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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 18 25
Rank change year-on-year -13 +7 -13
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,210 4,062 7,123
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.57% 9.22% 7.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.21% 9.88% 8.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,990 2,468 5,291
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,175 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,175 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £88,750 £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% -3.23%

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 67,796 41,102 82,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.66% 93.28% 84.85%
Number of salaries quoted 43,826 22,293 59,720
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -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 19 May 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Top 19 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 19 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 -14 3,663 £70,356 +0.51% 1,375
UK excluding London -25 2,449 £65,000 - 983
Work from Home -7 1,524 £69,310 -0.99% 743
London -9 1,393 £82,500 +2.48% 553
North of England -15 828 £70,000 +4.42% 294
South East -16 537 £65,000 - 305
North West -18 418 £70,000 +0.89% 159
South West -18 341 £65,000 - 124
Midlands -27 324 £67,500 +12.50% 100
Yorkshire -7 276 £70,000 +3.32% 81
West Midlands -41 185 £62,500 +4.17% 66
Scotland -3 174 £55,000 -23.08% 54
East of England -7 150 £65,000 - 77
East Midlands 0 135 £70,000 +16.67% 34
North East +8 134 £60,000 -7.69% 57
Wales -5 86 £53,171 -11.38% 32
Northern Ireland -37 13 £73,801 +34.18% 14
Isle of Man +4 3 £35,000 -
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

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 (1.83%) SharePoint
2 72 (1.71%) Confluence
3 52 (1.24%) Apache
4 50 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
5 44 (1.05%) Apache Spark
6 36 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
7 29 (0.69%) IIS
8 25 (0.59%) CMS
9 16 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
10 13 (0.31%) OpenStack
11 11 (0.26%) Moodle
11 11 (0.26%) SAS
12 8 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
13 7 (0.17%) Anypoint
13 7 (0.17%) Apache Solr
13 7 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
13 7 (0.17%) WordPress
14 6 (0.14%) nginx
14 6 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 6 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 33 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
3 22 (0.52%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.26%) PlantUML
5 10 (0.24%) Chatbot
5 10 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
6 9 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (0.12%) Simulink
8 3 (0.071%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.071%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.048%) Trello
10 1 (0.024%) EngageOne
10 1 (0.024%) Maya
10 1 (0.024%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 63 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.33%) SAP ERP
3 12 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
3 12 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.26%) Endur
5 7 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
7 5 (0.12%) Visualfiles
8 4 (0.095%) Markit EDM
8 4 (0.095%) Shopify
9 3 (0.071%) Dynamics NAV
9 3 (0.071%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.071%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.048%) Distributed Ledger
10 2 (0.048%) Fidessa
10 2 (0.048%) Infor SunSystems
10 2 (0.048%) Magento
10 2 (0.048%) Workday HCM
11 1 (0.024%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 1 (0.024%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2,237 (53.14%) Azure
2 1,353 (32.14%) AWS
3 1,093 (25.96%) Azure DevOps
4 493 (11.71%) GitHub
5 474 (11.26%) GCP
6 427 (10.14%) Serverless
7 331 (7.86%) Power Platform
8 271 (6.44%) GitHub Actions
9 253 (6.01%) SaaS
10 226 (5.37%) Amazon S3
11 225 (5.34%) AWS CloudFormation
12 218 (5.18%) AWS Lambda
13 168 (3.99%) Microsoft 365
14 157 (3.73%) PaaS
15 155 (3.68%) Entra ID
16 141 (3.35%) Azure Data Factory
17 140 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
18 138 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
19 130 (3.09%) Azure AKS
19 130 (3.09%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 139 (3.30%) Firewall
2 92 (2.19%) DNS
3 64 (1.52%) Broadband
4 58 (1.38%) TCP/IP
5 47 (1.12%) VPN
6 40 (0.95%) Network Security
7 32 (0.76%) HTTP
8 31 (0.74%) WAN
9 27 (0.64%) DHCP
10 24 (0.57%) LAN
11 11 (0.26%) BGP
12 9 (0.21%) SAN
12 9 (0.21%) Wireless
13 8 (0.19%) Internet
14 7 (0.17%) HTTPS
14 7 (0.17%) MQTT
14 7 (0.17%) NGFW
14 7 (0.17%) OSPF
15 6 (0.14%) SD-WAN
15 6 (0.14%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 242 (5.75%) SQL Server
2 202 (4.80%) NoSQL
3 186 (4.42%) Power BI
4 151 (3.59%) MongoDB
5 140 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
6 135 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
7 115 (2.73%) DynamoDB
8 89 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
9 88 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
10 84 (2.00%) Data Lake
11 83 (1.97%) Relational Database
12 66 (1.57%) MySQL
13 63 (1.50%) Metadata
14 61 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
15 44 (1.05%) BigQuery
16 42 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
17 35 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
17 35 (0.83%) Delta Lake
18 32 (0.76%) Big Data
19 31 (0.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 459 (10.90%) Git
2 394 (9.36%) Jenkins
3 364 (8.65%) GitLab
4 247 (5.87%) JIRA
5 104 (2.47%) SonarQube
6 87 (2.07%) Cypress.io
7 84 (2.00%) Selenium
8 67 (1.59%) Maven
9 44 (1.05%) Postman
10 38 (0.90%) Bitbucket
11 36 (0.86%) CircleCI
11 36 (0.86%) Cucumber
12 34 (0.81%) TeamCity
13 29 (0.69%) JUnit
14 26 (0.62%) JMeter
15 25 (0.59%) Eclipse
16 23 (0.55%) Visual Studio
17 22 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
18 20 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
19 19 (0.45%) REST Assured
General
1 934 (22.19%) Finance
2 875 (20.78%) Social Skills
3 361 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 268 (6.37%) Public Sector
5 242 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 222 (5.27%) Banking
7 131 (3.11%) Retail
8 122 (2.90%) Law
9 104 (2.47%) Marketing
10 78 (1.85%) Legal
11 77 (1.83%) Games
12 48 (1.14%) Telecoms
13 46 (1.09%) Manufacturing
14 42 (1.00%) Advertising
15 41 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
16 38 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
17 37 (0.88%) Financial Institution
18 34 (0.81%) Billing
19 29 (0.69%) Back Office
20 28 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 894 (21.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 863 (20.50%) Senior
3 733 (17.41%) Developer
4 611 (14.51%) Lead
5 353 (8.38%) Architect
6 310 (7.36%) Software Engineer
7 305 (7.24%) Azure Engineer
8 249 (5.91%) Cloud Engineer
9 212 (5.04%) Senior DevOps
10 189 (4.49%) Senior Developer
11 182 (4.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 165 (3.92%) Data Engineer
13 162 (3.85%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 154 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
15 146 (3.47%) AWS Engineer
16 142 (3.37%) Java Developer
17 141 (3.35%) Platform Engineer
18 128 (3.04%) Lead DevOps
19 115 (2.73%) Full-Stack Developer
20 109 (2.59%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 500 (11.88%) .NET
2 366 (8.69%) React
3 273 (6.48%) REST
4 248 (5.89%) Node.js
5 242 (5.75%) RESTful
6 181 (4.30%) Spring Boot
7 164 (3.90%) Spring
8 162 (3.85%) CSS
9 157 (3.73%) HTML
10 156 (3.71%) Kafka
11 155 (3.68%) AngularJS
12 153 (3.63%) ASP.NET
13 149 (3.54%) .NET Core
14 122 (2.90%) SOAP
15 106 (2.52%) OAuth
16 105 (2.49%) ASP.NET Core
17 104 (2.47%) Middleware
18 91 (2.16%) JSON
19 90 (2.14%) Elastic Stack
19 90 (2.14%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 573 (13.61%) Cloud Native
2 290 (6.89%) Product Ownership
3 145 (3.44%) Distributed Systems
4 122 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
5 92 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
6 79 (1.88%) Management Information System
7 69 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
8 64 (1.52%) Mobile App
9 62 (1.47%) Onboarding
10 58 (1.38%) Data Centre
11 55 (1.31%) Public Cloud
12 54 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
13 51 (1.21%) Low-Code
14 50 (1.19%) Algorithms
15 48 (1.14%) Data Structures
16 39 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
17 31 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
18 30 (0.71%) Security Posture
18 30 (0.71%) Virtual Team
19 28 (0.67%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 422 (10.02%) Linux
2 194 (4.61%) Windows
3 82 (1.95%) Unix
4 74 (1.76%) Windows Server
5 48 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (0.95%) Ubuntu
7 30 (0.71%) Android
7 30 (0.71%) VMS
8 28 (0.67%) CentOS
9 24 (0.57%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (0.17%) Debian
12 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
13 4 (0.095%) Kali Linux
13 4 (0.095%) Rocky
14 3 (0.071%) Windows Server 2016
15 2 (0.048%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.048%) Embedded Linux
16 1 (0.024%) SUSE
16 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,125 (50.48%) CI/CD
2 1,495 (35.51%) Agile
3 1,008 (23.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 762 (18.10%) Continuous Improvement
5 717 (17.03%) Problem-Solving
6 703 (16.70%) Mentoring
7 679 (16.13%) Software Engineering
8 650 (15.44%) AI
9 613 (14.56%) Test Automation
10 557 (13.23%) Microservices
11 548 (13.02%) Containerisation
12 466 (11.07%) Observability
13 438 (10.40%) Roadmaps
14 431 (10.24%) Analytics
15 426 (10.12%) Full-Stack Development
16 402 (9.55%) Scrum
17 396 (9.41%) Platform Engineering
18 362 (8.60%) Technical Leadership
19 317 (7.53%) Data Modelling
20 310 (7.36%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,052 (24.99%) Python
2 778 (18.48%) SQL
3 605 (14.37%) Java
4 499 (11.85%) C#
5 460 (10.93%) JavaScript
6 359 (8.53%) Bash
7 325 (7.72%) TypeScript
8 252 (5.99%) PowerShell
9 151 (3.59%) Go
10 115 (2.73%) C++
11 114 (2.71%) Bicep
12 86 (2.04%) Apex Code
13 58 (1.38%) Groovy
14 51 (1.21%) PHP
15 45 (1.07%) Scala
16 44 (1.05%) SOQL
16 44 (1.05%) SOSL
17 35 (0.83%) Kotlin
18 34 (0.81%) C
19 33 (0.78%) Rust
Qualifications
1 596 (14.16%) Security Cleared
2 434 (10.31%) Degree
3 350 (8.31%) SC Cleared
4 177 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 150 (3.56%) DV Cleared
6 115 (2.73%) AWS Certification
7 95 (2.26%) Azure Certification
8 88 (2.09%) Master's Degree
9 56 (1.33%) ISTQB
10 44 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
11 34 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
12 33 (0.78%) DBS Check
13 30 (0.71%) PMI Certification
14 29 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 26 (0.62%) CISSP
16 24 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 21 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 21 (0.50%) PMP
18 20 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
18 20 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 337 (8.00%) QA
2 166 (3.94%) Data Quality
3 127 (3.02%) Accessibility
4 96 (2.28%) GDPR
5 73 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 55 (1.31%) NIST
7 46 (1.09%) GRC
8 36 (0.86%) SOC 2
9 32 (0.76%) PCI DSS
10 28 (0.67%) WCAG
11 21 (0.50%) SLA
12 14 (0.33%) PMO
13 13 (0.31%) NCSC
14 12 (0.29%) TickIT
15 11 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
16 8 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
17 7 (0.17%) Solvency II
18 6 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 6 (0.14%) IFRS
18 6 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 705 (16.75%) Docker
2 144 (3.42%) Active Directory
3 51 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.40%) Hyper-V
6 16 (0.38%) vSphere
7 15 (0.36%) Firmware
8 7 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.095%) iptables
9 4 (0.095%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 4 (0.095%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.071%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.071%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.048%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.048%) KVM
11 2 (0.048%) 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 1,043 (24.77%) Terraform
2 764 (18.15%) Kubernetes
3 378 (8.98%) Ansible
4 218 (5.18%) Grafana
5 181 (4.30%) Prometheus
6 73 (1.73%) Argo
7 48 (1.14%) Puppet
8 42 (1.00%) HP Fortify
9 37 (0.88%) Nagios
10 34 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
11 30 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
12 25 (0.59%) Kibana
13 18 (0.43%) Kustomize
14 16 (0.38%) Rancher
15 14 (0.33%) Istio
15 14 (0.33%) Packer
16 13 (0.31%) Progress Chef
17 11 (0.26%) logstash
18 10 (0.24%) Proxmox
19 9 (0.21%) yum
Vendors
1 786 (18.67%) Microsoft
2 164 (3.90%) Salesforce
3 159 (3.78%) Google
4 158 (3.75%) Databricks
5 91 (2.16%) Splunk
6 87 (2.07%) VMware
7 81 (1.92%) Red Hat
8 80 (1.90%) Oracle
9 70 (1.66%) ServiceNow
10 51 (1.21%) SAP
11 46 (1.09%) MuleSoft
12 35 (0.83%) Palo Alto
13 33 (0.78%) Cisco
14 31 (0.74%) Dynatrace
15 25 (0.59%) Adobe
16 24 (0.57%) Pega
17 23 (0.55%) OpenAI
18 20 (0.48%) IBM
19 19 (0.45%) Foundry
19 19 (0.45%) SolarWinds