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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 21 26
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,619 4,055 7,202
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.88% 8.98% 6.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.66% 9.73% 8.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,370 2,354 5,198
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,565 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £88,563 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
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 69,314 41,679 88,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.17% 92.27% 81.73%
Number of salaries quoted 47,751 22,444 62,987
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.41%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,159
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £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 23 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 23 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 -9 4,088 £70,000 -2.10% 1,044
UK excluding London -6 2,776 £65,000 - 829
Work from Home -2 1,654 £67,500 -3.57% 579
London -6 1,464 £82,500 +3.13% 411
North of England 0 1,004 £69,306 +3.38% 248
South East -9 608 £65,000 - 257
North West -2 546 £70,000 +3.70% 140
South West -7 397 £70,000 +7.69% 93
Midlands -26 342 £66,000 +5.60% 101
Yorkshire +4 276 £70,000 - 70
West Midlands -35 191 £66,250 +1.92% 60
North East +10 182 £60,000 -7.69% 41
East of England +7 182 £60,000 -7.69% 61
East Midlands -1 148 £66,750 +16.09% 41
Scotland -7 129 £56,250 -23.73% 33
Wales 0 111 £53,171 -11.38% 26
Northern Ireland -40 8 £73,151 -20.92% 30
Isle of Man +2 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 92 (1.99%) Confluence
2 86 (1.86%) SharePoint
3 64 (1.39%) Apache Spark
4 61 (1.32%) Apache
5 46 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
6 43 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
7 29 (0.63%) CMS
7 29 (0.63%) IIS
8 15 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
8 15 (0.32%) SAS
9 10 (0.22%) OpenStack
9 10 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
10 9 (0.19%) Jupyter
10 9 (0.19%) nginx
10 9 (0.19%) Umbraco
10 9 (0.19%) WordPress
11 8 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
12 7 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 6 (0.13%) Apache Solr
13 6 (0.13%) Moodle
Applications
1 46 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
2 35 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.45%) MS Visio
4 18 (0.39%) PlantUML
5 12 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.15%) Simulink
8 6 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
8 6 (0.13%) Trello
9 4 (0.087%) Maya
10 3 (0.065%) Blender
10 3 (0.065%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.022%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.022%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.022%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.022%) Notion
11 1 (0.022%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 79 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.15%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.13%) Endur
5 5 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.11%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.087%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.087%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.087%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.065%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.065%) Magento
7 3 (0.065%) SAP IBP
7 3 (0.065%) Shopify
8 2 (0.043%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.043%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.043%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 1 (0.022%) Aladdin
9 1 (0.022%) Infor M3
9 1 (0.022%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2,438 (52.78%) Azure
2 1,485 (32.15%) AWS
3 1,232 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
4 510 (11.04%) GCP
5 485 (10.50%) GitHub
6 453 (9.81%) Serverless
7 344 (7.45%) Power Platform
8 289 (6.26%) SaaS
9 256 (5.54%) GitHub Actions
10 223 (4.83%) Amazon S3
11 218 (4.72%) AWS CloudFormation
12 207 (4.48%) AWS Lambda
13 183 (3.96%) PaaS
14 154 (3.33%) Azure AKS
15 150 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
16 147 (3.18%) Dynamics 365
17 143 (3.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 140 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
19 138 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
19 138 (2.99%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 142 (3.07%) Firewall
2 89 (1.93%) DNS
3 69 (1.49%) Broadband
4 58 (1.26%) VPN
5 57 (1.23%) TCP/IP
6 41 (0.89%) Network Security
7 33 (0.71%) HTTP
8 26 (0.56%) DHCP
9 24 (0.52%) WAN
10 22 (0.48%) LAN
11 18 (0.39%) Internet
12 12 (0.26%) DMARC
12 12 (0.26%) MQTT
13 10 (0.22%) BGP
13 10 (0.22%) Wireless
14 9 (0.19%) SAN
15 8 (0.17%) HTTPS
16 6 (0.13%) Bluetooth
16 6 (0.13%) OSPF
16 6 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 253 (5.48%) SQL Server
2 232 (5.02%) MongoDB
3 228 (4.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 200 (4.33%) NoSQL
5 187 (4.05%) Power BI
6 158 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
7 105 (2.27%) DynamoDB
8 93 (2.01%) Relational Database
9 82 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
9 82 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
10 80 (1.73%) Data Lake
10 80 (1.73%) MySQL
11 79 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
12 62 (1.34%) Metadata
13 52 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
14 42 (0.91%) Redis
15 39 (0.84%) Delta Lake
16 37 (0.80%) Big Data
16 37 (0.80%) BigQuery
17 36 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 490 (10.61%) Git
2 388 (8.40%) Jenkins
3 383 (8.29%) GitLab
4 286 (6.19%) JIRA
5 98 (2.12%) SonarQube
6 83 (1.80%) Selenium
7 81 (1.75%) Cypress.io
8 58 (1.26%) Maven
9 49 (1.06%) Postman
10 36 (0.78%) Cucumber
10 36 (0.78%) JUnit
11 34 (0.74%) Bitbucket
11 34 (0.74%) CircleCI
11 34 (0.74%) TeamCity
12 29 (0.63%) JMeter
13 26 (0.56%) Eclipse
14 24 (0.52%) Visual Studio
14 24 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
15 21 (0.45%) REST Assured
16 18 (0.39%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 935 (20.24%) Social Skills
2 927 (20.07%) Finance
3 343 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
4 314 (6.80%) Public Sector
5 288 (6.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 237 (5.13%) Banking
7 147 (3.18%) Retail
8 134 (2.90%) Law
9 103 (2.23%) Marketing
10 81 (1.75%) Games
11 79 (1.71%) Legal
12 53 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
13 51 (1.10%) Manufacturing
14 49 (1.06%) Advertising
15 47 (1.02%) Telecoms
16 45 (0.97%) Financial Institution
17 41 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
18 36 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
19 33 (0.71%) Back Office
20 28 (0.61%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,027 (22.23%) DevOps Engineer
2 906 (19.61%) Senior
3 828 (17.93%) Developer
4 644 (13.94%) Lead
5 397 (8.59%) Architect
6 345 (7.47%) Software Engineer
7 335 (7.25%) Azure Engineer
8 255 (5.52%) Cloud Engineer
9 221 (4.78%) Senior DevOps
10 201 (4.35%) Senior Developer
11 195 (4.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 187 (4.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 180 (3.90%) .NET Developer
14 174 (3.77%) Platform Engineer
15 166 (3.59%) Data Engineer
16 163 (3.53%) AWS Engineer
17 162 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
18 148 (3.20%) Java Developer
19 132 (2.86%) Lead DevOps
20 111 (2.40%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 609 (13.18%) .NET
2 406 (8.79%) React
3 296 (6.41%) Node.js
4 283 (6.13%) REST
5 276 (5.98%) RESTful
6 237 (5.13%) ASP.NET
7 217 (4.70%) .NET Core
8 204 (4.42%) CSS
9 198 (4.29%) HTML
10 196 (4.24%) Spring Boot
11 185 (4.01%) Spring
12 182 (3.94%) ASP.NET Core
13 163 (3.53%) Kafka
14 160 (3.46%) AngularJS
15 111 (2.40%) YAML
16 108 (2.34%) Entity Framework
17 104 (2.25%) Blazor
18 103 (2.23%) SOAP
19 96 (2.08%) Middleware
20 95 (2.06%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 724 (15.67%) Cloud Native
2 295 (6.39%) Product Ownership
3 179 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
4 137 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
5 92 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
6 89 (1.93%) Onboarding
7 82 (1.78%) Management Information System
7 82 (1.78%) Mobile App
8 81 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
9 64 (1.39%) Data Centre
9 64 (1.39%) Public Cloud
10 60 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
11 53 (1.15%) Data Structures
12 48 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
13 46 (1.00%) Algorithms
13 46 (1.00%) Low-Code
14 44 (0.95%) Security Posture
15 38 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
16 36 (0.78%) Virtual Team
17 33 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 461 (9.98%) Linux
2 215 (4.65%) Windows
3 92 (1.99%) Unix
4 73 (1.58%) Windows Server
5 53 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 49 (1.06%) Ubuntu
7 39 (0.84%) VMS
8 35 (0.76%) Android
9 32 (0.69%) CentOS
10 25 (0.54%) Apple iOS
11 11 (0.24%) Debian
12 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.087%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.087%) Rocky
15 3 (0.065%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.043%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.043%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.022%) AIX
17 1 (0.022%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,342 (50.70%) CI/CD
2 1,668 (36.11%) Agile
3 1,112 (24.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 843 (18.25%) Continuous Improvement
5 779 (16.87%) Mentoring
6 764 (16.54%) Software Engineering
7 728 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
8 724 (15.67%) AI
9 637 (13.79%) Test Automation
10 620 (13.42%) Microservices
11 605 (13.10%) Containerisation
12 512 (11.08%) Full-Stack Development
13 510 (11.04%) Roadmaps
14 485 (10.50%) Observability
15 478 (10.35%) Scrum
16 474 (10.26%) Platform Engineering
17 445 (9.63%) Analytics
18 427 (9.24%) Technical Leadership
19 343 (7.43%) Stakeholder Management
20 300 (6.49%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,084 (23.47%) Python
2 843 (18.25%) SQL
3 633 (13.70%) Java
4 618 (13.38%) C#
5 542 (11.73%) JavaScript
6 387 (8.38%) Bash
7 347 (7.51%) TypeScript
8 287 (6.21%) PowerShell
9 144 (3.12%) Bicep
10 140 (3.03%) Go
11 128 (2.77%) C++
12 77 (1.67%) Apex Code
13 57 (1.23%) PHP
14 49 (1.06%) Groovy
15 48 (1.04%) SOQL
16 46 (1.00%) C
17 45 (0.97%) SOSL
18 43 (0.93%) Kotlin
19 39 (0.84%) Rust
20 37 (0.80%) Scala
Qualifications
1 704 (15.24%) Security Cleared
2 471 (10.20%) Degree
3 439 (9.50%) SC Cleared
4 178 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 162 (3.51%) DV Cleared
6 117 (2.53%) Azure Certification
7 105 (2.27%) Master's Degree
8 100 (2.16%) AWS Certification
9 55 (1.19%) ISTQB
9 55 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
10 34 (0.74%) DBS Check
11 32 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
12 30 (0.65%) CISSP
12 30 (0.65%) PMI Certification
13 28 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 24 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 24 (0.52%) PhD
15 23 (0.50%) PMP
16 20 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
17 15 (0.32%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 403 (8.72%) QA
2 159 (3.44%) Data Quality
3 157 (3.40%) Accessibility
4 96 (2.08%) GDPR
5 68 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 55 (1.19%) NIST
7 50 (1.08%) WCAG
8 47 (1.02%) GRC
9 36 (0.78%) PCI DSS
10 32 (0.69%) SOC 2
11 21 (0.45%) SLA
12 19 (0.41%) PMO
13 14 (0.30%) NCSC
14 12 (0.26%) TickIT
15 10 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
16 9 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 9 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
17 6 (0.13%) Solvency II
18 5 (0.11%) IFRS
18 5 (0.11%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 750 (16.24%) Docker
2 133 (2.88%) Active Directory
3 69 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (0.58%) vSphere
6 20 (0.43%) Firmware
7 19 (0.41%) Hyper-V
8 11 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.13%) iptables
10 6 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.087%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.087%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.065%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.065%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.043%) KVM
14 1 (0.022%) OpenAM
14 1 (0.022%) OpenDJ
14 1 (0.022%) OpenIDM
14 1 (0.022%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,131 (24.49%) Terraform
2 838 (18.14%) Kubernetes
3 406 (8.79%) Ansible
4 227 (4.91%) Grafana
5 184 (3.98%) Prometheus
6 80 (1.73%) Argo
7 52 (1.13%) Puppet
8 38 (0.82%) Nagios
9 30 (0.65%) Kibana
9 30 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
10 29 (0.63%) HP Fortify
11 20 (0.43%) Istio
12 18 (0.39%) Kustomize
13 15 (0.32%) Packer
14 14 (0.30%) Rancher
15 13 (0.28%) Progress Chef
15 13 (0.28%) Proxmox
16 10 (0.22%) logstash
17 9 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
17 9 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 894 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 178 (3.85%) Google
3 158 (3.42%) Databricks
4 149 (3.23%) Salesforce
5 108 (2.34%) VMware
6 99 (2.14%) ServiceNow
6 99 (2.14%) Splunk
7 83 (1.80%) Oracle
8 80 (1.73%) Red Hat
9 57 (1.23%) SAP
10 45 (0.97%) MuleSoft
11 41 (0.89%) Pega
12 39 (0.84%) Dynatrace
13 38 (0.82%) Cisco
14 33 (0.71%) OpenAI
15 32 (0.69%) Facebook
16 28 (0.61%) Palo Alto
17 26 (0.56%) Apple
18 24 (0.52%) Foundry
18 24 (0.52%) YouTube