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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 20 24
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 -12
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,291 4,194 5,857
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.13% 8.47% 6.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.96% 9.46% 8.40%
Number of salaries quoted 3,831 2,413 4,095
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,426 £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 £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,450 £104,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year - +5.69% -1.60%

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 76,038 44,320 69,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.68% 89.51% 81.15%
Number of salaries quoted 52,466 25,228 46,329
10th Percentile £30,603 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.41%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 1 August 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 1 August 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 -8 4,573 £70,000 -2.10% 2,093
UK excluding London -3 3,385 £65,000 - 1,292
Work from Home -2 1,906 £67,500 -3.57% 1,081
London -13 1,514 £85,000 +6.25% 1,035
North of England +1 1,192 £67,500 +3.85% 387
South East -8 702 £65,000 +2.36% 321
North West -2 651 £70,000 +7.69% 209
South West +3 481 £70,000 +7.69% 177
Midlands -23 393 £67,500 +3.85% 178
Yorkshire +12 299 £70,000 +5.66% 112
North East +15 242 £60,000 -7.69% 68
West Midlands -26 226 £69,306 +6.62% 134
East of England +16 203 £60,000 -7.69% 66
Wales +8 177 £54,500 -5.22% 59
East Midlands +4 166 £65,000 +15.56% 44
Scotland 0 140 £60,000 -14.29% 73
Northern Ireland -6 106 £72,500 -9.38% 36
Isle of Man 0 3 £35,000 -33.33% 1

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
1 105 (1.98%) Confluence
2 90 (1.70%) SharePoint
3 88 (1.66%) Apache Spark
4 74 (1.40%) Apache
5 46 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
6 39 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
7 29 (0.55%) IIS
8 28 (0.53%) CMS
9 22 (0.42%) OpenStack
10 20 (0.38%) SAS
11 14 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
12 12 (0.23%) Jupyter
12 12 (0.23%) nginx
13 9 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
13 9 (0.17%) Umbraco
13 9 (0.17%) WordPress
14 8 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 8 (0.15%) Anypoint
14 8 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
15 6 (0.11%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 56 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
2 43 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.38%) PlantUML
4 19 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 14 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
8 12 (0.23%) Trello
9 7 (0.13%) Simulink
10 4 (0.076%) Maya
11 3 (0.057%) Blender
12 2 (0.038%) Lightworks
12 2 (0.038%) Spreadsheet
13 1 (0.019%) Adobe XD
13 1 (0.019%) Notion
13 1 (0.019%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 77 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.15%) Elite 3E
4 7 (0.13%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.095%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.095%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.076%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.076%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.076%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.076%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.076%) Shopify
7 3 (0.057%) Carpe Diem
7 3 (0.057%) Endur
7 3 (0.057%) Infor SunSystems
7 3 (0.057%) Magento
7 3 (0.057%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.057%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.057%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.057%) SAP Business One
7 3 (0.057%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,786 (52.66%) Azure
2 1,740 (32.89%) AWS
3 1,368 (25.86%) Azure DevOps
4 579 (10.94%) GCP
5 516 (9.75%) GitHub
6 477 (9.02%) Serverless
7 421 (7.96%) SaaS
8 363 (6.86%) Power Platform
9 271 (5.12%) GitHub Actions
10 257 (4.86%) AWS CloudFormation
11 227 (4.29%) Amazon S3
12 217 (4.10%) PaaS
13 208 (3.93%) AWS Lambda
14 174 (3.29%) Dynamics 365
15 166 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
16 158 (2.99%) Azure AKS
17 156 (2.95%) Amazon ECS
18 146 (2.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 144 (2.72%) Azure Logic Apps
20 143 (2.70%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 133 (2.51%) Firewall
2 88 (1.66%) DNS
3 73 (1.38%) TCP/IP
4 66 (1.25%) VPN
5 46 (0.87%) Network Security
6 43 (0.81%) Broadband
7 33 (0.62%) HTTP
7 33 (0.62%) Internet
8 22 (0.42%) DHCP
9 21 (0.40%) LAN
10 18 (0.34%) WAN
11 16 (0.30%) MQTT
12 14 (0.26%) Wireless
13 13 (0.25%) DMARC
14 12 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
15 10 (0.19%) BGP
15 10 (0.19%) HTTPS
15 10 (0.19%) SAN
16 8 (0.15%) Bluetooth
16 8 (0.15%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 305 (5.76%) SQL Server
2 276 (5.22%) MongoDB
3 266 (5.03%) Azure SQL Database
4 200 (3.78%) PostgreSQL
4 200 (3.78%) Power BI
5 179 (3.38%) NoSQL
6 108 (2.04%) MySQL
7 103 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
8 101 (1.91%) DynamoDB
8 101 (1.91%) Relational Database
9 95 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
10 91 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
11 78 (1.47%) Data Lake
12 61 (1.15%) Redis
13 60 (1.13%) Metadata
14 46 (0.87%) Big Data
15 43 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
16 40 (0.76%) Delta Lake
17 35 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
18 33 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 569 (10.75%) Git
2 416 (7.86%) GitLab
3 409 (7.73%) Jenkins
4 340 (6.43%) JIRA
5 95 (1.80%) Selenium
6 85 (1.61%) SonarQube
7 72 (1.36%) Cypress.io
8 56 (1.06%) Maven
9 54 (1.02%) Postman
10 53 (1.00%) JUnit
11 38 (0.72%) Cucumber
12 34 (0.64%) JMeter
12 34 (0.64%) TeamCity
13 32 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 32 (0.60%) Bitbucket
14 27 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
15 24 (0.45%) CircleCI
15 24 (0.45%) Visual Studio
16 23 (0.43%) REST Assured
17 21 (0.40%) NUnit
General
1 1,176 (22.23%) Social Skills
2 1,005 (18.99%) Finance
3 417 (7.88%) Analytical Skills
4 400 (7.56%) Public Sector
5 317 (5.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 252 (4.76%) Banking
7 202 (3.82%) Law
8 160 (3.02%) Retail
9 150 (2.84%) Legal
10 108 (2.04%) Marketing
11 69 (1.30%) Games
12 63 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
13 59 (1.12%) Manufacturing
14 56 (1.06%) Advertising
15 53 (1.00%) Financial Institution
16 52 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
17 47 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
18 42 (0.79%) Telecoms
19 32 (0.60%) Back Office
20 27 (0.51%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,210 (22.87%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,151 (21.75%) Senior
3 895 (16.92%) Developer
4 710 (13.42%) Lead
5 414 (7.82%) Architect
6 368 (6.96%) Software Engineer
7 343 (6.48%) Azure Engineer
8 277 (5.24%) Cloud Engineer
9 274 (5.18%) Senior DevOps
10 252 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 231 (4.37%) .NET Developer
12 221 (4.18%) Senior Developer
13 208 (3.93%) Platform Engineer
14 191 (3.61%) Data Engineer
15 190 (3.59%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 166 (3.14%) AWS Engineer
17 165 (3.12%) Solutions Architect
18 157 (2.97%) Lead DevOps
19 135 (2.55%) Java Developer
20 126 (2.38%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 711 (13.44%) .NET
2 456 (8.62%) React
3 332 (6.27%) RESTful
4 329 (6.22%) REST
5 313 (5.92%) Node.js
6 291 (5.50%) ASP.NET
7 267 (5.05%) .NET Core
8 240 (4.54%) CSS
9 238 (4.50%) HTML
10 236 (4.46%) Spring Boot
11 232 (4.38%) Spring
12 225 (4.25%) ASP.NET Core
13 208 (3.93%) Kafka
14 168 (3.18%) AngularJS
15 137 (2.59%) Blazor
16 136 (2.57%) Entity Framework
17 132 (2.49%) Middleware
18 107 (2.02%) JSON
19 106 (2.00%) YAML
20 100 (1.89%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 901 (17.03%) Cloud Native
2 339 (6.41%) Product Ownership
3 250 (4.73%) Distributed Systems
4 193 (3.65%) Enterprise Software
5 144 (2.72%) Onboarding
6 112 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
7 93 (1.76%) Virtual Team
8 87 (1.64%) Management Information System
9 78 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
10 77 (1.46%) Mobile App
11 75 (1.42%) Data Centre
12 71 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
13 63 (1.19%) Public Cloud
14 62 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
15 60 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
16 51 (0.96%) Data Structures
17 47 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
18 45 (0.85%) Low-Code
19 41 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
19 41 (0.77%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 543 (10.26%) Linux
2 255 (4.82%) Windows
3 102 (1.93%) Unix
4 76 (1.44%) Windows Server
5 75 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 53 (1.00%) CentOS
7 46 (0.87%) Ubuntu
8 37 (0.70%) VMS
9 31 (0.59%) Android
10 18 (0.34%) Debian
11 17 (0.32%) Apple iOS
12 9 (0.17%) Rocky
13 8 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
14 7 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
16 4 (0.076%) Kali Linux
17 3 (0.057%) AIX
17 3 (0.057%) Mac OS
18 2 (0.038%) Solaris
18 2 (0.038%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,664 (50.35%) CI/CD
2 1,968 (37.20%) Agile
3 1,277 (24.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,013 (19.15%) Continuous Improvement
5 955 (18.05%) Mentoring
6 941 (17.78%) Software Engineering
7 894 (16.90%) AI
8 852 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
9 810 (15.31%) Test Automation
10 717 (13.55%) Microservices
11 672 (12.70%) Containerisation
12 582 (11.00%) Platform Engineering
13 571 (10.79%) Observability
14 566 (10.70%) Full-Stack Development
15 560 (10.58%) Roadmaps
16 539 (10.19%) Scrum
17 536 (10.13%) Technical Leadership
18 467 (8.83%) Stakeholder Management
19 461 (8.71%) Analytics
20 383 (7.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,249 (23.61%) Python
2 937 (17.71%) SQL
3 774 (14.63%) C#
4 679 (12.83%) Java
5 663 (12.53%) JavaScript
6 416 (7.86%) TypeScript
7 370 (6.99%) Bash
8 363 (6.86%) PowerShell
9 159 (3.01%) Bicep
10 127 (2.40%) Go
11 126 (2.38%) C++
12 67 (1.27%) Apex Code
13 65 (1.23%) PHP
14 49 (0.93%) C
14 49 (0.93%) Groovy
15 43 (0.81%) T-SQL
16 41 (0.77%) Scala
17 38 (0.72%) Rust
18 37 (0.70%) Kotlin
18 37 (0.70%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 874 (16.52%) Security Cleared
2 574 (10.85%) SC Cleared
3 506 (9.56%) Degree
4 240 (4.54%) DV Cleared
5 193 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 141 (2.66%) Azure Certification
7 110 (2.08%) Master's Degree
8 84 (1.59%) AWS Certification
9 83 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
10 81 (1.53%) CISSP
11 64 (1.21%) CISM
12 59 (1.12%) ISTQB
13 50 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
14 39 (0.74%) DBS Check
15 37 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
15 37 (0.70%) PMI Certification
16 28 (0.53%) PMP
17 25 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 24 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 22 (0.42%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 531 (10.04%) QA
2 177 (3.35%) Accessibility
3 169 (3.19%) Data Quality
4 120 (2.27%) GDPR
5 106 (2.00%) NIST
6 70 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 62 (1.17%) WCAG
8 49 (0.93%) ISO 22301
9 48 (0.91%) GRC
10 41 (0.77%) PCI DSS
11 25 (0.47%) PMO
11 25 (0.47%) SOC 2
12 24 (0.45%) SLA
13 21 (0.40%) NCSC
14 13 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
15 12 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
15 12 (0.23%) TickIT
16 10 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 9 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 8 (0.15%) NIST 800
System Software
1 855 (16.16%) Docker
2 134 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 79 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (0.53%) vSphere
6 24 (0.45%) Hyper-V
7 22 (0.42%) Firmware
8 14 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.13%) Ceph
10 6 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.095%) iptables
11 5 (0.095%) KVM
12 4 (0.076%) Embedded Firmware
12 4 (0.076%) NDS
13 3 (0.057%) Xen
14 2 (0.038%) VMware ESXi
14 2 (0.038%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.019%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.019%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,278 (24.15%) Terraform
2 972 (18.37%) Kubernetes
3 449 (8.49%) Ansible
4 232 (4.38%) Grafana
5 175 (3.31%) Prometheus
6 79 (1.49%) Argo
7 62 (1.17%) Puppet
8 41 (0.77%) Nagios
9 31 (0.59%) Istio
10 26 (0.49%) Kibana
10 26 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
11 25 (0.47%) HP Fortify
12 16 (0.30%) Progress Chef
13 14 (0.26%) Podman
13 14 (0.26%) Rancher
14 13 (0.25%) ZABBIX
15 12 (0.23%) Packer
16 11 (0.21%) logstash
17 9 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
17 9 (0.17%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,023 (19.33%) Microsoft
2 197 (3.72%) Google
3 175 (3.31%) Databricks
4 148 (2.80%) Salesforce
5 112 (2.12%) VMware
6 107 (2.02%) Oracle
7 102 (1.93%) Splunk
8 100 (1.89%) ServiceNow
9 93 (1.76%) Red Hat
10 73 (1.38%) SAP
11 53 (1.00%) Pega
12 49 (0.93%) Dynatrace
13 47 (0.89%) Cisco
14 45 (0.85%) OpenAI
15 44 (0.83%) MuleSoft
16 42 (0.79%) Facebook
17 30 (0.57%) Apple
18 27 (0.51%) AppDynamics
18 27 (0.51%) YouTube
19 26 (0.49%) Foundry