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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 21 21
Rank change year-on-year -9 0 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,557 3,840 5,471
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.78% 7.82% 7.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.55% 8.82% 8.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,856 2,178 3,479
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 £88,148 £87,500 £87,500
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% -3.85%

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 84,797 43,558 63,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.01% 88.68% 81.33%
Number of salaries quoted 58,554 24,566 35,554
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,781 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -10 4,799 £72,500 +3.57% 5,358
UK excluding London -5 3,566 £65,000 - 2,814
Work from Home -4 1,888 £69,310 -0.99% 2,479
London -10 1,573 £85,000 +6.25% 2,939
North of England +3 1,268 £68,724 +5.73% 813
South East -7 705 £65,000 - 633
North West +5 698 £70,000 +7.69% 477
South West +23 538 £75,000 +20.00% 348
Midlands -21 443 £65,000 - 325
Yorkshire +16 292 £70,000 +7.69% 212
North East +19 281 £60,000 - 130
West Midlands -27 258 £70,000 +7.69% 194
Wales +2 202 £54,500 -0.91% 73
East of England -2 195 £56,000 -13.85% 255
East Midlands +5 185 £60,000 +4.35% 131
Scotland -19 121 £60,000 -9.43% 266
Northern Ireland -7 114 £72,246 -44.43% 110
Isle of Man +1 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
1 110 (1.98%) SharePoint
2 109 (1.96%) Apache Spark
3 107 (1.93%) Confluence
4 82 (1.48%) Apache
5 42 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
5 42 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
6 30 (0.54%) CMS
7 28 (0.50%) IIS
8 24 (0.43%) OpenStack
9 15 (0.27%) Jupyter
10 13 (0.23%) nginx
10 13 (0.23%) SAS
11 10 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
12 9 (0.16%) Umbraco
13 8 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
13 8 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
13 8 (0.14%) WordPress
14 7 (0.13%) Camunda
15 5 (0.090%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 65 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
2 45 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
4 26 (0.47%) MS Visio
5 25 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 21 (0.38%) PlantUML
7 20 (0.36%) Chatbot
8 13 (0.23%) Trello
9 7 (0.13%) Simulink
10 3 (0.054%) Blender
10 3 (0.054%) Maya
10 3 (0.054%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.036%) Lightworks
12 1 (0.018%) Notion
12 1 (0.018%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 88 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (0.25%) Elite 3E
4 7 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
4 7 (0.13%) Teamcenter
5 6 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
5 6 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
6 5 (0.090%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.090%) Visualfiles
7 4 (0.072%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.072%) Oracle Applications
7 4 (0.072%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.072%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.072%) Shopify
8 3 (0.054%) Carpe Diem
8 3 (0.054%) Distributed Ledger
8 3 (0.054%) Infor SunSystems
8 3 (0.054%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.054%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2,911 (52.38%) Azure
2 1,799 (32.37%) AWS
3 1,475 (26.54%) Azure DevOps
4 610 (10.98%) GCP
5 559 (10.06%) GitHub
6 495 (8.91%) Serverless
7 447 (8.04%) SaaS
8 428 (7.70%) Power Platform
9 304 (5.47%) GitHub Actions
10 283 (5.09%) AWS CloudFormation
11 221 (3.98%) Dynamics 365
12 217 (3.90%) Amazon S3
13 212 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
14 203 (3.65%) PaaS
15 175 (3.15%) Azure Data Factory
16 168 (3.02%) Amazon EKS
16 168 (3.02%) Azure AKS
17 167 (3.01%) Entra ID
17 167 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
18 157 (2.83%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 129 (2.32%) Firewall
2 92 (1.66%) DNS
3 84 (1.51%) VPN
4 60 (1.08%) TCP/IP
5 58 (1.04%) Internet
6 48 (0.86%) Network Security
7 28 (0.50%) DHCP
8 26 (0.47%) HTTP
9 21 (0.38%) Broadband
10 16 (0.29%) MQTT
11 15 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
12 14 (0.25%) DMARC
12 14 (0.25%) Wireless
13 13 (0.23%) SAN
14 12 (0.22%) BGP
14 12 (0.22%) WAN
15 11 (0.20%) SSH
16 10 (0.18%) LAN
17 9 (0.16%) OSPF
17 9 (0.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 354 (6.37%) SQL Server
2 302 (5.43%) Azure SQL Database
3 292 (5.25%) MongoDB
4 245 (4.41%) Power BI
5 218 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
6 202 (3.64%) NoSQL
7 143 (2.57%) Data Warehouse
8 125 (2.25%) MySQL
9 119 (2.14%) Relational Database
10 106 (1.91%) DynamoDB
11 102 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
12 99 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
13 97 (1.75%) Data Lake
14 93 (1.67%) Metadata
15 77 (1.39%) Redis
16 49 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
17 46 (0.83%) Delta Lake
18 44 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
19 41 (0.74%) Big Data
20 38 (0.68%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 681 (12.25%) Git
2 411 (7.40%) Jenkins
3 396 (7.13%) GitLab
4 353 (6.35%) JIRA
5 89 (1.60%) Selenium
6 69 (1.24%) SonarQube
7 61 (1.10%) Cypress.io
8 58 (1.04%) Maven
9 51 (0.92%) JUnit
10 49 (0.88%) TeamCity
11 48 (0.86%) Postman
12 40 (0.72%) Cucumber
13 39 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 28 (0.50%) Bitbucket
14 28 (0.50%) JMeter
15 27 (0.49%) Claude Code
15 27 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
16 21 (0.38%) NUnit
17 18 (0.32%) Visual Studio
17 18 (0.32%) Zephyr
General
1 1,305 (23.48%) Social Skills
2 1,070 (19.25%) Finance
3 508 (9.14%) Public Sector
4 470 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
5 337 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 244 (4.39%) Banking
7 213 (3.83%) Law
8 172 (3.10%) Retail
9 168 (3.02%) Legal
10 85 (1.53%) Marketing
11 75 (1.35%) Financial Institution
12 59 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
13 57 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
14 54 (0.97%) Manufacturing
15 50 (0.90%) Aerospace
16 49 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
16 49 (0.88%) Telecoms
17 47 (0.85%) Back Office
18 45 (0.81%) Advertising
19 37 (0.67%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,373 (24.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,275 (22.94%) Senior
3 894 (16.09%) Developer
4 711 (12.79%) Lead
5 426 (7.67%) Architect
6 391 (7.04%) Software Engineer
7 353 (6.35%) Azure Engineer
8 316 (5.69%) Senior DevOps
9 299 (5.38%) Cloud Engineer
10 293 (5.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 241 (4.34%) Platform Engineer
12 240 (4.32%) .NET Developer
13 220 (3.96%) Senior Developer
14 217 (3.90%) Data Engineer
15 185 (3.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 170 (3.06%) Lead DevOps
17 154 (2.77%) AWS Engineer
18 143 (2.57%) Solutions Architect
19 141 (2.54%) Consultant
20 132 (2.38%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,364 (24.55%) Terraform
2 733 (13.19%) .NET
3 425 (7.65%) React
4 348 (6.26%) REST
5 339 (6.10%) RESTful
6 332 (5.97%) Node.js
7 298 (5.36%) ASP.NET
8 269 (4.84%) .NET Core
9 267 (4.80%) Spring
10 265 (4.77%) Spring Boot
11 233 (4.19%) CSS
12 232 (4.17%) HTML
13 228 (4.10%) ASP.NET Core
14 227 (4.08%) Kafka
15 172 (3.10%) AngularJS
16 138 (2.48%) Entity Framework
17 135 (2.43%) Blazor
18 121 (2.18%) Middleware
19 117 (2.11%) JSON
20 105 (1.89%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1,019 (18.34%) Cloud Native
2 353 (6.35%) Product Ownership
3 271 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
4 232 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
5 167 (3.01%) Onboarding
6 128 (2.30%) Virtual Team
7 116 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
8 98 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
9 83 (1.49%) Management Information System
10 75 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
11 70 (1.26%) Data Centre
11 70 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
12 68 (1.22%) Mobile App
13 67 (1.21%) Cyber Threat
14 65 (1.17%) Public Cloud
15 63 (1.13%) AI Agents
16 57 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
17 53 (0.95%) Private Cloud
18 50 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
19 49 (0.88%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 586 (10.55%) Linux
2 257 (4.62%) Windows
3 106 (1.91%) Unix
4 72 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 67 (1.21%) Windows Server
6 50 (0.90%) CentOS
7 40 (0.72%) Ubuntu
8 38 (0.68%) VMS
9 32 (0.58%) Android
10 16 (0.29%) Debian
11 15 (0.27%) Apple iOS
12 10 (0.18%) Rocky
13 7 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
14 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.090%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.072%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.072%) Solaris
16 4 (0.072%) Windows Server 2019
17 3 (0.054%) AIX
17 3 (0.054%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,841 (51.12%) CI/CD
2 2,029 (36.51%) Agile
3 1,359 (24.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,093 (19.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,069 (19.24%) Mentoring
6 1,018 (18.32%) AI
7 1,016 (18.28%) Software Engineering
8 925 (16.65%) Problem-Solving
9 859 (15.46%) Test Automation
10 747 (13.44%) Microservices
11 708 (12.74%) Containerisation
12 684 (12.31%) Platform Engineering
13 616 (11.09%) Observability
14 611 (11.00%) Technical Leadership
15 575 (10.35%) Stakeholder Management
16 564 (10.15%) Roadmaps
17 531 (9.56%) Scrum
18 528 (9.50%) Full-Stack Development
19 503 (9.05%) Analytics
20 401 (7.22%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,316 (23.68%) Python
2 994 (17.89%) SQL
3 815 (14.67%) C#
4 725 (13.05%) Java
5 662 (11.91%) JavaScript
6 428 (7.70%) TypeScript
7 392 (7.05%) PowerShell
8 390 (7.02%) Bash
9 164 (2.95%) Bicep
10 130 (2.34%) Go
11 118 (2.12%) C++
12 55 (0.99%) Groovy
12 55 (0.99%) PHP
13 54 (0.97%) T-SQL
14 53 (0.95%) Scala
15 46 (0.83%) C
15 46 (0.83%) Shell Script
16 45 (0.81%) Kotlin
17 40 (0.72%) Apex Code
18 38 (0.68%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,051 (18.91%) Security Cleared
2 702 (12.63%) SC Cleared
3 512 (9.21%) Degree
4 300 (5.40%) DV Cleared
5 194 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 188 (3.38%) Azure Certification
7 108 (1.94%) AWS Certification
8 101 (1.82%) Master's Degree
9 80 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 77 (1.39%) CISSP
10 77 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
11 75 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
12 67 (1.21%) CISM
13 55 (0.99%) ISTQB
14 37 (0.67%) PMI Certification
15 25 (0.45%) DBS Check
15 25 (0.45%) PhD
16 24 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 24 (0.43%) PMP
17 22 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 554 (9.97%) QA
2 212 (3.82%) Data Quality
3 188 (3.38%) Accessibility
4 124 (2.23%) GDPR
5 98 (1.76%) NIST
6 74 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 62 (1.12%) WCAG
8 49 (0.88%) ISO 22301
9 39 (0.70%) GRC
10 35 (0.63%) SLA
11 28 (0.50%) PCI DSS
11 28 (0.50%) PMO
12 26 (0.47%) NCSC
13 18 (0.32%) SOC 2
14 12 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
14 12 (0.22%) HIPAA
14 12 (0.22%) TickIT
15 10 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
16 9 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 9 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 931 (16.75%) Docker
2 143 (2.57%) Active Directory
3 82 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (0.47%) vSphere
6 20 (0.36%) Firmware
7 19 (0.34%) Hyper-V
7 19 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.14%) NDS
9 7 (0.13%) Ceph
10 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.090%) KVM
12 4 (0.072%) iptables
12 4 (0.072%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.054%) Xen
14 2 (0.036%) Embedded Firmware
14 2 (0.036%) VMware ESXi
14 2 (0.036%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.018%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.018%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,048 (18.86%) Kubernetes
2 471 (8.48%) Ansible
3 246 (4.43%) Grafana
4 179 (3.22%) Prometheus
5 81 (1.46%) Argo
6 65 (1.17%) Puppet
7 42 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
8 27 (0.49%) Istio
8 27 (0.49%) Kibana
9 25 (0.45%) Nagios
9 25 (0.45%) Rancher
10 21 (0.38%) Progress Chef
11 20 (0.36%) HP Fortify
12 15 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
13 14 (0.25%) logstash
13 14 (0.25%) Podman
14 13 (0.23%) Packer
15 11 (0.20%) Proxmox
15 11 (0.20%) ZABBIX
16 8 (0.14%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 1,151 (20.71%) Microsoft
2 218 (3.92%) Google
3 189 (3.40%) Databricks
4 127 (2.29%) Oracle
5 119 (2.14%) Salesforce
6 116 (2.09%) VMware
7 97 (1.75%) ServiceNow
8 87 (1.57%) Splunk
9 77 (1.39%) SAP
10 76 (1.37%) Red Hat
11 55 (0.99%) OpenAI
12 51 (0.92%) Cisco
13 49 (0.88%) Dynatrace
14 44 (0.79%) Pega
15 41 (0.74%) Facebook
16 38 (0.68%) AppDynamics
16 38 (0.68%) YouTube
17 33 (0.59%) MuleSoft
18 28 (0.50%) Foundry
18 28 (0.50%) IBM