DevOps Job Trends

DevOps
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring DevOps skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 21 13
Rank change year-on-year -2 -8 +1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 3,855 5,467 7,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.82% 7.03% 11.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.82% 8.67% 12.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,173 3,478 5,886
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £105,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +8.33%

All Process and 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 43,694 63,053 58,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.68% 81.08% 94.39%
Number of salaries quoted 24,544 35,778 43,624
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps 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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 2025. 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 -1 3,464 £71,000 +4.41% 2,088
UK excluding London -1 2,275 £65,000 +4.00% 1,694
Work from Home +2 1,716 £70,000 +3.70% 1,215
London +4 1,379 £80,000 -3.03% 852
North of England -6 815 £65,000 +4.00% 416
North West -8 617 £65,000 +4.00% 234
South East -7 536 £65,000 - 560
Midlands +11 373 £65,000 +8.33% 222
West Midlands +15 258 £65,000 +8.33% 125
Scotland +13 210 £67,500 +3.85% 144
Yorkshire -15 152 £65,000 +4.00% 131
South West -17 151 £60,000 -7.69% 181
East of England -11 146 £65,000 +27.45% 117
East Midlands -2 113 £57,500 - 87
Wales +6 54 £55,000 +7.32% 60
North East -3 48 £55,000 -5.11% 55
Northern Ireland +17 10 £130,000 +147.62% 14
Isle of Man +7 1 £52,500 +45.83%

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 291 (7.55%) Confluence
2 90 (2.33%) Apache Spark
3 64 (1.66%) Apache
4 59 (1.53%) SharePoint
5 46 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
6 39 (1.01%) nginx
7 37 (0.96%) CMS
8 24 (0.62%) IIS
9 15 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
10 12 (0.31%) JBoss
11 10 (0.26%) Headless CMS
12 9 (0.23%) Appian
13 7 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 7 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 7 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
13 7 (0.18%) WebSphere
14 5 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
14 5 (0.13%) Camunda
15 4 (0.10%) CICS
15 4 (0.10%) Traefik
Applications
1 40 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.31%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 11 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.23%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.23%) Trello
6 7 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.16%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.10%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.10%) PlantUML
8 4 (0.10%) Sketch
8 4 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.078%) S-PLUS
10 2 (0.052%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.052%) Maya
10 2 (0.052%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 88 (2.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
3 13 (0.34%) Shopify
4 12 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
5 9 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
6 6 (0.16%) SAP FS
7 3 (0.078%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.078%) SAP IBP
7 3 (0.078%) SAP MII
7 3 (0.078%) SAP MM
7 3 (0.078%) SAP PP
8 2 (0.052%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.052%) Endur
8 2 (0.052%) Infor M3
8 2 (0.052%) Magento
8 2 (0.052%) SAP GRC
9 1 (0.026%) Loan IQ
9 1 (0.026%) Oracle BPM
9 1 (0.026%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2,073 (53.77%) Azure
2 1,403 (36.39%) AWS
3 936 (24.28%) Azure DevOps
4 553 (14.35%) GCP
5 351 (9.11%) GitHub
6 338 (8.77%) Power Platform
7 305 (7.91%) Serverless
8 279 (7.24%) SaaS
9 178 (4.62%) Dynamics 365
10 168 (4.36%) PaaS
11 164 (4.25%) GitHub Actions
12 146 (3.79%) Amazon S3
13 140 (3.63%) AWS Lambda
14 133 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 125 (3.24%) Azure Monitor
16 123 (3.19%) Azure Data Factory
17 120 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
18 116 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
19 114 (2.96%) AWS CloudFormation
20 111 (2.88%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 406 (10.53%) VPN
2 270 (7.00%) Cisco IOS
3 166 (4.31%) Firewall
4 112 (2.91%) TCP/IP
5 110 (2.85%) DNS
6 70 (1.82%) WAN
7 64 (1.66%) Network Security
8 49 (1.27%) HTTP
9 44 (1.14%) LAN
10 32 (0.83%) SSH
11 30 (0.78%) SMTP
12 27 (0.70%) FTP
12 27 (0.70%) SD-WAN
13 25 (0.65%) DHCP
14 21 (0.54%) SAN
15 17 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
16 16 (0.42%) BGP
17 15 (0.39%) SSL
18 12 (0.31%) Intrusion Detection
18 12 (0.31%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 542 (14.06%) SQL Server
2 199 (5.16%) Power BI
3 187 (4.85%) NoSQL
4 137 (3.55%) Data Warehouse
5 119 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
6 102 (2.65%) Relational Database
7 98 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
7 98 (2.54%) Big Data
8 81 (2.10%) Data Lake
9 70 (1.82%) MongoDB
10 64 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
11 60 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
12 58 (1.50%) MySQL
13 52 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 47 (1.22%) Data Mining
14 47 (1.22%) DynamoDB
14 47 (1.22%) Hadoop
15 45 (1.17%) Metadata
15 45 (1.17%) Tableau
16 43 (1.12%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 534 (13.85%) JIRA
2 440 (11.41%) Git
3 420 (10.89%) GitLab
4 342 (8.87%) Cucumber
5 329 (8.53%) Selenium
6 328 (8.51%) Jenkins
7 299 (7.76%) SonarQube
8 295 (7.65%) Sonatype Nexus
9 286 (7.42%) Maven
10 283 (7.34%) Bitbucket
11 79 (2.05%) Robot Framework
12 56 (1.45%) JUnit
13 48 (1.25%) Octopus Deploy
14 47 (1.22%) Vagrant
15 43 (1.12%) TeamCity
16 39 (1.01%) Postman
16 39 (1.01%) Visual Studio
17 33 (0.86%) Cypress.io
18 32 (0.83%) JMeter
19 26 (0.67%) Artifactory
General
1 1,096 (28.43%) Finance
2 964 (25.01%) Social Skills
3 806 (20.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 597 (15.49%) Analytical Skills
5 423 (10.97%) Banking
6 348 (9.03%) Law
7 272 (7.06%) Retail
8 197 (5.11%) Public Sector
9 145 (3.76%) Marketing
10 116 (3.01%) Investment Banking
11 109 (2.83%) Telecoms
12 90 (2.33%) Corporate Banking
13 66 (1.71%) Games
14 65 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
15 54 (1.40%) Manufacturing
16 52 (1.35%) Legal
17 47 (1.22%) Back Office
18 40 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
19 39 (1.01%) Financial Institution
20 36 (0.93%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 614 (15.93%) Senior
2 589 (15.28%) Developer
3 509 (13.20%) Lead
4 489 (12.68%) Software Engineer
5 461 (11.96%) DevOps Engineer
6 365 (9.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 310 (8.04%) Architect
8 178 (4.62%) Cloud Engineer
9 172 (4.46%) Senior Developer
10 162 (4.20%) Azure Engineer
11 142 (3.68%) Analyst
12 138 (3.58%) Data Engineer
13 126 (3.27%) AWS Engineer
14 105 (2.72%) Senior DevOps
15 100 (2.59%) Solutions Architect
16 99 (2.57%) Platform Engineer
17 94 (2.44%) AWS DevOps
18 91 (2.36%) Full-Stack Developer
18 91 (2.36%) Test Engineer
19 89 (2.31%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 590 (15.30%) React
2 531 (13.77%) .NET
3 414 (10.74%) HTML
4 409 (10.61%) Kafka
5 408 (10.58%) CSS
6 390 (10.12%) Spring
7 369 (9.57%) Spring Boot
8 348 (9.03%) REST
9 313 (8.12%) Elastic Stack
10 295 (7.65%) RESTful
11 264 (6.85%) JPA
12 258 (6.69%) Redux
13 201 (5.21%) Hibernate
14 142 (3.68%) .NET Framework
15 130 (3.37%) AngularJS
16 127 (3.29%) Node.js
17 123 (3.19%) Jest
18 117 (3.04%) HTML5
19 115 (2.98%) CSS3
20 113 (2.93%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 483 (12.53%) Product Ownership
2 416 (10.79%) Cloud Native
3 334 (8.66%) Enterprise Software
4 264 (6.85%) Cyberattack
5 143 (3.71%) Hybrid Cloud
5 143 (3.71%) Management Information System
6 101 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
7 86 (2.23%) Data Centre
8 85 (2.20%) Linux Command Line
8 85 (2.20%) Onboarding
9 78 (2.02%) Algorithms
10 75 (1.95%) e-Learning
11 68 (1.76%) Public Cloud
12 65 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
13 52 (1.35%) Security Posture
14 47 (1.22%) Mobile App
15 44 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
16 43 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
16 43 (1.12%) Virtual Team
17 40 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 698 (18.11%) Linux
2 570 (14.79%) Windows
3 282 (7.32%) Android
4 76 (1.97%) Windows Server
5 66 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 66 (1.71%) VMS
6 45 (1.17%) Unix
7 36 (0.93%) Ubuntu
8 27 (0.70%) Amazon Linux
9 23 (0.60%) Debian
10 22 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
11 20 (0.52%) Apple iOS
12 19 (0.49%) CentOS
13 13 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
14 11 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
15 8 (0.21%) Mac OS
16 5 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
17 3 (0.078%) Windows 10
18 2 (0.052%) AIX
18 2 (0.052%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,829 (47.44%) CI/CD
2 1,766 (45.81%) Agile
3 1,006 (26.10%) Problem-Solving
4 781 (20.26%) Test Automation
5 766 (19.87%) Microservices
6 757 (19.64%) Software Engineering
7 741 (19.22%) Containerisation
8 734 (19.04%) Mentoring
9 662 (17.17%) Infrastructure as Code
10 653 (16.94%) Continuous Improvement
11 558 (14.47%) SDLC
12 497 (12.89%) Artificial Intelligence
13 487 (12.63%) Full-Stack Development
14 463 (12.01%) Platform Engineering
15 443 (11.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 416 (10.79%) Analytics
17 388 (10.06%) Risk Management
18 384 (9.96%) Roadmaps
19 373 (9.68%) Front End Development
20 370 (9.60%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,245 (32.30%) Python
2 1,019 (26.43%) SQL
3 720 (18.68%) Java
4 709 (18.39%) PowerShell
5 706 (18.31%) JavaScript
6 576 (14.94%) C#
7 570 (14.79%) Bash
8 341 (8.85%) TypeScript
9 107 (2.78%) Go
10 106 (2.75%) Bicep
11 73 (1.89%) Groovy
12 54 (1.40%) T-SQL
13 49 (1.27%) Apex Code
14 45 (1.17%) Perl
15 43 (1.12%) PHP
15 43 (1.12%) Shell Script
16 42 (1.09%) C++
17 39 (1.01%) Scala
18 30 (0.78%) PL/SQL
19 28 (0.73%) C
Qualifications
1 553 (14.35%) Degree
2 338 (8.77%) Security Cleared
3 248 (6.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 244 (6.33%) SC Cleared
5 202 (5.24%) Azure Certification
6 134 (3.48%) Master's Degree
7 129 (3.35%) AWS Certification
8 79 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
9 64 (1.66%) DV Cleared
10 54 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 53 (1.37%) ISTQB
12 43 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
13 35 (0.91%) PMI Certification
14 34 (0.88%) PhD
15 30 (0.78%) CCNP
16 29 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
17 28 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
17 28 (0.73%) CISSP
18 21 (0.54%) ISEB
18 21 (0.54%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 635 (16.47%) QA
2 153 (3.97%) Accessibility
3 145 (3.76%) GDPR
4 128 (3.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 109 (2.83%) Data Quality
6 80 (2.08%) NIST
7 39 (1.01%) HIPAA
8 38 (0.99%) NCSC
9 32 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 29 (0.75%) SLA
11 23 (0.60%) PCI DSS
12 21 (0.54%) PMO
13 19 (0.49%) ISO 9001
14 18 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
14 18 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 12207
15 17 (0.44%) SOC 2
16 11 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
17 8 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 8 (0.21%) WCAG
18 7 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 1,161 (30.12%) Docker
2 288 (7.47%) vSphere
3 276 (7.16%) Hyper-V
4 264 (6.85%) VMware NSX
5 126 (3.27%) Active Directory
6 83 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
7 80 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
8 29 (0.75%) DFS Replication
9 19 (0.49%) NFS
9 19 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
10 16 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
11 12 (0.31%) Postfix
12 10 (0.26%) HDFS
12 10 (0.26%) Squid
13 9 (0.23%) Dovecot
14 5 (0.13%) Kamailio
15 4 (0.10%) Firmware
15 4 (0.10%) RACF
15 4 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
16 2 (0.052%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 1,053 (27.32%) Terraform
2 1,005 (26.07%) Kubernetes
3 602 (15.62%) Ansible
4 200 (5.19%) Grafana
5 195 (5.06%) Prometheus
6 40 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
7 39 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
8 22 (0.57%) Puppet
9 21 (0.54%) Argo
9 21 (0.54%) SCCM
10 17 (0.44%) Istio
10 17 (0.44%) Progress Chef
11 16 (0.42%) Nagios
11 16 (0.42%) Red Hat Satellite
12 14 (0.36%) Proxmox
13 12 (0.31%) Kibana
13 12 (0.31%) Nessus
14 7 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
14 7 (0.18%) vCenter Server
15 6 (0.16%) Rancher
Vendors
1 717 (18.60%) Microsoft
2 329 (8.53%) Cisco
3 328 (8.51%) Splunk
4 281 (7.29%) Juniper
5 269 (6.98%) 3PAR
6 249 (6.46%) Solace
7 194 (5.03%) Databricks
8 161 (4.18%) Google
9 138 (3.58%) Red Hat
10 122 (3.16%) Salesforce
11 119 (3.09%) VMware
12 104 (2.70%) ServiceNow
13 99 (2.57%) IBM
14 97 (2.52%) Oracle
15 56 (1.45%) SAP
16 51 (1.32%) OpenAI
17 36 (0.93%) Guidewire
18 34 (0.88%) SolarWinds
19 32 (0.83%) MuleSoft
20 26 (0.67%) Meraki