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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 20 24
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 -13
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,163 4,185 6,089
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.11% 8.49% 6.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.93% 9.46% 8.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3,738 2,420 4,312
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,724 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,250
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 £107,550 £104,875
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 74,528 44,262 72,639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.71% 89.78% 81.61%
Number of salaries quoted 51,427 25,101 49,118
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
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 26 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 26 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 4,453 £70,000 - 1,557
UK excluding London -3 3,274 £65,000 - 995
Work from Home -2 1,873 £67,500 -3.57% 749
London -12 1,495 £85,000 +6.25% 739
North of England 0 1,148 £67,500 +3.85% 307
South East -9 675 £65,000 - 277
North West -1 634 £70,000 +7.69% 167
South West +1 464 £70,000 +7.69% 122
Midlands -21 378 £65,500 +0.77% 147
Yorkshire +12 290 £70,000 +3.70% 75
North East +13 224 £60,000 -7.69% 67
West Midlands -28 214 £69,305 +6.62% 107
East of England +18 201 £60,000 -7.69% 56
Wales +11 172 £54,000 -6.09% 25
East Midlands +1 163 £65,000 +15.56% 40
Scotland -1 144 £60,000 -14.29% 54
Northern Ireland -7 101 £73,151 -8.56% 23
Isle of Man +2 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 96 (1.86%) Confluence
2 89 (1.72%) SharePoint
3 85 (1.65%) Apache Spark
4 72 (1.39%) Apache
5 46 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
6 40 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
7 31 (0.60%) CMS
8 30 (0.58%) IIS
9 20 (0.39%) SAS
10 19 (0.37%) OpenStack
11 14 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
12 12 (0.23%) nginx
13 11 (0.21%) Jupyter
14 10 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
15 9 (0.17%) Umbraco
15 9 (0.17%) WordPress
16 8 (0.15%) Anypoint
16 8 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
17 7 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
18 6 (0.12%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 57 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
2 43 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.39%) PlantUML
4 19 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.29%) Chatbot
5 15 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
7 12 (0.23%) Trello
8 7 (0.14%) Simulink
9 4 (0.077%) Maya
10 3 (0.058%) Blender
11 2 (0.039%) Lightworks
11 2 (0.039%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.019%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.019%) Notion
12 1 (0.019%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 75 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.15%) Elite 3E
4 7 (0.14%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.097%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.097%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.077%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.077%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.077%) Endur
6 4 (0.077%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.077%) Shopify
7 3 (0.058%) Carpe Diem
7 3 (0.058%) Infor SunSystems
7 3 (0.058%) Magento
7 3 (0.058%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.058%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.039%) Oracle Applications
8 2 (0.039%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.039%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.039%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 2,728 (52.84%) Azure
2 1,692 (32.77%) AWS
3 1,347 (26.09%) Azure DevOps
4 568 (11.00%) GCP
5 508 (9.84%) GitHub
6 463 (8.97%) Serverless
7 402 (7.79%) SaaS
8 357 (6.91%) Power Platform
9 267 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
10 238 (4.61%) AWS CloudFormation
11 223 (4.32%) Amazon S3
12 208 (4.03%) PaaS
13 204 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
14 164 (3.18%) Dynamics 365
15 160 (3.10%) Azure AKS
15 160 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
16 145 (2.81%) Amazon ECS
17 142 (2.75%) Amazon EKS
17 142 (2.75%) Azure Logic Apps
17 142 (2.75%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 133 (2.58%) Firewall
2 87 (1.69%) DNS
3 67 (1.30%) TCP/IP
4 63 (1.22%) VPN
5 51 (0.99%) Broadband
6 44 (0.85%) Network Security
7 35 (0.68%) HTTP
8 33 (0.64%) Internet
9 21 (0.41%) DHCP
10 20 (0.39%) LAN
11 18 (0.35%) WAN
12 16 (0.31%) MQTT
13 14 (0.27%) Wireless
14 13 (0.25%) DMARC
15 10 (0.19%) BGP
15 10 (0.19%) HTTPS
15 10 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (0.15%) Bluetooth
16 8 (0.15%) SAN
16 8 (0.15%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 289 (5.60%) SQL Server
2 274 (5.31%) MongoDB
3 263 (5.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 198 (3.83%) Power BI
5 196 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
6 182 (3.53%) NoSQL
7 107 (2.07%) MySQL
8 101 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
9 99 (1.92%) DynamoDB
10 96 (1.86%) Relational Database
11 91 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
12 85 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
13 76 (1.47%) Data Lake
14 60 (1.16%) Metadata
15 56 (1.08%) Redis
16 45 (0.87%) Big Data
17 42 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
18 39 (0.76%) Delta Lake
19 34 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
20 33 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 545 (10.56%) Git
2 417 (8.08%) GitLab
3 414 (8.02%) Jenkins
4 328 (6.35%) JIRA
5 93 (1.80%) SonarQube
6 92 (1.78%) Selenium
7 73 (1.41%) Cypress.io
8 55 (1.07%) Maven
9 54 (1.05%) Postman
10 51 (0.99%) JUnit
11 37 (0.72%) Cucumber
12 35 (0.68%) JMeter
13 33 (0.64%) TeamCity
14 32 (0.62%) Bitbucket
15 30 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 28 (0.54%) CircleCI
17 27 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
18 24 (0.46%) Visual Studio
19 21 (0.41%) REST Assured
20 19 (0.37%) Zephyr
General
1 1,124 (21.77%) Social Skills
2 974 (18.87%) Finance
3 401 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
4 389 (7.53%) Public Sector
5 313 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 245 (4.75%) Banking
7 199 (3.85%) Law
8 157 (3.04%) Retail
9 140 (2.71%) Legal
10 117 (2.27%) Marketing
11 77 (1.49%) Games
12 62 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
13 56 (1.08%) Manufacturing
14 55 (1.07%) Advertising
15 51 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
16 49 (0.95%) Financial Institution
17 46 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
18 42 (0.81%) Telecoms
19 31 (0.60%) Back Office
20 26 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1,177 (22.80%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,120 (21.69%) Senior
3 882 (17.08%) Developer
4 696 (13.48%) Lead
5 416 (8.06%) Architect
6 354 (6.86%) Software Engineer
7 342 (6.62%) Azure Engineer
8 272 (5.27%) Senior DevOps
9 268 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
10 249 (4.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 226 (4.38%) .NET Developer
12 218 (4.22%) Senior Developer
13 201 (3.89%) Platform Engineer
14 191 (3.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 187 (3.62%) Data Engineer
16 170 (3.29%) Solutions Architect
17 166 (3.22%) AWS Engineer
18 148 (2.87%) Lead DevOps
19 135 (2.61%) Java Developer
20 122 (2.36%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 690 (13.36%) .NET
2 447 (8.66%) React
3 323 (6.26%) REST
4 322 (6.24%) RESTful
5 307 (5.95%) Node.js
6 289 (5.60%) ASP.NET
7 260 (5.04%) .NET Core
8 238 (4.61%) CSS
9 236 (4.57%) Spring Boot
10 235 (4.55%) HTML
11 229 (4.44%) Spring
12 224 (4.34%) ASP.NET Core
13 206 (3.99%) Kafka
14 161 (3.12%) AngularJS
15 134 (2.60%) Entity Framework
16 132 (2.56%) Middleware
17 131 (2.54%) Blazor
18 108 (2.09%) YAML
19 105 (2.03%) SOAP
20 102 (1.98%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 872 (16.89%) Cloud Native
2 338 (6.55%) Product Ownership
3 236 (4.57%) Distributed Systems
4 180 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
5 141 (2.73%) Onboarding
6 105 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
7 88 (1.70%) Management Information System
7 88 (1.70%) Virtual Team
8 79 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
9 78 (1.51%) Mobile App
10 74 (1.43%) Data Centre
11 68 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
12 62 (1.20%) Public Cloud
13 60 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
14 59 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
15 50 (0.97%) Data Structures
16 46 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
17 42 (0.81%) Low-Code
18 41 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
18 41 (0.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 511 (9.90%) Linux
2 244 (4.73%) Windows
3 93 (1.80%) Unix
4 73 (1.41%) Windows Server
5 71 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 49 (0.95%) CentOS
7 46 (0.89%) Ubuntu
8 37 (0.72%) VMS
9 30 (0.58%) Android
10 17 (0.33%) Apple iOS
10 17 (0.33%) Debian
11 8 (0.15%) Rocky
12 7 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
12 7 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.097%) Windows Server 2019
14 4 (0.077%) Kali Linux
15 3 (0.058%) AIX
16 2 (0.039%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.039%) FreeRTOS
16 2 (0.039%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,599 (50.34%) CI/CD
2 1,929 (37.36%) Agile
3 1,237 (23.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 998 (19.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 927 (17.95%) Mentoring
6 901 (17.45%) Software Engineering
7 858 (16.62%) AI
8 829 (16.06%) Problem-Solving
9 797 (15.44%) Test Automation
10 702 (13.60%) Microservices
11 655 (12.69%) Containerisation
12 562 (10.89%) Full-Stack Development
13 559 (10.83%) Platform Engineering
14 553 (10.71%) Roadmaps
15 547 (10.59%) Observability
16 543 (10.52%) Scrum
17 513 (9.94%) Technical Leadership
18 460 (8.91%) Analytics
19 440 (8.52%) Stakeholder Management
20 374 (7.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,219 (23.61%) Python
2 920 (17.82%) SQL
3 749 (14.51%) C#
4 664 (12.86%) Java
5 649 (12.57%) JavaScript
6 404 (7.82%) TypeScript
7 370 (7.17%) Bash
8 354 (6.86%) PowerShell
9 159 (3.08%) Bicep
10 127 (2.46%) C++
10 127 (2.46%) Go
11 74 (1.43%) Apex Code
12 63 (1.22%) PHP
13 49 (0.95%) Groovy
14 48 (0.93%) C
15 46 (0.89%) SOQL
16 43 (0.83%) SOSL
16 43 (0.83%) T-SQL
17 40 (0.77%) Scala
18 37 (0.72%) Rust
Qualifications
1 838 (16.23%) Security Cleared
2 551 (10.67%) SC Cleared
3 503 (9.74%) Degree
4 222 (4.30%) DV Cleared
5 189 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 137 (2.65%) Azure Certification
7 111 (2.15%) Master's Degree
8 82 (1.59%) CISSP
8 82 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
9 79 (1.53%) AWS Certification
10 65 (1.26%) CISM
11 60 (1.16%) ISTQB
12 50 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
13 38 (0.74%) DBS Check
14 36 (0.70%) PMI Certification
15 28 (0.54%) PMP
16 27 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
17 25 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 24 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 22 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 519 (10.05%) QA
2 172 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 166 (3.22%) Data Quality
4 117 (2.27%) GDPR
5 107 (2.07%) NIST
6 69 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 61 (1.18%) WCAG
8 49 (0.95%) GRC
9 48 (0.93%) ISO 22301
10 41 (0.79%) PCI DSS
11 26 (0.50%) SOC 2
12 25 (0.48%) PMO
13 21 (0.41%) SLA
14 19 (0.37%) NCSC
15 12 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
15 12 (0.23%) TickIT
16 10 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
16 10 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 8 (0.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 8 (0.15%) NIST 800
System Software
1 825 (15.98%) Docker
2 132 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 76 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (0.54%) vSphere
6 22 (0.43%) Firmware
7 21 (0.41%) Hyper-V
8 13 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 6 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.097%) Ceph
10 5 (0.097%) iptables
11 4 (0.077%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.077%) KVM
11 4 (0.077%) NDS
12 3 (0.058%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.058%) Xen
13 2 (0.039%) VMware NSX
14 1 (0.019%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.019%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,228 (23.78%) Terraform
2 947 (18.34%) Kubernetes
3 434 (8.41%) Ansible
4 236 (4.57%) Grafana
5 178 (3.45%) Prometheus
6 77 (1.49%) Argo
7 60 (1.16%) Puppet
8 38 (0.74%) Nagios
9 28 (0.54%) Istio
10 26 (0.50%) HP Fortify
10 26 (0.50%) Kibana
11 25 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
12 17 (0.33%) Progress Chef
13 14 (0.27%) Rancher
14 13 (0.25%) Packer
15 12 (0.23%) Podman
15 12 (0.23%) ZABBIX
16 10 (0.19%) logstash
16 10 (0.19%) Proxmox
17 9 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 995 (19.27%) Microsoft
2 187 (3.62%) Google
3 173 (3.35%) Databricks
4 153 (2.96%) Salesforce
5 109 (2.11%) VMware
6 105 (2.03%) Splunk
7 103 (1.99%) Oracle
8 100 (1.94%) ServiceNow
9 89 (1.72%) Red Hat
10 71 (1.38%) SAP
11 53 (1.03%) Pega
12 47 (0.91%) Dynatrace
13 46 (0.89%) Cisco
14 45 (0.87%) MuleSoft
15 44 (0.85%) OpenAI
16 42 (0.81%) Facebook
17 30 (0.58%) Apple
18 27 (0.52%) YouTube
19 26 (0.50%) Foundry
20 25 (0.48%) Palo Alto