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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 21 26
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,635 4,050 7,172
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.87% 8.96% 6.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.66% 9.71% 8.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3,386 2,348 5,186
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,838 £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 £87,625 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,375 £100,000
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 69,604 41,717 88,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.20% 92.25% 81.84%
Number of salaries quoted 48,009 22,461 62,520
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,800 £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 £52,500 £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 24 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 24 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 4,091 £70,000 -2.10% 961
UK excluding London -6 2,790 £65,000 - 810
Work from Home -2 1,653 £67,500 -3.57% 555
London -6 1,463 £82,500 +3.13% 358
North of England -1 1,009 £69,305 +3.38% 237
South East -11 607 £65,000 - 263
North West -2 554 £70,000 +3.70% 138
South West -8 399 £67,950 +4.54% 89
Midlands -25 341 £67,500 +5.88% 91
Yorkshire +1 272 £70,000 - 66
West Midlands -36 192 £69,305 +6.62% 51
North East +15 183 £60,000 -7.69% 36
East of England +6 182 £60,000 -7.69% 63
East Midlands +2 147 £66,750 +16.09% 40
Scotland -8 131 £57,500 -20.69% 33
Wales +1 118 £53,171 -11.38% 29
Northern Ireland -38 8 £73,151 -20.92% 24
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 94 (2.03%) Confluence
2 87 (1.88%) SharePoint
3 64 (1.38%) Apache Spark
4 61 (1.32%) Apache
5 47 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
6 45 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
7 29 (0.63%) CMS
7 29 (0.63%) IIS
8 15 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
8 15 (0.32%) SAS
9 10 (0.22%) OpenStack
9 10 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
10 9 (0.19%) Jupyter
10 9 (0.19%) nginx
10 9 (0.19%) Umbraco
10 9 (0.19%) WordPress
11 8 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
12 7 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 6 (0.13%) Apache Solr
13 6 (0.13%) Moodle
Applications
1 49 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
2 36 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.45%) 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 81 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.13%) Endur
3 6 (0.13%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
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%) Elite 3E
6 3 (0.065%) Magento
6 3 (0.065%) SAP IBP
6 3 (0.065%) Shopify
7 2 (0.043%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.043%) Infor SunSystems
7 2 (0.043%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.022%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.022%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.022%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2,448 (52.82%) Azure
2 1,483 (32.00%) AWS
3 1,237 (26.69%) Azure DevOps
4 513 (11.07%) GCP
5 487 (10.51%) GitHub
6 454 (9.80%) Serverless
7 342 (7.38%) Power Platform
8 290 (6.26%) SaaS
9 259 (5.59%) GitHub Actions
10 222 (4.79%) Amazon S3
11 216 (4.66%) AWS CloudFormation
12 206 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
13 187 (4.03%) PaaS
14 156 (3.37%) Azure AKS
15 149 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
16 147 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
17 142 (3.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 140 (3.02%) Amazon EKS
19 139 (3.00%) Azure Logic Apps
20 138 (2.98%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 142 (3.06%) Firewall
2 89 (1.92%) DNS
3 63 (1.36%) Broadband
4 61 (1.32%) VPN
5 57 (1.23%) TCP/IP
6 41 (0.88%) Network Security
7 33 (0.71%) HTTP
8 26 (0.56%) DHCP
9 24 (0.52%) WAN
10 22 (0.47%) LAN
11 18 (0.39%) Internet
12 13 (0.28%) DMARC
13 12 (0.26%) MQTT
14 10 (0.22%) BGP
14 10 (0.22%) Wireless
15 9 (0.19%) SAN
16 8 (0.17%) HTTPS
17 6 (0.13%) Bluetooth
17 6 (0.13%) OSPF
17 6 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 254 (5.48%) SQL Server
2 232 (5.01%) MongoDB
3 229 (4.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 194 (4.19%) NoSQL
5 186 (4.01%) Power BI
6 159 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
7 105 (2.27%) DynamoDB
8 89 (1.92%) Relational Database
9 82 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
9 82 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
9 82 (1.77%) MySQL
10 80 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
11 79 (1.70%) Data Lake
12 62 (1.34%) Metadata
13 50 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
14 42 (0.91%) Redis
15 39 (0.84%) Delta Lake
16 38 (0.82%) BigQuery
17 37 (0.80%) Big Data
18 36 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 492 (10.61%) Git
2 389 (8.39%) Jenkins
3 385 (8.31%) GitLab
4 288 (6.21%) JIRA
5 99 (2.14%) SonarQube
6 83 (1.79%) Selenium
7 80 (1.73%) Cypress.io
8 58 (1.25%) Maven
9 48 (1.04%) Postman
10 38 (0.82%) JUnit
11 37 (0.80%) Cucumber
12 35 (0.76%) CircleCI
13 34 (0.73%) Bitbucket
13 34 (0.73%) TeamCity
14 30 (0.65%) JMeter
15 26 (0.56%) Eclipse
16 24 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
17 23 (0.50%) Visual Studio
18 22 (0.47%) REST Assured
19 17 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 943 (20.35%) Social Skills
2 937 (20.22%) Finance
3 342 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
4 319 (6.88%) Public Sector
5 289 (6.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 242 (5.22%) Banking
7 150 (3.24%) Retail
8 137 (2.96%) Law
9 104 (2.24%) Marketing
10 81 (1.75%) Games
11 80 (1.73%) Legal
12 53 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
13 52 (1.12%) Manufacturing
14 49 (1.06%) Advertising
15 47 (1.01%) Telecoms
16 46 (0.99%) Financial Institution
17 44 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
18 38 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
19 34 (0.73%) Back Office
20 28 (0.60%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,030 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 917 (19.78%) Senior
3 830 (17.91%) Developer
4 640 (13.81%) Lead
5 398 (8.59%) Architect
6 349 (7.53%) Software Engineer
7 335 (7.23%) Azure Engineer
8 251 (5.42%) Cloud Engineer
9 222 (4.79%) Senior DevOps
10 202 (4.36%) Senior Developer
11 196 (4.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 187 (4.03%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 181 (3.91%) .NET Developer
14 174 (3.75%) Platform Engineer
15 167 (3.60%) Data Engineer
16 164 (3.54%) AWS Engineer
17 162 (3.50%) Solutions Architect
18 146 (3.15%) Java Developer
19 128 (2.76%) Lead DevOps
20 112 (2.42%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 614 (13.25%) .NET
2 410 (8.85%) React
3 296 (6.39%) Node.js
4 284 (6.13%) REST
5 279 (6.02%) RESTful
6 238 (5.13%) ASP.NET
7 218 (4.70%) .NET Core
8 202 (4.36%) CSS
8 202 (4.36%) Spring Boot
9 198 (4.27%) HTML
10 191 (4.12%) Spring
11 183 (3.95%) ASP.NET Core
12 165 (3.56%) Kafka
13 160 (3.45%) AngularJS
14 112 (2.42%) YAML
15 108 (2.33%) Entity Framework
16 105 (2.27%) Blazor
17 103 (2.22%) SOAP
18 96 (2.07%) Middleware
19 95 (2.05%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 732 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 299 (6.45%) Product Ownership
3 184 (3.97%) Distributed Systems
4 139 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
5 93 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
6 92 (1.98%) Onboarding
7 83 (1.79%) Management Information System
8 81 (1.75%) Mobile App
9 80 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
10 67 (1.45%) Public Cloud
11 65 (1.40%) Data Centre
12 61 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
13 52 (1.12%) Data Structures
14 48 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
15 47 (1.01%) Low-Code
16 46 (0.99%) Algorithms
16 46 (0.99%) Security Posture
17 38 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
18 35 (0.76%) Virtual Team
19 33 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 456 (9.84%) Linux
2 217 (4.68%) Windows
3 86 (1.86%) Unix
4 73 (1.57%) Windows Server
5 53 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 49 (1.06%) Ubuntu
7 41 (0.88%) VMS
8 35 (0.76%) Android
9 33 (0.71%) CentOS
10 25 (0.54%) 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%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.043%) AIX
16 2 (0.043%) Amazon Linux
16 2 (0.043%) Embedded Linux
17 1 (0.022%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,358 (50.87%) CI/CD
2 1,673 (36.09%) Agile
3 1,114 (24.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 851 (18.36%) Continuous Improvement
5 780 (16.83%) Mentoring
6 773 (16.68%) Software Engineering
7 735 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
8 725 (15.64%) AI
9 640 (13.81%) Test Automation
10 631 (13.61%) Microservices
11 605 (13.05%) Containerisation
12 513 (11.07%) Full-Stack Development
13 508 (10.96%) Roadmaps
14 488 (10.53%) Observability
15 484 (10.44%) Scrum
16 477 (10.29%) Platform Engineering
17 447 (9.64%) Analytics
18 429 (9.26%) Technical Leadership
19 346 (7.46%) Stakeholder Management
20 302 (6.52%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,082 (23.34%) Python
2 841 (18.14%) SQL
3 631 (13.61%) Java
4 623 (13.44%) C#
5 539 (11.63%) JavaScript
6 385 (8.31%) Bash
7 346 (7.46%) TypeScript
8 287 (6.19%) PowerShell
9 145 (3.13%) Bicep
10 136 (2.93%) Go
11 128 (2.76%) C++
12 77 (1.66%) Apex Code
13 57 (1.23%) PHP
14 49 (1.06%) Groovy
15 48 (1.04%) SOQL
16 46 (0.99%) C
17 45 (0.97%) SOSL
18 41 (0.88%) Kotlin
19 39 (0.84%) Rust
20 37 (0.80%) Scala
Qualifications
1 706 (15.23%) Security Cleared
2 475 (10.25%) Degree
3 441 (9.51%) SC Cleared
4 178 (3.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 161 (3.47%) DV Cleared
6 119 (2.57%) Azure Certification
7 105 (2.27%) Master's Degree
8 94 (2.03%) AWS Certification
9 56 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 53 (1.14%) ISTQB
11 35 (0.76%) DBS Check
12 34 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
13 31 (0.67%) PMI Certification
14 30 (0.65%) CISSP
15 28 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 24 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 24 (0.52%) PhD
16 24 (0.52%) PMP
17 20 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
18 15 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 406 (8.76%) QA
2 161 (3.47%) Accessibility
2 161 (3.47%) Data Quality
3 97 (2.09%) GDPR
4 68 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 55 (1.19%) NIST
6 53 (1.14%) WCAG
7 47 (1.01%) GRC
8 36 (0.78%) PCI DSS
9 32 (0.69%) SOC 2
10 21 (0.45%) SLA
11 20 (0.43%) PMO
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
1 747 (16.12%) Docker
2 134 (2.89%) Active Directory
3 71 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.63%) 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%) OpenAM
14 1 (0.022%) OpenIDM
14 1 (0.022%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,131 (24.40%) Terraform
2 839 (18.10%) Kubernetes
3 399 (8.61%) Ansible
4 228 (4.92%) Grafana
5 177 (3.82%) Prometheus
6 74 (1.60%) Argo
7 52 (1.12%) Puppet
8 39 (0.84%) Nagios
9 30 (0.65%) Kibana
10 29 (0.63%) HP Fortify
10 29 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
11 20 (0.43%) Istio
12 15 (0.32%) Packer
13 14 (0.30%) Rancher
14 13 (0.28%) Progress Chef
14 13 (0.28%) Proxmox
15 12 (0.26%) Kustomize
16 10 (0.22%) logstash
17 9 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 9 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 902 (19.46%) Microsoft
2 172 (3.71%) Google
3 158 (3.41%) Databricks
4 149 (3.21%) Salesforce
5 111 (2.39%) VMware
6 99 (2.14%) ServiceNow
6 99 (2.14%) Splunk
7 86 (1.86%) Oracle
8 81 (1.75%) Red Hat
9 56 (1.21%) SAP
10 46 (0.99%) MuleSoft
11 43 (0.93%) Pega
12 39 (0.84%) Dynatrace
13 38 (0.82%) Cisco
14 33 (0.71%) OpenAI
15 32 (0.69%) Facebook
16 28 (0.60%) Palo Alto
17 26 (0.56%) Apple
18 24 (0.52%) Foundry
18 24 (0.52%) YouTube