DevOps Job Trends

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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 19 13
Rank change year-on-year -14 -6 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 3,297 5,070 5,950
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.91% 8.07% 11.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.03% 9.32% 12.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,235 3,119 4,891
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £46,038
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,607 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,308 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -0.99% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £62,500

All Process and 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 46,878 54,401 47,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.98% 86.62% 93.72%
Number of salaries quoted 28,142 28,251 36,353
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -1.70%

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 6 December 2025.

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 6 December 2025. 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 -16 2,794 £70,000 - 1,883
UK excluding London -22 1,775 £62,500 - 1,624
Work from Home -5 1,354 £69,500 +2.96% 1,315
London -1 1,281 £80,500 -2.42% 619
North of England -22 456 £62,500 +4.17% 397
South East -32 417 £65,000 -2.26% 536
Midlands -22 271 £65,000 +4.00% 206
Scotland -1 268 £67,500 +12.50% 98
North West -19 218 £65,000 +4.00% 184
West Midlands -13 207 £65,000 - 134
South West -22 182 £60,000 -7.69% 200
Yorkshire -11 175 £60,000 +2.65% 162
East of England -24 100 £65,000 +23.81% 147
Wales -8 68 £57,500 +4.55% 54
North East -2 65 £50,000 -13.74% 53
East Midlands -13 61 £61,250 +2.08% 65
Northern Ireland +2 22 £77,217 +12.88% 20
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

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
1 104 (3.15%) Confluence
2 69 (2.09%) Apache Spark
3 58 (1.76%) SharePoint
4 57 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
5 51 (1.55%) Apache
6 42 (1.27%) IIS
7 28 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
8 23 (0.70%) nginx
9 22 (0.67%) CMS
10 16 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 13 (0.39%) Appian
12 8 (0.24%) OpenStack
12 8 (0.24%) Tomcat
13 6 (0.18%) Camunda
14 5 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
14 5 (0.15%) WebSphere
15 4 (0.12%) JBoss
15 4 (0.12%) Moodle
15 4 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 55 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (0.49%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.18%) Trello
7 5 (0.15%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 3 (0.091%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.091%) PlantUML
8 3 (0.091%) Siemens NX
8 3 (0.091%) S-PLUS
8 3 (0.091%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.061%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.061%) Sketch
10 1 (0.030%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.030%) Maya
10 1 (0.030%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 63 (1.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 38 (1.15%) Oracle ERP
3 25 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
5 10 (0.30%) Endur
6 9 (0.27%) SAP FS
7 7 (0.21%) Shopify
8 6 (0.18%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.12%) Markit EDM
9 4 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
9 4 (0.12%) SAP IBP
9 4 (0.12%) SAP MII
9 4 (0.12%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.12%) SAP PP
10 3 (0.091%) SAP CX
10 3 (0.091%) SAP ERP
11 2 (0.061%) Dynamics AX
11 2 (0.061%) Elite 3E
11 2 (0.061%) Salesforce CRM
11 2 (0.061%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,960 (59.45%) Azure
2 1,148 (34.82%) AWS
3 1,022 (31.00%) Azure DevOps
4 528 (16.01%) GitHub
5 387 (11.74%) GCP
6 335 (10.16%) Power Platform
7 310 (9.40%) SaaS
8 295 (8.95%) Serverless
9 257 (7.79%) GitHub Actions
10 188 (5.70%) PaaS
11 164 (4.97%) AWS CloudFormation
12 142 (4.31%) Amazon S3
13 139 (4.22%) Entra ID
14 138 (4.19%) AWS Lambda
15 133 (4.03%) Microsoft 365
16 130 (3.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 123 (3.73%) Dynamics 365
18 120 (3.64%) Snowflake
19 116 (3.52%) Azure Data Factory
20 114 (3.46%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 118 (3.58%) Firewall
2 95 (2.88%) DNS
3 59 (1.79%) VPN
4 58 (1.76%) TCP/IP
4 58 (1.76%) WAN
5 48 (1.46%) Network Security
6 41 (1.24%) LAN
7 39 (1.18%) HTTP
8 27 (0.82%) DHCP
9 22 (0.67%) SAN
9 22 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
10 20 (0.61%) SSH
11 19 (0.58%) Broadband
12 18 (0.55%) FTP
12 18 (0.55%) SMTP
13 16 (0.49%) SD-WAN
14 15 (0.45%) BGP
15 14 (0.42%) Wireless
16 13 (0.39%) VLAN
17 12 (0.36%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 319 (9.68%) SQL Server
2 201 (6.10%) Power BI
3 164 (4.97%) Data Warehouse
4 148 (4.49%) NoSQL
5 141 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
6 96 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
7 91 (2.76%) Relational Database
8 88 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
9 75 (2.27%) Data Lake
10 63 (1.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 61 (1.85%) Tableau
12 59 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
13 57 (1.73%) Big Data
14 56 (1.70%) DynamoDB
15 51 (1.55%) MySQL
16 50 (1.52%) Metadata
17 48 (1.46%) MongoDB
18 46 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
19 42 (1.27%) BigQuery
20 41 (1.24%) Redis
Development Applications
1 410 (12.44%) Git
2 352 (10.68%) Jenkins
3 289 (8.77%) JIRA
4 197 (5.98%) GitLab
5 95 (2.88%) Selenium
6 53 (1.61%) SonarQube
7 52 (1.58%) Cypress.io
8 46 (1.40%) Bitbucket
9 44 (1.33%) Octopus Deploy
9 44 (1.33%) TeamCity
10 38 (1.15%) Cucumber
11 34 (1.03%) JMeter
12 33 (1.00%) Oracle Forms
13 31 (0.94%) Postman
14 28 (0.85%) JUnit
15 27 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
16 26 (0.79%) Artifactory
17 25 (0.76%) Visual Studio
18 24 (0.73%) Robot Framework
18 24 (0.73%) Snyk
General
1 959 (29.09%) Social Skills
2 882 (26.75%) Finance
3 370 (11.22%) Analytical Skills
4 202 (6.13%) Law
5 151 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 150 (4.55%) Banking
7 149 (4.52%) Public Sector
7 149 (4.52%) Retail
8 144 (4.37%) Marketing
9 68 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
10 67 (2.03%) Games
11 63 (1.91%) Manufacturing
12 61 (1.85%) Financial Institution
12 61 (1.85%) Telecoms
13 51 (1.55%) Legal
14 44 (1.33%) Back Office
15 43 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
16 37 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
17 31 (0.94%) Front Office
18 26 (0.79%) Police
Job Titles
1 637 (19.32%) Senior
2 563 (17.08%) Developer
3 461 (13.98%) Lead
4 433 (13.13%) DevOps Engineer
5 308 (9.34%) Architect
6 213 (6.46%) Software Engineer
7 202 (6.13%) Cloud Engineer
8 151 (4.58%) Senior Developer
9 142 (4.31%) Azure Engineer
10 140 (4.25%) Data Engineer
11 137 (4.16%) Analyst
12 136 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
13 134 (4.06%) Platform Engineer
14 104 (3.15%) Full-Stack Developer
15 90 (2.73%) AWS Engineer
15 90 (2.73%) Senior DevOps
16 89 (2.70%) .NET Developer
17 83 (2.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 77 (2.34%) Support Engineer
19 76 (2.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 513 (15.56%) .NET
2 331 (10.04%) React
3 226 (6.85%) RESTful
4 206 (6.25%) REST
5 159 (4.82%) HTML
6 157 (4.76%) Kafka
7 155 (4.70%) CSS
8 145 (4.40%) Node.js
9 130 (3.94%) .NET Framework
10 123 (3.73%) AngularJS
10 123 (3.73%) Spring
11 116 (3.52%) Spring Boot
12 107 (3.25%) .NET Core
13 101 (3.06%) Middleware
14 94 (2.85%) YAML
15 89 (2.70%) SOAP
16 87 (2.64%) ASP.NET
17 81 (2.46%) JSON
17 81 (2.46%) OAuth
18 70 (2.12%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 493 (14.95%) Cloud Native
2 254 (7.70%) Product Ownership
3 121 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
4 116 (3.52%) Management Information System
5 114 (3.46%) Enterprise Software
6 89 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
7 88 (2.67%) Onboarding
8 74 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
9 57 (1.73%) Algorithms
10 53 (1.61%) Public Cloud
11 52 (1.58%) Low-Code
12 51 (1.55%) Data Centre
13 48 (1.46%) Security Posture
14 47 (1.43%) Mobile App
15 45 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
15 45 (1.36%) Virtual Team
16 44 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
17 39 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
18 33 (1.00%) IoT
19 31 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 349 (10.59%) Linux
2 262 (7.95%) Windows
3 80 (2.43%) Windows Server
4 60 (1.82%) Unix
5 58 (1.76%) VMS
6 36 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 32 (0.97%) Android
8 24 (0.73%) Apple iOS
8 24 (0.73%) Ubuntu
9 22 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
10 16 (0.49%) Amazon Linux
10 16 (0.49%) Debian
11 15 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
12 10 (0.30%) CentOS
13 7 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.12%) Mac OS
15 3 (0.091%) Windows 10
16 2 (0.061%) AIX
16 2 (0.061%) Solaris
16 2 (0.061%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,765 (53.53%) CI/CD
2 1,481 (44.92%) Agile
3 762 (23.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 715 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
5 619 (18.77%) Continuous Improvement
6 584 (17.71%) Mentoring
7 568 (17.23%) AI
8 507 (15.38%) Test Automation
9 505 (15.32%) Software Engineering
10 490 (14.86%) Microservices
11 468 (14.19%) Containerisation
12 391 (11.86%) Analytics
13 367 (11.13%) Roadmaps
14 359 (10.89%) Observability
15 356 (10.80%) Coaching
16 334 (10.13%) Scrum
17 314 (9.52%) Computer Science
18 282 (8.55%) SDLC
19 272 (8.25%) Full-Stack Development
20 271 (8.22%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 969 (29.39%) Python
2 756 (22.93%) SQL
3 518 (15.71%) C#
4 417 (12.65%) Java
5 412 (12.50%) PowerShell
6 360 (10.92%) JavaScript
7 280 (8.49%) Bash
8 255 (7.73%) TypeScript
9 140 (4.25%) Bicep
10 107 (3.25%) Go
11 63 (1.91%) T-SQL
12 60 (1.82%) Apex Code
13 49 (1.49%) Groovy
14 48 (1.46%) Shell Script
15 45 (1.36%) C++
16 42 (1.27%) PL/SQL
17 37 (1.12%) Scala
18 32 (0.97%) PHP
19 28 (0.85%) Perl
20 24 (0.73%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 467 (14.16%) Degree
2 357 (10.83%) Security Cleared
3 250 (7.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 246 (7.46%) SC Cleared
5 156 (4.73%) Azure Certification
6 122 (3.70%) AWS Certification
7 118 (3.58%) Master's Degree
8 97 (2.94%) DV Cleared
9 63 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
10 54 (1.64%) ISTQB
11 43 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 40 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
13 38 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
14 35 (1.06%) PhD
15 30 (0.91%) CISSP
16 26 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
17 25 (0.76%) CCNP
18 24 (0.73%) Chartered Engineer
19 22 (0.67%) PMI Certification
19 22 (0.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 358 (10.86%) QA
2 129 (3.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 125 (3.79%) GDPR
4 105 (3.18%) Accessibility
5 92 (2.79%) Data Quality
6 73 (2.21%) NIST
7 40 (1.21%) NCSC
8 32 (0.97%) SLA
9 28 (0.85%) PCI DSS
10 25 (0.76%) PMO
11 24 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 12207
12 22 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 20 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
14 19 (0.58%) SOC 2
15 18 (0.55%) ISO 9001
16 16 (0.49%) WCAG
17 15 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 12 (0.36%) HIPAA
19 9 (0.27%) IFRS
19 9 (0.27%) Solvency II
System Software
1 646 (19.59%) Docker
2 150 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 70 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 57 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (0.70%) vSphere
6 19 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
7 18 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.42%) DFS Replication
9 13 (0.39%) NFS
10 10 (0.30%) Postfix
11 9 (0.27%) HDFS
12 8 (0.24%) Hyper-V
13 6 (0.18%) Dovecot
13 6 (0.18%) Firmware
13 6 (0.18%) Squid
14 5 (0.15%) Kamailio
14 5 (0.15%) VMware NSX
15 4 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
16 3 (0.091%) vCloud
17 2 (0.061%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 864 (26.21%) Terraform
2 732 (22.20%) Kubernetes
3 321 (9.74%) Ansible
4 214 (6.49%) Grafana
5 185 (5.61%) Prometheus
6 50 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
7 44 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
8 40 (1.21%) Argo
9 22 (0.67%) Puppet
10 18 (0.55%) SCCM
11 16 (0.49%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.39%) Kibana
13 12 (0.36%) AWS Copilot
13 12 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
13 12 (0.36%) vCenter Server
14 11 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
14 11 (0.33%) HP Fortify
15 8 (0.24%) Kubeflow
15 8 (0.24%) Rancher
16 7 (0.21%) logstash
Vendors
1 704 (21.35%) Microsoft
2 143 (4.34%) Databricks
3 127 (3.85%) Salesforce
4 124 (3.76%) Google
4 124 (3.76%) Oracle
5 104 (3.15%) VMware
6 81 (2.46%) ServiceNow
7 71 (2.15%) Red Hat
7 71 (2.15%) Splunk
8 66 (2.00%) SAP
9 56 (1.70%) Cisco
10 40 (1.21%) OpenAI
11 37 (1.12%) Guidewire
12 34 (1.03%) Palo Alto
13 29 (0.88%) IBM
14 28 (0.85%) SolarWinds
15 27 (0.82%) Fortinet
16 24 (0.73%) MuleSoft
17 23 (0.70%) Okta
18 20 (0.61%) CrowdStrike