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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 20 24
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 -12
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,367 4,131 5,721
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.06% 8.30% 6.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.89% 9.29% 8.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3,843 2,349 3,956
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 £86,063
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,250 £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 77,915 44,448 67,793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.48% 89.27% 81.15%
Number of salaries quoted 53,724 25,250 43,771
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% - -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -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 12 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 12 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 4,643 £70,400 +0.57% 3,673
UK excluding London -3 3,444 £65,000 - 1,887
Work from Home -2 1,917 £68,653 -1.93% 1,693
London -12 1,535 £85,000 +6.25% 2,140
North of England +1 1,220 £67,500 +3.85% 528
South East -11 690 £65,000 +4.00% 480
North West 0 669 £70,000 +7.69% 288
South West +7 497 £70,000 +7.69% 226
Midlands -15 405 £67,500 +3.85% 244
Yorkshire +12 292 £70,000 +9.80% 135
North East +22 259 £60,000 -7.69% 109
West Midlands -24 242 £69,310 +6.63% 160
East of England +13 212 £59,450 -8.54% 134
Wales +12 188 £55,000 - 54
East Midlands +4 162 £64,525 +12.22% 83
Scotland -2 133 £60,000 -14.29% 157
Northern Ireland -1 109 £72,500 -44.23% 68
Isle of Man 0 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 95 (1.77%) Apache Spark
3 93 (1.73%) SharePoint
4 79 (1.47%) Apache
5 44 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
6 36 (0.67%) 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 44 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (0.41%) MS Visio
3 22 (0.41%) PlantUML
4 17 (0.32%) Chatbot
5 16 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.24%) Trello
7 7 (0.13%) Simulink
8 4 (0.075%) Maya
9 3 (0.056%) Blender
9 3 (0.056%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.037%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.019%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.019%) Notion
11 1 (0.019%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 77 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.19%) Elite 3E
4 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.093%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.093%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.093%) Teamcenter
5 5 (0.093%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.075%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.075%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.075%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.075%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.075%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.075%) Shopify
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 2,838 (52.88%) Azure
2 1,758 (32.76%) AWS
3 1,398 (26.05%) Azure DevOps
4 595 (11.09%) GCP
5 529 (9.86%) GitHub
6 482 (8.98%) Serverless
7 429 (7.99%) SaaS
8 371 (6.91%) Power Platform
9 279 (5.20%) GitHub Actions
10 272 (5.07%) AWS CloudFormation
11 229 (4.27%) Amazon S3
12 218 (4.06%) PaaS
13 210 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
14 178 (3.32%) Dynamics 365
15 168 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
16 156 (2.91%) Amazon ECS
17 155 (2.89%) Azure AKS
18 149 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
19 145 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 145 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 128 (2.38%) Firewall
2 88 (1.64%) DNS
3 73 (1.36%) TCP/IP
4 66 (1.23%) VPN
5 46 (0.86%) Network Security
6 36 (0.67%) Broadband
7 33 (0.61%) Internet
8 31 (0.58%) HTTP
9 23 (0.43%) DHCP
10 19 (0.35%) LAN
11 18 (0.34%) WAN
12 16 (0.30%) MQTT
13 13 (0.24%) DMARC
13 13 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
13 13 (0.24%) Wireless
14 11 (0.20%) SAN
15 10 (0.19%) HTTPS
16 9 (0.17%) BGP
17 8 (0.15%) NAS
17 8 (0.15%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 320 (5.96%) SQL Server
2 280 (5.22%) MongoDB
3 272 (5.07%) Azure SQL Database
4 207 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
5 205 (3.82%) Power BI
6 186 (3.47%) NoSQL
7 113 (2.11%) MySQL
8 112 (2.09%) Relational Database
9 107 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
10 99 (1.84%) DynamoDB
11 97 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
12 94 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
13 82 (1.53%) Data Lake
14 65 (1.21%) Metadata
15 64 (1.19%) Redis
16 47 (0.88%) Big Data
17 43 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
18 41 (0.76%) Delta Lake
19 36 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
20 32 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 591 (11.01%) Git
2 404 (7.53%) Jenkins
3 398 (7.42%) GitLab
4 358 (6.67%) JIRA
5 95 (1.77%) Selenium
6 78 (1.45%) SonarQube
7 68 (1.27%) Cypress.io
8 57 (1.06%) Maven
9 56 (1.04%) JUnit
9 56 (1.04%) Postman
10 39 (0.73%) Cucumber
11 36 (0.67%) TeamCity
12 34 (0.63%) Bitbucket
12 34 (0.63%) JMeter
13 32 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 28 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
15 25 (0.47%) NUnit
16 23 (0.43%) REST Assured
17 21 (0.39%) Visual Studio
18 20 (0.37%) CircleCI
General
1 1,206 (22.47%) Social Skills
2 1,043 (19.43%) Finance
3 432 (8.05%) Public Sector
4 424 (7.90%) Analytical Skills
5 330 (6.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 256 (4.77%) Banking
7 207 (3.86%) Law
8 161 (3.00%) Legal
9 160 (2.98%) Retail
10 102 (1.90%) Marketing
11 64 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
12 59 (1.10%) Games
13 58 (1.08%) Manufacturing
14 56 (1.04%) Financial Institution
15 51 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
16 50 (0.93%) Advertising
17 47 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
18 45 (0.84%) Telecoms
19 37 (0.69%) Aerospace
20 33 (0.61%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,229 (22.90%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,182 (22.02%) Senior
3 910 (16.96%) Developer
4 717 (13.36%) Lead
5 421 (7.84%) Architect
6 373 (6.95%) Software Engineer
7 337 (6.28%) Azure Engineer
8 280 (5.22%) Senior DevOps
9 277 (5.16%) Cloud Engineer
10 262 (4.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 237 (4.42%) .NET Developer
12 224 (4.17%) Senior Developer
13 219 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
14 194 (3.61%) Data Engineer
15 185 (3.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 160 (2.98%) Lead DevOps
17 159 (2.96%) AWS Engineer
18 156 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
19 136 (2.53%) Java Developer
20 128 (2.38%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 735 (13.69%) .NET
2 458 (8.53%) React
3 337 (6.28%) RESTful
4 333 (6.20%) REST
5 324 (6.04%) Node.js
6 296 (5.52%) ASP.NET
7 283 (5.27%) .NET Core
8 246 (4.58%) CSS
9 244 (4.55%) HTML
9 244 (4.55%) Spring Boot
10 241 (4.49%) Spring
11 230 (4.29%) ASP.NET Core
12 210 (3.91%) Kafka
13 170 (3.17%) AngularJS
14 140 (2.61%) Entity Framework
15 139 (2.59%) Blazor
16 129 (2.40%) Middleware
17 106 (1.98%) YAML
18 105 (1.96%) JSON
19 100 (1.86%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 945 (17.61%) Cloud Native
2 350 (6.52%) Product Ownership
3 252 (4.70%) Distributed Systems
4 210 (3.91%) Enterprise Software
5 152 (2.83%) Onboarding
6 116 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
7 99 (1.84%) Virtual Team
8 88 (1.64%) Management Information System
9 80 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
10 75 (1.40%) Mobile App
11 74 (1.38%) Data Centre
12 70 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
13 64 (1.19%) Public Cloud
14 63 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
14 63 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
15 50 (0.93%) Data Structures
16 46 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
17 45 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
18 44 (0.82%) AI Agents
18 44 (0.82%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 546 (10.17%) Linux
2 260 (4.84%) Windows
3 107 (1.99%) Unix
4 75 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 73 (1.36%) Windows Server
6 52 (0.97%) CentOS
7 43 (0.80%) Ubuntu
8 37 (0.69%) VMS
9 31 (0.58%) Android
10 17 (0.32%) Apple iOS
10 17 (0.32%) Debian
11 11 (0.20%) Rocky
12 8 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
13 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.093%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.075%) Kali Linux
15 4 (0.075%) Solaris
15 4 (0.075%) Windows Server 2019
16 3 (0.056%) AIX
16 3 (0.056%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,700 (50.31%) CI/CD
2 2,000 (37.26%) Agile
3 1,296 (24.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,028 (19.15%) Continuous Improvement
5 985 (18.35%) Mentoring
6 970 (18.07%) Software Engineering
7 927 (17.27%) AI
8 862 (16.06%) Problem-Solving
9 819 (15.26%) Test Automation
10 728 (13.56%) Microservices
11 681 (12.69%) Containerisation
12 611 (11.38%) Platform Engineering
13 586 (10.92%) Observability
14 568 (10.58%) Full-Stack Development
14 568 (10.58%) Roadmaps
15 561 (10.45%) Technical Leadership
16 542 (10.10%) Scrum
17 491 (9.15%) Stakeholder Management
18 469 (8.74%) Analytics
19 387 (7.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,260 (23.48%) Python
2 955 (17.79%) SQL
3 790 (14.72%) C#
4 700 (13.04%) Java
5 667 (12.43%) JavaScript
6 417 (7.77%) TypeScript
7 365 (6.80%) PowerShell
8 361 (6.73%) Bash
9 154 (2.87%) Bicep
10 127 (2.37%) C++
11 125 (2.33%) Go
12 61 (1.14%) PHP
13 58 (1.08%) Apex Code
14 51 (0.95%) C
15 47 (0.88%) Groovy
15 47 (0.88%) T-SQL
16 46 (0.86%) Scala
17 42 (0.78%) Kotlin
18 40 (0.75%) Ruby
19 38 (0.71%) Rust
Qualifications
1 921 (17.16%) Security Cleared
2 611 (11.38%) SC Cleared
3 522 (9.73%) Degree
4 255 (4.75%) DV Cleared
5 194 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 149 (2.78%) Azure Certification
7 110 (2.05%) Master's Degree
8 93 (1.73%) AWS Certification
9 83 (1.55%) CISSP
10 80 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
11 66 (1.23%) CISM
12 58 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
13 57 (1.06%) ISTQB
14 50 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
15 40 (0.75%) PMI Certification
16 37 (0.69%) DBS Check
17 28 (0.52%) PMP
18 24 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 23 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 23 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 536 (9.99%) QA
2 187 (3.48%) Accessibility
3 178 (3.32%) Data Quality
4 125 (2.33%) GDPR
5 107 (1.99%) NIST
6 73 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 62 (1.16%) WCAG
8 49 (0.91%) ISO 22301
9 47 (0.88%) GRC
10 37 (0.69%) PCI DSS
11 27 (0.50%) PMO
12 26 (0.48%) NCSC
13 24 (0.45%) SLA
14 23 (0.43%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
16 12 (0.22%) TickIT
17 11 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
18 10 (0.19%) HIPAA
18 10 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 9 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 869 (16.19%) Docker
2 139 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 82 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.54%) vSphere
6 23 (0.43%) Firmware
6 23 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 15 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.13%) Ceph
9 6 (0.11%) KVM
9 6 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.093%) iptables
11 4 (0.075%) NDS
11 4 (0.075%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.056%) Embedded Firmware
12 3 (0.056%) Xen
13 2 (0.037%) VMware NSX
14 1 (0.019%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.019%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,295 (24.13%) Terraform
2 980 (18.26%) Kubernetes
3 450 (8.38%) Ansible
4 225 (4.19%) Grafana
5 169 (3.15%) Prometheus
6 78 (1.45%) Argo
7 63 (1.17%) Puppet
8 36 (0.67%) Nagios
9 32 (0.60%) Istio
10 27 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
11 25 (0.47%) Kibana
12 22 (0.41%) HP Fortify
13 18 (0.34%) Progress Chef
14 13 (0.24%) Packer
14 13 (0.24%) Rancher
14 13 (0.24%) ZABBIX
15 12 (0.22%) Podman
16 11 (0.20%) logstash
17 9 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
18 8 (0.15%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,039 (19.36%) Microsoft
2 215 (4.01%) Google
3 181 (3.37%) Databricks
4 142 (2.65%) Salesforce
5 116 (2.16%) Oracle
6 113 (2.11%) VMware
7 98 (1.83%) ServiceNow
8 95 (1.77%) Red Hat
9 93 (1.73%) Splunk
10 72 (1.34%) SAP
11 51 (0.95%) Pega
12 49 (0.91%) OpenAI
13 48 (0.89%) Cisco
13 48 (0.89%) Dynatrace
14 42 (0.78%) Facebook
15 41 (0.76%) MuleSoft
16 30 (0.56%) AppDynamics
17 29 (0.54%) Apple
18 28 (0.52%) Foundry
19 27 (0.50%) YouTube