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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 21 26
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,445 4,029 7,251
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.75% 9.04% 6.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.52% 9.76% 8.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,219 2,329 5,232
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,486 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £50,500
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 68,162 41,264 88,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.90% 92.57% 81.89%
Number of salaries quoted 46,887 22,044 62,842
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,607
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £91,991
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 17 June 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 17 June 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 3,941 £70,000 -1.41% 2,304
UK excluding London -9 2,662 £65,000 - 2,345
Work from Home -5 1,554 £67,500 -3.57% 2,112
London -6 1,428 £82,500 +3.13% 560
North of England -2 960 £69,310 +2.68% 551
South East -13 582 £65,000 - 551
North West -2 517 £70,000 +3.70% 260
South West -9 378 £66,250 +1.92% 217
Midlands -20 339 £65,250 +8.75% 261
Yorkshire 0 273 £70,000 - 183
West Midlands -29 188 £65,000 +8.33% 140
North East +10 170 £60,000 -7.69% 113
East of England +1 169 £60,100 -7.54% 285
East Midlands 0 148 £67,500 +17.39% 121
Scotland -6 133 £55,000 -26.67% 225
Wales +3 97 £53,171 -11.38% 147
Northern Ireland -34 8 £73,151 -31.95% 150
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 89 (2.00%) Confluence
2 81 (1.82%) SharePoint
3 60 (1.35%) Apache Spark
4 57 (1.28%) Apache
5 46 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
6 40 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
7 28 (0.63%) CMS
8 25 (0.56%) IIS
9 15 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
10 12 (0.27%) SAS
11 10 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
12 9 (0.20%) OpenStack
12 9 (0.20%) Umbraco
13 8 (0.18%) Jupyter
13 8 (0.18%) nginx
13 8 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
13 8 (0.18%) WordPress
14 7 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 6 (0.13%) Apache Solr
15 6 (0.13%) Moodle
Applications
1 43 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
2 34 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.47%) MS Visio
4 16 (0.36%) PlantUML
5 12 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.16%) Simulink
8 6 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
9 4 (0.090%) Maya
9 4 (0.090%) Trello
10 3 (0.067%) Blender
10 3 (0.067%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.022%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.022%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.022%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.022%) Notion
11 1 (0.022%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 73 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.22%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.13%) Endur
5 5 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.11%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.090%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.090%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.067%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.067%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.067%) Magento
7 3 (0.067%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.067%) Shopify
8 2 (0.045%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.045%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.045%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.045%) SAP IBP
9 1 (0.022%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.022%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.022%) SAP MII
Cloud Services
1 2,355 (52.98%) Azure
2 1,420 (31.95%) AWS
3 1,176 (26.46%) Azure DevOps
4 488 (10.98%) GCP
5 480 (10.80%) GitHub
6 441 (9.92%) Serverless
7 333 (7.49%) Power Platform
8 279 (6.28%) SaaS
9 257 (5.78%) GitHub Actions
10 225 (5.06%) Amazon S3
11 221 (4.97%) AWS CloudFormation
12 211 (4.75%) AWS Lambda
13 176 (3.96%) PaaS
14 150 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
15 148 (3.33%) Azure AKS
16 143 (3.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 142 (3.19%) Amazon ECS
18 140 (3.15%) Dynamics 365
19 139 (3.13%) Entra ID
20 137 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 144 (3.24%) Firewall
2 90 (2.02%) DNS
3 67 (1.51%) Broadband
4 57 (1.28%) TCP/IP
5 54 (1.21%) VPN
6 39 (0.88%) Network Security
7 33 (0.74%) HTTP
8 26 (0.58%) DHCP
9 25 (0.56%) WAN
10 22 (0.49%) LAN
11 12 (0.27%) Internet
12 11 (0.25%) DMARC
12 11 (0.25%) MQTT
13 10 (0.22%) BGP
13 10 (0.22%) SAN
13 10 (0.22%) Wireless
14 8 (0.18%) HTTPS
15 6 (0.13%) Bluetooth
15 6 (0.13%) OSPF
15 6 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (5.49%) SQL Server
2 200 (4.50%) MongoDB
2 200 (4.50%) NoSQL
3 197 (4.43%) Azure SQL Database
4 190 (4.27%) Power BI
5 148 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
6 106 (2.38%) DynamoDB
7 92 (2.07%) Relational Database
8 84 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
9 81 (1.82%) Data Lake
9 81 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
10 75 (1.69%) MySQL
11 68 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
12 57 (1.28%) Metadata
13 51 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
14 38 (0.85%) Redis
15 36 (0.81%) Big Data
15 36 (0.81%) BigQuery
16 35 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
16 35 (0.79%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 475 (10.69%) Git
2 388 (8.73%) Jenkins
3 378 (8.50%) GitLab
4 275 (6.19%) JIRA
5 96 (2.16%) SonarQube
6 83 (1.87%) Cypress.io
6 83 (1.87%) Selenium
7 59 (1.33%) Maven
8 46 (1.03%) Postman
9 36 (0.81%) JUnit
10 33 (0.74%) CircleCI
11 31 (0.70%) Bitbucket
11 31 (0.70%) Cucumber
11 31 (0.70%) TeamCity
12 30 (0.67%) JMeter
13 25 (0.56%) Eclipse
14 24 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
15 21 (0.47%) REST Assured
15 21 (0.47%) Visual Studio
16 18 (0.40%) Jaeger
General
1 911 (20.49%) Finance
2 905 (20.36%) Social Skills
3 341 (7.67%) Analytical Skills
4 293 (6.59%) Public Sector
5 271 (6.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 231 (5.20%) Banking
7 139 (3.13%) Retail
8 126 (2.83%) Law
9 97 (2.18%) Marketing
10 78 (1.75%) Games
11 76 (1.71%) Legal
12 49 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
13 48 (1.08%) Manufacturing
14 47 (1.06%) Advertising
15 44 (0.99%) Telecoms
16 42 (0.94%) Financial Institution
17 40 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
18 35 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
19 30 (0.67%) Back Office
19 30 (0.67%) Billing
Job Titles
1 974 (21.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 872 (19.62%) Senior
3 786 (17.68%) Developer
4 621 (13.97%) Lead
5 369 (8.30%) Architect
6 331 (7.45%) Software Engineer
7 330 (7.42%) Azure Engineer
8 255 (5.74%) Cloud Engineer
9 207 (4.66%) Senior DevOps
10 201 (4.52%) Senior Developer
11 182 (4.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 180 (4.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 168 (3.78%) Platform Engineer
14 162 (3.64%) Data Engineer
15 161 (3.62%) AWS Engineer
16 152 (3.42%) .NET Developer
17 149 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
18 147 (3.31%) Java Developer
19 129 (2.90%) Lead DevOps
20 111 (2.50%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 565 (12.71%) .NET
2 388 (8.73%) React
3 280 (6.30%) Node.js
4 279 (6.28%) REST
5 259 (5.83%) RESTful
6 205 (4.61%) ASP.NET
7 192 (4.32%) Spring Boot
8 188 (4.23%) .NET Core
9 185 (4.16%) CSS
10 181 (4.07%) Spring
11 180 (4.05%) HTML
12 159 (3.58%) AngularJS
13 157 (3.53%) Kafka
14 152 (3.42%) ASP.NET Core
15 110 (2.47%) YAML
16 104 (2.34%) SOAP
17 97 (2.18%) Middleware
18 96 (2.16%) OAuth
19 92 (2.07%) PySpark
20 91 (2.05%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 683 (15.37%) Cloud Native
2 286 (6.43%) Product Ownership
3 165 (3.71%) Distributed Systems
4 130 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
5 89 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
6 79 (1.78%) Onboarding
7 78 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
7 78 (1.75%) Management Information System
8 77 (1.73%) Mobile App
9 62 (1.39%) Data Centre
10 57 (1.28%) Public Cloud
11 56 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
12 51 (1.15%) Data Structures
13 48 (1.08%) Algorithms
14 43 (0.97%) Low-Code
15 40 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
16 39 (0.88%) Security Posture
17 37 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
18 32 (0.72%) Virtual Team
19 31 (0.70%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 441 (9.92%) Linux
2 197 (4.43%) Windows
3 84 (1.89%) Unix
4 75 (1.69%) Windows Server
5 54 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 49 (1.10%) Ubuntu
7 36 (0.81%) VMS
8 33 (0.74%) Android
8 33 (0.74%) CentOS
9 27 (0.61%) Apple iOS
10 10 (0.22%) Debian
11 9 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.090%) Kali Linux
12 4 (0.090%) Rocky
12 4 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.090%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.045%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.045%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.022%) SUSE
14 1 (0.022%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,258 (50.80%) CI/CD
2 1,581 (35.57%) Agile
3 1,080 (24.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 808 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 737 (16.58%) Mentoring
6 730 (16.42%) Software Engineering
7 717 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
8 686 (15.43%) AI
9 627 (14.11%) Test Automation
10 593 (13.34%) Containerisation
10 593 (13.34%) Microservices
11 484 (10.89%) Roadmaps
12 480 (10.80%) Full-Stack Development
12 480 (10.80%) Observability
13 461 (10.37%) Platform Engineering
14 445 (10.01%) Scrum
15 431 (9.70%) Analytics
16 396 (8.91%) Technical Leadership
17 320 (7.20%) Stakeholder Management
18 294 (6.61%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,051 (23.64%) Python
2 808 (18.18%) SQL
3 609 (13.70%) Java
4 569 (12.80%) C#
5 503 (11.32%) JavaScript
6 373 (8.39%) Bash
7 335 (7.54%) TypeScript
8 273 (6.14%) PowerShell
9 138 (3.10%) Go
10 135 (3.04%) Bicep
11 124 (2.79%) C++
12 79 (1.78%) Apex Code
13 58 (1.30%) PHP
14 51 (1.15%) Groovy
15 48 (1.08%) SOQL
16 45 (1.01%) C
16 45 (1.01%) SOSL
17 43 (0.97%) Kotlin
18 40 (0.90%) Scala
19 37 (0.83%) Rust
Qualifications
1 665 (14.96%) Security Cleared
2 460 (10.35%) Degree
3 412 (9.27%) SC Cleared
4 172 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 159 (3.58%) DV Cleared
6 108 (2.43%) Azure Certification
7 100 (2.25%) Master's Degree
8 99 (2.23%) AWS Certification
9 54 (1.21%) ISTQB
10 50 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
11 34 (0.76%) DBS Check
12 31 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
12 31 (0.70%) PMI Certification
13 28 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 27 (0.61%) CISSP
15 23 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 23 (0.52%) PhD
15 23 (0.52%) PMP
16 19 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
17 15 (0.34%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 379 (8.53%) QA
2 157 (3.53%) Data Quality
3 155 (3.49%) Accessibility
4 92 (2.07%) GDPR
5 65 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 52 (1.17%) NIST
7 49 (1.10%) WCAG
8 43 (0.97%) GRC
9 33 (0.74%) PCI DSS
10 32 (0.72%) SOC 2
11 20 (0.45%) SLA
12 19 (0.43%) PMO
13 14 (0.31%) NCSC
14 12 (0.27%) TickIT
15 10 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
16 9 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 9 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
17 6 (0.13%) Solvency II
18 5 (0.11%) IFRS
18 5 (0.11%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 731 (16.45%) Docker
2 132 (2.97%) Active Directory
3 62 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (0.49%) vSphere
6 20 (0.45%) Firmware
7 19 (0.43%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.11%) iptables
11 4 (0.090%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.090%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.067%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.067%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.045%) KVM
14 1 (0.022%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.022%) OpenAM
14 1 (0.022%) OpenIDM
14 1 (0.022%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,097 (24.68%) Terraform
2 800 (18.00%) Kubernetes
3 394 (8.86%) Ansible
4 222 (4.99%) Grafana
5 185 (4.16%) Prometheus
6 75 (1.69%) Argo
7 48 (1.08%) Puppet
8 38 (0.85%) Nagios
9 32 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
10 31 (0.70%) HP Fortify
11 28 (0.63%) Kibana
12 20 (0.45%) Istio
13 18 (0.40%) Kustomize
14 15 (0.34%) Packer
15 13 (0.29%) Progress Chef
16 12 (0.27%) Proxmox
16 12 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
17 11 (0.25%) Rancher
18 9 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 9 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 844 (18.99%) Microsoft
2 168 (3.78%) Google
3 155 (3.49%) Databricks
4 145 (3.26%) Salesforce
5 102 (2.29%) VMware
6 100 (2.25%) Splunk
7 94 (2.11%) ServiceNow
8 84 (1.89%) Oracle
9 81 (1.82%) Red Hat
10 57 (1.28%) SAP
11 41 (0.92%) MuleSoft
12 39 (0.88%) Dynatrace
13 35 (0.79%) Cisco
14 29 (0.65%) Palo Alto
15 28 (0.63%) OpenAI
16 26 (0.58%) Pega
17 25 (0.56%) Apple
17 25 (0.56%) Facebook
18 21 (0.47%) Foundry
19 19 (0.43%) AppDynamics