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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 19 25
Rank change year-on-year -13 +6 -13
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,131 3,904 7,142
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.57% 8.93% 7.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.18% 9.57% 8.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,937 2,524 5,317
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,225 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -3.03%

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 66,794 40,810 82,365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.89% 93.32% 85.22%
Number of salaries quoted 42,940 22,598 59,746
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £79,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -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 12 May 2026.

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 12 May 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 -15 3,598 £70,400 +0.57% 1,348
UK excluding London -27 2,400 £65,000 - 966
Work from Home -7 1,518 £69,500 -0.71% 721
London -9 1,379 £82,500 - 539
North of England -7 810 £70,000 +3.70% 265
South East -16 514 £65,000 - 305
North West -9 403 £70,000 - 141
South West -18 338 £62,500 -3.85% 117
Midlands -36 312 £65,500 +9.17% 114
Yorkshire -7 271 £70,000 +3.32% 65
Scotland -8 185 £55,000 -21.43% 51
West Midlands -44 181 £62,500 +4.17% 62
East of England -7 150 £65,000 - 79
North East +11 136 £60,000 -7.69% 61
East Midlands -6 127 £70,000 +7.69% 52
Wales -8 81 £53,100 +0.97% 30
Northern Ireland -31 15 £84,401 +53.46% 20
Isle of Man +4 2 £35,000 - 1
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 78 (1.89%) SharePoint
2 72 (1.74%) Confluence
3 53 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
4 50 (1.21%) Apache
5 44 (1.07%) Apache Spark
6 37 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
7 30 (0.73%) IIS
8 24 (0.58%) CMS
9 16 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
10 13 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 13 (0.31%) SAS
11 11 (0.27%) Moodle
12 7 (0.17%) Anypoint
12 7 (0.17%) Apache Solr
12 7 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 7 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
12 7 (0.17%) WordPress
13 6 (0.15%) nginx
13 6 (0.15%) Umbraco
14 5 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 35 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (0.58%) MS Visio
3 23 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
4 10 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.22%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.22%) PlantUML
6 4 (0.097%) Simulink
7 3 (0.073%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.073%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.073%) Trello
8 1 (0.024%) EngageOne
8 1 (0.024%) Maya
8 1 (0.024%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 62 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.36%) SAP ERP
3 14 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
4 11 (0.27%) Endur
5 8 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
6 6 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
6 6 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.12%) Visualfiles
8 4 (0.097%) Markit EDM
8 4 (0.097%) Shopify
9 3 (0.073%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.073%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.048%) Distributed Ledger
10 2 (0.048%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.048%) Fidessa
10 2 (0.048%) Infor SunSystems
10 2 (0.048%) Magento
10 2 (0.048%) Workday HCM
11 1 (0.024%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 1 (0.024%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2,232 (54.03%) Azure
2 1,340 (32.44%) AWS
3 1,089 (26.36%) Azure DevOps
4 504 (12.20%) GitHub
5 474 (11.47%) GCP
6 416 (10.07%) Serverless
7 338 (8.18%) Power Platform
8 278 (6.73%) GitHub Actions
9 250 (6.05%) SaaS
10 222 (5.37%) AWS CloudFormation
11 221 (5.35%) Amazon S3
12 214 (5.18%) AWS Lambda
13 169 (4.09%) Microsoft 365
14 155 (3.75%) Entra ID
15 154 (3.73%) PaaS
16 147 (3.56%) Azure Data Factory
17 133 (3.22%) Amazon EKS
18 131 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
19 130 (3.15%) Azure AKS
20 129 (3.12%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 136 (3.29%) Firewall
2 89 (2.15%) DNS
3 63 (1.53%) Broadband
4 61 (1.48%) TCP/IP
5 47 (1.14%) VPN
6 42 (1.02%) Network Security
7 35 (0.85%) HTTP
8 31 (0.75%) WAN
9 26 (0.63%) DHCP
10 24 (0.58%) LAN
11 11 (0.27%) SAN
12 8 (0.19%) Wireless
13 7 (0.17%) Internet
14 6 (0.15%) BGP
14 6 (0.15%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (0.15%) HTTPS
14 6 (0.15%) SSL
15 5 (0.12%) SD-WAN
16 4 (0.097%) AMQP
16 4 (0.097%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 249 (6.03%) SQL Server
2 203 (4.91%) NoSQL
3 190 (4.60%) Power BI
4 150 (3.63%) MongoDB
5 142 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
6 138 (3.34%) Azure SQL Database
7 112 (2.71%) DynamoDB
8 96 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
9 94 (2.28%) Data Lake
10 86 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
11 84 (2.03%) Relational Database
12 66 (1.60%) Metadata
13 65 (1.57%) MySQL
14 60 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
15 42 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
15 42 (1.02%) BigQuery
16 34 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
16 34 (0.82%) Delta Lake
17 32 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 32 (0.77%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 451 (10.92%) Git
2 396 (9.59%) Jenkins
3 357 (8.64%) GitLab
4 253 (6.12%) JIRA
5 104 (2.52%) SonarQube
6 85 (2.06%) Cypress.io
7 80 (1.94%) Selenium
8 64 (1.55%) Maven
9 43 (1.04%) Postman
10 42 (1.02%) Bitbucket
11 36 (0.87%) CircleCI
12 35 (0.85%) Cucumber
13 31 (0.75%) TeamCity
14 25 (0.61%) Eclipse
14 25 (0.61%) JMeter
14 25 (0.61%) JUnit
15 22 (0.53%) Visual Studio
16 21 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
16 21 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
17 18 (0.44%) Jaeger
General
1 912 (22.08%) Finance
2 880 (21.30%) Social Skills
3 369 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
4 250 (6.05%) Public Sector
5 239 (5.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 215 (5.20%) Banking
7 127 (3.07%) Law
8 125 (3.03%) Retail
9 108 (2.61%) Marketing
10 78 (1.89%) Legal
11 77 (1.86%) Games
12 62 (1.50%) Telecoms
13 48 (1.16%) Manufacturing
14 43 (1.04%) Advertising
15 38 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
15 38 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
16 34 (0.82%) Billing
17 33 (0.80%) Financial Institution
18 27 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
18 27 (0.65%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 869 (21.04%) DevOps Engineer
2 848 (20.53%) Senior
3 728 (17.62%) Developer
4 602 (14.57%) Lead
5 348 (8.42%) Architect
6 295 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
7 285 (6.90%) Software Engineer
8 253 (6.12%) Cloud Engineer
9 209 (5.06%) Senior DevOps
10 184 (4.45%) Senior Developer
11 178 (4.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 164 (3.97%) Data Engineer
13 154 (3.73%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 154 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
14 146 (3.53%) AWS Engineer
15 139 (3.36%) Platform Engineer
16 137 (3.32%) Java Developer
17 131 (3.17%) Lead DevOps
18 120 (2.90%) Full-Stack Developer
19 111 (2.69%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 495 (11.98%) .NET
2 372 (9.01%) React
3 275 (6.66%) REST
4 246 (5.95%) Node.js
5 243 (5.88%) RESTful
6 175 (4.24%) Spring Boot
7 167 (4.04%) CSS
8 159 (3.85%) HTML
9 157 (3.80%) Spring
10 153 (3.70%) Kafka
11 150 (3.63%) .NET Core
11 150 (3.63%) AngularJS
12 148 (3.58%) ASP.NET
13 128 (3.10%) SOAP
14 108 (2.61%) OAuth
15 107 (2.59%) Middleware
16 102 (2.47%) ASP.NET Core
17 93 (2.25%) Elastic Stack
18 91 (2.20%) JSON
19 87 (2.11%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 564 (13.65%) Cloud Native
2 282 (6.83%) Product Ownership
3 141 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
4 124 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
5 83 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
6 79 (1.91%) Management Information System
7 69 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
8 63 (1.53%) Mobile App
9 54 (1.31%) Low-Code
9 54 (1.31%) Onboarding
9 54 (1.31%) Public Cloud
10 53 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
11 50 (1.21%) Data Centre
12 48 (1.16%) Algorithms
13 46 (1.11%) Data Structures
14 41 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
15 32 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
16 31 (0.75%) Security Posture
17 28 (0.68%) AI Agents
17 28 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 410 (9.92%) Linux
2 196 (4.74%) Windows
3 80 (1.94%) Unix
4 72 (1.74%) Windows Server
5 47 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 37 (0.90%) Ubuntu
7 33 (0.80%) Android
8 30 (0.73%) VMS
9 27 (0.65%) CentOS
10 24 (0.58%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.17%) Debian
13 6 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (0.097%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.097%) Rocky
14 4 (0.097%) Windows Server 2016
15 2 (0.048%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.048%) Embedded Linux
16 1 (0.024%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,090 (50.59%) CI/CD
2 1,479 (35.80%) Agile
3 993 (24.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 747 (18.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 713 (17.26%) Problem-Solving
6 675 (16.34%) Mentoring
7 655 (15.86%) Software Engineering
8 649 (15.71%) AI
9 592 (14.33%) Test Automation
10 552 (13.36%) Containerisation
11 547 (13.24%) Microservices
12 464 (11.23%) Observability
13 439 (10.63%) Roadmaps
14 428 (10.36%) Analytics
15 418 (10.12%) Full-Stack Development
16 393 (9.51%) Scrum
17 377 (9.13%) Platform Engineering
18 349 (8.45%) Technical Leadership
19 317 (7.67%) Data Modelling
20 302 (7.31%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,039 (25.15%) Python
2 778 (18.83%) SQL
3 577 (13.97%) Java
4 490 (11.86%) C#
5 440 (10.65%) JavaScript
6 350 (8.47%) Bash
7 316 (7.65%) TypeScript
8 255 (6.17%) PowerShell
9 157 (3.80%) Go
10 119 (2.88%) Bicep
11 103 (2.49%) C++
12 86 (2.08%) Apex Code
13 56 (1.36%) Groovy
14 50 (1.21%) PHP
15 43 (1.04%) Scala
15 43 (1.04%) SOQL
15 43 (1.04%) SOSL
16 34 (0.82%) Kotlin
17 30 (0.73%) C
18 29 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 568 (13.75%) Security Cleared
2 431 (10.43%) Degree
3 341 (8.25%) SC Cleared
4 187 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 147 (3.56%) DV Cleared
6 115 (2.78%) AWS Certification
7 92 (2.23%) Azure Certification
8 82 (1.98%) Master's Degree
9 51 (1.23%) ISTQB
10 43 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
11 34 (0.82%) DBS Check
11 34 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
12 29 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 29 (0.70%) PMI Certification
13 27 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 25 (0.61%) CISSP
15 20 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
15 20 (0.48%) PMP
16 19 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 19 (0.46%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 338 (8.18%) QA
2 163 (3.95%) Data Quality
3 121 (2.93%) Accessibility
4 101 (2.44%) GDPR
5 75 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 56 (1.36%) NIST
7 47 (1.14%) GRC
8 38 (0.92%) SOC 2
9 33 (0.80%) PCI DSS
10 26 (0.63%) WCAG
11 21 (0.51%) SLA
12 14 (0.34%) NCSC
13 12 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.29%) TickIT
14 10 (0.24%) PMO
15 8 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
16 7 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 7 (0.17%) Solvency II
17 6 (0.15%) IFRS
17 6 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 704 (17.04%) Docker
2 146 (3.53%) Active Directory
3 51 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.41%) vSphere
6 16 (0.39%) Hyper-V
7 13 (0.31%) Firmware
8 7 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.097%) iptables
9 4 (0.097%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 4 (0.097%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.073%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.073%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.048%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.048%) KVM
11 2 (0.048%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.024%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.024%) OpenAM
12 1 (0.024%) OpenDJ
12 1 (0.024%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 1,031 (24.96%) Terraform
2 756 (18.30%) Kubernetes
3 374 (9.05%) Ansible
4 218 (5.28%) Grafana
5 183 (4.43%) Prometheus
6 76 (1.84%) Argo
7 49 (1.19%) Puppet
8 42 (1.02%) HP Fortify
9 36 (0.87%) Nagios
10 35 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
10 35 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
11 21 (0.51%) Kibana
12 18 (0.44%) Kustomize
13 17 (0.41%) Rancher
14 14 (0.34%) Istio
14 14 (0.34%) Packer
14 14 (0.34%) Progress Chef
15 10 (0.24%) logstash
15 10 (0.24%) Proxmox
16 9 (0.22%) yum
Vendors
1 789 (19.10%) Microsoft
2 159 (3.85%) Salesforce
3 156 (3.78%) Databricks
3 156 (3.78%) Google
4 87 (2.11%) Splunk
4 87 (2.11%) VMware
5 81 (1.96%) Oracle
5 81 (1.96%) Red Hat
6 71 (1.72%) ServiceNow
7 51 (1.23%) SAP
8 46 (1.11%) MuleSoft
9 32 (0.77%) Palo Alto
10 30 (0.73%) Cisco
11 29 (0.70%) Dynatrace
12 27 (0.65%) OpenAI
13 25 (0.61%) Pega
14 24 (0.58%) Adobe
15 20 (0.48%) CrowdStrike
15 20 (0.48%) IBM
15 20 (0.48%) Okta