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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 21 26
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,778 4,089 7,103
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.95% 8.78% 6.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.74% 9.59% 8.19%
Number of salaries quoted 3,509 2,374 5,146
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £50,083
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
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 70,838 42,616 86,708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.43% 91.47% 82.17%
Number of salaries quoted 48,971 23,341 61,278
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.34% - -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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -8 4,206 £70,000 -2.45% 1,271
UK excluding London -5 2,903 £65,000 - 1,002
Work from Home -1 1,711 £67,500 -3.57% 740
London -7 1,472 £85,000 +6.25% 508
North of England 0 1,058 £69,305 +3.38% 270
South East -13 626 £65,000 - 304
North West -1 577 £70,000 +4.42% 152
South West -7 417 £70,000 +7.69% 121
Midlands -23 354 £65,000 - 114
Yorkshire +4 287 £70,000 - 77
West Midlands -35 197 £66,250 +1.92% 73
North East +8 194 £60,000 -7.69% 44
East of England +7 184 £60,000 -8.54% 76
East Midlands +4 156 £65,000 +13.04% 41
Scotland -5 133 £58,033 -18.55% 57
Wales +6 130 £53,171 -9.50% 54
Northern Ireland -35 7 £73,151 -8.56% 29
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 97 (2.03%) Confluence
2 92 (1.93%) SharePoint
3 64 (1.34%) Apache Spark
4 60 (1.26%) Apache
5 46 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
5 46 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
6 30 (0.63%) CMS
6 30 (0.63%) IIS
7 16 (0.33%) SAS
8 15 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
9 11 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 10 (0.21%) nginx
10 10 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
11 9 (0.19%) Jupyter
11 9 (0.19%) Umbraco
11 9 (0.19%) WordPress
12 8 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
13 7 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 6 (0.13%) Apache Solr
14 6 (0.13%) Moodle
Applications
1 52 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
2 37 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.42%) MS Visio
4 19 (0.40%) PlantUML
5 13 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.17%) Trello
8 7 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
8 7 (0.15%) Simulink
9 4 (0.084%) Maya
10 3 (0.063%) Blender
10 3 (0.063%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.042%) Lightworks
12 1 (0.021%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
12 1 (0.021%) Notion
12 1 (0.021%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 82 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.13%) Endur
3 6 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
4 5 (0.10%) Elite 3E
4 5 (0.10%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.10%) Visualfiles
5 4 (0.084%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.084%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.084%) SAP IBP
6 3 (0.063%) Infor SunSystems
6 3 (0.063%) Magento
7 2 (0.042%) Adobe Campaign
7 2 (0.042%) Carpe Diem
7 2 (0.042%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.042%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 2 (0.042%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.042%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,519 (52.72%) Azure
2 1,537 (32.17%) AWS
3 1,278 (26.75%) Azure DevOps
4 526 (11.01%) GCP
5 496 (10.38%) GitHub
6 463 (9.69%) Serverless
7 347 (7.26%) Power Platform
8 292 (6.11%) SaaS
9 267 (5.59%) GitHub Actions
10 226 (4.73%) AWS CloudFormation
11 225 (4.71%) Amazon S3
12 208 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
13 200 (4.19%) PaaS
14 158 (3.31%) Azure AKS
15 149 (3.12%) Microsoft 365
16 147 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
17 146 (3.06%) Amazon EKS
18 145 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
19 143 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
20 139 (2.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 144 (3.01%) Firewall
2 87 (1.82%) DNS
3 63 (1.32%) Broadband
4 62 (1.30%) VPN
5 60 (1.26%) TCP/IP
6 41 (0.86%) Network Security
7 35 (0.73%) HTTP
8 24 (0.50%) DHCP
9 23 (0.48%) WAN
10 22 (0.46%) LAN
11 21 (0.44%) Internet
12 13 (0.27%) DMARC
12 13 (0.27%) MQTT
13 12 (0.25%) Wireless
14 10 (0.21%) BGP
14 10 (0.21%) SAN
15 8 (0.17%) HTTPS
16 7 (0.15%) Bluetooth
16 7 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
17 6 (0.13%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 267 (5.59%) SQL Server
2 253 (5.30%) Azure SQL Database
2 253 (5.30%) MongoDB
3 190 (3.98%) NoSQL
4 187 (3.91%) Power BI
5 169 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
6 104 (2.18%) DynamoDB
7 94 (1.97%) Relational Database
8 88 (1.84%) MySQL
9 84 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
9 84 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
10 79 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
11 76 (1.59%) Data Lake
12 64 (1.34%) Metadata
13 47 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
14 44 (0.92%) Redis
15 38 (0.80%) Delta Lake
16 36 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
16 36 (0.75%) Big Data
17 35 (0.73%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 496 (10.38%) Git
2 403 (8.43%) Jenkins
3 394 (8.25%) GitLab
4 301 (6.30%) JIRA
5 100 (2.09%) SonarQube
6 76 (1.59%) Selenium
7 75 (1.57%) Cypress.io
8 58 (1.21%) Maven
9 44 (0.92%) Postman
10 38 (0.80%) JUnit
11 37 (0.77%) Cucumber
12 35 (0.73%) Bitbucket
13 34 (0.71%) CircleCI
14 33 (0.69%) TeamCity
15 31 (0.65%) JMeter
16 25 (0.52%) Eclipse
16 25 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
17 22 (0.46%) Visual Studio
18 21 (0.44%) REST Assured
19 19 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 970 (20.30%) Social Skills
2 959 (20.07%) Finance
3 351 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
4 343 (7.18%) Public Sector
5 292 (6.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 241 (5.04%) Banking
7 150 (3.14%) Retail
8 139 (2.91%) Law
9 109 (2.28%) Marketing
10 83 (1.74%) Legal
11 82 (1.72%) Games
12 59 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
13 55 (1.15%) Manufacturing
14 52 (1.09%) Advertising
15 46 (0.96%) Financial Institution
15 46 (0.96%) Telecoms
16 44 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
17 39 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
18 34 (0.71%) Back Office
19 25 (0.52%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,091 (22.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 976 (20.43%) Senior
3 859 (17.98%) Developer
4 663 (13.88%) Lead
5 406 (8.50%) Architect
6 354 (7.41%) Software Engineer
7 339 (7.10%) Azure Engineer
8 259 (5.42%) Cloud Engineer
9 248 (5.19%) Senior DevOps
10 223 (4.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 207 (4.33%) .NET Developer
11 207 (4.33%) Senior Developer
12 188 (3.93%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 186 (3.89%) Platform Engineer
14 168 (3.52%) Data Engineer
15 163 (3.41%) AWS Engineer
16 162 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
17 145 (3.03%) Java Developer
18 135 (2.83%) Lead DevOps
19 110 (2.30%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 648 (13.56%) .NET
2 427 (8.94%) React
3 300 (6.28%) Node.js
4 294 (6.15%) RESTful
5 292 (6.11%) REST
6 266 (5.57%) ASP.NET
7 241 (5.04%) .NET Core
8 219 (4.58%) CSS
9 215 (4.50%) HTML
10 208 (4.35%) ASP.NET Core
11 207 (4.33%) Spring Boot
12 194 (4.06%) Spring
13 167 (3.50%) Kafka
14 161 (3.37%) AngularJS
15 121 (2.53%) Blazor
16 120 (2.51%) Entity Framework
17 112 (2.34%) YAML
18 102 (2.13%) SOAP
19 94 (1.97%) Middleware
19 94 (1.97%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 768 (16.07%) Cloud Native
2 304 (6.36%) Product Ownership
3 191 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 146 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
5 96 (2.01%) Onboarding
6 95 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
7 85 (1.78%) Management Information System
8 82 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
9 81 (1.70%) Mobile App
10 69 (1.44%) Public Cloud
11 67 (1.40%) Data Centre
12 61 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
13 56 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
14 52 (1.09%) Data Structures
15 49 (1.03%) Low-Code
16 44 (0.92%) Algorithms
16 44 (0.92%) Security Posture
17 40 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
18 38 (0.80%) Virtual Team
19 34 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 476 (9.96%) Linux
2 225 (4.71%) Windows
3 93 (1.95%) Unix
4 72 (1.51%) Windows Server
5 58 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 49 (1.03%) Ubuntu
7 40 (0.84%) VMS
8 37 (0.77%) CentOS
9 35 (0.73%) Android
10 22 (0.46%) Apple iOS
11 13 (0.27%) Debian
12 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.084%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.084%) Rocky
15 3 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
16 2 (0.042%) AIX
16 2 (0.042%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.042%) Windows Server 2012
17 1 (0.021%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,434 (50.94%) CI/CD
2 1,746 (36.54%) Agile
3 1,165 (24.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 880 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
5 813 (17.02%) Mentoring
6 793 (16.60%) Software Engineering
7 763 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
8 760 (15.91%) AI
9 652 (13.65%) Test Automation
10 645 (13.50%) Microservices
11 624 (13.06%) Containerisation
12 540 (11.30%) Full-Stack Development
13 525 (10.99%) Roadmaps
14 507 (10.61%) Platform Engineering
15 503 (10.53%) Observability
16 496 (10.38%) Scrum
17 452 (9.46%) Technical Leadership
18 446 (9.33%) Analytics
19 368 (7.70%) Stakeholder Management
20 311 (6.51%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,109 (23.21%) Python
2 864 (18.08%) SQL
3 659 (13.79%) C#
4 642 (13.44%) Java
5 569 (11.91%) JavaScript
6 388 (8.12%) Bash
7 352 (7.37%) TypeScript
8 295 (6.17%) PowerShell
9 152 (3.18%) Bicep
10 143 (2.99%) Go
11 131 (2.74%) C++
12 76 (1.59%) Apex Code
13 58 (1.21%) PHP
14 49 (1.03%) Groovy
15 48 (1.00%) SOQL
16 46 (0.96%) C
17 45 (0.94%) SOSL
18 40 (0.84%) Rust
19 39 (0.82%) Kotlin
20 37 (0.77%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 753 (15.76%) Security Cleared
2 480 (10.05%) Degree
3 462 (9.67%) SC Cleared
4 181 (3.79%) DV Cleared
5 180 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 120 (2.51%) Azure Certification
7 107 (2.24%) Master's Degree
8 95 (1.99%) AWS Certification
9 53 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 50 (1.05%) ISTQB
11 35 (0.73%) DBS Check
11 35 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
12 34 (0.71%) PMI Certification
13 30 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 30 (0.63%) CISSP
14 26 (0.54%) PMP
15 25 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 24 (0.50%) PhD
17 20 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
18 16 (0.33%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 408 (8.54%) QA
2 162 (3.39%) Data Quality
3 160 (3.35%) Accessibility
4 101 (2.11%) GDPR
5 70 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 56 (1.17%) NIST
7 53 (1.11%) WCAG
8 47 (0.98%) GRC
9 38 (0.80%) PCI DSS
10 32 (0.67%) SOC 2
11 21 (0.44%) PMO
11 21 (0.44%) SLA
12 15 (0.31%) NCSC
13 12 (0.25%) TickIT
14 10 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
16 8 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 6 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 6 (0.13%) Solvency II
18 5 (0.10%) IFRS
System Software
1 766 (16.03%) Docker
2 134 (2.80%) Active Directory
3 74 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.61%) vSphere
6 20 (0.42%) Firmware
7 19 (0.40%) Hyper-V
8 13 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.13%) iptables
11 5 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.084%) Embedded Firmware
12 4 (0.084%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.063%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.063%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.042%) KVM
15 1 (0.021%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.021%) QEMU
15 1 (0.021%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,174 (24.57%) Terraform
2 872 (18.25%) Kubernetes
3 420 (8.79%) Ansible
4 229 (4.79%) Grafana
5 175 (3.66%) Prometheus
6 76 (1.59%) Argo
7 58 (1.21%) Puppet
8 39 (0.82%) Nagios
9 30 (0.63%) HP Fortify
9 30 (0.63%) Kibana
10 25 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
11 21 (0.44%) Istio
12 15 (0.31%) Packer
12 15 (0.31%) Rancher
13 14 (0.29%) Progress Chef
14 13 (0.27%) Proxmox
15 12 (0.25%) Kustomize
16 10 (0.21%) logstash
17 9 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
18 8 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 934 (19.55%) Microsoft
2 181 (3.79%) Google
3 157 (3.29%) Databricks
4 148 (3.10%) Salesforce
5 112 (2.34%) VMware
6 101 (2.11%) ServiceNow
7 97 (2.03%) Splunk
8 89 (1.86%) Oracle
9 81 (1.70%) Red Hat
10 56 (1.17%) SAP
11 55 (1.15%) Pega
12 45 (0.94%) MuleSoft
13 41 (0.86%) Dynatrace
14 39 (0.82%) Cisco
14 39 (0.82%) Facebook
15 36 (0.75%) OpenAI
16 29 (0.61%) Apple
17 28 (0.59%) YouTube
18 27 (0.57%) Palo Alto
19 26 (0.54%) Foundry