DevOps Job Trends

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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 21 14
Rank change year-on-year -9 -7 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 3,296 5,171 6,137
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.18% 7.69% 11.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.27% 9.09% 12.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,262 3,147 5,032
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,308 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -0.99% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £108,750 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - - +1.63%

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 45,329 56,886 48,300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.95% 84.65% 93.78%
Number of salaries quoted 27,632 29,709 37,183
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,439 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.75% +3.69% -

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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 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 -13 2,817 £70,000 - 1,347
UK excluding London -16 1,764 £62,500 - 1,151
Work from Home -7 1,315 £68,958 +2.16% 780
London -2 1,298 £80,500 -2.42% 566
North of England -28 458 £62,500 +2.46% 209
South East -28 416 £65,000 -3.19% 476
Midlands -5 286 £63,500 -2.31% 136
Scotland -4 247 £67,250 +12.08% 83
North West -20 235 £65,000 +4.00% 106
West Midlands +9 222 £65,000 - 88
South West -24 179 £60,000 -7.69% 146
Yorkshire -15 160 £60,000 - 68
East of England -32 97 £65,000 +30.00% 78
Wales -2 66 £57,500 +4.55% 43
North East +6 65 £51,250 -11.58% 36
East Midlands -8 61 £57,500 -4.17% 44
Northern Ireland +11 22 £78,609 +13.42% 9
Isle of Man +9 1 £52,500 +45.83%
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

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 (3.28%) Confluence
2 73 (2.21%) Apache Spark
3 58 (1.76%) SharePoint
4 56 (1.70%) Apache
5 53 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
6 40 (1.21%) IIS
7 30 (0.91%) nginx
8 29 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
9 25 (0.76%) CMS
10 14 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 11 (0.33%) Appian
12 6 (0.18%) OpenStack
12 6 (0.18%) Tomcat
13 5 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 5 (0.15%) JBoss
13 5 (0.15%) WebSphere
14 4 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
14 4 (0.12%) Camunda
14 4 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
15 3 (0.091%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 53 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 6 (0.18%) Trello
7 4 (0.12%) PlantUML
7 4 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.091%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.091%) Siemens NX
8 3 (0.091%) S-PLUS
9 2 (0.061%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.061%) Sketch
10 1 (0.030%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.030%) Maya
10 1 (0.030%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 67 (2.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.97%) Oracle ERP
3 24 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
5 10 (0.30%) Shopify
6 8 (0.24%) Endur
6 8 (0.24%) SAP FS
7 6 (0.18%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.12%) SAP IBP
8 4 (0.12%) SAP MII
8 4 (0.12%) SAP MM
8 4 (0.12%) SAP PP
9 3 (0.091%) SAP CX
10 2 (0.061%) Dynamics AX
10 2 (0.061%) Elite 3E
10 2 (0.061%) Markit EDM
10 2 (0.061%) Oracle BPM
10 2 (0.061%) Salesforce CRM
10 2 (0.061%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,940 (58.86%) Azure
2 1,152 (34.95%) AWS
3 1,000 (30.34%) Azure DevOps
4 493 (14.96%) GitHub
5 392 (11.89%) GCP
6 339 (10.29%) Power Platform
7 307 (9.31%) SaaS
8 287 (8.71%) Serverless
9 237 (7.19%) GitHub Actions
10 188 (5.70%) PaaS
11 156 (4.73%) AWS CloudFormation
12 148 (4.49%) Dynamics 365
13 139 (4.22%) Amazon S3
14 134 (4.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 131 (3.97%) Entra ID
16 130 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
17 128 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
18 110 (3.34%) Amazon EKS
19 107 (3.25%) Azure Data Factory
20 106 (3.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 131 (3.97%) Firewall
2 101 (3.06%) DNS
3 64 (1.94%) TCP/IP
4 60 (1.82%) VPN
5 59 (1.79%) WAN
6 53 (1.61%) Network Security
7 45 (1.37%) LAN
8 42 (1.27%) HTTP
9 28 (0.85%) DHCP
10 23 (0.70%) SAN
10 23 (0.70%) SSH
11 22 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
12 21 (0.64%) FTP
12 21 (0.64%) SMTP
13 19 (0.58%) Broadband
14 16 (0.49%) BGP
15 15 (0.46%) SD-WAN
16 14 (0.42%) Wireless
17 13 (0.39%) VLAN
18 12 (0.36%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 330 (10.01%) SQL Server
2 196 (5.95%) Power BI
3 159 (4.82%) Data Warehouse
4 154 (4.67%) NoSQL
5 140 (4.25%) PostgreSQL
6 101 (3.06%) Relational Database
7 99 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
8 87 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
9 71 (2.15%) Data Lake
10 65 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 61 (1.85%) Big Data
12 59 (1.79%) Tableau
13 54 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
13 54 (1.64%) MongoDB
14 53 (1.61%) MySQL
15 50 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
16 49 (1.49%) DynamoDB
17 48 (1.46%) Metadata
18 41 (1.24%) BigQuery
18 41 (1.24%) Redis
Development Applications
1 415 (12.59%) Git
2 342 (10.38%) Jenkins
3 288 (8.74%) JIRA
4 185 (5.61%) GitLab
5 88 (2.67%) Selenium
6 49 (1.49%) SonarQube
7 48 (1.46%) Octopus Deploy
7 48 (1.46%) TeamCity
8 46 (1.40%) Cypress.io
9 45 (1.37%) Bitbucket
10 34 (1.03%) Cucumber
11 33 (1.00%) Postman
12 31 (0.94%) JMeter
12 31 (0.94%) Vagrant
13 28 (0.85%) JUnit
13 28 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
14 27 (0.82%) Oracle Forms
15 26 (0.79%) Artifactory
15 26 (0.79%) Visual Studio
16 23 (0.70%) Snyk
General
1 962 (29.19%) Social Skills
2 880 (26.70%) Finance
3 355 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
4 238 (7.22%) Law
5 185 (5.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 165 (5.01%) Banking
7 152 (4.61%) Retail
8 150 (4.55%) Public Sector
9 149 (4.52%) Marketing
10 71 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
11 68 (2.06%) Games
12 63 (1.91%) Manufacturing
13 59 (1.79%) Financial Institution
13 59 (1.79%) Telecoms
14 53 (1.61%) Legal
15 45 (1.37%) Back Office
16 40 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
17 35 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
18 31 (0.94%) Front Office
19 25 (0.76%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 633 (19.21%) Senior
2 599 (18.17%) Developer
3 455 (13.80%) Lead
4 431 (13.08%) DevOps Engineer
5 307 (9.31%) Architect
6 229 (6.95%) Software Engineer
7 192 (5.83%) Cloud Engineer
8 168 (5.10%) Senior Developer
9 146 (4.43%) Analyst
10 141 (4.28%) Data Engineer
11 137 (4.16%) Azure Engineer
12 136 (4.13%) Solutions Architect
13 125 (3.79%) Platform Engineer
14 108 (3.28%) Full-Stack Developer
15 96 (2.91%) AWS Engineer
16 90 (2.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 89 (2.70%) .NET Developer
17 89 (2.70%) Senior DevOps
18 78 (2.37%) Support Engineer
19 75 (2.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 546 (16.57%) .NET
2 342 (10.38%) React
3 226 (6.86%) RESTful
4 211 (6.40%) REST
5 172 (5.22%) CSS
6 171 (5.19%) HTML
7 156 (4.73%) Kafka
8 142 (4.31%) .NET Framework
9 140 (4.25%) Node.js
10 130 (3.94%) AngularJS
11 120 (3.64%) Spring
12 109 (3.31%) .NET Core
13 107 (3.25%) Spring Boot
14 101 (3.06%) Middleware
15 91 (2.76%) YAML
16 84 (2.55%) ASP.NET
17 80 (2.43%) JSON
18 78 (2.37%) SOAP
19 70 (2.12%) Elastic Stack
19 70 (2.12%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 491 (14.90%) Cloud Native
2 255 (7.74%) Product Ownership
3 119 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
4 116 (3.52%) Management Information System
5 108 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
6 91 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
7 89 (2.70%) Onboarding
8 76 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
9 58 (1.76%) Data Centre
9 58 (1.76%) Public Cloud
10 56 (1.70%) Algorithms
11 50 (1.52%) Security Posture
12 49 (1.49%) Mobile App
13 48 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
14 46 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
15 45 (1.37%) Low-Code
16 44 (1.33%) Virtual Team
17 37 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
18 34 (1.03%) IoT
19 31 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 353 (10.71%) Linux
2 270 (8.19%) Windows
3 79 (2.40%) Windows Server
4 62 (1.88%) Unix
4 62 (1.88%) VMS
5 43 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 31 (0.94%) Android
7 26 (0.79%) Ubuntu
8 24 (0.73%) Apple iOS
9 23 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
10 19 (0.58%) Amazon Linux
11 17 (0.52%) Debian
12 14 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
13 13 (0.39%) CentOS
14 7 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.15%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.091%) Windows 10
17 2 (0.061%) AIX
17 2 (0.061%) Solaris
17 2 (0.061%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,725 (52.34%) CI/CD
2 1,482 (44.96%) Agile
3 751 (22.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 714 (21.66%) Problem-Solving
5 607 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 580 (17.60%) Mentoring
7 549 (16.66%) AI
8 519 (15.75%) Software Engineering
9 499 (15.14%) Test Automation
10 498 (15.11%) Microservices
11 469 (14.23%) Containerisation
12 371 (11.26%) Roadmaps
13 366 (11.10%) Analytics
14 337 (10.22%) Scrum
15 334 (10.13%) Observability
16 332 (10.07%) Computer Science
17 327 (9.92%) Coaching
18 298 (9.04%) SDLC
19 279 (8.46%) Full-Stack Development
20 277 (8.40%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 968 (29.37%) Python
2 762 (23.12%) SQL
3 542 (16.44%) C#
4 411 (12.47%) PowerShell
5 408 (12.38%) Java
6 374 (11.35%) JavaScript
7 265 (8.04%) TypeScript
8 264 (8.01%) Bash
9 134 (4.07%) Bicep
10 111 (3.37%) Go
11 67 (2.03%) T-SQL
12 55 (1.67%) Apex Code
13 52 (1.58%) Groovy
14 46 (1.40%) Shell Script
15 44 (1.33%) C++
16 39 (1.18%) PHP
17 37 (1.12%) PL/SQL
18 34 (1.03%) Scala
19 29 (0.88%) Perl
20 24 (0.73%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 483 (14.65%) Degree
2 352 (10.68%) Security Cleared
3 259 (7.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 253 (7.68%) SC Cleared
5 168 (5.10%) Azure Certification
6 119 (3.61%) Master's Degree
7 117 (3.55%) AWS Certification
8 88 (2.67%) DV Cleared
9 70 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
10 54 (1.64%) ISTQB
11 46 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 39 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
12 39 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
13 33 (1.00%) PhD
14 30 (0.91%) CISSP
15 26 (0.79%) CCNP
15 26 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
16 23 (0.70%) Chartered Engineer
17 22 (0.67%) PMI Certification
17 22 (0.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 358 (10.86%) QA
2 127 (3.85%) GDPR
2 127 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 102 (3.09%) Accessibility
4 88 (2.67%) Data Quality
5 79 (2.40%) NIST
6 41 (1.24%) NCSC
7 32 (0.97%) SLA
8 27 (0.82%) PCI DSS
8 27 (0.82%) PMO
9 24 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 23 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 19 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
12 18 (0.55%) ISO 9001
13 17 (0.52%) SOC 2
14 16 (0.49%) WCAG
15 15 (0.46%) HIPAA
16 14 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 10 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
18 8 (0.24%) IFRS
System Software
1 649 (19.69%) Docker
2 145 (4.40%) Active Directory
3 74 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (0.76%) vSphere
6 20 (0.61%) DFS Replication
7 19 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
9 16 (0.49%) NFS
10 11 (0.33%) Postfix
11 9 (0.27%) HDFS
11 9 (0.27%) Hyper-V
12 8 (0.24%) Squid
13 7 (0.21%) Dovecot
13 7 (0.21%) Firmware
14 5 (0.15%) Kamailio
15 4 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
16 3 (0.091%) RACF
16 3 (0.091%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 845 (25.64%) Terraform
2 742 (22.51%) Kubernetes
3 321 (9.74%) Ansible
4 215 (6.52%) Grafana
5 187 (5.67%) Prometheus
6 45 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
7 43 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
8 35 (1.06%) Argo
9 20 (0.61%) Puppet
10 18 (0.55%) SCCM
11 15 (0.46%) Kibana
11 15 (0.46%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.39%) Red Hat Satellite
13 12 (0.36%) AWS Copilot
13 12 (0.36%) vCenter Server
14 11 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
15 8 (0.24%) Kubeflow
15 8 (0.24%) Nessus
16 7 (0.21%) Proxmox
16 7 (0.21%) Rancher
Vendors
1 716 (21.72%) Microsoft
2 143 (4.34%) Databricks
3 131 (3.97%) Google
4 120 (3.64%) Salesforce
5 119 (3.61%) Oracle
6 107 (3.25%) VMware
7 88 (2.67%) ServiceNow
8 76 (2.31%) Splunk
9 69 (2.09%) Red Hat
10 62 (1.88%) Cisco
11 61 (1.85%) SAP
12 42 (1.27%) Guidewire
13 38 (1.15%) OpenAI
14 33 (1.00%) SolarWinds
15 30 (0.91%) Palo Alto
16 28 (0.85%) IBM
17 26 (0.79%) Fortinet
18 24 (0.73%) MuleSoft
19 21 (0.64%) Foundry
20 20 (0.61%) Okta