DevOps Job Trends

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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 18 21
Rank change year-on-year -20 +3 -9
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 3,676 3,713 7,094
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.74% 9.15% 8.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.14% 9.79% 9.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,572 2,646 5,408
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,978 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £54,250 £51,716
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -3.23%

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 59,873 37,939 76,774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.17% 93.46% 86.66%
Number of salaries quoted 36,505 22,139 57,454
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,079
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,410 £93,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.41%

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 27 March 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 27 March 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 -23 3,142 £70,000 - 1,414
UK excluding London -28 2,064 £65,000 - 1,103
Work from Home -7 1,444 £69,500 -0.71% 782
London -7 1,282 £80,000 -5.88% 512
North of England -21 605 £67,500 - 306
South East -34 452 £65,000 -2.26% 307
South West -21 298 £60,000 -11.11% 165
Midlands -18 283 £65,000 +4.00% 142
North West -27 265 £70,000 +3.70% 159
Yorkshire -10 246 £67,500 -0.74% 86
Scotland -5 233 £62,500 -10.71% 52
West Midlands -31 183 £60,000 -4.00% 98
East of England -26 120 £67,500 +17.39% 92
East Midlands -3 96 £67,500 +3.85% 44
North East +4 94 £51,750 -20.38% 63
Wales -23 51 £57,500 -10.33% 43
Northern Ireland -30 23 £73,801 +9.33% 10
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 - 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 78 (2.12%) Confluence
2 72 (1.96%) SharePoint
3 52 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
4 48 (1.31%) Apache
5 39 (1.06%) Apache Spark
5 39 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
6 38 (1.03%) IIS
7 15 (0.41%) OpenStack
8 12 (0.33%) CMS
8 12 (0.33%) SAS
9 11 (0.30%) Moodle
10 10 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.22%) Appian
11 8 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
11 8 (0.22%) Tomcat
12 7 (0.19%) Anypoint
13 6 (0.16%) nginx
14 4 (0.11%) ArcGIS
14 4 (0.11%) Documentum
15 3 (0.082%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 40 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (0.87%) MS Visio
3 23 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.16%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.11%) PlantUML
8 3 (0.082%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.054%) Trello
10 1 (0.027%) EngageOne
10 1 (0.027%) Maya
10 1 (0.027%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.027%) Sketch
10 1 (0.027%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 45 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
3 17 (0.46%) Endur
4 16 (0.44%) SAP ERP
5 7 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
6 6 (0.16%) Markit EDM
6 6 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
7 5 (0.14%) Shopify
8 4 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.11%) Teamcenter
9 2 (0.054%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.054%) Magento
9 2 (0.054%) SAP CX
9 2 (0.054%) SAP FS
9 2 (0.054%) SAP IBP
9 2 (0.054%) SAP MII
9 2 (0.054%) SAP PP
9 2 (0.054%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.027%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 2,029 (55.20%) Azure
2 1,290 (35.09%) AWS
3 984 (26.77%) Azure DevOps
4 536 (14.58%) GitHub
5 476 (12.95%) GCP
6 391 (10.64%) Serverless
7 324 (8.81%) Power Platform
8 286 (7.78%) GitHub Actions
9 266 (7.24%) SaaS
10 247 (6.72%) AWS CloudFormation
11 215 (5.85%) Amazon S3
12 210 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
13 184 (5.01%) PaaS
14 153 (4.16%) Microsoft 365
15 147 (4.00%) Entra ID
16 145 (3.94%) Amazon EKS
17 144 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
18 142 (3.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 142 (3.86%) Azure Data Factory
19 125 (3.40%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 126 (3.43%) Firewall
2 85 (2.31%) DNS
3 72 (1.96%) TCP/IP
4 65 (1.77%) Broadband
5 45 (1.22%) VPN
6 35 (0.95%) Network Security
6 35 (0.95%) WAN
7 30 (0.82%) HTTP
8 22 (0.60%) DHCP
9 21 (0.57%) LAN
10 14 (0.38%) SAN
11 8 (0.22%) SSL
12 7 (0.19%) BGP
12 7 (0.19%) Wireless
13 6 (0.16%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (0.16%) HTTPS
14 5 (0.14%) Internet
14 5 (0.14%) MPLS
14 5 (0.14%) SD-WAN
14 5 (0.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 269 (7.32%) SQL Server
2 197 (5.36%) NoSQL
3 187 (5.09%) Power BI
4 155 (4.22%) PostgreSQL
5 109 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
5 109 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
6 105 (2.86%) DynamoDB
7 96 (2.61%) Azure SQL Database
8 91 (2.48%) Data Lake
9 82 (2.23%) Relational Database
10 69 (1.88%) MongoDB
11 64 (1.74%) Metadata
11 64 (1.74%) MySQL
12 59 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
13 50 (1.36%) Redis
14 48 (1.31%) Tableau
15 45 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 41 (1.12%) BigQuery
17 34 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
17 34 (0.92%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 401 (10.91%) Git
2 387 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 302 (8.22%) GitLab
4 233 (6.34%) JIRA
5 101 (2.75%) SonarQube
6 96 (2.61%) Selenium
7 89 (2.42%) Cypress.io
8 51 (1.39%) Maven
9 47 (1.28%) Bitbucket
10 40 (1.09%) Cucumber
11 37 (1.01%) Postman
12 35 (0.95%) TeamCity
13 33 (0.90%) CircleCI
13 33 (0.90%) JMeter
13 33 (0.90%) Visual Studio
14 30 (0.82%) JUnit
15 24 (0.65%) Eclipse
15 24 (0.65%) Octopus Deploy
16 21 (0.57%) Jaeger
16 21 (0.57%) Robot Framework
General
1 936 (25.46%) Social Skills
2 868 (23.61%) Finance
3 384 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
4 231 (6.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 209 (5.69%) Public Sector
6 203 (5.52%) Banking
7 134 (3.65%) Law
8 118 (3.21%) Retail
9 111 (3.02%) Marketing
10 78 (2.12%) Games
11 76 (2.07%) Telecoms
12 73 (1.99%) Legal
13 57 (1.55%) Manufacturing
14 48 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
14 48 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
15 45 (1.22%) Financial Institution
16 33 (0.90%) Advertising
17 31 (0.84%) Front Office
18 28 (0.76%) Back Office
19 27 (0.73%) Billing
Job Titles
1 763 (20.76%) Senior
2 653 (17.76%) DevOps Engineer
3 609 (16.57%) Developer
4 507 (13.79%) Lead
5 345 (9.39%) Architect
6 261 (7.10%) Software Engineer
7 235 (6.39%) Cloud Engineer
8 210 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
9 159 (4.33%) Senior Developer
10 157 (4.27%) Solutions Architect
11 154 (4.19%) Senior DevOps
12 148 (4.03%) Data Engineer
13 132 (3.59%) AWS Engineer
14 130 (3.54%) Platform Engineer
15 125 (3.40%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 114 (3.10%) Analyst
17 112 (3.05%) Lead DevOps
18 111 (3.02%) Full-Stack Developer
19 108 (2.94%) Java Developer
20 94 (2.56%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 442 (12.02%) .NET
2 325 (8.84%) React
3 244 (6.64%) REST
4 233 (6.34%) RESTful
5 193 (5.25%) Node.js
6 179 (4.87%) Spring Boot
7 164 (4.46%) Spring
8 158 (4.30%) Kafka
9 155 (4.22%) CSS
10 147 (4.00%) HTML
11 136 (3.70%) AngularJS
12 126 (3.43%) SOAP
13 108 (2.94%) OAuth
14 107 (2.91%) .NET Core
15 106 (2.88%) Elastic Stack
16 105 (2.86%) Middleware
17 102 (2.77%) .NET Framework
18 98 (2.67%) ASP.NET
19 95 (2.58%) Lightning Web Components
20 77 (2.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 500 (13.60%) Cloud Native
2 273 (7.43%) Product Ownership
3 127 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 114 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
5 98 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
6 84 (2.29%) Management Information System
7 68 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
8 61 (1.66%) Low-Code
9 59 (1.61%) Mobile App
10 57 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
11 54 (1.47%) Public Cloud
12 45 (1.22%) Onboarding
12 45 (1.22%) Security Posture
13 40 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
14 38 (1.03%) Algorithms
15 33 (0.90%) Data Structures
16 30 (0.82%) Reinsurance
17 29 (0.79%) AI Agents
18 28 (0.76%) Data Centre
19 27 (0.73%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 380 (10.34%) Linux
2 223 (6.07%) Windows
3 91 (2.48%) Unix
4 80 (2.18%) Windows Server
5 35 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 30 (0.82%) Android
6 30 (0.82%) Ubuntu
7 26 (0.71%) VMS
8 24 (0.65%) Apple iOS
9 22 (0.60%) CentOS
10 14 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
11 11 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
12 7 (0.19%) Debian
12 7 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.054%) Embedded Linux
13 2 (0.054%) Rocky
13 2 (0.054%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.027%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.027%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,939 (52.75%) CI/CD
2 1,431 (38.93%) Agile
3 905 (24.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 721 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
5 719 (19.56%) Continuous Improvement
6 595 (16.19%) Mentoring
7 582 (15.83%) Software Engineering
8 560 (15.23%) AI
9 543 (14.77%) Containerisation
10 529 (14.39%) Test Automation
11 509 (13.85%) Microservices
12 451 (12.27%) Observability
13 399 (10.85%) Analytics
14 397 (10.80%) Roadmaps
15 351 (9.55%) Scrum
16 330 (8.98%) Full-Stack Development
17 304 (8.27%) Coaching
18 296 (8.05%) Data Modelling
19 288 (7.83%) Technical Leadership
20 280 (7.62%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 985 (26.80%) Python
2 720 (19.59%) SQL
3 508 (13.82%) Java
4 421 (11.45%) C#
5 393 (10.69%) JavaScript
6 324 (8.81%) Bash
7 280 (7.62%) TypeScript
8 277 (7.54%) PowerShell
9 161 (4.38%) Go
10 122 (3.32%) Bicep
11 99 (2.69%) Apex Code
12 71 (1.93%) C++
13 49 (1.33%) SOQL
13 49 (1.33%) SOSL
14 47 (1.28%) PHP
15 45 (1.22%) Groovy
16 37 (1.01%) T-SQL
17 35 (0.95%) Scala
18 26 (0.71%) Kotlin
18 26 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 462 (12.57%) Security Cleared
2 421 (11.45%) Degree
3 264 (7.18%) SC Cleared
4 214 (5.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 136 (3.70%) DV Cleared
6 131 (3.56%) AWS Certification
7 96 (2.61%) Azure Certification
8 93 (2.53%) Master's Degree
9 51 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
10 46 (1.25%) ISTQB
11 32 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 31 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
13 29 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 29 (0.79%) DBS Check
14 27 (0.73%) CISSP
15 26 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
15 26 (0.71%) PMI Certification
16 20 (0.54%) PhD
17 19 (0.52%) PMP
18 18 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 315 (8.57%) QA
2 137 (3.73%) Data Quality
3 123 (3.35%) Accessibility
4 115 (3.13%) GDPR
5 85 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 62 (1.69%) NIST
7 36 (0.98%) SOC 2
8 35 (0.95%) PCI DSS
9 34 (0.92%) GRC
10 28 (0.76%) SLA
10 28 (0.76%) WCAG
11 25 (0.68%) NCSC
12 15 (0.41%) PMO
13 11 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
13 11 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 12207
14 9 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.16%) Solvency II
16 5 (0.14%) PERC
17 4 (0.11%) ITGC
System Software
1 696 (18.93%) Docker
2 140 (3.81%) Active Directory
3 45 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (0.54%) vSphere
6 12 (0.33%) Hyper-V
7 10 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (0.24%) Firmware
9 7 (0.19%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.11%) iptables
10 4 (0.11%) Postfix
10 4 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.082%) HDFS
11 3 (0.082%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.082%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.082%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.054%) Embedded Firmware
12 2 (0.054%) KVM
12 2 (0.054%) vCloud
13 1 (0.027%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 932 (25.35%) Terraform
2 728 (19.80%) Kubernetes
3 359 (9.77%) Ansible
4 245 (6.66%) Grafana
5 198 (5.39%) Prometheus
6 64 (1.74%) Argo
7 40 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
8 39 (1.06%) HP Fortify
9 36 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
10 33 (0.90%) Puppet
11 25 (0.68%) Nagios
12 19 (0.52%) Kustomize
13 18 (0.49%) Kibana
14 17 (0.46%) AWS Copilot
15 14 (0.38%) Progress Chef
16 13 (0.35%) Rancher
17 12 (0.33%) Istio
18 10 (0.27%) Proxmox
18 10 (0.27%) vCenter Server
19 8 (0.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 695 (18.91%) Microsoft
2 166 (4.52%) Google
3 164 (4.46%) Salesforce
4 127 (3.45%) Databricks
5 103 (2.80%) Oracle
6 98 (2.67%) Splunk
7 86 (2.34%) VMware
8 69 (1.88%) ServiceNow
9 66 (1.80%) Red Hat
10 50 (1.36%) SAP
11 48 (1.31%) MuleSoft
12 41 (1.12%) Palo Alto
13 33 (0.90%) Cisco
14 27 (0.73%) Pega
15 24 (0.65%) Dynatrace
16 22 (0.60%) CrowdStrike
16 22 (0.60%) Fortinet
17 21 (0.57%) Adobe
17 21 (0.57%) OpenAI
18 20 (0.54%) IBM