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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 18 24
Rank change year-on-year -22 +6 -12
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 3,948 3,674 7,202
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.48% 8.78% 7.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.96% 9.45% 8.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,779 2,614 5,377
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,175 £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 £86,250 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -2.76%

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 66,274 38,859 81,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.13% 92.82% 85.77%
Number of salaries quoted 40,927 22,757 59,545
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 24 April 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 24 April 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 -24 3,409 £71,000 +1.43% 1,199
UK excluding London -31 2,255 £65,000 - 949
Work from Home -8 1,477 £69,500 -0.71% 911
London -11 1,343 £82,500 - 440
North of England -12 725 £70,000 +3.70% 262
South East -33 474 £65,000 - 295
South West -15 345 £60,000 -7.69% 113
North West -7 342 £70,000 +0.89% 142
Midlands -31 296 £65,000 +6.12% 125
Yorkshire -10 275 £70,000 +4.48% 63
Scotland -8 202 £55,000 -21.43% 37
West Midlands -34 188 £62,500 +4.17% 68
East of England -36 133 £67,500 +8.00% 85
North East +2 108 £55,000 -15.38% 57
East Midlands -20 104 £70,000 +7.69% 56
Wales -17 70 £53,171 -15.94% 24
Northern Ireland -31 17 £84,401 +53.46% 24
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 78 (1.98%) Confluence
2 76 (1.93%) SharePoint
3 54 (1.37%) Apache
4 51 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
5 43 (1.09%) Apache Spark
6 42 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
7 33 (0.84%) IIS
8 17 (0.43%) CMS
9 14 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
10 13 (0.33%) SAS
11 12 (0.30%) OpenStack
12 11 (0.28%) Moodle
13 8 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 8 (0.20%) Tomcat
14 7 (0.18%) Anypoint
14 7 (0.18%) nginx
15 5 (0.13%) Apache Solr
15 5 (0.13%) Appian
15 5 (0.13%) WordPress
16 4 (0.10%) Documentum
Applications
1 38 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (0.71%) MS Visio
3 21 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
4 15 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.20%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.18%) PlantUML
8 3 (0.076%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.051%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.025%) EngageOne
10 1 (0.025%) Maya
10 1 (0.025%) Simulink
10 1 (0.025%) Sketch
10 1 (0.025%) Trello
Business Applications
1 52 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
3 15 (0.38%) SAP ERP
4 14 (0.35%) Endur
5 7 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
6 6 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
7 5 (0.13%) Visualfiles
8 4 (0.10%) Markit EDM
8 4 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.10%) Shopify
9 3 (0.076%) Elite 3E
10 2 (0.051%) Distributed Ledger
10 2 (0.051%) Infor SunSystems
10 2 (0.051%) Magento
10 2 (0.051%) SAP CX
10 2 (0.051%) Workday HCM
11 1 (0.025%) Infor M3
11 1 (0.025%) Payment Gateway
11 1 (0.025%) SAP MII
Cloud Services
1 2,132 (54.00%) Azure
2 1,332 (33.74%) AWS
3 1,032 (26.14%) Azure DevOps
4 531 (13.45%) GitHub
5 470 (11.90%) GCP
6 411 (10.41%) Serverless
7 315 (7.98%) Power Platform
8 288 (7.29%) GitHub Actions
9 260 (6.59%) SaaS
10 223 (5.65%) AWS CloudFormation
11 219 (5.55%) Amazon S3
12 217 (5.50%) AWS Lambda
13 161 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
14 157 (3.98%) Entra ID
15 153 (3.88%) PaaS
16 147 (3.72%) Azure Data Factory
17 142 (3.60%) Amazon EKS
18 138 (3.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 129 (3.27%) Amazon ECS
20 122 (3.09%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 139 (3.52%) Firewall
2 87 (2.20%) DNS
3 59 (1.49%) Broadband
3 59 (1.49%) TCP/IP
4 50 (1.27%) VPN
5 46 (1.17%) Network Security
6 38 (0.96%) WAN
7 36 (0.91%) HTTP
8 26 (0.66%) LAN
9 24 (0.61%) DHCP
10 10 (0.25%) SAN
11 9 (0.23%) BGP
11 9 (0.23%) SSL
11 9 (0.23%) Wireless
12 6 (0.15%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (0.15%) HTTPS
12 6 (0.15%) Internet
12 6 (0.15%) SD-WAN
13 5 (0.13%) MPLS
14 4 (0.10%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 264 (6.69%) SQL Server
2 206 (5.22%) NoSQL
3 178 (4.51%) Power BI
4 146 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
5 116 (2.94%) DynamoDB
6 103 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
7 98 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
8 96 (2.43%) MongoDB
9 92 (2.33%) Data Lake
10 86 (2.18%) Amazon RDS
11 78 (1.98%) Relational Database
12 66 (1.67%) Metadata
13 61 (1.55%) MySQL
14 53 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
15 39 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
15 39 (0.99%) BigQuery
16 37 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 36 (0.91%) Delta Lake
18 35 (0.89%) Tableau
19 33 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 427 (10.82%) Git
2 386 (9.78%) Jenkins
3 333 (8.43%) GitLab
4 260 (6.59%) JIRA
5 104 (2.63%) SonarQube
6 92 (2.33%) Selenium
7 89 (2.25%) Cypress.io
8 58 (1.47%) Maven
9 48 (1.22%) Bitbucket
10 44 (1.11%) Postman
11 43 (1.09%) Cucumber
12 34 (0.86%) CircleCI
13 30 (0.76%) TeamCity
13 30 (0.76%) Visual Studio
14 29 (0.73%) JUnit
15 25 (0.63%) JMeter
16 24 (0.61%) Eclipse
17 22 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
18 21 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
19 20 (0.51%) Subversion
General
1 911 (23.07%) Social Skills
2 907 (22.97%) Finance
3 383 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
4 246 (6.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 242 (6.13%) Public Sector
6 214 (5.42%) Banking
7 133 (3.37%) Law
8 127 (3.22%) Retail
9 111 (2.81%) Marketing
10 74 (1.87%) Legal
11 72 (1.82%) Telecoms
12 71 (1.80%) Games
13 49 (1.24%) Manufacturing
14 42 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
15 41 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
16 39 (0.99%) Advertising
17 35 (0.89%) Financial Institution
18 34 (0.86%) Billing
19 28 (0.71%) Front Office
20 26 (0.66%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 832 (21.07%) Senior
2 773 (19.58%) DevOps Engineer
3 658 (16.67%) Developer
4 576 (14.59%) Lead
5 344 (8.71%) Architect
6 281 (7.12%) Software Engineer
7 265 (6.71%) Azure Engineer
8 257 (6.51%) Cloud Engineer
9 193 (4.89%) Senior DevOps
10 179 (4.53%) Senior Developer
11 161 (4.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 159 (4.03%) Data Engineer
13 153 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
14 148 (3.75%) AWS Engineer
15 127 (3.22%) Platform Engineer
16 126 (3.19%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 126 (3.19%) Lead DevOps
17 121 (3.06%) Java Developer
18 113 (2.86%) Full-Stack Developer
19 105 (2.66%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 442 (11.20%) .NET
2 350 (8.87%) React
3 264 (6.69%) REST
4 242 (6.13%) RESTful
5 233 (5.90%) Node.js
6 181 (4.58%) Spring Boot
7 165 (4.18%) Spring
8 157 (3.98%) Kafka
9 147 (3.72%) AngularJS
10 145 (3.67%) CSS
11 137 (3.47%) HTML
12 127 (3.22%) SOAP
13 116 (2.94%) OAuth
14 112 (2.84%) Middleware
15 109 (2.76%) .NET Core
16 103 (2.61%) Elastic Stack
17 93 (2.36%) ASP.NET
18 92 (2.33%) .NET Framework
19 85 (2.15%) Lightning Web Components
20 84 (2.13%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 538 (13.63%) Cloud Native
2 274 (6.94%) Product Ownership
3 140 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
4 119 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
5 96 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
6 82 (2.08%) Management Information System
7 69 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 58 (1.47%) Mobile App
9 56 (1.42%) Low-Code
9 56 (1.42%) Public Cloud
10 53 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
11 52 (1.32%) Onboarding
12 47 (1.19%) Data Centre
13 44 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
14 43 (1.09%) Algorithms
15 37 (0.94%) Data Structures
16 36 (0.91%) Security Posture
17 31 (0.79%) AI Agents
18 26 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
18 26 (0.66%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 382 (9.68%) Linux
2 208 (5.27%) Windows
3 81 (2.05%) Windows Server
4 77 (1.95%) Unix
5 42 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 33 (0.84%) Ubuntu
7 29 (0.73%) Android
8 28 (0.71%) VMS
9 26 (0.66%) CentOS
10 24 (0.61%) Apple iOS
11 11 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
12 9 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
13 7 (0.18%) Debian
13 7 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.076%) Kali Linux
15 2 (0.051%) Embedded Linux
15 2 (0.051%) Rocky
16 1 (0.025%) Mac OS
16 1 (0.025%) SUSE
16 1 (0.025%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,016 (51.06%) CI/CD
2 1,448 (36.68%) Agile
3 955 (24.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 752 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 718 (18.19%) Problem-Solving
6 646 (16.36%) Mentoring
7 644 (16.31%) Software Engineering
8 586 (14.84%) AI
9 574 (14.54%) Test Automation
10 560 (14.18%) Containerisation
11 541 (13.70%) Microservices
12 458 (11.60%) Observability
13 439 (11.12%) Roadmaps
14 415 (10.51%) Analytics
15 385 (9.75%) Scrum
16 355 (8.99%) Full-Stack Development
17 326 (8.26%) Platform Engineering
18 323 (8.18%) Technical Leadership
19 318 (8.05%) Coaching
20 304 (7.70%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,014 (25.68%) Python
2 734 (18.59%) SQL
3 556 (14.08%) Java
4 430 (10.89%) C#
5 396 (10.03%) JavaScript
6 335 (8.49%) Bash
7 307 (7.78%) TypeScript
8 261 (6.61%) PowerShell
9 162 (4.10%) Go
10 123 (3.12%) Bicep
11 91 (2.30%) C++
12 88 (2.23%) Apex Code
13 53 (1.34%) Groovy
13 53 (1.34%) PHP
14 40 (1.01%) SOQL
14 40 (1.01%) SOSL
15 39 (0.99%) Scala
16 29 (0.73%) Kotlin
16 29 (0.73%) T-SQL
17 28 (0.71%) Rust
Qualifications
1 513 (12.99%) Security Cleared
2 433 (10.97%) Degree
3 294 (7.45%) SC Cleared
4 198 (5.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 139 (3.52%) DV Cleared
6 124 (3.14%) AWS Certification
7 94 (2.38%) Azure Certification
8 84 (2.13%) Master's Degree
9 51 (1.29%) ISTQB
10 43 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
11 34 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
12 32 (0.81%) DBS Check
13 31 (0.79%) PMI Certification
14 30 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 30 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 29 (0.73%) CISSP
16 24 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
17 22 (0.56%) PMP
18 20 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
18 20 (0.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 325 (8.23%) QA
2 147 (3.72%) Data Quality
3 116 (2.94%) Accessibility
4 115 (2.91%) GDPR
5 84 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 65 (1.65%) NIST
7 46 (1.17%) GRC
8 38 (0.96%) SOC 2
9 35 (0.89%) PCI DSS
10 22 (0.56%) SLA
10 22 (0.56%) WCAG
11 19 (0.48%) NCSC
12 14 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.30%) PMO
14 11 (0.28%) TickIT
15 9 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 9 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 12207
16 7 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
17 6 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 702 (17.78%) Docker
2 143 (3.62%) Active Directory
3 45 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.38%) vSphere
6 11 (0.28%) Firmware
6 11 (0.28%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.10%) iptables
8 4 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.076%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.076%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.076%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.076%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.051%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.051%) KVM
10 2 (0.051%) Postfix
11 1 (0.025%) OpenAM
11 1 (0.025%) OpenDJ
11 1 (0.025%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 980 (24.82%) Terraform
2 753 (19.07%) Kubernetes
3 370 (9.37%) Ansible
4 230 (5.83%) Grafana
5 186 (4.71%) Prometheus
6 79 (2.00%) Argo
7 45 (1.14%) Puppet
8 41 (1.04%) HP Fortify
9 39 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
10 35 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
11 31 (0.79%) Nagios
12 22 (0.56%) Kibana
13 19 (0.48%) Kustomize
14 17 (0.43%) Progress Chef
15 16 (0.41%) Rancher
16 14 (0.35%) Istio
17 12 (0.30%) Packer
18 11 (0.28%) logstash
19 10 (0.25%) Proxmox
20 9 (0.23%) yum
Vendors
1 746 (18.90%) Microsoft
2 155 (3.93%) Salesforce
3 152 (3.85%) Databricks
4 142 (3.60%) Google
5 98 (2.48%) Oracle
6 86 (2.18%) Splunk
7 78 (1.98%) VMware
8 74 (1.87%) Red Hat
9 68 (1.72%) ServiceNow
10 48 (1.22%) SAP
11 47 (1.19%) MuleSoft
12 37 (0.94%) Palo Alto
13 34 (0.86%) Cisco
14 26 (0.66%) OpenAI
15 25 (0.63%) Dynatrace
15 25 (0.63%) Pega
16 23 (0.58%) Adobe
17 22 (0.56%) CrowdStrike
18 20 (0.51%) Okta
18 20 (0.51%) SolarWinds