DevOps Job Trends

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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 21 13
Rank change year-on-year -8 -8 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 3,332 5,202 6,066
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.18% 7.75% 11.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.29% 9.11% 12.75%
Number of salaries quoted 2,282 3,173 4,980
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,308 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -0.99% -
75th Percentile £85,738 £87,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - - +1.63%

All Process and 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 45,724 57,096 47,568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.81% 85.02% 93.78%
Number of salaries quoted 27,947 29,808 36,597
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,714 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.18% +4.22% -0.94%

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 27 November 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Top 19 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 27 November 2025. 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 -13 2,850 £70,000 - 1,433
UK excluding London -16 1,783 £62,500 - 1,206
Work from Home -7 1,328 £69,442 +2.88% 786
London -2 1,312 £80,500 -2.42% 623
North of England -26 469 £63,000 +4.13% 219
South East -30 418 £65,000 -2.26% 503
Midlands -4 288 £63,000 -2.91% 138
Scotland -4 246 £67,250 +12.08% 94
North West -19 236 £65,000 +4.00% 103
West Midlands +7 224 £65,000 - 91
South West -24 181 £60,000 -7.69% 152
Yorkshire -13 169 £60,000 - 78
East of England -27 98 £65,000 +30.00% 76
Wales -7 69 £57,500 +4.55% 43
North East +2 66 £50,000 -13.74% 39
East Midlands -7 61 £57,500 -4.17% 44
Northern Ireland +9 21 £77,217 +11.41% 10
Isle of Man +9 1 £52,500 +45.83%
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
1 108 (3.24%) Confluence
2 75 (2.25%) Apache Spark
3 59 (1.77%) SharePoint
4 58 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
5 57 (1.71%) Apache
6 41 (1.23%) IIS
7 30 (0.90%) nginx
8 29 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
9 25 (0.75%) CMS
10 14 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 12 (0.36%) Appian
12 7 (0.21%) OpenStack
12 7 (0.21%) Tomcat
13 5 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 5 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
13 5 (0.15%) JBoss
13 5 (0.15%) WebSphere
14 4 (0.12%) Camunda
14 4 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
15 3 (0.090%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 53 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
4 13 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 6 (0.18%) Trello
7 4 (0.12%) PlantUML
7 4 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.090%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.090%) Siemens NX
8 3 (0.090%) S-PLUS
9 2 (0.060%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.060%) Sketch
10 1 (0.030%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.030%) Maya
10 1 (0.030%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 66 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.96%) Oracle ERP
3 24 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
5 10 (0.30%) Shopify
6 9 (0.27%) SAP FS
7 8 (0.24%) Endur
8 6 (0.18%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
9 4 (0.12%) SAP IBP
9 4 (0.12%) SAP MII
9 4 (0.12%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.12%) SAP PP
10 3 (0.090%) SAP CX
10 3 (0.090%) SAP ERP
11 2 (0.060%) Elite 3E
11 2 (0.060%) Markit EDM
11 2 (0.060%) Oracle BPM
11 2 (0.060%) Salesforce CRM
11 2 (0.060%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,957 (58.73%) Azure
2 1,169 (35.08%) AWS
3 1,007 (30.22%) Azure DevOps
4 495 (14.86%) GitHub
5 396 (11.88%) GCP
6 341 (10.23%) Power Platform
7 310 (9.30%) SaaS
8 298 (8.94%) Serverless
9 239 (7.17%) GitHub Actions
10 188 (5.64%) PaaS
11 160 (4.80%) AWS CloudFormation
12 149 (4.47%) Dynamics 365
13 145 (4.35%) Amazon S3
14 135 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
15 132 (3.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 132 (3.96%) Entra ID
16 131 (3.93%) Microsoft 365
17 111 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
18 110 (3.30%) Snowflake
19 108 (3.24%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 132 (3.96%) Firewall
2 101 (3.03%) DNS
3 66 (1.98%) TCP/IP
4 62 (1.86%) VPN
5 61 (1.83%) WAN
6 54 (1.62%) Network Security
7 45 (1.35%) LAN
8 41 (1.23%) HTTP
9 29 (0.87%) DHCP
10 23 (0.69%) SAN
11 22 (0.66%) SSH
11 22 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
12 20 (0.60%) FTP
12 20 (0.60%) SMTP
13 19 (0.57%) Broadband
14 17 (0.51%) BGP
15 16 (0.48%) SD-WAN
16 14 (0.42%) Wireless
17 13 (0.39%) VLAN
18 12 (0.36%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 333 (9.99%) SQL Server
2 198 (5.94%) Power BI
3 161 (4.83%) Data Warehouse
4 156 (4.68%) NoSQL
5 141 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
6 101 (3.03%) Relational Database
7 98 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
8 88 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
9 73 (2.19%) Data Lake
10 67 (2.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 63 (1.89%) Big Data
12 60 (1.80%) Tableau
13 57 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
14 53 (1.59%) DynamoDB
14 53 (1.59%) MongoDB
14 53 (1.59%) MySQL
15 50 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
16 48 (1.44%) Metadata
17 42 (1.26%) BigQuery
18 41 (1.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 425 (12.76%) Git
2 352 (10.56%) Jenkins
3 290 (8.70%) JIRA
4 194 (5.82%) GitLab
5 91 (2.73%) Selenium
6 54 (1.62%) SonarQube
7 52 (1.56%) Cypress.io
8 48 (1.44%) Octopus Deploy
8 48 (1.44%) TeamCity
9 46 (1.38%) Bitbucket
10 35 (1.05%) Cucumber
11 34 (1.02%) Postman
12 31 (0.93%) JMeter
13 30 (0.90%) Vagrant
14 29 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
15 28 (0.84%) JUnit
16 27 (0.81%) Oracle Forms
17 26 (0.78%) Artifactory
17 26 (0.78%) Visual Studio
18 23 (0.69%) Snyk
General
1 967 (29.02%) Social Skills
2 883 (26.50%) Finance
3 360 (10.80%) Analytical Skills
4 241 (7.23%) Law
5 185 (5.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 164 (4.92%) Banking
7 154 (4.62%) Retail
8 150 (4.50%) Marketing
9 148 (4.44%) Public Sector
10 72 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
11 71 (2.13%) Games
12 63 (1.89%) Manufacturing
13 59 (1.77%) Financial Institution
13 59 (1.77%) Telecoms
14 53 (1.59%) Legal
15 44 (1.32%) Back Office
16 41 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
17 35 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
18 31 (0.93%) Front Office
19 25 (0.75%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 639 (19.18%) Senior
2 604 (18.13%) Developer
3 467 (14.02%) Lead
4 434 (13.03%) DevOps Engineer
5 310 (9.30%) Architect
6 235 (7.05%) Software Engineer
7 192 (5.76%) Cloud Engineer
8 171 (5.13%) Senior Developer
9 145 (4.35%) Analyst
10 144 (4.32%) Data Engineer
11 138 (4.14%) Azure Engineer
12 137 (4.11%) Solutions Architect
13 129 (3.87%) Platform Engineer
14 110 (3.30%) Full-Stack Developer
15 97 (2.91%) AWS Engineer
16 90 (2.70%) .NET Developer
16 90 (2.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 90 (2.70%) Senior DevOps
17 79 (2.37%) Support Engineer
18 76 (2.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 550 (16.51%) .NET
2 343 (10.29%) React
3 225 (6.75%) RESTful
4 216 (6.48%) REST
5 175 (5.25%) CSS
6 174 (5.22%) HTML
7 158 (4.74%) Kafka
8 141 (4.23%) .NET Framework
8 141 (4.23%) Node.js
9 137 (4.11%) AngularJS
10 124 (3.72%) Spring
11 113 (3.39%) .NET Core
11 113 (3.39%) Spring Boot
12 102 (3.06%) Middleware
13 91 (2.73%) YAML
14 88 (2.64%) ASP.NET
15 80 (2.40%) JSON
16 79 (2.37%) SOAP
17 71 (2.13%) OAuth
18 70 (2.10%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 496 (14.89%) Cloud Native
2 254 (7.62%) Product Ownership
3 123 (3.69%) Distributed Systems
4 117 (3.51%) Management Information System
5 109 (3.27%) Enterprise Software
6 94 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
7 89 (2.67%) Onboarding
8 75 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
9 58 (1.74%) Algorithms
9 58 (1.74%) Data Centre
9 58 (1.74%) Public Cloud
10 49 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
10 49 (1.47%) Mobile App
10 49 (1.47%) Security Posture
11 46 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
11 46 (1.38%) Virtual Team
12 45 (1.35%) Low-Code
13 39 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
14 35 (1.05%) IoT
15 31 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 356 (10.68%) Linux
2 271 (8.13%) Windows
3 80 (2.40%) Windows Server
4 63 (1.89%) Unix
5 62 (1.86%) VMS
6 42 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 31 (0.93%) Android
8 26 (0.78%) Ubuntu
9 24 (0.72%) Apple iOS
9 24 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
10 18 (0.54%) Amazon Linux
11 17 (0.51%) Debian
12 15 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
13 12 (0.36%) CentOS
14 8 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.15%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.090%) Windows 10
17 2 (0.060%) AIX
17 2 (0.060%) Solaris
17 2 (0.060%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,748 (52.46%) CI/CD
2 1,495 (44.87%) Agile
3 756 (22.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 729 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
5 615 (18.46%) Continuous Improvement
6 585 (17.56%) Mentoring
7 550 (16.51%) AI
8 525 (15.76%) Software Engineering
9 505 (15.16%) Microservices
10 499 (14.98%) Test Automation
11 472 (14.17%) Containerisation
12 374 (11.22%) Analytics
13 372 (11.16%) Roadmaps
14 339 (10.17%) Scrum
15 338 (10.14%) Observability
16 334 (10.02%) Computer Science
17 326 (9.78%) Coaching
18 300 (9.00%) SDLC
19 287 (8.61%) Full-Stack Development
20 279 (8.37%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 979 (29.38%) Python
2 770 (23.11%) SQL
3 548 (16.45%) C#
4 416 (12.48%) Java
5 411 (12.33%) PowerShell
6 381 (11.43%) JavaScript
7 274 (8.22%) Bash
8 273 (8.19%) TypeScript
9 133 (3.99%) Bicep
10 112 (3.36%) Go
11 67 (2.01%) T-SQL
12 56 (1.68%) Groovy
13 55 (1.65%) Apex Code
14 46 (1.38%) Shell Script
15 44 (1.32%) C++
16 38 (1.14%) PHP
17 36 (1.08%) PL/SQL
18 34 (1.02%) Scala
19 30 (0.90%) Perl
20 24 (0.72%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 488 (14.65%) Degree
2 357 (10.71%) Security Cleared
3 261 (7.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 255 (7.65%) SC Cleared
5 166 (4.98%) Azure Certification
6 120 (3.60%) AWS Certification
6 120 (3.60%) Master's Degree
7 90 (2.70%) DV Cleared
8 70 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
9 55 (1.65%) ISTQB
10 46 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 40 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
11 40 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
12 35 (1.05%) PhD
13 30 (0.90%) CISSP
14 27 (0.81%) CCNP
15 26 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
16 24 (0.72%) Chartered Engineer
17 22 (0.66%) PMI Certification
17 22 (0.66%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 362 (10.86%) QA
2 130 (3.90%) GDPR
3 127 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 103 (3.09%) Accessibility
5 88 (2.64%) Data Quality
6 78 (2.34%) NIST
7 39 (1.17%) NCSC
8 33 (0.99%) SLA
9 27 (0.81%) PCI DSS
9 27 (0.81%) PMO
10 24 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 23 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 19 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
12 19 (0.57%) SOC 2
13 18 (0.54%) ISO 9001
14 16 (0.48%) WCAG
15 15 (0.45%) HIPAA
16 14 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 10 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
18 9 (0.27%) Solvency II
System Software
1 661 (19.84%) Docker
2 146 (4.38%) Active Directory
3 75 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (0.75%) vSphere
6 20 (0.60%) DFS Replication
7 19 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
9 16 (0.48%) NFS
10 11 (0.33%) Postfix
11 9 (0.27%) HDFS
11 9 (0.27%) Hyper-V
12 8 (0.24%) Squid
13 7 (0.21%) Dovecot
13 7 (0.21%) Firmware
14 5 (0.15%) Kamailio
15 4 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
16 3 (0.090%) vCloud
17 2 (0.060%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 853 (25.60%) Terraform
2 747 (22.42%) Kubernetes
3 328 (9.84%) Ansible
4 218 (6.54%) Grafana
5 188 (5.64%) Prometheus
6 45 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
7 43 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
8 35 (1.05%) Argo
9 21 (0.63%) Puppet
10 18 (0.54%) SCCM
11 16 (0.48%) Progress Chef
12 15 (0.45%) Kibana
13 13 (0.39%) Red Hat Satellite
14 12 (0.36%) AWS Copilot
14 12 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
14 12 (0.36%) vCenter Server
15 8 (0.24%) HP Fortify
15 8 (0.24%) Kubeflow
15 8 (0.24%) Nessus
16 7 (0.21%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 719 (21.58%) Microsoft
2 146 (4.38%) Databricks
3 132 (3.96%) Google
4 121 (3.63%) Oracle
5 120 (3.60%) Salesforce
6 108 (3.24%) VMware
7 88 (2.64%) ServiceNow
8 77 (2.31%) Splunk
9 71 (2.13%) Red Hat
10 64 (1.92%) SAP
11 62 (1.86%) Cisco
12 43 (1.29%) Guidewire
13 39 (1.17%) OpenAI
14 33 (0.99%) SolarWinds
15 32 (0.96%) Palo Alto
16 28 (0.84%) IBM
17 26 (0.78%) Fortinet
18 25 (0.75%) MuleSoft
19 21 (0.63%) Foundry
20 20 (0.60%) Okta