Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
Period
to 11 May 2021

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 11 May 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

DevOps
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
11 May 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 8 15 19
Rank change year-on-year +7 +4 +34
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 3,069 825 874
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.99% 12.92% 10.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.41% 13.89% 11.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,682 708 800
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -17.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £73,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,811 5,938 7,362
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 92.69% 93.01% 92.24%
Number of salaries quoted 13,292 5,056 6,267
10th Percentile £34,567 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%

DevOps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DevOps trend for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DevOps.

DevOps salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DevOps over the 6 months to 11 May 2021.

DevOps salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 11 May 2021, DevOps job roles required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with a WFH option and a requirement for DevOps.

1 1,705 (55.56%) Azure
2 1,476 (48.09%) Agile Software Development
3 1,275 (41.54%) AWS
4 962 (31.35%) Kubernetes
5 947 (30.86%) Docker
6 819 (26.69%) SQL
7 777 (25.32%) Terraform
8 737 (24.01%) Linux
9 709 (23.10%) JavaScript
10 700 (22.81%) C#
11 689 (22.45%) Microsoft
12 645 (21.02%) Scrum
13 618 (20.14%) .NET
14 581 (18.93%) Git (software)
15 576 (18.77%) Python
16 569 (18.54%) Microservices
17 564 (18.38%) Java
18 525 (17.11%) Jenkins
19 520 (16.94%) Continuous Integration
20 495 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
21 476 (15.51%) Finance
21 476 (15.51%) Software Engineering
22 460 (14.99%) SQL Server
23 431 (14.04%) Ansible
24 414 (13.49%) Windows
25 408 (13.29%) Social Skills
26 372 (12.12%) Migration
27 356 (11.60%) GCP
28 350 (11.40%) TDD
29 341 (11.11%) Test Automation

DevOps
Co-occurring IT Skills with a WFH Option by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 129 (4.20%) Elasticsearch
2 87 (2.83%) CMS
3 82 (2.67%) Apache
4 72 (2.35%) Confluence
5 57 (1.86%) SharePoint
6 56 (1.82%) IIS
7 54 (1.76%) Apache Spark
8 42 (1.37%) Umbraco
9 36 (1.17%) Sitecore CMS
10 34 (1.11%) WordPress
11 28 (0.91%) nginx
12 25 (0.81%) Kentico
13 24 (0.78%) EPiServer
13 24 (0.78%) Tomcat
14 19 (0.62%) OpenStack
15 10 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
15 10 (0.33%) Apache Solr
16 9 (0.29%) Cloud Foundry
17 8 (0.26%) NServiceBus
18 7 (0.23%) CloudStack
Applications
1 12 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.36%) Figma
3 9 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.29%) Sketch
4 8 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.16%) Adobe XD
6 4 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 4 (0.13%) InVision
7 3 (0.098%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.065%) Zeplin
9 1 (0.033%) GNU Octave
9 1 (0.033%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.033%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 22 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.55%) Magento
3 14 (0.46%) nopCommerce
3 14 (0.46%) Sentinel
4 8 (0.26%) R3 Corda
5 4 (0.13%) Elite 3E
5 4 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
6 3 (0.098%) Infor M3
6 3 (0.098%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.098%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.098%) SAP CRM
7 2 (0.065%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.065%) Salesforce.com CRM
7 2 (0.065%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.065%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.065%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.033%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.033%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.033%) Shopify
8 1 (0.033%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,705 (55.56%) Azure
2 1,275 (41.54%) AWS
3 356 (11.60%) GCP
4 291 (9.48%) SaaS
5 238 (7.75%) AWS CloudFormation
6 194 (6.32%) PaaS
7 191 (6.22%) Serverless
8 169 (5.51%) IaaS
9 127 (4.14%) GitHub
10 122 (3.98%) Azure Active Directory
11 108 (3.52%) Power Platform
12 83 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
13 74 (2.41%) Amazon S3
14 68 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
15 66 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
16 62 (2.02%) Amazon EKS
17 60 (1.96%) Azure Functions
18 58 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
19 57 (1.86%) Azure Data Factory
20 54 (1.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 86 (2.80%) Firewall
2 42 (1.37%) DNS
3 39 (1.27%) TCP/IP
4 36 (1.17%) VPN
5 29 (0.94%) HTTP
6 28 (0.91%) WAN
7 27 (0.88%) Network Security
8 23 (0.75%) SAN
9 21 (0.68%) VLAN
10 20 (0.65%) LAN
11 18 (0.59%) Internet
12 16 (0.52%) DHCP
13 13 (0.42%) Cisco ASA
14 9 (0.29%) SSL
15 8 (0.26%) RTP
15 8 (0.26%) VoIP
16 6 (0.20%) SD-WAN
17 5 (0.16%) DMZ
18 4 (0.13%) H.323
18 4 (0.13%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 460 (14.99%) SQL Server
2 196 (6.39%) MySQL
3 188 (6.13%) PostgreSQL
4 182 (5.93%) MongoDB
4 182 (5.93%) NoSQL
5 106 (3.45%) Big Data
6 103 (3.36%) Azure SQL Database
7 94 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
8 81 (2.64%) Power BI
9 80 (2.61%) Amazon DynamoDB
10 73 (2.38%) Relational Database
11 68 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 54 (1.76%) Redis
12 54 (1.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 52 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
14 44 (1.43%) Hadoop
15 40 (1.30%) Data Lake
16 34 (1.11%) Blockchain
17 22 (0.72%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
17 22 (0.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 581 (18.93%) Git (software)
2 525 (17.11%) Jenkins
3 182 (5.93%) GitLab
4 172 (5.60%) JIRA
5 134 (4.37%) Maven
6 116 (3.78%) TeamCity
7 105 (3.42%) Selenium
7 105 (3.42%) Visual Studio
8 100 (3.26%) Octopus Deploy
9 74 (2.41%) Bitbucket
10 68 (2.22%) JUnit
11 64 (2.09%) Cucumber
12 59 (1.92%) Gradle
13 55 (1.79%) Visual Studio Team System
14 52 (1.69%) Team Foundation Server
15 39 (1.27%) SpecFlow
16 36 (1.17%) Artifactory
17 31 (1.01%) WebDriver
18 27 (0.88%) Cypress.io
19 25 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 476 (15.51%) Finance
2 408 (13.29%) Social Skills
3 158 (5.15%) Games
4 108 (3.52%) Marketing
5 97 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
6 94 (3.06%) Retail
7 92 (3.00%) Banking
8 83 (2.70%) Public Sector
9 48 (1.56%) Law
9 48 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
10 39 (1.27%) Electronics
11 35 (1.14%) Telecoms
12 29 (0.94%) Advertising
13 28 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
14 26 (0.85%) Billing
14 26 (0.85%) Manufacturing
15 24 (0.78%) Legal
16 20 (0.65%) Back Office
16 20 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
17 16 (0.52%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,012 (32.97%) Developer
2 852 (27.76%) DevOps Engineer
3 304 (9.91%) Azure Engineer
4 275 (8.96%) Senior Developer
5 241 (7.85%) AWS Engineer
6 236 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
7 216 (7.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 210 (6.84%) Senior DevOps
9 208 (6.78%) Java Developer
10 200 (6.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 186 (6.06%) .NET Developer
12 167 (5.44%) Software Engineer
13 162 (5.28%) Architect
14 145 (4.72%) C# Developer
15 140 (4.56%) Full Stack Developer
15 140 (4.56%) Platform Engineer
16 133 (4.33%) Cloud Engineer
17 132 (4.30%) Software Developer
18 130 (4.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 86 (2.80%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 618 (20.14%) .NET
2 335 (10.92%) React
3 284 (9.25%) AngularJS
4 281 (9.16%) CSS
5 278 (9.06%) HTML
6 260 (8.47%) Node.js
7 241 (7.85%) Spring
8 238 (7.75%) .NET Core
9 219 (7.14%) Spring Boot
10 200 (6.52%) Kafka
11 189 (6.16%) .NET Framework
12 182 (5.93%) Web Services
13 165 (5.38%) ASP.NET
13 165 (5.38%) REST
14 164 (5.34%) Vue.js
15 159 (5.18%) RESTful
16 102 (3.32%) HTML5
17 90 (2.93%) Ruby on Rails
18 85 (2.77%) ASP.NET Web API
18 85 (2.77%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 206 (6.71%) Greenfield Project
2 136 (4.43%) Public Cloud
3 112 (3.65%) Hybrid Cloud
3 112 (3.65%) User Experience
4 102 (3.32%) Cloud Native
5 89 (2.90%) Mobile App
6 79 (2.57%) Self-Motivation
7 67 (2.18%) Data Centre
8 51 (1.66%) Virtual Team
9 46 (1.50%) iPad
10 42 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
11 39 (1.27%) Algorithms
12 33 (1.08%) Management Information System
13 30 (0.98%) NHS
13 30 (0.98%) Private Cloud
14 24 (0.78%) N-Tier
15 14 (0.46%) e-Learning
15 14 (0.46%) Linux Command Line
15 14 (0.46%) Online Games
16 13 (0.42%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 737 (24.01%) Linux
2 414 (13.49%) Windows
3 121 (3.94%) Windows Server
4 73 (2.38%) Unix
5 63 (2.05%) Android
6 48 (1.56%) Apple iOS
6 48 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 33 (1.08%) CentOS
8 28 (0.91%) Ubuntu
9 26 (0.85%) Windows Server 2012
10 20 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
10 20 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
11 13 (0.42%) SUSE
12 11 (0.36%) Windows 10
13 9 (0.29%) Debian
14 6 (0.20%) VMS
15 5 (0.16%) Mac OS X
16 4 (0.13%) Mac OS
17 3 (0.098%) Embedded Linux
18 2 (0.065%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,476 (48.09%) Agile Software Development
2 645 (21.02%) Scrum
3 569 (18.54%) Microservices
4 520 (16.94%) Continuous Integration
5 495 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
6 476 (15.51%) Software Engineering
7 372 (12.12%) Migration
8 350 (11.40%) TDD
9 341 (11.11%) Test Automation
10 277 (9.03%) Mentoring
11 257 (8.37%) Problem-Solving
12 252 (8.21%) Fintech
13 234 (7.62%) Deployment Automation
14 220 (7.17%) SDLC
15 211 (6.88%) BDD
16 178 (5.80%) MVC
17 174 (5.67%) Coaching
18 171 (5.57%) Continuous Delivery
19 168 (5.47%) E-Commerce
20 162 (5.28%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 819 (26.69%) SQL
2 709 (23.10%) JavaScript
3 700 (22.81%) C#
4 576 (18.77%) Python
5 564 (18.38%) Java
6 282 (9.19%) PowerShell
7 237 (7.72%) TypeScript
8 190 (6.19%) Bash Shell
9 168 (5.47%) Go
10 144 (4.69%) Ruby
11 135 (4.40%) PHP
12 75 (2.44%) Kotlin
13 74 (2.41%) T-SQL
14 57 (1.86%) Scala
15 48 (1.56%) Java 8
16 43 (1.40%) C++
16 43 (1.40%) Shell Script
17 42 (1.37%) Groovy
18 37 (1.21%) C
19 23 (0.75%) ES6
Qualifications
1 216 (7.04%) Degree
2 209 (6.81%) Security Cleared
3 192 (6.26%) SC Cleared
4 85 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 51 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 34 (1.11%) AWS Certification
7 23 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (0.55%) ISEB
9 14 (0.46%) CISSP
10 13 (0.42%) PMI Certification
11 11 (0.36%) ISTQB
12 10 (0.33%) MCSD
13 8 (0.26%) MCSE
14 7 (0.23%) CISM
14 7 (0.23%) MCSA
14 7 (0.23%) PhD
15 6 (0.20%) CISA
15 6 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.20%) PMP
15 6 (0.20%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (5.41%) QA
2 31 (1.01%) SLA
3 29 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (0.85%) GDPR
5 18 (0.59%) Data Quality
6 17 (0.55%) NIST
7 14 (0.46%) WAI
8 9 (0.29%) GRC
8 9 (0.29%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.26%) PMO
10 6 (0.20%) ISO 9001
11 5 (0.16%) COBIT
11 5 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 5 (0.16%) NCSC
11 5 (0.16%) WCAG
12 4 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.065%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 1 (0.033%) ISAE 3402
14 1 (0.033%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.033%) SOC 2
System Software
1 947 (30.86%) Docker
2 160 (5.21%) Active Directory
3 86 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (1.21%) Hyper-V
4 37 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.49%) vSphere
6 8 (0.26%) LXC
6 8 (0.26%) Xen
7 4 (0.13%) Apache Flume
7 4 (0.13%) Gluster
7 4 (0.13%) iptables
7 4 (0.13%) Postfix
8 3 (0.098%) Kamailio
8 3 (0.098%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.065%) Ceph
9 2 (0.065%) Firmware
9 2 (0.065%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.065%) NFS
9 2 (0.065%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.065%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 962 (31.35%) Kubernetes
2 777 (25.32%) Terraform
3 431 (14.04%) Ansible
4 306 (9.97%) Opscode Chef
5 297 (9.68%) Puppet
6 89 (2.90%) Istio
7 76 (2.48%) Prometheus
8 56 (1.82%) Grafana
9 41 (1.34%) Packer
10 36 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
11 35 (1.14%) SCCM
12 29 (0.94%) Rancher
13 26 (0.85%) ZABBIX
14 23 (0.75%) Nagios
15 20 (0.65%) Graphite
15 20 (0.65%) Salt
16 17 (0.55%) SCVMM
17 11 (0.36%) HAProxy
17 11 (0.36%) Kibana
18 9 (0.29%) SCOM
Vendors
1 689 (22.45%) Microsoft
2 326 (10.62%) Oracle
3 152 (4.95%) Google
4 117 (3.81%) VMware
5 116 (3.78%) EnterpriseDB
6 48 (1.56%) SAP
7 45 (1.47%) Red Hat
8 43 (1.40%) Atlassian
9 40 (1.30%) Sitecore
10 39 (1.27%) IBM
11 37 (1.21%) Cisco
12 35 (1.14%) Databricks
13 30 (0.98%) ServiceNow
14 27 (0.88%) Splunk
15 25 (0.81%) Veeam
16 23 (0.75%) Adobe
17 19 (0.62%) Salesforce.com
18 15 (0.49%) Informatica
19 14 (0.46%) Aquila
19 14 (0.46%) SolarWinds