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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 22 20
Rank change year-on-year -8 -2 -7
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,625 3,765 5,342
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.76% 7.62% 7.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.51% 8.56% 8.94%
Number of salaries quoted 3,833 2,124 3,219
10th Percentile £45,156 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £68,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.19% -2.14%
75th Percentile £88,148 £85,713 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -1.22%

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 86,418 43,977 59,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.19% 88.96% 82.26%
Number of salaries quoted 59,113 24,503 32,039
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -11 4,846 £70,000 - 4,544
UK excluding London -3 3,610 £65,000 +4.00% 2,345
Work from Home -2 1,903 £69,310 -0.11% 2,084
London -9 1,570 £85,000 +6.25% 2,393
North of England +6 1,288 £67,500 +3.85% 705
North West +7 696 £69,310 +6.63% 367
South East -6 689 £67,500 +3.85% 533
South West +24 556 £75,000 +25.00% 253
Midlands -22 459 £62,500 -3.85% 273
North East +16 316 £60,000 +14.29% 116
Yorkshire +19 285 £70,000 +12.00% 226
West Midlands -24 275 £70,000 +7.69% 171
Wales -2 202 £55,000 - 82
East of England +1 200 £55,000 -8.33% 229
East Midlands +8 184 £60,000 +4.35% 102
Scotland -22 120 £62,250 -4.23% 199
Northern Ireland -6 114 £72,246 -31.19% 82
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
1 117 (2.08%) SharePoint
2 115 (2.04%) Apache Spark
3 110 (1.96%) Confluence
4 94 (1.67%) Apache
5 45 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
6 41 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
7 27 (0.48%) CMS
8 24 (0.43%) IIS
9 22 (0.39%) OpenStack
10 18 (0.32%) Jupyter
11 17 (0.30%) nginx
12 13 (0.23%) SAS
12 13 (0.23%) WebLogic
13 11 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 9 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
15 8 (0.14%) CICS
15 8 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
15 8 (0.14%) Umbraco
16 7 (0.12%) Camunda
17 6 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 72 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
2 46 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 34 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
4 31 (0.55%) MS Visio
5 29 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 20 (0.36%) PlantUML
7 17 (0.30%) Chatbot
8 14 (0.25%) Trello
9 7 (0.12%) Simulink
10 3 (0.053%) Blender
10 3 (0.053%) Maya
10 3 (0.053%) Notion
10 3 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.036%) Lightworks
12 1 (0.018%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 89 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.21%) Elite 3E
4 10 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
5 8 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
6 6 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
6 6 (0.11%) Teamcenter
7 5 (0.089%) Dynamics NAV
7 5 (0.089%) Fidessa
8 4 (0.071%) Dynamics GP
8 4 (0.071%) NEC Housing
8 4 (0.071%) Oracle Applications
8 4 (0.071%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.071%) Shopify
9 3 (0.053%) Carpe Diem
9 3 (0.053%) Distributed Ledger
9 3 (0.053%) Sage 200
9 3 (0.053%) SAP Business One
9 3 (0.053%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2,926 (52.02%) Azure
2 1,817 (32.30%) AWS
3 1,485 (26.40%) Azure DevOps
4 627 (11.15%) GCP
5 583 (10.36%) GitHub
6 489 (8.69%) Serverless
7 459 (8.16%) SaaS
8 447 (7.95%) Power Platform
9 315 (5.60%) GitHub Actions
10 297 (5.28%) AWS CloudFormation
11 221 (3.93%) Dynamics 365
12 216 (3.84%) PaaS
13 209 (3.72%) Amazon S3
14 194 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
15 183 (3.25%) Azure Data Factory
16 176 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
17 170 (3.02%) Entra ID
18 167 (2.97%) Power Automate
19 165 (2.93%) Azure AKS
20 162 (2.88%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 139 (2.47%) Firewall
2 98 (1.74%) DNS
3 91 (1.62%) VPN
4 69 (1.23%) Internet
5 62 (1.10%) TCP/IP
6 46 (0.82%) Network Security
7 26 (0.46%) HTTP
8 24 (0.43%) DHCP
9 17 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (0.27%) DMARC
10 15 (0.27%) MQTT
11 14 (0.25%) Broadband
11 14 (0.25%) Wireless
12 13 (0.23%) SAN
13 12 (0.21%) BGP
13 12 (0.21%) SSH
14 11 (0.20%) WAN
15 9 (0.16%) LAN
15 9 (0.16%) OSPF
15 9 (0.16%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 362 (6.44%) SQL Server
2 308 (5.48%) Azure SQL Database
3 292 (5.19%) MongoDB
4 251 (4.46%) Power BI
5 228 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
6 192 (3.41%) NoSQL
7 150 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
8 129 (2.29%) MySQL
9 121 (2.15%) Relational Database
10 108 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
11 102 (1.81%) Metadata
12 98 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
13 96 (1.71%) Data Lake
14 91 (1.62%) DynamoDB
15 80 (1.42%) Redis
16 53 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
17 51 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
18 42 (0.75%) Big Data
18 42 (0.75%) Delta Lake
19 37 (0.66%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 678 (12.05%) Git
2 405 (7.20%) GitLab
3 399 (7.09%) Jenkins
4 341 (6.06%) JIRA
5 79 (1.40%) Selenium
6 58 (1.03%) JUnit
7 56 (1.00%) Cypress.io
8 54 (0.96%) TeamCity
9 53 (0.94%) SonarQube
10 51 (0.91%) Maven
11 41 (0.73%) Postman
12 38 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 38 (0.68%) Cucumber
13 31 (0.55%) Claude Code
14 27 (0.48%) Bitbucket
14 27 (0.48%) JMeter
15 24 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
16 23 (0.41%) Mockito
17 18 (0.32%) NUnit
18 17 (0.30%) Subversion
General
1 1,327 (23.59%) Social Skills
2 1,085 (19.29%) Finance
3 571 (10.15%) Public Sector
4 492 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
5 349 (6.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 239 (4.25%) Banking
7 212 (3.77%) Law
8 168 (2.99%) Retail
9 165 (2.93%) Legal
10 79 (1.40%) Financial Institution
11 71 (1.26%) Marketing
12 60 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
12 60 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
13 55 (0.98%) Manufacturing
14 54 (0.96%) Aerospace
14 54 (0.96%) Telecoms
15 50 (0.89%) Back Office
16 48 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
17 39 (0.69%) Advertising
18 31 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,483 (26.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,334 (23.72%) Senior
3 860 (15.29%) Developer
4 693 (12.32%) Lead
5 421 (7.48%) Architect
6 383 (6.81%) Software Engineer
7 362 (6.44%) Senior DevOps
8 351 (6.24%) Azure Engineer
9 334 (5.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 298 (5.30%) Cloud Engineer
11 246 (4.37%) .NET Developer
12 240 (4.27%) Platform Engineer
13 218 (3.88%) Data Engineer
14 206 (3.66%) Senior Developer
15 187 (3.32%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 172 (3.06%) Lead DevOps
17 162 (2.88%) AWS Engineer
18 156 (2.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 153 (2.72%) Consultant
20 139 (2.47%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,380 (24.53%) Terraform
2 731 (13.00%) .NET
3 393 (6.99%) React
4 348 (6.19%) REST
5 342 (6.08%) RESTful
6 328 (5.83%) Node.js
7 298 (5.30%) ASP.NET
8 292 (5.19%) Spring
9 286 (5.08%) Spring Boot
10 267 (4.75%) .NET Core
11 243 (4.32%) Kafka
12 232 (4.12%) CSS
13 230 (4.09%) HTML
14 226 (4.02%) ASP.NET Core
15 159 (2.83%) AngularJS
16 134 (2.38%) Entity Framework
17 132 (2.35%) Blazor
18 119 (2.12%) Middleware
19 108 (1.92%) JSON
20 95 (1.69%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1,044 (18.56%) Cloud Native
2 346 (6.15%) Product Ownership
3 272 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
4 259 (4.60%) Enterprise Software
5 164 (2.92%) Onboarding
6 127 (2.26%) Virtual Team
7 120 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
8 107 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
9 90 (1.60%) Management Information System
10 80 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
11 76 (1.35%) AI Agents
11 76 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
12 72 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
13 68 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
14 64 (1.14%) Mobile App
15 61 (1.08%) Data Centre
15 61 (1.08%) Public Cloud
16 54 (0.96%) Private Cloud
17 53 (0.94%) Security Posture
18 52 (0.92%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 606 (10.77%) Linux
2 254 (4.52%) Windows
3 115 (2.04%) Unix
4 71 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 63 (1.12%) Windows Server
6 50 (0.89%) CentOS
7 35 (0.62%) Ubuntu
8 32 (0.57%) VMS
9 31 (0.55%) Android
10 15 (0.27%) Rocky
11 14 (0.25%) Debian
12 12 (0.21%) Apple iOS
13 8 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
14 5 (0.089%) Mac OS
14 5 (0.089%) Windows Server 2016
15 4 (0.071%) Solaris
15 4 (0.071%) Windows Server 2019
16 3 (0.053%) AIX
16 3 (0.053%) Kali Linux
16 3 (0.053%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,902 (51.59%) CI/CD
2 2,055 (36.53%) Agile
3 1,407 (25.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,138 (20.23%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,113 (19.79%) Mentoring
6 1,039 (18.47%) AI
7 1,019 (18.12%) Software Engineering
8 940 (16.71%) Problem-Solving
9 859 (15.27%) Test Automation
10 752 (13.37%) Containerisation
11 742 (13.19%) Microservices
12 712 (12.66%) Platform Engineering
13 650 (11.56%) Technical Leadership
14 620 (11.02%) Stakeholder Management
15 619 (11.00%) Observability
16 538 (9.56%) Roadmaps
17 516 (9.17%) Scrum
18 514 (9.14%) Analytics
19 498 (8.85%) Full-Stack Development
20 406 (7.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,304 (23.18%) Python
2 986 (17.53%) SQL
3 806 (14.33%) C#
4 738 (13.12%) Java
5 658 (11.70%) JavaScript
6 415 (7.38%) TypeScript
7 398 (7.08%) PowerShell
8 393 (6.99%) Bash
9 170 (3.02%) Bicep
10 137 (2.44%) Go
11 116 (2.06%) C++
12 61 (1.08%) Shell Script
13 59 (1.05%) T-SQL
14 50 (0.89%) Scala
15 49 (0.87%) PHP
16 47 (0.84%) C
17 45 (0.80%) Kotlin
18 42 (0.75%) Groovy
19 39 (0.69%) Ruby
20 38 (0.68%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,109 (19.72%) Security Cleared
2 745 (13.24%) SC Cleared
3 498 (8.85%) Degree
4 307 (5.46%) DV Cleared
5 201 (3.57%) Azure Certification
6 181 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 112 (1.99%) AWS Certification
8 98 (1.74%) Master's Degree
9 89 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
10 82 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
11 77 (1.37%) CISSP
12 72 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
13 67 (1.19%) CISM
14 50 (0.89%) ISTQB
15 37 (0.66%) PMI Certification
16 27 (0.48%) PhD
17 26 (0.46%) PMP
18 25 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 25 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
19 23 (0.41%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 528 (9.39%) QA
2 226 (4.02%) Data Quality
3 190 (3.38%) Accessibility
4 132 (2.35%) GDPR
5 93 (1.65%) NIST
6 71 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 60 (1.07%) WCAG
8 49 (0.87%) ISO 22301
9 36 (0.64%) SLA
10 31 (0.55%) GRC
11 29 (0.52%) PCI DSS
12 28 (0.50%) NCSC
13 27 (0.48%) PMO
14 18 (0.32%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
16 12 (0.21%) HIPAA
17 10 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 9 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 9 (0.16%) NIST 800
19 8 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 960 (17.07%) Docker
2 140 (2.49%) Active Directory
3 83 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (0.48%) vSphere
6 23 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 19 (0.34%) Firmware
7 19 (0.34%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.14%) NDS
9 7 (0.12%) Ceph
9 7 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.089%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.071%) iptables
11 4 (0.071%) KVM
12 2 (0.036%) Embedded Firmware
12 2 (0.036%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.036%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.036%) Xen
13 1 (0.018%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1,110 (19.73%) Kubernetes
2 476 (8.46%) Ansible
3 271 (4.82%) Grafana
4 188 (3.34%) Prometheus
5 82 (1.46%) Argo
6 61 (1.08%) Puppet
7 45 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
8 26 (0.46%) Istio
9 25 (0.44%) Kibana
10 24 (0.43%) Rancher
11 23 (0.41%) Nagios
12 22 (0.39%) Progress Chef
13 21 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
14 16 (0.28%) logstash
15 15 (0.27%) Podman
16 14 (0.25%) HP Fortify
16 14 (0.25%) Packer
17 11 (0.20%) Proxmox
18 9 (0.16%) ZABBIX
19 8 (0.14%) yum
Vendors
1 1,191 (21.17%) Microsoft
2 238 (4.23%) Google
3 182 (3.24%) Databricks
4 134 (2.38%) Oracle
5 119 (2.12%) VMware
6 111 (1.97%) Salesforce
7 98 (1.74%) ServiceNow
8 84 (1.49%) Splunk
9 78 (1.39%) SAP
10 73 (1.30%) Red Hat
11 61 (1.08%) Dynatrace
12 55 (0.98%) OpenAI
13 50 (0.89%) Cisco
14 49 (0.87%) Pega
15 46 (0.82%) YouTube
16 39 (0.69%) Facebook
17 32 (0.57%) MuleSoft
18 29 (0.52%) AppDynamics
19 27 (0.48%) Foundry
20 23 (0.41%) Apple