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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 20 26
Rank change year-on-year -8 +6 -13
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,323 3,982 7,184
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.68% 9.06% 6.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.40% 9.75% 8.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,106 2,329 5,230
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,471 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,250 £101,250
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 67,549 40,838 86,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.19% 92.97% 82.99%
Number of salaries quoted 45,324 21,582 61,408
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -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 6 June 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 6 June 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 3,829 £70,000 -2.77% 1,627
UK excluding London -11 2,547 £65,000 - 1,102
Work from Home -6 1,513 £69,305 -0.99% 904
London -8 1,422 £82,500 +3.13% 692
North of England -5 911 £70,000 +3.70% 327
South East -12 565 £65,000 - 312
North West -5 480 £70,000 +0.89% 194
South West -15 351 £65,000 - 137
Midlands -25 336 £67,500 +12.50% 128
Yorkshire 0 271 £70,000 - 88
West Midlands -41 193 £64,250 +7.08% 89
North East +9 160 £60,000 -7.69% 46
East of England -6 158 £61,300 -5.69% 79
East Midlands -1 140 £70,000 +27.27% 39
Scotland -4 136 £55,000 -26.67% 63
Wales -3 86 £53,135 -11.44% 31
Northern Ireland -39 8 £73,151 +4.50% 42
Isle of Man +2 3 £35,000 -33.33%

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 81 (1.87%) Confluence
2 77 (1.78%) SharePoint
3 56 (1.30%) Apache
4 55 (1.27%) Apache Spark
5 48 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
6 38 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
7 28 (0.65%) CMS
8 25 (0.58%) IIS
9 16 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
10 11 (0.25%) OpenStack
10 11 (0.25%) SAS
11 9 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
11 9 (0.21%) Umbraco
12 8 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
13 7 (0.16%) Apache Solr
13 7 (0.16%) Jupyter
13 7 (0.16%) Moodle
13 7 (0.16%) nginx
13 7 (0.16%) WordPress
14 6 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 35 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
2 32 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 13 (0.30%) PlantUML
5 12 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
8 6 (0.14%) Simulink
9 4 (0.093%) Maya
10 3 (0.069%) Blender
10 3 (0.069%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.046%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.046%) Trello
12 1 (0.023%) EngageOne
12 1 (0.023%) Lightworks
12 1 (0.023%) Notion
12 1 (0.023%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 70 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.30%) SAP ERP
4 8 (0.19%) Endur
5 6 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.12%) Visualfiles
7 4 (0.093%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.093%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.069%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.069%) Magento
8 3 (0.069%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.069%) Shopify
9 2 (0.046%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.046%) Fidessa
9 2 (0.046%) Infor SunSystems
9 2 (0.046%) Markit EDM
10 1 (0.023%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.023%) SAP FI
10 1 (0.023%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 2,269 (52.49%) Azure
2 1,386 (32.06%) AWS
3 1,114 (25.77%) Azure DevOps
4 483 (11.17%) GCP
5 472 (10.92%) GitHub
6 437 (10.11%) Serverless
7 325 (7.52%) Power Platform
8 270 (6.25%) SaaS
9 255 (5.90%) GitHub Actions
10 229 (5.30%) Amazon S3
11 219 (5.07%) AWS CloudFormation
12 214 (4.95%) AWS Lambda
13 169 (3.91%) PaaS
14 157 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
15 147 (3.40%) Entra ID
16 141 (3.26%) Azure AKS
17 140 (3.24%) Amazon ECS
18 136 (3.15%) Amazon EKS
19 134 (3.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 132 (3.05%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 143 (3.31%) Firewall
2 92 (2.13%) DNS
3 65 (1.50%) Broadband
4 58 (1.34%) TCP/IP
5 49 (1.13%) VPN
6 38 (0.88%) Network Security
7 34 (0.79%) HTTP
8 27 (0.62%) DHCP
8 27 (0.62%) WAN
9 23 (0.53%) LAN
10 11 (0.25%) MQTT
11 10 (0.23%) BGP
11 10 (0.23%) SAN
11 10 (0.23%) Wireless
12 8 (0.19%) HTTPS
12 8 (0.19%) Internet
13 7 (0.16%) DMARC
14 6 (0.14%) OSPF
14 6 (0.14%) VXLAN
14 6 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 236 (5.46%) SQL Server
2 201 (4.65%) NoSQL
3 184 (4.26%) Power BI
4 169 (3.91%) MongoDB
5 165 (3.82%) Azure SQL Database
6 143 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
7 109 (2.52%) DynamoDB
8 90 (2.08%) Relational Database
9 83 (1.92%) Data Lake
10 81 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
11 80 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
12 71 (1.64%) MySQL
13 64 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
14 63 (1.46%) Metadata
15 48 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
16 38 (0.88%) BigQuery
17 34 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
17 34 (0.79%) Delta Lake
18 32 (0.74%) Big Data
18 32 (0.74%) Redis
Development Applications
1 463 (10.71%) Git
2 393 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 369 (8.54%) GitLab
4 254 (5.88%) JIRA
5 98 (2.27%) SonarQube
6 82 (1.90%) Cypress.io
7 81 (1.87%) Selenium
8 61 (1.41%) Maven
9 45 (1.04%) Postman
10 35 (0.81%) Cucumber
11 34 (0.79%) JUnit
12 33 (0.76%) Bitbucket
12 33 (0.76%) CircleCI
13 32 (0.74%) TeamCity
14 27 (0.62%) Eclipse
15 26 (0.60%) JMeter
16 24 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
17 21 (0.49%) Visual Studio
18 20 (0.46%) REST Assured
19 18 (0.42%) Jaeger
General
1 909 (21.03%) Finance
2 884 (20.45%) Social Skills
3 348 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
4 285 (6.59%) Public Sector
5 256 (5.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 232 (5.37%) Banking
7 135 (3.12%) Retail
8 125 (2.89%) Law
9 100 (2.31%) Marketing
10 78 (1.80%) Legal
11 74 (1.71%) Games
12 47 (1.09%) Manufacturing
13 45 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
13 45 (1.04%) Telecoms
14 43 (0.99%) Advertising
15 40 (0.93%) Financial Institution
16 36 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
17 32 (0.74%) Billing
18 31 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
19 30 (0.69%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 948 (21.93%) DevOps Engineer
2 869 (20.10%) Senior
3 750 (17.35%) Developer
4 607 (14.04%) Lead
5 357 (8.26%) Architect
6 326 (7.54%) Software Engineer
7 324 (7.49%) Azure Engineer
8 250 (5.78%) Cloud Engineer
9 211 (4.88%) Senior DevOps
10 195 (4.51%) Senior Developer
11 184 (4.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 176 (4.07%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 168 (3.89%) Data Engineer
14 155 (3.59%) Platform Engineer
15 151 (3.49%) AWS Engineer
16 146 (3.38%) Solutions Architect
17 143 (3.31%) Java Developer
18 134 (3.10%) Lead DevOps
19 122 (2.82%) .NET Developer
20 111 (2.57%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 519 (12.01%) .NET
2 372 (8.61%) React
3 277 (6.41%) REST
4 270 (6.25%) Node.js
5 238 (5.51%) RESTful
6 184 (4.26%) Spring Boot
7 171 (3.96%) CSS
8 170 (3.93%) Spring
9 167 (3.86%) ASP.NET
10 166 (3.84%) HTML
11 157 (3.63%) .NET Core
12 155 (3.59%) Kafka
13 152 (3.52%) AngularJS
14 119 (2.75%) ASP.NET Core
15 108 (2.50%) SOAP
16 103 (2.38%) YAML
17 98 (2.27%) Middleware
18 97 (2.24%) OAuth
19 96 (2.22%) PySpark
20 90 (2.08%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 626 (14.48%) Cloud Native
2 290 (6.71%) Product Ownership
3 153 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
4 122 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
5 91 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
6 78 (1.80%) Management Information System
7 75 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
8 69 (1.60%) Onboarding
9 68 (1.57%) Mobile App
10 61 (1.41%) Data Centre
11 55 (1.27%) Public Cloud
12 52 (1.20%) Data Structures
12 52 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
13 50 (1.16%) Algorithms
14 46 (1.06%) Low-Code
15 36 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
16 34 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
16 34 (0.79%) Security Posture
17 30 (0.69%) Virtual Team
18 28 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 432 (9.99%) Linux
2 185 (4.28%) Windows
3 85 (1.97%) Unix
4 72 (1.67%) Windows Server
5 54 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 47 (1.09%) Ubuntu
7 33 (0.76%) CentOS
7 33 (0.76%) VMS
8 31 (0.72%) Android
9 26 (0.60%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.19%) Debian
12 4 (0.093%) Kali Linux
12 4 (0.093%) Rocky
12 4 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.069%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.046%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.046%) Embedded Linux
15 1 (0.023%) SUSE
15 1 (0.023%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,187 (50.59%) CI/CD
2 1,516 (35.07%) Agile
3 1,050 (24.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 778 (18.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 719 (16.63%) Mentoring
6 717 (16.59%) Problem-Solving
7 696 (16.10%) Software Engineering
8 664 (15.36%) AI
9 620 (14.34%) Test Automation
10 575 (13.30%) Containerisation
11 574 (13.28%) Microservices
12 465 (10.76%) Observability
13 456 (10.55%) Roadmaps
14 442 (10.22%) Platform Engineering
15 440 (10.18%) Full-Stack Development
16 430 (9.95%) Analytics
17 420 (9.72%) Scrum
18 384 (8.88%) Technical Leadership
19 306 (7.08%) Data Modelling
20 291 (6.73%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1,060 (24.52%) Python
2 780 (18.04%) SQL
3 601 (13.90%) Java
4 522 (12.07%) C#
5 481 (11.13%) JavaScript
6 365 (8.44%) Bash
7 331 (7.66%) TypeScript
8 267 (6.18%) PowerShell
9 145 (3.35%) Go
10 125 (2.89%) C++
11 123 (2.85%) Bicep
12 80 (1.85%) Apex Code
13 57 (1.32%) PHP
14 53 (1.23%) Groovy
15 47 (1.09%) SOQL
16 46 (1.06%) Scala
17 44 (1.02%) SOSL
18 43 (0.99%) C
19 40 (0.93%) Kotlin
20 34 (0.79%) Rust
Qualifications
1 632 (14.62%) Security Cleared
2 443 (10.25%) Degree
3 383 (8.86%) SC Cleared
4 171 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 162 (3.75%) DV Cleared
6 104 (2.41%) AWS Certification
7 103 (2.38%) Azure Certification
8 94 (2.17%) Master's Degree
9 51 (1.18%) ISTQB
10 45 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
11 35 (0.81%) DBS Check
12 32 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
13 30 (0.69%) PMI Certification
14 29 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 29 (0.67%) CISSP
15 24 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 22 (0.51%) PhD
17 21 (0.49%) PMP
18 19 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
19 16 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 354 (8.19%) QA
2 169 (3.91%) Data Quality
3 146 (3.38%) Accessibility
4 91 (2.11%) GDPR
5 64 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 56 (1.30%) NIST
7 45 (1.04%) GRC
8 40 (0.93%) WCAG
9 33 (0.76%) SOC 2
10 31 (0.72%) PCI DSS
11 18 (0.42%) SLA
12 16 (0.37%) PMO
13 12 (0.28%) TickIT
14 11 (0.25%) NCSC
15 10 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
16 9 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 8 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
18 6 (0.14%) Solvency II
19 5 (0.12%) IFRS
19 5 (0.12%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 711 (16.45%) Docker
2 135 (3.12%) Active Directory
3 56 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.44%) Firmware
6 18 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 17 (0.39%) vSphere
8 7 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.12%) iptables
10 4 (0.093%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 4 (0.093%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.069%) Embedded Firmware
11 3 (0.069%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.069%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.046%) KVM
13 1 (0.023%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.023%) OpenAM
13 1 (0.023%) OpenIDM
13 1 (0.023%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,075 (24.87%) Terraform
2 777 (17.97%) Kubernetes
3 388 (8.98%) Ansible
4 217 (5.02%) Grafana
5 177 (4.09%) Prometheus
6 76 (1.76%) Argo
7 49 (1.13%) Puppet
8 39 (0.90%) Nagios
9 35 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
10 34 (0.79%) HP Fortify
11 28 (0.65%) Kibana
12 18 (0.42%) Istio
12 18 (0.42%) Kustomize
13 17 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
14 15 (0.35%) Packer
15 14 (0.32%) Rancher
16 13 (0.30%) Progress Chef
17 11 (0.25%) Proxmox
18 9 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
19 8 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 798 (18.46%) Microsoft
2 161 (3.72%) Google
3 154 (3.56%) Databricks
4 153 (3.54%) Salesforce
5 97 (2.24%) Splunk
6 94 (2.17%) VMware
7 86 (1.99%) ServiceNow
8 85 (1.97%) Oracle
9 83 (1.92%) Red Hat
10 56 (1.30%) SAP
11 40 (0.93%) MuleSoft
12 37 (0.86%) Dynatrace
13 33 (0.76%) Cisco
14 30 (0.69%) Palo Alto
15 25 (0.58%) OpenAI
16 23 (0.53%) Pega
17 21 (0.49%) Adobe
18 20 (0.46%) Apple
19 19 (0.44%) Foundry
19 19 (0.44%) SolarWinds