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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 19 26
Rank change year-on-year -10 +7 -14
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 4,323 3,882 7,126
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 4.64% 9.09% 7.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.27% 9.75% 8.54%
Number of salaries quoted 3,093 2,274 5,256
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,433 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,873 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +10.57% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 68,898 39,816 83,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.92% 93.23% 83.93%
Number of salaries quoted 44,884 20,923 60,289
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,000 £39,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,033 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.39% +5.51% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,324 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.29% +2.65% -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 28 May 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 28 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 -12 3,797 £70,000 -3.45% 1,447
UK excluding London -20 2,548 £65,000 - 1,004
Work from Home -7 1,559 £69,305 -0.99% 788
London -9 1,412 £82,500 - 616
North of England -14 881 £70,000 +3.70% 319
South East -11 567 £65,000 - 260
North West -15 461 £70,000 - 179
South West -14 352 £65,000 - 131
Midlands -27 337 £67,500 +12.50% 125
Yorkshire -5 272 £70,000 - 94
West Midlands -37 191 £63,000 +5.00% 87
Scotland -1 165 £55,000 -25.42% 54
East of England -10 159 £63,750 -1.92% 68
North East +2 148 £60,000 -7.69% 49
East Midlands 0 143 £70,000 +7.69% 38
Wales -6 82 £53,000 -11.67% 33
Northern Ireland -34 10 £73,151 +33.00% 28
Isle of Man +1 3 £35,000 -33.33%

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 77 (1.78%) SharePoint
2 75 (1.73%) Confluence
3 53 (1.23%) Apache
4 49 (1.13%) Apache Spark
5 46 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
6 37 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
7 28 (0.65%) CMS
7 28 (0.65%) IIS
8 16 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
9 12 (0.28%) OpenStack
10 11 (0.25%) SAS
11 9 (0.21%) Moodle
11 9 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
11 9 (0.21%) Umbraco
12 8 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
13 7 (0.16%) Apache Solr
13 7 (0.16%) nginx
13 7 (0.16%) WordPress
14 6 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 6 (0.14%) Anypoint
Applications
1 33 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 33 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
2 26 (0.60%) MS Visio
3 12 (0.28%) PlantUML
4 11 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 9 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
7 6 (0.14%) Simulink
8 3 (0.069%) Maya
8 3 (0.069%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.046%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.046%) Blender
9 2 (0.046%) Trello
10 1 (0.023%) EngageOne
10 1 (0.023%) Lightworks
10 1 (0.023%) Notion
10 1 (0.023%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 74 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.30%) SAP ERP
4 10 (0.23%) Endur
4 10 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.12%) Visualfiles
7 4 (0.093%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.093%) Markit EDM
7 4 (0.093%) Shopify
8 3 (0.069%) Elite 3E
8 3 (0.069%) Magento
8 3 (0.069%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.046%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.046%) Fidessa
9 2 (0.046%) Infor SunSystems
10 1 (0.023%) Infor M3
10 1 (0.023%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.023%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2,301 (53.23%) Azure
2 1,390 (32.15%) AWS
3 1,129 (26.12%) Azure DevOps
4 500 (11.57%) GitHub
5 483 (11.17%) GCP
6 433 (10.02%) Serverless
7 337 (7.80%) Power Platform
8 268 (6.20%) GitHub Actions
9 263 (6.08%) SaaS
10 229 (5.30%) Amazon S3
11 223 (5.16%) AWS CloudFormation
12 214 (4.95%) AWS Lambda
13 166 (3.84%) Microsoft 365
14 161 (3.72%) PaaS
15 152 (3.52%) Entra ID
16 142 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
16 142 (3.28%) Azure Data Factory
17 140 (3.24%) Azure AKS
18 138 (3.19%) Amazon ECS
19 135 (3.12%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 141 (3.26%) Firewall
2 93 (2.15%) DNS
3 64 (1.48%) Broadband
4 59 (1.36%) TCP/IP
5 47 (1.09%) VPN
6 39 (0.90%) Network Security
7 35 (0.81%) HTTP
8 28 (0.65%) WAN
9 27 (0.62%) DHCP
10 23 (0.53%) LAN
11 10 (0.23%) BGP
11 10 (0.23%) MQTT
11 10 (0.23%) SAN
11 10 (0.23%) Wireless
12 8 (0.19%) Internet
13 7 (0.16%) DMARC
13 7 (0.16%) HTTPS
14 6 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (0.14%) VXLAN
14 6 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (5.64%) SQL Server
2 204 (4.72%) NoSQL
3 190 (4.40%) Power BI
4 165 (3.82%) MongoDB
5 160 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 143 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
7 112 (2.59%) DynamoDB
8 88 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
8 88 (2.04%) Relational Database
9 87 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
10 86 (1.99%) Data Lake
11 67 (1.55%) Metadata
11 67 (1.55%) MySQL
12 64 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
13 45 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
14 38 (0.88%) BigQuery
15 36 (0.83%) Delta Lake
16 34 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
17 32 (0.74%) Redis
18 31 (0.72%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 476 (11.01%) Git
2 395 (9.14%) Jenkins
3 366 (8.47%) GitLab
4 254 (5.88%) JIRA
5 100 (2.31%) SonarQube
6 83 (1.92%) Cypress.io
7 80 (1.85%) Selenium
8 63 (1.46%) Maven
9 45 (1.04%) Postman
10 37 (0.86%) Cucumber
11 36 (0.83%) Bitbucket
11 36 (0.83%) CircleCI
12 35 (0.81%) TeamCity
13 33 (0.76%) JUnit
14 26 (0.60%) Eclipse
14 26 (0.60%) JMeter
15 24 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
16 23 (0.53%) Visual Studio
17 20 (0.46%) REST Assured
18 19 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 949 (21.95%) Finance
2 904 (20.91%) Social Skills
3 362 (8.37%) Analytical Skills
4 279 (6.45%) Public Sector
5 248 (5.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 234 (5.41%) Banking
7 136 (3.15%) Retail
8 125 (2.89%) Law
9 105 (2.43%) Marketing
10 80 (1.85%) Legal
11 76 (1.76%) Games
12 45 (1.04%) Manufacturing
13 44 (1.02%) Advertising
13 44 (1.02%) Telecoms
14 41 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
15 40 (0.93%) Financial Institution
16 35 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
17 34 (0.79%) Billing
18 31 (0.72%) Back Office
19 30 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 927 (21.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 886 (20.50%) Senior
3 762 (17.63%) Developer
4 618 (14.30%) Lead
5 351 (8.12%) Architect
6 325 (7.52%) Software Engineer
7 318 (7.36%) Azure Engineer
8 259 (5.99%) Cloud Engineer
9 219 (5.07%) Senior DevOps
10 197 (4.56%) Senior Developer
11 190 (4.40%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 167 (3.86%) Data Engineer
13 164 (3.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 151 (3.49%) AWS Engineer
15 149 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
16 147 (3.40%) Java Developer
17 145 (3.35%) Platform Engineer
18 132 (3.05%) Lead DevOps
19 121 (2.80%) .NET Developer
20 112 (2.59%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 525 (12.14%) .NET
2 377 (8.72%) React
3 285 (6.59%) REST
4 268 (6.20%) Node.js
5 250 (5.78%) RESTful
6 186 (4.30%) Spring Boot
7 172 (3.98%) CSS
7 172 (3.98%) Spring
8 168 (3.89%) ASP.NET
8 168 (3.89%) HTML
9 161 (3.72%) .NET Core
9 161 (3.72%) Kafka
10 154 (3.56%) AngularJS
11 122 (2.82%) ASP.NET Core
12 120 (2.78%) SOAP
13 109 (2.52%) OAuth
14 103 (2.38%) YAML
15 101 (2.34%) Middleware
16 95 (2.20%) JSON
17 93 (2.15%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 602 (13.93%) Cloud Native
2 298 (6.89%) Product Ownership
3 152 (3.52%) Distributed Systems
4 127 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
5 89 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
6 82 (1.90%) Management Information System
7 72 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
8 69 (1.60%) Onboarding
9 65 (1.50%) Mobile App
10 59 (1.36%) Data Centre
11 55 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
12 52 (1.20%) Public Cloud
13 51 (1.18%) Algorithms
14 50 (1.16%) Data Structures
14 50 (1.16%) Low-Code
15 37 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
16 34 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
17 31 (0.72%) Virtual Team
18 30 (0.69%) Security Posture
19 28 (0.65%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 440 (10.18%) Linux
2 193 (4.46%) Windows
3 83 (1.92%) Unix
4 75 (1.73%) Windows Server
5 53 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 44 (1.02%) Ubuntu
7 31 (0.72%) Android
7 31 (0.72%) CentOS
8 30 (0.69%) VMS
9 25 (0.58%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.19%) Debian
10 8 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.093%) Kali Linux
11 4 (0.093%) Rocky
11 4 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.046%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.046%) Embedded Linux
12 2 (0.046%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.023%) SUSE
13 1 (0.023%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,208 (51.08%) CI/CD
2 1,540 (35.62%) Agile
3 1,049 (24.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 786 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 726 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
6 719 (16.63%) Mentoring
7 702 (16.24%) Software Engineering
8 673 (15.57%) AI
9 635 (14.69%) Test Automation
10 579 (13.39%) Containerisation
11 574 (13.28%) Microservices
12 475 (10.99%) Observability
13 453 (10.48%) Roadmaps
14 441 (10.20%) Full-Stack Development
15 439 (10.15%) Analytics
16 428 (9.90%) Platform Engineering
17 414 (9.58%) Scrum
18 374 (8.65%) Technical Leadership
19 322 (7.45%) Data Modelling
20 313 (7.24%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,081 (25.01%) Python
2 799 (18.48%) SQL
3 616 (14.25%) Java
4 527 (12.19%) C#
5 488 (11.29%) JavaScript
6 367 (8.49%) Bash
7 332 (7.68%) TypeScript
8 274 (6.34%) PowerShell
9 147 (3.40%) Go
10 127 (2.94%) C++
11 123 (2.85%) Bicep
12 86 (1.99%) Apex Code
13 57 (1.32%) PHP
14 53 (1.23%) Groovy
15 47 (1.09%) Scala
16 46 (1.06%) SOQL
17 44 (1.02%) SOSL
18 42 (0.97%) C
19 38 (0.88%) Kotlin
20 34 (0.79%) Rust
Qualifications
1 620 (14.34%) Security Cleared
2 445 (10.29%) Degree
3 366 (8.47%) SC Cleared
4 173 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 163 (3.77%) DV Cleared
6 107 (2.48%) AWS Certification
7 99 (2.29%) Azure Certification
8 92 (2.13%) Master's Degree
9 52 (1.20%) ISTQB
10 41 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
11 35 (0.81%) DBS Check
12 32 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
13 30 (0.69%) PMI Certification
14 29 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 27 (0.62%) CISSP
16 24 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 21 (0.49%) PhD
18 20 (0.46%) PMP
19 18 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
19 18 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 353 (8.17%) QA
2 172 (3.98%) Data Quality
3 139 (3.22%) Accessibility
4 93 (2.15%) GDPR
5 69 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 56 (1.30%) NIST
7 46 (1.06%) GRC
8 34 (0.79%) SOC 2
8 34 (0.79%) WCAG
9 33 (0.76%) PCI DSS
10 19 (0.44%) SLA
11 14 (0.32%) PMO
12 12 (0.28%) TickIT
13 11 (0.25%) NCSC
14 9 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 8 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
16 6 (0.14%) Solvency II
17 5 (0.12%) IFRS
17 5 (0.12%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 722 (16.70%) Docker
2 143 (3.31%) Active Directory
3 53 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.44%) Firmware
6 17 (0.39%) Hyper-V
7 16 (0.37%) vSphere
8 7 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.12%) iptables
10 4 (0.093%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 4 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.093%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.069%) Embedded Firmware
11 3 (0.069%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.046%) KVM
12 2 (0.046%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.023%) OpenAM
13 1 (0.023%) OpenDJ
13 1 (0.023%) OpenIDM
13 1 (0.023%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1,082 (25.03%) Terraform
2 787 (18.20%) Kubernetes
3 387 (8.95%) Ansible
4 226 (5.23%) Grafana
5 184 (4.26%) Prometheus
6 79 (1.83%) Argo
7 50 (1.16%) Puppet
8 37 (0.86%) Nagios
9 36 (0.83%) HP Fortify
9 36 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
10 27 (0.62%) Kibana
11 25 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
12 18 (0.42%) Kustomize
13 17 (0.39%) Istio
14 15 (0.35%) Rancher
15 14 (0.32%) Packer
16 12 (0.28%) Progress Chef
17 11 (0.25%) Proxmox
18 10 (0.23%) logstash
19 9 (0.21%) yum
Vendors
1 818 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 162 (3.75%) Salesforce
3 159 (3.68%) Google
4 156 (3.61%) Databricks
5 95 (2.20%) Splunk
6 90 (2.08%) VMware
7 87 (2.01%) Oracle
8 80 (1.85%) Red Hat
8 80 (1.85%) ServiceNow
9 54 (1.25%) SAP
10 42 (0.97%) MuleSoft
11 33 (0.76%) Cisco
12 32 (0.74%) Dynatrace
13 31 (0.72%) Palo Alto
14 25 (0.58%) OpenAI
15 24 (0.56%) Pega
16 23 (0.53%) Adobe
17 19 (0.44%) IBM
17 19 (0.44%) Okta
17 19 (0.44%) SolarWinds