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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 20 23
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 -11
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,359 4,145 5,795
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.10% 8.36% 6.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.93% 9.34% 8.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3,848 2,366 3,988
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 £61,500
% change year-on-year - +5.69% -1.60%

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 77,301 44,356 67,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.63% 89.43% 81.01%
Number of salaries quoted 53,282 25,229 44,135
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.40% -3.00% -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 7 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 7 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 -8 4,630 £70,000 - 2,464
UK excluding London -2 3,445 £65,000 - 1,364
Work from Home -2 1,929 £67,500 -3.57% 1,155
London -13 1,523 £85,000 +6.25% 1,331
North of England +2 1,217 £67,500 +3.85% 400
South East -10 697 £65,000 +2.36% 370
North West -1 667 £70,000 +7.69% 205
South West +8 499 £70,000 +7.69% 163
Midlands -18 399 £67,500 +3.85% 191
Yorkshire +14 297 £70,000 +7.69% 118
North East +19 253 £60,000 -7.69% 79
West Midlands -28 234 £69,310 +6.63% 128
East of England +14 210 £59,450 -8.54% 80
Wales +10 186 £55,000 -4.35% 41
East Midlands +4 164 £65,000 +15.56% 63
Scotland -3 138 £60,000 -12.73% 89
Northern Ireland +1 109 £72,500 -44.23% 36
Isle of Man 0 3 £35,000 -33.33% 3

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
1 108 (2.02%) Confluence
2 92 (1.72%) SharePoint
3 91 (1.70%) Apache Spark
4 76 (1.42%) Apache
5 45 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
6 39 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
7 28 (0.52%) CMS
7 28 (0.52%) IIS
8 22 (0.41%) OpenStack
9 21 (0.39%) SAS
10 14 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
11 13 (0.24%) nginx
12 12 (0.22%) Jupyter
13 9 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
13 9 (0.17%) Umbraco
13 9 (0.17%) WordPress
14 8 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 8 (0.15%) Anypoint
14 8 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
15 6 (0.11%) Camunda
Applications
1 57 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
2 44 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.39%) PlantUML
4 19 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.22%) Trello
8 7 (0.13%) Simulink
9 4 (0.075%) Maya
10 3 (0.056%) Blender
10 3 (0.056%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.037%) Lightworks
12 1 (0.019%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.019%) Notion
12 1 (0.019%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 79 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.17%) Elite 3E
4 7 (0.13%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.093%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.093%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.093%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.075%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.075%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.075%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.075%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.075%) Shopify
6 4 (0.075%) Teamcenter
7 3 (0.056%) Carpe Diem
7 3 (0.056%) Infor SunSystems
7 3 (0.056%) Magento
7 3 (0.056%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (0.056%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.056%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.056%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 2,830 (52.81%) Azure
2 1,762 (32.88%) AWS
3 1,387 (25.88%) Azure DevOps
4 594 (11.08%) GCP
5 524 (9.78%) GitHub
6 485 (9.05%) Serverless
7 429 (8.01%) SaaS
8 370 (6.90%) Power Platform
9 275 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
10 270 (5.04%) AWS CloudFormation
11 232 (4.33%) Amazon S3
12 218 (4.07%) PaaS
13 212 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
14 178 (3.32%) Dynamics 365
15 172 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
16 159 (2.97%) Amazon ECS
17 157 (2.93%) Azure AKS
18 147 (2.74%) Amazon EKS
18 147 (2.74%) Azure Service Bus
19 146 (2.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 128 (2.39%) Firewall
2 87 (1.62%) DNS
3 72 (1.34%) TCP/IP
4 65 (1.21%) VPN
5 47 (0.88%) Network Security
6 42 (0.78%) Broadband
7 33 (0.62%) Internet
8 30 (0.56%) HTTP
9 23 (0.43%) DHCP
10 19 (0.35%) LAN
11 18 (0.34%) WAN
12 16 (0.30%) MQTT
13 14 (0.26%) Wireless
14 13 (0.24%) DMARC
14 13 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
15 12 (0.22%) SAN
16 10 (0.19%) HTTPS
17 8 (0.15%) BGP
17 8 (0.15%) Bluetooth
17 8 (0.15%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 319 (5.95%) SQL Server
2 279 (5.21%) MongoDB
3 269 (5.02%) Azure SQL Database
4 206 (3.84%) PostgreSQL
5 205 (3.83%) Power BI
6 183 (3.41%) NoSQL
7 112 (2.09%) MySQL
8 108 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
8 108 (2.02%) Relational Database
9 100 (1.87%) DynamoDB
10 96 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
10 96 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
11 80 (1.49%) Data Lake
12 63 (1.18%) Metadata
13 61 (1.14%) Redis
14 45 (0.84%) Big Data
15 43 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
16 41 (0.77%) Delta Lake
17 36 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
18 32 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 585 (10.92%) Git
2 413 (7.71%) GitLab
3 410 (7.65%) Jenkins
4 350 (6.53%) JIRA
5 96 (1.79%) Selenium
6 86 (1.60%) SonarQube
7 72 (1.34%) Cypress.io
8 57 (1.06%) Maven
9 56 (1.04%) Postman
10 55 (1.03%) JUnit
11 38 (0.71%) Cucumber
12 37 (0.69%) TeamCity
13 34 (0.63%) Bitbucket
13 34 (0.63%) JMeter
14 33 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 28 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
16 24 (0.45%) NUnit
17 23 (0.43%) REST Assured
18 22 (0.41%) Visual Studio
19 21 (0.39%) CircleCI
General
1 1,208 (22.54%) Social Skills
2 1,032 (19.26%) Finance
3 423 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
4 417 (7.78%) Public Sector
5 331 (6.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 255 (4.76%) Banking
7 208 (3.88%) Law
8 163 (3.04%) Retail
9 160 (2.99%) Legal
10 111 (2.07%) Marketing
11 67 (1.25%) Games
12 63 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
13 59 (1.10%) Manufacturing
14 56 (1.04%) Financial Institution
15 52 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
16 51 (0.95%) Advertising
17 48 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
18 43 (0.80%) Telecoms
19 34 (0.63%) Aerospace
19 34 (0.63%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,230 (22.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,173 (21.89%) Senior
3 904 (16.87%) Developer
4 716 (13.36%) Lead
5 421 (7.86%) Architect
6 375 (7.00%) Software Engineer
7 340 (6.34%) Azure Engineer
8 280 (5.22%) Cloud Engineer
9 279 (5.21%) Senior DevOps
10 260 (4.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 235 (4.39%) .NET Developer
12 223 (4.16%) Senior Developer
13 215 (4.01%) Platform Engineer
14 192 (3.58%) Data Engineer
15 188 (3.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 169 (3.15%) AWS Engineer
17 162 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
18 159 (2.97%) Lead DevOps
19 138 (2.58%) Java Developer
20 128 (2.39%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 731 (13.64%) .NET
2 459 (8.57%) React
3 335 (6.25%) REST
3 335 (6.25%) RESTful
4 317 (5.92%) Node.js
5 297 (5.54%) ASP.NET
6 280 (5.22%) .NET Core
7 247 (4.61%) CSS
8 244 (4.55%) HTML
9 242 (4.52%) Spring Boot
10 239 (4.46%) Spring
11 228 (4.25%) ASP.NET Core
12 205 (3.83%) Kafka
13 173 (3.23%) AngularJS
14 138 (2.58%) Blazor
14 138 (2.58%) Entity Framework
15 131 (2.44%) Middleware
16 106 (1.98%) JSON
17 105 (1.96%) YAML
18 100 (1.87%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 927 (17.30%) Cloud Native
2 351 (6.55%) Product Ownership
3 248 (4.63%) Distributed Systems
4 203 (3.79%) Enterprise Software
5 146 (2.72%) Onboarding
6 115 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
7 96 (1.79%) Virtual Team
8 89 (1.66%) Management Information System
9 83 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
10 76 (1.42%) Mobile App
11 73 (1.36%) Data Centre
12 71 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
13 65 (1.21%) Public Cloud
14 63 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
14 63 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
15 49 (0.91%) Data Structures
16 45 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
16 45 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
17 44 (0.82%) Low-Code
18 42 (0.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 544 (10.15%) Linux
2 262 (4.89%) Windows
3 106 (1.98%) Unix
4 77 (1.44%) Windows Server
5 74 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 53 (0.99%) CentOS
7 46 (0.86%) Ubuntu
8 37 (0.69%) VMS
9 31 (0.58%) Android
10 18 (0.34%) Debian
11 17 (0.32%) Apple iOS
12 10 (0.19%) Rocky
13 8 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
14 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.093%) Mac OS
15 5 (0.093%) Windows Server 2019
16 4 (0.075%) Kali Linux
17 3 (0.056%) AIX
17 3 (0.056%) Solaris
18 2 (0.037%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,700 (50.38%) CI/CD
2 2,004 (37.40%) Agile
3 1,290 (24.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,040 (19.41%) Continuous Improvement
5 979 (18.27%) Mentoring
6 965 (18.01%) Software Engineering
7 909 (16.96%) AI
8 865 (16.14%) Problem-Solving
9 824 (15.38%) Test Automation
10 725 (13.53%) Microservices
11 681 (12.71%) Containerisation
12 598 (11.16%) Platform Engineering
13 578 (10.79%) Observability
14 573 (10.69%) Full-Stack Development
15 566 (10.56%) Roadmaps
16 551 (10.28%) Scrum
17 550 (10.26%) Technical Leadership
18 481 (8.98%) Stakeholder Management
19 468 (8.73%) Analytics
20 387 (7.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,258 (23.47%) Python
2 947 (17.67%) SQL
3 788 (14.70%) C#
4 695 (12.97%) Java
5 669 (12.48%) JavaScript
6 418 (7.80%) TypeScript
7 369 (6.89%) Bash
7 369 (6.89%) PowerShell
8 157 (2.93%) Bicep
9 124 (2.31%) C++
9 124 (2.31%) Go
10 66 (1.23%) Apex Code
11 63 (1.18%) PHP
12 51 (0.95%) C
13 48 (0.90%) Groovy
14 46 (0.86%) T-SQL
15 42 (0.78%) Scala
16 40 (0.75%) Ruby
17 38 (0.71%) Kotlin
17 38 (0.71%) Rust
Qualifications
1 904 (16.87%) Security Cleared
2 598 (11.16%) SC Cleared
3 518 (9.67%) Degree
4 250 (4.67%) DV Cleared
5 193 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 148 (2.76%) Azure Certification
7 110 (2.05%) Master's Degree
8 91 (1.70%) AWS Certification
9 82 (1.53%) CISSP
9 82 (1.53%) ITIL Certification
10 65 (1.21%) CISM
11 58 (1.08%) ISTQB
12 50 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
12 50 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
13 40 (0.75%) DBS Check
13 40 (0.75%) PMI Certification
14 28 (0.52%) PMP
15 26 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 24 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 23 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 541 (10.10%) QA
2 182 (3.40%) Accessibility
3 173 (3.23%) Data Quality
4 125 (2.33%) GDPR
5 106 (1.98%) NIST
6 73 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 62 (1.16%) WCAG
8 49 (0.91%) ISO 22301
9 48 (0.90%) GRC
10 39 (0.73%) PCI DSS
11 26 (0.49%) PMO
12 25 (0.47%) SLA
12 25 (0.47%) SOC 2
13 23 (0.43%) NCSC
14 13 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
15 12 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
15 12 (0.22%) TickIT
16 10 (0.19%) HIPAA
16 10 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 9 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 871 (16.25%) Docker
2 139 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 82 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.54%) vSphere
6 25 (0.47%) Hyper-V
7 23 (0.43%) Firmware
8 15 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.13%) Ceph
10 6 (0.11%) KVM
10 6 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.093%) iptables
12 4 (0.075%) Embedded Firmware
12 4 (0.075%) NDS
13 3 (0.056%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.056%) Xen
14 2 (0.037%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.019%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.019%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,296 (24.18%) Terraform
2 985 (18.38%) Kubernetes
3 452 (8.43%) Ansible
4 233 (4.35%) Grafana
5 172 (3.21%) Prometheus
6 79 (1.47%) Argo
7 65 (1.21%) Puppet
8 38 (0.71%) Nagios
9 32 (0.60%) Istio
10 28 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
11 25 (0.47%) Kibana
12 24 (0.45%) HP Fortify
13 17 (0.32%) Progress Chef
14 14 (0.26%) Rancher
15 13 (0.24%) Podman
15 13 (0.24%) ZABBIX
16 12 (0.22%) Packer
17 11 (0.21%) logstash
18 9 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
19 8 (0.15%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,045 (19.50%) Microsoft
2 209 (3.90%) Google
3 178 (3.32%) Databricks
4 150 (2.80%) Salesforce
5 114 (2.13%) Oracle
6 113 (2.11%) VMware
7 102 (1.90%) Splunk
8 101 (1.88%) ServiceNow
9 95 (1.77%) Red Hat
10 74 (1.38%) SAP
11 52 (0.97%) Pega
12 49 (0.91%) Dynatrace
13 46 (0.86%) Cisco
14 45 (0.84%) OpenAI
15 43 (0.80%) MuleSoft
16 42 (0.78%) Facebook
17 30 (0.56%) Apple
18 28 (0.52%) AppDynamics
18 28 (0.52%) Foundry
19 27 (0.50%) YouTube