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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 21 26
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,639 4,061 7,177
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.89% 8.96% 6.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.66% 9.72% 8.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3,382 2,359 5,205
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,975 £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 £110,250 £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 69,638 41,796 87,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.33% 92.22% 82.12%
Number of salaries quoted 48,019 22,539 62,354
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £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% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,679 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.36% - -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 25 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 25 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 4,095 £70,000 -2.10% 1,091
UK excluding London -6 2,797 £65,000 - 838
Work from Home -1 1,654 £67,500 -3.57% 604
London -6 1,460 £82,500 +3.13% 433
North of England 0 1,013 £69,305 +3.38% 250
South East -12 611 £65,000 - 266
North West -2 555 £70,000 +3.70% 139
South West -7 399 £68,400 +5.23% 102
Midlands -26 340 £67,500 +5.88% 103
Yorkshire +3 275 £70,000 - 69
West Midlands -34 190 £68,403 +5.23% 63
North East +7 183 £60,000 -7.69% 46
East of England +8 182 £60,000 -7.69% 66
East Midlands -4 148 £66,000 +14.78% 40
Scotland -4 132 £57,500 -19.30% 35
Wales +5 118 £53,171 -11.38% 27
Northern Ireland -39 7 £73,151 -20.92% 11
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 94 (2.03%) Confluence
2 89 (1.92%) SharePoint
3 64 (1.38%) Apache Spark
4 61 (1.31%) Apache
5 47 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
6 45 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
7 29 (0.63%) CMS
7 29 (0.63%) IIS
8 15 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
8 15 (0.32%) SAS
9 10 (0.22%) OpenStack
9 10 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
10 9 (0.19%) Jupyter
10 9 (0.19%) nginx
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 49 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
2 36 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.45%) MS Visio
4 18 (0.39%) PlantUML
5 13 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
7 7 (0.15%) Simulink
8 6 (0.13%) Trello
9 4 (0.086%) Maya
10 3 (0.065%) Blender
10 3 (0.065%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.022%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.022%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.022%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.022%) Notion
11 1 (0.022%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 81 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.13%) Endur
3 6 (0.13%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
4 5 (0.11%) Elite 3E
4 5 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.11%) Visualfiles
5 4 (0.086%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.086%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.065%) Infor SunSystems
6 3 (0.065%) Magento
6 3 (0.065%) SAP IBP
6 3 (0.065%) Shopify
7 2 (0.043%) Carpe Diem
7 2 (0.043%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.043%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.022%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.022%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 2,449 (52.79%) Azure
2 1,489 (32.10%) AWS
3 1,238 (26.69%) Azure DevOps
4 514 (11.08%) GCP
5 486 (10.48%) GitHub
6 456 (9.83%) Serverless
7 347 (7.48%) Power Platform
8 291 (6.27%) SaaS
9 260 (5.60%) GitHub Actions
10 224 (4.83%) Amazon S3
11 217 (4.68%) AWS CloudFormation
12 208 (4.48%) AWS Lambda
13 188 (4.05%) PaaS
14 158 (3.41%) Azure AKS
15 149 (3.21%) Dynamics 365
15 149 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
16 143 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 142 (3.06%) Azure Logic Apps
18 140 (3.02%) Amazon EKS
19 138 (2.97%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 142 (3.06%) Firewall
2 88 (1.90%) DNS
3 63 (1.36%) Broadband
4 61 (1.31%) VPN
5 57 (1.23%) TCP/IP
6 41 (0.88%) Network Security
7 34 (0.73%) HTTP
8 25 (0.54%) DHCP
9 24 (0.52%) WAN
10 22 (0.47%) LAN
11 19 (0.41%) Internet
12 13 (0.28%) DMARC
13 12 (0.26%) MQTT
14 10 (0.22%) BGP
14 10 (0.22%) Wireless
15 9 (0.19%) SAN
16 8 (0.17%) HTTPS
17 6 (0.13%) Bluetooth
17 6 (0.13%) Cisco ASA
17 6 (0.13%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 257 (5.54%) SQL Server
2 232 (5.00%) MongoDB
3 229 (4.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 192 (4.14%) NoSQL
5 189 (4.07%) Power BI
6 160 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
7 106 (2.28%) DynamoDB
8 91 (1.96%) Relational Database
9 83 (1.79%) MySQL
10 82 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
10 82 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
11 80 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
12 78 (1.68%) Data Lake
13 62 (1.34%) Metadata
14 50 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
15 42 (0.91%) Redis
16 38 (0.82%) Delta Lake
17 37 (0.80%) Big Data
17 37 (0.80%) BigQuery
18 36 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 488 (10.52%) Git
2 392 (8.45%) Jenkins
3 386 (8.32%) GitLab
4 289 (6.23%) JIRA
5 100 (2.16%) SonarQube
6 82 (1.77%) Selenium
7 80 (1.72%) Cypress.io
8 59 (1.27%) Maven
9 47 (1.01%) Postman
10 38 (0.82%) JUnit
11 37 (0.80%) Cucumber
12 35 (0.75%) CircleCI
13 34 (0.73%) Bitbucket
13 34 (0.73%) TeamCity
14 30 (0.65%) JMeter
15 26 (0.56%) Eclipse
16 25 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
17 24 (0.52%) Visual Studio
18 21 (0.45%) REST Assured
19 17 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 946 (20.39%) Social Skills
2 934 (20.13%) Finance
3 341 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
4 319 (6.88%) Public Sector
5 289 (6.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 242 (5.22%) Banking
7 150 (3.23%) Retail
8 139 (3.00%) Law
9 104 (2.24%) Marketing
10 81 (1.75%) Games
10 81 (1.75%) Legal
11 55 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
12 52 (1.12%) Manufacturing
13 49 (1.06%) Advertising
14 47 (1.01%) Telecoms
15 45 (0.97%) Financial Institution
16 42 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
17 38 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
18 34 (0.73%) Back Office
19 28 (0.60%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,029 (22.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 921 (19.85%) Senior
3 831 (17.91%) Developer
4 640 (13.80%) Lead
5 398 (8.58%) Architect
6 347 (7.48%) Software Engineer
7 335 (7.22%) Azure Engineer
8 251 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
9 220 (4.74%) Senior DevOps
10 204 (4.40%) Senior Developer
11 195 (4.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 187 (4.03%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 182 (3.92%) .NET Developer
14 176 (3.79%) Platform Engineer
15 167 (3.60%) Data Engineer
16 164 (3.54%) AWS Engineer
17 161 (3.47%) Solutions Architect
18 148 (3.19%) Java Developer
19 128 (2.76%) Lead DevOps
20 111 (2.39%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 617 (13.30%) .NET
2 413 (8.90%) React
3 295 (6.36%) Node.js
4 287 (6.19%) REST
5 278 (5.99%) RESTful
6 239 (5.15%) ASP.NET
7 218 (4.70%) .NET Core
8 204 (4.40%) Spring Boot
9 202 (4.35%) CSS
10 198 (4.27%) HTML
11 192 (4.14%) Spring
12 184 (3.97%) ASP.NET Core
13 166 (3.58%) Kafka
14 160 (3.45%) AngularJS
15 112 (2.41%) YAML
16 108 (2.33%) Entity Framework
17 105 (2.26%) Blazor
18 104 (2.24%) SOAP
19 96 (2.07%) Middleware
20 94 (2.03%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 739 (15.93%) Cloud Native
2 300 (6.47%) Product Ownership
3 184 (3.97%) Distributed Systems
4 138 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
5 93 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
6 92 (1.98%) Onboarding
7 85 (1.83%) Management Information System
8 81 (1.75%) Mobile App
9 79 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
10 67 (1.44%) Public Cloud
11 65 (1.40%) Data Centre
12 60 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
13 52 (1.12%) Data Structures
14 48 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
15 47 (1.01%) Low-Code
16 46 (0.99%) Algorithms
16 46 (0.99%) Security Posture
17 38 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
18 36 (0.78%) Virtual Team
19 33 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 454 (9.79%) Linux
2 215 (4.63%) Windows
3 86 (1.85%) Unix
4 72 (1.55%) Windows Server
5 53 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 49 (1.06%) Ubuntu
7 41 (0.88%) VMS
8 35 (0.75%) Android
9 33 (0.71%) CentOS
10 25 (0.54%) Apple iOS
11 11 (0.24%) Debian
12 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.086%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.086%) Rocky
15 3 (0.065%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.043%) AIX
16 2 (0.043%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.043%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.022%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,363 (50.94%) CI/CD
2 1,678 (36.17%) Agile
3 1,116 (24.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 848 (18.28%) Continuous Improvement
5 785 (16.92%) Mentoring
6 770 (16.60%) Software Engineering
7 737 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
8 728 (15.69%) AI
9 641 (13.82%) Test Automation
10 628 (13.54%) Microservices
11 602 (12.98%) Containerisation
12 514 (11.08%) Roadmaps
13 513 (11.06%) Full-Stack Development
14 491 (10.58%) Observability
15 481 (10.37%) Platform Engineering
15 481 (10.37%) Scrum
16 444 (9.57%) Analytics
17 429 (9.25%) Technical Leadership
18 348 (7.50%) Stakeholder Management
19 302 (6.51%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,077 (23.22%) Python
2 839 (18.09%) SQL
3 634 (13.67%) Java
4 624 (13.45%) C#
5 542 (11.68%) JavaScript
6 386 (8.32%) Bash
7 349 (7.52%) TypeScript
8 289 (6.23%) PowerShell
9 145 (3.13%) Bicep
10 135 (2.91%) Go
11 129 (2.78%) C++
12 77 (1.66%) Apex Code
13 57 (1.23%) PHP
14 50 (1.08%) Groovy
15 48 (1.03%) SOQL
16 46 (0.99%) C
17 45 (0.97%) SOSL
18 41 (0.88%) Kotlin
19 39 (0.84%) Rust
20 36 (0.78%) Scala
Qualifications
1 708 (15.26%) Security Cleared
2 476 (10.26%) Degree
3 443 (9.55%) SC Cleared
4 177 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 161 (3.47%) DV Cleared
6 119 (2.57%) Azure Certification
7 105 (2.26%) Master's Degree
8 95 (2.05%) AWS Certification
9 56 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 52 (1.12%) ISTQB
11 35 (0.75%) DBS Check
11 35 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
12 31 (0.67%) PMI Certification
13 30 (0.65%) CISSP
14 29 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 24 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 24 (0.52%) PhD
15 24 (0.52%) PMP
16 20 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
17 15 (0.32%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 408 (8.79%) QA
2 162 (3.49%) Data Quality
3 159 (3.43%) Accessibility
4 99 (2.13%) GDPR
5 70 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 55 (1.19%) NIST
7 52 (1.12%) WCAG
8 47 (1.01%) GRC
9 36 (0.78%) PCI DSS
10 32 (0.69%) SOC 2
11 21 (0.45%) SLA
12 20 (0.43%) PMO
13 14 (0.30%) NCSC
14 12 (0.26%) TickIT
15 10 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
16 9 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 9 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
17 6 (0.13%) Solvency II
18 5 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 5 (0.11%) IFRS
System Software
1 751 (16.19%) Docker
2 133 (2.87%) Active Directory
3 71 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.63%) vSphere
6 20 (0.43%) Firmware
7 19 (0.41%) Hyper-V
8 13 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.13%) iptables
10 6 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.086%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.086%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.065%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.065%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.043%) KVM
14 1 (0.022%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.022%) OpenAM
14 1 (0.022%) OpenIDM
14 1 (0.022%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,131 (24.38%) Terraform
2 840 (18.11%) Kubernetes
3 399 (8.60%) Ansible
4 226 (4.87%) Grafana
5 176 (3.79%) Prometheus
6 74 (1.60%) Argo
7 52 (1.12%) Puppet
8 39 (0.84%) Nagios
9 30 (0.65%) HP Fortify
10 29 (0.63%) Kibana
11 28 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
12 21 (0.45%) Istio
13 15 (0.32%) Packer
14 14 (0.30%) Rancher
15 13 (0.28%) Progress Chef
15 13 (0.28%) Proxmox
16 12 (0.26%) Kustomize
17 10 (0.22%) logstash
18 9 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
18 9 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 902 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 171 (3.69%) Google
3 157 (3.38%) Databricks
4 149 (3.21%) Salesforce
5 110 (2.37%) VMware
6 99 (2.13%) ServiceNow
6 99 (2.13%) Splunk
7 86 (1.85%) Oracle
8 81 (1.75%) Red Hat
9 56 (1.21%) SAP
10 46 (0.99%) MuleSoft
11 43 (0.93%) Pega
12 39 (0.84%) Dynatrace
13 38 (0.82%) Cisco
14 33 (0.71%) OpenAI
15 32 (0.69%) Facebook
16 28 (0.60%) Palo Alto
17 26 (0.56%) Apple
18 24 (0.52%) Foundry
18 24 (0.52%) YouTube