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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 21 26
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,824 4,154 7,087
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.99% 8.72% 6.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.78% 9.58% 8.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3,526 2,421 5,133
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £50,083
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £88,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 71,201 43,352 86,215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.63% 91.03% 82.05%
Number of salaries quoted 49,187 23,974 60,816
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,738 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.48% - -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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -9 4,220 £70,000 -3.45% 1,580
UK excluding London -6 2,954 £65,000 - 1,128
Work from Home -1 1,743 £67,490 -3.59% 917
London -7 1,459 £85,000 +6.25% 654
North of England +1 1,070 £69,305 +3.38% 315
South East -12 634 £65,000 - 349
North West 0 583 £70,000 +4.42% 183
South West -1 421 £70,000 +7.69% 138
Midlands -25 353 £65,000 - 134
Yorkshire +5 291 £70,000 - 90
North East +10 196 £60,000 -7.69% 46
West Midlands -34 194 £65,000 - 80
East of England +6 183 £60,000 -7.69% 85
East Midlands +3 158 £65,000 +15.56% 54
Wales +6 136 £53,171 -7.53% 36
Scotland -4 134 £58,565 -17.80% 51
Northern Ireland -31 29 £73,151 -8.56% 42
Isle of Man +2 3 £35,000 -33.33% 2

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 98 (2.03%) Confluence
2 93 (1.93%) SharePoint
3 65 (1.35%) Apache Spark
4 60 (1.24%) Apache
5 46 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
6 45 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
7 31 (0.64%) IIS
8 30 (0.62%) CMS
9 17 (0.35%) SAS
10 15 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
11 12 (0.25%) OpenStack
12 11 (0.23%) nginx
13 10 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
14 9 (0.19%) Jupyter
14 9 (0.19%) Umbraco
14 9 (0.19%) WordPress
15 8 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
16 7 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
17 6 (0.12%) Apache Solr
17 6 (0.12%) Moodle
Applications
1 53 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
2 37 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.39%) MS Visio
3 19 (0.39%) PlantUML
4 13 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.17%) Trello
7 7 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
7 7 (0.15%) Simulink
8 4 (0.083%) Maya
9 3 (0.062%) Blender
9 3 (0.062%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.041%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.021%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.021%) Notion
11 1 (0.021%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 82 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.12%) Elite 3E
3 6 (0.12%) Endur
3 6 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
4 5 (0.10%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.10%) Visualfiles
5 4 (0.083%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.083%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.083%) SAP IBP
6 3 (0.062%) Carpe Diem
6 3 (0.062%) Infor SunSystems
6 3 (0.062%) Magento
7 2 (0.041%) Adobe Campaign
7 2 (0.041%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.041%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.041%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.041%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,563 (53.13%) Azure
2 1,569 (32.52%) AWS
3 1,285 (26.64%) Azure DevOps
4 535 (11.09%) GCP
5 497 (10.30%) GitHub
6 468 (9.70%) Serverless
7 352 (7.30%) Power Platform
8 316 (6.55%) SaaS
9 269 (5.58%) GitHub Actions
10 227 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
11 226 (4.68%) Amazon S3
12 208 (4.31%) AWS Lambda
13 204 (4.23%) PaaS
14 163 (3.38%) Azure AKS
15 150 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
16 149 (3.09%) Dynamics 365
17 147 (3.05%) Azure Logic Apps
18 146 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
19 143 (2.96%) Amazon ECS
20 138 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 145 (3.01%) Firewall
2 89 (1.84%) DNS
3 65 (1.35%) VPN
4 64 (1.33%) TCP/IP
5 63 (1.31%) Broadband
6 41 (0.85%) Network Security
7 35 (0.73%) HTTP
8 23 (0.48%) DHCP
9 22 (0.46%) LAN
9 22 (0.46%) WAN
10 21 (0.44%) Internet
11 13 (0.27%) DMARC
11 13 (0.27%) MQTT
11 13 (0.27%) Wireless
12 10 (0.21%) BGP
13 9 (0.19%) SAN
14 8 (0.17%) Bluetooth
14 8 (0.17%) HTTPS
14 8 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
15 6 (0.12%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 270 (5.60%) SQL Server
2 256 (5.31%) MongoDB
3 254 (5.27%) Azure SQL Database
4 191 (3.96%) NoSQL
5 187 (3.88%) Power BI
6 171 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
7 106 (2.20%) DynamoDB
8 95 (1.97%) Relational Database
9 92 (1.91%) MySQL
10 86 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
11 85 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
12 76 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
13 75 (1.55%) Data Lake
14 64 (1.33%) Metadata
15 46 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
16 45 (0.93%) Redis
17 37 (0.77%) Delta Lake
18 36 (0.75%) Big Data
19 35 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
20 34 (0.70%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 495 (10.26%) Git
2 403 (8.35%) Jenkins
3 395 (8.19%) GitLab
4 303 (6.28%) JIRA
5 101 (2.09%) SonarQube
6 80 (1.66%) Selenium
7 77 (1.60%) Cypress.io
8 59 (1.22%) Maven
9 44 (0.91%) Postman
10 39 (0.81%) JUnit
11 37 (0.77%) Cucumber
12 35 (0.73%) Bitbucket
13 33 (0.68%) CircleCI
14 32 (0.66%) TeamCity
15 31 (0.64%) JMeter
16 25 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
17 24 (0.50%) Eclipse
18 21 (0.44%) Visual Studio
19 20 (0.41%) REST Assured
20 19 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 998 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 958 (19.86%) Finance
3 355 (7.36%) Analytical Skills
4 353 (7.32%) Public Sector
5 297 (6.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 239 (4.95%) Banking
7 165 (3.42%) Law
8 154 (3.19%) Retail
9 109 (2.26%) Marketing
10 95 (1.97%) Legal
11 82 (1.70%) Games
12 61 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
13 55 (1.14%) Manufacturing
14 53 (1.10%) Advertising
15 47 (0.97%) Financial Institution
16 45 (0.93%) Telecoms
17 43 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
18 41 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
19 34 (0.70%) Back Office
20 24 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1,083 (22.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 996 (20.65%) Senior
3 864 (17.91%) Developer
4 668 (13.85%) Lead
5 406 (8.42%) Architect
6 360 (7.46%) Software Engineer
7 338 (7.01%) Azure Engineer
8 255 (5.29%) Cloud Engineer
9 245 (5.08%) Senior DevOps
10 221 (4.58%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 208 (4.31%) .NET Developer
11 208 (4.31%) Senior Developer
12 188 (3.90%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 184 (3.81%) Platform Engineer
14 167 (3.46%) Data Engineer
15 161 (3.34%) AWS Engineer
16 160 (3.32%) Solutions Architect
17 148 (3.07%) Java Developer
18 135 (2.80%) Lead DevOps
19 111 (2.30%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 657 (13.62%) .NET
2 432 (8.96%) React
3 304 (6.30%) Node.js
4 298 (6.18%) RESTful
5 297 (6.16%) REST
6 266 (5.51%) ASP.NET
7 240 (4.98%) .NET Core
8 217 (4.50%) CSS
9 213 (4.42%) HTML
9 213 (4.42%) Spring Boot
10 208 (4.31%) ASP.NET Core
11 199 (4.13%) Spring
12 169 (3.50%) Kafka
13 164 (3.40%) AngularJS
14 122 (2.53%) Blazor
15 120 (2.49%) Entity Framework
16 111 (2.30%) YAML
17 108 (2.24%) Middleware
18 102 (2.11%) SOAP
19 93 (1.93%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 785 (16.27%) Cloud Native
2 313 (6.49%) Product Ownership
3 201 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 148 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
5 101 (2.09%) Onboarding
6 94 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
7 87 (1.80%) Management Information System
8 81 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
9 80 (1.66%) Mobile App
10 70 (1.45%) Public Cloud
11 68 (1.41%) Data Centre
12 61 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
13 56 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
14 51 (1.06%) Data Structures
14 51 (1.06%) Low-Code
15 47 (0.97%) Virtual Team
16 44 (0.91%) Algorithms
16 44 (0.91%) Security Posture
17 40 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
18 35 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 481 (9.97%) Linux
2 224 (4.64%) Windows
3 95 (1.97%) Unix
4 70 (1.45%) Windows Server
5 58 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 50 (1.04%) Ubuntu
7 39 (0.81%) VMS
8 38 (0.79%) CentOS
9 34 (0.70%) Android
10 21 (0.44%) Apple iOS
11 13 (0.27%) Debian
12 6 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 6 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
14 4 (0.083%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.083%) Rocky
15 3 (0.062%) AIX
16 2 (0.041%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.041%) FreeRTOS
17 1 (0.021%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,458 (50.95%) CI/CD
2 1,790 (37.11%) Agile
3 1,171 (24.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 903 (18.72%) Continuous Improvement
5 840 (17.41%) Mentoring
6 816 (16.92%) Software Engineering
7 770 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
8 762 (15.80%) AI
9 683 (14.16%) Test Automation
10 652 (13.52%) Microservices
11 632 (13.10%) Containerisation
12 543 (11.26%) Full-Stack Development
13 530 (10.99%) Roadmaps
14 510 (10.57%) Observability
15 507 (10.51%) Platform Engineering
16 501 (10.39%) Scrum
17 459 (9.51%) Technical Leadership
18 441 (9.14%) Analytics
19 375 (7.77%) Stakeholder Management
20 314 (6.51%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,127 (23.36%) Python
2 862 (17.87%) SQL
3 677 (14.03%) C#
4 651 (13.50%) Java
5 586 (12.15%) JavaScript
6 388 (8.04%) Bash
7 363 (7.52%) TypeScript
8 306 (6.34%) PowerShell
9 152 (3.15%) Bicep
10 143 (2.96%) Go
11 132 (2.74%) C++
12 76 (1.58%) Apex Code
13 56 (1.16%) PHP
14 50 (1.04%) Groovy
15 48 (1.00%) SOQL
16 47 (0.97%) C
17 45 (0.93%) SOSL
18 40 (0.83%) Rust
19 38 (0.79%) Kotlin
20 36 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 760 (15.75%) Security Cleared
2 484 (10.03%) Degree
3 470 (9.74%) SC Cleared
4 181 (3.75%) DV Cleared
5 180 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 120 (2.49%) Azure Certification
7 107 (2.22%) Master's Degree
8 96 (1.99%) AWS Certification
9 52 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
10 51 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
11 50 (1.04%) ISTQB
12 46 (0.95%) CISSP
13 36 (0.75%) DBS Check
14 34 (0.70%) PMI Certification
15 31 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 27 (0.56%) CISM
17 26 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 26 (0.54%) PMP
18 24 (0.50%) PhD
19 20 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 432 (8.96%) QA
2 160 (3.32%) Accessibility
2 160 (3.32%) Data Quality
3 104 (2.16%) GDPR
4 73 (1.51%) NIST
5 70 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 55 (1.14%) WCAG
7 48 (1.00%) GRC
8 39 (0.81%) PCI DSS
9 31 (0.64%) SOC 2
10 21 (0.44%) PMO
11 20 (0.41%) SLA
12 15 (0.31%) ISO 22301
12 15 (0.31%) NCSC
13 12 (0.25%) TickIT
14 10 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
16 8 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 6 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 6 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 780 (16.17%) Docker
2 131 (2.72%) Active Directory
3 75 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.60%) vSphere
6 21 (0.44%) Firmware
7 20 (0.41%) Hyper-V
8 13 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.12%) iptables
11 4 (0.083%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.083%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 4 (0.083%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.062%) KVM
12 3 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.062%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.021%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.021%) QEMU
13 1 (0.021%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,176 (24.38%) Terraform
2 888 (18.41%) Kubernetes
3 421 (8.73%) Ansible
4 227 (4.71%) Grafana
5 173 (3.59%) Prometheus
6 77 (1.60%) Argo
7 59 (1.22%) Puppet
8 39 (0.81%) Nagios
9 31 (0.64%) HP Fortify
10 28 (0.58%) Kibana
11 23 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
12 21 (0.44%) Istio
13 15 (0.31%) Packer
13 15 (0.31%) Rancher
14 14 (0.29%) Progress Chef
15 13 (0.27%) Proxmox
16 12 (0.25%) Kustomize
17 10 (0.21%) logstash
18 9 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
19 8 (0.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 938 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 180 (3.73%) Google
3 156 (3.23%) Databricks
4 147 (3.05%) Salesforce
5 112 (2.32%) VMware
6 101 (2.09%) ServiceNow
7 98 (2.03%) Splunk
8 92 (1.91%) Oracle
9 82 (1.70%) Red Hat
10 57 (1.18%) SAP
11 55 (1.14%) Pega
12 43 (0.89%) Dynatrace
12 43 (0.89%) MuleSoft
13 40 (0.83%) Cisco
14 39 (0.81%) Facebook
15 36 (0.75%) OpenAI
16 29 (0.60%) Apple
17 28 (0.58%) YouTube
18 26 (0.54%) Foundry
18 26 (0.54%) Palo Alto