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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 20 24
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 -12
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,308 4,178 5,793
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.12% 8.42% 6.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.96% 9.42% 8.53%
Number of salaries quoted 3,821 2,397 3,989
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 £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 76,247 44,374 67,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.60% 89.45% 81.06%
Number of salaries quoted 52,515 25,244 44,456
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,246
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% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,246 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -2.00% -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 4 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 4 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 4,587 £70,000 - 2,582
UK excluding London -2 3,400 £65,000 - 1,453
Work from Home -2 1,911 £67,500 -3.57% 1,337
London -13 1,519 £85,000 +6.25% 1,374
North of England +2 1,195 £67,500 +3.85% 406
South East -11 693 £65,000 +2.36% 383
North West -1 658 £70,000 +7.69% 206
South West +9 490 £70,000 +7.69% 188
Midlands -22 398 £67,500 +3.85% 208
Yorkshire +13 291 £70,000 +7.69% 135
North East +15 246 £60,000 -7.69% 67
West Midlands -30 232 £69,306 +6.62% 143
East of England +12 207 £59,725 -8.12% 87
Wales +10 180 £54,500 -5.22% 45
East Midlands +10 165 £65,000 +15.56% 63
Scotland -4 137 £60,000 -14.29% 95
Northern Ireland -7 109 £72,500 -9.38% 46
Isle of Man +1 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
1 106 (2.00%) Confluence
2 92 (1.73%) SharePoint
3 89 (1.68%) Apache Spark
4 74 (1.39%) Apache
5 45 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
6 39 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
7 28 (0.53%) CMS
7 28 (0.53%) IIS
8 22 (0.41%) OpenStack
9 20 (0.38%) SAS
10 14 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
11 12 (0.23%) Jupyter
11 12 (0.23%) nginx
12 9 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
12 9 (0.17%) Umbraco
12 9 (0.17%) WordPress
13 8 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 8 (0.15%) Anypoint
13 8 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
14 6 (0.11%) Camunda
Applications
1 56 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
2 42 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.40%) PlantUML
4 18 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.28%) Chatbot
6 15 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
7 12 (0.23%) Trello
8 7 (0.13%) Simulink
9 4 (0.075%) Maya
10 3 (0.057%) Blender
10 3 (0.057%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.038%) Lightworks
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%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.094%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.094%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.075%) Dynamics AX
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%) Infor SunSystems
7 3 (0.057%) Magento
7 3 (0.057%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.057%) Oracle Applications
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 2,800 (52.75%) Azure
2 1,749 (32.95%) AWS
3 1,368 (25.77%) Azure DevOps
4 592 (11.15%) GCP
5 523 (9.85%) GitHub
6 477 (8.99%) Serverless
7 427 (8.04%) SaaS
8 362 (6.82%) Power Platform
9 276 (5.20%) GitHub Actions
10 260 (4.90%) AWS CloudFormation
11 226 (4.26%) Amazon S3
12 216 (4.07%) PaaS
13 204 (3.84%) AWS Lambda
14 176 (3.32%) Dynamics 365
15 166 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
16 157 (2.96%) Azure AKS
17 153 (2.88%) Amazon ECS
18 145 (2.73%) Azure Service Bus
19 144 (2.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 144 (2.71%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 130 (2.45%) Firewall
2 89 (1.68%) DNS
3 75 (1.41%) TCP/IP
4 66 (1.24%) VPN
5 46 (0.87%) Network Security
6 42 (0.79%) Broadband
7 34 (0.64%) HTTP
8 33 (0.62%) Internet
9 23 (0.43%) 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
14 13 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
15 12 (0.23%) SAN
16 10 (0.19%) HTTPS
17 8 (0.15%) BGP
17 8 (0.15%) NAS
17 8 (0.15%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 312 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 277 (5.22%) MongoDB
3 267 (5.03%) Azure SQL Database
4 202 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
5 198 (3.73%) Power BI
6 180 (3.39%) NoSQL
7 111 (2.09%) MySQL
8 104 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
9 103 (1.94%) Relational Database
10 98 (1.85%) DynamoDB
11 94 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
12 92 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
13 77 (1.45%) Data Lake
14 61 (1.15%) Metadata
14 61 (1.15%) Redis
15 45 (0.85%) Big Data
16 42 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
17 41 (0.77%) Delta Lake
18 36 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
19 32 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 578 (10.89%) Git
2 413 (7.78%) GitLab
3 408 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 346 (6.52%) JIRA
5 96 (1.81%) Selenium
6 86 (1.62%) SonarQube
7 72 (1.36%) Cypress.io
8 56 (1.06%) Postman
9 55 (1.04%) JUnit
9 55 (1.04%) Maven
10 38 (0.72%) Cucumber
11 37 (0.70%) TeamCity
12 34 (0.64%) JMeter
13 33 (0.62%) Bitbucket
14 32 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 28 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
16 24 (0.45%) NUnit
17 23 (0.43%) CircleCI
17 23 (0.43%) REST Assured
17 23 (0.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,188 (22.38%) Social Skills
2 1,023 (19.27%) Finance
3 418 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
4 408 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 326 (6.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 256 (4.82%) Banking
7 205 (3.86%) Law
8 164 (3.09%) Retail
9 155 (2.92%) Legal
10 109 (2.05%) Marketing
11 68 (1.28%) Games
12 63 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
13 58 (1.09%) Manufacturing
14 56 (1.06%) Financial Institution
15 53 (1.00%) Advertising
16 52 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
17 43 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
17 43 (0.81%) Telecoms
18 34 (0.64%) Aerospace
18 34 (0.64%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,212 (22.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,161 (21.87%) Senior
3 899 (16.94%) Developer
4 712 (13.41%) Lead
5 419 (7.89%) Architect
6 372 (7.01%) Software Engineer
7 337 (6.35%) Azure Engineer
8 274 (5.16%) Senior DevOps
9 272 (5.12%) Cloud Engineer
10 254 (4.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 232 (4.37%) .NET Developer
12 222 (4.18%) Senior Developer
13 210 (3.96%) Platform Engineer
14 189 (3.56%) Data Engineer
15 187 (3.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 164 (3.09%) AWS Engineer
17 163 (3.07%) Solutions Architect
18 157 (2.96%) Lead DevOps
19 134 (2.52%) Java Developer
20 126 (2.37%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 718 (13.53%) .NET
2 457 (8.61%) React
3 337 (6.35%) REST
4 333 (6.27%) RESTful
5 316 (5.95%) Node.js
6 294 (5.54%) ASP.NET
7 273 (5.14%) .NET Core
8 243 (4.58%) CSS
9 241 (4.54%) HTML
10 238 (4.48%) Spring Boot
11 235 (4.43%) Spring
12 226 (4.26%) ASP.NET Core
13 207 (3.90%) Kafka
14 169 (3.18%) AngularJS
15 137 (2.58%) Blazor
15 137 (2.58%) Entity Framework
16 133 (2.51%) Middleware
17 106 (2.00%) JSON
17 106 (2.00%) YAML
18 101 (1.90%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 916 (17.26%) Cloud Native
2 345 (6.50%) Product Ownership
3 251 (4.73%) Distributed Systems
4 197 (3.71%) Enterprise Software
5 146 (2.75%) Onboarding
6 115 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
7 95 (1.79%) Virtual Team
8 88 (1.66%) Management Information System
9 78 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
10 75 (1.41%) Mobile App
11 74 (1.39%) Data Centre
12 70 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
13 63 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
13 63 (1.19%) Public Cloud
14 61 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
15 50 (0.94%) Data Structures
16 46 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
17 44 (0.83%) Low-Code
18 43 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
19 41 (0.77%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 543 (10.23%) Linux
2 258 (4.86%) Windows
3 104 (1.96%) 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 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
16 4 (0.075%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.075%) Mac OS
17 3 (0.057%) AIX
18 2 (0.038%) Solaris
18 2 (0.038%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,676 (50.41%) CI/CD
2 1,983 (37.36%) Agile
3 1,278 (24.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,027 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
5 964 (18.16%) Mentoring
6 959 (18.07%) Software Engineering
7 904 (17.03%) AI
8 857 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
9 822 (15.49%) Test Automation
10 721 (13.58%) Microservices
11 676 (12.74%) Containerisation
12 588 (11.08%) Platform Engineering
13 576 (10.85%) Observability
14 571 (10.76%) Full-Stack Development
15 563 (10.61%) Roadmaps
16 544 (10.25%) Technical Leadership
17 541 (10.19%) Scrum
18 471 (8.87%) Stakeholder Management
19 462 (8.70%) Analytics
20 385 (7.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,255 (23.64%) Python
2 936 (17.63%) SQL
3 779 (14.68%) C#
4 687 (12.94%) Java
5 669 (12.60%) JavaScript
6 415 (7.82%) TypeScript
7 369 (6.95%) Bash
8 366 (6.90%) PowerShell
9 156 (2.94%) Bicep
10 127 (2.39%) C++
10 127 (2.39%) Go
11 67 (1.26%) Apex Code
12 62 (1.17%) PHP
13 50 (0.94%) C
14 48 (0.90%) Groovy
15 45 (0.85%) T-SQL
16 42 (0.79%) Scala
17 38 (0.72%) Ruby
17 38 (0.72%) Rust
18 37 (0.70%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 887 (16.71%) Security Cleared
2 584 (11.00%) SC Cleared
3 514 (9.68%) Degree
4 246 (4.63%) DV Cleared
5 190 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 143 (2.69%) Azure Certification
7 111 (2.09%) Master's Degree
8 86 (1.62%) AWS Certification
9 82 (1.54%) CISSP
9 82 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
10 65 (1.22%) CISM
11 58 (1.09%) ISTQB
12 50 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
13 44 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
14 39 (0.73%) DBS Check
15 38 (0.72%) PMI Certification
16 28 (0.53%) PMP
17 24 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 23 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 23 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 537 (10.12%) QA
2 183 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 167 (3.15%) Data Quality
4 123 (2.32%) GDPR
5 107 (2.02%) NIST
6 73 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 63 (1.19%) WCAG
8 49 (0.92%) ISO 22301
9 48 (0.90%) GRC
10 39 (0.73%) PCI DSS
11 26 (0.49%) PMO
12 25 (0.47%) SOC 2
13 24 (0.45%) SLA
14 23 (0.43%) NCSC
15 13 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
16 12 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
16 12 (0.23%) TickIT
17 10 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 9 (0.17%) HIPAA
18 9 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 858 (16.16%) Docker
2 138 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 82 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (0.53%) vSphere
6 25 (0.47%) Hyper-V
7 23 (0.43%) Firmware
8 14 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.13%) Ceph
10 6 (0.11%) KVM
10 6 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.094%) iptables
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 1,286 (24.23%) Terraform
2 978 (18.43%) Kubernetes
3 452 (8.52%) Ansible
4 235 (4.43%) Grafana
5 174 (3.28%) Prometheus
6 79 (1.49%) Argo
7 63 (1.19%) Puppet
8 40 (0.75%) Nagios
9 32 (0.60%) Istio
10 27 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
11 25 (0.47%) Kibana
12 24 (0.45%) HP Fortify
13 16 (0.30%) Progress Chef
14 14 (0.26%) Rancher
15 13 (0.24%) Podman
15 13 (0.24%) ZABBIX
16 12 (0.23%) Packer
17 11 (0.21%) logstash
18 9 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
18 9 (0.17%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,033 (19.46%) Microsoft
2 204 (3.84%) Google
3 173 (3.26%) Databricks
4 149 (2.81%) Salesforce
5 114 (2.15%) VMware
6 110 (2.07%) Oracle
7 102 (1.92%) Splunk
8 100 (1.88%) ServiceNow
9 95 (1.79%) Red Hat
10 73 (1.38%) SAP
11 53 (1.00%) Pega
12 50 (0.94%) Dynatrace
13 45 (0.85%) Cisco
13 45 (0.85%) OpenAI
14 44 (0.83%) MuleSoft
15 42 (0.79%) Facebook
16 30 (0.57%) Apple
17 28 (0.53%) AppDynamics
17 28 (0.53%) Foundry
18 27 (0.51%) YouTube