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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 22 20
Rank change year-on-year -9 -2 -7
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,731 3,700 5,243
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.83% 7.52% 7.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.58% 8.46% 8.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3,886 2,128 3,156
10th Percentile £46,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.45% -1.43%
75th Percentile £88,148 £85,713 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £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 87,115 43,732 58,410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.39% 88.90% 82.19%
Number of salaries quoted 59,537 24,546 31,188
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,997
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
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 14 October 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 14 October 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 4,950 £70,000 - 3,927
UK excluding London -2 3,684 £65,000 +4.00% 2,107
Work from Home -3 1,938 £69,310 -0.63% 1,826
London -7 1,599 £85,000 +6.25% 2,004
North of England +4 1,315 £67,500 +3.85% 627
North West 0 715 £69,305 +6.62% 319
South East -1 704 £67,500 +3.85% 498
South West +29 572 £75,000 +25.00% 226
Midlands -16 473 £62,500 -3.85% 238
North East +19 320 £60,000 +20.00% 106
Yorkshire +19 289 £70,000 +7.69% 207
West Midlands -24 285 £70,000 +7.69% 142
Wales 0 203 £55,000 - 86
East of England +11 202 £55,000 -8.33% 198
East Midlands +15 188 £58,000 +0.87% 96
Scotland -22 119 £62,500 -7.41% 164
Northern Ireland -7 114 £72,246 -31.19% 82
Isle of Man 0 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
1 122 (2.13%) SharePoint
2 116 (2.02%) Apache Spark
3 114 (1.99%) Confluence
4 94 (1.64%) Apache
5 45 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
6 41 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
7 27 (0.47%) CMS
8 24 (0.42%) IIS
9 22 (0.38%) OpenStack
10 18 (0.31%) Jupyter
10 18 (0.31%) nginx
11 14 (0.24%) SAS
11 14 (0.24%) WebLogic
12 10 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 8 (0.14%) Camunda
13 8 (0.14%) CICS
13 8 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
13 8 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
13 8 (0.14%) Umbraco
14 6 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 73 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
2 44 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 35 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
4 31 (0.54%) MS Visio
5 29 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 20 (0.35%) PlantUML
7 17 (0.30%) Chatbot
8 15 (0.26%) Trello
9 7 (0.12%) Simulink
10 5 (0.087%) Notion
11 4 (0.070%) Spreadsheet
12 3 (0.052%) Blender
12 3 (0.052%) Maya
13 2 (0.035%) Lightworks
14 1 (0.017%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 91 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.21%) Elite 3E
4 10 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
5 9 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
6 7 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.10%) SAP IBP
7 6 (0.10%) Teamcenter
8 5 (0.087%) Dynamics NAV
8 5 (0.087%) Fidessa
9 4 (0.070%) Distributed Ledger
9 4 (0.070%) Dynamics GP
9 4 (0.070%) NEC Housing
9 4 (0.070%) Oracle Applications
9 4 (0.070%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.070%) Sage 200
9 4 (0.070%) Shopify
10 3 (0.052%) Carpe Diem
10 3 (0.052%) SAP Business One
10 3 (0.052%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2,980 (52.00%) Azure
2 1,853 (32.33%) AWS
3 1,517 (26.47%) Azure DevOps
4 635 (11.08%) GCP
5 595 (10.38%) GitHub
6 496 (8.65%) Serverless
7 468 (8.17%) SaaS
8 460 (8.03%) Power Platform
9 320 (5.58%) GitHub Actions
10 304 (5.30%) AWS CloudFormation
11 232 (4.05%) Dynamics 365
12 223 (3.89%) PaaS
13 211 (3.68%) Amazon S3
14 195 (3.40%) AWS Lambda
15 184 (3.21%) Azure Data Factory
16 177 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
17 175 (3.05%) Power Automate
18 173 (3.02%) Entra ID
19 168 (2.93%) Azure AKS
20 164 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 140 (2.44%) Firewall
2 99 (1.73%) DNS
3 93 (1.62%) VPN
4 69 (1.20%) Internet
5 62 (1.08%) TCP/IP
6 45 (0.79%) Network Security
7 26 (0.45%) HTTP
8 24 (0.42%) DHCP
9 17 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (0.26%) DMARC
10 15 (0.26%) MQTT
11 14 (0.24%) Broadband
11 14 (0.24%) Wireless
12 13 (0.23%) SAN
13 12 (0.21%) BGP
13 12 (0.21%) SSH
14 11 (0.19%) WAN
15 9 (0.16%) LAN
15 9 (0.16%) OSPF
15 9 (0.16%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 365 (6.37%) SQL Server
2 308 (5.37%) Azure SQL Database
3 298 (5.20%) MongoDB
4 256 (4.47%) Power BI
5 237 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
6 197 (3.44%) NoSQL
7 152 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
8 131 (2.29%) MySQL
9 125 (2.18%) Relational Database
10 109 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
11 104 (1.81%) Metadata
12 100 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
13 98 (1.71%) Data Lake
14 93 (1.62%) DynamoDB
15 83 (1.45%) Redis
16 53 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
17 51 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
18 43 (0.75%) Delta Lake
19 42 (0.73%) Big Data
20 37 (0.65%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 689 (12.02%) Git
2 413 (7.21%) GitLab
3 409 (7.14%) Jenkins
4 349 (6.09%) JIRA
5 80 (1.40%) Selenium
6 59 (1.03%) JUnit
7 57 (0.99%) Cypress.io
8 56 (0.98%) TeamCity
9 53 (0.92%) SonarQube
10 51 (0.89%) Maven
11 42 (0.73%) Postman
12 41 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 38 (0.66%) Cucumber
14 35 (0.61%) Claude Code
15 27 (0.47%) Bitbucket
15 27 (0.47%) JMeter
16 24 (0.42%) Mockito
16 24 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
17 18 (0.31%) NUnit
18 17 (0.30%) Subversion
General
1 1,356 (23.66%) Social Skills
2 1,104 (19.26%) Finance
3 598 (10.43%) Public Sector
4 505 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
5 358 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 239 (4.17%) Banking
7 215 (3.75%) Law
8 168 (2.93%) Retail
9 166 (2.90%) Legal
10 80 (1.40%) Financial Institution
11 73 (1.27%) Marketing
12 61 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
13 59 (1.03%) Aerospace
13 59 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
14 56 (0.98%) Manufacturing
15 55 (0.96%) Telecoms
16 51 (0.89%) Back Office
17 49 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
18 40 (0.70%) Advertising
19 32 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,529 (26.68%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,377 (24.03%) Senior
3 873 (15.23%) Developer
4 700 (12.21%) Lead
5 425 (7.42%) Architect
6 390 (6.81%) Software Engineer
7 384 (6.70%) Senior DevOps
8 356 (6.21%) Azure Engineer
9 353 (6.16%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 303 (5.29%) Cloud Engineer
11 247 (4.31%) .NET Developer
12 242 (4.22%) Platform Engineer
13 221 (3.86%) Data Engineer
14 213 (3.72%) Senior Developer
15 189 (3.30%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 177 (3.09%) Lead DevOps
17 164 (2.86%) AWS Engineer
18 159 (2.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 155 (2.70%) Consultant
20 142 (2.48%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,407 (24.55%) Terraform
2 744 (12.98%) .NET
3 401 (7.00%) React
4 360 (6.28%) REST
5 349 (6.09%) RESTful
6 336 (5.86%) Node.js
7 302 (5.27%) Spring
8 299 (5.22%) ASP.NET
9 296 (5.16%) Spring Boot
10 267 (4.66%) .NET Core
11 246 (4.29%) Kafka
12 236 (4.12%) CSS
13 234 (4.08%) HTML
14 228 (3.98%) ASP.NET Core
15 160 (2.79%) AngularJS
16 135 (2.36%) Entity Framework
17 133 (2.32%) Blazor
18 121 (2.11%) Middleware
19 108 (1.88%) JSON
20 98 (1.71%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1,060 (18.50%) Cloud Native
2 357 (6.23%) Product Ownership
3 275 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
4 262 (4.57%) Enterprise Software
5 164 (2.86%) Onboarding
6 129 (2.25%) Virtual Team
7 121 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
8 108 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
9 92 (1.61%) Management Information System
10 80 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
11 77 (1.34%) AI Agents
11 77 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
12 73 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
13 68 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
14 64 (1.12%) Mobile App
15 61 (1.06%) Public Cloud
16 60 (1.05%) Data Centre
17 54 (0.94%) Private Cloud
18 53 (0.92%) Security Posture
19 52 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 619 (10.80%) Linux
2 255 (4.45%) Windows
3 116 (2.02%) Unix
4 76 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 63 (1.10%) Windows Server
6 53 (0.92%) CentOS
7 36 (0.63%) Ubuntu
8 32 (0.56%) VMS
9 31 (0.54%) Android
10 15 (0.26%) Rocky
11 14 (0.24%) Debian
12 12 (0.21%) Apple iOS
13 8 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
14 5 (0.087%) macOS
14 5 (0.087%) Windows Server 2016
15 4 (0.070%) Solaris
15 4 (0.070%) Windows Server 2019
16 3 (0.052%) AIX
16 3 (0.052%) Kali Linux
16 3 (0.052%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,973 (51.88%) CI/CD
2 2,093 (36.52%) Agile
3 1,443 (25.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,165 (20.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,130 (19.72%) Mentoring
6 1,060 (18.50%) AI
7 1,034 (18.04%) Software Engineering
8 959 (16.73%) Problem-Solving
9 874 (15.25%) Test Automation
10 770 (13.44%) Containerisation
11 761 (13.28%) Microservices
12 732 (12.77%) Platform Engineering
13 670 (11.69%) Technical Leadership
14 639 (11.15%) Stakeholder Management
15 631 (11.01%) Observability
16 549 (9.58%) Roadmaps
17 524 (9.14%) Scrum
18 520 (9.07%) Analytics
19 506 (8.83%) Full-Stack Development
20 410 (7.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,325 (23.12%) Python
2 1,002 (17.48%) SQL
3 821 (14.33%) C#
4 751 (13.10%) Java
5 671 (11.71%) JavaScript
6 426 (7.43%) TypeScript
7 398 (6.94%) PowerShell
8 397 (6.93%) Bash
9 175 (3.05%) Bicep
10 142 (2.48%) Go
11 114 (1.99%) C++
12 62 (1.08%) Shell Script
13 58 (1.01%) T-SQL
14 50 (0.87%) PHP
14 50 (0.87%) Scala
15 48 (0.84%) C
15 48 (0.84%) Kotlin
16 42 (0.73%) Groovy
17 39 (0.68%) Ruby
18 38 (0.66%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,139 (19.87%) Security Cleared
2 762 (13.30%) SC Cleared
3 506 (8.83%) Degree
4 316 (5.51%) DV Cleared
5 210 (3.66%) Azure Certification
6 184 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 114 (1.99%) AWS Certification
8 98 (1.71%) Master's Degree
9 91 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
10 85 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
11 76 (1.33%) CISSP
12 72 (1.26%) ITIL Certification
13 66 (1.15%) CISM
14 50 (0.87%) ISTQB
15 38 (0.66%) PMI Certification
16 27 (0.47%) PhD
16 27 (0.47%) PMP
17 25 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 25 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
18 24 (0.42%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 536 (9.35%) QA
2 229 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 195 (3.40%) Accessibility
4 135 (2.36%) GDPR
5 93 (1.62%) NIST
6 70 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 60 (1.05%) WCAG
8 49 (0.85%) ISO 22301
9 36 (0.63%) SLA
10 32 (0.56%) GRC
11 29 (0.51%) PCI DSS
12 28 (0.49%) NCSC
13 27 (0.47%) PMO
14 18 (0.31%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
16 12 (0.21%) HIPAA
17 10 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 9 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 9 (0.16%) ISO 20022
18 9 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 986 (17.20%) Docker
2 141 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 83 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 43 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (0.47%) vSphere
6 23 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 19 (0.33%) Firmware
7 19 (0.33%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.14%) NDS
9 7 (0.12%) Ceph
9 7 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.070%) iptables
11 4 (0.070%) KVM
12 2 (0.035%) Embedded Firmware
12 2 (0.035%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.035%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.035%) Xen
13 1 (0.017%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1,150 (20.07%) Kubernetes
2 492 (8.58%) Ansible
3 279 (4.87%) Grafana
4 194 (3.39%) Prometheus
5 83 (1.45%) Argo
6 61 (1.06%) Puppet
7 45 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
8 26 (0.45%) Istio
8 26 (0.45%) Kibana
9 24 (0.42%) Rancher
10 23 (0.40%) Nagios
11 22 (0.38%) Progress Chef
11 22 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
12 16 (0.28%) logstash
12 16 (0.28%) Podman
13 15 (0.26%) Packer
14 14 (0.24%) HP Fortify
15 11 (0.19%) Proxmox
16 9 (0.16%) ZABBIX
17 8 (0.14%) yum
Vendors
1 1,223 (21.34%) Microsoft
2 240 (4.19%) Google
3 184 (3.21%) Databricks
4 138 (2.41%) Oracle
5 119 (2.08%) VMware
6 115 (2.01%) Salesforce
7 100 (1.74%) ServiceNow
8 85 (1.48%) Splunk
9 78 (1.36%) SAP
10 76 (1.33%) Red Hat
11 61 (1.06%) Dynatrace
12 55 (0.96%) OpenAI
13 50 (0.87%) Cisco
14 49 (0.85%) Pega
15 47 (0.82%) YouTube
16 39 (0.68%) Facebook
17 32 (0.56%) MuleSoft
18 31 (0.54%) AppDynamics
19 27 (0.47%) Foundry
20 23 (0.40%) Apple