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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 21 26
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,773 4,076 7,104
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.96% 8.78% 6.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.75% 9.59% 8.19%
Number of salaries quoted 3,503 2,365 5,148
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,092 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £50,083
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £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 70,675 42,514 86,697
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.44% 91.57% 82.17%
Number of salaries quoted 48,811 23,148 61,276
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £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% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.34% - -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 30 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 30 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 4,205 £70,000 -2.10% 1,078
UK excluding London -5 2,896 £65,000 - 856
Work from Home -1 1,712 £67,500 -3.57% 603
London -7 1,474 £84,750 +5.94% 425
North of England -1 1,059 £69,305 +3.38% 227
South East -15 626 £65,000 - 287
North West -1 574 £70,000 +4.42% 125
South West -6 414 £70,000 +7.69% 100
Midlands -23 352 £65,000 - 102
Yorkshire +8 291 £70,000 - 66
West Midlands -33 196 £65,000 - 65
North East +10 194 £60,000 -7.69% 39
East of England +7 184 £60,000 -7.69% 68
East Midlands +3 154 £65,000 +13.04% 37
Scotland -6 132 £57,500 -19.30% 39
Wales +1 127 £53,171 -9.50% 28
Northern Ireland -35 7 £73,151 -8.56% 28
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 97 (2.03%) Confluence
2 91 (1.91%) SharePoint
3 64 (1.34%) Apache Spark
4 60 (1.26%) Apache
5 46 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
6 45 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
7 30 (0.63%) CMS
7 30 (0.63%) IIS
8 16 (0.34%) SAS
9 15 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
10 11 (0.23%) OpenStack
11 10 (0.21%) nginx
11 10 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
12 9 (0.19%) Jupyter
12 9 (0.19%) Umbraco
12 9 (0.19%) WordPress
13 8 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
14 7 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 6 (0.13%) Apache Solr
15 6 (0.13%) Moodle
Applications
1 52 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
2 36 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.42%) MS Visio
4 19 (0.40%) PlantUML
5 13 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.17%) Trello
8 7 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
8 7 (0.15%) Simulink
9 4 (0.084%) Maya
10 3 (0.063%) Blender
10 3 (0.063%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.021%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.021%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.021%) Notion
11 1 (0.021%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 80 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.13%) Endur
3 6 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.10%) Dynamics AX
4 5 (0.10%) Elite 3E
4 5 (0.10%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.10%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.10%) Visualfiles
5 4 (0.084%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.084%) SAP IBP
6 3 (0.063%) Infor SunSystems
6 3 (0.063%) Magento
7 2 (0.042%) Adobe Campaign
7 2 (0.042%) Carpe Diem
7 2 (0.042%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.042%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 2 (0.042%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.042%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,515 (52.69%) Azure
2 1,540 (32.26%) AWS
3 1,279 (26.80%) Azure DevOps
4 526 (11.02%) GCP
5 500 (10.48%) GitHub
6 465 (9.74%) Serverless
7 347 (7.27%) Power Platform
8 291 (6.10%) SaaS
9 267 (5.59%) GitHub Actions
10 228 (4.78%) Amazon S3
11 226 (4.73%) AWS CloudFormation
12 211 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
13 196 (4.11%) PaaS
14 158 (3.31%) Azure AKS
15 148 (3.10%) Dynamics 365
15 148 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
16 146 (3.06%) Amazon EKS
17 145 (3.04%) Amazon ECS
18 142 (2.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 142 (2.98%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 144 (3.02%) Firewall
2 88 (1.84%) DNS
3 63 (1.32%) Broadband
4 61 (1.28%) VPN
5 58 (1.22%) TCP/IP
6 41 (0.86%) Network Security
7 34 (0.71%) HTTP
8 24 (0.50%) DHCP
9 23 (0.48%) WAN
10 22 (0.46%) LAN
11 21 (0.44%) Internet
12 13 (0.27%) DMARC
13 12 (0.25%) MQTT
13 12 (0.25%) Wireless
14 10 (0.21%) BGP
15 9 (0.19%) SAN
16 8 (0.17%) HTTPS
17 7 (0.15%) Bluetooth
17 7 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
18 6 (0.13%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 269 (5.64%) SQL Server
2 253 (5.30%) Azure SQL Database
2 253 (5.30%) MongoDB
3 193 (4.04%) NoSQL
4 188 (3.94%) Power BI
5 167 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
6 106 (2.22%) DynamoDB
7 93 (1.95%) Relational Database
8 87 (1.82%) MySQL
9 84 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
10 83 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
11 79 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
12 77 (1.61%) Data Lake
13 64 (1.34%) Metadata
14 49 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
15 44 (0.92%) Redis
16 38 (0.80%) Delta Lake
17 36 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
17 36 (0.75%) Big Data
17 36 (0.75%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 500 (10.48%) Git
2 406 (8.51%) Jenkins
3 397 (8.32%) GitLab
4 303 (6.35%) JIRA
5 101 (2.12%) SonarQube
6 81 (1.70%) Selenium
7 79 (1.66%) Cypress.io
8 59 (1.24%) Maven
9 46 (0.96%) Postman
10 39 (0.82%) JUnit
11 37 (0.78%) Cucumber
12 35 (0.73%) Bitbucket
13 34 (0.71%) CircleCI
13 34 (0.71%) TeamCity
14 30 (0.63%) JMeter
15 26 (0.54%) Eclipse
16 25 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
17 23 (0.48%) Visual Studio
18 21 (0.44%) REST Assured
19 19 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 973 (20.39%) Social Skills
2 959 (20.09%) Finance
3 351 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
4 342 (7.17%) Public Sector
5 291 (6.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 242 (5.07%) Banking
7 149 (3.12%) Retail
8 139 (2.91%) Law
9 109 (2.28%) Marketing
10 83 (1.74%) Games
10 83 (1.74%) Legal
11 59 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
12 55 (1.15%) Manufacturing
13 52 (1.09%) Advertising
14 46 (0.96%) Financial Institution
14 46 (0.96%) Telecoms
15 45 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
16 38 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
17 34 (0.71%) Back Office
18 25 (0.52%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,085 (22.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 968 (20.28%) Senior
3 862 (18.06%) Developer
4 662 (13.87%) Lead
5 405 (8.49%) Architect
6 355 (7.44%) Software Engineer
7 334 (7.00%) Azure Engineer
8 256 (5.36%) Cloud Engineer
9 246 (5.15%) Senior DevOps
10 221 (4.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 207 (4.34%) .NET Developer
11 207 (4.34%) Senior Developer
12 187 (3.92%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 181 (3.79%) Platform Engineer
14 166 (3.48%) Data Engineer
15 163 (3.42%) AWS Engineer
16 161 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
17 147 (3.08%) Java Developer
18 135 (2.83%) Lead DevOps
19 110 (2.30%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 650 (13.62%) .NET
2 430 (9.01%) React
3 303 (6.35%) Node.js
4 293 (6.14%) RESTful
5 290 (6.08%) REST
6 266 (5.57%) ASP.NET
7 239 (5.01%) .NET Core
8 220 (4.61%) CSS
9 215 (4.50%) HTML
10 208 (4.36%) ASP.NET Core
10 208 (4.36%) Spring Boot
11 195 (4.09%) Spring
12 165 (3.46%) Kafka
13 163 (3.42%) AngularJS
14 120 (2.51%) Blazor
14 120 (2.51%) Entity Framework
15 112 (2.35%) YAML
16 102 (2.14%) SOAP
17 94 (1.97%) Middleware
17 94 (1.97%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 766 (16.05%) Cloud Native
2 303 (6.35%) Product Ownership
3 191 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 145 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
5 94 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
6 93 (1.95%) Onboarding
7 85 (1.78%) Management Information System
8 82 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 82 (1.72%) Mobile App
9 69 (1.45%) Public Cloud
10 67 (1.40%) Data Centre
11 61 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
12 54 (1.13%) Data Structures
12 54 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
13 49 (1.03%) Low-Code
14 45 (0.94%) Algorithms
14 45 (0.94%) Security Posture
15 40 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
16 39 (0.82%) Virtual Team
17 34 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 476 (9.97%) Linux
2 224 (4.69%) Windows
3 94 (1.97%) Unix
4 73 (1.53%) Windows Server
5 58 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 49 (1.03%) Ubuntu
7 40 (0.84%) VMS
8 37 (0.78%) CentOS
9 35 (0.73%) Android
10 22 (0.46%) Apple iOS
11 13 (0.27%) Debian
12 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.084%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.084%) Rocky
15 3 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
16 2 (0.042%) AIX
16 2 (0.042%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.042%) Windows Server 2012
17 1 (0.021%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,433 (50.97%) CI/CD
2 1,748 (36.62%) Agile
3 1,154 (24.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 879 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
5 809 (16.95%) Mentoring
6 792 (16.59%) Software Engineering
7 763 (15.99%) Problem-Solving
8 758 (15.88%) AI
9 655 (13.72%) Test Automation
10 644 (13.49%) Microservices
11 622 (13.03%) Containerisation
12 541 (11.33%) Full-Stack Development
13 524 (10.98%) Roadmaps
14 505 (10.58%) Observability
15 500 (10.48%) Platform Engineering
16 496 (10.39%) Scrum
17 448 (9.39%) Technical Leadership
18 444 (9.30%) Analytics
19 370 (7.75%) Stakeholder Management
20 312 (6.54%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,106 (23.17%) Python
2 872 (18.27%) SQL
3 659 (13.81%) C#
4 644 (13.49%) Java
5 568 (11.90%) JavaScript
6 389 (8.15%) Bash
7 353 (7.40%) TypeScript
8 295 (6.18%) PowerShell
9 150 (3.14%) Bicep
10 142 (2.98%) Go
11 131 (2.74%) C++
12 76 (1.59%) Apex Code
13 59 (1.24%) PHP
14 49 (1.03%) Groovy
15 48 (1.01%) SOQL
16 46 (0.96%) C
17 45 (0.94%) SOSL
18 41 (0.86%) Kotlin
19 39 (0.82%) Rust
20 37 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 749 (15.69%) Security Cleared
2 478 (10.01%) Degree
3 460 (9.64%) SC Cleared
4 179 (3.75%) DV Cleared
5 178 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 119 (2.49%) Azure Certification
7 105 (2.20%) Master's Degree
8 95 (1.99%) AWS Certification
9 54 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 52 (1.09%) ISTQB
11 35 (0.73%) DBS Check
11 35 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
12 34 (0.71%) PMI Certification
13 30 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 30 (0.63%) CISSP
14 26 (0.54%) PMP
15 25 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 24 (0.50%) PhD
17 20 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
18 16 (0.34%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 412 (8.63%) QA
2 160 (3.35%) Data Quality
3 159 (3.33%) Accessibility
4 101 (2.12%) GDPR
5 71 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 56 (1.17%) NIST
7 52 (1.09%) WCAG
8 47 (0.98%) GRC
9 38 (0.80%) PCI DSS
10 32 (0.67%) SOC 2
11 21 (0.44%) PMO
11 21 (0.44%) SLA
12 14 (0.29%) NCSC
13 12 (0.25%) TickIT
14 10 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 9 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
16 6 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 6 (0.13%) Solvency II
17 5 (0.10%) IFRS
System Software
1 767 (16.07%) Docker
2 134 (2.81%) Active Directory
3 73 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.61%) vSphere
6 20 (0.42%) Firmware
7 19 (0.40%) Hyper-V
8 13 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.13%) iptables
11 5 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.084%) Embedded Firmware
12 4 (0.084%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.063%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.063%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.042%) KVM
15 1 (0.021%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.021%) QEMU
15 1 (0.021%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,166 (24.43%) Terraform
2 871 (18.25%) Kubernetes
3 420 (8.80%) Ansible
4 229 (4.80%) Grafana
5 177 (3.71%) Prometheus
6 76 (1.59%) Argo
7 58 (1.22%) Puppet
8 39 (0.82%) Nagios
9 30 (0.63%) HP Fortify
9 30 (0.63%) Kibana
10 25 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
11 21 (0.44%) Istio
12 15 (0.31%) Packer
12 15 (0.31%) Rancher
13 14 (0.29%) Progress Chef
14 13 (0.27%) Proxmox
15 12 (0.25%) Kustomize
16 10 (0.21%) logstash
17 9 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
18 8 (0.17%) yum
Vendors
1 935 (19.59%) Microsoft
2 183 (3.83%) Google
3 157 (3.29%) Databricks
4 148 (3.10%) Salesforce
5 111 (2.33%) VMware
6 102 (2.14%) ServiceNow
7 98 (2.05%) Splunk
8 90 (1.89%) Oracle
9 81 (1.70%) Red Hat
10 57 (1.19%) SAP
11 55 (1.15%) Pega
12 45 (0.94%) MuleSoft
13 41 (0.86%) Dynatrace
14 39 (0.82%) Cisco
14 39 (0.82%) Facebook
15 36 (0.75%) OpenAI
16 29 (0.61%) Apple
17 28 (0.59%) YouTube
18 27 (0.57%) Palo Alto
19 26 (0.54%) Foundry