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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 21 25
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,001 4,208 6,909
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 5.08% 8.58% 6.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.88% 9.50% 8.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,642 2,446 4,981
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,750 £42,005
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,196
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 72,639 44,292 83,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.85% 90.34% 82.30%
Number of salaries quoted 50,181 24,710 58,516
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.72%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,777 £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 11 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 11 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 -9 4,349 £70,000 -2.77% 1,234
UK excluding London -5 3,093 £65,000 - 931
Work from Home -2 1,813 £65,925 -5.82% 686
London -8 1,487 £85,000 +6.25% 478
North of England +1 1,099 £69,305 +6.62% 268
South East -8 659 £65,000 - 265
North West 0 600 £70,000 +7.69% 148
South West -2 441 £70,000 +4.85% 119
Midlands -23 370 £65,000 - 130
Yorkshire +7 296 £70,000 - 72
North East +7 203 £60,000 -7.69% 49
West Midlands -30 203 £65,000 - 83
East of England +8 191 £60,000 -7.69% 66
East Midlands +1 166 £65,000 +18.18% 47
Wales +8 150 £53,171 -9.50% 29
Scotland -5 134 £59,283 -15.31% 40
Northern Ireland -19 56 £72,500 -9.38% 34
Isle of Man +2 3 £35,000 -33.33% 2

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
1 101 (2.02%) Confluence
2 91 (1.82%) SharePoint
3 69 (1.38%) Apache Spark
4 66 (1.32%) Apache
5 46 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
6 45 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
7 31 (0.62%) IIS
8 29 (0.58%) CMS
9 20 (0.40%) SAS
10 15 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
11 13 (0.26%) OpenStack
12 12 (0.24%) nginx
13 10 (0.20%) Jupyter
13 10 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
14 9 (0.18%) Umbraco
14 9 (0.18%) WordPress
15 8 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
16 7 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 7 (0.14%) Anypoint
17 6 (0.12%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 57 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
2 40 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.40%) MS Visio
3 20 (0.40%) PlantUML
4 15 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (0.20%) Trello
7 7 (0.14%) Simulink
8 4 (0.080%) Maya
9 3 (0.060%) Blender
9 3 (0.060%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.040%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.020%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.020%) EngageOne
11 1 (0.020%) Notion
11 1 (0.020%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 82 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.12%) Elite 3E
3 6 (0.12%) Endur
4 5 (0.100%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.100%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.100%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.100%) SAP IBP
4 5 (0.100%) Visualfiles
5 4 (0.080%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.080%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.060%) Carpe Diem
6 3 (0.060%) Infor SunSystems
6 3 (0.060%) Magento
6 3 (0.060%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.060%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.040%) Adobe Campaign
7 2 (0.040%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.040%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 2 (0.040%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2,649 (52.97%) Azure
2 1,642 (32.83%) AWS
3 1,321 (26.41%) Azure DevOps
4 560 (11.20%) GCP
5 510 (10.20%) GitHub
6 480 (9.60%) Serverless
7 357 (7.14%) SaaS
8 354 (7.08%) Power Platform
9 270 (5.40%) GitHub Actions
10 236 (4.72%) AWS CloudFormation
11 232 (4.64%) Amazon S3
12 211 (4.22%) AWS Lambda
13 205 (4.10%) PaaS
14 163 (3.26%) Azure AKS
15 153 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
16 151 (3.02%) Azure Logic Apps
17 149 (2.98%) Dynamics 365
18 146 (2.92%) Amazon EKS
19 142 (2.84%) Amazon ECS
20 141 (2.82%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 147 (2.94%) Firewall
2 93 (1.86%) DNS
3 66 (1.32%) VPN
4 64 (1.28%) TCP/IP
5 57 (1.14%) Broadband
6 40 (0.80%) Network Security
7 37 (0.74%) HTTP
8 30 (0.60%) Internet
9 22 (0.44%) DHCP
10 21 (0.42%) LAN
11 20 (0.40%) WAN
12 16 (0.32%) MQTT
13 15 (0.30%) Wireless
14 13 (0.26%) DMARC
15 10 (0.20%) BGP
15 10 (0.20%) HTTPS
15 10 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (0.16%) Bluetooth
16 8 (0.16%) SAN
16 8 (0.16%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 273 (5.46%) SQL Server
2 271 (5.42%) MongoDB
3 267 (5.34%) Azure SQL Database
4 192 (3.84%) Power BI
5 191 (3.82%) NoSQL
6 178 (3.56%) PostgreSQL
7 108 (2.16%) DynamoDB
8 95 (1.90%) MySQL
9 91 (1.82%) Relational Database
10 89 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
11 88 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
12 78 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
13 76 (1.52%) Data Lake
14 66 (1.32%) Metadata
15 47 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
15 47 (0.94%) Redis
16 40 (0.80%) Big Data
17 36 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
18 35 (0.70%) Delta Lake
19 32 (0.64%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 513 (10.26%) Git
2 422 (8.44%) Jenkins
3 413 (8.26%) GitLab
4 319 (6.38%) JIRA
5 103 (2.06%) SonarQube
6 85 (1.70%) Selenium
7 78 (1.56%) Cypress.io
8 61 (1.22%) Maven
9 48 (0.96%) Postman
10 44 (0.88%) JUnit
11 39 (0.78%) Cucumber
12 35 (0.70%) Bitbucket
13 34 (0.68%) JMeter
14 33 (0.66%) CircleCI
15 32 (0.64%) TeamCity
16 26 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 25 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
18 22 (0.44%) Eclipse
19 21 (0.42%) REST Assured
19 21 (0.42%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,055 (21.10%) Social Skills
2 980 (19.60%) Finance
3 369 (7.38%) Public Sector
4 368 (7.36%) Analytical Skills
5 298 (5.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 242 (4.84%) Banking
7 198 (3.96%) Law
8 160 (3.20%) Retail
9 116 (2.32%) Marketing
10 111 (2.22%) Legal
11 83 (1.66%) Games
12 63 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
13 57 (1.14%) Manufacturing
14 56 (1.12%) Advertising
15 50 (1.00%) Financial Institution
16 45 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
17 44 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
18 43 (0.86%) Telecoms
19 36 (0.72%) Back Office
20 26 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1,117 (22.34%) DevOps Engineer
2 1,054 (21.08%) Senior
3 885 (17.70%) Developer
4 676 (13.52%) Lead
5 428 (8.56%) Architect
6 365 (7.30%) Software Engineer
7 343 (6.86%) Azure Engineer
8 265 (5.30%) Cloud Engineer
9 251 (5.02%) Senior DevOps
10 226 (4.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 220 (4.40%) .NET Developer
12 216 (4.32%) Senior Developer
13 192 (3.84%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 190 (3.80%) Platform Engineer
15 173 (3.46%) Data Engineer
16 170 (3.40%) Solutions Architect
17 162 (3.24%) AWS Engineer
18 148 (2.96%) Java Developer
19 139 (2.78%) Lead DevOps
20 116 (2.32%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 670 (13.40%) .NET
2 435 (8.70%) React
3 310 (6.20%) RESTful
4 307 (6.14%) REST
5 306 (6.12%) Node.js
6 280 (5.60%) ASP.NET
7 250 (5.00%) .NET Core
8 233 (4.66%) Spring Boot
9 229 (4.58%) CSS
10 225 (4.50%) HTML
11 220 (4.40%) ASP.NET Core
12 219 (4.38%) Spring
13 185 (3.70%) Kafka
14 164 (3.28%) AngularJS
15 127 (2.54%) Blazor
15 127 (2.54%) Entity Framework
16 121 (2.42%) Middleware
17 111 (2.22%) YAML
18 105 (2.10%) SOAP
19 95 (1.90%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 835 (16.70%) Cloud Native
2 323 (6.46%) Product Ownership
3 213 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
4 157 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
5 119 (2.38%) Onboarding
6 97 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
7 89 (1.78%) Management Information System
8 83 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
9 82 (1.64%) Mobile App
10 71 (1.42%) Public Cloud
11 70 (1.40%) Data Centre
12 63 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
13 62 (1.24%) Virtual Team
14 61 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
15 50 (1.00%) Data Structures
16 49 (0.98%) Low-Code
17 44 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
18 42 (0.84%) Algorithms
18 42 (0.84%) Security Posture
19 38 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 495 (9.90%) Linux
2 235 (4.70%) Windows
3 92 (1.84%) Unix
4 71 (1.42%) Windows Server
5 66 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 50 (1.00%) Ubuntu
7 44 (0.88%) CentOS
8 39 (0.78%) VMS
9 33 (0.66%) Android
10 20 (0.40%) Apple iOS
11 17 (0.34%) Debian
12 7 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
12 7 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
13 6 (0.12%) Rocky
14 5 (0.100%) Windows Server 2019
15 4 (0.080%) Kali Linux
16 3 (0.060%) AIX
17 2 (0.040%) Amazon Linux
17 2 (0.040%) FreeRTOS
18 1 (0.020%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,551 (51.01%) CI/CD
2 1,874 (37.47%) Agile
3 1,208 (24.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 955 (19.10%) Continuous Improvement
5 874 (17.48%) Mentoring
6 855 (17.10%) Software Engineering
7 803 (16.06%) AI
8 799 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
9 736 (14.72%) Test Automation
10 680 (13.60%) Microservices
11 650 (13.00%) Containerisation
12 557 (11.14%) Full-Stack Development
13 545 (10.90%) Roadmaps
14 530 (10.60%) Platform Engineering
15 522 (10.44%) Observability
16 517 (10.34%) Scrum
17 483 (9.66%) Technical Leadership
18 462 (9.24%) Analytics
19 400 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
20 328 (6.56%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,185 (23.70%) Python
2 893 (17.86%) SQL
3 711 (14.22%) C#
4 681 (13.62%) Java
5 611 (12.22%) JavaScript
6 393 (7.86%) Bash
7 382 (7.64%) TypeScript
8 331 (6.62%) PowerShell
9 157 (3.14%) Bicep
10 143 (2.86%) Go
11 135 (2.70%) C++
12 78 (1.56%) Apex Code
13 59 (1.18%) PHP
14 54 (1.08%) Groovy
15 49 (0.98%) C
16 48 (0.96%) SOQL
17 45 (0.90%) SOSL
18 42 (0.84%) Rust
19 39 (0.78%) Kotlin
20 37 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 809 (16.18%) Security Cleared
2 501 (10.02%) Degree
3 499 (9.98%) SC Cleared
4 212 (4.24%) DV Cleared
5 187 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 127 (2.54%) Azure Certification
7 112 (2.24%) Master's Degree
8 91 (1.82%) AWS Certification
9 65 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
10 63 (1.26%) CISSP
11 57 (1.14%) ISTQB
12 51 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
13 44 (0.88%) CISM
14 37 (0.74%) PMI Certification
15 36 (0.72%) DBS Check
16 30 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 28 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 28 (0.56%) PMP
18 25 (0.50%) PhD
19 20 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 467 (9.34%) QA
2 164 (3.28%) Data Quality
3 163 (3.26%) Accessibility
4 112 (2.24%) GDPR
5 88 (1.76%) NIST
6 71 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 58 (1.16%) WCAG
8 51 (1.02%) GRC
9 43 (0.86%) PCI DSS
10 30 (0.60%) SOC 2
11 29 (0.58%) ISO 22301
12 23 (0.46%) PMO
13 20 (0.40%) SLA
14 16 (0.32%) NCSC
15 12 (0.24%) TickIT
16 11 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
17 10 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
18 9 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 7 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
20 6 (0.12%) JTAG
System Software
1 807 (16.14%) Docker
2 132 (2.64%) Active Directory
3 76 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (0.58%) 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%) iptables
10 6 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 4 (0.080%) Embedded Firmware
12 3 (0.060%) KVM
12 3 (0.060%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.060%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.060%) Xen
13 2 (0.040%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.020%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.020%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,226 (24.52%) Terraform
2 929 (18.58%) Kubernetes
3 444 (8.88%) Ansible
4 241 (4.82%) Grafana
5 179 (3.58%) Prometheus
6 76 (1.52%) Argo
7 64 (1.28%) Puppet
8 39 (0.78%) Nagios
9 31 (0.62%) HP Fortify
10 29 (0.58%) Kibana
11 23 (0.46%) Istio
12 21 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
13 18 (0.36%) Rancher
14 15 (0.30%) Packer
15 14 (0.28%) Progress Chef
16 13 (0.26%) Proxmox
17 11 (0.22%) logstash
17 11 (0.22%) ZABBIX
18 9 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
18 9 (0.18%) yum
Vendors
1 964 (19.28%) Microsoft
2 191 (3.82%) Google
3 160 (3.20%) Databricks
4 155 (3.10%) Salesforce
5 112 (2.24%) VMware
6 102 (2.04%) ServiceNow
7 100 (2.00%) Splunk
8 95 (1.90%) Oracle
9 81 (1.62%) Red Hat
10 65 (1.30%) SAP
11 55 (1.10%) Pega
12 47 (0.94%) MuleSoft
13 43 (0.86%) Cisco
13 43 (0.86%) Dynatrace
14 42 (0.84%) Facebook
15 39 (0.78%) OpenAI
16 30 (0.60%) Apple
16 30 (0.60%) YouTube
17 26 (0.52%) Foundry
18 25 (0.50%) Palo Alto