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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 20 26
Rank change year-on-year -8 +6 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,337 4,006 7,219
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.73% 9.06% 6.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.49% 9.78% 8.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3,126 2,325 5,245
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,441 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £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 £88,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,250
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 66,839 40,980 87,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.86% 92.69% 82.42%
Number of salaries quoted 45,659 21,831 62,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £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 £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 10 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 10 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 3,841 £70,000 -2.10% 1,165
UK excluding London -10 2,569 £65,000 - 904
Work from Home -5 1,527 £68,200 -2.57% 843
London -6 1,420 £82,500 +3.13% 418
North of England -3 918 £70,000 +3.70% 266
South East -14 569 £65,000 - 272
North West -4 488 £70,000 +3.61% 156
South West -15 355 £65,000 - 109
Midlands -19 337 £65,250 +8.75% 105
Yorkshire -3 266 £70,000 - 75
West Midlands -32 192 £64,250 +7.08% 67
North East +10 164 £60,000 -7.69% 40
East of England -6 157 £60,100 -7.54% 75
East Midlands +3 142 £67,500 +22.73% 38
Scotland -5 135 £55,000 -25.42% 45
Wales +3 94 £53,171 -11.38% 27
Northern Ireland -35 8 £73,151 -13.94% 22
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 84 (1.94%) Confluence
2 80 (1.84%) SharePoint
3 55 (1.27%) Apache
4 54 (1.25%) Apache Spark
5 46 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
6 39 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
7 29 (0.67%) CMS
8 25 (0.58%) IIS
9 15 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
10 11 (0.25%) SAS
11 10 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
12 9 (0.21%) OpenStack
12 9 (0.21%) Umbraco
13 8 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
14 7 (0.16%) Jupyter
14 7 (0.16%) nginx
14 7 (0.16%) WordPress
15 6 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 6 (0.14%) Apache Solr
15 6 (0.14%) Moodle
Applications
1 39 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
2 30 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.48%) MS Visio
4 14 (0.32%) PlantUML
5 10 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 10 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
7 6 (0.14%) Simulink
8 4 (0.092%) Maya
9 3 (0.069%) Blender
9 3 (0.069%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.046%) Trello
11 1 (0.023%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.023%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.023%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.023%) Notion
11 1 (0.023%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 72 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.30%) SAP ERP
4 7 (0.16%) Endur
5 5 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.12%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.092%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.092%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.069%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.069%) Magento
7 3 (0.069%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.069%) Shopify
8 2 (0.046%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.046%) Fidessa
8 2 (0.046%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.046%) Markit EDM
9 1 (0.023%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.023%) SAP FI
9 1 (0.023%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 2,294 (52.89%) Azure
2 1,381 (31.84%) AWS
3 1,128 (26.01%) Azure DevOps
4 488 (11.25%) GCP
5 473 (10.91%) GitHub
6 428 (9.87%) Serverless
7 324 (7.47%) Power Platform
8 270 (6.23%) SaaS
9 255 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
10 222 (5.12%) Amazon S3
11 217 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
12 205 (4.73%) AWS Lambda
13 172 (3.97%) PaaS
14 155 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
15 145 (3.34%) Entra ID
16 143 (3.30%) Azure AKS
17 137 (3.16%) Amazon ECS
18 134 (3.09%) Amazon EKS
19 133 (3.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 131 (3.02%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 143 (3.30%) Firewall
2 91 (2.10%) DNS
3 65 (1.50%) Broadband
4 57 (1.31%) TCP/IP
5 51 (1.18%) VPN
6 37 (0.85%) Network Security
7 34 (0.78%) HTTP
8 26 (0.60%) DHCP
8 26 (0.60%) WAN
9 23 (0.53%) LAN
10 11 (0.25%) Internet
10 11 (0.25%) MQTT
11 10 (0.23%) BGP
11 10 (0.23%) SAN
11 10 (0.23%) Wireless
12 9 (0.21%) DMARC
13 8 (0.18%) HTTPS
14 6 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (0.14%) OSPF
14 6 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 237 (5.46%) SQL Server
2 193 (4.45%) NoSQL
3 185 (4.27%) Power BI
4 180 (4.15%) MongoDB
5 177 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
6 136 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
7 103 (2.37%) DynamoDB
8 90 (2.08%) Relational Database
9 82 (1.89%) Data Lake
10 80 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
11 79 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
12 69 (1.59%) MySQL
13 66 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
14 63 (1.45%) Metadata
15 49 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
16 38 (0.88%) BigQuery
17 34 (0.78%) Redis
18 33 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
18 33 (0.76%) Delta Lake
19 32 (0.74%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 457 (10.54%) Git
2 382 (8.81%) Jenkins
3 365 (8.42%) GitLab
4 259 (5.97%) JIRA
5 96 (2.21%) SonarQube
6 81 (1.87%) Selenium
7 80 (1.84%) Cypress.io
8 57 (1.31%) Maven
9 45 (1.04%) Postman
10 34 (0.78%) Bitbucket
10 34 (0.78%) Cucumber
11 33 (0.76%) JUnit
12 32 (0.74%) CircleCI
12 32 (0.74%) TeamCity
13 28 (0.65%) JMeter
14 25 (0.58%) Eclipse
15 24 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
16 21 (0.48%) Visual Studio
17 20 (0.46%) REST Assured
18 18 (0.42%) Jaeger
General
1 901 (20.77%) Finance
2 887 (20.45%) Social Skills
3 342 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
4 293 (6.76%) Public Sector
5 265 (6.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 230 (5.30%) Banking
7 136 (3.14%) Retail
8 125 (2.88%) Law
9 101 (2.33%) Marketing
10 77 (1.78%) Games
11 76 (1.75%) Legal
12 47 (1.08%) Manufacturing
13 46 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
14 45 (1.04%) Telecoms
15 43 (0.99%) Advertising
16 41 (0.95%) Financial Institution
17 38 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
18 34 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
19 31 (0.71%) Billing
20 30 (0.69%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 957 (22.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 865 (19.94%) Senior
3 752 (17.34%) Developer
4 605 (13.95%) Lead
5 358 (8.25%) Architect
6 326 (7.52%) Azure Engineer
7 322 (7.42%) Software Engineer
8 250 (5.76%) Cloud Engineer
9 210 (4.84%) Senior DevOps
10 197 (4.54%) Senior Developer
11 182 (4.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 177 (4.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 165 (3.80%) Data Engineer
14 160 (3.69%) Platform Engineer
15 150 (3.46%) AWS Engineer
16 146 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
17 140 (3.23%) Java Developer
18 134 (3.09%) .NET Developer
19 130 (3.00%) Lead DevOps
20 107 (2.47%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 533 (12.29%) .NET
2 374 (8.62%) React
3 276 (6.36%) REST
4 275 (6.34%) Node.js
5 244 (5.63%) RESTful
6 181 (4.17%) ASP.NET
7 180 (4.15%) Spring Boot
8 177 (4.08%) CSS
9 172 (3.97%) HTML
10 168 (3.87%) Spring
11 167 (3.85%) .NET Core
12 155 (3.57%) Kafka
13 151 (3.48%) AngularJS
14 133 (3.07%) ASP.NET Core
15 108 (2.49%) SOAP
16 107 (2.47%) YAML
17 98 (2.26%) OAuth
18 95 (2.19%) Middleware
19 93 (2.14%) PySpark
20 88 (2.03%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 643 (14.83%) Cloud Native
2 287 (6.62%) Product Ownership
3 155 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 124 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
5 92 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
6 78 (1.80%) Management Information System
7 75 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
8 73 (1.68%) Mobile App
9 72 (1.66%) Onboarding
10 61 (1.41%) Data Centre
11 56 (1.29%) Public Cloud
12 51 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
13 50 (1.15%) Algorithms
13 50 (1.15%) Data Structures
14 44 (1.01%) Low-Code
15 40 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
16 37 (0.85%) Security Posture
17 35 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
18 29 (0.67%) Enterprise Cloud
18 29 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 435 (10.03%) Linux
2 190 (4.38%) Windows
3 85 (1.96%) Unix
4 74 (1.71%) Windows Server
5 55 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 47 (1.08%) Ubuntu
7 35 (0.81%) VMS
8 33 (0.76%) CentOS
9 32 (0.74%) Android
10 26 (0.60%) Apple iOS
11 9 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
12 8 (0.18%) Debian
13 4 (0.092%) Kali Linux
13 4 (0.092%) Rocky
13 4 (0.092%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.069%) Windows Server 2016
15 2 (0.046%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.046%) Embedded Linux
16 1 (0.023%) AIX
16 1 (0.023%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,198 (50.68%) CI/CD
2 1,534 (35.37%) Agile
3 1,047 (24.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 785 (18.10%) Continuous Improvement
5 718 (16.56%) Mentoring
6 710 (16.37%) Problem-Solving
7 698 (16.09%) Software Engineering
8 675 (15.56%) AI
9 620 (14.30%) Test Automation
10 576 (13.28%) Containerisation
11 569 (13.12%) Microservices
12 466 (10.74%) Observability
13 463 (10.68%) Roadmaps
14 448 (10.33%) Full-Stack Development
15 445 (10.26%) Platform Engineering
16 433 (9.98%) Analytics
17 423 (9.75%) Scrum
18 387 (8.92%) Technical Leadership
19 301 (6.94%) Stakeholder Management
20 299 (6.89%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,055 (24.33%) Python
2 782 (18.03%) SQL
3 598 (13.79%) Java
4 542 (12.50%) C#
5 489 (11.28%) JavaScript
6 363 (8.37%) Bash
7 324 (7.47%) TypeScript
8 268 (6.18%) PowerShell
9 144 (3.32%) Go
10 127 (2.93%) Bicep
11 124 (2.86%) C++
12 80 (1.84%) Apex Code
13 56 (1.29%) PHP
14 49 (1.13%) Groovy
15 48 (1.11%) SOQL
16 45 (1.04%) SOSL
17 44 (1.01%) Scala
18 43 (0.99%) C
19 41 (0.95%) Kotlin
20 34 (0.78%) Rust
Qualifications
1 627 (14.46%) Security Cleared
2 444 (10.24%) Degree
3 379 (8.74%) SC Cleared
4 172 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 160 (3.69%) DV Cleared
6 105 (2.42%) Azure Certification
7 100 (2.31%) AWS Certification
8 96 (2.21%) Master's Degree
9 53 (1.22%) ISTQB
10 47 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
11 34 (0.78%) DBS Check
12 30 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
12 30 (0.69%) PMI Certification
13 28 (0.65%) CISSP
14 27 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 24 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 23 (0.53%) PMP
17 22 (0.51%) PhD
18 19 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
19 15 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 361 (8.32%) QA
2 166 (3.83%) Data Quality
3 148 (3.41%) Accessibility
4 94 (2.17%) GDPR
5 65 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 56 (1.29%) NIST
7 45 (1.04%) GRC
8 42 (0.97%) WCAG
9 33 (0.76%) SOC 2
10 32 (0.74%) PCI DSS
11 19 (0.44%) SLA
12 16 (0.37%) PMO
13 12 (0.28%) NCSC
13 12 (0.28%) TickIT
14 9 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 8 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
16 6 (0.14%) Solvency II
17 5 (0.12%) IFRS
17 5 (0.12%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 705 (16.26%) Docker
2 136 (3.14%) Active Directory
3 59 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (0.46%) vSphere
6 19 (0.44%) Firmware
7 18 (0.42%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.12%) iptables
9 5 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.092%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 4 (0.092%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.069%) Embedded Firmware
11 3 (0.069%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.069%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.046%) KVM
13 1 (0.023%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.023%) OpenAM
13 1 (0.023%) OpenIDM
13 1 (0.023%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,075 (24.79%) Terraform
2 778 (17.94%) Kubernetes
3 386 (8.90%) Ansible
4 217 (5.00%) Grafana
5 178 (4.10%) Prometheus
6 76 (1.75%) Argo
7 48 (1.11%) Puppet
8 39 (0.90%) Nagios
9 34 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
10 30 (0.69%) HP Fortify
11 28 (0.65%) Kibana
12 18 (0.42%) Istio
12 18 (0.42%) Kustomize
13 17 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
14 15 (0.35%) Packer
15 14 (0.32%) Rancher
16 13 (0.30%) Progress Chef
17 11 (0.25%) Proxmox
18 9 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 9 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 816 (18.81%) Microsoft
2 164 (3.78%) Google
3 151 (3.48%) Databricks
4 149 (3.44%) Salesforce
5 99 (2.28%) VMware
6 98 (2.26%) Splunk
7 90 (2.08%) ServiceNow
8 85 (1.96%) Oracle
9 83 (1.91%) Red Hat
10 58 (1.34%) SAP
11 40 (0.92%) MuleSoft
12 38 (0.88%) Dynatrace
13 33 (0.76%) Cisco
14 30 (0.69%) Palo Alto
15 24 (0.55%) OpenAI
15 24 (0.55%) Pega
16 21 (0.48%) Apple
17 19 (0.44%) Adobe
17 19 (0.44%) Facebook
17 19 (0.44%) SolarWinds