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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 21 14
Rank change year-on-year -7 -7 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 3,325 5,194 6,087
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 6.20% 7.73% 11.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.30% 9.11% 12.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2,274 3,165 4,995
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,308 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -0.99% -
75th Percentile £85,738 £87,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - - +1.63%

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 45,560 57,007 47,921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.92% 84.85% 93.78%
Number of salaries quoted 27,788 29,760 36,892
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £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 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,439 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.75% +3.69% -0.19%

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 26 November 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Top 19 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 26 November 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 -13 2,842 £70,000 - 1,863
UK excluding London -18 1,777 £62,500 - 1,658
Work from Home -7 1,324 £69,171 +2.47% 859
London -2 1,311 £80,500 -2.42% 616
North of England -27 463 £62,750 +3.72% 337
South East -30 418 £65,000 -2.26% 602
Midlands -7 288 £63,000 -2.74% 216
Scotland -5 247 £67,250 +12.08% 107
North West -21 235 £65,000 +4.00% 165
West Midlands +6 224 £65,000 - 129
South West -23 180 £60,000 -7.69% 198
Yorkshire -16 164 £60,000 - 123
East of England -30 98 £65,000 +30.00% 156
Wales -6 68 £57,500 +4.55% 56
North East +4 66 £51,250 -11.58% 50
East Midlands -11 61 £57,500 -4.17% 79
Northern Ireland +12 22 £78,609 +13.42% 20
Isle of Man +9 1 £52,500 +45.83%
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
1 109 (3.28%) Confluence
2 75 (2.26%) Apache Spark
3 59 (1.77%) SharePoint
4 57 (1.71%) Apache
5 55 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
6 40 (1.20%) IIS
7 30 (0.90%) nginx
8 29 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
9 25 (0.75%) CMS
10 14 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 11 (0.33%) Appian
12 7 (0.21%) OpenStack
13 6 (0.18%) Tomcat
14 5 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
14 5 (0.15%) JBoss
14 5 (0.15%) WebSphere
15 4 (0.12%) Camunda
15 4 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
16 3 (0.090%) SAS
Applications
1 54 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
4 13 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 6 (0.18%) Trello
7 4 (0.12%) PlantUML
7 4 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.090%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.090%) Siemens NX
8 3 (0.090%) S-PLUS
9 2 (0.060%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.060%) Sketch
10 1 (0.030%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.030%) Maya
10 1 (0.030%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 67 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.96%) Oracle ERP
3 24 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
5 10 (0.30%) Shopify
6 9 (0.27%) SAP FS
7 8 (0.24%) Endur
8 6 (0.18%) Teamcenter
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 (0.090%) SAP CX
11 2 (0.060%) Elite 3E
11 2 (0.060%) Markit EDM
11 2 (0.060%) Oracle BPM
11 2 (0.060%) Salesforce CRM
11 2 (0.060%) SAP ERP
11 2 (0.060%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,957 (58.86%) Azure
2 1,162 (34.95%) AWS
3 1,009 (30.35%) Azure DevOps
4 495 (14.89%) GitHub
5 395 (11.88%) GCP
6 342 (10.29%) Power Platform
7 307 (9.23%) SaaS
8 294 (8.84%) Serverless
9 238 (7.16%) GitHub Actions
10 189 (5.68%) PaaS
11 160 (4.81%) AWS CloudFormation
12 150 (4.51%) Dynamics 365
13 143 (4.30%) Amazon S3
14 134 (4.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 132 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
15 132 (3.97%) Entra ID
16 131 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
17 110 (3.31%) Amazon EKS
18 109 (3.28%) Azure Data Factory
18 109 (3.28%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 133 (4.00%) Firewall
2 102 (3.07%) DNS
3 65 (1.95%) TCP/IP
4 62 (1.86%) VPN
5 61 (1.83%) WAN
6 54 (1.62%) Network Security
7 45 (1.35%) LAN
8 42 (1.26%) HTTP
9 29 (0.87%) DHCP
10 23 (0.69%) SAN
10 23 (0.69%) SSH
11 22 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
12 21 (0.63%) FTP
12 21 (0.63%) SMTP
13 19 (0.57%) Broadband
14 17 (0.51%) BGP
15 16 (0.48%) SD-WAN
16 14 (0.42%) Wireless
17 13 (0.39%) VLAN
18 12 (0.36%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 331 (9.95%) SQL Server
2 199 (5.98%) Power BI
3 160 (4.81%) Data Warehouse
4 155 (4.66%) NoSQL
5 140 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
6 101 (3.04%) Relational Database
7 99 (2.98%) Amazon RDS
8 88 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
9 73 (2.20%) Data Lake
10 67 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 63 (1.89%) Big Data
12 59 (1.77%) Tableau
13 55 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
14 54 (1.62%) MongoDB
15 53 (1.59%) DynamoDB
15 53 (1.59%) MySQL
16 50 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
17 48 (1.44%) Metadata
18 42 (1.26%) BigQuery
19 41 (1.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 422 (12.69%) Git
2 350 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 291 (8.75%) JIRA
4 191 (5.74%) GitLab
5 90 (2.71%) Selenium
6 53 (1.59%) SonarQube
7 51 (1.53%) Cypress.io
8 48 (1.44%) Octopus Deploy
8 48 (1.44%) TeamCity
9 45 (1.35%) Bitbucket
10 35 (1.05%) Cucumber
11 34 (1.02%) Postman
12 31 (0.93%) JMeter
12 31 (0.93%) Vagrant
13 29 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
14 28 (0.84%) JUnit
15 27 (0.81%) Oracle Forms
16 26 (0.78%) Artifactory
16 26 (0.78%) Visual Studio
17 23 (0.69%) Snyk
General
1 966 (29.05%) Social Skills
2 882 (26.53%) Finance
3 360 (10.83%) Analytical Skills
4 242 (7.28%) Law
5 185 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 165 (4.96%) Banking
7 153 (4.60%) Retail
8 150 (4.51%) Public Sector
9 149 (4.48%) Marketing
10 71 (2.14%) Games
10 71 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
11 63 (1.89%) Manufacturing
12 59 (1.77%) Financial Institution
12 59 (1.77%) Telecoms
13 53 (1.59%) Legal
14 45 (1.35%) Back Office
15 41 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
16 35 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
17 31 (0.93%) Front Office
18 25 (0.75%) Police
Job Titles
1 636 (19.13%) Senior
2 603 (18.14%) Developer
3 463 (13.92%) Lead
4 433 (13.02%) DevOps Engineer
5 312 (9.38%) Architect
6 233 (7.01%) Software Engineer
7 192 (5.77%) Cloud Engineer
8 170 (5.11%) Senior Developer
9 146 (4.39%) Analyst
10 143 (4.30%) Data Engineer
11 139 (4.18%) Azure Engineer
12 137 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
13 127 (3.82%) Platform Engineer
14 108 (3.25%) Full-Stack Developer
15 96 (2.89%) AWS Engineer
16 90 (2.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 89 (2.68%) .NET Developer
17 89 (2.68%) Senior DevOps
18 79 (2.38%) Support Engineer
19 75 (2.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 547 (16.45%) .NET
2 344 (10.35%) React
3 226 (6.80%) RESTful
4 214 (6.44%) REST
5 172 (5.17%) CSS
6 171 (5.14%) HTML
7 157 (4.72%) Kafka
8 143 (4.30%) .NET Framework
9 140 (4.21%) Node.js
10 134 (4.03%) AngularJS
11 123 (3.70%) Spring
12 111 (3.34%) Spring Boot
13 110 (3.31%) .NET Core
14 101 (3.04%) Middleware
15 92 (2.77%) YAML
16 85 (2.56%) ASP.NET
17 81 (2.44%) JSON
18 79 (2.38%) SOAP
19 71 (2.14%) OAuth
20 70 (2.11%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 494 (14.86%) Cloud Native
2 255 (7.67%) Product Ownership
3 121 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
4 117 (3.52%) Management Information System
5 109 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
6 94 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
7 89 (2.68%) Onboarding
8 76 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
9 58 (1.74%) Algorithms
9 58 (1.74%) Data Centre
9 58 (1.74%) Public Cloud
10 50 (1.50%) Security Posture
11 49 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
11 49 (1.47%) Mobile App
12 46 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
12 46 (1.38%) Virtual Team
13 45 (1.35%) Low-Code
14 38 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
15 34 (1.02%) IoT
16 31 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 355 (10.68%) Linux
2 270 (8.12%) Windows
3 79 (2.38%) Windows Server
4 63 (1.89%) VMS
5 62 (1.86%) Unix
6 43 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 31 (0.93%) Android
8 26 (0.78%) Ubuntu
9 24 (0.72%) Apple iOS
10 23 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
11 19 (0.57%) Amazon Linux
12 17 (0.51%) Debian
13 14 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
14 13 (0.39%) CentOS
15 7 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
16 5 (0.15%) Mac OS
17 3 (0.090%) Windows 10
18 2 (0.060%) AIX
18 2 (0.060%) Solaris
18 2 (0.060%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,741 (52.36%) CI/CD
2 1,493 (44.90%) Agile
3 757 (22.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 724 (21.77%) Problem-Solving
5 613 (18.44%) Continuous Improvement
6 582 (17.50%) Mentoring
7 552 (16.60%) AI
8 522 (15.70%) Software Engineering
9 502 (15.10%) Microservices
9 502 (15.10%) Test Automation
10 471 (14.17%) Containerisation
11 373 (11.22%) Analytics
12 372 (11.19%) Roadmaps
13 340 (10.23%) Scrum
14 337 (10.14%) Observability
15 334 (10.05%) Computer Science
16 327 (9.83%) Coaching
17 301 (9.05%) SDLC
18 283 (8.51%) Full-Stack Development
19 279 (8.39%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 975 (29.32%) Python
2 767 (23.07%) SQL
3 545 (16.39%) C#
4 414 (12.45%) Java
5 411 (12.36%) PowerShell
6 376 (11.31%) JavaScript
7 271 (8.15%) TypeScript
8 270 (8.12%) Bash
9 134 (4.03%) Bicep
10 111 (3.34%) Go
11 68 (2.05%) T-SQL
12 56 (1.68%) Groovy
13 55 (1.65%) Apex Code
14 46 (1.38%) Shell Script
15 44 (1.32%) C++
16 39 (1.17%) PHP
17 37 (1.11%) PL/SQL
18 34 (1.02%) Scala
19 30 (0.90%) Perl
20 24 (0.72%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 489 (14.71%) Degree
2 357 (10.74%) Security Cleared
3 261 (7.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 256 (7.70%) SC Cleared
5 168 (5.05%) Azure Certification
6 121 (3.64%) Master's Degree
7 119 (3.58%) AWS Certification
8 89 (2.68%) DV Cleared
9 70 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 55 (1.65%) ISTQB
11 46 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 40 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
13 39 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
14 35 (1.05%) PhD
15 30 (0.90%) CISSP
16 27 (0.81%) CCNP
17 26 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
18 23 (0.69%) Chartered Engineer
19 22 (0.66%) PMI Certification
19 22 (0.66%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 362 (10.89%) QA
2 130 (3.91%) GDPR
3 129 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 102 (3.07%) Accessibility
5 88 (2.65%) Data Quality
6 79 (2.38%) NIST
7 41 (1.23%) NCSC
8 32 (0.96%) SLA
9 27 (0.81%) PCI DSS
9 27 (0.81%) PMO
10 24 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 23 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 12207
12 19 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
12 19 (0.57%) SOC 2
13 18 (0.54%) ISO 9001
14 16 (0.48%) WCAG
15 15 (0.45%) HIPAA
16 14 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 10 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
18 9 (0.27%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 656 (19.73%) Docker
2 146 (4.39%) Active Directory
3 74 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 59 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (0.75%) vSphere
6 20 (0.60%) DFS Replication
7 19 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
9 16 (0.48%) NFS
10 11 (0.33%) Postfix
11 9 (0.27%) HDFS
11 9 (0.27%) Hyper-V
12 8 (0.24%) Squid
13 7 (0.21%) Dovecot
13 7 (0.21%) Firmware
14 5 (0.15%) Kamailio
15 4 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
16 3 (0.090%) RACF
16 3 (0.090%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 854 (25.68%) Terraform
2 744 (22.38%) Kubernetes
3 324 (9.74%) Ansible
4 217 (6.53%) Grafana
5 188 (5.65%) Prometheus
6 45 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
7 43 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
8 35 (1.05%) Argo
9 21 (0.63%) Puppet
10 18 (0.54%) SCCM
11 15 (0.45%) Kibana
11 15 (0.45%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.39%) Red Hat Satellite
13 12 (0.36%) AWS Copilot
13 12 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
13 12 (0.36%) vCenter Server
14 8 (0.24%) Kubeflow
14 8 (0.24%) Nessus
15 7 (0.21%) Proxmox
15 7 (0.21%) Rancher
Vendors
1 721 (21.68%) Microsoft
2 146 (4.39%) Databricks
3 131 (3.94%) Google
4 121 (3.64%) Oracle
5 120 (3.61%) Salesforce
6 107 (3.22%) VMware
7 88 (2.65%) ServiceNow
8 76 (2.29%) Splunk
9 69 (2.08%) Red Hat
10 63 (1.89%) Cisco
10 63 (1.89%) SAP
11 43 (1.29%) Guidewire
12 38 (1.14%) OpenAI
13 33 (0.99%) SolarWinds
14 32 (0.96%) Palo Alto
15 28 (0.84%) IBM
16 26 (0.78%) Fortinet
17 25 (0.75%) MuleSoft
18 21 (0.63%) Foundry
19 20 (0.60%) Commvault