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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 21 23
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 -10
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,424 3,984 5,736
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.99% 7.98% 6.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.81% 8.98% 8.51%
Number of salaries quoted 3,868 2,261 3,874
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 £106,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -0.79%

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 79,636 44,374 67,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.20% 88.88% 80.70%
Number of salaries quoted 55,106 25,202 42,338
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,650 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 25 August 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 25 August 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 -9 4,693 £70,782 +1.12% 1,165
UK excluding London -2 3,511 £65,000 - 953
Work from Home -1 1,917 £69,306 -0.99% 649
London -11 1,520 £85,000 +6.25% 458
North of England +2 1,246 £67,500 +3.85% 254
South East -10 704 £65,000 +0.39% 279
North West +3 678 £70,000 +7.69% 133
South West +16 519 £72,500 +11.54% 186
Midlands -16 414 £66,750 +2.69% 119
Yorkshire +17 294 £70,000 +12.00% 75
North East +25 274 £60,000 -7.69% 50
West Midlands -24 247 £70,000 +7.69% 72
East of England +15 208 £59,450 -8.54% 50
Wales +4 191 £55,000 - 24
East Midlands +3 167 £62,500 +8.69% 47
Scotland -5 131 £60,000 -12.73% 44
Northern Ireland +2 114 £72,246 -44.43% 11
Isle of Man -1 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
1 106 (1.95%) Confluence
2 100 (1.84%) Apache Spark
3 95 (1.75%) SharePoint
4 82 (1.51%) Apache
5 45 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
6 39 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
7 30 (0.55%) CMS
7 30 (0.55%) IIS
8 24 (0.44%) OpenStack
9 19 (0.35%) SAS
10 14 (0.26%) Jupyter
10 14 (0.26%) nginx
10 14 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
11 9 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
11 9 (0.17%) Umbraco
11 9 (0.17%) WordPress
12 8 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 8 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
13 7 (0.13%) Anypoint
13 7 (0.13%) Camunda
Applications
1 61 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
2 44 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (0.41%) PlantUML
4 21 (0.39%) Chatbot
4 21 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 20 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
6 18 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 13 (0.24%) Trello
8 7 (0.13%) Simulink
9 4 (0.074%) Maya
10 3 (0.055%) Blender
10 3 (0.055%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.037%) Lightworks
12 1 (0.018%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.018%) Notion
12 1 (0.018%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 77 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.24%) Elite 3E
4 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
4 6 (0.11%) Teamcenter
5 5 (0.092%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.092%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.092%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.074%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.074%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.074%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.074%) Shopify
7 3 (0.055%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.055%) Infor SunSystems
7 3 (0.055%) Magento
7 3 (0.055%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (0.055%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.055%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.055%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 2,854 (52.62%) Azure
2 1,751 (32.28%) AWS
3 1,427 (26.31%) Azure DevOps
4 592 (10.91%) GCP
5 539 (9.94%) GitHub
6 480 (8.85%) Serverless
7 443 (8.17%) SaaS
8 383 (7.06%) Power Platform
9 282 (5.20%) GitHub Actions
10 275 (5.07%) AWS CloudFormation
11 224 (4.13%) Amazon S3
12 209 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
12 209 (3.85%) PaaS
13 187 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
14 168 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
15 160 (2.95%) Azure AKS
16 154 (2.84%) Amazon EKS
17 151 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
18 150 (2.77%) Azure Service Bus
19 147 (2.71%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 126 (2.32%) Firewall
2 88 (1.62%) DNS
3 70 (1.29%) VPN
4 64 (1.18%) TCP/IP
5 47 (0.87%) Network Security
6 33 (0.61%) Internet
7 29 (0.53%) Broadband
8 26 (0.48%) HTTP
9 23 (0.42%) DHCP
10 16 (0.29%) LAN
10 16 (0.29%) MQTT
11 14 (0.26%) WAN
11 14 (0.26%) Wireless
12 13 (0.24%) DMARC
12 13 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
13 12 (0.22%) SAN
14 10 (0.18%) BGP
15 9 (0.17%) HTTPS
16 8 (0.15%) NAS
16 8 (0.15%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 340 (6.27%) SQL Server
2 285 (5.25%) MongoDB
3 282 (5.20%) Azure SQL Database
4 220 (4.06%) Power BI
5 204 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
6 189 (3.48%) NoSQL
7 121 (2.23%) MySQL
8 120 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
9 113 (2.08%) Relational Database
10 100 (1.84%) DynamoDB
11 96 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
11 96 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
12 90 (1.66%) Data Lake
13 71 (1.31%) Metadata
14 60 (1.11%) Redis
15 47 (0.87%) Big Data
16 43 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
17 41 (0.76%) Delta Lake
18 39 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
19 33 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 607 (11.19%) Git
2 402 (7.41%) Jenkins
3 392 (7.23%) GitLab
4 355 (6.54%) JIRA
5 93 (1.71%) Selenium
6 76 (1.40%) SonarQube
7 65 (1.20%) Cypress.io
8 57 (1.05%) Maven
9 56 (1.03%) Postman
10 53 (0.98%) JUnit
11 42 (0.77%) Cucumber
12 41 (0.76%) TeamCity
13 37 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 36 (0.66%) JMeter
15 34 (0.63%) Bitbucket
16 27 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
17 25 (0.46%) REST Assured
18 24 (0.44%) NUnit
19 20 (0.37%) Mockito
19 20 (0.37%) Zephyr
General
1 1,239 (22.84%) Social Skills
2 1,052 (19.40%) Finance
3 450 (8.30%) Public Sector
4 424 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
5 330 (6.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 261 (4.81%) Banking
7 208 (3.83%) Law
8 169 (3.12%) Legal
9 157 (2.89%) Retail
10 91 (1.68%) Marketing
11 62 (1.14%) Financial Institution
11 62 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
12 54 (1.00%) Games
13 52 (0.96%) Manufacturing
14 50 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
15 47 (0.87%) Advertising
15 47 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
16 39 (0.72%) Aerospace
16 39 (0.72%) Telecoms
17 38 (0.70%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,270 (23.41%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,199 (22.11%) Senior
3 898 (16.56%) Developer
4 719 (13.26%) Lead
5 415 (7.65%) Architect
6 376 (6.93%) Software Engineer
7 341 (6.29%) Azure Engineer
8 293 (5.40%) Senior DevOps
9 282 (5.20%) Cloud Engineer
10 274 (5.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 242 (4.46%) .NET Developer
12 220 (4.06%) Platform Engineer
13 219 (4.04%) Senior Developer
14 199 (3.67%) Data Engineer
15 189 (3.48%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 164 (3.02%) Lead DevOps
17 150 (2.77%) AWS Engineer
18 149 (2.75%) Solutions Architect
19 133 (2.45%) Java Developer
20 127 (2.34%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,327 (24.47%) Terraform
2 749 (13.81%) .NET
3 438 (8.08%) React
4 341 (6.29%) REST
5 337 (6.21%) RESTful
6 336 (6.19%) Node.js
7 307 (5.66%) ASP.NET
8 287 (5.29%) .NET Core
9 246 (4.54%) Spring Boot
10 245 (4.52%) CSS
10 245 (4.52%) HTML
11 244 (4.50%) Spring
12 234 (4.31%) ASP.NET Core
13 213 (3.93%) Kafka
14 166 (3.06%) AngularJS
15 141 (2.60%) Blazor
16 140 (2.58%) Entity Framework
17 124 (2.29%) Middleware
18 106 (1.95%) JSON
19 102 (1.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 958 (17.66%) Cloud Native
2 355 (6.54%) Product Ownership
3 259 (4.78%) Distributed Systems
4 211 (3.89%) Enterprise Software
5 159 (2.93%) Onboarding
6 113 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
7 106 (1.95%) Virtual Team
8 87 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
9 78 (1.44%) Management Information System
9 78 (1.44%) Mobile App
10 77 (1.42%) Data Centre
11 73 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
12 64 (1.18%) Public Cloud
13 63 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
13 63 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
14 53 (0.98%) Data Structures
15 50 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
16 47 (0.87%) AI Agents
17 45 (0.83%) Private Cloud
18 43 (0.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 546 (10.07%) Linux
2 256 (4.72%) Windows
3 100 (1.84%) Unix
4 72 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 71 (1.31%) Windows Server
6 55 (1.01%) CentOS
7 41 (0.76%) Ubuntu
8 38 (0.70%) VMS
9 32 (0.59%) Android
10 18 (0.33%) Apple iOS
11 17 (0.31%) Debian
12 12 (0.22%) Rocky
13 7 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
14 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.092%) Kali Linux
15 5 (0.092%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.074%) Solaris
16 4 (0.074%) Windows Server 2019
17 3 (0.055%) AIX
17 3 (0.055%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,736 (50.44%) CI/CD
2 2,004 (36.95%) Agile
3 1,300 (23.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,038 (19.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,010 (18.62%) Mentoring
6 987 (18.20%) Software Engineering
7 945 (17.42%) AI
8 878 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
9 832 (15.34%) Test Automation
10 729 (13.44%) Microservices
11 680 (12.54%) Containerisation
12 614 (11.32%) Platform Engineering
13 590 (10.88%) Observability
14 575 (10.60%) Technical Leadership
15 557 (10.27%) Full-Stack Development
16 556 (10.25%) Roadmaps
17 539 (9.94%) Scrum
18 512 (9.44%) Stakeholder Management
19 478 (8.81%) Analytics
20 388 (7.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,279 (23.58%) Python
2 985 (18.16%) SQL
3 810 (14.93%) C#
4 699 (12.89%) Java
5 661 (12.19%) JavaScript
6 409 (7.54%) TypeScript
7 374 (6.90%) Bash
7 374 (6.90%) PowerShell
8 159 (2.93%) Bicep
9 124 (2.29%) C++
10 122 (2.25%) Go
11 59 (1.09%) PHP
12 52 (0.96%) C
12 52 (0.96%) T-SQL
13 49 (0.90%) Apex Code
14 47 (0.87%) Scala
15 45 (0.83%) Groovy
16 42 (0.77%) Kotlin
17 38 (0.70%) Ruby
17 38 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 948 (17.48%) Security Cleared
2 627 (11.56%) SC Cleared
3 519 (9.57%) Degree
4 276 (5.09%) DV Cleared
5 198 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 159 (2.93%) Azure Certification
7 113 (2.08%) Master's Degree
8 101 (1.86%) AWS Certification
9 78 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
10 76 (1.40%) CISSP
11 68 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
12 66 (1.22%) CISM
13 59 (1.09%) ISTQB
14 55 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
15 40 (0.74%) PMI Certification
16 34 (0.63%) DBS Check
17 28 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 28 (0.52%) PMP
18 24 (0.44%) PhD
19 22 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 548 (10.10%) QA
2 188 (3.47%) Accessibility
3 187 (3.45%) Data Quality
4 121 (2.23%) GDPR
5 101 (1.86%) NIST
6 73 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 61 (1.12%) WCAG
8 49 (0.90%) ISO 22301
9 46 (0.85%) GRC
10 34 (0.63%) PCI DSS
11 29 (0.53%) SLA
12 28 (0.52%) NCSC
12 28 (0.52%) PMO
13 20 (0.37%) SOC 2
14 13 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
15 12 (0.22%) HIPAA
15 12 (0.22%) TickIT
16 11 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
17 10 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 9 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 878 (16.19%) Docker
2 141 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 85 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (0.50%) vSphere
6 24 (0.44%) Hyper-V
7 22 (0.41%) Firmware
8 17 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.13%) Ceph
10 6 (0.11%) KVM
10 6 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.092%) iptables
12 4 (0.074%) NDS
13 3 (0.055%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.055%) Xen
14 2 (0.037%) Embedded Firmware
14 2 (0.037%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.018%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.018%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 999 (18.42%) Kubernetes
2 465 (8.57%) Ansible
3 224 (4.13%) Grafana
4 159 (2.93%) Prometheus
5 79 (1.46%) Argo
6 67 (1.24%) Puppet
7 35 (0.65%) Nagios
8 33 (0.61%) Istio
9 31 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
10 24 (0.44%) Kibana
11 21 (0.39%) HP Fortify
12 20 (0.37%) Progress Chef
13 13 (0.24%) Rancher
13 13 (0.24%) ZABBIX
14 12 (0.22%) Packer
14 12 (0.22%) Podman
15 11 (0.20%) logstash
16 10 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
17 9 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 9 (0.17%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,067 (19.67%) Microsoft
2 202 (3.72%) Google
3 182 (3.36%) Databricks
4 126 (2.32%) Salesforce
5 122 (2.25%) Oracle
6 115 (2.12%) VMware
7 92 (1.70%) ServiceNow
8 89 (1.64%) Red Hat
9 87 (1.60%) Splunk
10 72 (1.33%) SAP
11 54 (1.00%) OpenAI
12 52 (0.96%) Cisco
13 51 (0.94%) Pega
14 44 (0.81%) Dynatrace
15 42 (0.77%) Facebook
16 35 (0.65%) MuleSoft
17 33 (0.61%) YouTube
18 32 (0.59%) AppDynamics
19 29 (0.53%) Apple
20 28 (0.52%) Foundry