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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 19 26
Rank change year-on-year -11 +7 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,241 3,876 7,141
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.57% 9.11% 7.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.19% 9.76% 8.58%
Number of salaries quoted 3,028 2,265 5,279
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,486 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,991 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.77% +10.76% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £101,250
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 68,523 39,694 83,256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.83% 93.27% 84.12%
Number of salaries quoted 44,541 20,818 60,168
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,875 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% -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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -12 3,713 £70,000 -3.45% 1,363
UK excluding London -23 2,486 £65,000 - 942
Work from Home -7 1,515 £69,310 -0.99% 777
London -9 1,389 £82,500 - 588
North of England -14 859 £70,000 +2.94% 306
South East -14 556 £65,000 - 249
North West -16 439 £70,000 - 175
South West -18 343 £65,000 - 129
Midlands -32 329 £67,500 +12.50% 99
Yorkshire -5 276 £70,000 - 81
West Midlands -40 187 £62,500 +4.17% 71
Scotland +1 164 £55,000 -26.67% 50
East of England -17 148 £65,000 - 69
North East +8 144 £60,000 -7.69% 53
East Midlands -2 139 £70,000 +7.69% 28
Wales -4 81 £53,000 -11.67% 29
Northern Ireland -38 11 £73,151 +33.00% 26
Isle of Man +2 3 £35,000 -

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 77 (1.82%) SharePoint
2 73 (1.72%) Confluence
3 55 (1.30%) Apache
4 49 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
5 48 (1.13%) Apache Spark
6 37 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
7 29 (0.68%) IIS
8 27 (0.64%) CMS
9 16 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
10 12 (0.28%) OpenStack
11 11 (0.26%) SAS
12 10 (0.24%) Moodle
13 9 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
14 8 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
14 8 (0.19%) Umbraco
15 7 (0.17%) Anypoint
15 7 (0.17%) Apache Solr
16 6 (0.14%) nginx
16 6 (0.14%) WordPress
17 5 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 33 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
3 23 (0.54%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.28%) PlantUML
5 11 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.24%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
8 6 (0.14%) Simulink
9 3 (0.071%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.047%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.047%) Maya
10 2 (0.047%) Trello
11 1 (0.024%) Blender
11 1 (0.024%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.024%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 67 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.33%) SAP ERP
2 14 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.24%) Endur
3 10 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
4 7 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.12%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.094%) Markit EDM
6 4 (0.094%) Shopify
7 3 (0.071%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.071%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.071%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.047%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.047%) Fidessa
8 2 (0.047%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.047%) Magento
9 1 (0.024%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.024%) SAP PP
9 1 (0.024%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,246 (52.96%) Azure
2 1,373 (32.37%) AWS
3 1,094 (25.80%) Azure DevOps
4 490 (11.55%) GitHub
5 478 (11.27%) GCP
6 428 (10.09%) Serverless
7 332 (7.83%) Power Platform
8 267 (6.30%) GitHub Actions
9 257 (6.06%) SaaS
10 227 (5.35%) Amazon S3
11 223 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
12 215 (5.07%) AWS Lambda
13 166 (3.91%) Microsoft 365
14 158 (3.73%) PaaS
15 151 (3.56%) Entra ID
16 140 (3.30%) Azure Data Factory
17 139 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
18 136 (3.21%) Amazon ECS
19 134 (3.16%) Azure AKS
20 133 (3.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 139 (3.28%) Firewall
2 92 (2.17%) DNS
3 64 (1.51%) Broadband
4 57 (1.34%) TCP/IP
5 46 (1.08%) VPN
6 38 (0.90%) Network Security
7 33 (0.78%) HTTP
8 28 (0.66%) WAN
9 27 (0.64%) DHCP
10 23 (0.54%) LAN
11 10 (0.24%) BGP
11 10 (0.24%) SAN
11 10 (0.24%) Wireless
12 8 (0.19%) Internet
12 8 (0.19%) MQTT
13 7 (0.17%) HTTPS
14 6 (0.14%) Bluetooth
14 6 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (0.14%) OSPF
14 6 (0.14%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (5.75%) SQL Server
2 203 (4.79%) NoSQL
3 186 (4.39%) Power BI
4 153 (3.61%) MongoDB
5 145 (3.42%) Azure SQL Database
6 140 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
7 113 (2.66%) DynamoDB
8 88 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
8 88 (2.07%) Relational Database
9 87 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
10 84 (1.98%) Data Lake
11 68 (1.60%) Metadata
12 66 (1.56%) MySQL
13 61 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
14 46 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
15 39 (0.92%) BigQuery
16 36 (0.85%) Delta Lake
17 35 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
18 31 (0.73%) Big Data
19 30 (0.71%) Redis
Development Applications
1 468 (11.04%) Git
2 398 (9.38%) Jenkins
3 366 (8.63%) GitLab
4 247 (5.82%) JIRA
5 101 (2.38%) SonarQube
6 83 (1.96%) Cypress.io
7 82 (1.93%) Selenium
8 63 (1.49%) Maven
9 44 (1.04%) Postman
10 37 (0.87%) Bitbucket
11 36 (0.85%) CircleCI
11 36 (0.85%) Cucumber
12 35 (0.83%) TeamCity
13 32 (0.75%) JUnit
14 27 (0.64%) JMeter
15 25 (0.59%) Eclipse
16 23 (0.54%) Visual Studio
16 23 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
17 20 (0.47%) REST Assured
18 19 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 934 (22.02%) Finance
2 885 (20.87%) Social Skills
3 360 (8.49%) Analytical Skills
4 277 (6.53%) Public Sector
5 247 (5.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 226 (5.33%) Banking
7 135 (3.18%) Retail
8 120 (2.83%) Law
9 103 (2.43%) Marketing
10 76 (1.79%) Legal
11 74 (1.74%) Games
12 47 (1.11%) Manufacturing
13 45 (1.06%) Telecoms
14 42 (0.99%) Advertising
15 40 (0.94%) Financial Institution
16 39 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
17 36 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
18 33 (0.78%) Billing
19 31 (0.73%) Back Office
20 29 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 907 (21.39%) DevOps Engineer
2 874 (20.61%) Senior
3 739 (17.43%) Developer
4 609 (14.36%) Lead
5 350 (8.25%) Architect
6 317 (7.47%) Software Engineer
7 315 (7.43%) Azure Engineer
8 255 (6.01%) Cloud Engineer
9 216 (5.09%) Senior DevOps
10 193 (4.55%) Senior Developer
11 186 (4.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 168 (3.96%) Data Engineer
13 163 (3.84%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 150 (3.54%) Solutions Architect
15 148 (3.49%) AWS Engineer
16 145 (3.42%) Platform Engineer
17 144 (3.40%) Java Developer
18 130 (3.07%) Lead DevOps
19 115 (2.71%) Full-Stack Developer
20 108 (2.55%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 507 (11.95%) .NET
2 365 (8.61%) React
3 277 (6.53%) REST
4 256 (6.04%) Node.js
5 242 (5.71%) RESTful
6 181 (4.27%) Spring Boot
7 165 (3.89%) CSS
7 165 (3.89%) Spring
8 161 (3.80%) HTML
9 159 (3.75%) Kafka
10 157 (3.70%) ASP.NET
11 155 (3.65%) AngularJS
12 153 (3.61%) .NET Core
13 119 (2.81%) SOAP
14 109 (2.57%) ASP.NET Core
15 105 (2.48%) OAuth
16 101 (2.38%) Middleware
17 97 (2.29%) YAML
18 92 (2.17%) JSON
18 92 (2.17%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 586 (13.82%) Cloud Native
2 292 (6.89%) Product Ownership
3 146 (3.44%) Distributed Systems
4 120 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
5 87 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
6 81 (1.91%) Management Information System
7 68 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
8 67 (1.58%) Onboarding
9 63 (1.49%) Mobile App
10 59 (1.39%) Data Centre
11 55 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
12 53 (1.25%) Public Cloud
13 50 (1.18%) Algorithms
13 50 (1.18%) Data Structures
14 49 (1.16%) Low-Code
15 38 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
16 30 (0.71%) Virtual Team
17 29 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
17 29 (0.68%) Security Posture
18 28 (0.66%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 430 (10.14%) Linux
2 192 (4.53%) Windows
3 83 (1.96%) Unix
4 76 (1.79%) Windows Server
5 52 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 42 (0.99%) Ubuntu
7 30 (0.71%) Android
8 29 (0.68%) CentOS
8 29 (0.68%) VMS
9 25 (0.59%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (0.17%) Debian
12 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
13 4 (0.094%) Kali Linux
13 4 (0.094%) Rocky
14 3 (0.071%) Windows Server 2016
15 2 (0.047%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.047%) Embedded Linux
16 1 (0.024%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,163 (51.00%) CI/CD
2 1,502 (35.42%) Agile
3 1,025 (24.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 767 (18.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 715 (16.86%) Problem-Solving
6 711 (16.76%) Mentoring
7 686 (16.18%) Software Engineering
8 647 (15.26%) AI
9 627 (14.78%) Test Automation
10 562 (13.25%) Containerisation
10 562 (13.25%) Microservices
11 467 (11.01%) Observability
12 444 (10.47%) Roadmaps
13 432 (10.19%) Analytics
14 422 (9.95%) Full-Stack Development
15 410 (9.67%) Platform Engineering
16 404 (9.53%) Scrum
17 373 (8.80%) Technical Leadership
18 321 (7.57%) Data Modelling
19 306 (7.22%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,062 (25.04%) Python
2 778 (18.34%) SQL
3 612 (14.43%) Java
4 507 (11.95%) C#
5 473 (11.15%) JavaScript
6 363 (8.56%) Bash
7 323 (7.62%) TypeScript
8 264 (6.22%) PowerShell
9 149 (3.51%) Go
10 121 (2.85%) C++
11 118 (2.78%) Bicep
12 85 (2.00%) Apex Code
13 53 (1.25%) Groovy
14 52 (1.23%) PHP
15 47 (1.11%) Scala
16 46 (1.08%) SOQL
17 44 (1.04%) SOSL
18 38 (0.90%) C
19 37 (0.87%) Kotlin
20 34 (0.80%) Rust
Qualifications
1 604 (14.24%) Security Cleared
2 437 (10.30%) Degree
3 359 (8.46%) SC Cleared
4 173 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 151 (3.56%) DV Cleared
6 109 (2.57%) AWS Certification
7 96 (2.26%) Azure Certification
8 87 (2.05%) Master's Degree
9 52 (1.23%) ISTQB
10 40 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
11 34 (0.80%) DBS Check
12 32 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
13 30 (0.71%) PMI Certification
14 29 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 26 (0.61%) CISSP
16 24 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 20 (0.47%) PMP
18 19 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
18 19 (0.45%) PhD
19 18 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 343 (8.09%) QA
2 171 (4.03%) Data Quality
3 137 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 94 (2.22%) GDPR
5 71 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 55 (1.30%) NIST
7 46 (1.08%) GRC
8 34 (0.80%) SOC 2
9 33 (0.78%) PCI DSS
10 32 (0.75%) WCAG
11 19 (0.45%) SLA
12 14 (0.33%) PMO
13 12 (0.28%) NCSC
13 12 (0.28%) TickIT
14 10 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 8 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
16 6 (0.14%) Solvency II
17 5 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
17 5 (0.12%) IFRS
System Software
1 714 (16.84%) Docker
2 142 (3.35%) Active Directory
3 55 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.42%) Firmware
6 17 (0.40%) Hyper-V
7 16 (0.38%) vSphere
8 7 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.094%) iptables
9 4 (0.094%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 4 (0.094%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.094%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.071%) Embedded Firmware
10 3 (0.071%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.047%) KVM
11 2 (0.047%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.024%) OpenAM
12 1 (0.024%) OpenDJ
12 1 (0.024%) OpenIDM
12 1 (0.024%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,058 (24.95%) Terraform
2 771 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 386 (9.10%) Ansible
4 227 (5.35%) Grafana
5 187 (4.41%) Prometheus
6 76 (1.79%) Argo
7 49 (1.16%) Puppet
8 37 (0.87%) HP Fortify
8 37 (0.87%) Nagios
9 34 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
10 26 (0.61%) Kibana
10 26 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
11 18 (0.42%) Kustomize
12 16 (0.38%) Istio
12 16 (0.38%) Rancher
13 14 (0.33%) Packer
14 13 (0.31%) Progress Chef
15 10 (0.24%) logstash
15 10 (0.24%) Proxmox
16 9 (0.21%) yum
Vendors
1 789 (18.60%) Microsoft
2 162 (3.82%) Salesforce
3 158 (3.73%) Google
4 155 (3.65%) Databricks
5 94 (2.22%) Splunk
6 92 (2.17%) VMware
7 84 (1.98%) Oracle
7 84 (1.98%) Red Hat
8 76 (1.79%) ServiceNow
9 52 (1.23%) SAP
10 42 (0.99%) MuleSoft
11 33 (0.78%) Cisco
11 33 (0.78%) Dynatrace
12 32 (0.75%) Palo Alto
13 24 (0.57%) Adobe
13 24 (0.57%) Pega
14 23 (0.54%) OpenAI
15 20 (0.47%) IBM
16 19 (0.45%) SolarWinds
17 18 (0.42%) Foundry