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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 19 25
Rank change year-on-year -14 +6 -13
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,136 3,936 7,140
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.57% 8.96% 7.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.19% 9.61% 8.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,940 2,555 5,315
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -2.76%

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 66,871 40,971 82,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.97% 93.32% 85.23%
Number of salaries quoted 42,937 22,765 59,727
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 11 May 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Top 19 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 May 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 -15 3,604 £70,400 +0.57% 1,362
UK excluding London -28 2,391 £65,000 - 984
Work from Home -7 1,517 £69,500 -0.71% 741
London -9 1,393 £82,500 - 540
North of England -7 805 £70,000 +3.70% 280
South East -17 512 £65,000 - 303
North West -10 399 £70,000 +0.44% 143
South West -16 338 £62,500 -3.85% 116
Midlands -35 310 £65,500 +9.17% 109
Yorkshire -6 270 £70,000 +2.94% 76
Scotland -9 186 £55,000 -22.26% 54
West Midlands -44 180 £62,500 +4.17% 58
East of England -11 151 £65,000 - 88
North East +6 136 £60,000 -7.69% 63
East Midlands -7 126 £70,000 +7.69% 51
Wales -9 79 £53,171 -5.55% 33
Northern Ireland -31 15 £84,401 +53.46% 16
Isle of Man +4 2 £35,000 - 1
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

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 78 (1.89%) SharePoint
2 73 (1.76%) Confluence
3 55 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
4 52 (1.26%) Apache
5 46 (1.11%) Apache Spark
6 36 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
7 31 (0.75%) IIS
8 24 (0.58%) CMS
9 15 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
10 13 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 13 (0.31%) SAS
11 11 (0.27%) Moodle
12 7 (0.17%) Anypoint
12 7 (0.17%) Apache Solr
12 7 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 7 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
12 7 (0.17%) WordPress
13 6 (0.15%) nginx
13 6 (0.15%) Tomcat
13 6 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 37 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (0.60%) MS Visio
3 23 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.22%) Chatbot
6 9 (0.22%) PlantUML
7 4 (0.097%) Simulink
8 3 (0.073%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.073%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.073%) Trello
9 1 (0.024%) EngageOne
9 1 (0.024%) Maya
9 1 (0.024%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 62 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.36%) SAP ERP
3 14 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
4 11 (0.27%) Endur
5 8 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
6 6 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
6 6 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.12%) Visualfiles
8 4 (0.097%) Markit EDM
8 4 (0.097%) Shopify
9 3 (0.073%) Elite 3E
9 3 (0.073%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.048%) Distributed Ledger
10 2 (0.048%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.048%) Fidessa
10 2 (0.048%) Infor SunSystems
10 2 (0.048%) Magento
10 2 (0.048%) Workday HCM
11 1 (0.024%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 1 (0.024%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2,235 (54.04%) Azure
2 1,341 (32.42%) AWS
3 1,094 (26.45%) Azure DevOps
4 508 (12.28%) GitHub
5 476 (11.51%) GCP
6 418 (10.11%) Serverless
7 337 (8.15%) Power Platform
8 279 (6.75%) GitHub Actions
9 250 (6.04%) SaaS
10 222 (5.37%) Amazon S3
11 221 (5.34%) AWS CloudFormation
12 214 (5.17%) AWS Lambda
13 168 (4.06%) Microsoft 365
14 156 (3.77%) Entra ID
15 153 (3.70%) PaaS
16 149 (3.60%) Azure Data Factory
17 134 (3.24%) Amazon EKS
18 132 (3.19%) Azure AKS
19 131 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
20 130 (3.14%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 137 (3.31%) Firewall
2 90 (2.18%) DNS
3 63 (1.52%) Broadband
4 61 (1.47%) TCP/IP
5 48 (1.16%) VPN
6 43 (1.04%) Network Security
7 35 (0.85%) HTTP
8 33 (0.80%) WAN
9 26 (0.63%) DHCP
10 25 (0.60%) LAN
11 10 (0.24%) SAN
12 9 (0.22%) Wireless
13 7 (0.17%) BGP
13 7 (0.17%) HTTPS
13 7 (0.17%) Internet
13 7 (0.17%) SSL
14 6 (0.15%) Cisco ASA
15 5 (0.12%) SD-WAN
16 4 (0.097%) AMQP
16 4 (0.097%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 249 (6.02%) SQL Server
2 204 (4.93%) NoSQL
3 190 (4.59%) Power BI
4 151 (3.65%) MongoDB
5 143 (3.46%) PostgreSQL
6 139 (3.36%) Azure SQL Database
7 113 (2.73%) DynamoDB
8 96 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
9 95 (2.30%) Data Lake
10 87 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
11 85 (2.06%) Relational Database
12 67 (1.62%) Metadata
13 66 (1.60%) MySQL
14 60 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
15 43 (1.04%) BigQuery
16 42 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
17 36 (0.87%) Delta Lake
18 34 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
19 33 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 32 (0.77%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 450 (10.88%) Git
2 396 (9.57%) Jenkins
3 357 (8.63%) GitLab
4 256 (6.19%) JIRA
5 104 (2.51%) SonarQube
6 84 (2.03%) Cypress.io
7 79 (1.91%) Selenium
8 64 (1.55%) Maven
9 43 (1.04%) Bitbucket
9 43 (1.04%) Postman
10 36 (0.87%) CircleCI
11 35 (0.85%) Cucumber
12 31 (0.75%) TeamCity
13 25 (0.60%) Eclipse
13 25 (0.60%) JMeter
14 24 (0.58%) JUnit
15 22 (0.53%) Visual Studio
16 21 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
16 21 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
17 18 (0.44%) Jaeger
General
1 913 (22.07%) Finance
2 882 (21.32%) Social Skills
3 371 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
4 248 (6.00%) Public Sector
5 238 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 217 (5.25%) Banking
7 128 (3.09%) Retail
8 127 (3.07%) Law
9 109 (2.64%) Marketing
10 78 (1.89%) Legal
11 77 (1.86%) Games
12 62 (1.50%) Telecoms
13 48 (1.16%) Manufacturing
14 44 (1.06%) Advertising
15 38 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
15 38 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
16 34 (0.82%) Billing
17 33 (0.80%) Financial Institution
18 28 (0.68%) Front Office
19 27 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 864 (20.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 850 (20.55%) Senior
3 730 (17.65%) Developer
4 602 (14.56%) Lead
5 348 (8.41%) Architect
6 294 (7.11%) Azure Engineer
7 284 (6.87%) Software Engineer
8 253 (6.12%) Cloud Engineer
9 208 (5.03%) Senior DevOps
10 186 (4.50%) Senior Developer
11 177 (4.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 166 (4.01%) Data Engineer
13 154 (3.72%) Solutions Architect
14 152 (3.68%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 147 (3.55%) AWS Engineer
16 141 (3.41%) Platform Engineer
17 137 (3.31%) Java Developer
18 130 (3.14%) Lead DevOps
19 119 (2.88%) Full-Stack Developer
20 111 (2.68%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 495 (11.97%) .NET
2 372 (8.99%) React
3 275 (6.65%) REST
4 249 (6.02%) RESTful
5 247 (5.97%) Node.js
6 177 (4.28%) Spring Boot
7 167 (4.04%) CSS
8 159 (3.84%) HTML
8 159 (3.84%) Kafka
9 158 (3.82%) Spring
10 150 (3.63%) .NET Core
10 150 (3.63%) AngularJS
11 148 (3.58%) ASP.NET
12 129 (3.12%) SOAP
13 111 (2.68%) OAuth
14 109 (2.64%) Middleware
15 102 (2.47%) ASP.NET Core
16 93 (2.25%) Elastic Stack
16 93 (2.25%) JSON
17 89 (2.15%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 566 (13.68%) Cloud Native
2 284 (6.87%) Product Ownership
3 140 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
4 125 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
5 86 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
6 80 (1.93%) Management Information System
7 69 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
8 65 (1.57%) Mobile App
9 55 (1.33%) Public Cloud
10 54 (1.31%) Low-Code
10 54 (1.31%) Onboarding
11 52 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
12 50 (1.21%) Data Centre
13 48 (1.16%) Algorithms
14 46 (1.11%) Data Structures
15 42 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
16 32 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
17 31 (0.75%) Security Posture
18 29 (0.70%) AI Agents
19 28 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 411 (9.94%) Linux
2 197 (4.76%) Windows
3 81 (1.96%) Unix
4 73 (1.76%) Windows Server
5 48 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 37 (0.89%) Ubuntu
7 34 (0.82%) Android
8 31 (0.75%) VMS
9 27 (0.65%) CentOS
10 25 (0.60%) Apple iOS
11 9 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.17%) Debian
12 7 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.097%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.097%) Rocky
15 2 (0.048%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.048%) Embedded Linux
16 1 (0.024%) SUSE
16 1 (0.024%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,097 (50.70%) CI/CD
2 1,484 (35.88%) Agile
3 995 (24.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 750 (18.13%) Continuous Improvement
5 712 (17.21%) Problem-Solving
6 672 (16.25%) Mentoring
7 656 (15.86%) Software Engineering
8 647 (15.64%) AI
9 595 (14.39%) Test Automation
10 555 (13.42%) Containerisation
11 549 (13.27%) Microservices
12 467 (11.29%) Observability
13 440 (10.64%) Roadmaps
14 434 (10.49%) Analytics
15 416 (10.06%) Full-Stack Development
16 392 (9.48%) Scrum
17 376 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
18 348 (8.41%) Technical Leadership
19 319 (7.71%) Data Modelling
20 302 (7.30%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,045 (25.27%) Python
2 784 (18.96%) SQL
3 578 (13.97%) Java
4 489 (11.82%) C#
5 437 (10.57%) JavaScript
6 352 (8.51%) Bash
7 315 (7.62%) TypeScript
8 257 (6.21%) PowerShell
9 157 (3.80%) Go
10 118 (2.85%) Bicep
11 103 (2.49%) C++
12 86 (2.08%) Apex Code
13 55 (1.33%) Groovy
14 50 (1.21%) PHP
15 43 (1.04%) Scala
15 43 (1.04%) SOQL
15 43 (1.04%) SOSL
16 35 (0.85%) Kotlin
17 30 (0.73%) C
18 29 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 562 (13.59%) Security Cleared
2 432 (10.44%) Degree
3 335 (8.10%) SC Cleared
4 188 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 146 (3.53%) DV Cleared
6 115 (2.78%) AWS Certification
7 93 (2.25%) Azure Certification
8 82 (1.98%) Master's Degree
9 51 (1.23%) ISTQB
10 43 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
11 34 (0.82%) DBS Check
11 34 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
12 29 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 29 (0.70%) PMI Certification
13 27 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 25 (0.60%) CISSP
15 21 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
16 20 (0.48%) PMP
17 19 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 19 (0.46%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 338 (8.17%) QA
2 165 (3.99%) Data Quality
3 122 (2.95%) Accessibility
4 104 (2.51%) GDPR
5 76 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 56 (1.35%) NIST
7 46 (1.11%) GRC
8 39 (0.94%) SOC 2
9 33 (0.80%) PCI DSS
10 26 (0.63%) WCAG
11 21 (0.51%) SLA
12 14 (0.34%) NCSC
13 12 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.29%) TickIT
14 11 (0.27%) PMO
15 8 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
16 7 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 7 (0.17%) Solvency II
17 6 (0.15%) IFRS
17 6 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 708 (17.12%) Docker
2 148 (3.58%) Active Directory
3 51 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.41%) vSphere
6 16 (0.39%) Hyper-V
7 13 (0.31%) Firmware
8 7 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.097%) iptables
9 4 (0.097%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 4 (0.097%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.073%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.073%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.048%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.048%) KVM
11 2 (0.048%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.024%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.024%) OpenAM
12 1 (0.024%) OpenDJ
12 1 (0.024%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 1,035 (25.02%) Terraform
2 763 (18.45%) Kubernetes
3 378 (9.14%) Ansible
4 220 (5.32%) Grafana
5 186 (4.50%) Prometheus
6 76 (1.84%) Argo
7 50 (1.21%) Puppet
8 42 (1.02%) HP Fortify
9 36 (0.87%) Nagios
10 35 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
10 35 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
11 21 (0.51%) Kibana
12 18 (0.44%) Kustomize
13 17 (0.41%) Rancher
14 15 (0.36%) Progress Chef
15 14 (0.34%) Istio
15 14 (0.34%) Packer
16 10 (0.24%) logstash
16 10 (0.24%) Proxmox
17 9 (0.22%) yum
Vendors
1 795 (19.22%) Microsoft
2 160 (3.87%) Databricks
3 158 (3.82%) Salesforce
4 156 (3.77%) Google
5 87 (2.10%) Splunk
5 87 (2.10%) VMware
6 83 (2.01%) Oracle
7 82 (1.98%) Red Hat
8 73 (1.76%) ServiceNow
9 53 (1.28%) SAP
10 47 (1.14%) MuleSoft
11 33 (0.80%) Palo Alto
12 30 (0.73%) Cisco
13 29 (0.70%) Dynatrace
14 27 (0.65%) OpenAI
15 25 (0.60%) Pega
16 24 (0.58%) Adobe
17 20 (0.48%) CrowdStrike
17 20 (0.48%) IBM
17 20 (0.48%) SolarWinds