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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 20 24
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 -12
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,381 4,156 5,690
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.11% 8.33% 6.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.93% 9.33% 8.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,856 2,381 3,959
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 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +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 77,641 44,566 67,247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.69% 89.32% 81.09%
Number of salaries quoted 53,461 25,406 43,850
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,073 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.41% -3.85% -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 9 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 9 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 4,649 £70,079 +0.11% 2,450
UK excluding London -2 3,455 £65,000 - 1,358
Work from Home -2 1,934 £67,500 -3.57% 1,140
London -12 1,532 £85,000 +6.25% 1,317
North of England +2 1,224 £67,500 +3.85% 393
South East -11 695 £65,000 +3.59% 367
North West 0 669 £70,000 +7.69% 199
South West +9 501 £70,000 +7.69% 167
Midlands -20 401 £67,500 +3.85% 189
Yorkshire +14 299 £70,000 +7.69% 118
North East +18 256 £60,000 -7.69% 78
West Midlands -25 235 £69,655 +7.16% 124
East of England +7 211 £59,450 -8.54% 80
Wales +11 187 £55,000 -2.22% 42
East Midlands +3 165 £65,000 +13.04% 65
Scotland -4 137 £60,000 -14.29% 89
Northern Ireland -1 109 £72,500 -44.23% 37
Isle of Man -1 3 £35,000 -33.33% 3

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
1 109 (2.03%) Confluence
2 92 (1.71%) Apache Spark
3 91 (1.69%) SharePoint
4 78 (1.45%) Apache
5 46 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
6 38 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
7 28 (0.52%) CMS
7 28 (0.52%) IIS
8 22 (0.41%) OpenStack
9 21 (0.39%) SAS
10 14 (0.26%) nginx
10 14 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
11 12 (0.22%) Jupyter
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 7 (0.13%) Camunda
Applications
1 57 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
2 43 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.39%) PlantUML
4 19 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.32%) Chatbot
6 16 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
6 16 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 13 (0.24%) Trello
8 7 (0.13%) Simulink
9 4 (0.074%) Maya
10 3 (0.056%) Blender
10 3 (0.056%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.037%) Lightworks
12 1 (0.019%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.019%) Notion
12 1 (0.019%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 79 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.17%) Elite 3E
4 7 (0.13%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.093%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.093%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.093%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.074%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.074%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.074%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.074%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.074%) Shopify
6 4 (0.074%) Teamcenter
7 3 (0.056%) Carpe Diem
7 3 (0.056%) Infor SunSystems
7 3 (0.056%) Magento
7 3 (0.056%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (0.056%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.056%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 2,841 (52.80%) Azure
2 1,769 (32.87%) AWS
3 1,393 (25.89%) Azure DevOps
4 599 (11.13%) GCP
5 529 (9.83%) GitHub
6 487 (9.05%) Serverless
7 431 (8.01%) SaaS
8 371 (6.89%) Power Platform
9 279 (5.18%) GitHub Actions
10 270 (5.02%) AWS CloudFormation
11 233 (4.33%) Amazon S3
12 219 (4.07%) PaaS
13 213 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
14 179 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
15 172 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
16 160 (2.97%) Amazon ECS
17 156 (2.90%) Azure AKS
18 147 (2.73%) Azure Service Bus
19 146 (2.71%) Amazon EKS
19 146 (2.71%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 129 (2.40%) Firewall
2 88 (1.64%) DNS
3 73 (1.36%) TCP/IP
4 66 (1.23%) VPN
5 47 (0.87%) Network Security
6 41 (0.76%) Broadband
7 33 (0.61%) Internet
8 31 (0.58%) HTTP
9 23 (0.43%) DHCP
10 19 (0.35%) LAN
11 18 (0.33%) WAN
12 16 (0.30%) MQTT
13 14 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
13 14 (0.26%) Wireless
14 13 (0.24%) DMARC
15 12 (0.22%) SAN
16 10 (0.19%) HTTPS
17 8 (0.15%) BGP
17 8 (0.15%) Bluetooth
17 8 (0.15%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 322 (5.98%) SQL Server
2 279 (5.18%) MongoDB
3 270 (5.02%) Azure SQL Database
4 207 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
5 206 (3.83%) Power BI
6 189 (3.51%) NoSQL
7 113 (2.10%) MySQL
8 109 (2.03%) Relational Database
9 108 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
10 101 (1.88%) DynamoDB
11 97 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
12 96 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
13 81 (1.51%) Data Lake
14 64 (1.19%) Metadata
15 61 (1.13%) Redis
16 46 (0.85%) Big Data
17 44 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
18 41 (0.76%) Delta Lake
19 36 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
20 32 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 590 (10.96%) Git
2 412 (7.66%) GitLab
3 411 (7.64%) Jenkins
4 353 (6.56%) JIRA
5 96 (1.78%) Selenium
6 85 (1.58%) SonarQube
7 72 (1.34%) Cypress.io
8 58 (1.08%) Maven
9 56 (1.04%) Postman
10 55 (1.02%) JUnit
11 38 (0.71%) Cucumber
12 37 (0.69%) TeamCity
13 34 (0.63%) Bitbucket
13 34 (0.63%) JMeter
14 33 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 28 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
16 24 (0.45%) NUnit
17 23 (0.43%) REST Assured
18 22 (0.41%) Visual Studio
19 21 (0.39%) CircleCI
General
1 1,217 (22.62%) Social Skills
2 1,039 (19.31%) Finance
3 426 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
3 426 (7.92%) Public Sector
4 332 (6.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 255 (4.74%) Banking
6 208 (3.87%) Law
7 162 (3.01%) Retail
8 160 (2.97%) Legal
9 110 (2.04%) Marketing
10 66 (1.23%) Games
11 62 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
12 60 (1.12%) Manufacturing
13 56 (1.04%) Financial Institution
14 52 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
15 51 (0.95%) Advertising
16 49 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
17 43 (0.80%) Telecoms
18 36 (0.67%) Aerospace
19 34 (0.63%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,229 (22.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,178 (21.89%) Senior
3 908 (16.87%) Developer
4 721 (13.40%) Lead
5 424 (7.88%) Architect
6 376 (6.99%) Software Engineer
7 339 (6.30%) Azure Engineer
8 280 (5.20%) Cloud Engineer
9 278 (5.17%) Senior DevOps
10 260 (4.83%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 236 (4.39%) .NET Developer
12 225 (4.18%) Senior Developer
13 217 (4.03%) Platform Engineer
14 194 (3.61%) Data Engineer
15 187 (3.48%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 164 (3.05%) AWS Engineer
17 162 (3.01%) Solutions Architect
18 160 (2.97%) Lead DevOps
19 139 (2.58%) Java Developer
20 129 (2.40%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 735 (13.66%) .NET
2 459 (8.53%) React
3 339 (6.30%) RESTful
4 335 (6.23%) REST
5 320 (5.95%) Node.js
6 299 (5.56%) ASP.NET
7 282 (5.24%) .NET Core
8 247 (4.59%) CSS
9 246 (4.57%) Spring Boot
10 244 (4.53%) HTML
11 243 (4.52%) Spring
12 230 (4.27%) ASP.NET Core
13 208 (3.87%) Kafka
14 174 (3.23%) AngularJS
15 138 (2.56%) Blazor
15 138 (2.56%) Entity Framework
16 130 (2.42%) Middleware
17 106 (1.97%) JSON
17 106 (1.97%) YAML
18 100 (1.86%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 935 (17.38%) Cloud Native
2 352 (6.54%) Product Ownership
3 252 (4.68%) Distributed Systems
4 205 (3.81%) Enterprise Software
5 152 (2.82%) Onboarding
6 116 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
7 97 (1.80%) Virtual Team
8 89 (1.65%) Management Information System
9 83 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
10 76 (1.41%) Mobile App
11 73 (1.36%) Data Centre
12 71 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
13 63 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
13 63 (1.17%) Public Cloud
13 63 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
14 49 (0.91%) Data Structures
15 47 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
16 45 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
17 44 (0.82%) Low-Code
18 42 (0.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 549 (10.20%) Linux
2 263 (4.89%) Windows
3 106 (1.97%) Unix
4 77 (1.43%) Windows Server
5 76 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 54 (1.00%) CentOS
7 45 (0.84%) Ubuntu
8 37 (0.69%) VMS
9 31 (0.58%) Android
10 18 (0.33%) Debian
11 17 (0.32%) Apple iOS
12 11 (0.20%) Rocky
13 9 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
14 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.093%) Mac OS
15 5 (0.093%) Windows Server 2019
16 4 (0.074%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.074%) Solaris
17 3 (0.056%) AIX
17 3 (0.056%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,712 (50.40%) CI/CD
2 2,013 (37.41%) Agile
3 1,297 (24.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,043 (19.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 986 (18.32%) Mentoring
6 969 (18.01%) Software Engineering
7 919 (17.08%) AI
8 872 (16.21%) Problem-Solving
9 824 (15.31%) Test Automation
10 730 (13.57%) Microservices
11 686 (12.75%) Containerisation
12 605 (11.24%) Platform Engineering
13 586 (10.89%) Observability
14 572 (10.63%) Full-Stack Development
15 570 (10.59%) Roadmaps
16 556 (10.33%) Technical Leadership
17 552 (10.26%) Scrum
18 484 (8.99%) Stakeholder Management
19 471 (8.75%) Analytics
20 389 (7.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,265 (23.51%) Python
2 958 (17.80%) SQL
3 791 (14.70%) C#
4 705 (13.10%) Java
5 670 (12.45%) JavaScript
6 420 (7.81%) TypeScript
7 370 (6.88%) Bash
8 369 (6.86%) PowerShell
9 156 (2.90%) Bicep
10 127 (2.36%) Go
11 125 (2.32%) C++
12 64 (1.19%) Apex Code
13 63 (1.17%) PHP
14 51 (0.95%) C
15 48 (0.89%) Groovy
16 47 (0.87%) T-SQL
17 44 (0.82%) Scala
18 40 (0.74%) Ruby
19 39 (0.72%) Kotlin
19 39 (0.72%) Rust
Qualifications
1 912 (16.95%) Security Cleared
2 603 (11.21%) SC Cleared
3 518 (9.63%) Degree
4 253 (4.70%) DV Cleared
5 193 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 148 (2.75%) Azure Certification
7 110 (2.04%) Master's Degree
8 93 (1.73%) AWS Certification
9 82 (1.52%) CISSP
9 82 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
10 65 (1.21%) CISM
11 58 (1.08%) ISTQB
12 55 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
13 49 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
14 40 (0.74%) DBS Check
14 40 (0.74%) PMI Certification
15 28 (0.52%) PMP
16 25 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 24 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 23 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 544 (10.11%) QA
2 185 (3.44%) Accessibility
3 175 (3.25%) Data Quality
4 124 (2.30%) GDPR
5 107 (1.99%) NIST
6 74 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 62 (1.15%) WCAG
8 49 (0.91%) ISO 22301
9 48 (0.89%) GRC
10 39 (0.72%) PCI DSS
11 27 (0.50%) PMO
12 25 (0.46%) SLA
12 25 (0.46%) SOC 2
13 24 (0.45%) NCSC
14 13 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
15 12 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
15 12 (0.22%) TickIT
16 10 (0.19%) HIPAA
16 10 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 9 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 881 (16.37%) Docker
2 140 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 83 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.54%) vSphere
6 25 (0.46%) Hyper-V
7 23 (0.43%) Firmware
8 15 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.13%) Ceph
10 6 (0.11%) iptables
10 6 (0.11%) KVM
10 6 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.074%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.074%) NDS
11 4 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.056%) Xen
13 2 (0.037%) VMware NSX
14 1 (0.019%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.019%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1,298 (24.12%) Terraform
2 994 (18.47%) Kubernetes
3 453 (8.42%) Ansible
4 233 (4.33%) Grafana
5 171 (3.18%) Prometheus
6 79 (1.47%) Argo
7 65 (1.21%) Puppet
8 38 (0.71%) Nagios
9 32 (0.59%) Istio
10 28 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
11 25 (0.46%) Kibana
12 24 (0.45%) HP Fortify
13 17 (0.32%) Progress Chef
14 14 (0.26%) Rancher
15 13 (0.24%) Podman
15 13 (0.24%) ZABBIX
16 12 (0.22%) Packer
17 11 (0.20%) logstash
18 9 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
18 9 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,046 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 211 (3.92%) Google
3 179 (3.33%) Databricks
4 149 (2.77%) Salesforce
5 116 (2.16%) Oracle
6 115 (2.14%) VMware
7 101 (1.88%) ServiceNow
7 101 (1.88%) Splunk
8 97 (1.80%) Red Hat
9 74 (1.38%) SAP
10 52 (0.97%) Pega
11 49 (0.91%) Dynatrace
12 47 (0.87%) Cisco
12 47 (0.87%) OpenAI
13 42 (0.78%) Facebook
13 42 (0.78%) MuleSoft
14 30 (0.56%) Apple
15 28 (0.52%) AppDynamics
15 28 (0.52%) Foundry
16 27 (0.50%) YouTube