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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 23 21
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,452 3,845 5,447
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.79% 7.83% 7.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.57% 8.82% 8.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,827 2,166 3,509
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 £88,148 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,375 £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 82,954 43,576 62,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.83% 88.69% 80.93%
Number of salaries quoted 57,665 24,452 36,140
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 15 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 15 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 -10 4,699 £72,500 +2.11% 5,457
UK excluding London -5 3,508 £65,000 - 2,938
Work from Home -3 1,884 £69,310 -0.99% 2,484
London -10 1,533 £85,000 +6.25% 2,908
North of England +1 1,243 £68,250 +5.00% 904
South East -9 693 £65,000 - 614
North West +4 683 £70,000 +7.69% 510
South West +22 531 £74,000 +23.33% 360
Midlands -21 430 £66,000 +1.54% 355
Yorkshire +15 287 £70,000 +7.69% 249
North East +21 273 £60,000 +4.35% 151
West Midlands -25 249 £70,000 +7.69% 219
Wales +1 198 £54,500 -0.91% 73
East of England +3 194 £57,500 -11.54% 253
East Midlands +8 181 £60,000 +4.35% 136
Scotland -14 124 £60,000 -11.11% 277
Northern Ireland -1 114 £72,246 -44.43% 109
Isle of Man +1 3 £35,000 -33.33% 4

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
1 110 (2.02%) SharePoint
2 105 (1.93%) Apache Spark
2 105 (1.93%) Confluence
3 81 (1.49%) Apache
4 41 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
4 41 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
5 30 (0.55%) IIS
6 28 (0.51%) CMS
7 26 (0.48%) OpenStack
8 15 (0.28%) SAS
9 14 (0.26%) Jupyter
10 13 (0.24%) nginx
11 10 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
12 9 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
12 9 (0.17%) WordPress
13 8 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
13 8 (0.15%) Umbraco
14 7 (0.13%) Camunda
15 5 (0.092%) Anypoint
Applications
1 62 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
2 44 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 24 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (0.39%) Chatbot
4 21 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (0.39%) MS Visio
4 21 (0.39%) PlantUML
5 13 (0.24%) Trello
6 7 (0.13%) Simulink
7 3 (0.055%) Blender
7 3 (0.055%) Maya
7 3 (0.055%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.037%) Lightworks
9 1 (0.018%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.018%) Notion
9 1 (0.018%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.018%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 84 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.28%) 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%) Dynamics AX
7 4 (0.073%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.073%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.055%) Carpe Diem
8 3 (0.055%) Distributed Ledger
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%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.055%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,840 (52.09%) Azure
2 1,751 (32.12%) AWS
3 1,437 (26.36%) Azure DevOps
4 591 (10.84%) GCP
5 542 (9.94%) GitHub
6 485 (8.90%) Serverless
7 439 (8.05%) SaaS
8 412 (7.56%) Power Platform
9 292 (5.36%) GitHub Actions
10 275 (5.04%) AWS CloudFormation
11 214 (3.93%) Amazon S3
12 209 (3.83%) AWS Lambda
12 209 (3.83%) Dynamics 365
13 198 (3.63%) PaaS
14 172 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
15 167 (3.06%) Amazon EKS
15 167 (3.06%) Azure Data Factory
16 162 (2.97%) Azure AKS
17 161 (2.95%) Entra ID
18 154 (2.82%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 122 (2.24%) Firewall
2 87 (1.60%) DNS
3 77 (1.41%) VPN
4 59 (1.08%) TCP/IP
5 47 (0.86%) Network Security
6 33 (0.61%) Internet
7 27 (0.50%) HTTP
8 25 (0.46%) DHCP
9 22 (0.40%) Broadband
10 16 (0.29%) MQTT
11 14 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
11 14 (0.26%) Wireless
12 13 (0.24%) DMARC
12 13 (0.24%) WAN
13 12 (0.22%) SAN
14 11 (0.20%) BGP
14 11 (0.20%) LAN
14 11 (0.20%) SSH
15 8 (0.15%) VLAN
15 8 (0.15%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 344 (6.31%) SQL Server
2 292 (5.36%) Azure SQL Database
3 286 (5.25%) MongoDB
4 237 (4.35%) Power BI
5 210 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
6 196 (3.60%) NoSQL
7 138 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
8 120 (2.20%) MySQL
9 114 (2.09%) Relational Database
10 105 (1.93%) DynamoDB
11 97 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
12 96 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
12 96 (1.76%) Data Lake
13 84 (1.54%) Metadata
14 72 (1.32%) Redis
15 49 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
16 45 (0.83%) Delta Lake
17 43 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
17 43 (0.79%) Big Data
18 37 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 633 (11.61%) Git
2 401 (7.36%) Jenkins
3 385 (7.06%) GitLab
4 351 (6.44%) JIRA
5 90 (1.65%) Selenium
6 69 (1.27%) SonarQube
7 62 (1.14%) Cypress.io
8 58 (1.06%) Maven
9 52 (0.95%) JUnit
9 52 (0.95%) Postman
10 46 (0.84%) TeamCity
11 40 (0.73%) Cucumber
12 36 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 31 (0.57%) JMeter
14 27 (0.50%) Bitbucket
15 26 (0.48%) Claude Code
15 26 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
16 21 (0.39%) REST Assured
17 20 (0.37%) NUnit
18 18 (0.33%) Zephyr
General
1 1,272 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 1,057 (19.39%) Finance
3 482 (8.84%) Public Sector
4 434 (7.96%) Analytical Skills
5 334 (6.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 247 (4.53%) Banking
7 214 (3.93%) Law
8 170 (3.12%) Legal
9 169 (3.10%) Retail
10 85 (1.56%) Marketing
11 72 (1.32%) Financial Institution
12 59 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
13 53 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
14 51 (0.94%) Manufacturing
15 49 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
16 47 (0.86%) Aerospace
17 46 (0.84%) Advertising
18 44 (0.81%) Back Office
18 44 (0.81%) Telecoms
19 39 (0.72%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,317 (24.16%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,249 (22.91%) Senior
3 880 (16.14%) Developer
4 707 (12.97%) Lead
5 420 (7.70%) Architect
6 386 (7.08%) Software Engineer
7 340 (6.24%) Azure Engineer
8 313 (5.74%) Senior DevOps
9 290 (5.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 287 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
11 238 (4.37%) .NET Developer
12 233 (4.27%) Platform Engineer
13 215 (3.94%) Senior Developer
14 214 (3.93%) Data Engineer
15 182 (3.34%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 166 (3.04%) Lead DevOps
17 152 (2.79%) AWS Engineer
18 143 (2.62%) Solutions Architect
19 131 (2.40%) Consultant
20 129 (2.37%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,332 (24.43%) Terraform
2 723 (13.26%) .NET
3 422 (7.74%) React
4 335 (6.14%) REST
5 330 (6.05%) RESTful
6 329 (6.03%) Node.js
7 298 (5.47%) ASP.NET
8 269 (4.93%) .NET Core
9 256 (4.70%) Spring
10 254 (4.66%) Spring Boot
11 233 (4.27%) CSS
11 233 (4.27%) HTML
12 228 (4.18%) ASP.NET Core
13 223 (4.09%) Kafka
14 166 (3.04%) AngularJS
15 137 (2.51%) Entity Framework
16 136 (2.49%) Blazor
17 117 (2.15%) Middleware
18 114 (2.09%) JSON
19 104 (1.91%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 989 (18.14%) Cloud Native
2 351 (6.44%) Product Ownership
3 260 (4.77%) Distributed Systems
4 220 (4.04%) Enterprise Software
5 163 (2.99%) Onboarding
6 120 (2.20%) Virtual Team
7 113 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
8 93 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
9 83 (1.52%) Management Information System
10 75 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
11 73 (1.34%) Data Centre
12 69 (1.27%) Mobile App
13 65 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
13 65 (1.19%) Public Cloud
13 65 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
14 57 (1.05%) AI Agents
15 52 (0.95%) Private Cloud
16 50 (0.92%) Data Structures
17 49 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
18 43 (0.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 551 (10.11%) Linux
2 250 (4.59%) Windows
3 97 (1.78%) Unix
4 69 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 64 (1.17%) Windows Server
6 51 (0.94%) CentOS
7 40 (0.73%) Ubuntu
7 40 (0.73%) VMS
8 30 (0.55%) Android
9 17 (0.31%) Debian
10 14 (0.26%) Apple iOS
11 11 (0.20%) Rocky
12 7 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
13 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.092%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.073%) Kali Linux
15 4 (0.073%) Solaris
15 4 (0.073%) Windows Server 2019
16 3 (0.055%) AIX
16 3 (0.055%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,751 (50.46%) CI/CD
2 1,995 (36.59%) Agile
3 1,296 (23.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,068 (19.59%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,031 (18.91%) Mentoring
6 1,002 (18.38%) Software Engineering
7 998 (18.31%) AI
8 902 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
9 843 (15.46%) Test Automation
10 724 (13.28%) Microservices
11 670 (12.29%) Containerisation
12 638 (11.70%) Platform Engineering
13 604 (11.08%) Observability
14 600 (11.01%) Technical Leadership
15 573 (10.51%) Roadmaps
16 542 (9.94%) Stakeholder Management
17 527 (9.67%) Scrum
18 525 (9.63%) Full-Stack Development
19 487 (8.93%) Analytics
20 395 (7.25%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,287 (23.61%) Python
2 979 (17.96%) SQL
3 799 (14.66%) C#
4 713 (13.08%) Java
5 656 (12.03%) JavaScript
6 420 (7.70%) TypeScript
7 379 (6.95%) PowerShell
8 378 (6.93%) Bash
9 153 (2.81%) Bicep
10 133 (2.44%) Go
11 119 (2.18%) C++
12 53 (0.97%) PHP
13 51 (0.94%) Groovy
13 51 (0.94%) Scala
13 51 (0.94%) T-SQL
14 49 (0.90%) C
15 44 (0.81%) Kotlin
16 39 (0.72%) Apex Code
16 39 (0.72%) Ruby
17 38 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,013 (18.58%) Security Cleared
2 676 (12.40%) SC Cleared
3 505 (9.26%) Degree
4 285 (5.23%) DV Cleared
5 191 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 172 (3.15%) Azure Certification
7 104 (1.91%) AWS Certification
8 103 (1.89%) Master's Degree
9 77 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
10 76 (1.39%) CISSP
11 72 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
12 70 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
13 67 (1.23%) CISM
14 59 (1.08%) ISTQB
15 36 (0.66%) PMI Certification
16 27 (0.50%) DBS Check
17 25 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 24 (0.44%) PhD
19 23 (0.42%) PMP
20 22 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 548 (10.05%) QA
2 206 (3.78%) Data Quality
3 191 (3.50%) Accessibility
4 119 (2.18%) GDPR
5 99 (1.82%) NIST
6 70 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 61 (1.12%) WCAG
8 49 (0.90%) ISO 22301
9 42 (0.77%) GRC
10 34 (0.62%) SLA
11 30 (0.55%) PCI DSS
12 27 (0.50%) NCSC
12 27 (0.50%) PMO
13 17 (0.31%) SOC 2
14 12 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
14 12 (0.22%) HIPAA
14 12 (0.22%) TickIT
15 10 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
16 9 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 9 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 891 (16.34%) Docker
2 144 (2.64%) Active Directory
3 83 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 39 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (0.50%) vSphere
6 21 (0.39%) Hyper-V
7 19 (0.35%) Firmware
8 17 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.15%) NDS
10 7 (0.13%) Ceph
11 6 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.092%) KVM
13 4 (0.073%) iptables
14 3 (0.055%) VMware NSX
14 3 (0.055%) Xen
15 2 (0.037%) Embedded Firmware
15 2 (0.037%) VMware ESXi
16 1 (0.018%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 1 (0.018%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1,019 (18.69%) Kubernetes
2 454 (8.33%) Ansible
3 236 (4.33%) Grafana
4 170 (3.12%) Prometheus
5 82 (1.50%) Argo
6 66 (1.21%) Puppet
7 38 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
8 33 (0.61%) Istio
9 27 (0.50%) Nagios
10 26 (0.48%) Kibana
11 22 (0.40%) Progress Chef
11 22 (0.40%) Rancher
12 20 (0.37%) HP Fortify
13 15 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
14 14 (0.26%) logstash
14 14 (0.26%) Packer
14 14 (0.26%) Podman
15 12 (0.22%) ZABBIX
16 11 (0.20%) Proxmox
17 8 (0.15%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 1,098 (20.14%) Microsoft
2 195 (3.58%) Google
3 187 (3.43%) Databricks
4 125 (2.29%) Oracle
5 117 (2.15%) Salesforce
6 116 (2.13%) VMware
7 93 (1.71%) ServiceNow
8 84 (1.54%) Splunk
9 80 (1.47%) Red Hat
10 76 (1.39%) SAP
11 56 (1.03%) OpenAI
12 52 (0.95%) Cisco
13 45 (0.83%) Dynatrace
14 44 (0.81%) Pega
15 42 (0.77%) Facebook
16 38 (0.70%) YouTube
17 36 (0.66%) AppDynamics
18 32 (0.59%) MuleSoft
19 28 (0.51%) Foundry
20 27 (0.50%) IBM