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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 20 25
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,974 4,191 6,982
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.08% 8.56% 6.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.88% 9.47% 8.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,612 2,434 5,047
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,788 £41,860
25th Percentile £54,492 £56,250 £51,196
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 £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 72,315 44,278 84,054
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.86% 90.47% 82.35%
Number of salaries quoted 49,904 24,657 59,064
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,772 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.54% - -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 10 July 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 10 July 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 4,327 £70,000 -3.45% 1,285
UK excluding London -5 3,070 £65,000 - 971
Work from Home -2 1,803 £65,576 -6.32% 711
London -6 1,486 £85,000 +6.25% 501
North of England +2 1,092 £69,305 +6.62% 281
South East -10 654 £65,000 - 278
North West +1 597 £70,000 +7.69% 158
South West -3 436 £70,000 +2.15% 121
Midlands -24 368 £65,000 - 127
Yorkshire +9 295 £70,000 - 73
West Midlands -29 201 £65,000 - 82
North East +6 200 £60,000 -7.69% 51
East of England +12 190 £60,000 -7.69% 74
East Midlands +5 166 £65,000 +15.56% 45
Wales +5 148 £53,171 -7.53% 32
Scotland -6 133 £58,565 -16.34% 40
Northern Ireland -19 56 £72,500 -9.38% 37
Isle of Man +2 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
1 100 (2.01%) Confluence
2 90 (1.81%) SharePoint
3 68 (1.37%) Apache Spark
4 64 (1.29%) Apache
5 45 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
6 44 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
7 30 (0.60%) IIS
8 29 (0.58%) CMS
9 20 (0.40%) SAS
10 15 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
11 12 (0.24%) OpenStack
12 11 (0.22%) nginx
13 10 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
14 9 (0.18%) Jupyter
14 9 (0.18%) Umbraco
14 9 (0.18%) WordPress
15 8 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
16 7 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
17 6 (0.12%) Anypoint
17 6 (0.12%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 57 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
2 39 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.40%) MS Visio
3 20 (0.40%) PlantUML
4 15 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (0.20%) Trello
7 7 (0.14%) Simulink
8 4 (0.080%) Maya
9 3 (0.060%) Blender
9 3 (0.060%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.040%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.020%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.020%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.020%) Notion
11 1 (0.020%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 82 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.12%) Elite 3E
3 6 (0.12%) Endur
4 5 (0.10%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.10%) SAP IBP
4 5 (0.10%) Visualfiles
5 4 (0.080%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.080%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.060%) Carpe Diem
6 3 (0.060%) Infor SunSystems
6 3 (0.060%) Magento
6 3 (0.060%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.060%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.040%) Adobe Campaign
7 2 (0.040%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.040%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.040%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,630 (52.87%) Azure
2 1,634 (32.85%) AWS
3 1,311 (26.36%) Azure DevOps
4 554 (11.14%) GCP
5 509 (10.23%) GitHub
6 478 (9.61%) Serverless
7 354 (7.12%) SaaS
8 351 (7.06%) Power Platform
9 270 (5.43%) GitHub Actions
10 234 (4.70%) AWS CloudFormation
11 228 (4.58%) Amazon S3
12 210 (4.22%) AWS Lambda
13 205 (4.12%) PaaS
14 162 (3.26%) Azure AKS
15 151 (3.04%) Azure Logic Apps
16 150 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
17 148 (2.98%) Dynamics 365
18 145 (2.92%) Amazon EKS
19 142 (2.85%) Amazon ECS
20 138 (2.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 146 (2.94%) Firewall
2 93 (1.87%) DNS
3 66 (1.33%) VPN
4 64 (1.29%) TCP/IP
5 62 (1.25%) Broadband
6 40 (0.80%) Network Security
7 37 (0.74%) HTTP
8 30 (0.60%) Internet
9 22 (0.44%) DHCP
10 21 (0.42%) LAN
11 20 (0.40%) WAN
12 16 (0.32%) MQTT
13 15 (0.30%) Wireless
14 13 (0.26%) DMARC
15 10 (0.20%) BGP
15 10 (0.20%) HTTPS
15 10 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (0.16%) Bluetooth
16 8 (0.16%) SAN
16 8 (0.16%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 271 (5.45%) SQL Server
2 270 (5.43%) MongoDB
3 264 (5.31%) Azure SQL Database
4 196 (3.94%) NoSQL
5 191 (3.84%) Power BI
6 175 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
7 106 (2.13%) DynamoDB
8 94 (1.89%) Relational Database
9 93 (1.87%) MySQL
10 88 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
10 88 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
11 78 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
12 75 (1.51%) Data Lake
13 64 (1.29%) Metadata
14 46 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
14 46 (0.92%) Redis
15 40 (0.80%) Big Data
16 35 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
16 35 (0.70%) Delta Lake
17 32 (0.64%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 509 (10.23%) Git
2 420 (8.44%) Jenkins
3 411 (8.26%) GitLab
4 318 (6.39%) JIRA
5 103 (2.07%) SonarQube
6 85 (1.71%) Selenium
7 78 (1.57%) Cypress.io
8 61 (1.23%) Maven
9 48 (0.97%) Postman
10 44 (0.88%) JUnit
11 39 (0.78%) Cucumber
12 35 (0.70%) Bitbucket
13 34 (0.68%) JMeter
14 33 (0.66%) CircleCI
15 32 (0.64%) TeamCity
16 26 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 25 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
18 22 (0.44%) Eclipse
19 21 (0.42%) REST Assured
19 21 (0.42%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,042 (20.95%) Social Skills
2 978 (19.66%) Finance
3 365 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
4 364 (7.32%) Public Sector
5 299 (6.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 242 (4.87%) Banking
7 198 (3.98%) Law
8 160 (3.22%) Retail
9 116 (2.33%) Marketing
10 109 (2.19%) Legal
11 83 (1.67%) Games
12 63 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
13 57 (1.15%) Manufacturing
14 56 (1.13%) Advertising
15 50 (1.01%) Financial Institution
16 44 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
17 43 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
17 43 (0.86%) Telecoms
18 36 (0.72%) Back Office
19 26 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1,115 (22.42%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,045 (21.01%) Senior
3 878 (17.65%) Developer
4 676 (13.59%) Lead
5 424 (8.52%) Architect
6 366 (7.36%) Software Engineer
7 341 (6.86%) Azure Engineer
8 267 (5.37%) Cloud Engineer
9 250 (5.03%) Senior DevOps
10 226 (4.54%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 220 (4.42%) .NET Developer
12 213 (4.28%) Senior Developer
13 190 (3.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 188 (3.78%) Platform Engineer
15 172 (3.46%) Data Engineer
16 169 (3.40%) Solutions Architect
17 162 (3.26%) AWS Engineer
18 148 (2.98%) Java Developer
19 139 (2.79%) Lead DevOps
20 115 (2.31%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 667 (13.41%) .NET
2 433 (8.71%) React
3 304 (6.11%) REST
3 304 (6.11%) RESTful
4 303 (6.09%) Node.js
5 280 (5.63%) ASP.NET
6 249 (5.01%) .NET Core
7 230 (4.62%) Spring Boot
8 226 (4.54%) CSS
9 222 (4.46%) HTML
10 220 (4.42%) ASP.NET Core
11 216 (4.34%) Spring
12 180 (3.62%) Kafka
13 164 (3.30%) AngularJS
14 127 (2.55%) Blazor
14 127 (2.55%) Entity Framework
15 121 (2.43%) Middleware
16 111 (2.23%) YAML
17 105 (2.11%) SOAP
18 95 (1.91%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 826 (16.61%) Cloud Native
2 321 (6.45%) Product Ownership
3 208 (4.18%) Distributed Systems
4 155 (3.12%) Enterprise Software
5 116 (2.33%) Onboarding
6 96 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
7 88 (1.77%) Management Information System
8 83 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
9 81 (1.63%) Mobile App
10 70 (1.41%) Data Centre
10 70 (1.41%) Public Cloud
11 62 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
12 61 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
12 61 (1.23%) Virtual Team
13 49 (0.99%) Data Structures
14 48 (0.97%) Low-Code
15 42 (0.84%) Algorithms
15 42 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
15 42 (0.84%) Security Posture
16 38 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 496 (9.97%) Linux
2 231 (4.64%) Windows
3 96 (1.93%) Unix
4 70 (1.41%) Windows Server
5 64 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 49 (0.99%) Ubuntu
7 44 (0.88%) CentOS
8 39 (0.78%) VMS
9 33 (0.66%) Android
10 20 (0.40%) Apple iOS
11 15 (0.30%) Debian
12 7 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
12 7 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.10%) Rocky
13 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
14 4 (0.080%) Kali Linux
15 3 (0.060%) AIX
16 2 (0.040%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.040%) FreeRTOS
17 1 (0.020%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,528 (50.82%) CI/CD
2 1,859 (37.37%) Agile
3 1,201 (24.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 942 (18.94%) Continuous Improvement
5 869 (17.47%) Mentoring
6 849 (17.07%) Software Engineering
7 796 (16.00%) AI
8 792 (15.92%) Problem-Solving
9 731 (14.70%) Test Automation
10 672 (13.51%) Microservices
11 651 (13.09%) Containerisation
12 556 (11.18%) Full-Stack Development
13 549 (11.04%) Roadmaps
14 526 (10.57%) Platform Engineering
15 518 (10.41%) Observability
16 515 (10.35%) Scrum
17 473 (9.51%) Technical Leadership
18 460 (9.25%) Analytics
19 396 (7.96%) Stakeholder Management
20 327 (6.57%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,183 (23.78%) Python
2 885 (17.79%) SQL
3 706 (14.19%) C#
4 680 (13.67%) Java
5 611 (12.28%) JavaScript
6 398 (8.00%) Bash
7 378 (7.60%) TypeScript
8 328 (6.59%) PowerShell
9 154 (3.10%) Bicep
10 147 (2.96%) Go
11 135 (2.71%) C++
12 77 (1.55%) Apex Code
13 59 (1.19%) PHP
14 54 (1.09%) Groovy
15 49 (0.99%) C
16 48 (0.97%) SOQL
17 45 (0.90%) SOSL
18 42 (0.84%) Rust
19 39 (0.78%) Kotlin
20 37 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 803 (16.14%) Security Cleared
2 499 (10.03%) Degree
3 492 (9.89%) SC Cleared
4 212 (4.26%) DV Cleared
5 187 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 125 (2.51%) Azure Certification
7 112 (2.25%) Master's Degree
8 96 (1.93%) AWS Certification
9 65 (1.31%) ITIL Certification
10 63 (1.27%) CISSP
11 57 (1.15%) ISTQB
12 51 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
13 44 (0.88%) CISM
14 37 (0.74%) PMI Certification
15 36 (0.72%) DBS Check
16 30 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 28 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 28 (0.56%) PMP
18 25 (0.50%) PhD
19 20 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 462 (9.29%) QA
2 162 (3.26%) Data Quality
3 161 (3.24%) Accessibility
4 111 (2.23%) GDPR
5 88 (1.77%) NIST
6 71 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 57 (1.15%) WCAG
8 51 (1.03%) GRC
9 43 (0.86%) PCI DSS
10 30 (0.60%) SOC 2
11 29 (0.58%) ISO 22301
12 23 (0.46%) PMO
13 20 (0.40%) SLA
14 15 (0.30%) NCSC
15 12 (0.24%) TickIT
16 10 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
16 10 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
17 9 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 7 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
19 6 (0.12%) NIST 800
System Software
1 805 (16.18%) Docker
2 130 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 76 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.58%) vSphere
6 23 (0.46%) Firmware
7 20 (0.40%) Hyper-V
8 13 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.12%) iptables
11 5 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 4 (0.080%) Embedded Firmware
13 3 (0.060%) KVM
13 3 (0.060%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.060%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.040%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.040%) Xen
15 1 (0.020%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.020%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,219 (24.51%) Terraform
2 926 (18.62%) Kubernetes
3 446 (8.97%) Ansible
4 238 (4.78%) Grafana
5 181 (3.64%) Prometheus
6 80 (1.61%) Argo
7 63 (1.27%) Puppet
8 39 (0.78%) Nagios
9 31 (0.62%) HP Fortify
10 29 (0.58%) Kibana
11 23 (0.46%) Istio
12 21 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
13 17 (0.34%) Rancher
14 15 (0.30%) Packer
15 14 (0.28%) Progress Chef
16 13 (0.26%) Kustomize
16 13 (0.26%) Proxmox
17 11 (0.22%) logstash
18 9 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
18 9 (0.18%) yum
Vendors
1 955 (19.20%) Microsoft
2 190 (3.82%) Google
3 160 (3.22%) Databricks
4 154 (3.10%) Salesforce
5 112 (2.25%) VMware
6 101 (2.03%) ServiceNow
7 100 (2.01%) Splunk
8 95 (1.91%) Oracle
9 80 (1.61%) Red Hat
10 65 (1.31%) SAP
11 55 (1.11%) Pega
12 46 (0.92%) MuleSoft
13 43 (0.86%) Cisco
13 43 (0.86%) Dynatrace
14 42 (0.84%) Facebook
15 38 (0.76%) OpenAI
16 30 (0.60%) Apple
16 30 (0.60%) YouTube
17 26 (0.52%) Foundry
18 25 (0.50%) Palo Alto