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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 20 24
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 -12
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,305 4,209 5,735
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.12% 8.46% 6.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.95% 9.46% 8.50%
Number of salaries quoted 3,823 2,422 3,986
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,418 £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 £86,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year - +5.69% -1.60%

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 76,352 44,509 67,465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.64% 89.49% 81.05%
Number of salaries quoted 52,648 25,381 44,449
10th Percentile £30,580 £28,500 £31,210
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 3 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 3 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 4,581 £70,000 -1.41% 2,050
UK excluding London -1 3,397 £65,000 - 1,269
Work from Home -2 1,910 £67,500 -3.57% 1,069
London -13 1,515 £85,000 +6.25% 1,037
North of England +1 1,195 £67,500 +3.85% 356
South East -9 696 £65,000 +2.36% 325
North West -1 654 £70,000 +7.69% 182
South West +2 487 £70,000 +7.69% 172
Midlands -22 396 £67,500 +3.85% 179
Yorkshire +12 296 £70,000 +7.69% 115
North East +16 245 £60,000 -7.69% 61
West Midlands -27 231 £69,306 +6.62% 136
East of England +15 204 £60,000 -7.69% 62
Wales +9 178 £54,500 -5.22% 36
East Midlands +7 164 £65,000 +15.56% 41
Scotland 0 140 £60,000 -14.29% 84
Northern Ireland -6 110 £72,500 -9.38% 61
Isle of Man 0 3 £35,000 -33.33% 1

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
1 105 (1.98%) Confluence
2 91 (1.72%) SharePoint
3 87 (1.64%) Apache Spark
4 74 (1.39%) Apache
5 45 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
6 39 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
7 28 (0.53%) CMS
7 28 (0.53%) IIS
8 22 (0.41%) OpenStack
9 20 (0.38%) SAS
10 14 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
11 12 (0.23%) Jupyter
11 12 (0.23%) nginx
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 6 (0.11%) Camunda
Applications
1 56 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
2 42 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.38%) PlantUML
4 19 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.28%) Chatbot
6 15 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
7 12 (0.23%) Trello
8 7 (0.13%) Simulink
9 4 (0.075%) Maya
10 3 (0.057%) Blender
11 2 (0.038%) Lightworks
11 2 (0.038%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.019%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.019%) Notion
12 1 (0.019%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 77 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.15%) Elite 3E
4 7 (0.13%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.094%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.094%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.075%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.075%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.075%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.075%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.075%) Shopify
7 3 (0.057%) Carpe Diem
7 3 (0.057%) Infor SunSystems
7 3 (0.057%) Magento
7 3 (0.057%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.057%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.057%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.057%) SAP Business One
7 3 (0.057%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.038%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 2,793 (52.65%) Azure
2 1,754 (33.06%) AWS
3 1,370 (25.82%) Azure DevOps
4 588 (11.08%) GCP
5 523 (9.86%) GitHub
6 478 (9.01%) Serverless
7 426 (8.03%) SaaS
8 362 (6.82%) Power Platform
9 274 (5.16%) GitHub Actions
10 262 (4.94%) AWS CloudFormation
11 229 (4.32%) Amazon S3
12 213 (4.02%) PaaS
13 208 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
14 176 (3.32%) Dynamics 365
15 166 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
16 156 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
16 156 (2.94%) Azure AKS
17 146 (2.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 146 (2.75%) Amazon EKS
18 144 (2.71%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 131 (2.47%) Firewall
2 88 (1.66%) DNS
3 74 (1.39%) TCP/IP
4 66 (1.24%) VPN
5 47 (0.89%) Network Security
6 43 (0.81%) Broadband
7 34 (0.64%) HTTP
8 33 (0.62%) Internet
9 22 (0.41%) DHCP
10 21 (0.40%) LAN
11 18 (0.34%) WAN
12 16 (0.30%) MQTT
13 14 (0.26%) Wireless
14 13 (0.25%) DMARC
15 12 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
16 11 (0.21%) SAN
17 10 (0.19%) HTTPS
18 9 (0.17%) BGP
19 8 (0.15%) NAS
19 8 (0.15%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 307 (5.79%) SQL Server
2 277 (5.22%) MongoDB
3 266 (5.01%) Azure SQL Database
4 203 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
5 200 (3.77%) Power BI
6 179 (3.37%) NoSQL
7 111 (2.09%) MySQL
8 105 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
9 101 (1.90%) DynamoDB
10 100 (1.89%) Relational Database
11 95 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
12 93 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
13 78 (1.47%) Data Lake
14 61 (1.15%) Metadata
14 61 (1.15%) Redis
15 46 (0.87%) Big Data
16 43 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
17 41 (0.77%) Delta Lake
18 35 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
19 32 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 573 (10.80%) Git
2 417 (7.86%) GitLab
3 410 (7.73%) Jenkins
4 342 (6.45%) JIRA
5 97 (1.83%) Selenium
6 87 (1.64%) SonarQube
7 74 (1.39%) Cypress.io
8 56 (1.06%) JUnit
8 56 (1.06%) Maven
8 56 (1.06%) Postman
9 38 (0.72%) Cucumber
10 36 (0.68%) TeamCity
11 34 (0.64%) JMeter
12 32 (0.60%) Bitbucket
13 31 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 27 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
15 24 (0.45%) CircleCI
15 24 (0.45%) NUnit
15 24 (0.45%) Visual Studio
16 23 (0.43%) REST Assured
General
1 1,182 (22.28%) Social Skills
2 1,012 (19.08%) Finance
3 416 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
4 406 (7.65%) Public Sector
5 323 (6.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 254 (4.79%) Banking
7 204 (3.85%) Law
8 162 (3.05%) Retail
9 155 (2.92%) Legal
10 109 (2.05%) Marketing
11 69 (1.30%) Games
12 63 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
13 59 (1.11%) Manufacturing
14 55 (1.04%) Advertising
14 55 (1.04%) Financial Institution
15 52 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
16 46 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
17 43 (0.81%) Telecoms
18 34 (0.64%) Back Office
19 31 (0.58%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,218 (22.96%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,154 (21.75%) Senior
3 899 (16.95%) Developer
4 713 (13.44%) Lead
5 416 (7.84%) Architect
6 370 (6.97%) Software Engineer
7 340 (6.41%) Azure Engineer
8 274 (5.16%) Senior DevOps
9 273 (5.15%) Cloud Engineer
10 254 (4.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 232 (4.37%) .NET Developer
12 221 (4.17%) Senior Developer
13 207 (3.90%) Platform Engineer
14 190 (3.58%) Data Engineer
15 189 (3.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 166 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
17 163 (3.07%) Solutions Architect
18 157 (2.96%) Lead DevOps
19 135 (2.54%) Java Developer
20 127 (2.39%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 714 (13.46%) .NET
2 455 (8.58%) React
3 334 (6.30%) REST
3 334 (6.30%) RESTful
4 317 (5.98%) Node.js
5 293 (5.52%) ASP.NET
6 272 (5.13%) .NET Core
7 242 (4.56%) CSS
8 240 (4.52%) HTML
9 238 (4.49%) Spring Boot
10 234 (4.41%) Spring
11 226 (4.26%) ASP.NET Core
12 208 (3.92%) Kafka
13 169 (3.19%) AngularJS
14 138 (2.60%) Entity Framework
15 137 (2.58%) Blazor
16 132 (2.49%) Middleware
17 106 (2.00%) JSON
17 106 (2.00%) YAML
18 101 (1.90%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 908 (17.12%) Cloud Native
2 344 (6.48%) Product Ownership
3 249 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
4 195 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
5 146 (2.75%) Onboarding
6 116 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
7 95 (1.79%) Virtual Team
8 88 (1.66%) Management Information System
9 78 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
10 76 (1.43%) Mobile App
11 75 (1.41%) Data Centre
12 71 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
13 62 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
13 62 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
14 61 (1.15%) Public Cloud
15 51 (0.96%) Data Structures
16 47 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
17 44 (0.83%) Low-Code
18 41 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
18 41 (0.77%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 547 (10.31%) Linux
2 257 (4.84%) Windows
3 103 (1.94%) Unix
4 76 (1.43%) Windows Server
5 75 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 53 (1.00%) CentOS
7 46 (0.87%) Ubuntu
8 37 (0.70%) VMS
9 31 (0.58%) Android
10 18 (0.34%) Debian
11 17 (0.32%) Apple iOS
12 9 (0.17%) Rocky
13 8 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
14 7 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
16 4 (0.075%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.075%) Mac OS
17 3 (0.057%) AIX
18 2 (0.038%) FreeRTOS
18 2 (0.038%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,674 (50.41%) CI/CD
2 1,975 (37.23%) Agile
3 1,280 (24.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,023 (19.28%) Continuous Improvement
5 959 (18.08%) Mentoring
6 952 (17.95%) Software Engineering
7 896 (16.89%) AI
8 851 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
9 818 (15.42%) Test Automation
10 723 (13.63%) Microservices
11 677 (12.76%) Containerisation
12 583 (10.99%) Platform Engineering
13 577 (10.88%) Observability
14 569 (10.73%) Full-Stack Development
15 561 (10.57%) Roadmaps
16 538 (10.14%) Scrum
17 537 (10.12%) Technical Leadership
18 469 (8.84%) Stakeholder Management
19 462 (8.71%) Analytics
20 384 (7.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,253 (23.62%) Python
2 935 (17.62%) SQL
3 775 (14.61%) C#
4 687 (12.95%) Java
5 670 (12.63%) JavaScript
6 418 (7.88%) TypeScript
7 372 (7.01%) Bash
8 366 (6.90%) PowerShell
9 157 (2.96%) Bicep
10 129 (2.43%) Go
11 128 (2.41%) C++
12 67 (1.26%) Apex Code
13 64 (1.21%) PHP
14 49 (0.92%) C
14 49 (0.92%) Groovy
15 44 (0.83%) T-SQL
16 42 (0.79%) Scala
17 38 (0.72%) Rust
18 37 (0.70%) Kotlin
18 37 (0.70%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 888 (16.74%) Security Cleared
2 585 (11.03%) SC Cleared
3 513 (9.67%) Degree
4 246 (4.64%) DV Cleared
5 193 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 141 (2.66%) Azure Certification
7 110 (2.07%) Master's Degree
8 87 (1.64%) AWS Certification
9 83 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
10 82 (1.55%) CISSP
11 65 (1.23%) CISM
12 59 (1.11%) ISTQB
13 50 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
14 41 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
15 39 (0.74%) DBS Check
16 37 (0.70%) PMI Certification
17 28 (0.53%) PMP
18 25 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
19 24 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
20 22 (0.41%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 537 (10.12%) QA
2 182 (3.43%) Accessibility
3 168 (3.17%) Data Quality
4 121 (2.28%) GDPR
5 108 (2.04%) NIST
6 72 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 62 (1.17%) WCAG
8 49 (0.92%) ISO 22301
9 47 (0.89%) GRC
10 41 (0.77%) PCI DSS
11 26 (0.49%) SOC 2
12 25 (0.47%) PMO
13 24 (0.45%) SLA
14 23 (0.43%) NCSC
15 13 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
15 13 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
16 12 (0.23%) TickIT
17 10 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 9 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
19 8 (0.15%) NIST 800
System Software
1 862 (16.25%) Docker
2 135 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 80 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (0.53%) vSphere
6 25 (0.47%) Hyper-V
7 23 (0.43%) Firmware
8 14 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.13%) Ceph
10 6 (0.11%) KVM
10 6 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.094%) iptables
12 4 (0.075%) Embedded Firmware
12 4 (0.075%) NDS
13 3 (0.057%) Xen
14 2 (0.038%) VMware ESXi
14 2 (0.038%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.019%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.019%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,283 (24.18%) Terraform
2 982 (18.51%) Kubernetes
3 450 (8.48%) Ansible
4 237 (4.47%) Grafana
5 177 (3.34%) Prometheus
6 79 (1.49%) Argo
7 62 (1.17%) Puppet
8 41 (0.77%) Nagios
9 32 (0.60%) Istio
10 27 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
11 26 (0.49%) Kibana
12 25 (0.47%) HP Fortify
13 16 (0.30%) Progress Chef
14 14 (0.26%) Podman
14 14 (0.26%) Rancher
15 13 (0.25%) ZABBIX
16 12 (0.23%) Packer
17 11 (0.21%) logstash
18 9 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
18 9 (0.17%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,026 (19.34%) Microsoft
2 200 (3.77%) Google
3 173 (3.26%) Databricks
4 149 (2.81%) Salesforce
5 113 (2.13%) VMware
6 108 (2.04%) Oracle
7 103 (1.94%) Splunk
8 99 (1.87%) ServiceNow
9 96 (1.81%) Red Hat
10 73 (1.38%) SAP
11 53 (1.00%) Pega
12 49 (0.92%) Dynatrace
13 46 (0.87%) Cisco
14 45 (0.85%) OpenAI
15 44 (0.83%) MuleSoft
16 42 (0.79%) Facebook
17 30 (0.57%) Apple
18 27 (0.51%) AppDynamics
18 27 (0.51%) YouTube
19 26 (0.49%) Foundry