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 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 21 25
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 -13
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,435 4,018 7,251
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.75% 9.01% 6.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.53% 9.73% 8.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,208 2,322 5,232
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,486 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,875 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
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 67,964 41,274 88,698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.85% 92.59% 81.93%
Number of salaries quoted 46,731 22,044 62,765
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,525
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £91,991
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 16 June 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 16 June 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 3,933 £70,000 -1.06% 2,480
UK excluding London -8 2,649 £65,000 - 2,410
Work from Home -5 1,553 £67,500 -3.57% 2,160
London -6 1,432 £82,500 +3.13% 648
North of England -2 955 £69,310 +2.68% 570
South East -15 582 £65,000 - 564
North West -3 515 £70,000 +3.70% 280
South West -10 372 £65,000 - 211
Midlands -18 340 £65,500 +9.17% 299
Yorkshire -2 270 £70,000 - 194
West Midlands -28 189 £65,000 +8.33% 167
North East +9 170 £60,000 -7.69% 101
East of England +3 167 £60,100 -7.54% 302
East Midlands +4 148 £67,500 +17.39% 132
Scotland -5 133 £55,000 -25.42% 221
Wales -1 96 £53,171 -11.38% 128
Northern Ireland -35 8 £73,151 -13.94% 145
Isle of Man +2 3 £35,000 -33.33%

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 86 (1.94%) Confluence
2 82 (1.85%) SharePoint
3 60 (1.35%) Apache Spark
4 57 (1.29%) Apache
5 46 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
6 40 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
7 28 (0.63%) CMS
8 25 (0.56%) IIS
9 15 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
10 12 (0.27%) SAS
11 10 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
12 9 (0.20%) OpenStack
12 9 (0.20%) Umbraco
13 8 (0.18%) Jupyter
13 8 (0.18%) nginx
13 8 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
13 8 (0.18%) WordPress
14 7 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 6 (0.14%) Apache Solr
15 6 (0.14%) Moodle
Applications
1 42 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
2 33 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.47%) MS Visio
4 16 (0.36%) PlantUML
5 11 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.16%) Simulink
8 6 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
9 4 (0.090%) Maya
10 3 (0.068%) Blender
10 3 (0.068%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.068%) Trello
11 1 (0.023%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.023%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.023%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.023%) Notion
11 1 (0.023%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 73 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.23%) SAP ERP
4 7 (0.16%) Endur
5 5 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.11%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.090%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.090%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.068%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.068%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.068%) Magento
7 3 (0.068%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.068%) Shopify
8 2 (0.045%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.045%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.045%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.045%) SAP IBP
9 1 (0.023%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.023%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.023%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,350 (52.99%) Azure
2 1,417 (31.95%) AWS
3 1,170 (26.38%) Azure DevOps
4 489 (11.03%) GCP
5 477 (10.76%) GitHub
6 441 (9.94%) Serverless
7 332 (7.49%) Power Platform
8 276 (6.22%) SaaS
9 255 (5.75%) GitHub Actions
10 224 (5.05%) Amazon S3
11 221 (4.98%) AWS CloudFormation
12 211 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
13 177 (3.99%) PaaS
14 151 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
15 148 (3.34%) Azure AKS
16 142 (3.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 142 (3.20%) Amazon ECS
17 140 (3.16%) Entra ID
18 139 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
19 135 (3.04%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 143 (3.22%) Firewall
2 90 (2.03%) DNS
3 67 (1.51%) Broadband
4 57 (1.29%) TCP/IP
5 53 (1.20%) VPN
6 39 (0.88%) Network Security
7 33 (0.74%) HTTP
8 26 (0.59%) DHCP
9 25 (0.56%) WAN
10 22 (0.50%) LAN
11 12 (0.27%) Internet
12 11 (0.25%) MQTT
13 10 (0.23%) BGP
13 10 (0.23%) DMARC
13 10 (0.23%) SAN
13 10 (0.23%) Wireless
14 8 (0.18%) HTTPS
15 6 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
15 6 (0.14%) OSPF
15 6 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (5.50%) SQL Server
2 202 (4.55%) NoSQL
3 200 (4.51%) MongoDB
4 198 (4.46%) Azure SQL Database
5 189 (4.26%) Power BI
6 145 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
7 106 (2.39%) DynamoDB
8 92 (2.07%) Relational Database
9 84 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
10 81 (1.83%) Data Lake
11 80 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
12 74 (1.67%) MySQL
13 68 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
14 57 (1.29%) Metadata
15 51 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
16 38 (0.86%) Redis
17 36 (0.81%) Big Data
17 36 (0.81%) BigQuery
18 35 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
19 34 (0.77%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 470 (10.60%) Git
2 387 (8.73%) Jenkins
3 376 (8.48%) GitLab
4 269 (6.07%) JIRA
5 96 (2.16%) SonarQube
6 81 (1.83%) Cypress.io
6 81 (1.83%) Selenium
7 58 (1.31%) Maven
8 46 (1.04%) Postman
9 36 (0.81%) JUnit
10 33 (0.74%) CircleCI
11 31 (0.70%) Bitbucket
11 31 (0.70%) Cucumber
11 31 (0.70%) TeamCity
12 28 (0.63%) JMeter
13 25 (0.56%) Eclipse
14 24 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
15 21 (0.47%) Visual Studio
16 20 (0.45%) REST Assured
17 18 (0.41%) Jaeger
General
1 909 (20.50%) Finance
2 903 (20.36%) Social Skills
3 341 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 288 (6.49%) Public Sector
5 267 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 232 (5.23%) Banking
7 137 (3.09%) Retail
8 125 (2.82%) Law
9 99 (2.23%) Marketing
10 78 (1.76%) Games
11 75 (1.69%) Legal
12 48 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
13 47 (1.06%) Advertising
13 47 (1.06%) Manufacturing
14 43 (0.97%) Telecoms
15 41 (0.92%) Financial Institution
16 40 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
17 34 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
18 30 (0.68%) Back Office
18 30 (0.68%) Billing
Job Titles
1 971 (21.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 870 (19.62%) Senior
3 785 (17.70%) Developer
4 619 (13.96%) Lead
5 368 (8.30%) Architect
6 334 (7.53%) Software Engineer
7 332 (7.49%) Azure Engineer
8 253 (5.70%) Cloud Engineer
9 205 (4.62%) Senior DevOps
10 201 (4.53%) Senior Developer
11 183 (4.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 178 (4.01%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 169 (3.81%) Platform Engineer
14 162 (3.65%) Data Engineer
15 160 (3.61%) AWS Engineer
16 153 (3.45%) .NET Developer
17 149 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
18 146 (3.29%) Java Developer
19 130 (2.93%) Lead DevOps
20 111 (2.50%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 565 (12.74%) .NET
2 391 (8.82%) React
3 280 (6.31%) Node.js
4 278 (6.27%) REST
5 256 (5.77%) RESTful
6 204 (4.60%) ASP.NET
7 191 (4.31%) Spring Boot
8 187 (4.22%) .NET Core
9 184 (4.15%) CSS
10 180 (4.06%) Spring
11 179 (4.04%) HTML
12 161 (3.63%) AngularJS
13 156 (3.52%) Kafka
14 152 (3.43%) ASP.NET Core
15 109 (2.46%) YAML
16 104 (2.34%) SOAP
17 96 (2.16%) Middleware
18 95 (2.14%) OAuth
19 92 (2.07%) Blazor
19 92 (2.07%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 675 (15.22%) Cloud Native
2 287 (6.47%) Product Ownership
3 165 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
4 131 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
5 88 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
6 78 (1.76%) Management Information System
6 78 (1.76%) Mobile App
7 77 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
8 76 (1.71%) Onboarding
9 61 (1.38%) Data Centre
10 57 (1.29%) Public Cloud
11 56 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
12 51 (1.15%) Data Structures
13 48 (1.08%) Algorithms
14 43 (0.97%) Low-Code
15 40 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
16 39 (0.88%) Security Posture
17 37 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
18 31 (0.70%) Enterprise Cloud
18 31 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 439 (9.90%) Linux
2 194 (4.37%) Windows
3 83 (1.87%) Unix
4 74 (1.67%) Windows Server
5 54 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 49 (1.10%) Ubuntu
7 36 (0.81%) VMS
8 33 (0.74%) Android
8 33 (0.74%) CentOS
9 27 (0.61%) Apple iOS
10 10 (0.23%) Debian
11 9 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.090%) Kali Linux
12 4 (0.090%) Rocky
12 4 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.090%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.045%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.045%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.023%) AIX
14 1 (0.023%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,253 (50.80%) CI/CD
2 1,575 (35.51%) Agile
3 1,076 (24.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 804 (18.13%) Continuous Improvement
5 736 (16.60%) Mentoring
6 732 (16.51%) Software Engineering
7 720 (16.23%) Problem-Solving
8 686 (15.47%) AI
9 623 (14.05%) Test Automation
10 591 (13.33%) Microservices
11 590 (13.30%) Containerisation
12 482 (10.87%) Observability
13 480 (10.82%) Full-Stack Development
14 479 (10.80%) Roadmaps
15 464 (10.46%) Platform Engineering
16 443 (9.99%) Scrum
17 431 (9.72%) Analytics
18 395 (8.91%) Technical Leadership
19 315 (7.10%) Stakeholder Management
20 294 (6.63%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,047 (23.61%) Python
2 810 (18.26%) SQL
3 608 (13.71%) Java
4 570 (12.85%) C#
5 503 (11.34%) JavaScript
6 372 (8.39%) Bash
7 336 (7.58%) TypeScript
8 272 (6.13%) PowerShell
9 139 (3.13%) Go
10 133 (3.00%) Bicep
11 124 (2.80%) C++
12 79 (1.78%) Apex Code
13 58 (1.31%) PHP
14 51 (1.15%) Groovy
15 48 (1.08%) SOQL
16 45 (1.01%) C
16 45 (1.01%) SOSL
17 43 (0.97%) Kotlin
18 39 (0.88%) Scala
19 37 (0.83%) Rust
Qualifications
1 659 (14.86%) Security Cleared
2 456 (10.28%) Degree
3 407 (9.18%) SC Cleared
4 172 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 160 (3.61%) DV Cleared
6 109 (2.46%) Azure Certification
7 100 (2.25%) AWS Certification
8 99 (2.23%) Master's Degree
9 53 (1.20%) ISTQB
10 50 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
11 34 (0.77%) DBS Check
12 31 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
12 31 (0.70%) PMI Certification
13 28 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 26 (0.59%) CISSP
15 23 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 23 (0.52%) PhD
15 23 (0.52%) PMP
16 19 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
17 15 (0.34%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 375 (8.46%) QA
2 157 (3.54%) Data Quality
3 151 (3.40%) Accessibility
4 92 (2.07%) GDPR
5 64 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 53 (1.20%) NIST
7 45 (1.01%) WCAG
8 44 (0.99%) GRC
9 33 (0.74%) PCI DSS
10 32 (0.72%) SOC 2
11 19 (0.43%) SLA
12 17 (0.38%) PMO
13 12 (0.27%) NCSC
13 12 (0.27%) TickIT
14 9 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 9 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
15 6 (0.14%) Solvency II
16 5 (0.11%) IFRS
16 5 (0.11%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 728 (16.41%) Docker
2 133 (3.00%) Active Directory
3 61 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (0.50%) vSphere
6 20 (0.45%) Firmware
7 18 (0.41%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.11%) iptables
11 4 (0.090%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.090%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.068%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.068%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.045%) KVM
14 1 (0.023%) OpenAM
14 1 (0.023%) OpenDJ
14 1 (0.023%) OpenIDM
14 1 (0.023%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,094 (24.67%) Terraform
2 798 (17.99%) Kubernetes
3 393 (8.86%) Ansible
4 222 (5.01%) Grafana
5 184 (4.15%) Prometheus
6 76 (1.71%) Argo
7 48 (1.08%) Puppet
8 38 (0.86%) Nagios
9 33 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
10 31 (0.70%) HP Fortify
11 29 (0.65%) Kibana
12 20 (0.45%) Istio
13 18 (0.41%) Kustomize
14 15 (0.34%) Packer
15 13 (0.29%) Progress Chef
15 13 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
16 12 (0.27%) Proxmox
17 11 (0.25%) Rancher
18 9 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 9 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 841 (18.96%) Microsoft
2 168 (3.79%) Google
3 155 (3.49%) Databricks
4 146 (3.29%) Salesforce
5 101 (2.28%) Splunk
5 101 (2.28%) VMware
6 94 (2.12%) ServiceNow
7 84 (1.89%) Oracle
8 81 (1.83%) Red Hat
9 57 (1.29%) SAP
10 40 (0.90%) MuleSoft
11 39 (0.88%) Dynatrace
12 35 (0.79%) Cisco
13 29 (0.65%) OpenAI
13 29 (0.65%) Palo Alto
14 25 (0.56%) Apple
14 25 (0.56%) Facebook
15 24 (0.54%) Pega
16 21 (0.47%) Foundry
17 20 (0.45%) Adobe