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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 22 24
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 -13
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,995 4,191 6,715
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.05% 8.53% 6.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.85% 9.47% 8.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3,638 2,422 4,833
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year - +6.56% -2.40%

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 72,896 44,261 80,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.68% 90.09% 82.12%
Number of salaries quoted 50,426 24,863 55,989
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +3.64% -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -8 4,323 £70,000 -2.10% 1,109
UK excluding London -5 3,116 £65,000 - 813
Work from Home -2 1,819 £67,500 -3.57% 564
London -10 1,481 £85,000 +6.25% 449
North of England +1 1,096 £67,500 +3.85% 233
South East -11 650 £65,000 - 227
North West +1 603 £70,000 +7.69% 135
South West -4 436 £70,000 +7.69% 121
Midlands -20 367 £65,000 - 125
Yorkshire +11 290 £70,000 - 51
West Midlands -31 205 £65,000 - 91
North East +6 203 £60,000 -7.69% 48
East of England +17 196 £60,000 -7.69% 51
East Midlands +10 161 £65,000 +15.56% 34
Wales +7 159 £53,585 -6.81% 24
Scotland -6 137 £60,000 -14.29% 35
Northern Ireland -8 83 £72,500 -9.38% 17
Isle of Man +2 3 £35,000 -33.33% 5

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 96 (1.92%) Confluence
2 87 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 74 (1.48%) Apache Spark
4 64 (1.28%) Apache
5 44 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
6 42 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
7 31 (0.62%) CMS
7 31 (0.62%) IIS
8 20 (0.40%) SAS
9 15 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
10 12 (0.24%) nginx
10 12 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 10 (0.20%) Jupyter
11 10 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
12 9 (0.18%) Umbraco
12 9 (0.18%) WordPress
13 8 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
14 7 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 7 (0.14%) Anypoint
15 6 (0.12%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 57 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
2 41 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.40%) PlantUML
4 19 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 11 (0.22%) Trello
8 9 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
9 7 (0.14%) Simulink
10 4 (0.080%) Maya
11 3 (0.060%) Blender
12 2 (0.040%) Lightworks
12 2 (0.040%) Spreadsheet
13 1 (0.020%) Adobe XD
13 1 (0.020%) Notion
13 1 (0.020%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 78 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.12%) Elite 3E
3 6 (0.12%) SAP IBP
4 5 (0.10%) Endur
4 5 (0.10%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.10%) Visualfiles
5 4 (0.080%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.080%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.080%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.080%) Shopify
6 3 (0.060%) Carpe Diem
6 3 (0.060%) Infor SunSystems
6 3 (0.060%) Magento
6 3 (0.060%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.040%) Adobe Campaign
7 2 (0.040%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.040%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.040%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 2,634 (52.73%) Azure
2 1,639 (32.81%) AWS
3 1,309 (26.21%) Azure DevOps
4 547 (10.95%) GCP
5 501 (10.03%) GitHub
6 468 (9.37%) Serverless
7 380 (7.61%) SaaS
8 346 (6.93%) Power Platform
9 269 (5.39%) GitHub Actions
10 230 (4.60%) AWS CloudFormation
11 226 (4.52%) Amazon S3
12 209 (4.18%) AWS Lambda
13 201 (4.02%) PaaS
14 161 (3.22%) Azure AKS
15 152 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
16 151 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
17 146 (2.92%) Azure Logic Apps
18 141 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
19 139 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
19 139 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 136 (2.72%) Firewall
2 88 (1.76%) DNS
3 63 (1.26%) TCP/IP
3 63 (1.26%) VPN
4 57 (1.14%) Broadband
5 39 (0.78%) Network Security
6 35 (0.70%) HTTP
7 32 (0.64%) Internet
8 22 (0.44%) DHCP
9 20 (0.40%) LAN
10 18 (0.36%) WAN
11 16 (0.32%) MQTT
12 14 (0.28%) Wireless
13 13 (0.26%) DMARC
14 10 (0.20%) BGP
14 10 (0.20%) HTTPS
14 10 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (0.16%) Bluetooth
15 8 (0.16%) ZigBee
16 7 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 270 (5.41%) MongoDB
2 268 (5.37%) SQL Server
3 263 (5.27%) Azure SQL Database
4 187 (3.74%) Power BI
5 186 (3.72%) NoSQL
6 185 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
7 104 (2.08%) DynamoDB
8 95 (1.90%) MySQL
9 92 (1.84%) Relational Database
10 91 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
11 88 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
12 79 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
13 76 (1.52%) Data Lake
14 57 (1.14%) Metadata
15 52 (1.04%) Redis
16 46 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
17 41 (0.82%) Big Data
18 37 (0.74%) Delta Lake
19 35 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
20 31 (0.62%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 516 (10.33%) Git
2 412 (8.25%) GitLab
3 410 (8.21%) Jenkins
4 318 (6.37%) JIRA
5 95 (1.90%) SonarQube
6 84 (1.68%) Selenium
7 76 (1.52%) Cypress.io
8 56 (1.12%) Maven
9 50 (1.00%) Postman
10 46 (0.92%) JUnit
11 36 (0.72%) Cucumber
12 33 (0.66%) JMeter
13 32 (0.64%) TeamCity
14 31 (0.62%) CircleCI
15 30 (0.60%) Bitbucket
16 28 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 27 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
18 23 (0.46%) Visual Studio
19 20 (0.40%) REST Assured
20 19 (0.38%) Eclipse
General
1 1,065 (21.32%) Social Skills
2 953 (19.08%) Finance
3 371 (7.43%) Public Sector
4 360 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
5 301 (6.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 245 (4.90%) Banking
7 193 (3.86%) Law
8 158 (3.16%) Retail
9 122 (2.44%) Legal
10 117 (2.34%) Marketing
11 80 (1.60%) Games
12 60 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
13 57 (1.14%) Manufacturing
14 55 (1.10%) Advertising
15 51 (1.02%) Financial Institution
16 46 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
17 45 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
18 42 (0.84%) Telecoms
19 36 (0.72%) Back Office
20 26 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1,133 (22.68%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,072 (21.46%) Senior
3 869 (17.40%) Developer
4 672 (13.45%) Lead
5 417 (8.35%) Architect
6 354 (7.09%) Software Engineer
7 345 (6.91%) Azure Engineer
8 262 (5.25%) Senior DevOps
9 258 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
10 238 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 217 (4.34%) .NET Developer
12 212 (4.24%) Senior Developer
13 193 (3.86%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 190 (3.80%) Platform Engineer
15 174 (3.48%) Data Engineer
16 171 (3.42%) Solutions Architect
17 161 (3.22%) AWS Engineer
18 142 (2.84%) Java Developer
19 138 (2.76%) Lead DevOps
20 120 (2.40%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 659 (13.19%) .NET
2 438 (8.77%) React
3 309 (6.19%) Node.js
3 309 (6.19%) RESTful
4 305 (6.11%) REST
5 279 (5.59%) ASP.NET
6 247 (4.94%) .NET Core
7 230 (4.60%) CSS
8 226 (4.52%) HTML
8 226 (4.52%) Spring Boot
9 219 (4.38%) ASP.NET Core
10 216 (4.32%) Spring
11 185 (3.70%) Kafka
12 160 (3.20%) AngularJS
13 132 (2.64%) Middleware
14 128 (2.56%) Entity Framework
15 127 (2.54%) Blazor
16 110 (2.20%) YAML
17 104 (2.08%) SOAP
18 96 (1.92%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 839 (16.80%) Cloud Native
2 323 (6.47%) Product Ownership
3 220 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
4 161 (3.22%) Enterprise Software
5 130 (2.60%) Onboarding
6 95 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
7 89 (1.78%) Management Information System
8 80 (1.60%) Mobile App
9 79 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
10 72 (1.44%) Data Centre
10 72 (1.44%) Virtual Team
11 62 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
12 60 (1.20%) Public Cloud
13 59 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
14 52 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
15 50 (1.00%) Data Structures
16 43 (0.86%) Low-Code
17 42 (0.84%) Algorithms
17 42 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
18 40 (0.80%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 482 (9.65%) Linux
2 231 (4.62%) Windows
3 90 (1.80%) Unix
4 69 (1.38%) Windows Server
5 67 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 46 (0.92%) CentOS
6 46 (0.92%) Ubuntu
7 38 (0.76%) VMS
8 31 (0.62%) Android
9 18 (0.36%) Apple iOS
10 16 (0.32%) Debian
11 7 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
11 7 (0.14%) Rocky
11 7 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
13 4 (0.080%) Kali Linux
14 3 (0.060%) AIX
15 2 (0.040%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.040%) FreeRTOS
16 1 (0.020%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,511 (50.27%) CI/CD
2 1,862 (37.28%) Agile
3 1,194 (23.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 941 (18.84%) Continuous Improvement
5 882 (17.66%) Mentoring
6 864 (17.30%) Software Engineering
7 820 (16.42%) AI
8 788 (15.78%) Problem-Solving
9 750 (15.02%) Test Automation
10 683 (13.67%) Microservices
11 639 (12.79%) Containerisation
12 555 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
13 550 (11.01%) Roadmaps
14 529 (10.59%) Platform Engineering
15 526 (10.53%) Scrum
16 524 (10.49%) Observability
17 488 (9.77%) Technical Leadership
18 456 (9.13%) Analytics
19 408 (8.17%) Stakeholder Management
20 343 (6.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,181 (23.64%) Python
2 888 (17.78%) SQL
3 717 (14.35%) C#
4 654 (13.09%) Java
5 620 (12.41%) JavaScript
6 391 (7.83%) TypeScript
7 373 (7.47%) Bash
8 332 (6.65%) PowerShell
9 155 (3.10%) Bicep
10 133 (2.66%) Go
11 129 (2.58%) C++
12 75 (1.50%) Apex Code
13 59 (1.18%) PHP
14 50 (1.00%) Groovy
15 49 (0.98%) C
16 47 (0.94%) SOQL
17 44 (0.88%) SOSL
18 40 (0.80%) Rust
19 38 (0.76%) Kotlin
20 37 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 782 (15.66%) Security Cleared
2 506 (10.13%) SC Cleared
3 502 (10.05%) Degree
4 200 (4.00%) DV Cleared
5 187 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 126 (2.52%) Azure Certification
7 116 (2.32%) Master's Degree
8 83 (1.66%) AWS Certification
9 79 (1.58%) CISSP
9 79 (1.58%) ITIL Certification
10 60 (1.20%) CISM
11 56 (1.12%) ISTQB
12 48 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
13 37 (0.74%) DBS Check
13 37 (0.74%) PMI Certification
14 29 (0.58%) PMP
15 27 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 25 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 25 (0.50%) PhD
17 20 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 473 (9.47%) QA
2 164 (3.28%) Accessibility
3 157 (3.14%) Data Quality
4 111 (2.22%) GDPR
5 102 (2.04%) NIST
6 69 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 61 (1.22%) WCAG
8 52 (1.04%) GRC
9 44 (0.88%) ISO 22301
10 40 (0.80%) PCI DSS
11 29 (0.58%) SOC 2
12 22 (0.44%) PMO
13 19 (0.38%) SLA
14 15 (0.30%) NCSC
15 12 (0.24%) TickIT
16 11 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
17 10 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 8 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
18 8 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 8 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 794 (15.90%) Docker
2 130 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 76 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (0.56%) vSphere
6 23 (0.46%) Firmware
7 20 (0.40%) Hyper-V
8 13 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 5 (0.10%) iptables
12 4 (0.080%) Embedded Firmware
13 3 (0.060%) KVM
13 3 (0.060%) NDS
13 3 (0.060%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.060%) Xen
14 2 (0.040%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.020%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.020%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.020%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,201 (24.04%) Terraform
2 918 (18.38%) Kubernetes
3 424 (8.49%) Ansible
4 234 (4.68%) Grafana
5 175 (3.50%) Prometheus
6 74 (1.48%) Argo
7 58 (1.16%) Puppet
8 39 (0.78%) Nagios
9 28 (0.56%) HP Fortify
10 26 (0.52%) Kibana
11 22 (0.44%) Istio
12 21 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
13 15 (0.30%) Progress Chef
14 14 (0.28%) Rancher
15 13 (0.26%) Packer
16 11 (0.22%) Proxmox
16 11 (0.22%) ZABBIX
17 10 (0.20%) logstash
18 9 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
19 8 (0.16%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 952 (19.06%) Microsoft
2 186 (3.72%) Google
3 165 (3.30%) Databricks
4 151 (3.02%) Salesforce
5 109 (2.18%) VMware
6 100 (2.00%) ServiceNow
6 100 (2.00%) Splunk
7 95 (1.90%) Oracle
8 81 (1.62%) Red Hat
9 67 (1.34%) SAP
10 54 (1.08%) Pega
11 45 (0.90%) MuleSoft
12 44 (0.88%) Cisco
12 44 (0.88%) Dynatrace
13 42 (0.84%) Facebook
13 42 (0.84%) OpenAI
14 30 (0.60%) Apple
15 29 (0.58%) YouTube
16 27 (0.54%) Foundry
17 24 (0.48%) Palo Alto