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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 21 26
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,417 4,012 7,259
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.75% 9.02% 6.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.52% 9.74% 8.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3,199 2,322 5,243
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,486 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,223
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,000 £87,875 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,250
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 67,701 41,203 88,451
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.85% 92.64% 82.16%
Number of salaries quoted 46,469 21,965 62,595
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,613
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
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 14 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 14 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 3,918 £70,000 -1.06% 1,145
UK excluding London -8 2,631 £65,000 - 878
Work from Home -5 1,552 £67,500 -3.57% 669
London -6 1,432 £82,500 +3.13% 439
North of England -2 948 £69,310 +2.68% 257
South East -13 579 £65,000 - 256
North West -4 509 £70,000 +3.61% 144
South West -11 365 £65,000 - 103
Midlands -22 342 £65,250 +8.75% 112
Yorkshire -5 269 £70,000 - 77
West Midlands -30 192 £65,000 +8.33% 72
North East +10 170 £60,000 -7.69% 41
East of England +4 166 £60,100 -7.54% 77
East Midlands +4 147 £67,500 +17.39% 40
Scotland -2 131 £55,000 -25.42% 46
Wales +1 96 £53,171 -11.38% 28
Northern Ireland -33 8 £73,151 -13.94% 20
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 85 (1.92%) Confluence
2 83 (1.88%) SharePoint
3 60 (1.36%) Apache Spark
4 57 (1.29%) Apache
5 46 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
6 38 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
7 28 (0.63%) CMS
8 26 (0.59%) IIS
9 15 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
10 12 (0.27%) SAS
11 10 (0.23%) 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 6 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 6 (0.14%) Apache Solr
14 6 (0.14%) Moodle
Applications
1 42 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
2 32 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.48%) MS Visio
4 15 (0.34%) PlantUML
5 11 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
7 6 (0.14%) Simulink
8 4 (0.091%) Maya
9 3 (0.068%) Blender
9 3 (0.068%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.068%) Trello
10 1 (0.023%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.023%) EngageOne
10 1 (0.023%) Lightworks
10 1 (0.023%) Notion
10 1 (0.023%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 73 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.23%) SAP ERP
4 7 (0.16%) Endur
5 5 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.11%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.091%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.068%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.068%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.068%) Magento
7 3 (0.068%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.068%) 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 (0.023%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.023%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.023%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,338 (52.93%) Azure
2 1,411 (31.94%) AWS
3 1,161 (26.28%) Azure DevOps
4 489 (11.07%) GCP
5 474 (10.73%) GitHub
6 435 (9.85%) Serverless
7 334 (7.56%) Power Platform
8 277 (6.27%) SaaS
9 254 (5.75%) GitHub Actions
10 227 (5.14%) Amazon S3
11 220 (4.98%) AWS CloudFormation
12 210 (4.75%) AWS Lambda
13 174 (3.94%) PaaS
14 152 (3.44%) Microsoft 365
15 145 (3.28%) Azure AKS
16 141 (3.19%) Amazon ECS
17 140 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 140 (3.17%) Entra ID
18 138 (3.12%) Dynamics 365
19 134 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 143 (3.24%) Firewall
2 91 (2.06%) DNS
3 66 (1.49%) Broadband
4 59 (1.34%) TCP/IP
5 51 (1.15%) VPN
6 39 (0.88%) Network Security
7 34 (0.77%) HTTP
8 26 (0.59%) DHCP
9 25 (0.57%) WAN
10 23 (0.52%) LAN
11 12 (0.27%) Internet
12 11 (0.25%) MQTT
13 10 (0.23%) BGP
13 10 (0.23%) DMARC
13 10 (0.23%) SAN
13 10 (0.23%) Wireless
14 8 (0.18%) HTTPS
15 6 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
15 6 (0.14%) OSPF
15 6 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (5.52%) SQL Server
2 202 (4.57%) NoSQL
3 198 (4.48%) MongoDB
4 194 (4.39%) Azure SQL Database
5 188 (4.26%) Power BI
6 144 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
7 104 (2.35%) DynamoDB
8 89 (2.01%) Relational Database
9 83 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
10 82 (1.86%) Data Lake
11 80 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
12 73 (1.65%) MySQL
13 69 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
14 61 (1.38%) Metadata
15 50 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
16 38 (0.86%) Redis
17 36 (0.82%) BigQuery
18 35 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
18 35 (0.79%) Delta Lake
19 34 (0.77%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 470 (10.64%) Git
2 383 (8.67%) Jenkins
3 375 (8.49%) GitLab
4 266 (6.02%) JIRA
5 96 (2.17%) SonarQube
6 81 (1.83%) Cypress.io
6 81 (1.83%) Selenium
7 57 (1.29%) Maven
8 46 (1.04%) Postman
9 35 (0.79%) JUnit
10 32 (0.72%) CircleCI
10 32 (0.72%) TeamCity
11 31 (0.70%) Bitbucket
11 31 (0.70%) Cucumber
12 28 (0.63%) JMeter
13 25 (0.57%) Eclipse
14 24 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
15 21 (0.48%) Visual Studio
16 20 (0.45%) REST Assured
17 18 (0.41%) Jaeger
General
1 904 (20.47%) Finance
2 896 (20.29%) Social Skills
3 340 (7.70%) Analytical Skills
4 289 (6.54%) Public Sector
5 263 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 233 (5.28%) Banking
7 138 (3.12%) Retail
8 123 (2.78%) Law
9 100 (2.26%) Marketing
10 78 (1.77%) Games
11 75 (1.70%) Legal
12 48 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
13 46 (1.04%) Manufacturing
14 45 (1.02%) Advertising
15 42 (0.95%) Financial Institution
15 42 (0.95%) Telecoms
16 41 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
17 33 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
18 30 (0.68%) Back Office
18 30 (0.68%) Billing
Job Titles
1 965 (21.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 873 (19.76%) Senior
3 784 (17.75%) Developer
4 618 (13.99%) Lead
5 363 (8.22%) Architect
6 331 (7.49%) Software Engineer
7 328 (7.43%) Azure Engineer
8 252 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
9 207 (4.69%) Senior DevOps
10 203 (4.60%) Senior Developer
11 180 (4.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 180 (4.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 169 (3.83%) Platform Engineer
13 165 (3.74%) Data Engineer
14 155 (3.51%) AWS Engineer
15 151 (3.42%) .NET Developer
16 148 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
17 145 (3.28%) Java Developer
18 129 (2.92%) Lead DevOps
19 111 (2.51%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 558 (12.63%) .NET
2 390 (8.83%) React
3 281 (6.36%) Node.js
4 278 (6.29%) REST
5 253 (5.73%) RESTful
6 200 (4.53%) ASP.NET
7 188 (4.26%) Spring Boot
8 186 (4.21%) .NET Core
9 182 (4.12%) CSS
10 178 (4.03%) Spring
11 176 (3.98%) HTML
12 156 (3.53%) AngularJS
12 156 (3.53%) Kafka
13 149 (3.37%) ASP.NET Core
14 110 (2.49%) YAML
15 104 (2.35%) SOAP
16 95 (2.15%) Middleware
16 95 (2.15%) OAuth
17 94 (2.13%) PySpark
18 92 (2.08%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 664 (15.03%) Cloud Native
2 289 (6.54%) Product Ownership
3 163 (3.69%) Distributed Systems
4 130 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
5 91 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
6 78 (1.77%) Management Information System
7 77 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
7 77 (1.74%) Mobile App
8 75 (1.70%) Onboarding
9 62 (1.40%) Data Centre
10 56 (1.27%) Public Cloud
11 54 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
12 51 (1.15%) Data Structures
13 49 (1.11%) Algorithms
14 44 (1.00%) Low-Code
15 40 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
16 38 (0.86%) Security Posture
17 36 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
18 31 (0.70%) Virtual Team
19 30 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 442 (10.01%) Linux
2 193 (4.37%) Windows
3 84 (1.90%) Unix
4 75 (1.70%) Windows Server
5 55 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 49 (1.11%) Ubuntu
7 34 (0.77%) CentOS
7 34 (0.77%) VMS
8 33 (0.75%) Android
9 27 (0.61%) Apple iOS
10 10 (0.23%) Debian
11 9 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.091%) Kali Linux
12 4 (0.091%) Rocky
12 4 (0.091%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.091%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.045%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.045%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.023%) SUSE
14 1 (0.023%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,239 (50.69%) CI/CD
2 1,571 (35.57%) Agile
3 1,072 (24.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 801 (18.13%) Continuous Improvement
5 736 (16.66%) Mentoring
6 726 (16.44%) Software Engineering
7 718 (16.26%) Problem-Solving
8 687 (15.55%) AI
9 621 (14.06%) Test Automation
10 589 (13.33%) Microservices
11 587 (13.29%) Containerisation
12 482 (10.91%) Observability
13 476 (10.78%) Full-Stack Development
14 473 (10.71%) Roadmaps
15 462 (10.46%) Platform Engineering
16 436 (9.87%) Scrum
17 435 (9.85%) Analytics
18 398 (9.01%) Technical Leadership
19 310 (7.02%) Stakeholder Management
20 297 (6.72%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,059 (23.98%) Python
2 804 (18.20%) SQL
3 604 (13.67%) Java
4 567 (12.84%) C#
5 505 (11.43%) JavaScript
6 374 (8.47%) Bash
7 336 (7.61%) TypeScript
8 272 (6.16%) PowerShell
9 139 (3.15%) Go
10 130 (2.94%) Bicep
11 122 (2.76%) C++
12 79 (1.79%) Apex Code
13 58 (1.31%) PHP
14 51 (1.15%) Groovy
15 48 (1.09%) SOQL
16 45 (1.02%) SOSL
17 43 (0.97%) C
17 43 (0.97%) Scala
18 42 (0.95%) Kotlin
19 37 (0.84%) Rust
Qualifications
1 651 (14.74%) Security Cleared
2 451 (10.21%) Degree
3 400 (9.06%) SC Cleared
4 172 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 160 (3.62%) DV Cleared
6 106 (2.40%) Azure Certification
7 100 (2.26%) AWS Certification
8 98 (2.22%) Master's Degree
9 53 (1.20%) ISTQB
10 47 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
11 34 (0.77%) DBS Check
12 31 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
12 31 (0.70%) PMI Certification
13 28 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 26 (0.59%) 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 16 (0.36%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 372 (8.42%) QA
2 162 (3.67%) Data Quality
3 149 (3.37%) Accessibility
4 90 (2.04%) GDPR
5 64 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 54 (1.22%) NIST
7 44 (1.00%) GRC
8 43 (0.97%) WCAG
9 33 (0.75%) PCI DSS
10 32 (0.72%) SOC 2
11 19 (0.43%) SLA
12 17 (0.38%) PMO
13 12 (0.27%) NCSC
13 12 (0.27%) TickIT
14 9 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 8 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
16 6 (0.14%) Solvency II
17 5 (0.11%) IFRS
17 5 (0.11%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 725 (16.41%) Docker
2 131 (2.97%) Active Directory
3 60 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (0.45%) Firmware
5 20 (0.45%) vSphere
6 19 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.11%) iptables
9 5 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.091%) Embedded Firmware
10 4 (0.091%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.068%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.068%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.045%) KVM
13 1 (0.023%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.023%) OpenAM
13 1 (0.023%) OpenIDM
13 1 (0.023%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,093 (24.75%) Terraform
2 795 (18.00%) Kubernetes
3 395 (8.94%) Ansible
4 223 (5.05%) Grafana
5 183 (4.14%) Prometheus
6 76 (1.72%) Argo
7 48 (1.09%) Puppet
8 40 (0.91%) Nagios
9 33 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
10 31 (0.70%) HP Fortify
11 29 (0.66%) Kibana
12 19 (0.43%) Istio
13 18 (0.41%) Kustomize
14 15 (0.34%) Packer
15 13 (0.29%) Progress Chef
15 13 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
16 12 (0.27%) Proxmox
17 11 (0.25%) Rancher
18 9 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 9 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 835 (18.90%) Microsoft
2 168 (3.80%) Google
3 154 (3.49%) Databricks
4 147 (3.33%) Salesforce
5 102 (2.31%) Splunk
6 101 (2.29%) VMware
7 92 (2.08%) ServiceNow
8 84 (1.90%) Oracle
8 84 (1.90%) Red Hat
9 57 (1.29%) SAP
10 40 (0.91%) MuleSoft
11 39 (0.88%) Dynatrace
12 34 (0.77%) Cisco
13 29 (0.66%) OpenAI
13 29 (0.66%) Palo Alto
14 25 (0.57%) Apple
15 24 (0.54%) Facebook
15 24 (0.54%) Pega
16 21 (0.48%) Foundry
17 19 (0.43%) AppDynamics