DevOps Jobs in the UK excluding London

DevOps
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 14 12
Rank change year-on-year -14 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,223 7,368 9,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.37% 12.36% 13.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.78% 12.92% 14.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3,390 3,972 6,100
10th Percentile £38,890 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,700 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.76% +2.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,715 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,455 57,006 67,470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.91% 95.60% 94.10%
Number of salaries quoted 41,124 29,353 41,315
10th Percentile £27,128 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the UK excluding London

DevOps
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for DevOps in the UK excluding London

DevOps
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps in the UK excluding London

DevOps
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. 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
North of England -11 1,392 £60,000 -2.44% 291
South East -5 1,307 £61,500 -5.38% 222
South West -3 868 £61,500 -1.60% 161
North West -7 867 £62,641 -3.63% 179
Midlands -11 715 £58,500 +1.74% 187
Scotland -37 490 £69,000 +6.15% 62
West Midlands -10 469 £60,000 +4.35% 122
Yorkshire -7 433 £60,000 -2.18% 85
East Midlands -10 246 £57,500 - 64
East of England -30 225 £56,250 -13.46% 64
Wales -4 159 £52,500 +5.00% 39
North East 0 94 £59,000 +7.27% 27
Northern Ireland +2 69 £63,750 +6.25% 35
Isle of Man - 3 - -
Channel Islands - 2 £115,000 -
DevOps
UK

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 284 (5.44%) ArcGIS
1 284 (5.44%) GeoServer
2 163 (3.12%) Confluence
3 130 (2.49%) SharePoint
4 112 (2.14%) IIS
5 79 (1.51%) CMS
6 70 (1.34%) Umbraco
7 58 (1.11%) nginx
8 55 (1.05%) Apache
9 50 (0.96%) OpenStack
10 49 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
11 42 (0.80%) Apache Spark
11 42 (0.80%) Headless CMS
11 42 (0.80%) Kentico
12 40 (0.77%) Sitecore CMS
13 28 (0.54%) WebSphere
14 22 (0.42%) Captiva
14 22 (0.42%) FileNet
15 18 (0.34%) Jupyter
16 15 (0.29%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 56 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 36 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 32 (0.61%) UserZoom
5 30 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
6 22 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 15 (0.29%) Simulink
7 15 (0.29%) Sketch
8 14 (0.27%) Trello
9 10 (0.19%) Photoshop
10 7 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
11 5 (0.096%) Adobe XD
12 3 (0.057%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.038%) S-PLUS
14 1 (0.019%) AutoCAD
14 1 (0.019%) Chatbot
14 1 (0.019%) GNU Octave
14 1 (0.019%) MicroStation
14 1 (0.019%) PTC Creo
14 1 (0.019%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 100 (1.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 36 (0.69%) Dynamics AX
3 28 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 11 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
5 8 (0.15%) Magento
5 8 (0.15%) Shopify
6 7 (0.13%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.11%) Maximo
8 4 (0.077%) Elite 3E
8 4 (0.077%) SAP S/4HANA
8 4 (0.077%) Visualfiles
9 3 (0.057%) Oracle Applications
9 3 (0.057%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.038%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.038%) SAP FI-GL
10 2 (0.038%) SystmOne
11 1 (0.019%) Dynamics GP
11 1 (0.019%) Infor M3
11 1 (0.019%) Primavera
11 1 (0.019%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 3,064 (58.66%) Azure
2 1,855 (35.52%) AWS
3 1,523 (29.16%) Azure DevOps
4 554 (10.61%) GCP
5 376 (7.20%) SaaS
5 376 (7.20%) Serverless
6 349 (6.68%) Power Platform
7 255 (4.88%) GitHub
7 255 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
8 229 (4.38%) Dynamics 365
9 228 (4.37%) IBM Cloud
10 196 (3.75%) PaaS
11 178 (3.41%) Azure Service Bus
12 172 (3.29%) Amazon S3
12 172 (3.29%) Azure Functions
13 162 (3.10%) Azure Logic Apps
14 149 (2.85%) IaaS
15 134 (2.57%) Azure API Management
15 134 (2.57%) PowerApps
16 133 (2.55%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 177 (3.39%) Firewall
2 147 (2.81%) DNS
3 79 (1.51%) VPN
4 76 (1.46%) TCP/IP
5 72 (1.38%) HTTP
6 71 (1.36%) DHCP
7 63 (1.21%) Network Security
8 50 (0.96%) WAN
9 32 (0.61%) LAN
10 19 (0.36%) Internet
10 19 (0.36%) SD-WAN
10 19 (0.36%) Unified Communications
11 15 (0.29%) MQTT
11 15 (0.29%) SSL
12 11 (0.21%) 5G
12 11 (0.21%) Intranet
13 10 (0.19%) NGFW
13 10 (0.19%) VLAN
14 9 (0.17%) BGP
14 9 (0.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 612 (11.72%) SQL Server
2 564 (10.80%) PostgreSQL
3 341 (6.53%) Relational Database
4 313 (5.99%) NoSQL
5 292 (5.59%) GIS
6 284 (5.44%) QGIS
7 244 (4.67%) MongoDB
8 243 (4.65%) Looker
9 238 (4.56%) BigQuery
10 236 (4.52%) Data Warehouse
11 194 (3.71%) Power BI
12 161 (3.08%) MySQL
13 125 (2.39%) DB2
14 121 (2.32%) Amazon RDS
15 102 (1.95%) Big Data
16 86 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
16 86 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
17 63 (1.21%) Hadoop
17 63 (1.21%) RDBMS
18 57 (1.09%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 778 (14.90%) Git
2 467 (8.94%) Jenkins
3 453 (8.67%) JIRA
4 224 (4.29%) Visual Studio
5 203 (3.89%) GitLab
6 103 (1.97%) Team Foundation Server
7 101 (1.93%) Bitbucket
7 101 (1.93%) Selenium
8 80 (1.53%) Postman
9 67 (1.28%) Cypress.io
10 61 (1.17%) Sourcetree
11 60 (1.15%) JUnit
12 57 (1.09%) Cucumber
13 52 (1.00%) Jasmine
14 51 (0.98%) NUnit
15 48 (0.92%) TeamCity
16 45 (0.86%) Subversion
17 38 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
18 33 (0.63%) SonarQube
19 32 (0.61%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1,111 (21.27%) Social Skills
2 720 (13.79%) Finance
3 484 (9.27%) Analytical Skills
4 377 (7.22%) Public Sector
5 324 (6.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 295 (5.65%) Law
7 215 (4.12%) Banking
8 173 (3.31%) Retail
9 162 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
10 148 (2.83%) Marketing
11 138 (2.64%) Aerospace
12 122 (2.34%) Legal
13 120 (2.30%) Games
14 79 (1.51%) Billing
15 68 (1.30%) Manufacturing
16 64 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
17 50 (0.96%) Automotive
18 48 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
19 47 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
20 43 (0.82%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1,389 (26.59%) Developer
2 1,073 (20.54%) Senior
3 730 (13.98%) Software Engineer
4 669 (12.81%) DevOps Engineer
5 533 (10.20%) Lead
6 355 (6.80%) Architect
7 348 (6.66%) Senior Developer
8 289 (5.53%) Data Engineer
9 286 (5.48%) Senior Software Engineer
10 267 (5.11%) Full Stack Developer
11 265 (5.07%) .NET Developer
12 252 (4.82%) Software Developer
13 213 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
14 176 (3.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 173 (3.31%) Azure Developer
16 167 (3.20%) Cloud Engineer
17 165 (3.16%) Principal Engineer
18 162 (3.10%) Azure Engineer
19 149 (2.85%) C# Developer
19 149 (2.85%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,392 (26.65%) .NET
2 949 (18.17%) React
3 783 (14.99%) CSS
4 617 (11.81%) .NET Core
5 576 (11.03%) HTML
6 517 (9.90%) AngularJS
7 467 (8.94%) Node.js
8 462 (8.85%) ASP.NET
9 354 (6.78%) .NET Framework
10 334 (6.39%) REST
11 289 (5.53%) Web Services
12 287 (5.49%) PostGIS
13 284 (5.44%) Leaflet
13 284 (5.44%) OpenLayers
14 267 (5.11%) Vue
15 262 (5.02%) RESTful
16 225 (4.31%) JSON
17 221 (4.23%) jQuery
18 203 (3.89%) Spring
19 196 (3.75%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 338 (6.47%) Product Ownership
2 291 (5.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 271 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
4 247 (4.73%) Public Cloud
5 225 (4.31%) Blockchain
6 215 (4.12%) Cloud Native
7 181 (3.47%) Data Structures
8 175 (3.35%) Algorithms
9 159 (3.04%) Management Information System
10 142 (2.72%) Private Cloud
11 131 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
12 126 (2.41%) Data Centre
13 100 (1.91%) Mobile App
14 98 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
15 91 (1.74%) IoT
16 89 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
17 74 (1.42%) Low-Code
18 70 (1.34%) Onboarding
19 66 (1.26%) e-Learning
20 60 (1.15%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 908 (17.38%) Linux
2 564 (10.80%) Windows
3 172 (3.29%) Android
4 162 (3.10%) Apple iOS
5 136 (2.60%) Windows Server
6 78 (1.49%) Ubuntu
7 74 (1.42%) Unix
8 70 (1.34%) CentOS
9 68 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 63 (1.21%) Debian
11 46 (0.88%) Alpine Linux
12 42 (0.80%) VMS
13 27 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
14 26 (0.50%) Windows 10
15 25 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
16 23 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
17 14 (0.27%) Mac OS X
18 10 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
19 8 (0.15%) CoreOS
20 7 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,766 (52.96%) Agile
2 1,557 (29.81%) CI/CD
3 1,280 (24.51%) Software Engineering
4 1,081 (20.70%) Problem-Solving
5 785 (15.03%) Mentoring
6 744 (14.24%) Scrum
7 644 (12.33%) Actionable Insight
8 643 (12.31%) Infrastructure as Code
9 603 (11.55%) Web Development
10 558 (10.68%) Continuous Integration
11 552 (10.57%) Full Stack Development
12 540 (10.34%) Test Automation
13 534 (10.22%) Microservices
14 530 (10.15%) Containerisation
15 475 (9.09%) SDLC
16 460 (8.81%) Artificial Intelligence
16 460 (8.81%) Roadmaps
17 435 (8.33%) Design Patterns
18 414 (7.93%) MVC
19 391 (7.49%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1,401 (26.82%) C#
2 1,342 (25.69%) JavaScript
3 1,257 (24.07%) Python
4 1,071 (20.51%) SQL
5 783 (14.99%) Java
6 379 (7.26%) PowerShell
7 336 (6.43%) TypeScript
8 323 (6.18%) Bash
9 162 (3.10%) PHP
10 138 (2.64%) T-SQL
11 126 (2.41%) Go
12 124 (2.37%) C
13 101 (1.93%) C++
14 92 (1.76%) Bicep
15 84 (1.61%) Ruby
16 73 (1.40%) VB.NET
17 72 (1.38%) Shell Script
18 56 (1.07%) Groovy
18 56 (1.07%) VB
19 55 (1.05%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,089 (20.85%) Security Cleared
2 832 (15.93%) SC Cleared
3 818 (15.66%) Degree
4 262 (5.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 192 (3.68%) DV Cleared
6 153 (2.93%) Azure Certification
7 129 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
8 116 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
9 110 (2.11%) AWS Certification
10 95 (1.82%) Master's Degree
11 53 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
12 45 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 45 (0.86%) MCSE
13 41 (0.78%) MCSA
14 38 (0.73%) PMI Certification
15 35 (0.67%) DBS Check
15 35 (0.67%) ISTQB
16 32 (0.61%) CISSP
17 31 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 29 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 447 (8.56%) QA
2 226 (4.33%) GDPR
3 105 (2.01%) Data Quality
4 64 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 60 (1.15%) PMO
6 38 (0.73%) Accessibility
7 33 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
8 26 (0.50%) NIST
9 22 (0.42%) SLA
10 21 (0.40%) PCI DSS
11 15 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.27%) HIPAA
13 13 (0.25%) NCSC
14 8 (0.15%) PSD2
15 7 (0.13%) ISO 13485
16 5 (0.096%) GRC
17 4 (0.077%) MISRA
17 4 (0.077%) SOC 2
18 2 (0.038%) HL7
18 2 (0.038%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 867 (16.60%) Docker
2 167 (3.20%) Active Directory
3 130 (2.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 118 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
5 106 (2.03%) Hyper-V
6 43 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (0.50%) Firmware
8 24 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
9 17 (0.33%) vSphere
10 13 (0.25%) VMware NSX
11 10 (0.19%) NFS
11 10 (0.19%) pfSense
12 7 (0.13%) IAG
12 7 (0.13%) KVM
13 6 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
14 4 (0.077%) VMware Server
14 4 (0.077%) Xen
15 3 (0.057%) VirtualBox
15 3 (0.057%) XenApp
16 2 (0.038%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 991 (18.97%) Kubernetes
2 920 (17.61%) Terraform
3 506 (9.69%) Ansible
4 152 (2.91%) Puppet
5 134 (2.57%) Prometheus
6 124 (2.37%) Grafana
7 91 (1.74%) Progress Chef
8 35 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
9 31 (0.59%) ZABBIX
10 26 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
11 24 (0.46%) Kibana
12 22 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
13 20 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 20 (0.38%) SCOM
14 18 (0.34%) HAProxy
14 18 (0.34%) SCCM
15 16 (0.31%) FortiGate
15 16 (0.31%) Rancher
16 14 (0.27%) WSUS
17 13 (0.25%) Consul
Vendors
1 1,159 (22.19%) Microsoft
2 371 (7.10%) Google
3 292 (5.59%) IBM
4 285 (5.46%) ESRI
4 285 (5.46%) Red Hat
5 190 (3.64%) Oracle
6 182 (3.48%) VMware
7 99 (1.90%) Databricks
8 86 (1.65%) ServiceNow
9 73 (1.40%) Dynatrace
10 59 (1.13%) SAP
11 53 (1.01%) Splunk
12 50 (0.96%) Atlassian
13 49 (0.94%) Cisco
14 47 (0.90%) Sitecore
15 37 (0.71%) Citrix
16 36 (0.69%) Optimizely
17 34 (0.65%) WSO2
18 32 (0.61%) Informatica
18 32 (0.61%) Qualtrics