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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 21 26
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,733 4,067 7,131
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.96% 8.80% 6.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.75% 9.60% 8.20%
Number of salaries quoted 3,469 2,363 5,171
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,046 £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 £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 70,129 42,382 86,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.45% 91.66% 82.23%
Number of salaries quoted 48,378 23,044 61,478
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% -9.12%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.00% - -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 28 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 28 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 4,170 £70,000 -2.10% 1,202
UK excluding London -6 2,864 £65,000 - 942
Work from Home -1 1,698 £67,500 -3.57% 657
London -6 1,466 £84,750 +5.94% 477
North of England 0 1,047 £69,305 +3.38% 259
South East -14 620 £65,000 - 306
North West -1 568 £70,000 +4.42% 143
South West -6 411 £70,000 +7.69% 119
Midlands -23 348 £65,000 - 105
Yorkshire +7 287 £70,000 - 74
West Midlands -31 194 £65,000 - 65
North East +10 192 £60,000 -7.69% 45
East of England +10 182 £60,000 -7.69% 74
East Midlands +4 152 £65,000 +13.04% 40
Scotland -6 131 £57,500 -19.30% 38
Wales +4 123 £53,171 -9.50% 32
Northern Ireland -37 7 £73,151 -8.56% 32
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 (2.05%) Confluence
2 90 (1.90%) SharePoint
3 64 (1.35%) Apache Spark
4 61 (1.29%) Apache
5 46 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
6 45 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
7 30 (0.63%) CMS
7 30 (0.63%) IIS
8 15 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
8 15 (0.32%) SAS
9 10 (0.21%) nginx
9 10 (0.21%) OpenStack
9 10 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
10 9 (0.19%) Jupyter
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 51 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
2 36 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.42%) MS Visio
4 18 (0.38%) PlantUML
5 13 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
7 7 (0.15%) Simulink
7 7 (0.15%) Trello
8 4 (0.085%) Maya
9 3 (0.063%) Blender
9 3 (0.063%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.021%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.021%) EngageOne
10 1 (0.021%) Lightworks
10 1 (0.021%) Notion
10 1 (0.021%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 80 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.13%) Endur
3 6 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.13%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
4 5 (0.11%) Elite 3E
4 5 (0.11%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.11%) Visualfiles
5 4 (0.085%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.063%) Infor SunSystems
6 3 (0.063%) Magento
6 3 (0.063%) SAP IBP
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 2,495 (52.71%) Azure
2 1,530 (32.33%) AWS
3 1,266 (26.75%) Azure DevOps
4 522 (11.03%) GCP
5 498 (10.52%) GitHub
6 464 (9.80%) Serverless
7 348 (7.35%) Power Platform
8 291 (6.15%) SaaS
9 266 (5.62%) GitHub Actions
10 228 (4.82%) Amazon S3
11 223 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
12 210 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
13 196 (4.14%) PaaS
14 159 (3.36%) Azure AKS
15 149 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
16 148 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
17 146 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
18 145 (3.06%) Amazon ECS
19 143 (3.02%) Azure Logic Apps
20 141 (2.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 145 (3.06%) Firewall
2 88 (1.86%) DNS
3 63 (1.33%) Broadband
4 61 (1.29%) VPN
5 58 (1.23%) TCP/IP
6 41 (0.87%) Network Security
7 34 (0.72%) HTTP
8 24 (0.51%) DHCP
9 23 (0.49%) 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
1 268 (5.66%) SQL Server
2 246 (5.20%) MongoDB
3 245 (5.18%) Azure SQL Database
4 192 (4.06%) NoSQL
5 188 (3.97%) Power BI
6 164 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
7 106 (2.24%) DynamoDB
8 93 (1.96%) Relational Database
9 87 (1.84%) MySQL
10 83 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
10 83 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
11 79 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
12 78 (1.65%) Data Lake
13 64 (1.35%) Metadata
14 49 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
15 44 (0.93%) Redis
16 38 (0.80%) Delta Lake
17 36 (0.76%) Big Data
17 36 (0.76%) BigQuery
18 35 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 500 (10.56%) Git
2 403 (8.51%) Jenkins
3 394 (8.32%) GitLab
4 299 (6.32%) JIRA
5 100 (2.11%) SonarQube
6 81 (1.71%) Selenium
7 79 (1.67%) Cypress.io
8 59 (1.25%) Maven
9 46 (0.97%) Postman
10 38 (0.80%) JUnit
11 37 (0.78%) Cucumber
12 35 (0.74%) Bitbucket
13 34 (0.72%) CircleCI
13 34 (0.72%) TeamCity
14 30 (0.63%) JMeter
15 26 (0.55%) Eclipse
16 25 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
17 23 (0.49%) Visual Studio
18 21 (0.44%) REST Assured
19 19 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 968 (20.45%) Social Skills
2 953 (20.14%) Finance
3 351 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
4 340 (7.18%) Public Sector
5 291 (6.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 242 (5.11%) Banking
7 149 (3.15%) Retail
8 140 (2.96%) Law
9 108 (2.28%) Marketing
10 83 (1.75%) Legal
11 82 (1.73%) Games
12 59 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
13 54 (1.14%) Manufacturing
14 51 (1.08%) Advertising
15 46 (0.97%) Telecoms
16 45 (0.95%) Financial Institution
16 45 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
17 38 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
18 34 (0.72%) Back Office
19 26 (0.55%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,066 (22.52%) DevOps Engineer
2 953 (20.14%) Senior
3 856 (18.09%) Developer
4 657 (13.88%) Lead
5 404 (8.54%) Architect
6 354 (7.48%) Software Engineer
7 334 (7.06%) Azure Engineer
8 255 (5.39%) Cloud Engineer
9 237 (5.01%) Senior DevOps
10 212 (4.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 206 (4.35%) Senior Developer
12 199 (4.20%) .NET Developer
13 186 (3.93%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 178 (3.76%) Platform Engineer
15 167 (3.53%) Data Engineer
16 163 (3.44%) AWS Engineer
17 161 (3.40%) Solutions Architect
18 148 (3.13%) Java Developer
19 134 (2.83%) Lead DevOps
20 110 (2.32%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 645 (13.63%) .NET
2 425 (8.98%) React
3 300 (6.34%) Node.js
4 290 (6.13%) REST
5 288 (6.08%) RESTful
6 258 (5.45%) ASP.NET
7 231 (4.88%) .NET Core
8 216 (4.56%) CSS
9 212 (4.48%) HTML
10 207 (4.37%) Spring Boot
11 200 (4.23%) ASP.NET Core
12 194 (4.10%) Spring
13 165 (3.49%) Kafka
14 163 (3.44%) AngularJS
15 117 (2.47%) Entity Framework
16 115 (2.43%) Blazor
17 111 (2.35%) YAML
18 104 (2.20%) SOAP
19 95 (2.01%) Middleware
20 94 (1.99%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 758 (16.02%) Cloud Native
2 304 (6.42%) Product Ownership
3 188 (3.97%) Distributed Systems
4 143 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
5 94 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
6 93 (1.96%) Onboarding
7 86 (1.82%) Management Information System
8 80 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
8 80 (1.69%) Mobile App
9 69 (1.46%) Public Cloud
10 66 (1.39%) Data Centre
11 60 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
12 53 (1.12%) Data Structures
13 52 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
14 49 (1.04%) Low-Code
15 46 (0.97%) Algorithms
16 45 (0.95%) Security Posture
17 39 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
17 39 (0.82%) Virtual Team
18 33 (0.70%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 471 (9.95%) Linux
2 221 (4.67%) Windows
3 92 (1.94%) Unix
4 71 (1.50%) Windows Server
5 56 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 49 (1.04%) Ubuntu
7 40 (0.85%) VMS
8 36 (0.76%) CentOS
9 33 (0.70%) Android
10 22 (0.46%) Apple iOS
11 12 (0.25%) Debian
12 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.085%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.085%) 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 2,421 (51.15%) CI/CD
2 1,731 (36.57%) Agile
3 1,144 (24.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 871 (18.40%) Continuous Improvement
5 803 (16.97%) Mentoring
6 787 (16.63%) Software Engineering
7 759 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
8 748 (15.80%) AI
9 652 (13.78%) Test Automation
10 640 (13.52%) Microservices
11 620 (13.10%) Containerisation
12 532 (11.24%) Full-Stack Development
13 523 (11.05%) Roadmaps
14 501 (10.59%) Observability
15 495 (10.46%) Platform Engineering
16 492 (10.40%) Scrum
17 445 (9.40%) Technical Leadership
18 440 (9.30%) Analytics
19 365 (7.71%) Stakeholder Management
20 311 (6.57%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,101 (23.26%) Python
2 861 (18.19%) SQL
3 651 (13.75%) C#
4 644 (13.61%) Java
5 563 (11.90%) JavaScript
6 385 (8.13%) Bash
7 351 (7.42%) TypeScript
8 293 (6.19%) PowerShell
9 149 (3.15%) Bicep
10 142 (3.00%) Go
11 131 (2.77%) C++
12 77 (1.63%) Apex Code
13 59 (1.25%) PHP
14 49 (1.04%) Groovy
15 48 (1.01%) SOQL
16 46 (0.97%) C
17 45 (0.95%) SOSL
18 41 (0.87%) Kotlin
19 39 (0.82%) Rust
20 36 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 747 (15.78%) Security Cleared
2 480 (10.14%) Degree
3 460 (9.72%) SC Cleared
4 178 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 177 (3.74%) DV Cleared
6 119 (2.51%) Azure Certification
7 105 (2.22%) Master's Degree
8 95 (2.01%) AWS Certification
9 55 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
10 52 (1.10%) ISTQB
11 35 (0.74%) DBS Check
11 35 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
12 32 (0.68%) PMI Certification
13 30 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 30 (0.63%) CISSP
14 25 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 24 (0.51%) PhD
15 24 (0.51%) PMP
16 20 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
17 16 (0.34%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 412 (8.70%) QA
2 161 (3.40%) Data Quality
3 160 (3.38%) Accessibility
4 100 (2.11%) GDPR
5 71 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 56 (1.18%) NIST
7 52 (1.10%) WCAG
8 47 (0.99%) GRC
9 38 (0.80%) PCI DSS
10 32 (0.68%) SOC 2
11 21 (0.44%) PMO
11 21 (0.44%) SLA
12 14 (0.30%) 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 (0.11%) IFRS
System Software
1 764 (16.14%) Docker
2 132 (2.79%) Active Directory
3 72 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.74%) 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 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.085%) Embedded Firmware
12 4 (0.085%) 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 1,158 (24.47%) Terraform
2 865 (18.28%) Kubernetes
3 414 (8.75%) Ansible
4 227 (4.80%) Grafana
5 175 (3.70%) Prometheus
6 75 (1.58%) Argo
7 55 (1.16%) Puppet
8 39 (0.82%) Nagios
9 30 (0.63%) HP Fortify
9 30 (0.63%) Kibana
10 25 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
11 21 (0.44%) Istio
12 15 (0.32%) Packer
12 15 (0.32%) Rancher
13 13 (0.27%) Progress Chef
13 13 (0.27%) Proxmox
14 12 (0.25%) Kustomize
15 10 (0.21%) logstash
16 9 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
17 8 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 925 (19.54%) Microsoft
2 177 (3.74%) Google
3 156 (3.30%) Databricks
4 148 (3.13%) Salesforce
5 110 (2.32%) VMware
6 101 (2.13%) ServiceNow
7 98 (2.07%) Splunk
8 89 (1.88%) Oracle
9 81 (1.71%) Red Hat
10 57 (1.20%) SAP
11 52 (1.10%) Pega
12 45 (0.95%) MuleSoft
13 41 (0.87%) Dynatrace
14 38 (0.80%) Cisco
15 37 (0.78%) Facebook
16 34 (0.72%) OpenAI
17 28 (0.59%) Apple
18 27 (0.57%) Palo Alto
18 27 (0.57%) YouTube
19 25 (0.53%) Foundry