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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 22 23
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 -12
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,071 4,180 6,326
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.05% 8.51% 6.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.87% 9.47% 8.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3,682 2,410 4,505
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,724 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £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 73,858 44,154 75,761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.61% 89.93% 81.83%
Number of salaries quoted 51,064 24,939 51,848
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,599 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,043 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.01% +0.08% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £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 23 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 23 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 -10 4,375 £70,000 - 1,635
UK excluding London -5 3,200 £65,000 - 1,045
Work from Home -3 1,844 £67,500 -3.57% 775
London -11 1,477 £85,000 +6.25% 765
North of England +1 1,124 £67,500 +3.85% 327
South East -11 666 £65,000 - 276
North West 0 622 £70,000 +7.69% 174
South West -2 449 £70,000 +4.85% 122
Midlands -19 370 £65,000 - 160
Yorkshire +11 288 £70,000 +3.70% 92
North East +9 214 £60,000 -7.69% 63
West Midlands -28 209 £68,403 +5.23% 112
East of England +20 196 £60,000 -7.69% 64
Wales +10 166 £54,000 -6.09% 26
East Midlands +2 160 £65,000 +15.56% 48
Scotland 0 140 £60,000 -14.29% 58
Northern Ireland -9 98 £73,151 -8.56% 30
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 (1.89%) Confluence
2 88 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 81 (1.60%) Apache Spark
4 67 (1.32%) Apache
5 45 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
6 41 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
7 31 (0.61%) CMS
8 30 (0.59%) IIS
9 20 (0.39%) SAS
10 14 (0.28%) OpenStack
10 14 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
11 12 (0.24%) nginx
12 11 (0.22%) Jupyter
13 10 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
14 9 (0.18%) Umbraco
14 9 (0.18%) WordPress
15 8 (0.16%) Anypoint
15 8 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
16 7 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
17 6 (0.12%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 56 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
2 42 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.39%) PlantUML
4 19 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
8 11 (0.22%) Trello
9 7 (0.14%) Simulink
10 4 (0.079%) Maya
11 3 (0.059%) Blender
12 2 (0.039%) Lightworks
12 2 (0.039%) Spreadsheet
13 1 (0.020%) Adobe XD
13 1 (0.020%) Notion
13 1 (0.020%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 75 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.14%) Elite 3E
3 7 (0.14%) SAP IBP
4 5 (0.099%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.099%) Visualfiles
5 4 (0.079%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.079%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.079%) Endur
5 4 (0.079%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.079%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.079%) Shopify
6 3 (0.059%) Carpe Diem
6 3 (0.059%) Infor SunSystems
6 3 (0.059%) Magento
6 3 (0.059%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.039%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.039%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.039%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.039%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 2,668 (52.61%) Azure
2 1,661 (32.75%) AWS
3 1,323 (26.09%) Azure DevOps
4 554 (10.92%) GCP
5 496 (9.78%) GitHub
6 459 (9.05%) Serverless
7 399 (7.87%) SaaS
8 353 (6.96%) Power Platform
9 267 (5.27%) GitHub Actions
10 232 (4.58%) AWS CloudFormation
11 222 (4.38%) Amazon S3
12 203 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
13 201 (3.96%) PaaS
14 158 (3.12%) Azure AKS
15 157 (3.10%) Dynamics 365
15 157 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
16 144 (2.84%) Azure Logic Apps
17 141 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
17 141 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
18 139 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 136 (2.68%) Firewall
2 88 (1.74%) DNS
3 67 (1.32%) TCP/IP
4 65 (1.28%) VPN
5 51 (1.01%) Broadband
6 42 (0.83%) Network Security
7 36 (0.71%) HTTP
8 33 (0.65%) Internet
9 21 (0.41%) DHCP
10 20 (0.39%) LAN
11 19 (0.37%) WAN
12 16 (0.32%) MQTT
13 14 (0.28%) Wireless
14 13 (0.26%) DMARC
15 10 (0.20%) BGP
15 10 (0.20%) HTTPS
15 10 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (0.16%) Bluetooth
16 8 (0.16%) ZigBee
17 7 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 276 (5.44%) SQL Server
2 270 (5.32%) MongoDB
3 263 (5.19%) Azure SQL Database
4 197 (3.88%) Power BI
5 192 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
6 180 (3.55%) NoSQL
7 102 (2.01%) MySQL
8 98 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
8 98 (1.93%) DynamoDB
9 92 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
9 92 (1.81%) Relational Database
10 83 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
11 74 (1.46%) Data Lake
12 58 (1.14%) Metadata
13 53 (1.05%) Redis
14 44 (0.87%) Big Data
15 43 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
16 38 (0.75%) Delta Lake
17 34 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
18 31 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 526 (10.37%) Git
2 415 (8.18%) GitLab
3 410 (8.09%) Jenkins
4 325 (6.41%) JIRA
5 91 (1.79%) SonarQube
6 89 (1.76%) Selenium
7 73 (1.44%) Cypress.io
8 53 (1.05%) Maven
9 51 (1.01%) Postman
10 48 (0.95%) JUnit
11 37 (0.73%) Cucumber
12 34 (0.67%) JMeter
13 32 (0.63%) TeamCity
14 31 (0.61%) Bitbucket
15 29 (0.57%) CircleCI
16 28 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 28 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
17 23 (0.45%) Visual Studio
18 20 (0.39%) REST Assured
19 19 (0.37%) Zephyr
General
1 1,096 (21.61%) Social Skills
2 963 (18.99%) Finance
3 382 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
4 375 (7.39%) Public Sector
5 306 (6.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 247 (4.87%) Banking
7 197 (3.88%) Law
8 159 (3.14%) Retail
9 135 (2.66%) Legal
10 113 (2.23%) Marketing
11 78 (1.54%) Games
12 60 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
13 57 (1.12%) Manufacturing
14 55 (1.08%) Advertising
15 51 (1.01%) Financial Institution
16 48 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
17 44 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
17 44 (0.87%) Telecoms
18 34 (0.67%) Back Office
19 26 (0.51%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1,160 (22.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,096 (21.61%) Senior
3 868 (17.12%) Developer
4 684 (13.49%) Lead
5 409 (8.07%) Architect
6 351 (6.92%) Software Engineer
7 341 (6.72%) Azure Engineer
8 267 (5.27%) Senior DevOps
9 264 (5.21%) Cloud Engineer
10 242 (4.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 222 (4.38%) .NET Developer
12 214 (4.22%) Senior Developer
13 199 (3.92%) Platform Engineer
14 190 (3.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 180 (3.55%) Data Engineer
16 166 (3.27%) AWS Engineer
16 166 (3.27%) Solutions Architect
17 143 (2.82%) Lead DevOps
18 134 (2.64%) Java Developer
19 119 (2.35%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 669 (13.19%) .NET
2 439 (8.66%) React
3 315 (6.21%) RESTful
4 310 (6.11%) REST
5 303 (5.98%) Node.js
6 282 (5.56%) ASP.NET
7 254 (5.01%) .NET Core
8 232 (4.58%) CSS
9 229 (4.52%) HTML
9 229 (4.52%) Spring Boot
10 222 (4.38%) Spring
11 220 (4.34%) ASP.NET Core
12 199 (3.92%) Kafka
13 157 (3.10%) AngularJS
14 130 (2.56%) Blazor
14 130 (2.56%) Middleware
15 128 (2.52%) Entity Framework
16 108 (2.13%) YAML
17 102 (2.01%) SOAP
18 97 (1.91%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 855 (16.86%) Cloud Native
2 331 (6.53%) Product Ownership
3 228 (4.50%) Distributed Systems
4 173 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
5 136 (2.68%) Onboarding
6 99 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
7 88 (1.74%) Management Information System
8 86 (1.70%) Virtual Team
9 81 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
10 77 (1.52%) Mobile App
11 73 (1.44%) Data Centre
12 68 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
13 60 (1.18%) Public Cloud
14 58 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
15 57 (1.12%) Cyber Threat
16 50 (0.99%) Data Structures
17 44 (0.87%) Algorithms
17 44 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
18 43 (0.85%) Low-Code
19 41 (0.81%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 494 (9.74%) Linux
2 240 (4.73%) Windows
3 90 (1.77%) Unix
4 70 (1.38%) Windows Server
5 68 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 46 (0.91%) CentOS
7 45 (0.89%) Ubuntu
8 38 (0.75%) VMS
9 30 (0.59%) Android
10 17 (0.34%) Apple iOS
10 17 (0.34%) Debian
11 7 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
11 7 (0.14%) Rocky
11 7 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.099%) Windows Server 2019
13 4 (0.079%) Kali Linux
14 3 (0.059%) AIX
15 2 (0.039%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.039%) Mac OS
15 2 (0.039%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,551 (50.31%) CI/CD
2 1,882 (37.11%) Agile
3 1,206 (23.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 979 (19.31%) Continuous Improvement
5 909 (17.93%) Mentoring
6 884 (17.43%) Software Engineering
7 840 (16.56%) AI
8 809 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
9 776 (15.30%) Test Automation
10 691 (13.63%) Microservices
11 642 (12.66%) Containerisation
12 554 (10.92%) Full-Stack Development
13 548 (10.81%) Roadmaps
14 547 (10.79%) Platform Engineering
15 533 (10.51%) Observability
16 531 (10.47%) Scrum
17 497 (9.80%) Technical Leadership
18 453 (8.93%) Analytics
19 428 (8.44%) Stakeholder Management
20 365 (7.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,206 (23.78%) Python
2 902 (17.79%) SQL
3 738 (14.55%) C#
4 651 (12.84%) Java
5 636 (12.54%) JavaScript
6 399 (7.87%) TypeScript
7 370 (7.30%) Bash
8 346 (6.82%) PowerShell
9 158 (3.12%) Bicep
10 127 (2.50%) Go
11 126 (2.48%) C++
12 72 (1.42%) Apex Code
13 60 (1.18%) PHP
14 48 (0.95%) C
14 48 (0.95%) Groovy
15 46 (0.91%) SOQL
16 43 (0.85%) SOSL
17 38 (0.75%) Rust
17 38 (0.75%) T-SQL
18 37 (0.73%) Scala
Qualifications
1 803 (15.84%) Security Cleared
2 528 (10.41%) SC Cleared
3 502 (9.90%) Degree
4 209 (4.12%) DV Cleared
5 185 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 132 (2.60%) Azure Certification
7 114 (2.25%) Master's Degree
8 81 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
9 80 (1.58%) CISSP
10 78 (1.54%) AWS Certification
11 64 (1.26%) CISM
12 59 (1.16%) ISTQB
13 50 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
14 37 (0.73%) DBS Check
14 37 (0.73%) PMI Certification
15 29 (0.57%) PMP
16 25 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 25 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 23 (0.45%) PhD
18 20 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 502 (9.90%) QA
2 169 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 160 (3.16%) Data Quality
4 117 (2.31%) GDPR
5 105 (2.07%) NIST
6 69 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 61 (1.20%) WCAG
8 49 (0.97%) GRC
9 48 (0.95%) ISO 22301
10 42 (0.83%) PCI DSS
11 29 (0.57%) SOC 2
12 25 (0.49%) PMO
13 21 (0.41%) SLA
14 16 (0.32%) NCSC
15 12 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
15 12 (0.24%) TickIT
16 10 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 9 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
18 8 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 8 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 803 (15.84%) Docker
2 130 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 75 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (0.55%) vSphere
6 23 (0.45%) Firmware
7 19 (0.37%) 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 (0.059%) KVM
13 3 (0.059%) NDS
13 3 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.059%) Xen
14 2 (0.039%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.020%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.020%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.020%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,212 (23.90%) Terraform
2 928 (18.30%) Kubernetes
3 427 (8.42%) Ansible
4 239 (4.71%) Grafana
5 177 (3.49%) Prometheus
6 70 (1.38%) Argo
7 60 (1.18%) Puppet
8 38 (0.75%) Nagios
9 26 (0.51%) HP Fortify
10 25 (0.49%) Kibana
11 24 (0.47%) Istio
12 23 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
13 16 (0.32%) 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%) Podman
Vendors
1 976 (19.25%) Microsoft
2 183 (3.61%) Google
3 168 (3.31%) Databricks
4 148 (2.92%) Salesforce
5 108 (2.13%) VMware
6 104 (2.05%) Splunk
7 100 (1.97%) Oracle
7 100 (1.97%) ServiceNow
8 83 (1.64%) Red Hat
9 72 (1.42%) SAP
10 54 (1.06%) Pega
11 46 (0.91%) Cisco
12 44 (0.87%) Dynatrace
12 44 (0.87%) OpenAI
13 43 (0.85%) MuleSoft
14 42 (0.83%) Facebook
15 30 (0.59%) Apple
16 28 (0.55%) YouTube
17 26 (0.51%) Foundry
17 26 (0.51%) Palo Alto