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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 22 24
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 -13
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,034 4,179 6,584
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.04% 8.47% 6.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.85% 9.41% 8.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,669 2,416 4,720
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 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year - +6.93% -6.48%
75th Percentile £87,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £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 73,502 44,419 78,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.60% 90.05% 82.05%
Number of salaries quoted 50,918 25,002 54,550
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -8.79%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,250
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 20 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 20 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 -8 4,354 £70,000 -2.10% 1,419
UK excluding London -6 3,148 £65,000 - 930
Work from Home -1 1,828 £67,500 -3.57% 669
London -10 1,487 £85,000 +6.25% 657
North of England -1 1,111 £67,500 +3.85% 278
South East -11 662 £65,000 - 263
North West 0 616 £70,000 +7.69% 153
South West -1 438 £70,000 +7.69% 117
Midlands -22 364 £65,000 - 142
Yorkshire +16 290 £70,000 +3.70% 76
North East +8 205 £60,000 -7.69% 52
West Midlands -28 204 £65,000 - 102
East of England +13 196 £60,000 -7.69% 55
Wales +7 163 £54,000 -6.09% 27
East Midlands +9 159 £65,000 +15.56% 40
Scotland -4 140 £60,000 -14.29% 41
Northern Ireland -10 82 £73,151 -8.56% 27
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 96 (1.91%) Confluence
2 87 (1.73%) SharePoint
3 75 (1.49%) Apache Spark
4 64 (1.27%) Apache
5 44 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
6 42 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
7 31 (0.62%) CMS
7 31 (0.62%) IIS
8 20 (0.40%) SAS
9 14 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
10 13 (0.26%) OpenStack
11 12 (0.24%) nginx
12 10 (0.20%) Jupyter
12 10 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
13 9 (0.18%) Umbraco
13 9 (0.18%) WordPress
14 8 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
15 7 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 7 (0.14%) Anypoint
16 6 (0.12%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 57 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
2 41 (0.81%) 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 2,655 (52.74%) Azure
2 1,652 (32.82%) AWS
3 1,320 (26.22%) Azure DevOps
4 552 (10.97%) GCP
5 497 (9.87%) GitHub
6 465 (9.24%) Serverless
7 385 (7.65%) SaaS
8 348 (6.91%) Power Platform
9 266 (5.28%) GitHub Actions
10 233 (4.63%) AWS CloudFormation
11 225 (4.47%) Amazon S3
12 207 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
13 204 (4.05%) PaaS
14 160 (3.18%) Azure AKS
15 153 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
15 153 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
16 146 (2.90%) Azure Logic Apps
17 142 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
18 141 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
19 139 (2.76%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 138 (2.74%) Firewall
2 89 (1.77%) DNS
3 65 (1.29%) TCP/IP
3 65 (1.29%) VPN
4 56 (1.11%) Broadband
5 39 (0.77%) Network Security
6 35 (0.70%) HTTP
7 32 (0.64%) Internet
8 22 (0.44%) DHCP
9 20 (0.40%) LAN
10 19 (0.38%) WAN
11 16 (0.32%) MQTT
12 14 (0.28%) Wireless
13 13 (0.26%) DMARC
14 10 (0.20%) BGP
14 10 (0.20%) HTTPS
14 10 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (0.16%) Bluetooth
15 8 (0.16%) ZigBee
16 7 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 272 (5.40%) SQL Server
2 268 (5.32%) MongoDB
3 266 (5.28%) Azure SQL Database
4 189 (3.75%) Power BI
5 186 (3.69%) PostgreSQL
6 184 (3.66%) NoSQL
7 102 (2.03%) DynamoDB
8 98 (1.95%) MySQL
9 94 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
10 93 (1.85%) Relational Database
11 89 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
12 81 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
13 77 (1.53%) Data Lake
14 59 (1.17%) Metadata
15 52 (1.03%) Redis
16 45 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
17 42 (0.83%) Big Data
18 37 (0.74%) Delta Lake
19 34 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
20 31 (0.62%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 518 (10.29%) Git
2 413 (8.20%) GitLab
3 408 (8.10%) Jenkins
4 322 (6.40%) JIRA
5 94 (1.87%) SonarQube
6 89 (1.77%) Selenium
7 75 (1.49%) Cypress.io
8 55 (1.09%) Maven
9 50 (0.99%) Postman
10 46 (0.91%) JUnit
11 36 (0.72%) Cucumber
12 33 (0.66%) JMeter
13 32 (0.64%) TeamCity
14 31 (0.62%) CircleCI
15 30 (0.60%) Bitbucket
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 1,077 (21.39%) Social Skills
2 958 (19.03%) Finance
3 372 (7.39%) Public Sector
4 370 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
5 304 (6.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 246 (4.89%) Banking
7 195 (3.87%) Law
8 159 (3.16%) Retail
9 123 (2.44%) Legal
10 117 (2.32%) Marketing
11 79 (1.57%) Games
12 60 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
13 57 (1.13%) Manufacturing
14 54 (1.07%) Advertising
15 51 (1.01%) Financial Institution
16 46 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
16 46 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
17 42 (0.83%) Telecoms
18 36 (0.72%) Back Office
19 26 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1,151 (22.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,078 (21.41%) Senior
3 869 (17.26%) Developer
4 679 (13.49%) Lead
5 418 (8.30%) Architect
6 353 (7.01%) Software Engineer
7 347 (6.89%) Azure Engineer
8 268 (5.32%) Cloud Engineer
9 266 (5.28%) Senior DevOps
10 242 (4.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 219 (4.35%) .NET Developer
12 210 (4.17%) Senior Developer
13 197 (3.91%) Platform Engineer
14 193 (3.83%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 176 (3.50%) Data Engineer
16 172 (3.42%) Solutions Architect
17 168 (3.34%) AWS Engineer
18 139 (2.76%) Java Developer
18 139 (2.76%) Lead DevOps
19 120 (2.38%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 668 (13.27%) .NET
2 435 (8.64%) React
3 309 (6.14%) REST
3 309 (6.14%) RESTful
4 306 (6.08%) Node.js
5 280 (5.56%) ASP.NET
6 249 (4.95%) .NET Core
7 230 (4.57%) CSS
8 227 (4.51%) HTML
9 225 (4.47%) Spring Boot
10 220 (4.37%) ASP.NET Core
11 216 (4.29%) Spring
12 188 (3.73%) Kafka
13 158 (3.14%) AngularJS
14 132 (2.62%) Middleware
15 129 (2.56%) Blazor
15 129 (2.56%) Entity Framework
16 110 (2.19%) YAML
17 105 (2.09%) SOAP
18 97 (1.93%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 846 (16.81%) Cloud Native
2 328 (6.52%) Product Ownership
3 222 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
4 166 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
5 134 (2.66%) Onboarding
6 97 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
7 89 (1.77%) Management Information System
8 80 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
9 79 (1.57%) Mobile App
10 72 (1.43%) Data Centre
10 72 (1.43%) Virtual Team
11 62 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
12 60 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
13 59 (1.17%) Public Cloud
14 52 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
15 50 (0.99%) Data Structures
16 44 (0.87%) Low-Code
17 42 (0.83%) Algorithms
17 42 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
18 41 (0.81%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 491 (9.75%) Linux
2 235 (4.67%) Windows
3 93 (1.85%) 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 (50.32%) CI/CD
2 1,876 (37.27%) Agile
3 1,208 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 957 (19.01%) Continuous Improvement
5 891 (17.70%) Mentoring
6 869 (17.26%) Software Engineering
7 825 (16.39%) AI
8 796 (15.81%) Problem-Solving
9 751 (14.92%) Test Automation
10 687 (13.65%) Microservices
11 641 (12.73%) Containerisation
12 555 (11.03%) Full-Stack Development
13 551 (10.95%) Roadmaps
14 538 (10.69%) Platform Engineering
15 530 (10.53%) Scrum
16 526 (10.45%) Observability
17 492 (9.77%) Technical Leadership
18 458 (9.10%) Analytics
19 415 (8.24%) Stakeholder Management
20 344 (6.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,190 (23.64%) Python
2 893 (17.74%) SQL
3 722 (14.34%) C#
4 653 (12.97%) Java
5 622 (12.36%) JavaScript
6 387 (7.69%) TypeScript
7 378 (7.51%) Bash
8 337 (6.69%) PowerShell
9 158 (3.14%) Bicep
10 132 (2.62%) Go
11 128 (2.54%) C++
12 76 (1.51%) Apex Code
13 60 (1.19%) PHP
14 49 (0.97%) C
14 49 (0.97%) Groovy
15 47 (0.93%) SOQL
16 44 (0.87%) SOSL
17 39 (0.77%) Rust
18 37 (0.74%) Kotlin
18 37 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 797 (15.83%) Security Cleared
2 517 (10.27%) SC Cleared
3 503 (9.99%) Degree
4 205 (4.07%) DV Cleared
5 189 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 126 (2.50%) Azure Certification
7 116 (2.30%) Master's Degree
8 81 (1.61%) AWS Certification
9 79 (1.57%) CISSP
10 78 (1.55%) ITIL Certification
11 60 (1.19%) CISM
12 58 (1.15%) ISTQB
13 48 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
14 37 (0.74%) DBS Check
14 37 (0.74%) PMI Certification
15 29 (0.58%) PMP
16 26 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 25 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 24 (0.48%) PhD
19 20 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 482 (9.57%) QA
2 163 (3.24%) Accessibility
3 158 (3.14%) Data Quality
4 113 (2.24%) GDPR
5 103 (2.05%) NIST
6 69 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 61 (1.21%) WCAG
8 51 (1.01%) GRC
9 44 (0.87%) ISO 22301
10 42 (0.83%) PCI DSS
11 29 (0.58%) SOC 2
12 24 (0.48%) PMO
13 19 (0.38%) SLA
14 15 (0.30%) NCSC
15 12 (0.24%) TickIT
16 11 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
17 10 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 8 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
18 8 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 8 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 798 (15.85%) Docker
2 131 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 76 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (0.62%) 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 1,216 (24.16%) Terraform
2 928 (18.43%) Kubernetes
3 432 (8.58%) Ansible
4 237 (4.71%) Grafana
5 177 (3.52%) Prometheus
6 74 (1.47%) Argo
7 59 (1.17%) Puppet
8 40 (0.79%) Nagios
9 27 (0.54%) HP Fortify
10 26 (0.52%) Kibana
11 23 (0.46%) Istio
12 22 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
13 15 (0.30%) Progress Chef
14 14 (0.28%) Rancher
15 13 (0.26%) Packer
16 12 (0.24%) ZABBIX
17 11 (0.22%) Proxmox
18 10 (0.20%) logstash
19 9 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
20 8 (0.16%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 962 (19.11%) Microsoft
2 191 (3.79%) Google
3 165 (3.28%) Databricks
4 151 (3.00%) Salesforce
5 109 (2.17%) VMware
6 102 (2.03%) Splunk
7 100 (1.99%) 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