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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 21 23
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 -11
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,418 4,005 5,699
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.00% 8.00% 6.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.82% 8.99% 8.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,871 2,279 3,874
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £86,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +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 79,395 44,536 67,357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.20% 88.97% 80.72%
Number of salaries quoted 54,920 25,310 42,355
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 24 August 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 24 August 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 4,690 £70,782 +1.12% 1,155
UK excluding London -3 3,510 £65,000 - 921
Work from Home -2 1,916 £69,306 -0.99% 646
London -12 1,519 £85,000 +6.25% 463
North of England +4 1,248 £67,500 +3.85% 246
South East -9 704 £65,000 - 282
North West +4 683 £70,000 +7.69% 126
South West +14 516 £71,250 +9.62% 156
Midlands -16 414 £67,500 +3.85% 124
Yorkshire +16 293 £70,000 +12.00% 73
North East +25 272 £60,000 -7.69% 49
West Midlands -20 248 £70,000 +7.69% 76
East of England +9 208 £59,450 -8.54% 52
Wales +4 190 £55,000 - 26
East Midlands 0 166 £62,500 +8.69% 48
Scotland -5 131 £60,000 -12.73% 39
Northern Ireland +2 114 £72,246 -44.43% 8
Isle of Man 0 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
1 108 (1.99%) Confluence
2 99 (1.83%) Apache Spark
3 95 (1.75%) SharePoint
4 82 (1.51%) Apache
5 45 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
6 39 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
7 30 (0.55%) CMS
7 30 (0.55%) IIS
8 23 (0.42%) OpenStack
9 19 (0.35%) SAS
10 14 (0.26%) Jupyter
10 14 (0.26%) nginx
10 14 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
11 9 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
11 9 (0.17%) Umbraco
11 9 (0.17%) WordPress
12 8 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 8 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
13 7 (0.13%) Anypoint
13 7 (0.13%) Camunda
Applications
1 61 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
2 44 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.39%) Chatbot
3 21 (0.39%) MS Visio
3 21 (0.39%) PlantUML
4 20 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
5 18 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.24%) Trello
7 7 (0.13%) Simulink
8 4 (0.074%) Maya
9 3 (0.055%) Blender
9 3 (0.055%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.037%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.018%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.018%) Notion
11 1 (0.018%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 77 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.24%) Elite 3E
4 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
4 6 (0.11%) Teamcenter
5 5 (0.092%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.092%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.092%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (0.092%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.074%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.074%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.074%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.074%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.074%) Shopify
7 3 (0.055%) Infor SunSystems
7 3 (0.055%) Magento
7 3 (0.055%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (0.055%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.055%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.055%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 2,851 (52.62%) Azure
2 1,749 (32.28%) AWS
3 1,425 (26.30%) Azure DevOps
4 585 (10.80%) GCP
5 537 (9.91%) GitHub
6 484 (8.93%) Serverless
7 442 (8.16%) SaaS
8 384 (7.09%) Power Platform
9 281 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
10 276 (5.09%) AWS CloudFormation
11 227 (4.19%) Amazon S3
12 210 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
13 208 (3.84%) PaaS
14 187 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
15 167 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
16 159 (2.93%) Azure AKS
17 153 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
18 152 (2.81%) Amazon ECS
19 151 (2.79%) Azure Service Bus
20 148 (2.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 127 (2.34%) Firewall
2 86 (1.59%) DNS
3 69 (1.27%) VPN
4 63 (1.16%) TCP/IP
5 47 (0.87%) Network Security
6 33 (0.61%) Internet
7 29 (0.54%) Broadband
8 26 (0.48%) HTTP
9 22 (0.41%) DHCP
10 17 (0.31%) LAN
11 16 (0.30%) MQTT
12 14 (0.26%) WAN
12 14 (0.26%) Wireless
13 13 (0.24%) DMARC
13 13 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
14 12 (0.22%) SAN
15 9 (0.17%) BGP
15 9 (0.17%) HTTPS
16 8 (0.15%) NAS
16 8 (0.15%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 343 (6.33%) SQL Server
2 287 (5.30%) MongoDB
3 282 (5.20%) Azure SQL Database
4 220 (4.06%) Power BI
5 205 (3.78%) PostgreSQL
6 191 (3.53%) NoSQL
7 120 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
8 119 (2.20%) MySQL
9 112 (2.07%) Relational Database
10 101 (1.86%) DynamoDB
11 97 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
12 96 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
13 91 (1.68%) Data Lake
14 68 (1.26%) Metadata
15 61 (1.13%) Redis
16 47 (0.87%) Big Data
17 43 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
18 41 (0.76%) Delta Lake
19 38 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
20 32 (0.59%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 606 (11.18%) Git
2 400 (7.38%) Jenkins
3 390 (7.20%) GitLab
4 356 (6.57%) JIRA
5 92 (1.70%) Selenium
6 76 (1.40%) SonarQube
7 65 (1.20%) Cypress.io
8 56 (1.03%) Maven
8 56 (1.03%) Postman
9 53 (0.98%) JUnit
10 42 (0.78%) Cucumber
11 39 (0.72%) TeamCity
12 36 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 36 (0.66%) JMeter
13 34 (0.63%) Bitbucket
14 27 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
15 25 (0.46%) REST Assured
16 24 (0.44%) NUnit
17 20 (0.37%) Mockito
17 20 (0.37%) Zephyr
General
1 1,238 (22.85%) Social Skills
2 1,054 (19.45%) Finance
3 449 (8.29%) Public Sector
4 425 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
5 329 (6.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 263 (4.85%) Banking
7 207 (3.82%) Law
8 168 (3.10%) Legal
9 160 (2.95%) Retail
10 92 (1.70%) Marketing
11 64 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
12 59 (1.09%) Financial Institution
13 54 (1.00%) Games
14 53 (0.98%) Manufacturing
15 50 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
16 48 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
17 47 (0.87%) Advertising
18 39 (0.72%) Telecoms
19 38 (0.70%) Aerospace
20 36 (0.66%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,266 (23.37%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,198 (22.11%) Senior
3 900 (16.61%) Developer
4 716 (13.22%) Lead
5 412 (7.60%) Architect
6 376 (6.94%) Software Engineer
7 341 (6.29%) Azure Engineer
8 293 (5.41%) Senior DevOps
9 282 (5.20%) Cloud Engineer
10 274 (5.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 241 (4.45%) .NET Developer
12 219 (4.04%) Platform Engineer
12 219 (4.04%) Senior Developer
13 200 (3.69%) Data Engineer
14 189 (3.49%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 164 (3.03%) Lead DevOps
16 152 (2.81%) AWS Engineer
17 150 (2.77%) Solutions Architect
18 133 (2.45%) Java Developer
19 123 (2.27%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,320 (24.36%) Terraform
2 754 (13.92%) .NET
3 444 (8.19%) React
4 340 (6.28%) REST
5 339 (6.26%) RESTful
6 337 (6.22%) Node.js
7 308 (5.68%) ASP.NET
8 290 (5.35%) .NET Core
9 245 (4.52%) Spring Boot
10 243 (4.49%) CSS
10 243 (4.49%) HTML
10 243 (4.49%) Spring
11 233 (4.30%) ASP.NET Core
12 214 (3.95%) Kafka
13 167 (3.08%) AngularJS
14 143 (2.64%) Blazor
15 142 (2.62%) Entity Framework
16 125 (2.31%) Middleware
17 105 (1.94%) JSON
18 102 (1.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 957 (17.66%) Cloud Native
2 354 (6.53%) Product Ownership
3 259 (4.78%) Distributed Systems
4 211 (3.89%) Enterprise Software
5 158 (2.92%) Onboarding
6 112 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
7 106 (1.96%) Virtual Team
8 86 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
9 79 (1.46%) Management Information System
10 78 (1.44%) Mobile App
11 77 (1.42%) Data Centre
12 73 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
13 64 (1.18%) Public Cloud
14 63 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
14 63 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
15 53 (0.98%) Data Structures
16 49 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
17 47 (0.87%) AI Agents
18 44 (0.81%) Private Cloud
18 44 (0.81%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 542 (10.00%) Linux
2 255 (4.71%) Windows
3 99 (1.83%) Unix
4 73 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 70 (1.29%) Windows Server
6 55 (1.02%) CentOS
7 41 (0.76%) Ubuntu
8 38 (0.70%) VMS
9 32 (0.59%) Android
10 18 (0.33%) Apple iOS
11 17 (0.31%) Debian
12 11 (0.20%) Rocky
13 7 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
14 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.092%) Kali Linux
15 5 (0.092%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.074%) Solaris
16 4 (0.074%) Windows Server 2019
17 3 (0.055%) AIX
17 3 (0.055%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,726 (50.31%) CI/CD
2 2,004 (36.99%) Agile
3 1,298 (23.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,039 (19.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 999 (18.44%) Mentoring
6 985 (18.18%) Software Engineering
7 939 (17.33%) AI
8 879 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
9 826 (15.25%) Test Automation
10 728 (13.44%) Microservices
11 674 (12.44%) Containerisation
12 612 (11.30%) Platform Engineering
13 590 (10.89%) Observability
14 570 (10.52%) Technical Leadership
15 558 (10.30%) Full-Stack Development
16 556 (10.26%) Roadmaps
17 539 (9.95%) Scrum
18 515 (9.51%) Stakeholder Management
19 476 (8.79%) Analytics
20 388 (7.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,278 (23.59%) Python
2 985 (18.18%) SQL
3 813 (15.01%) C#
4 697 (12.86%) Java
5 661 (12.20%) JavaScript
6 415 (7.66%) TypeScript
7 372 (6.87%) PowerShell
8 370 (6.83%) Bash
9 158 (2.92%) Bicep
10 124 (2.29%) C++
11 121 (2.23%) Go
12 57 (1.05%) PHP
13 52 (0.96%) C
13 52 (0.96%) T-SQL
14 50 (0.92%) Apex Code
15 47 (0.87%) Scala
16 45 (0.83%) Groovy
17 41 (0.76%) Kotlin
18 39 (0.72%) Rust
19 38 (0.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 943 (17.40%) Security Cleared
2 625 (11.54%) SC Cleared
3 520 (9.60%) Degree
4 275 (5.08%) DV Cleared
5 199 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 158 (2.92%) Azure Certification
7 112 (2.07%) Master's Degree
8 100 (1.85%) AWS Certification
9 78 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
10 76 (1.40%) CISSP
11 66 (1.22%) CISM
12 65 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
13 58 (1.07%) ISTQB
14 55 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
15 41 (0.76%) PMI Certification
16 34 (0.63%) DBS Check
17 29 (0.54%) PMP
18 28 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 23 (0.42%) PhD
20 22 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 548 (10.11%) QA
2 186 (3.43%) Accessibility
3 185 (3.41%) Data Quality
4 121 (2.23%) GDPR
5 102 (1.88%) NIST
6 74 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 61 (1.13%) WCAG
8 49 (0.90%) ISO 22301
9 46 (0.85%) GRC
10 35 (0.65%) PCI DSS
11 29 (0.54%) SLA
12 28 (0.52%) PMO
13 27 (0.50%) NCSC
14 20 (0.37%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
16 12 (0.22%) HIPAA
16 12 (0.22%) TickIT
17 11 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
18 10 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 9 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 872 (16.09%) Docker
2 140 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 84 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (0.52%) vSphere
6 23 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 22 (0.41%) Firmware
8 17 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.13%) Ceph
10 6 (0.11%) KVM
10 6 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.092%) iptables
12 4 (0.074%) NDS
13 3 (0.055%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.055%) Xen
14 2 (0.037%) Embedded Firmware
14 2 (0.037%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.018%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.018%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 993 (18.33%) Kubernetes
2 462 (8.53%) Ansible
3 222 (4.10%) Grafana
4 160 (2.95%) Prometheus
5 79 (1.46%) Argo
6 67 (1.24%) Puppet
7 35 (0.65%) Nagios
8 33 (0.61%) Istio
9 30 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
10 24 (0.44%) Kibana
11 21 (0.39%) HP Fortify
12 20 (0.37%) Progress Chef
13 13 (0.24%) Rancher
13 13 (0.24%) ZABBIX
14 12 (0.22%) Packer
14 12 (0.22%) Podman
15 11 (0.20%) logstash
16 10 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
17 9 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 9 (0.17%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,066 (19.68%) Microsoft
2 202 (3.73%) Google
3 182 (3.36%) Databricks
4 127 (2.34%) Salesforce
5 122 (2.25%) Oracle
6 115 (2.12%) VMware
7 92 (1.70%) ServiceNow
8 89 (1.64%) Red Hat
9 87 (1.61%) Splunk
10 72 (1.33%) SAP
11 54 (1.00%) OpenAI
12 51 (0.94%) Pega
13 50 (0.92%) Cisco
14 44 (0.81%) Dynatrace
15 42 (0.78%) Facebook
16 37 (0.68%) MuleSoft
17 32 (0.59%) AppDynamics
17 32 (0.59%) YouTube
18 29 (0.54%) Apple
19 28 (0.52%) Foundry