Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
Period
to 28 November 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 28 November 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

DevOps
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
28 Nov 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 9 5 14
Rank change year-on-year -4 +9 +12
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,025 1,651 972
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.34% 20.07% 12.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.28% 21.39% 13.39%
Number of salaries quoted 4,199 1,530 907
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -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 27,487 7,718 7,259
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 94.85% 93.81% 93.79%
Number of salaries quoted 21,458 6,929 6,374
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,124
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -3.72% +3.86%
75th Percentile £79,688 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +2.44%

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 28 November 2021.

DevOps salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 28 November 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 2,589 (51.52%) Azure
2 2,217 (44.12%) Agile Software Development
3 1,809 (36.00%) AWS
4 1,563 (31.10%) Docker
5 1,521 (30.27%) Terraform
6 1,470 (29.25%) Kubernetes
7 1,151 (22.91%) C#
8 1,143 (22.75%) SQL
9 1,079 (21.47%) .NET
10 1,049 (20.88%) Microsoft
11 1,014 (20.18%) Python
12 982 (19.54%) Microservices
13 966 (19.22%) Finance
14 923 (18.37%) JavaScript
15 856 (17.03%) Social Skills
16 841 (16.74%) Java
17 834 (16.60%) Git (software)
18 756 (15.04%) Linux
19 743 (14.79%) Infrastructure as Code
20 735 (14.63%) Software Engineering
21 716 (14.25%) Scrum
22 693 (13.79%) Jenkins
23 660 (13.13%) React
24 641 (12.76%) Ansible
25 617 (12.28%) Test Automation
26 602 (11.98%) SQL Server
27 558 (11.10%) Continuous Integration
28 540 (10.75%) PowerShell
29 533 (10.61%) GCP
29 533 (10.61%) Greenfield Project

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
1 128 (2.55%) CMS
1 128 (2.55%) Confluence
2 122 (2.43%) IIS
3 103 (2.05%) SharePoint
4 95 (1.89%) Apache Spark
5 94 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
6 79 (1.57%) Sitecore CMS
7 77 (1.53%) Umbraco
8 62 (1.23%) Apache
8 62 (1.23%) EPiServer
8 62 (1.23%) Kentico
9 54 (1.07%) Headless CMS
10 47 (0.94%) nginx
11 41 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
12 28 (0.56%) WordPress
13 26 (0.52%) BizTalk Server
13 26 (0.52%) OpenStack
14 24 (0.48%) Drupal
15 18 (0.36%) Apache Solr
16 17 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 34 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.18%) Figma
4 7 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.14%) Sketch
5 6 (0.12%) InVision
6 5 (0.100%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.080%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.060%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.040%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.020%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.020%) Simulink
10 1 (0.020%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.020%) Weka
10 1 (0.020%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 23 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
3 19 (0.38%) Sentinel
4 18 (0.36%) NetSuite
5 10 (0.20%) Sage 200
6 9 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
7 8 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
8 5 (0.100%) Dynamics NAV
8 5 (0.100%) Magento
9 4 (0.080%) R3 Corda
9 4 (0.080%) Remedy ITSM
10 3 (0.060%) Shopify
11 1 (0.020%) Loan IQ
11 1 (0.020%) Northgate Housing
11 1 (0.020%) Raiser's Edge
11 1 (0.020%) SDL Web 8
11 1 (0.020%) Temenos T24
11 1 (0.020%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2,589 (51.52%) Azure
2 1,809 (36.00%) AWS
3 533 (10.61%) GCP
4 520 (10.35%) SaaS
5 422 (8.40%) Serverless
6 267 (5.31%) GitHub
7 243 (4.84%) AWS CloudFormation
8 235 (4.68%) Power Platform
9 226 (4.50%) PaaS
10 196 (3.90%) IaaS
11 181 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
12 150 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
13 129 (2.57%) Cloud Computing
14 114 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
15 101 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
16 100 (1.99%) Amazon EC2
16 100 (1.99%) Azure Service Bus
17 97 (1.93%) Azure Functions
18 94 (1.87%) Azure Logic Apps
19 90 (1.79%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 134 (2.67%) Firewall
2 84 (1.67%) DNS
3 77 (1.53%) TCP/IP
4 75 (1.49%) VPN
5 59 (1.17%) HTTP
6 56 (1.11%) Network Security
7 37 (0.74%) DHCP
8 35 (0.70%) Internet
9 34 (0.68%) IPv6
10 26 (0.52%) SSL
11 23 (0.46%) WAN
12 21 (0.42%) VLAN
13 20 (0.40%) LAN
14 18 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
15 16 (0.32%) Intranet
16 15 (0.30%) IPv4
17 13 (0.26%) VoIP
18 11 (0.22%) IPsec
18 11 (0.22%) Modbus
18 11 (0.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 602 (11.98%) SQL Server
2 279 (5.55%) MySQL
3 250 (4.98%) NoSQL
4 191 (3.80%) MongoDB
4 191 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
5 190 (3.78%) Power BI
6 157 (3.12%) Relational Database
7 142 (2.83%) Big Data
8 134 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
9 128 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
10 113 (2.25%) Amazon DynamoDB
11 111 (2.21%) Data Lake
12 100 (1.99%) Redis
13 78 (1.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 75 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 74 (1.47%) Hadoop
16 71 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
17 63 (1.25%) Blockchain
18 48 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
19 39 (0.78%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 834 (16.60%) Git (software)
2 693 (13.79%) Jenkins
3 316 (6.29%) JIRA
4 205 (4.08%) Visual Studio
5 200 (3.98%) Octopus Deploy
6 195 (3.88%) TeamCity
7 176 (3.50%) Selenium
8 153 (3.04%) GitLab
9 131 (2.61%) Team Foundation Server
10 112 (2.23%) Maven
11 107 (2.13%) Bitbucket
12 102 (2.03%) SpecFlow
13 93 (1.85%) JUnit
14 67 (1.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 66 (1.31%) Postman
16 58 (1.15%) ReSharper
17 55 (1.09%) Visual Studio Team System
18 43 (0.86%) Cypress.io
18 43 (0.86%) webpack
19 41 (0.82%) Subversion
General
1 966 (19.22%) Finance
2 856 (17.03%) Social Skills
3 244 (4.86%) Retail
4 220 (4.38%) Analytical Skills
5 204 (4.06%) Banking
6 182 (3.62%) Public Sector
7 171 (3.40%) Games
8 137 (2.73%) Marketing
9 88 (1.75%) Law
9 88 (1.75%) Telecoms
10 80 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 68 (1.35%) Legal
12 58 (1.15%) Advertising
13 54 (1.07%) Manufacturing
14 47 (0.94%) Billing
15 46 (0.92%) Financial Institution
16 42 (0.84%) Automotive
17 41 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
18 39 (0.78%) Front Office
18 39 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,669 (33.21%) Developer
2 1,130 (22.49%) DevOps Engineer
3 422 (8.40%) Senior Developer
4 381 (7.58%) Architect
5 372 (7.40%) .NET Developer
6 340 (6.77%) AWS Engineer
6 340 (6.77%) Azure Engineer
7 295 (5.87%) AWS DevOps
8 281 (5.59%) Cloud Engineer
9 272 (5.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 268 (5.33%) Software Engineer
11 255 (5.07%) C# Developer
12 207 (4.12%) Java Developer
13 194 (3.86%) Software Developer
14 185 (3.68%) Senior DevOps
15 170 (3.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 168 (3.34%) Azure Developer
17 144 (2.87%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 140 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
19 139 (2.77%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,079 (21.47%) .NET
2 660 (13.13%) React
3 476 (9.47%) .NET Core
4 441 (8.78%) Node.js
5 387 (7.70%) HTML
6 372 (7.40%) CSS
7 314 (6.25%) RESTful
8 309 (6.15%) Spring
9 298 (5.93%) AngularJS
10 294 (5.85%) Web Services
11 288 (5.73%) ASP.NET
12 273 (5.43%) .NET Framework
13 266 (5.29%) REST
14 195 (3.88%) Kafka
15 186 (3.70%) Spring Boot
16 178 (3.54%) HTML5
17 172 (3.42%) JSON
17 172 (3.42%) Vue.js
18 143 (2.85%) ASP.NET Web API
19 122 (2.43%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 533 (10.61%) Greenfield Project
2 208 (4.14%) Virtual Team
3 199 (3.96%) Mobile App
4 193 (3.84%) Cloud Native
5 189 (3.76%) Public Cloud
6 153 (3.04%) User Experience
7 122 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
8 96 (1.91%) Management Information System
9 90 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
10 67 (1.33%) Hedge funds
11 66 (1.31%) Data Centre
12 49 (0.98%) Derivative
12 49 (0.98%) Fixed Income
12 49 (0.98%) Legacy Code
13 48 (0.96%) Algorithms
14 47 (0.94%) Private Cloud
15 37 (0.74%) iPad
16 33 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
16 33 (0.66%) NHS
17 28 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 756 (15.04%) Linux
2 531 (10.57%) Windows
3 251 (5.00%) Windows Server
4 73 (1.45%) Android
4 73 (1.45%) Apple iOS
5 68 (1.35%) Unix
6 51 (1.01%) CentOS
7 36 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 31 (0.62%) Ubuntu
8 31 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
9 28 (0.56%) Debian
10 22 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
11 18 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
12 15 (0.30%) SUSE
13 13 (0.26%) Fedora
14 12 (0.24%) Windows 10
15 10 (0.20%) Solaris
15 10 (0.20%) VMS
16 7 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
17 5 (0.100%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,217 (44.12%) Agile Software Development
2 982 (19.54%) Microservices
3 743 (14.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 735 (14.63%) Software Engineering
5 716 (14.25%) Scrum
6 617 (12.28%) Test Automation
7 558 (11.10%) Continuous Integration
8 517 (10.29%) TDD
9 482 (9.59%) Mentoring
10 467 (9.29%) Full Stack Development
11 466 (9.27%) Problem-Solving
12 414 (8.24%) Migration
13 330 (6.57%) MVC
14 314 (6.25%) Coaching
15 283 (5.63%) Analytics
16 269 (5.35%) Business Intelligence
16 269 (5.35%) Deployment Automation
17 265 (5.27%) Open Source
18 259 (5.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 253 (5.03%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1,151 (22.91%) C#
2 1,143 (22.75%) SQL
3 1,014 (20.18%) Python
4 923 (18.37%) JavaScript
5 841 (16.74%) Java
6 540 (10.75%) PowerShell
7 423 (8.42%) Go
8 357 (7.10%) Bash Shell
9 297 (5.91%) TypeScript
10 191 (3.80%) PHP
11 153 (3.04%) Ruby
12 118 (2.35%) C
13 109 (2.17%) T-SQL
14 106 (2.11%) Scala
15 89 (1.77%) C++
16 83 (1.65%) Kotlin
17 79 (1.57%) Shell Script
18 67 (1.33%) Groovy
18 67 (1.33%) Perl
19 56 (1.11%) Java 8
Qualifications
1 361 (7.18%) Degree
2 146 (2.91%) Security Cleared
3 143 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 125 (2.49%) SC Cleared
5 61 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
6 51 (1.01%) AWS Certification
7 46 (0.92%) ISTQB
8 33 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
9 27 (0.54%) ISEB
10 26 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 22 (0.44%) CISSP
12 17 (0.34%) CREST Certified
12 17 (0.34%) Master's Degree
13 16 (0.32%) CESG Certified Professional
14 15 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 14 (0.28%) CISM
16 11 (0.22%) CLAS
17 10 (0.20%) CCSP
17 10 (0.20%) CISA
17 10 (0.20%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 366 (7.28%) QA
2 98 (1.95%) Accessibility
3 56 (1.11%) SLA
4 47 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 39 (0.78%) GDPR
6 34 (0.68%) NIST
7 33 (0.66%) GRC
8 28 (0.56%) Data Quality
9 23 (0.46%) PCI DSS
10 22 (0.44%) PMO
11 17 (0.34%) IASME
11 17 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 11 (0.22%) ISO 9001
12 11 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 10 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 8 (0.16%) ISAE 3402
14 8 (0.16%) ISO 31000
15 7 (0.14%) SOC 2
16 6 (0.12%) NCSC
17 5 (0.100%) WCAG
System Software
1 1,563 (31.10%) Docker
2 152 (3.02%) Active Directory
3 62 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 53 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
5 34 (0.68%) vSphere
6 23 (0.46%) KVM
7 15 (0.30%) Varnish
8 9 (0.18%) Hyper-V
9 8 (0.16%) ISA Server
10 7 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 7 (0.14%) XenApp
10 7 (0.14%) XenDesktop
11 6 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.100%) NFS
12 5 (0.100%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.060%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.040%) vCloud
14 2 (0.040%) VMware Workstation
14 2 (0.040%) zsh
15 1 (0.020%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 1,521 (30.27%) Terraform
2 1,470 (29.25%) Kubernetes
3 641 (12.76%) Ansible
4 349 (6.95%) Puppet
5 299 (5.95%) Opscode Chef
6 89 (1.77%) Grafana
7 58 (1.15%) Prometheus
8 46 (0.92%) Rancher
9 31 (0.62%) HAProxy
10 30 (0.60%) Packer
11 28 (0.56%) Nagios
12 27 (0.54%) Istio
13 22 (0.44%) Icinga
13 22 (0.44%) SCCM
14 18 (0.36%) Kibana
15 17 (0.34%) Amdocs OSS
15 17 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
16 16 (0.32%) CASB
16 16 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
16 16 (0.32%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1,049 (20.88%) Microsoft
2 280 (5.57%) Google
2 280 (5.57%) Oracle
3 104 (2.07%) VMware
4 86 (1.71%) Databricks
5 81 (1.61%) Sitecore
6 79 (1.57%) Splunk
7 65 (1.29%) SAP
8 62 (1.23%) EnterpriseDB
9 61 (1.21%) Salesforce.com
10 47 (0.94%) Red Hat
11 46 (0.92%) ServiceNow
12 36 (0.72%) Cisco
13 34 (0.68%) New Relic
14 31 (0.62%) F5
15 28 (0.56%) IBM
16 26 (0.52%) Atlassian
17 21 (0.42%) MuleSoft
18 18 (0.36%) Dynatrace
19 17 (0.34%) SaltStack