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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 22 21
Rank change year-on-year -8 -1 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,610 3,832 5,347
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.81% 7.82% 7.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.58% 8.82% 8.72%
Number of salaries quoted 3,881 2,166 3,372
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,607
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 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £64,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +0.78% +3.20% -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 85,252 43,434 61,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.06% 88.68% 81.27%
Number of salaries quoted 58,899 24,470 34,327
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
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 £77,500
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 23 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 23 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 4,841 £72,500 +3.57% 4,711
UK excluding London -6 3,586 £65,000 +0.78% 2,530
Work from Home -4 1,904 £69,310 -0.99% 2,169
London -10 1,593 £85,000 +6.25% 2,454
North of England +3 1,280 £68,076 +4.73% 747
South East -8 703 £65,000 - 590
North West +6 702 £70,000 +7.69% 419
South West +25 545 £75,000 +25.00% 318
Midlands -22 445 £65,000 - 312
Yorkshire +18 297 £70,000 +12.00% 221
North East +19 284 £60,000 - 111
West Midlands -28 261 £70,000 +7.69% 188
Wales -2 202 £54,500 -0.91% 72
East of England 0 195 £56,000 -12.16% 231
East Midlands +4 184 £60,000 +4.35% 124
Scotland -19 122 £60,000 -7.69% 205
Northern Ireland -9 114 £72,246 -44.43% 67
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
1 112 (2.00%) SharePoint
2 110 (1.96%) Apache Spark
3 109 (1.94%) Confluence
4 82 (1.46%) Apache
5 45 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
6 42 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
7 30 (0.53%) CMS
8 28 (0.50%) IIS
9 24 (0.43%) OpenStack
10 15 (0.27%) Jupyter
11 13 (0.23%) nginx
11 13 (0.23%) SAS
12 10 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
13 9 (0.16%) Umbraco
14 8 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
14 8 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
14 8 (0.14%) WordPress
15 7 (0.12%) Camunda
16 5 (0.089%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 65 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
2 45 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
4 26 (0.46%) MS Visio
5 25 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 21 (0.37%) PlantUML
7 20 (0.36%) Chatbot
8 13 (0.23%) Trello
9 7 (0.12%) Simulink
10 3 (0.053%) Blender
10 3 (0.053%) Maya
10 3 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.036%) Lightworks
12 1 (0.018%) Notion
12 1 (0.018%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 90 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (0.25%) Elite 3E
4 7 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
4 7 (0.12%) Teamcenter
5 6 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
5 6 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
6 5 (0.089%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.089%) Visualfiles
7 4 (0.071%) Distributed Ledger
7 4 (0.071%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.071%) Oracle Applications
7 4 (0.071%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.071%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.071%) Shopify
8 3 (0.053%) Carpe Diem
8 3 (0.053%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.053%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.053%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 2,946 (52.51%) Azure
2 1,822 (32.48%) AWS
3 1,494 (26.63%) Azure DevOps
4 622 (11.09%) GCP
5 573 (10.21%) GitHub
6 503 (8.97%) Serverless
7 455 (8.11%) SaaS
8 435 (7.75%) Power Platform
9 308 (5.49%) GitHub Actions
10 287 (5.12%) AWS CloudFormation
11 223 (3.98%) Dynamics 365
12 217 (3.87%) Amazon S3
13 211 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
14 208 (3.71%) PaaS
15 180 (3.21%) Azure Data Factory
16 176 (3.14%) Entra ID
17 170 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
18 169 (3.01%) Amazon EKS
18 169 (3.01%) Azure AKS
19 159 (2.83%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 134 (2.39%) Firewall
2 93 (1.66%) DNS
3 87 (1.55%) VPN
4 63 (1.12%) Internet
5 62 (1.11%) TCP/IP
6 50 (0.89%) Network Security
7 28 (0.50%) DHCP
8 26 (0.46%) HTTP
9 21 (0.37%) Broadband
10 16 (0.29%) MQTT
10 16 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
11 15 (0.27%) Wireless
12 14 (0.25%) DMARC
13 13 (0.23%) SAN
13 13 (0.23%) WAN
14 12 (0.21%) BGP
15 11 (0.20%) LAN
15 11 (0.20%) SSH
16 9 (0.16%) SSL
16 9 (0.16%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 357 (6.36%) SQL Server
2 305 (5.44%) Azure SQL Database
3 294 (5.24%) MongoDB
4 250 (4.46%) Power BI
5 224 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
6 203 (3.62%) NoSQL
7 146 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
8 127 (2.26%) MySQL
9 121 (2.16%) Relational Database
10 106 (1.89%) DynamoDB
11 102 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
12 100 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
13 97 (1.73%) Data Lake
13 97 (1.73%) Metadata
14 80 (1.43%) Redis
15 49 (0.87%) Amazon Athena
16 46 (0.82%) Delta Lake
17 45 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
18 41 (0.73%) Big Data
19 39 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 690 (12.30%) Git
2 417 (7.43%) Jenkins
3 401 (7.15%) GitLab
4 357 (6.36%) JIRA
5 89 (1.59%) Selenium
6 69 (1.23%) SonarQube
7 61 (1.09%) Cypress.io
8 59 (1.05%) Maven
9 52 (0.93%) JUnit
10 50 (0.89%) TeamCity
11 49 (0.87%) Postman
12 41 (0.73%) Cucumber
13 39 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 29 (0.52%) Bitbucket
15 28 (0.50%) JMeter
15 28 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
16 27 (0.48%) Claude Code
17 20 (0.36%) NUnit
18 19 (0.34%) REST Assured
19 18 (0.32%) Subversion
General
1 1,325 (23.62%) Social Skills
2 1,089 (19.41%) Finance
3 525 (9.36%) Public Sector
4 479 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
5 341 (6.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 246 (4.39%) Banking
7 214 (3.81%) Law
8 174 (3.10%) Retail
9 168 (2.99%) Legal
10 84 (1.50%) Marketing
11 78 (1.39%) Financial Institution
12 59 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
13 58 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
14 54 (0.96%) Manufacturing
15 50 (0.89%) Aerospace
15 50 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
16 49 (0.87%) Back Office
16 49 (0.87%) Telecoms
17 45 (0.80%) Advertising
18 37 (0.66%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,388 (24.74%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,293 (23.05%) Senior
3 898 (16.01%) Developer
4 715 (12.75%) Lead
5 435 (7.75%) Architect
6 397 (7.08%) Software Engineer
7 356 (6.35%) Azure Engineer
8 319 (5.69%) Senior DevOps
9 302 (5.38%) Cloud Engineer
10 296 (5.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 242 (4.31%) Platform Engineer
12 240 (4.28%) .NET Developer
13 219 (3.90%) Senior Developer
14 218 (3.89%) Data Engineer
15 188 (3.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 170 (3.03%) Lead DevOps
17 155 (2.76%) AWS Engineer
18 147 (2.62%) Solutions Architect
19 139 (2.48%) Consultant
20 133 (2.37%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,386 (24.71%) Terraform
2 734 (13.08%) .NET
3 430 (7.66%) React
4 359 (6.40%) REST
5 339 (6.04%) RESTful
6 333 (5.94%) Node.js
7 297 (5.29%) ASP.NET
8 272 (4.85%) Spring
9 270 (4.81%) Spring Boot
10 269 (4.80%) .NET Core
11 233 (4.15%) CSS
12 232 (4.14%) HTML
13 229 (4.08%) Kafka
14 227 (4.05%) ASP.NET Core
15 172 (3.07%) AngularJS
16 137 (2.44%) Entity Framework
17 135 (2.41%) Blazor
18 123 (2.19%) Middleware
19 120 (2.14%) JSON
20 106 (1.89%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1,029 (18.34%) Cloud Native
2 354 (6.31%) Product Ownership
3 275 (4.90%) Distributed Systems
4 237 (4.22%) Enterprise Software
5 167 (2.98%) Onboarding
6 128 (2.28%) Virtual Team
7 118 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
8 100 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
9 90 (1.60%) Management Information System
10 77 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
11 71 (1.27%) Data Centre
11 71 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
12 68 (1.21%) Mobile App
13 67 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
14 65 (1.16%) Public Cloud
15 64 (1.14%) AI Agents
16 60 (1.07%) Linux Command Line
17 54 (0.96%) Private Cloud
18 51 (0.91%) Data Structures
19 49 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 597 (10.64%) Linux
2 259 (4.62%) Windows
3 109 (1.94%) Unix
4 72 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 67 (1.19%) Windows Server
6 50 (0.89%) CentOS
7 40 (0.71%) Ubuntu
8 38 (0.68%) VMS
9 32 (0.57%) Android
10 16 (0.29%) Debian
11 14 (0.25%) Apple iOS
12 10 (0.18%) Rocky
13 7 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
14 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.089%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.071%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.071%) Solaris
16 4 (0.071%) Windows Server 2019
17 3 (0.053%) AIX
17 3 (0.053%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,887 (51.46%) CI/CD
2 2,047 (36.49%) Agile
3 1,385 (24.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,114 (19.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,086 (19.36%) Mentoring
6 1,039 (18.52%) AI
7 1,035 (18.45%) Software Engineering
8 932 (16.61%) Problem-Solving
9 869 (15.49%) Test Automation
10 756 (13.48%) Microservices
11 725 (12.92%) Containerisation
12 691 (12.32%) Platform Engineering
13 624 (11.12%) Observability
14 619 (11.03%) Technical Leadership
15 584 (10.41%) Stakeholder Management
16 578 (10.30%) Roadmaps
17 533 (9.50%) Scrum
18 529 (9.43%) Full-Stack Development
19 515 (9.18%) Analytics
20 405 (7.22%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,333 (23.76%) Python
2 1,004 (17.90%) SQL
3 816 (14.55%) C#
4 739 (13.17%) Java
5 665 (11.85%) JavaScript
6 432 (7.70%) TypeScript
7 396 (7.06%) PowerShell
8 394 (7.02%) Bash
9 172 (3.07%) Bicep
10 133 (2.37%) Go
11 121 (2.16%) C++
12 55 (0.98%) Groovy
12 55 (0.98%) PHP
12 55 (0.98%) T-SQL
13 53 (0.94%) Scala
14 51 (0.91%) Shell Script
15 47 (0.84%) Kotlin
16 46 (0.82%) C
17 40 (0.71%) Apex Code
18 39 (0.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,067 (19.02%) Security Cleared
2 712 (12.69%) SC Cleared
3 513 (9.14%) Degree
4 300 (5.35%) DV Cleared
5 195 (3.48%) Azure Certification
5 195 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 110 (1.96%) AWS Certification
7 102 (1.82%) Master's Degree
8 81 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 77 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 77 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
10 76 (1.35%) CISSP
11 67 (1.19%) CISM
12 55 (0.98%) ISTQB
13 37 (0.66%) PMI Certification
14 26 (0.46%) PhD
15 25 (0.45%) DBS Check
16 24 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 24 (0.43%) PMP
17 22 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 555 (9.89%) QA
2 216 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 188 (3.35%) Accessibility
4 128 (2.28%) GDPR
5 97 (1.73%) NIST
6 74 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 62 (1.11%) WCAG
8 49 (0.87%) ISO 22301
9 39 (0.70%) GRC
10 35 (0.62%) SLA
11 28 (0.50%) PCI DSS
11 28 (0.50%) PMO
12 26 (0.46%) NCSC
13 18 (0.32%) SOC 2
14 14 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
15 12 (0.21%) HIPAA
15 12 (0.21%) TickIT
16 10 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
17 9 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 9 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 949 (16.92%) Docker
2 145 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 83 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (0.46%) vSphere
6 20 (0.36%) Firmware
6 20 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 19 (0.34%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.14%) NDS
9 7 (0.12%) Ceph
10 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.089%) KVM
12 4 (0.071%) iptables
12 4 (0.071%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.053%) Xen
14 2 (0.036%) Embedded Firmware
14 2 (0.036%) VMware ESXi
14 2 (0.036%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.018%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.018%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,072 (19.11%) Kubernetes
2 476 (8.48%) Ansible
3 259 (4.62%) Grafana
4 182 (3.24%) Prometheus
5 82 (1.46%) Argo
6 67 (1.19%) Puppet
7 44 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
8 28 (0.50%) Kibana
9 27 (0.48%) Istio
10 26 (0.46%) Rancher
11 25 (0.45%) Nagios
12 23 (0.41%) Progress Chef
13 20 (0.36%) HP Fortify
14 19 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
15 16 (0.29%) Packer
16 15 (0.27%) logstash
17 14 (0.25%) Podman
18 11 (0.20%) Proxmox
18 11 (0.20%) ZABBIX
19 8 (0.14%) yum
Vendors
1 1,171 (20.87%) Microsoft
2 222 (3.96%) Google
3 191 (3.40%) Databricks
4 128 (2.28%) Oracle
5 122 (2.17%) Salesforce
6 117 (2.09%) VMware
7 97 (1.73%) ServiceNow
8 87 (1.55%) Splunk
9 78 (1.39%) SAP
10 76 (1.35%) Red Hat
11 56 (1.00%) Dynatrace
12 55 (0.98%) OpenAI
13 54 (0.96%) Cisco
14 44 (0.78%) Pega
15 41 (0.73%) Facebook
15 41 (0.73%) YouTube
16 38 (0.68%) AppDynamics
17 33 (0.59%) MuleSoft
18 30 (0.53%) Foundry
19 28 (0.50%) IBM