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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 23 21
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,505 3,875 5,532
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.89% 7.81% 7.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.70% 8.83% 8.74%
Number of salaries quoted 3,893 2,197 3,529
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 £86,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £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 82,210 43,908 63,272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.10% 88.55% 80.74%
Number of salaries quoted 57,176 24,796 36,704
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,500 £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 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £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 9 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 9 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 4,745 £71,991 -0.36% 3,640
UK excluding London -3 3,553 £65,000 - 1,927
Work from Home -3 1,921 £69,306 -0.99% 2,944
London -11 1,546 £85,000 +6.25% 2,119
North of England +1 1,242 £68,724 +5.73% 535
South East -8 711 £65,000 - 440
North West +4 683 £70,000 +7.69% 295
South West +22 525 £73,000 +21.67% 273
Midlands -14 440 £65,000 - 213
Yorkshire +12 287 £70,000 +7.69% 150
North East +19 272 £60,000 +4.35% 94
West Midlands -21 258 £70,000 +7.69% 133
East of England +7 206 £59,450 -8.54% 187
Wales +1 199 £54,000 -1.82% 40
East Midlands +5 182 £60,000 +4.35% 80
Scotland -4 135 £60,000 -11.11% 171
Northern Ireland -3 114 £72,246 -44.43% 86
Isle of Man +2 3 £35,000 -33.33%

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
1 107 (1.94%) Confluence
1 107 (1.94%) SharePoint
2 105 (1.91%) Apache Spark
3 84 (1.53%) Apache
4 44 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
5 40 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
6 31 (0.56%) CMS
7 30 (0.54%) IIS
8 27 (0.49%) OpenStack
9 17 (0.31%) SAS
10 14 (0.25%) Jupyter
10 14 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
11 13 (0.24%) nginx
12 9 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
12 9 (0.16%) Umbraco
12 9 (0.16%) WordPress
13 8 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
14 7 (0.13%) Camunda
15 6 (0.11%) Anypoint
Applications
1 63 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
2 45 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (0.42%) Chatbot
4 21 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (0.38%) MS Visio
4 21 (0.38%) PlantUML
5 18 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.24%) Trello
7 7 (0.13%) Simulink
8 3 (0.054%) Blender
8 3 (0.054%) Maya
8 3 (0.054%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.036%) Lightworks
10 1 (0.018%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.018%) Notion
10 1 (0.018%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 82 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.27%) Elite 3E
4 7 (0.13%) Teamcenter
5 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
6 5 (0.091%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.091%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.091%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.091%) Visualfiles
7 4 (0.073%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.073%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.073%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.054%) Carpe Diem
8 3 (0.054%) Infor SunSystems
8 3 (0.054%) Oracle Applications
8 3 (0.054%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.054%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.054%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.054%) Shopify
9 2 (0.036%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 2,889 (52.48%) Azure
2 1,766 (32.08%) AWS
3 1,461 (26.54%) Azure DevOps
4 605 (10.99%) GCP
5 548 (9.95%) GitHub
6 483 (8.77%) Serverless
7 438 (7.96%) SaaS
8 405 (7.36%) Power Platform
9 290 (5.27%) GitHub Actions
10 279 (5.07%) AWS CloudFormation
11 219 (3.98%) Amazon S3
12 207 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
13 201 (3.65%) Dynamics 365
14 198 (3.60%) PaaS
15 171 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
16 165 (3.00%) Amazon EKS
16 165 (3.00%) Azure Data Factory
17 164 (2.98%) Azure AKS
18 158 (2.87%) Entra ID
19 150 (2.72%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 123 (2.23%) Firewall
2 89 (1.62%) DNS
3 77 (1.40%) VPN
4 61 (1.11%) TCP/IP
5 47 (0.85%) Network Security
6 33 (0.60%) Internet
7 27 (0.49%) Broadband
7 27 (0.49%) HTTP
8 24 (0.44%) DHCP
9 16 (0.29%) MQTT
10 14 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (0.25%) Wireless
11 13 (0.24%) DMARC
12 12 (0.22%) BGP
12 12 (0.22%) SAN
12 12 (0.22%) WAN
13 11 (0.20%) LAN
13 11 (0.20%) SSH
14 8 (0.15%) VLAN
14 8 (0.15%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 345 (6.27%) SQL Server
2 294 (5.34%) Azure SQL Database
2 294 (5.34%) MongoDB
3 236 (4.29%) Power BI
4 217 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
5 197 (3.58%) NoSQL
6 134 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
7 126 (2.29%) MySQL
8 116 (2.11%) Relational Database
9 102 (1.85%) DynamoDB
10 97 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
11 96 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
12 95 (1.73%) Data Lake
13 84 (1.53%) Metadata
14 64 (1.16%) Redis
15 46 (0.84%) Big Data
16 45 (0.82%) Delta Lake
17 43 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
18 41 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
19 36 (0.65%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 627 (11.39%) Git
2 408 (7.41%) Jenkins
3 405 (7.36%) GitLab
4 358 (6.50%) JIRA
5 95 (1.73%) Selenium
6 75 (1.36%) SonarQube
7 65 (1.18%) Cypress.io
8 59 (1.07%) Maven
9 57 (1.04%) Postman
10 55 (1.00%) JUnit
11 43 (0.78%) TeamCity
12 41 (0.74%) Cucumber
13 37 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 34 (0.62%) JMeter
15 31 (0.56%) Bitbucket
16 27 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
17 25 (0.45%) REST Assured
18 24 (0.44%) Claude Code
19 23 (0.42%) NUnit
20 21 (0.38%) Zephyr
General
1 1,269 (23.05%) Social Skills
2 1,064 (19.33%) Finance
3 480 (8.72%) Public Sector
4 435 (7.90%) Analytical Skills
5 346 (6.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 256 (4.65%) Banking
7 212 (3.85%) Law
8 171 (3.11%) Legal
9 165 (3.00%) Retail
10 93 (1.69%) Marketing
11 68 (1.24%) Financial Institution
12 61 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
13 54 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
14 51 (0.93%) Manufacturing
15 49 (0.89%) Games
16 48 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
17 47 (0.85%) Advertising
18 43 (0.78%) Telecoms
19 42 (0.76%) Aerospace
20 40 (0.73%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,304 (23.69%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,256 (22.82%) Senior
3 897 (16.29%) Developer
4 726 (13.19%) Lead
5 423 (7.68%) Architect
6 387 (7.03%) Software Engineer
7 341 (6.19%) Azure Engineer
8 307 (5.58%) Senior DevOps
9 289 (5.25%) Cloud Engineer
10 285 (5.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 244 (4.43%) .NET Developer
12 232 (4.21%) Platform Engineer
13 222 (4.03%) Senior Developer
14 210 (3.81%) Data Engineer
15 182 (3.31%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 172 (3.12%) Lead DevOps
17 151 (2.74%) AWS Engineer
18 146 (2.65%) Solutions Architect
19 131 (2.38%) Java Developer
20 129 (2.34%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,350 (24.52%) Terraform
2 741 (13.46%) .NET
3 434 (7.88%) React
4 351 (6.38%) REST
5 347 (6.30%) RESTful
6 332 (6.03%) Node.js
7 308 (5.59%) ASP.NET
8 281 (5.10%) .NET Core
9 260 (4.72%) Spring
10 258 (4.69%) Spring Boot
11 243 (4.41%) CSS
11 243 (4.41%) HTML
12 236 (4.29%) ASP.NET Core
13 223 (4.05%) Kafka
14 165 (3.00%) AngularJS
15 143 (2.60%) Entity Framework
16 141 (2.56%) Blazor
17 121 (2.20%) Middleware
18 115 (2.09%) JSON
19 102 (1.85%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 984 (17.87%) Cloud Native
2 372 (6.76%) Product Ownership
3 261 (4.74%) Distributed Systems
4 223 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
5 161 (2.92%) Onboarding
6 116 (2.11%) Virtual Team
7 112 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
8 94 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
9 81 (1.47%) Management Information System
10 76 (1.38%) Mobile App
11 74 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
12 73 (1.33%) Data Centre
13 67 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
14 66 (1.20%) Public Cloud
15 65 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
16 53 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
17 52 (0.94%) AI Agents
18 51 (0.93%) Data Structures
18 51 (0.93%) Private Cloud
19 44 (0.80%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 552 (10.03%) Linux
2 256 (4.65%) Windows
3 99 (1.80%) Unix
4 68 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 68 (1.24%) Windows Server
5 53 (0.96%) CentOS
6 41 (0.74%) Ubuntu
7 40 (0.73%) VMS
8 33 (0.60%) Android
9 19 (0.35%) Apple iOS
10 17 (0.31%) Debian
11 11 (0.20%) Rocky
12 7 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
13 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.091%) Kali Linux
14 5 (0.091%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.073%) Solaris
15 4 (0.073%) Windows Server 2019
16 3 (0.054%) AIX
16 3 (0.054%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,792 (50.72%) CI/CD
2 2,032 (36.91%) Agile
3 1,316 (23.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,081 (19.64%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,032 (18.75%) Mentoring
6 1,014 (18.42%) Software Engineering
7 982 (17.84%) AI
8 899 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
9 856 (15.55%) Test Automation
10 736 (13.37%) Microservices
11 694 (12.61%) Containerisation
12 640 (11.63%) Platform Engineering
13 620 (11.26%) Observability
14 600 (10.90%) Technical Leadership
15 584 (10.61%) Roadmaps
16 552 (10.03%) Scrum
17 544 (9.88%) Stakeholder Management
18 542 (9.85%) Full-Stack Development
19 495 (8.99%) Analytics
20 393 (7.14%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,293 (23.49%) Python
2 990 (17.98%) SQL
3 810 (14.71%) C#
4 712 (12.93%) Java
5 673 (12.23%) JavaScript
6 416 (7.56%) TypeScript
7 380 (6.90%) Bash
8 379 (6.88%) PowerShell
9 156 (2.83%) Bicep
10 129 (2.34%) Go
11 119 (2.16%) C++
12 57 (1.04%) PHP
13 51 (0.93%) T-SQL
14 49 (0.89%) C
14 49 (0.89%) Groovy
14 49 (0.89%) Scala
15 44 (0.80%) Apex Code
16 41 (0.74%) Kotlin
17 38 (0.69%) Ruby
17 38 (0.69%) Rust
Qualifications
1 995 (18.07%) Security Cleared
2 662 (12.03%) SC Cleared
3 513 (9.32%) Degree
4 282 (5.12%) DV Cleared
5 194 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 166 (3.02%) Azure Certification
7 107 (1.94%) Master's Degree
8 104 (1.89%) AWS Certification
9 77 (1.40%) CISSP
9 77 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
10 71 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
11 67 (1.22%) CISM
12 63 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
13 60 (1.09%) ISTQB
14 39 (0.71%) PMI Certification
15 31 (0.56%) DBS Check
16 28 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 27 (0.49%) PMP
18 25 (0.45%) PhD
19 22 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 561 (10.19%) QA
2 201 (3.65%) Data Quality
3 194 (3.52%) Accessibility
4 126 (2.29%) GDPR
5 100 (1.82%) NIST
6 74 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 63 (1.14%) WCAG
8 50 (0.91%) GRC
9 49 (0.89%) ISO 22301
10 34 (0.62%) PCI DSS
11 32 (0.58%) SLA
12 28 (0.51%) NCSC
13 27 (0.49%) PMO
14 20 (0.36%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
16 12 (0.22%) HIPAA
16 12 (0.22%) TickIT
17 11 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
18 10 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 9 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 896 (16.28%) Docker
2 141 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 82 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (0.45%) vSphere
6 21 (0.38%) Hyper-V
7 20 (0.36%) Firmware
8 17 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.13%) Ceph
10 6 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.091%) KVM
11 5 (0.091%) NDS
12 4 (0.073%) iptables
13 3 (0.054%) Xen
14 2 (0.036%) Embedded Firmware
14 2 (0.036%) VMware ESXi
14 2 (0.036%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.018%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.018%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,028 (18.67%) Kubernetes
2 460 (8.36%) Ansible
3 235 (4.27%) Grafana
4 169 (3.07%) Prometheus
5 80 (1.45%) Argo
6 67 (1.22%) Puppet
7 37 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
8 33 (0.60%) Istio
9 29 (0.53%) Nagios
10 24 (0.44%) Kibana
11 21 (0.38%) HP Fortify
12 19 (0.35%) Progress Chef
13 17 (0.31%) Rancher
14 14 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
15 13 (0.24%) Podman
16 12 (0.22%) Packer
16 12 (0.22%) ZABBIX
17 11 (0.20%) logstash
18 10 (0.18%) Proxmox
19 9 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 1,100 (19.98%) Microsoft
2 205 (3.72%) Google
3 187 (3.40%) Databricks
4 124 (2.25%) Oracle
4 124 (2.25%) Salesforce
5 114 (2.07%) VMware
6 94 (1.71%) ServiceNow
7 91 (1.65%) Splunk
8 83 (1.51%) Red Hat
9 75 (1.36%) SAP
10 57 (1.04%) OpenAI
11 54 (0.98%) Cisco
12 51 (0.93%) Pega
13 47 (0.85%) Dynatrace
14 42 (0.76%) Facebook
15 35 (0.64%) AppDynamics
15 35 (0.64%) YouTube
16 34 (0.62%) MuleSoft
17 31 (0.56%) Foundry
18 29 (0.53%) Apple