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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 22 21
Rank change year-on-year -8 -1 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,567 3,864 5,493
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.79% 7.84% 7.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.56% 8.84% 8.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,872 2,195 3,498
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £88,148 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%

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 84,898 43,727 63,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.06% 88.69% 81.28%
Number of salaries quoted 58,675 24,676 35,715
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,313 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -10 4,809 £72,500 +3.57% 4,554
UK excluding London -4 3,570 £65,000 - 2,407
Work from Home -4 1,897 £69,310 -0.99% 2,084
London -10 1,579 £85,000 +6.25% 2,421
North of England +4 1,272 £68,000 +4.62% 716
South East -8 706 £65,000 - 561
North West +4 696 £70,000 +7.69% 406
South West +22 538 £75,000 +25.00% 299
Midlands -22 443 £65,000 - 288
Yorkshire +14 293 £70,000 +12.00% 190
North East +19 286 £60,000 - 123
West Midlands -27 258 £70,000 +7.69% 171
Wales +3 203 £54,500 -0.91% 63
East of England -2 194 £56,000 -13.85% 211
East Midlands +7 185 £60,000 +4.35% 117
Scotland -19 120 £60,000 -9.43% 205
Northern Ireland -6 114 £72,246 -44.43% 73
Isle of Man +1 3 £35,000 -33.33% 3

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
1 110 (1.98%) SharePoint
2 109 (1.96%) Apache Spark
3 108 (1.94%) Confluence
4 83 (1.49%) Apache
5 43 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
6 42 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
7 30 (0.54%) CMS
8 29 (0.52%) IIS
9 24 (0.43%) OpenStack
10 15 (0.27%) Jupyter
11 14 (0.25%) nginx
12 13 (0.23%) SAS
13 10 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 10 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
14 9 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
14 9 (0.16%) Umbraco
14 9 (0.16%) WordPress
15 8 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
16 7 (0.13%) Camunda
17 5 (0.090%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 67 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
2 46 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
4 26 (0.47%) MS Visio
5 25 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 21 (0.38%) PlantUML
7 20 (0.36%) Chatbot
8 13 (0.23%) Trello
9 7 (0.13%) Simulink
10 3 (0.054%) Blender
10 3 (0.054%) Maya
10 3 (0.054%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.036%) Lightworks
12 1 (0.018%) Notion
12 1 (0.018%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 89 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (0.25%) Elite 3E
4 7 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
4 7 (0.13%) Teamcenter
5 6 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
5 6 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
6 5 (0.090%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.090%) Visualfiles
7 4 (0.072%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.072%) Oracle Applications
7 4 (0.072%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.072%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.072%) Shopify
8 3 (0.054%) Carpe Diem
8 3 (0.054%) Distributed Ledger
8 3 (0.054%) Infor SunSystems
8 3 (0.054%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.054%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2,914 (52.34%) Azure
2 1,797 (32.28%) AWS
3 1,481 (26.60%) Azure DevOps
4 607 (10.90%) GCP
5 564 (10.13%) GitHub
6 496 (8.91%) Serverless
7 448 (8.05%) SaaS
8 428 (7.69%) Power Platform
9 305 (5.48%) GitHub Actions
10 285 (5.12%) AWS CloudFormation
11 221 (3.97%) Dynamics 365
12 218 (3.92%) Amazon S3
13 212 (3.81%) AWS Lambda
14 204 (3.66%) PaaS
15 177 (3.18%) Azure Data Factory
16 169 (3.04%) Amazon EKS
17 168 (3.02%) Azure AKS
18 166 (2.98%) Entra ID
18 166 (2.98%) Microsoft 365
19 157 (2.82%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 129 (2.32%) Firewall
2 92 (1.65%) DNS
3 84 (1.51%) VPN
4 60 (1.08%) TCP/IP
5 49 (0.88%) Internet
6 48 (0.86%) Network Security
7 28 (0.50%) DHCP
8 26 (0.47%) HTTP
9 21 (0.38%) Broadband
10 16 (0.29%) MQTT
11 15 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
12 14 (0.25%) DMARC
12 14 (0.25%) Wireless
13 13 (0.23%) SAN
14 12 (0.22%) BGP
14 12 (0.22%) WAN
15 11 (0.20%) SSH
16 10 (0.18%) LAN
17 9 (0.16%) OSPF
17 9 (0.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 355 (6.38%) SQL Server
2 303 (5.44%) Azure SQL Database
3 293 (5.26%) MongoDB
4 245 (4.40%) Power BI
5 218 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
6 202 (3.63%) NoSQL
7 144 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
8 125 (2.25%) MySQL
9 119 (2.14%) Relational Database
10 106 (1.90%) DynamoDB
11 103 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
12 100 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
13 97 (1.74%) Data Lake
14 93 (1.67%) Metadata
15 78 (1.40%) Redis
16 49 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
17 47 (0.84%) Delta Lake
18 44 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
19 41 (0.74%) Big Data
20 38 (0.68%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 673 (12.09%) Git
2 412 (7.40%) Jenkins
3 397 (7.13%) GitLab
4 360 (6.47%) JIRA
5 90 (1.62%) Selenium
6 69 (1.24%) SonarQube
7 62 (1.11%) Cypress.io
8 58 (1.04%) Maven
9 51 (0.92%) JUnit
9 51 (0.92%) Postman
10 49 (0.88%) TeamCity
11 41 (0.74%) Cucumber
12 40 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 31 (0.56%) JMeter
14 28 (0.50%) Bitbucket
15 27 (0.49%) Claude Code
15 27 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
16 21 (0.38%) NUnit
16 21 (0.38%) REST Assured
17 19 (0.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,310 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 1,076 (19.33%) Finance
3 513 (9.22%) Public Sector
4 461 (8.28%) Analytical Skills
5 338 (6.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 244 (4.38%) Banking
7 213 (3.83%) Law
8 172 (3.09%) Retail
9 169 (3.04%) Legal
10 85 (1.53%) Marketing
11 75 (1.35%) Financial Institution
12 59 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
13 57 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
14 54 (0.97%) Manufacturing
15 50 (0.90%) Aerospace
15 50 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
16 49 (0.88%) Telecoms
17 47 (0.84%) Back Office
18 45 (0.81%) Advertising
19 38 (0.68%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,365 (24.52%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,278 (22.96%) Senior
3 896 (16.09%) Developer
4 713 (12.81%) Lead
5 424 (7.62%) Architect
6 391 (7.02%) Software Engineer
7 352 (6.32%) Azure Engineer
8 316 (5.68%) Senior DevOps
9 299 (5.37%) Cloud Engineer
10 292 (5.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 242 (4.35%) .NET Developer
12 240 (4.31%) Platform Engineer
13 220 (3.95%) Senior Developer
14 218 (3.92%) Data Engineer
15 185 (3.32%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 170 (3.05%) Lead DevOps
17 156 (2.80%) AWS Engineer
18 143 (2.57%) Consultant
19 141 (2.53%) Solutions Architect
20 132 (2.37%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,365 (24.52%) Terraform
2 736 (13.22%) .NET
3 427 (7.67%) React
4 350 (6.29%) REST
5 341 (6.13%) RESTful
6 333 (5.98%) Node.js
7 299 (5.37%) ASP.NET
8 270 (4.85%) .NET Core
9 267 (4.80%) Spring
10 265 (4.76%) Spring Boot
11 234 (4.20%) CSS
12 233 (4.19%) HTML
13 229 (4.11%) ASP.NET Core
14 227 (4.08%) Kafka
15 172 (3.09%) AngularJS
16 138 (2.48%) Entity Framework
17 136 (2.44%) Blazor
18 121 (2.17%) Middleware
19 117 (2.10%) JSON
20 106 (1.90%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1,019 (18.30%) Cloud Native
2 355 (6.38%) Product Ownership
3 271 (4.87%) Distributed Systems
4 233 (4.19%) Enterprise Software
5 167 (3.00%) Onboarding
6 128 (2.30%) Virtual Team
7 116 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
8 98 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
9 84 (1.51%) Management Information System
10 75 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
11 70 (1.26%) Data Centre
11 70 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
12 69 (1.24%) Mobile App
13 67 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
14 65 (1.17%) Public Cloud
15 63 (1.13%) AI Agents
16 53 (0.95%) Private Cloud
17 50 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
18 49 (0.88%) Data Structures
19 48 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 580 (10.42%) Linux
2 260 (4.67%) Windows
3 106 (1.90%) Unix
4 73 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 69 (1.24%) Windows Server
6 51 (0.92%) CentOS
7 41 (0.74%) Ubuntu
8 38 (0.68%) VMS
9 32 (0.57%) Android
10 16 (0.29%) Debian
11 15 (0.27%) Apple iOS
12 10 (0.18%) Rocky
13 7 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
14 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.090%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.072%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.072%) Solaris
16 4 (0.072%) Windows Server 2019
17 3 (0.054%) AIX
17 3 (0.054%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,843 (51.07%) CI/CD
2 2,037 (36.59%) Agile
3 1,353 (24.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,096 (19.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,067 (19.17%) Mentoring
6 1,024 (18.39%) AI
7 1,017 (18.27%) Software Engineering
8 927 (16.65%) Problem-Solving
9 866 (15.56%) Test Automation
10 748 (13.44%) Microservices
11 701 (12.59%) Containerisation
12 675 (12.13%) Platform Engineering
13 618 (11.10%) Observability
14 613 (11.01%) Technical Leadership
15 577 (10.36%) Stakeholder Management
16 568 (10.20%) Roadmaps
17 535 (9.61%) Scrum
18 530 (9.52%) Full-Stack Development
19 505 (9.07%) Analytics
20 404 (7.26%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,319 (23.69%) Python
2 1,000 (17.96%) SQL
3 818 (14.69%) C#
4 730 (13.11%) Java
5 668 (12.00%) JavaScript
6 429 (7.71%) TypeScript
7 391 (7.02%) PowerShell
8 390 (7.01%) Bash
9 163 (2.93%) Bicep
10 130 (2.34%) Go
11 118 (2.12%) C++
12 57 (1.02%) PHP
13 55 (0.99%) Groovy
14 54 (0.97%) T-SQL
15 53 (0.95%) Scala
16 47 (0.84%) C
17 45 (0.81%) Kotlin
18 40 (0.72%) Apex Code
19 38 (0.68%) Ruby
19 38 (0.68%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,056 (18.97%) Security Cleared
2 706 (12.68%) SC Cleared
3 515 (9.25%) Degree
4 300 (5.39%) DV Cleared
5 194 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 189 (3.40%) Azure Certification
7 109 (1.96%) AWS Certification
8 101 (1.81%) Master's Degree
9 81 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 77 (1.38%) CISSP
10 77 (1.38%) ITIL Certification
11 75 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
12 67 (1.20%) CISM
13 57 (1.02%) ISTQB
14 38 (0.68%) PMI Certification
15 25 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 25 (0.45%) DBS Check
15 25 (0.45%) PhD
15 25 (0.45%) PMP
16 22 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 556 (9.99%) QA
2 212 (3.81%) Data Quality
3 189 (3.40%) Accessibility
4 125 (2.25%) GDPR
5 98 (1.76%) NIST
6 75 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 63 (1.13%) WCAG
8 49 (0.88%) ISO 22301
9 42 (0.75%) GRC
10 35 (0.63%) SLA
11 28 (0.50%) PCI DSS
11 28 (0.50%) PMO
12 27 (0.49%) NCSC
13 18 (0.32%) SOC 2
14 12 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
14 12 (0.22%) HIPAA
14 12 (0.22%) TickIT
15 10 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
16 9 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 9 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 927 (16.65%) Docker
2 144 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 82 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (0.47%) vSphere
6 20 (0.36%) Firmware
7 19 (0.34%) Hyper-V
7 19 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.14%) NDS
9 7 (0.13%) Ceph
10 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.090%) KVM
12 4 (0.072%) iptables
12 4 (0.072%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.054%) Xen
14 2 (0.036%) Embedded Firmware
14 2 (0.036%) VMware ESXi
14 2 (0.036%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.018%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.018%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,048 (18.83%) Kubernetes
2 473 (8.50%) Ansible
3 246 (4.42%) Grafana
4 179 (3.22%) Prometheus
5 82 (1.47%) Argo
6 66 (1.19%) Puppet
7 42 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
8 27 (0.49%) Istio
8 27 (0.49%) Kibana
9 25 (0.45%) Nagios
9 25 (0.45%) Rancher
10 22 (0.40%) Progress Chef
11 20 (0.36%) HP Fortify
12 15 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
13 14 (0.25%) logstash
13 14 (0.25%) Packer
13 14 (0.25%) Podman
14 11 (0.20%) Proxmox
14 11 (0.20%) ZABBIX
15 8 (0.14%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 1,146 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 212 (3.81%) Google
3 190 (3.41%) Databricks
4 128 (2.30%) Oracle
5 120 (2.16%) Salesforce
6 116 (2.08%) VMware
7 98 (1.76%) ServiceNow
8 87 (1.56%) Splunk
9 78 (1.40%) SAP
10 76 (1.37%) Red Hat
11 55 (0.99%) OpenAI
12 51 (0.92%) Cisco
13 49 (0.88%) Dynatrace
14 44 (0.79%) Pega
15 42 (0.75%) Facebook
16 38 (0.68%) AppDynamics
16 38 (0.68%) YouTube
17 33 (0.59%) MuleSoft
18 30 (0.54%) Foundry
19 28 (0.50%) IBM