DevOps Job Trends

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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 20 13
Rank change year-on-year -8 -7 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 3,291 5,076 5,972
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.03% 8.00% 11.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.19% 9.29% 12.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,226 3,106 4,906
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £46,144
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,592 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,050 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £62,500

All Process and 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 45,786 54,654 47,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.83% 86.14% 93.75%
Number of salaries quoted 27,991 28,426 36,268
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £99,700
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,793 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.31% +4.37% -0.94%

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 3 December 2025.

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 3 December 2025. 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 -12 2,795 £70,000 - 1,378
UK excluding London -15 1,765 £62,500 - 1,233
Work from Home -5 1,332 £69,500 +2.96% 815
London -1 1,289 £80,750 -2.12% 554
North of England -27 460 £65,000 +8.33% 277
South East -27 412 £65,000 -0.76% 517
Midlands -11 272 £65,000 +3.95% 126
Scotland -1 261 £67,500 +12.50% 79
North West -22 227 £65,000 +4.00% 130
West Midlands -2 210 £65,000 - 87
South West -25 181 £60,000 -7.69% 144
Yorkshire -12 171 £60,000 +2.13% 107
East of England -20 97 £65,000 +23.81% 75
Wales -8 69 £57,500 +4.55% 41
North East +1 64 £50,000 -13.74% 42
East Midlands -15 59 £60,000 - 37
Northern Ireland +5 22 £77,217 +12.88% 8
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
1 104 (3.16%) Confluence
2 71 (2.16%) Apache Spark
3 58 (1.76%) SharePoint
4 57 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
5 52 (1.58%) Apache
6 42 (1.28%) IIS
7 28 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
8 24 (0.73%) nginx
9 23 (0.70%) CMS
10 15 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 12 (0.36%) Appian
12 8 (0.24%) OpenStack
12 8 (0.24%) Tomcat
13 5 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 5 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
13 5 (0.15%) Camunda
13 5 (0.15%) WebSphere
14 4 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
14 4 (0.12%) JBoss
14 4 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 53 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
4 14 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.18%) Trello
7 5 (0.15%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 3 (0.091%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.091%) PlantUML
8 3 (0.091%) Siemens NX
8 3 (0.091%) S-PLUS
8 3 (0.091%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.061%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.061%) Sketch
10 1 (0.030%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.030%) Maya
10 1 (0.030%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 61 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 36 (1.09%) Oracle ERP
3 24 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
5 9 (0.27%) Endur
5 9 (0.27%) SAP FS
6 8 (0.24%) Shopify
7 6 (0.18%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.12%) SAP IBP
8 4 (0.12%) SAP MII
8 4 (0.12%) SAP MM
8 4 (0.12%) SAP PP
9 3 (0.091%) Markit EDM
9 3 (0.091%) SAP CX
9 3 (0.091%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.061%) Dynamics AX
10 2 (0.061%) Elite 3E
10 2 (0.061%) Salesforce CRM
10 2 (0.061%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,940 (58.95%) Azure
2 1,150 (34.94%) AWS
3 1,007 (30.60%) Azure DevOps
4 515 (15.65%) GitHub
5 390 (11.85%) GCP
6 331 (10.06%) Power Platform
7 307 (9.33%) SaaS
8 293 (8.90%) Serverless
9 250 (7.60%) GitHub Actions
10 190 (5.77%) PaaS
11 162 (4.92%) AWS CloudFormation
12 143 (4.35%) Amazon S3
13 137 (4.16%) AWS Lambda
13 137 (4.16%) Entra ID
14 131 (3.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 131 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
15 124 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
16 117 (3.56%) Snowflake
17 113 (3.43%) dbt
18 110 (3.34%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 126 (3.83%) Firewall
2 97 (2.95%) DNS
3 61 (1.85%) VPN
4 59 (1.79%) TCP/IP
4 59 (1.79%) WAN
5 51 (1.55%) Network Security
6 42 (1.28%) LAN
7 40 (1.22%) HTTP
8 28 (0.85%) DHCP
9 22 (0.67%) SAN
9 22 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
10 21 (0.64%) SSH
11 19 (0.58%) Broadband
11 19 (0.58%) FTP
11 19 (0.58%) SMTP
12 16 (0.49%) SD-WAN
13 15 (0.46%) BGP
14 14 (0.43%) Wireless
15 13 (0.40%) VLAN
16 12 (0.36%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 318 (9.66%) SQL Server
2 200 (6.08%) Power BI
3 164 (4.98%) Data Warehouse
4 148 (4.50%) NoSQL
5 138 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
6 97 (2.95%) Amazon RDS
7 96 (2.92%) Relational Database
8 88 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
9 73 (2.22%) Data Lake
10 62 (1.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 60 (1.82%) Big Data
11 60 (1.82%) Tableau
12 58 (1.76%) Amazon Redshift
13 55 (1.67%) DynamoDB
14 50 (1.52%) MySQL
15 48 (1.46%) MongoDB
16 47 (1.43%) Metadata
17 46 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
18 42 (1.28%) BigQuery
19 40 (1.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 407 (12.37%) Git
2 353 (10.73%) Jenkins
3 286 (8.69%) JIRA
4 194 (5.89%) GitLab
5 94 (2.86%) Selenium
6 53 (1.61%) SonarQube
7 52 (1.58%) Cypress.io
8 45 (1.37%) Octopus Deploy
8 45 (1.37%) TeamCity
9 44 (1.34%) Bitbucket
10 37 (1.12%) Cucumber
11 34 (1.03%) JMeter
12 32 (0.97%) Postman
13 31 (0.94%) Oracle Forms
14 28 (0.85%) JUnit
15 27 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
16 26 (0.79%) Artifactory
17 25 (0.76%) Vagrant
17 25 (0.76%) Visual Studio
18 23 (0.70%) Robot Framework
General
1 954 (28.99%) Social Skills
2 879 (26.71%) Finance
3 365 (11.09%) Analytical Skills
4 213 (6.47%) Law
5 164 (4.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 156 (4.74%) Banking
7 150 (4.56%) Retail
8 148 (4.50%) Marketing
9 147 (4.47%) Public Sector
10 69 (2.10%) Games
10 69 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
11 63 (1.91%) Manufacturing
12 60 (1.82%) Financial Institution
12 60 (1.82%) Telecoms
13 52 (1.58%) Legal
14 43 (1.31%) Back Office
15 42 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
16 36 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
17 31 (0.94%) Front Office
18 26 (0.79%) Police
Job Titles
1 632 (19.20%) Senior
2 558 (16.96%) Developer
3 461 (14.01%) Lead
4 435 (13.22%) DevOps Engineer
5 309 (9.39%) Architect
6 223 (6.78%) Software Engineer
7 197 (5.99%) Cloud Engineer
8 149 (4.53%) Senior Developer
9 141 (4.28%) Data Engineer
10 140 (4.25%) Azure Engineer
11 138 (4.19%) Analyst
11 138 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
12 132 (4.01%) Platform Engineer
13 104 (3.16%) Full-Stack Developer
14 92 (2.80%) AWS Engineer
15 89 (2.70%) .NET Developer
16 88 (2.67%) Senior DevOps
17 84 (2.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 77 (2.34%) Support Engineer
19 74 (2.25%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 517 (15.71%) .NET
2 332 (10.09%) React
3 223 (6.78%) RESTful
4 205 (6.23%) REST
5 157 (4.77%) HTML
5 157 (4.77%) Kafka
6 155 (4.71%) CSS
7 141 (4.28%) Node.js
8 131 (3.98%) .NET Framework
9 124 (3.77%) AngularJS
10 123 (3.74%) Spring
11 113 (3.43%) Spring Boot
12 103 (3.13%) .NET Core
13 99 (3.01%) Middleware
14 94 (2.86%) YAML
15 84 (2.55%) SOAP
16 83 (2.52%) ASP.NET
17 80 (2.43%) JSON
18 77 (2.34%) OAuth
19 70 (2.13%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 496 (15.07%) Cloud Native
2 254 (7.72%) Product Ownership
3 121 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
4 117 (3.56%) Management Information System
5 112 (3.40%) Enterprise Software
6 88 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
6 88 (2.67%) Onboarding
7 74 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
8 56 (1.70%) Algorithms
9 55 (1.67%) Public Cloud
10 54 (1.64%) Data Centre
11 48 (1.46%) Mobile App
11 48 (1.46%) Security Posture
12 47 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
12 47 (1.43%) Low-Code
13 44 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
13 44 (1.34%) Virtual Team
14 39 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
15 33 (1.00%) IoT
16 31 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 348 (10.57%) Linux
2 267 (8.11%) Windows
3 81 (2.46%) Windows Server
4 62 (1.88%) Unix
5 60 (1.82%) VMS
6 37 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 33 (1.00%) Android
8 25 (0.76%) Apple iOS
9 23 (0.70%) Ubuntu
9 23 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
10 17 (0.52%) Amazon Linux
11 16 (0.49%) Debian
12 15 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
13 10 (0.30%) CentOS
14 7 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
15 4 (0.12%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.091%) Windows 10
17 2 (0.061%) AIX
17 2 (0.061%) Solaris
17 2 (0.061%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,748 (53.11%) CI/CD
2 1,481 (45.00%) Agile
3 761 (23.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 716 (21.76%) Problem-Solving
5 618 (18.78%) Continuous Improvement
6 584 (17.75%) Mentoring
7 565 (17.17%) AI
8 516 (15.68%) Software Engineering
9 507 (15.41%) Test Automation
10 490 (14.89%) Microservices
11 472 (14.34%) Containerisation
12 382 (11.61%) Analytics
13 366 (11.12%) Roadmaps
14 351 (10.67%) Observability
15 345 (10.48%) Coaching
16 338 (10.27%) Scrum
17 319 (9.69%) Computer Science
18 289 (8.78%) SDLC
19 275 (8.36%) Machine Learning
20 272 (8.26%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 966 (29.35%) Python
2 751 (22.82%) SQL
3 516 (15.68%) C#
4 415 (12.61%) Java
5 413 (12.55%) PowerShell
6 356 (10.82%) JavaScript
7 278 (8.45%) Bash
8 260 (7.90%) TypeScript
9 138 (4.19%) Bicep
10 112 (3.40%) Go
11 64 (1.94%) T-SQL
12 58 (1.76%) Apex Code
13 50 (1.52%) Groovy
14 47 (1.43%) Shell Script
15 44 (1.34%) C++
16 40 (1.22%) PL/SQL
17 35 (1.06%) Scala
18 31 (0.94%) PHP
19 30 (0.91%) Perl
20 24 (0.73%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 469 (14.25%) Degree
2 355 (10.79%) Security Cleared
3 253 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 249 (7.57%) SC Cleared
5 157 (4.77%) Azure Certification
6 122 (3.71%) AWS Certification
7 118 (3.59%) Master's Degree
8 92 (2.80%) DV Cleared
9 64 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
10 56 (1.70%) ISTQB
11 45 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 40 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
13 38 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
14 35 (1.06%) PhD
15 30 (0.91%) CISSP
16 26 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
17 25 (0.76%) CCNP
18 24 (0.73%) Chartered Engineer
19 22 (0.67%) PMP
20 21 (0.64%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 360 (10.94%) QA
2 129 (3.92%) GDPR
2 129 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 104 (3.16%) Accessibility
4 86 (2.61%) Data Quality
5 76 (2.31%) NIST
6 41 (1.25%) NCSC
7 32 (0.97%) SLA
8 28 (0.85%) PCI DSS
9 25 (0.76%) PMO
10 24 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 23 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 20 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
13 19 (0.58%) SOC 2
14 18 (0.55%) ISO 9001
15 16 (0.49%) WCAG
16 15 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 14 (0.43%) HIPAA
18 10 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
19 9 (0.27%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 650 (19.75%) Docker
2 149 (4.53%) Active Directory
3 71 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 57 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (0.70%) vSphere
6 19 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
7 18 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
8 15 (0.46%) DFS Replication
9 14 (0.43%) NFS
10 10 (0.30%) Postfix
11 9 (0.27%) HDFS
12 8 (0.24%) Hyper-V
13 6 (0.18%) Dovecot
13 6 (0.18%) Firmware
13 6 (0.18%) Squid
14 5 (0.15%) Kamailio
14 5 (0.15%) VMware NSX
15 4 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
16 3 (0.091%) vCloud
17 2 (0.061%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 854 (25.95%) Terraform
2 738 (22.42%) Kubernetes
3 320 (9.72%) Ansible
4 215 (6.53%) Grafana
5 186 (5.65%) Prometheus
6 48 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
7 44 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
8 38 (1.15%) Argo
9 22 (0.67%) Puppet
10 18 (0.55%) SCCM
11 16 (0.49%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.40%) Kibana
12 13 (0.40%) Red Hat Satellite
13 12 (0.36%) AWS Copilot
13 12 (0.36%) vCenter Server
14 11 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
15 9 (0.27%) HP Fortify
15 9 (0.27%) Rancher
16 8 (0.24%) Kubeflow
17 7 (0.21%) Nessus
Vendors
1 699 (21.24%) Microsoft
2 142 (4.31%) Databricks
3 126 (3.83%) Google
3 126 (3.83%) Salesforce
4 122 (3.71%) Oracle
5 105 (3.19%) VMware
6 84 (2.55%) ServiceNow
7 72 (2.19%) Splunk
8 71 (2.16%) Red Hat
9 65 (1.98%) SAP
10 57 (1.73%) Cisco
11 39 (1.19%) Guidewire
11 39 (1.19%) OpenAI
12 34 (1.03%) Palo Alto
13 29 (0.88%) IBM
13 29 (0.88%) SolarWinds
14 27 (0.82%) Fortinet
15 24 (0.73%) MuleSoft
16 22 (0.67%) Okta
17 20 (0.61%) Dynatrace