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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 19 24
Rank change year-on-year -21 +5 -12
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 3,992 3,643 7,213
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.45% 8.59% 7.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.95% 9.26% 8.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,812 2,574 5,373
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,544 £55,000 £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 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -3.03%

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 67,118 39,358 81,956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.74% 92.84% 85.64%
Number of salaries quoted 41,692 22,603 59,642
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,946 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.42% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,344 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -23 3,454 £72,500 +3.57% 1,164
UK excluding London -29 2,277 £65,000 - 891
Work from Home -7 1,481 £70,000 - 643
London -10 1,363 £82,500 - 460
North of England -11 743 £70,000 +3.70% 248
South East -35 479 £65,000 - 274
North West +2 361 £70,400 +1.02% 143
South West -16 339 £60,000 -11.11% 104
Midlands -19 303 £65,500 +9.17% 96
Yorkshire -11 273 £70,000 +2.94% 51
Scotland -7 194 £55,000 -21.43% 46
West Midlands -24 189 £62,500 +4.17% 52
East of England -20 134 £67,500 +8.00% 89
East Midlands -2 110 £70,000 +7.69% 44
North East +4 109 £56,350 -13.31% 54
Wales -13 74 £53,171 -15.94% 26
Northern Ireland -34 18 £73,801 +34.18% 25
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 77 (1.93%) SharePoint
2 75 (1.88%) Confluence
3 53 (1.33%) Apache
4 51 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
5 48 (1.20%) Apache Spark
6 44 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
7 32 (0.80%) IIS
8 19 (0.48%) CMS
9 14 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
10 13 (0.33%) OpenStack
10 13 (0.33%) SAS
11 11 (0.28%) Moodle
12 8 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 7 (0.18%) Anypoint
13 7 (0.18%) Apache Solr
13 7 (0.18%) nginx
13 7 (0.18%) Tomcat
14 5 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
14 5 (0.13%) WordPress
15 4 (0.10%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 38 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (0.70%) MS Visio
3 22 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
4 14 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.20%) PlantUML
7 3 (0.075%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.075%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.050%) Simulink
9 1 (0.025%) EngageOne
9 1 (0.025%) Maya
9 1 (0.025%) Sketch
9 1 (0.025%) Trello
Business Applications
1 55 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
3 15 (0.38%) SAP ERP
4 13 (0.33%) Endur
5 7 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
6 6 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
7 5 (0.13%) Visualfiles
8 4 (0.10%) Markit EDM
8 4 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.10%) Shopify
9 3 (0.075%) Elite 3E
10 2 (0.050%) Distributed Ledger
10 2 (0.050%) Infor SunSystems
10 2 (0.050%) Magento
10 2 (0.050%) Workday HCM
11 1 (0.025%) Dynamics NAV
11 1 (0.025%) Infor M3
11 1 (0.025%) Sage 200
11 1 (0.025%) SAP MII
Cloud Services
1 2,156 (54.01%) Azure
2 1,335 (33.44%) AWS
3 1,038 (26.00%) Azure DevOps
4 523 (13.10%) GitHub
5 471 (11.80%) GCP
6 414 (10.37%) Serverless
7 324 (8.12%) Power Platform
8 283 (7.09%) GitHub Actions
9 261 (6.54%) SaaS
10 224 (5.61%) AWS CloudFormation
11 219 (5.49%) Amazon S3
12 215 (5.39%) AWS Lambda
13 165 (4.13%) Microsoft 365
14 161 (4.03%) Entra ID
15 152 (3.81%) PaaS
16 151 (3.78%) Azure Data Factory
17 140 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
18 136 (3.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 129 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
20 126 (3.16%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 137 (3.43%) Firewall
2 86 (2.15%) DNS
3 59 (1.48%) Broadband
3 59 (1.48%) TCP/IP
4 51 (1.28%) VPN
5 47 (1.18%) Network Security
6 36 (0.90%) HTTP
6 36 (0.90%) WAN
7 25 (0.63%) DHCP
7 25 (0.63%) LAN
8 11 (0.28%) SAN
9 9 (0.23%) SSL
10 8 (0.20%) BGP
10 8 (0.20%) Wireless
11 6 (0.15%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (0.15%) HTTPS
12 5 (0.13%) Internet
12 5 (0.13%) SD-WAN
13 4 (0.10%) MPLS
13 4 (0.10%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 256 (6.41%) SQL Server
2 206 (5.16%) NoSQL
3 184 (4.61%) Power BI
4 149 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
5 114 (2.86%) DynamoDB
6 103 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
7 101 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
8 99 (2.48%) MongoDB
9 95 (2.38%) Data Lake
10 86 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
11 74 (1.85%) Relational Database
12 68 (1.70%) Metadata
13 60 (1.50%) MySQL
14 53 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
15 40 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
15 40 (1.00%) BigQuery
16 37 (0.93%) Delta Lake
17 35 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 35 (0.88%) Tableau
18 34 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 427 (10.70%) Git
2 394 (9.87%) Jenkins
3 342 (8.57%) GitLab
4 257 (6.44%) JIRA
5 105 (2.63%) SonarQube
6 90 (2.25%) Selenium
7 88 (2.20%) Cypress.io
8 62 (1.55%) Maven
9 46 (1.15%) Bitbucket
10 45 (1.13%) Postman
11 43 (1.08%) Cucumber
12 35 (0.88%) CircleCI
13 30 (0.75%) JUnit
13 30 (0.75%) TeamCity
14 26 (0.65%) Visual Studio
15 25 (0.63%) Eclipse
15 25 (0.63%) JMeter
16 23 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
17 20 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
18 19 (0.48%) Subversion
General
1 914 (22.90%) Finance
2 905 (22.67%) Social Skills
3 382 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
4 245 (6.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 245 (6.14%) Public Sector
5 213 (5.34%) Banking
6 133 (3.33%) Law
7 129 (3.23%) Retail
8 111 (2.78%) Marketing
9 77 (1.93%) Legal
10 72 (1.80%) Telecoms
11 71 (1.78%) Games
12 50 (1.25%) Manufacturing
13 41 (1.03%) Advertising
14 40 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
14 40 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
15 34 (0.85%) Billing
15 34 (0.85%) Financial Institution
16 27 (0.68%) Front Office
17 25 (0.63%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 840 (21.04%) Senior
2 810 (20.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 663 (16.61%) Developer
4 597 (14.95%) Lead
5 345 (8.64%) Architect
6 277 (6.94%) Azure Engineer
6 277 (6.94%) Software Engineer
7 260 (6.51%) Cloud Engineer
8 201 (5.04%) Senior DevOps
9 181 (4.53%) Senior Developer
10 170 (4.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 165 (4.13%) Data Engineer
12 155 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
13 148 (3.71%) AWS Engineer
14 137 (3.43%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 135 (3.38%) Lead DevOps
16 134 (3.36%) Platform Engineer
17 125 (3.13%) Java Developer
18 114 (2.86%) Full-Stack Developer
19 105 (2.63%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 441 (11.05%) .NET
2 349 (8.74%) React
3 269 (6.74%) REST
4 237 (5.94%) Node.js
4 237 (5.94%) RESTful
5 180 (4.51%) Spring Boot
6 162 (4.06%) Spring
7 159 (3.98%) Kafka
8 146 (3.66%) AngularJS
9 143 (3.58%) CSS
10 135 (3.38%) HTML
11 130 (3.26%) SOAP
12 114 (2.86%) OAuth
13 107 (2.68%) .NET Core
13 107 (2.68%) Middleware
14 104 (2.61%) Elastic Stack
15 91 (2.28%) ASP.NET
16 90 (2.25%) .NET Framework
17 87 (2.18%) PySpark
18 86 (2.15%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 544 (13.63%) Cloud Native
2 271 (6.79%) Product Ownership
3 138 (3.46%) Distributed Systems
4 122 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
5 94 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
6 79 (1.98%) Management Information System
7 70 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 56 (1.40%) Mobile App
9 55 (1.38%) Public Cloud
10 54 (1.35%) Onboarding
11 53 (1.33%) Low-Code
11 53 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
12 47 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
13 46 (1.15%) Algorithms
13 46 (1.15%) Data Centre
14 43 (1.08%) Data Structures
15 33 (0.83%) Security Posture
16 32 (0.80%) AI Agents
17 28 (0.70%) Virtual Team
18 27 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 390 (9.77%) Linux
2 204 (5.11%) Windows
3 82 (2.05%) Unix
4 78 (1.95%) Windows Server
5 42 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 33 (0.83%) Ubuntu
7 28 (0.70%) Android
7 28 (0.70%) VMS
8 26 (0.65%) CentOS
9 23 (0.58%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
12 7 (0.18%) Debian
13 6 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.10%) Kali Linux
15 2 (0.050%) Embedded Linux
15 2 (0.050%) Rocky
16 1 (0.025%) Amazon Linux
16 1 (0.025%) SUSE
16 1 (0.025%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,039 (51.08%) CI/CD
2 1,440 (36.07%) Agile
3 969 (24.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 747 (18.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 719 (18.01%) Problem-Solving
6 652 (16.33%) Mentoring
7 638 (15.98%) Software Engineering
8 599 (15.01%) AI
9 580 (14.53%) Test Automation
10 559 (14.00%) Containerisation
11 544 (13.63%) Microservices
12 463 (11.60%) Observability
13 436 (10.92%) Roadmaps
14 424 (10.62%) Analytics
15 391 (9.79%) Scrum
16 354 (8.87%) Full-Stack Development
17 349 (8.74%) Platform Engineering
18 332 (8.32%) Technical Leadership
19 313 (7.84%) Data Modelling
20 309 (7.74%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,029 (25.78%) Python
2 739 (18.51%) SQL
3 562 (14.08%) Java
4 425 (10.65%) C#
5 394 (9.87%) JavaScript
6 340 (8.52%) Bash
7 304 (7.62%) TypeScript
8 253 (6.34%) PowerShell
9 163 (4.08%) Go
10 119 (2.98%) Bicep
11 93 (2.33%) C++
12 88 (2.20%) Apex Code
13 53 (1.33%) Groovy
13 53 (1.33%) PHP
14 41 (1.03%) Scala
14 41 (1.03%) SOQL
14 41 (1.03%) SOSL
15 30 (0.75%) Kotlin
16 28 (0.70%) Rust
16 28 (0.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 534 (13.38%) Security Cleared
2 430 (10.77%) Degree
3 315 (7.89%) SC Cleared
4 195 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 135 (3.38%) DV Cleared
6 119 (2.98%) AWS Certification
7 92 (2.30%) Azure Certification
8 84 (2.10%) Master's Degree
9 50 (1.25%) ISTQB
10 42 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
11 34 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
12 33 (0.83%) DBS Check
13 31 (0.78%) PMI Certification
14 30 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 29 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 28 (0.70%) CISSP
17 22 (0.55%) PMP
18 21 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
19 20 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
20 19 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 331 (8.29%) QA
2 157 (3.93%) Data Quality
3 118 (2.96%) Accessibility
4 114 (2.86%) GDPR
5 81 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 63 (1.58%) NIST
7 46 (1.15%) GRC
8 39 (0.98%) SOC 2
9 35 (0.88%) PCI DSS
10 22 (0.55%) WCAG
11 20 (0.50%) SLA
12 17 (0.43%) NCSC
13 13 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
14 12 (0.30%) PMO
14 12 (0.30%) TickIT
15 8 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 7 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
16 7 (0.18%) Solvency II
17 6 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 698 (17.48%) Docker
2 149 (3.73%) Active Directory
3 47 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.40%) vSphere
6 13 (0.33%) Hyper-V
7 12 (0.30%) Firmware
8 7 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.10%) iptables
9 4 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 4 (0.10%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.075%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.075%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.050%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.050%) KVM
11 2 (0.050%) Postfix
11 2 (0.050%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.025%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.025%) OpenDJ
12 1 (0.025%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,004 (25.15%) Terraform
2 755 (18.91%) Kubernetes
3 371 (9.29%) Ansible
4 231 (5.79%) Grafana
5 187 (4.68%) Prometheus
6 82 (2.05%) Argo
7 48 (1.20%) Puppet
8 42 (1.05%) HP Fortify
9 38 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
10 35 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
11 31 (0.78%) Nagios
12 22 (0.55%) Kibana
13 19 (0.48%) Kustomize
14 17 (0.43%) Rancher
15 16 (0.40%) Progress Chef
16 15 (0.38%) Istio
17 14 (0.35%) Packer
18 11 (0.28%) logstash
19 10 (0.25%) Proxmox
20 9 (0.23%) yum
Vendors
1 751 (18.81%) Microsoft
2 158 (3.96%) Databricks
3 154 (3.86%) Salesforce
4 145 (3.63%) Google
5 93 (2.33%) Oracle
6 85 (2.13%) Splunk
7 81 (2.03%) VMware
8 75 (1.88%) Red Hat
9 70 (1.75%) ServiceNow
10 50 (1.25%) SAP
11 47 (1.18%) MuleSoft
12 35 (0.88%) Palo Alto
13 31 (0.78%) Cisco
14 27 (0.68%) OpenAI
15 25 (0.63%) Dynatrace
15 25 (0.63%) Pega
16 24 (0.60%) Adobe
17 22 (0.55%) CrowdStrike
18 21 (0.53%) Okta
19 19 (0.48%) IBM