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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 23 22
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 -10
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,443 3,971 5,765
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.97% 7.94% 6.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.81% 8.95% 8.56%
Number of salaries quoted 3,877 2,249 3,866
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £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 £86,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +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 79,979 44,380 67,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.09% 88.78% 80.65%
Number of salaries quoted 55,459 25,207 42,110
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,055
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.10% -8.99%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 4,704 £71,500 +2.14% 3,529
UK excluding London -2 3,522 £65,000 - 1,884
Work from Home -1 1,919 £69,306 -0.99% 1,607
London -11 1,525 £85,000 +6.25% 2,055
North of England +4 1,241 £67,500 +3.85% 515
South East -8 711 £65,000 - 457
North West +3 674 £70,000 +7.69% 276
South West +15 522 £72,500 +16.00% 281
Midlands -16 416 £65,500 +0.77% 240
Yorkshire +12 293 £70,000 +9.80% 143
North East +22 274 £60,000 -4.00% 100
West Midlands -23 246 £70,000 +7.69% 141
East of England +16 209 £59,450 -8.54% 139
Wales +3 194 £54,500 -0.91% 49
East Midlands 0 170 £62,500 +8.69% 99
Scotland -5 132 £60,000 -12.73% 143
Northern Ireland -3 114 £72,246 -44.43% 75
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
1 106 (1.95%) Confluence
2 100 (1.84%) Apache Spark
3 98 (1.80%) SharePoint
4 82 (1.51%) Apache
5 45 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
6 40 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
7 30 (0.55%) CMS
7 30 (0.55%) IIS
8 25 (0.46%) OpenStack
9 19 (0.35%) SAS
10 14 (0.26%) Jupyter
10 14 (0.26%) nginx
10 14 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
11 9 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 9 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
11 9 (0.17%) Umbraco
11 9 (0.17%) WordPress
12 8 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
13 7 (0.13%) Camunda
14 6 (0.11%) Anypoint
Applications
1 61 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
2 45 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.39%) Chatbot
3 21 (0.39%) MS Visio
3 21 (0.39%) PlantUML
4 19 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
5 18 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.24%) Trello
7 7 (0.13%) Simulink
8 4 (0.073%) Maya
9 3 (0.055%) Blender
9 3 (0.055%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.037%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.018%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.018%) Notion
11 1 (0.018%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 79 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (0.26%) Elite 3E
4 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
4 6 (0.11%) Teamcenter
5 5 (0.092%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.092%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.092%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (0.092%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.073%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.073%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.073%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.073%) Shopify
7 3 (0.055%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.055%) Infor SunSystems
7 3 (0.055%) Magento
7 3 (0.055%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (0.055%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.055%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.055%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 2,865 (52.64%) Azure
2 1,764 (32.41%) AWS
3 1,435 (26.36%) Azure DevOps
4 601 (11.04%) GCP
5 541 (9.94%) GitHub
6 480 (8.82%) Serverless
7 441 (8.10%) SaaS
8 392 (7.20%) Power Platform
9 284 (5.22%) GitHub Actions
10 277 (5.09%) AWS CloudFormation
11 222 (4.08%) Amazon S3
12 209 (3.84%) AWS Lambda
13 205 (3.77%) PaaS
14 193 (3.55%) Dynamics 365
15 168 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
16 159 (2.92%) Azure AKS
17 158 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
18 152 (2.79%) Amazon ECS
18 152 (2.79%) Azure Data Factory
19 149 (2.74%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 124 (2.28%) Firewall
2 87 (1.60%) DNS
3 71 (1.30%) VPN
4 61 (1.12%) TCP/IP
5 47 (0.86%) Network Security
6 33 (0.61%) Internet
7 29 (0.53%) Broadband
8 26 (0.48%) HTTP
9 22 (0.40%) DHCP
10 16 (0.29%) MQTT
11 14 (0.26%) LAN
11 14 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
11 14 (0.26%) Wireless
12 13 (0.24%) DMARC
12 13 (0.24%) WAN
13 12 (0.22%) SAN
14 10 (0.18%) BGP
15 9 (0.17%) VLAN
16 8 (0.15%) HTTPS
16 8 (0.15%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 341 (6.26%) SQL Server
2 288 (5.29%) MongoDB
3 285 (5.24%) Azure SQL Database
4 230 (4.23%) Power BI
5 209 (3.84%) PostgreSQL
6 193 (3.55%) NoSQL
7 125 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
8 124 (2.28%) MySQL
9 115 (2.11%) Relational Database
10 101 (1.86%) DynamoDB
11 97 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
12 95 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
13 90 (1.65%) Data Lake
14 77 (1.41%) Metadata
15 59 (1.08%) Redis
16 47 (0.86%) Big Data
17 43 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
18 42 (0.77%) Delta Lake
19 38 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
20 34 (0.62%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 616 (11.32%) Git
2 404 (7.42%) Jenkins
3 393 (7.22%) GitLab
4 357 (6.56%) JIRA
5 94 (1.73%) Selenium
6 75 (1.38%) SonarQube
7 62 (1.14%) Cypress.io
8 57 (1.05%) Maven
8 57 (1.05%) Postman
9 55 (1.01%) JUnit
10 42 (0.77%) TeamCity
11 40 (0.73%) Cucumber
12 37 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 34 (0.62%) JMeter
14 33 (0.61%) Bitbucket
15 27 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
16 25 (0.46%) REST Assured
17 24 (0.44%) NUnit
18 21 (0.39%) Zephyr
19 20 (0.37%) Mockito
General
1 1,244 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 1,050 (19.29%) Finance
3 461 (8.47%) Public Sector
4 429 (7.88%) Analytical Skills
5 334 (6.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 256 (4.70%) Banking
7 213 (3.91%) Law
8 168 (3.09%) Legal
9 159 (2.92%) Retail
10 93 (1.71%) Marketing
11 63 (1.16%) Financial Institution
12 62 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
13 54 (0.99%) Games
14 53 (0.97%) Manufacturing
15 51 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
16 47 (0.86%) Advertising
16 47 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
17 42 (0.77%) Telecoms
18 39 (0.72%) Aerospace
18 39 (0.72%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,284 (23.59%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,221 (22.43%) Senior
3 896 (16.46%) Developer
4 719 (13.21%) Lead
5 420 (7.72%) Architect
6 378 (6.94%) Software Engineer
7 344 (6.32%) Azure Engineer
8 300 (5.51%) Senior DevOps
9 287 (5.27%) Cloud Engineer
10 281 (5.16%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 241 (4.43%) .NET Developer
12 225 (4.13%) Platform Engineer
13 222 (4.08%) Senior Developer
14 200 (3.67%) Data Engineer
15 189 (3.47%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 168 (3.09%) Lead DevOps
17 152 (2.79%) AWS Engineer
18 146 (2.68%) Solutions Architect
19 134 (2.46%) Java Developer
20 128 (2.35%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,336 (24.55%) Terraform
2 747 (13.72%) .NET
3 437 (8.03%) React
4 348 (6.39%) REST
5 339 (6.23%) RESTful
6 334 (6.14%) Node.js
7 306 (5.62%) ASP.NET
8 284 (5.22%) .NET Core
9 251 (4.61%) Spring
10 250 (4.59%) Spring Boot
11 245 (4.50%) CSS
11 245 (4.50%) HTML
12 234 (4.30%) ASP.NET Core
13 219 (4.02%) Kafka
14 167 (3.07%) AngularJS
15 140 (2.57%) Blazor
15 140 (2.57%) Entity Framework
16 123 (2.26%) Middleware
17 109 (2.00%) JSON
18 101 (1.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 970 (17.82%) Cloud Native
2 362 (6.65%) Product Ownership
3 262 (4.81%) Distributed Systems
4 216 (3.97%) Enterprise Software
5 159 (2.92%) Onboarding
6 115 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
7 111 (2.04%) Virtual Team
8 90 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
9 78 (1.43%) Management Information System
10 77 (1.41%) Mobile App
11 75 (1.38%) Data Centre
12 72 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
13 66 (1.21%) Public Cloud
14 65 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
15 63 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
16 52 (0.96%) Data Structures
17 51 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
18 48 (0.88%) AI Agents
19 46 (0.85%) Private Cloud
20 43 (0.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 543 (9.98%) Linux
2 254 (4.67%) Windows
3 98 (1.80%) Unix
4 70 (1.29%) Windows Server
5 69 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 54 (0.99%) CentOS
7 40 (0.73%) Ubuntu
8 39 (0.72%) VMS
9 33 (0.61%) Android
10 19 (0.35%) Apple iOS
11 17 (0.31%) Debian
12 12 (0.22%) Rocky
13 7 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
14 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.092%) Kali Linux
15 5 (0.092%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.073%) Solaris
16 4 (0.073%) Windows Server 2019
17 3 (0.055%) AIX
17 3 (0.055%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,753 (50.58%) CI/CD
2 2,009 (36.91%) Agile
3 1,308 (24.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,047 (19.24%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,016 (18.67%) Mentoring
6 994 (18.26%) Software Engineering
7 958 (17.60%) AI
8 881 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
9 829 (15.23%) Test Automation
10 737 (13.54%) Microservices
11 688 (12.64%) Containerisation
12 622 (11.43%) Platform Engineering
13 600 (11.02%) Observability
14 585 (10.75%) Technical Leadership
15 563 (10.34%) Roadmaps
16 552 (10.14%) Full-Stack Development
17 543 (9.98%) Scrum
18 519 (9.54%) Stakeholder Management
19 484 (8.89%) Analytics
20 390 (7.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,274 (23.41%) Python
2 987 (18.13%) SQL
3 810 (14.88%) C#
4 701 (12.88%) Java
5 666 (12.24%) JavaScript
6 411 (7.55%) TypeScript
7 375 (6.89%) PowerShell
8 374 (6.87%) Bash
9 158 (2.90%) Bicep
10 123 (2.26%) Go
11 120 (2.20%) C++
12 59 (1.08%) PHP
13 52 (0.96%) T-SQL
14 50 (0.92%) C
15 48 (0.88%) Apex Code
16 47 (0.86%) Scala
17 45 (0.83%) Groovy
18 43 (0.79%) Kotlin
19 38 (0.70%) Ruby
19 38 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 957 (17.58%) Security Cleared
2 636 (11.68%) SC Cleared
3 516 (9.48%) Degree
4 277 (5.09%) DV Cleared
5 196 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 162 (2.98%) Azure Certification
7 111 (2.04%) Master's Degree
8 101 (1.86%) AWS Certification
9 77 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
10 76 (1.40%) CISSP
11 69 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
12 66 (1.21%) CISM
13 60 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
14 58 (1.07%) ISTQB
15 39 (0.72%) PMI Certification
16 34 (0.62%) DBS Check
17 28 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 27 (0.50%) PMP
19 24 (0.44%) PhD
20 21 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 549 (10.09%) QA
2 193 (3.55%) Data Quality
3 189 (3.47%) Accessibility
4 125 (2.30%) GDPR
5 101 (1.86%) NIST
6 75 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 60 (1.10%) WCAG
8 49 (0.90%) ISO 22301
9 47 (0.86%) GRC
10 34 (0.62%) PCI DSS
11 30 (0.55%) SLA
12 28 (0.51%) NCSC
13 27 (0.50%) PMO
14 20 (0.37%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
16 12 (0.22%) HIPAA
16 12 (0.22%) TickIT
17 11 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
18 10 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 9 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 875 (16.08%) Docker
2 140 (2.57%) Active Directory
3 84 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (0.48%) vSphere
6 23 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 22 (0.40%) Firmware
8 17 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.13%) Ceph
10 6 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.092%) iptables
11 5 (0.092%) KVM
12 4 (0.073%) NDS
13 3 (0.055%) Xen
14 2 (0.037%) Embedded Firmware
14 2 (0.037%) VMware ESXi
14 2 (0.037%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.018%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.018%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 999 (18.35%) Kubernetes
2 463 (8.51%) Ansible
3 226 (4.15%) Grafana
4 161 (2.96%) Prometheus
5 80 (1.47%) Argo
6 66 (1.21%) Puppet
7 34 (0.62%) Istio
8 33 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
9 32 (0.59%) Nagios
10 24 (0.44%) Kibana
11 20 (0.37%) HP Fortify
11 20 (0.37%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.24%) Rancher
13 12 (0.22%) Packer
13 12 (0.22%) Podman
13 12 (0.22%) ZABBIX
14 11 (0.20%) logstash
14 11 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
15 9 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 9 (0.17%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,071 (19.68%) Microsoft
2 201 (3.69%) Google
3 184 (3.38%) Databricks
4 126 (2.31%) Salesforce
5 123 (2.26%) Oracle
6 114 (2.09%) VMware
7 92 (1.69%) ServiceNow
8 90 (1.65%) Splunk
9 87 (1.60%) Red Hat
10 74 (1.36%) SAP
11 54 (0.99%) OpenAI
12 52 (0.96%) Pega
13 51 (0.94%) Cisco
14 45 (0.83%) Dynatrace
15 42 (0.77%) Facebook
16 34 (0.62%) AppDynamics
16 34 (0.62%) MuleSoft
16 34 (0.62%) YouTube
17 30 (0.55%) Foundry
18 29 (0.53%) Apple