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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 23 21
Rank change year-on-year -5 -2 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,440 3,838 5,573
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.93% 7.82% 7.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.75% 8.84% 8.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,859 2,160 3,652
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 80,539 43,404 64,098
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.01% 88.47% 80.63%
Number of salaries quoted 56,017 24,525 38,712
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £41,250
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 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,650 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -8.65% -5.04%

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 4 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 4 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 -9 4,691 £71,991 -0.70% 3,690
UK excluding London -2 3,515 £65,000 - 2,022
Work from Home -2 1,908 £69,306 -0.99% 1,665
London -11 1,526 £85,000 +6.25% 2,105
North of England +3 1,232 £67,500 +3.85% 569
South East -9 707 £65,000 - 451
North West +5 677 £70,000 +7.69% 318
South West +23 520 £73,750 +18.00% 297
Midlands -12 428 £65,000 - 233
Yorkshire +13 285 £70,000 +7.69% 151
North East +22 270 £60,000 - 102
West Midlands -22 250 £70,000 +7.69% 139
East of England +11 202 £59,450 -8.54% 179
Wales +5 196 £54,500 -0.91% 45
East Midlands +7 178 £60,000 +4.35% 94
Scotland -7 134 £60,000 -11.11% 174
Northern Ireland -7 114 £72,246 -44.43% 88
Isle of Man +1 3 £35,000 -33.33% 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
1 105 (1.93%) Confluence
2 104 (1.91%) SharePoint
3 102 (1.88%) Apache Spark
4 83 (1.53%) Apache
5 44 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
6 40 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
7 31 (0.57%) CMS
8 30 (0.55%) IIS
9 25 (0.46%) OpenStack
10 17 (0.31%) SAS
11 14 (0.26%) Jupyter
11 14 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
12 13 (0.24%) nginx
13 9 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
13 9 (0.17%) Umbraco
13 9 (0.17%) WordPress
14 8 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
15 7 (0.13%) Camunda
16 6 (0.11%) Anypoint
Applications
1 62 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
2 45 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (0.40%) Chatbot
4 21 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (0.39%) MS Visio
4 21 (0.39%) PlantUML
5 18 (0.33%) 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 81 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.28%) 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 (0.074%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.074%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.074%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.055%) Carpe Diem
8 3 (0.055%) Dynamics AX
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
Cloud Services
1 2,860 (52.57%) Azure
2 1,747 (32.11%) AWS
3 1,449 (26.64%) Azure DevOps
4 596 (10.96%) GCP
5 540 (9.93%) GitHub
6 477 (8.77%) Serverless
7 433 (7.96%) SaaS
8 400 (7.35%) Power Platform
9 285 (5.24%) GitHub Actions
10 276 (5.07%) AWS CloudFormation
11 215 (3.95%) Amazon S3
12 203 (3.73%) AWS Lambda
13 199 (3.66%) Dynamics 365
14 198 (3.64%) PaaS
15 169 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
16 161 (2.96%) Azure AKS
17 160 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
18 159 (2.92%) Azure Data Factory
19 155 (2.85%) Entra ID
20 148 (2.72%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 122 (2.24%) Firewall
2 86 (1.58%) DNS
3 76 (1.40%) VPN
4 58 (1.07%) TCP/IP
5 47 (0.86%) Network Security
6 33 (0.61%) Internet
7 29 (0.53%) Broadband
8 24 (0.44%) DHCP
8 24 (0.44%) HTTP
9 16 (0.29%) MQTT
10 14 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (0.26%) Wireless
11 13 (0.24%) DMARC
12 12 (0.22%) BGP
12 12 (0.22%) SAN
12 12 (0.22%) WAN
13 11 (0.20%) LAN
14 9 (0.17%) SSH
15 8 (0.15%) VLAN
15 8 (0.15%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 341 (6.27%) SQL Server
2 291 (5.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 289 (5.31%) MongoDB
4 233 (4.28%) Power BI
5 211 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
6 191 (3.51%) NoSQL
7 132 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
8 122 (2.24%) MySQL
9 113 (2.08%) Relational Database
10 101 (1.86%) DynamoDB
11 96 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
11 96 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
12 88 (1.62%) Data Lake
13 81 (1.49%) Metadata
14 61 (1.12%) Redis
15 45 (0.83%) Big Data
16 42 (0.77%) Delta Lake
17 41 (0.75%) Amazon Athena
18 38 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
19 36 (0.66%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 613 (11.27%) Git
2 403 (7.41%) Jenkins
3 398 (7.32%) GitLab
4 356 (6.54%) JIRA
5 92 (1.69%) Selenium
6 75 (1.38%) SonarQube
7 62 (1.14%) Cypress.io
8 57 (1.05%) Maven
8 57 (1.05%) Postman
9 54 (0.99%) JUnit
10 41 (0.75%) TeamCity
11 40 (0.74%) Cucumber
12 37 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 34 (0.63%) JMeter
14 31 (0.57%) Bitbucket
15 27 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
16 25 (0.46%) REST Assured
17 23 (0.42%) NUnit
18 22 (0.40%) Claude Code
19 21 (0.39%) Zephyr
General
1 1,254 (23.05%) Social Skills
2 1,052 (19.34%) Finance
3 472 (8.68%) Public Sector
4 425 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
5 339 (6.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 250 (4.60%) Banking
7 211 (3.88%) Law
8 171 (3.14%) Legal
9 163 (3.00%) Retail
10 95 (1.75%) Marketing
11 65 (1.19%) Financial Institution
12 59 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
13 54 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
14 52 (0.96%) Manufacturing
15 51 (0.94%) Games
16 47 (0.86%) Advertising
16 47 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
17 40 (0.74%) Telecoms
18 39 (0.72%) Aerospace
19 38 (0.70%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,289 (23.69%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,235 (22.70%) Senior
3 882 (16.21%) Developer
4 717 (13.18%) Lead
5 420 (7.72%) Architect
6 380 (6.99%) Software Engineer
7 341 (6.27%) Azure Engineer
8 304 (5.59%) Senior DevOps
9 286 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
10 284 (5.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 243 (4.47%) .NET Developer
12 229 (4.21%) Platform Engineer
13 216 (3.97%) Senior Developer
14 203 (3.73%) Data Engineer
15 184 (3.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 169 (3.11%) Lead DevOps
17 149 (2.74%) AWS Engineer
18 143 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
19 127 (2.33%) Java Developer
20 126 (2.32%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,334 (24.52%) Terraform
2 738 (13.57%) .NET
3 430 (7.90%) React
4 345 (6.34%) REST
5 338 (6.21%) RESTful
6 329 (6.05%) Node.js
7 307 (5.64%) ASP.NET
8 281 (5.17%) .NET Core
9 253 (4.65%) Spring
10 251 (4.61%) Spring Boot
11 239 (4.39%) HTML
12 238 (4.38%) CSS
13 235 (4.32%) ASP.NET Core
14 215 (3.95%) Kafka
15 163 (3.00%) AngularJS
16 142 (2.61%) Entity Framework
17 141 (2.59%) Blazor
18 121 (2.22%) Middleware
19 113 (2.08%) JSON
20 99 (1.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 964 (17.72%) Cloud Native
2 366 (6.73%) Product Ownership
3 259 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 216 (3.97%) Enterprise Software
5 161 (2.96%) Onboarding
6 112 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
6 112 (2.06%) Virtual Team
7 92 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
8 82 (1.51%) Management Information System
9 76 (1.40%) Mobile App
10 73 (1.34%) Data Centre
10 73 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
11 65 (1.19%) Public Cloud
11 65 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
12 64 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
13 51 (0.94%) Data Structures
13 51 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
14 49 (0.90%) AI Agents
14 49 (0.90%) Private Cloud
15 43 (0.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 538 (9.89%) Linux
2 254 (4.67%) Windows
3 97 (1.78%) Unix
4 68 (1.25%) Windows Server
5 67 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 53 (0.97%) CentOS
7 40 (0.74%) VMS
8 39 (0.72%) Ubuntu
9 33 (0.61%) Android
10 19 (0.35%) Apple iOS
11 17 (0.31%) Debian
12 11 (0.20%) 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 2,754 (50.63%) CI/CD
2 2,010 (36.95%) Agile
3 1,304 (23.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,066 (19.60%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,016 (18.68%) Mentoring
6 993 (18.25%) Software Engineering
7 962 (17.68%) AI
8 888 (16.32%) Problem-Solving
9 843 (15.50%) Test Automation
10 726 (13.35%) Microservices
11 683 (12.56%) Containerisation
12 633 (11.64%) Platform Engineering
13 608 (11.18%) Observability
14 587 (10.79%) Technical Leadership
15 574 (10.55%) Roadmaps
16 546 (10.04%) Scrum
17 537 (9.87%) Full-Stack Development
18 531 (9.76%) Stakeholder Management
19 485 (8.92%) Analytics
20 385 (7.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,273 (23.40%) Python
2 977 (17.96%) SQL
3 806 (14.82%) C#
4 699 (12.85%) Java
5 664 (12.21%) JavaScript
6 409 (7.52%) TypeScript
7 373 (6.86%) Bash
7 373 (6.86%) PowerShell
8 155 (2.85%) Bicep
9 126 (2.32%) Go
10 116 (2.13%) C++
11 56 (1.03%) PHP
12 51 (0.94%) T-SQL
13 48 (0.88%) C
13 48 (0.88%) Groovy
13 48 (0.88%) Scala
14 47 (0.86%) Apex Code
15 41 (0.75%) Kotlin
16 38 (0.70%) Ruby
16 38 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 975 (17.92%) Security Cleared
2 649 (11.93%) SC Cleared
3 510 (9.38%) Degree
4 278 (5.11%) DV Cleared
5 192 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 164 (3.01%) Azure Certification
7 106 (1.95%) Master's Degree
8 103 (1.89%) AWS Certification
9 77 (1.42%) CISSP
10 76 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
11 71 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
12 67 (1.23%) CISM
13 62 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
14 59 (1.08%) ISTQB
15 39 (0.72%) PMI Certification
16 31 (0.57%) DBS Check
17 28 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 27 (0.50%) PMP
19 24 (0.44%) PhD
20 22 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 553 (10.17%) QA
2 195 (3.58%) Data Quality
3 192 (3.53%) Accessibility
4 126 (2.32%) GDPR
5 100 (1.84%) NIST
6 72 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 62 (1.14%) WCAG
8 49 (0.90%) ISO 22301
9 47 (0.86%) GRC
10 34 (0.63%) PCI DSS
11 32 (0.59%) SLA
12 28 (0.51%) NCSC
13 27 (0.50%) PMO
14 19 (0.35%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
16 12 (0.22%) HIPAA
16 12 (0.22%) TickIT
17 11 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
18 10 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 9 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 880 (16.18%) Docker
2 141 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 82 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (0.46%) vSphere
6 21 (0.39%) Hyper-V
7 20 (0.37%) Firmware
8 17 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.13%) Ceph
10 6 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.092%) KVM
11 5 (0.092%) NDS
12 4 (0.074%) 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%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.018%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,009 (18.55%) Kubernetes
2 456 (8.38%) Ansible
3 226 (4.15%) Grafana
4 162 (2.98%) Prometheus
5 80 (1.47%) Argo
6 67 (1.23%) Puppet
7 36 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
8 32 (0.59%) Istio
9 29 (0.53%) Nagios
10 24 (0.44%) Kibana
11 20 (0.37%) HP Fortify
12 19 (0.35%) Progress Chef
13 17 (0.31%) Rancher
14 14 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
15 12 (0.22%) Packer
15 12 (0.22%) Podman
15 12 (0.22%) ZABBIX
16 11 (0.20%) logstash
17 9 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 9 (0.17%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,090 (20.04%) Microsoft
2 202 (3.71%) Google
3 184 (3.38%) Databricks
4 127 (2.33%) Salesforce
5 122 (2.24%) Oracle
6 113 (2.08%) VMware
7 93 (1.71%) ServiceNow
8 91 (1.67%) Splunk
9 82 (1.51%) Red Hat
10 74 (1.36%) SAP
11 56 (1.03%) OpenAI
12 53 (0.97%) Cisco
13 50 (0.92%) Pega
14 46 (0.85%) Dynatrace
15 42 (0.77%) Facebook
16 35 (0.64%) AppDynamics
16 35 (0.64%) YouTube
17 34 (0.63%) MuleSoft
18 31 (0.57%) Foundry
19 29 (0.53%) Apple