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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 22 24
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 -13
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,096 4,177 6,231
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.07% 8.51% 6.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.89% 9.47% 8.36%
Number of salaries quoted 3,687 2,409 4,426
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,486 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year - +5.69% -1.60%

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 74,007 44,123 74,573
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.62% 89.89% 81.72%
Number of salaries quoted 51,106 24,962 50,806
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 24 July 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 24 July 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 4,396 £70,000 - 1,763
UK excluding London -5 3,228 £65,000 - 1,174
Work from Home -3 1,847 £67,500 -3.57% 846
London -11 1,475 £85,000 +6.25% 799
North of England 0 1,131 £67,500 +3.85% 361
South East -8 667 £65,000 - 297
North West -1 625 £70,000 +7.69% 198
South West 0 456 £70,000 +7.69% 164
Midlands -22 375 £65,000 - 165
Yorkshire +10 289 £70,000 +3.70% 87
North East +14 217 £60,000 -7.69% 78
West Midlands -30 211 £68,403 +5.23% 115
East of England +19 199 £60,000 -7.69% 69
Wales +11 167 £54,000 -6.09% 33
East Midlands 0 163 £65,000 +15.56% 50
Scotland +1 141 £60,000 -14.29% 67
Northern Ireland -7 101 £73,151 -8.56% 35
Isle of Man +2 3 £35,000 -33.33% 6

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 96 (1.88%) Confluence
2 88 (1.73%) SharePoint
3 82 (1.61%) Apache Spark
4 67 (1.31%) Apache
5 45 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
6 40 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
7 31 (0.61%) CMS
8 30 (0.59%) IIS
9 20 (0.39%) SAS
10 18 (0.35%) OpenStack
11 14 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
12 12 (0.24%) nginx
13 11 (0.22%) Jupyter
14 10 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
15 9 (0.18%) Umbraco
15 9 (0.18%) WordPress
16 8 (0.16%) Anypoint
16 8 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
17 7 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
18 6 (0.12%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 57 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
2 43 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.39%) MS Visio
3 20 (0.39%) PlantUML
4 15 (0.29%) Chatbot
4 15 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (0.24%) Trello
7 7 (0.14%) Simulink
8 4 (0.078%) Maya
9 3 (0.059%) Blender
10 2 (0.039%) Lightworks
10 2 (0.039%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.020%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.020%) Notion
11 1 (0.020%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 74 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.14%) Elite 3E
3 7 (0.14%) SAP IBP
4 5 (0.098%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.098%) Visualfiles
5 4 (0.078%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.078%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.078%) Endur
5 4 (0.078%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.078%) Shopify
6 3 (0.059%) Carpe Diem
6 3 (0.059%) Infor SunSystems
6 3 (0.059%) Magento
6 3 (0.059%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.059%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.039%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.039%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.039%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.039%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 2,690 (52.79%) Azure
2 1,662 (32.61%) AWS
3 1,333 (26.16%) Azure DevOps
4 556 (10.91%) GCP
5 498 (9.77%) GitHub
6 457 (8.97%) Serverless
7 401 (7.87%) SaaS
8 352 (6.91%) Power Platform
9 263 (5.16%) GitHub Actions
10 232 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
11 221 (4.34%) Amazon S3
12 205 (4.02%) PaaS
13 203 (3.98%) AWS Lambda
14 161 (3.16%) Dynamics 365
15 158 (3.10%) Azure AKS
15 158 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
16 143 (2.81%) Amazon ECS
16 143 (2.81%) Azure Logic Apps
17 140 (2.75%) Azure Service Bus
18 139 (2.73%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 133 (2.61%) Firewall
2 87 (1.71%) DNS
3 67 (1.31%) TCP/IP
4 63 (1.24%) VPN
5 51 (1.00%) Broadband
6 44 (0.86%) Network Security
7 34 (0.67%) HTTP
8 33 (0.65%) Internet
9 21 (0.41%) DHCP
10 20 (0.39%) LAN
11 18 (0.35%) WAN
12 16 (0.31%) MQTT
13 14 (0.27%) Wireless
14 13 (0.26%) DMARC
15 10 (0.20%) BGP
15 10 (0.20%) HTTPS
15 10 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (0.16%) Bluetooth
16 8 (0.16%) SAN
16 8 (0.16%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 283 (5.55%) SQL Server
2 272 (5.34%) MongoDB
3 264 (5.18%) Azure SQL Database
4 197 (3.87%) Power BI
5 192 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
6 181 (3.55%) NoSQL
7 104 (2.04%) MySQL
8 99 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
8 99 (1.94%) DynamoDB
9 92 (1.81%) Relational Database
10 91 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
11 83 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
12 75 (1.47%) Data Lake
13 58 (1.14%) Metadata
14 55 (1.08%) Redis
15 44 (0.86%) Big Data
16 42 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
17 38 (0.75%) Delta Lake
18 34 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
19 31 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 538 (10.56%) Git
2 411 (8.07%) GitLab
3 405 (7.95%) Jenkins
4 327 (6.42%) JIRA
5 90 (1.77%) Selenium
5 90 (1.77%) SonarQube
6 73 (1.43%) Cypress.io
7 54 (1.06%) Maven
8 52 (1.02%) Postman
9 50 (0.98%) JUnit
10 37 (0.73%) Cucumber
11 35 (0.69%) JMeter
12 32 (0.63%) TeamCity
13 31 (0.61%) Bitbucket
14 28 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 28 (0.55%) CircleCI
15 27 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
16 24 (0.47%) Visual Studio
17 21 (0.41%) REST Assured
18 19 (0.37%) Zephyr
General
1 1,106 (21.70%) Social Skills
2 962 (18.88%) Finance
3 386 (7.57%) Analytical Skills
4 381 (7.48%) Public Sector
5 303 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 244 (4.79%) Banking
7 193 (3.79%) Law
8 157 (3.08%) Retail
9 140 (2.75%) Legal
10 114 (2.24%) Marketing
11 78 (1.53%) Games
12 61 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
13 56 (1.10%) Manufacturing
14 55 (1.08%) Advertising
15 49 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
16 48 (0.94%) Financial Institution
17 46 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
18 42 (0.82%) Telecoms
19 31 (0.61%) Back Office
20 26 (0.51%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1,159 (22.74%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,104 (21.66%) Senior
3 876 (17.19%) Developer
4 685 (13.44%) Lead
5 410 (8.05%) Architect
6 350 (6.87%) Software Engineer
7 341 (6.69%) Azure Engineer
8 266 (5.22%) Senior DevOps
9 263 (5.16%) Cloud Engineer
10 242 (4.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 224 (4.40%) .NET Developer
12 216 (4.24%) Senior Developer
13 198 (3.89%) Platform Engineer
14 190 (3.73%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 183 (3.59%) Data Engineer
16 166 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
17 163 (3.20%) AWS Engineer
18 145 (2.85%) Lead DevOps
19 134 (2.63%) Java Developer
20 120 (2.35%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 676 (13.27%) .NET
2 444 (8.71%) React
3 319 (6.26%) RESTful
4 314 (6.16%) REST
5 306 (6.00%) Node.js
6 285 (5.59%) ASP.NET
7 258 (5.06%) .NET Core
8 237 (4.65%) CSS
9 234 (4.59%) HTML
10 232 (4.55%) Spring Boot
11 225 (4.42%) Spring
12 221 (4.34%) ASP.NET Core
13 201 (3.94%) Kafka
14 158 (3.10%) AngularJS
15 131 (2.57%) Entity Framework
16 130 (2.55%) Blazor
16 130 (2.55%) Middleware
17 107 (2.10%) YAML
18 103 (2.02%) SOAP
19 99 (1.94%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 857 (16.82%) Cloud Native
2 333 (6.53%) Product Ownership
3 231 (4.53%) Distributed Systems
4 175 (3.43%) Enterprise Software
5 138 (2.71%) Onboarding
6 102 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
7 87 (1.71%) Management Information System
8 86 (1.69%) Virtual Team
9 77 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
9 77 (1.51%) Mobile App
10 73 (1.43%) Data Centre
11 67 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
12 62 (1.22%) Public Cloud
13 58 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
14 57 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
15 49 (0.96%) Data Structures
16 44 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
17 42 (0.82%) Low-Code
18 41 (0.80%) Security Posture
19 40 (0.78%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 503 (9.87%) Linux
2 243 (4.77%) Windows
3 92 (1.81%) Unix
4 73 (1.43%) Windows Server
5 69 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 47 (0.92%) CentOS
7 45 (0.88%) Ubuntu
8 37 (0.73%) VMS
9 30 (0.59%) Android
10 17 (0.33%) Apple iOS
10 17 (0.33%) Debian
11 8 (0.16%) Rocky
12 7 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
12 7 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.098%) Windows Server 2019
14 4 (0.078%) Kali Linux
15 3 (0.059%) AIX
16 2 (0.039%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.039%) Mac OS
16 2 (0.039%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,557 (50.18%) CI/CD
2 1,898 (37.24%) Agile
3 1,211 (23.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 980 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
5 912 (17.90%) Mentoring
6 883 (17.33%) Software Engineering
7 845 (16.58%) AI
8 814 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
9 785 (15.40%) Test Automation
10 695 (13.64%) Microservices
11 641 (12.58%) Containerisation
12 559 (10.97%) Full-Stack Development
13 551 (10.81%) Platform Engineering
14 548 (10.75%) Roadmaps
15 537 (10.54%) Scrum
16 536 (10.52%) Observability
17 501 (9.83%) Technical Leadership
18 452 (8.87%) Analytics
19 428 (8.40%) Stakeholder Management
20 370 (7.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,201 (23.57%) Python
2 909 (17.84%) SQL
3 738 (14.48%) C#
4 652 (12.79%) Java
5 642 (12.60%) JavaScript
6 403 (7.91%) TypeScript
7 368 (7.22%) Bash
8 353 (6.93%) PowerShell
9 159 (3.12%) Bicep
10 125 (2.45%) C++
11 124 (2.43%) Go
12 72 (1.41%) Apex Code
13 63 (1.24%) PHP
14 48 (0.94%) C
14 48 (0.94%) Groovy
15 46 (0.90%) SOQL
16 43 (0.84%) SOSL
17 40 (0.78%) T-SQL
18 38 (0.75%) Scala
19 36 (0.71%) Rust
Qualifications
1 815 (15.99%) Security Cleared
2 538 (10.56%) SC Cleared
3 498 (9.77%) Degree
4 213 (4.18%) DV Cleared
5 185 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 134 (2.63%) Azure Certification
7 112 (2.20%) Master's Degree
8 81 (1.59%) CISSP
8 81 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
9 76 (1.49%) AWS Certification
10 64 (1.26%) CISM
11 59 (1.16%) ISTQB
12 50 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
13 37 (0.73%) DBS Check
14 36 (0.71%) PMI Certification
15 28 (0.55%) PMP
16 25 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 24 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 23 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
19 22 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 506 (9.93%) QA
2 171 (3.36%) Accessibility
3 161 (3.16%) Data Quality
4 114 (2.24%) GDPR
5 105 (2.06%) NIST
6 68 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 61 (1.20%) WCAG
8 49 (0.96%) GRC
9 48 (0.94%) ISO 22301
10 41 (0.80%) PCI DSS
11 26 (0.51%) SOC 2
12 25 (0.49%) PMO
13 21 (0.41%) SLA
14 17 (0.33%) NCSC
15 12 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
15 12 (0.24%) TickIT
16 10 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
16 10 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 8 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 8 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 810 (15.89%) Docker
2 131 (2.57%) Active Directory
3 76 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (0.55%) vSphere
6 22 (0.43%) Firmware
7 21 (0.41%) Hyper-V
8 13 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 6 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.098%) iptables
11 4 (0.078%) Ceph
11 4 (0.078%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.078%) KVM
11 4 (0.078%) NDS
12 3 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.059%) Xen
13 2 (0.039%) VMware NSX
14 1 (0.020%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.020%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,213 (23.80%) Terraform
2 934 (18.33%) Kubernetes
3 425 (8.34%) Ansible
4 234 (4.59%) Grafana
5 175 (3.43%) Prometheus
6 75 (1.47%) Argo
7 60 (1.18%) Puppet
8 38 (0.75%) Nagios
9 27 (0.53%) Istio
10 26 (0.51%) HP Fortify
10 26 (0.51%) Kibana
11 24 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
12 17 (0.33%) Progress Chef
13 14 (0.27%) Rancher
14 13 (0.26%) Packer
15 12 (0.24%) ZABBIX
16 11 (0.22%) Podman
17 10 (0.20%) logstash
17 10 (0.20%) Proxmox
18 9 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 983 (19.29%) Microsoft
2 184 (3.61%) Google
3 171 (3.36%) Databricks
4 149 (2.92%) Salesforce
5 109 (2.14%) VMware
6 105 (2.06%) Splunk
7 99 (1.94%) Oracle
7 99 (1.94%) ServiceNow
8 87 (1.71%) Red Hat
9 71 (1.39%) SAP
10 53 (1.04%) Pega
11 46 (0.90%) Cisco
11 46 (0.90%) Dynatrace
12 44 (0.86%) OpenAI
13 43 (0.84%) MuleSoft
14 42 (0.82%) Facebook
15 30 (0.59%) Apple
16 27 (0.53%) YouTube
17 26 (0.51%) Foundry
18 25 (0.49%) Palo Alto