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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 23 21
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,455 3,903 5,578
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.81% 7.87% 7.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.60% 8.88% 8.77%
Number of salaries quoted 3,842 2,208 3,574
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 £86,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%

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 82,683 43,966 63,604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.91% 88.62% 80.92%
Number of salaries quoted 57,515 24,838 36,851
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,375 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -3.37%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 4,696 £71,991 +0.69% 2,907
UK excluding London -6 3,513 £65,000 - 1,603
Work from Home -4 1,896 £69,310 -0.99% 2,554
London -11 1,531 £85,000 +6.25% 1,578
North of England +3 1,237 £68,724 +5.73% 456
South East -9 700 £65,000 - 397
North West +5 678 £70,000 +7.69% 241
South West +21 527 £73,000 +21.67% 225
Midlands -20 429 £65,500 +0.77% 191
Yorkshire +10 286 £70,000 +7.69% 128
North East +21 273 £60,000 +4.35% 90
West Midlands -26 248 £70,000 +7.69% 115
Wales +1 199 £54,000 -1.82% 40
East of England +6 197 £59,000 -9.23% 132
East Midlands +5 181 £60,000 +4.35% 75
Scotland -9 129 £60,000 -11.11% 141
Northern Ireland +2 114 £72,246 -44.43% 37
Isle of Man +1 3 £35,000 -33.33% 2

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
1 109 (2.00%) SharePoint
2 104 (1.91%) Apache Spark
2 104 (1.91%) Confluence
3 82 (1.50%) Apache
4 41 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
5 40 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
6 30 (0.55%) IIS
7 29 (0.53%) CMS
8 26 (0.48%) OpenStack
9 16 (0.29%) SAS
10 14 (0.26%) Jupyter
11 13 (0.24%) nginx
12 12 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
13 9 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
13 9 (0.16%) Umbraco
13 9 (0.16%) WordPress
14 8 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
15 7 (0.13%) Camunda
16 5 (0.092%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 63 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
2 45 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (0.38%) Chatbot
4 21 (0.38%) MS Visio
4 21 (0.38%) PlantUML
5 19 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.24%) Trello
7 7 (0.13%) Simulink
8 3 (0.055%) Blender
8 3 (0.055%) Maya
8 3 (0.055%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.037%) Lightworks
10 1 (0.018%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.018%) Notion
10 1 (0.018%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 83 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.27%) Elite 3E
4 7 (0.13%) Teamcenter
5 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
6 5 (0.092%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.092%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.092%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.092%) Visualfiles
7 4 (0.073%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.073%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.073%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.055%) Carpe Diem
8 3 (0.055%) Infor SunSystems
8 3 (0.055%) Oracle Applications
8 3 (0.055%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.055%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.055%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.055%) Shopify
9 2 (0.037%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 2,849 (52.23%) Azure
2 1,759 (32.25%) AWS
3 1,440 (26.40%) Azure DevOps
4 592 (10.85%) GCP
5 543 (9.95%) GitHub
6 488 (8.95%) Serverless
7 439 (8.05%) SaaS
8 402 (7.37%) Power Platform
9 290 (5.32%) GitHub Actions
10 274 (5.02%) AWS CloudFormation
11 218 (4.00%) Amazon S3
12 211 (3.87%) AWS Lambda
13 203 (3.72%) Dynamics 365
14 200 (3.67%) PaaS
15 171 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
16 167 (3.06%) Amazon EKS
16 167 (3.06%) Azure Data Factory
17 160 (2.93%) Azure AKS
17 160 (2.93%) Entra ID
18 153 (2.80%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 123 (2.25%) Firewall
2 89 (1.63%) DNS
3 76 (1.39%) VPN
4 61 (1.12%) TCP/IP
5 48 (0.88%) Network Security
6 33 (0.60%) Internet
7 27 (0.49%) HTTP
8 25 (0.46%) DHCP
9 22 (0.40%) Broadband
10 16 (0.29%) MQTT
11 14 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
11 14 (0.26%) Wireless
12 13 (0.24%) DMARC
13 12 (0.22%) BGP
13 12 (0.22%) SAN
13 12 (0.22%) WAN
14 11 (0.20%) LAN
14 11 (0.20%) SSH
15 8 (0.15%) VLAN
15 8 (0.15%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 343 (6.29%) SQL Server
2 290 (5.32%) Azure SQL Database
3 286 (5.24%) MongoDB
4 230 (4.22%) Power BI
5 210 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
6 195 (3.57%) NoSQL
7 137 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
8 122 (2.24%) MySQL
9 114 (2.09%) Relational Database
10 104 (1.91%) DynamoDB
11 98 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
12 97 (1.78%) Data Lake
13 96 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
14 83 (1.52%) Metadata
15 70 (1.28%) Redis
16 48 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
17 46 (0.84%) Delta Lake
18 44 (0.81%) Big Data
19 42 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
20 36 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 628 (11.51%) Git
2 399 (7.31%) Jenkins
3 384 (7.04%) GitLab
4 352 (6.45%) JIRA
5 90 (1.65%) Selenium
6 69 (1.26%) SonarQube
7 62 (1.14%) Cypress.io
8 59 (1.08%) Maven
9 53 (0.97%) Postman
10 52 (0.95%) JUnit
11 46 (0.84%) TeamCity
12 40 (0.73%) Cucumber
13 37 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 31 (0.57%) JMeter
15 27 (0.49%) Bitbucket
16 26 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
17 25 (0.46%) Claude Code
18 22 (0.40%) REST Assured
19 20 (0.37%) NUnit
19 20 (0.37%) Zephyr
General
1 1,258 (23.06%) Social Skills
2 1,053 (19.30%) Finance
3 482 (8.84%) Public Sector
4 431 (7.90%) Analytical Skills
5 337 (6.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 249 (4.56%) Banking
7 214 (3.92%) Law
8 170 (3.12%) Legal
9 169 (3.10%) Retail
10 86 (1.58%) Marketing
11 72 (1.32%) Financial Institution
12 58 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
13 53 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
14 51 (0.93%) Manufacturing
15 48 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
16 47 (0.86%) Advertising
17 46 (0.84%) Aerospace
18 44 (0.81%) Back Office
19 43 (0.79%) Telecoms
20 40 (0.73%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,308 (23.98%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,252 (22.95%) Senior
3 886 (16.24%) Developer
4 713 (13.07%) Lead
5 415 (7.61%) Architect
6 388 (7.11%) Software Engineer
7 342 (6.27%) Azure Engineer
8 310 (5.68%) Senior DevOps
9 288 (5.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 286 (5.24%) Cloud Engineer
11 238 (4.36%) .NET Developer
12 232 (4.25%) Platform Engineer
13 222 (4.07%) Senior Developer
14 211 (3.87%) Data Engineer
15 182 (3.34%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 168 (3.08%) Lead DevOps
17 150 (2.75%) AWS Engineer
18 141 (2.58%) Solutions Architect
19 131 (2.40%) Java Developer
20 129 (2.36%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,335 (24.47%) Terraform
2 725 (13.29%) .NET
3 425 (7.79%) React
4 337 (6.18%) REST
5 332 (6.09%) RESTful
6 329 (6.03%) Node.js
7 300 (5.50%) ASP.NET
8 272 (4.99%) .NET Core
9 258 (4.73%) Spring
10 256 (4.69%) Spring Boot
11 237 (4.34%) CSS
11 237 (4.34%) HTML
12 229 (4.20%) ASP.NET Core
13 223 (4.09%) Kafka
14 165 (3.02%) AngularJS
15 138 (2.53%) Entity Framework
16 137 (2.51%) Blazor
17 118 (2.16%) Middleware
18 116 (2.13%) JSON
19 103 (1.89%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 990 (18.15%) Cloud Native
2 358 (6.56%) Product Ownership
3 260 (4.77%) Distributed Systems
4 220 (4.03%) Enterprise Software
5 162 (2.97%) Onboarding
6 120 (2.20%) Virtual Team
7 114 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
8 92 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
9 84 (1.54%) Management Information System
10 75 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
11 73 (1.34%) Data Centre
11 73 (1.34%) Mobile App
12 66 (1.21%) Public Cloud
12 66 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
13 65 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
14 53 (0.97%) AI Agents
15 50 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
15 50 (0.92%) Private Cloud
16 49 (0.90%) Data Structures
17 44 (0.81%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 553 (10.14%) Linux
2 254 (4.66%) Windows
3 99 (1.81%) Unix
4 69 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 66 (1.21%) Windows Server
6 52 (0.95%) CentOS
7 41 (0.75%) Ubuntu
8 40 (0.73%) VMS
9 32 (0.59%) Android
10 17 (0.31%) Apple iOS
10 17 (0.31%) Debian
11 11 (0.20%) Rocky
12 7 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
13 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.092%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.073%) Kali Linux
15 4 (0.073%) Solaris
15 4 (0.073%) Windows Server 2019
16 3 (0.055%) AIX
16 3 (0.055%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,762 (50.63%) CI/CD
2 1,997 (36.61%) Agile
3 1,300 (23.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,062 (19.47%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,030 (18.88%) Mentoring
6 1,007 (18.46%) Software Engineering
7 988 (18.11%) AI
8 893 (16.37%) Problem-Solving
9 847 (15.53%) Test Automation
10 726 (13.31%) Microservices
11 678 (12.43%) Containerisation
12 637 (11.68%) Platform Engineering
13 606 (11.11%) Observability
14 599 (10.98%) Technical Leadership
15 574 (10.52%) Roadmaps
16 540 (9.90%) Stakeholder Management
17 536 (9.83%) Scrum
18 530 (9.72%) Full-Stack Development
19 488 (8.95%) Analytics
20 397 (7.28%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,286 (23.57%) Python
2 978 (17.93%) SQL
3 800 (14.67%) C#
4 715 (13.11%) Java
5 663 (12.15%) JavaScript
6 421 (7.72%) TypeScript
7 380 (6.97%) PowerShell
8 379 (6.95%) Bash
9 154 (2.82%) Bicep
10 129 (2.36%) Go
11 119 (2.18%) C++
12 54 (0.99%) PHP
13 52 (0.95%) Groovy
14 51 (0.93%) T-SQL
15 50 (0.92%) Scala
16 49 (0.90%) C
17 45 (0.82%) Kotlin
18 39 (0.71%) Ruby
19 38 (0.70%) Apex Code
20 37 (0.68%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,006 (18.44%) Security Cleared
2 670 (12.28%) SC Cleared
3 507 (9.29%) Degree
4 284 (5.21%) DV Cleared
5 190 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 169 (3.10%) Azure Certification
7 104 (1.91%) Master's Degree
8 103 (1.89%) AWS Certification
9 77 (1.41%) CISSP
9 77 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
10 72 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
11 67 (1.23%) CISM
12 65 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
13 60 (1.10%) ISTQB
14 36 (0.66%) PMI Certification
15 29 (0.53%) DBS Check
16 25 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 24 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
17 24 (0.44%) PhD
17 24 (0.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 550 (10.08%) QA
2 201 (3.68%) Data Quality
3 196 (3.59%) Accessibility
4 123 (2.25%) GDPR
5 99 (1.81%) NIST
6 73 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 64 (1.17%) WCAG
8 49 (0.90%) ISO 22301
9 46 (0.84%) GRC
10 34 (0.62%) SLA
11 30 (0.55%) PCI DSS
12 27 (0.49%) NCSC
13 26 (0.48%) PMO
14 18 (0.33%) SOC 2
15 12 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
15 12 (0.22%) HIPAA
15 12 (0.22%) TickIT
16 10 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
17 9 (0.16%) NIST 800
17 9 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 891 (16.33%) Docker
2 143 (2.62%) Active Directory
3 84 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 39 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (0.49%) vSphere
6 21 (0.38%) Hyper-V
7 19 (0.35%) Firmware
8 17 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.13%) Ceph
9 7 (0.13%) NDS
10 6 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.092%) KVM
12 4 (0.073%) iptables
13 3 (0.055%) Xen
14 2 (0.037%) Embedded Firmware
14 2 (0.037%) VMware ESXi
14 2 (0.037%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.018%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.018%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,016 (18.63%) Kubernetes
2 453 (8.30%) Ansible
3 236 (4.33%) Grafana
4 168 (3.08%) Prometheus
5 81 (1.48%) Argo
6 67 (1.23%) Puppet
7 37 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
8 33 (0.60%) Istio
9 27 (0.49%) Nagios
10 26 (0.48%) Kibana
11 21 (0.38%) Progress Chef
11 21 (0.38%) Rancher
12 20 (0.37%) HP Fortify
13 14 (0.26%) Packer
13 14 (0.26%) Podman
13 14 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
14 13 (0.24%) logstash
15 12 (0.22%) ZABBIX
16 10 (0.18%) Proxmox
17 8 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 1,098 (20.13%) Microsoft
2 194 (3.56%) Google
3 186 (3.41%) Databricks
4 124 (2.27%) Oracle
5 117 (2.14%) Salesforce
6 116 (2.13%) VMware
7 94 (1.72%) ServiceNow
8 83 (1.52%) Splunk
9 80 (1.47%) Red Hat
10 76 (1.39%) SAP
11 56 (1.03%) OpenAI
12 55 (1.01%) Cisco
13 47 (0.86%) Dynatrace
14 44 (0.81%) Pega
15 42 (0.77%) Facebook
16 38 (0.70%) YouTube
17 36 (0.66%) AppDynamics
18 33 (0.60%) MuleSoft
19 29 (0.53%) Foundry
20 28 (0.51%) Apple