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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 19 25
Rank change year-on-year -14 +6 -13
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,105 3,809 7,154
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.53% 8.75% 7.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.10% 9.38% 8.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2,907 2,537 5,323
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,544 £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% -2.44%

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 67,307 40,602 82,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.25% 93.30% 85.26%
Number of salaries quoted 42,652 22,587 59,697
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,450 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,446 £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 9 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 9 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 -17 3,577 £70,932 +1.33% 1,380
UK excluding London -28 2,351 £65,000 - 978
Work from Home -7 1,496 £70,000 - 718
London -10 1,400 £82,500 - 565
North of England -9 791 £70,000 +3.70% 288
South East -23 503 £65,000 - 307
North West -2 390 £70,000 +0.44% 142
South West -15 338 £61,250 -5.77% 111
Midlands -38 308 £65,750 +9.58% 103
Yorkshire -9 268 £70,000 +2.94% 83
Scotland -11 184 £57,500 -18.73% 49
West Midlands -43 180 £62,500 +4.17% 53
East of England -17 141 £67,500 +3.85% 88
North East +5 133 £59,000 -9.23% 64
East Midlands -4 124 £70,000 +7.69% 50
Wales -10 77 £53,171 -5.55% 33
Northern Ireland -30 15 £84,401 +53.46% 17
Isle of Man +2 1 £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 (1.90%) SharePoint
2 73 (1.78%) Confluence
3 56 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
4 54 (1.32%) Apache
5 47 (1.14%) Apache Spark
6 38 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
7 31 (0.76%) IIS
8 24 (0.58%) CMS
9 15 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
10 13 (0.32%) OpenStack
10 13 (0.32%) SAS
11 11 (0.27%) Moodle
12 7 (0.17%) Anypoint
12 7 (0.17%) Apache Solr
12 7 (0.17%) nginx
12 7 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 7 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
12 7 (0.17%) WordPress
13 6 (0.15%) Tomcat
13 6 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 37 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (0.63%) MS Visio
3 23 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.22%) PlantUML
7 8 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.097%) Simulink
9 3 (0.073%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.073%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.073%) Trello
10 1 (0.024%) EngageOne
10 1 (0.024%) Maya
10 1 (0.024%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 60 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.37%) SAP ERP
3 14 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
4 12 (0.29%) 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 (0.049%) Distributed Ledger
10 2 (0.049%) Infor SunSystems
10 2 (0.049%) Magento
10 2 (0.049%) Workday HCM
11 1 (0.024%) Infor M3
11 1 (0.024%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 1 (0.024%) Payment Gateway
11 1 (0.024%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 2,215 (53.96%) Azure
2 1,346 (32.79%) AWS
3 1,072 (26.11%) Azure DevOps
4 505 (12.30%) GitHub
5 479 (11.67%) GCP
6 420 (10.23%) Serverless
7 335 (8.16%) Power Platform
8 280 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
9 251 (6.11%) SaaS
10 226 (5.51%) AWS CloudFormation
11 224 (5.46%) Amazon S3
12 216 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
13 168 (4.09%) Microsoft 365
14 157 (3.82%) Entra ID
15 152 (3.70%) PaaS
16 151 (3.68%) Azure Data Factory
17 136 (3.31%) Amazon EKS
18 133 (3.24%) Azure AKS
19 131 (3.19%) Amazon ECS
20 129 (3.14%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 137 (3.34%) Firewall
2 90 (2.19%) DNS
3 64 (1.56%) Broadband
4 60 (1.46%) TCP/IP
5 49 (1.19%) VPN
6 43 (1.05%) Network Security
7 36 (0.88%) HTTP
8 33 (0.80%) WAN
9 26 (0.63%) DHCP
10 25 (0.61%) LAN
11 10 (0.24%) SAN
12 9 (0.22%) SSL
12 9 (0.22%) Wireless
13 7 (0.17%) BGP
13 7 (0.17%) HTTPS
14 6 (0.15%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (0.15%) Internet
15 5 (0.12%) SD-WAN
16 4 (0.097%) AMQP
16 4 (0.097%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (5.94%) SQL Server
2 206 (5.02%) NoSQL
3 190 (4.63%) Power BI
4 142 (3.46%) PostgreSQL
5 133 (3.24%) MongoDB
6 123 (3.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 113 (2.75%) DynamoDB
8 98 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
9 96 (2.34%) Data Lake
10 88 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
11 84 (2.05%) Relational Database
12 67 (1.63%) Metadata
12 67 (1.63%) MySQL
13 57 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
14 43 (1.05%) BigQuery
15 42 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
16 37 (0.90%) Delta Lake
17 34 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
18 33 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 33 (0.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 448 (10.91%) Git
2 398 (9.70%) Jenkins
3 358 (8.72%) GitLab
4 259 (6.31%) JIRA
5 106 (2.58%) SonarQube
6 86 (2.10%) Cypress.io
7 81 (1.97%) Selenium
8 64 (1.56%) Maven
9 44 (1.07%) Bitbucket
9 44 (1.07%) Postman
10 36 (0.88%) CircleCI
11 35 (0.85%) Cucumber
12 31 (0.76%) TeamCity
13 26 (0.63%) Eclipse
14 25 (0.61%) JMeter
15 24 (0.58%) JUnit
16 23 (0.56%) Visual Studio
17 22 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
18 20 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
19 19 (0.46%) Jaeger
General
1 913 (22.24%) Finance
2 887 (21.61%) Social Skills
3 374 (9.11%) Analytical Skills
4 247 (6.02%) Public Sector
5 242 (5.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 218 (5.31%) Banking
7 130 (3.17%) Law
8 129 (3.14%) Retail
9 106 (2.58%) Marketing
10 77 (1.88%) Legal
11 75 (1.83%) Games
12 62 (1.51%) Telecoms
13 47 (1.14%) Manufacturing
14 44 (1.07%) Advertising
15 39 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
16 38 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
17 34 (0.83%) Billing
18 33 (0.80%) Financial Institution
19 27 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
19 27 (0.66%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 854 (20.80%) DevOps Engineer
2 845 (20.58%) Senior
3 705 (17.17%) Developer
4 603 (14.69%) Lead
5 349 (8.50%) Architect
6 291 (7.09%) Azure Engineer
7 279 (6.80%) Software Engineer
8 255 (6.21%) Cloud Engineer
9 204 (4.97%) Senior DevOps
10 184 (4.48%) Senior Developer
11 173 (4.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 167 (4.07%) Data Engineer
13 153 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
14 150 (3.65%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 147 (3.58%) AWS Engineer
16 140 (3.41%) Platform Engineer
17 135 (3.29%) Java Developer
18 133 (3.24%) Lead DevOps
19 117 (2.85%) Full-Stack Developer
20 110 (2.68%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 471 (11.47%) .NET
2 356 (8.67%) React
3 274 (6.67%) REST
4 242 (5.90%) Node.js
5 241 (5.87%) RESTful
6 177 (4.31%) Spring Boot
7 161 (3.92%) Kafka
8 158 (3.85%) Spring
9 157 (3.82%) CSS
10 149 (3.63%) HTML
11 147 (3.58%) AngularJS
12 131 (3.19%) .NET Core
13 129 (3.14%) SOAP
14 125 (3.05%) ASP.NET
15 111 (2.70%) OAuth
16 108 (2.63%) Middleware
17 96 (2.34%) Elastic Stack
18 91 (2.22%) JSON
18 91 (2.22%) PySpark
19 87 (2.12%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 564 (13.74%) Cloud Native
2 284 (6.92%) Product Ownership
3 139 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
4 125 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
5 87 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
6 82 (2.00%) Management Information System
7 70 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
8 61 (1.49%) Mobile App
9 56 (1.36%) Onboarding
10 55 (1.34%) Public Cloud
11 54 (1.32%) Low-Code
12 53 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
13 50 (1.22%) Algorithms
13 50 (1.22%) Data Centre
14 45 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
14 45 (1.10%) Data Structures
15 31 (0.76%) Security Posture
16 29 (0.71%) AI Agents
16 29 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
17 28 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 410 (9.99%) Linux
2 199 (4.85%) Windows
3 83 (2.02%) Unix
4 75 (1.83%) Windows Server
5 49 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 37 (0.90%) Ubuntu
7 31 (0.76%) VMS
8 30 (0.73%) Android
9 28 (0.68%) CentOS
10 25 (0.61%) Apple iOS
11 9 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.17%) Debian
12 7 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.097%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.097%) Rocky
15 2 (0.049%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.049%) Embedded Linux
16 1 (0.024%) SUSE
16 1 (0.024%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,098 (51.11%) CI/CD
2 1,473 (35.88%) Agile
3 1,000 (24.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 753 (18.34%) Continuous Improvement
5 718 (17.49%) Problem-Solving
6 667 (16.25%) Mentoring
7 650 (15.83%) Software Engineering
8 627 (15.27%) AI
9 595 (14.49%) Test Automation
10 562 (13.69%) Containerisation
11 549 (13.37%) Microservices
12 468 (11.40%) Observability
13 442 (10.77%) Roadmaps
14 432 (10.52%) Analytics
15 397 (9.67%) Scrum
16 389 (9.48%) Full-Stack Development
17 372 (9.06%) Platform Engineering
18 346 (8.43%) Technical Leadership
19 322 (7.84%) Data Modelling
20 301 (7.33%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,048 (25.53%) Python
2 768 (18.71%) SQL
3 572 (13.93%) Java
4 460 (11.21%) C#
5 419 (10.21%) JavaScript
6 356 (8.67%) Bash
7 317 (7.72%) TypeScript
8 258 (6.29%) PowerShell
9 159 (3.87%) Go
10 118 (2.87%) Bicep
11 101 (2.46%) C++
12 86 (2.10%) Apex Code
13 55 (1.34%) Groovy
14 50 (1.22%) PHP
15 44 (1.07%) Scala
16 42 (1.02%) SOQL
16 42 (1.02%) SOSL
17 35 (0.85%) Kotlin
18 30 (0.73%) C
19 29 (0.71%) Rust
Qualifications
1 568 (13.84%) Security Cleared
2 431 (10.50%) Degree
3 337 (8.21%) SC Cleared
4 189 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 149 (3.63%) DV Cleared
6 118 (2.87%) AWS Certification
7 94 (2.29%) Azure Certification
8 83 (2.02%) Master's Degree
9 52 (1.27%) ISTQB
10 44 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
11 34 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
12 31 (0.76%) DBS Check
13 30 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 29 (0.71%) PMI Certification
15 28 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 27 (0.66%) CISSP
17 21 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
18 20 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 20 (0.49%) PMP
19 19 (0.46%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 340 (8.28%) QA
2 165 (4.02%) Data Quality
3 122 (2.97%) Accessibility
4 106 (2.58%) GDPR
5 76 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 57 (1.39%) NIST
7 46 (1.12%) GRC
8 39 (0.95%) SOC 2
9 34 (0.83%) 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 11 (0.27%) PMO
15 8 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
16 7 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 7 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.17%) Solvency II
17 6 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 710 (17.30%) Docker
2 148 (3.61%) Active Directory
3 51 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.39%) Hyper-V
5 16 (0.39%) vSphere
6 13 (0.32%) Firmware
7 7 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.097%) iptables
8 4 (0.097%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 4 (0.097%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.073%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.073%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.049%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.049%) KVM
10 2 (0.049%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.024%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.024%) OpenAM
11 1 (0.024%) OpenDJ
11 1 (0.024%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 1,041 (25.36%) Terraform
2 771 (18.78%) Kubernetes
3 380 (9.26%) Ansible
4 223 (5.43%) Grafana
5 189 (4.60%) Prometheus
6 78 (1.90%) Argo
7 50 (1.22%) Puppet
8 42 (1.02%) HP Fortify
9 36 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
9 36 (0.88%) Nagios
10 35 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
11 22 (0.54%) Kibana
12 19 (0.46%) Kustomize
13 17 (0.41%) Rancher
14 15 (0.37%) Istio
14 15 (0.37%) Progress Chef
15 14 (0.34%) Packer
16 11 (0.27%) logstash
17 10 (0.24%) Proxmox
18 9 (0.22%) yum
Vendors
1 771 (18.78%) Microsoft
2 163 (3.97%) Databricks
3 155 (3.78%) Salesforce
4 149 (3.63%) Google
5 88 (2.14%) Splunk
6 86 (2.10%) VMware
7 83 (2.02%) Oracle
8 82 (2.00%) Red Hat
9 73 (1.78%) ServiceNow
10 52 (1.27%) SAP
11 48 (1.17%) MuleSoft
12 33 (0.80%) Palo Alto
13 30 (0.73%) Cisco
14 29 (0.71%) Dynatrace
15 27 (0.66%) OpenAI
16 25 (0.61%) Pega
17 24 (0.58%) Adobe
18 20 (0.49%) CrowdStrike
18 20 (0.49%) IBM
18 20 (0.49%) SolarWinds