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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 18 25
Rank change year-on-year -13 +7 -13
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,225 4,021 7,129
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.58% 9.16% 7.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.21% 9.81% 8.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,986 2,428 5,289
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,869 £88,750 £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% -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 67,989 40,970 82,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.70% 93.29% 84.80%
Number of salaries quoted 43,964 22,120 59,644
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,033 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.39% +5.51% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,887 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.18% +3.77% -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 21 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 21 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 -13 3,683 £70,000 -1.41% 1,297
UK excluding London -24 2,475 £65,000 - 966
Work from Home -8 1,515 £69,310 -0.99% 704
London -9 1,384 £82,500 +2.93% 522
North of England -14 844 £70,000 +4.42% 284
South East -14 548 £65,000 - 284
North West -16 424 £70,000 +0.89% 157
South West -16 341 £65,000 - 126
Midlands -28 328 £67,500 +12.50% 96
Yorkshire -3 278 £70,000 +3.70% 79
West Midlands -44 188 £62,500 +4.17% 64
Scotland -1 175 £55,000 -23.60% 65
East of England -11 149 £65,000 - 73
North East +8 142 £60,000 -7.69% 51
East Midlands +2 136 £70,000 +16.67% 32
Wales -2 83 £53,050 -13.39% 29
Northern Ireland -38 12 £73,801 +34.18% 27
Isle of Man +3 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 77 (1.82%) SharePoint
2 72 (1.70%) Confluence
3 52 (1.23%) Apache
4 49 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
4 49 (1.16%) Apache Spark
5 37 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
6 28 (0.66%) IIS
7 27 (0.64%) CMS
8 16 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
9 13 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 11 (0.26%) Moodle
10 11 (0.26%) SAS
11 8 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
11 8 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 8 (0.19%) Umbraco
12 7 (0.17%) Anypoint
12 7 (0.17%) Apache Solr
13 6 (0.14%) nginx
13 6 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 6 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 32 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (0.69%) 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 63 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.33%) SAP ERP
3 13 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
4 12 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
5 10 (0.24%) Endur
6 7 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
7 5 (0.12%) Visualfiles
8 4 (0.095%) Markit EDM
8 4 (0.095%) Shopify
9 3 (0.071%) Dynamics NAV
9 3 (0.071%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.071%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.047%) Distributed Ledger
10 2 (0.047%) Fidessa
10 2 (0.047%) Infor SunSystems
10 2 (0.047%) Magento
10 2 (0.047%) Workday HCM
11 1 (0.024%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 1 (0.024%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2,245 (53.14%) Azure
2 1,359 (32.17%) AWS
3 1,101 (26.06%) Azure DevOps
4 490 (11.60%) GitHub
5 476 (11.27%) GCP
6 430 (10.18%) Serverless
7 333 (7.88%) Power Platform
8 266 (6.30%) GitHub Actions
9 257 (6.08%) SaaS
10 228 (5.40%) Amazon S3
11 224 (5.30%) AWS CloudFormation
12 219 (5.18%) AWS Lambda
13 167 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
14 156 (3.69%) PaaS
15 154 (3.64%) Entra ID
16 144 (3.41%) Azure Data Factory
17 141 (3.34%) Amazon ECS
17 141 (3.34%) Amazon EKS
18 134 (3.17%) Azure AKS
19 131 (3.10%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 138 (3.27%) Firewall
2 93 (2.20%) DNS
3 64 (1.51%) Broadband
4 58 (1.37%) TCP/IP
5 47 (1.11%) VPN
6 39 (0.92%) Network Security
7 32 (0.76%) HTTP
8 30 (0.71%) WAN
9 27 (0.64%) 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 (0.17%) HTTPS
15 7 (0.17%) MQTT
15 7 (0.17%) NGFW
15 7 (0.17%) OSPF
16 6 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
16 6 (0.14%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 235 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 204 (4.83%) NoSQL
3 188 (4.45%) Power BI
4 151 (3.57%) MongoDB
5 144 (3.41%) Azure SQL Database
6 138 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
7 117 (2.77%) DynamoDB
8 92 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
9 88 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
10 86 (2.04%) Relational Database
11 84 (1.99%) Data Lake
12 67 (1.59%) MySQL
13 66 (1.56%) Metadata
14 62 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
15 44 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
16 42 (0.99%) BigQuery
17 36 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
17 36 (0.85%) Delta Lake
18 33 (0.78%) Big Data
18 33 (0.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 464 (10.98%) Git
2 399 (9.44%) Jenkins
3 363 (8.59%) GitLab
4 248 (5.87%) JIRA
5 104 (2.46%) SonarQube
6 88 (2.08%) Cypress.io
7 84 (1.99%) Selenium
8 67 (1.59%) Maven
9 44 (1.04%) Postman
10 37 (0.88%) Bitbucket
10 37 (0.88%) Cucumber
11 36 (0.85%) CircleCI
12 35 (0.83%) TeamCity
13 30 (0.71%) JUnit
14 27 (0.64%) JMeter
15 25 (0.59%) Eclipse
16 23 (0.54%) Visual Studio
16 23 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
17 19 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
17 19 (0.45%) REST Assured
General
1 936 (22.15%) Finance
2 880 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 358 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
4 269 (6.37%) Public Sector
5 243 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 222 (5.25%) Banking
7 132 (3.12%) Retail
8 123 (2.91%) Law
9 103 (2.44%) Marketing
10 78 (1.85%) Legal
11 77 (1.82%) Games
12 45 (1.07%) Telecoms
13 43 (1.02%) Advertising
13 43 (1.02%) Manufacturing
14 41 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
15 39 (0.92%) Financial Institution
16 37 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
17 34 (0.80%) Billing
18 31 (0.73%) Back Office
19 28 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 904 (21.40%) DevOps Engineer
2 871 (20.62%) Senior
3 734 (17.37%) Developer
4 608 (14.39%) Lead
5 351 (8.31%) Architect
6 314 (7.43%) Software Engineer
7 307 (7.27%) Azure Engineer
8 251 (5.94%) Cloud Engineer
9 213 (5.04%) Senior DevOps
10 190 (4.50%) Senior Developer
11 183 (4.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 167 (3.95%) Data Engineer
13 162 (3.83%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 150 (3.55%) Solutions Architect
15 146 (3.46%) AWS Engineer
16 143 (3.38%) Java Developer
17 141 (3.34%) Platform Engineer
18 130 (3.08%) Lead DevOps
19 115 (2.72%) Full-Stack Developer
20 107 (2.53%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 498 (11.79%) .NET
2 362 (8.57%) React
3 274 (6.49%) REST
4 249 (5.89%) Node.js
5 241 (5.70%) RESTful
6 181 (4.28%) Spring Boot
7 164 (3.88%) Spring
8 163 (3.86%) CSS
9 160 (3.79%) Kafka
10 159 (3.76%) HTML
11 157 (3.72%) AngularJS
12 154 (3.64%) ASP.NET
13 151 (3.57%) .NET Core
14 121 (2.86%) SOAP
15 106 (2.51%) ASP.NET Core
15 106 (2.51%) OAuth
16 102 (2.41%) Middleware
17 93 (2.20%) JSON
18 92 (2.18%) PySpark
18 92 (2.18%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 572 (13.54%) Cloud Native
2 292 (6.91%) Product Ownership
3 145 (3.43%) Distributed Systems
4 119 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
5 89 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
6 79 (1.87%) Management Information System
7 68 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
8 66 (1.56%) Mobile App
9 62 (1.47%) Onboarding
10 58 (1.37%) Data Centre
11 56 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
12 54 (1.28%) Public Cloud
13 52 (1.23%) Algorithms
14 51 (1.21%) Low-Code
15 50 (1.18%) Data Structures
16 38 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
17 30 (0.71%) Security Posture
17 30 (0.71%) Virtual Team
18 29 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
19 28 (0.66%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 425 (10.06%) Linux
2 191 (4.52%) Windows
3 82 (1.94%) Unix
4 74 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 50 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 41 (0.97%) Ubuntu
7 31 (0.73%) Android
8 29 (0.69%) VMS
9 28 (0.66%) CentOS
10 25 (0.59%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.17%) Debian
13 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (0.095%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.095%) Rocky
15 3 (0.071%) Windows Server 2016
16 2 (0.047%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.047%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.024%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
17 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,142 (50.70%) CI/CD
2 1,496 (35.41%) Agile
3 1,012 (23.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 764 (18.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 714 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
6 705 (16.69%) Mentoring
7 680 (16.09%) Software Engineering
8 648 (15.34%) AI
9 622 (14.72%) Test Automation
10 556 (13.16%) Microservices
11 551 (13.04%) Containerisation
12 465 (11.01%) Observability
13 437 (10.34%) Roadmaps
14 434 (10.27%) Analytics
15 420 (9.94%) Full-Stack Development
16 402 (9.51%) Scrum
17 401 (9.49%) Platform Engineering
18 362 (8.57%) Technical Leadership
19 322 (7.62%) Data Modelling
20 314 (7.43%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,056 (24.99%) Python
2 778 (18.41%) SQL
3 611 (14.46%) Java
4 501 (11.86%) C#
5 466 (11.03%) JavaScript
6 358 (8.47%) Bash
7 325 (7.69%) TypeScript
8 251 (5.94%) PowerShell
9 150 (3.55%) Go
10 118 (2.79%) C++
11 116 (2.75%) Bicep
12 85 (2.01%) Apex Code
13 58 (1.37%) Groovy
14 51 (1.21%) PHP
15 48 (1.14%) Scala
16 44 (1.04%) SOQL
16 44 (1.04%) SOSL
17 37 (0.88%) Kotlin
18 35 (0.83%) C
19 33 (0.78%) Rust
Qualifications
1 597 (14.13%) Security Cleared
2 437 (10.34%) Degree
3 355 (8.40%) SC Cleared
4 175 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 148 (3.50%) DV Cleared
6 114 (2.70%) AWS Certification
7 97 (2.30%) Azure Certification
8 88 (2.08%) Master's Degree
9 56 (1.33%) ISTQB
10 42 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
11 34 (0.80%) DBS Check
12 33 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
13 29 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 29 (0.69%) PMI Certification
14 25 (0.59%) CISSP
15 24 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 21 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 21 (0.50%) PhD
17 20 (0.47%) PMP
18 19 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 340 (8.05%) QA
2 170 (4.02%) Data Quality
3 132 (3.12%) Accessibility
4 97 (2.30%) GDPR
5 73 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 54 (1.28%) NIST
7 46 (1.09%) GRC
8 36 (0.85%) SOC 2
9 33 (0.78%) PCI DSS
10 32 (0.76%) WCAG
11 20 (0.47%) 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 (0.17%) Solvency II
17 6 (0.14%) IFRS
18 5 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 709 (16.78%) Docker
2 144 (3.41%) Active Directory
3 52 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.40%) Hyper-V
6 16 (0.38%) vSphere
7 15 (0.36%) Firmware
8 7 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.095%) iptables
9 4 (0.095%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 4 (0.095%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.071%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.071%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.047%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.047%) KVM
11 2 (0.047%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.024%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.024%) OpenAM
12 1 (0.024%) OpenIDM
12 1 (0.024%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,051 (24.88%) Terraform
2 766 (18.13%) Kubernetes
3 382 (9.04%) Ansible
4 221 (5.23%) Grafana
5 181 (4.28%) Prometheus
6 74 (1.75%) Argo
7 49 (1.16%) Puppet
8 42 (0.99%) HP Fortify
9 37 (0.88%) Nagios
10 34 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
11 29 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
12 26 (0.62%) Kibana
13 18 (0.43%) Kustomize
14 16 (0.38%) Rancher
15 15 (0.36%) Istio
16 14 (0.33%) Packer
17 13 (0.31%) Progress Chef
18 11 (0.26%) logstash
19 10 (0.24%) Proxmox
20 9 (0.21%) yum
Vendors
1 786 (18.60%) Microsoft
2 161 (3.81%) Salesforce
3 159 (3.76%) Databricks
4 157 (3.72%) Google
5 93 (2.20%) Splunk
6 89 (2.11%) VMware
7 85 (2.01%) Oracle
8 83 (1.96%) Red Hat
9 73 (1.73%) ServiceNow
10 52 (1.23%) SAP
11 44 (1.04%) MuleSoft
12 34 (0.80%) Dynatrace
12 34 (0.80%) Palo Alto
13 33 (0.78%) Cisco
14 24 (0.57%) Adobe
14 24 (0.57%) Pega
15 22 (0.52%) OpenAI
16 20 (0.47%) IBM
17 19 (0.45%) Okta
17 19 (0.45%) SolarWinds