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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 22 20
Rank change year-on-year -9 -2 -7
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,689 3,685 5,245
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.81% 7.51% 7.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.55% 8.45% 8.94%
Number of salaries quoted 3,861 2,117 3,160
10th Percentile £46,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.45% -1.43%
75th Percentile £88,148 £86,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £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 86,825 43,614 58,687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.38% 88.89% 82.21%
Number of salaries quoted 59,360 24,460 31,261
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,000 £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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.02% -10.48% -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 13 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 13 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 4,907 £70,000 - 4,016
UK excluding London -2 3,655 £65,000 +4.00% 2,133
Work from Home -3 1,929 £69,310 -0.19% 1,868
London -7 1,586 £85,000 +6.25% 2,066
North of England +5 1,304 £67,500 +3.85% 640
North West +2 707 £69,305 +6.62% 328
South East +1 696 £67,500 +3.85% 500
South West +26 568 £75,000 +25.00% 226
Midlands -15 469 £62,500 -3.85% 244
North East +17 319 £60,000 +20.00% 104
Yorkshire +16 287 £70,000 +7.69% 213
West Midlands -24 282 £70,000 +7.69% 144
Wales 0 203 £55,000 - 86
East of England +9 200 £55,000 -8.33% 199
East Midlands +15 187 £58,000 +0.87% 100
Scotland -22 119 £62,500 -5.66% 168
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
1 120 (2.11%) SharePoint
2 116 (2.04%) Apache Spark
3 113 (1.99%) Confluence
4 94 (1.65%) Apache
5 45 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
6 41 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
7 27 (0.47%) CMS
8 24 (0.42%) IIS
9 22 (0.39%) OpenStack
10 18 (0.32%) Jupyter
10 18 (0.32%) nginx
11 14 (0.25%) SAS
12 13 (0.23%) WebLogic
13 10 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 8 (0.14%) CICS
14 8 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
14 8 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
14 8 (0.14%) Umbraco
15 7 (0.12%) Camunda
16 6 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 72 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
2 44 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 34 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
4 31 (0.54%) MS Visio
5 29 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 20 (0.35%) PlantUML
7 17 (0.30%) Chatbot
8 14 (0.25%) Trello
9 7 (0.12%) Simulink
10 5 (0.088%) Notion
11 4 (0.070%) Spreadsheet
12 3 (0.053%) Blender
12 3 (0.053%) Maya
13 2 (0.035%) Lightworks
14 1 (0.018%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 89 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.21%) Elite 3E
4 10 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
5 8 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
6 7 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.11%) SAP IBP
7 6 (0.11%) Teamcenter
8 5 (0.088%) Dynamics NAV
8 5 (0.088%) Fidessa
9 4 (0.070%) Dynamics GP
9 4 (0.070%) NEC Housing
9 4 (0.070%) Oracle Applications
9 4 (0.070%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.070%) Sage 200
9 4 (0.070%) Shopify
10 3 (0.053%) Carpe Diem
10 3 (0.053%) Distributed Ledger
10 3 (0.053%) SAP Business One
10 3 (0.053%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2,953 (51.91%) Azure
2 1,842 (32.38%) AWS
3 1,498 (26.33%) Azure DevOps
4 634 (11.14%) GCP
5 591 (10.39%) GitHub
6 489 (8.60%) Serverless
7 463 (8.14%) SaaS
8 454 (7.98%) Power Platform
9 316 (5.55%) GitHub Actions
10 303 (5.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 227 (3.99%) Dynamics 365
12 221 (3.88%) PaaS
13 210 (3.69%) Amazon S3
14 194 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
15 183 (3.22%) Azure Data Factory
16 177 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
17 174 (3.06%) Power Automate
18 170 (2.99%) Entra ID
19 166 (2.92%) Azure AKS
20 164 (2.88%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 140 (2.46%) Firewall
2 99 (1.74%) DNS
3 92 (1.62%) VPN
4 69 (1.21%) Internet
5 62 (1.09%) TCP/IP
6 45 (0.79%) Network Security
7 26 (0.46%) HTTP
8 24 (0.42%) DHCP
9 17 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (0.26%) DMARC
10 15 (0.26%) 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 (0.19%) WAN
15 9 (0.16%) LAN
15 9 (0.16%) OSPF
15 9 (0.16%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 363 (6.38%) SQL Server
2 308 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 298 (5.24%) MongoDB
4 253 (4.45%) Power BI
5 235 (4.13%) PostgreSQL
6 196 (3.45%) NoSQL
7 152 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
8 131 (2.30%) MySQL
9 121 (2.13%) Relational Database
10 109 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
11 104 (1.83%) Metadata
12 99 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
13 97 (1.71%) Data Lake
14 92 (1.62%) DynamoDB
15 82 (1.44%) Redis
16 53 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
17 51 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
18 42 (0.74%) Big Data
18 42 (0.74%) Delta Lake
19 37 (0.65%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 688 (12.09%) Git
2 413 (7.26%) GitLab
3 408 (7.17%) Jenkins
4 345 (6.06%) JIRA
5 80 (1.41%) Selenium
6 58 (1.02%) JUnit
7 57 (1.00%) Cypress.io
8 56 (0.98%) TeamCity
9 53 (0.93%) SonarQube
10 51 (0.90%) Maven
11 42 (0.74%) Postman
12 41 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 38 (0.67%) Cucumber
14 34 (0.60%) Claude Code
15 27 (0.47%) Bitbucket
15 27 (0.47%) JMeter
16 24 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
17 23 (0.40%) Mockito
18 18 (0.32%) NUnit
19 17 (0.30%) Subversion
General
1 1,345 (23.64%) Social Skills
2 1,093 (19.21%) Finance
3 592 (10.41%) Public Sector
4 502 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
5 357 (6.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 237 (4.17%) Banking
7 213 (3.74%) Law
8 167 (2.94%) Retail
9 166 (2.92%) Legal
10 80 (1.41%) Financial Institution
11 73 (1.28%) Marketing
12 61 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
13 59 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
14 58 (1.02%) Aerospace
15 56 (0.98%) Manufacturing
16 55 (0.97%) Telecoms
17 51 (0.90%) Back Office
18 49 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
19 40 (0.70%) Advertising
20 32 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,519 (26.70%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,355 (23.82%) Senior
3 864 (15.19%) Developer
4 697 (12.25%) Lead
5 424 (7.45%) Architect
6 386 (6.79%) Software Engineer
7 378 (6.64%) Senior DevOps
8 352 (6.19%) Azure Engineer
9 347 (6.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 300 (5.27%) Cloud Engineer
11 246 (4.32%) .NET Developer
12 240 (4.22%) Platform Engineer
13 219 (3.85%) Data Engineer
14 208 (3.66%) Senior Developer
15 188 (3.30%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 177 (3.11%) Lead DevOps
17 162 (2.85%) AWS Engineer
18 159 (2.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 155 (2.72%) Consultant
20 139 (2.44%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,401 (24.63%) Terraform
2 735 (12.92%) .NET
3 400 (7.03%) React
4 356 (6.26%) REST
5 347 (6.10%) RESTful
6 333 (5.85%) Node.js
7 300 (5.27%) Spring
8 299 (5.26%) ASP.NET
9 294 (5.17%) Spring Boot
10 267 (4.69%) .NET Core
11 243 (4.27%) Kafka
12 236 (4.15%) CSS
13 234 (4.11%) HTML
14 228 (4.01%) ASP.NET Core
15 159 (2.79%) AngularJS
16 135 (2.37%) Entity Framework
17 133 (2.34%) Blazor
18 119 (2.09%) Middleware
19 108 (1.90%) JSON
20 96 (1.69%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1,056 (18.56%) Cloud Native
2 353 (6.20%) Product Ownership
3 273 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
4 261 (4.59%) Enterprise Software
5 164 (2.88%) Onboarding
6 128 (2.25%) Virtual Team
7 121 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
8 108 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
9 92 (1.62%) Management Information System
10 80 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
11 77 (1.35%) AI Agents
12 76 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
13 73 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
14 68 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
15 64 (1.12%) Mobile App
16 61 (1.07%) Public Cloud
17 60 (1.05%) Data Centre
18 54 (0.95%) Private Cloud
19 53 (0.93%) Security Posture
20 52 (0.91%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 615 (10.81%) Linux
2 254 (4.46%) Windows
3 115 (2.02%) Unix
4 75 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 63 (1.11%) Windows Server
6 53 (0.93%) CentOS
7 36 (0.63%) Ubuntu
8 32 (0.56%) VMS
9 31 (0.54%) Android
10 15 (0.26%) Rocky
11 14 (0.25%) Debian
12 12 (0.21%) Apple iOS
13 8 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
14 5 (0.088%) macOS
14 5 (0.088%) Windows Server 2016
15 4 (0.070%) Solaris
15 4 (0.070%) Windows Server 2019
16 3 (0.053%) AIX
16 3 (0.053%) Kali Linux
16 3 (0.053%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,945 (51.77%) CI/CD
2 2,079 (36.54%) Agile
3 1,429 (25.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1,157 (20.34%) Continuous Improvement
5 1,123 (19.74%) Mentoring
6 1,050 (18.46%) AI
7 1,027 (18.05%) Software Engineering
8 952 (16.73%) Problem-Solving
9 867 (15.24%) Test Automation
10 766 (13.46%) Containerisation
11 755 (13.27%) Microservices
12 723 (12.71%) Platform Engineering
13 663 (11.65%) Technical Leadership
14 633 (11.13%) Stakeholder Management
15 622 (10.93%) Observability
16 544 (9.56%) Roadmaps
17 521 (9.16%) Scrum
18 515 (9.05%) Analytics
19 501 (8.81%) Full-Stack Development
20 410 (7.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1,317 (23.15%) Python
2 998 (17.54%) SQL
3 813 (14.29%) C#
4 746 (13.11%) Java
5 669 (11.76%) JavaScript
6 425 (7.47%) TypeScript
7 397 (6.98%) PowerShell
8 395 (6.94%) Bash
9 171 (3.01%) Bicep
10 140 (2.46%) Go
11 114 (2.00%) C++
12 62 (1.09%) Shell Script
13 58 (1.02%) T-SQL
14 50 (0.88%) PHP
14 50 (0.88%) Scala
15 48 (0.84%) C
16 47 (0.83%) Kotlin
17 42 (0.74%) Groovy
18 39 (0.69%) Ruby
19 38 (0.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,135 (19.95%) Security Cleared
2 758 (13.32%) SC Cleared
3 504 (8.86%) Degree
4 316 (5.55%) DV Cleared
5 206 (3.62%) Azure Certification
6 183 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 114 (2.00%) AWS Certification
8 98 (1.72%) Master's Degree
9 91 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 85 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
11 76 (1.34%) CISSP
12 72 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
13 66 (1.16%) CISM
14 50 (0.88%) ISTQB
15 37 (0.65%) PMI Certification
16 27 (0.47%) PhD
17 26 (0.46%) PMP
18 25 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 25 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
19 23 (0.40%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 532 (9.35%) QA
2 227 (3.99%) Data Quality
3 195 (3.43%) Accessibility
4 134 (2.36%) GDPR
5 93 (1.63%) NIST
6 70 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 60 (1.05%) WCAG
8 49 (0.86%) ISO 22301
9 36 (0.63%) SLA
10 31 (0.54%) GRC
11 29 (0.51%) PCI DSS
12 28 (0.49%) NCSC
13 27 (0.47%) 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
1 979 (17.21%) Docker
2 139 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 83 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (0.47%) vSphere
6 23 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 19 (0.33%) Firmware
7 19 (0.33%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.14%) NDS
9 7 (0.12%) Ceph
9 7 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.088%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.070%) iptables
11 4 (0.070%) KVM
12 2 (0.035%) Embedded Firmware
12 2 (0.035%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.035%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.035%) Xen
13 1 (0.018%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1,144 (20.11%) Kubernetes
2 489 (8.60%) Ansible
3 277 (4.87%) Grafana
4 192 (3.37%) Prometheus
5 83 (1.46%) Argo
6 61 (1.07%) Puppet
7 45 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
8 26 (0.46%) Istio
8 26 (0.46%) Kibana
9 24 (0.42%) Rancher
10 23 (0.40%) Nagios
11 22 (0.39%) Progress Chef
11 22 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
12 16 (0.28%) logstash
13 15 (0.26%) Packer
13 15 (0.26%) Podman
14 14 (0.25%) HP Fortify
15 11 (0.19%) Proxmox
16 9 (0.16%) ZABBIX
17 8 (0.14%) yum
Vendors
1 1,207 (21.22%) Microsoft
2 240 (4.22%) Google
3 181 (3.18%) Databricks
4 137 (2.41%) Oracle
5 119 (2.09%) VMware
6 113 (1.99%) Salesforce
7 99 (1.74%) ServiceNow
8 85 (1.49%) Splunk
9 78 (1.37%) SAP
10 75 (1.32%) Red Hat
11 61 (1.07%) Dynatrace
12 55 (0.97%) OpenAI
13 50 (0.88%) Cisco
14 49 (0.86%) Pega
15 47 (0.83%) YouTube
16 39 (0.69%) Facebook
17 32 (0.56%) MuleSoft
18 30 (0.53%) AppDynamics
19 27 (0.47%) Foundry
20 23 (0.40%) Apple