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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 19 22
Rank change year-on-year -20 +3 -10
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 3,854 3,603 7,200
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.63% 8.81% 7.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.08% 9.48% 9.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,710 2,629 5,430
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.06% -5.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £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% -2.44%

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 63,393 38,022 79,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.08% 92.93% 86.08%
Number of salaries quoted 39,190 22,514 58,792
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,008
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,688 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.87% +7.38% -7.94%

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 10 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 10 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 -22 3,325 £70,079 +0.11% 1,414
UK excluding London -29 2,188 £65,000 - 1,103
Work from Home -7 1,478 £70,000 - 782
London -9 1,333 £80,500 -2.42% 512
North of England -20 678 £70,000 +3.70% 306
South East -33 469 £65,000 -0.76% 307
South West -15 327 £60,000 -11.11% 165
North West -24 316 £70,000 +1.00% 159
Midlands -21 299 £65,000 +4.00% 142
Yorkshire -13 263 £70,000 +4.48% 86
Scotland -6 214 £60,000 -14.29% 52
West Midlands -26 192 £61,000 -2.40% 98
East of England -36 127 £67,500 +10.20% 92
East Midlands -2 103 £68,000 +4.62% 44
North East +3 99 £52,500 -19.23% 63
Wales -21 60 £55,000 -13.04% 43
Northern Ireland -31 21 £73,801 +18.74% 10
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 - 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 80 (2.08%) Confluence
2 77 (2.00%) SharePoint
3 53 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
4 50 (1.30%) Apache
5 45 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
6 42 (1.09%) Apache Spark
7 38 (0.99%) IIS
8 17 (0.44%) OpenStack
9 15 (0.39%) CMS
10 12 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
10 12 (0.31%) SAS
11 11 (0.29%) Moodle
12 9 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 8 (0.21%) Tomcat
14 7 (0.18%) Anypoint
14 7 (0.18%) Appian
15 6 (0.16%) nginx
16 5 (0.13%) Apache Solr
17 4 (0.10%) ArcGIS
17 4 (0.10%) Documentum
Applications
1 38 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (0.83%) MS Visio
3 24 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
4 19 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.13%) PlantUML
8 3 (0.078%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.052%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.052%) Trello
10 1 (0.026%) EngageOne
10 1 (0.026%) Maya
10 1 (0.026%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 50 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
3 16 (0.42%) Endur
3 16 (0.42%) SAP ERP
4 7 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.13%) Shopify
7 4 (0.10%) Elite 3E
7 4 (0.10%) Markit EDM
7 4 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.10%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.078%) Visualfiles
9 2 (0.052%) Infor SunSystems
9 2 (0.052%) Magento
9 2 (0.052%) SAP CX
9 2 (0.052%) SAP IBP
9 2 (0.052%) SAP MII
9 2 (0.052%) SAP PP
9 2 (0.052%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2,099 (54.46%) Azure
2 1,353 (35.11%) AWS
3 1,012 (26.26%) Azure DevOps
4 539 (13.99%) GitHub
5 488 (12.66%) GCP
6 421 (10.92%) Serverless
7 318 (8.25%) Power Platform
8 290 (7.52%) GitHub Actions
9 268 (6.95%) SaaS
10 243 (6.31%) AWS CloudFormation
11 223 (5.79%) Amazon S3
11 223 (5.79%) AWS Lambda
12 170 (4.41%) PaaS
13 155 (4.02%) Amazon EKS
13 155 (4.02%) Microsoft 365
14 152 (3.94%) Entra ID
15 145 (3.76%) Amazon ECS
15 145 (3.76%) Azure Data Factory
16 141 (3.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 131 (3.40%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 132 (3.43%) Firewall
2 84 (2.18%) DNS
3 68 (1.76%) TCP/IP
4 59 (1.53%) Broadband
5 48 (1.25%) VPN
6 38 (0.99%) Network Security
7 37 (0.96%) WAN
8 31 (0.80%) HTTP
9 25 (0.65%) DHCP
10 23 (0.60%) LAN
11 11 (0.29%) SAN
12 9 (0.23%) Wireless
13 8 (0.21%) SSL
14 7 (0.18%) BGP
15 6 (0.16%) Cisco ASA
15 6 (0.16%) HTTPS
15 6 (0.16%) Internet
15 6 (0.16%) SD-WAN
16 5 (0.13%) Multicast
16 5 (0.13%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 270 (7.01%) SQL Server
2 209 (5.42%) NoSQL
3 180 (4.67%) Power BI
4 159 (4.13%) PostgreSQL
5 113 (2.93%) DynamoDB
6 101 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
6 101 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
7 95 (2.46%) Azure SQL Database
8 89 (2.31%) Data Lake
9 86 (2.23%) Relational Database
10 83 (2.15%) MongoDB
11 63 (1.63%) MySQL
12 62 (1.61%) Metadata
13 61 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
14 46 (1.19%) Redis
15 43 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 40 (1.04%) Tableau
17 39 (1.01%) BigQuery
18 37 (0.96%) Amazon Athena
18 37 (0.96%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 421 (10.92%) Git
2 400 (10.38%) Jenkins
3 310 (8.04%) GitLab
4 252 (6.54%) JIRA
5 102 (2.65%) SonarQube
6 99 (2.57%) Selenium
7 88 (2.28%) Cypress.io
8 54 (1.40%) Maven
9 49 (1.27%) Bitbucket
10 48 (1.25%) Cucumber
11 42 (1.09%) Postman
12 36 (0.93%) TeamCity
13 33 (0.86%) CircleCI
13 33 (0.86%) JMeter
13 33 (0.86%) Visual Studio
14 30 (0.78%) JUnit
15 24 (0.62%) Eclipse
16 23 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
17 21 (0.54%) Jaeger
18 20 (0.52%) Subversion
General
1 950 (24.65%) Social Skills
2 879 (22.81%) Finance
3 389 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
4 240 (6.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 236 (6.12%) Public Sector
6 207 (5.37%) Banking
7 136 (3.53%) Law
8 126 (3.27%) Retail
9 109 (2.83%) Marketing
10 80 (2.08%) Legal
11 75 (1.95%) Telecoms
12 70 (1.82%) Games
13 57 (1.48%) Manufacturing
14 47 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
15 46 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
16 42 (1.09%) Financial Institution
17 36 (0.93%) Advertising
18 30 (0.78%) Billing
19 28 (0.73%) Front Office
20 26 (0.67%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 816 (21.17%) Senior
2 710 (18.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 645 (16.74%) Developer
4 547 (14.19%) Lead
5 348 (9.03%) Architect
6 280 (7.27%) Software Engineer
7 245 (6.36%) Cloud Engineer
8 236 (6.12%) Azure Engineer
9 179 (4.64%) Senior DevOps
10 171 (4.44%) Senior Developer
11 157 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
12 155 (4.02%) Data Engineer
13 147 (3.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 146 (3.79%) AWS Engineer
15 129 (3.35%) Platform Engineer
16 123 (3.19%) Lead DevOps
17 119 (3.09%) Java Developer
18 117 (3.04%) Full-Stack Developer
19 111 (2.88%) Analyst
20 101 (2.62%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 449 (11.65%) .NET
2 351 (9.11%) React
3 264 (6.85%) REST
4 243 (6.31%) RESTful
5 213 (5.53%) Node.js
6 187 (4.85%) Spring Boot
7 173 (4.49%) Spring
8 164 (4.26%) Kafka
9 154 (4.00%) CSS
10 148 (3.84%) AngularJS
11 146 (3.79%) HTML
12 125 (3.24%) SOAP
13 113 (2.93%) OAuth
14 112 (2.91%) Elastic Stack
15 108 (2.80%) Middleware
16 105 (2.72%) .NET Core
17 99 (2.57%) .NET Framework
17 99 (2.57%) ASP.NET
18 88 (2.28%) Lightning Web Components
19 79 (2.05%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 527 (13.67%) Cloud Native
2 268 (6.95%) Product Ownership
3 146 (3.79%) Distributed Systems
4 115 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
5 101 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
6 84 (2.18%) Management Information System
7 69 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
8 60 (1.56%) Low-Code
9 59 (1.53%) Mobile App
10 57 (1.48%) Public Cloud
10 57 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
11 53 (1.38%) Onboarding
12 43 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
13 39 (1.01%) Security Posture
14 36 (0.93%) Algorithms
14 36 (0.93%) Data Centre
15 35 (0.91%) Data Structures
16 29 (0.75%) AI Agents
17 27 (0.70%) Virtual Team
18 26 (0.67%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 388 (10.07%) Linux
2 222 (5.76%) Windows
3 86 (2.23%) Unix
4 83 (2.15%) Windows Server
5 39 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 34 (0.88%) Ubuntu
7 30 (0.78%) Android
8 26 (0.67%) VMS
9 25 (0.65%) Apple iOS
9 25 (0.65%) CentOS
10 12 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
12 8 (0.21%) Debian
13 7 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.052%) Embedded Linux
14 2 (0.052%) Kali Linux
14 2 (0.052%) Rocky
15 1 (0.026%) Solaris
15 1 (0.026%) SUSE
15 1 (0.026%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,999 (51.87%) CI/CD
2 1,474 (38.25%) Agile
3 948 (24.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 746 (19.36%) Continuous Improvement
5 732 (18.99%) Problem-Solving
6 622 (16.14%) Software Engineering
7 611 (15.85%) Mentoring
8 572 (14.84%) AI
9 564 (14.63%) Test Automation
10 563 (14.61%) Containerisation
11 540 (14.01%) Microservices
12 470 (12.20%) Observability
13 417 (10.82%) Roadmaps
14 407 (10.56%) Analytics
15 375 (9.73%) Scrum
16 355 (9.21%) Full-Stack Development
17 308 (7.99%) Coaching
18 306 (7.94%) Platform Engineering
19 305 (7.91%) Technical Leadership
20 300 (7.78%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,014 (26.31%) Python
2 733 (19.02%) SQL
3 540 (14.01%) Java
4 433 (11.24%) C#
5 409 (10.61%) JavaScript
6 326 (8.46%) Bash
7 300 (7.78%) TypeScript
8 270 (7.01%) PowerShell
9 164 (4.26%) Go
10 123 (3.19%) Bicep
11 92 (2.39%) Apex Code
12 77 (2.00%) C++
13 52 (1.35%) Groovy
14 50 (1.30%) PHP
15 42 (1.09%) SOQL
15 42 (1.09%) SOSL
16 38 (0.99%) Scala
17 34 (0.88%) T-SQL
18 27 (0.70%) Kotlin
19 26 (0.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 509 (13.21%) Security Cleared
2 435 (11.29%) Degree
3 294 (7.63%) SC Cleared
4 205 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 137 (3.55%) DV Cleared
6 128 (3.32%) AWS Certification
7 95 (2.46%) Azure Certification
8 86 (2.23%) Master's Degree
9 52 (1.35%) ISTQB
10 51 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
11 33 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
12 30 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 30 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 30 (0.78%) PMI Certification
13 29 (0.75%) DBS Check
14 27 (0.70%) CISSP
15 23 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
16 22 (0.57%) PMP
17 20 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 18 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 328 (8.51%) QA
2 141 (3.66%) Data Quality
3 120 (3.11%) Accessibility
4 115 (2.98%) GDPR
5 84 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 64 (1.66%) NIST
7 43 (1.12%) GRC
8 38 (0.99%) SOC 2
9 35 (0.91%) PCI DSS
10 29 (0.75%) WCAG
11 25 (0.65%) SLA
12 20 (0.52%) NCSC
13 13 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
14 11 (0.29%) PMO
15 9 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 12207
16 8 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 7 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 7 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
17 7 (0.18%) TickIT
18 5 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 721 (18.71%) Docker
2 141 (3.66%) Active Directory
3 44 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.49%) vSphere
6 11 (0.29%) Hyper-V
7 10 (0.26%) Firmware
8 9 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.16%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.10%) iptables
10 4 (0.10%) Postfix
10 4 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 4 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.078%) HDFS
11 3 (0.078%) KVM
11 3 (0.078%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.078%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.052%) Embedded Firmware
12 2 (0.052%) QEMU
12 2 (0.052%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 972 (25.22%) Terraform
2 765 (19.85%) Kubernetes
3 380 (9.86%) Ansible
4 244 (6.33%) Grafana
5 193 (5.01%) Prometheus
6 70 (1.82%) Argo
7 39 (1.01%) HP Fortify
7 39 (1.01%) Puppet
8 37 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
8 37 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
9 26 (0.67%) Nagios
10 23 (0.60%) Kibana
11 19 (0.49%) Kustomize
12 16 (0.42%) Rancher
13 15 (0.39%) Progress Chef
14 14 (0.36%) Istio
15 11 (0.29%) Packer
16 10 (0.26%) AWS Copilot
16 10 (0.26%) Proxmox
17 9 (0.23%) yum
Vendors
1 725 (18.81%) Microsoft
2 161 (4.18%) Salesforce
3 157 (4.07%) Google
4 139 (3.61%) Databricks
5 105 (2.72%) Oracle
6 90 (2.34%) Splunk
7 83 (2.15%) VMware
8 69 (1.79%) Red Hat
9 66 (1.71%) ServiceNow
10 49 (1.27%) SAP
11 47 (1.22%) MuleSoft
12 41 (1.06%) Palo Alto
13 34 (0.88%) Cisco
14 28 (0.73%) Pega
15 25 (0.65%) Dynatrace
16 24 (0.62%) IBM
17 23 (0.60%) CrowdStrike
18 22 (0.57%) Fortinet
18 22 (0.57%) OpenAI
19 21 (0.54%) Adobe