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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 20 24
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 -12
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,309 4,207 5,750
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.13% 8.47% 6.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.96% 9.47% 8.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3,837 2,421 4,005
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,486 £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 £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 76,271 44,428 67,881
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.70% 89.49% 81.01%
Number of salaries quoted 52,568 25,332 44,788
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,199
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -8 4,586 £70,000 -1.75% 2,089
UK excluding London -2 3,399 £65,000 - 1,269
Work from Home -2 1,910 £67,500 -3.57% 1,075
London -13 1,518 £85,000 +6.25% 1,046
North of England +3 1,197 £67,500 +3.85% 367
South East -8 702 £65,000 +2.36% 327
North West -2 654 £70,000 +7.69% 189
South West +4 481 £70,000 +7.69% 184
Midlands -20 396 £67,500 +3.85% 181
Yorkshire +11 299 £70,000 +7.69% 116
North East +15 244 £60,000 -7.69% 64
West Midlands -30 230 £69,306 +6.62% 137
East of England +18 204 £60,000 -7.69% 64
Wales +10 178 £54,500 -5.22% 35
East Midlands +2 165 £65,000 +15.56% 42
Scotland -1 140 £60,000 -14.29% 83
Northern Ireland -6 110 £72,500 -9.38% 35
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 (1.98%) Confluence
2 91 (1.71%) SharePoint
3 88 (1.66%) Apache Spark
4 74 (1.39%) Apache
5 46 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
6 39 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
7 29 (0.55%) IIS
8 28 (0.53%) CMS
9 22 (0.41%) OpenStack
10 20 (0.38%) SAS
11 14 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
12 12 (0.23%) Jupyter
12 12 (0.23%) nginx
13 9 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
13 9 (0.17%) Umbraco
13 9 (0.17%) WordPress
14 8 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 8 (0.15%) Anypoint
14 8 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
15 6 (0.11%) Camunda
Applications
1 56 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
2 43 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.38%) MS Visio
3 20 (0.38%) PlantUML
4 16 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.28%) Chatbot
6 14 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
7 12 (0.23%) Trello
8 7 (0.13%) Simulink
9 4 (0.075%) Maya
10 3 (0.057%) Blender
11 2 (0.038%) Lightworks
11 2 (0.038%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.019%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.019%) Notion
12 1 (0.019%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 77 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.15%) Elite 3E
4 7 (0.13%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.094%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.094%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.075%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.075%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.075%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.075%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.075%) Shopify
7 3 (0.057%) Carpe Diem
7 3 (0.057%) Endur
7 3 (0.057%) Infor SunSystems
7 3 (0.057%) Magento
7 3 (0.057%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.057%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.057%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.057%) SAP Business One
7 3 (0.057%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2,799 (52.72%) Azure
2 1,746 (32.89%) AWS
3 1,375 (25.90%) Azure DevOps
4 584 (11.00%) GCP
5 522 (9.83%) GitHub
6 479 (9.02%) Serverless
7 428 (8.06%) SaaS
8 365 (6.88%) Power Platform
9 272 (5.12%) GitHub Actions
10 259 (4.88%) AWS CloudFormation
11 228 (4.29%) Amazon S3
12 217 (4.09%) PaaS
13 208 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
14 177 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
15 168 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
16 159 (2.99%) Azure AKS
17 156 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
18 146 (2.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 144 (2.71%) Azure Logic Apps
19 144 (2.71%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 133 (2.51%) Firewall
2 88 (1.66%) DNS
3 74 (1.39%) TCP/IP
4 66 (1.24%) VPN
5 46 (0.87%) Network Security
6 43 (0.81%) Broadband
7 34 (0.64%) HTTP
8 33 (0.62%) Internet
9 22 (0.41%) DHCP
10 21 (0.40%) LAN
11 18 (0.34%) WAN
12 16 (0.30%) MQTT
13 14 (0.26%) Wireless
14 13 (0.24%) DMARC
15 12 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
16 10 (0.19%) BGP
16 10 (0.19%) HTTPS
16 10 (0.19%) SAN
17 8 (0.15%) Bluetooth
17 8 (0.15%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 309 (5.82%) SQL Server
2 276 (5.20%) MongoDB
3 266 (5.01%) Azure SQL Database
4 202 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
5 200 (3.77%) Power BI
6 179 (3.37%) NoSQL
7 109 (2.05%) MySQL
8 104 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
9 102 (1.92%) Relational Database
10 101 (1.90%) DynamoDB
11 95 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
12 92 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
13 78 (1.47%) Data Lake
14 61 (1.15%) Metadata
14 61 (1.15%) Redis
15 46 (0.87%) Big Data
16 43 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
17 40 (0.75%) Delta Lake
18 35 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
19 33 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 572 (10.77%) Git
2 416 (7.84%) GitLab
3 410 (7.72%) Jenkins
4 342 (6.44%) JIRA
5 95 (1.79%) Selenium
6 85 (1.60%) SonarQube
7 72 (1.36%) Cypress.io
8 56 (1.05%) Maven
9 54 (1.02%) Postman
10 53 (1.00%) JUnit
11 38 (0.72%) Cucumber
12 35 (0.66%) TeamCity
13 34 (0.64%) JMeter
14 32 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 32 (0.60%) Bitbucket
15 27 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
16 24 (0.45%) CircleCI
16 24 (0.45%) Visual Studio
17 23 (0.43%) REST Assured
18 22 (0.41%) NUnit
General
1 1,182 (22.26%) Social Skills
2 1,011 (19.04%) Finance
3 418 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
4 403 (7.59%) Public Sector
5 319 (6.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 253 (4.77%) Banking
7 203 (3.82%) Law
8 161 (3.03%) Retail
9 155 (2.92%) Legal
10 109 (2.05%) Marketing
11 69 (1.30%) Games
12 63 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
13 59 (1.11%) Manufacturing
14 56 (1.05%) Advertising
15 54 (1.02%) Financial Institution
16 52 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
17 47 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
18 42 (0.79%) Telecoms
19 33 (0.62%) Back Office
20 29 (0.55%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 1,214 (22.87%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,154 (21.74%) Senior
3 897 (16.90%) Developer
4 714 (13.45%) Lead
5 416 (7.84%) Architect
6 370 (6.97%) Software Engineer
7 343 (6.46%) Azure Engineer
8 278 (5.24%) Cloud Engineer
9 273 (5.14%) Senior DevOps
10 253 (4.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 232 (4.37%) .NET Developer
12 220 (4.14%) Senior Developer
13 209 (3.94%) Platform Engineer
14 191 (3.60%) Data Engineer
15 190 (3.58%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 166 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
17 165 (3.11%) Solutions Architect
18 157 (2.96%) Lead DevOps
19 135 (2.54%) Java Developer
20 127 (2.39%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 715 (13.47%) .NET
2 456 (8.59%) React
3 333 (6.27%) REST
4 332 (6.25%) RESTful
5 313 (5.90%) Node.js
6 292 (5.50%) ASP.NET
7 268 (5.05%) .NET Core
8 242 (4.56%) CSS
9 240 (4.52%) HTML
10 237 (4.46%) Spring Boot
11 233 (4.39%) Spring
12 226 (4.26%) ASP.NET Core
13 208 (3.92%) Kafka
14 168 (3.16%) AngularJS
15 138 (2.60%) Entity Framework
16 137 (2.58%) Blazor
17 132 (2.49%) Middleware
18 107 (2.02%) JSON
19 106 (2.00%) YAML
20 101 (1.90%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 907 (17.08%) Cloud Native
2 343 (6.46%) Product Ownership
3 251 (4.73%) Distributed Systems
4 194 (3.65%) Enterprise Software
5 145 (2.73%) Onboarding
6 113 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
7 95 (1.79%) Virtual Team
8 87 (1.64%) Management Information System
9 78 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
10 77 (1.45%) Mobile App
11 75 (1.41%) Data Centre
12 71 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
13 63 (1.19%) Public Cloud
14 62 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
15 60 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
16 51 (0.96%) Data Structures
17 47 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
18 45 (0.85%) Low-Code
19 41 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
19 41 (0.77%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 547 (10.30%) Linux
2 256 (4.82%) Windows
3 103 (1.94%) Unix
4 76 (1.43%) Windows Server
5 75 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 53 (1.00%) CentOS
7 46 (0.87%) Ubuntu
8 37 (0.70%) VMS
9 31 (0.58%) Android
10 18 (0.34%) Debian
11 17 (0.32%) Apple iOS
12 9 (0.17%) Rocky
13 8 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
14 7 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
16 4 (0.075%) Kali Linux
17 3 (0.057%) AIX
17 3 (0.057%) Mac OS
18 2 (0.038%) Amazon Linux
18 2 (0.038%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,673 (50.35%) CI/CD
2 1,976 (37.22%) Agile
3 1,282 (24.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,021 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
5 962 (18.12%) Mentoring
6 950 (17.89%) Software Engineering
7 896 (16.88%) AI
8 855 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
9 815 (15.35%) Test Automation
10 720 (13.56%) Microservices
11 673 (12.68%) Containerisation
12 584 (11.00%) Platform Engineering
13 573 (10.79%) Observability
14 566 (10.66%) Full-Stack Development
15 562 (10.59%) Roadmaps
16 541 (10.19%) Scrum
17 539 (10.15%) Technical Leadership
18 469 (8.83%) Stakeholder Management
19 462 (8.70%) Analytics
20 385 (7.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,255 (23.64%) Python
2 942 (17.74%) SQL
3 779 (14.67%) C#
4 682 (12.85%) Java
5 669 (12.60%) JavaScript
6 418 (7.87%) TypeScript
7 371 (6.99%) Bash
8 367 (6.91%) PowerShell
9 159 (2.99%) Bicep
10 128 (2.41%) C++
11 127 (2.39%) Go
12 67 (1.26%) Apex Code
13 64 (1.21%) PHP
14 49 (0.92%) C
14 49 (0.92%) Groovy
15 44 (0.83%) T-SQL
16 41 (0.77%) Scala
17 38 (0.72%) Rust
18 37 (0.70%) Kotlin
18 37 (0.70%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 882 (16.61%) Security Cleared
2 580 (10.92%) SC Cleared
3 510 (9.61%) Degree
4 244 (4.60%) DV Cleared
5 194 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 141 (2.66%) Azure Certification
7 110 (2.07%) Master's Degree
8 86 (1.62%) AWS Certification
9 83 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
10 81 (1.53%) CISSP
11 64 (1.21%) CISM
12 59 (1.11%) ISTQB
13 50 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
14 39 (0.73%) DBS Check
15 38 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
16 37 (0.70%) PMI Certification
17 28 (0.53%) PMP
18 25 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 24 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
20 22 (0.41%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 537 (10.11%) QA
2 178 (3.35%) Accessibility
3 169 (3.18%) Data Quality
4 120 (2.26%) GDPR
5 106 (2.00%) NIST
6 70 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 62 (1.17%) WCAG
8 49 (0.92%) ISO 22301
9 48 (0.90%) GRC
10 41 (0.77%) PCI DSS
11 25 (0.47%) PMO
11 25 (0.47%) SOC 2
12 24 (0.45%) SLA
13 22 (0.41%) NCSC
14 13 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
15 12 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
15 12 (0.23%) TickIT
16 10 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 9 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 8 (0.15%) HIPAA
System Software
1 858 (16.16%) Docker
2 135 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 79 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (0.53%) vSphere
6 24 (0.45%) Hyper-V
7 23 (0.43%) Firmware
8 14 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.13%) Ceph
10 6 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.094%) iptables
11 5 (0.094%) KVM
12 4 (0.075%) Embedded Firmware
12 4 (0.075%) NDS
13 3 (0.057%) Xen
14 2 (0.038%) VMware ESXi
14 2 (0.038%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.019%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.019%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,283 (24.17%) Terraform
2 977 (18.40%) Kubernetes
3 449 (8.46%) Ansible
4 233 (4.39%) Grafana
5 175 (3.30%) Prometheus
6 79 (1.49%) Argo
7 62 (1.17%) Puppet
8 41 (0.77%) Nagios
9 31 (0.58%) Istio
10 26 (0.49%) Kibana
10 26 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
11 25 (0.47%) HP Fortify
12 16 (0.30%) Progress Chef
13 14 (0.26%) Podman
13 14 (0.26%) Rancher
14 13 (0.24%) ZABBIX
15 12 (0.23%) Packer
16 11 (0.21%) logstash
17 9 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
17 9 (0.17%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,029 (19.38%) Microsoft
2 198 (3.73%) Google
3 175 (3.30%) Databricks
4 149 (2.81%) Salesforce
5 112 (2.11%) VMware
6 107 (2.02%) Oracle
7 102 (1.92%) Splunk
8 100 (1.88%) ServiceNow
9 93 (1.75%) Red Hat
10 73 (1.38%) SAP
11 53 (1.00%) Pega
12 49 (0.92%) Dynatrace
13 47 (0.89%) Cisco
14 45 (0.85%) OpenAI
15 44 (0.83%) MuleSoft
16 42 (0.79%) Facebook
17 30 (0.57%) Apple
18 27 (0.51%) AppDynamics
18 27 (0.51%) YouTube
19 26 (0.49%) Foundry