DevOps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 12 13
Rank change year-on-year -10 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 7,760 14,767 24,477
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.92% 14.11% 15.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.20% 14.75% 16.62%
Number of salaries quoted 5,341 8,528 13,160
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.80%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps.

Salary trend for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Top 19 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 27 April 2024. 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 6,676 £65,000 -7.14% 1,630
UK excluding London -14 5,233 £60,000 -3.23% 1,039
Work from Home -8 3,327 £65,000 -7.14% 921
London -7 2,125 £80,000 - 673
North of England -12 1,373 £60,000 -2.44% 291
South East -3 1,312 £61,500 -5.38% 219
South West -3 872 £60,500 -3.20% 160
North West -7 840 £62,500 - 186
Midlands -10 721 £58,500 +1.74% 171
Scotland -41 492 £69,000 +3.32% 79
West Midlands -10 464 £60,000 - 107
Yorkshire -10 439 £60,000 -4.00% 87
East Midlands -12 259 £57,500 +4.55% 64
East of England -30 237 £57,500 -11.54% 88
Wales -5 165 £55,000 +6.80% 28
North East -8 96 £57,500 +4.55% 20
Northern Ireland 0 68 £60,000 - 30
Channel Islands - 3 £110,000 -
Isle of Man - 3 - - 1

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 330 (4.25%) ArcGIS
1 330 (4.25%) GeoServer
2 245 (3.16%) Confluence
3 193 (2.49%) SharePoint
4 153 (1.97%) CMS
5 131 (1.69%) IIS
6 102 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
7 88 (1.13%) Apache
8 86 (1.11%) nginx
9 82 (1.06%) Apache Spark
10 79 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
11 78 (1.01%) Umbraco
12 58 (0.75%) OpenStack
13 47 (0.61%) Sitecore CMS
14 42 (0.54%) Headless CMS
14 42 (0.54%) Kentico
15 36 (0.46%) Drupal
16 34 (0.44%) WebSphere
17 33 (0.43%) WordPress
18 28 (0.36%) Captiva
Applications
1 80 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 72 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (0.59%) MS Visio
4 32 (0.41%) UserZoom
5 31 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
6 24 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 23 (0.30%) Photoshop
8 18 (0.23%) Trello
9 15 (0.19%) Sketch
10 11 (0.14%) Simulink
11 9 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
12 5 (0.064%) Adobe XD
13 3 (0.039%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.026%) Notion
14 2 (0.026%) S-PLUS
15 1 (0.013%) AutoCAD
15 1 (0.013%) Chatbot
15 1 (0.013%) InVision
15 1 (0.013%) MicroStation
15 1 (0.013%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 177 (2.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 53 (0.68%) Dynamics AX
3 36 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 16 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
5 14 (0.18%) SDL Web 8
6 11 (0.14%) Magento
6 11 (0.14%) NetSuite
7 8 (0.10%) Maximo
7 8 (0.10%) Shopify
8 5 (0.064%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.064%) SAP S/4HANA
8 5 (0.064%) Temenos T24
9 4 (0.052%) Elite 3E
9 4 (0.052%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.052%) Primavera
9 4 (0.052%) Visualfiles
10 3 (0.039%) Dynamics GP
10 3 (0.039%) Oracle Applications
10 3 (0.039%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.039%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 4,521 (58.26%) Azure
2 2,854 (36.78%) AWS
3 2,326 (29.97%) Azure DevOps
4 862 (11.11%) GCP
5 712 (9.18%) Serverless
6 616 (7.94%) Power Platform
7 519 (6.69%) SaaS
8 459 (5.91%) GitHub
9 395 (5.09%) Dynamics 365
10 377 (4.86%) PaaS
11 372 (4.79%) Microsoft 365
12 296 (3.81%) Amazon S3
13 292 (3.76%) IaaS
14 283 (3.65%) Azure Service Bus
15 267 (3.44%) Azure Logic Apps
16 262 (3.38%) Azure Functions
17 251 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
18 249 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
19 242 (3.12%) IBM Cloud
20 229 (2.95%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 284 (3.66%) Firewall
2 248 (3.20%) DNS
3 134 (1.73%) TCP/IP
4 132 (1.70%) VPN
5 121 (1.56%) Network Security
6 105 (1.35%) HTTP
7 101 (1.30%) WAN
8 94 (1.21%) DHCP
9 71 (0.91%) LAN
10 51 (0.66%) Internet
11 32 (0.41%) SD-WAN
11 32 (0.41%) SSL
12 21 (0.27%) BGP
12 21 (0.27%) SAN
13 20 (0.26%) SNMP
14 19 (0.24%) Unified Communications
15 18 (0.23%) HTTPS
16 15 (0.19%) 5G
16 15 (0.19%) IPv4
17 14 (0.18%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 949 (12.23%) SQL Server
2 709 (9.14%) PostgreSQL
3 419 (5.40%) NoSQL
3 419 (5.40%) Relational Database
4 343 (4.42%) GIS
5 330 (4.25%) QGIS
6 327 (4.21%) Data Warehouse
7 323 (4.16%) Power BI
8 317 (4.09%) MongoDB
9 259 (3.34%) BigQuery
10 254 (3.27%) Looker
11 230 (2.96%) MySQL
12 217 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
13 188 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
14 185 (2.38%) Big Data
15 148 (1.91%) Data Lake
16 135 (1.74%) DB2
17 119 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
18 93 (1.20%) RDBMS
19 89 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1,132 (14.59%) Git
2 826 (10.64%) Jenkins
3 653 (8.41%) JIRA
4 342 (4.41%) GitLab
5 285 (3.67%) Visual Studio
6 148 (1.91%) Selenium
7 142 (1.83%) Team Foundation Server
8 140 (1.80%) Bitbucket
9 128 (1.65%) Postman
10 100 (1.29%) TeamCity
11 84 (1.08%) Cypress.io
12 77 (0.99%) Cucumber
13 75 (0.97%) JUnit
13 75 (0.97%) Sourcetree
14 73 (0.94%) NUnit
15 70 (0.90%) Octopus Deploy
16 68 (0.88%) Artifactory
17 65 (0.84%) SonarQube
17 65 (0.84%) Subversion
18 58 (0.75%) CircleCI
General
1 1,658 (21.37%) Social Skills
2 1,438 (18.53%) Finance
3 714 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
4 525 (6.77%) Public Sector
5 488 (6.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 403 (5.19%) Banking
7 393 (5.06%) Law
8 269 (3.47%) Marketing
9 232 (2.99%) Retail
10 222 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
11 183 (2.36%) Legal
12 137 (1.77%) Aerospace
13 128 (1.65%) Games
14 111 (1.43%) Front Office
15 102 (1.31%) Manufacturing
16 100 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
17 81 (1.04%) Telecoms
18 79 (1.02%) Billing
19 74 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
20 64 (0.82%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 2,024 (26.08%) Developer
2 1,672 (21.55%) Senior
3 1,128 (14.54%) DevOps Engineer
4 922 (11.88%) Software Engineer
5 872 (11.24%) Lead
6 597 (7.69%) Architect
7 510 (6.57%) Senior Developer
8 412 (5.31%) .NET Developer
9 407 (5.24%) Data Engineer
10 371 (4.78%) Full Stack Developer
11 344 (4.43%) Senior Software Engineer
12 327 (4.21%) Azure Engineer
13 307 (3.96%) AWS Engineer
14 300 (3.87%) Software Developer
15 297 (3.83%) Platform Engineer
16 290 (3.74%) Senior DevOps
17 276 (3.56%) Cloud Engineer
18 274 (3.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 238 (3.07%) Analyst
20 235 (3.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,968 (25.36%) .NET
2 1,225 (15.79%) React
3 981 (12.64%) CSS
4 798 (10.28%) .NET Core
5 745 (9.60%) HTML
6 705 (9.09%) AngularJS
7 609 (7.85%) ASP.NET
8 591 (7.62%) Node.js
9 513 (6.61%) REST
10 456 (5.88%) .NET Framework
11 417 (5.37%) RESTful
12 404 (5.21%) Web Services
13 356 (4.59%) Vue
14 353 (4.55%) JSON
15 339 (4.37%) PostGIS
16 330 (4.25%) Leaflet
16 330 (4.25%) OpenLayers
17 287 (3.70%) Spring
18 264 (3.40%) XML
19 263 (3.39%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 443 (5.71%) Product Ownership
2 350 (4.51%) Hybrid Cloud
3 341 (4.39%) Public Cloud
4 321 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
5 320 (4.12%) Cloud Native
6 269 (3.47%) Blockchain
7 259 (3.34%) Management Information System
8 245 (3.16%) Data Structures
9 202 (2.60%) Algorithms
10 201 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
11 179 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
12 168 (2.16%) Private Cloud
13 165 (2.13%) Data Centre
14 150 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
15 133 (1.71%) Mobile App
16 118 (1.52%) IoT
17 115 (1.48%) Onboarding
18 110 (1.42%) Hedge funds
19 79 (1.02%) Low-Code
20 78 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1,297 (16.71%) Linux
2 780 (10.05%) Windows
3 216 (2.78%) Windows Server
4 212 (2.73%) Android
5 202 (2.60%) Apple iOS
6 157 (2.02%) Unix
7 105 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 91 (1.17%) Ubuntu
9 85 (1.10%) CentOS
10 64 (0.82%) Debian
10 64 (0.82%) VMS
11 46 (0.59%) Alpine Linux
12 40 (0.52%) Windows 10
12 40 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
13 27 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
14 21 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
15 15 (0.19%) CoreOS
16 14 (0.18%) Mac OS X
17 13 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
18 10 (0.13%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,937 (50.73%) Agile
2 2,539 (32.72%) CI/CD
3 1,838 (23.69%) Software Engineering
4 1,526 (19.66%) Problem-Solving
5 1,140 (14.69%) Scrum
6 1,096 (14.12%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1,088 (14.02%) Mentoring
8 892 (11.49%) Microservices
9 843 (10.86%) Test Automation
10 839 (10.81%) Containerisation
11 811 (10.45%) Full Stack Development
12 782 (10.08%) Actionable Insight
13 762 (9.82%) Continuous Integration
14 696 (8.97%) Web Development
15 650 (8.38%) SDLC
16 640 (8.25%) Roadmaps
17 626 (8.07%) Artificial Intelligence
18 573 (7.38%) TDD
19 571 (7.36%) Continuous Improvement
20 552 (7.11%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 2,082 (26.83%) Python
2 2,016 (25.98%) C#
3 1,797 (23.16%) JavaScript
4 1,701 (21.92%) SQL
5 1,209 (15.58%) Java
6 694 (8.94%) PowerShell
7 526 (6.78%) Bash
8 510 (6.57%) TypeScript
9 313 (4.03%) Go
10 222 (2.86%) PHP
11 213 (2.74%) T-SQL
12 163 (2.10%) C
12 163 (2.10%) Ruby
13 158 (2.04%) Bicep
14 142 (1.83%) C++
15 116 (1.49%) Shell Script
16 107 (1.38%) Perl
17 78 (1.01%) VB.NET
18 71 (0.91%) Groovy
19 62 (0.80%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,351 (17.41%) Security Cleared
2 1,106 (14.25%) Degree
3 1,053 (13.57%) SC Cleared
4 389 (5.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 237 (3.05%) Azure Certification
6 207 (2.67%) DV Cleared
7 180 (2.32%) BPSS Clearance
8 172 (2.22%) AWS Certification
9 163 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
10 128 (1.65%) Master's Degree
11 67 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
12 65 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 60 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
14 53 (0.68%) CISSP
15 47 (0.61%) CCNA
15 47 (0.61%) PMI Certification
16 46 (0.59%) MCSE
17 43 (0.55%) DBS Check
18 41 (0.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 41 (0.53%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 651 (8.39%) QA
2 281 (3.62%) GDPR
3 147 (1.89%) Data Quality
4 111 (1.43%) Accessibility
5 89 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 74 (0.95%) PMO
7 46 (0.59%) NIST
8 40 (0.52%) PCI DSS
9 37 (0.48%) SLA
10 33 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
11 22 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
12 16 (0.21%) HIPAA
13 15 (0.19%) NCSC
14 9 (0.12%) PSD2
15 8 (0.10%) ISO 9001
16 7 (0.090%) ISO 13485
16 7 (0.090%) SOC 2
17 6 (0.077%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 6 (0.077%) GRC
18 5 (0.064%) WCAG
System Software
1 1,440 (18.56%) Docker
2 339 (4.37%) Active Directory
3 193 (2.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 162 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
5 126 (1.62%) Hyper-V
6 65 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
7 42 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
8 38 (0.49%) Firmware
9 25 (0.32%) vSphere
10 15 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
11 13 (0.17%) VMware NSX
12 12 (0.15%) NFS
13 11 (0.14%) IAG
14 10 (0.13%) HDFS
14 10 (0.13%) pfSense
15 7 (0.090%) KVM
16 6 (0.077%) DFS Replication
16 6 (0.077%) VirtualBox
17 4 (0.052%) Virtual Servers
17 4 (0.052%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 1,628 (20.98%) Kubernetes
2 1,556 (20.05%) Terraform
3 765 (9.86%) Ansible
4 263 (3.39%) Puppet
5 229 (2.95%) Prometheus
6 198 (2.55%) Grafana
7 157 (2.02%) Progress Chef
8 48 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
9 46 (0.59%) Kibana
10 43 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 39 (0.50%) ZABBIX
12 38 (0.49%) Packer
13 36 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
14 30 (0.39%) HAProxy
15 26 (0.34%) Istio
15 26 (0.34%) Nagios
16 25 (0.32%) Consul
17 23 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
17 23 (0.30%) Rancher
18 20 (0.26%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1,758 (22.65%) Microsoft
2 489 (6.30%) Google
3 343 (4.42%) IBM
4 342 (4.41%) Red Hat
5 332 (4.28%) ESRI
6 277 (3.57%) Oracle
7 265 (3.41%) VMware
8 220 (2.84%) Databricks
9 133 (1.71%) ServiceNow
10 118 (1.52%) Cisco
11 106 (1.37%) SAP
12 103 (1.33%) Splunk
13 94 (1.21%) Dynatrace
14 83 (1.07%) Atlassian
15 71 (0.91%) Citrix
16 64 (0.82%) Salesforce
17 63 (0.81%) Adobe
18 61 (0.79%) Sitecore
19 42 (0.54%) WSO2
20 40 (0.52%) Informatica