DevOps Job Trends

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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 21 13
Rank change year-on-year -9 -8 -1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 3,324 5,222 6,230
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.24% 7.62% 11.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.32% 9.09% 12.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,278 3,183 5,086
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,308 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -0.99% -
75th Percentile £85,700 £87,500 £89,639
90th Percentile £105,000 £107,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - - +1.71%

All Process and 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 45,432 57,470 49,015
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.24% 83.88% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,673 30,239 37,620
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,975 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,150 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.28% +3.14% -

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 22 November 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Top 19 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 22 November 2025. 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 -12 2,842 £70,000 - 2,645
UK excluding London -15 1,788 £62,500 - 1,604
Work from Home -7 1,316 £68,958 +2.16% 1,482
London -2 1,297 £80,500 -2.42% 1,323
North of England -27 468 £63,750 +2.00% 445
South East -28 428 £65,000 -1.89% 502
Midlands 0 287 £65,000 +2.10% 187
Scotland -4 251 £67,500 +12.50% 111
North West -19 242 £65,000 +4.00% 274
West Midlands +4 222 £65,000 - 121
South West -28 177 £60,000 -7.69% 206
Yorkshire -14 163 £60,000 -4.00% 122
East of England -28 99 £65,000 +30.00% 108
North East +4 65 £51,250 -11.58% 50
Wales -6 64 £56,631 +2.97% 50
East Midlands -4 62 £58,750 -2.08% 62
Northern Ireland +13 21 £77,217 +11.41% 26
Isle of Man +9 1 £52,500 +45.83%
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

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
1 114 (3.43%) Confluence
2 75 (2.26%) Apache Spark
3 63 (1.90%) Apache
4 57 (1.71%) SharePoint
5 54 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
6 43 (1.29%) IIS
7 32 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
8 31 (0.93%) nginx
9 24 (0.72%) CMS
10 14 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 11 (0.33%) Appian
12 6 (0.18%) JBoss
12 6 (0.18%) OpenStack
12 6 (0.18%) Tomcat
13 5 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 5 (0.15%) WebSphere
14 4 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
14 4 (0.12%) Camunda
14 4 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
15 3 (0.090%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 53 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
4 13 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.21%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 6 (0.18%) Trello
8 4 (0.12%) PlantUML
8 4 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.090%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.090%) Siemens NX
9 3 (0.090%) S-PLUS
10 2 (0.060%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.060%) Sketch
11 1 (0.030%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.030%) Maya
11 1 (0.030%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 68 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.96%) Oracle ERP
3 25 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
5 11 (0.33%) Shopify
6 8 (0.24%) Endur
6 8 (0.24%) SAP FS
7 6 (0.18%) Teamcenter
8 5 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
9 4 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
9 4 (0.12%) SAP IBP
9 4 (0.12%) SAP MII
9 4 (0.12%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.12%) SAP PP
10 3 (0.090%) SAP CX
11 2 (0.060%) Elite 3E
11 2 (0.060%) Markit EDM
11 2 (0.060%) Oracle BPM
11 2 (0.060%) Salesforce CRM
11 2 (0.060%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,943 (58.45%) Azure
2 1,162 (34.96%) AWS
3 997 (29.99%) Azure DevOps
4 496 (14.92%) GitHub
5 394 (11.85%) GCP
6 337 (10.14%) Power Platform
7 310 (9.33%) SaaS
8 290 (8.72%) Serverless
9 236 (7.10%) GitHub Actions
10 191 (5.75%) PaaS
11 156 (4.69%) AWS CloudFormation
12 150 (4.51%) Dynamics 365
13 142 (4.27%) Amazon S3
14 136 (4.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 131 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
16 130 (3.91%) Entra ID
17 129 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
18 110 (3.31%) Amazon EKS
19 107 (3.22%) Snowflake
20 106 (3.19%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 134 (4.03%) Firewall
2 104 (3.13%) DNS
3 66 (1.99%) TCP/IP
4 60 (1.81%) VPN
4 60 (1.81%) WAN
5 54 (1.62%) Network Security
6 45 (1.35%) LAN
7 43 (1.29%) HTTP
8 28 (0.84%) DHCP
9 25 (0.75%) SMTP
10 24 (0.72%) SSH
11 23 (0.69%) SAN
12 22 (0.66%) FTP
12 22 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
13 19 (0.57%) Broadband
14 18 (0.54%) BGP
15 15 (0.45%) SD-WAN
16 14 (0.42%) Wireless
17 13 (0.39%) VLAN
18 12 (0.36%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 329 (9.90%) SQL Server
2 194 (5.84%) Power BI
3 163 (4.90%) Data Warehouse
4 162 (4.87%) NoSQL
5 146 (4.39%) PostgreSQL
6 101 (3.04%) Amazon RDS
6 101 (3.04%) Relational Database
7 85 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 75 (2.26%) Data Lake
9 65 (1.96%) Big Data
9 65 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 58 (1.74%) MongoDB
11 57 (1.71%) Tableau
12 56 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
13 53 (1.59%) MySQL
14 49 (1.47%) DynamoDB
14 49 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
15 48 (1.44%) Metadata
16 41 (1.23%) Redis
17 39 (1.17%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 418 (12.58%) Git
2 346 (10.41%) Jenkins
3 294 (8.84%) JIRA
4 186 (5.60%) GitLab
5 92 (2.77%) Selenium
6 48 (1.44%) Octopus Deploy
6 48 (1.44%) SonarQube
7 47 (1.41%) TeamCity
8 45 (1.35%) Bitbucket
9 44 (1.32%) Cypress.io
10 38 (1.14%) Cucumber
11 33 (0.99%) Postman
11 33 (0.99%) Vagrant
12 32 (0.96%) JMeter
13 30 (0.90%) JUnit
14 28 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
15 27 (0.81%) Oracle Forms
16 26 (0.78%) Artifactory
16 26 (0.78%) Visual Studio
17 23 (0.69%) Snyk
General
1 978 (29.42%) Social Skills
2 895 (26.93%) Finance
3 358 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
4 242 (7.28%) Law
5 186 (5.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 167 (5.02%) Banking
7 156 (4.69%) Public Sector
8 155 (4.66%) Retail
9 149 (4.48%) Marketing
10 72 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
11 68 (2.05%) Games
12 64 (1.93%) Manufacturing
13 60 (1.81%) Financial Institution
13 60 (1.81%) Telecoms
14 53 (1.59%) Legal
15 44 (1.32%) Back Office
16 43 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
17 33 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
18 31 (0.93%) Front Office
19 27 (0.81%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 637 (19.16%) Senior
2 596 (17.93%) Developer
3 466 (14.02%) Lead
4 429 (12.91%) DevOps Engineer
5 311 (9.36%) Architect
6 230 (6.92%) Software Engineer
7 193 (5.81%) Cloud Engineer
8 170 (5.11%) Senior Developer
9 148 (4.45%) Analyst
10 143 (4.30%) Data Engineer
11 138 (4.15%) Solutions Architect
12 136 (4.09%) Azure Engineer
13 126 (3.79%) Platform Engineer
14 107 (3.22%) Full-Stack Developer
15 98 (2.95%) AWS Engineer
16 94 (2.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 88 (2.65%) .NET Developer
17 88 (2.65%) Senior DevOps
18 80 (2.41%) Support Engineer
19 74 (2.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 545 (16.40%) .NET
2 337 (10.14%) React
3 227 (6.83%) RESTful
4 212 (6.38%) REST
5 171 (5.14%) CSS
6 170 (5.11%) HTML
7 162 (4.87%) Kafka
8 141 (4.24%) .NET Framework
9 137 (4.12%) Node.js
10 128 (3.85%) AngularJS
11 124 (3.73%) Spring
12 111 (3.34%) Spring Boot
13 109 (3.28%) .NET Core
14 102 (3.07%) Middleware
15 94 (2.83%) YAML
16 84 (2.53%) ASP.NET
17 81 (2.44%) JSON
18 80 (2.41%) SOAP
19 70 (2.11%) Elastic Stack
20 69 (2.08%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 491 (14.77%) Cloud Native
2 265 (7.97%) Product Ownership
3 119 (3.58%) Distributed Systems
3 119 (3.58%) Management Information System
4 107 (3.22%) Enterprise Software
5 92 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
6 89 (2.68%) Onboarding
7 77 (2.32%) Hybrid Cloud
8 60 (1.81%) Data Centre
9 58 (1.74%) Public Cloud
10 55 (1.65%) Algorithms
11 50 (1.50%) Security Posture
12 48 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
13 46 (1.38%) Mobile App
14 45 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
14 45 (1.35%) Virtual Team
15 43 (1.29%) Low-Code
16 38 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
17 34 (1.02%) IoT
18 31 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 361 (10.86%) Linux
2 273 (8.21%) Windows
3 78 (2.35%) Windows Server
4 63 (1.90%) VMS
5 62 (1.87%) Unix
6 47 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 30 (0.90%) Android
8 27 (0.81%) Ubuntu
9 24 (0.72%) Apple iOS
10 23 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
11 20 (0.60%) Amazon Linux
12 17 (0.51%) CentOS
12 17 (0.51%) Debian
13 14 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
14 7 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.15%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.090%) Windows 10
17 2 (0.060%) AIX
17 2 (0.060%) Solaris
17 2 (0.060%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,738 (52.29%) CI/CD
2 1,506 (45.31%) Agile
3 754 (22.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 723 (21.75%) Problem-Solving
5 617 (18.56%) Continuous Improvement
6 586 (17.63%) Mentoring
7 551 (16.58%) AI
8 520 (15.64%) Software Engineering
9 504 (15.16%) Test Automation
10 498 (14.98%) Microservices
11 470 (14.14%) Containerisation
12 383 (11.52%) Roadmaps
13 378 (11.37%) Analytics
14 338 (10.17%) Scrum
15 336 (10.11%) Computer Science
16 332 (9.99%) Observability
17 327 (9.84%) Coaching
18 301 (9.06%) SDLC
19 281 (8.45%) Machine Learning
20 279 (8.39%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 976 (29.36%) Python
2 764 (22.98%) SQL
3 540 (16.25%) C#
4 418 (12.58%) PowerShell
5 414 (12.45%) Java
6 371 (11.16%) JavaScript
7 265 (7.97%) Bash
8 259 (7.79%) TypeScript
9 133 (4.00%) Bicep
10 110 (3.31%) Go
11 66 (1.99%) T-SQL
12 55 (1.65%) Apex Code
13 54 (1.62%) Groovy
14 46 (1.38%) Shell Script
15 44 (1.32%) PHP
16 43 (1.29%) C++
17 37 (1.11%) PL/SQL
18 34 (1.02%) Scala
19 29 (0.87%) Perl
20 23 (0.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 489 (14.71%) Degree
2 363 (10.92%) Security Cleared
3 262 (7.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 256 (7.70%) SC Cleared
5 174 (5.23%) Azure Certification
6 122 (3.67%) AWS Certification
7 121 (3.64%) Master's Degree
8 95 (2.86%) DV Cleared
9 70 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 50 (1.50%) ISTQB
11 48 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 40 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
13 39 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
14 32 (0.96%) PhD
15 30 (0.90%) CISSP
16 26 (0.78%) CCNP
16 26 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
17 24 (0.72%) Chartered Engineer
18 22 (0.66%) PMI Certification
18 22 (0.66%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 361 (10.86%) QA
2 130 (3.91%) GDPR
3 128 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 102 (3.07%) Accessibility
5 90 (2.71%) Data Quality
6 79 (2.38%) NIST
7 41 (1.23%) NCSC
8 33 (0.99%) SLA
9 28 (0.84%) PMO
10 27 (0.81%) PCI DSS
11 24 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 24 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 19 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
13 18 (0.54%) ISO 9001
14 17 (0.51%) SOC 2
15 15 (0.45%) HIPAA
15 15 (0.45%) WCAG
16 14 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 10 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
18 8 (0.24%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 652 (19.61%) Docker
2 149 (4.48%) Active Directory
3 75 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (0.75%) vSphere
6 22 (0.66%) DFS Replication
7 19 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
9 16 (0.48%) NFS
10 12 (0.36%) Postfix
11 9 (0.27%) HDFS
11 9 (0.27%) Hyper-V
11 9 (0.27%) Squid
12 8 (0.24%) Dovecot
13 7 (0.21%) Firmware
14 5 (0.15%) Kamailio
15 4 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
16 3 (0.090%) RACF
16 3 (0.090%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 846 (25.45%) Terraform
2 746 (22.44%) Kubernetes
3 331 (9.96%) Ansible
4 219 (6.59%) Grafana
5 190 (5.72%) Prometheus
6 44 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
7 42 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
8 35 (1.05%) Argo
9 20 (0.60%) Puppet
10 18 (0.54%) SCCM
11 15 (0.45%) Kibana
11 15 (0.45%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.39%) Red Hat Satellite
13 12 (0.36%) AWS Copilot
13 12 (0.36%) vCenter Server
14 11 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
15 9 (0.27%) Nessus
16 8 (0.24%) Kubeflow
16 8 (0.24%) Proxmox
17 7 (0.21%) Rancher
Vendors
1 721 (21.69%) Microsoft
2 145 (4.36%) Databricks
3 132 (3.97%) Google
4 120 (3.61%) Salesforce
5 119 (3.58%) Oracle
6 110 (3.31%) VMware
7 91 (2.74%) ServiceNow
8 77 (2.32%) Splunk
9 69 (2.08%) Red Hat
10 64 (1.93%) Cisco
11 63 (1.90%) SAP
12 42 (1.26%) Guidewire
13 38 (1.14%) OpenAI
14 33 (0.99%) SolarWinds
15 30 (0.90%) Palo Alto
16 29 (0.87%) IBM
17 26 (0.78%) Fortinet
18 23 (0.69%) MuleSoft
19 22 (0.66%) Foundry
20 20 (0.60%) Okta