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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 20 26
Rank change year-on-year -8 +6 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,311 3,968 7,150
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.65% 9.08% 6.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.33% 9.76% 8.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3,088 2,321 5,232
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £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 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -4.00%

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 68,107 40,669 85,373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.51% 93.11% 83.11%
Number of salaries quoted 45,062 21,401 61,158
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,114 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -10 3,809 £70,000 -2.10% 1,635
UK excluding London -14 2,536 £65,000 - 1,114
Work from Home -6 1,526 £69,305 -0.99% 1,042
London -7 1,419 £82,500 +3.13% 707
North of England -6 899 £70,000 +3.70% 318
South East -13 563 £65,000 - 296
North West -14 472 £70,000 +0.89% 185
South West -16 351 £65,000 - 149
Midlands -32 332 £67,500 +12.50% 137
Yorkshire -3 271 £70,000 - 86
West Midlands -44 190 £65,000 +8.33% 95
East of England -8 158 £62,500 -3.85% 83
North East +10 156 £60,000 -7.69% 48
Scotland -5 144 £55,000 -26.67% 62
East Midlands 0 139 £70,000 +27.27% 42
Wales -2 83 £53,100 -11.50% 40
Northern Ireland -38 10 £73,151 +4.50% 47
Isle of Man +3 3 £35,000 -33.33%

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 80 (1.86%) Confluence
2 78 (1.81%) SharePoint
3 55 (1.28%) Apache
4 54 (1.25%) Apache Spark
5 47 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
6 38 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
7 28 (0.65%) CMS
8 25 (0.58%) IIS
9 16 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
10 11 (0.26%) OpenStack
10 11 (0.26%) SAS
11 9 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
11 9 (0.21%) Umbraco
12 8 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
13 7 (0.16%) Apache Solr
13 7 (0.16%) Jupyter
13 7 (0.16%) Moodle
13 7 (0.16%) nginx
13 7 (0.16%) WordPress
14 6 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 35 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
2 32 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 13 (0.30%) PlantUML
5 12 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
8 6 (0.14%) Simulink
9 4 (0.093%) Maya
10 3 (0.070%) Blender
10 3 (0.070%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.046%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.046%) Trello
12 1 (0.023%) EngageOne
12 1 (0.023%) Lightworks
12 1 (0.023%) Notion
12 1 (0.023%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 71 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.30%) SAP ERP
4 8 (0.19%) Endur
5 6 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.12%) Visualfiles
7 4 (0.093%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.070%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.070%) Magento
8 3 (0.070%) Markit EDM
8 3 (0.070%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.070%) Shopify
9 2 (0.046%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.046%) Fidessa
9 2 (0.046%) Infor SunSystems
10 1 (0.023%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.023%) SAP FI
10 1 (0.023%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 2,269 (52.63%) Azure
2 1,384 (32.10%) AWS
3 1,110 (25.75%) Azure DevOps
4 484 (11.23%) GCP
5 476 (11.04%) GitHub
6 436 (10.11%) Serverless
7 326 (7.56%) Power Platform
8 267 (6.19%) SaaS
9 256 (5.94%) GitHub Actions
10 229 (5.31%) Amazon S3
11 221 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
12 213 (4.94%) AWS Lambda
13 167 (3.87%) PaaS
14 158 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
15 148 (3.43%) Entra ID
16 140 (3.25%) Azure AKS
17 139 (3.22%) Amazon ECS
18 137 (3.18%) Amazon EKS
19 135 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 134 (3.11%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 142 (3.29%) Firewall
2 92 (2.13%) DNS
3 65 (1.51%) Broadband
4 58 (1.35%) TCP/IP
5 48 (1.11%) VPN
6 37 (0.86%) Network Security
7 34 (0.79%) HTTP
8 27 (0.63%) DHCP
8 27 (0.63%) WAN
9 23 (0.53%) LAN
10 11 (0.26%) MQTT
11 10 (0.23%) BGP
11 10 (0.23%) SAN
11 10 (0.23%) Wireless
12 8 (0.19%) HTTPS
12 8 (0.19%) Internet
13 7 (0.16%) DMARC
14 6 (0.14%) NGFW
14 6 (0.14%) VXLAN
14 6 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 237 (5.50%) SQL Server
2 203 (4.71%) NoSQL
3 186 (4.31%) Power BI
4 170 (3.94%) MongoDB
5 164 (3.80%) Azure SQL Database
6 142 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
7 109 (2.53%) DynamoDB
8 88 (2.04%) Relational Database
9 83 (1.93%) Data Lake
10 82 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
11 81 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
12 70 (1.62%) MySQL
13 65 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
14 64 (1.48%) Metadata
15 48 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
16 39 (0.90%) BigQuery
17 34 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
18 33 (0.77%) Delta Lake
19 32 (0.74%) Big Data
20 31 (0.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 459 (10.65%) Git
2 389 (9.02%) Jenkins
3 368 (8.54%) GitLab
4 252 (5.85%) JIRA
5 98 (2.27%) SonarQube
6 81 (1.88%) Cypress.io
7 79 (1.83%) Selenium
8 61 (1.41%) Maven
9 44 (1.02%) Postman
10 35 (0.81%) Cucumber
11 33 (0.77%) Bitbucket
11 33 (0.77%) CircleCI
12 32 (0.74%) JUnit
12 32 (0.74%) TeamCity
13 27 (0.63%) Eclipse
14 26 (0.60%) JMeter
15 24 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
16 21 (0.49%) Visual Studio
17 19 (0.44%) REST Assured
18 18 (0.42%) Jaeger
General
1 922 (21.39%) Finance
2 883 (20.48%) Social Skills
3 351 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
4 279 (6.47%) Public Sector
5 253 (5.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 234 (5.43%) Banking
7 134 (3.11%) Retail
8 125 (2.90%) Law
9 101 (2.34%) Marketing
10 77 (1.79%) Legal
11 74 (1.72%) Games
12 46 (1.07%) Manufacturing
13 45 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
13 45 (1.04%) Telecoms
14 43 (1.00%) Advertising
15 40 (0.93%) Financial Institution
16 36 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
17 33 (0.77%) Billing
18 30 (0.70%) Back Office
18 30 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 941 (21.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 870 (20.18%) Senior
3 747 (17.33%) Developer
4 609 (14.13%) Lead
5 354 (8.21%) Architect
6 326 (7.56%) Software Engineer
7 323 (7.49%) Azure Engineer
8 251 (5.82%) Cloud Engineer
9 212 (4.92%) Senior DevOps
10 193 (4.48%) Senior Developer
11 184 (4.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 174 (4.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 167 (3.87%) Data Engineer
14 152 (3.53%) Platform Engineer
15 149 (3.46%) AWS Engineer
16 145 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
17 143 (3.32%) Java Developer
18 138 (3.20%) Lead DevOps
19 123 (2.85%) .NET Developer
20 109 (2.53%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 519 (12.04%) .NET
2 372 (8.63%) React
3 280 (6.50%) REST
4 269 (6.24%) Node.js
5 238 (5.52%) RESTful
6 183 (4.24%) Spring Boot
7 169 (3.92%) CSS
7 169 (3.92%) Spring
8 168 (3.90%) ASP.NET
9 164 (3.80%) HTML
10 158 (3.67%) .NET Core
11 156 (3.62%) Kafka
12 153 (3.55%) AngularJS
13 120 (2.78%) ASP.NET Core
14 112 (2.60%) SOAP
15 103 (2.39%) YAML
16 100 (2.32%) OAuth
17 98 (2.27%) Middleware
18 95 (2.20%) PySpark
19 93 (2.16%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 619 (14.36%) Cloud Native
2 289 (6.70%) Product Ownership
3 153 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
4 123 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
5 88 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
6 78 (1.81%) Management Information System
7 73 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
8 67 (1.55%) Onboarding
9 66 (1.53%) Mobile App
10 60 (1.39%) Data Centre
11 55 (1.28%) Public Cloud
12 53 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
13 52 (1.21%) Data Structures
14 51 (1.18%) Algorithms
15 48 (1.11%) Low-Code
16 36 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
17 35 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
18 34 (0.79%) Security Posture
19 30 (0.70%) Virtual Team
20 28 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 429 (9.95%) Linux
2 184 (4.27%) Windows
3 85 (1.97%) Unix
4 70 (1.62%) Windows Server
5 54 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 46 (1.07%) Ubuntu
7 33 (0.77%) CentOS
7 33 (0.77%) VMS
8 30 (0.70%) Android
9 25 (0.58%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.19%) Debian
12 4 (0.093%) Kali Linux
12 4 (0.093%) Rocky
12 4 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.046%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.046%) Embedded Linux
13 2 (0.046%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.023%) SUSE
14 1 (0.023%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,187 (50.73%) CI/CD
2 1,517 (35.19%) Agile
3 1,048 (24.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 777 (18.02%) Continuous Improvement
5 722 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
6 717 (16.63%) Mentoring
7 696 (16.14%) Software Engineering
8 665 (15.43%) AI
9 620 (14.38%) Test Automation
10 575 (13.34%) Containerisation
11 568 (13.18%) Microservices
12 464 (10.76%) Observability
13 452 (10.48%) Roadmaps
14 438 (10.16%) Full-Stack Development
14 438 (10.16%) Platform Engineering
15 430 (9.97%) Analytics
16 414 (9.60%) Scrum
17 378 (8.77%) Technical Leadership
18 311 (7.21%) Data Modelling
19 293 (6.80%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,065 (24.70%) Python
2 787 (18.26%) SQL
3 603 (13.99%) Java
4 524 (12.15%) C#
5 482 (11.18%) JavaScript
6 362 (8.40%) Bash
7 330 (7.65%) TypeScript
8 269 (6.24%) PowerShell
9 145 (3.36%) Go
10 124 (2.88%) Bicep
10 124 (2.88%) C++
11 82 (1.90%) Apex Code
12 57 (1.32%) PHP
13 53 (1.23%) Groovy
14 47 (1.09%) SOQL
15 45 (1.04%) Scala
16 44 (1.02%) SOSL
17 42 (0.97%) C
18 39 (0.90%) Kotlin
19 34 (0.79%) Rust
Qualifications
1 626 (14.52%) Security Cleared
2 442 (10.25%) Degree
3 378 (8.77%) SC Cleared
4 171 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 162 (3.76%) DV Cleared
6 104 (2.41%) AWS Certification
6 104 (2.41%) Azure Certification
7 93 (2.16%) Master's Degree
8 50 (1.16%) ISTQB
9 45 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
10 35 (0.81%) DBS Check
11 32 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
12 30 (0.70%) PMI Certification
13 29 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 28 (0.65%) CISSP
15 23 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 22 (0.51%) PhD
17 21 (0.49%) PMP
18 19 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
19 15 (0.35%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 354 (8.21%) QA
2 170 (3.94%) Data Quality
3 144 (3.34%) Accessibility
4 92 (2.13%) GDPR
5 63 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 56 (1.30%) NIST
7 45 (1.04%) GRC
8 36 (0.84%) WCAG
9 33 (0.77%) SOC 2
10 31 (0.72%) PCI DSS
11 18 (0.42%) SLA
12 16 (0.37%) PMO
13 12 (0.28%) TickIT
14 11 (0.26%) NCSC
15 9 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 8 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
17 6 (0.14%) Solvency II
18 5 (0.12%) IFRS
18 5 (0.12%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 710 (16.47%) Docker
2 137 (3.18%) Active Directory
3 55 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.44%) Firmware
6 17 (0.39%) Hyper-V
6 17 (0.39%) vSphere
7 7 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.12%) iptables
9 4 (0.093%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 4 (0.093%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.070%) Embedded Firmware
10 3 (0.070%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.070%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.046%) KVM
12 1 (0.023%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.023%) OpenAM
12 1 (0.023%) OpenIDM
12 1 (0.023%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,078 (25.01%) Terraform
2 777 (18.02%) Kubernetes
3 387 (8.98%) Ansible
4 218 (5.06%) Grafana
5 177 (4.11%) Prometheus
6 78 (1.81%) Argo
7 49 (1.14%) Puppet
8 38 (0.88%) Nagios
9 35 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
10 34 (0.79%) HP Fortify
11 27 (0.63%) Kibana
12 19 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
13 18 (0.42%) Istio
13 18 (0.42%) Kustomize
14 15 (0.35%) Packer
15 14 (0.32%) Rancher
16 13 (0.30%) Progress Chef
17 11 (0.26%) Proxmox
18 9 (0.21%) logstash
19 8 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 797 (18.49%) Microsoft
2 161 (3.73%) Google
3 155 (3.60%) Salesforce
4 153 (3.55%) Databricks
5 96 (2.23%) Splunk
6 92 (2.13%) VMware
7 85 (1.97%) Oracle
7 85 (1.97%) ServiceNow
8 82 (1.90%) Red Hat
9 56 (1.30%) SAP
10 40 (0.93%) MuleSoft
11 35 (0.81%) Dynatrace
12 33 (0.77%) Cisco
13 30 (0.70%) Palo Alto
14 25 (0.58%) OpenAI
15 23 (0.53%) Pega
16 21 (0.49%) Adobe
17 19 (0.44%) Apple
17 19 (0.44%) Foundry
17 19 (0.44%) SolarWinds