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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 19 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 -6 +1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 3,691 5,175 6,803
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 7.56% 7.41% 12.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.51% 9.02% 12.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,115 3,134 5,501
10th Percentile £45,200 £43,135 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,308 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -0.99% -
75th Percentile £85,700 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,750 £107,125 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,783 £64,000
% change year-on-year -0.45% -1.90% +6.67%

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 43,375 57,355 53,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.80% 82.16% 94.06%
Number of salaries quoted 24,550 30,763 40,597
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,750 £53,500 £53,888
% change year-on-year -12.62% -0.72% +2.64%

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 17 October 2025.

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 17 October 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 -1 3,247 £70,000 - 1,831
UK excluding London -2 2,176 £62,500 -0.45% 1,547
Work from Home -4 1,719 £69,750 +1.16% 1,235
London +1 1,302 £80,000 -3.03% 766
North of England +1 792 £65,000 +4.00% 361
North West +3 600 £65,000 +4.00% 220
South East -18 463 £64,250 -1.15% 670
Midlands +12 354 £65,000 +8.33% 157
West Midlands +17 249 £65,000 +4.00% 117
Scotland -9 248 £66,250 +1.92% 88
South West -26 144 £60,000 -7.69% 138
Yorkshire -21 142 £65,000 +4.00% 92
East of England -31 118 £60,000 +20.00% 92
East Midlands +4 103 £55,000 -4.35% 38
Wales -4 55 £55,000 - 48
North East -5 52 £50,000 -14.87% 50
Northern Ireland +10 14 £78,609 +13.42% 17
Isle of Man +7 1 £52,500 +45.83%

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
1 280 (7.59%) Confluence
2 79 (2.14%) Apache Spark
3 58 (1.57%) Apache
4 55 (1.49%) SharePoint
5 49 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
6 38 (1.03%) nginx
7 35 (0.95%) IIS
8 31 (0.84%) CMS
9 24 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
10 12 (0.33%) Appian
11 11 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 9 (0.24%) JBoss
13 7 (0.19%) WebSphere
14 6 (0.16%) Headless CMS
15 5 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 5 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
15 5 (0.14%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
16 4 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
16 4 (0.11%) Camunda
Applications
1 48 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (0.22%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 7 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.16%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.11%) PlantUML
7 4 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.11%) Trello
8 3 (0.081%) Siemens NX
8 3 (0.081%) S-PLUS
9 2 (0.054%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.054%) Sketch
10 1 (0.027%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.027%) Maya
10 1 (0.027%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 83 (2.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
2 24 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
4 11 (0.30%) Shopify
5 8 (0.22%) SAP FS
6 6 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
7 4 (0.11%) Endur
7 4 (0.11%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.081%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.081%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.081%) SAP MII
8 3 (0.081%) SAP MM
8 3 (0.081%) SAP PP
9 2 (0.054%) Aladdin
9 2 (0.054%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.054%) Infor M3
9 2 (0.054%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.054%) Oracle BPM
10 1 (0.027%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 2,074 (56.19%) Azure
2 1,373 (37.20%) AWS
3 969 (26.25%) Azure DevOps
4 518 (14.03%) GCP
5 395 (10.70%) GitHub
6 360 (9.75%) Power Platform
7 273 (7.40%) Serverless
8 271 (7.34%) SaaS
9 184 (4.99%) GitHub Actions
10 177 (4.80%) PaaS
11 163 (4.42%) Dynamics 365
12 153 (4.15%) Amazon S3
13 134 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
14 131 (3.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 130 (3.52%) AWS CloudFormation
16 119 (3.22%) AWS Lambda
16 119 (3.22%) Power Automate
17 117 (3.17%) Entra ID
18 115 (3.12%) Amazon EC2
19 113 (3.06%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 339 (9.18%) VPN
2 270 (7.32%) Cisco IOS
3 152 (4.12%) Firewall
4 121 (3.28%) DNS
5 74 (2.00%) WAN
6 58 (1.57%) TCP/IP
7 56 (1.52%) Network Security
8 49 (1.33%) HTTP
9 47 (1.27%) LAN
10 31 (0.84%) SSH
11 30 (0.81%) SMTP
12 29 (0.79%) DHCP
12 29 (0.79%) SD-WAN
13 27 (0.73%) FTP
14 21 (0.57%) Broadband
14 21 (0.57%) SAN
15 20 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
16 19 (0.51%) BGP
17 12 (0.33%) OSPF
17 12 (0.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 531 (14.39%) SQL Server
2 220 (5.96%) Power BI
3 160 (4.33%) NoSQL
4 144 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
5 122 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
6 107 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
7 103 (2.79%) Relational Database
8 79 (2.14%) Data Lake
9 70 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
9 70 (1.90%) Big Data
10 62 (1.68%) MySQL
11 59 (1.60%) MongoDB
12 57 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
13 56 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 52 (1.41%) Tableau
15 50 (1.35%) Metadata
16 47 (1.27%) DynamoDB
17 41 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
18 38 (1.03%) Hadoop
19 36 (0.98%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 526 (14.25%) JIRA
2 434 (11.76%) Git
3 416 (11.27%) GitLab
4 340 (9.21%) Jenkins
5 328 (8.89%) Selenium
6 301 (8.15%) SonarQube
7 283 (7.67%) Sonatype Nexus
8 282 (7.64%) Bitbucket
9 276 (7.48%) Cucumber
10 270 (7.32%) Maven
11 50 (1.35%) Octopus Deploy
12 45 (1.22%) TeamCity
13 44 (1.19%) Vagrant
14 39 (1.06%) Cypress.io
15 36 (0.98%) JUnit
16 33 (0.89%) Postman
17 25 (0.68%) Artifactory
18 24 (0.65%) Snyk
19 23 (0.62%) JMeter
20 21 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,103 (29.88%) Finance
2 874 (23.68%) Social Skills
3 744 (20.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 582 (15.77%) Analytical Skills
5 406 (11.00%) Banking
6 261 (7.07%) Law
7 236 (6.39%) Retail
8 174 (4.71%) Public Sector
9 142 (3.85%) Marketing
10 108 (2.93%) Investment Banking
11 90 (2.44%) Corporate Banking
12 78 (2.11%) Games
13 68 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
14 55 (1.49%) Legal
15 52 (1.41%) Manufacturing
16 51 (1.38%) Back Office
17 47 (1.27%) Financial Institution
18 42 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
19 36 (0.98%) Telecoms
20 31 (0.84%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 581 (15.74%) Developer
2 578 (15.66%) Senior
3 470 (12.73%) Software Engineer
4 447 (12.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 436 (11.81%) Lead
6 352 (9.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 300 (8.13%) Architect
8 178 (4.82%) Cloud Engineer
9 164 (4.44%) Senior Developer
10 145 (3.93%) Analyst
10 145 (3.93%) Azure Engineer
11 140 (3.79%) Data Engineer
12 114 (3.09%) AWS Engineer
13 112 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
14 110 (2.98%) Platform Engineer
15 92 (2.49%) Full-Stack Developer
15 92 (2.49%) Senior DevOps
16 83 (2.25%) AWS DevOps
17 78 (2.11%) .NET Developer
18 77 (2.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 578 (15.66%) React
2 522 (14.14%) .NET
3 407 (11.03%) CSS
3 407 (11.03%) HTML
3 407 (11.03%) Kafka
4 374 (10.13%) Spring
5 359 (9.73%) Spring Boot
6 321 (8.70%) REST
7 317 (8.59%) Elastic Stack
8 285 (7.72%) RESTful
9 263 (7.13%) JPA
9 263 (7.13%) Redux
10 188 (5.09%) Hibernate
11 143 (3.87%) .NET Framework
12 131 (3.55%) Jest
13 122 (3.31%) AngularJS
14 121 (3.28%) Node.js
15 117 (3.17%) CSS3
15 117 (3.17%) HTML5
16 103 (2.79%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 497 (13.47%) Product Ownership
2 432 (11.70%) Cloud Native
3 331 (8.97%) Enterprise Software
4 264 (7.15%) Cyberattack
5 138 (3.74%) Hybrid Cloud
6 135 (3.66%) Management Information System
7 101 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
8 91 (2.47%) Onboarding
9 81 (2.19%) Data Centre
10 78 (2.11%) e-Learning
11 71 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
12 61 (1.65%) Public Cloud
13 60 (1.63%) Algorithms
14 50 (1.35%) Security Posture
15 47 (1.27%) Virtual Team
16 44 (1.19%) Mobile App
17 43 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
18 41 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
19 37 (1.00%) Low-Code
20 34 (0.92%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 622 (16.85%) Linux
2 522 (14.14%) Windows
3 285 (7.72%) Android
4 75 (2.03%) Windows Server
5 70 (1.90%) VMS
6 50 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 50 (1.35%) Unix
7 29 (0.79%) Ubuntu
8 26 (0.70%) Amazon Linux
9 22 (0.60%) Apple iOS
10 21 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
11 18 (0.49%) Debian
12 15 (0.41%) CentOS
13 12 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
14 7 (0.19%) Mac OS
14 7 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
15 2 (0.054%) AIX
15 2 (0.054%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 2 (0.054%) Windows 10
15 2 (0.054%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,848 (50.07%) CI/CD
2 1,711 (46.36%) Agile
3 919 (24.90%) Problem-Solving
4 738 (19.99%) Test Automation
5 737 (19.97%) Software Engineering
6 721 (19.53%) Containerisation
7 712 (19.29%) Microservices
8 688 (18.64%) Infrastructure as Code
9 676 (18.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 676 (18.31%) Mentoring
10 554 (15.01%) SDLC
11 544 (14.74%) AI
12 490 (13.28%) Full-Stack Development
13 459 (12.44%) Platform Engineering
14 434 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 393 (10.65%) Roadmaps
16 376 (10.19%) Migration
17 375 (10.16%) Front End Development
17 375 (10.16%) Risk Management
18 366 (9.92%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,190 (32.24%) Python
2 1,015 (27.50%) SQL
3 664 (17.99%) Java
4 663 (17.96%) PowerShell
5 606 (16.42%) JavaScript
6 528 (14.31%) C#
7 513 (13.90%) Bash
8 343 (9.29%) TypeScript
9 118 (3.20%) Bicep
10 103 (2.79%) Go
11 66 (1.79%) Groovy
11 66 (1.79%) T-SQL
12 46 (1.25%) Apex Code
13 43 (1.16%) PHP
13 43 (1.16%) Shell Script
14 39 (1.06%) Perl
15 38 (1.03%) C++
16 36 (0.98%) PL/SQL
16 36 (0.98%) Scala
17 23 (0.62%) R
Qualifications
1 464 (12.57%) Degree
2 319 (8.64%) Security Cleared
3 241 (6.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 239 (6.48%) SC Cleared
5 197 (5.34%) Azure Certification
6 121 (3.28%) AWS Certification
7 120 (3.25%) Master's Degree
8 76 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
9 73 (1.98%) DV Cleared
10 46 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 44 (1.19%) ISTQB
12 43 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
13 36 (0.98%) PhD
14 34 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
15 30 (0.81%) CCNP
16 27 (0.73%) CISSP
17 24 (0.65%) DBS Check
18 23 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
19 22 (0.60%) PMI Certification
20 21 (0.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 578 (15.66%) QA
2 173 (4.69%) Accessibility
3 134 (3.63%) GDPR
3 134 (3.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 91 (2.47%) Data Quality
5 80 (2.17%) NIST
6 39 (1.06%) NCSC
7 30 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 30 (0.81%) SLA
8 26 (0.70%) PCI DSS
8 26 (0.70%) PMO
9 23 (0.62%) HIPAA
10 21 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 18 (0.49%) ISO 9001
12 17 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
13 14 (0.38%) SOC 2
14 11 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
15 10 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 8 (0.22%) IFRS
16 8 (0.22%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1,115 (30.21%) Docker
2 289 (7.83%) vSphere
3 271 (7.34%) Hyper-V
4 266 (7.21%) VMware NSX
5 136 (3.68%) Active Directory
6 84 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
7 76 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
8 29 (0.79%) DFS Replication
9 21 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
10 20 (0.54%) NFS
11 16 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
12 12 (0.33%) Postfix
13 10 (0.27%) Squid
14 9 (0.24%) Dovecot
15 8 (0.22%) HDFS
16 6 (0.16%) Firmware
17 5 (0.14%) Kamailio
18 4 (0.11%) RACF
18 4 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
19 2 (0.054%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 1,041 (28.20%) Terraform
2 952 (25.79%) Kubernetes
3 593 (16.07%) Ansible
4 201 (5.45%) Grafana
5 193 (5.23%) Prometheus
6 49 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
7 43 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
8 23 (0.62%) Argo
9 19 (0.51%) SCCM
10 18 (0.49%) Puppet
11 16 (0.43%) Progress Chef
11 16 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
12 14 (0.38%) Kibana
13 11 (0.30%) vCenter Server
14 10 (0.27%) Nagios
15 9 (0.24%) Proxmox
16 8 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
16 8 (0.22%) Nessus
17 7 (0.19%) AWS Copilot
18 6 (0.16%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 673 (18.23%) Microsoft
2 337 (9.13%) Splunk
3 333 (9.02%) Cisco
4 277 (7.50%) Juniper
5 272 (7.37%) 3PAR
6 249 (6.75%) Solace
7 157 (4.25%) Databricks
8 131 (3.55%) Google
9 126 (3.41%) Red Hat
10 122 (3.31%) VMware
11 110 (2.98%) Salesforce
12 100 (2.71%) ServiceNow
13 93 (2.52%) Oracle
14 92 (2.49%) IBM
15 53 (1.44%) SAP
16 44 (1.19%) Guidewire
17 38 (1.03%) OpenAI
18 37 (1.00%) SolarWinds
19 28 (0.76%) Meraki
20 22 (0.60%) Commvault