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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 15 13
Rank change year-on-year -13 -2 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 5,352 6,667 10,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.04% 11.79% 13.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.60% 12.35% 14.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3,381 3,867 5,981
10th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,542 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £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 62,202 53,975 69,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.87% 95.46% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 42,597 28,532 41,279
10th Percentile £27,300 £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 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -9 1,459 £60,000 -4.00% 271
South East -6 1,348 £61,500 -5.38% 207
North West -6 915 £62,500 -3.85% 161
South West -4 869 £60,000 -4.00% 139
Midlands -13 736 £59,250 +3.04% 174
Scotland -34 486 £69,000 +6.15% 80
West Midlands -8 479 £60,000 +4.35% 129
Yorkshire -7 451 £59,526 -2.42% 79
East Midlands -13 257 £57,500 -4.17% 45
East of England -30 222 £55,000 -15.38% 66
Wales -9 160 £53,750 +13.16% 25
North East -4 95 £60,000 +9.09% 31
Northern Ireland +5 72 £70,000 +12.00% 27
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 (5.31%) ArcGIS
1 284 (5.31%) GeoServer
2 169 (3.16%) Confluence
3 120 (2.24%) SharePoint
4 111 (2.07%) IIS
5 80 (1.49%) CMS
6 70 (1.31%) Umbraco
7 55 (1.03%) nginx
8 53 (0.99%) Apache
9 47 (0.88%) OpenStack
10 44 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
11 42 (0.78%) Headless CMS
11 42 (0.78%) Kentico
12 39 (0.73%) Apache Spark
12 39 (0.73%) Sitecore CMS
13 16 (0.30%) Jupyter
14 15 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
14 15 (0.28%) WordPress
15 14 (0.26%) JBoss
16 11 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 57 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 34 (0.64%) MS Visio
4 30 (0.56%) UserZoom
5 27 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
6 22 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 19 (0.36%) Simulink
8 15 (0.28%) Sketch
9 13 (0.24%) Trello
10 10 (0.19%) Photoshop
11 7 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
12 6 (0.11%) Adobe XD
13 3 (0.056%) Adobe Illustrator
13 3 (0.056%) S-PLUS
14 1 (0.019%) Chatbot
14 1 (0.019%) GNU Octave
14 1 (0.019%) InVision
14 1 (0.019%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 102 (1.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 36 (0.67%) Dynamics AX
3 26 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 11 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
5 10 (0.19%) Magento
6 8 (0.15%) Shopify
7 7 (0.13%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.075%) Elite 3E
8 4 (0.075%) SAP S/4HANA
8 4 (0.075%) Visualfiles
9 3 (0.056%) Maximo
9 3 (0.056%) Oracle Applications
9 3 (0.056%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.037%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.037%) SystmOne
11 1 (0.019%) BambooHR
11 1 (0.019%) iTrent
11 1 (0.019%) NEC Housing
11 1 (0.019%) Payment Gateway
11 1 (0.019%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3,165 (59.14%) Azure
2 1,984 (37.07%) AWS
3 1,539 (28.76%) Azure DevOps
4 529 (9.88%) GCP
5 390 (7.29%) SaaS
6 369 (6.89%) Power Platform
7 339 (6.33%) Serverless
8 244 (4.56%) GitHub
9 238 (4.45%) Microsoft 365
10 233 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
11 225 (4.20%) IBM Cloud
12 189 (3.53%) PaaS
13 178 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
14 171 (3.20%) Amazon S3
15 170 (3.18%) Azure Functions
16 166 (3.10%) Azure Logic Apps
17 144 (2.69%) IaaS
18 134 (2.50%) Power Automate
18 134 (2.50%) PowerApps
19 133 (2.49%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 183 (3.42%) Firewall
2 157 (2.93%) DNS
3 78 (1.46%) HTTP
4 77 (1.44%) DHCP
4 77 (1.44%) TCP/IP
5 76 (1.42%) VPN
6 66 (1.23%) Network Security
7 51 (0.95%) WAN
8 32 (0.60%) LAN
9 19 (0.36%) SD-WAN
10 18 (0.34%) Unified Communications
11 17 (0.32%) Internet
12 16 (0.30%) SSL
13 15 (0.28%) MQTT
14 11 (0.21%) 5G
14 11 (0.21%) Intranet
14 11 (0.21%) VLAN
15 9 (0.17%) BGP
15 9 (0.17%) SAN
16 8 (0.15%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 610 (11.40%) SQL Server
2 596 (11.14%) PostgreSQL
3 330 (6.17%) NoSQL
4 313 (5.85%) Relational Database
5 291 (5.44%) GIS
6 284 (5.31%) QGIS
7 253 (4.73%) Data Warehouse
8 249 (4.65%) MongoDB
9 241 (4.50%) Looker
10 232 (4.33%) BigQuery
11 216 (4.04%) Power BI
12 164 (3.06%) MySQL
13 127 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
14 125 (2.34%) DB2
15 100 (1.87%) Big Data
16 91 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
17 82 (1.53%) DynamoDB
18 78 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
19 76 (1.42%) Geospatial Data
20 67 (1.25%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 745 (13.92%) Git
2 453 (8.46%) JIRA
3 447 (8.35%) Jenkins
4 231 (4.32%) Visual Studio
5 204 (3.81%) GitLab
6 104 (1.94%) Bitbucket
7 103 (1.92%) Team Foundation Server
8 92 (1.72%) Selenium
9 77 (1.44%) Postman
10 61 (1.14%) JUnit
10 61 (1.14%) Sourcetree
11 59 (1.10%) Cypress.io
12 56 (1.05%) NUnit
13 52 (0.97%) TeamCity
14 51 (0.95%) Cucumber
14 51 (0.95%) Jasmine
15 47 (0.88%) SonarQube
16 46 (0.86%) Subversion
17 35 (0.65%) CircleCI
18 33 (0.62%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1,204 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 678 (12.67%) Finance
3 473 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
4 393 (7.34%) Public Sector
5 320 (5.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 290 (5.42%) Law
7 178 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
8 172 (3.21%) Retail
9 161 (3.01%) Banking
10 157 (2.93%) Aerospace
11 150 (2.80%) Marketing
12 122 (2.28%) Games
13 118 (2.20%) Legal
14 94 (1.76%) Billing
15 72 (1.35%) Manufacturing
16 59 (1.10%) Electronics
17 57 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
18 53 (0.99%) Automotive
19 50 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
20 48 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,417 (26.48%) Developer
2 1,106 (20.67%) Senior
3 712 (13.30%) Software Engineer
4 694 (12.97%) DevOps Engineer
5 549 (10.26%) Lead
6 430 (8.03%) Architect
7 370 (6.91%) Senior Developer
8 301 (5.62%) Senior Software Engineer
9 286 (5.34%) .NET Developer
10 281 (5.25%) Full Stack Developer
11 280 (5.23%) Data Engineer
12 263 (4.91%) Software Developer
13 218 (4.07%) Platform Engineer
14 184 (3.44%) Azure Developer
15 179 (3.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 175 (3.27%) Cloud Engineer
17 168 (3.14%) Azure Engineer
18 164 (3.06%) Principal Engineer
19 163 (3.05%) C# Developer
20 149 (2.78%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,413 (26.40%) .NET
2 935 (17.47%) React
3 790 (14.76%) CSS
4 621 (11.60%) .NET Core
5 581 (10.86%) HTML
6 513 (9.59%) AngularJS
7 465 (8.69%) ASP.NET
8 458 (8.56%) Node.js
9 374 (6.99%) .NET Framework
10 349 (6.52%) REST
11 306 (5.72%) Web Services
12 285 (5.33%) PostGIS
13 284 (5.31%) Leaflet
13 284 (5.31%) OpenLayers
14 275 (5.14%) Vue
15 259 (4.84%) RESTful
16 224 (4.19%) jQuery
17 209 (3.91%) Entity Framework
18 207 (3.87%) JSON
19 199 (3.72%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 335 (6.26%) Product Ownership
2 289 (5.40%) Hybrid Cloud
3 278 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
4 225 (4.20%) Blockchain
5 220 (4.11%) Public Cloud
6 214 (4.00%) Cloud Native
7 186 (3.48%) Data Structures
8 176 (3.29%) Algorithms
9 167 (3.12%) Management Information System
10 153 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
11 132 (2.47%) Data Centre
12 116 (2.17%) Private Cloud
13 102 (1.91%) Mobile App
14 101 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
15 97 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
16 93 (1.74%) IoT
17 88 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
18 72 (1.35%) Onboarding
19 68 (1.27%) e-Learning
19 68 (1.27%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 890 (16.63%) Linux
2 566 (10.58%) Windows
3 172 (3.21%) Android
4 161 (3.01%) Apple iOS
5 140 (2.62%) Windows Server
6 80 (1.49%) Ubuntu
7 76 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 67 (1.25%) CentOS
9 66 (1.23%) Debian
10 57 (1.07%) Unix
11 48 (0.90%) Alpine Linux
12 44 (0.82%) VMS
13 30 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
14 29 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
15 26 (0.49%) Windows 10
15 26 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
16 14 (0.26%) Mac OS X
17 11 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
18 9 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
19 7 (0.13%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,840 (53.06%) Agile
2 1,607 (30.03%) CI/CD
3 1,275 (23.82%) Software Engineering
4 1,079 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
5 824 (15.40%) Mentoring
6 750 (14.01%) Scrum
7 638 (11.92%) Infrastructure as Code
8 610 (11.40%) Actionable Insight
9 600 (11.21%) Web Development
10 569 (10.63%) Full Stack Development
11 558 (10.43%) Continuous Integration
12 553 (10.33%) Test Automation
13 506 (9.45%) Microservices
14 505 (9.44%) Containerisation
15 477 (8.91%) SDLC
16 474 (8.86%) Artificial Intelligence
17 464 (8.67%) Roadmaps
18 412 (7.70%) MVC
19 410 (7.66%) Design Patterns
20 409 (7.64%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1,423 (26.59%) C#
2 1,325 (24.76%) JavaScript
3 1,258 (23.51%) Python
4 1,044 (19.51%) SQL
5 744 (13.90%) Java
6 391 (7.31%) PowerShell
7 349 (6.52%) TypeScript
8 291 (5.44%) Bash
9 163 (3.05%) PHP
10 140 (2.62%) T-SQL
11 134 (2.50%) C
12 110 (2.06%) C++
13 103 (1.92%) Bicep
14 96 (1.79%) Go
15 73 (1.36%) VB.NET
16 68 (1.27%) Shell Script
17 59 (1.10%) VB
18 53 (0.99%) Ruby
19 48 (0.90%) Groovy
20 41 (0.77%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,129 (21.09%) Security Cleared
2 867 (16.20%) SC Cleared
3 837 (15.64%) Degree
4 291 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 220 (4.11%) DV Cleared
6 160 (2.99%) Azure Certification
7 126 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 116 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 114 (2.13%) AWS Certification
10 99 (1.85%) Master's Degree
11 51 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
12 44 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 42 (0.78%) MCSE
14 40 (0.75%) MCSA
15 38 (0.71%) DBS Check
15 38 (0.71%) PMI Certification
16 33 (0.62%) ISTQB
17 32 (0.60%) CISSP
18 29 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 29 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 428 (8.00%) QA
2 212 (3.96%) GDPR
3 108 (2.02%) Data Quality
4 66 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 55 (1.03%) PMO
6 39 (0.73%) Accessibility
7 31 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
8 28 (0.52%) NIST
9 25 (0.47%) PCI DSS
10 21 (0.39%) SLA
11 18 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
12 15 (0.28%) NCSC
13 14 (0.26%) HIPAA
14 8 (0.15%) PSD2
15 7 (0.13%) ISO 13485
16 5 (0.093%) GRC
17 4 (0.075%) MISRA
17 4 (0.075%) SOC 2
18 2 (0.037%) ISO 22301
18 2 (0.037%) SEPA
System Software
1 879 (16.42%) Docker
2 170 (3.18%) Active Directory
3 131 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 125 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
5 106 (1.98%) Hyper-V
6 50 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (0.49%) Firmware
8 19 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
9 15 (0.28%) vSphere
10 13 (0.24%) 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 (0.075%) VMware Server
14 4 (0.075%) Xen
15 3 (0.056%) VirtualBox
15 3 (0.056%) XenApp
16 2 (0.037%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1,021 (19.08%) Kubernetes
2 928 (17.34%) Terraform
3 514 (9.60%) Ansible
4 153 (2.86%) Puppet
5 135 (2.52%) Prometheus
6 128 (2.39%) Grafana
7 87 (1.63%) Progress Chef
8 38 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
9 33 (0.62%) ZABBIX
10 27 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
11 25 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
12 24 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 23 (0.43%) Kibana
14 22 (0.41%) SCOM
15 20 (0.37%) SCCM
16 17 (0.32%) WSUS
17 16 (0.30%) FortiGate
17 16 (0.30%) HAProxy
18 12 (0.22%) CA Single Sign-On
18 12 (0.22%) Packer
Vendors
1 1,160 (21.67%) Microsoft
2 344 (6.43%) Google
3 294 (5.49%) Red Hat
4 285 (5.33%) ESRI
5 263 (4.91%) IBM
6 177 (3.31%) VMware
7 142 (2.65%) Oracle
8 101 (1.89%) Databricks
9 84 (1.57%) ServiceNow
10 73 (1.36%) Dynatrace
11 56 (1.05%) Atlassian
11 56 (1.05%) Splunk
12 53 (0.99%) Cisco
13 46 (0.86%) Sitecore
14 44 (0.82%) SAP
15 36 (0.67%) Optimizely
16 34 (0.64%) Informatica
17 30 (0.56%) Qualtrics
17 30 (0.56%) WSO2
18 29 (0.54%) Citrix