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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 22 21
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,453 3,907 5,678
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.95% 7.85% 7.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.78% 8.86% 8.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,869 2,222 3,741
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
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 £86,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%

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 80,423 44,076 65,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.05% 88.58% 80.81%
Number of salaries quoted 55,931 25,099 39,866
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,341
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -2.38% -6.10%
75th Percentile £79,938 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £51,350
% change year-on-year +15.79% -7.50% -5.93%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 4,708 £71,991 +2.84% 3,703
UK excluding London -2 3,525 £65,000 - 2,029
Work from Home -2 1,914 £69,306 -0.99% 1,676
London -11 1,528 £85,000 +6.25% 2,111
North of England +3 1,237 £67,500 +3.85% 569
South East -8 713 £65,000 - 456
North West +4 676 £70,000 +7.69% 314
South West +24 519 £72,500 +16.00% 298
Midlands -16 429 £65,000 - 229
Yorkshire +14 288 £70,000 +9.80% 155
North East +22 273 £60,000 - 102
West Midlands -21 252 £70,000 +7.69% 136
East of England +8 205 £59,450 -8.54% 180
Wales +7 194 £54,500 -0.91% 46
East Midlands +5 177 £60,000 +4.35% 93
Scotland -3 132 £60,000 -11.11% 176
Northern Ireland -8 114 £72,246 -44.43% 88
Isle of Man 0 3 £35,000 -33.33% 1

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
1 105 (1.93%) Confluence
2 103 (1.89%) SharePoint
3 102 (1.87%) Apache Spark
4 83 (1.52%) Apache
5 44 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
6 40 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
7 31 (0.57%) CMS
8 30 (0.55%) IIS
9 25 (0.46%) OpenStack
10 19 (0.35%) SAS
11 14 (0.26%) Jupyter
11 14 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
12 13 (0.24%) nginx
13 9 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
13 9 (0.17%) Umbraco
13 9 (0.17%) WordPress
14 8 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
15 7 (0.13%) Camunda
16 6 (0.11%) Anypoint
Applications
1 62 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
2 45 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (0.40%) Chatbot
4 21 (0.39%) MS Visio
4 21 (0.39%) PlantUML
5 20 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
6 18 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 13 (0.24%) Trello
8 7 (0.13%) Simulink
9 3 (0.055%) Blender
9 3 (0.055%) Maya
9 3 (0.055%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.037%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.018%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.018%) Notion
11 1 (0.018%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 81 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (0.26%) Elite 3E
4 7 (0.13%) Teamcenter
5 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
6 5 (0.092%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.092%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.092%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.092%) Visualfiles
7 4 (0.073%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.073%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.073%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.055%) Carpe Diem
8 3 (0.055%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.055%) Infor SunSystems
8 3 (0.055%) Oracle Applications
8 3 (0.055%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.055%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.055%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.055%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,870 (52.63%) Azure
2 1,757 (32.22%) AWS
3 1,451 (26.61%) Azure DevOps
4 601 (11.02%) GCP
5 541 (9.92%) GitHub
6 479 (8.78%) Serverless
7 432 (7.92%) SaaS
8 398 (7.30%) Power Platform
9 287 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
10 276 (5.06%) AWS CloudFormation
11 216 (3.96%) Amazon S3
12 204 (3.74%) AWS Lambda
13 200 (3.67%) PaaS
14 199 (3.65%) Dynamics 365
15 170 (3.12%) Microsoft 365
16 162 (2.97%) Azure AKS
17 160 (2.93%) Amazon EKS
18 159 (2.92%) Azure Data Factory
19 154 (2.82%) Entra ID
20 149 (2.73%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 123 (2.26%) Firewall
2 87 (1.60%) DNS
3 75 (1.38%) VPN
4 59 (1.08%) TCP/IP
5 47 (0.86%) Network Security
6 33 (0.61%) Internet
7 29 (0.53%) Broadband
8 25 (0.46%) HTTP
9 24 (0.44%) DHCP
10 16 (0.29%) MQTT
11 14 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
11 14 (0.26%) Wireless
12 13 (0.24%) DMARC
13 12 (0.22%) BGP
13 12 (0.22%) SAN
13 12 (0.22%) WAN
14 11 (0.20%) LAN
15 9 (0.17%) SSH
16 8 (0.15%) VLAN
16 8 (0.15%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 341 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 290 (5.32%) Azure SQL Database
2 290 (5.32%) MongoDB
3 232 (4.25%) Power BI
4 212 (3.89%) PostgreSQL
5 192 (3.52%) NoSQL
6 132 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
7 122 (2.24%) MySQL
8 113 (2.07%) Relational Database
9 101 (1.85%) DynamoDB
10 97 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
11 96 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
12 87 (1.60%) Data Lake
13 81 (1.49%) Metadata
14 61 (1.12%) Redis
15 47 (0.86%) Big Data
16 42 (0.77%) Delta Lake
17 41 (0.75%) Amazon Athena
18 38 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
19 36 (0.66%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 613 (11.24%) Git
2 406 (7.45%) Jenkins
3 398 (7.30%) GitLab
4 354 (6.49%) JIRA
5 93 (1.71%) Selenium
6 75 (1.38%) SonarQube
7 62 (1.14%) Cypress.io
8 57 (1.05%) Maven
8 57 (1.05%) Postman
9 55 (1.01%) JUnit
10 41 (0.75%) TeamCity
11 40 (0.73%) Cucumber
12 37 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 34 (0.62%) JMeter
14 32 (0.59%) Bitbucket
15 27 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
16 25 (0.46%) REST Assured
17 24 (0.44%) NUnit
18 22 (0.40%) Claude Code
19 21 (0.39%) Zephyr
General
1 1,257 (23.05%) Social Skills
2 1,055 (19.35%) Finance
3 472 (8.66%) Public Sector
4 426 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
5 344 (6.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 250 (4.58%) Banking
7 215 (3.94%) Law
8 172 (3.15%) Legal
9 162 (2.97%) Retail
10 94 (1.72%) Marketing
11 65 (1.19%) Financial Institution
12 61 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
13 53 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
14 52 (0.95%) Games
14 52 (0.95%) Manufacturing
15 47 (0.86%) Advertising
15 47 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
16 41 (0.75%) Telecoms
17 39 (0.72%) Aerospace
18 38 (0.70%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,294 (23.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,239 (22.72%) Senior
3 884 (16.21%) Developer
4 721 (13.22%) Lead
5 421 (7.72%) Architect
6 381 (6.99%) Software Engineer
7 343 (6.29%) Azure Engineer
8 307 (5.63%) Senior DevOps
9 287 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 286 (5.24%) Cloud Engineer
11 242 (4.44%) .NET Developer
12 229 (4.20%) Platform Engineer
13 217 (3.98%) Senior Developer
14 203 (3.72%) Data Engineer
15 186 (3.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 170 (3.12%) Lead DevOps
17 149 (2.73%) AWS Engineer
18 143 (2.62%) Solutions Architect
19 127 (2.33%) Analyst
19 127 (2.33%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,338 (24.54%) Terraform
2 740 (13.57%) .NET
3 431 (7.90%) React
4 344 (6.31%) REST
5 338 (6.20%) RESTful
6 330 (6.05%) Node.js
7 306 (5.61%) ASP.NET
8 280 (5.13%) .NET Core
9 253 (4.64%) Spring
10 251 (4.60%) Spring Boot
11 239 (4.38%) HTML
12 238 (4.36%) CSS
13 235 (4.31%) ASP.NET Core
14 214 (3.92%) Kafka
15 163 (2.99%) AngularJS
16 142 (2.60%) Entity Framework
17 141 (2.59%) Blazor
18 121 (2.22%) Middleware
19 113 (2.07%) JSON
20 99 (1.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 966 (17.72%) Cloud Native
2 368 (6.75%) Product Ownership
3 262 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
4 217 (3.98%) Enterprise Software
5 162 (2.97%) Onboarding
6 112 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
6 112 (2.05%) Virtual Team
7 92 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
8 82 (1.50%) Management Information System
9 76 (1.39%) Mobile App
10 73 (1.34%) Data Centre
11 72 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
12 65 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
13 64 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
13 64 (1.17%) Public Cloud
14 51 (0.94%) Data Structures
14 51 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
15 49 (0.90%) AI Agents
15 49 (0.90%) Private Cloud
16 42 (0.77%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 540 (9.90%) Linux
2 254 (4.66%) Windows
3 97 (1.78%) Unix
4 68 (1.25%) Windows Server
5 67 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 53 (0.97%) CentOS
7 40 (0.73%) VMS
8 39 (0.72%) Ubuntu
9 33 (0.61%) Android
10 19 (0.35%) Apple iOS
11 17 (0.31%) Debian
12 11 (0.20%) Rocky
13 7 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
14 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.092%) Kali Linux
15 5 (0.092%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.073%) Solaris
16 4 (0.073%) Windows Server 2019
17 3 (0.055%) AIX
17 3 (0.055%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,760 (50.61%) CI/CD
2 2,014 (36.93%) Agile
3 1,309 (24.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,069 (19.60%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,020 (18.71%) Mentoring
6 996 (18.27%) Software Engineering
7 965 (17.70%) AI
8 889 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
9 845 (15.50%) Test Automation
10 731 (13.41%) Microservices
11 688 (12.62%) Containerisation
12 633 (11.61%) Platform Engineering
13 612 (11.22%) Observability
14 593 (10.87%) Technical Leadership
15 573 (10.51%) Roadmaps
16 546 (10.01%) Scrum
17 540 (9.90%) Full-Stack Development
18 531 (9.74%) Stakeholder Management
19 487 (8.93%) Analytics
20 387 (7.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,276 (23.40%) Python
2 977 (17.92%) SQL
3 809 (14.84%) C#
4 699 (12.82%) Java
5 663 (12.16%) JavaScript
6 408 (7.48%) TypeScript
7 376 (6.90%) Bash
8 374 (6.86%) PowerShell
9 154 (2.82%) Bicep
10 129 (2.37%) Go
11 117 (2.15%) C++
12 57 (1.05%) PHP
13 51 (0.94%) T-SQL
14 48 (0.88%) C
14 48 (0.88%) Groovy
14 48 (0.88%) Scala
15 47 (0.86%) Apex Code
16 41 (0.75%) Kotlin
17 40 (0.73%) Rust
18 38 (0.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 974 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 650 (11.92%) SC Cleared
3 515 (9.44%) Degree
4 278 (5.10%) DV Cleared
5 194 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 164 (3.01%) Azure Certification
7 109 (2.00%) Master's Degree
8 104 (1.91%) AWS Certification
9 77 (1.41%) CISSP
10 76 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
11 71 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
12 67 (1.23%) CISM
13 62 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
14 58 (1.06%) ISTQB
15 39 (0.72%) PMI Certification
16 34 (0.62%) DBS Check
17 29 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 27 (0.50%) PMP
19 25 (0.46%) PhD
20 22 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 553 (10.14%) QA
2 197 (3.61%) Data Quality
3 192 (3.52%) Accessibility
4 125 (2.29%) GDPR
5 99 (1.82%) NIST
6 71 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 62 (1.14%) WCAG
8 49 (0.90%) ISO 22301
9 47 (0.86%) GRC
10 33 (0.61%) PCI DSS
11 31 (0.57%) SLA
12 28 (0.51%) NCSC
13 27 (0.50%) PMO
14 18 (0.33%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
16 12 (0.22%) HIPAA
16 12 (0.22%) TickIT
17 11 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
18 10 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 9 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 884 (16.21%) Docker
2 140 (2.57%) Active Directory
3 82 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (0.46%) vSphere
6 22 (0.40%) Hyper-V
7 20 (0.37%) Firmware
8 17 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.13%) Ceph
10 6 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.092%) iptables
11 5 (0.092%) KVM
11 5 (0.092%) NDS
12 3 (0.055%) Xen
13 2 (0.037%) Embedded Firmware
13 2 (0.037%) VMware ESXi
13 2 (0.037%) VMware NSX
14 1 (0.018%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.018%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,009 (18.50%) Kubernetes
2 460 (8.44%) Ansible
3 229 (4.20%) Grafana
4 165 (3.03%) Prometheus
5 80 (1.47%) Argo
6 68 (1.25%) Puppet
7 36 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
8 32 (0.59%) Istio
9 29 (0.53%) Nagios
10 24 (0.44%) Kibana
11 20 (0.37%) HP Fortify
11 20 (0.37%) Progress Chef
12 17 (0.31%) Rancher
13 14 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
14 12 (0.22%) Packer
14 12 (0.22%) Podman
14 12 (0.22%) ZABBIX
15 11 (0.20%) logstash
16 9 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 9 (0.17%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,090 (19.99%) Microsoft
2 202 (3.70%) Google
3 182 (3.34%) Databricks
4 128 (2.35%) Salesforce
5 122 (2.24%) Oracle
6 113 (2.07%) VMware
7 94 (1.72%) ServiceNow
8 90 (1.65%) Splunk
9 82 (1.50%) Red Hat
10 74 (1.36%) SAP
11 56 (1.03%) OpenAI
12 53 (0.97%) Cisco
13 50 (0.92%) Pega
14 47 (0.86%) Dynatrace
15 42 (0.77%) Facebook
16 35 (0.64%) AppDynamics
16 35 (0.64%) YouTube
17 34 (0.62%) MuleSoft
18 30 (0.55%) Foundry
19 29 (0.53%) Apple