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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 20 13
Rank change year-on-year -9 -7 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 3,268 5,138 6,093
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.04% 7.85% 11.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.18% 9.19% 12.75%
Number of salaries quoted 2,214 3,141 5,011
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,308 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -0.99% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - - +0.81%

All Process and 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 45,531 55,918 47,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.16% 85.44% 93.76%
Number of salaries quoted 27,749 29,151 36,831
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £99,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -0.94%

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 2025. 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 -13 2,778 £70,000 - 1,196
UK excluding London -17 1,761 £62,500 - 1,079
Work from Home -7 1,324 £69,442 +2.88% 634
London -2 1,275 £80,500 -2.42% 508
North of England -24 464 £62,500 +4.17% 196
South East -30 407 £65,000 -0.38% 458
Midlands -7 278 £65,000 - 119
Scotland -1 259 £67,500 +12.50% 78
North West -21 230 £65,000 +4.00% 83
West Midlands +5 218 £65,000 - 76
South West -18 177 £60,000 -7.69% 141
Yorkshire -13 172 £60,000 - 76
East of England -25 95 £65,000 +23.81% 70
Wales -9 68 £57,500 +4.55% 42
North East -3 64 £50,000 -13.74% 38
East Midlands -12 57 £60,000 - 41
Northern Ireland +7 22 £77,217 +11.41% 6
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

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
1 107 (3.27%) Confluence
2 72 (2.20%) Apache Spark
3 56 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
3 56 (1.71%) SharePoint
4 51 (1.56%) Apache
5 42 (1.29%) IIS
6 28 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
7 25 (0.76%) nginx
8 24 (0.73%) CMS
9 15 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 12 (0.37%) Appian
11 8 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 8 (0.24%) Tomcat
12 5 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 5 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
12 5 (0.15%) Camunda
12 5 (0.15%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
13 4 (0.12%) JBoss
13 4 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 53 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
4 13 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 6 (0.18%) Trello
7 4 (0.12%) PlantUML
8 3 (0.092%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.092%) Siemens NX
8 3 (0.092%) S-PLUS
8 3 (0.092%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.061%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.061%) Sketch
10 1 (0.031%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.031%) Maya
10 1 (0.031%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 60 (1.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 36 (1.10%) Oracle ERP
3 24 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
5 9 (0.28%) SAP FS
6 8 (0.24%) Endur
6 8 (0.24%) Shopify
7 6 (0.18%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.12%) SAP IBP
8 4 (0.12%) SAP MII
8 4 (0.12%) SAP MM
8 4 (0.12%) SAP PP
9 3 (0.092%) Markit EDM
9 3 (0.092%) SAP CX
9 3 (0.092%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.061%) Dynamics AX
10 2 (0.061%) Elite 3E
10 2 (0.061%) Workday HCM
11 1 (0.031%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 1,928 (59.00%) Azure
2 1,142 (34.94%) AWS
3 998 (30.54%) Azure DevOps
4 508 (15.54%) GitHub
5 384 (11.75%) GCP
6 327 (10.01%) Power Platform
7 303 (9.27%) SaaS
8 289 (8.84%) Serverless
9 245 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
10 187 (5.72%) PaaS
11 161 (4.93%) AWS CloudFormation
12 145 (4.44%) Amazon S3
13 134 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
14 133 (4.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 133 (4.07%) Entra ID
15 128 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
16 126 (3.86%) Dynamics 365
17 115 (3.52%) Snowflake
18 112 (3.43%) dbt
19 109 (3.34%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 128 (3.92%) Firewall
2 97 (2.97%) DNS
3 60 (1.84%) VPN
4 59 (1.81%) TCP/IP
5 58 (1.77%) WAN
6 50 (1.53%) Network Security
7 42 (1.29%) LAN
8 41 (1.25%) HTTP
9 28 (0.86%) DHCP
10 22 (0.67%) SAN
10 22 (0.67%) SSH
10 22 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
11 20 (0.61%) FTP
11 20 (0.61%) SMTP
12 19 (0.58%) Broadband
13 16 (0.49%) SD-WAN
14 15 (0.46%) BGP
15 14 (0.43%) Wireless
16 13 (0.40%) VLAN
17 12 (0.37%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 320 (9.79%) SQL Server
2 197 (6.03%) Power BI
3 164 (5.02%) Data Warehouse
4 148 (4.53%) NoSQL
5 140 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
6 96 (2.94%) Relational Database
7 95 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
8 86 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 72 (2.20%) Data Lake
10 62 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 60 (1.84%) Tableau
12 59 (1.81%) Big Data
13 57 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
14 54 (1.65%) DynamoDB
15 49 (1.50%) MongoDB
15 49 (1.50%) MySQL
16 48 (1.47%) Metadata
17 47 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
18 42 (1.29%) BigQuery
19 39 (1.19%) Redis
Development Applications
1 409 (12.52%) Git
2 355 (10.86%) Jenkins
3 288 (8.81%) JIRA
4 194 (5.94%) GitLab
5 93 (2.85%) Selenium
6 53 (1.62%) SonarQube
7 51 (1.56%) Cypress.io
8 46 (1.41%) TeamCity
9 45 (1.38%) Bitbucket
9 45 (1.38%) Octopus Deploy
10 35 (1.07%) Cucumber
11 34 (1.04%) JMeter
12 32 (0.98%) Postman
13 31 (0.95%) Oracle Forms
14 28 (0.86%) JUnit
14 28 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
14 28 (0.86%) Vagrant
15 26 (0.80%) Artifactory
16 23 (0.70%) Visual Studio
17 22 (0.67%) Robot Framework
General
1 945 (28.92%) Social Skills
2 879 (26.90%) Finance
3 360 (11.02%) Analytical Skills
4 220 (6.73%) Law
5 171 (5.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 155 (4.74%) Banking
7 148 (4.53%) Retail
8 146 (4.47%) Marketing
8 146 (4.47%) Public Sector
9 71 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
10 69 (2.11%) Games
11 63 (1.93%) Manufacturing
12 60 (1.84%) Financial Institution
13 59 (1.81%) Telecoms
14 51 (1.56%) Legal
15 44 (1.35%) Back Office
16 41 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
17 35 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
18 30 (0.92%) Front Office
19 26 (0.80%) Police
Job Titles
1 627 (19.19%) Senior
2 557 (17.04%) Developer
3 460 (14.08%) Lead
4 434 (13.28%) DevOps Engineer
5 304 (9.30%) Architect
6 223 (6.82%) Software Engineer
7 194 (5.94%) Cloud Engineer
8 151 (4.62%) Senior Developer
9 142 (4.35%) Data Engineer
10 141 (4.31%) Azure Engineer
11 138 (4.22%) Analyst
12 135 (4.13%) Solutions Architect
13 129 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
14 102 (3.12%) Full-Stack Developer
15 93 (2.85%) AWS Engineer
16 89 (2.72%) .NET Developer
17 87 (2.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 87 (2.66%) Senior DevOps
18 79 (2.42%) Support Engineer
19 74 (2.26%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 517 (15.82%) .NET
2 331 (10.13%) React
3 218 (6.67%) RESTful
4 206 (6.30%) REST
5 162 (4.96%) HTML
6 160 (4.90%) CSS
7 153 (4.68%) Kafka
8 137 (4.19%) Node.js
9 130 (3.98%) .NET Framework
10 124 (3.79%) AngularJS
11 121 (3.70%) Spring
12 112 (3.43%) Spring Boot
13 103 (3.15%) .NET Core
14 97 (2.97%) Middleware
15 92 (2.82%) YAML
16 84 (2.57%) ASP.NET
16 84 (2.57%) SOAP
17 81 (2.48%) JSON
18 76 (2.33%) OAuth
19 72 (2.20%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 495 (15.15%) Cloud Native
2 253 (7.74%) Product Ownership
3 119 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
4 115 (3.52%) Management Information System
5 109 (3.34%) Enterprise Software
6 89 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
7 87 (2.66%) Onboarding
8 74 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
9 56 (1.71%) Algorithms
10 55 (1.68%) Data Centre
10 55 (1.68%) Public Cloud
11 49 (1.50%) Security Posture
12 48 (1.47%) Mobile App
13 46 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
13 46 (1.41%) Low-Code
14 45 (1.38%) Virtual Team
15 44 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
16 40 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
17 33 (1.01%) IoT
18 31 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 347 (10.62%) Linux
2 265 (8.11%) Windows
3 78 (2.39%) Windows Server
4 62 (1.90%) Unix
5 61 (1.87%) VMS
6 37 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 31 (0.95%) Android
8 25 (0.76%) Ubuntu
9 24 (0.73%) Apple iOS
10 23 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
11 18 (0.55%) Amazon Linux
12 17 (0.52%) Debian
13 15 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
14 10 (0.31%) CentOS
15 7 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
16 4 (0.12%) Mac OS
17 3 (0.092%) Windows 10
18 2 (0.061%) AIX
18 2 (0.061%) Solaris
18 2 (0.061%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,737 (53.15%) CI/CD
2 1,475 (45.13%) Agile
3 749 (22.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 714 (21.85%) Problem-Solving
5 617 (18.88%) Continuous Improvement
6 583 (17.84%) Mentoring
7 557 (17.04%) AI
8 509 (15.58%) Software Engineering
9 502 (15.36%) Test Automation
10 483 (14.78%) Microservices
11 462 (14.14%) Containerisation
12 377 (11.54%) Analytics
13 363 (11.11%) Roadmaps
14 348 (10.65%) Observability
15 344 (10.53%) Coaching
16 332 (10.16%) Scrum
17 319 (9.76%) Computer Science
18 287 (8.78%) SDLC
19 271 (8.29%) Machine Learning
20 269 (8.23%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 962 (29.44%) Python
2 749 (22.92%) SQL
3 513 (15.70%) C#
4 411 (12.58%) PowerShell
5 409 (12.52%) Java
6 360 (11.02%) JavaScript
7 274 (8.38%) Bash
8 255 (7.80%) TypeScript
9 137 (4.19%) Bicep
10 111 (3.40%) Go
11 64 (1.96%) T-SQL
12 58 (1.77%) Apex Code
13 53 (1.62%) Groovy
14 49 (1.50%) Shell Script
15 43 (1.32%) C++
16 40 (1.22%) PL/SQL
17 34 (1.04%) Scala
18 30 (0.92%) Perl
18 30 (0.92%) PHP
19 24 (0.73%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 469 (14.35%) Degree
2 352 (10.77%) Security Cleared
3 251 (7.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 251 (7.68%) SC Cleared
4 160 (4.90%) Azure Certification
5 121 (3.70%) AWS Certification
6 117 (3.58%) Master's Degree
7 90 (2.75%) DV Cleared
8 64 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
9 55 (1.68%) ISTQB
10 44 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 40 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
12 38 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
13 35 (1.07%) PhD
14 31 (0.95%) CISSP
15 26 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
16 25 (0.76%) CCNP
17 23 (0.70%) Chartered Engineer
18 22 (0.67%) PMP
19 21 (0.64%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 360 (11.02%) QA
2 127 (3.89%) GDPR
2 127 (3.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 104 (3.18%) Accessibility
4 86 (2.63%) Data Quality
5 77 (2.36%) NIST
6 41 (1.25%) NCSC
7 31 (0.95%) SLA
8 27 (0.83%) PCI DSS
9 25 (0.76%) PMO
10 23 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 23 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 20 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
12 19 (0.58%) SOC 2
13 18 (0.55%) ISO 9001
14 16 (0.49%) WCAG
15 15 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 14 (0.43%) HIPAA
17 10 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
18 9 (0.28%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 640 (19.58%) Docker
2 148 (4.53%) Active Directory
3 71 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (0.67%) vSphere
6 19 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
7 18 (0.55%) DFS Replication
7 18 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.43%) NFS
9 11 (0.34%) Postfix
10 9 (0.28%) HDFS
11 8 (0.24%) Hyper-V
12 7 (0.21%) Dovecot
12 7 (0.21%) Squid
13 6 (0.18%) Firmware
14 5 (0.15%) Kamailio
15 4 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
16 3 (0.092%) vCloud
17 2 (0.061%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 850 (26.01%) Terraform
2 726 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 318 (9.73%) Ansible
4 217 (6.64%) Grafana
5 189 (5.78%) Prometheus
6 47 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
7 43 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
8 38 (1.16%) Argo
9 21 (0.64%) Puppet
10 18 (0.55%) SCCM
11 16 (0.49%) Progress Chef
12 14 (0.43%) Kibana
13 13 (0.40%) Red Hat Satellite
14 12 (0.37%) AWS Copilot
14 12 (0.37%) vCenter Server
15 11 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
16 9 (0.28%) HP Fortify
16 9 (0.28%) Rancher
17 8 (0.24%) Kubeflow
17 8 (0.24%) Nessus
Vendors
1 694 (21.24%) Microsoft
2 143 (4.38%) Databricks
3 127 (3.89%) Google
4 124 (3.79%) Salesforce
5 122 (3.73%) Oracle
6 104 (3.18%) VMware
7 87 (2.66%) ServiceNow
8 74 (2.26%) Splunk
9 71 (2.17%) Red Hat
10 65 (1.99%) SAP
11 57 (1.74%) Cisco
12 42 (1.29%) Guidewire
13 39 (1.19%) OpenAI
14 33 (1.01%) Palo Alto
15 31 (0.95%) SolarWinds
16 30 (0.92%) IBM
17 27 (0.83%) Fortinet
18 25 (0.76%) MuleSoft
19 22 (0.67%) Okta
20 21 (0.64%) Dynatrace