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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 22 20
Rank change year-on-year -8 -2 -7
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,651 3,778 5,283
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.78% 7.61% 7.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.53% 8.54% 8.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3,862 2,141 3,238
10th Percentile £45,165 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year - +2.94% -2.86%
75th Percentile £88,148 £85,700 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.92% - -3.47%

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 86,487 44,218 59,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.18% 89.02% 81.93%
Number of salaries quoted 59,402 24,461 32,381
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,325 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -11 4,877 £70,000 - 4,844
UK excluding London -2 3,601 £65,576 +4.92% 2,640
Work from Home -2 1,923 £69,310 +1.55% 2,197
London -8 1,606 £85,000 +6.25% 2,486
North of England +6 1,292 £67,500 +3.85% 771
North West +6 707 £70,000 +7.69% 411
South East -5 693 £65,000 +0.78% 653
South West +24 556 £75,000 +25.00% 295
Midlands -17 456 £62,500 -3.85% 321
North East +22 310 £60,000 +14.29% 132
Yorkshire +17 284 £70,000 +12.00% 233
West Midlands -26 273 £70,000 +7.69% 207
Wales +2 196 £55,000 - 82
East of England -2 194 £55,000 -8.33% 250
East Midlands +11 183 £60,000 +4.35% 114
Scotland -21 118 £62,500 -3.85% 200
Northern Ireland -9 114 £72,246 -44.43% 80
Isle of Man 0 3 £35,000 -33.33% 3

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
1 117 (2.07%) SharePoint
2 116 (2.05%) Apache Spark
3 113 (2.00%) Confluence
4 89 (1.57%) Apache
5 44 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
6 43 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
7 29 (0.51%) CMS
8 26 (0.46%) IIS
9 23 (0.41%) OpenStack
10 18 (0.32%) Jupyter
11 16 (0.28%) nginx
12 12 (0.21%) SAS
13 11 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 10 (0.18%) WebLogic
15 9 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
15 9 (0.16%) Umbraco
16 8 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
17 7 (0.12%) Camunda
17 7 (0.12%) CICS
18 6 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 69 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
2 45 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
4 30 (0.53%) MS Visio
5 29 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 21 (0.37%) PlantUML
7 18 (0.32%) Chatbot
8 14 (0.25%) Trello
9 7 (0.12%) Simulink
10 3 (0.053%) Blender
10 3 (0.053%) Maya
10 3 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.035%) Lightworks
11 2 (0.035%) Notion
12 1 (0.018%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 88 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.23%) Elite 3E
4 10 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
5 8 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
6 6 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
6 6 (0.11%) Teamcenter
7 5 (0.088%) Dynamics NAV
7 5 (0.088%) Fidessa
8 4 (0.071%) Dynamics GP
8 4 (0.071%) NEC Housing
8 4 (0.071%) Oracle Applications
8 4 (0.071%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.071%) Shopify
9 3 (0.053%) Carpe Diem
9 3 (0.053%) Distributed Ledger
9 3 (0.053%) SAP Business One
9 3 (0.053%) Visualfiles
9 3 (0.053%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2,946 (52.13%) Azure
2 1,829 (32.37%) AWS
3 1,495 (26.46%) Azure DevOps
4 633 (11.20%) GCP
5 577 (10.21%) GitHub
6 494 (8.74%) Serverless
7 459 (8.12%) SaaS
8 444 (7.86%) Power Platform
9 309 (5.47%) GitHub Actions
10 299 (5.29%) AWS CloudFormation
11 223 (3.95%) Dynamics 365
12 218 (3.86%) PaaS
13 209 (3.70%) Amazon S3
14 197 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
15 182 (3.22%) Azure Data Factory
16 175 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
17 171 (3.03%) Entra ID
18 170 (3.01%) Azure AKS
19 166 (2.94%) Power Automate
20 162 (2.87%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 140 (2.48%) Firewall
2 98 (1.73%) DNS
3 92 (1.63%) VPN
4 70 (1.24%) Internet
5 63 (1.11%) TCP/IP
6 50 (0.88%) Network Security
7 26 (0.46%) HTTP
8 25 (0.44%) DHCP
9 16 (0.28%) MQTT
9 16 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (0.27%) Broadband
10 15 (0.27%) DMARC
10 15 (0.27%) Wireless
11 13 (0.23%) SAN
12 12 (0.21%) BGP
13 11 (0.19%) SSH
13 11 (0.19%) WAN
14 9 (0.16%) LAN
14 9 (0.16%) OSPF
14 9 (0.16%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 364 (6.44%) SQL Server
2 304 (5.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 297 (5.26%) MongoDB
4 249 (4.41%) Power BI
5 231 (4.09%) PostgreSQL
6 195 (3.45%) NoSQL
7 149 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
8 129 (2.28%) MySQL
9 120 (2.12%) Relational Database
10 106 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
11 103 (1.82%) Metadata
12 99 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
13 95 (1.68%) Data Lake
14 94 (1.66%) DynamoDB
15 78 (1.38%) Redis
16 52 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
17 50 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
18 42 (0.74%) Big Data
18 42 (0.74%) Delta Lake
19 36 (0.64%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 686 (12.14%) Git
2 404 (7.15%) GitLab
3 395 (6.99%) Jenkins
4 350 (6.19%) JIRA
5 84 (1.49%) Selenium
6 56 (0.99%) Cypress.io
7 55 (0.97%) JUnit
8 54 (0.96%) TeamCity
9 52 (0.92%) Maven
10 51 (0.90%) SonarQube
11 42 (0.74%) Postman
12 37 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 35 (0.62%) Cucumber
14 31 (0.55%) Claude Code
15 28 (0.50%) Bitbucket
16 26 (0.46%) JMeter
16 26 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
17 20 (0.35%) Mockito
18 18 (0.32%) NUnit
18 18 (0.32%) Subversion
General
1 1,337 (23.66%) Social Skills
2 1,093 (19.34%) Finance
3 561 (9.93%) Public Sector
4 497 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
5 346 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 241 (4.26%) Banking
7 213 (3.77%) Law
8 171 (3.03%) Retail
9 164 (2.90%) Legal
10 80 (1.42%) Financial Institution
11 73 (1.29%) Marketing
12 58 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
13 57 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
14 56 (0.99%) Aerospace
14 56 (0.99%) Manufacturing
15 53 (0.94%) Telecoms
16 50 (0.88%) Back Office
17 49 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
18 42 (0.74%) Advertising
19 32 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,471 (26.03%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,328 (23.50%) Senior
3 869 (15.38%) Developer
4 701 (12.40%) Lead
5 431 (7.63%) Architect
6 386 (6.83%) Software Engineer
7 360 (6.37%) Azure Engineer
8 355 (6.28%) Senior DevOps
9 326 (5.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 306 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
11 245 (4.34%) Platform Engineer
12 243 (4.30%) .NET Developer
13 214 (3.79%) Data Engineer
14 207 (3.66%) Senior Developer
15 190 (3.36%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 172 (3.04%) Lead DevOps
17 160 (2.83%) AWS Engineer
18 153 (2.71%) Consultant
19 152 (2.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
20 143 (2.53%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,395 (24.69%) Terraform
2 733 (12.97%) .NET
3 400 (7.08%) React
4 349 (6.18%) REST
5 339 (6.00%) RESTful
6 330 (5.84%) Node.js
7 299 (5.29%) ASP.NET
8 286 (5.06%) Spring
9 280 (4.95%) Spring Boot
10 268 (4.74%) .NET Core
11 238 (4.21%) Kafka
12 232 (4.11%) CSS
13 229 (4.05%) HTML
14 228 (4.03%) ASP.NET Core
15 157 (2.78%) AngularJS
16 134 (2.37%) Entity Framework
17 131 (2.32%) Blazor
18 124 (2.19%) Middleware
19 113 (2.00%) JSON
20 97 (1.72%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1,044 (18.47%) Cloud Native
2 347 (6.14%) Product Ownership
3 273 (4.83%) Distributed Systems
4 254 (4.49%) Enterprise Software
5 164 (2.90%) Onboarding
6 130 (2.30%) Virtual Team
7 121 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
8 105 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
9 91 (1.61%) Management Information System
10 79 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
11 74 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
12 73 (1.29%) AI Agents
13 71 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
14 68 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
15 65 (1.15%) Data Centre
15 65 (1.15%) Mobile App
16 64 (1.13%) Public Cloud
17 53 (0.94%) Private Cloud
18 52 (0.92%) Data Structures
19 51 (0.90%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 611 (10.81%) Linux
2 263 (4.65%) Windows
3 117 (2.07%) Unix
4 71 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 66 (1.17%) Windows Server
6 50 (0.88%) CentOS
7 36 (0.64%) Ubuntu
8 33 (0.58%) VMS
9 31 (0.55%) Android
10 15 (0.27%) Debian
11 14 (0.25%) Rocky
12 12 (0.21%) Apple iOS
13 7 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
14 5 (0.088%) Mac OS
14 5 (0.088%) Windows Server 2016
15 4 (0.071%) Solaris
15 4 (0.071%) Windows Server 2019
16 3 (0.053%) AIX
16 3 (0.053%) Kali Linux
16 3 (0.053%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,898 (51.28%) CI/CD
2 2,060 (36.45%) Agile
3 1,410 (24.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,140 (20.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,119 (19.80%) Mentoring
6 1,037 (18.35%) AI
7 1,022 (18.09%) Software Engineering
8 947 (16.76%) Problem-Solving
9 860 (15.22%) Test Automation
10 753 (13.33%) Containerisation
11 748 (13.24%) Microservices
12 708 (12.53%) Platform Engineering
13 641 (11.34%) Technical Leadership
14 626 (11.08%) Observability
15 618 (10.94%) Stakeholder Management
16 556 (9.84%) Roadmaps
17 525 (9.29%) Scrum
18 517 (9.15%) Analytics
19 501 (8.87%) Full-Stack Development
20 405 (7.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,313 (23.23%) Python
2 987 (17.47%) SQL
3 814 (14.40%) C#
4 741 (13.11%) Java
5 658 (11.64%) JavaScript
6 417 (7.38%) TypeScript
7 400 (7.08%) PowerShell
8 389 (6.88%) Bash
9 173 (3.06%) Bicep
10 138 (2.44%) Go
11 119 (2.11%) C++
12 59 (1.04%) Shell Script
13 58 (1.03%) T-SQL
14 52 (0.92%) Scala
15 51 (0.90%) PHP
16 47 (0.83%) C
17 45 (0.80%) Kotlin
18 42 (0.74%) Groovy
19 39 (0.69%) Ruby
20 37 (0.65%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,100 (19.47%) Security Cleared
2 746 (13.20%) SC Cleared
3 512 (9.06%) Degree
4 302 (5.34%) DV Cleared
5 205 (3.63%) Azure Certification
6 191 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 110 (1.95%) AWS Certification
8 101 (1.79%) Master's Degree
9 90 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
10 80 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
11 76 (1.34%) CISSP
12 71 (1.26%) ITIL Certification
13 67 (1.19%) CISM
14 49 (0.87%) ISTQB
15 37 (0.65%) PMI Certification
16 28 (0.50%) PhD
17 26 (0.46%) DBS Check
17 26 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
18 25 (0.44%) PMP
19 24 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 537 (9.50%) QA
2 219 (3.88%) Data Quality
3 189 (3.34%) Accessibility
4 132 (2.34%) GDPR
5 96 (1.70%) NIST
6 72 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 61 (1.08%) WCAG
8 49 (0.87%) ISO 22301
9 35 (0.62%) SLA
10 34 (0.60%) GRC
11 30 (0.53%) PCI DSS
12 27 (0.48%) PMO
13 26 (0.46%) NCSC
14 17 (0.30%) SOC 2
15 14 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
16 12 (0.21%) HIPAA
17 9 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 9 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 9 (0.16%) NIST 800
18 8 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 959 (16.97%) Docker
2 141 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 82 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 44 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (0.48%) vSphere
6 24 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
7 20 (0.35%) Firmware
8 19 (0.34%) Hyper-V
9 8 (0.14%) NDS
10 7 (0.12%) Ceph
11 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.071%) iptables
12 4 (0.071%) KVM
12 4 (0.071%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.053%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.035%) Embedded Firmware
14 2 (0.035%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.035%) Xen
15 1 (0.018%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1,101 (19.48%) Kubernetes
2 476 (8.42%) Ansible
3 269 (4.76%) Grafana
4 187 (3.31%) Prometheus
5 87 (1.54%) Argo
6 63 (1.11%) Puppet
7 46 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
8 26 (0.46%) Istio
8 26 (0.46%) Rancher
9 23 (0.41%) Nagios
10 22 (0.39%) Kibana
10 22 (0.39%) Progress Chef
11 20 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
12 15 (0.27%) Packer
12 15 (0.27%) Podman
13 14 (0.25%) HP Fortify
14 13 (0.23%) logstash
15 11 (0.19%) Proxmox
16 10 (0.18%) ZABBIX
17 8 (0.14%) yum
Vendors
1 1,193 (21.11%) Microsoft
2 236 (4.18%) Google
3 183 (3.24%) Databricks
4 131 (2.32%) Oracle
5 119 (2.11%) VMware
6 112 (1.98%) Salesforce
7 100 (1.77%) ServiceNow
8 83 (1.47%) Splunk
9 77 (1.36%) SAP
10 73 (1.29%) Red Hat
11 62 (1.10%) Dynatrace
12 55 (0.97%) OpenAI
13 52 (0.92%) Cisco
14 47 (0.83%) Pega
15 44 (0.78%) YouTube
16 39 (0.69%) Facebook
17 32 (0.57%) MuleSoft
18 29 (0.51%) AppDynamics
19 28 (0.50%) Foundry
20 23 (0.41%) Apple