DevOps
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 24 11
Rank change year-on-year +1 -13 +3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,620 7,290 11,099
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.68% 7.26% 13.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.56% 8.80% 13.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,506 4,833 7,365
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,745 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £108,750 £101,250 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,200 £61,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.52% -2.40% +4.17%

All Process and 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 53,944 82,826 80,895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 89.68% 82.49% 95.48%
Number of salaries quoted 28,417 56,101 51,969
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%
75th Percentile £73,886 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

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 17 July 2025.

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 17 July 2025. 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 +2 4,232 £72,500 +7.41% 2,951
UK excluding London -6 2,740 £66,200 +8.52% 1,977
Work from Home +4 2,242 £70,000 +7.69% 1,710
London +5 1,578 £80,000 -2.44% 1,326
North of England -12 897 £65,000 +4.00% 560
South East -1 763 £70,000 +12.00% 511
North West -14 670 £65,000 +3.53% 306
Midlands -3 382 £65,000 +8.33% 267
West Midlands +9 270 £65,000 +8.33% 182
South West -15 239 £65,000 +5.69% 237
Scotland +8 212 £70,000 +4.48% 154
East of England +1 198 £65,000 +18.18% 151
Yorkshire -26 174 £70,000 +16.67% 189
East Midlands -27 112 £56,250 -2.17% 83
Wales -13 58 £62,875 +22.68% 80
North East +10 53 £65,000 +10.67% 73
Northern Ireland 0 12 £80,000 +14.29% 57
Isle of Man +12 2 £52,500 -

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
1 296 (6.41%) Confluence
2 115 (2.49%) Apache Spark
3 87 (1.88%) Apache
4 79 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
5 77 (1.67%) SharePoint
6 75 (1.62%) Oracle Application Server
7 37 (0.80%) CMS
7 37 (0.80%) nginx
8 24 (0.52%) Jupyter
9 23 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
10 21 (0.45%) IIS
11 13 (0.28%) JBoss
12 11 (0.24%) Headless CMS
13 10 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
14 8 (0.17%) Appian
15 7 (0.15%) Tomcat
16 6 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
17 5 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
17 5 (0.11%) CICS
17 5 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 29 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.28%) Chatbot
3 13 (0.28%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (0.22%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 9 (0.19%) Trello
7 8 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 6 (0.13%) Sketch
9 5 (0.11%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.087%) Maya
10 4 (0.087%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.043%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.043%) S-PLUS
12 1 (0.022%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.022%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 81 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
3 12 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.19%) Shopify
5 8 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.087%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.065%) Magento
7 3 (0.065%) Oracle BPM
7 3 (0.065%) Orchestrade
8 2 (0.043%) Endur
8 2 (0.043%) Infor M3
8 2 (0.043%) SAP GRC
8 2 (0.043%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.043%) SAP MII
8 2 (0.043%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.043%) SAP PP
9 1 (0.022%) RMDS
9 1 (0.022%) SAP Payroll
9 1 (0.022%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,186 (47.32%) Azure
2 1,821 (39.42%) AWS
3 944 (20.43%) Azure DevOps
4 611 (13.23%) GCP
5 451 (9.76%) Serverless
6 323 (6.99%) Power Platform
7 306 (6.62%) GitHub
8 269 (5.82%) SaaS
9 265 (5.74%) AWS Lambda
10 232 (5.02%) Pulumi
11 188 (4.07%) Dynamics 365
12 183 (3.96%) PaaS
13 152 (3.29%) Amazon S3
14 146 (3.16%) Azure Data Factory
15 143 (3.10%) GitHub Actions
16 132 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
17 130 (2.81%) Azure Monitor
18 125 (2.71%) Amazon EC2
18 125 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
19 120 (2.60%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 399 (8.64%) VPN
2 302 (6.54%) Broadband
3 270 (5.84%) Cisco IOS
4 152 (3.29%) Firewall
5 118 (2.55%) TCP/IP
6 104 (2.25%) SSH
7 98 (2.12%) SSL
8 91 (1.97%) DNS
9 68 (1.47%) Network Security
10 51 (1.10%) HTTP
11 49 (1.06%) WAN
12 26 (0.56%) LAN
13 24 (0.52%) SAN
14 23 (0.50%) SD-WAN
14 23 (0.50%) SMTP
15 20 (0.43%) FTP
15 20 (0.43%) Internet
16 13 (0.28%) DHCP
16 13 (0.28%) Intrusion Detection
16 13 (0.28%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 592 (12.81%) SQL Server
2 415 (8.98%) NoSQL
3 337 (7.29%) Relational Database
4 233 (5.04%) RDBMS
5 189 (4.09%) Data Warehouse
6 183 (3.96%) Power BI
7 153 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
8 115 (2.49%) Big Data
9 108 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
10 104 (2.25%) Data Lake
11 91 (1.97%) MongoDB
12 82 (1.77%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 79 (1.71%) Oracle Reports
14 69 (1.49%) MySQL
15 68 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
16 57 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
17 55 (1.19%) DynamoDB
18 51 (1.10%) BigQuery
19 50 (1.08%) Data Mining
20 48 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 554 (11.99%) JIRA
2 504 (10.91%) Git
3 444 (9.61%) GitLab
4 365 (7.90%) Cucumber
5 362 (7.84%) Jenkins
6 331 (7.16%) SonarQube
7 329 (7.12%) Selenium
8 317 (6.86%) Sonatype Nexus
9 314 (6.80%) Maven
10 284 (6.15%) Bitbucket
11 216 (4.68%) Jaeger
12 78 (1.69%) Robot Framework
13 73 (1.58%) Visual Studio
14 67 (1.45%) JUnit
15 63 (1.36%) Octopus Deploy
16 59 (1.28%) Artifactory
17 53 (1.15%) TeamCity
18 43 (0.93%) Team Foundation Server
19 41 (0.89%) Postman
20 39 (0.84%) Vagrant
General
1 1,335 (28.90%) Finance
2 1,236 (26.75%) Social Skills
3 1,063 (23.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 717 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
5 523 (11.32%) Banking
6 346 (7.49%) Law
7 295 (6.39%) Retail
8 207 (4.48%) Public Sector
9 126 (2.73%) Investment Banking
10 125 (2.71%) Marketing
11 112 (2.42%) Telecoms
12 92 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
13 90 (1.95%) Corporate Banking
14 83 (1.80%) Military
15 69 (1.49%) Front Office
16 61 (1.32%) Manufacturing
17 58 (1.26%) Games
18 57 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
19 48 (1.04%) Legal
20 47 (1.02%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 773 (16.73%) Lead
2 688 (14.89%) Senior
3 658 (14.24%) Developer
4 587 (12.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 534 (11.56%) Software Engineer
6 469 (10.15%) Architect
7 364 (7.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 259 (5.61%) Team Leader
9 256 (5.54%) Cloud Engineer
10 193 (4.18%) Senior Developer
11 184 (3.98%) Azure Engineer
12 174 (3.77%) Data Engineer
13 162 (3.51%) AWS Engineer
14 140 (3.03%) Software Architect
15 139 (3.01%) AWS DevOps
16 136 (2.94%) Analyst
17 122 (2.64%) Senior DevOps
18 111 (2.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 101 (2.19%) Python Engineer
20 99 (2.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 623 (13.48%) React
2 615 (13.31%) .NET
3 538 (11.65%) Elastic Stack
4 472 (10.22%) Kafka
5 462 (10.00%) HTML
6 455 (9.85%) CSS
7 416 (9.00%) Spring
8 406 (8.79%) RESTful
9 394 (8.53%) Spring Boot
10 387 (8.38%) REST
11 260 (5.63%) JPA
12 258 (5.58%) Redux
13 222 (4.81%) Middleware
14 221 (4.78%) OpenTelemetry
15 201 (4.35%) Hibernate
16 180 (3.90%) AngularJS
17 178 (3.85%) .NET Framework
18 173 (3.74%) .NET Core
19 166 (3.59%) Node.js
20 156 (3.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 496 (10.74%) Product Ownership
2 367 (7.94%) Cyberattack
3 357 (7.73%) Cloud Native
4 313 (6.77%) Enterprise Software
5 221 (4.78%) Management Information System
6 148 (3.20%) Onboarding
7 136 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
8 114 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
9 110 (2.38%) Algorithms
10 91 (1.97%) PKI
11 87 (1.88%) Cyber Threat
11 87 (1.88%) Public Cloud
12 82 (1.77%) Data Centre
13 74 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
14 67 (1.45%) e-Learning
15 65 (1.41%) Mobile App
16 53 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
17 52 (1.13%) Security Posture
18 45 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
19 41 (0.89%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 948 (20.52%) Linux
2 564 (12.21%) Windows
3 306 (6.62%) Android
4 280 (6.06%) Unix
5 77 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 74 (1.60%) Windows Server
7 53 (1.15%) VMS
8 35 (0.76%) Apple iOS
9 32 (0.69%) Ubuntu
10 24 (0.52%) CentOS
11 22 (0.48%) Amazon Linux
12 21 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
13 16 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
14 14 (0.30%) Debian
15 13 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
16 12 (0.26%) Mac OS
17 10 (0.22%) Windows 10
18 6 (0.13%) zOS
19 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
20 4 (0.087%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,313 (50.06%) Agile
2 1,951 (42.23%) CI/CD
3 1,131 (24.48%) Mentoring
4 1,080 (23.38%) Problem-Solving
5 1,036 (22.42%) Containerisation
6 914 (19.78%) Software Engineering
7 877 (18.98%) Microservices
8 873 (18.90%) Infrastructure as Code
9 799 (17.29%) Test Automation
10 727 (15.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 708 (15.32%) Roadmaps
12 671 (14.52%) SDLC
13 595 (12.88%) Performance Optimisation
14 527 (11.41%) Task Automation
15 523 (11.32%) Full-Stack Development
16 499 (10.80%) Computer Science
17 480 (10.39%) Analytics
18 463 (10.02%) Platform Engineering
19 454 (9.83%) Continuous Integration
20 437 (9.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,613 (34.91%) Python
2 1,052 (22.77%) Java
3 1,049 (22.71%) SQL
4 1,048 (22.68%) JavaScript
5 768 (16.62%) Bash
6 685 (14.83%) PowerShell
7 667 (14.44%) C#
8 362 (7.84%) TypeScript
9 354 (7.66%) Go
10 82 (1.77%) Bicep
11 70 (1.52%) Groovy
12 59 (1.28%) C++
13 55 (1.19%) T-SQL
14 54 (1.17%) PHP
15 48 (1.04%) Apex Code
16 44 (0.95%) Shell Script
17 39 (0.84%) Perl
18 38 (0.82%) Scala
19 35 (0.76%) C
20 26 (0.56%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 751 (16.26%) Degree
2 415 (8.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 380 (8.23%) Security Cleared
4 342 (7.40%) AWS Certification
5 247 (5.35%) SC Cleared
6 201 (4.35%) Azure Certification
7 155 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 139 (3.01%) Chartered Engineer
9 133 (2.88%) Master's Degree
10 111 (2.40%) DBS Check
11 88 (1.90%) DV Cleared
12 79 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
13 51 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 46 (1.00%) ISTQB
15 33 (0.71%) PMI Certification
16 27 (0.58%) PhD
17 23 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
18 22 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
19 19 (0.41%) CISSP
20 15 (0.32%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 608 (13.16%) QA
2 197 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 166 (3.59%) GDPR
4 158 (3.42%) NIST
5 147 (3.18%) Accessibility
6 137 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 103 (2.23%) Data Quality
8 57 (1.23%) HIPAA
9 45 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 38 (0.82%) NCSC
10 38 (0.82%) SLA
11 32 (0.69%) PCI DSS
12 25 (0.54%) SOC 2
13 18 (0.39%) PMO
14 16 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
15 14 (0.30%) ISO 9001
16 9 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 7 (0.15%) CDISC
18 6 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 6 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1,563 (33.83%) Docker
2 285 (6.17%) Hyper-V
3 284 (6.15%) vSphere
4 264 (5.71%) VMware NSX
5 194 (4.20%) Active Directory
6 85 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
7 82 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
8 25 (0.54%) DFS Replication
9 21 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
10 12 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
11 11 (0.24%) NFS
11 11 (0.24%) Postfix
12 8 (0.17%) Dovecot
13 6 (0.13%) Squid
14 5 (0.11%) HDFS
15 4 (0.087%) Veritas Cluster Server
16 3 (0.065%) RACF
17 2 (0.043%) Firmware
17 2 (0.043%) Terminal Server
18 1 (0.022%) NDS
Systems Management
1 1,412 (30.56%) Terraform
2 1,383 (29.94%) Kubernetes
3 856 (18.53%) Ansible
4 413 (8.94%) Prometheus
5 232 (5.02%) Argo
6 216 (4.68%) Kustomize
7 198 (4.29%) Grafana
8 36 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
9 30 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
10 28 (0.61%) Puppet
11 26 (0.56%) Progress Chef
12 24 (0.52%) Istio
13 20 (0.43%) Nagios
14 15 (0.32%) Kibana
14 15 (0.32%) Red Hat Satellite
15 13 (0.28%) Proxmox
16 12 (0.26%) Nessus
16 12 (0.26%) SCCM
17 11 (0.24%) AWS Copilot
18 9 (0.19%) Packer
Vendors
1 766 (16.58%) Microsoft
2 419 (9.07%) Google
3 328 (7.10%) Splunk
4 315 (6.82%) Cisco
5 283 (6.13%) Juniper
6 264 (5.71%) 3PAR
7 249 (5.39%) Solace
8 205 (4.44%) Databricks
9 198 (4.29%) Oracle
10 138 (2.99%) Red Hat
11 125 (2.71%) VMware
12 120 (2.60%) IBM
13 105 (2.27%) ServiceNow
14 103 (2.23%) Salesforce
15 82 (1.77%) Thales
16 55 (1.19%) SAP
17 48 (1.04%) OpenAI
18 35 (0.76%) MuleSoft
19 29 (0.63%) Informatica
19 29 (0.63%) SolarWinds