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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 20 14
Rank change year-on-year -9 -6 -3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 3,323 5,165 6,104
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.14% 7.80% 11.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.27% 9.14% 12.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,257 3,154 5,010
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 £85,750 £87,500 £89,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - - +1.63%

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 45,730 56,495 47,974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.51% 85.27% 93.76%
Number of salaries quoted 27,916 29,477 36,918
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £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 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.84% +3.81% -0.94%

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 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 -11 2,826 £70,000 - 1,356
UK excluding London -16 1,793 £62,500 - 1,224
Work from Home -6 1,339 £69,384 +2.79% 645
London -1 1,297 £80,500 -2.42% 551
North of England -23 470 £62,750 +4.58% 224
South East -26 414 £65,000 -2.47% 518
Midlands -1 287 £65,000 +0.17% 142
Scotland -1 264 £67,500 +12.50% 79
North West -21 233 £65,000 +4.00% 100
West Midlands +5 225 £65,000 - 88
South West -23 181 £60,000 -7.69% 156
Yorkshire -10 174 £60,000 - 83
East of England -26 95 £65,000 +26.83% 84
Wales -6 69 £57,500 +4.55% 46
North East +2 65 £50,000 -13.74% 42
East Midlands -7 59 £60,000 - 50
Northern Ireland +9 22 £77,217 +11.41% 9
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
1 108 (3.25%) Confluence
2 75 (2.26%) Apache Spark
3 57 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
3 57 (1.72%) SharePoint
4 55 (1.66%) Apache
5 42 (1.26%) IIS
6 28 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
6 28 (0.84%) nginx
7 24 (0.72%) CMS
8 16 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 12 (0.36%) Appian
10 8 (0.24%) OpenStack
10 8 (0.24%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 5 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
11 5 (0.15%) Camunda
11 5 (0.15%) JBoss
11 5 (0.15%) WebSphere
12 4 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
12 4 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 53 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
4 13 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 6 (0.18%) Trello
7 4 (0.12%) PlantUML
7 4 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.090%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.090%) Siemens NX
8 3 (0.090%) S-PLUS
9 2 (0.060%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.060%) Sketch
10 1 (0.030%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.030%) Maya
10 1 (0.030%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 65 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 36 (1.08%) Oracle ERP
3 24 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
5 9 (0.27%) SAP FS
5 9 (0.27%) Shopify
6 8 (0.24%) Endur
7 6 (0.18%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.12%) SAP IBP
8 4 (0.12%) SAP MII
8 4 (0.12%) SAP MM
8 4 (0.12%) SAP PP
9 3 (0.090%) Markit EDM
9 3 (0.090%) SAP CX
9 3 (0.090%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.060%) Dynamics AX
10 2 (0.060%) Elite 3E
10 2 (0.060%) Oracle BPM
10 2 (0.060%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1,956 (58.86%) Azure
2 1,161 (34.94%) AWS
3 1,015 (30.54%) Azure DevOps
4 515 (15.50%) GitHub
5 390 (11.74%) GCP
6 341 (10.26%) Power Platform
7 309 (9.30%) SaaS
8 296 (8.91%) Serverless
9 250 (7.52%) GitHub Actions
10 188 (5.66%) PaaS
11 161 (4.85%) AWS CloudFormation
12 147 (4.42%) Amazon S3
13 142 (4.27%) Dynamics 365
14 135 (4.06%) AWS Lambda
15 134 (4.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 134 (4.03%) Entra ID
16 129 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
17 116 (3.49%) Snowflake
18 112 (3.37%) Amazon EKS
18 112 (3.37%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 128 (3.85%) Firewall
2 99 (2.98%) DNS
3 62 (1.87%) TCP/IP
4 61 (1.84%) VPN
5 58 (1.75%) WAN
6 51 (1.53%) Network Security
7 42 (1.26%) LAN
8 41 (1.23%) HTTP
9 29 (0.87%) DHCP
10 23 (0.69%) SAN
11 22 (0.66%) SSH
11 22 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
12 20 (0.60%) FTP
12 20 (0.60%) SMTP
13 19 (0.57%) Broadband
14 16 (0.48%) SD-WAN
15 15 (0.45%) BGP
16 14 (0.42%) Wireless
17 13 (0.39%) VLAN
18 12 (0.36%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 328 (9.87%) SQL Server
2 201 (6.05%) Power BI
3 165 (4.97%) Data Warehouse
4 156 (4.69%) NoSQL
5 144 (4.33%) PostgreSQL
6 99 (2.98%) Relational Database
7 96 (2.89%) Amazon RDS
8 86 (2.59%) Azure SQL Database
9 73 (2.20%) Data Lake
10 65 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 62 (1.87%) Big Data
12 60 (1.81%) Tableau
13 57 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
14 54 (1.63%) DynamoDB
15 53 (1.59%) MongoDB
15 53 (1.59%) MySQL
16 49 (1.47%) Metadata
17 48 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
18 42 (1.26%) BigQuery
19 41 (1.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 421 (12.67%) Git
2 359 (10.80%) Jenkins
3 291 (8.76%) JIRA
4 194 (5.84%) GitLab
5 93 (2.80%) Selenium
6 54 (1.63%) SonarQube
7 51 (1.53%) Cypress.io
8 49 (1.47%) TeamCity
9 46 (1.38%) Bitbucket
9 46 (1.38%) Octopus Deploy
10 35 (1.05%) Cucumber
11 34 (1.02%) JMeter
12 33 (0.99%) Postman
13 31 (0.93%) Oracle Forms
14 29 (0.87%) JUnit
14 29 (0.87%) Vagrant
15 28 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
16 27 (0.81%) Artifactory
17 25 (0.75%) Visual Studio
18 22 (0.66%) Robot Framework
General
1 963 (28.98%) Social Skills
2 895 (26.93%) Finance
3 364 (10.95%) Analytical Skills
4 235 (7.07%) Law
5 182 (5.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 161 (4.85%) Banking
7 152 (4.57%) Marketing
7 152 (4.57%) Retail
8 151 (4.54%) Public Sector
9 72 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
10 70 (2.11%) Games
11 63 (1.90%) Manufacturing
12 60 (1.81%) Financial Institution
13 59 (1.78%) Telecoms
14 54 (1.63%) Legal
15 44 (1.32%) Back Office
16 41 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
17 35 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
18 31 (0.93%) Front Office
19 26 (0.78%) Police
Job Titles
1 641 (19.29%) Senior
2 590 (17.76%) Developer
3 470 (14.14%) Lead
4 435 (13.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 307 (9.24%) Architect
6 233 (7.01%) Software Engineer
7 195 (5.87%) Cloud Engineer
8 164 (4.94%) Senior Developer
9 145 (4.36%) Data Engineer
10 143 (4.30%) Azure Engineer
11 139 (4.18%) Analyst
12 137 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
13 130 (3.91%) Platform Engineer
14 106 (3.19%) Full-Stack Developer
15 95 (2.86%) AWS Engineer
16 90 (2.71%) .NET Developer
17 88 (2.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 88 (2.65%) Senior DevOps
18 80 (2.41%) Support Engineer
19 75 (2.26%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 536 (16.13%) .NET
2 340 (10.23%) React
3 227 (6.83%) RESTful
4 211 (6.35%) REST
5 165 (4.97%) HTML
6 164 (4.94%) CSS
7 156 (4.69%) Kafka
8 140 (4.21%) Node.js
9 137 (4.12%) .NET Framework
10 131 (3.94%) AngularJS
11 125 (3.76%) Spring
12 114 (3.43%) Spring Boot
13 111 (3.34%) .NET Core
14 98 (2.95%) Middleware
15 92 (2.77%) YAML
16 87 (2.62%) ASP.NET
17 86 (2.59%) SOAP
18 81 (2.44%) JSON
19 78 (2.35%) OAuth
20 73 (2.20%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 503 (15.14%) Cloud Native
2 258 (7.76%) Product Ownership
3 124 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
4 116 (3.49%) Management Information System
5 109 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
6 93 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
7 89 (2.68%) Onboarding
8 74 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
9 58 (1.75%) Algorithms
10 57 (1.72%) Public Cloud
11 56 (1.69%) Data Centre
12 49 (1.47%) Security Posture
13 48 (1.44%) Mobile App
14 47 (1.41%) Low-Code
15 46 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
16 45 (1.35%) Virtual Team
17 44 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
18 40 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
19 34 (1.02%) IoT
20 31 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 352 (10.59%) Linux
2 266 (8.00%) Windows
3 78 (2.35%) Windows Server
4 63 (1.90%) Unix
5 61 (1.84%) VMS
6 39 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 31 (0.93%) Android
8 26 (0.78%) Ubuntu
9 24 (0.72%) Apple iOS
10 23 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
11 18 (0.54%) Amazon Linux
12 17 (0.51%) Debian
13 15 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
14 11 (0.33%) CentOS
15 7 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
16 4 (0.12%) Mac OS
17 3 (0.090%) Windows 10
18 2 (0.060%) AIX
18 2 (0.060%) Solaris
18 2 (0.060%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,768 (53.20%) CI/CD
2 1,501 (45.17%) Agile
3 758 (22.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 733 (22.06%) Problem-Solving
5 624 (18.78%) Continuous Improvement
6 589 (17.72%) Mentoring
7 565 (17.00%) AI
8 524 (15.77%) Software Engineering
9 510 (15.35%) Test Automation
10 495 (14.90%) Microservices
11 471 (14.17%) Containerisation
12 380 (11.44%) Analytics
13 365 (10.98%) Roadmaps
14 349 (10.50%) Observability
15 345 (10.38%) Coaching
16 339 (10.20%) Scrum
17 328 (9.87%) Computer Science
18 298 (8.97%) SDLC
19 278 (8.37%) Migration
20 277 (8.34%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 985 (29.64%) Python
2 768 (23.11%) SQL
3 534 (16.07%) C#
4 417 (12.55%) Java
5 414 (12.46%) PowerShell
6 370 (11.13%) JavaScript
7 276 (8.31%) Bash
8 262 (7.88%) TypeScript
9 136 (4.09%) Bicep
10 115 (3.46%) Go
11 64 (1.93%) T-SQL
12 60 (1.81%) Apex Code
13 55 (1.66%) Groovy
14 50 (1.50%) Shell Script
15 44 (1.32%) C++
16 40 (1.20%) PL/SQL
17 34 (1.02%) PHP
17 34 (1.02%) Scala
18 30 (0.90%) Perl
19 24 (0.72%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 481 (14.47%) Degree
2 359 (10.80%) Security Cleared
3 259 (7.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 255 (7.67%) SC Cleared
5 165 (4.97%) Azure Certification
6 120 (3.61%) AWS Certification
7 118 (3.55%) Master's Degree
8 91 (2.74%) DV Cleared
9 67 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
10 55 (1.66%) ISTQB
11 44 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 40 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
13 38 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
14 35 (1.05%) PhD
15 31 (0.93%) CISSP
16 26 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
17 25 (0.75%) CCNP
18 23 (0.69%) Chartered Engineer
19 22 (0.66%) PMP
20 21 (0.63%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 366 (11.01%) QA
2 128 (3.85%) GDPR
3 127 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 105 (3.16%) Accessibility
5 88 (2.65%) Data Quality
6 77 (2.32%) NIST
7 41 (1.23%) NCSC
8 33 (0.99%) SLA
9 27 (0.81%) PCI DSS
9 27 (0.81%) PMO
10 23 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 23 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 20 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
12 19 (0.57%) SOC 2
13 18 (0.54%) ISO 9001
14 16 (0.48%) WCAG
15 15 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 14 (0.42%) HIPAA
17 10 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
18 9 (0.27%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 657 (19.77%) Docker
2 149 (4.48%) Active Directory
3 74 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 57 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (0.72%) vSphere
6 19 (0.57%) DFS Replication
6 19 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
7 18 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.42%) NFS
9 11 (0.33%) Postfix
10 9 (0.27%) HDFS
11 8 (0.24%) Hyper-V
12 7 (0.21%) Dovecot
12 7 (0.21%) Squid
13 6 (0.18%) Firmware
14 5 (0.15%) Kamailio
15 4 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
16 3 (0.090%) vCloud
17 2 (0.060%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 860 (25.88%) Terraform
2 745 (22.42%) Kubernetes
3 324 (9.75%) Ansible
4 221 (6.65%) Grafana
5 192 (5.78%) Prometheus
6 47 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
7 43 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
8 38 (1.14%) Argo
9 21 (0.63%) Puppet
10 18 (0.54%) SCCM
11 16 (0.48%) Progress Chef
12 14 (0.42%) Kibana
13 13 (0.39%) Red Hat Satellite
14 12 (0.36%) AWS Copilot
14 12 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
14 12 (0.36%) vCenter Server
15 9 (0.27%) HP Fortify
15 9 (0.27%) Rancher
16 8 (0.24%) Kubeflow
16 8 (0.24%) Nessus
Vendors
1 715 (21.52%) Microsoft
2 146 (4.39%) Databricks
3 130 (3.91%) Google
4 125 (3.76%) Salesforce
5 124 (3.73%) Oracle
6 107 (3.22%) VMware
7 87 (2.62%) ServiceNow
8 76 (2.29%) Splunk
9 72 (2.17%) Red Hat
10 65 (1.96%) SAP
11 57 (1.72%) Cisco
12 43 (1.29%) Guidewire
13 39 (1.17%) OpenAI
14 33 (0.99%) Palo Alto
15 32 (0.96%) SolarWinds
16 30 (0.90%) IBM
17 27 (0.81%) Fortinet
18 26 (0.78%) MuleSoft
19 22 (0.66%) Okta
20 21 (0.63%) Dynatrace