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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 22 21
Rank change year-on-year -8 -1 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,608 3,836 5,445
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.79% 7.79% 7.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.56% 8.77% 8.74%
Number of salaries quoted 3,880 2,183 3,397
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,607
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £88,148 £87,500 £87,500
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% -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 85,482 43,719 62,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.07% 88.75% 81.46%
Number of salaries quoted 58,986 24,656 34,489
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £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 £77,500
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 24 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 24 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 -10 4,845 £71,991 +2.84% 4,427
UK excluding London -5 3,592 £65,000 - 2,396
Work from Home -4 1,895 £69,310 -0.99% 2,043
London -9 1,586 £85,000 +6.25% 2,301
North of England +3 1,287 £67,750 +4.23% 715
North West +6 709 £70,000 +7.69% 402
South East -8 703 £65,000 - 556
South West +23 546 £75,000 +25.00% 300
Midlands -21 447 £65,000 - 289
Yorkshire +19 295 £70,000 +12.00% 212
North East +16 286 £60,000 - 105
West Midlands -25 261 £70,000 +7.69% 180
Wales -2 203 £54,500 -0.91% 76
East of England +1 196 £55,000 -13.73% 206
East Midlands +7 186 £60,000 +4.35% 109
Scotland -26 117 £60,000 -7.69% 185
Northern Ireland -9 114 £72,246 -44.43% 82
Isle of Man +1 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
1 112 (2.00%) SharePoint
2 110 (1.96%) Confluence
3 109 (1.94%) Apache Spark
4 82 (1.46%) Apache
5 45 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
6 42 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
7 30 (0.53%) CMS
8 28 (0.50%) IIS
9 24 (0.43%) OpenStack
10 15 (0.27%) Jupyter
11 13 (0.23%) nginx
12 12 (0.21%) SAS
13 10 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 9 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
14 9 (0.16%) Umbraco
15 8 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
15 8 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
15 8 (0.14%) WordPress
16 7 (0.12%) Camunda
17 6 (0.11%) JBoss
Applications
1 65 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
2 45 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
4 26 (0.46%) MS Visio
5 25 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 21 (0.37%) PlantUML
7 19 (0.34%) Chatbot
8 13 (0.23%) Trello
9 7 (0.12%) Simulink
10 3 (0.053%) Blender
10 3 (0.053%) Maya
10 3 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.036%) Lightworks
12 1 (0.018%) Notion
12 1 (0.018%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 90 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (0.25%) Elite 3E
4 7 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
4 7 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
4 7 (0.12%) Teamcenter
5 6 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
5 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
6 5 (0.089%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.089%) Visualfiles
7 4 (0.071%) Distributed Ledger
7 4 (0.071%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.071%) Oracle Applications
7 4 (0.071%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.071%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.071%) Shopify
8 3 (0.053%) Carpe Diem
8 3 (0.053%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.053%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.053%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 2,946 (52.53%) Azure
2 1,827 (32.58%) AWS
3 1,490 (26.57%) Azure DevOps
4 625 (11.14%) GCP
5 571 (10.18%) GitHub
6 501 (8.93%) Serverless
7 456 (8.13%) SaaS
8 434 (7.74%) Power Platform
9 306 (5.46%) GitHub Actions
10 287 (5.12%) AWS CloudFormation
11 224 (3.99%) Dynamics 365
12 215 (3.83%) Amazon S3
13 210 (3.74%) AWS Lambda
14 207 (3.69%) PaaS
15 180 (3.21%) Azure Data Factory
16 176 (3.14%) Entra ID
17 170 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
18 169 (3.01%) Amazon EKS
19 168 (3.00%) Azure AKS
20 159 (2.84%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 134 (2.39%) Firewall
2 93 (1.66%) DNS
3 87 (1.55%) VPN
4 68 (1.21%) Internet
5 62 (1.11%) TCP/IP
6 50 (0.89%) Network Security
7 28 (0.50%) DHCP
8 26 (0.46%) HTTP
9 16 (0.29%) MQTT
9 16 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (0.27%) Broadband
10 15 (0.27%) Wireless
11 14 (0.25%) DMARC
12 13 (0.23%) SAN
12 13 (0.23%) WAN
13 12 (0.21%) BGP
14 11 (0.20%) LAN
14 11 (0.20%) SSH
15 9 (0.16%) OSPF
15 9 (0.16%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 360 (6.42%) SQL Server
2 304 (5.42%) Azure SQL Database
3 293 (5.22%) MongoDB
4 249 (4.44%) Power BI
5 226 (4.03%) PostgreSQL
6 201 (3.58%) NoSQL
7 145 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
8 127 (2.26%) MySQL
9 123 (2.19%) Relational Database
10 105 (1.87%) DynamoDB
11 101 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
11 101 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
12 98 (1.75%) Data Lake
13 97 (1.73%) Metadata
14 79 (1.41%) Redis
15 49 (0.87%) Amazon Athena
16 45 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
16 45 (0.80%) Delta Lake
17 40 (0.71%) Big Data
18 39 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 696 (12.41%) Git
2 410 (7.31%) Jenkins
3 395 (7.04%) GitLab
4 357 (6.37%) JIRA
5 89 (1.59%) Selenium
6 62 (1.11%) SonarQube
7 60 (1.07%) Cypress.io
8 58 (1.03%) Maven
9 52 (0.93%) JUnit
10 50 (0.89%) TeamCity
11 48 (0.86%) Postman
12 42 (0.75%) Cucumber
13 39 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 29 (0.52%) Bitbucket
14 29 (0.52%) JMeter
15 27 (0.48%) Claude Code
15 27 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
16 20 (0.36%) NUnit
17 19 (0.34%) REST Assured
18 18 (0.32%) Subversion
General
1 1,330 (23.72%) Social Skills
2 1,091 (19.45%) Finance
3 528 (9.42%) Public Sector
4 484 (8.63%) Analytical Skills
5 332 (5.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 247 (4.40%) Banking
7 212 (3.78%) Law
8 177 (3.16%) Retail
9 167 (2.98%) Legal
10 78 (1.39%) Financial Institution
10 78 (1.39%) Marketing
11 59 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
12 58 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
13 53 (0.95%) Manufacturing
14 50 (0.89%) Aerospace
14 50 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
15 49 (0.87%) Back Office
15 49 (0.87%) Telecoms
16 44 (0.78%) Advertising
17 31 (0.55%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,396 (24.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,297 (23.13%) Senior
3 900 (16.05%) Developer
4 715 (12.75%) Lead
5 428 (7.63%) Architect
6 400 (7.13%) Software Engineer
7 352 (6.28%) Azure Engineer
8 322 (5.74%) Senior DevOps
9 303 (5.40%) Cloud Engineer
10 299 (5.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 241 (4.30%) Platform Engineer
12 240 (4.28%) .NET Developer
13 219 (3.91%) Senior Developer
14 217 (3.87%) Data Engineer
15 186 (3.32%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 171 (3.05%) Lead DevOps
17 157 (2.80%) AWS Engineer
18 146 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
19 138 (2.46%) Consultant
20 135 (2.41%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,380 (24.61%) Terraform
2 734 (13.09%) .NET
3 431 (7.69%) React
4 354 (6.31%) REST
5 342 (6.10%) RESTful
6 336 (5.99%) Node.js
7 297 (5.30%) ASP.NET
8 277 (4.94%) Spring
9 274 (4.89%) Spring Boot
10 269 (4.80%) .NET Core
11 234 (4.17%) CSS
12 233 (4.15%) HTML
12 233 (4.15%) Kafka
13 227 (4.05%) ASP.NET Core
14 171 (3.05%) AngularJS
15 137 (2.44%) Entity Framework
16 134 (2.39%) Blazor
17 124 (2.21%) Middleware
18 120 (2.14%) JSON
19 105 (1.87%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1,029 (18.35%) Cloud Native
2 344 (6.13%) Product Ownership
3 276 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
4 240 (4.28%) Enterprise Software
5 166 (2.96%) Onboarding
6 128 (2.28%) Virtual Team
7 119 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
8 103 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
9 90 (1.60%) Management Information System
10 77 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
11 72 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
12 71 (1.27%) Data Centre
13 68 (1.21%) Mobile App
14 67 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
15 65 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
16 64 (1.14%) AI Agents
17 63 (1.12%) Public Cloud
18 53 (0.95%) Private Cloud
19 51 (0.91%) Data Structures
20 49 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 601 (10.72%) Linux
2 259 (4.62%) Windows
3 109 (1.94%) Unix
4 71 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 66 (1.18%) Windows Server
6 50 (0.89%) CentOS
7 40 (0.71%) Ubuntu
8 38 (0.68%) VMS
9 32 (0.57%) Android
10 16 (0.29%) Debian
11 14 (0.25%) Apple iOS
12 10 (0.18%) Rocky
13 7 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
14 6 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.089%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.071%) Kali Linux
16 4 (0.071%) Solaris
16 4 (0.071%) Windows Server 2019
17 3 (0.053%) AIX
17 3 (0.053%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,890 (51.53%) CI/CD
2 2,049 (36.54%) Agile
3 1,387 (24.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,110 (19.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,098 (19.58%) Mentoring
6 1,036 (18.47%) AI
7 1,035 (18.46%) Software Engineering
8 929 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
9 869 (15.50%) Test Automation
10 758 (13.52%) Microservices
11 738 (13.16%) Containerisation
12 695 (12.39%) Platform Engineering
13 624 (11.13%) Observability
14 618 (11.02%) Technical Leadership
15 589 (10.50%) Stakeholder Management
16 571 (10.18%) Roadmaps
17 529 (9.43%) Full-Stack Development
18 526 (9.38%) Scrum
19 514 (9.17%) Analytics
20 406 (7.24%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,327 (23.66%) Python
2 1,001 (17.85%) SQL
3 815 (14.53%) C#
4 745 (13.28%) Java
5 667 (11.89%) JavaScript
6 433 (7.72%) TypeScript
7 396 (7.06%) PowerShell
8 392 (6.99%) Bash
9 170 (3.03%) Bicep
10 134 (2.39%) Go
11 123 (2.19%) C++
12 56 (1.00%) Shell Script
13 55 (0.98%) PHP
13 55 (0.98%) T-SQL
14 53 (0.95%) Groovy
15 52 (0.93%) Scala
16 47 (0.84%) Kotlin
17 46 (0.82%) C
18 39 (0.70%) Ruby
19 38 (0.68%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,068 (19.04%) Security Cleared
2 715 (12.75%) SC Cleared
3 509 (9.08%) Degree
4 300 (5.35%) DV Cleared
5 194 (3.46%) Azure Certification
6 193 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 108 (1.93%) AWS Certification
8 101 (1.80%) Master's Degree
9 82 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 77 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
11 76 (1.36%) CISSP
11 76 (1.36%) ITIL Certification
12 67 (1.19%) CISM
13 55 (0.98%) ISTQB
14 37 (0.66%) PMI Certification
15 26 (0.46%) PhD
16 24 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 24 (0.43%) DBS Check
16 24 (0.43%) PMP
17 22 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 555 (9.90%) QA
2 214 (3.82%) Data Quality
3 189 (3.37%) Accessibility
4 128 (2.28%) GDPR
5 97 (1.73%) NIST
6 76 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 62 (1.11%) WCAG
8 49 (0.87%) ISO 22301
9 38 (0.68%) GRC
10 35 (0.62%) SLA
11 29 (0.52%) PCI DSS
12 28 (0.50%) PMO
13 26 (0.46%) NCSC
14 19 (0.34%) SOC 2
15 15 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
16 12 (0.21%) HIPAA
16 12 (0.21%) TickIT
17 10 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
18 9 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 9 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 956 (17.05%) Docker
2 145 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 82 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (0.45%) vSphere
6 20 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 19 (0.34%) Firmware
7 19 (0.34%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.14%) NDS
9 7 (0.12%) Ceph
10 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.089%) KVM
12 4 (0.071%) iptables
12 4 (0.071%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.053%) Xen
14 2 (0.036%) Embedded Firmware
14 2 (0.036%) VMware ESXi
14 2 (0.036%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.018%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.018%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,078 (19.22%) Kubernetes
2 473 (8.43%) Ansible
3 259 (4.62%) Grafana
4 182 (3.25%) Prometheus
5 82 (1.46%) Argo
6 66 (1.18%) Puppet
7 45 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
8 28 (0.50%) Kibana
9 27 (0.48%) Istio
10 26 (0.46%) Rancher
11 25 (0.45%) Nagios
12 23 (0.41%) Progress Chef
13 20 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
14 19 (0.34%) HP Fortify
15 16 (0.29%) Packer
16 15 (0.27%) logstash
17 14 (0.25%) Podman
18 11 (0.20%) Proxmox
18 11 (0.20%) ZABBIX
19 8 (0.14%) yum
Vendors
1 1,175 (20.95%) Microsoft
2 229 (4.08%) Google
3 189 (3.37%) Databricks
4 129 (2.30%) Oracle
5 117 (2.09%) VMware
6 115 (2.05%) Salesforce
7 96 (1.71%) ServiceNow
8 81 (1.44%) Splunk
9 78 (1.39%) SAP
10 74 (1.32%) Red Hat
11 56 (1.00%) Dynatrace
12 55 (0.98%) OpenAI
13 52 (0.93%) Cisco
14 44 (0.78%) Pega
15 41 (0.73%) Facebook
15 41 (0.73%) YouTube
16 38 (0.68%) AppDynamics
17 34 (0.61%) MuleSoft
18 30 (0.53%) Foundry
19 28 (0.50%) IBM