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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 21 26
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,817 4,133 7,118
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.98% 8.75% 6.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.77% 9.59% 8.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3,519 2,408 5,161
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,161 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £50,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £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 71,140 43,093 86,602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.59% 91.19% 82.11%
Number of salaries quoted 49,140 23,729 61,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,688 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.38% - -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 3 July 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 3 July 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 4,218 £70,000 -3.11% 1,580
UK excluding London -6 2,940 £65,000 - 1,128
Work from Home -1 1,737 £67,500 -3.57% 917
London -7 1,469 £85,000 +6.25% 654
North of England +1 1,069 £69,305 +4.98% 315
South East -12 627 £65,000 - 349
North West 0 582 £70,000 +4.42% 183
South West -2 419 £70,000 +7.69% 138
Midlands -23 352 £65,000 - 134
Yorkshire +7 291 £70,000 - 90
North East +7 196 £60,000 -7.69% 46
West Midlands -32 193 £65,000 - 80
East of England +2 183 £60,000 -7.69% 85
East Midlands +6 158 £65,000 +15.56% 54
Scotland -5 134 £58,565 -17.80% 51
Wales +7 133 £53,171 -7.53% 36
Northern Ireland -26 29 £73,151 -8.56% 42
Isle of Man +2 3 £35,000 -33.33% 2

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 97 (2.01%) Confluence
2 94 (1.95%) SharePoint
3 65 (1.35%) Apache Spark
4 60 (1.25%) Apache
5 47 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
6 45 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
7 30 (0.62%) CMS
7 30 (0.62%) IIS
8 17 (0.35%) SAS
9 15 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
10 12 (0.25%) OpenStack
11 10 (0.21%) nginx
11 10 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
12 9 (0.19%) Jupyter
12 9 (0.19%) Umbraco
12 9 (0.19%) WordPress
13 8 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
14 7 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 6 (0.12%) Apache Solr
15 6 (0.12%) Moodle
Applications
1 53 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
2 37 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.39%) MS Visio
3 19 (0.39%) PlantUML
4 13 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.17%) Trello
7 7 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
7 7 (0.15%) Simulink
8 4 (0.083%) Maya
9 3 (0.062%) Blender
9 3 (0.062%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.042%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.021%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.021%) Notion
11 1 (0.021%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 83 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.12%) Elite 3E
3 6 (0.12%) Endur
3 6 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
4 5 (0.10%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.10%) Visualfiles
5 4 (0.083%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.083%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.083%) SAP IBP
6 3 (0.062%) Carpe Diem
6 3 (0.062%) Infor SunSystems
6 3 (0.062%) Magento
7 2 (0.042%) Adobe Campaign
7 2 (0.042%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.042%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.042%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.042%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,554 (53.02%) Azure
2 1,561 (32.41%) AWS
3 1,283 (26.63%) Azure DevOps
4 531 (11.02%) GCP
5 497 (10.32%) GitHub
6 469 (9.74%) Serverless
7 351 (7.29%) Power Platform
8 315 (6.54%) SaaS
9 269 (5.58%) GitHub Actions
10 228 (4.73%) AWS CloudFormation
11 225 (4.67%) Amazon S3
12 208 (4.32%) AWS Lambda
13 203 (4.21%) PaaS
14 163 (3.38%) Azure AKS
15 149 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
16 148 (3.07%) Dynamics 365
17 147 (3.05%) Azure Logic Apps
18 146 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
19 142 (2.95%) Amazon ECS
20 139 (2.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 146 (3.03%) Firewall
2 88 (1.83%) DNS
3 63 (1.31%) Broadband
3 63 (1.31%) VPN
4 61 (1.27%) TCP/IP
5 41 (0.85%) Network Security
6 35 (0.73%) HTTP
7 24 (0.50%) DHCP
8 23 (0.48%) WAN
9 22 (0.46%) LAN
10 21 (0.44%) Internet
11 13 (0.27%) DMARC
11 13 (0.27%) MQTT
12 12 (0.25%) Wireless
13 10 (0.21%) BGP
13 10 (0.21%) SAN
14 8 (0.17%) HTTPS
15 7 (0.15%) Bluetooth
15 7 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
16 6 (0.12%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 267 (5.54%) SQL Server
2 254 (5.27%) MongoDB
3 253 (5.25%) Azure SQL Database
4 189 (3.92%) NoSQL
5 188 (3.90%) Power BI
6 168 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
7 104 (2.16%) DynamoDB
8 95 (1.97%) Relational Database
9 89 (1.85%) MySQL
10 85 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
10 85 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
11 79 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
12 76 (1.58%) Data Lake
13 64 (1.33%) Metadata
14 46 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
15 45 (0.93%) Redis
16 37 (0.77%) Delta Lake
17 36 (0.75%) Big Data
18 35 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
19 34 (0.71%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 492 (10.21%) Git
2 403 (8.37%) Jenkins
3 394 (8.18%) GitLab
4 302 (6.27%) JIRA
5 100 (2.08%) SonarQube
6 79 (1.64%) Selenium
7 76 (1.58%) Cypress.io
8 58 (1.20%) Maven
9 44 (0.91%) Postman
10 38 (0.79%) JUnit
11 37 (0.77%) Cucumber
12 35 (0.73%) Bitbucket
13 34 (0.71%) CircleCI
14 33 (0.69%) TeamCity
15 31 (0.64%) JMeter
16 25 (0.52%) Eclipse
16 25 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
17 21 (0.44%) Visual Studio
18 20 (0.42%) REST Assured
19 19 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 990 (20.55%) Social Skills
2 960 (19.93%) Finance
3 352 (7.31%) Analytical Skills
4 348 (7.22%) Public Sector
5 293 (6.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 240 (4.98%) Banking
7 165 (3.43%) Law
8 154 (3.20%) Retail
9 109 (2.26%) Marketing
10 94 (1.95%) Legal
11 82 (1.70%) Games
12 60 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
13 55 (1.14%) Manufacturing
14 53 (1.10%) Advertising
15 46 (0.95%) Financial Institution
16 45 (0.93%) Telecoms
17 42 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
18 40 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
19 34 (0.71%) Back Office
20 24 (0.50%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,085 (22.52%) DevOps Engineer
2 994 (20.64%) Senior
3 858 (17.81%) Developer
4 666 (13.83%) Lead
5 407 (8.45%) Architect
6 359 (7.45%) Software Engineer
7 339 (7.04%) Azure Engineer
8 259 (5.38%) Cloud Engineer
9 245 (5.09%) Senior DevOps
10 221 (4.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 208 (4.32%) Senior Developer
12 207 (4.30%) .NET Developer
13 188 (3.90%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 187 (3.88%) Platform Engineer
15 167 (3.47%) Data Engineer
16 163 (3.38%) AWS Engineer
17 162 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
18 146 (3.03%) Java Developer
19 135 (2.80%) Lead DevOps
20 110 (2.28%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 653 (13.56%) .NET
2 430 (8.93%) React
3 302 (6.27%) Node.js
4 295 (6.12%) REST
5 294 (6.10%) RESTful
6 265 (5.50%) ASP.NET
7 239 (4.96%) .NET Core
8 216 (4.48%) CSS
9 212 (4.40%) HTML
10 208 (4.32%) ASP.NET Core
10 208 (4.32%) Spring Boot
11 195 (4.05%) Spring
12 168 (3.49%) Kafka
13 162 (3.36%) AngularJS
14 121 (2.51%) Blazor
15 120 (2.49%) Entity Framework
16 112 (2.33%) YAML
17 109 (2.26%) Middleware
18 102 (2.12%) SOAP
19 93 (1.93%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 780 (16.19%) Cloud Native
2 311 (6.46%) Product Ownership
3 197 (4.09%) Distributed Systems
4 147 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
5 99 (2.06%) Onboarding
6 95 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
7 86 (1.79%) Management Information System
8 82 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
9 80 (1.66%) Mobile App
10 70 (1.45%) Public Cloud
11 68 (1.41%) Data Centre
12 60 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
13 56 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
14 52 (1.08%) Data Structures
15 50 (1.04%) Low-Code
16 47 (0.98%) Virtual Team
17 45 (0.93%) Security Posture
18 44 (0.91%) Algorithms
19 40 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
20 35 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 478 (9.92%) Linux
2 223 (4.63%) Windows
3 94 (1.95%) Unix
4 71 (1.47%) Windows Server
5 58 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 50 (1.04%) Ubuntu
7 40 (0.83%) VMS
8 38 (0.79%) CentOS
9 34 (0.71%) Android
10 21 (0.44%) Apple iOS
11 13 (0.27%) Debian
12 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.083%) Embedded Linux
14 4 (0.083%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.083%) Rocky
15 2 (0.042%) AIX
15 2 (0.042%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.042%) Windows Server 2012
16 1 (0.021%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,449 (50.84%) CI/CD
2 1,777 (36.89%) Agile
3 1,172 (24.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 896 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
5 834 (17.31%) Mentoring
6 813 (16.88%) Software Engineering
7 764 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
8 762 (15.82%) AI
9 685 (14.22%) Test Automation
10 647 (13.43%) Microservices
11 626 (13.00%) Containerisation
12 539 (11.19%) Full-Stack Development
13 529 (10.98%) Roadmaps
14 510 (10.59%) Platform Engineering
15 507 (10.53%) Observability
16 497 (10.32%) Scrum
17 457 (9.49%) Technical Leadership
18 443 (9.20%) Analytics
19 370 (7.68%) Stakeholder Management
20 312 (6.48%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,123 (23.31%) Python
2 862 (17.89%) SQL
3 675 (14.01%) C#
4 646 (13.41%) Java
5 585 (12.14%) JavaScript
6 387 (8.03%) Bash
7 362 (7.52%) TypeScript
8 307 (6.37%) PowerShell
9 150 (3.11%) Bicep
10 143 (2.97%) Go
11 131 (2.72%) C++
12 76 (1.58%) Apex Code
13 56 (1.16%) PHP
14 49 (1.02%) Groovy
15 48 (1.00%) SOQL
16 46 (0.95%) C
17 45 (0.93%) SOSL
18 40 (0.83%) Rust
19 38 (0.79%) Kotlin
20 36 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 759 (15.76%) Security Cleared
2 481 (9.99%) Degree
3 468 (9.72%) SC Cleared
4 182 (3.78%) DV Cleared
5 179 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 119 (2.47%) Azure Certification
7 107 (2.22%) Master's Degree
8 96 (1.99%) AWS Certification
9 52 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
10 50 (1.04%) ISTQB
10 50 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
11 46 (0.95%) CISSP
12 36 (0.75%) DBS Check
13 34 (0.71%) PMI Certification
14 30 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 27 (0.56%) CISM
16 26 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 26 (0.54%) PMP
17 24 (0.50%) PhD
18 20 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 428 (8.89%) QA
2 162 (3.36%) Data Quality
3 159 (3.30%) Accessibility
4 105 (2.18%) GDPR
5 72 (1.49%) NIST
6 71 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 53 (1.10%) WCAG
8 48 (1.00%) GRC
9 38 (0.79%) PCI DSS
10 32 (0.66%) SOC 2
11 21 (0.44%) PMO
12 20 (0.42%) SLA
13 15 (0.31%) ISO 22301
13 15 (0.31%) NCSC
14 12 (0.25%) TickIT
15 10 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
16 9 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
17 8 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 6 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 6 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 771 (16.01%) Docker
2 134 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 75 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.60%) vSphere
6 21 (0.44%) Firmware
7 20 (0.42%) Hyper-V
8 13 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.12%) iptables
11 5 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.083%) Embedded Firmware
12 4 (0.083%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.062%) KVM
13 3 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.062%) VMware NSX
14 1 (0.021%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.021%) QEMU
14 1 (0.021%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,174 (24.37%) Terraform
2 881 (18.29%) Kubernetes
3 421 (8.74%) Ansible
4 227 (4.71%) Grafana
5 173 (3.59%) Prometheus
6 77 (1.60%) Argo
7 59 (1.22%) Puppet
8 39 (0.81%) Nagios
9 30 (0.62%) HP Fortify
10 29 (0.60%) Kibana
11 24 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
12 21 (0.44%) Istio
13 15 (0.31%) Packer
13 15 (0.31%) Rancher
14 14 (0.29%) Progress Chef
15 13 (0.27%) Proxmox
16 12 (0.25%) Kustomize
17 10 (0.21%) logstash
18 9 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
19 8 (0.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 937 (19.45%) Microsoft
2 180 (3.74%) Google
3 156 (3.24%) Databricks
4 148 (3.07%) Salesforce
5 113 (2.35%) VMware
6 102 (2.12%) ServiceNow
7 97 (2.01%) Splunk
8 90 (1.87%) Oracle
9 82 (1.70%) Red Hat
10 57 (1.18%) SAP
11 55 (1.14%) Pega
12 44 (0.91%) MuleSoft
13 42 (0.87%) Dynatrace
14 40 (0.83%) Cisco
15 39 (0.81%) Facebook
16 36 (0.75%) OpenAI
17 29 (0.60%) Apple
18 28 (0.58%) YouTube
19 27 (0.56%) Palo Alto
20 26 (0.54%) Foundry