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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 22 24
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 -13
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,037 4,162 6,396
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.03% 8.46% 6.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.84% 9.40% 8.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,668 2,402 4,561
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year - +6.87% -6.43%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year - +6.56% -2.40%

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 73,631 44,290 76,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.59% 90.03% 81.87%
Number of salaries quoted 50,962 24,903 52,597
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £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 21 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 21 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 4,346 £70,000 -1.75% 1,613
UK excluding London -6 3,158 £65,000 - 1,045
Work from Home -1 1,834 £67,500 -3.57% 778
London -9 1,479 £85,000 +6.25% 738
North of England +1 1,107 £67,500 +3.85% 315
South East -11 662 £65,000 - 281
North West 0 616 £70,000 +7.69% 169
South West 0 438 £70,000 +7.69% 127
Midlands -20 367 £65,000 - 161
Yorkshire +13 285 £70,000 +3.70% 89
West Midlands -27 207 £65,000 - 113
North East +10 206 £60,000 -7.69% 60
East of England +17 197 £60,000 -7.69% 65
Wales +7 165 £54,000 -6.09% 26
East Midlands +6 159 £65,000 +13.04% 48
Scotland -4 140 £60,000 -14.29% 57
Northern Ireland -10 90 £73,151 -8.56% 30
Isle of Man +2 3 £35,000 -33.33% 5

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 95 (1.89%) Confluence
2 87 (1.73%) SharePoint
3 77 (1.53%) Apache Spark
4 64 (1.27%) Apache
5 44 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
6 42 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
7 31 (0.62%) CMS
8 30 (0.60%) IIS
9 20 (0.40%) SAS
10 14 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
11 13 (0.26%) OpenStack
12 12 (0.24%) nginx
13 10 (0.20%) Jupyter
13 10 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
14 9 (0.18%) Umbraco
14 9 (0.18%) WordPress
15 8 (0.16%) Anypoint
15 8 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
16 7 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
17 6 (0.12%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 57 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
2 42 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.40%) PlantUML
4 19 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 11 (0.22%) Trello
8 10 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
9 7 (0.14%) Simulink
10 4 (0.079%) Maya
11 3 (0.060%) Blender
12 2 (0.040%) Lightworks
12 2 (0.040%) Spreadsheet
13 1 (0.020%) Adobe XD
13 1 (0.020%) Notion
13 1 (0.020%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 77 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.14%) SAP IBP
4 6 (0.12%) Elite 3E
5 5 (0.099%) Endur
5 5 (0.099%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.099%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.099%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.079%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.079%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.079%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.079%) Shopify
7 3 (0.060%) Carpe Diem
7 3 (0.060%) Infor SunSystems
7 3 (0.060%) Magento
7 3 (0.060%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.040%) Adobe Campaign
8 2 (0.040%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.040%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 2 (0.040%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 2,658 (52.77%) Azure
2 1,651 (32.78%) AWS
3 1,318 (26.17%) Azure DevOps
4 556 (11.04%) GCP
5 498 (9.89%) GitHub
6 461 (9.15%) Serverless
7 393 (7.80%) SaaS
8 349 (6.93%) Power Platform
9 267 (5.30%) GitHub Actions
10 228 (4.53%) AWS CloudFormation
11 221 (4.39%) Amazon S3
12 205 (4.07%) PaaS
13 201 (3.99%) AWS Lambda
14 160 (3.18%) Azure AKS
15 154 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
15 154 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
16 145 (2.88%) Azure Logic Apps
17 141 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
18 140 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
19 138 (2.74%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 138 (2.74%) Firewall
2 90 (1.79%) DNS
3 66 (1.31%) TCP/IP
4 65 (1.29%) VPN
5 51 (1.01%) Broadband
6 39 (0.77%) Network Security
7 35 (0.69%) HTTP
8 32 (0.64%) Internet
9 22 (0.44%) DHCP
10 20 (0.40%) LAN
11 19 (0.38%) WAN
12 16 (0.32%) MQTT
13 14 (0.28%) Wireless
14 13 (0.26%) DMARC
15 10 (0.20%) BGP
15 10 (0.20%) HTTPS
15 10 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (0.16%) Bluetooth
16 8 (0.16%) ZigBee
17 7 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 274 (5.44%) SQL Server
2 268 (5.32%) MongoDB
3 267 (5.30%) Azure SQL Database
4 191 (3.79%) Power BI
5 188 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
6 176 (3.49%) NoSQL
7 100 (1.99%) MySQL
8 97 (1.93%) DynamoDB
9 95 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
10 92 (1.83%) Relational Database
11 89 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
12 80 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
13 77 (1.53%) Data Lake
14 59 (1.17%) Metadata
15 54 (1.07%) Redis
16 43 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
17 42 (0.83%) Big Data
18 38 (0.75%) Delta Lake
19 35 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
20 31 (0.62%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 516 (10.24%) Git
2 413 (8.20%) GitLab
3 407 (8.08%) Jenkins
4 321 (6.37%) JIRA
5 92 (1.83%) SonarQube
6 88 (1.75%) Selenium
7 73 (1.45%) Cypress.io
8 52 (1.03%) Maven
9 50 (0.99%) Postman
10 46 (0.91%) JUnit
11 36 (0.71%) Cucumber
12 33 (0.66%) JMeter
13 32 (0.64%) TeamCity
14 31 (0.62%) Bitbucket
15 30 (0.60%) CircleCI
16 28 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 27 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
18 23 (0.46%) Visual Studio
19 20 (0.40%) REST Assured
20 19 (0.38%) Eclipse
General
1 1,081 (21.46%) Social Skills
2 961 (19.08%) Finance
3 373 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 372 (7.39%) Public Sector
5 299 (5.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 245 (4.86%) Banking
7 194 (3.85%) Law
8 159 (3.16%) Retail
9 131 (2.60%) Legal
10 116 (2.30%) Marketing
11 79 (1.57%) Games
12 60 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
13 57 (1.13%) Manufacturing
14 54 (1.07%) Advertising
15 52 (1.03%) Financial Institution
16 47 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
17 45 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
18 43 (0.85%) Telecoms
19 36 (0.71%) Back Office
20 26 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1,146 (22.75%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,087 (21.58%) Senior
3 868 (17.23%) Developer
4 678 (13.46%) Lead
5 420 (8.34%) Architect
6 350 (6.95%) Software Engineer
7 344 (6.83%) Azure Engineer
8 266 (5.28%) Cloud Engineer
9 265 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
10 241 (4.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 220 (4.37%) .NET Developer
12 212 (4.21%) Senior Developer
13 198 (3.93%) Platform Engineer
14 191 (3.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 176 (3.49%) Data Engineer
16 171 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
17 167 (3.32%) AWS Engineer
18 141 (2.80%) Lead DevOps
19 136 (2.70%) Java Developer
20 121 (2.40%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 666 (13.22%) .NET
2 435 (8.64%) React
3 309 (6.13%) RESTful
4 306 (6.08%) REST
5 304 (6.04%) Node.js
6 279 (5.54%) ASP.NET
7 249 (4.94%) .NET Core
8 229 (4.55%) CSS
9 226 (4.49%) HTML
10 224 (4.45%) Spring Boot
11 220 (4.37%) ASP.NET Core
12 216 (4.29%) Spring
13 191 (3.79%) Kafka
14 154 (3.06%) AngularJS
15 130 (2.58%) Middleware
16 129 (2.56%) Blazor
16 129 (2.56%) Entity Framework
17 109 (2.16%) YAML
18 102 (2.03%) SOAP
19 95 (1.89%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 844 (16.76%) Cloud Native
2 329 (6.53%) Product Ownership
3 223 (4.43%) Distributed Systems
4 167 (3.32%) Enterprise Software
5 134 (2.66%) Onboarding
6 96 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
7 88 (1.75%) Management Information System
8 82 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
9 80 (1.59%) Virtual Team
10 79 (1.57%) Mobile App
11 73 (1.45%) Data Centre
12 65 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
13 59 (1.17%) Public Cloud
13 59 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
14 53 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
15 50 (0.99%) Data Structures
16 43 (0.85%) Low-Code
17 42 (0.83%) Algorithms
17 42 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
18 41 (0.81%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 489 (9.71%) Linux
2 237 (4.71%) Windows
3 88 (1.75%) Unix
4 70 (1.39%) Windows Server
5 68 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 47 (0.93%) CentOS
7 46 (0.91%) Ubuntu
8 38 (0.75%) VMS
9 31 (0.62%) Android
10 18 (0.36%) Apple iOS
11 17 (0.34%) Debian
12 7 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
12 7 (0.14%) Rocky
12 7 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.099%) Windows Server 2019
14 4 (0.079%) Kali Linux
15 3 (0.060%) AIX
16 2 (0.040%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.040%) FreeRTOS
17 1 (0.020%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,533 (50.29%) CI/CD
2 1,870 (37.13%) Agile
3 1,203 (23.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 968 (19.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 897 (17.81%) Mentoring
6 873 (17.33%) Software Engineering
7 824 (16.36%) AI
8 797 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
9 759 (15.07%) Test Automation
10 685 (13.60%) Microservices
11 636 (12.63%) Containerisation
12 555 (11.02%) Full-Stack Development
13 545 (10.82%) Roadmaps
14 538 (10.68%) Platform Engineering
15 528 (10.48%) Scrum
16 525 (10.42%) Observability
17 493 (9.79%) Technical Leadership
18 455 (9.03%) Analytics
19 416 (8.26%) Stakeholder Management
20 354 (7.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,191 (23.65%) Python
2 893 (17.73%) SQL
3 729 (14.47%) C#
4 645 (12.81%) Java
5 626 (12.43%) JavaScript
6 391 (7.76%) TypeScript
7 372 (7.39%) Bash
8 343 (6.81%) PowerShell
9 157 (3.12%) Bicep
10 128 (2.54%) C++
11 126 (2.50%) Go
12 74 (1.47%) Apex Code
13 60 (1.19%) PHP
14 49 (0.97%) C
15 47 (0.93%) Groovy
16 46 (0.91%) SOQL
17 43 (0.85%) SOSL
18 39 (0.77%) Rust
19 37 (0.73%) Ruby
19 37 (0.73%) Scala
Qualifications
1 792 (15.72%) Security Cleared
2 515 (10.22%) SC Cleared
3 499 (9.91%) Degree
4 204 (4.05%) DV Cleared
5 185 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 128 (2.54%) Azure Certification
7 116 (2.30%) Master's Degree
8 80 (1.59%) CISSP
9 78 (1.55%) ITIL Certification
10 75 (1.49%) AWS Certification
11 61 (1.21%) CISM
12 58 (1.15%) ISTQB
13 49 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
14 37 (0.73%) DBS Check
14 37 (0.73%) PMI Certification
15 29 (0.58%) PMP
16 25 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 25 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 25 (0.50%) PhD
17 20 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 493 (9.79%) QA
2 163 (3.24%) Accessibility
3 158 (3.14%) Data Quality
4 114 (2.26%) GDPR
5 103 (2.04%) NIST
6 68 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 61 (1.21%) WCAG
8 51 (1.01%) GRC
9 45 (0.89%) ISO 22301
10 40 (0.79%) PCI DSS
11 29 (0.58%) SOC 2
12 24 (0.48%) PMO
13 20 (0.40%) SLA
14 15 (0.30%) NCSC
15 12 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
15 12 (0.24%) TickIT
16 10 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 8 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
17 8 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 8 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 794 (15.76%) Docker
2 132 (2.62%) Active Directory
3 76 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (0.56%) vSphere
6 23 (0.46%) Firmware
7 20 (0.40%) Hyper-V
8 13 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 5 (0.099%) iptables
12 4 (0.079%) Embedded Firmware
13 3 (0.060%) KVM
13 3 (0.060%) NDS
13 3 (0.060%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.060%) Xen
14 2 (0.040%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.020%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.020%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.020%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,210 (24.02%) Terraform
2 925 (18.36%) Kubernetes
3 428 (8.50%) Ansible
4 238 (4.73%) Grafana
5 172 (3.41%) Prometheus
6 69 (1.37%) Argo
7 59 (1.17%) Puppet
8 40 (0.79%) Nagios
9 26 (0.52%) HP Fortify
9 26 (0.52%) Kibana
10 23 (0.46%) Istio
11 22 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
12 15 (0.30%) Progress Chef
13 14 (0.28%) Rancher
14 13 (0.26%) Packer
15 12 (0.24%) ZABBIX
16 11 (0.22%) Proxmox
17 10 (0.20%) logstash
18 9 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
19 7 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 963 (19.12%) Microsoft
2 187 (3.71%) Google
3 165 (3.28%) Databricks
4 149 (2.96%) Salesforce
5 109 (2.16%) VMware
6 102 (2.03%) Splunk
7 101 (2.01%) ServiceNow
8 96 (1.91%) Oracle
9 82 (1.63%) Red Hat
10 69 (1.37%) SAP
11 54 (1.07%) Pega
12 45 (0.89%) Cisco
12 45 (0.89%) MuleSoft
13 44 (0.87%) Dynatrace
14 42 (0.83%) Facebook
14 42 (0.83%) OpenAI
15 30 (0.60%) Apple
16 29 (0.58%) YouTube
17 26 (0.52%) Foundry
18 24 (0.48%) Palo Alto