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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 21 24
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 -12
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,432 4,024 5,639
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.06% 8.05% 6.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.89% 9.03% 8.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3,878 2,298 3,884
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 £87,500 £87,500 £85,420
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% -

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 78,793 44,552 66,983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.35% 89.17% 80.87%
Number of salaries quoted 54,339 25,245 43,003
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,650 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 18 August 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 18 August 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 4,701 £70,400 +0.57% 1,118
UK excluding London -2 3,510 £65,000 - 904
Work from Home -2 1,934 £69,306 -0.99% 630
London -12 1,532 £85,000 +6.25% 410
North of England +4 1,247 £67,500 +3.85% 250
South East -10 701 £65,000 +2.36% 291
North West +4 676 £70,000 +7.69% 135
South West +13 511 £70,000 +7.69% 127
Midlands -14 415 £67,500 +3.85% 123
Yorkshire +18 303 £70,000 +12.00% 64
North East +23 268 £60,000 -7.69% 54
West Midlands -24 248 £70,000 +7.69% 76
East of England +13 210 £59,450 -8.54% 53
Wales +5 189 £55,000 - 24
East Midlands +5 166 £64,000 +11.30% 46
Scotland -7 136 £60,000 -12.73% 42
Northern Ireland -4 114 £72,246 -44.43% 5
Isle of Man 0 3 £35,000 -33.33% 1

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 (1.97%) Confluence
2 96 (1.77%) Apache Spark
3 95 (1.75%) SharePoint
4 80 (1.47%) Apache
5 44 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
6 37 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
7 30 (0.55%) CMS
8 29 (0.53%) IIS
9 23 (0.42%) OpenStack
10 20 (0.37%) SAS
11 14 (0.26%) nginx
11 14 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
12 13 (0.24%) Jupyter
13 9 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
13 9 (0.17%) Umbraco
13 9 (0.17%) WordPress
14 8 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 8 (0.15%) Anypoint
14 8 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
15 7 (0.13%) Camunda
Applications
1 59 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
2 43 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (0.41%) MS Visio
3 22 (0.41%) PlantUML
4 19 (0.35%) Chatbot
5 17 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
6 16 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 13 (0.24%) Trello
8 7 (0.13%) Simulink
9 4 (0.074%) Maya
10 3 (0.055%) Blender
10 3 (0.055%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.037%) Lightworks
12 1 (0.018%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.018%) Notion
12 1 (0.018%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 78 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.18%) Elite 3E
4 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.092%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.092%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.092%) Teamcenter
5 5 (0.092%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.074%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.074%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.074%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.074%) Shopify
7 3 (0.055%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.055%) Infor SunSystems
7 3 (0.055%) Magento
7 3 (0.055%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (0.055%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.055%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.055%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 2,866 (52.76%) Azure
2 1,776 (32.70%) AWS
3 1,417 (26.09%) Azure DevOps
4 595 (10.95%) GCP
5 542 (9.98%) GitHub
6 492 (9.06%) Serverless
7 443 (8.16%) SaaS
8 374 (6.89%) Power Platform
9 282 (5.19%) AWS CloudFormation
9 282 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
10 230 (4.23%) Amazon S3
11 215 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
12 213 (3.92%) PaaS
13 188 (3.46%) Dynamics 365
14 169 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
15 159 (2.93%) Azure AKS
16 157 (2.89%) Amazon ECS
17 152 (2.80%) Azure Service Bus
18 150 (2.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 149 (2.74%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 129 (2.37%) Firewall
2 88 (1.62%) DNS
3 68 (1.25%) VPN
4 67 (1.23%) TCP/IP
5 47 (0.87%) Network Security
6 36 (0.66%) Broadband
7 33 (0.61%) Internet
8 29 (0.53%) HTTP
9 23 (0.42%) DHCP
10 20 (0.37%) LAN
11 18 (0.33%) WAN
12 16 (0.29%) MQTT
13 14 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
13 14 (0.26%) Wireless
14 13 (0.24%) DMARC
15 12 (0.22%) SAN
16 10 (0.18%) HTTPS
17 9 (0.17%) BGP
18 8 (0.15%) NAS
18 8 (0.15%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 340 (6.26%) SQL Server
2 286 (5.27%) MongoDB
3 278 (5.12%) Azure SQL Database
4 211 (3.88%) Power BI
5 205 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
6 190 (3.50%) NoSQL
7 119 (2.19%) MySQL
8 112 (2.06%) Relational Database
9 110 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
10 104 (1.91%) DynamoDB
11 94 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
11 94 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
12 87 (1.60%) Data Lake
13 66 (1.22%) Metadata
14 59 (1.09%) Redis
15 48 (0.88%) Big Data
16 46 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
17 41 (0.75%) Delta Lake
18 37 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
19 32 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 604 (11.12%) Git
2 417 (7.68%) Jenkins
3 405 (7.46%) GitLab
4 355 (6.54%) JIRA
5 94 (1.73%) Selenium
6 83 (1.53%) SonarQube
7 69 (1.27%) Cypress.io
8 57 (1.05%) Maven
9 56 (1.03%) Postman
10 55 (1.01%) JUnit
11 40 (0.74%) Cucumber
12 38 (0.70%) TeamCity
13 37 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 35 (0.64%) JMeter
15 34 (0.63%) Bitbucket
16 28 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
17 25 (0.46%) NUnit
17 25 (0.46%) REST Assured
18 20 (0.37%) Mockito
18 20 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,231 (22.66%) Social Skills
2 1,052 (19.37%) Finance
3 451 (8.30%) Public Sector
4 425 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
5 333 (6.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 261 (4.80%) Banking
7 203 (3.74%) Law
8 168 (3.09%) Legal
9 159 (2.93%) Retail
10 99 (1.82%) Marketing
11 62 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
12 61 (1.12%) Games
13 57 (1.05%) Financial Institution
13 57 (1.05%) Manufacturing
14 49 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
14 49 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
15 48 (0.88%) Advertising
16 41 (0.75%) Telecoms
17 38 (0.70%) Aerospace
18 34 (0.63%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,260 (23.20%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,197 (22.04%) Senior
3 910 (16.75%) Developer
4 728 (13.40%) Lead
5 426 (7.84%) Architect
6 375 (6.90%) Software Engineer
7 342 (6.30%) Azure Engineer
8 291 (5.36%) Senior DevOps
9 280 (5.15%) Cloud Engineer
10 273 (5.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 243 (4.47%) .NET Developer
12 220 (4.05%) Senior Developer
13 218 (4.01%) Platform Engineer
14 193 (3.55%) Data Engineer
15 188 (3.46%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 165 (3.04%) Lead DevOps
17 158 (2.91%) AWS Engineer
18 155 (2.85%) Solutions Architect
19 136 (2.50%) Java Developer
20 127 (2.34%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 750 (13.81%) .NET
2 453 (8.34%) React
3 338 (6.22%) REST
3 338 (6.22%) RESTful
4 334 (6.15%) Node.js
5 305 (5.61%) ASP.NET
6 291 (5.36%) .NET Core
7 248 (4.57%) CSS
7 248 (4.57%) Spring Boot
8 247 (4.55%) HTML
9 244 (4.49%) Spring
10 232 (4.27%) ASP.NET Core
11 211 (3.88%) Kafka
12 169 (3.11%) AngularJS
13 143 (2.63%) Entity Framework
14 142 (2.61%) Blazor
15 126 (2.32%) Middleware
16 104 (1.91%) JSON
16 104 (1.91%) YAML
17 103 (1.90%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 959 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 354 (6.52%) Product Ownership
3 257 (4.73%) Distributed Systems
4 215 (3.96%) Enterprise Software
5 156 (2.87%) Onboarding
6 115 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
7 103 (1.90%) Virtual Team
8 87 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
9 83 (1.53%) Management Information System
10 77 (1.42%) Mobile App
11 75 (1.38%) Data Centre
12 72 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
13 65 (1.20%) Public Cloud
14 64 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
14 64 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
15 51 (0.94%) Data Structures
16 48 (0.88%) AI Agents
16 48 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
17 45 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
17 45 (0.83%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 556 (10.24%) Linux
2 259 (4.77%) Windows
3 102 (1.88%) Unix
4 78 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 72 (1.33%) Windows Server
6 56 (1.03%) CentOS
7 42 (0.77%) Ubuntu
8 38 (0.70%) VMS
9 31 (0.57%) Android
10 17 (0.31%) Apple iOS
10 17 (0.31%) Debian
11 11 (0.20%) Rocky
12 8 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
13 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.092%) Kali Linux
14 5 (0.092%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.074%) Solaris
15 4 (0.074%) Windows Server 2019
16 3 (0.055%) AIX
16 3 (0.055%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,748 (50.59%) CI/CD
2 2,017 (37.13%) Agile
3 1,319 (24.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,046 (19.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,000 (18.41%) Mentoring
6 982 (18.08%) Software Engineering
7 936 (17.23%) AI
8 881 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
9 833 (15.34%) Test Automation
10 731 (13.46%) Microservices
11 686 (12.63%) Containerisation
12 616 (11.34%) Platform Engineering
13 592 (10.90%) Observability
14 577 (10.62%) Technical Leadership
15 568 (10.46%) Full-Stack Development
16 563 (10.36%) Roadmaps
17 543 (10.00%) Scrum
18 509 (9.37%) Stakeholder Management
19 473 (8.71%) Analytics
20 388 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,278 (23.53%) Python
2 970 (17.86%) SQL
3 815 (15.00%) C#
4 701 (12.91%) Java
5 669 (12.32%) JavaScript
6 416 (7.66%) TypeScript
7 376 (6.92%) Bash
7 376 (6.92%) PowerShell
8 158 (2.91%) Bicep
9 128 (2.36%) C++
10 123 (2.26%) Go
11 59 (1.09%) PHP
12 56 (1.03%) Apex Code
13 53 (0.98%) C
14 51 (0.94%) T-SQL
15 47 (0.87%) Groovy
16 45 (0.83%) Scala
17 41 (0.75%) Kotlin
18 40 (0.74%) Rust
19 38 (0.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 947 (17.43%) Security Cleared
2 625 (11.51%) SC Cleared
3 521 (9.59%) Degree
4 276 (5.08%) DV Cleared
5 196 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 154 (2.84%) Azure Certification
7 113 (2.08%) Master's Degree
8 99 (1.82%) AWS Certification
9 80 (1.47%) CISSP
9 80 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
10 66 (1.22%) CISM
11 62 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
12 58 (1.07%) ISTQB
13 50 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
14 41 (0.75%) PMI Certification
15 36 (0.66%) DBS Check
16 29 (0.53%) PMP
17 28 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 24 (0.44%) PhD
19 23 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 552 (10.16%) QA
2 188 (3.46%) Accessibility
3 179 (3.30%) Data Quality
4 125 (2.30%) GDPR
5 105 (1.93%) NIST
6 73 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 62 (1.14%) WCAG
8 49 (0.90%) ISO 22301
9 45 (0.83%) GRC
10 37 (0.68%) PCI DSS
11 28 (0.52%) PMO
12 27 (0.50%) NCSC
12 27 (0.50%) SLA
13 23 (0.42%) SOC 2
14 13 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
15 12 (0.22%) HIPAA
15 12 (0.22%) TickIT
16 11 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
17 10 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 9 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 885 (16.29%) Docker
2 143 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 85 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.53%) vSphere
6 23 (0.42%) Firmware
6 23 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 16 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.13%) Ceph
9 6 (0.11%) KVM
9 6 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.092%) iptables
11 4 (0.074%) NDS
11 4 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.055%) Embedded Firmware
12 3 (0.055%) Xen
13 2 (0.037%) VMware NSX
14 1 (0.018%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.018%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1,330 (24.48%) Terraform
2 1,003 (18.46%) Kubernetes
3 471 (8.67%) Ansible
4 225 (4.14%) Grafana
5 165 (3.04%) Prometheus
6 80 (1.47%) Argo
7 65 (1.20%) Puppet
8 36 (0.66%) Nagios
9 33 (0.61%) Istio
10 30 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
11 24 (0.44%) Kibana
12 23 (0.42%) HP Fortify
13 18 (0.33%) Progress Chef
14 13 (0.24%) Rancher
14 13 (0.24%) ZABBIX
15 12 (0.22%) Packer
15 12 (0.22%) Podman
16 11 (0.20%) logstash
16 11 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
17 8 (0.15%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 1,058 (19.48%) Microsoft
2 208 (3.83%) Google
3 179 (3.30%) Databricks
4 136 (2.50%) Salesforce
5 120 (2.21%) Oracle
6 118 (2.17%) VMware
7 96 (1.77%) Red Hat
8 95 (1.75%) ServiceNow
8 95 (1.75%) Splunk
9 71 (1.31%) SAP
10 52 (0.96%) OpenAI
11 51 (0.94%) Cisco
12 50 (0.92%) Pega
13 46 (0.85%) Dynatrace
14 42 (0.77%) Facebook
15 38 (0.70%) MuleSoft
16 31 (0.57%) AppDynamics
17 30 (0.55%) YouTube
18 29 (0.53%) Apple
19 27 (0.50%) Foundry