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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 19 25
Rank change year-on-year -12 +6 -13
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,249 3,879 7,135
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.58% 9.10% 7.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.21% 9.75% 8.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3,019 2,273 5,293
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,991 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.77% +10.76% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,475 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -3.23%

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 68,427 39,782 82,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.76% 93.32% 84.70%
Number of salaries quoted 44,356 20,831 59,666
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,035
25th Percentile £40,797 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% +8.18% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -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 23 May 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 23 May 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 -12 3,715 £70,000 -3.45% 1,494
UK excluding London -25 2,485 £65,000 - 1,047
Work from Home -7 1,519 £69,310 -0.99% 811
London -8 1,395 £82,500 - 633
North of England -15 853 £70,000 +3.61% 338
South East -12 555 £65,000 - 283
North West -16 431 £70,000 - 193
South West -16 343 £65,000 - 135
Midlands -28 330 £67,250 +12.08% 104
Yorkshire 0 279 £70,000 - 93
West Midlands -40 191 £62,500 +4.17% 72
Scotland 0 164 £55,000 -26.67% 60
East of England -15 149 £65,000 - 72
North East +6 143 £60,000 -7.69% 55
East Midlands -7 136 £70,000 +7.69% 32
Wales -1 84 £53,000 -11.67% 28
Northern Ireland -34 12 £73,801 +34.18% 43
Isle of Man +2 3 £35,000 -

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 79 (1.86%) SharePoint
2 74 (1.74%) Confluence
3 56 (1.32%) Apache
4 51 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
4 51 (1.20%) Apache Spark
5 37 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
6 29 (0.68%) IIS
7 27 (0.64%) CMS
8 16 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
9 13 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 11 (0.26%) SAS
11 10 (0.24%) Moodle
12 8 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
12 8 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
12 8 (0.19%) Umbraco
13 7 (0.16%) Anypoint
13 7 (0.16%) Apache Solr
14 6 (0.14%) nginx
14 6 (0.14%) WordPress
15 5 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 32 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
3 23 (0.54%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.26%) PlantUML
5 10 (0.24%) Chatbot
5 10 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
6 9 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (0.12%) Simulink
8 3 (0.071%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.047%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.047%) Maya
9 2 (0.047%) Trello
10 1 (0.024%) Blender
10 1 (0.024%) EngageOne
10 1 (0.024%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 64 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.33%) SAP ERP
3 13 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.24%) Endur
4 10 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.12%) Visualfiles
7 4 (0.094%) Markit EDM
7 4 (0.094%) Shopify
8 3 (0.071%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.071%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.071%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.047%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.047%) Fidessa
9 2 (0.047%) Infor SunSystems
9 2 (0.047%) Magento
9 2 (0.047%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.024%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.024%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2,255 (53.07%) Azure
2 1,372 (32.29%) AWS
3 1,100 (25.89%) Azure DevOps
4 486 (11.44%) GitHub
5 480 (11.30%) GCP
6 434 (10.21%) Serverless
7 333 (7.84%) Power Platform
8 265 (6.24%) GitHub Actions
9 258 (6.07%) SaaS
10 230 (5.41%) Amazon S3
11 227 (5.34%) AWS CloudFormation
12 219 (5.15%) AWS Lambda
13 168 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
14 156 (3.67%) PaaS
15 154 (3.62%) Entra ID
16 142 (3.34%) Amazon ECS
16 142 (3.34%) Azure Data Factory
17 140 (3.29%) Amazon EKS
18 133 (3.13%) Azure AKS
19 132 (3.11%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 139 (3.27%) Firewall
2 94 (2.21%) DNS
3 64 (1.51%) Broadband
4 58 (1.37%) TCP/IP
5 48 (1.13%) VPN
6 39 (0.92%) Network Security
7 32 (0.75%) HTTP
8 30 (0.71%) WAN
9 28 (0.66%) DHCP
10 23 (0.54%) LAN
11 11 (0.26%) BGP
12 10 (0.24%) SAN
13 9 (0.21%) Wireless
14 8 (0.19%) Internet
15 7 (0.16%) HTTPS
15 7 (0.16%) MQTT
15 7 (0.16%) NGFW
15 7 (0.16%) OSPF
16 6 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
16 6 (0.14%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 241 (5.67%) SQL Server
2 204 (4.80%) NoSQL
3 188 (4.42%) Power BI
4 151 (3.55%) MongoDB
5 148 (3.48%) Azure SQL Database
6 137 (3.22%) PostgreSQL
7 118 (2.78%) DynamoDB
8 89 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
9 88 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
9 88 (2.07%) Relational Database
10 86 (2.02%) Data Lake
11 67 (1.58%) Metadata
11 67 (1.58%) MySQL
12 62 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
13 46 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
14 42 (0.99%) BigQuery
15 36 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
15 36 (0.85%) Delta Lake
16 33 (0.78%) Big Data
17 31 (0.73%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 470 (11.06%) Git
2 403 (9.48%) Jenkins
3 369 (8.68%) GitLab
4 248 (5.84%) JIRA
5 106 (2.49%) SonarQube
6 89 (2.09%) Cypress.io
7 85 (2.00%) Selenium
8 68 (1.60%) Maven
9 45 (1.06%) Postman
10 37 (0.87%) Bitbucket
10 37 (0.87%) Cucumber
11 36 (0.85%) CircleCI
11 36 (0.85%) TeamCity
12 31 (0.73%) JUnit
13 27 (0.64%) JMeter
14 25 (0.59%) Eclipse
15 23 (0.54%) Visual Studio
15 23 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
16 20 (0.47%) REST Assured
17 19 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 930 (21.89%) Finance
2 882 (20.76%) Social Skills
3 363 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
4 273 (6.43%) Public Sector
5 247 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 223 (5.25%) Banking
7 133 (3.13%) Retail
8 124 (2.92%) Law
9 103 (2.42%) Marketing
10 77 (1.81%) Games
11 75 (1.77%) Legal
12 45 (1.06%) Telecoms
13 43 (1.01%) Manufacturing
14 42 (0.99%) Advertising
15 41 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
16 40 (0.94%) Financial Institution
17 37 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
18 33 (0.78%) Billing
19 32 (0.75%) Back Office
20 28 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 908 (21.37%) DevOps Engineer
2 868 (20.43%) Senior
3 742 (17.46%) Developer
4 613 (14.43%) Lead
5 353 (8.31%) Architect
6 318 (7.48%) Software Engineer
7 313 (7.37%) Azure Engineer
8 253 (5.95%) Cloud Engineer
9 214 (5.04%) Senior DevOps
10 193 (4.54%) Senior Developer
11 184 (4.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 169 (3.98%) Data Engineer
13 165 (3.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 150 (3.53%) Solutions Architect
15 147 (3.46%) AWS Engineer
16 144 (3.39%) Java Developer
17 143 (3.37%) Platform Engineer
18 130 (3.06%) Lead DevOps
19 115 (2.71%) Full-Stack Developer
20 108 (2.54%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 502 (11.81%) .NET
2 368 (8.66%) React
3 277 (6.52%) REST
4 251 (5.91%) Node.js
5 239 (5.62%) RESTful
6 183 (4.31%) Spring Boot
7 166 (3.91%) Spring
8 165 (3.88%) CSS
9 160 (3.77%) HTML
10 158 (3.72%) AngularJS
10 158 (3.72%) Kafka
11 156 (3.67%) ASP.NET
12 152 (3.58%) .NET Core
13 120 (2.82%) SOAP
14 107 (2.52%) ASP.NET Core
15 105 (2.47%) OAuth
16 102 (2.40%) Middleware
17 97 (2.28%) YAML
18 94 (2.21%) PySpark
19 93 (2.19%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 576 (13.56%) Cloud Native
2 290 (6.83%) Product Ownership
3 147 (3.46%) Distributed Systems
4 119 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
5 90 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
6 81 (1.91%) Management Information System
7 68 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
8 65 (1.53%) Mobile App
9 64 (1.51%) Onboarding
10 58 (1.37%) Data Centre
11 55 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
12 53 (1.25%) Public Cloud
13 52 (1.22%) Algorithms
13 52 (1.22%) Data Structures
14 51 (1.20%) Low-Code
15 38 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
16 31 (0.73%) Virtual Team
17 30 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
18 29 (0.68%) Security Posture
19 28 (0.66%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 430 (10.12%) Linux
2 193 (4.54%) Windows
3 82 (1.93%) Unix
4 77 (1.81%) Windows Server
5 51 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 42 (0.99%) Ubuntu
7 31 (0.73%) Android
7 31 (0.73%) VMS
8 29 (0.68%) CentOS
9 25 (0.59%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (0.16%) Debian
12 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
13 4 (0.094%) Kali Linux
13 4 (0.094%) Rocky
14 3 (0.071%) Windows Server 2016
15 2 (0.047%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.047%) Embedded Linux
16 1 (0.024%) SUSE
16 1 (0.024%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,158 (50.79%) CI/CD
2 1,504 (35.40%) Agile
3 1,022 (24.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 765 (18.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 720 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
6 707 (16.64%) Mentoring
7 684 (16.10%) Software Engineering
8 643 (15.13%) AI
9 620 (14.59%) Test Automation
10 564 (13.27%) Microservices
11 558 (13.13%) Containerisation
12 464 (10.92%) Observability
13 441 (10.38%) Roadmaps
14 435 (10.24%) Analytics
15 423 (9.96%) Full-Stack Development
16 405 (9.53%) Scrum
17 403 (9.48%) Platform Engineering
18 365 (8.59%) Technical Leadership
19 323 (7.60%) Data Modelling
20 306 (7.20%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,062 (24.99%) Python
2 787 (18.52%) SQL
3 616 (14.50%) Java
4 507 (11.93%) C#
5 468 (11.01%) JavaScript
6 365 (8.59%) Bash
7 326 (7.67%) TypeScript
8 259 (6.10%) PowerShell
9 151 (3.55%) Go
10 119 (2.80%) C++
11 117 (2.75%) Bicep
12 85 (2.00%) Apex Code
13 58 (1.37%) Groovy
14 52 (1.22%) PHP
15 48 (1.13%) Scala
16 46 (1.08%) SOQL
17 44 (1.04%) SOSL
18 37 (0.87%) Kotlin
19 35 (0.82%) C
20 34 (0.80%) Rust
Qualifications
1 603 (14.19%) Security Cleared
2 442 (10.40%) Degree
3 360 (8.47%) SC Cleared
4 177 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 147 (3.46%) DV Cleared
6 112 (2.64%) AWS Certification
7 97 (2.28%) Azure Certification
8 89 (2.09%) Master's Degree
9 56 (1.32%) ISTQB
10 41 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
11 34 (0.80%) DBS Check
12 33 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
13 30 (0.71%) PMI Certification
14 29 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 26 (0.61%) CISSP
16 24 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 22 (0.52%) PhD
18 21 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
19 20 (0.47%) PMP
20 19 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 342 (8.05%) QA
2 170 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 134 (3.15%) Accessibility
4 96 (2.26%) GDPR
5 73 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 54 (1.27%) NIST
7 46 (1.08%) GRC
8 36 (0.85%) SOC 2
9 33 (0.78%) PCI DSS
10 31 (0.73%) WCAG
11 19 (0.45%) SLA
12 14 (0.33%) PMO
13 12 (0.28%) NCSC
13 12 (0.28%) TickIT
14 10 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 8 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
16 7 (0.16%) Solvency II
17 6 (0.14%) IFRS
18 5 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 717 (16.87%) Docker
2 144 (3.39%) Active Directory
3 53 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.40%) Hyper-V
6 16 (0.38%) Firmware
6 16 (0.38%) vSphere
7 7 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.094%) iptables
8 4 (0.094%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 4 (0.094%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.094%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.071%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.047%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.047%) KVM
10 2 (0.047%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.024%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.024%) OpenAM
11 1 (0.024%) OpenIDM
11 1 (0.024%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,058 (24.90%) Terraform
2 769 (18.10%) Kubernetes
3 386 (9.08%) Ansible
4 225 (5.30%) Grafana
5 184 (4.33%) Prometheus
6 75 (1.77%) Argo
7 49 (1.15%) Puppet
8 42 (0.99%) HP Fortify
9 38 (0.89%) Nagios
10 35 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
11 27 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
12 26 (0.61%) Kibana
13 18 (0.42%) Kustomize
14 16 (0.38%) Rancher
15 15 (0.35%) Istio
16 14 (0.33%) Packer
17 13 (0.31%) Progress Chef
18 10 (0.24%) logstash
18 10 (0.24%) Proxmox
19 9 (0.21%) yum
Vendors
1 790 (18.59%) Microsoft
2 161 (3.79%) Salesforce
3 159 (3.74%) Databricks
4 158 (3.72%) Google
5 95 (2.24%) Splunk
6 90 (2.12%) VMware
7 85 (2.00%) Oracle
8 83 (1.95%) Red Hat
9 73 (1.72%) ServiceNow
10 52 (1.22%) SAP
11 44 (1.04%) MuleSoft
12 34 (0.80%) Dynatrace
12 34 (0.80%) Palo Alto
13 33 (0.78%) Cisco
14 24 (0.56%) Pega
15 23 (0.54%) Adobe
16 22 (0.52%) OpenAI
17 20 (0.47%) IBM
18 19 (0.45%) Foundry
18 19 (0.45%) SolarWinds