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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 21 23
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 -11
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,435 3,998 5,662
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.04% 8.02% 6.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.87% 9.01% 8.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3,880 2,269 3,868
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 £106,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -

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 79,126 44,376 67,104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.31% 89.04% 80.77%
Number of salaries quoted 54,636 25,137 42,574
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 22 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 22 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 -9 4,700 £70,782 +1.12% 2,458
UK excluding London -2 3,513 £65,000 - 1,502
Work from Home -2 1,925 £69,306 -0.99% 1,226
London -12 1,532 £85,000 +6.25% 1,310
North of England +4 1,245 £67,500 +3.85% 423
South East -9 707 £65,000 - 382
North West +4 682 £70,000 +7.69% 232
South West +14 515 £70,000 +7.69% 231
Midlands -17 412 £67,500 +3.85% 187
Yorkshire +17 293 £70,000 +12.00% 111
North East +24 270 £60,000 -7.69% 85
West Midlands -21 246 £70,000 +7.69% 124
East of England +8 208 £59,450 -8.54% 109
Wales +7 190 £55,000 - 31
East Midlands +5 166 £62,500 +8.69% 63
Scotland -4 137 £60,000 -12.73% 100
Northern Ireland -4 114 £72,246 -44.43% 53
Isle of Man 0 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
1 108 (1.99%) Confluence
2 99 (1.82%) Apache Spark
3 95 (1.75%) SharePoint
4 82 (1.51%) Apache
5 45 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
6 39 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
7 30 (0.55%) CMS
7 30 (0.55%) IIS
8 23 (0.42%) OpenStack
9 19 (0.35%) SAS
10 14 (0.26%) Jupyter
10 14 (0.26%) nginx
10 14 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
11 9 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
11 9 (0.17%) Umbraco
11 9 (0.17%) WordPress
12 8 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 8 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
13 7 (0.13%) Anypoint
13 7 (0.13%) Camunda
Applications
1 61 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
2 44 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.39%) Chatbot
3 21 (0.39%) MS Visio
3 21 (0.39%) PlantUML
4 19 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
5 18 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.24%) Trello
7 7 (0.13%) Simulink
8 4 (0.074%) Maya
9 3 (0.055%) Blender
9 3 (0.055%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.037%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.018%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.018%) Notion
11 1 (0.018%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 77 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.22%) Elite 3E
4 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
4 6 (0.11%) Teamcenter
5 5 (0.092%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.092%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.092%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (0.092%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.074%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (0.074%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.074%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.074%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.074%) Shopify
7 3 (0.055%) Infor SunSystems
7 3 (0.055%) Magento
7 3 (0.055%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (0.055%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.055%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.055%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 2,859 (52.60%) Azure
2 1,760 (32.38%) AWS
3 1,424 (26.20%) Azure DevOps
4 591 (10.87%) GCP
5 540 (9.94%) GitHub
6 486 (8.94%) Serverless
7 442 (8.13%) SaaS
8 384 (7.07%) Power Platform
9 282 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
10 278 (5.11%) AWS CloudFormation
11 228 (4.20%) Amazon S3
12 212 (3.90%) PaaS
13 211 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
14 185 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
15 168 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
16 158 (2.91%) Azure AKS
17 152 (2.80%) Amazon ECS
17 152 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
17 152 (2.80%) Azure Service Bus
18 148 (2.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 127 (2.34%) Firewall
2 87 (1.60%) DNS
3 68 (1.25%) VPN
4 63 (1.16%) TCP/IP
5 47 (0.86%) Network Security
6 36 (0.66%) Broadband
7 33 (0.61%) Internet
8 26 (0.48%) HTTP
9 23 (0.42%) DHCP
10 18 (0.33%) LAN
11 16 (0.29%) MQTT
11 16 (0.29%) WAN
12 14 (0.26%) Wireless
13 13 (0.24%) DMARC
13 13 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
14 12 (0.22%) SAN
15 9 (0.17%) BGP
15 9 (0.17%) HTTPS
16 8 (0.15%) NAS
16 8 (0.15%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 344 (6.33%) SQL Server
2 290 (5.34%) MongoDB
3 281 (5.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 220 (4.05%) Power BI
5 207 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
6 195 (3.59%) NoSQL
7 120 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
8 119 (2.19%) MySQL
9 113 (2.08%) Relational Database
10 102 (1.88%) DynamoDB
11 97 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
11 97 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
12 90 (1.66%) Data Lake
13 68 (1.25%) Metadata
14 61 (1.12%) Redis
15 47 (0.86%) Big Data
16 43 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
17 41 (0.75%) Delta Lake
18 38 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
19 32 (0.59%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 613 (11.28%) Git
2 409 (7.53%) Jenkins
3 402 (7.40%) GitLab
4 357 (6.57%) JIRA
5 92 (1.69%) Selenium
6 82 (1.51%) SonarQube
7 65 (1.20%) Cypress.io
8 56 (1.03%) Maven
8 56 (1.03%) Postman
9 54 (0.99%) JUnit
10 42 (0.77%) Cucumber
11 40 (0.74%) TeamCity
12 36 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 36 (0.66%) JMeter
13 34 (0.63%) Bitbucket
14 27 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
15 25 (0.46%) NUnit
15 25 (0.46%) REST Assured
16 20 (0.37%) Mockito
16 20 (0.37%) Zephyr
General
1 1,245 (22.91%) Social Skills
2 1,055 (19.41%) Finance
3 452 (8.32%) Public Sector
4 428 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
5 336 (6.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 265 (4.88%) Banking
7 207 (3.81%) Law
8 169 (3.11%) Legal
9 160 (2.94%) Retail
10 98 (1.80%) Marketing
11 64 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
12 60 (1.10%) Games
13 59 (1.09%) Financial Institution
14 53 (0.98%) Manufacturing
15 51 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
16 48 (0.88%) Advertising
17 47 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
18 39 (0.72%) Telecoms
19 38 (0.70%) Aerospace
20 36 (0.66%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,265 (23.28%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,200 (22.08%) Senior
3 903 (16.61%) Developer
4 718 (13.21%) Lead
5 417 (7.67%) Architect
6 377 (6.94%) Software Engineer
7 341 (6.27%) Azure Engineer
8 292 (5.37%) Senior DevOps
9 282 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
10 274 (5.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 242 (4.45%) .NET Developer
12 220 (4.05%) Senior Developer
13 218 (4.01%) Platform Engineer
14 200 (3.68%) Data Engineer
15 188 (3.46%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 163 (3.00%) Lead DevOps
17 155 (2.85%) AWS Engineer
18 151 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
19 133 (2.45%) Java Developer
20 124 (2.28%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,329 (24.45%) Terraform
2 754 (13.87%) .NET
3 449 (8.26%) React
4 345 (6.35%) REST
5 341 (6.27%) RESTful
6 340 (6.26%) Node.js
7 309 (5.69%) ASP.NET
8 289 (5.32%) .NET Core
9 248 (4.56%) Spring Boot
10 246 (4.53%) CSS
10 246 (4.53%) Spring
11 245 (4.51%) HTML
12 233 (4.29%) ASP.NET Core
13 215 (3.96%) Kafka
14 167 (3.07%) AngularJS
15 143 (2.63%) Blazor
15 143 (2.63%) Entity Framework
16 125 (2.30%) Middleware
17 106 (1.95%) JSON
18 102 (1.88%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 961 (17.68%) Cloud Native
2 360 (6.62%) Product Ownership
3 259 (4.77%) Distributed Systems
4 212 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
5 159 (2.93%) Onboarding
6 113 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
7 106 (1.95%) Virtual Team
8 86 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
9 79 (1.45%) Management Information System
10 78 (1.44%) Mobile App
11 77 (1.42%) Data Centre
12 72 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
13 64 (1.18%) Public Cloud
14 63 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
14 63 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
15 53 (0.98%) Data Structures
16 48 (0.88%) AI Agents
16 48 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
17 45 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
18 44 (0.81%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 543 (9.99%) Linux
2 257 (4.73%) Windows
3 99 (1.82%) Unix
4 75 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 73 (1.34%) Windows Server
6 56 (1.03%) CentOS
7 42 (0.77%) Ubuntu
8 38 (0.70%) VMS
9 32 (0.59%) Android
10 18 (0.33%) Apple iOS
11 17 (0.31%) Debian
12 11 (0.20%) Rocky
13 7 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
14 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.092%) Kali Linux
15 5 (0.092%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.074%) Solaris
16 4 (0.074%) Windows Server 2019
17 3 (0.055%) AIX
17 3 (0.055%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,746 (50.52%) CI/CD
2 2,020 (37.17%) Agile
3 1,312 (24.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,049 (19.30%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,005 (18.49%) Mentoring
6 987 (18.16%) Software Engineering
7 941 (17.31%) AI
8 885 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
9 831 (15.29%) Test Automation
10 735 (13.52%) Microservices
11 683 (12.57%) Containerisation
12 614 (11.30%) Platform Engineering
13 595 (10.95%) Observability
14 571 (10.51%) Technical Leadership
15 565 (10.40%) Full-Stack Development
16 563 (10.36%) Roadmaps
17 544 (10.01%) Scrum
18 516 (9.49%) Stakeholder Management
19 477 (8.78%) Analytics
20 390 (7.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,284 (23.62%) Python
2 985 (18.12%) SQL
3 816 (15.01%) C#
4 701 (12.90%) Java
5 665 (12.24%) JavaScript
6 420 (7.73%) TypeScript
7 377 (6.94%) PowerShell
8 373 (6.86%) Bash
9 159 (2.93%) Bicep
10 124 (2.28%) C++
11 122 (2.24%) Go
12 57 (1.05%) PHP
13 56 (1.03%) Apex Code
14 52 (0.96%) C
14 52 (0.96%) T-SQL
15 47 (0.86%) Scala
16 45 (0.83%) Groovy
17 42 (0.77%) Kotlin
18 39 (0.72%) Rust
19 38 (0.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 949 (17.46%) Security Cleared
2 629 (11.57%) SC Cleared
3 521 (9.59%) Degree
4 275 (5.06%) DV Cleared
5 200 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 158 (2.91%) Azure Certification
7 112 (2.06%) Master's Degree
8 99 (1.82%) AWS Certification
9 78 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
10 76 (1.40%) CISSP
11 66 (1.21%) CISM
12 65 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
13 57 (1.05%) ISTQB
14 54 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
15 41 (0.75%) PMI Certification
16 34 (0.63%) DBS Check
17 29 (0.53%) PMP
18 28 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 23 (0.42%) PhD
20 22 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 551 (10.14%) QA
2 186 (3.42%) Accessibility
3 185 (3.40%) Data Quality
4 121 (2.23%) GDPR
5 102 (1.88%) NIST
6 74 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 61 (1.12%) WCAG
8 49 (0.90%) ISO 22301
9 47 (0.86%) GRC
10 35 (0.64%) PCI DSS
11 29 (0.53%) SLA
12 28 (0.52%) PMO
13 27 (0.50%) NCSC
14 20 (0.37%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
16 12 (0.22%) HIPAA
16 12 (0.22%) TickIT
17 10 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 10 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
18 9 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 884 (16.26%) Docker
2 141 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 84 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.53%) vSphere
6 23 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 22 (0.40%) Firmware
8 17 (0.31%) 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 (0.092%) iptables
12 4 (0.074%) NDS
12 4 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.055%) Xen
14 2 (0.037%) Embedded Firmware
14 2 (0.037%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.018%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.018%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,003 (18.45%) Kubernetes
2 465 (8.56%) Ansible
3 225 (4.14%) Grafana
4 163 (3.00%) Prometheus
5 80 (1.47%) Argo
6 67 (1.23%) Puppet
7 36 (0.66%) Nagios
8 33 (0.61%) Istio
9 30 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
10 24 (0.44%) Kibana
11 21 (0.39%) HP Fortify
12 20 (0.37%) Progress Chef
13 13 (0.24%) Rancher
13 13 (0.24%) ZABBIX
14 12 (0.22%) Packer
14 12 (0.22%) Podman
15 11 (0.20%) logstash
16 10 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
17 9 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 8 (0.15%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,064 (19.58%) Microsoft
2 203 (3.74%) Google
3 182 (3.35%) Databricks
4 134 (2.47%) Salesforce
5 123 (2.26%) Oracle
6 116 (2.13%) VMware
7 95 (1.75%) Splunk
8 93 (1.71%) ServiceNow
9 92 (1.69%) Red Hat
10 72 (1.32%) SAP
11 55 (1.01%) OpenAI
12 51 (0.94%) Pega
13 50 (0.92%) Cisco
14 46 (0.85%) Dynatrace
15 42 (0.77%) Facebook
16 37 (0.68%) MuleSoft
17 32 (0.59%) AppDynamics
17 32 (0.59%) YouTube
18 29 (0.53%) Apple
19 28 (0.52%) Foundry