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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 21 26
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,641 4,065 7,137
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.89% 8.95% 6.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.66% 9.71% 8.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3,387 2,365 5,174
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,092 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,054
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -4.00%

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 69,702 41,872 87,252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.38% 92.19% 82.13%
Number of salaries quoted 48,070 22,602 61,776
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,681 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.36% - -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 26 June 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 26 June 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 4,094 £70,000 -1.75% 1,135
UK excluding London -6 2,799 £65,000 - 858
Work from Home -1 1,655 £67,500 -3.57% 626
London -6 1,456 £83,500 +4.38% 466
North of England 0 1,017 £69,305 +3.38% 242
South East -14 608 £65,000 - 282
North West -3 556 £70,000 +4.06% 135
South West -8 400 £69,200 +6.46% 104
Midlands -24 341 £65,500 +0.77% 107
Yorkshire +4 277 £70,000 - 65
West Midlands -33 190 £66,250 +1.92% 65
North East +8 184 £60,000 -7.69% 46
East of England +7 181 £60,000 -7.69% 71
East Midlands 0 149 £65,500 +13.91% 42
Scotland -6 131 £57,500 -20.69% 35
Wales +2 119 £53,171 -11.38% 29
Northern Ireland -39 7 £73,151 -20.92% 11
Isle of Man +2 3 £35,000 -33.33%

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 96 (2.07%) Confluence
2 89 (1.92%) SharePoint
3 64 (1.38%) Apache Spark
4 61 (1.31%) Apache
5 46 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
5 46 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
6 29 (0.62%) CMS
6 29 (0.62%) IIS
7 15 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
7 15 (0.32%) SAS
8 10 (0.22%) OpenStack
8 10 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
9 9 (0.19%) Jupyter
9 9 (0.19%) nginx
9 9 (0.19%) Umbraco
9 9 (0.19%) WordPress
10 8 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
11 7 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 6 (0.13%) Apache Solr
12 6 (0.13%) Moodle
Applications
1 50 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
2 36 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.43%) MS Visio
4 18 (0.39%) PlantUML
5 13 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
7 7 (0.15%) Simulink
8 6 (0.13%) Trello
9 4 (0.086%) Maya
10 3 (0.065%) Blender
10 3 (0.065%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.022%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.022%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.022%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.022%) Notion
11 1 (0.022%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 80 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.13%) Endur
3 6 (0.13%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
4 5 (0.11%) Elite 3E
4 5 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.11%) Visualfiles
5 4 (0.086%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.086%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.065%) Infor SunSystems
6 3 (0.065%) Magento
6 3 (0.065%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.043%) Carpe Diem
7 2 (0.043%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.043%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 2 (0.043%) Shopify
8 1 (0.022%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.022%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 2,453 (52.85%) Azure
2 1,490 (32.11%) AWS
3 1,239 (26.70%) Azure DevOps
4 511 (11.01%) GCP
5 489 (10.54%) GitHub
6 460 (9.91%) Serverless
7 347 (7.48%) Power Platform
8 288 (6.21%) SaaS
9 262 (5.65%) GitHub Actions
10 227 (4.89%) Amazon S3
11 218 (4.70%) AWS CloudFormation
12 212 (4.57%) AWS Lambda
13 189 (4.07%) PaaS
14 158 (3.40%) Azure AKS
15 149 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
16 148 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
17 144 (3.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 144 (3.10%) Amazon EKS
18 142 (3.06%) Amazon ECS
18 142 (3.06%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 142 (3.06%) Firewall
2 88 (1.90%) DNS
3 63 (1.36%) Broadband
4 61 (1.31%) VPN
5 58 (1.25%) TCP/IP
6 40 (0.86%) Network Security
7 34 (0.73%) HTTP
8 25 (0.54%) DHCP
9 24 (0.52%) WAN
10 22 (0.47%) LAN
11 19 (0.41%) Internet
12 13 (0.28%) DMARC
13 12 (0.26%) MQTT
14 11 (0.24%) Wireless
15 10 (0.22%) BGP
15 10 (0.22%) SAN
16 8 (0.17%) HTTPS
17 7 (0.15%) Bluetooth
17 7 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
18 6 (0.13%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 258 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 232 (5.00%) MongoDB
3 229 (4.93%) Azure SQL Database
4 192 (4.14%) NoSQL
5 189 (4.07%) Power BI
6 161 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
7 106 (2.28%) DynamoDB
8 91 (1.96%) Relational Database
9 85 (1.83%) MySQL
10 83 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
11 82 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
12 80 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
13 79 (1.70%) Data Lake
14 62 (1.34%) Metadata
15 49 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
16 42 (0.90%) Redis
17 38 (0.82%) Delta Lake
18 36 (0.78%) Big Data
18 36 (0.78%) BigQuery
19 35 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 490 (10.56%) Git
2 395 (8.51%) Jenkins
3 387 (8.34%) GitLab
4 291 (6.27%) JIRA
5 100 (2.15%) SonarQube
6 82 (1.77%) Selenium
7 80 (1.72%) Cypress.io
8 59 (1.27%) Maven
9 46 (0.99%) Postman
10 38 (0.82%) JUnit
11 37 (0.80%) Cucumber
12 35 (0.75%) Bitbucket
12 35 (0.75%) CircleCI
13 34 (0.73%) TeamCity
14 30 (0.65%) JMeter
15 26 (0.56%) Eclipse
16 25 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
17 23 (0.50%) Visual Studio
18 21 (0.45%) REST Assured
19 17 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 949 (20.45%) Social Skills
2 936 (20.17%) Finance
3 342 (7.37%) Analytical Skills
4 320 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 288 (6.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 243 (5.24%) Banking
7 149 (3.21%) Retail
8 139 (3.00%) Law
9 104 (2.24%) Marketing
10 81 (1.75%) Games
10 81 (1.75%) Legal
11 58 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
12 52 (1.12%) Manufacturing
13 49 (1.06%) Advertising
14 46 (0.99%) Telecoms
15 45 (0.97%) Financial Institution
16 44 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
17 38 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
18 34 (0.73%) Back Office
19 27 (0.58%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,033 (22.26%) DevOps Engineer
2 924 (19.91%) Senior
3 830 (17.88%) Developer
4 643 (13.85%) Lead
5 399 (8.60%) Architect
6 348 (7.50%) Software Engineer
7 336 (7.24%) Azure Engineer
8 250 (5.39%) Cloud Engineer
9 222 (4.78%) Senior DevOps
10 204 (4.40%) Senior Developer
11 197 (4.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 187 (4.03%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 182 (3.92%) .NET Developer
14 177 (3.81%) Platform Engineer
15 167 (3.60%) Data Engineer
16 165 (3.56%) AWS Engineer
17 163 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
18 146 (3.15%) Java Developer
19 129 (2.78%) Lead DevOps
20 110 (2.37%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 619 (13.34%) .NET
2 414 (8.92%) React
3 295 (6.36%) Node.js
4 286 (6.16%) REST
5 278 (5.99%) RESTful
6 240 (5.17%) ASP.NET
7 217 (4.68%) .NET Core
8 204 (4.40%) CSS
9 200 (4.31%) HTML
9 200 (4.31%) Spring Boot
10 188 (4.05%) Spring
11 185 (3.99%) ASP.NET Core
12 165 (3.56%) Kafka
13 160 (3.45%) AngularJS
14 112 (2.41%) YAML
15 109 (2.35%) Entity Framework
16 106 (2.28%) Blazor
17 104 (2.24%) SOAP
18 96 (2.07%) Middleware
19 94 (2.03%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 737 (15.88%) Cloud Native
2 302 (6.51%) Product Ownership
3 184 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
4 138 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
5 93 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
6 92 (1.98%) Onboarding
7 84 (1.81%) Management Information System
8 79 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
8 79 (1.70%) Mobile App
9 67 (1.44%) Public Cloud
10 65 (1.40%) Data Centre
11 59 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
12 52 (1.12%) Data Structures
13 49 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
14 48 (1.03%) Low-Code
15 46 (0.99%) Algorithms
16 45 (0.97%) Security Posture
17 37 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
17 37 (0.80%) Virtual Team
18 33 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 456 (9.83%) Linux
2 215 (4.63%) Windows
3 86 (1.85%) Unix
4 72 (1.55%) Windows Server
5 53 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 49 (1.06%) Ubuntu
7 41 (0.88%) VMS
8 33 (0.71%) CentOS
9 32 (0.69%) Android
10 22 (0.47%) Apple iOS
11 11 (0.24%) Debian
12 8 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.086%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.086%) Rocky
15 3 (0.065%) Embedded Linux
15 3 (0.065%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.043%) AIX
16 2 (0.043%) Amazon Linux
17 1 (0.022%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,365 (50.96%) CI/CD
2 1,681 (36.22%) Agile
3 1,118 (24.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 850 (18.32%) Continuous Improvement
5 783 (16.87%) Mentoring
6 773 (16.66%) Software Engineering
7 738 (15.90%) Problem-Solving
8 731 (15.75%) AI
9 639 (13.77%) Test Automation
10 627 (13.51%) Microservices
11 601 (12.95%) Containerisation
12 518 (11.16%) Roadmaps
13 512 (11.03%) Full-Stack Development
14 493 (10.62%) Observability
15 486 (10.47%) Platform Engineering
16 482 (10.39%) Scrum
17 441 (9.50%) Analytics
18 435 (9.37%) Technical Leadership
19 353 (7.61%) Stakeholder Management
20 302 (6.51%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,080 (23.27%) Python
2 839 (18.08%) SQL
3 630 (13.57%) Java
4 626 (13.49%) C#
5 544 (11.72%) JavaScript
6 383 (8.25%) Bash
7 348 (7.50%) TypeScript
8 290 (6.25%) PowerShell
9 147 (3.17%) Bicep
10 137 (2.95%) Go
11 131 (2.82%) C++
12 77 (1.66%) Apex Code
13 56 (1.21%) PHP
14 49 (1.06%) Groovy
15 48 (1.03%) SOQL
16 46 (0.99%) C
17 45 (0.97%) SOSL
18 41 (0.88%) Kotlin
19 39 (0.84%) Rust
20 35 (0.75%) Scala
Qualifications
1 709 (15.28%) Security Cleared
2 477 (10.28%) Degree
3 443 (9.55%) SC Cleared
4 176 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 159 (3.43%) DV Cleared
6 118 (2.54%) Azure Certification
7 105 (2.26%) Master's Degree
8 96 (2.07%) AWS Certification
9 55 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
10 52 (1.12%) ISTQB
11 35 (0.75%) DBS Check
11 35 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
12 31 (0.67%) PMI Certification
13 30 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 30 (0.65%) CISSP
14 25 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 24 (0.52%) PhD
15 24 (0.52%) PMP
16 20 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
17 15 (0.32%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 407 (8.77%) QA
2 162 (3.49%) Data Quality
3 159 (3.43%) Accessibility
4 98 (2.11%) GDPR
5 70 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 55 (1.19%) NIST
7 52 (1.12%) WCAG
8 47 (1.01%) GRC
9 35 (0.75%) PCI DSS
10 32 (0.69%) SOC 2
11 21 (0.45%) PMO
11 21 (0.45%) SLA
12 14 (0.30%) NCSC
13 12 (0.26%) TickIT
14 10 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 9 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
16 6 (0.13%) Solvency II
17 5 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 5 (0.11%) IFRS
System Software
1 749 (16.14%) Docker
2 133 (2.87%) Active Directory
3 72 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.62%) vSphere
6 20 (0.43%) Firmware
7 19 (0.41%) Hyper-V
8 13 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.13%) iptables
10 6 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.086%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.086%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.065%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.065%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.043%) KVM
14 1 (0.022%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.022%) QEMU
14 1 (0.022%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,133 (24.41%) Terraform
2 838 (18.06%) Kubernetes
3 398 (8.58%) Ansible
4 226 (4.87%) Grafana
5 175 (3.77%) Prometheus
6 74 (1.59%) Argo
7 52 (1.12%) Puppet
8 39 (0.84%) Nagios
9 30 (0.65%) HP Fortify
10 29 (0.62%) Kibana
11 26 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
12 21 (0.45%) Istio
13 15 (0.32%) Packer
14 14 (0.30%) Rancher
15 13 (0.28%) Progress Chef
15 13 (0.28%) Proxmox
16 12 (0.26%) Kustomize
17 10 (0.22%) logstash
18 9 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
19 8 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 902 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 169 (3.64%) Google
3 157 (3.38%) Databricks
4 147 (3.17%) Salesforce
5 111 (2.39%) VMware
6 100 (2.15%) ServiceNow
7 98 (2.11%) Splunk
8 86 (1.85%) Oracle
9 81 (1.75%) Red Hat
10 56 (1.21%) SAP
11 45 (0.97%) MuleSoft
12 44 (0.95%) Pega
13 40 (0.86%) Dynatrace
14 38 (0.82%) Cisco
15 33 (0.71%) OpenAI
16 32 (0.69%) Facebook
17 28 (0.60%) Palo Alto
18 26 (0.56%) Apple
19 24 (0.52%) Foundry
19 24 (0.52%) YouTube