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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 22 21
Rank change year-on-year -8 -1 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,577 3,873 5,507
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.80% 7.84% 7.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.57% 8.83% 8.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3,891 2,203 3,512
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 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -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 84,848 43,853 63,499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.08% 88.72% 81.26%
Number of salaries quoted 58,707 24,746 35,929
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,585 £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 £96,750 £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 19 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 19 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 -9 4,814 £72,500 +3.13% 4,562
UK excluding London -5 3,576 £65,000 - 2,433
Work from Home -4 1,906 £69,310 -0.99% 2,084
London -10 1,582 £85,000 +6.25% 2,398
North of England +1 1,273 £68,000 +4.62% 735
South East -7 707 £65,000 - 566
North West +4 697 £70,000 +7.69% 421
South West +24 539 £75,000 +22.45% 300
Midlands -18 441 £65,000 - 291
Yorkshire +16 294 £70,000 +12.00% 193
North East +16 285 £60,000 - 124
West Midlands -23 257 £70,000 +7.69% 173
Wales +1 203 £54,500 -0.91% 64
East of England +5 195 £57,500 -11.54% 212
East Midlands +4 184 £60,000 +4.35% 118
Scotland -15 124 £60,000 -9.43% 199
Northern Ireland +1 114 £72,246 -44.43% 75
Isle of Man +1 3 £35,000 -33.33% 4

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
1 111 (1.99%) SharePoint
2 109 (1.95%) Apache Spark
3 108 (1.94%) Confluence
4 84 (1.51%) Apache
5 43 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
6 42 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
7 30 (0.54%) CMS
8 29 (0.52%) IIS
9 25 (0.45%) OpenStack
10 15 (0.27%) Jupyter
10 15 (0.27%) nginx
11 14 (0.25%) SAS
12 10 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 10 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
13 9 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
13 9 (0.16%) Umbraco
13 9 (0.16%) WordPress
14 8 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
15 7 (0.13%) Camunda
16 5 (0.090%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 67 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
2 46 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (0.47%) MS Visio
4 23 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (0.38%) PlantUML
6 20 (0.36%) Chatbot
7 13 (0.23%) Trello
8 7 (0.13%) Simulink
9 3 (0.054%) Blender
9 3 (0.054%) Maya
9 3 (0.054%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.036%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.018%) Notion
11 1 (0.018%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 91 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (0.25%) Elite 3E
4 7 (0.13%) Teamcenter
5 6 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
5 6 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
6 5 (0.090%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.090%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.090%) Visualfiles
7 4 (0.072%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.072%) Oracle Applications
7 4 (0.072%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.072%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.072%) Shopify
8 3 (0.054%) Infor SunSystems
8 3 (0.054%) Magento
8 3 (0.054%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.054%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.054%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 2,915 (52.27%) Azure
2 1,797 (32.22%) AWS
3 1,480 (26.54%) Azure DevOps
4 609 (10.92%) GCP
5 568 (10.18%) GitHub
6 499 (8.95%) Serverless
7 451 (8.09%) SaaS
8 427 (7.66%) Power Platform
9 304 (5.45%) GitHub Actions
10 286 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
11 221 (3.96%) Dynamics 365
12 219 (3.93%) Amazon S3
13 213 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
14 204 (3.66%) PaaS
15 178 (3.19%) Azure Data Factory
16 170 (3.05%) Amazon EKS
17 169 (3.03%) Entra ID
18 168 (3.01%) Azure AKS
19 167 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
20 157 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 129 (2.31%) Firewall
2 93 (1.67%) DNS
3 84 (1.51%) VPN
4 61 (1.09%) TCP/IP
5 48 (0.86%) Network Security
6 45 (0.81%) Internet
7 28 (0.50%) DHCP
8 26 (0.47%) HTTP
9 21 (0.38%) Broadband
10 16 (0.29%) MQTT
11 15 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
12 14 (0.25%) DMARC
12 14 (0.25%) Wireless
13 13 (0.23%) SAN
13 13 (0.23%) WAN
14 12 (0.22%) BGP
15 11 (0.20%) LAN
15 11 (0.20%) SSH
16 10 (0.18%) VLAN
17 9 (0.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 356 (6.38%) SQL Server
2 305 (5.47%) Azure SQL Database
3 293 (5.25%) MongoDB
4 245 (4.39%) Power BI
5 221 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
6 202 (3.62%) NoSQL
7 144 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
8 128 (2.30%) MySQL
9 119 (2.13%) Relational Database
10 107 (1.92%) DynamoDB
11 103 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
12 101 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
13 98 (1.76%) Data Lake
14 93 (1.67%) Metadata
15 78 (1.40%) Redis
16 49 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
17 47 (0.84%) Delta Lake
18 44 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
19 43 (0.77%) Big Data
20 38 (0.68%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 671 (12.03%) Git
2 413 (7.41%) Jenkins
3 400 (7.17%) GitLab
4 361 (6.47%) JIRA
5 90 (1.61%) Selenium
6 70 (1.26%) SonarQube
7 63 (1.13%) Cypress.io
8 59 (1.06%) Maven
9 51 (0.91%) JUnit
9 51 (0.91%) Postman
10 49 (0.88%) TeamCity
11 41 (0.74%) Cucumber
12 40 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 31 (0.56%) JMeter
14 28 (0.50%) Bitbucket
15 27 (0.48%) Claude Code
15 27 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
16 21 (0.38%) NUnit
16 21 (0.38%) REST Assured
17 19 (0.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,314 (23.56%) Social Skills
2 1,076 (19.29%) Finance
3 515 (9.23%) Public Sector
4 459 (8.23%) Analytical Skills
5 345 (6.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 246 (4.41%) Banking
7 215 (3.86%) Law
8 172 (3.08%) Retail
9 171 (3.07%) Legal
10 85 (1.52%) Marketing
11 75 (1.34%) Financial Institution
12 59 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
13 57 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
14 53 (0.95%) Manufacturing
15 50 (0.90%) Aerospace
15 50 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
16 49 (0.88%) Telecoms
17 47 (0.84%) Back Office
18 45 (0.81%) Advertising
19 38 (0.68%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,357 (24.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,276 (22.88%) Senior
3 897 (16.08%) Developer
4 716 (12.84%) Lead
5 429 (7.69%) Architect
6 395 (7.08%) Software Engineer
7 351 (6.29%) Azure Engineer
8 313 (5.61%) Senior DevOps
9 299 (5.36%) Cloud Engineer
10 289 (5.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 242 (4.34%) .NET Developer
12 240 (4.30%) Platform Engineer
13 220 (3.94%) Data Engineer
13 220 (3.94%) Senior Developer
14 183 (3.28%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 170 (3.05%) Lead DevOps
16 156 (2.80%) AWS Engineer
17 144 (2.58%) Solutions Architect
18 141 (2.53%) Consultant
19 132 (2.37%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,372 (24.60%) Terraform
2 736 (13.20%) .NET
3 428 (7.67%) React
4 350 (6.28%) REST
5 340 (6.10%) RESTful
6 334 (5.99%) Node.js
7 299 (5.36%) ASP.NET
8 270 (4.84%) .NET Core
9 266 (4.77%) Spring
10 265 (4.75%) Spring Boot
11 235 (4.21%) CSS
12 234 (4.20%) HTML
13 229 (4.11%) ASP.NET Core
14 227 (4.07%) Kafka
15 173 (3.10%) AngularJS
16 138 (2.47%) Entity Framework
17 136 (2.44%) Blazor
18 120 (2.15%) Middleware
19 117 (2.10%) JSON
20 106 (1.90%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1,022 (18.33%) Cloud Native
2 357 (6.40%) Product Ownership
3 271 (4.86%) Distributed Systems
4 233 (4.18%) Enterprise Software
5 168 (3.01%) Onboarding
6 128 (2.30%) Virtual Team
7 116 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
8 98 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
9 85 (1.52%) Management Information System
10 75 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
11 71 (1.27%) Data Centre
12 70 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
13 69 (1.24%) Mobile App
14 67 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
15 65 (1.17%) Public Cloud
16 63 (1.13%) AI Agents
17 53 (0.95%) Private Cloud
18 50 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
19 49 (0.88%) Data Structures
20 46 (0.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 580 (10.40%) Linux
2 262 (4.70%) Windows
3 105 (1.88%) Unix
4 73 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 69 (1.24%) Windows Server
6 54 (0.97%) CentOS
7 41 (0.74%) Ubuntu
8 38 (0.68%) VMS
9 32 (0.57%) Android
10 16 (0.29%) Debian
11 15 (0.27%) Apple iOS
12 11 (0.20%) Rocky
13 7 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
14 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.090%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.072%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.072%) Solaris
16 4 (0.072%) Windows Server 2019
17 3 (0.054%) AIX
17 3 (0.054%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,849 (51.08%) CI/CD
2 2,050 (36.76%) Agile
3 1,353 (24.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,098 (19.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,065 (19.10%) Mentoring
6 1,028 (18.43%) AI
7 1,025 (18.38%) Software Engineering
8 928 (16.64%) Problem-Solving
9 870 (15.60%) Test Automation
10 746 (13.38%) Microservices
11 697 (12.50%) Containerisation
12 674 (12.09%) Platform Engineering
13 621 (11.14%) Observability
14 617 (11.06%) Technical Leadership
15 574 (10.29%) Stakeholder Management
16 573 (10.27%) Roadmaps
17 537 (9.63%) Scrum
18 531 (9.52%) Full-Stack Development
19 506 (9.07%) Analytics
20 404 (7.24%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,327 (23.79%) Python
2 1,005 (18.02%) SQL
3 818 (14.67%) C#
4 730 (13.09%) Java
5 671 (12.03%) JavaScript
6 430 (7.71%) TypeScript
7 393 (7.05%) Bash
8 392 (7.03%) PowerShell
9 164 (2.94%) Bicep
10 130 (2.33%) Go
11 121 (2.17%) C++
12 56 (1.00%) Groovy
12 56 (1.00%) PHP
13 54 (0.97%) T-SQL
14 53 (0.95%) Scala
15 50 (0.90%) C
16 45 (0.81%) Kotlin
17 40 (0.72%) Apex Code
18 38 (0.68%) Ruby
18 38 (0.68%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,060 (19.01%) Security Cleared
2 711 (12.75%) SC Cleared
3 515 (9.23%) Degree
4 301 (5.40%) DV Cleared
5 193 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 188 (3.37%) Azure Certification
7 111 (1.99%) AWS Certification
8 101 (1.81%) Master's Degree
9 79 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 78 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
11 77 (1.38%) CISSP
12 75 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
13 67 (1.20%) CISM
14 57 (1.02%) ISTQB
15 38 (0.68%) PMI Certification
16 26 (0.47%) DBS Check
17 25 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 25 (0.45%) PhD
17 25 (0.45%) PMP
18 22 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 558 (10.01%) QA
2 214 (3.84%) Data Quality
3 190 (3.41%) Accessibility
4 125 (2.24%) GDPR
5 99 (1.78%) NIST
6 75 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 63 (1.13%) WCAG
8 49 (0.88%) ISO 22301
9 43 (0.77%) GRC
10 35 (0.63%) SLA
11 28 (0.50%) NCSC
11 28 (0.50%) PCI DSS
11 28 (0.50%) PMO
12 18 (0.32%) SOC 2
13 12 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.22%) HIPAA
13 12 (0.22%) TickIT
14 10 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
15 9 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 9 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 924 (16.57%) Docker
2 146 (2.62%) Active Directory
3 84 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (0.47%) vSphere
6 21 (0.38%) Hyper-V
7 20 (0.36%) Firmware
8 19 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.14%) NDS
10 7 (0.13%) Ceph
11 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.090%) KVM
12 5 (0.090%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 4 (0.072%) iptables
14 3 (0.054%) Xen
15 2 (0.036%) Embedded Firmware
15 2 (0.036%) VMware ESXi
15 2 (0.036%) VMware NSX
16 1 (0.018%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 1 (0.018%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,050 (18.83%) Kubernetes
2 473 (8.48%) Ansible
3 246 (4.41%) Grafana
4 178 (3.19%) Prometheus
5 82 (1.47%) Argo
6 66 (1.18%) Puppet
7 42 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
8 27 (0.48%) Istio
8 27 (0.48%) Kibana
8 27 (0.48%) Nagios
9 25 (0.45%) Rancher
10 22 (0.39%) Progress Chef
11 21 (0.38%) HP Fortify
12 15 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
13 14 (0.25%) logstash
13 14 (0.25%) Packer
13 14 (0.25%) Podman
14 12 (0.22%) Proxmox
15 11 (0.20%) ZABBIX
16 8 (0.14%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 1,145 (20.53%) Microsoft
2 213 (3.82%) Google
3 191 (3.42%) Databricks
4 129 (2.31%) Oracle
5 120 (2.15%) Salesforce
6 118 (2.12%) VMware
7 98 (1.76%) ServiceNow
8 87 (1.56%) Splunk
9 79 (1.42%) Red Hat
10 78 (1.40%) SAP
11 56 (1.00%) OpenAI
12 52 (0.93%) Cisco
13 48 (0.86%) Dynatrace
14 47 (0.84%) Pega
15 42 (0.75%) Facebook
16 38 (0.68%) AppDynamics
16 38 (0.68%) YouTube
17 33 (0.59%) MuleSoft
18 30 (0.54%) Foundry
19 28 (0.50%) IBM