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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 21 24
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 -13
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,166 4,186 6,036
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.10% 8.47% 6.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.92% 9.44% 8.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3,746 2,420 4,271
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,486 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,476 £56,250 £52,125
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 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,550 £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 74,612 44,363 71,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.65% 89.74% 81.45%
Number of salaries quoted 51,478 25,172 48,522
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 27 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 27 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 4,460 £70,000 - 1,619
UK excluding London -4 3,279 £65,000 - 1,048
Work from Home -3 1,871 £67,500 -3.57% 800
London -13 1,493 £85,000 +6.25% 761
North of England +1 1,156 £69,305 +6.62% 323
South East -9 677 £65,000 - 278
North West -1 639 £70,000 +7.69% 170
South West +1 466 £70,000 +7.69% 136
Midlands -22 378 £65,500 +0.77% 152
Yorkshire +13 292 £70,000 +3.70% 81
North East +13 225 £60,000 -7.69% 74
West Midlands -26 214 £69,305 +6.62% 108
East of England +13 199 £60,000 -7.69% 65
Wales +12 173 £54,000 -6.09% 27
East Midlands +4 163 £65,000 +15.56% 44
Scotland -3 139 £60,000 -14.29% 55
Northern Ireland -8 100 £73,151 -8.56% 23
Isle of Man +2 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 97 (1.88%) Confluence
2 88 (1.70%) SharePoint
3 84 (1.63%) Apache Spark
4 71 (1.37%) Apache
5 45 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
6 40 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
7 31 (0.60%) CMS
8 29 (0.56%) IIS
9 21 (0.41%) OpenStack
10 20 (0.39%) SAS
11 14 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
12 12 (0.23%) nginx
13 11 (0.21%) Jupyter
14 10 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
15 9 (0.17%) Umbraco
15 9 (0.17%) WordPress
16 8 (0.15%) Anypoint
16 8 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
17 7 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
18 6 (0.12%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 56 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
2 43 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.39%) PlantUML
4 19 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.29%) Chatbot
5 15 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
7 12 (0.23%) Trello
8 7 (0.14%) Simulink
9 4 (0.077%) Maya
10 3 (0.058%) Blender
11 2 (0.039%) Lightworks
11 2 (0.039%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.019%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.019%) Notion
12 1 (0.019%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 75 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.15%) Elite 3E
4 7 (0.14%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.097%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.097%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.077%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.077%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.077%) Endur
6 4 (0.077%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.077%) Shopify
7 3 (0.058%) Carpe Diem
7 3 (0.058%) Infor SunSystems
7 3 (0.058%) Magento
7 3 (0.058%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.058%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.039%) Oracle Applications
8 2 (0.039%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.039%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.039%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,728 (52.81%) Azure
2 1,699 (32.89%) AWS
3 1,348 (26.09%) Azure DevOps
4 567 (10.98%) GCP
5 509 (9.85%) GitHub
6 467 (9.04%) Serverless
7 404 (7.82%) SaaS
8 357 (6.91%) Power Platform
9 268 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
10 242 (4.68%) AWS CloudFormation
11 226 (4.37%) Amazon S3
12 208 (4.03%) PaaS
13 207 (4.01%) AWS Lambda
14 165 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
15 161 (3.12%) Azure AKS
16 159 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
17 146 (2.83%) Amazon ECS
18 141 (2.73%) Amazon EKS
18 141 (2.73%) Azure Logic Apps
18 141 (2.73%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 132 (2.56%) Firewall
2 86 (1.66%) DNS
3 67 (1.30%) TCP/IP
4 63 (1.22%) VPN
5 46 (0.89%) Broadband
6 45 (0.87%) Network Security
7 35 (0.68%) HTTP
8 33 (0.64%) Internet
9 20 (0.39%) DHCP
9 20 (0.39%) LAN
10 18 (0.35%) WAN
11 16 (0.31%) MQTT
12 14 (0.27%) Wireless
13 13 (0.25%) DMARC
14 10 (0.19%) BGP
14 10 (0.19%) HTTPS
14 10 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (0.15%) Bluetooth
15 8 (0.15%) SAN
15 8 (0.15%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 289 (5.59%) SQL Server
2 274 (5.30%) MongoDB
3 263 (5.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 198 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
5 197 (3.81%) Power BI
6 181 (3.50%) NoSQL
7 107 (2.07%) MySQL
8 100 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
8 100 (1.94%) DynamoDB
9 96 (1.86%) Relational Database
10 91 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
11 87 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
12 75 (1.45%) Data Lake
13 60 (1.16%) Metadata
14 56 (1.08%) Redis
15 45 (0.87%) Big Data
16 42 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
17 39 (0.75%) Delta Lake
18 34 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
19 33 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 550 (10.65%) Git
2 412 (7.98%) GitLab
3 410 (7.94%) Jenkins
4 328 (6.35%) JIRA
5 93 (1.80%) Selenium
6 88 (1.70%) SonarQube
7 73 (1.41%) Cypress.io
8 55 (1.06%) Maven
9 54 (1.05%) Postman
10 51 (0.99%) JUnit
11 37 (0.72%) Cucumber
12 35 (0.68%) JMeter
13 33 (0.64%) TeamCity
14 32 (0.62%) Bitbucket
15 31 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 27 (0.52%) CircleCI
17 26 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
18 24 (0.46%) Visual Studio
19 21 (0.41%) REST Assured
20 19 (0.37%) Zephyr
General
1 1,128 (21.84%) Social Skills
2 974 (18.85%) Finance
3 401 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
4 391 (7.57%) Public Sector
5 308 (5.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 245 (4.74%) Banking
7 198 (3.83%) Law
8 158 (3.06%) Retail
9 141 (2.73%) Legal
10 112 (2.17%) Marketing
11 72 (1.39%) Games
12 62 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
13 56 (1.08%) Manufacturing
14 54 (1.05%) Advertising
15 51 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
16 49 (0.95%) Financial Institution
17 47 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
18 42 (0.81%) Telecoms
19 31 (0.60%) Back Office
20 26 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1,183 (22.90%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,120 (21.68%) Senior
3 882 (17.07%) Developer
4 697 (13.49%) Lead
5 414 (8.01%) Architect
6 354 (6.85%) Software Engineer
7 340 (6.58%) Azure Engineer
8 272 (5.27%) Senior DevOps
9 268 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
10 249 (4.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 226 (4.37%) .NET Developer
12 217 (4.20%) Senior Developer
13 200 (3.87%) Platform Engineer
14 191 (3.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 187 (3.62%) Data Engineer
16 169 (3.27%) Solutions Architect
17 165 (3.19%) AWS Engineer
18 149 (2.88%) Lead DevOps
19 135 (2.61%) Java Developer
20 122 (2.36%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 691 (13.38%) .NET
2 444 (8.59%) React
3 321 (6.21%) RESTful
4 319 (6.17%) REST
5 307 (5.94%) Node.js
6 288 (5.57%) ASP.NET
7 262 (5.07%) .NET Core
8 238 (4.61%) CSS
9 237 (4.59%) Spring Boot
10 234 (4.53%) HTML
11 230 (4.45%) Spring
12 223 (4.32%) ASP.NET Core
13 205 (3.97%) Kafka
14 161 (3.12%) AngularJS
15 134 (2.59%) Entity Framework
16 132 (2.56%) Blazor
16 132 (2.56%) Middleware
17 107 (2.07%) YAML
18 102 (1.97%) JSON
19 100 (1.94%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 877 (16.98%) Cloud Native
2 334 (6.47%) Product Ownership
3 237 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
4 181 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
5 139 (2.69%) Onboarding
6 105 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
7 88 (1.70%) Management Information System
7 88 (1.70%) Virtual Team
8 78 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
9 77 (1.49%) Mobile App
10 75 (1.45%) Data Centre
11 68 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
12 62 (1.20%) Public Cloud
13 60 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
14 59 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
15 50 (0.97%) Data Structures
16 46 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
17 42 (0.81%) Low-Code
17 42 (0.81%) Security Posture
18 41 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 515 (9.97%) Linux
2 244 (4.72%) Windows
3 94 (1.82%) Unix
4 72 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 72 (1.39%) Windows Server
5 50 (0.97%) CentOS
6 46 (0.89%) Ubuntu
7 37 (0.72%) VMS
8 30 (0.58%) Android
9 17 (0.33%) Apple iOS
9 17 (0.33%) Debian
10 8 (0.15%) Rocky
11 7 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
11 7 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.097%) Windows Server 2019
13 4 (0.077%) Kali Linux
14 3 (0.058%) AIX
15 2 (0.039%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.039%) FreeRTOS
15 2 (0.039%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,603 (50.39%) CI/CD
2 1,922 (37.20%) Agile
3 1,241 (24.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 995 (19.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 926 (17.92%) Mentoring
6 905 (17.52%) Software Engineering
7 861 (16.67%) AI
8 828 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
9 795 (15.39%) Test Automation
10 706 (13.67%) Microservices
11 659 (12.76%) Containerisation
12 561 (10.86%) Full-Stack Development
12 561 (10.86%) Platform Engineering
13 547 (10.59%) Observability
13 547 (10.59%) Roadmaps
14 537 (10.39%) Scrum
15 516 (9.99%) Technical Leadership
16 460 (8.90%) Analytics
17 443 (8.58%) Stakeholder Management
18 374 (7.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,222 (23.65%) Python
2 920 (17.81%) SQL
3 750 (14.52%) C#
4 666 (12.89%) Java
5 651 (12.60%) JavaScript
6 403 (7.80%) TypeScript
7 369 (7.14%) Bash
8 353 (6.83%) PowerShell
9 156 (3.02%) Bicep
10 127 (2.46%) Go
11 126 (2.44%) C++
12 70 (1.36%) Apex Code
13 64 (1.24%) PHP
14 49 (0.95%) Groovy
15 48 (0.93%) C
16 42 (0.81%) T-SQL
17 41 (0.79%) SOQL
18 40 (0.77%) Scala
19 38 (0.74%) SOSL
20 37 (0.72%) Rust
Qualifications
1 844 (16.34%) Security Cleared
2 553 (10.70%) SC Cleared
3 502 (9.72%) Degree
4 229 (4.43%) DV Cleared
5 189 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 136 (2.63%) Azure Certification
7 110 (2.13%) Master's Degree
8 82 (1.59%) CISSP
8 82 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
9 81 (1.57%) AWS Certification
10 65 (1.26%) CISM
11 60 (1.16%) ISTQB
12 49 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
13 38 (0.74%) DBS Check
14 36 (0.70%) PMI Certification
15 28 (0.54%) PMP
16 27 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
17 25 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 25 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 22 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 519 (10.05%) QA
2 172 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 166 (3.21%) Data Quality
4 118 (2.28%) GDPR
5 107 (2.07%) NIST
6 68 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 61 (1.18%) WCAG
8 48 (0.93%) GRC
8 48 (0.93%) ISO 22301
9 41 (0.79%) PCI DSS
10 27 (0.52%) SOC 2
11 25 (0.48%) PMO
12 21 (0.41%) SLA
13 19 (0.37%) NCSC
14 12 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
14 12 (0.23%) TickIT
15 10 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
15 10 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 8 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 8 (0.15%) NIST 800
System Software
1 833 (16.12%) Docker
2 130 (2.52%) Active Directory
3 76 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (0.52%) vSphere
6 22 (0.43%) Firmware
7 21 (0.41%) Hyper-V
8 13 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.14%) Ceph
10 6 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 6 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.097%) iptables
12 4 (0.077%) Embedded Firmware
12 4 (0.077%) KVM
12 4 (0.077%) NDS
13 3 (0.058%) Xen
14 2 (0.039%) VMware ESXi
14 2 (0.039%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.019%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.019%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,235 (23.91%) Terraform
2 956 (18.51%) Kubernetes
3 443 (8.58%) Ansible
4 234 (4.53%) Grafana
5 180 (3.48%) Prometheus
6 79 (1.53%) Argo
7 60 (1.16%) Puppet
8 38 (0.74%) Nagios
9 30 (0.58%) Istio
10 26 (0.50%) HP Fortify
10 26 (0.50%) Kibana
11 24 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
12 17 (0.33%) Progress Chef
13 14 (0.27%) Podman
13 14 (0.27%) Rancher
14 13 (0.25%) Packer
15 12 (0.23%) ZABBIX
16 10 (0.19%) logstash
16 10 (0.19%) Proxmox
17 9 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 993 (19.22%) Microsoft
2 188 (3.64%) Google
3 172 (3.33%) Databricks
4 149 (2.88%) Salesforce
5 108 (2.09%) VMware
6 104 (2.01%) Oracle
7 100 (1.94%) ServiceNow
7 100 (1.94%) Splunk
8 91 (1.76%) Red Hat
9 71 (1.37%) SAP
10 53 (1.03%) Pega
11 46 (0.89%) Cisco
11 46 (0.89%) Dynatrace
12 45 (0.87%) MuleSoft
13 44 (0.85%) OpenAI
14 42 (0.81%) Facebook
15 30 (0.58%) Apple
16 27 (0.52%) YouTube
17 26 (0.50%) Foundry
18 25 (0.48%) Palo Alto