3.67%) Solutions Architect
15 145 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
15 145 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
16 141 (3.36%) Java Developer
17 129 (3.07%) Lead DevOps
18 116 (2.76%) Full-Stack Developer
19 110 (2.62%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 504 (12.00%) .NET
2 366 (8.71%) React
3 272 (6.48%) REST
4 248 (5.90%) Node.js
5 243 (5.79%) RESTful
6 181 (4.31%) Spring Boot
7 164 (3.90%) CSS
7 164 (3.90%) Spring
8 159 (3.79%) HTML
9 156 (3.71%) Kafka
10 155 (3.69%) AngularJS
11 153 (3.64%) ASP.NET
12 151 (3.60%) .NET Core
13 124 (2.95%) SOAP
14 108 (2.57%) OAuth
15 104 (2.48%) ASP.NET Core
15 104 (2.48%) Middleware
16 90 (2.14%) Elastic Stack
16 90 (2.14%) JSON
17 89 (2.12%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 571 (13.60%) Cloud Native
2 287 (6.83%) Product Ownership
3 143 (3.40%) Distributed Systems
4 122 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
5 93 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
6 79 (1.88%) Management Information System
7 68 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
8 64 (1.52%) Mobile App
9 62 (1.48%) Onboarding
10 57 (1.36%) Data Centre
11 54 (1.29%) Public Cloud
11 54 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
12 52 (1.24%) Low-Code
13 50 (1.19%) Algorithms
14 48 (1.14%) Data Structures
15 40 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
16 32 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
17 30 (0.71%) Security Posture
18 29 (0.69%) Virtual Team
19 28 (0.67%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 422 (10.05%) Linux
2 196 (4.67%) Windows
3 82 (1.95%) Unix
4 75 (1.79%) Windows Server
5 49 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (0.95%) Ubuntu
7 31 (0.74%) VMS
8 30 (0.71%) Android
9 28 (0.67%) CentOS
10 24 (0.57%) Apple iOS
11 9 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.17%) Debian
13 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (0.095%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.095%) Rocky
14 4 (0.095%) Windows Server 2016
15 2 (0.048%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.048%) Embedded Linux
16 1 (0.024%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,122 (50.52%) CI/CD
2 1,501 (35.74%) Agile
3 1,008 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 761 (18.12%) Continuous Improvement
5 716 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
6 704 (16.76%) Mentoring
7 679 (16.17%) Software Engineering
8 649 (15.45%) AI
9 616 (14.67%) Test Automation
10 560 (13.33%) Microservices
11 548 (13.05%) Containerisation
12 467 (11.12%) Observability
13 438 (10.43%) Roadmaps
14 432 (10.29%) Analytics
15 426 (10.14%) Full-Stack Development
16 404 (9.62%) Scrum
17 395 (9.40%) Platform Engineering
18 358 (8.52%) Technical Leadership
19 318 (7.57%) Data Modelling
20 311 (7.40%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,054 (25.10%) Python
2 779 (18.55%) SQL
3 602 (14.33%) Java
4 500 (11.90%) C#
5 459 (10.93%) JavaScript
6 360 (8.57%) Bash
7 321 (7.64%) TypeScript
8 255 (6.07%) PowerShell
9 151 (3.60%) Go
10 117 (2.79%) Bicep
11 114 (2.71%) C++
12 87 (2.07%) Apex Code
13 58 (1.38%) Groovy
14 51 (1.21%) PHP
15 44 (1.05%) Scala
15 44 (1.05%) SOQL
15 44 (1.05%) SOSL
16 34 (0.81%) C
16 34 (0.81%) Kotlin
17 32 (0.76%) Rust
Qualifications
1 590 (14.05%) Security Cleared
2 434 (10.33%) Degree
3 345 (8.21%) SC Cleared
4 179 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 147 (3.50%) DV Cleared
6 114 (2.71%) AWS Certification
7 95 (2.26%) Azure Certification
8 88 (2.10%) Master's Degree
9 56 (1.33%) ISTQB
10 44 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
11 34 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
12 33 (0.79%) DBS Check
13 30 (0.71%) PMI Certification
14 29 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 26 (0.62%) CISSP
16 24 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 22 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 21 (0.50%) PMP
19 20 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
19 20 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 337 (8.02%) QA
2 166 (3.95%) Data Quality
3 127 (3.02%) Accessibility
4 97 (2.31%) GDPR
5 74 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 55 (1.31%) NIST
7 46 (1.10%) GRC
8 37 (0.88%) SOC 2
9 32 (0.76%) PCI DSS
10 28 (0.67%) WCAG
11 21 (0.50%) SLA
12 14 (0.33%) PMO
13 13 (0.31%) NCSC
14 12 (0.29%) 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
1 701 (16.69%) Docker
2 146 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 52 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.43%) 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 (0.048%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.048%) KVM
11 2 (0.048%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.024%) OpenAM
12 1 (0.024%) OpenIDM
12 1 (0.024%) QEMU
12 1 (0.024%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 1,045 (24.88%) Terraform
2 767 (18.26%) Kubernetes
3 378 (9.00%) Ansible
4 217 (5.17%) Grafana
5 180 (4.29%) Prometheus
6 73 (1.74%) Argo
7 49 (1.17%) Puppet
8 42 (1.00%) HP Fortify
9 37 (0.88%) Nagios
10 34 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
11 31 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
12 25 (0.60%) Kibana
13 18 (0.43%) Kustomize
14 16 (0.38%) Rancher
15 14 (0.33%) Istio
15 14 (0.33%) Packer
15 14 (0.33%) Progress Chef
16 11 (0.26%) logstash
17 10 (0.24%) Proxmox
18 9 (0.21%) yum
Vendors
1 793 (18.88%) Microsoft
2 164 (3.90%) Salesforce
3 159 (3.79%) Google
4 158 (3.76%) Databricks
5 91 (2.17%) Splunk
6 88 (2.10%) VMware
7 82 (1.95%) Red Hat
8 81 (1.93%) Oracle
9 69 (1.64%) ServiceNow
10 52 (1.24%) SAP
11 46 (1.10%) MuleSoft
12 36 (0.86%) Palo Alto
13 32 (0.76%) Cisco
14 31 (0.74%) Dynatrace
15 25 (0.60%) Adobe
16 24 (0.57%) Pega
17 23 (0.55%) OpenAI
18 20 (0.48%) IBM
19 19 (0.45%) Foundry
19 19 (0.45%) SolarWinds